20th March 1923 -- Goodwin family move into 37 Juxon Street.
12th April -- vase found broken overnight in Rachel’s room. She blamed.
18th April -- painting (of St Mark’s Venice by night) flung down
from wall in parlour overnight and stuck over fire-irons. Rachel again blamed.
Various dates in April -- other such minor incidents, Rachel complains
of hair-pulling and pinching.
2nd May -- Mrs Goodwin stays up to keep an eye on Rachel and sees chamber-pot
move ‘spontaneously’ across room and smash, around 1 am.
8th May -- Rachel and Mrs G wake around 3 am to feel their hair being tied
to the bedpost (they are sharing a bed by this stage).
18th May -- Mrs Goodwin asks Rev Thomas Wenderby, of St Barnabas, to carry
out an exorcism. It has no perceptible effect.
29th May -- Mr Goodwin stays up, sees Rachel ‘flung’ out of
bed, moves to intervene and feels ‘clutch of icy fingers’ about
his neck, and smell of the tomb -- sensations dispelled when Mrs G comes
rushing in and turns light on.
30th May (morning) -- family dog Nipper is found throat slashed in parlour,
message written on wall in his blood -- ‘BY THE SEVEN HELLS I WIL
HAVE MY RVENGE AND TIME AGEN’ (sic)