1540 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Price of Two Horses
Kohlhase: when vengeance no longer knows to whom the reckoning is due
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1824 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyWhat a Trial Cannot Hear
Woyzeck: a man on trial, a woman who must not be forgotten.
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1882 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyThe Traveller and the Two Bombs
Before reaching the Emperor, Oberdan met his judges. An assumed name, a ph…
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1796 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyThe Timbers of Foligno
A town refuses to sell timber for a gallows. In an early literary account,…
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1757 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe King Healed, the Torment Began
A thrust of a blade in the Marble Court leaves Louis XV alive and plunges…
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1478 · 15th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyThe Mass Where Florence Changed Masters
The conspirators sought to strike down both Medici brothers during high ma…
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1610 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Man Arrested in the Rue de la Ferronnerie
The carriage of Henry IV halts in a congested street. Ravaillac steps forw…
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1894 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe President Will Not Attend the Theatre
Lyon, June 1894. Amidst cheering crowds, a young baker strikes down Presid…
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1593 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Knife That Failed to Strike the King
A man enters history carrying a knife intended for the newly crowned monar…
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1599 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyThe Balcony Planks
A murdered patriarch, a staged plunge, and a noble house hauled before pap…
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1839 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Two Deaths at Andert Bridge
A notary returns by night bearing his dead wife, recounting an ambush by h…
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1894 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Forgiveness of the Wounded Deputy
In the wake of the Palais-Bourbon bombing, Vaillant avowed his revolt whil…
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1858 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThree Blasts for an Empire
Outside the Opera, three bombs shatter an imperial evening. Napoleon III s…
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1817 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyByron’s Opera Glass
Three condemned men perish in Rome before Byron’s eyes. The poet intends t…
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1894 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceA Table at the Café Terminus
A bomb at a police station, then another in a café: Émile Henry carried vi…
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1836 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Gunsmith’s Customer
Alibaud: lost employments, a missed sovereign, and the cross-examination o…
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1793 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceShe Promised Peace
Charlotte Corday: the secret journey, the murder of Marat, and the nation…
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1789 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Bread That Was Not Forgiven
October 1789: the lynching of the baker François and the martial law enact…
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1796 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Man Who Accompanied His Friend
Lesurques: an identification, an erasure, and a family still awaiting just…
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1852 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · SpainThe Man They Sought to Erase
A priest stabs Isabella II within the palace walls. Five days suffice to j…
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1810 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyThe First
Tommaso Tintori: a final morning beneath the shadow of a French invention
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1892 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceRavachol's Broth
A restaurant waiter recognizes the man all Paris is hunting; two subsequen…
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1841 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Frock Coat and the Twenty-Five Sous
Darmès admitted his desire to kill Louis-Philippe; the examining magistrat…
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1440 · 15th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThose Who Sought Their Children
In Nantes, the plaints of bereft families entered the very halls where Gil…
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1809 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · SpainThe Hanged Men of Valladolid
Napoleon announced seven hangings; a local chronicler counted five and rec…
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1584 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · The NetherlandsThe Assassin’s Claim
To assassinate William of Orange, Balthazar Gérard solicited an advance th…
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1836 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe King Rode On, the Victims Remained
In the wake of Fieschi’s infernal machine, a trunk, a confession, and a po…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyThe Bell of the Five Condemned
In Ravenna, an assassination attempt against Cardinal Rivarola launched an…
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1565 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyThe Pope Who Was to Disappear
Men enter the Vatican harboring a murderous design, yet no blow is struck.…
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1913 · 20th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceFour Cells, Three Condemned
Bonnot was already dead when the survivors stood before the assizes. The f…
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1820 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Man Who Had No Accomplices
Louvel: slaying the heir to the Bourbons and leaving justice to search for…
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1593 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyGabriel Wolff — A Prince’s Credit
A false secretary and genuine wayfarer, Gabriel Wolff borrowed in the name…
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1857 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Priest Removed from Court
Jean-Louis Verger: the assassination of Archbishop Sibour and the warnings…
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1824 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Departure from Bicêtre
On the eve of the penal convoy, Laurent asks Antonio Brochetti to write a…
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1897 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · SpainThe Guest of Santa Águeda
An Italian national enters the retreat of the Spanish Prime Minister. Betw…
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1578 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyKort Kamphues — The Judge Before the Closed Gates
A grazing dispute escalates into open warfare between a magistrate and his…
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1477 · 15th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyThe City Did Not Rise
Olgiati: three men strike down the Duke of Milan and await a revolution th…
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1460 · 15th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyHe Returned to Another Rome
Tiburzio di Maso: a band of conspirators exacts a comrade’s release, only…
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1825 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyThe Omelette and the Scaffold
Targhini and Montanari: a secret-society brotherhood, a nocturnal ambush,…
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1505 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyThe Hanged Man They Longed to Touch
Bologna: Pietro Antonio survives the noose, is hailed as a sign from heave…
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1594 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe House Replaced by an Accusation
Jean Châtel strikes at Henry IV, merely shattering a tooth. Yet the ensuin…
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1574 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Wolf in the Sentence
Children fell prey to attacks across the environs of Dole. The arrest of a…
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1563 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Price of a Horse
Poltrot received coin from Coligny and discharged his pistol into the Duke…
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1665 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceCanillac: The Pardon That Accused
In 1665, a nobleman believed an ancient feud to be settled. The Grands Jou…
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1885 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Trunk Pawned to Kill an Emperor
The plot failed, yet the travel expenses still required settling. A paltry…
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1720 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Count of Horn: A Title Before the Magistrate
In the wake of a broker’s murder, a nobleman seeks to present himself as t…
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1503 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyThe Stone against the Headsman
Florence, 1503: a botched execution stirs the populace to revolt and claim…
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1866 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Promise Not to Strike
Barthélemy Cellier: an uprising sparked by docked pay for shoes, two dead…
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1515 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyThree Julii for Gio Batta
Rome, 1515: the imagined final morning of a servant whose Christian name s…
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1726 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Two Thresholds of Dresden
A pastor is assassinated by the very man he had befriended and delivered f…
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1894 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Curate’s Hand
Father Bruneau: a parish priest discovered at the bottom of a well, tellta…
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1856 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyThe Name on the Shirt
Agesilao Milano: an assault upon the king, followed by a struggle over the…
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1867 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Drawn Key
Ciosi and Agostini: two soldiers sheltered for the night, four victims, an…
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1887 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Spell and the Savings
Georgette and Sylvain Thomas: an aged woman accused of casting misfortune,…
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1813 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · NetherlandsThe Mended Sleeve
Condemned following an arson and a string of thefts, Adriana obtains permi…
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1643 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe King of Spades in the Collar
The Giroux affair: two missing men, a trunk, and a sovereign court compell…
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1855 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Hatmaker’s Label
Pianori: a confessed assassination attempt, an alleged conspiracy, and a p…
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1791 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Words the Court Set Aside
Jane and George Dingler: the victim, the absent witness, and the defense
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1894 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · SpainThe Names Beneath the Music
High in the upper tiers of the Liceu, a man waits for the house to fill. A…
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1879 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · SpainThe Journey Announced for Oran
His family funded a journey in search of employment; Juan Oliva made for M…
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1819 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Refused Embrace
Foulard: two women slain, and the first condemned man of a young Sanson
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1759 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Door Had Been Left Open
Mary Edmondson: a house, four strangers, and a verdict without a confessio…
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1726 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceWhere Did the Milliner’s Son Go?
Deschauffours: errand deliveries and domestic placements expose a clandest…
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1709 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Neighbors Had Not Acquitted
Christopher Slaughterford: a verdict does not suffice to return a man to h…
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1754 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Missing Eight-and-Twenty Days
A servant maid returns after a month’s absence. Her accusation threatens a…
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1832 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Keys to the Burned Houses
In Coullemont, twenty-nine houses vanished in a single night. The possessi…
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1759 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Dead Man Houseman Did Not Know
A discovered skeleton revives an affair long consigned to oblivion. Housem…
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1830 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceFifty Sous to Watch the Scaffold
An old woman, a goat, and sixty francs: the murder of the Marchoise brough…
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1831 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceSix Years for Fifty-Eight Francs
An office keeper confesses to having taken copper from the courtyard of th…
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1827 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Years Beyond the Wall
At twenty-two years of age, Jean Arigonde stood once more before the marit…
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1824 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Face the Guards Remembered
Christophe Rostan shed names, garments, and roles in his bid to slip the g…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Two Sautels
A young sailor without papers is identified as an escaped galley slave. Hi…
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1831 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAbsent, Within His Prison
Bernard Claude awaits trial at Sainte-Pélagie. A law student discovers tha…
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1824 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandLuggage Arrived Without Its Master
William Weare set out on a shooting party with a gaming companion. At the…
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1831 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Confession That Counsel Refused
A convict proclaims his guilt in two separate assaults. At Brest, his defe…
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1725 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Price of Restoration
Within Newgate prison, Jonathan Wild was still receiving his clients. A sh…
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1830 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Voice Beneath the Prison
Jean Prunière vanished from the prison of Montluçon. Houses were searched,…
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1831 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Third Death
Arrested following the murder of his wife, Guillaume Granié killed a fello…
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1827 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Gambler’s Final Debt
A gambler murders his friend, then stands trial before a courtroom where o…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Scaffold That Was Not His
In Metz, a guillotine awaited a soldier condemned to be shot by firing squ…
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1827 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Five-Franc Coin
Maître Cauvin was returning home to his family when he was slain upon the…
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1812 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomThe Price He Demanded
John Bellingham demanded redress for his imprisonment in Russia. In London…
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1772 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomThe Name That Was Scraped Away
James Bolland understood the debts that brought men to prison. When his ow…
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1722 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomThe Guest Had Returned
After New Year’s supper, Edward Crispe followed his brother-in-law into th…
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1767 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomThe Open Window
One apprentice had already fled the house. Yet it took a neighbour catchin…
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1815 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomThe Dish Left Unwashed
In the household of the Turners, a meal leaves the diners stricken with su…
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1837 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomThe Key Returned
Hannah Brown was to return with her husband to pay her arrears of rent. On…
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1815 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Laundress and the Dead Man’s Name
A dead man lay nameless in the Paris Morgue. A laundress recognized his de…
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1820 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn the Name of the Father
A hatter races barefoot in pursuit of the man carrying off his young son.…
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1822 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Knife and the Brother’s Shingle
Marie Gérin vanished after setting out for church. An imperfect mark upon…
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1819 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Letters of the Man Who Was No Longer Her Husband
In London, General Sarrazin wrote to Georgina as his lawful wife. Before t…
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1825 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Receipt Without Funds
Paris, 1824. A merchant holds a genuine receipt for a payment his opponent…
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1818 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Woman Behind the Soldiers
In Rodez, soldiers were drawn up before Clarisse Manson to shield the accu…
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1818 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Son’s Signature
Rouen, 1818. A prisoner claims to be the son of Louis XVI; visitors bring…
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1823 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Saucepan and the Counter
A grocer dies after his midday meal. The rice was thrown out, the saucepan…
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1808 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Survivor’s Window
The widow Marye escaped a brutal assault and named Manette Bouhourt as her…
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1809 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Grave in the Deposition
At the Jardin du Roi, a property dispute descends into violence. Two wound…
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1810 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Name That Had to Be Stricken
A child who survived the war is recognized by an aunt of the missing boy,…
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1810 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Box Before Luncheon
Paris, at the turn of 1809 and 1810. A stepmother receives the very box in…
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1811 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Face Beneath the Mask
Corsica, 1810. A priest is murdered along the road to a family conciliatio…
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1812 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Widow’s Six Sheets
Paris, 1812. A lodging-house keeper is murdered and her daughter narrowly…
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1813 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Missing Piece
