30th June 1860, 3 yr old Seville is found dead on his family‘s estate. That such a grotesque murder could happen in a middle class family shocked the nation and would take up a lot of space in the newspapers. Both the press and the detective (a new thing of the day) wanted to know: Who was the murder?
This murder would also be the inspiration for novels like The Woman in White and Moonstone by Wilkie Collins and Bleak House by Charles Dickens.