Good evening. This is Crime Classics. I am Thomas Highland with another true story of crime.

Listen.

William Palmer always did that when he walked past the tombstones in Ruggley Cemetery. He ran his walking cane across the closely spaced tombstones as if there were a picket fence.

And he whistled a jaunty tune as if he didn't have a murder in his heart.

It might concern you a little that the tombstones were so near to one another.

Well, it so happened that the path William Palmer took was through a section dubbed the popular section,

a segment devoted to the turning into dust of folk in the lowest income bracket.

William Palmer is using this path because it's a shortcut.

He's anxious to see his sweetheart.

He carries candy for her and poison for her husband.

Thoughtful man.

So tonight, my report to you on the Hangman and William Palmer, who won?

Crime Classics.

A new series of true crime stories from the records and newspapers of every land from every time.

Your host each week, Mr. Thomas Highland,

Conessor of Crime, Student of Violence, Teller of Murders.

Now once again, Mr. Thomas Highland. A word about Ruggley, England in 1854.

It was about as large as Twickenon.

Most of the people of Rugely toiled at Blayden's brass foundry,

England's prime source of supply for ornamental door knockers.

The Foundries of Rougely II are famous as originators of the Clowon Ball design,

later adapted as legs for bathtubs.

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