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PC Joseph Moss
In July 1879, PC Joseph Moss, a 26-year-old officer in the Derby Borough Police and former Grenadier Guard, was fatally shot while on duty in Derby.
Moss - alongside two other policemen - had pursued and confronted Gerald Mainwaring and Annie Green, who had caused a drunken disturbance with a pony-and-trap in Derby. During their arrest at the Police Lock-Up in Derby, Mainwaring drew a revolver, shooting Moss, who died the following day.
Mainwaring was tried for wilful murder and attempted murder, with the jury delivering a guilty verdict amid controversy over a split jury and the use of drawing lots to decide a jury foreman who would put in a casting vote. Due to this controversy the Home Secretary commuted Gerald's death sentence to life imprisonment, and he was released around 15 years later.
PC Moss’s ghost is said to haunt the site of the old Police Lock-Up.
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LOCATION: Derby Fish Market, Lock Up Yard, Derby DE1 2DT
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CONNECTION: Derby Fish Market stands where the original Police Lock-Up once stood in Derby. The Lock-Up contained a charge room and it's own cells. These cells were often used when accused criminals were on trial if the trial was being held in the Guildhall in Derby. The cells were linked by a tunnel to the Guildhall itself, enabling the accused to be taken into court without taking them outside and increasing the chances of them absconding.
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LOCATION: Nottingham Road Cemetery, Nottingham Rd, Chaddesden, Derby DE21 6FN
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CONNECTION: The resting place of PC Joseph Moss can be found at Nottingham Road Cemetery. The cemetery was established in 1855 by the Derby Burial Board to address the city's need for more burial space. Originally a 32-acre site, its layout was designed by Henry Isaac Stevens and the grounds were landscaped with advice from William Barron, head gardener at Elvaston Castle.
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Derby History Walks
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Come and join us for a 90-minute walk full of revelations, curses, deaths, superstitions, evil doers and much more!!
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5.30pm to 7.00pm - walk commences from the Derby Uncovered Heritage Centre at 11 Sadler Gate, Derby.
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Tickets are £10 per person.
Learn all about Derby's most notorious murders and murderers on Derby's murder walk - not for the faint-hearted!!
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VARIOUS DATES
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5.30pm to 7.00pm - walk commences from the Derby Uncovered Heritage Centre at 11 Sadler Gate, Derby.
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Tickets are £10 per person.
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True, but weird, Derby history including frogs falling from the skies, ghouls roaming the town, historic hot dogs, mummified cats & more.
VARIOUS DATES
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5.30pm to 7.00pm - walk commences from the Derby Uncovered Heritage Centre at 11 Sadler Gate, Derby.
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Tickets are £10 per person.
A walk full of tortured spirits who met a grisly end including both the murderers and their victims
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VARIOUS DATES
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5.30pm to 7.00pm - walk commences from the Derby Uncovered Heritage Centre at 11 Sadler Gate, Derby.
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Tickets are £10 per person.
