Charles John Drew

Drew lived in Long Melford in Suffolk where he had two properties: a large house with estate on the edge of town, and a small office on the High Street where he sometimes slept.

[citation needed] During this period his son, also Charles Drew, started hanging around with poachers and smugglers and spent much time drinking and gambling.

He began a relationship with Elizabeth (Betsy) Boyer, a housekeeper at nearby Liston Hall in Sudbury less than two miles to the south.

[2] Elizabeth gave them a gun from Liston Hall, probably a short blunderbuss filled with a pack of lead slugs and a cartridge of gunpowder.

They then rode to the main family house outside Long Melford and had a brandy before heading to Charles Drew Senior's office around 11pm.

On 12 February the London Gazette offered a pardon to any secondary accomplice who would give information leading to the arrest of the murderer.

His room was searched and correspondence was found with a Mr Thomas Roberts, Humphries himself using the alias of John Smith in the letters.

From London he hired a man called William Mace to return to his home area to try to hear rumours of the murder and any suspects.

He called two witnesses but these both established he was at the main family home which was so close to the murder scene as to undermine rather than bolster his own case.

[13] Despite being a murderer it is said that he was buried in the chancel of Acton church where his brother-in-law (having married Mary Drew) Rev Charles Umferville, was minister.