The Chieftain: Victorian True Crime Through The Eyes of a Scotland Yard Detective (56 page)

46
  
Pall Mall Gazette
(3 September 1876).

47
  
The Times
(11 October 1876).

48
  OBP (October 1876), Charles Howard (t18761023–511);
The Times
(26 and 27 October 1876).

49
  Ibid.

50
  
The Times
(28 October 1876).

51
  TNA:PRO HO 45/9419/58406 Letter from J. Oldfield (15 August 1876); Laws (1971).

52
  Ibid.

53
  TNA:PRO C16/829/T74 and C16/828/T45.

54
  TNA:PRO HO 45/9419/58406 Clarke report (21 August 1876).

55
  Griffiths (1901), Vol. 2, pp. 23–7; Kingston (1923), pp. 122–33; Kingston (1927), pp. 138–47; Ellis (1928), pp. 268–74.

56
  TNA:PRO HO144/169/A43194.

57
  
The Times
(15 May 1871);
Pall Mall Gazette
(20 November 1871); TNA:PRO C16/829/T74 and C16/828/T45.

58
  TNA:PRO HO 45/9419/58406 Undated letter from John Jennings to Earl of Derby.

59
  Ibid., Clarke report to Austrian Consul-General (22 September 1876).

60
  Ibid., Clarke internal report (22 September 1876).

61
  Ibid.

62
  
Liverpool Mercury
(25 September 1876);
Warrington Advertiser, Warrington Guardian
, Supplement, and
Cheshire Observer
(all 30 September 1876).

63
  
Warrington Guardian
(4 October 1876).

64
  TNA:PRO HO 45/9419/58406 Letter from F. Krapf to Commissioner Henderson (11 October 1876).

65
  Ibid., Clarke report (30 October 1876); MEPO 7/38 (28 September 1876); OBP (October 1876), Charles Howard (t18761023–511).

66
  TNA:PRO HO 45/9419/58406 Clarke memorandum and report (28 and 30 October 1876, respectively).

67
  Williams (1890), Vol. 2, pp. 32–4.

68
  
The Times
and
Freeman’s Journal
(31 October 1876);
Cheshire Observer
(4 November 1876);
Manchester Weekly Times
(4 November 1876).

69
  
The Times
(6 November 1876);
Daily News
(6 November 1876).

70
  
The Times
(17 November 1876).

71
  
The Times
(30 November 1876).

72
  
The Times
(7 December 1876).

73
  Ibid.

74
  Ibid.

75
  
The Times
(7 January 1877).

76
  
Cheshire Observer
(23 June 1877).

77
  
The Times
(23 June 1877).

78
  Ibid.

79
  
The Times
(21 and 25 June 1877).

80
  
The Times
(25 June 1877).

81
  
The Times
(3 July 1877).

82
  
Warrington Guardian
(4 July 1877).

83
  
Lloyds Weekly Newspaper
(8 July 1877).

84
  
The Times
(19 November 1877), (5 and 21 December 1877) and (28 January 1890);
Paddington, Kensington and Bayswater Chronicle
(30 August 1890).

85
  Freeston (1900), p. 29.

86
  Kingston (1927), p. 147; TNA:PRO C16/829/T74.

87
  Kingston (1923a), p. 126.

88
  Meiklejohn (1912), pp. 92–102; Littlechild (1894), p. 203; Kingston (1924), p. 268; Wikipedia, ‘Adam Worth’.

89
  Stewart (2000), p. 85.

90
  
The Times
(12 September 1877).

7 The Great Turf Swindle and Police Corruption

  
1
  
Fun
(29 August 1877).

  
2
  Williams (1890), Vol. 2, pp. 48–55, 69–80; Clarke (1918), pp. 136–48; Dilnot (1928); Stewart (2000); Stratmann (2006), pp. 108–29.

  
3
  Stewart (2000), pp. 73–84.

  
4
  Ibid.

  
5
  TNA:PRO MEPO 7/38 (28 September 1876).

  
6
  Stewart (2000), pp. 85–6.

  
7
  Ibid., p. 87;
The Times
(8 November 1876).

  
8
  Stewart (2000), p. 123.

  
9
  Ibid., pp. 126–7.

10
  Ibid., pp. 86–8.

11
  OBP (October 1877), John Meiklejohn, Nathaniel Druscovich, William Palmer, George Clarke, Edward Froggatt (t18771022–805).

