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Police & Underworld · FranceThe Man Whom One Would Have Asked for Directions
Victor Prévost: the authority accorded to the uniform
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A watch found beneath the moss, a signature too steady, a carriage that never arrived, a false prince welcomed by an entire town: here are lives caught at the moment everything tips.

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1880 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceVictor Prévost: the authority accorded to the uniform
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1891 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceGouffé, Eyraud, Bompard: the objects and imagery of a celebrated cause
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1788 · 18th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · ItalyDrawn from the Bonanno affair, a fateful interview takes an unexpected cou…
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1788 · 18th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · GermanyElisabetha Gassner: a thief and the vestments of her legend.
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1836 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceA condemned man still demands the final word.
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1560 · 16th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · ItalyCardano: amidst the father’s library, one voice is wanting.
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1540 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyKohlhase: when vengeance no longer knows to whom the reckoning is due
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1837 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · SpainMadrid and the highwayman reclothed by legend
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1803 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · EnglandHatfield: the marriage that rendered an imposture too famous.
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1831 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · GermanyGesche Gottfried: when devotion shields suspicion
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1676 · 17th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · FranceBrinvilliers: behind the doors of an honourable house.
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1824 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyWoyzeck: a man on trial, a woman who must not be forgotten.
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1881 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · EnglandMapleton: the object that confounds all explanations.
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1811 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · GermanyZwanziger: several hearths, and a history none knew how to share.
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1701 · 18th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · EnglandWilliam Kidd: unsealing the contract before the chest
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1560 · 16th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · FranceMartin Guerre and Arnaud du Tilh: whom do we truly recognize when we claim…
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1882 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyBefore reaching the Emperor, Oberdan met his judges. An assumed name, a ph…
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1898 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceA masterless flock leads to a body, then to a two-year investigation. Acro…
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1680 · 17th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · FranceA wine-steeped supper led the police to a dwelling where hopes were bought…
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1845 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · ItalyA traveller changes a gold piece. The man following her offers his assista…
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1796 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyA town refuses to sell timber for a gallows. In an early literary account,…
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1757 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceA thrust of a blade in the Marble Court leaves Louis XV alive and plunges…
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1792 · 18th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · FranceFollowing the theft of a pocketbook and a sentence of death, Pelletier wai…
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1478 · 15th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyThe conspirators sought to strike down both Medici brothers during high ma…
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1610 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe carriage of Henry IV halts in a congested street. Ravaillac steps forw…
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1894 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceLyon, June 1894. Amidst cheering crowds, a young baker strikes down Presid…
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1593 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceA man enters history carrying a knife intended for the newly crowned monar…
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1599 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyA murdered patriarch, a staged plunge, and a noble house hauled before pap…
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1839 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceA notary returns by night bearing his dead wife, recounting an ambush by h…
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1870 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceIn a field in Pantin, six bodies appeared beneath a farmer’s spade. The se…
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1894 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn the wake of the Palais-Bourbon bombing, Vaillant avowed his revolt whil…
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1858 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceOutside the Opera, three bombs shatter an imperial evening. Napoleon III s…
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1777 · 18th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · FranceA woman vanished after entrusting her fortune to a grocer. Soon her son ce…
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1817 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyThree 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 bomb at a police station, then another in a café: Émile Henry carried vi…
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1864 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · FranceLa Pommerais: a colossal insurance policy and the fatal trust of a former…
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1836 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAlibaud: lost employments, a missed sovereign, and the cross-examination o…
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1793 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceCharlotte Corday: the secret journey, the murder of Marat, and the nation…
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1749 · 18th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · ItalyA property loan drove Antonio Camardella to slay his creditor, a Roman can…
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1789 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceOctober 1789: the lynching of the baker François and the martial law enact…
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1796 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceLesurques: an identification, an erasure, and a family still awaiting just…
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1803 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · GermanySchinderhannes: stealing horses, selling protection, and bartering his con…
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1823 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · FranceCastaing: two heirs, a vanished will, and a verdict that drew a distinctio…
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1852 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · SpainA priest stabs Isabella II within the palace walls. Five days suffice to j…
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1810 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyTommaso Tintori: a final morning beneath the shadow of a French invention
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1892 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceA restaurant waiter recognizes the man all Paris is hunting; two subsequen…
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1869 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · FranceCarpentier: a murdered farmer, a forgotten snuffbox, and brigands of exces…
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1888 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · FrancePrado multiplied his identities; Marie Aguétant’s jewels drew the inquiry…
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1841 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceDarmès admitted his desire to kill Louis-Philippe; the examining magistrat…
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1909 · 20th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceMadame Duchemin kept her hard-earned savings for her ailing daughter. The…
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1500 · 15th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · ItalyA French ambassador stripped near Viterbo unleashed a ruthless hunt for br…
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1887 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceThree women slain on Rue Montaigne, a false lead in the investigation, and…
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1440 · 15th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Nantes, the plaints of bereft families entered the very halls where Gil…
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1721 · 18th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · FranceCartouche: the brigand’s renown, the secrecy of the trial, and the names s…
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1809 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · SpainNapoleon announced seven hangings; a local chronicler counted five and rec…
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1897 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceLouise never returned from her errand. A few months later, Versailles asse…
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1584 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · The NetherlandsTo assassinate William of Orange, Balthazar Gérard solicited an advance th…
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1836 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn the wake of Fieschi’s infernal machine, a trunk, a confession, and a po…
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1862 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceMarie Pichon refused to follow a stranger any deeper into the night; her f…
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1857 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceA locked door on the Rue de Charenton led the police to a cook, and then t…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyIn Ravenna, an assassination attempt against Cardinal Rivarola launched an…
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1909 · 20th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceDanvers maintained that the Donats had departed for Pierrelatte. Yet a wit…
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1565 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyMen enter the Vatican harboring a murderous design, yet no blow is struck.…
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1857 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FranceA New Year’s Day visit ended in two murders within the Campisiano househol…
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1913 · 20th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceBonnot was already dead when the survivors stood before the assizes. The f…
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1820 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceLouvel: slaying the heir to the Bourbons and leaving justice to search for…
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1699 · 17th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FranceA parliamentary magistrate survives an ambush of pistol shots. The ensuing…
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1593 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyA false secretary and genuine wayfarer, Gabriel Wolff borrowed in the name…
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1812 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · GermanyAlong the Bergstraße, two Swiss merchants were robbed and beaten. One died…
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1909 · 20th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceThey had purchased wine merely so that the door might be opened to them. T…
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1909 · 20th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceFrom pillaged farmsteads to the four condemned men of Béthune, the Pollet…
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1868 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · FranceFrom Marseilles to the mountain passes of L’Escarène, a band sowed terror…
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1857 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceJean-Louis Verger: the assassination of Archbishop Sibour and the warnings…
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1653 · 17th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · GermanyA threatened merchant refused to surrender his horses and lodged a formal…
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1698 · 17th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · ItalyIn Rome, the mention of an expected letter was enough to unlatch a door. G…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FranceAntoine Berthet: the assault within the church before Stendhal’s novel
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1784 · 18th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · ItalyAngelo Duca rode into villages to ringing cheers, even as the king’s soldi…
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1824 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceOn the eve of the penal convoy, Laurent asks Antonio Brochetti to write a…
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1877 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FranceVitalis and Marie Boyer: an inheritance, the murder of a mother, and the f…
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1897 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · SpainAn Italian national enters the retreat of the Spanish Prime Minister. Betw…
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1771 · 18th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · GermanyGamekeepers were disarmed, taverns became battlegrounds, and peasants wave…
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1578 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyA grazing dispute escalates into open warfare between a magistrate and his…
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1477 · 15th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyOlgiati: three men strike down the Duke of Milan and await a revolution th…
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1715 · 18th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · GermanyAn escaped thief believed he was conducting a secret correspondence from h…
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1824 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · FranceTissot must pass for a merchant in a stagecoach marked out for highwaymen.…
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1787 · 18th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · GermanyA dying soldier names his assailants. The manhunt for Hannikel crosses bor…
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1908 · 20th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · GermanyTo marry her lover and inherit her fiancé’s estate, Grete Beier invented a…
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1781 · 18th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · FranceA fugitive arrives to purchase a coat from a seamstress. She recognizes th…
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1460 · 15th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyTiburzio di Maso: a band of conspirators exacts a comrade’s release, only…
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1825 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyTarghini and Montanari: a secret-society brotherhood, a nocturnal ambush,…
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1699 · 17th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · GermanyA former soldier assumes the airs of a nobleman, while brazen thefts weave…
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1505 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyBologna: Pietro Antonio survives the noose, is hailed as a sign from heave…
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1768 · 18th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · ItalyArcangeli slays Winckelmann; an error among the witnesses provokes the dec…
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1783 · 18th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceA locked room, an escape, and a public execution: the gazettes recount the…
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1803 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · BelgiumBuckles of red copper betray a thief. From the cobbler’s trail to the publ…
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1594 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceJean Châtel strikes at Henry IV, merely shattering a tooth. Yet the ensuin…
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1755 · 18th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FranceMongeot pleaded self-defense. The lovers’ correspondence reframed the murd…
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1574 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceChildren fell prey to attacks across the environs of Dole. The arrest of a…
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1563 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FrancePoltrot received coin from Coligny and discharged his pistol into the Duke…
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1825 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FrancePapavoine murdered two children. At his trial, a confession failed to reso…
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1801 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · GermanyThe traveler bids the innkeeper read aloud his own wanted poster. A hundre…
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1889 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceA name upon an envelope drew the Sûreté from the shop of an assassinated s…
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1755 · 18th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · FranceAt Bourg, Mandrin compelled the agents of the General Farm to purchase his…
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1852 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FranceA forged promissory note led magistrates to a stone-sawyer in Pontoise. Co…
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1665 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn 1665, a nobleman believed an ancient feud to be settled. The Grands Jou…
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1796 · 18th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceA forged warrant released a prisoner in Lille and sent Herbaux to the gall…
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1885 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThe plot failed, yet the travel expenses still required settling. A paltry…
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1720 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn 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 · ItalyFlorence, 1503: a botched execution stirs the populace to revolt and claim…
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1866 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceBarthélemy Cellier: an uprising sparked by docked pay for shoes, two dead…
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1515 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyRome, 1515: the imagined final morning of a servant whose Christian name s…
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1726 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyA pastor is assassinated by the very man he had befriended and delivered f…
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1913 · 20th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · GermanyA farmhand announces his master’s sudden departure. Two locked-in daughter…
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1894 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceFather Bruneau: a parish priest discovered at the bottom of a well, tellta…
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1581 · 16th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · GermanyPeter Niers: in the bathhouses of Neumarkt, the street-ballad brings low i…
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1856 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyAgesilao Milano: an assault upon the king, followed by a struggle over the…
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1863 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · ItalyThe goatherd turned bandit chieftain knew every bridle path of Castellanet…
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1867 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceCiosi and Agostini: two soldiers sheltered for the night, four victims, an…
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1887 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceGeorgette and Sylvain Thomas: an aged woman accused of casting misfortune,…
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1803 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · ItalyOn the eve of his execution, a thief receives an unexpected visit from the…
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1852 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · FranceHélène Jégado: three afflicted servants, and a household that comprehended…
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1813 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · NetherlandsCondemned following an arson and a string of thefts, Adriana obtains permi…
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1643 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe Giroux affair: two missing men, a trunk, and a sovereign court compell…
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1855 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FrancePianori: a confessed assassination attempt, an alleged conspiracy, and a p…
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1729 · 18th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · FranceNivet: a couple murdered upon the highway, and ninety-nine accused before…
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1791 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandJane and George Dingler: the victim, the absent witness, and the defense
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1849 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FrancePierre Dudragne: a theft, two deaths, and the impossible reckoning
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1615 · 17th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · EnglandThe Overbury Affair: when the great and powerful relied upon go-betweens.
