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OK! magazine, normally £2.40, is FREE with the Daily Mirror on Saturday in Portsmouth. Explaining what she had witnessed earlier that day Mrs Gardiner rushed to inform Harriet Adams (Fanny and Lizzie's mother). It wasn't until Lizzie was leaving Minnie's house that she was stopped by a neighbour called Mrs Gardiner who questioned where her older sister Fanny was. Running home, Minnie told her mother Martha Warner what she had just witnessed, however, ignoring their story based on the fact that Alton was a town of little crime, she sent Minnie and Lizzie to carry on playing. Taking the halfpenny Fanny refused to go with Fredrick on a walk, at which this point it is reported he picked her up to go into a hopfield alone. Baker was wearing a black frock coat, light waistcoat and trousers at the time.Īpproaching the young girls Baker offered Minnie and Lizzie a three halfpence to go to the shop and told Fanny that if she walked with him alone he would give her a halfpenny. On August 24 1867, whilst the young three young girls were out on their walk they bumped into Fredrick Baker, a 29-year-old solicitor’s clerk to a Mr Clements. What people don't realise is that history behind the saying is one that involves the murder, abduction and decapitation of an eight year old girl called Fanny Adams.īorn in the small Hampshire town of Alton on 30 April 1859 in Tanhouse Lane, Fanny was born to George and Harriet Adams and was their fourth child.Īt the time Alton was a quiet place where little to no crime existed, allowing Fanny's mother to believe her daughter along with younger daughter Lizzie and a friend Minnie Warner would be safe to play in Flood Meadow, a mere 400 yards from their home, unfortunately, she was wrong.
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