Games Master’s Plan KeyA murder gone cold
Games Master’s Plan Key
*= Suspect @= went to the
dance, % = on a chance card
Rousing a mob
Either of the Primfield’s can
call for a meeting at the Village Pump with a view to rousing a mob. Between
2200 - 0600 2 AvD persons, 0600 – 1300 4 AvD persons, 1300 – 1800
5 AvD persons, 1800 – 2200 8 AvD persons to assemble from mob pack
of cards.
Wordy as per rules for rousing
mob frenzy. Agate -2 to dicing for rousing each person.
Key
Most inhabitants of Toft Row have mob cards =~. $ = children at school
In or not in Toft Row before 1700 D6 Men
5+ Women 2+
1 House 1 Toft Row Wordy
Primfield, Jack Tarr & Colin Hollin
2 House 2 Toft Row *Mrs Susie~
Allington (widow) landlady, Jack~ O’Reilly odd job
Man Terry~ O’ Reilly
Labourer, Miss Morag O’Reilly & baby
Morag In -2 Mo 4”, Fa 1/1/1, Ag -2, Th -3, Me -3 Bst -4 Class II Du Ch M +1, F -1 Co -2 MC £0 -0 -0d
3 House 3 Toft Row *Nelly~
Henderson Landlady, * Jim~ Edshaw Seaman, *Hob~
Jukes Labourer, *Edmond~
Pennyworth Seaman
4 House 4 Toft Row @Daniel~
Dunsmore Coulter Gardner, @ Ben Dunsmore~ Coulter
Gardner, @Mrs Edna~ Dunsmore
Daniel’s wife, Boy Fred Dunsmore Y-boy Bert$
Dunsmore
5 House 5 Toft Row Mrs @Eva
Wilkinson Landlady, Hunter~ Syme Labourer (was
Poaching with Joe~
Happenshaw! @Wat~ Grey Ditcher, @Robin~ Grey Ditcher
Eva In Mo 5”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag -1, Th -2, Me -2 Bst- 3 Class II Du Ch M 0, F -1 Co -1 MC £0 -5 -10d
6 House 6 Toft Row Bill~ Tower
Seaman (was at sea) @Miss Primrose~ Tower, @Miss
Yvonne~ Tower (Bill’s
sisters)
7 House 7 Toft Row Mellow~
Calmer Labourer, Mrs Doreen~ Calmer, Boy Ralf~
Calmer, Girl Alice$ Calmer
8 House 8 Toft Row Mark~
Deeping Street sweeper, Mrs Livia~ Deeping his wife,
Y-Boy Mervin$ Deeping, Girl
Wilma$ Deeping
9 House 9 Toft Row Mr Job
Lightfoot, Mrs Madge Lightfoot, @Hythe~ Lightfoot
Job In
Mo 6”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag -1, Th -1, Me -1 Bst
-3 Class III Du Ch M -1, F -1 Co -1
MC £0 - 1 -2d
Madge In
Mo 5”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag -1, Th -2, Me -2
Bst- 3 Class II Du Ch M 0, F 0 Co -2
MC £0 -0 -10d
10 House 10 Toft Row @Mrs Edie
Houghton Landlady, @Osric~ Smith Handyman,
@Luke~ Fairway Labourer,
@Roger~ Bending Labourer.
Edie In
Mo 5”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag -1, Th -2, Me -2
Bst- 3 Class II Du Ch M 0, F 0 Co -2
MC £0 -11 -10d
11House 11 Toft Row Joe~
Happenshaw Moler, poaching with Hunter Syme Mrs Joan
Happenshaw & baby, child
Lizzie$ Happenshaw
Joan In -2 Mo 4”, Fa 1/1/1, Ag -2, Th -3, Me -3 Bst -4 Class II Du Ch M +1, F -1 Co -2 MC £0 -0 -1d
12 House 12 Toft Row Ham Hodge
Sexton, Mrs Rose Hodge, @Ian Hodge brother
Girl Rosetta$ Hodge, Y-boy
Mitch$ Hodge
13 Village Pump Mob assembly
point.
