The Judge's Portrait That Refused to Face the Town
The Judge's Portrait That Refused to Face the TownA dead circuit lit a window at 4:17 a.m. on February 14, 2009, and a marginal note in a utility report led an archivist to a nine-year-old burial squeezed into the edge of a church register from October 17, 1958 - why would a town keep a judge’s portrait turned to the wall for decades? What happened on Pear Street that autumn, and who decided a face should never be seen?In this episode, we follow what the surviving records actually contain: service logs, court dockets, an eleven-week gap in a judge’s record, a sealed inquest file, and a…
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