Riseborough Times                                                                                             Bringing you the latest news ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________     Who murdered the cat with a fiddle?    Our intrepid reporter, Iva Pen, adventurous to the last, braving dusty cellars, spiders, a rat-chewed leather boot, and ghosts of the past, herself having just been released from an overnight stay in the stocks, for urinating in the village duck pond after a bevvy of mead, has uncovered a dastardly foul deed at the Cat & Fiddle public house in Norwich, somewhere around 1750, give or take a noggin or two of local ale.    A murder connected with an estate ownership dispute at Heigham and Eaton, between Henry Carleton and Timothy Carleton, the brother of Emma Carleton who married John Risebrow, also known as Riseborough. Apparently when Emma Risebrow died in 1750 the estate should have passed to her brother Timothy, but he was murdered in the Cat & Fiddle in Norwich and then buried in a field outside the city. Timothy's infant son couldn't sustain a claim  to the estate therefore it passed to Jeremy Norris. But another report states Henry Carleton's claim is faulty. According to the Manor court books the estate of John & Emma Riseborough passed to their daughter Frances who arried Jeremy Norris, and through them to their son, Jeremy junior. There seems to be some doubt as to whether Timothy Carleton was murdered. BY OUR CRIME REPORTER Jon Quill. October 1805. JAMES & ELIZABETH RISEBOROUGH, sentenced to 7 days in prison for stealing poultry. January 1810. CHRISTOPHER RISEBOROUGH sentenced  to 6 months in prison for larceny. October 1826. WILLIAM RISEBOROUGH sentenced to 2 months in prison for larceny. 31st. March 1840. WILLIAM RASBERRY, age 39, (b. abt 1801), found not guilty of sheep stealing. 29th. October 1847 @ Little Walsingham sessions, WILLIAM RISEBOROUGH aged 46, (b. abt 1801), 2 convictions for larceny. 6 weeks imprisonment on each conviction. 2nd. July 1856 @ The Castle of Norwich, JAMES RISEBOROUGH sentenced to 6 months in prison for larceny. 17th. October 1860 @ The Castle of Norwich, JOHN RISEBOROUGH sentenced to 3 months in prison for receiving a stolen sheep. 7th. January 1863 @ The Castle of Norwich, HENRY RISEBOROUGH found not guilty of larceny, acquitted. 22nd. August 1872 @ Sheffield, JOHN RISEBOROUGH, servant, found not guilty of larceny, acquitted.

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