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1894 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · SpainHigh 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 · SpainHis family funded a journey in search of employment; Juan Oliva made for M…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · EnglandThomas Maynard: the forged instrument that knew the habits of the counting…
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1819 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceFoulard: two women slain, and the first condemned man of a young Sanson
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1803 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · GermanyFetzer knew how to break from gaols and slip across borders. Yet a nameles…
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1902 · 20th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · GermanyKneissl: a refuge, two dead men, and a host accused of laying an ambush.
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1759 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandMary Edmondson: a house, four strangers, and a verdict without a confessio…
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1756 · 18th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · EnglandSpanish Jack: the mariner who turned King’s evidence against his fellows,…
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1892 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceLouis Anastay: a murder for coin, followed by a final battle for his own i…
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1726 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceDeschauffours: errand deliveries and domestic placements expose a clandest…
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1786 · 18th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · EnglandPhoebe Harris: the outward semblance of coin, the contradictions of a cruc…
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1709 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandChristopher Slaughterford: a verdict does not suffice to return a man to h…
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1843 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · EnglandTo reassure William Dazley, a servant girl swallowed a dose of his medicin…
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1820 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · EnglandRebecca Worlock: a child fetches her father’s beer, then must learn how to…
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1526 · 16th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · ItalyTwo rivals discover that the same woman had solicited each to murder the o…
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1824 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · EnglandFrances Young received her remittances with exemplary punctuality. Yet at…
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1840 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · EnglandSarah Mancer believed she had chanced upon a burglary. Yet within her mast…
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1832 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · FranceJean Spadoni, the false Brother Léger: three episcopal seals to gain entry…
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1832 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · FranceOld Father Malandin: a miraculous cure, forty sous, and a year behind bars.
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1752 · 18th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · EnglandAt Henley, a powder pledged to soften a father’s heart led Mary Blandy bef…
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1724 · 18th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · EnglandIn 1724, Jack Sheppard broke out of London’s gaols only to return to the v…
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1754 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandA servant maid returns after a month’s absence. Her accusation threatens a…
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1733 · 18th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · EnglandThree women dead in the Temple, a silver tankard brought to light, and a s…
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1779 · 18th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · EnglandMartha Ray leaves the playhouse. James Hackman lies in wait with two pisto…
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1809 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · EnglandAt Bramley, William Perigo at last unstitched the packets sewn into his be…
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1806 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · EnglandIsaac Blight awaited payment from his partner. On the evening the debt fel…
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1783 · 18th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · EnglandThe King’s engraver lent credit to papers of too perfect a resemblance. Wh…
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1832 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FranceIn Aix-en-Othe, a woman flees an abusive husband. The sanctuary she finds…
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1831 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceFollowing the murder of a gaoler and his grandson, an inmate halts the fli…
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1832 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Coullemont, twenty-nine houses vanished in a single night. The possessi…
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1781 · 18th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · EnglandTheodosius Boughton died after taking a draught. His mother remembered an…
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1777 · 18th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · EnglandThe tutor borrowed his former pupil’s name upon a bond of four thousand tw…
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1759 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandA discovered skeleton revives an affair long consigned to oblivion. Housem…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · EnglandWilliam Corder assured her family that Maria was well. For months, his let…
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1830 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAn old woman, a goat, and sixty francs: the murder of the Marchoise brough…
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1831 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAn office keeper confesses to having taken copper from the courtyard of th…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · FranceIn the penal bagne of Rochefort, Anthelme Collet preferred to speak of the…
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1827 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAt twenty-two years of age, Jean Arigonde stood once more before the marit…
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1824 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceChristophe Rostan shed names, garments, and roles in his bid to slip the g…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceA young sailor without papers is identified as an escaped galley slave. Hi…
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1831 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceBernard Claude awaits trial at Sainte-Pélagie. A law student discovers tha…
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1824 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandWilliam Weare set out on a shooting party with a gaming companion. At the…
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1831 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceA convict proclaims his guilt in two separate assaults. At Brest, his defe…
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1725 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandWithin Newgate prison, Jonathan Wild was still receiving his clients. A sh…
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1830 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceJean Prunière vanished from the prison of Montluçon. Houses were searched,…
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1831 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceArrested following the murder of his wife, Guillaume Granié killed a fello…
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1827 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceA gambler murders his friend, then stands trial before a courtroom where o…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Metz, a guillotine awaited a soldier condemned to be shot by firing squ…
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1827 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceMaître 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 KingdomJohn Bellingham demanded redress for his imprisonment in Russia. In London…
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1827 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FranceAimée refused to continue a liaison. Having struck her down, Ulbach claime…
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1772 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomJames Bolland understood the debts that brought men to prison. When his ow…
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1722 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomAfter 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 KingdomOne apprentice had already fled the house. Yet it took a neighbour catchin…
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1815 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomIn 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 KingdomHannah 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 · FranceA dead man lay nameless in the Paris Morgue. A laundress recognized his de…
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1820 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceA hatter races barefoot in pursuit of the man carrying off his young son.…
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1819 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · FranceA lieutenant-colonel refuses the name bestowed upon him by the law. In 181…
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1822 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceMarie Gérin vanished after setting out for church. An imperfect mark upon…
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1819 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn London, General Sarrazin wrote to Georgina as his lawful wife. Before t…
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1825 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceParis, 1824. A merchant holds a genuine receipt for a payment his opponent…
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1818 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Rodez, soldiers were drawn up before Clarisse Manson to shield the accu…
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1818 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceRouen, 1818. A prisoner claims to be the son of Louis XVI; visitors bring…
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1823 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceA 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 widow Marye escaped a brutal assault and named Manette Bouhourt as her…
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1809 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAt the Jardin du Roi, a property dispute descends into violence. Two wound…
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1810 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceA 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 · FranceParis, 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 · FranceCorsica, 1810. A priest is murdered along the road to a family conciliatio…
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1812 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceParis, 1812. A lodging-house keeper is murdered and her daughter narrowly…
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1813 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceA small hatchet is discovered beside a murdered domestic servant. Judicial…
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1808 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceSaint-Gaultier, 1807. A woman repels her assailant, while her husband dela…
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1808 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceNear Bayeux, a young wife perished following a family repast. Ten thousand…
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1808 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn 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 · ItalyPiedmont, 1808. Two servant girls discover a body in a hayloft. A brother…
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1810 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceParis, 1810. An abandoned wine hamper contains the body of a merchant. His…
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1812 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceChinon, 1812. After a fatal supper at the hospice, a nursing sister stands…
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1809 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn 1809, Claude Vuillaume was accused of murdering his wife during a night…
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1813 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceA ruined proprietress invited her creditor to view a country house. In the…
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1811 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceTouraine, 1811. A father is murdered on the eve of a promised journey. His…
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1827 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceGrenoble, 1826. Reine vanishes after dining with the man who promised to m…
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1827 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceBarcus, 1827. A wounded man alters his deposition; a fugitive suspect comp…
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1785 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceComminges, 1785. Condemned for the death of her father, Catherine refuses…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceClignancourt, 1828. A tradesman asks for assistance to return home with hi…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · FranceBoissy, 1828. Jacques Pitra accused his wife before dying. She produced a…
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1827 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceMarne, 1827. A fourteen-year-old farmhand returns to the pasture to find h…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceMayenne, 1828. Following an evening supper, a husbandman dies. For eightee…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceRasay, 1828. A luncheon strikes an entire household with illness, and a ch…
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1764 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceDijon, 1764. A prior accused of poisoning obtains a reprieve, yet nonethel…
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1783 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceMontfaucon, 1780. Garments long forgotten in a barn prompt a search for th…
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1809 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceJuilly, 1809. A sick man’s suffering only worsens under his wife’s ministr…
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1812 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FrancePuteaux, 1812. Neighbors believe they hear a husband brutalizing his wife.…
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1763 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceParis, 1750. A mother is arrested on the grounds that her husband was alle…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceBesançon, 1828. Madeleine Piot followed a promise of shelter and vanished.…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FranceParis, 1827. Arsène Chevalier had renounced a proposed marriage; Julien pe…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceBreuil, 1828. Angélique Darcy announced that her mother had died in her be…
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1771 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAfter years of exile, Pierre-Paul Sirven returns to deliver himself unto t…
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1827 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceLandes, 1827. A son announces the probable death of his father and begs a…
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1807 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceBergerac, 1807. A father and his son flee a town where a broadsheet ballad…
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1767 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceLyon, 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 · FranceNissan, 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 · FranceSaint-Omer, 1770. A physician bleeds a son who has swooned before his dead…
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1786 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceCaen, 1781. Hired mere days before, Marie Salmon is accused of poisoning h…
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1571 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn 1571, a gentleman rode toward Paris to fund the pursuit of murderers. A…
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1693 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceParis, 1687. A count returns from the countryside to find his strongbox ra…
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1659 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceA mother recognizes her long-lost son in a passing officer. Two marriages…
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1694 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceParis, 1689. Madame Mazel is murdered in her bedchamber. Her valet carries…
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1666 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceA 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 · FranceAccused of murdering her husband, a woman causes him to be sought out. He…
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1765 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceLyons, 1763. Benoît is gravely wounded by the blast of a package delivered…
