Heslop Murder 1891 Part 2 - The Trial
At 4 p.m., Monday March 14, 1892, Jack Bartram and his nephew, Jack Lottridge, arrived at the Wentworth County Court House to formally enter their pleas to the murder charges they faced. Knowing that the prisoners would be making an appearance, a reporter for the Hamilton Spectator was on hand to describe the event: “Bartram was ushered in so quietly that few people noticed him until he was seen sitting behind the bars. His hair is quite silvery, and he looks like a man of fifty-five or sixty. He wears a short, grey beard now, but his moustache is a reddish brown. “If it was not for the alleged cancerous eye, Bartram is rather benevolent and inoffensive in appearance. His right eye is nearly closed, and seems to be almost blind, and he kept continually wiping it with a handkerchief while in the dock. In fact, he kept furtively rubbing at it, a...