Criminal London : A Pictorial History from Medieval Times To 1939

by Herber, Mark

• ISBN13: 9781860771996
• ISBN10: 1860771998
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Trafalgar Square

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Sir John Stevens
Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction	xiii
The Criminal in Action
Riots, Plots, Murders and Mayhem	1	(2)
Wat Tyler's rabble	3	(1)
The Gunpowder Plot	4	(1)
The murder of Thomas Thynne	5	(1)
Colonel Thomas Blood	5	(1)
Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey is strangled	6	(1)
John Williamson's cruel treatment of his wife	6	(1)
Mul-Sack, highwayman	7	(1)
Thomas Waters robbing gypsies	7	(1)
Murder in Long Acre	8	(1)
Elizabeth Chivers throwing her child into a pond	8	(1)
George Price strangling his wife	8	(1)
A shooting at Stepney Fields	9	(1)
Richard Noble stabbing John Sayer	9	(1)
The robbery of Dr Trotter	10	(1)
George Foster drowning his wife and child	10	(1)
Murderess Elizabeth Brownrigg	10	(1)
A shooting in court	11	(1)
The German princess Mary Carleton	12	(1)
The murder of John Hayes	13	(1)
The murder of John Steele	14	(1)
Elizabeth Godfrey stabbing Richard Prince	15	(1)
William Duncan murdering William Chivers	15	(1)
Prostitution	16	(1)
Assassination attempt on King George III	17	(1)
Mrs Margaret Nicholson	17	(1)
Bedlam Hospital	18	(1)
Murderer John Maycock	19	(1)
Samuel Mitchell murdering his own child	19	(1)
Francis Smith shoots the Hammersmith ghost	19	(1)
The Cato Street Conspiracy	20	(1)
Outrage on the Queen	21	(1)
Jack the Ripper	22	(1)
An opium den	23	(1)
Police remove a corpse	23	(3)
Law and Order
Thieftakers and the Police	24	(2)
Jonathan Wild, thief-taker	26	(4)
Stephen Macdaniel, thief-taker	30	(1)
Thomas Blee, thief-taker	30	(1)
Dick Swift, thief-taker	31	(1)
Night charges at Marlborough Street Police Court	31	(1)
St Marylebone watch house	31	(1)
Sir Robert Peel	31	(1)
Scotland Yard	32	(1)
Metropolitan Police officers, c.1900	32	(1)
Metropolitan Police officers at Tonypandy	32	(1)
A woman police officer	33	(1)
Sir Edmund Henderson	34	(1)
Sir Charles Warren	34	(1)
James Monro	35	(1)
Director of Criminal Investigations, Mr C.E. Howard Vincent	35	(1)
New Scotland Yard	36	(1)
The Metropolitan Police Crime Museum, Scotland Yard	36	(1)
City Road Police Station	37	(1)
Police Station, Hyde Park	37	(1)
The Thames Police	38	(2)
The Police in Action
Riot, Bombings and Anarchy	39	(1)
The Hyde Park riot	40	(1)
Special Constables in 1887	40	(1)
The riot in Trafalgar Square	40	(1)
The red flag falls	41	(1)
Graham and Burns	41	(1)
Cutlass exercise	41	(1)
The Fenian outrage, 1867	42	(1)
The dynamite plot, 1883	43	(1)
Martial Bourdin	44	(1)
Ten pounds reward	44	(1)
The battle of Stepney	45	(1)
Absconded: William Meyn	46	(1)
Murder: £200 reward	46	(1)
Murder and mutilation poster	46	(3)
The Courts of London
Trials, Defendants and the Judiciary	47	(2)
The Sessions House in Old Bailey	49	(1)
The trial of Lord William Russell	50	(1)
`Bloody Jeffreys'	50	(1)
Alderman Cornish	50	(1)
The new Sessions House in Old Bailey	51	(1)
William Palmer, poisoner	52	(1)
Dr Lamson at the Central Criminal Court	52	(1)
Sir Thomas Chambers QC, MP	53	(1)
The interior of a court in the Sessions House	53	(1)
Waiting to enter the dock	54	(1)
Patrick O'Donnell	54	(1)
The Pimlico poisoning	55	(1)
The Central Criminal Court in Old Bailey	56	(1)
Mr Justice Day	57	(1)
Mr Justice Avory	57	(1)
Sir Edward Marshall Hall	57	(1)
The trial of the Seddons	58	(1)
