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Road trip day 36.
Main street in Seligman. A really nicely preserved old route 66 town.
Seligman, Arizona, USA.
London United DE73 is on temporary route 572, seen in Queen's Road, Richmond Hill. This is replacing part of route 371 during road works.
The town of Towitta was surveyed in 1876 on a former Travelling Stock Route with a good water supply from a spring and the nearby hills. It was proclaimed in 1876 but some farmers took up their land from 1868 as the Hundred of Jellico was declared in 1851 although surveying of land did not begin on the Murray Flats part of this Hundred until the late 1860s. Many of those who took up land here were Wends or Sorbs including Matthes Schippan. Towitta had a few houses, a creek, a church, a cemetery, a Post Office and a school. The school opened in 1880 and finally closed in 1957. The state school began operations in the Wesleyan Church until a school room was built in 1894. When it opened the school had around 27 pupils. A new state school and teacher’s residence was built in the town in 1922. Like all small villages it had a Post Office from 1876 until the 1970s. Despite the German and Wendish background of many settlers the only church built in Towitta was the Wesleyan Methodist Church built in 1874. It closed in 1897 and was purchased by the Congregational Church who used it until 1963 when it permanently closed. As there was no Lutheran cemetery in town the local Wendish and Lutheran settlers used the town cemetery for burials. The earliest burials here occurred in 1885. Some names in the Towitta cemetery are: Harris, Baker, Mullighan, Henke, Kalesch, Mattschoss, Schrapel, Wohlgemuth etc. By 1902 around the time of the Towitta murder the town had a population of 75 people with about 15 dwellings. The greatest population from the censuses for Towitta was in 1911 when it had a population of 186 people in the village and district.
Most people had not heard of Towitta until 1 January 1902 when a famous and puzzling murder took place there. Mary Schippan, 24 years of age (born 1877), was charged with the murder of her sister Bertha Schippan who was 14 years old. On the night of the murder the Schippan parents, Matthes and Johanne Schippan (neé Dohnt of Eden Valley), were away visiting relatives in Eden Valley. They had purchased their Towitta property in 1881 having had a lease before that. On the night of the murder Mary said she was awoken in the night by a man in their bedroom and the screams of her sister Bertha. But she managed to escape. Her two brothers sleeping away from the house in an outbuilding were called for help and came to Mary’s assistance. The three siblings, without going back into the family home, then walked to a neighbour’s house for help but could find no one to assist. When they returned to their own home they called out for Bertha but there was no answer. Fearing the worst the three then walked to the nearest constable for help a local farmer named Lambert. When constable Lambert returned with the three siblings they found the battered body of sister Bertha with her throat slashed five times. The Schippan parents returned from Eden Valley the next day and a short inquest was held in the Schippan home before Bertha was quickly buried. The murder was a gruesome one and Bertha’s body was quickly buried the next morning by the Schippan family in the Sedan cemetery. It was later exhumed twice for further investigations. For the first time in SA the Advertiser newspapers used a motor vehicle for their on the spot reporter to gather information which was relayed to Adelaide from the telegraph station in Angaston. The murder story was reported nationally and made headlines for months. In a second inquest Mary’s illicit sexual relationship with Gustav Nitschke was revealed by him thus destroying the reputation of Mary Schippan and shifting the blame to her. Mary was then convicted by the Coroner of murdering her sister to prevent Bertha from revealing the relationship with Nitschke to her father Matthes. Mary was sent to Adelaide Gaol to await a formal trial. Her trial opened in March 1902 in front of Chief Justice Sir Samuel Way and Sir Josiah Symon. After a trial of six days the jury took just two hours to deliver a verdict of “not guilty”. Mary was released, Gustav Nitschke was discredited and the family returned to Towitta.
