The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder And The Undoing Of A Great Victorian Detective (50 page)
Authors: Kate Summerscale
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interviewed and searched,
22
-4,
33
gives evidence,
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-9,
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,
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,
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and Constance Kent,
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-1,
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,
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suspicion of,
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-5,
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reexamined and released,
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character,
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and insanity,
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as object of sexual fantasy,
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leaves Kent family's employ,
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re-arrested and examined,
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-8
continuing suspicion of,
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-90,
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-1,
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and Constance Kent's confession,
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-7
fund established for,
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;
marriage,
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Gough, Sarah,
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Governess Life
,
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-6
Gray's Inn Road,
49
Gream, Katharine,
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,
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,
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-5,
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-9,
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,
262
Great Exhibition,
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Great Western Railway,
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,
xxiii
Green, Elizabeth (
nee
Harding),
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,
262
Greenacre, James,
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Greenhill, Joseph,
14
Griffiths, Major Arthur,
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-9
Guildford,
165
Halliday, Mary,
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Hamburg,
212
Handcock, Chief Superintendent John,
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,
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Hanover Square,
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hansom cabs,
48
Harcourt, Sir William Vernon,
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-1
Hardy, Thomas,
296
Harris, Mrs,
232
Harris, Superintendent,
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,
234
Hatch, Rev.,
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-3
Hatherill, Louisa,
124
,
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,
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,
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel,
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Hayward, W.S.,
187
Heenan, John,
124
Henry, Sir Thomas,
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-32
Herbert, Frederick,
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Holborn,
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-9,
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-3
Holcombe, James,
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-5,
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Holley, Hester,
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Holliwell, James,
267
Holloway,
240
Holmes, Sherlock,
see
Conan Doyle, Arthur
Home Office,
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,
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n,
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,
270
homes and families, Victorian,
37
-8,
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-11,
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-7,
220
Hood, Edwin Paxton,
242
Horsemonger Lane gaol,
181
Hughes, William,
208
Hull,
214
Hunter Place station house,
47
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57
Hutchinson, Jonathan,
296
-7
Hyde Park,
106
Indian Mutiny,
267
and McNaghten rule,
136
in
Lady Audley's Secret
,
218
women and,
243
-4
and syphilis,
297
Isleworth,
36
,
129
,
181
,
183
,
190
,
235
'Jack the Ripper',
277
The Turn of the Screw
,
xi
-xii,
205
,
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The Princess Casamassima
,
261
What Maisie Knew
,
295
Janin, Jules,
158
Jersey,
69
Johnson, Samuel,
176
Johnston, Mrs,
134
-5
Kenealy, Edward,
266
Kensington Gardens,
49
Kent, Acland Saville,
159
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270
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-4,
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learns of missing brother,
11
,
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and nightdress,
21
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-8,
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200
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-9,
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259
and insanity,
33
,
80
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,
102
,
125
,
137
,
143
,
243
-5,
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,
300
birth,
72
and stepmother,
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-4,
243
-4,
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,
254
-9,
280
,
291
-6,
302
and Whicher's suspicions,
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-5,
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-5,
115
-6,
137
-42,
170
,
201
and William,
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-5,
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,
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-5,
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244
251
288
-9,
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-5,
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-302
flight to Bath,
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-3,
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143
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300
-1
and Saville,
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-4,
107
,
118
,
143
,
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-50,
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,
156
and Madeleine Smith trial,
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-5,
107
in gaol,
129
-31
freed on bail,
155
-6
continuing suspicion of,
158
,
189
,
200
,
220
and examination of Gough,
185
-6
offers of marriage,
189
attends French finishing school,
209
,
211
,
223
kindness to children,
211
depicted in
Lady Audley's Secret
,
217
-18
enters convent,
224
confession of murder,
227
-40,
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-302
murder motive,
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-4,
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,
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-9,
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,
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,
302
sentence commuted,
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-3
her account of the murder,
254
-9
petitions for release,
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,
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-81,
291
failing health,
279
-80
life in Australia,
288
-90
death,
290
and Saville's paternity,
74
-5
daguerrotype,
290
account in Sydney letter,
292
Kent, Elizabeth,
3
,
5
,
7
,
11
,
17
,
101
birth,
71
and father's remarriage,
73
-4
and examination of Gough,
184
-6
moves to London,
271
death,
288
account in Sydney letter,
292
Kent, Elizabeth (
nee
Bennett),
273
,
275
Kent, Ellen,
72
Kent, Eveline,
3
,
6
-7,
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-10,
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,
26
,
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,
270
paternity,
75
Kent, Florence Saville,
211
,
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,
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,
288
-9
Kent, Francis Saville,
see
Kent, Saville
Kent, Henry Saville,
72
Kent, John Saville,
72
Kent, Julia,
72
Kent, Mary (
nee
Pratt),
3
,
6
-8,
26
,
31
,
108
learns of missing child,
10
-14
learns of murder,
18
-20
her suspicions,
34
pregnancy and labour,
36
,
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,
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,
170
and younger and older children,
73
-4,
87
,
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-5,
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-5,
240
and Saville's paternity,
74
-5
and first Mrs Kent's death,
102
and Madeleine Smith trial,
104
-5
suspects Constance,
129
and Gollop's evidence,
144
-5
and examination of Gough,
184
,
186
defends husband,
190
further pregnancy,
209
and Constance's trial,
247
failing health and death,
270
,
297
-8
account in Sydney letter,
291
-6
and syphilis,
297
-8
Kent, Mary Amelia Saville,
3
,
6
,
11
,
26
,
181
,
270
birth,
74
attempted interview,
183
and examination of Gough,
185
receives legacy,
288
her daughter Olive,
289
-90
Kent, Mary Ann,
3
,
5
,
7
,
11
,
17
,
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and nightdress,
24
,
26
,
28
,
32
,
129
,
138
-9
interviewed,
36
birth,
71
and father's remarriage,
73
-4,
240
and examination of Gough,
184
and Saunders' inquiry,
195
and Constance's trial,
247
-8
moves to London,
271
death,
288
account in Sydney letter,
292
Kent, Mary Ann (
ne'e
Livesey),
275
,
285
Kent, Mary Ann (
ne'e
Windus),
5
,
32
,
35
,
64
,
94
marriage,
71
and insanity,
71
-2,
80
,
102
,
144
-5,
252
,
292
,
295
,
297
-8
portrait,
290
and syphilis,
297