Penal servitude for a fraudster, Horatio Bottomley	59	(1)
Westminster Hall	59	(1)
The Court of King's Bench	59	(1)
Lord Lovat	60	(1)
John Wilkes before the Court of King's Bench	61	(1)
William Murray, Earl of Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice	61	(1)
Abraham Thornton	61	(1)
The Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand	62	(1)
Guildhall in the City of London	62	(1)
The trial of Jabez Balfour	62	(1)
A trial at Guildhall	63	(1)
The Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, 1889	63	(1)
Slingsby Bethel, Sheriff of London and Middlesex	63	(1)
Mansion House	64	(1)
The great City forgeries	64	(1)
The Sessions House, Clerkenwell Green	65	(1)
Middlesex Sessions	66	(1)
Bow Street Magistrates	67	(1)
Bow Street Police Station and Magistrates Court	68	(1)
`Remanded': Mrs Osborne leaving the dock	69	(1)
A consultation with his solicitor	70	(1)
Mr Greenwood at Clerkenwell Police Court	70	(1)
Seven convictions for drunkenness	70	(1)
Mr Ballantine, senior Thames Magistrate	70	(1)
The night charges at Marlborough Street	71	(1)
Inside the Black Maria	71	(1)
The identification parade	71	(1)
A scene at the Westminster Children's Court	72	(1)
The Bravo mystery	72	(1)
Criminal Portraits	73	(23)
John Selman	74	(1)
Moll Cut-Purse	74	(1)
James Whitney, the notorious highwayman	74	(1)
James Sheppard	75	(1)
Thomas Carr	75	(1)
Elizabeth Adams	75	(1)
Dick Turpin	76	(1)
Sally Salisbury	76	(1)
James Hall	77	(1)
Elizabeth Jeffries and John Swan	77	(1)
James Maclane	78	(1)
Thomas Savage	78	(1)
Elizabeth Canning and Mary Squires	79	(1)
William Hawke	79	(1)
Dr Dodd	80	(1)
William Ryland	80	(1)
James Bolland	81	(1)
Jerry Avershaw	81	(1)
Major Semple	82	(1)
Charles Price	82	(1)
Governor Wall	83	(1)
John Bellingham	84	(1)
Henry Fauntleroy	84	(1)
Daniel Good	85	(1)
Joseph Hunton	85	(1)
The Turf Frauds	85	(1)
The Mannings	86	(1)
Henry Wainwright	86	(1)
Franz Muller	87	(1)
The execution of Charles Peace	88	(1)
The Lambeth poisoner	88	(1)
George Chapman	89	(1)
The Judge Sir Henry Hawkins	89	(1)
Hawley Harvey Crippen	90	(1)
The Convict Office	91	(1)
Oscar Wilde	91	(1)
Adolf Beck	92	(1)
Murder of a police officer	93	(1)
Misleading photographs	93	(1)
Ronald True	94	(1)
The murder of Percy Thompson	94	(1)
The Tichborne claimant	95	(1)
Some Political Trials and Executions	96	(5)
John Dudley and Lady Jane Grey	96	(1)
The regicide Miles Corbet	97	(1)
The trial of Charles I	98	(2)
The regicide Colonel John Okey	100	(1)
Chief Justice Hale	100	(1)
Thomas Venner	100	(1)
Victims of Crime	101	(6)
Sir Thomas Overbury	101	(1)
Miss Ann Porter, victim of `the monster'	102	(1)
Samuel Mathews, the Dulwich hermit	102	(1)
Mrs Margaret Caroline Rudd and Robert and Daniel Perreau	103	(1)
Miss Martha Ray	104	(1)
The bank nun, Miss Sarah Whitehead	105	(1)
Isaac Blight	105	(1)
The brides in the bath	106	(1)
Executions	107	(21)
Colonel Despard	109	(1)
The beheading of the rebel Lords on Tower Hill	110	(1)
Sir Thomas Wyatt	111	(1)
The execution of Thomas, Earl of Strafford	112	(1)
James, Duke of Monmouth	112	(1)
The execution of Margaret, Countess of Salisbury	113	(1)
The axe and the block at the Tower of London	113	(1)
Heads displayed on Old London Bridge	114	(1)
The keeper of the Bridge Gate Tower	114	(1)
The heads of Townley and Fletcher exposed on Temple Bar	114	(1)
Execution of the Lollards	115	(1)
The butchery of Thomas Armstrong	116	(1)
A mass burning at Stratford	116	(1)
John Bradford and John Leaf, burned in Smithfield	117	(1)