Thirty policemen were assigned to the case to find answers about the murder but the evidence was lost in dust and heat and time. There were tales of the illicit romance of Mary and Gustav and the Wendish community only partially sympathised with and supported Mary Schippan and her family. The Court heard that Mary was having an illicit romantic affair with Gustav Nitschke and that her younger sister Bertha had found out. This was circumstantial evidence only. Were Bertha to have told her father he would have been furious and there would have been repercussions for Mary. This evidence upset the Nitschke family who then claimed that Mary’s father had committed the murder. They claimed he could have ridden down from Eden Valley in the dark and committed the murder and returned back to Eden Valley before dawn. Nitschke senior actually had an alibi as he was in Adelaide on the knight of the murder and so he was removed from suspicion but he was well known and was treated with suspicion by the public. He soon moved interstate and changed his name to Gus Nicholls. But in the Court trial of 1902 the lack of any evidence against Mary’s and her clear love for her sister led to her eventually acquittal. No other suspect was found. The head of Bertha Schippan was removed from her body when it was exhumed and it was examined in Adelaide but to no avail. It was later reburied with poor Bertha in Sedan cemetery. The summation of Justice Josiah Symon heavily criticised the acts and behaviour of the Coroner who was under the influence of the police when he was at Towitta. Symon also criticised the police for not examine in detail the report of unknown foot prints at the Schippan farm gate. Here are some major points from Justice Josiah Symon’s summation:
•Mary had no motive to murder her sister and she was subject to cruel, unjust and relentless persecution. He was referring not only to the police and coroner but also the media. This has overtones of what happened to Lindy Chamberlain 80 years later.
•It was not creditable for Mary to murder her sister with whom she was sharing a bed and there was no proof.
•When Mary saw Bertha’s bodies she burst into tears but it was reported that she was unemotional.
•Mary was under police surveillance from Jan 2 and they sought to find evidence to convict her not prove her innocence.
•We had furniture, bed cloths, and bedding saturated in blood. Why did Mary have almost no blood on her?
•The Coroner gave evidence based on assumption only. No one could tell the age of the blood stains.
•Why did the Crown drag Nitschke into the court to destroy the reputation of Mary? Only to try and give Mary a motive.
•The police did not look after the evidence and bundled it all together so that no piece of evidence could be free from blood stains.
•The police covered up the set of foot prints going up the lane to the Schippan cottage. Why? Did they cover them because they trembled for their (prosecution) case?
•Five days after the murder they bought a blacktracker when he could find nothing and do nothing.
•When Mary went to her brothers and woke them she asked then to put out their light as she thought she had been followed. They cowered there in fright. Later they returned with pitchforks as they feared a man might still be in the house.
•Despite clams Mary did not wash her hair the next morning at the neighbour’s house only her face and hands. She was not trying to remove blood from her hair.
•Mary’s blouse had only a few tiny specs of blood on it and she wore her stockings all evening and when with the local constable.
•There were some blood stains on Mary’s skirt but she had killed a sheep a few days before. Were the stains human blood or other mammalia?
•There were one hair from Mary’s head on the towel near the body but how did it get there? The towel had been used for a week by the entire family for washing hands etc.
•When Bertha’s body was exhumed 13 days after burial one of Mary’s hairs was found on the hands of Bertha. Is that reliable?
•The Coroner argued the wound was inflicted by a right handed person on Bertha but Mary is left handed.
•The police never found a knife only those used for killing sheep and another household knife which did not fit the murder.
But the rumours persisted and the reputation of the family was destroyed despite them trying to keep to themselves in Towitta. In 1908 they left Towitta for a property at Lights Pass near Nuriootpa. Previous to this they had built a new cottage on their property which still stands today but it is not the original thatched cottage where the murder took place. That was demolished. Matthes Schippan died in 1911 and was buried in the Strait Gate Lutheran Church at Lights Pass under the name of Martin Schippan. Mary and her mother left Lights Pass in 1917. Mary went to a convalescent home in Adelaide because of her tuberculosis. Johannes moved in with her son August at Mount Mary. Mary never married and lived the life of a recluse with her mother most of her life. As she approached death she was moved from Adelaide to her mother and brother at Mount Mary. She died of tuberculosis at the early age of 41 years at Mount Mary and was buried in St Peter’s Lutheran cemetery at Bower in 1919. Her mother Johannes later moved to Eudunda and died there in 1923. She was buried in the Eudunda general cemetery.