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1769 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceCormicy, 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 · FranceArtemare, 1768–1771. Following the death of the tenant farmer Joseph Gojoz…
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1775 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceParis, 1773–1775. Following an anonymous letter threatening the farmer-gen…
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1779 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceMarceillan, 1773–1779. After a mayor sought to outlaw a local jest, Rigaud…
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1777 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceMontbrison, 1775–1777. A dispute over property pits the elder Chassagneux…
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1764 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceParis, 1764. Following the death of Bulson in a street brawl, a deposition…
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1768 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Nevers, Anne le Fiot, a sickly child, was accused of a theft committed…
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1770 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceParis, 1766–1770. The Noiseu family believe they have recovered their lost…
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1774 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Lyon, Marc Game was convicted of thefts committed by means of forged no…
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1802 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceÉvreux, Year X–Year XI. Upon the demise of Cochart Deservolus, a solitary…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceTarbes, March 1829. Adrien Lafargue, tried for the murder of Thérèse Casta…
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1801 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceMahéru, 1801–1802. Following the burning of a market hall, a property disp…
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1787 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceFollowing the robbery of the Saint-Michel hermitage in 1780, Brother Jean…
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1779 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceLaval, 1778–1779. Renée Richard, known as la Suhard, fled her house, leavi…
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1804 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn March 1804, Louis-Antoine, Duke of Enghien, was arrested at Ettenheim,…
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1790 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceParis, 1790. Arraigned before the Châtelet under accusation of a vast cons…
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1783 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceChatonay, 1781–1783. Following a morning repast that left Monsieur and Mad…
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1777 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceFollowing the robbery at the mill of Castel-Pic, the belated declarations…
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1797 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceGombremez and Saint-Omer, 1797. Following the mortal assault upon Catherin…
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1787 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceBerville, 1780–1787. In the wake of Rose Verdure’s murder, suspicion falls…
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1785 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceSaint-Jean-Soleymieux, 1783–1785. The manorial magistrate Morel de la Comb…
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1782 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceHonoré Jourdan, an officer of justice and neighbor to Jean Vial, was initi…
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1753 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceFather Risch initially sheltered his young curate, Louys, only to find him…
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1778 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceHaving returned to Saint-Hilaire to sell his hereditary rights, Remy Baron…
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1782 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceFollowing the death of Étienne Merle, the inquest recorded the confessions…
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1765 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceParfait Devaux died in 1742 after naming the wife of a cooper named Durand…
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1782 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAlignan, 1782. Dame Dabeillan was discovered dead in her bedchamber, a cor…
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1786 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceCharenton and Paris, 1778–1786. Bosquillon vanished from the inn where he…
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1714 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn a country house near Marseille, François D*** de S*** was slain by two…
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1827 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAt the Vaugirard chemical works, the customs comptroller Bertet shot M. Ad…
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1777 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceA box delivered by the porter Nérau exploded when the glazier Meunier unfa…
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1594 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAngers, 1594. According to the account of Champagnac, Renée Corbeau, known…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceOn the evening of February 5, 1828, laborers washing cotton in the Seine h…
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1786 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceCorsica, 1778–1786. Lieutenant-Colonel Abatucci gathered intelligence rega…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceCharles Lebaron was found dead in his stable on December 16, 1828. His ser…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceRosalie Dusser, in service to the Baudy household in Nozières, was slain i…
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1827 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceCantal, August 1827. Following the murder of Étienne Petit, suspicion fell…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceCossardières, June–August 1828. Following the disappearance of his mother,…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceFollowing the murders of Prudhomme and Marie Duru at the Croix-Verte, Vict…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceOn May 2, 1829, the shepherd Étienne Aubry threatened his master Benoît, p…
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1825 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceFollowing the murder of Paul-Louis Courier in April 1825, his gamekeeper L…
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1830 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe parish priest Louis Frilay, bound in an illicit liaison with Madame Sa…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceBellecombe, December 1828–May 1829. Sébastien Perrin leaves his house in t…
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1801 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn 1801, the priest Étienne Pacot stood accused of having poisoned a man n…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceParis, February–June 1829. Following the separation of Mariette Villain an…
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1818 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceFollowing the disappearance of the former soldier Neyret at Valence in Aug…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceBoucq and Saint-Mihiel, 1828–1829. Étienne Psaume vanished along the grape…
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1733 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAccording to Champagnac, Frillet, a fiscal attorney and notary, orchestrat…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceArrouède, 1828–1829. Following successive bouts of sudden illness within h…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceParis, 1828–1829. Following a fall into the canal and her subsequent disap…
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1823 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe tailor Henri Feldtmann sought to compel his daughters and Madeleine Lé…
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1824 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceOn August 10, 1824, twelve-and-a-half-year-old Aimée-Constance Debully van…
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1832 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FrancePoully-le-Monéal, 19 June 1832. Ten days after her wedding, Jeanne Desroch…
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1826 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceHaving uttered two bills of exchange bearing the forged signature of his f…
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1819 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceBennecourt, Villez, and the Epte, 1817–1819. Following the murder of Étien…
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1826 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceOn July 14, 1826, Marguerite Durand, widow Corpedanne, was murdered in her…
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1780 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceDr. Bors, formerly a preceptor in several households, was apprehended in T…
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1770 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceFollowing the murder of the Chevalier de Fornel in 1770, suspicion fell up…
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1782 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceOn April 28, 1782, Françoise Tiers returned home after leaving a pair of b…
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1823 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceChartres, June–August 1823. Following the discovery of the widow Aillet an…
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1821 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceYssengeaux, Montbrison, and Riom, 1817–1821. Following the death of Jean C…
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1827 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceCocural and Rodez, 1824–1827. Pierre Barrié informed his brother and siste…
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1827 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceCarpentras, January 1827. Following the disappearance of his daughter, Cas…
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1784 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceSaint-Béat, 1781–1784. Following the death of the merchant Fondeville, his…
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1720 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAt the Three Pigeons inn, a misplaced key sparked a bitter altercation bet…
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1721 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandEngland, 1721. Matthew Clark persuaded a young woman that an inheritance o…
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1781 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FrancePalluau, August 1781. A wounded vagrant vanishes from a manorial gaol, onl…
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1721 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandEngland and the Atlantic, circa 1721. John Meff, the son of French Protest…
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1826 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceSainte-Menehould, 1826. Following repeated brutalities, Marie-Élisabeth Sa…
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1721 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandJohn Dykes graduated from gaming tables to petty pickpocketing, and thence…
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1723 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandFollowing the sieges of Flanders, John Massey entered the service of the R…
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1722 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandJohn Stanley relinquished a commission in the Royal African Company to rem…
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1723 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandEngland, 1723. Having served at sea and lamented taking part in no engagem…
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1721 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAt seventeen, John Winship abandoned his carpenter’s apprenticeship and to…
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1721 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandEngland, 1721. Apprehended following the robbery of a horse and a few shil…
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1724 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandFollowing a career in the Guards, John Hewlet became a night watchman in E…
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1725 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandA respected victualler, Foster Snow murdered Thomas Rawlins following a di…
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1723 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIreland and England, 1723. Following a misspent apprenticeship in Cork and…
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1784 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Ay, Marie-Jeanne Thillois vanished, and the town accused a merchant of…
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1725 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandEnticed into enlistment by seamen after a night of heavy drinking, John Ha…
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1784 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn September 1784, three armed prisoners attempted to break out of the Con…
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1802 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceDijon, Year X. The discovery of a newborn infant’s body led investigators…
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1724 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandLondon, 1724. Following an initial acquittal for lack of evidence, Lewis H…
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1721 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAfter a childhood spent between Covent Garden and Jamaica, William Barton…
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1721 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandFollowing an initial conviction and fine for uttering counterfeit coin, Ba…
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1722 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandJames Shaw, who likewise went by the name of Smith, took to footpad robber…
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1725 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandEngland, 1725. Following a series of highway robberies and housebreakings…
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1722 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAfter joining a gang of footpads armed with leaded bludgeons, Thomas Wilso…
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1723 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandFollowing the murder of the French master Peter Tartoue and his crew, Phil…
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1725 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandTaking refuge from debt in the New Mint of Wapping, Charles Towers joined…
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1722 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandFollowing years of bitter strife and domestic violence against his wife, M…
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1789 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn L’Isle-Jourdain, the accusations brought by Justine against her father…
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1773 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceLyon, 1769. A merchant returns home to find his money, papers, and persona…
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1725 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandJohn Austin, a gardener of fair repute, is condemned for felling a passer-…
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1658 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Provins, Christophe Aubriot refused to take the monastic vows that woul…
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1721 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandHertfordshire, Jamaica, and England, 1721. Having been bred in an inn only…
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1720 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandLondon and Oxford, January 1720. John Trippuck, Richard Cane, Richard Shep…
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1721 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandWapping, Providence, and the Atlantic, 1721. Walter Kennedy, an anchor-smi…
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1722 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandBarcelona and London, 1722. James Carrick, known as Valentine, an Irish en…
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1725 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandTransported as an adolescent to the American plantations, William Sperry l…
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1724 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandFollowing a career as a sailor and soldier, Peter Curtis entered the servi…
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1725 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAn established London butcher, John Barton fell in with thieves and turned…
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1776 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceNormandy, 1766. Following the discovery of the body of Master Pain, an adv…
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1722 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandLondon, 1722. Edmund Neal, the son of a Warwickshire blacksmith, abandoned…
