POTASH FARM. The Murders at Stanfield Hall , Norfolk, England, was a notorious Victorian double murder on 28 November 1848 .The victims, Isaac Jermy and his son Jermy Jermy were shot and killed on the porch and in the hallway of their mansion. They were murdered by James Bloomfield Rush (1800–1849), a tenant-farmer at Potash Farm, who had conducted a devious scheme to defraud the family and murder them. He was tried and was hanged at Norwich Castle on 21 April 1849. The unwitting accomplice was Emily Sandford, their governess and Rush's pregnant mistress.

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