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The Chieftain: Victorian True Crime Through The Eyes of a Scotland Yard Detective

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by Payne, Chris


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  PLATE SECTION

  1 Chief Inspector George Clarke, 1877 (Cobb, Critical Years at the Yard [1956])

  2 Sir Richard Mayne, Metropolitan Police Commissioner 1829–68 (Mary Evans Picture Library, Ref: 10082915)

  3 Superintendent Robert Walker (mounted) and A Division colleagues, including Eleazar Denning (foreground centre), at Epsom Races, 1864 (Metropolitan Police Historical Collection)

  4 Superintendent Adolphus Frederick Williamson (‘Picture Post Library’ in Cobb, Critical Years at the Yard [1956])

  5 Franz Müller c. 1864, murderer of Thomas Briggs

  6 Earl of Cardigan (Mary Evans Picture Library, Ref: 10048834)

  7 James Stephens, leader of Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood until 1867

  8 Sir Robert Anderson, Home Office expert on Fenians and later assistant commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police (H.L. Adam, C.I.D. Behind the Scenes at Scotland Yard [Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd, 1930])

  9 Fenians as portrayed after the Clerkenwell Explosion (Mary Evans Picture Library, Ref: 10024403)

  10 Montagu Williams, barrister (Dilnot, The Trial of the Detectives [1928])

  11 Sir Edmund Henderson, Metropolitan Police commissioner 1869–86 (Metropolitan Police Historical Collection)

  12 Sir Harry Poland, barrister and Treasury counsel (Bowen-Rowlands, Seventy-Two Years at the Bar [1924])

  13 Michael Davitt, Irish activist and MP (Mary Evans Picture Library, Ref: 10079194)

  14 Shah of Persia Nasir-al-Din, 1873

  15 The Tichborne Claimant Arthur Orton after his release from prison in 1884, with daughter, Theresa (Parliamentary Archives, Ref: PHO 11/3)

  16 George Hammond Whalley, MP (Courtesy of Kjell Hoel)

  17 William Henry Walters, fraudster and forger, at Pentonville Prison in 1880 (National Archives)

  18 Charles Howard, aka Count von Howard, fraudster, at Pentonville Prison in 1876 (National Archives)

  19 Charles Bravo (Getty Images, Ref: 3246501)

  20 Florence Bravo (Getty Images, Ref: 3247033)

  21 Harry Benson, fraudster, at Pentonville Prison in 1877 (National Archives)

  22 William Kurr, fraudster (‘The Great Detective Case’, Police News [G. Purkess, Strand, London, c. 1877])

  23 Charles Bale, at Pentonville Prison in 1877 (National Archives)

  24 Frederick Kurr, at Pentonville Prison in 1877 (National Archives)

  25 Inspector John Meiklejohn (Courtesy of Peter Meiklejohn)

  26 Edward Froggatt, solicitor, at Pentonville Prison in 1880 (National Archives)

  27 Sir George Lewis, solicitor (Mary Evans Picture Library, Ref: 10078949)

  28 Sir Edward Clarke, barrister and MP (Mary Evans Picture Library, Ref: 10073125)

  29 Emily Payne née Clarke, eldest daughter of George Clarke, with husband Henry and son Charles, 1883 (Author’s own photograph)

  30 Sir Richard Assheton Cross, Home Secretary 1874–80 and 1885–86 (Parliamentary Archives, Ref: PHO 11/1)

  COPYRIGHT

  Front cover picture credit: A cartoon illustrating the weapons available to burglars and policemen. (Punch, 8 October 1881)

  Back cover picture credit: Chief Inspector George Clarke, 1877.

  (Cobb, Critical Years at the Yard (1956))

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