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1726 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandEdward Burnworth, known as Young Frazier, organised a band of thieves that…
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1726 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandHaving squandered his patrimony, Yorkshire horse-dealer John Murrel abando…
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1787 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceLunel, 1782. Following the discovery of Paulet’s body, his servants and th…
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1724 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAfter abandoned apprenticeships and thefts across several counties, Stephe…
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1720 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandJohn Lewis, alias Laurence, initially escaped a frame-up orchestrated by M…
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1803 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceParis, 1803. Rosalie Trumeau is to be married and demands an accounting of…
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1723 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandSentenced to transportation for stealing tobacco from a Virginia merchant,…
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1726 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandLondon and the Atlantic, in the 1720s. John Claxton, a Sunderland mariner,…
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1625 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceParis, at the dawn of the seventeenth century. Marie serves in the househo…
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1725 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAfter nearly twenty years of service in the army, Francis Bailey took to t…
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1680 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceArrested in Nantes on September 5, 1661, Superintendent Nicolas Fouquet wa…
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1667 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceOn May 17, 1667, Diane de Joannis, Marquise de Gange, was poisoned and sub…
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1727 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandHounslow Heath, 1727. Thomas Timms, Thomas Perry, and Edward Brown stop Sa…
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1727 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandLondon, 1727. Widdington Darby was murdered in his chambers at the Temple…
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1728 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn London, James Dalton secured the royal proclamation’s promised pardon f…
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1588 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAt Blois, on the twenty-third of December 1588, Henry III had Henry, Duke…
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1728 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandA native of Windsor, James How accumulated successive terms of imprisonmen…
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1729 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandBorn in Salisbury and bred to the cordwainer’s trade, John Dyer turned to…
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1728 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn England, James Sherwood, George Weedon, and John Hughs were prosecuted…
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1761 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceFollowing the death of Marc-Antoine Calas, found lifeless in the family sh…
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1729 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandWilliam Marple, formerly an apprentice carpenter, and Timothy Cotton, bred…
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1634 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAccused 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, a former sergeant who served in Flanders and subsequently a…
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1589 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceDuring the upheavals of the Catholic League, First President Duranti and h…
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1730 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAbraham Israel, born in Pressburg, studied at a Jewish college in Prague b…
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1766 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceFollowing the fall of Pondicherry, Thomas-Arthur Lally surrendered himself…
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1642 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceA French chronicle brings together several state trials conducted in the e…
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1766 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Abbeville, in 1765, an inquest into a damaged wooden crucifix became en…
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1726 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAnthony Drury, known as the “Smoky Chimney Doctor,” robbed the Bicester wa…
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1729 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandA former glazier’s apprentice, Joseph Kemp opened a shop on his parents’ m…
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1726 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn 1726, Jane Holmes, otherwise known as Barret or Frazer, was condemned f…
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1728 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandA tailor turned thief, Martin Bellamy took part in shop-thefts and housebr…
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1407 · 15th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn 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 · EnglandTen men condemned across several distinct causes were executed on the twen…
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1793 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn 1793, General Adam-Philippe Custine was brought before the Revolutionar…
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1728 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandPeter Levee, John Featherby, Stephen Barnham, and Thomas Vaux were condemn…
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1794 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceDispatched to Nantes to suppress the Vendée rebellion, Carrier cast thousa…
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1729 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandJohn Upton, a former mariner of the Royal Navy, maintained he had been pre…
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1730 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandA footman in the service of Nicholas Fenwick, Joshua Cornwall opened the h…
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1724 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn London, Frederick Schmidt was charged with raising the value of bank no…
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1726 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandHaving frequented the gaming grounds of Moorfields and the colloquies of a…
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1789 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn 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 · EnglandMary Standford was condemned after a gentleman accused her of taking from…
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1722 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandA former soldier turned London thief, John Smith threatened Sarah Thompson…
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1789 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceOn 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 · FranceIn August 1572, Admiral de Coligny was assassinated in Paris at the incept…
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1726 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandRobert Haynes, a soldier of the Foot Guards, was condemned for the mortal…
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1730 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandRobert Drummond was condemned for aiding Ferdinando Shrimpton in the murde…
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1729 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandFollowing James Cluff’s acquittal upon the public indictment for the death…
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1792 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceFollowing the breach of June 20, the assault of August 10, 1792, drove the…
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1477 · 15th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn 1477, Champagnac places the torment of Jacques d’Armagnac, Duke of Nemo…
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1792 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceFrom the 2nd to the 6th of September 1792, prisoners were brought before i…
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1793 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceFollowing the votes of the 16th and 17th of January, Louis XVI received on…
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1793 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceFollowing the surrender of Lyon in October 1793, Champagnac chronicles a r…
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1777 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceFollowing the sudden death of his secretary, Fuchs de Thérigny, the Count…
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1793 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceTwenty-one Girondin deputies were tried in the autumn of 1793 and condemne…
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1764 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn September 1762, several guests fell ill after partaking of an acrid sou…
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1818 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandEdinburgh, December 30, 1818. The hanging of Robert Johnston, convicted of…
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1835 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceCalvados, 1835. Having slain his mother, his sister, and his brother, Pier…
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1840 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceChamblas, 1840. Louis Vilhardin de Marcellange is slain by a musket shot i…
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1831 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandA boy vanishes while fetching nine shillings for his destitute family. Two…
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1818 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandGreenwich, 1818. Parishioners found the home of George Bird and Mary Simmo…
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1832 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandA well-dressed traveller, five plundered bedchambers, and a torn shirt: at…
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1832 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandA 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 · EnglandIn 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 · EnglandIn 1827, the death of young William Charles Beadle Sheen set in motion an…
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1685 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn the wake of Monmouth’s defeat, Alice Lisle consented to harbour the fug…
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1692 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn January 1691/92, Dr. Andrew Clenche was enticed into a hackney coach an…
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1567 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandIndicted for the murder of Henry, Lord Darnley, James Hepburn appeared in…
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1557 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandFollowing years of bitter feud and predatory violence against the Hartgill…
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1586 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAt Fotheringhay, Mary Stuart challenged the authority of the English tribu…
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1551 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAt Faversham, Alice Arden and her confederates redoubled their attempts up…
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1840 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceTulle, September 1840. Following the death of Charles Lafarge, his wife, M…
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1908 · 20th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceOn May 31, 1908, Marguerite Steinheil was discovered bound in her house in…
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1673 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn London, in December 1672, John Lowman recognized Mary Carleton in a cha…
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1652 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn 1651, James Hind shot down George Sympson near Knole Hill, believing hi…
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1663 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandFollowing the burglary of Francis Tryon in January 1663, Colonel James Tur…
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1663 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAfter years spent searching for her missing husband, Mrs. Kidderminster le…
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1669 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandJohn Talbot, curate of Laindon, sought to elude those he took for bailiffs…
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1660 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn August 1660, William Harrison vanished upon the road whilst collecting…
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1678 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandIn 1668, James Mitchel fired upon Archbishop Sharp in Edinburgh, wounding…
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1670 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandClaude Du Vall transformed robbery into spectacle: a dance exchanged for a…
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1682 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandOn 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 · ScotlandAt New Milns, Sir James Stansfield was found lifeless in a pool following…
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1914 · 20th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceParis, March 16, 1914. After weeks of attacks in Le Figaro against Ministe…
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1703 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn Southwark, Richard Hathaway claimed to be bewitched by Sarah Morduck, w…
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1692 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandLondon, December 1692. Captain Richard Hill attempts to abduct the actress…
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1535 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandImprisoned for refusing the Oath of Succession and maintaining silence reg…
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1600 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandAt Perth, James VI found himself locked in a chamber of Gowrie House with…
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1628 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandEven as the Duke of Buckingham readied an expedition to relieve La Rochell…
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1696 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn 1694, mutinous mariners seized the Charles the Second off the coast of…
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1536 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandArrested and conveyed to the Tower, Anne Boleyn protested her innocence an…
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1699 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandHertford, March 1699. Sarah Stout vanishes after spending the evening with…
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1690 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandLondon, December 1690–January 1691. Lord Preston, formerly Secretary of St…
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1585 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandWilliam Parry received the royal clemency from Queen Elizabeth following a…
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1546 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandA Reformed preacher, George Wishart consistently renounced violence, even…
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1691 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandOn a tempestuous night in Leith, Elias Poiret was slain within the inn of…
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1696 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandCaptured following the stranding of the Clancarty, Thomas Vaughan stood tr…
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1751 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe son of a baronet, bred at Eton, turns counterfeit heir, sharper, and h…
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1689 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandOn 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 · EnglandLondon, 1705–1707. Robert Fielding believed he was wedding an opulent wido…
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1743 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · PortugalLisbon, 1743. The lapidary John Coustos is arrested for his adherence to F…
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1696 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn 1696, three men stood trial for their alleged role in an assassination…
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1700 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandOliver Norris was dragged from a ditch near the Thames, his bloodied garme…
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1718 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · RussiaIn 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 stood accused of having entered the bedchamber of Grizel Murra…
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1725 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandJohn Gow, an Orcadian mariner sailing under the alias of Captain Smith, se…
