Mr Briggs' Hat: The True Story of a Victorian Railway Murder (55 page)

Taylor, Professor Alfred Swaine
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111

Thackeray, William Makepeace
45
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241–2
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259
,
266

Thorne, Frederick William
186
,
221

Thornton, Stephen
26
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28

Thurtell, John
59

Tiddey, William Ninnis
70
,
81
,
92
,
94
,
104
,
169

Tidmarsh, Samuel
169

Tieman, John Charles
121
,
123
,
127
,
128–30
,
140
,
152

Times, The
32
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44
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46
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94
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95
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117
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126
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155
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166
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180
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198
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238
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239
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254
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259
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263
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267
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275
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277
,
279

Timms, William
19–20
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22
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23
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103
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174
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206

Tomkins (informer)
60

Toulmin, Dr Francis
22–3
,
41
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64
,
184–5
,
207
,
275

Townley, Victor
259

Townsend (ticket collector)
91–2

Trollope, Anthony
200

Tussaud, Madame
191–2
,
278

Uhlenhuth, Paul
47

United States Circuit Court House
135

Vernez, Harry
1
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41
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49
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65
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206

Victoria, Princess Royal
282

Victoria, Queen
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56–7
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245
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261
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262

Victoria Park Station,
see
Hackney Wick

Victoria
(sailing ship): conditions aboard
89–90
; cost of ticket
79
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89
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90
; Müller’s arrest
128
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135
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138
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140
; Müller’s luggage
82
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129–30
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169
; Müller’s purchase of ticket
82
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151
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215
; Müller’s passage on
76
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96
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98–100
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139
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153
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209
; New York arrival
127–8
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135
; New York arrival awaited
122
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123–5
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154
; New York passage time
90
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117
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120
; New York voyage
77
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117
; owners
120

Walker, T. H.: box in Müller’s room
76
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92
; evidence at trial
220
; hat ordered for Müller by Matthews
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140
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174
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191
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201
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216
; maker of hat found at scene of crime
4
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51
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66
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137
; Matthews buys hat from
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68
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140
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175
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177–8
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218
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219
; police questioning
48

Weist, Jacob
250
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258

Wells, Thomas
272

Wetzell, Phillip
97
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105

W. H. Smith
34

Whicher, Jack
26

Wilhelm I, King of Prussia
262

Willes, Mr Justice
193

Williamson, Frederick Adolphus

(‘Dolly’): at Bow Street court
167–8
; Briggs murder investigation
91–4
,
98–100
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105
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111
; Camin evidence issue
251
; extradition proceedings
101
; Müller’s arrival
161
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165
; preparations for case against Müller
156
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168

Wood, Ellen
260

Woodward, Alfred
229

Wright, Samuel
260

Zola, Emile
45

Table of Contents

Copyright

Prologue

BOOK ONE: CITY

1 All Human Life is Here

2 Saturday 9 July 1864

3 The Duckett’s Canal Bridge

4 Ferreting for Detail

5 Morbid, Hideous and Delicious

6 The Smiling Face of a Murderer

7 Something to Astonish the Public

8 Improbable Hypotheses

9 Something to Tell

10 The Wind Blows Fair

11 Tuesday 19 July 1864

BOOK TWO: VOYAGE

12 Flying from Justice

13 A Fabric Built of Straws

14 Ninety in the Shade

15 Who but a Madman?

16 City of Strangers

17 The Last Person in the World

18 No Slipshod Examination

19 Gathering Clouds

20 Turning Back

21 The Appearance of Guilt

22 A Very Public Ordeal

BOOK THREE: JUDGEMENTS

23 I’ve Come to Tell the Truth

24 First Judgement

25 A Pint of Meat and Vegetable Soup

26 The Great Müller Case

27 The Trial: First Day

28 The Trial: Second Day

29 The Trial: Third Day

30 The Shadow of Doubt

31 Condemned for a Thumbmark

32 City of Devils

33 St Sepulchre’s Bell

Afterword: Certainty

People

Select Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Notes

Index