A Fatal Row Over Walnuts
A FATAL ROW OVER WALNUTS It began with a row over walnuts and ended with a man being found dead in a water closet. Kingsdon butcher, John Williams was drinking with friends in the Market Inn, at South Street, Yeovil, during the late afternoon of Friday 2 October 1868, when he got into an argument with John Slade, over the number of walnuts he had sold at Yeovil Market. Williams claimed to have sold one million, but Slade called him…