14 Police Station PC Valance
(Player C), Housekeeper Kate Soke. Address list 2d
Kate By
Mo 5”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag -1, Th -2, Me -2
Bst- 3 Class II Du Ch M 0, F -1 Co
-1 MC £0 -1 -3d
15 Vicarage Vicar Bartholomew
Hurt, Mrs^ Xanthe Hurt, Housekeeper Jemima Russet,
Housemaid
*Miss Jessica~ Clarke
Vicar By Mo 6”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag 0, Th -1, Me 0 Bst- 3 Class VI Re Ch M 0, F +1 Co -2 MC £0 -11 -10d
Xanthe By Mo 5”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag -1, Th -2, Me -2 Bst- 3 Class V Re Ch M 0, F 0 Co 0 MC £0 -3 -10d
Jemima By Mo 5”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag -1, Th -2, Me -2 Bst- 3 Class III Re Ch M 0, F 0 Co 0 MC £0 -0 -4d
16 Church Tower
17 St Judith’s Church
18 Coulter House Gardens
19 Back of Stable block the
Ploughstead Barn where the dance took place is beyond.
20 Workers Accommodation Hut
21 Workers Accommodation Hut
22 1 the Square Gamma Magda
Brown, *Gregory~ Ullswater Inn’s ostler, Miss June
Brown Herbalist%.
Magda By Mo 5”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag -2, Th -2, Me -2 Bst- 3 Class IV Du Ch M 0, F 0 Co 0 MC £0 -3 -10d
Magic Level 3
23 2 the Square *Mr Harvey
Barker Basket maker, Mrs Eve Barker, @Miss Athene
Barker the fallen
Aline’s sister.
Harvey By+1 Mo 6”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag 0, Th -1, Me 0 Bst- 2 Class IV Re Ch M 0, F +1 Co+1 MC £1 -11 -7d
Eve By Mo 5”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag -1, Th -2, Me -2 Bst- 3 Class III Re Ch M +1, F +1 Co -1 MC £0 -1 -5d
Athene By
Mo 5”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag -1, Th -2, Me -2
Bst- 3 Class II Re Ch M +1, F 0 Co
-1 MC £0 -0 -3d
24 3 the Square Bakers *Mr
Earnest Leaven, @George Comb Van man, @Angela Comb
his wife. It was he who
warned off Rowena Cowl and then went to start his bakery fire.
With the seasonal
workers paid and usually buying bread & cakes before they went
back to Norwich he had
a lot to do whilst his assistants were off at the dance.
Earnest By+1 Mo 6”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag 0, Th -1, Me 0 Bst- 2 Class IV Re Ch M 0, F +1 Co+1 MC £1 -17 -4d
George By Mo 6”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag 0, Th -1, Me 0 Bst- 3 Class III Re Ch M +1, F +1 Co 0 MC £0 -8 -7d
Angela In Mo 5”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag -1, Th -2, Me -2 Bst- 3 Class II Re Ch M +1, F +1 Co -1 MC £0 -0 -5d
25 4 the Square Village Shop
Mr Emil Scoop (who lives away), @Thame~ Dykes shop
assistant, @Wilton~ Dykes
shop assistant. Shop has list of addresses for 2d.
