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Adams, Charles
American Minister at the Court of St James’s, London
Ames, Benjamin
Train guard, North London Railway

Ballantine, Serjeant William

Prosecution Barrister

Battiscombe, Reverend
Prison visitor
Beard, Thomas
Solicitor to the German Legal Protection Society, London
Blankman, Edmond
Co-Counsel for the Defence in the American extradition hearing
Blyth, Ellen
Landlady, 16 Park Terrace, Old Ford, Bow
Blyth, George
Husband of Ellen Blyth, City messenger
Brereton, Dr Alfred
Bow Road doctor
Briggs, Thomas
Chief Bank Clerk, Robarts, Curtis & Co., of Clapton Square, Hackney
Briggs, Thomas James
Second son of the above
Buchan, Caroline
Thomas Briggs’ niece, of Peckham
Buchan, David
Husband of Caroline Buchan, warehouseman
Calcraft, William
London’s public executioner
Cappel, Dr Louis
Minister of the German Lutheran Church, Alie Street
Clarke, George
Police sergeant, Metropolitan Police, Scotland Yard
Collier, Sir Robert
Solicitor General

Davis, Reverend

Newgate prison Ordinary

Death, John
Jeweller, 55 Cheapside
Death, Robert
Brother of the above, and his assistant
Digance, Daniel
Briggs’ hatter, Royal Exchange
Dougan, Edward
Police constable, Metropolitan Police, K Division

Edwards, Pierrepont

Acting British consul, New York

Ekin, Alfred
Engine driver, North London Railway
Eldred, Mary Anne
Prostitute, Camberwell

Fishbourne, Thomas

Ticket collector, Fenchurch Street Station

Flowers, Mr
Magistrate, Bow Street Court
Foreman, Charles
Omnibus conductor

Giffard, Hardinge

Junior member of the prosecution team

Gifford, James
Shipping agent, London docks
Glass, John Henry
Journeyman tailor at Hodgkinson’s, City
Greenwood, George
Superintendent, Chalk Farm Station
Grey, Sir George
Home Secretary

Henry, Thomas

Chief magistrate, Bow Street Police Court

Hoffa, John
Journeyman tailor at Hodgkinson’s, City; friend of Müller
Howie, Daniel
Superintendent, Metropolitan Police, K Division
Humphreys, John
Coroner for East Middlesex

Jones, Elizabeth

Brothel keeper

Jones, Sydney
Bank clerk, Robarts, Curtis & Co., City
Judd, Charles
Suspect in the Briggs case

Kennedy, John

Chief of the New York Metropolitan Police

Kerressey, Walter
Detective Inspector, Metropolitan Police, K Division

Lambert, Lewis

Policeman K311, Metropolitan Police, K Division

Lee, Thomas
Acquaintance of Thomas Briggs; key witness at trial
Letheby, Dr Henry
Professor of Chemistry, London

Marbury, Francis

Counsel to the British Consulate, New York

Martin, Samuel
Trial judge
Matthews, Eliza
Wife of Jonathan Matthews
Matthews, Jonathan
London cab driver
Mayne, Sir Richard
Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police
Müller, Franz
German tailor
Murray, Robert
US Marshal

Newton, Chas

United States Commissioner, New York

Parry, Serjeant John Humffreys

Defence Barrister

Pearson, Sophia
Franz Müller’s sister in London
Pollock, Frederick
Lord Chief Baron; trial judge

Repsch, Elizabeth

Wife of Godfrey Repsch

Repsch, Godfrey
Tailor, Old Jewry, City

Shaffer, Chauncey

Counsel for the Defence, American extradition hearing

Steer, Thomas
Detective Inspector, Metropolitan Police, D Division

Tanner, Richard

Detective Inspector, Metropolitan Police, Scotland Yard

Taylor, Professor Alfred
Professor of Chemistry, Guy’s Hospital, London
Thorne, Frederick
Daniel Digance’s hatmaker
Tiddey, William Ninnis
Superintendent, Metropolitan Police, D Division
Tieman, John Charles
Officer, New York Police Department
Timms, William
Train guard, North London Railway
Toulmin, Dr Francis
Thomas Briggs’ doctor

Vernez, Harry

Bank clerk, Robarts, Curtis & Co., City

Weist, Jacob

Porter, London docks

Williamson, Frederick
Detective Inspector, Metropolitan Police, Scotland Yard
Woodward, Alfred
Clerk, Electric and International Telegraph Company

Select Bibliography

ARCHIVES

The National Archives, Kew

CRIM 4/681

CRIM 5/4

CRIM 6/11

CRIM 10/53

HO 12/152/63401

HO 13/108

HO 14/24

HO 14/25

HO 45/681

HO 45/7078

HO 46/32

HO 46/33

HO 65/25

MEPO 3/75

MEPO 3/76

MEPO 7/25

PCOM 2/215

RAIL 529/113

London Metropolitan Archives
: 1862 Weekly Dispatch Map
London Transport Museum
: The Reinhohl Collection, Album 2
American National Archives, College Park, Maryland
: US extradition file. Record Group 59: General Records of the Department of State 1789–2002, American National Archives, Franz Müller 1864, Loc. 250/48/9/7, Box 2
The Metropolitan Police Historic Store
: Richard Tanner’s notebook, ‘Prisoners apprehended July 1856 to 1867’

