Murder at Saxton Grange

Season: 6 Episode: 12

In the dark, quiet hours before dawn on September 5, 1933, flames erupted from a barn at Saxton Grange Farm, just outside Tadcaster in Yorkshire. When the fire was finally doused, what emerged from the smouldering ruin was grim: the charred remains of 30-year-old Frederick Ellison Morton, the farm’s owner. But it wasn’t the fire that killed him. A post-mortem soon revealed the chilling truth—Morton had been shot before the blaze ever began.

CAST

Ernest Brown - Dan Slingsby

Ann Houseman - Sam Roberts

Prosecution - Steve Sheperd

Dr P.L Sutherland (Pathologist) - David Brinley-Haile

Mr G.H.B Streatfield (Defence) - Joe Wilson

Evelyn Foster (Victim) - Lucy Brazier

Mr. Justice Humphreys (Judge) - Marcus Kepple-Palmer

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SOURCES

Huddersfield Daily Examiner - Monday 16 October 1933

Western Mail - Wednesday 13 December 1933

Western Mail - Friday 15 December 1933

Murder, Mystery and My Family Series 3 Episode 2

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