A small hatchet is discovered beside a murdered domestic servant. Judicial…
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1808 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Notary’s Office Door
Saint-Gaultier, 1807. A woman repels her assailant, while her husband dela…
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1808 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Widower's Crape
Near Bayeux, a young wife perished following a family repast. Ten thousand…
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1808 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceBoth Ends of the Cord
In the Gironde, a horse waits beside a lake while its master lies at the b…
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1808 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyBlood Beneath the Straw
Piedmont, 1808. Two servant girls discover a body in a hayloft. A brother…
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1810 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Porters’ Hamper
Paris, 1810. An abandoned wine hamper contains the body of a merchant. His…
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1812 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Soup Kept for a Friend
Chinon, 1812. After a fatal supper at the hospice, a nursing sister stands…
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1809 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Night Behind the Walls
In 1809, Claude Vuillaume was accused of murdering his wife during a night…
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1813 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FrancePromissory Notes in a Handkerchief
A ruined proprietress invited her creditor to view a country house. In the…
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1811 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Son Who Did Not Come
Touraine, 1811. A father is murdered on the eve of a promised journey. His…
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1827 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Letter That Spoke in Her Stead
Grenoble, 1826. Reine vanishes after dining with the man who promised to m…
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1827 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Village Demanded a Prison
Barcus, 1827. A wounded man alters his deposition; a fugitive suspect comp…
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1785 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Original and the Copy
Comminges, 1785. Condemned for the death of her father, Catherine refuses…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Companion of the Lantern
Clignancourt, 1828. A tradesman asks for assistance to return home with hi…
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1827 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Boy Who Returned from Picking Strawberries
Marne, 1827. A fourteen-year-old farmhand returns to the pasture to find h…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceEighteen Days of Suspicion
Mayenne, 1828. Following an evening supper, a husbandman dies. For eightee…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Two Indictments of Julie
Rasay, 1828. A luncheon strikes an entire household with illness, and a ch…
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1764 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Reprieve and the Brand
Dijon, 1764. A prior accused of poisoning obtains a reprieve, yet nonethel…
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1783 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Bundles Beneath the Hay
Montfaucon, 1780. Garments long forgotten in a barn prompt a search for th…
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1809 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceWhat the Nurse Had Kept
Juilly, 1809. A sick man’s suffering only worsens under his wife’s ministr…
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1812 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Voice Behind the Door
Puteaux, 1812. Neighbors believe they hear a husband brutalizing his wife.…
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1763 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Prisoner Without a Pension
Paris, 1750. A mother is arrested on the grounds that her husband was alle…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Fragments of the Same Sheet
Besançon, 1828. Madeleine Piot followed a promise of shelter and vanished.…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceDeath Kept Changing Chambers
Breuil, 1828. Angélique Darcy announced that her mother had died in her be…
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1771 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceReturning to Enter Prison
After years of exile, Pierre-Paul Sirven returns to deliver himself unto t…
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1827 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Hours Requested of the Clogger
Landes, 1827. A son announces the probable death of his father and begs a…
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1807 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Ballad Before the Judges
Bergerac, 1807. A father and his son flee a town where a broadsheet ballad…
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1767 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Rope Was Too Short
Lyon, 1767. A young girl vanishes, and a child points the finger at his ow…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Coat He Left On
Nissan, 1828. In the village square, talk turns to the identity of a man f…
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1772 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Stain on the Stocking
Saint-Omer, 1770. A physician bleeds a son who has swooned before his dead…
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1786 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Maidservant's Pockets
Caen, 1781. Hired mere days before, Marie Salmon is accused of poisoning h…
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1571 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Prisoner's Four Hundred Livres
In 1571, a gentleman rode toward Paris to fund the pursuit of murderers. A…
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1693 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Neighbors Upstairs
Paris, 1687. A count returns from the countryside to find his strongbox ra…
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1659 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceMourning for a Living Wife
A mother recognizes her long-lost son in a passing officer. Two marriages…
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1694 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Valet’s Skeleton Key
Paris, 1689. Madame Mazel is murdered in her bedchamber. Her valet carries…
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1666 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Little Page’s Livery
A child reared as the majordomo’s nephew grows up beside a countess who wa…
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1701 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Dead Man Who Feared to Appear
Accused of murdering her husband, a woman causes him to be sought out. He…
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1765 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Brother He Refused to Accuse
Lyons, 1763. Benoît is gravely wounded by the blast of a package delivered…
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1769 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Dead Man No Longer Sought
Cormicy, 1768. An abbé is murdered in a friend’s house. When the host insi…
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1771 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Fief Restored, the Man Pursued
Artemare, 1768–1771. Following the death of the tenant farmer Joseph Gojoz…
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1775 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Letters That Came from Without
Paris, 1773–1775. Following an anonymous letter threatening the farmer-gen…
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1779 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Fires of Marceillan
Marceillan, 1773–1779. After a mayor sought to outlaw a local jest, Rigaud…
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1777 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Father Fallen upon the Garden Path
Montbrison, 1775–1777. A dispute over property pits the elder Chassagneux…
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1764 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Pardon That Nearly Cost Lainé His Life
Paris, 1764. Following the death of Bulson in a street brawl, a deposition…
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1768 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Child in the Garret
In Nevers, Anne le Fiot, a sickly child, was accused of a theft committed…
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1770 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Child of the Two Scars
Paris, 1766–1770. The Noiseu family believe they have recovered their lost…
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1774 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Sentence Marc Game Never Heard
In Lyon, Marc Game was convicted of thefts committed by means of forged no…
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1802 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Dead Man Disinterred Twice
Évreux, Year X–Year XI. Upon the demise of Cochart Deservolus, a solitary…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceLafargue’s Word
Tarbes, March 1829. Adrien Lafargue, tried for the murder of Thérèse Casta…
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1801 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Market Hall of Mahéru
Mahéru, 1801–1802. Following the burning of a market hall, a property disp…
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1787 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAccusation by the Voice
Following the robbery of the Saint-Michel hermitage in 1780, Brother Jean…
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1779 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Entrusted Children
Laval, 1778–1779. Renée Richard, known as la Suhard, fled her house, leavi…
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1804 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Night of Vincennes
In March 1804, Louis-Antoine, Duke of Enghien, was arrested at Ettenheim,…
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1790 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceA Hundred Louis for a Secret
Paris, 1790. Arraigned before the Châtelet under accusation of a vast cons…
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1783 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceCoffee with Egg Yolks
Chatonay, 1781–1783. Following a morning repast that left Monsieur and Mad…
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1777 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAt the Foot of the Scaffold
Following the robbery at the mill of Castel-Pic, the belated declarations…
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1797 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Bolted Door of Gombremez
Gombremez and Saint-Omer, 1797. Following the mortal assault upon Catherin…
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1787 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe House Where Rose Did Not Return
Berville, 1780–1787. In the wake of Rose Verdure’s murder, suspicion falls…
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1785 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Barred Doors of Morel
Saint-Jean-Soleymieux, 1783–1785. The manorial magistrate Morel de la Comb…
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1782 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Return of the Condemned
Honoré Jourdan, an officer of justice and neighbor to Jean Vial, was initi…
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1753 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Parish Priest and His Accuser
Father Risch initially sheltered his young curate, Louys, only to find him…
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1778 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceA Name Restored from the Galleys
Having returned to Saint-Hilaire to sell his hereditary rights, Remy Baron…
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1782 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe House of the Merles
Following the death of Étienne Merle, the inquest recorded the confessions…
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1765 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAn Inheritance Under Suspicion
Parfait Devaux died in 1742 after naming the wife of a cooper named Durand…
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1782 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Severed Cord of Alignan
Alignan, 1782. Dame Dabeillan was discovered dead in her bedchamber, a cor…
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1786 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Traveller of the Quatre Fils Aymon
Charenton and Paris, 1778–1786. Bosquillon vanished from the inn where he…
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1714 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Letter That Escaped the Flames
In a country house near Marseille, François D*** de S*** was slain by two…
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1827 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Comptroller's Papers
At the Vaugirard chemical works, the customs comptroller Bertet shot M. Ad…
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1777 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Glazier’s Parcel
A box delivered by the porter Nérau exploded when the glazier Meunier unfa…
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1594 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Gallows and the Contract
Angers, 1594. According to the account of Champagnac, Renée Corbeau, known…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Voice by the Water’s Edge
On the evening of February 5, 1828, laborers washing cotton in the Seine h…
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1786 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Guittera Memorandum
Corsica, 1778–1786. Lieutenant-Colonel Abatucci gathered intelligence rega…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Bed Behind the Stable
Charles Lebaron was found dead in his stable on December 16, 1828. His ser…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Return of the Herd
Rosalie Dusser, in service to the Baudy household in Nozières, was slain i…
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1827 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Sentence He Did Not Understand
Cantal, August 1827. Following the murder of Étienne Petit, suspicion fell…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Garden Grave
Cossardières, June–August 1828. Following the disappearance of his mother,…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Accomplice Presumed Dead
Following the murders of Prudhomme and Marie Duru at the Croix-Verte, Vict…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Interrupted Race
On May 2, 1829, the shepherd Étienne Aubry threatened his master Benoît, p…
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1825 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Witness in the Heather
Following the murder of Paul-Louis Courier in April 1825, his gamekeeper L…
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1830 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Tax Collector’s Road
The parish priest Louis Frilay, bound in an illicit liaison with Madame Sa…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Voice Beneath the Blue Smock
Bellecombe, December 1828–May 1829. Sébastien Perrin leaves his house in t…
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1801 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Phial and the Withheld Papers
In 1801, the priest Étienne Pacot stood accused of having poisoned a man n…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceTwo Questions for the Jury
Paris, February–June 1829. Following the separation of Mariette Villain an…
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1818 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Garments in the Skiff
Following the disappearance of the former soldier Neyret at Valence in Aug…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Watch of the Hazois Woods
Boucq and Saint-Mihiel, 1828–1829. Étienne Psaume vanished along the grape…
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1733 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Tile Works and the Phantom Corpse
According to Champagnac, Frillet, a fiscal attorney and notary, orchestrat…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Prune in the Will
Arrouède, 1828–1829. Following successive bouts of sudden illness within h…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Letters of Catherine
Paris, 1828–1829. Following a fall into the canal and her subsequent disap…
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1823 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Promise of Pastor Gœpp
The tailor Henri Feldtmann sought to compel his daughters and Madeleine Lé…
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1824 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Trail of the Charbonnière
On August 10, 1824, twelve-and-a-half-year-old Aimée-Constance Debully van…
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1832 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Knife of Poully
Poully-le-Monéal, 19 June 1832. Ten days after her wedding, Jeanne Desroch…
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1826 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceA Debt in the Workshop
Having uttered two bills of exchange bearing the forged signature of his f…
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1819 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Confessions of Crespin Normand
Bennecourt, Villez, and the Epte, 1817–1819. Following the murder of Étien…
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1826 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Recovered Voice
On July 14, 1826, Marguerite Durand, widow Corpedanne, was murdered in her…
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1780 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Physician and the Vanished Corpse
Dr. Bors, formerly a preceptor in several households, was apprehended in T…
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1770 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Blood of Lagerie
Following the murder of the Chevalier de Fornel in 1770, suspicion fell up…
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1782 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Baskets of Les Combes
On April 28, 1782, Françoise Tiers returned home after leaving a pair of b…
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1823 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Chimneypiece Watches
Chartres, June–August 1823. Following the discovery of the widow Aillet an…
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1821 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Year of the Receipt
Yssengeaux, Montbrison, and Riom, 1817–1821. Following the death of Jean C…
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1827 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Stone Trough of Cocural
Cocural and Rodez, 1824–1827. Pierre Barrié informed his brother and siste…
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1827 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Stone from the Cirque Well
Carpentras, January 1827. Following the disappearance of his daughter, Cas…
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1784 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Cry Reported by Labatut
Saint-Béat, 1781–1784. Following the death of the merchant Fondeville, his…
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1720 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Cellar Key
At the Three Pigeons inn, a misplaced key sparked a bitter altercation bet…
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1721 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Bloodstained Sleeve of Matthew Clark
England, 1721. Matthew Clark persuaded a young woman that an inheritance o…
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1781 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Matter of the Cart
Palluau, August 1781. A wounded vagrant vanishes from a manorial gaol, onl…
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1721 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Hangman Arrested on the Road
England and the Atlantic, circa 1721. John Meff, the son of French Protest…
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1826 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Pistol in the Coat Pocket
Sainte-Menehould, 1826. Following repeated brutalities, Marie-Élisabeth Sa…
