ABSTRACT

There was no warning: a police car outside, a rap on the door, a hurried search for incriminating papers, before the detainee was taken away, leaving his or her family ignorant of where they were being taken and for how long. It is quite likely that Jenks was interrupted in the midst of some task in a field or barn, for spring’s return meant that he was much occupied with farmwork; Mary Fullerton reported that he was ‘busy with crops, pigs etc.’ and ‘getting all out the land possible’.1