Emil By+1 Mo 6”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag 0, Th -1, Me 0 Bst- 2 Class IV Re Ch M 0, F +1 Co+1 MC £3 -14 -8d
26
Nelson’s Inn Hosts Josiah Leamington
& Carla Leamington, Barmaids @Dora &
@Lena
Josiah By+1 Mo 6”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag 0, Th -1, Me 0 Bst- 2 Class IV Re Ch M +1, F +1 Co+1 MC £3 -1 -7d
Carla In Mo 5”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag -1, Th -2, Me -2 Bst- 3 Class III Re Ch M +1, F +1 Co -1 MC £4 -2 -5d
Dora In Mo 5”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag -1, Th -2, Me -2 Bst- 3 Class II Re Ch M +1, F 0 Co -2 MC £0 -0 -2d
Lena In Mo 5”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag -1, Th -2, Me -2 Bst- 3 Class II Re Ch M +1, F 0 Co -2 MC £0 -0 -1d
27 Inn’s Stable (Ostler
Gregory~ Ullswater P 22)
28 Inn’s Van available for
hire with or without ostler
29 Inn’s storage shed
30 Doctors Doctor Mathew Penge,
Mrs Divina Penge, Housekeeper Miss Sue Scarlet
Schoolmistress Miss
Sibyl$ Penge Y-Boy Theo$ Penge
Mathew By Mo 6”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag 0, Th -1, Me 0 Bst- 3 Class VI Re Ch M 0, F +1 Co -2 MC £3 -11 -10d
Divina By Mo 5”, Fa 2/2/1, Ag -1, Th -2, Me -2 Bst- 3 Class V Re Ch M 0, F 0 Co 0 MC £1 -3 -4d
Sue By Mo 5”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag -1, Th -2, Me -2 Bst- 3 Class III Re Ch M 0, F 0 Co 0 MC £0 -18 -4d
31 School Caretaker Aunt Agnes Cowl
niece Rowena Cowl
Aunt By +1 Mo 5”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag -1, Th -2, Me -2 Bst- 3 Class III Re Ch M 0, F 0 Co+1 MC £0 -3 -10d
Rowena In -1 Mo 5”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag -1, Th -2, Me -2 Bst- 3 Class II Re Ch M +2, F 0 Co -1 MC £0 -0 -4d
If open$ Miss
Penge & students. Mitch Hodge, Theo Penge, Bert Dunsmore, Mervin
Deeping, Alice Calmer,
Wilma Deeping, Lizzie Happenshaw & Rosetta Hodge
Sybil By+1 Mo 5”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag -1, Th -2, Me -2 Bst- 3 Class V Re Ch M 0, F 0 Co 0 MC £0 -8 -3d
Boys In Mo 5”, Fa 2/1/1, Ag 0, Th 0, Me -2 Bst- 3 Class II Re Ch M -1, F 0 Co -1 MC £0 -0 -0d
Girls In -1 Mo 5”, Fa 1/1/1, Ag -1, Th -2, Me -3 Bst- 3 Class II Re Ch M +2, F +1Co -2 MC £0 -0 -0d
Leke, Gardner Jonathan Leke,
Hind Zebedee Hanger
Victorine By Mo 4”, Fa 1/1/1, Ag -3, Th -2, Me -3 Bst- 3 Class VI Re Ch M 0, F 0 Co 0 MC £11 -2 -5d
Betty By-1 Mo 5”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag -1, Th -2, Me -2 Bst- 3 Class III Re Ch M 0, F 0 Co 0 MC £1 -18 -4d
Ivy By Mo 5”, Fa 2/2/2, Ag -1, Th -2, Me -2 Bst- 3 Class II Re Ch M -1, F -10 Co 0 MC £0 -2 -4d
Jonathan By Mo 6”, Fa 3/2/2, Ag +1, Th 0, Me +2, Bst- 3 Class II Re Ch M 0, F 0 Co +1 MC £0 -1 -10d
Zebedee By Mo 5”, Fa 2/1/1, Ag 0, Th 0, Me 0 Bst- 3 Class II Re Ch M 0, F 0 Co 0 MC £0 -5 -2d
33 Norwich Road entry point
34 Darbeyfield Barn. Inside,
heaps of sacks and empty boxes. Bright red smeared
bloodstains, freshly
painted by Arthur Nown for effect. Two potato forks on the wall,
one of which has
bright red blood on it too!