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1721 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandTen Guineas and a Penknife
John Dykes graduated from gaming tables to petty pickpocketing, and thence…
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1723 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Captain Between Two Tides
Following the sieges of Flanders, John Massey entered the service of the R…
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1722 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Little Boy of Newgate
John Stanley relinquished a commission in the Royal African Company to rem…
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1723 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Hat in the Coach
England, 1723. Having served at sea and lamented taking part in no engagem…
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1721 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Breached Chaise
At seventeen, John Winship abandoned his carpenter’s apprenticeship and to…
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1721 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandNathaniel Hawes’s Fine Suit
England, 1721. Apprehended following the robbery of a horse and a few shil…
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1724 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Oath of Tyburn
Following a career in the Guards, John Hewlet became a night watchman in E…
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1725 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Murder and the Broadsheet
A respected victualler, Foster Snow murdered Thomas Rawlins following a di…
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1723 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Highwayman Who Balked at Murder
Ireland and England, 1723. Following a misspent apprenticeship in Cork and…
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1784 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Dead Woman Who Returned Her Key
In Ay, Marie-Jeanne Thillois vanished, and the town accused a merchant of…
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1725 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Confession He Refused
Enticed into enlistment by seamen after a night of heavy drinking, John Ha…
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1784 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Confiscated Ring
In September 1784, three armed prisoners attempted to break out of the Con…
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1802 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Needlework Taken Back from Louise
Dijon, Year X. The discovery of a newborn infant’s body led investigators…
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1724 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Boy Who Identified Houssart
London, 1724. Following an initial acquittal for lack of evidence, Lewis H…
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1721 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Forbidden Return of Will Barton
After a childhood spent between Covent Garden and Jamaica, William Barton…
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1721 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Names She Would Not Utter
Following an initial conviction and fine for uttering counterfeit coin, Ba…
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1722 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandTwo Names for the Condemned
James Shaw, who likewise went by the name of Smith, took to footpad robber…
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1725 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Last Letter of John Little
England, 1725. Following a series of highway robberies and housebreakings…
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1722 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThomas Wilson’s Last Denial
After joining a gang of footpads armed with leaded bludgeons, Thomas Wilso…
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1723 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Vessel Twice Repainted
Following the murder of the French master Peter Tartoue and his crew, Phil…
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1725 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Oaths of Wapping
Taking refuge from debt in the New Mint of Wapping, Charles Towers joined…
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1722 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandBread and Cheese
Following years of bitter strife and domestic violence against his wife, M…
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1789 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Open Gate and the Unfinished Trial
In L’Isle-Jourdain, the accusations brought by Justine against her father…
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1773 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceTwo Houses and an Accusation
Lyon, 1769. A merchant returns home to find his money, papers, and persona…
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1725 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Cudgel, the Linen, and the Butter
John Austin, a gardener of fair repute, is condemned for felling a passer-…
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1658 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceVows on a Loose Leaf
In Provins, Christophe Aubriot refused to take the monastic vows that woul…
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1721 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Baker Arrested upon Departure
Hertfordshire, Jamaica, and England, 1721. Having been bred in an inn only…
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1720 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandFour Paths to Tyburn
London and Oxford, January 1720. John Trippuck, Richard Cane, Richard Shep…
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1721 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Silver Oar and the Coffin
Wapping, Providence, and the Atlantic, 1721. Walter Kennedy, an anchor-smi…
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1722 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Chest in the Public Square
Barcelona and London, 1722. James Carrick, known as Valentine, an Irish en…
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1725 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Drury Lane Letter
Transported as an adolescent to the American plantations, William Sperry l…
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1724 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Fire He Claimed to Refuse
Following a career as a sailor and soldier, Peter Curtis entered the servi…
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1725 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Shopkeeper’s Shutter
An established London butcher, John Barton fell in with thieves and turned…
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1776 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Blood of the Two Horses
Normandy, 1766. Following the discovery of the body of Master Pain, an adv…
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1722 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThree Pence and a Farthing
London, 1722. Edmund Neal, the son of a Warwickshire blacksmith, abandoned…
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1726 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Night of Thomas Ball
Edward Burnworth, known as Young Frazier, organised a band of thieves that…
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1726 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandJonathan Wood’s Brown Mare
Having squandered his patrimony, Yorkshire horse-dealer John Murrel abando…
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1787 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Lie Beside the Bed
Lunel, 1782. Following the discovery of Paulet’s body, his servants and th…
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1724 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Pestle in the Boot
After abandoned apprenticeships and thefts across several counties, Stephe…
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1720 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Silver Medal
John Lewis, alias Laurence, initially escaped a frame-up orchestrated by M…
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1803 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceRosalie's Accounts
Paris, 1803. Rosalie Trumeau is to be married and demands an accounting of…
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1723 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Return of James White
Sentenced to transportation for stealing tobacco from a Virginia merchant,…
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1726 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Returns of Claxton
London and the Atlantic, in the 1720s. John Claxton, a Sunderland mariner,…
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1625 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Daughter at the Masters’ Table
Paris, at the dawn of the seventeenth century. Marie serves in the househo…
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1725 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Horseman Who Fell from the Saddle
After nearly twenty years of service in the army, Francis Bailey took to t…
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1680 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThirteen Votes for Exile
Arrested in Nantes on September 5, 1661, Superintendent Nicolas Fouquet wa…
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1667 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Nineteen Days of the Marquise de Gange
On May 17, 1667, Diane de Joannis, Marquise de Gange, was poisoned and sub…
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1727 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Cudgels Kept Beneath Their Cloaks
Hounslow Heath, 1727. Thomas Timms, Thomas Perry, and Edward Brown stop Sa…
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1727 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe White Paper of the Temple
London, 1727. Widdington Darby was murdered in his chambers at the Temple…
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1728 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandMartha Hide’s Bundle
In London, James Dalton secured the royal proclamation’s promised pardon f…
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1588 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Council of December Twenty-Third
At Blois, on the twenty-third of December 1588, Henry III had Henry, Duke…
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1728 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandMrs Dawson’s Box of Papers
A native of Windsor, James How accumulated successive terms of imprisonmen…
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1729 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Memoirs of a Highwayman
Born in Salisbury and bred to the cordwainer’s trade, John Dyer turned to…
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1728 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Twelve Cheeses of Moorfields
In England, James Sherwood, George Weedon, and John Hughs were prosecuted…
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1761 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Shop Door
Following the death of Marc-Antoine Calas, found lifeless in the family sh…
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1729 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Basket of Marylebone Fields
William Marple, formerly an apprentice carpenter, and Timothy Cotton, bred…
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1634 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Loudun Trial
Accused of sorcery by Jean Mignon amid the exorcisms of Loudun, the parish…
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1730 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandJohn Everett, from the Highway to Newgate
John Everett, a former sergeant who served in Flanders and subsequently a…
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1589 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Gate of the Jacobins
During the upheavals of the Catholic League, First President Duranti and h…
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1730 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Student of Prague at Tyburn
Abraham Israel, born in Pressburg, studied at a Jewish college in Prague b…
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1766 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe General Before His Judges
Following the fall of Pondicherry, Thomas-Arthur Lally surrendered himself…
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1642 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceRichelieu’s Commissions
A French chronicle brings together several state trials conducted in the e…
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1766 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Pont-Neuf Crucifix
In Abbeville, in 1765, an inquest into a damaged wooden crucifix became en…
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1726 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandHalf of the Booty
Anthony Drury, known as the “Smoky Chimney Doctor,” robbed the Bicester wa…
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1729 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandSarah Pickard’s Casket of Jewels
A former glazier’s apprentice, Joseph Kemp opened a shop on his parents’ m…
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1726 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Purse of Old Gold Coins
In 1726, Jane Holmes, otherwise known as Barret or Frazer, was condemned f…
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1728 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Confession Surrendered to the News-Gatherer
A tailor turned thief, Martin Bellamy took part in shop-thefts and housebr…
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1407 · 15th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Murder in the Rue Barbette
In 1407, Louis of Orléans was assassinated in Paris by an armed band in th…
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1728 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Witness Who Did Not Know the Condemned
Ten men condemned across several distinct causes were executed on the twen…
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1793 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Trial of Father and Son
In 1793, General Adam-Philippe Custine was brought before the Revolutionar…
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1728 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Water Lane Coach
Peter Levee, John Featherby, Stephen Barnham, and Thomas Vaux were condemn…
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1794 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Loire Under Carrier
Dispatched to Nantes to suppress the Vendée rebellion, Carrier cast thousa…
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1729 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Taking of the Perry
John Upton, a former mariner of the Royal Navy, maintained he had been pre…
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1730 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandFenwick’s Window
A footman in the service of Nicholas Fenwick, Joshua Cornwall opened the h…
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1724 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Hundred-Pound Note
In London, Frederick Schmidt was charged with raising the value of bank no…
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1726 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Cloak and the Shilling
Having frequented the gaming grounds of Moorfields and the colloquies of a…
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1789 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Keys Surrendered to the Crowd
In July 1789, the storming of the Bastille was followed by the deaths of i…
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1726 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Pocket-Book and the Four Guineas
Mary Standford was condemned after a gentleman accused her of taking from…
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1722 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Fatal Shot Near Wapping
A former soldier turned London thief, John Smith threatened Sarah Thompson…
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1789 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Road for Bread to Versailles
On October 5 and 6, 1789, women set out from Paris and marched upon Versai…
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1572 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Signal in the August Night
In August 1572, Admiral de Coligny was assassinated in Paris at the incept…
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1726 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Letter of Robert Haynes
Robert Haynes, a soldier of the Foot Guards, was condemned for the mortal…
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1730 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandA Horse Returned for a Guinea
Robert Drummond was condemned for aiding Ferdinando Shrimpton in the murde…
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1729 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Second Trial of James Cluff
Following James Cluff’s acquittal upon the public indictment for the death…
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1792 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Gates of the Tuileries
Following the breach of June 20, the assault of August 10, 1792, drove the…
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1477 · 15th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceA Trial Encased in Iron
In 1477, Champagnac places the torment of Jacques d’Armagnac, Duke of Nemo…
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1792 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Gate of the Abbaye
From the 2nd to the 6th of September 1792, prisoners were brought before i…
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1793 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Glass Door of the Temple
Following the votes of the 16th and 17th of January, Louis XVI received on…
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1793 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Hand That Signalled Death
Following the surrender of Lyon in October 1793, Champagnac chronicles a r…
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1777 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Locked Door of the Count de Viry
Following the sudden death of his secretary, Fuchs de Thérigny, the Count…
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1793 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Chant of the Condemned
Twenty-one Girondin deputies were tried in the autumn of 1793 and condemne…
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1764 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Dinner Where Riencourt Died
In September 1762, several guests fell ill after partaking of an acrid sou…
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1818 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe Rope and the Edinburgh Mob
Edinburgh, December 30, 1818. The hanging of Robert Johnston, convicted of…
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1835 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Memoir of La Faucterie
Calvados, 1835. Having slain his mother, his sister, and his brother, Pier…
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1840 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Gun of Chamblas
Chamblas, 1840. Louis Vilhardin de Marcellange is slain by a musket shot i…
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1831 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Nine Shillings of Aylesford
A boy vanishes while fetching nine shillings for his destitute family. Two…
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1818 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Two Boxes of Charles Hussey
Greenwich, 1818. Parishioners found the home of George Bird and Mary Simmo…
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1832 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Key to the Carpet Bag
A well-dressed traveller, five plundered bedchambers, and a torn shirt: at…
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1832 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Night at Tunley
A young girl casts a handful of gravel against a window pane, putting to f…
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1831 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Body Delivered to the College
In 1831, two men offered King’s College a body that appeared far too fresh…
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1827 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Four Names of the Child
In 1827, the death of young William Charles Beadle Sheen set in motion an…