Execution of Lord Ferrers at Tyburn	118	(1)
Extract from John Rocque's map of London and Westminster	119	(1)
The procession to Tyburn	120	(1)
Sarah Malcolm	120	(1)
The dying speech: Stephen Gardiner	121	(1)
`Half-hanged Smith'	121	(1)
Executions at Kennington Common	122	(1)
John Hanna	122	(1)
A pirate hanged at Execution Dock, Wapping	122	(1)
George Webb and Richard Russel on Shooter's Hill	123	(1)
Cruickshank's Bank Restriction note	123	(1)
Executions at Newgate Gaol	124	(2)
The execution of Cundell and Smith at Horsemonger Lane Gaol, Southwark	126	(1)
The scaffold at Wandsworth	126	(1)
The execution of Catherine Webster	126	(1)
The exposure of John Williams	127	(1)
A murderer's body exposed in Surgeons' Hall, Old Bailey	127	(1)
William Duell	127	(1)
The Hangmen	128	(4)
The arrest of John Price	130	(1)
William Calcraft	130	(1)
William Marwood	131	(1)
James Berry	131	(1)
The Prisons of London	132	(50)
The Clink Prison	134	(2)
The Tower of London	136	(1)
The Wakefield Tower	137	(1)
Traitors' Gate	137	(1)
Murders in the Tower	138	(1)
The Lollards' Prison	138	(1)
The Cage on London Bridge	139	(1)
Ludgate	140	(1)
Poultry Compter	140	(1)
Giltspur Street Compter	141	(1)
Whitecross Street Prison	141	(1)
Newgate	142	(2)
Jack Sheppard	144	(2)
The Gordon riots	146	(1)
Newgate Gaol in the early nineteenth century	147	(1)
A plan of Newgate, 1888	147	(1)
Newgate Gaol	148	(2)
John Howard	150	(1)
Mrs Elizabeth Fry	150	(1)
Taking a prisoner's photograph	150	(1)
Prisoners at exercise	150	(1)
A cell in Newgate	151	(1)
The pinioning jacket	151	(1)
The exercise yard for female prisoners at Newgate	152	(1)
The collection of plaster casts	152	(1)
Visiting day	152	(1)
The Fleet Prison	153	(3)
Bridewell	156	(2)
Southwark: the Marshalsea and White Lyon Prison	158	(2)
King's Bench Prison	160	(2)
The Surrey County Gaol in Horsemonger Lane	162	(1)
The Gatehouse, Westminster	162	(1)
The Savoy	163	(1)
David Dignan and George Barrington	163	(1)
Tothill Fields Prison	164	(1)
Hulks	165	(1)
Clerkenwell	166	(1)
Prisoners removed to Newgate	167	(1)
The House of Detention	168	(1)
Coldbath Fields Prison	169	(1)
Millbank Penitentiary, Westminster	170	(2)
Brixton	172	(2)
Wandsworth	174	(2)
Holloway	176	(2)
Pentonville	178	(2)
Wormwood Scrubs	180	(1)
The gate of Borstal Prison	181	(1)
Punishment	182	(15)
Death of a convict	184	(1)
In the stocks	184	(1)
The scold's bridle	184	(1)
The ducking-chair	185	(1)
The racking of Cuthbert Symson	185	(1)
The burning of Thomas Tomkins' hand	186	(1)
Branding, or burning on the hand	186	(1)
Titus Oates in the pillory	187	(1)
The pillory at Charing Cross	188	(1)
Dr Alexander Leighton	188	(1)
Thomas Hinshaw scourged	189	(1)
Bishop Bonner
James Naylor: whipped, set in the pillory and his tongue bored through with a hot iron	189	(1)
A man whipped	189	(1)
The `Boys' Pony'	190	(1)
The whip and whipping-post	190	(1)
William Spiggot under pressure	190	(1)
The harlot beating hemp	191	(1)
Convicts at Blackfriars Bridge	191	(1)
The hulk Justitia with convicts at work	192	(1)
The treadmill at Brixton Prison	192	(1)
The treadwheel in the House of Correction, Coldbath Fields	192	(1)
A prisoner at crank-labour	193	(1)
Picking oakum in Wormwood Scrubs	193	(1)
The oakum shed in the House of Correction, Coldbath Fields	193	(1)
The needle-room in the House of Correction, Coldbath Fields	194	(1)
A convict mat-making	194	(1)
A dormitory at Coldbath Fields Prison	194	(1)
The Convict Prison, Dartmoor	195	(1)
Cadbury's Cocoa	196	(1)
Bibliography	197	(4)
Index	201