1. The Ballad of Charlotte Dymond
QUESTIONS
1. What day of the week did the murder take place?
Sunday
2. What was Charlotte wearing when she went missing?
Her shawl of diamond red cloth, her yellow gown, she was
carrying a green handkerchief and a necklace around her
throat .
3. Where is Bodmin?
It is in Cornwall.
4. How much money did Charlotte have?
She had 4 shillings.
5. What sort of disability did Matthew have?
He has problems walking (he is limping).
6. Where was Charlotte’s body found?
Marshland

2. 7. What state was Matthew in when he returned to the farm
alone?
He was silent at first then when he went to bed he started
crying. He was sad.
8. Describe Charlotte’s appearance?
Charlotte's skin was soft and her eyes were wide open. Her hair
was really black and her cheeks were gentle.
9. How was Charlotte killed?
Matthew killed Charlotte with a razor.
10.What was the only sin that Charlotte committed?
She loved another person.
11. Where was Matthew arrested?
Bodmin
12.List the evidence against Matthew.
Matthew came back to the farm with Charlotte's handkerchief.
Matthew's stockings were full of mud that's evidence they went
to the marsh together.
Someone who Matthew lives saw both of them go out together
and then saw Matthew come back on his own.

3. 13.Why was the prison bell pulled?
They pulled the bell to show that Matthew was being hung.
14.How was Matthew executed?
Matthew got hung.
15.Find the names of the following people:
a) Charlotte’s employer
Mrs Phillipa Peter
b) Charlotte’s two ‘boyfriends’
Matthew and Thomas
c) Charlotte’s prospective employer at Blisland
Sammy Andrews
d) The woman whose place Charlotte apparently stayed at
on the Sunday night
Mrs. Peters
e) The parish constable
Constable Bennett

4. f) The preacher who saw Charlotte and Matthew on the
moor
Isaac Cory
g) The Defence lawyer
Frederick Slade
h) The Judge
i) The Hangman