12
  Ibid.

13
  Ibid.

14
  Stewart (2000), pp. 124–5.

15
  TNA:PRO HO144/21/60045 Liddell to Henderson (21 November 1876).

16
  TNA:PRO MEPO 1/48 Henderson to R. Stuart, Procurator Fiscal (
c
. 10 December 1876) and Labalmondière to Stuart (25 November 1876).

17
  
The Times
(9 July 1872); OBP (July 1872), Harry Benson (t18720708–502); Stewart (2000), pp. 9–14.

18
  TNA:PRO HO144/21/60045; Stewart (2000), p. 91.

19
  OBP (April 1877), Harry Benson, William Kurr, Charles Bale, Frederick Kurr, Edwin Murray (t18770409–391); OBP (October 1877), John Meiklejohn, Nathaniel Druscovich, William Palmer, George Clarke, Edward Froggatt (t18771022–805).

20
  OBP (April 1877), Harry Benson, William Kurr, Charles Bale, Frederick Kurr, Edwin Murray (t18770409–391);
The Times
(1 December 1876).

21
  Stewart (2000), p. 93.

22
  Ibid.

23
  TNA:PRO HO144/21/60045 Letter from ‘Charles Collinge’ (Frederick Kurr).

24
  
The Times
(1 September 1877).

25
  Stewart (2000), pp. 93–5; Littlechild (1894), pp. 45–7.

26
  
Daily News
(4 December 1876).

27
  TNA:PRO MEPO 3/3070 Clarke Report (26 December 1876).

28
  
The Times
(28 December 1876).

29
  OBP (October 1877), John Meiklejohn, Nathaniel Druscovich, William Palmer, George Clarke, Edward Froggatt (t18771022–805).

30
  OBP (April 1877), Harry Benson, William Kurr, Charles Bale, Frederick Kurr, Edwin Murray (t18770409–391);

31
  Stewart (2000), p. 96.

32
  Williams (1890), Vol. 2, pp. 49–50.

33
  OBP (April 1877), Harry Benson, William Kurr, Charles Bale, Frederick Kurr, Edwin Murray (t18770409–391).

34
  Ibid.

35
  
The Times
(24 April 1877); Stewart (2000), pp. 97–9.

36
  TNA:PRO PCOM 2/77 and PCOM 2/99.

37
  Stewart (2000), p. 129.

38
  TNA:PRO MEPO 7/39 Police Orders for 23 January 1877 and 13 February 1877.

39
  Information courtesy of the Library and Museum of Freemasonry, Freemason’s Hall, London.

40
  
The Era
(2 November 1873).

41
  Ridley (1999), p. 93.

42
  
The Era
(25 July 1875).

43
  Information courtesy of the Library and Museum of Freemasonry, Freemason’s Hall, London.

44
  OBP (October 1877), John Meiklejohn, Nathaniel Druscovich, William Palmer, George Clarke, Edward Froggatt (t18771022–805); Wikipedia, ‘Masonic Lodge Officers’.

45
  Stewart (2000), p. 129.

46
  OBP (October 1877), John Meiklejohn, Nathaniel Druscovich, William Palmer, George Clarke, Edward Froggatt (t18771022–805).

47
  Stewart (2000), p. 140; TNA;PRO HO 65/35 Home Office to Henderson (23 December 1876) and (4 January 1877).

48
  TNA:PRO HO 65/36 Liddell to Henderson (9 June 1877).

49
  Stewart (2000), pp. 129–30.

50
  TNA:PRO HO 45/9442/66692a Memorandum from Stephenson to Cross (18 May 1877).

51
  Stewart (2000), p. 130.

52
  
The Times
(27 August 1877).

53
  Stewart (2000), pp. 166–8; TNA:PRO MEPO 7/39 Police Orders for 27 July and 8 August 1877; Greenham (1904), p. 137.

54
  
The Times
(13 July 1877).

55
  
The Times
(20 July 1877).

56
  
The Times
(20 and 26 July 1877), (3–4, 6, 13, 17–18, 20, 24, 27 and 31 August 1877) and (1, 3, 7, 10, 14, 19, 21, 24 September 1877); OBP (October 1877), John Meiklejohn, Nathaniel Druscovich, William Palmer, George Clarke, Edward Froggatt (t18771022–805).

57
  TNA:PRO HO 65/37 Lushington to Henderson (2 October 1877).

58
  TNA:PRO MEPO 7/39 Police Orders for 27 July 1877.