Mr Briggs' Hat: The True Story of a Victorian Railway Murder (31 page)

‘Müller was arrested and his luggage searched’, from an illustrated newspaper circa 1914.

‘The Tombs’, New York’s prison: a daunting structure in the style of an ancient Egyptian mausoleum.

A ‘Black Maria’ or police van, circa 1862.

The verdict of the Hackney inquest. The victim’s name was almost recorded as Thomas Müller, before the surname was scratched out and amended to Briggs.

The House of Detention, Clerkenwell, 1862. a bird’s-eye view.

interior.

Newgate gaol from the corner of Newgate Street and Old Bailey, 1862. The dome of St Paul’s Cathedral is just visible in the top left corner.

Serjeant William Ballantine, part of the prosecution team.

Lord Chief Baron Pollock.

Serjeant John Humffreys Parry

Members of the legal teams, taken from an illustrated newspaper circa 1914.
Left to right:
Mr Giffard, the Solicitor-General, Lord Chief Baron Pollock, Baron Martin, Serjeant Parry and Mr Beard.

The Old Court at the Old Bailey, 1862.

Baron Martin donning a black cap to sentence Müller to death, 1864.