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Authors: Judith Flanders
Prevention of Crimes Act (1871), 349
Price, Florence Alice (‘Florence Warden’):
The House on the Marsh,
438
Prince, Richard (Richard Archer), 353–4, 442
Prisoners’ Counsel Act (1836), 186
Pritchard, Edward, 258n, 267
prize-fighting, 22–3
Probert, William, 21, 24–7, 29–30, 34, 36, 38n, 44
Probert, Mrs William
(née
Noyes), 25–7
prostitutes: newspaper reticence over, 431;
see also
Jack the Ripper
Punch
(magazine): parodies murder dramas, 32, 115; attacks Bulwer-Lytton, 113n; and working-class taste for penny-bloods, 115; attacks Tussaud’s Chamber of Horrors, 154, 174; on telegraph, 161; on visit to theatre, 164–5; on Maria Manning’s dress, 171; on Mannings, 174; on Jane Wilbred, 216; satirizes poison panic, 245–6; on Tussaud’s seeking to acquire Tawell’s clothes, 332; on Terriss, 355; mocks Inspector Whicher, 366; mocks Pearcey fever, 413; parodies
Jekyll and Hyde,
423; on Jack the Ripper, 431–2 & n, 435; attacks Howard Vincent, 444
Punch and Judy, 206, 223
Purkess’s Library of Romance, 110
Purkess’s Penny Plays, 110
Quarterly Review,
371
Queen’s Theatre, London, 253
Quick-Manning (excise officer), 388
Quincey, Thomas de, 1, 17–18, 248, 257, 466;
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts,
18–19
racehorses: names, 459n
Racing Times,
271
railways: in pursuit of criminals, 158, 331–2; murder on, 332–3, 336
Randall, Jack, 23
Rankley, Alfred:
Eugene Aram in the
Schoolroom
(painting), 119
Rann, Jack, 59
rape, 430
Ratcliffe Highway, London: murders, 1–2, 5–6, 8–11, 17–18, 76
Reade, Charles, 348;
A Terrible
Temptation,
439n
Reaping the Whirlwind
(boys’ adventure
story), 463
Red Barn, Polstead, Suffolk: in Maria Marten case, 45, 47, 51, 56, 60–61
Reed, Mr and Mrs German, 138–9
Rees, George, 261
Reform Bill (1831), 325n
Rentrée à Paris, La
(play), 90
resurrection men, 62–3, 228
rewards, 8, 204, 432 & n
Reynolds, G.W.M.:
Mysteries of (the
Courts of) London,
59, 231, 299, 464
Reynolds’s Miscellany,
59, 217, 348, 397
Reynolds’s Newspaper,
310, 430, 440, 444 Rhodes, Alice
(later
Staunton), 343–9
Richard Turpin, the Highwayman (drama), 107
Richardson, Harriet, 343
Richardson, William, 277
Riley, Bridget, 228, 230
Ringgold, Jacob (‘Rodissi’):
Lord Jacquelin Burkney,
455
Riot Act (1715), 79 & n
Ritchen, John, 8
Road Murder, The
(by ‘A Barrister-at- Law’), 368
Road (now Rode), Somerset/Wiltshire, 362, 368–9, 371–2
Robertson, Agnes (Mrs Dion Boucicault), 130, 132
Robinson, Emma:
The Gold-Worshippers, or, The Days We Live in,
180 & n;
Madeleine Graham,
288
Robinson, James, 388–9
Rodissi
see
Ringgold, Jacob
Rosenbloom, Simon, 417
Ross, Charles Henry
see
Ellis, Edward
Rossini, Gioacchino:
La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie),
196n
Rowan, Charles, 83, 144, 148
Royal Albert Theatre, Canning Town, London, 462
Royal Clarence Theatre, Dover, 341
Royal Colosseum Theatre, Leeds, 199
Royal Victoria Theatre
see
Coburg Theatre
Royal West London Theatre, 125
Rugeley Tragedy, The
(play), 273
Rural Constabulary Act (1839), 148
Rush, James Blomfield, 149–58, 166
Ruskin, Effie, 170
Russell, Lord William, 200–202, 204, 208
Russell, William (‘Thomas Waters’), 294n; ‘Recollections of a Police Officer’, 177, 295, 299
Ruthven, George, 21
Rymer, James Malcolm, 176
Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, 126n, 127
Saintsbury, H.A.:
The Doctor’s Shadow,
462
Sala, George Augustus, 58, 71, 174–6
Sale of Arsenic Act (1851), 245–6
Saloon of Arts, London, 332
Sandford, Emily, 150–52, 154, 287
Sandys, Catherine, 229
Sandys, Elizabeth, 229–30
Sandys, George and Honor, 229–30, 232
Sandys, Mary Ann, 228–30
Sandys, Robert and Ann, 228–31
Sanger, George, 50
Satirist
(journal), 197, 203
Saturday Review,
122
Scanlan, John, 77, 130, 133–5
Scatcherd, Norrisson:
Memoirs of the Celebrated Eugene Aram,
106–7
Schmuss, Isaac, 417, 419