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1685 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Supper at Moyles Court
In the wake of Monmouth’s defeat, Alice Lisle consented to harbour the fug…
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1692 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Coal in the Handkerchief
In January 1691/92, Dr. Andrew Clenche was enticed into a hackney coach an…
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1567 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe Acquittal of Bothwell
Indicted for the murder of Henry, Lord Darnley, James Hepburn appeared in…
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1557 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Purse Laid upon the Table
Following years of bitter feud and predatory violence against the Hartgill…
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1586 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Queen Who Denied the Court
At Fotheringhay, Mary Stuart challenged the authority of the English tribu…
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1551 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandFootsteps in the Snow
At Faversham, Alice Arden and her confederates redoubled their attempts up…
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1840 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceArsenic Between Two Schools of Science
Tulle, September 1840. Following the death of Charles Lafarge, his wife, M…
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1908 · 20th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Chambers of the Impasse Ronsin
On May 31, 1908, Marguerite Steinheil was discovered bound in her house in…
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1673 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThree Letters on the Table
In London, in December 1672, John Lowman recognized Mary Carleton in a cha…
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1652 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Rider of Knole Hill
In 1651, James Hind shot down George Sympson near Knole Hill, believing hi…
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1663 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Minories Bags
Following the burglary of Francis Tryon in January 1663, Colonel James Tur…
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1663 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Grey Hat of Chelmsford
After years spent searching for her missing husband, Mrs. Kidderminster le…
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1669 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Doublet in the Nettles
John Talbot, curate of Laindon, sought to elude those he took for bailiffs…
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1660 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Bloodstained Comb
In August 1660, William Harrison vanished upon the road whilst collecting…
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1678 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe Pentland Pistol
In 1668, James Mitchel fired upon Archbishop Sharp in Edinburgh, wounding…
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1670 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Flageolet of the Highway
Claude Du Vall transformed robbery into spectacle: a dance exchanged for a…
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1682 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandCole’s Torch
On the evening of 12 February 1682, Thomas Thynn was struck down in his co…
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1688 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandBlood upon the Linen
At New Milns, Sir James Stansfield was found lifeless in a pool following…
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1914 · 20th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Office on Rue Drouot
Paris, March 16, 1914. After weeks of attacks in Le Figaro against Ministe…
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1703 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Dry Pins
In Southwark, Richard Hathaway claimed to be bewitched by Sarah Morduck, w…
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1692 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Promise in Howard Street
London, December 1692. Captain Richard Hill attempts to abduct the actress…
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1535 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandSilence Brought to Trial
Imprisoned for refusing the Oath of Succession and maintaining silence reg…
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1600 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe Gallery Window
At Perth, James VI found himself locked in a chamber of Gowrie House with…
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1628 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Hat He Did Not Reclaim
Even as the Duke of Buckingham readied an expedition to relieve La Rochell…
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1696 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Men of the Longboat
In 1694, mutinous mariners seized the Charles the Second off the coast of…
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1536 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Queen Who Demanded an Open Trial
Arrested and conveyed to the Tower, Anne Boleyn protested her innocence an…
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1699 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Body Caught upon the Piles
Hertford, March 1699. Sarah Stout vanishes after spending the evening with…
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1690 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Lead-Weighted Packet for France
London, December 1690–January 1691. Lord Preston, formerly Secretary of St…
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1585 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandMercy and the Dagger
William Parry received the royal clemency from Queen Elizabeth following a…
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1546 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandA Single Victim Was Enough
A Reformed preacher, George Wishart consistently renounced violence, even…
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1691 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe Thrust in the Leith Hall
On a tempestuous night in Leith, Elias Poiret was slain within the inn of…
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1696 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Clancarty off the Nore
Captured following the stranding of the Clancarty, Thomas Vaughan stood tr…
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1751 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Horse Sold at Smithfield
The son of a baronet, bred at Eton, turns counterfeit heir, sharper, and h…
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1689 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe Close of Sir George Lockhart
On March 31, 1689, John Chislie shot the Lord President of the Court of Se…
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1706 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandTibi Soli: To Thee Alone
London, 1705–1707. Robert Fielding believed he was wedding an opulent wido…
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1743 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · PortugalThe Oath under the Cords
Lisbon, 1743. The lapidary John Coustos is arrested for his adherence to F…
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1696 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Road to Turnham Green
In 1696, three men stood trial for their alleged role in an assassination…
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1700 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Rotherhithe Hamper
Oliver Norris was dragged from a ditch near the Thames, his bloodied garme…
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1718 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · RussiaAlexis Petrovich: The Heir Held Captive by Succession
In 1718, Alexis, the eldest son of Peter the Great, returned to Russia aft…
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1721 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandArthur Gray and the Intrusion into the Bedchamber of Grizel Murray
Arthur Gray stood accused of having entered the bedchamber of Grizel Murra…
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1725 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandJohn Gow and the Mutiny of the Revenge
John Gow, an Orcadian mariner sailing under the alias of Captain Smith, se…
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1741 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandJenny Diver, the Thief of Many Names
Mary Young, known as Jenny Diver, mastered the art of pocket-picking in th…
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1621 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Chancellor and the Purses
In 1621, the Commons investigated gifts delivered to Francis Bacon during…
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1726 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Head of St Margaret’s
Catherine Hayes, her putative son Thomas Billings, and Thomas Wood stood a…
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1552 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandSomerset, Protector then Condemned
Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, was deposed as Lord Protector, reconcile…
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1685 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandTitus Oates at the Bar of Justice
In May 1685, the informer Titus Oates stood trial for two counts of perjur…
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1417 · 15th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Trial of a Lord Without an Acknowledged Judge
John Oldcastle, a nobleman close to Henry V and, according to Borrow, a Lo…
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1431 · 15th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceJoan of Arc Before the Tribunal of Rouen
Captured near Compiègne, Joan of Arc stood trial at Rouen in 1431 in an ec…
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1729 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Edwards Covers
In London, Thomas Kinnersly and William Hales were brought to trial, charg…
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1786 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · IrelandThe Castlebar Assize
At Castlebar, George Robert Fitzgerald and several accomplices stood trial…
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1797 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Committee of the Nore
Richard Parker became the public face of a naval mutiny at the Nore. Borro…
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1521 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Fall of Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham
Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, stood accused of high treason at the…
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1726 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe Name Beneath the Wig
In Edinburgh in 1726, a bill of exchange bearing the Duchess of Gordon’s a…
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1787 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Pistols of Prince’s Street
In London, Dr. John Elliot stood accused of shooting Mary Boydell. The sco…
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1802 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Gorée / West AfricaEight Hundred Lashes at Gorée
Eight hundred strokes of the rope, a sergeant dead at Gorée, and a governo…
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1800 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Umbrella of Sarah Lloyd
Sarah Lloyd was executed for the theft of forty shillings after being acqu…
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1540 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Minister Denied a Hearing
Thomas Cromwell, chief minister to Henry VIII, was arrested in council on…
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1803 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Missing Exchequer Bills
Following an initial acquittal turning upon the legal definition of the bi…
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1760 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Landau for Tyburn
In January 1760, Laurence Ferrers summoned his steward, John Johnson, to S…
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1727 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Candles of Robinson’s
In the early hours between the 20th and 21st of November, 1727, a brawl er…
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1729 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandMajor Oneby’s Last Word
Following a brawl arising from a game of hazard at the Castle Tavern, Majo…
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1792 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · SwedenThe Mask at the Stockholm Opera
In Stockholm, Ankarström shot Gustavus III at the masked ball of 16 March…
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1795 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Two Pistols of Mrs Broadric
Following a threatening letter dispatched in September, Ann Broadric repai…
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1729 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandFour Books at the King's Bench
In March 1729, Thomas Woolston appeared at Guildhall to answer for four di…
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1741 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Ruby's Barge
In Bristol, in January 1741, Captain Samuel Goodere arranged an interview…
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1549 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThomas Seymour Before Parliament
Lord High Admiral and brother to Protector Somerset, Thomas Seymour was ar…
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1758 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandPage’s Road Map
Borrow recounts the rise of William Page, a highwayman who altered his att…
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1735 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandSancho’s Wig
At Drury Lane, a stage wig borrowed to play Sancho sparked a sudden alterc…
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1741 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Cloak Taken on the Road
Before his condemnation as a highwayman, Henry Cook pursued a reckless cou…
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1734 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe Sword upon the Stone of Balquhidder
Borrow recounts the course of Robert Roy MacGregor, from the cattle trade…
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1769 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Street Beyond the Haymarket
Following an affray in the Haymarket, the lexicographer Giuseppe Baretti m…
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1769 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe Gun on the Border of the Estate
On October 24, 1769, excise officer Mungo Campbell and Lord Eglinton met u…
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1762 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Secret of Chick Lane
In London, Anne Naylor died after being bound and starved in the house of…
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1799 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Woman the Mob Had Already Judged
Jane Gibbs accused John Beck of having robbed her in Kensington Gardens; t…
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1705 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Witness in the Chelsea Fields
Following the murder of Robert Woodcock near Chelsea, two lads recounted a…
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1708 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Dinner That Never Was
Invited to dine at the home of Roger Lowen, Richard Lloyd was run through…
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1708 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Letter Slipped Beneath the Seal
A clerk in the office of Robert Harley, William Gregg abused his access to…
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1729 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Bed Carried from the Prison
The prosecution contended that Thomas Bambridge, Warden of the Fleet, had…
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1793 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe Book in the Pocket
Thomas Muir stood trial in Scotland for his public addresses, the circulat…
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1802 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandHoles in the Hold
Seaman Thomas Cooper accused his captain, William Codlin, of ordering him…
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1786 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Witness Behind the Screen
In Paris, the Count of Cagliostro mounted his defence in the Affair of the…
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1780 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandSix Voices Around Mascal
In London, in the wake of the June 1780 riots, the apothecary George Masca…
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1761 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Journey She Never Made
In Leicester Fields, Theodore Gardelle asserted that Mrs. King had departe…
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1740 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThree Farthings to Dover
The fortunes and misfortunes of Gilbert Langley, from his schooling at Dou…
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1736 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe Halter After the Reprieve
The firing into the Grassmarket crowd following Andrew Wilson’s execution,…
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1775 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Adair Bond
The discovery of forged bonds attributed to the twins Robert and Daniel Pe…
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1693 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe Cross, the Toast, and the Verdict
At Fraserburgh, Lord Fraser joined in a toast to James II and the Prince o…
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1688 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Lambeth Petition
In 1688, seven bishops refused to have James II’s Declaration of Indulgenc…
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1739 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Name Beneath the Letter
The apprehension of Richard Turpin under the alias of John Palmer in Yorks…
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1752 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe Wood of Lettermore
Following the murder of Colin Campbell of Glenure in May 1752, James Stewa…
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1758 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Invisible Letter of Twickenham
Florence Hensey, an Irish physician established in London, was convicted o…
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1726 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandForty-Eight Days upon the Deck
Aboard the Burnet, the young cabin boy Richard Pye endured the brutal blow…
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1705 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe Sloop of the Worcester
In 1705, Thomas Green and seamen of the Worcester were tried for an allege…
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1752 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Tryst in the Forest
At Walthamstow, Elizabeth Jeffries and the gardener John Swan stood condem…
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1803 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Challenge of Primrose Hill
In April 1803, Captain James Macnamara stood trial for manslaughter follow…
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1710 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Pulpit and the Bar of the Peers
Two sermons by Henry Sacheverell led to his impeachment by the Commons and…
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1755 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Thief-Takers
In 1754, Stephen M’Daniel, John Berry, James Egan (alias Gahagan), and Jam…
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1761 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · IrelandMiss Knox’s Blind
After an ecclesiastical court annulled his purported marriage, John M’Naug…
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1749 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandBattine’s Letter
In 1748–49, Daniel Chater and William Galley journeyed toward Chichester t…
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1765 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · IrelandMiss Glass’s Needlework
Cast ashore upon the Irish coast after abandoning their scuttled vessel, f…
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1723 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Fetters of Christopher Layer
Christopher Layer stands accused of plotting a coup against George I. His…
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1697 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Bill of Seven Votes
Apprehended in Kent whilst making for the French coast, Sir John Fenwick l…
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1776 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Trial of the Duchess
Elizabeth Chudleigh stood trial for bigamy after obtaining an ecclesiastic…
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1784 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Answer the Verdict Lacked
At Shrewsbury in 1784, the Dean William Davies Shipley stood accused of pu…
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1813 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Sheets Beneath the Bed
Chislehurst, May 1813. The Bonars were discovered in their bedchamber, str…
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1670 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Jury That Held Firm
In September 1670, William Penn and William Mead stood trial for having at…
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1817 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Door at Gibraltar Row
On 26 September 1817, David Owen forced his way into the home of his siste…
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1802 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Eleventh Milestone Road
John Cole Steele vanished upon the Hounslow road. Years later, the convict…
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1806 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Purse Beneath the Pillow
In 1806, John Docke Rouvelett sought to have Elizabeth Barnet condemned fo…
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1807 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · IrelandDuty at Seven Paces
Following a dispute over military regulations, Major Alexander Campbell ki…
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1814 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Back Parlour
A fire was kindled across several rooms at No. 9 Half Moon Street, whilst…
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1514 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Shroud, the Tower, and the Verdict
Richard Hunne contested his parish rector’s claim to an infant’s funeral s…
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1807 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Sack in the Ditch
Following the disappearance of Samuel Alden, his body was discovered in a…
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1811 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Doors of Ratcliffe Highway
Two massacres struck Ratcliffe Highway in December 1811: first the Marrs,…
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1738 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Captain Cast Overboard
En route from Turkey to Livorno, Captain Benjamin Hartley was set upon by…
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1803 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · IrelandWords Before the Gallows
In Dublin, following the insurrection of July 1803, the trials of Kearney,…
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1817 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Cry Behind the Door
In Godalming, two bodies were discovered in the house of a currier. The ev…
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1678 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Voices of Somerset House
In February 1679, three men stood trial for the murder of Sir Edmund Berry…
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1772 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · DenmarkThe Two Counts of the Kastellet
In January 1772, a palace revolution brought down Struensee and Brandt. Th…
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1819 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Letter and the Closed Door
Having returned to London after absconding with a neighbour, Maria Stent w…
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1636 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe Ransom of Cairne-cowie
In 1636, Scottish judicial records accused Gilroy and his confederates of…
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1662 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Pins of Bury
At Bury St Edmunds, in March 1662, the fits of young children and the tale…
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1661 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandKing Jesus in the Streets
In January 1661, Thomas Venner led the Fifth Monarchists in two armed sall…
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1816 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Clichy Tollgates
In January 1816, Sir Robert Wilson, Michael Bruce, and Captain John Hely H…
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1804 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Figure in Black Lion Lane
In Hammersmith, Francis Smith set forth armed to lie in wait for a ghost,…
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1757 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Verdict and the Mercy
Following the loss of Minorca, Vice-Admiral John Byng was condemned to dea…
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1815 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Man Who Wished to Die French
In December 1815, the Chamber of Peers sat in judgment upon Marshal Michel…
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1794 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe Pike and the Letter
In Edinburgh, Robert Watt and David Downie stood trial for high treason. T…
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1804 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Post-Chaise at the End of Bolton Street
Lauden and Lockhart Gordon stand accused of forcibly carrying off Mrs Lee…
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1817 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Bundles of Pendleton
On 26 April 1817, Thomas Littlewood and his wife departed for Salford, lea…
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1817 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Garment in the Well
On the morning of June 22, 1817, Ann White was found dead in a well at New…
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1747 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Scotland and EnglandThe Old Man and the Scaffold
Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, stood trial before his peers for aiding the Jaco…
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1777 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Painter of Two Names
In the wake of the conflagration at the Portsmouth rope-house, investigato…
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1821 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Hole in the Barley
After a gunshot wounds John Clarke at his Northamptonshire farm, Philip Ha…
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1822 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · IrelandThe Goold Certificate
In March 1822, sixteen-year-old Honorah Goold was abducted from her family…
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1800 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Shot Beneath the Royal Box
On 15 May 1800, a former soldier discharged a pistol towards George III’s…
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1790 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Pipe Relit in the Yard
On the night of May 15–16, 1790, a clover loft caught fire in Aldersgate S…
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1806 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Trinidad (the facts) and England (the trial)The Law of Trinidad
In London in 1806, Thomas Picton stood trial for having ordered the tortur…
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1817 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Second Door
In the dawn following a village dance, Mary Ashford was discovered dead in…
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1822 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Barred Bridge of Saumur
In February 1822, General Berton led an insurgent column from Thouars towa…
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1555 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Fierce Fire of Gloucester
In 1555, under Mary Tudor, the former Bishop of Gloucester, John Hooper, w…
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1635 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe Sack in the Cellar
In 1635, Sawney Cunningham was hanged at Leith after leading a life of the…
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1817 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Weapons of Skinner Street
Amid the tumult of December 1816, a mob shattered the shopfront of gunsmit…
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1810 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandLashes in the Public Prints
In 1809, William Cobbett turned the flogging of local militiamen at Ely by…
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1415 · 15th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Hour Granted to Mortimer
According to the indictment recorded by Borrow, the Earl of Cambridge, Hen…
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1816 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · IrelandThe Ashes of Wild-Goose Lodge
Louth, Ireland. The dwelling at Wild-Goose Lodge harboured the assemblies…
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1637 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Refused Oath
In 1637, the printer John Wharton and his young associate John Lilburn wer…
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1603 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Trial Without the Witness
At his trial in 1603, Sir Walter Raleigh contested the allegations of cons…
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1606 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandSilence upon Trial
At his trial in 1606, Henry Garnet was called upon to account for what he…
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1793 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe Address the Jury Had to Weigh
In 1793, the reformer Thomas Fyshe Palmer was tried at Perth for his part…
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1740 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe False Reward of Charles Drew
Charles Drew promised Humphreys an annuity to murder his father, yet fired…
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1729 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Parcel for John Harrison
Two anonymous letters demanded escalating sums from Nathaniel Newnham upon…
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1780 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Parlour Window
In London in 1780, Mrs Bouchier witnessed an assault inside the empty hous…
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1750 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Lace That Betrayed Him
James Maclane, the son of a dissenting minister and a former tradesman, en…
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1730 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Scotland / EnglandThe Door Ann Bond Sought to Cross
London, 1730. Having taken service under an assumed name, Ann Bond sought…
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1869 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Crossroads at Estry
Estry, Calvados, April 1869. In the wake of a nocturnal brawl, Léopold Onf…
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1856 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Rugeley Verdict
At the London trial of William Palmer, the chambermaid Lavinia Barnes reco…
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1869 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Session Remains Open
Paris, 10–30 October 1869. Following the dissolution of a public assembly…
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1820 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Spectacles of James Nesbett
Woolwich and Portsmouth, 1820. Following the discovery of the bodies of Th…
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1901 · 20th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Red Seals of Corancez
At Chartres, Édouard Brierre puts on the clothes worn on the night his fiv…
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1683 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Sealed Manuscript
In November 1683, Algernon Sidney was brought to trial for high treason. L…
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1839 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Cases of Gold Dust
On March 25, 1839, a shipment of gold from Brazil was delivered to an impo…
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1838 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Inner Safe
In the wake of a nocturnal conflagration at the Newcastle Savings Bank, cl…
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1837 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandBartlett's Last Word
In September 1836, Mary Lewis was murdered near Bristol shortly after bein…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandHunton's Final Bill
A partner in a commercial firm and an esteemed member of the Society of Fr…
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1833 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandClara Smith’s Gruel
Bristol, October 1833. Following the death of her lodger Clara Smith, Mary…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandFrances’s Staircase
Frances Colpitt, aged ten, was bound as a parish apprentice to Esther Hibn…
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1827 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandTwenty Names upon the Paper
Under the alias of George Watson, John Peele obtained financial advances b…
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1820 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe Banknotes the Thief Claimed as His Own
Glasgow, 1812–1820. Following the robbery of a Scottish bank, James Mackco…
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1831 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · IrelandThe Capel Street Road
In Dublin, before the court trying Luke Dillon, Anna Frizell recounted how…
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1841 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Insurances of the Dryad
In 1839, the brig Dryad cleared Liverpool for Santa Cruz before striking s…
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1821 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe Stone of Dumfries
Scotland, through 1821. Having struck down the turnkey to seize the prison…
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1832 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Fire at Number 398
Oxford Street, London, 1832. A sudden conflagration traps the inhabitants…
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1834 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Sheriffs Disclaimed the Sentence
Convicted of the murder of Thomas Ashton, who was slain near a Hyde mill i…
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1826 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Night at the Jolly Carters
On the 22nd of May 1826, the brothers Alexander and Michael M’Keand spent…
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1840 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Chalk Line
Following an evening spent drinking with his friend John Charles, the farm…
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1840 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Dead Soldier’s Prize Money
A former naval lieutenant turned prize-money agent, John Turner Flynn obta…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandFifty Shillings to Silence a Witness
Market Drayton, 1827–1828. Ann Harris and John Cox the elder pay three men…
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1831 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · WalesThe Word That Was Not Spoken
In June 1831, a strike and demands for higher wages escalated into violent…
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1834 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Rule Under Oath
In 1834, six Dorset agricultural labourers were sentenced to seven years’…
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1803 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Colonel at the Foot of the Scaffold
Accused of heading a conspiracy against the King and the government, forme…
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1790 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Trial of the Two Intents
Following the assault upon Anne Porter in January 1790, Renwick Williams w…
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1832 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Sack Beneath the Stairs
London, 1831–1832. Following the disappearance of Elizabeth Walsh, the tes…
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1820 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Door and the Nuremberg Loaves
In Nuremberg, Christopher Bäumler and his servant Anna Catherina Schütz we…
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1845 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Electric Wire of Slough
On January 1, 1845, John Tawell departed Sarah Hart’s lodging in Slough wh…
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1835 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Letters That Ascended in Saumur
Saumur, 1834. Anonymous missives and the harrowing account of a nocturnal…
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1821 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Ring in the Garret
Maria Anna Holzmann vanished from Augsburg in the spring of 1821. Her lodg…
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1817 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Mill of the Absent
In 1817, the miller Frederick Kleinschrot vanished, his family declaring t…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe Box for the Doctors
In Edinburgh, during December 1828, William Burke and Helen M’Dougal stood…
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1824 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Testimony of Derangement
Following the death of Conrad Eichmüller near Hersbruck, John George Sorge…
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1825 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Prince Who Never Was
In 1825, James Thalreuter persuaded his adoptive parents that he was the s…
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1861 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · SwitzerlandThe Glove in the Reuss
Uri, winter of 1861. Anna Maria Gamma vanished after demanding that Kaspar…
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1879 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Box on Richmond Bridge
In early March 1879, Kate Webster told her neighbours that she had inherit…
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1819 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Cobbler’s Watch
On Maundy Thursday 1819, the apprentice George Wachs called upon the cobbl…
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1827 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyRosina’s Tryst
In Ansbach, John Holzinger was first convicted of manslaughter after slayi…
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1842 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · IrelandThe Door at Rathmines
When Augustine Byrne was discovered dead in a locked bedchamber in Rathmin…
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1857 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe Glasgow Verdict
In the spring of 1857, analytical chemists discovered arsenic in the remai…
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1808 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe False Mirror of Regendorf
Two young women vanished from Regendorf within months of each other. Artic…
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1830 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Germany (Thuringia)Two Days Between Märjen and Börthen
In November 1830, Karl Wilhelm Oertel murdered Maria Rosine Wetzel, a preg…
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1857 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · AustriaThe Poison the Physicians Could Not Name
In 1857, Marie Nickl succumbed after repeated bouts of violent vomiting, m…
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1809 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Watchmaker’s Debt
In July 1809, Joseph Samuel Landauer was discovered dead near the ruins of…
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1821 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Case of Ludwig Steiner
In 1821, the shoemaker Ludwig Steiner shot and killed the magistrate Elspe…