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1741 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandMary Young, known as Jenny Diver, mastered the art of pocket-picking in th…
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1621 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn 1621, the Commons investigated gifts delivered to Francis Bacon during…
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1726 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandCatherine Hayes, her putative son Thomas Billings, and Thomas Wood stood a…
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1552 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandEdward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, was deposed as Lord Protector, reconcile…
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1685 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn May 1685, the informer Titus Oates stood trial for two counts of perjur…
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1417 · 15th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandJohn Oldcastle, a nobleman close to Henry V and, according to Borrow, a Lo…
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1431 · 15th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceCaptured 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 · EnglandIn London, Thomas Kinnersly and William Hales were brought to trial, charg…
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1786 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · IrelandAt Castlebar, George Robert Fitzgerald and several accomplices stood trial…
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1797 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandRichard Parker became the public face of a naval mutiny at the Nore. Borro…
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1521 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandEdward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, stood accused of high treason at the…
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1726 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandIn 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 · EnglandIn 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 strokes of the rope, a sergeant dead at Gorée, and a governo…
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1800 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandSarah Lloyd was executed for the theft of forty shillings after being acqu…
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1540 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThomas Cromwell, chief minister to Henry VIII, was arrested in council on…
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1803 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandFollowing an initial acquittal turning upon the legal definition of the bi…
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1760 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn January 1760, Laurence Ferrers summoned his steward, John Johnson, to S…
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1727 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn 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 · EnglandFollowing a brawl arising from a game of hazard at the Castle Tavern, Majo…
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1792 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · SwedenIn Stockholm, Ankarström shot Gustavus III at the masked ball of 16 March…
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1795 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandFollowing a threatening letter dispatched in September, Ann Broadric repai…
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1729 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn March 1729, Thomas Woolston appeared at Guildhall to answer for four di…
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1741 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn Bristol, in January 1741, Captain Samuel Goodere arranged an interview…
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1549 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandLord High Admiral and brother to Protector Somerset, Thomas Seymour was ar…
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1758 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandBorrow recounts the rise of William Page, a highwayman who altered his att…
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1735 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAt Drury Lane, a stage wig borrowed to play Sancho sparked a sudden alterc…
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1741 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandBefore his condemnation as a highwayman, Henry Cook pursued a reckless cou…
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1734 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandBorrow recounts the course of Robert Roy MacGregor, from the cattle trade…
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1769 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandFollowing an affray in the Haymarket, the lexicographer Giuseppe Baretti m…
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1769 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandOn October 24, 1769, excise officer Mungo Campbell and Lord Eglinton met u…
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1762 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn London, Anne Naylor died after being bound and starved in the house of…
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1799 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandJane Gibbs accused John Beck of having robbed her in Kensington Gardens; t…
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1705 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandFollowing the murder of Robert Woodcock near Chelsea, two lads recounted a…
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1708 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandInvited to dine at the home of Roger Lowen, Richard Lloyd was run through…
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1708 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandA 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 prosecution contended that Thomas Bambridge, Warden of the Fleet, had…
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1793 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThomas Muir stood trial in Scotland for his public addresses, the circulat…
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1802 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandSeaman Thomas Cooper accused his captain, William Codlin, of ordering him…
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1786 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Paris, the Count of Cagliostro mounted his defence in the Affair of the…
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1780 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn London, in the wake of the June 1780 riots, the apothecary George Masca…
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1761 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn Leicester Fields, Theodore Gardelle asserted that Mrs. King had departe…
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1740 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe fortunes and misfortunes of Gilbert Langley, from his schooling at Dou…
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1736 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandThe firing into the Grassmarket crowd following Andrew Wilson’s execution,…
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1775 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe discovery of forged bonds attributed to the twins Robert and Daniel Pe…
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1693 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandAt 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 · EnglandIn 1688, seven bishops refused to have James II’s Declaration of Indulgenc…
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1739 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe apprehension of Richard Turpin under the alias of John Palmer in Yorks…
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1752 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandFollowing the murder of Colin Campbell of Glenure in May 1752, James Stewa…
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1758 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandFlorence Hensey, an Irish physician established in London, was convicted o…
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1726 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAboard the Burnet, the young cabin boy Richard Pye endured the brutal blow…
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1705 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandIn 1705, Thomas Green and seamen of the Worcester were tried for an allege…
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1752 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAt Walthamstow, Elizabeth Jeffries and the gardener John Swan stood condem…
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1803 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn April 1803, Captain James Macnamara stood trial for manslaughter follow…
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1710 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandTwo sermons by Henry Sacheverell led to his impeachment by the Commons and…
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1755 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn 1754, Stephen M’Daniel, John Berry, James Egan (alias Gahagan), and Jam…
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1761 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · IrelandAfter an ecclesiastical court annulled his purported marriage, John M’Naug…
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1749 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn 1748–49, Daniel Chater and William Galley journeyed toward Chichester t…
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1765 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · IrelandCast ashore upon the Irish coast after abandoning their scuttled vessel, f…
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1723 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandChristopher Layer stands accused of plotting a coup against George I. His…
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1697 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandApprehended in Kent whilst making for the French coast, Sir John Fenwick l…
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1776 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandElizabeth Chudleigh stood trial for bigamy after obtaining an ecclesiastic…
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1784 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAt Shrewsbury in 1784, the Dean William Davies Shipley stood accused of pu…
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1813 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandChislehurst, May 1813. The Bonars were discovered in their bedchamber, str…
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1670 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn September 1670, William Penn and William Mead stood trial for having at…
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1817 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandOn 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 · EnglandJohn Cole Steele vanished upon the Hounslow road. Years later, the convict…
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1806 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn 1806, John Docke Rouvelett sought to have Elizabeth Barnet condemned fo…
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1807 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · IrelandFollowing a dispute over military regulations, Major Alexander Campbell ki…
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1814 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandA fire was kindled across several rooms at No. 9 Half Moon Street, whilst…
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1514 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandRichard Hunne contested his parish rector’s claim to an infant’s funeral s…
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1807 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandFollowing the disappearance of Samuel Alden, his body was discovered in a…
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1811 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandTwo massacres struck Ratcliffe Highway in December 1811: first the Marrs,…
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1738 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandEn route from Turkey to Livorno, Captain Benjamin Hartley was set upon by…
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1803 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · IrelandIn Dublin, following the insurrection of July 1803, the trials of Kearney,…
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1817 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn Godalming, two bodies were discovered in the house of a currier. The ev…
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1678 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn February 1679, three men stood trial for the murder of Sir Edmund Berry…
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1772 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · DenmarkIn January 1772, a palace revolution brought down Struensee and Brandt. Th…
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1819 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandHaving returned to London after absconding with a neighbour, Maria Stent w…
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1636 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandIn 1636, Scottish judicial records accused Gilroy and his confederates of…
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1662 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAt 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 · EnglandIn January 1661, Thomas Venner led the Fifth Monarchists in two armed sall…
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1816 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn January 1816, Sir Robert Wilson, Michael Bruce, and Captain John Hely H…
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1804 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn Hammersmith, Francis Smith set forth armed to lie in wait for a ghost,…
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1757 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandFollowing the loss of Minorca, Vice-Admiral John Byng was condemned to dea…
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1815 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn December 1815, the Chamber of Peers sat in judgment upon Marshal Michel…
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1794 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandIn Edinburgh, Robert Watt and David Downie stood trial for high treason. T…
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1804 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandLauden and Lockhart Gordon stand accused of forcibly carrying off Mrs Lee…
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1817 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandOn 26 April 1817, Thomas Littlewood and his wife departed for Salford, lea…
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1817 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandOn 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 EnglandSimon Fraser, Lord Lovat, stood trial before his peers for aiding the Jaco…
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1777 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn the wake of the conflagration at the Portsmouth rope-house, investigato…
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1821 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAfter a gunshot wounds John Clarke at his Northamptonshire farm, Philip Ha…
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1822 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · IrelandIn March 1822, sixteen-year-old Honorah Goold was abducted from her family…
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1800 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandOn 15 May 1800, a former soldier discharged a pistol towards George III’s…
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1790 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandOn 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)In London in 1806, Thomas Picton stood trial for having ordered the tortur…
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1817 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn the dawn following a village dance, Mary Ashford was discovered dead in…
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1822 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn February 1822, General Berton led an insurgent column from Thouars towa…
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1555 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn 1555, under Mary Tudor, the former Bishop of Gloucester, John Hooper, w…
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1635 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandIn 1635, Sawney Cunningham was hanged at Leith after leading a life of the…
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1817 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAmid the tumult of December 1816, a mob shattered the shopfront of gunsmit…
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1810 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn 1809, William Cobbett turned the flogging of local militiamen at Ely by…
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1415 · 15th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAccording to the indictment recorded by Borrow, the Earl of Cambridge, Hen…
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1816 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · IrelandLouth, Ireland. The dwelling at Wild-Goose Lodge harboured the assemblies…
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1637 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn 1637, the printer John Wharton and his young associate John Lilburn wer…