35 Worked out potato field
36 Strawberry field
37 Strawberry field
38 Strawberry field
39 Strawberry field
40 Graveyard
41 Coulter House Miss Agate
(Player D) ready to answer the door as she is expecting two sweeps to come to
sweep the chimneys.
42 Grove path
43 Stone shed
44 Coulter Grove of trees
45 Wheat field
46 Wheat Field
47 Empty potato pit where the
body was found
48 Empty potato pit
49 Far end of the Grove path
Alibis on the night of
26/27th November 1891
= PC’s motive suspect. @ =
Was definitely at the dance
What they did on
the night of the murder.
House 1 Was Fay Strangeholm’s
House. She had no alibi claiming she was at home
making rush baskets.
House 2 Toft Row Mrs *Susie
Allington (widow) landlady, Jack O’Reilly odd job man
Terry O’ Reilly,
Labourer, Miss Morag O’Reilly & baby All swear that
Susie stayed in the house on the night.
House 3 Toft Row *Nelly Henderson
Landlady, * Jim Edshaw Seaman, *Hob Jukes
Labourer, *Edmond Pennyworth
Seaman. All swear that they all stayed in the house on
the night. Edmond claims he heard someone running through the back gardens some
while before 2300 going towards the square. Might have been Fay?
House 4 Toft Row @Daniel
Dunsmore House Gardner, @ Ben Dunsmore House
Gardner, Mrs @Edna Dunsmore
Daniel’s wife, Boy Fred Dunsmore Young-boy Bert
Dunsmore.
Since the adults were at the dance till 0020 only the
boys Fred & Bert were in the house.
House 5 Toft Row Mrs @Eva
Wilkinson Landlady, Hunter Syme Labourer was poaching
with Joe Happenshaw of No 11
(Saw Light in Grove 2200) @Wat Grey
Ditcher, @Robin Grey Ditcher. The other three were at
the dance.
House 6 Toft Row Bill Tower
Seaman was at sea, Miss @Primrose Tower, Miss
@Yvonne Tower
The two sisters were at the dance.
House 7 Toft Row Mellow Calmer
Labourer, Mrs Doreen Calmer, Boy Ralf Calmer
Girl Alice Calmer.
Mellow was playing cards with Wordy Primfield and the
postman Edward Chalk. The others claim they stayed in that night. Girl says she
heard someone running through the back gardens towards the square sometime
before 2300 chimes.
House 8 Toft Row Mark Deeping
Street sweeper, Mrs Livia Deeping his wife, Young-
Boy Mervin Deeping, Girl
Wilma Deeping. All claim they stayed in that night.
House 9 Toft Row Mr Job
Lightfoot, Mrs Madge Lightfoot, @Hythe Lightfoot
House 10 Toft Row Mrs @Edie
Houghton Landlady, @Osric Smith Handyman,
@Luke Fairway Labourer,
@Roger Bending Labourer.
Job & Madge stayed in house rest went to dance.
House 11 Toft Row
Joe Happenshaw Moler, poaching with Hunter Syme saw
lamp around 2200 hours in Coulter Grove. Thought it was gamekeeper so kept a
wide berth. Gone when the returned about three thirty next morning. Mrs
Joan Happenshaw & baby, child Lizzie Happenshaw. Joan &
Lizzie say they stayed at home.
House 12 Toft Row Ham Hodge
Sexton, Mrs Rose Hodge, @Ian Hodge brother
Girl Rosetta Hodge,
Young-boy Mitch Hodge. Ian went to dance rest stayed
in.
Police Station PC Valance,
Housekeeper Kate Soak Rented By Norfolk Constabulary
PC at House area
Kate alone in station but no motive.
Vicarage Vicar Bartholomew
Hurt, Mrs^ Xanthe Hurt, Housekeeper Jemima Russet,
Housemaid Miss
*Jessica Clarke. Living at your behest as head of Ploughstead
Estate.
All stayed in, Jessica barred from going to the dance.
