Everything by George Higham6/25/2023 Today, we have a wood and metal reminder of Higham's existence as well as the documentary evidence of his contribution to that old police investigation. No further action was taken against the accused. He would not swear, however, that that it could not have happened as Perreau had told it'. I n his view, the pistol at half-cock could not have gone off, as it was in perfect order. The case reports: 'Mr Higham, a gunsmith, Warrington, said he had had forty years experience as a gunsmith and "did not think Mrs Brigham (the widow) could fire the pistol in the way Mr Perreau described." Perreau claimed the pistol had 'gone-off' while being handed to her for inspection. Higham's name appears in expert witness testimony in the 1868 case of a Mr Perreau, claiming to have accidentally shot his rich, widowed mother-in-law in the head with a pistol.
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