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1603 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAt his trial in 1603, Sir Walter Raleigh contested the allegations of cons…
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1606 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAt 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 · ScotlandIn 1793, the reformer Thomas Fyshe Palmer was tried at Perth for his part…
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1740 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandCharles Drew promised Humphreys an annuity to murder his father, yet fired…
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1729 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandTwo anonymous letters demanded escalating sums from Nathaniel Newnham upon…
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1780 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn London in 1780, Mrs Bouchier witnessed an assault inside the empty hous…
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1750 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandJames Maclane, the son of a dissenting minister and a former tradesman, en…
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1730 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Scotland / EnglandLondon, 1730. Having taken service under an assumed name, Ann Bond sought…
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1869 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceEstry, Calvados, April 1869. In the wake of a nocturnal brawl, Léopold Onf…
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1856 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAt the London trial of William Palmer, the chambermaid Lavinia Barnes reco…
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1869 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceParis, 10–30 October 1869. Following the dissolution of a public assembly…
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1820 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandWoolwich and Portsmouth, 1820. Following the discovery of the bodies of Th…
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1901 · 20th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAt Chartres, Édouard Brierre puts on the clothes worn on the night his fiv…
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1683 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn November 1683, Algernon Sidney was brought to trial for high treason. L…
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1839 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandOn 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 · EnglandIn the wake of a nocturnal conflagration at the Newcastle Savings Bank, cl…
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1837 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn September 1836, Mary Lewis was murdered near Bristol shortly after bein…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandA 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 · EnglandBristol, October 1833. Following the death of her lodger Clara Smith, Mary…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandFrances Colpitt, aged ten, was bound as a parish apprentice to Esther Hibn…
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1827 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandUnder the alias of George Watson, John Peele obtained financial advances b…
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1820 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandGlasgow, 1812–1820. Following the robbery of a Scottish bank, James Mackco…
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1831 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · IrelandIn Dublin, before the court trying Luke Dillon, Anna Frizell recounted how…
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1841 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn 1839, the brig Dryad cleared Liverpool for Santa Cruz before striking s…
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1821 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandScotland, through 1821. Having struck down the turnkey to seize the prison…
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1832 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandOxford Street, London, 1832. A sudden conflagration traps the inhabitants…
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1834 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandConvicted of the murder of Thomas Ashton, who was slain near a Hyde mill i…
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1833 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · EnglandFrom his beginnings as an itinerant peddler to his arrest in 1833, Richard…
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1826 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandOn the 22nd of May 1826, the brothers Alexander and Michael M’Keand spent…
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1840 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandFollowing an evening spent drinking with his friend John Charles, the farm…
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1840 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandA former naval lieutenant turned prize-money agent, John Turner Flynn obta…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandMarket Drayton, 1827–1828. Ann Harris and John Cox the elder pay three men…
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1774 · 18th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · EnglandJohn Rann, known as Sixteen-stringed Jack, was acquitted after several sus…
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1831 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · WalesIn June 1831, a strike and demands for higher wages escalated into violent…
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1834 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn 1834, six Dorset agricultural labourers were sentenced to seven years’…
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1830 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · EnglandLondon, August–September 1830. Police Constable Long is slain upon interce…
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1790 · 18th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · EnglandFollowing years of pickpocketing, George Waldron, who had assumed the name…
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1803 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAccused of heading a conspiracy against the King and the government, forme…
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1790 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandFollowing the assault upon Anne Porter in January 1790, Renwick Williams w…
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1815 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · EnglandEngland, 1812–1815. In the case of Joseph Blackburn, an attorney of Leeds,…
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1751 · 18th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · EnglandEngland, 1748–1751. William Chandler contrives a highway robbery to claim…
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1832 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandLondon, 1831–1832. Following the disappearance of Elizabeth Walsh, the tes…
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1786 · 18th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · EnglandCharles Price assumed numerous identities and disguises to put forged bank…
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1804 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · EnglandHenry Perfect solicited the Earl of Clarendon by impersonating, in turn, a…
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1820 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyIn Nuremberg, Christopher Bäumler and his servant Anna Catherina Schütz we…
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1809 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · GermanyEn route from Dresden to Vienna, Dorothea Blankenfeld shared a carriage wi…
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1791 · 18th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · FranceA woman appeared at Champignelles in 1791, claiming the name and heritage…
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1845 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandOn January 1, 1845, John Tawell departed Sarah Hart’s lodging in Slough wh…
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1807 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · GermanyIn 1807, Anna Eichstädter vanished after traveling to the Thomashof to dem…
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1835 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceSaumur, 1834. Anonymous missives and the harrowing account of a nocturnal…
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1788 · 18th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · GermanyDresden, 1788. Following the theft of the Magdalen attributed to Correggio…
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1821 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyMaria Anna Holzmann vanished from Augsburg in the spring of 1821. Her lodg…
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1817 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyIn 1817, the miller Frederick Kleinschrot vanished, his family declaring t…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandIn Edinburgh, during December 1828, William Burke and Helen M’Dougal stood…
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1824 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyFollowing the death of Conrad Eichmüller near Hersbruck, John George Sorge…
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1825 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyIn 1825, James Thalreuter persuaded his adoptive parents that he was the s…
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1861 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · SwitzerlandUri, winter of 1861. Anna Maria Gamma vanished after demanding that Kaspar…
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1879 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn early March 1879, Kate Webster told her neighbours that she had inherit…
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1819 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyOn Maundy Thursday 1819, the apprentice George Wachs called upon the cobbl…
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1827 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyIn Ansbach, John Holzinger was first convicted of manslaughter after slayi…
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1842 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · IrelandWhen Augustine Byrne was discovered dead in a locked bedchamber in Rathmin…
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1857 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandIn the spring of 1857, analytical chemists discovered arsenic in the remai…
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1808 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyTwo young women vanished from Regendorf within months of each other. Artic…
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1830 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Germany (Thuringia)In November 1830, Karl Wilhelm Oertel murdered Maria Rosine Wetzel, a preg…
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1857 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · AustriaIn 1857, Marie Nickl succumbed after repeated bouts of violent vomiting, m…
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1809 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyIn July 1809, Joseph Samuel Landauer was discovered dead near the ruins of…
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1821 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyIn 1821, the shoemaker Ludwig Steiner shot and killed the magistrate Elspe…
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1852 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FinlandFinland, 1852. Maria wishes to marry her betrothed and leave her brother-i…
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1860 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Germany (Thuringia)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)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)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 · GermanyIn 1848, Monika Schweigle, five months pregnant and a mother of two, vanis…
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1817 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · GermanyIn February 1817, the goldsmith Christopher Rupprecht was mortally assault…
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1867 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · AustriaIn 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)On November 17, 1878, Giovanni Passanante attacked King Umberto I in Naple…
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1613 · 17th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · GermanyLichtenburg, 1613. A letter opens the residence of the Electress of Saxony…
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1887 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Strasbourg and Eckbolsheim, in 1887, two patients succumbed after takin…
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1870 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · RussiaFollowing the death of the merchant Nikolai Solodovnikov, an inventory unc…
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1878 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Italy (Florence)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)Eldagsen, 1854. Following the murder of Charlotte Hartmann and Auguste Thi…
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1883 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · Germany (Munich)Munich, March 1883. Following the theft of 9,310 marks from the royal Resi…
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1886 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Austria (Vienna)Vienna, 1886. Karl Schiske, a respected managing clerk at Gebrüder Klinger…
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1751 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyIn 1751, fabrics stolen from the shop of the merchant Schüller were discov…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · RussiaIn Saint Petersburg, a captain and his wife track down her former lover to…
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1860 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · SwitzerlandIn and around Zurich, Anna Leuthold led the farmer Jakob Weidmann to belie…
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1879 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn 1879, two men were sentenced to penal servitude for life following a vi…
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1867 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyIn November 1867, Mathilde von Ledske, the estranged wife of Count Gustav…
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1852 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EstoniaIn 1852, Madame Eck and her neighbor Merksch died following illnesses mark…
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1888 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn 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)Tisza-Eszlár, 1882–1883. Following the disappearance of Ester Solymosi, an…
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1853 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyFollowing the demise of her husband Jakob in December 1853, Wilhelmine Kra…
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1767 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · France (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 · GermanyForest guard Johann Adam Maul vanished on All Saints’ Day, 1855, after dec…
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1847 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyIn September 1847, Johann Valentin Jüng lured the merchant Jeremias Rosenb…
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1886 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · France (Dijon)Dijon, November 1886. The Comtesse de Molen was leaving a legal consultati…
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1887 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · France (Paris)Paris, 1887. A matrimonial agency advertises wealthy heiresses, orchestrat…
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1608 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyIn 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 murder of the innkeeper Kolter, whose body was discovered upon the Ape…
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1831 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · Germany (Hanau)Hanau, 1831. Released from prison without means, Peter Kitzler murders a t…
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1593 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyIn 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)Meisdorf, February 1857. Christian Heidecke, an unemployed former miller,…
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1689 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Germany (Saxe-Altenburg)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)Heddesheim–Viernheim, 1854–1855. Peter Träger, a youth who admitted to fei…
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1859 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyIn Mengede, Gertrud Trößken died following a sudden malady. Her husband an…
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1798 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Spain (Madrid)Following the murder of Francisco del Castillo in Madrid, an intercepted l…
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1837 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyBärwalde, Saxony, 1837. Under cover of her own wedding festivities, the yo…
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1807 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyOn June 1, 1807, a peasant in the Dettingen forest discovered the body of…
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1814 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · EnglandIn February 1814, fabricated tidings of victory sent London market prices…
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1858 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Kingdom of Saxony (Upper Lusatia)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)At Belßchwitz, the steward Truchs was found dead on December 15, 1795. The…