WEBSITES

www.archive.org/details/trialoffranzmull025046mbp
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/
http://archivemaps.com/mapco/london.htm
www.british-history.ac.uk
www.eh.net
http://newspapers.bl.uk/blcs/

NEWS PAPERS, MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS

Annual Register
, 1864
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
Cornhill Magazine
Daily Telegraph
The Era
Fraser’s Magazine
Illustrated London News
Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper
New York Herald
New York Times
Phrenological Journal
Quarterly Review
Reynolds’s Weekly Newspaper
The Times
The Spectator
Other UK national and regional newspapers: British Library Newspaper Store, Colindale

PUBLISHED BOOKS AND ARTICLES

Execution broadside:
Müller’s Hanging
(London: Catnach Press, 1864)
Bradshaw’s Railway Guide
(1864)
The Post Office London Directory
(London: Kelly & Co., 1864)
The Queen’s London, A Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Streets, Buildings, Parks and Scenery of the Great Metropolis
(London: Cassell, 1896)
Report of the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment, Together with the Minutes of Evidence and Appendix
(London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1866)
Abrahamsen, David,
The Murdering Mind
(London: HarperCollins, 1973)
Alderman, Geoffrey and Colin Holmes (ed.),
Outsiders and Outcasts: Essays in Honour of William J. Fishman
(London: Duckworth, 1993)
Altick, Richard D.,
Evil Encounters: Two Victorian Sensations
(London: John Murray, 1987)
—————,
Victorian Studies in Scarlet
(London: Dent, 1972)
Anonymous, ‘Our Female Sensation Novelists’,
Christian Remembrancer
, 46, 1864, 209–36
Ashton, Rosemary,
Little Germany: Exile and Asylum in Victorian Britain
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986)
Aspland, Robert,
An Oration Delivered on Monday, October 16, on Laying the First Stone of the New Gravel-Pit Meeting-House in Paradise Field, Hackney
(Harlow: Longman, Hurst et al, 1809)
Ballantine, William,
Some Experiences of a Barrister’s Life
(London: R. Bentley & Son, 1882)
Bartlett, David W.,
London by Day and Night; or, Men and Things in the Great Metropolis
(London: n.p., 1852)
Begg, Paul and Keith Skinner,
The Scotland Yard Files: 150 Years of the CID
(London: Headline, 1992)
Bentley, David,
English Criminal Justice in the Nineteenth Century
(London: Hambledon, 1998)
Best, William Mawdesley,
A Treatise on Presumptions of Law and Fact
(London: Sweet, 1844)
Bleackley, Horace,
The Hangmen of England: How They Hanged and Whom They Hanged – The Life Story of ‘Jack Ketch’ Through Two Centuries
(London: Chapman & Hall, 1929)
Block, Brian P. and John Hostettler,
Hanging in the Balance: A History of the Abolition of Capital Punishment in Britain
(Winchester, Waterside Press, 1997)
Booth, Charles (ed.),
Life and Labour of the People
(London: Macmillan, 1889)
Boyle, Thomas,
Black Swine in the Sewers of Hampstead: Beneath the Surface of Victorian Sensationalism
(New York: Viking, 1988)
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth,
Aurora Floyd
(1863; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996)
—————,
Lady Audley’s Secret
(1862; London: Wordsworth Editions, 1995)
Brantlinger, Patrick, ‘What is “Sensational” about the “Sensation Novel”?’,
Nineteenth Century Fiction
, 37, 1982, 1–28.
Browne, Douglas G.,
The Rise of Scotland Yard: A History of the Metropolitan Police
(London: Harrap, 1956)
Cavanagh, Timothy,
Scotland Yard Past and Present
(London: Chatto, 1893)
Cobb, Belton,
Critical Years at the Yard: The Career of Frederick Williamson of the Detective Department and the CID
(London: Faber & Faber, 1956)
Collins, Philip,
Dickens and Crime
(London: Macmillan, 1962)
Collins, Wilkie,
The Woman in White
(1860; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996)
Cook, Tony and Andy Tattersall,
Blackstone’s Senior Investigating Officers’ Handbook
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)
Costello, Augustine E.,
Our Police Protectors: History of the New York Police from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
(1885; Montclair: Patterson Smith, 1972)
Cunningham, Peter,
A Hand-book of London: Past and Present
(London: John Murray, 1849)
Cunnington, C. Willet and Phillis,
Handbook of English Costume in the Nineteenth Century
(London: Faber & Faber, third edition, 1970)
Dickens, Charles,
American Notes
(London: Chapman & Hall, 1842)
—————, ‘Cab’,
All the Year Round
, 25 February 1860, 414–16
—————,
David Copperfield
(1849–50; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
—————,
Dickens’ London: An Imaginative Vision
, ed. Peter Ackroyd (London: Headline, 1987)

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