Nikon F3, Nikkor 50 mm f 1.4. Ilford FP4 rev D76 1:1
Ruta 66. De la modernidad a la marginalidad. Proyecto apoyado por el FONCA, Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte, México 2015-2017.
Two vehicles of Lothian Buses are captured in McDonald Road- named after a Lord Provost of the city in the 1890s- on the first day of a diversion necessitated by a temporary closure of the normal route along Pilrig Street.
Route 66 Motels
Camera: Yashica Mat-124 G (1970 – 1986)
Film: Kodak Porta 400
Scanned: Epson V700 Photo
Route 803 (National Express) : London, Victoria Coach Station - Gloucester
📍 Heathrow Central Bus Station
• Christmas Day Only Service
Motor Inn in Tucumcari, New Mexico on Route 66. Each unit had a garage attached (see yellow door near center)
The National US Route 66 Museum in Elk City, Oklahoma. Looks totally "tourist trap" from the outside, but actually is a pretty good hour spent.
Had to HDR the sign out front :-D
TSF-TSCI 2015
Bus No: 2015
Year released: 1997
Capacity: 58; 2x3 seating configuration
Route: Tarlac City-City of San Fernando, Pampanga via San Miguel/Capas/Bamban/Mabalacat City/Dau/NLEX
Body: Mhel-Bhen Motors
Chassis: Isuzu FRR
Engine: Isuzu 6BG1
Fare: Ordinary Fare
Transmission System: M/T
Suspension: Leaf-Spring Suspension
Taken On: July 17, 2016
Location: McArthur Highway, Brgy. San Miguel, Tarlac City, Tarlac
582 branding just resurrected Aug 2010 !!
One of the 582 route branded Olympians (not 3237) coming off route and into depot at Atherton (Howe Bridge)
Scanned from a picture i took around 1991
RTW29 seen in Whitehall on route 38. London Heritage Bus Day event.
Flick, your having a laugh. You say the centre of the UK Government is in Soho!!!
Stagecoach London 18256 is one of a number of Alexander ALX400/Dennis Trident currently on loan to Tower Transit for route 69, whilst a number of the latter's Enviro400s are with CT Plus for route 26. With its Stagecoach fleetnames removed, it is seen on Monday 11th April in Upper Road, Plaistow, crossing the Northern Outfall Sewer which runs four miles from Old Ford to the Beckton Sewage Treatment Works. The sewer was built as part of Joseph Bazalgette's 1860s scheme to improve London's public health, and is still in use today. It carries a traffic-free walkway and cycleway for most of its length.
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Route 69 passed from Stagecoach London to Tower Transit from 6th February - originally the new contract was scehduled to commence on 30th April, but it was brought forward by mutual agreement.
Scheduled type for the route will be 5-year-old ADL Enviro400s. However as a number of these are currently on loan to CT Plus for route 26 (this route changed hands on 27th February, again well ahead of the scheduled date), Tower Transit has hired in some of the ex-Stagecoach Tridents to tide them over. These should be phased out in a few weeks time as CT Plus receives its new Enviro400 City buses for the 26 and returns the Tower Transit Enviros to their owner.
Adding to the mix are the three "ZeEUS" electric buses - these are ADL Enviro400 MMC electric buses which have been adapted so they can be charged at each end as they lay over - route 69 was selected as it terminates at Transport for London bus stations at each end, and a special charging pad has been provided within Canning Town and Walthamstow Central Bus Stations. The pads are not live, and can only be activated by pressing a button in the driver's cab when the bus is parked in the correct position. Each bus has a small diesel engine generator as a back-up, but the aim is to operate for 80% or more of the time in full electric mode.
ZeEUS stands for Zero Emission Urban (bus) System, and is a Europe-wide initiative to develop and promote innovative solutions to providing fully-electric urban bus services. Originally intended for Stagecoach, the vehicles were diverted to Tower Transit given the impending contract change, and entered service on a supplementary schedule from mid-November 2015. From 9th April a new timetable came into force without the supplementary journeys; now the ZeEUS buses operate designated journeys in the regular timetabe, when available.