Author: Richard Jones

Following the murder of Miss Elizabeth Camp in a railway carriage on the evening of the 11th of February, 1897, the police carried out extensive enquiries and followed up numerous clues as they endeavoured to bring the perpetrator […]

In June 1886, a case began at the Richmond Police Court which gripped the newspapers for several weeks. Most of the newspapers referred to it as the “Advertising For A Widow Case”, although Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper broke from […]

Although the Jack the Ripper crimes are considered to be Victorian London’s most infamous series of unsolved murders, there were many other homicides at the time that also went unsolved by the police, and, on Thursday, 1st June, […]

On the evening of Thursday the 11th February, 1897, Miss Elizabeth Camp was murdered on a train as she travelled to Waterloo Station. The London Evening Standard broke the story of the atrocity on Friday, 12th February, 1897. […]

On Friday, 18th July, 1884, a violent confrontation between two burglars and two police officers took place in Hoxton in the East End of London. Reynolds’s Newspaper published a full account of the incident in its edition of  […]

One thing is quickly becomes apparent when reading the accounts of the many types of criminal activity that found their way into the pages of the Victorian newspapers, when a police officer went on duty – and this […]

In the early hours of the morning of Sunday the 1st March, 1885, a murder took place in the East End of London which came about as the result of a fairly complicated love triangle. The Daily Gazette […]

On Wednesday, 12th July, 1922, the bodies of barber Lewis Briskin and his wife, Kate, were found in their home in Bethnal Green, East London. The Dundee Evening Telegraph presented its readers with the circumstances behind the tragedy […]

On Wednesday, 10th July, 1872, an horrific double murder took place at a house in Hoxton. The victims were an elderly woman by the name of Sarah Square, and her daughter, Christiana. The East London Observer reported on […]

There can be no doubt that Victorian police officers were a plucky bunch of men, who would think nothing of putting themselves at risk rather than let a criminal escape their clutches. We are all used to reading […]