| Description Of Item | Four press cuttings relating to the prosecution of George Clark for the murder of Mark Frater. Three relate to D [Donald] Mackintosh’s report about the sanity of George Clark and include letters written from Dinsdale Park, Darlington, addressed to the Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne (Joseph Armstrong) and the Sheriff of Newcastle upon Tyne (Benjamin Plummer). They were written been March and April 1862. The final press cutting is a description of instances of odd behaviour by George Clark from earlier periods of his life. Daniel M'Naghten, John Bright, William Newton and George Grey are mentioned. From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |