Murder Maps. Drew Gray
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Название: Murder Maps
Автор: Drew Gray
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Историческая литература
isbn: 9780500775714
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une .0 anuary .
englandlondon.
englandlondon.
ANDREA SCOTTI DI CARLO.× Jane Tompson.
THOMAS WILLIAM CRIPPS.× Elizabeth Biles.
weapon.knife.
weapon.knife.
typology.reckless act.
typology. domestic.
policing.n/a.
policing.n/a.
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ENGLAND — LONDON.
Even in a district where violence was depressingly familiar, the callous murder of an elderly shopkeeper still had the power to shock. Harriet Farmer (dates unknown) was found, bound and gagged, with rags stuffed in her mouth at her newsagent’s shop in the East End of London. Local gossip rumoured that Miss Farmer was ‘worth thousands’, yet despite being attacked previously, she lived alone. This had all the hallmarks of a robbery gone wrong. Thieves had slipped in when she opened the shop, overpowering her as she tried to escape upstairs, and suffocating her in the process of keeping her quiet.
No one was ever caught. •
In August 1896, a tragedy on the London stage briefly made Temple Edgecumbe Crozier (dates unknown) a household name. Crozier was playing the villain in a popular melodrama – The Sins of the Night – opposite his theatrical chum Wilfred Moritz Franks (dates unknown). At the height of the drama, Franks lunged forwards to stab his fellow actor with a fake dagger. For some reason, however, the dummy knife was real and pierced Crozier’s chest, inflicting a fatal wound. As the audience departed, Crozier literally died on stage. Franks was arrested for manslaughter, but a magistrate dismissed the charge on the grounds no jury would convict him. •
Above. illustrated police news, 22 august 1896. wilfred moritz franks stabs his co-star, unaware
that his theatrical prop is in fact a real weapon.
Above. illustrated police news, 22 october 1904. harriet farmer’s dead body is found, gagged
and bound, by police on the commercial road.
novelty theatre, great queen street, holborn.478 commercial road, whitechapel.
0 August . October 0.
englandlondon.
englandlondon.
WILFRED MORITZ FRANKS.× Temple Edgecumbe Crozier.
UNKNOWN.× Harriet Farmer.
weapon. dagger.
weapon. suffocation.
typology. accident.
typology. property crime.
policing.n/a.
policing.n/a.
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PART ONE — EUROPE.
In March 1905, when Melville Macnaghten (1853–1921), head of the London Criminal Investigation Department, found a smudge on a cash box, he seized the opportunity to put a new forensic technology to the test. The box was found at Chapman’s Oil and Colour Shop in Deptford, southeast London, where the body of the shop’s owner, Thomas Farrow (1834–1905), lay dead.
The 71-year-old had been beaten to death and his wife, Ann (1840–1905), had been similarly attacked and later died in hospital. The newly established Fingerprint Bureau quickly determined that the smudge was a thumbprint, probably from a right hand. Prints were taken from the shop employees, which allowed them to be eliminated as suspects.
Witnesses reported seeing two men leave the shop in the early hours on the morning of the attack, and more than one witness positively identified one of them as Alfred Stratton (1882–1905). Alfred and his brother Albert (1884–1905) were arrested and their prints taken – Alfred’s right thumb exactly matched the one Macnaghten had found. The pair stood trial on 5 May, where the defence case rested on rubbishing fingerprinting as a forensic tool. This failed and the brothers were hanged eighteen days later, the first killers to be condemned in Britain by their fingerprints. •
Opposite. crude masks made by the robbers alfred
and albert stratton from a pair of stockings.
Below. chapman’s oil and colour shop in deptford, where the shopkeeper thomas
farrow was beaten to death by robbers.—————Bottom. the cash box, on which macnaghten
discovered alfred stratton’s fingerprint.
Below. alfred stratton’s fingerprint (right), a perfect
match for that found on the cash box (left).
chapman’s oil and colour shop, high street, deptford.
March 0.
englandlondon.
ALFRED STRATTON
& ALBERT STRATTON.× Tomas Farrow. × Ann Farrow.
weapon.knife.
typology. property crime.
policing. fingerprinting.
alfred stratton.
Above. map showing where thomas and ann
farrow were murdered by the stratton brothers.
albert stratton.
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ENGLAND — LONDON.
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1COLDWATER, MICHIGAN. the city in which hawley harvey crippen was born.
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