science: in detection and court evidence, 277, 329, 340, 342–3;
see also
medical evidence
Scotland: ‘not proven’ verdicts, 65 & n
Scotland Yard, 140, 147
Scott (in Monson case)
see
Sweeney, Edward
Scott, Sir Walter: visits Gill’s Hill Lane, 37; and Burke and Hare dinner, 66; on Mary Ashford, 323–4;
Guy Mannering,
33, 66
Scrafton, Mary Anne, 247
sensation-fiction, 254, 281, 289, 293, 295–6, 302n, 369, 373
serialization (of novels), 289–90
servants: murder by, 200–201, 209–11; abused and killed by employers, 213–17; and infanticide or birth concealment, 225
sex: newspaper inhibitions over reporting, 430
Seymour, Robert, 69
Shakespeare Theatre, London, 71
Shakespeare, William:
Macbeth,
18
Shaw, George Bernard, 132n;
The Devil’s Disciple,
351
Sheppard, Jack, 110–12, 114n, 127, 130, 208
Shiell, Quelaz, 141, 146
Shipman, Harold, 459n
Shore, Superintendent, 429
Silvester, Sir John, 189, 191, 200
Simpson, Abigail, 67
Sims, George Robert:
Dorcas Dene, Detective,
296n sleuth: as word, 294n
Sloane, Mr and Mrs, 215–17
Smethurst, Dr Thomas, 273–6, 278–80
Smith, Clara, 324–7
Smith, Emma, 425–6
Smith, G.E., 389–90
Smith, Henry, 253, 255–7
Smith, John (executioner), 272
Smith, Madeleine: Emma Robinson writes on, 180n; trial, 195, 283–5; as middle-class criminal, 258n, 281–2; affair with L’Angelier, 281–3, 285–6; subscription raised, 286–7; later life and marriages, 287n; in literature, 288, 318, 373
Smith, O. (actor), 280
Smith, William, MP, 12, 17
Snow, John, 226n
Southey, Robert, 17
Southgate, Hannah, 243–4, 315
Southgate, John, 243
souvenirs and relics: of executed murderers and victims, 55–6, 67–8, 173, 350
Spectator
(magazine), 375, 422
spiritualism, 350
Sporting Gazette,
347
Sporting Times,
272, 432, 458
Spring Heel’d Jack, 435 & n
Springthorpe, J., 172
‘Spy’
see
Ward, Leslie
Staffordshire Advertiser,
268
Stamford Mercury,
170n
Standard Theatre, Shoreditch, 199
Stanfield, Clarkson, 129–30
Stanfield Hall estate, Norfolk, 149–51
Stapleton, J.W.:
The Great Crime of 1860,
374
Star
(London newspaper), 422–3, 426–7, 432–3, 440–41
Staunton, Elizabeth
(née
Rhodes), 343, 345–6, 348–9
Staunton, Harriet
(née
Richardson), 343–50
Staunton, Louis, 343–9, 368
Staunton, Patrick, 343–6, 348–9
Stead, William Thomas, 419 & n, 420–21
Stephen, Sir James Fitzjames, 223, 224n, 418 & n, 419–20; ‘Detectives in Fiction and Real Life’, 296
Stevens, Mr (John Cook’s stepfather), 259–60, 266
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 73–4, 336;
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde,
423–5, 427, 435, 445–6, 455
Stockport Advertiser,
85
Stoker, Bram:
Dracula,
454–5
Stokes, Alfred, 337, 339, 341
Stone, Elizabeth:
William Langshawe,
the Cotton Lord,
86
Story of Minie L’Angelier
(anon.), 288–9
Stride, Elizabeth, 426, 439, 441, 458
strychnine, 259–60, 264–8, 270
Sue, Eugène:
The Mysteries of Paris,
59, 153
Sullivan, (Sir) Arthur, 339;
see also
Gilbert, (Sir) William Schwenck
Sullivan, Steven, 133–5
Sullivan, T.R., 424
Sunday Times,
47
Surrey Theatre, London, 15, 30–31, 33–5, 42, 107, 114, 125, 138
Surtees, Robert Smith, 75;
Ask Mamma,
255;
Plain or Ringlets?,
181
Sutherland, Harriet Leveson-Gower, Duchess of, 158
Sweeney, Edward (‘Scott’), 396–7, 400
Sweeney Todd
(penny-blood), 128
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 336n
Sylvester Sound, the Somnambulist
(penny-blood), 270
Tabram, Martha, 415, 424–6, 429–30
Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine,
276
Talfourd, Thomas Noon, 252, 255
Tanner, Inspector (of Stepney), 334
Tawell, John, 329–32
Taylor, Alfred Swaine: on Palmer, 160–61; declines to analyze O’Connor’s viscera, 163; testifies in arsenic poisoning cases, 232–3 & n, 241–3, 275n, 276, 278; on Bulwer-Lytton’s
Lucretia,
254; appearance, 261, 383; on Cook’s strychnine poisoning, 265–6; on Isabella Bankes, 274–5; on bloodstains in Baker case, 383;
Poisoning by Strychnia,
270
