The story is now thirty years old and most, if not all, of the characters involved were middle aged men at the time and are now dead. The story did make the national press when it first occurred. A murder in a Police Station is big news and something to beat the Police with. How…
The Squad that investigated The Great Train Robbery. ""The Old Grey Fox"" or ""One Day Tommy"" (Detective Chief Superintendent Tommy Butler) selected six of the best officers on the elite Metropolitan Police Flying Squad to investigate the Crime of the Century, but whilst many b…
TRUE CRIME. The story of Fred Wensley, a Somerset gardener who joined the Metropolitan Police in 1888 and retired, forty-one years later as Chief Constable of the CID, is an extraordinary one. After an abortive attempt to catch 'Jack the Ripper' by nailing strips of bicycle tyre…
Victorian convicts: 100 criminal lives
by Godfrey, Barry S., Johnston, Helen, Cox, David J.
Victorian convicts: 100 criminal lives
by Godfrey, Barry S., Johnston, Helen, Cox, David J.
Victorian convicts: 100 criminal lives
by Godfrey, Barry S., Johnston, Helen, Cox, David J.
"What was life like in the Victorian underworld - who were the criminals, what crimes did they commit, how did they come to a criminal career, and what happened to them after they were released from prison? Victorian Convicts, by telling the stories of a hundred criminal men and…
Victorian convicts: 100 criminal lives
by Godfrey, Barry S., Johnston, Helen, Cox, David J.
What was life like in the Victorian underworld who were the criminals, what crimes did they commit, how did they come to a criminal career, and what happened to them after they were released from prison' Victorian Convicts, by telling the stories of a hundred criminal men and wo…