Shropshire Routes to Roots

3a. Murderous Mapp: Modern version of the evidence

The Night of the Murder
Sunday, 22nd December, 1867

1. Catherine Lewis was working as a nurse for a lady called Ann Davis. Catherine Lewis left work that evening to go to a chapel just outside Longden village. Before she left, Ann Davis pinned a brooch onto the dress of Catherine Lewis.
2. At 7.30pm, Catherine Lewis left the chapel. She started to walk home with John Mapp.
3. Catherine Lewis and John Mapp walked along the main road. Two ladies, Mary Hartshorn and Jane Richards, caught up with them. Mary Hartshorn noticed that Catherine was wearing a straw hat with a purple ribbon around it.
4. At a junction, John Mapp, Catherine Lewis and Jane Richards turned down a road called Long Lane. Half way down the road, Jane Richards went into a house. John Mapp and Catherine Lewis carried on walking together down Long Lane.
5. Jane Richards was the last person, apart from John Mapp, to see Catherine Lewis alive.

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