Taylor, Lydia, 239–40
Taylor, Tom, 379n;
Our American Cousin,
138;
The Ticket-of-Leave Man,
379–80
telegraph: in Boucicault’s
The Long Strike,
90–91; and pursuit of felons, 158, 161–2, 329, 332
Temple Bar
(magazine), 281
Tenniel, Sir John, 431, 432n
Terriss, Ellaline, 284n
Terriss, William, 351–6, 442
Terry, Ellen, 99, 121, 413
Terry-Lewis, Mabel, 123
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 42, 205, 209, 281; ‘Going to see a Man Hanged’, 205, 207, 268n;
Vanity Fair,
44
Thames Division Police Office (London), 3, 8, 16
Thames River Police, 13
theatres: licensing, 30–31; in London, 31; murder plays and melodramas, 31–3, 42, 61–2, 89, 113–14, 124–6, 156, 198 & n, 302n; cheap (penny-gaffs), 56–8; and spectacle, 88–90; novelty productions, 126–7, 131; subsidiary commercial merchandizing and gifts, 132; detective plays, 379–80;
see also
individual theatres
Thistlewood, Arthur, 172
Thom, John (‘Sir William Courtney’), 165
Thomas, Sarah, 209–13
Thornton, Abraham, 320–24
Thurtell, John: and murder of Weare, 20–26, 28–30, 34n, 39, 77; in Borrow’s
Lavengro,
22–3, 101–2n; trial and sentence, 35–8, 51n; broadsides and verses on, 39–40; executed, 39, 41; posthumous image and reputation, 40–45; Egan offers caul to Bulwer, 105n; and Dick Turpin, 109; and Rush, 157; newspaper reaction to, 187
Thurtell, Thomas, 24, 26
ticket-of-leave men, 379–80
Tiller-Clowes company (puppeteers), 58n
Times, The:
on John Turner, 7; crime reporting, 27, 360, 426; price, 27; on
Thurtell, 28–9, 35; on
The Gamblers
(play), 34; advertises model of
Thurtell cottage, 43; on Corder, 46, 52, 55n; on Maria Marten’s child’s father, 46; on raid on penny-gaff, 58; on Burke, 67; on Greenacre, 92–3; on Fitzball’s
Jonathan Bradford,
126; on Boucicault’s
The Colleen Bawn,
131; on Good, 143–4; and plain-clothes police, 147; on Mannings, 162, 165, 169–70 & n; on Dickens modelling Bucket on Inspector Field, 179; on Eliza Fenning, 187–8; and Courvoisier and Jack Sheppard, 208n; on Drouet, 221; on Mary Ann Milner, 230; on Dazley inquests, 236; on Chesham trials, 241–2; on Wainewright, 251; on Palmer, 261–2, 264, 269; on Taylor, 261–2; circulation, 262, 426; on Madeleine Smith, 283; on Müller, 333; on muggings and garrotting, 336; on Henry Wainwright, 339; collects subscriptions for Wainwright’s family, 341; ignores Harriet Parker execution, 359; on Constance Kent, 366, 375, 377; on assassination of Abraham Lincoln, 372; on Mary Ann Cotton, 391; on Jessie King and Monson cases, 398; on Eleanor Pearcey, 408–9; on Lipski, 419; on Jack the Ripper, 426, 430, 433, 440, 442, 446–7; on fingerprints, 464
Todd, Sweeney, 125, 465
Tom Bowling
(melodrama), 33
Tomahawk
(magazine), 383
Toms, John, 87n
Tooting, London, 217–18, 222–3
Torrence, Helen, 66
Tottenham (acquaintance of Monson), 394–6, 397, 401–2
Traveller
(newspaper), 187
Trenck, Franz von der (‘Baron Trenk’), 165
Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 40
trial by battle, 321–2
Trial and Life of Eugene Aram, The,
105
trials: prosecution procedure, 7–8 & n, 51n
Trollope, Anthony, 269;
The Eustace Diamonds,
305–6;
Phineas Phinn,
332
Turf Fraud case (police corruption), 428
Turner, Charlotte, 185–6, 189–90, 192
Turner, John, 6
Turner, Orlibar (or Haldebart), 184–6, 188, 190–91
Turner, Robert, 183–8, 190, 195
Turpin, Dick, 59, 108–10
Turpin’s Ride to York and the Death of Black Bess
(drama), 111
Tussaud, Louis, 401, 413
Tussaud, Madame (waxworks): portrait of John Williams, 11; Chamber of Horrors, 70–71, 154, 172–4; waxwork of William Burke, 70–71; ignores Mrs Chesham, 245; waxwork of Palmer, 271; attempts to acquire Tawell’s clothes, 332; waxwork of Terriss, 355; waxwork of Baker, 383; and Mary Ann Cotton, 393–4; and Monson, 401–2; exhibit of Eleanor Pearcey, 403, 412–13; and Jack the Ripper, 452
Vaillant, Auguste, 401 & n
Vanity Fair,
407
Vermiloe, Mr & Mrs (of Pear Tree
Tavern), 8–9