The Invention of Murder (89 page)

Egan, Pierce, 28, 37n, 38, 105n;
Account of the Trial of John Thurtell and Joseph Hunt,
41

Egg, Augustus:
Past and Present
(triptych), 129–30

Eliot, George, 44, 284, 286;
The Lifted Veil,
180;
Middlemarch,
310–11, 327

Eliot, T.S., 374

Eliza Fenning
(ship), 196

Eliza Fenning, The Victim of Circumstances
(play), 199

Eliza Fenning’s Own Narrative,
192

‘Ellis, Edward’ (Charles Henry Ross): Ruth the Betrayer, 298, 300, 375

Ellis, George: The Female Detective, 381

Ellis, Havelock:
The Criminal,
258

Elmore, Alfred, 120

Emms, Mr (shoemaker), 366

Emsley, Mrs, 366–7

Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, 301

Era
(newspaper), 73, 121, 211, 263, 287, 356, 460–61

Evening News,
420–21, 426–7, 441, 443, 451

Evening Standard,
411, 430

Examiner
(newspaper): on Thurtell, 30, 36; on Burke and Hare exhibition, 70; on Aram as ‘beloved’, 104; on Rush, 155; on execution of Mannings, 170; supports Eliza Fenning, 187; on cholera at Drouet’s, 220; Dickens writes in, 222; on Sarah Dazley’s confession, 238; on medical evidence, 347; on wife-murder, 361; crime reporting, 372

executioners, 205–7

executions: public, 54–5, 155, 169–72, 193, 205–8, 212, 236–8, 268, 361; numbers, 166; of women, 166, 328, 393, 409; cease as public events, 341, 362

Experiences of a Lady Detective, The, see Hayward, William Stephen

Family Herald
(magazine), 281

Family Library
(magazine), 281

Fenians, 429

Fenning, Eliza: tried and sentenced for attempted murder, 77, 183–7, 189; trial evidence questioned, 187–92; execution and funeral, 193–4, 234, 368; and political disenfranchisement, 193; posthumous reputation, 195–6; stage and literary representations, 196–200, 269, 290

Fergusson, Sir William, 63, 74n

Ferrari, Carlo, 71

Field, Inspector Charles, 178–9, 386

Fielding, Sir John, 13, 15–16

Figaro in London
(newspaper), 94, 126n, 324

fingerprinting, 464–5

Fitzball, Edward:
Jonathan Bradford, or, The Murder at the Roadside Inn,
125–9, 131

FitzGerald, Edward, 292n, 336n

‘Forrester, Andrew’: identity, 374n; writings, 463; ‘A Child Found Dead’, 374, 377; ‘The Judgment of Conscience’, 87n;
Revelations of a Female Detective,
298, 300, 367, 374

Forrester, Daniel, 2n, 251

Forster, John, 153, 170–71, 252

Fouché, Joseph, 17 & n, 76

Foxall, Eliza, 247

Foxall, Henry, 247

Foxen, John, 205

France: police in, 17 & n, 75–6

Freeman, Sarah, 226, 237

‘Frieake, Teddy’, 339–40

Friendly Societies: and burial society murders, 227–8, 232

Fun
(magazine), 355, 436, 448

funerals: of murder victims, 5–6

Gadsdell, Roger, 184, 186, 191, 197

Gaiety Theatre, London, 115

Gale, Sarah, 92–6

Gallery of Illustration, Regent Street, London, 121

Gallop, Mary, 238

Galton, Francis, 465

Gamblers, The
(play), 32 & n, 33–6, 42

garrotting, 332

Garside, William (or James), 84–5, 115

Gaskell, Elizabeth: ‘A Dark Night’s Work’, 128n;
Mary Barton,
86–9;
North and South,
304

Gay, William, 92

Geering, Mary Anne, 234n, 236

Gentleman Jack
(penny-blood), 59

Gentleman’s Magazine,
9, 15, 27

George IV, King
(formerly
Prince Regent), 45

Gilbert, (Sir) William Schwenck, 339n;
Ruddigore
(with Sullivan), 122n

Gillette, William:
Secret Service
(play), 351;
Sherlock Holmes
(play), 350–51, 462

Gill’s Hill, Hertfordshire, 20–21, 25–6, 35–6

Gipsey of Edgware, The
(play), 44

Glasgow Herald
(newspaper), 283, 286,
336, 397

Globe
(newspaper), 435, 441, 451

Godwin, William:
Caleb Williams,
102–103, 299

Good, Daniel, 140–47, 158, 166

Good, Molly, 145

Gough, Elizabeth, 362, 366, 369, 376

Gould, R., 205 & n

Graphic,
399

Gray, Mr and Mrs (of Edinburgh), 64–5, 287

Great Exhibition (London, 1851), 306

Green Row Rooms, Portsmouth, 144n

Greenacre, James: Huish writes on, 53; murders Hannah Brown, 92–6; popular accounts of, 94–7, 166, 288; executed, 98

