Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Sheffield - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Sheffield write by Geoffrey Howse. This book was released on 2009-05-21. Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Sheffield available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author of A History of London’s Prisons reveals the ugly criminal past of one of England’s most beautiful cities. It hardly seems surprising that what has become England’s fourth city has within its rich history a sinister and darker side. Take a journey to discover cases of petty crime, riots, burglary, robbery, assault, suicide, unlawful killing, manslaughter, and murder, as well as a host of quirky and quizzical crimes from the early Victorian period to modern times. One sensational case covered is that of Sheffield-born Charles Peace, considered by some criminologists to be England’s most notorious murderer. He was hanged at Leeds on February 25, 1879, for the killing of Arthur Dyson at Darnall in 1876. Peace’s criminality seemed to know no bounds. Several other sensational and forgotten murders are featured and a range of cases mentioned refer to many former landmarks in and around old Sheffield, from public houses and hotels to factories, shops, and steelworks. This book is sure to be an absorbing read for anyone interested in our local social history.
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in South Yorkshire
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in South Yorkshire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in South Yorkshire write by Geoffrey Howse. This book was released on 2010-01-01. Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in South Yorkshire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Geoffrey Howse explores the darker and sinister side of South Yorkshire's past in this diverse collection of crimes and foul deeds, taken from Victorian to modern times. Read about a shooting and 'mob rule' in Doncaster, sensational murder in Darfield, Mexborough, and Attercliffe; trade outrages in Sheffield and Rotherham, highway robbery at Wentworth, embezzlement in Barnsley and arson at Thorne. Unusual cases include a Doncaster elopement and robbery, burglaries by girls in Rotherham, the shocking killing of a police constable at Swinton and 'coal' riots and lawlessness in Wath-upon-Dearne and Hoyland. A dramatic event in Thurnscoe, a Wombwell stabbing affray and a variety of long forgotten tragedies and crimes are also explored in some detail.
More Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Barnsley
More Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Barnsley - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook More Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Barnsley write by Geoffrey Howse. This book was released on 2009-07-30. More Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Barnsley available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In his second book in the Foul Deeds series relating to Barnsley and its neighborhood, Geoffrey Howse continues to uncover aspects of the areas' darker and more sinister past. Many districts not covered in the first volume are included here.Read about the shooting of Lord Wharncliffe's head gamekeeper at Pilley, in 1867, the capture of the killers and the sensational trial; also about the murder of William Swann in Wombwell by his wife, Emily, and John Gallagher, both hanged in 1903. Other features included the case of a Polish resident, Wilhelm Lubina, executed at Leeds in 1953 for murdering Charlotte Bell in Barnsley. A rich and compelling miscellany of local misdemeanor from Victorian and Edwardian times are recounted too: robbery at Thurlstone, violent assault at Worsbrough and Hoyland Swaine, highway robbery at Gawber, theft at Hoyland and Elsecar, attempted wife murder at Thurgoland, poaching at Cudworth. There is also the unusual case of manslaughter against Maria Cooper, killed with others in a fireworks explosion in Barnsley. An absorbing read and source of reference for anyone interested in local social and criminal history.
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in London's East End
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in London's East End - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in London's East End write by Geoffrey Howse. This book was released on 2005-06-01. Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in London's East End available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author of The A-Z of London Murders investigates Jack the Ripper’s stalking grounds for even more crimes and killings in England’s capital. For centuries London’s East End has been associated with some of the worst elements of human depravity, where foul deeds and murder were commonplace; and in 1888 the area’s disrepute was added to by the horrific murders committed by Jack the Ripper. The East End was populated by people crammed together in close-knit communities. As the district grew from the ancient villages along the river, much of the village atmosphere and rivalry remained—along with some of the worst corruption and vilest slums to be found anywhere in the country. For instance the residents of Bethnal Green looked down their noses at those from Hoxton, barely half a mile away. During the 1930s, after the Depression, a government report estimated 60 percent of the children in Bethnal Green suffered from malnutrition and 85 percent of the housing was unsatisfactory. These were the times when the infamous Kray Twins were cutting their teeth. The East End’s claim to fame in the annals of crime in England is not without justification, as the pages of this book show.
Foul Deede and Suspicious Deaths Sheffield
Foul Deede and Suspicious Deaths Sheffield - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foul Deede and Suspicious Deaths Sheffield write by Pen & Sword Books Limited. This book was released on 2009-05. Foul Deede and Suspicious Deaths Sheffield available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
