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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

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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
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The Metropolitan Police Historic Store
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WEBSITES

www.archive.org/details/trialoffranzmull025046mbp

http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/

http://archivemaps.com/mapco/london.htm

www.british-history.ac.uk

www.eh.net

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Annual Register
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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

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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)

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The Murdering Mind
(London: HarperCollins, 1973)

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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)

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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
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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
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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)

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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)