Greenhow (lawyer), 390

Griffin, Gerald:
The Collegians,
136–7, 139

Grossmith, George:
The Real Case of

Hyde and Seekyll,
425

Haines, J.T.:
Eily O’Connor, or, The
Foster Brothers
(play), 137

Ham, Thomas, 243–4

Hambrough, Cecil, 395–8, 402–3

Hambrough, Major Dudley, 394–7

Hamilton, Sir William, 68

Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle,
29, 106, 127

hangmen
see
executioners

Hanley, Ellen (‘the Colleen Bawn’), 133–6, 139

Hardie, Keir, 462

Hardy, Thomas, 361;
Tess of the D’Urbervilles,
171, 362

Hare, Margaret, 62, 65

Hare, William: kills and sells bodies, 62–7, 433; popular accounts of, 69–75; and policing, 77; and Madeleine Smith case, 286–7

Harkness, Margaret (‘John Law’):
Captain Lobe,
453

Harmsworth, Alfred Charles
(later
Viscount Northcliffe), 425, 456

Harriet Staunton, or, Married and
Starved for Money,
350

Hart, Sarah, 329–30

Harvey, Martin
(later
Sir John Martin-Harvey), 123

Harwood, John:
Miss Jane, or, The Bishop’s Daughter,
373, 375

Hatton, Captain (Staffordshire Constabulary), 271

Hawkins, Henry (Mr Justice), 268n, 347–8

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 283

Hayes, Catherine, 44 & n

Hayes, Mr (Bradford’s murder victim), 123, 128

Haynes, M.J. & Co, Peckham, 460

Hayward, Jonathan, 419–20

Hayward, William Stephen (attrib.):
The Experiences of a Lady Detective,
299;
Revelations of a Lady Detective,
378

Hazlewood, C.H.: as house author at Britannia Theatre, 125n; adapts
Oliver Twist
for stage, 385;
The Detective,
380;
Eily O’Connor,
137;
The Mother’s Dying Child,
380

Hazlitt, William, 248

Henderson, Col. Edmund, 429

Henry, Edward, 465

Herapath, William, 265–6, 326–7

Herschel, Sir William, 464–5

Hidden Guilt
(play), 182

High Rip gangs, 425–6

highwaymen, 59, 108–9

Hinchcliff, Elizabeth, 187n

Hindley, Myra, 459n

Hogg, Clara, 403–5

Hogg, Frank, 403–5, 408–9, 412, 414

Hogg, Phoebe: murdered, 403–10, 412–13, 464

Holmes, Sherlock (fictional figure): and rewards, 204; on doctors’ fallibility, 267; and Moriarty, 293; as scientific machine, 316, 439; in Gillette’s drama, 350, 462; knowledge of sensation-literature, 370–71; name, 371; solves mysteries, 371; on beauty of rose, 376n; employs boy detectives, 378; disguises, 387; based on Joseph Bell, 398; domestic suspects, 414; character, 438–9; uses dog to follow scent, 444n; on ears sent by post, 448n; motives, 463; on fingerprints, 465;
see also
Doyle, (Sir) Arthur Conan

Holroyd, Matthew, 234–5

Holroyd, Susannah, 234–5

Hone, William (publisher), 187;
La Pie Voleuse,
196–7

Honeyman, William Crawford (‘James McGovan’):
Brought to Bay,
300; ‘The Missing Bookbinder’, 74–5

Hood, Thomas, 248; ‘The Dream of Eugene Aram’, 103–4, 117, 119–22

Hook, Thomas:
Killing No Murder,
124

Horsemonger Lane Gaol, 169–70, 172, 205

Hotten, John Camden, 252, 256

Household Words
(magazine), 129, 176, 199, 222, 271, 296n, 306

Houseman, Richard, 99–100, 101, 106–8, 123

Houstoun, Matilda Charlotte:
Such Things Are,
371

Howell (railway superintendent, Slough), 329

Hue and Cry
(police publication), 84 &
n, 115, 145

Hughes, Revd George, 53

Huish, Robert [and William Maginn?]:
The Progress of Crime, or, The Authentic Memoirs of Maria Manning,
176;
The Red Barn, A Tale, Founded on Fact,
53 & n