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1835 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanySaxony, 1835–1837. Following the sudden death of Councillor Weise, a maids…
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1859 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FinlandKirilä, near Jakobstad, October 1859. Henrik and Augusta, the children of…
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1876 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandSentenced to death for the murder of Constable Nicholas Cock, William Habr…
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1888 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceIn March 1888, the antiquarians Rollin and Feuardent were plundered of a c…
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1864 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandFollowing the capital conviction of Serafino Pelizzioni for the death of M…
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1887 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceOn December 31, 1887, a bank messenger was wounded in an apartment rented…
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1893 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · FranceOn the night of January 27–28, 1893, thieves gained entry into the townhou…
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1859 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandFollowing the death of Isabella Bankes in Richmond, Dr. Thomas Smethurst s…
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1893 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · France and the United KingdomHaving first encountered the financier Arton towards the close of the wint…
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1866 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandSarah Milson, housekeeper of a London warehouse, was slain after answering…
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1617 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceOn April 24, 1617, the King’s Guards slew Concino Concini at the entrance…
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1754 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAccused alongside two companions of robbery and assault at Houssen in Dece…
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1860 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn August 1860, Mary Emsley was found dead in her house in Stepney. James…
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1895 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn Plaistow, in July 1895, the purported disappearance of Emily Harrison C…
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1855 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn 1855, Mrs Wooler died after several weeks of symptoms characteristic of…
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1769 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceFollowing a thwarted initial attempt, eleven men descended in February 176…
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1864 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandOn 9 July 1864, Thomas Briggs was found grievously wounded beside a North…
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1881 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · EnglandIn December 1881, Percy Malcolm John died a few hours following a visit fr…
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1865 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · ScotlandIn 1865, Edward William Pritchard stood trial in Edinburgh, charged with t…
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1847 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceToulouse, 1847: the disappearance of Cécile Combettes, a fourteen-year-old…
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1863 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn December 1863, George Victor Townley was condemned for the murder of El…
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1914 · 20th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn late 1913, Louis Cadiou vanished near Landerneau; his body was discover…
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1854 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAt Esher, in June 1854, Mary Anne Brough stood accused of the murder of si…
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1887 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceDrawn from the retrospective memoirs of Marie-François Goron and the conte…
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1871 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandBrighton, June 1871. Following the death of young Sidney Barker, a trail o…
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1891 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyAt Xanten, following the death of Johann Hegmann in June 1891, an antisemi…
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1856 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · EnglandLondon, 1856–1862. Following the death of Maria Soames, the ministrations…
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1907 · 20th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyAfter Naumov shot Count Komarowski in Venice in 1907, the 1910 trial set t…
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1895 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandRichmond, 1895. The trial of Amy Gregory reconstructs the precarious chain…
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1849 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · EnglandBermondsey, 1849. Patrick O’Connor vanishes after being seen near the Mann…
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1895 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyIn the night of June 29–30, 1895, a sorting clerk intercepted a hazardous…
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1835 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandSt Pancras, 1835. An altercation, a knife wound, and a series of irreconci…
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1894 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceOn November 16, 1894, the Gironde Assize Court sentenced Auguste Courtois…
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1887 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · EnglandWhitechapel, 1887. Young Miriam Angel is discovered dead in her bedchamber…
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1896 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · EnglandBattersea, April 1896. Frederick Charles St. John was found dead in the be…
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1843 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · FranceFollowing the death of Henri Lacoste at Riguepeu in May 1843, arsenic unco…
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1878 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAboard the Argosy, the master and his mate accused their seamen of threate…
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1850 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · BelgiumDuring the night of December 2 to 3, 1850, Ermelinde Deligne and her daugh…
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1875 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · EnglandIn 1875, John Harvey received confidential letters announcing an inheritan…
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1885 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyDuring the night of January 14–15, 1885, three members of the Köllner fami…
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1851 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyIn October 1851, Friedrich Wilhelm Müller, the illegitimate son of the est…
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1804 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · Prussia (Warsaw)In Warsaw, in 1804, Jean Coulon denounced an alleged poisoning plot aimed…
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1862 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceErcé, Ariège, 1851–1862. A pregnant young woman vanishes; for want of a bo…
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1885 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceOn February 19, 1885, on Belgian soil near Adinkerke, a foil duel between…
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1769 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyIn March 1769, the body of an unidentified traveller was discovered in a g…
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1825 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · GermanyIn Nuremberg, Jakob Reithaler, placed as a boy into the care of the Waldst…
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1851 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceEcrammeville, Calvados, July–August 1851. The Gazette des Tribunaux report…
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1817 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandEdinburgh, 26 May 1817. Niel Douglas, a Universalist preacher from Glasgow…
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1842 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyNuremberg, February 1842: Luise Behold was discovered dead in the family b…
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1843 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · EnglandManchester, April 1843. Mary Hunter stands trial following the death of he…
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1826 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · England and ScotlandIn 1826, fifteen-year-old Ellen Turner was lured from her Liverpool boardi…
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1847 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAt Le Fieu, in November 1847, Claude Gay was discovered dead in his hovel…
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1840 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandLondon, June–July 1840. Edward Oxford discharges two pistols as Queen Vict…
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1847 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · FranceIn Lille, on May 20 and 29, 1847, Jean-Baptiste Lahousse, his wife, and th…
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1856 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · EnglandLeeds, 1856. Harriet Dove dies following a succession of seizures and a do…
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1736 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandOxford, 1736. The innkeeper Jonathan Bradford was adjudged guilty after tw…
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1680 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAcquitted in June 1680 of high treason, Elizabeth Cellier was tried that S…
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1862 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · FranceParis, January 1862. Nine defendants stood before the Assizes of the Seine…
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1862 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · FranceParis, November 1861–January 1862. A traveller lodges at the Hôtel des Gen…
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1752 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · France (Paris)Paris, 1751–1752. Abraham Payba, passing under the alias of James Roberts,…
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1608 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceToulouse, 1608–1609. The assassination of Pierre Romain, an advocate from…
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1763 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAt Sternfield, in Suffolk, John Beddingfield was found dead in July 1762.…
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1862 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · Algeria (French colonial context)Algiers, 1861–1862. Following a nocturnal assault on the Dellys road, Salo…
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1594 · 16th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceParis, 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 AlgeriaIn early January 1867, six men appeared before the Mostaganem Assize Court…
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1822 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyAmendingen, Bavaria, 1822. Imprisoned for thefts, Xaver Reth accused himse…
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1854 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyOn November 7, 1854, Karl Wilhelm Albert Biermann returned alone after lea…
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1840 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceFrance, 1840. The discovery of two bodies near Bordeaux led to a traveller…
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1855 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyOn November 28, 1855, seven years after her birth, Katharina Zisgen was fo…
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1855 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyOn the evening of February 6, 1855, Fusilier August Schröter was struck do…
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1853 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · SwitzerlandHigh upon the Grimsel Pass, Pierre Zybach’s hospice burned as the renewal…
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1825 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · PrussiaOn 13 July 1825, two journeymen were found murdered in the Britzer Haide,…
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1792 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAt the Old Bailey, in June 1792, slave-ship master John Kimber stood trial…
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1815 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyIn 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 · ScotlandSergeant Arthur Davies vanished in the hills of Braemar in September 1749.…
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1816 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · SwitzerlandIn September 1816, Schultheiss Franz Xaver Keller vanished on the road to…
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1759 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAt the Nottingham Assizes of 1759, Charles Horne charged his brother Willi…
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1823 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandBetty Shawcross was found dead in a shippon near Bredbury in March 1823. A…
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1743 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAt 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 · GermanyAt Neubrandenburg, in October 1770, a widow and her three children were mu…
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1817 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyIn a Bavarian valley, the miller Friedrich vanished in 1817. The initial i…
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1817 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · England, CornwallElizabeth Downing fell violently ill after taking tea at the home of her s…
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1795 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Prussia (Silesia)In September 1795, two fires ravaged farms in Schärtendorff. Christian Kri…
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1740 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · England, SomersetFollowing the death of Jane Buttersworth, a servant in the Branch househol…
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1819 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · PrussiaMarianna Miszewska was discovered hanged in the family cowshed on July 22,…
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1798 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Ireland, County WicklowIn 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 WaldeckIn 1867 and again in 1868, the poacher Hermann Klostermann fell under susp…
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1855 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyIn 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 · ScotlandAt Pathhead, Elizabeth Arnot Reid was found dead in her bedchamber. Her hu…
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1845 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · EnglandAt Christmas 1844, young Eleazar Jennings died following a family meal. An…
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1816 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Rhenish PrussiaThe disappearance of Wilhelm Coenen following a commercial conference in C…
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1848 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Prussian SilesiaThe murder of Princess Louise Sulkowski, the contradictory depositions of…
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1812 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAt the Bury Assizes in March 1812, John Smith and his wife Elizabeth stood…
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1844 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandEdinburgh, January 1844. The jury held arsenic to be the cause of John Gil…
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1843 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandOn January 20, 1843, Edward Drummond, private secretary to Sir Robert Peel…
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1841 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn 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 · EnglandFollowing a private prosecution for criminal libel against the Marquess of…
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1865 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandAberdeen, December 1864: Ann Forbes sets forth for an appointment at Thain…
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1857 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · SwitzerlandAt Engi, in September 1857, Elisabeth Baumgarten vanished whilst ascending…
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1882 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceChatou, 1882. The apothecary Louis Aubert was lured into a secluded villa…
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1877 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn the early hours of January 14, 1877, Georges de Saint Pierre was attack…
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1830 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn 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)Jersey, September–October 1829. A Saint Helier jury found Philip George Jo…
