Mr Briggs' Hat: The True Story of a Victorian Railway Murder (51 page)

Collins, Wilkie
34

Commons Select Committee
12

Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur
47
,
278–9
Cornelius Grinnell
(passenger ship)
97
,
105
,
111

Cottu, Charles
195

Courvoisier, François Benjamin
191
,
241
,
242
,
265
,
266

Cox (pawnbroker)
93
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94
,
156

Criminal Appeal Act (1907)
273

Criminal Evidence Act (1898)
273

Crippen, Dr Hawley Harvey
279

Cruchley’s London
191

Curtis, William
252

Daily News
32
,
96
,
108
,
169
,
243
,
268
,
270
,
275
,
276

Daily Telegraph
41
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53
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96
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114
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158
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161
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169
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190
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198
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220
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230
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234
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239
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270
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271
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274

Dakin, Sheriff
256

Darwin, Charles
35

Davis, Reverend Ordinary Dr
256
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264
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266

Death, John: Bow Street court hearings
174
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175
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179
; cardboard box from shop
67
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71–2
,
84
; career
38
; description of foreign customer
38–9
,
41
,
49
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50
,
61
,
62
; description of ring
38
,
130
; evidence at inquest
179
; evidence at trial
205
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209
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212–13
; exchange of watch chain
37–9
,
48
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53–4
,
66
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84
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94
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137
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151
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201
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209
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211
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212
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215
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232
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250
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276
; failure to identify suspects
53
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58
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71
; identification of chain
84
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93
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94
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139–40
,
201
; identification of Müller
72
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113
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130
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137
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139–40
,
182
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209
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211
; interviewed by Kerressey
38–9
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40
,
280
; New York arrival
118
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119
; New York extradition hearing
133
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139–40
; New York journey
85
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86
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118
; return from New York
154
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160

Death, Robert
38–9
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54
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102
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105
,
213

Devine, John
242

Dickens, Charles: Müller reads
153
; on criminal underworld
34
; on London
54
,
201
; on Newgate
188
; on police
26
; on public executions
242
,
259
,
260
; on railways
11–12

Digance, Daniel: date marks on hats sold by
180
; evidence at committal hearing
185–6
; evidence at trial
221
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222
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229
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248
; shop assistant
245

Digance, Daniel & Co.
25
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129
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180
,
245

Disraeli, Benjamin
56
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174

Dombey and Son
11–12

Donovan, Cornelius
278

Dougan, Edward: discovery of Briggs’ body
18–21
; evidence at Bow Street court
103
; evidence at inquest
40
; evidence at trial
206
; measurement of distances
24
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29
; search for clues
28

Down’s (hatmakers)
175
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178
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217
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224

Duckett’s Canal Bridge: Briggs’ body
72
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75
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78
; distance from Müller’s lodgings
72–3
,
78
,
175
; railway track
18
; search for clues
24

Duddlewick Murder
281

Durkin, Superintendent
173

Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VII)
56

Edwards, Pierrepont
120
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125

Ekin, Alfred
206

Eldred, Mary Anne
229–31
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233
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234
,
258

Emsley, Mary
28
,
259

Engels, Friedrich
164

Essinhen (recruiting agent)
124

Etna
(steamship)
148
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152
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157
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158–9

Euston Square Station
86
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104
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161
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165

Evening Star
253

Fenchurch Street Station
1
,
15
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17
,
233
,
252

Finlason, W. F.
248

Fishbourne, Thomas
17
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30
,
206

Flemming, Mr
193

Flowers, Mr (magistrate)
186
,
189

Foreman, Charles
231

Franklin, Stephen
155

Fraser’s Magazine
242

Friedrich, Crown Prince of Prussia
262

German Legal Protection Society (GLPS): appeal to Briggs family
263
; belief in Müller’s innocence
275
; letter to Müller
152–3
; Müller’s defence counsel
200
; New York agent
134
; role
125–6
; solicitor engaged for Müller
126
,
152
; work on Müller’s alibi
230
; work on Müller’s reprieve
240
,
243
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245
,
253

Gibson, Milner
44

Gibson, Mr (prison surgeon)
267

Giffard, Hardinge
174
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183
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185

Gifford, James
82
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97
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105
,
130

Glass, John Henry
93–4
,
214–15

Globe
154–5

Great Western Railway
274

Greenwood, George
4–5

Grey, Sir George: appeals to
240
; career
243
; question of Müller’s reprieve or postponement of sentence
243
,
248
,
253
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255
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256
,
263
; refusal of postponement or reprieve
257–8
,
260
; views on capital punishment
269
,
271