Download Surrey Murders by John Van der Kiste PDF

By John Van der Kiste

"Surrey Murders" is an exam of a few of the county's so much infamous and stunning circumstances. They contain the 'Wigwam Girl', Joan Wolfe, who lived in a tent outfitted through a Cree Indian Soldier sooner than being brutally slaughtered; the notorious stagging of Frederick Gold by means of 'the Serpent', Percy Lefroy Mapleton; the poisoning of the full Beck kinfolk with a bottle of oatmeal stout, laced with cyanide; and, the sailor butchered on the Devil's Punchbowl, later immortalised in Charles Dickens' "Nicholas Nickleby". John Van der Kitse's conscientiously researched, well-illustrated and enchanting textual content will attract all these drawn to the darker facet of Surrey's heritage.

Show description

Read Online or Download Surrey Murders PDF

Similar england books

Decision-Making in Medieval Agriculture

This attention-grabbing and significant booklet makes use of a wealth of latest assets to reconstruct the psychological international of medieval farmers and, by means of doing so, argues that there was a stereotypical interpretation of the center a while. David Stone overturns the normal view of medieval countrymen as economically backward and as an alternative finds that agricultural decision-making used to be as rational within the fouteenth century as nowa days.

The Big Walks of the North

From the good Glen strategy to the Coast to Coast direction, there isn't any greater technique to detect the wonderful variety of northern Britain's panorama than taking walks. even if you get pleasure from exploring eco-friendly and lightly rolling dales or tackling rugged mountain paths, there are walks the following to maintain you rambling all yr around.

Society and Cultural Forms in Nineteenth Century England

The transformation of British society throughout the nineteenth century is a usual of ancient description. The transition from an commercial yet nonetheless predominantly agricultural society, with lots of its conventional, vertically geared up different types of social association nonetheless intact, to a predominantly city, type divided and recognizably smooth society continues to be one of many awesome changes of social historical past, the prototype certainly for far of human historical past within the twentieth century.

1415 : Henry V’s year of glory

An epic account of King Henry V and the mythical conflict of Agincourt, from the writer of the bestselling Time Traveller's consultant to Medieval England.
Henry V is thought of as the good English hero. Lionised in his personal lifetime for his victory at Agincourt, his piety and his rigorous program of justice, he was once increased by way of Shakespeare right into a champion of English nationalism. yet does he quite should be regarded as 'the maximum guy who ever governed England'?

In Ian Mortimer's groundbreaking ebook, he portrays Henry within the pivotal 12 months of his reign; recording the dramatic occasion of 1415, he deals the fullest, so much specific and least romanticised view now we have of Henry and of what he did. the result's not just a desirable reappraisal of Henry; it brings to the fore many unpalatable truths which biographies and armed forces historians have principally missed. on the centre of the e-book is the crusade which culminated within the conflict of Agincourt: a slaughter floor designed to not boost England's curiosity at once yet to illustrate God's approval of Henry's royal authority on either side of the channel.

1415 used to be a 12 months of spiritual persecution, own affliction and one horrendous conflict. this can be the tale of that yr, as visible over the shoulder of its such a lot cold-hearted, such a lot bold and so much celebrated hero.

Extra resources for Surrey Murders

Sample text

This therefore includes the cases of Kate Webster in 1879, the Croydon poisonings in 1928–9, and the towpath murders at Teddington in 1953, which all counted as Surrey in their day although since 1974 they have fallen within the domain of Greater London. Two of the murders listed in this book are unusual in that the victim was never identified, and in one of these the main suspect was eventually acquitted. In five others the killer was never brought to justice, though in one of these the murderer escaped trial by committing suicide and in some, the police had a reasonably clear idea as to who the guilty people were.

The door was open and Chalcraft was sitting with a corn sieve in his hands. Currington thought this was unusual as the door was not normally unlocked until his master was up. The key was kept inside the door of the front kitchen, and whoever collected the key had doubtless seen the bloodied and battered body of Mrs Wilson, lying on the floor near the door. Currington prepared the horses for the day’s work, then returned to the back kitchen of the house for breakfast, while Chalcraft went home to eat.

6 ‘SOME SLIGHT EXCESS OF DUTY’ Haslemere, 1855 On the evening of Saturday 28 July 1855, five men from Goodeve’s brickyard went to the King’s Arms in High Street, Haslemere, for a drink with the other navvies. Goodeve had recently opened up a yard to supply bricks for the railway work then in progress. Labourers William Blackman, Thomas Woods, and Samuel Eastwood, and brickmakers William Foyle, and David Smith, sometimes known as David White, were among the inn’s regular customers. Woods was aged 30, and the rest were 25.

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.85 of 5 – based on 43 votes