Brooding she listened to the music. At around ten past eleven she heard
footsteps come past the vicarage from the Toft Row direction. Then voices from
just beyond the church.
Workers Accommodation Huts
empty at present. Keys Mr & Miss Primfield
1 St Judith’s Square Midwife
Magda Brown, *Gregory Ullswater Nelson Inn’s ostler Miss June Brown herbalist.
All stayed in.
2 St Judith’s Square Mr *Harvey Barker
Basket maker, Mrs Eve Barker, Miss Athene
Barker.
All stayed in. Miss Athene thought she heard someone
leave the bakers at about twenty past eleven, long after the dance had started.
3 St Judith’s Square Bakers Mr
*Earnest Leaven, @George Comb Van man, @Angela
Comb His wife.
George & Angela at dance. Earnest warned off Rowena
Cowl at 2310ish and then began to bake extra size bath of bread & cakes for the
Seasonal workers to buy before they left.
4 St Judith’s Square Village
Shop Mr Emil Scoop (who lives away), @Thame Dykes
shop assistant,
@Wilton Dykes shop assistant. Emil away home Thame &
Wilton both at the dance.
Nelson’s Inn
Hosts Josiah Leamington & Carla Leamington, Barmaids @Dora &
@Lena Green
Josiah & Carla quiet night at the Inn, Dora & Lena both
at the dance.
Carla saw Mr
Earnest Leaven going towards Toft Row at 2125 in the dark by the Inn clock.
Inn’s storage shed Key Josiah
Leamington
Doctors Doctor Mathew Penge,
Mrs Divina Penge, Housekeeper Miss Sue Scarlet
Schoolmistress Miss
Sibyl Penge Young Boy Theo Penge. All stayed in that
night.
31 School Caretaker Aunt Agnes Cowl &
niece @Rowena Cowl Agnes stayed in but Rowena went to
the dance. Was deterred from assignation by the baker man a little after 2300
and went back to the dance.
32 Dower House Miss Victorine
Darbeyfield, Housekeeper Mrs Betty Bronze, Maid @Ivy Leke, Gardner @Jonathan
Leke, Hind Zebedee Hanger. Owned by Miss Darbeyfield
All stayed in that night except Ivy & Jonathon who went to look after the cloaks
at the dance. They know Agate did not leave the dance until it was finished.
Zebedee found the body in the morning.
Coulter House
1st sevene run by Player C 2nd two by player D
Sir Benjamin
stayed in went to bed 2130
Lady Anthelia
stayed in went to bed 2100
Blanders the Valet
stayed in Mr Jasper dressed ready to go out by 2130.
Mrs Rawlings the Cook
stayed in went to bed
2030 exhausted
Polly King
helping Miss Agate run buffet at Dance (did not see her
go out to spot Fay!)
Peggy King
helping Miss Agate run buffet at Dance (did not see her
go out to spot Fay!)
Arthur Nown
stayed in, heard Mr Jasper leave the house at around
twenty to ten.
Wordy Primfield
Playing cards with Mellow Calmer and Edward Chalk the postman in an
accommodation hut.
Agate Primfield
Running the buffet with the maids Polly and Peggy.