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1860 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Germany (Thuringia)The Wound That Might Have Been Posthumous
In December 1860, Johanna Winter’s newborn child died in a house in Oßmann…
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1883 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Hungary (Budapest)The Palace Door Opened from Within
In March 1883, the Lord Chief Justice of Hungary, Georg von Majláth, was s…
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1884 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Austria-Hungary (Vienna)The Promises of the Grey Castle
In Vienna, in 1884, the trial of Hugo Schenk, Karl Schloßarek, and Karl Sc…
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1848 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Ghost of the Kapplerthal
In 1848, Monika Schweigle, five months pregnant and a mother of two, vanis…
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1867 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · AustriaThe Stained Banknotes of the Haydngasse
In Vienna, the murder of nineteen-year-old Élise Kolb led the police to Ka…
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1878 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Italy (Naples)The Knife upon the Carriage Step
On November 17, 1878, Giovanni Passanante attacked King Umberto I in Naple…
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1887 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceOne Prescription Too Many
In Strasbourg and Eckbolsheim, in 1887, two patients succumbed after takin…
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1870 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · RussiaThe Dead Man’s Roubles
Following the death of the merchant Nikolai Solodovnikov, an inventory unc…
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1878 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Italy (Florence)The Bomb Amidst the Lanterns
On November 17, 1878, a bomb exploded amidst the crowd of a royal processi…
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1854 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Germany (Kingdom of Hanover)The Night Watchman and the Two Condemned
Eldagsen, 1854. Following the murder of Charlotte Hartmann and Auguste Thi…
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1886 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Austria (Vienna)The Deficit Hidden by the Ledgers
Vienna, 1886. Karl Schiske, a respected managing clerk at Gebrüder Klinger…
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1751 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanySchüller’s Garter
In 1751, fabrics stolen from the shop of the merchant Schüller were discov…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · RussiaThe Letter Before the Duel
In Saint Petersburg, a captain and his wife track down her former lover to…
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1860 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · SwitzerlandThe Absent Millionairess
In and around Zurich, Anna Leuthold led the farmer Jakob Weidmann to belie…
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1879 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Three Verdicts of Edlingham
In 1879, two men were sentenced to penal servitude for life following a vi…
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1867 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyBaroness Bay’s Tea
In November 1867, Mathilde von Ledske, the estranged wife of Count Gustav…
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1852 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EstoniaThe Two Deaths of Fellin
In 1852, Madame Eck and her neighbor Merksch died following illnesses mark…
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1888 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceMorand's Basket
In 1888, at Joigny, the trial of the day-labourer Morand rested upon contr…
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1883 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Hungary (Tisza-Eszlár)The Rumour on the Banks of the Tisza
Tisza-Eszlár, 1882–1883. Following the disappearance of Ester Solymosi, an…
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1853 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyWilhelmine Kraft and the Meal of December 4
Following the demise of her husband Jakob in December 1853, Wilhelmine Kra…
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1767 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · France (Mantes)The Womb and the Shadows of Mantes
Mantes, 1767. Thérèse Famin, wife of Lencret, stands accused of a secret d…
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1855 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Tracks of the Künzell Wheelbarrow
Forest guard Johann Adam Maul vanished on All Saints’ Day, 1855, after dec…
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1847 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Letter That Led Jeremias Rosenblatt to Brotterode
In September 1847, Johann Valentin Jüng lured the merchant Jeremias Rosenb…
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1886 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · France (Dijon)Gunshots Outside the Advocate’s Chambers
Dijon, November 1886. The Comtesse de Molen was leaving a legal consultati…
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1608 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyThe Prelate of the Flawless Letters
In 1607, an impostor assumed the guise of a deposed bishop to win the patr…
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1856 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Night at the Kolter Inn
The murder of the innkeeper Kolter, whose body was discovered upon the Ape…
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1593 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Trial of Duchess Anna of Saxe-Coburg
In 1593, Duchess Anna and the courtier Ulrich von Lichtenstein were arrest…
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1857 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Germany (Kingdom of Prussia)The Open Room
Meisdorf, February 1857. Christian Heidecke, an unemployed former miller,…
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1689 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Germany (Saxe-Altenburg)The Death the Village Had at First Accepted
In Fockendorf, in 1689, Thomas Lange was initially deemed to have taken hi…
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1854 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Germany (Hesse-Darmstadt and Baden)The Prophet and the Border
Heddesheim–Viernheim, 1854–1855. Peter Träger, a youth who admitted to fei…
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1859 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyA Cup of Coffee and Three Analyses
In Mengede, Gertrud Trößken died following a sudden malady. Her husband an…
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1798 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Spain (Madrid)The Letter Delivered Under a False Name
Following the murder of Francisco del Castillo in Madrid, an intercepted l…
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1837 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Night of Reineck
Bärwalde, Saxony, 1837. Under cover of her own wedding festivities, the yo…
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1807 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Half-Brother’s Path
On June 1, 1807, a peasant in the Dettingen forest discovered the body of…
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1858 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Kingdom of Saxony (Upper Lusatia)The Cradle of November
In an unnamed village of Saxon Upper Lusatia, two infant girls died three…
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1795 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Germany (East Prussia)The First Confession of Tarnow
At Belßchwitz, the steward Truchs was found dead on December 15, 1795. The…
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1835 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Councillor’s Glass
Saxony, 1835–1837. Following the sudden death of Councillor Weise, a maids…
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1859 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FinlandThe Skiff by the Marsh
Kirilä, near Jakobstad, October 1859. Henrik and Augusta, the children of…
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1876 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Shot William Habron Never Fired
Sentenced to death for the murder of Constable Nicholas Cock, William Habr…
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1864 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Three Trials of the Golden Anchor
Following the capital conviction of Serafino Pelizzioni for the death of M…
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1859 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Trial Where Chemistry Faltered
Following the death of Isabella Bankes in Richmond, Dr. Thomas Smethurst s…
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1866 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Cannon Street Bell
Sarah Milson, housekeeper of a London warehouse, was slain after answering…
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1617 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceFrom the Louvre to the Place de Grève
On April 24, 1617, the King’s Guards slew Concino Concini at the entrance…
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1754 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Alibi Broken on the Wheel
Accused alongside two companions of robbery and assault at Houssen in Dece…
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1860 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Stepney Flagstone
In August 1860, Mary Emsley was found dead in her house in Stepney. James…
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1895 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Door in Cave Street
In Plaistow, in July 1895, the purported disappearance of Emily Harrison C…
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1855 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandArsenic Without a Culprit
In 1855, Mrs Wooler died after several weeks of symptoms characteristic of…
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1769 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Gate of Réville
Following a thwarted initial attempt, eleven men descended in February 176…
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1864 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Hat, the Watch Chain, and the Last Train
On 9 July 1864, Thomas Briggs was found grievously wounded beside a North…
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1847 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Closed Door of Saint-Aubin
Toulouse, 1847: the disappearance of Cécile Combettes, a fourteen-year-old…
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1863 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Trial That Continued After the Verdict
In December 1863, George Victor Townley was condemned for the murder of El…
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1914 · 20th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Bullet, the River, and the Verdict
In late 1913, Louis Cadiou vanished near Landerneau; his body was discover…
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1854 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Black Cloud of Esher
At Esher, in June 1854, Mary Anne Brough stood accused of the murder of si…
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1871 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandMaynard’s Creams
Brighton, June 1871. Following the death of young Sidney Barker, a trail o…
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1891 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Xanten Trial
At Xanten, following the death of Johann Hegmann in June 1891, an antisemi…
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1907 · 20th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyThe Voices of Venice
After Naumov shot Count Komarowski in Venice in 1907, the 1910 trial set t…
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1895 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Borrowed Beds of Richmond
Richmond, 1895. The trial of Amy Gregory reconstructs the precarious chain…
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1895 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Alexanderplatz Parcel
In the night of June 29–30, 1895, a sorting clerk intercepted a hazardous…
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1835 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Wound at Argyle Place
St Pancras, 1835. An altercation, a knife wound, and a series of irreconci…
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1894 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Name of Liard
On November 16, 1894, the Gironde Assize Court sentenced Auguste Courtois…
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1878 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Voices of the Argosy
Aboard the Argosy, the master and his mate accused their seamen of threate…
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1850 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · BelgiumThe Night of Nivelles
During the night of December 2 to 3, 1850, Ermelinde Deligne and her daugh…
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1885 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Tracks of Dietharz
During the night of January 14–15, 1885, three members of the Köllner fami…
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1851 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Blue Packet of Schwebda
In October 1851, Friedrich Wilhelm Müller, the illegitimate son of the est…
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1862 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Field Where the Dismissal Ended
Ercé, Ariège, 1851–1862. A pregnant young woman vanishes; for want of a bo…
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1885 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Decisive Movement
On February 19, 1885, on Belgian soil near Adinkerke, a foil duel between…
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1769 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Oath of Hohenstein
In March 1769, the body of an unidentified traveller was discovered in a g…
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1851 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Undisturbed Bed
Ecrammeville, Calvados, July–August 1851. The Gazette des Tribunaux report…
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1817 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe Sermon Under Surveillance
Edinburgh, 26 May 1817. Niel Douglas, a Universalist preacher from Glasgow…
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1842 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Door Left Ajar
Nuremberg, February 1842: Luise Behold was discovered dead in the family b…
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1826 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · England and ScotlandThe Consent She Believed She Owed
In 1826, fifteen-year-old Ellen Turner was lured from her Liverpool boardi…
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1847 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Annuity of Le Petit-Massé
At Le Fieu, in November 1847, Claude Gay was discovered dead in his hovel…
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1840 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Two Discharges
London, June–July 1840. Edward Oxford discharges two pistols as Queen Vict…
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1736 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandJonathan Bradford and the Traveller's Chamber
Oxford, 1736. The innkeeper Jonathan Bradford was adjudged guilty after tw…
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1680 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Book That Belonged to Her
Acquitted in June 1680 of high treason, Elizabeth Cellier was tried that S…
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1752 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · France (Paris)The Draft on the Absent Banker
Paris, 1751–1752. Abraham Payba, passing under the alias of James Roberts,…
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1608 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceConfessions Under the Question
Toulouse, 1608–1609. The assassination of Pierre Romain, an advocate from…
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1763 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Voices of Sternfield
At Sternfield, in Suffolk, John Beddingfield was found dead in July 1762.…
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1594 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Tooth That Stopped the Blade
Paris, 27–29 December 1594. Jean Chastel strikes Henry IV in the face at t…
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1867 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · France / French AlgeriaThe Words and the Objects of Mascara
In early January 1867, six men appeared before the Mostaganem Assize Court…
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1822 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Confession That Could Not Be Proved
Amendingen, Bavaria, 1822. Imprisoned for thefts, Xaver Reth accused himse…
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1854 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Flutgraben Basket
On November 7, 1854, Karl Wilhelm Albert Biermann returned alone after lea…
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1840 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Letters That Stood for Joseph
France, 1840. The discovery of two bodies near Bordeaux led to a traveller…
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1855 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Locked Wardrobe of Weitersburg
On November 28, 1855, seven years after her birth, Katharina Zisgen was fo…
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1855 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Sentry of the Snows
On the evening of February 6, 1855, Fusilier August Schröter was struck do…
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1853 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · SwitzerlandThe Flame Above the Clouds
High upon the Grimsel Pass, Pierre Zybach’s hospice burned as the renewal…
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1825 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · PrussiaTwo Men Beneath the Moss
On 13 July 1825, two journeymen were found murdered in the Britzer Haide,…
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1792 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Nameless Captive of the Recovery
At the Old Bailey, in June 1792, slave-ship master John Kimber stood trial…
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1815 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Hat of the Haina Woods
In the spring of 1815, the cloth merchant Hau was found murdered in a fore…
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1749 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe Missing Sergeant of Braemar
Sergeant Arthur Davies vanished in the hills of Braemar in September 1749.…
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1816 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · SwitzerlandThe Arrested Hour of the Reuss
In September 1816, Schultheiss Franz Xaver Keller vanished on the road to…
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1759 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Bag Beneath the Haystack
At the Nottingham Assizes of 1759, Charles Horne charged his brother Willi…
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1823 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Letter of Betty Shawcross
Betty Shawcross was found dead in a shippon near Bredbury in March 1823. A…
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1743 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Slice of Cake and the Special Verdict
At Mr Clare’s Academy in Soho Square, a dispute over a simnel cake ended i…
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1770 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Morning of the Shuttered Windows
At Neubrandenburg, in October 1770, a widow and her three children were mu…
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1817 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Stones of the Ravine
In a Bavarian valley, the miller Friedrich vanished in 1817. The initial i…
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1795 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Prussia (Silesia)Two Nights in Schärtendorff
In September 1795, two fires ravaged farms in Schärtendorff. Christian Kri…
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1740 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · England, SomersetThe Lights of Hemington
Following the death of Jane Buttersworth, a servant in the Branch househol…
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1819 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · PrussiaThe Knot of Jastrzembie
Marianna Miszewska was discovered hanged in the family cowshed on July 22,…
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1798 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Ireland, County WicklowThe Dissolved Court of Delgany
In October 1798, Mary Dogherty accused the yeoman Hugh Wollaghan of having…
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1867 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Prussia and the Principality of WaldeckLohoff’s Gun Remained Loaded
In 1867 and again in 1868, the poacher Hermann Klostermann fell under susp…
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1855 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Secret of the Garret
In Berlin, a neighbor’s tip led in April 1855 to the discovery of a newbor…
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1835 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe Chamber and the Tardy Mark
At Pathhead, Elizabeth Arnot Reid was found dead in her bedchamber. Her hu…
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1816 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Rhenish PrussiaCoenen Did Not Return
The disappearance of Wilhelm Coenen following a commercial conference in C…
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1848 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Prussian SilesiaThe Chamber with Open Shutters
The murder of Princess Louise Sulkowski, the contradictory depositions of…
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1812 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Shut House of Cookley
At the Bury Assizes in March 1812, John Smith and his wife Elizabeth stood…
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1844 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe Charge Was Not Proven
Edinburgh, January 1844. The jury held arsenic to be the cause of John Gil…
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1843 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Man Who Claimed to Be Pursued
On January 20, 1843, Edward Drummond, private secretary to Sir Robert Peel…
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1841 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Four Names of Captain Tuckett
In February 1841, the Earl of Cardigan was tried by his peers for felony f…
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1895 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Card and the Two Trials
Following a private prosecution for criminal libel against the Marquess of…
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1865 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe Axe Beneath His Arm
Aberdeen, December 1864: Ann Forbes sets forth for an appointment at Thain…
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1857 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · SwitzerlandThe Hollow of Laueli
At Engi, in September 1857, Elisabeth Baumgarten vanished whilst ascending…
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1882 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Chatou Letters
Chatou, 1882. The apothecary Louis Aubert was lured into a secluded villa…
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1877 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Gate on the Rue de Boulogne
In the early hours of January 14, 1877, Georges de Saint Pierre was attack…
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1830 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Netherwood Barn
In 1830, a carpenter uncovered a skeleton beneath a barn at Netherwood, be…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Jersey (Channel Islands)The Brick of Saint Helier
Jersey, September–October 1829. A Saint Helier jury found Philip George Jo…
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1832 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Interrupted Receipt
The London tradesman Mr. Paas disappeared after visiting his debtor, the b…
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1835 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Presbytery Trunk
Sainte-Marie-la-Blanche, 1835–1836. Following the discovery of dismembered…
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1840 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · SyriaThe Damascus Confessions
Damascus, 1840. Following the disappearance of a Sardinian Capuchin friar…
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1868 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Night at Todmorden
At Todmorden, Miles Wetherill assailed the parsonage of the Reverend Antho…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Hayloft Door
Biollet, 1873. Following years of bitter wrangling over a will and the div…
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1803 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Family Rüsau Sought to Save
Hamburg, August 1803. Johann Georg Rüsau slays his wife and five children,…
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1628 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Prince Behind the Door
In 1627, Duke Johann Friedrich of Saxe-Weimar was captured and subsequentl…
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1878 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Man Who Wrote “Innocent” Beneath His Sentence
In Brullioles, Pierre Villecourt was found dead in December 1877. The bill…
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1813 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · German States (Leipzig, Saxony, and Prussia)The Magister’s Blue Cloak
Leipzig, 1812–1823. Following the murderous assault on the merchant Schmid…
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1768 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Handkerchief at the Window
London and Woodcote, December 1767. Sarah Woodcock alleged she had been co…
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1861 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Bread-Carrier's Tallies
Paris, January 1861. The Gazette des Tribunaux reports the trial of Marie-…
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1819 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Baden (German States), MannheimThe Visitor from Mitau
On March 23, 1819, Karl Ludwig Sand appeared under an assumed name at the…
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1659 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Boy Whom Certain Folk Recognized at Vernon
At Vernon, on 25 July 1655, certain inhabitants recognized in the boy of J…
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1825 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Question Put to the Jury
In June 1826, the jurors of the Paris Assize Court were tasked with distin…
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1885 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · NetherlandsThe Suspended Reading
The Hague and Leiden, Netherlands, 1885. The contemporary chronicle from H…
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1854 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyMarks in the Dust
In Hamburg, in May 1854, the widow Jacob and her daughter were found murde…
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1697 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Bones Sewn to the Dossier
In February 1697, the bone merchant Erasmus Peinler was found dead in a mi…
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1855 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Silence Behind the Door
In Berlin, on the night of October 19 to 20, 1855, the desperate cries of…
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1852 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Cry Beneath the Turf
In June 1852, Friederike Pott gave birth to a boy, then set out in search…
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1859 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · SwitzerlandTwo Voices in the Night
On September 25, 1859, Hans Jakob and Anna Schmid were found murdered in t…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Watch by the Castle Moat
In Nantes, the body of José Asla was discovered in the castle moats on the…
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1790 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Strongbox Beneath the Floorboards
Nuremberg, June 1790. An iron strongbox vanishes from the premises of the…
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1852 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Coffin Without a Corpse
In 1848, the brothers Anton and Franz Tomascheck contrived the latter’s de…
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1834 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · SwitzerlandThe Fire of the Parsonage
Along the post road between Aarau and Zurich, the boot of the mail coach w…
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1849 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Town Hall Window
On September 28, 1849, the fifteen-year-old son of the barber St… presente…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Rope and the Door of Pignicourt
Following Joseph-Auguste Colombé’s return to his wife’s dwelling, a strugg…
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1765 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe Six O'Clock Tea
Edinburgh, August 1765. Katharine Nairn and Patrick Ogilvie stand trial fo…
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1855 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Garden Gate Stood Ajar
Potsdam, February 1855. Charlotte Spillner is discovered hanging in her be…
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1862 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Forged Testament
London and Surrey, 1855–1862. Member of Parliament William Roupell misappr…
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1789 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyLaughter Under Seal
Halle, 1789. In the wake of Wöllner’s Religious Edict, Karl Friedrich Bahr…
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1784 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · PrussiaTwo Cradles in the Garden
At Pillau, the dossier of a young female prisoner was reopened a second ti…
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1726 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Marriage She Sought to Undo
At the foot of the altar, Marie Delorme was said to have uttered a refusal…
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1843 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Crate That Arrived Without a Name
Mulhouse, 1843–1845. The body of an unknown woman is discovered in a crate…
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1857 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Letter at the Foot of the Pine
Jeufosse, 12 June 1857. Émile Guillot is brought down by eight grains of l…
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1888 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · AustriaThe Walking Stick of Hirschengasse
At the Vienna assizes in June 1888, Joseph Johann Kirchner stood accused o…
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1889 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Path of Horn Moor
Hamburg, April 1889. The murder of ten-year-old Emil Steinfatt directs the…
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1879 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · RussiaThe Two Blows of May Twenty-Fifth
In Saint Petersburg in 1879, Karl von Landsberg stood trial for the murder…
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1880 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · AustriaThe Drawers Left Unbroken
In Vienna, in 1880, government bonds and savings passbooks vanished from t…
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1837 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe Gunshot and the Oath
In Glasgow, a cotton-spinner was gunned down after returning to work durin…
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1855 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Seamstress’s Cord
Found hanging in her lodgings, Dorothea Storbeck was at first believed to…
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1817 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Signal on the Goodwin Sands
Rescued upon the Goodwin Sands in November 1817, the Danish brig L’Espéran…
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1854 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Bridge Over the Persante
Henriette Thom, known as Hanne, was found drowned near Schwartow on the ev…
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1866 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Schleswig-HolsteinThe Burning Farm and the Surviving Son
On the night of August 7 to 8, 1866, eight persons perished in the burning…
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1872 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Wound Beneath the Raiment
In the Ardèche, Firmin Pradal maintained that his mother had perished in a…
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1889 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Weapons That Could Not Fire
At Albi in 1889, the man-servant Justin Durand reported the murder of Doct…
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1887 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Sailor Behind the Bulkhead
In 1887, the Malay seaman Hassein vanished aboard the barque Lady Douglas,…
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1889 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Coins of the Ludwigsgasse
In Karlsruhe, a counterfeit coin tendered for a sausage led the police to…
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1889 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Placard of Village B
In the anonymized Alsatian village of B., an official judicial notice was…
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1865 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Sailor Who Died Before Appeal
Paulino Torio was sentenced to death following two murders committed in Ha…
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1886 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Letters Under Seal
In 1886, Lina Mary Scott petitioned for the nullity of her marriage to Art…
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1887 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandHalf the Phial
In February 1887, John Jessop stood trial at the Nottingham Assizes after…
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1877 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyThe Door on the Via della Prevostura
Piacenza, 28 May 1877: Private Luigi Ferretti succumbed to an abdominal wo…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Severed Sentence
In March 1873, the publisher of Le Rappel, Adolphe Pelleport, and his edit…
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1860 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Remedy That Never Was
This chapter is a retrospective compilation drawing upon records of the pr…
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1858 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Voice in the House
This chapter reconstructs a preliminary investigation and the judicial deb…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Blue Trousers of Tastous
At the trial of Johannès Manau for the murder of five members of his famil…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Chamber Behind the Locked Door
Central Germany, 1828–1829. Following the death of Auguste Ader from sever…
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1860 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Cup the Barber Did Not Drain
In Jena, in May 1860, the sudden death of barber Bernhard Gottschalk led p…
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1703 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Baron Without an Identity
Halberstadt and Jever, 1702–1704. A purported baron weds Anna Margarethe H…
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1859 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · AustriaThe Parcel of “Delicacies”
Vienna and Galicia, 1859–1860. Following the disappearance of Karl Hurk, a…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Satchel of the Luxembourg
At the Luxembourg Palace, lodging-house keepers arriving to collect their…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Innkeepers of the Quatre-Vents
An affirmative verdict without extenuating circumstances for Ferrari; affi…
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1853 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · PrussiaThe Head in the Reeds
The jury found Franz Schall guilty of the premeditated murder of Gottlob E…
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1853 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · PrussiaAunt Emma’s Cake
The jury answered in the affirmative regarding the premeditated administra…
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1762 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Twenty Marked Guineas
Hull, 1762. A traveller robbed of twenty marked gold pieces sees an innkee…
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1853 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Master Weaver and the Two Corpses
In Saxony, a corpse uncovered beneath a linen mangle linked the weaver Web…
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1869 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Confession Beneath the Wooden Cross
In 1867, Johanne Juliane Kruschwitz accused herself of having poisoned her…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Fifteen Fragments of Bois-Brûlé
Following the death of Gendarme Demortière in the Bois-Brûlé, the prosecut…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Certificate That Changed Hands
Burdened with debt after embarking upon commercial ventures with the Marte…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Name of Polignac
At her trial in 1873, Cécile-Léda Blanchard maintained that a secret relig…
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1777 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Gate of the Manor of Neauphle
At Neauphle, Marie-Anne Marchebout and her mother faced a tangled thicket…
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1868 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Invalid of La Meilleraye
Peter Tixier died at La Meilleraye in August 1865 following an illness mar…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Faggot of the Cura Woods
In Chozeau, Annette Giroud vanished on her way to fetch a faggot of kindli…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceFire Before Six O’Clock
In Pibrac, the double murder of the Baillet spouses was uncovered amidst t…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Pipe in the Garden Alley
In Faucoucourt, a farm building was consumed by fire in January 1874. A cl…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Passenger of the Rue Jean-Robert
In Paris, the furniture merchant Selosse was discovered mortally injured a…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Letter in the Snow
In Monplaisir, the investigation into the slaughter of the Guérin family l…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Zinc Pail Beneath the Ashes
At the Calvados Assizes, Anne Crespin and her mother answered for the deat…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Three Hearths of Étaves
On an Aisne farmstead, a haystack burned shortly after an insurance policy…
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1751 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomThe Proclamation of Tring
At Tring, in 1751, a public notice marked out John and Ruth Osborne for an…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Bundle Beneath the Handkerchief
On the morrow of a winter wedding near Suc, a young woman concealed a parc…
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1746 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomThe Two Condemned of Tower Hill
In the wake of Culloden, the peers sat in judgment upon William Boyd, Earl…
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1768 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomLiberty Under Number 45
Following the publication of North Briton No. 45, John Wilkes faced prosec…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Staircase of the Silkworm Nursery
At Pommiers, in May 1874, Marie Peyrière was assaulted in a silkworm nurse…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Clock Stopped at Midnight
At the Maison du Bois, the case of Jean-Baptiste Moreau brought together D…
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1700 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe Walk Before Dinner
At Edinburgh in 1700, a private tutor was condemned for the murder of his…
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1798 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Letter to the Directory
In May 1798, James O’Coigley stood trial at Maidstone for high treason. A…
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1716 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomThe Prisoners of Preston
Following the rout at Preston, several Jacobite peers were brought to Lond…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Cry in the Cowshed
In Melun, young Jules Hilt was discovered hanged in a cowshed following a…
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1794 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · IrelandThe Window of Newgate
Archibald Hamilton Rowan, convicted in Dublin for publishing a political l…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceTwo Deaths at Maison-Neuve
At Parcé, Peigné and the woman Pipelier stand trial following Pipelier’s d…
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1814 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomThe Description Bracken Read
In Mount Street, a young needlewoman was slain within her workroom; the wi…
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1814 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · PortugalThe Garden, Then the Question of Jurisdiction
At the London trial of William Sawyer, the jury found him guilty of the mu…
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1804 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Mug Left upon the Table
In 1804, Elizabeth Fletcher died after sharing a draught with her sister S…
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1797 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Teacup, the Severed Finger, and the Deposition
Mary Cox was mortally wounded in the lodgings of Mary Benson, otherwise Ma…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Revolvers of Rue Labirat
In Bordeaux, two men plundered the shop of Dagron the watchmaker and disch…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Hobnailed Tread of the Bois de la Jatte
At Nointel, the gamekeeper Bétourné is struck down by gunshot while attemp…
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1867 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Window Opposite
At the trial of John and Mary Conde, neighbours recounted having seen youn…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Ledger and the Receipt
Formerly a tax collector at Guerchy and residing in Joigny, Michel-Marie F…
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1872 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Room of Two Versions
On the morning of 17 June 1872, Sarah Margaret Rogers was wounded in the t…
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1875 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThree Women Before the Jury
Foix, July 1875. Two sisters and Anne Dejean, the widow Darnaud, stand tri…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Two Fires of Teigny
In Teigny, two incendiary fires separated by three months brought Claude P…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Keys of the Hôtel d’Essling
In Paris, during the spring of 1871, Jules Mekerski served successively as…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FrancePlates Beneath the Linen
In 1873, five individuals stood accused of forging and uttering counterfei…
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1875 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Flail at the Bottom of the Well
The discovery of Pierre Beaudenuit’s body brought the Loiret Assize Court…
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1853 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Wolfenbüttel Verdict
In 1853, at Wolfenbüttel, the death of Mathilde Dombrowsky brought her hus…
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1875 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Stamps of the City
In Paris, the brothers Jules and Gabriel Lagutaire, alongside their associ…
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1875 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Gun in the House at Pegassou
At Pegassou, Picou accused his neighbour Revel following two gunshots and…
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1859 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Clues of the Footpath
In June 1859, Emilie Lotheisen was found dead on the banks of the Rhine; a…
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1852 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FinlandThe Four Children of Karhu-suo
In December 1852, Elias Nygren slew his four children on a secluded farmst…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Three Signatures
At the trial of June 22–24, 1874, three conflicting versions collided over…
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1715 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyChristmas Eve at Ammerbach
Jena and Ammerbach, Christmas Eve 1715. According to the retrospective acc…
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1860 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Gate of the Trottögäßchen
Ehrenbreitstein, February 1860: Johann Meder is murdered in his bed, and h…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Scratched-Out Name
At the Seine Assize Court, the sums purportedly paid to officers by the fi…
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1861 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Promenade at Lichtenthal
On July 14, 1861, a young man fired upon King Wilhelm I in Baden-Baden. Th…
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1861 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe Glass None Could Explain
At Bruchsal, in 1861, Baroness Luise von Baumbach was brought before the a…
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1720 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · PolandThe Preacher in the Closed Carriage
Warsaw, July 5, 1720. According to the retrospective account in the Pitava…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe One Hundred and Fifty Francs
In Billé, a dispute over a sum of money removed from a drawer degenerated…
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1625 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceHélène Gillet and the Suspended Sentence
Bourg-en-Bresse, 1624–1625. A discovery in a garden upends the proceedings…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Drifting Leg
Paris, 1874. The former cashier Pierre-Eugène Bouvot answers before the As…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceRumours from the Coulisse
In Zurich, the cashier Émile Sehaer embezzled bank funds to gamble on the…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Modest Household and the Great Trunks
A search conducted in the lodgings of a lady’s maid revealed stolen proper…
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1817 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomThe Kilmarnock Pamphlet
Following a petitioning assembly near Kilmarnock in December 1816, a speec…
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1875 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Tub of Dolus
At Dolus, Pierre Collé was found dead in his isolated dwelling; the judici…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomThe Door at Prospect-Row
At Portsmouth, in 1829, the deaths of Mr. Langtrey and his housekeeper Chr…
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1836 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomThe Temporary Settlement
Attorney George Edward Peacock used a forged power of attorney to sell sto…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomThe Garden Gate at Abbey
Following the discovery of Mrs. Franks and her daughter Magdalene near Abb…
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1830 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomThe Captain's Estate
In March 1830, Captain William Moir shot Malcolm, a fisherman crossing his…
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1839 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomThe Disputed Night at the Windsor Castle
At the Central Criminal Court, George Cant, a Holborn publican, stood accu…
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1840 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomThe Grey Horse of Wadebridge
Two brothers, James and William Lightfoot, stood accused of the murder and…
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1833 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomCalthorpe Street: Three Judgments on an Affray
In London, the political gathering of 13 May 1833 descended into a violent…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomThe Door at Monmouth
At Monmouth, Esther Stevens was found dead in September 1828. Sundry artic…
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1817 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomThe Oath under Two Indictments
In the spring of 1817, the High Court of Justiciary examined several indic…
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1839 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomThe Pikes of Leigh
In 1838, the preacher James Rayner Stevens was apprehended following an as…
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1841 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomThe Half-Measure
At Houghton, Elizabeth Harlett died after swallowing a draught prepared by…
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1836 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomThe Expunged Sum
A scheme of loans conducted under aliases secured John Minter Hart an acqu…
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1834 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomThe Two-Key Chest
On the night of 27 November 1834, £4,824 vanished from the Fines and Forfe…
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1831 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomThree Days of Fire in Bristol
From October 29 to 31, 1831, the arrival of the Recorder, Sir Charles Weth…
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1830 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomThe Remedy That Left a Wound
Camden Pelham recounts two separate prosecutions brought against John St.…
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1878 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Meadow of Les Trémouilles
In Cluzel, Marie-Joseph Chassagnette stood accused of having slain his bro…
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1877 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Rue de Rome Address
A false address and an identified ring tied together several thefts charge…
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1878 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Thirty Sous of Benne
Returning from a parish festival, Philippe Cayrel found his mother-in-law…
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1826 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Fire of High Holborn
The insurance policy on the High Holborn house was augmented prior to seve…
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1877 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Austria-HungaryThe Precipice Path
At the Botzen assizes, conflicting testimonies and evolving medical opinio…
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1825 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Voices of Whaddon Chase
A witness watches Charles Lynn strike down Abraham Hogg in a Buckinghamshi…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Window of Grove Cottage
In November 1828, four men broke into Grove Cottage, bound the household,…
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1840 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Acquitted Man of Pocock’s Fields
Acquitted of the murder of John Templeman in April 1840, Richard Gould was…
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1834 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Cell of York Street
In 1834, a solicitor lured under the name of Heath was chained in a cell t…
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1888 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Bill for 378 Pounds
In London, in 1888, Charles Mar Schroeder stood trial for uttering a forge…
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1872 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Accounts of Gauja
Toulouse, 1872. According to the report of the Gazette des Tribunaux, the…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Coins That Rang True
In 1874, the Seine Court of Assizes tried Adolphe Fabret for passing count…
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1809 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · PrussiaThe Dallach Luncheon
In Berlin, in November 1809, Councillor Eberhard died a few hours after di…
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1840 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Germany (Saxony/Prussia)The Name Discovered in the Woods
In June 1840, the body of a man was discovered in the communal forest of S…
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1787 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Historical Netherlands (Holland)The Crossing at Hoogvliet
On the outskirts of Leerdam, an investigation remained without a culprit f…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Brother’s Borrowed Name
In February 1874, Jean-Baptiste-Noël Dufour appeared before the court at R…
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1803 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Prussia (Berlin)Poison in the Parlours of Berlin
In Berlin in 1803, a widow was prosecuted following the repeated poisoning…
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1862 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Historical AustriaThe Intercepted Letters of Vienna
In Vienna, Karl Kalab purloined tens of thousands of letters from the cent…
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1701 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Note and the Children of Gabriele Perreau
In Paris, Gabriele Perreau was prosecuted by her husband after preserving…
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1861 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Sound at the Gate of La Bastide-Neuve
At Carpentras, Fortunée Béridot and François Denante stood trial following…
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1872 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Capital That Never Entered the Till
In Paris, the judgment in the affair of the Caisse and the newspaper l’Épa…
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1725 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Prussian Pomerania (Europe)The Charcoal-Burner’s Master
In 1725, Jochen Rossow was discovered dead beside a charcoal kiln in Liepe…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomThe Broker Who Knew Him
Richard Gifford passed himself off as William Green, and subsequently as R…
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1833 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomA Sentence Already Commuted
A London letter carrier, Job Cox was condemned to death in May 1833 follow…
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1872 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Trunk Beneath the Nets
In January 1872, the body of merchant Grego Angelo was discovered inside a…
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1885 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Witness with the Revolver
In 1885, the Assize Court of Saône-et-Loire tried thirty-two men for the t…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Widow’s Hayloft
Before the Assize Court of Eure-et-Loir, an 1874 account follows Saintot,…
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1885 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe One Hundred and Seventy-Eight Questions
In Brest, the judicial report of the Finistère Assizes of May 1885 traces…
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1877 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Jury’s Final Word
Before the Seine Assize Court, the death of Courtefois at Neuilly set the…
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1885 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Hound That Might Betray
Before the Court of Assizes of Corsica, a press report from June 1885 reco…
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1885 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceOne Hour to Live
In Berkem, André Carvin the elder lured Dr. Benoit under the pretense of a…
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1884 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Ashes of Montreuil
At the Seine Assize Court in June 1885, Félix-Albert Pel answered to two c…
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1875 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Sale Shall Not Proceed
The proceedings of the Eure Assizes in August 1875 recount the death of th…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Shattered Jaw of Sénozan
The Gazette reports that following a clandestine four-year courtship, M. B…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Night Albert Never Returned
In Melz-sur-Seine, the Seine-et-Marne Court of Assizes brought Ernestine B…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Fifty Paces of Madame Pagnon
At Courbiac, Marie-Anne Béchaud, wife of Cousty, stood trial following the…
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1875 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Witness Arrested at the Bar
Following the demise of Gérard Soubrier in 1875, an alibi furnished by Vic…
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1875 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceFifteen Years and a Letter
Paris, 1875: a letter announces a situation, yet Marie Bigot, fifteen year…
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1875 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Room on the Rue Saint-Jacques
The court proceedings of August 11 and 12, 1875, record the accusation of…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Plaster Shops
In Paris, the report of the Seine Assize Court for 24 August 1874 recounts…
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1885 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Watch and the Newspaper
Paris, 1883–1885. Albert, a furniture dealer, was found dead in the Rue de…
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1885 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Glass on the Table
In Paris, in April 1885, Mathilde Gumulinska was accused of throwing vitri…
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1878 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceCracks Beneath the Paint
Paris, 24 February 1878. The Scribe elevator cab at the Grand-Hôtel shoots…
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1876 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Added Particle
In 1876, in Lodève, Cuvilier was accused of having interpolated the noble…
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1885 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Ax of Branges
Branges, December 14, 1885. Following a forbidden liaison and threats reco…
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1884 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Night of the Powder Magazine
In October 1884, a quarry powder magazine near Roanne was forced open; the…
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1887 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Broth of Saint-Léonard
Saint-Léonard, Orne, winter 1886–1887. The indictment read before the Assi…
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1886 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Night at Meulles
Meulles, Calvados, October 1885 (an inference drawn from the phrase “last…
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1886 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceWhat the Widow Wished to Keep
Naives-en-Blois, 1886. François-Émile Chard demanded that his wife’s grand…
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1886 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Window of the Old Offices
Decazeville, 1886. In the wake of Watrin’s death during the strike, ten de…
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1899 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Wall of Furnello
Lecci, 1899. Following an ancient property dispute and the slaying of two…
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1812 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Paddock Rail
Daniel Dawson, a tout for turf bettors, was accused of poisoning racehorse…
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1805 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Severed Task
Spitalfields, 1805. Samuel Wild Mitchell confessed to the murder of his tw…
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1886 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Flowerbed of Villemomble
In Villemomble, the disappearance of Élodie Ménétret led investigators to…
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1746 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Door of Lady Dalrymple
Matthew Henderson, footman to Sir Hugh Dalrymple, pleaded guilty at the Ol…
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1809 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe Cold Cup of Coffee
Compton, Surrey, 1809. Joseph Hollis was discovered lifeless within his co…
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