Read The Chieftain: Victorian True Crime Through The Eyes of a Scotland Yard Detective Online
Authors: Chris Payne
3 Superintendent Robert Walker (mounted) and A Division colleagues, including Eleazar Denning (foreground centre), at Epsom Races, 1864 (Metropolitan Police Historical Collection)
4 Superintendent Adolphus Frederick Williamson (‘Picture Post Library’ in Cobb,
Critical Years at the Yard
[1956])
5 Franz Müller
c
. 1864, murderer of Thomas Briggs
6 Earl of Cardigan (Mary Evans Picture Library, Ref: 10048834)
7 James Stephens, leader of Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood until 1867
8 Sir Robert Anderson, Home Office expert on Fenians and later assistant commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police (H.L. Adam,
C.I.D. Behind the Scenes at Scotland Yard
[Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd, 1930])
9 Fenians as portrayed after the Clerkenwell Explosion (Mary Evans Picture Library, Ref: 10024403)
10 Montagu Williams, barrister (Dilnot,
The Trial of the Detectives
[1928])
11 Sir Edmund Henderson, Metropolitan Police commissioner 1869–86 (Metropolitan Police Historical Collection)
12 Sir Harry Poland, barrister and Treasury counsel (Bowen-Rowlands,
Seventy-Two Years at the Bar
[1924])
13 Michael Davitt, Irish activist and MP (Mary Evans Picture Library, Ref: 10079194)
14 Shah of Persia Nasir-al-Din, 1873
15 The Tichborne Claimant Arthur Orton after his release from prison in 1884, with daughter, Theresa (Parliamentary Archives, Ref: PHO 11/3)