What actually happened
Mr Earnest Leaven the Baker
was of yeoman stock with his older brother Frederick still running the family
farm. His wife’s and his own interests going that way, he took over the Bakery
in Ploughstead long ago. They had three daughters Bettina, Beatrice and Bunny
but his wife died young of typhoid. The three daughters spent a lot of time at
their uncle’s farm and the elder two married well to another farmer and to a
Norwich undertaker. Thus it was with horror that Earnest found that Bunny was
having an affair with the honourable Jasper Coulter. Unfortunately this became
known in the village resulting in unsavoury jibes. Her two sisters were pretty
appalled suggesting that Bunny be sent away! Agate Primfield said that due to
her reputation Bunny could no longer take part in the seasonal harvests but Mr
Jasper found her a job as a chambermaid in Norwich. Later Earnest had word that
she was now a streetwalker there. He went there to visit her and found that
several other girls from the village had wound up the same way. More had come to
Ploughstead as temporary workers. At that time Bunny was resigned to her fate
and realised that she could not return home. Earnest brooded on the evil ways of
Jasper Coulter and knew that there others of a like mind. However he knew that
they, awed by Jasper’s position as a gentleman were unlikely to ever move
against him. Then he received a letter from Bunny saying that her employer’s had
sent her to the Jolly Jack Brothel in Great Yarmouth where she was little better
than a prisoner! Instead of the rich businessmen of Norwich her customers were
rough seamen! Feeling helpless to provide any remedy he decided to take revenge
on Mr Jasper. From Bunny he knew that Jasper would lure his victims to the
Darbeyfield Barn most notably on the night of the Harvest dances. He had given
Bunny a key which Earnest now had. Most of his victims had one of these keys!
From Bunny he knew that Jasper usually made his assignations for ten-thirty on
the night of the dance, knowing that it would not finish for another hour and a
half. He heard that Jasper had picked a new favourite Rowena Cowl and laid his
plans. He knew Rowena Cowl who was also of Yoeman stock. On the dark night of
the dance Earnest circled round via the Barn up the path to place a shielded oil
lamp against the stone shed beside Coulter house. He knew that Jasper would come
that way and passing in front of the lamp would give adequate warning. Rowena
Cowl would almost certainly come through the village directly from the dance and
he would hear her footsteps on the cobbles. Borrowing a fork from the barn, he
opened the northern most potato pit and made a hole large enough for the body.
He was just ensuring that no loose potatoes were lying around when he saw
someone block out the lamplight. Providentially Jasper was coming a little
early! Earnest slipped back into the barn via the big north door which he had
opened earlier. He had brought a rolling pin and a kitchen knife for the job but
decided that the potato fork would do better. Jasper unlocked the door and
entered and started towards the north door which he could see was open. Earnest
stunned him with a blow from the wood of the fork and then stabbed his chest
with it four times to make sure! Then he rolled the body onto one of the many
potato sacks and dragged it out to the potato pit. As he heaved it into the pit
he saw the damaged watch hanging from its chain. Twenty-seven minutes past ten
it said with the minute hand hammered into the face. ‘Why give away the time?’
thought Earnest, so he moved the hour forward to read twenty-seven minutes past
eleven. Later he wished he had made it later still but it was too late then. He
covered the body with the potatoes and the turves and tarpaulin, all the time
listening for the footsteps of Rowena. He went back into the barn roughly mopped
up the blood with a sack which he then put at the bottom of one of the piles.
Then he re-bolted the north door and left by the eats door locking it as he
left. It was now twenty to eleven and still there was no sign of Rowena. He ran
along the gardens at the back of Toft Row to minimise making too much noise. In
November there were no plants to be damaged. On entering St Judith’s Square he
slowed to a walk and after a few minutes glimpsed Rowena coming towards him. He
said her name and warned her against going to meet Mr Jasper. He told her that
his daughter had done so and was now walking the Streets of Great Yarmouth! He
said that if she persisted he would go and tell her aunt who lived in the school
building! At that Rowena thought the better of it and returned to the dance. He
circled back to collect his lamp and check over the burial scene. He went back
to his bakery and started the fire for the double batch of bread and cakes
needed for the seasonal workers in the morning. His assistants Geoge Comb and
his wife Angela returned about quarter past twelve and went to bed. Earnest
carried on with his baking. The other two would sell the produce in the morning.
He had hoped that the body would not be found for several days if not longer but
Zebedee Hanger was too observant! Had he set the watch later it could have been
any of the seasonal workers at the dance. As it was, suspicions fastened on Fay
Strangeholm and to Earnest’s surprise she was found guilty! He was rather sorry
for her but she was not a local and had a tarnished reputation besides. Now no
more girls could be led astray by the evil Mr Jasper.