Front page of a leaflet describing the life, trial and execution of James Blomfield Rush who murdered Isaac Jermy and Jermy Jermy, his Murders at Stanfield Hall , mansion home of the Germys , It was a notorious Victorian double murder ( 28 November 1848) that has since been covered in the film Blanche Fury and in literature including a novel by Joseph Shearing. Rush was their fraudulent tenant Sandford, whom Rush had employed as a governess and was his pregnant mistress was an unwitting accomplice .Mrs. Jermy and servant, Elizabeth Chestney survived the gun attack carr

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