Anecdotes from Crime and Criminals in Victorian Lincolnshire

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Early in 1868 a Miss Whitwell of Holbeach Road, Spalding, was asleep in bed at 2.15am when she was suddenly woken by a heavy blow to her body. Terrified, she leapt out of bed but was grabbed by the throat by one of two burglars. ‘Hear me, blessed heavenly Father,’ she shrieked, and the men ran off. Whether by divine intervention or not, their hasty departure surprised a policeman who was walking along the road and they were arrested. John Brooks and Nathaniel Smith were given years hard labour apiece. One of them had been a tenant in a house of Miss Whitwell’s