Talk:Rose Harsent

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Corrected the stuff about Gardiner being acquitted. I think that a writ of nolle prosequi after 2 hung juries is actually unique in English criminal history, not sure about that though. Pace Julian Fellowes the chance that anyone other than Gardiner was the killer here is very small.
 * It is normal practice today for the prosecution to offer no evidence at a third trial, if there is no verdict from the first two. This has the same practical effect as a nolle prosequi.  It is not a formal acquittal, but no furhter prosecution is possible.  Peterkingiron (talk) 16:38, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Year of birth
Somehow, this person's date of death got changed to 1901, when the transcripts of the Gardiner trial establish that she was killed sometime between 31 May and 01 June 1902 (http://www.archive.org/stream/trialofwilliamga015900mbp/trialofwilliamga015900mbp_djvu.txt). So I've fixed that.

I've had to guess at her year of birth. The date shown when I read the article, 1889, is certainly wrong. If she had been born in 1889, she would have 13 at the time of her murder. Harsent is said, according to various sources, to have been 22 or 23 years old, so I have put ca. 1879. Dgcuff (talk) 13:19, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Merge proposal

 * Support -- The subject is clearly NN, apart from her fate. Peterkingiron (talk) 16:38, 12 November 2011 (UTC)