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Fanny Adams (30 April 1859 – 24 August 1867) was an eight-year-old English girl, who was murdered by a solicitor's clerk, Frederick Baker, in Alton, Hampshire, in 1867. Her murder was extraordinarily brutal and caused a national outcry in the United Kingdom.
This infamous case concerned the murder, at Alton, of ‘sweet’ Fanny Adams, aged 8 years. This took place at Flood Meadow, on Saturday, 24th August 1867. To add to the horror, the victim had been decapitated and brutally mutilated. Body parts were spread over a wide area. Even by Victorian standards this was a horrific murder.
The rural village of Alton, a quiet and peaceful place in Hampshire, became the talk of the nation when on Saturday August 24 th 1867 the abduction of a girl called Fanny Adams and subsequent murder and mutilation created horror and revulsion throughout the land. Nobody at the time could recall any murders in Alton prior to this, let alone one ...
local murder during their lifetime. So Fanny's mother, Harriet Adams, probably thought it quite safe for three small children to wander off alone towards Flood Meadow, just 400 yards from their home in Tan House Lane. THE CRIME Fanny and her friend, Minnie Warner, both eight years old, set off up the lane with Fanny's seven-
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. Born 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.
TODAY marks the 150th anniversary of one of Alton ’s most brutal murders, the killing of eight-year-old Fanny Adams on August 24 1867, and whose name was to become known worldwide but for macabre reasons. Fanny, who lived with her family on Townhouse Lane, had been playing with her younger sister, Lizzie, and her friend, Minnie, near the town ...
The Tragic Story of Fanny Adams, Victorian True Crime That Shocked the World so much we still use the saying to this day, Sweet fanny adams, Sweet FA, The mu...
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