Humble, Revd Henry, 226

Hunt, Joseph, 21, 23–7, 29, 37, 40, 44

Hunt, Leigh, 36, 106

Hyatt, Revd Charles, 52

Illustrated Life and Career of William Palmer of Rugeley, The,
264

Illustrated London News,
147, 161, 234,
447

Illustrated Police News,
341–2, 384,
390–91, 435

Illustrated Times,
262 & n, 263

Imperial Insurance Company, 249

infanticide, 223–32;
see also
burial societies; children

Ipswich Journal,
36, 124, 154–5

Ireland: constables in, 15n

Irving, (Sir) Henry, 99, 121–2, 257, 351, 385, 413, 454

Jack the Ripper: press coverage, 339, 427–8, 430–32, 435–7, 440–52; notoriety, 415; unknown identity and suspects, 424–5, 441–2, 446–7, 451, 465–6; victims, 425–6, 431, 439, 450; police handling, 429, 437–8, 442–4, 448–50; bodies mutilated, 430–33, 436, 440, 448, 450–51; in foreign languages, 442n; in theatre, 442, 460–62; bloodhounds employed, 443–5; Vigilance Committees established, 447–8; fiction based on, 452–6, 463; waxworks of victims, 452 ballads and songs on, 456–9; dogs and racehorses named for, 459; mementoes, 460; legacy, 462, 464–6; and later knife-crimes, 464

Jack the Ripper at Work Again
(ballad compilation), 458

Jackson, Harry, 465

Jackson’s Oxford Journal,
239

James, Henry, 283

Jefferies, Elizabeth, 209–11

Jermy, Isaac
(formerly
Preston), 149–51

Jermy, Thomas, 150–51

Jerningham (in Monson case), 395, 397

Jerome, Jerome K., 198n, 380n

Jerrold, Blanchard, 48n

Jerrold, Douglas, 48n, 125;
Vidocq! the French Police Spy
(play), 15;
Wives by Advertisement,
48

Jewell, Margaret, 2–3

Jews: suspected of Jack the Ripper murders, 441–2;
see also
anti-Semitism

John Bull
(journal), 97, 118, 222, 239, 316, 330

Jones, Hannah Maria:
The Gamblers; or, The Treacherous Friends,
42, 43n

Jones, Jane (of Daniel Good case), 141–3, 145–6

Jones, Jane (of Robert Blake case), 357–8

Joseph, Samuel, 68

Journal of Medical Science,
268

Joy, Revd F.W., 120n

Joyce, Eliza, 244–5

Kaleidoscope
(magazine), 56

Kean, Charles, 130

Kean, Edward, 205

Kelly, Mary Jane (or Mary Anne), 450–52, 460, 462

Kent, Constance: and killing of half-brother Francis, 44, 258n, 306, 364–71, 377, 425; confesses, 371–2, 374n; fiction based on, 373–6, 378

Kent, Francis Savile, 362–3, 370

Kent, Mary
(née
Pratt), 363–4, 366n, 367–8

Kent, Samuel Savile, 306, 363–5, 367–9, 372

King, Jessie, 398

King, Mrs Percy
see
Lane, Harriet

Kippis, Andrew, 102

Kirby’s Wonderful Magazine,
124

Kirk, Wilkison, 332

Knaresborough, Yorkshire, 99–101, 117

Knight, Bernard, 184n

Knox, Dr Robert, 62–5, 69, 71, 287

Lac du Glenaston, Le
(play), 137

Lacenaire, Pierre-François, 255 & n

Ladies’ Monthly Magazine,
322

Lady’s Newspaper,
166, 368

Lafarge, Marie-Fortunée, 253

Lamb, Charles, 248

Lambeth Street Police Office, 8

Lancet
(medical journal), 195, 267, 277, 316–17, 347, 420, 431

Landseer, Sir Edwin, 204 & n

Lane, Harriet (‘Mrs Percy King’), 338–40

L’Angelier, Emile, 281–6

Lankester, Edwin, 226 & n

Larner, John, 150

Law, John
see
Harkness, Margaret

Lawrence, Sir Thomas, 11

Laycock, Thomas, 227

Leader
(journal), 276

Lee, James, 51, 61

Leech, John, 170

Leeds: police in, 148

Leeds Mercury,
105, 107, 114–15

Le Fanu, Sheridan: adapts Jonathan Bradford story, 127–8;
A Lost Name,
176n, 296, 371; ‘The Murdered Cousin’, 294;
Uncle Silas,
293–4

Le Gallienne, Richard, 355

Leigh, Percival, 164

Leighton, Alexander:
The Courts of Cacus,
71–2

Lemon, Mark, 179

Letheby, Henry, 265–7, 334

Leverson, Rachel (Madame Rachel), 304n

Levy, Mrs (lodger at Lipski’s), 415–16

Lewes, George Henry, 286

Lewes, Sussex, 236–7

Lewis, Clunn, 588

Licensing Act (theatres, 1737), 30

Life and Death of Eliza Fenning, The
(play), 199

Life of the Reverend George Dyson and his Strange Adventures with Mrs. Bartlett,
317–18

Lincoln, Abraham, 138n, 372

Lincolnshire Chronicle,
170n

Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine,
455

Lipski, Israel: convicted of murder, 415–21; confession, 421; execution, 422; fictionalized in detective story, 422–3; and Jack the Ripper, 441

Liston, Robert, 68