DESCRIPTION:
Henrietta Sutherland rushed into the dining room at 31 Buckingham Terrace in Edinburgh. The maid to the Merrett family found 55-year-old Bertha unconscious on the floor, with a pool of blood around her head. Bertha’s 17-year-old son, Donald, was standing next to her when Henrietta entered the room. It was shortly after 9 AM on March 17th, 1926. The maid had been alerted by the sound of a single gunshot. When asked what had happened, Donald explained that he had been arguing with his mother, and she shot herself. However, not everything was as it seemed…
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This episode was researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane.
Script editing, additional writing, illustrations and production direction by Rosanna Fitton
Narration, editing, additional writing, and production direction by Benjamin Fitton.
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NEWSPAPERS
The Birmingham Mail - Feb 12, 1954
The Birmingham Mail - Feb 15, 1954
The Birmingham Mail - Feb 17, 1954
The Birmingham Mail - Feb 18, 1954
The Birmingham Mail - Feb 20, 1954
The Birmingham Mail - Feb 23, 1954
The Birmingham Mail - Mar 23, 1954
The Birmingham Mail - Mar 24, 1954
Coventry Evening Telegraph - Feb 12, 1954
Coventry Evening Telegraph - Feb 15, 1954
Coventry Evening Telegraph - Feb 17, 1954
Coventry Evening Telegraph - Feb 18, 1954
Coventry Evening Telegraph - Feb 19, 1954
Coventry Evening Telegraph - Mar 23, 1954
Coventry Evening Telegraph - Mar 25, 1954
The Birmingham Post - Feb 17, 1954
The Birmingham Post - Feb 20, 1954
The Birmingham Post - Feb 22, 1954
The Birmingham Post - Mar 25, 1954
Bristol Evening Post - Feb 17, 1954
Bristol Evening Post - Feb 18, 1954
Bristol Evening Post - Feb 19, 1954
Bristol Evening Post - Feb 23, 1954
Bristol Evening Post - Mar 23, 1954
Bristol Evening Post - Mar 24, 1954
Evening Sentinel - Feb 12, 1954
The Guardian - Dec 4, 1926
The Guardian - Feb 2, 1927
The Daily Telegraph - Feb 2, 1927
Evening Standard - Feb 4, 1927
Leicester Mercury - Feb 4, 1927
The Gloucestershire Echo - Feb 5, 1927
Evening Despatch - Feb 7, 1927
Birmingham Gazette - Feb 8, 1927
ARCHIVES
https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/collections/medicalhumanities/forensic%20medicine/casefiles/johndonaldmerrett1926-27/
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.173605
NEWSBANK
EdinburghLive (Scotland), January 25, 2021
Daily Record, The (Glasgow, Scotland), May 8, 2006
Daily Mirror, The: Web Edition Articles (London, England), May 30, 2018
Edinburgh Evening News (Scotland), February 26, 2009
Times, The: Web Edition Articles (London, England), April 6, 2021
Leicester Mercury (England), June 14, 2001
News of the World (London, England), February 16, 2003
Evening Standard: Web Edition Articles (London, England), December 4, 2013
Times, The (London, England), January 10, 2008
Sunday Times, The (London, England), June 9, 1996
BOOKS
Lethal Witness by Andrew Rose
Chesney: The Middle Class Murderer by Jonathan Oates