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1832 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe London tradesman Mr. Paas disappeared after visiting his debtor, the b…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · EnglandIn 1866, Thomas Castro, a former butcher in Australia, came forward claimi…
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1835 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceSainte-Marie-la-Blanche, 1835–1836. Following the discovery of dismembered…
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1840 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · SyriaDamascus, 1840. Following the disappearance of a Sardinian Capuchin friar…
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1868 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAt Todmorden, Miles Wetherill assailed the parsonage of the Reverend Antho…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceBiollet, 1873. Following years of bitter wrangling over a will and the div…
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1803 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyHamburg, August 1803. Johann Georg Rüsau slays his wife and five children,…
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1628 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyIn 1627, Duke Johann Friedrich of Saxe-Weimar was captured and subsequentl…
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1878 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn 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)Leipzig, 1812–1823. Following the murderous assault on the merchant Schmid…
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1768 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandLondon and Woodcote, December 1767. Sarah Woodcock alleged she had been co…
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1861 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceParis, January 1861. The Gazette des Tribunaux reports the trial of Marie-…
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1861 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · FranceTours, a case reported in an issue bearing the front-page date of 4 Januar…
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1819 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Baden (German States), MannheimOn March 23, 1819, Karl Ludwig Sand appeared under an assumed name at the…
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1659 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAt Vernon, on 25 July 1655, certain inhabitants recognized in the boy of J…
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1910 · 20th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · United KingdomIn 1910, the disappearance of Cora Crippen led to the discovery of human r…
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1825 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn 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 Hague and Leiden, Netherlands, 1885. The contemporary chronicle from H…
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1854 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyIn Hamburg, in May 1854, the widow Jacob and her daughter were found murde…
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1697 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyIn February 1697, the bone merchant Erasmus Peinler was found dead in a mi…
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1855 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyIn 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 · GermanyIn 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 · SwitzerlandOn September 25, 1859, Hans Jakob and Anna Schmid were found murdered in t…
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1886 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · EuropeIn November 1886, Allmayer broke out of Mazas Prison by means of a forged…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Nantes, the body of José Asla was discovered in the castle moats on the…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FranceParis, March 1873. Joseph-Arthur Deixonne, aged twenty-two, stood trial af…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FranceIn January 1873, eighteen-year-old Étienne Grassot murdered eighteen-year-…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · FranceParis, May 1873. The Court of Appeal confirms, while defining its particul…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · FranceParis, March 1873. The correctional tribunal heard the matter of a financi…
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1886 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · United KingdomA narrative dossier devoted to Gordon, drawn from Arthur Griffiths’s retro…
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1887 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · United KingdomA narrative dossier devoted to Benson, drawn from the retrospective chapte…
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1790 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyNuremberg, June 1790. An iron strongbox vanishes from the premises of the…
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1852 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyIn 1848, the brothers Anton and Franz Tomascheck contrived the latter’s de…
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1834 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · SwitzerlandAlong 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 · GermanyOn September 28, 1849, the fifteen-year-old son of the barber St… presente…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceFollowing Joseph-Auguste Colombé’s return to his wife’s dwelling, a strugg…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FranceIn Le Havre, Joséphine Perrin was slain by Charles-Alexandre Brunaux follo…
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1765 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandEdinburgh, August 1765. Katharine Nairn and Patrick Ogilvie stand trial fo…
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1855 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyPotsdam, February 1855. Charlotte Spillner is discovered hanging in her be…
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1784 · 18th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · United KingdomFollowing a career in the profession of arms, Major Semple returned to Eng…
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1862 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandLondon and Surrey, 1855–1862. Member of Parliament William Roupell misappr…
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1789 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyHalle, 1789. In the wake of Wöllner’s Religious Edict, Karl Friedrich Bahr…
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1784 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · PrussiaAt Pillau, the dossier of a young female prisoner was reopened a second ti…
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1726 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAt 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 · FranceMulhouse, 1843–1845. The body of an unknown woman is discovered in a crate…
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1857 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceJeufosse, 12 June 1857. Émile Guillot is brought down by eight grains of l…
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1888 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · AustriaAt the Vienna assizes in June 1888, Joseph Johann Kirchner stood accused o…
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1889 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyHamburg, April 1889. The murder of ten-year-old Emil Steinfatt directs the…
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1879 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · RussiaIn Saint Petersburg in 1879, Karl von Landsberg stood trial for the murder…
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1880 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · AustriaIn Vienna, in 1880, government bonds and savings passbooks vanished from t…
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1862 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · FranceIn Paris, the judicial inquiry opened against Jules Mirès brought to light…
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1872 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FranceAt Lagny, in January 1872, Rosa Biziot vanished into the canal following a…
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1837 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandIn Glasgow, a cotton-spinner was gunned down after returning to work durin…
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1855 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyFound hanging in her lodgings, Dorothea Storbeck was at first believed to…
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1817 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyRescued upon the Goodwin Sands in November 1817, the Danish brig L’Espéran…
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1854 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyHenriette Thom, known as Hanne, was found drowned near Schwartow on the ev…
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1866 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Schleswig-HolsteinOn 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 · FranceIn the Ardèche, Firmin Pradal maintained that his mother had perished in a…
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1889 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAt Albi in 1889, the man-servant Justin Durand reported the murder of Doct…
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1887 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn 1887, the Malay seaman Hassein vanished aboard the barque Lady Douglas,…
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1889 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyIn Karlsruhe, a counterfeit coin tendered for a sausage led the police to…
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1889 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyIn the anonymized Alsatian village of B., an official judicial notice was…
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1865 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyPaulino Torio was sentenced to death following two murders committed in Ha…
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1886 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn 1886, Lina Mary Scott petitioned for the nullity of her marriage to Art…
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1887 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn February 1887, John Jessop stood trial at the Nottingham Assizes after…
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1877 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ItalyPiacenza, 28 May 1877: Private Luigi Ferretti succumbed to an abdominal wo…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn March 1873, the publisher of Le Rappel, Adolphe Pelleport, and his edit…
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1860 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThis chapter is a retrospective compilation drawing upon records of the pr…
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1858 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyThis chapter reconstructs a preliminary investigation and the judicial deb…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAt 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 · GermanyCentral Germany, 1828–1829. Following the death of Auguste Ader from sever…
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1860 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyIn Jena, in May 1860, the sudden death of barber Bernhard Gottschalk led p…
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1703 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyHalberstadt and Jever, 1702–1704. A purported baron weds Anna Margarethe H…
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1859 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · AustriaVienna and Galicia, 1859–1860. Following the disappearance of Karl Hurk, a…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAt the Luxembourg Palace, lodging-house keepers arriving to collect their…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAn affirmative verdict without extenuating circumstances for Ferrari; affi…
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1853 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · PrussiaThe jury found Franz Schall guilty of the premeditated murder of Gottlob E…
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1853 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · PrussiaThe jury answered in the affirmative regarding the premeditated administra…
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1762 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandHull, 1762. A traveller robbed of twenty marked gold pieces sees an innkee…
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1853 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · GermanyBerlin, 1852–1853. The seamstress Wilhelmine Krauß extracted sums from her…
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1853 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyIn Saxony, a corpse uncovered beneath a linen mangle linked the weaver Web…
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1869 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyIn 1867, Johanne Juliane Kruschwitz accused herself of having poisoned her…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceFollowing the death of Gendarme Demortière in the Bois-Brûlé, the prosecut…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceBurdened with debt after embarking upon commercial ventures with the Marte…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAt her trial in 1873, Cécile-Léda Blanchard maintained that a secret relig…
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1777 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAt Neauphle, Marie-Anne Marchebout and her mother faced a tangled thicket…
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1868 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FrancePeter Tixier died at La Meilleraye in August 1865 following an illness mar…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Chozeau, Annette Giroud vanished on her way to fetch a faggot of kindli…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Pibrac, the double murder of the Baillet spouses was uncovered amidst t…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · FranceIn Chambéry, four bearer bonds stolen from the home of President Tiollier…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Faucoucourt, a farm building was consumed by fire in January 1874. A cl…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Paris, the furniture merchant Selosse was discovered mortally injured a…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Monplaisir, the investigation into the slaughter of the Guérin family l…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAt the Calvados Assizes, Anne Crespin and her mother answered for the deat…
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1875 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · FranceParis, June 1875. Buguet fabricates apparitions by photographing pre-arran…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceOn an Aisne farmstead, a haystack burned shortly after an insurance policy…
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1751 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomAt 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 · FranceOn 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 KingdomIn the wake of Culloden, the peers sat in judgment upon William Boyd, Earl…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · FranceParis, 1871–1872. Money orders addressed to hospitalized soldiers vanish;…
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1768 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomFollowing the publication of North Briton No. 45, John Wilkes faced prosec…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAt Pommiers, in May 1874, Marie Peyrière was assaulted in a silkworm nurse…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAt the Maison du Bois, the case of Jean-Baptiste Moreau brought together D…
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1700 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · ScotlandAt Edinburgh in 1700, a private tutor was condemned for the murder of his…
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1798 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn 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 KingdomFollowing the rout at Preston, several Jacobite peers were brought to Lond…
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1813 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · United KingdomHuffey White and Richard Kendall: the robbery of the Leeds mail at Higham…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Melun, young Jules Hilt was discovered hanged in a cowshed following a…
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1794 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · IrelandArchibald Hamilton Rowan, convicted in Dublin for publishing a political l…
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1873 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAt Parcé, Peigné and the woman Pipelier stand trial following Pipelier’s d…
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1814 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomIn Mount Street, a young needlewoman was slain within her workroom; the wi…
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1814 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · PortugalAt 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 · EnglandIn 1804, Elizabeth Fletcher died after sharing a draught with her sister S…
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1797 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandMary Cox was mortally wounded in the lodgings of Mary Benson, otherwise Ma…
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1750 · 18th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · EnglandAccording to the retrospective chronicle of Camden Pelham, John Carr, a fo…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Bordeaux, two men plundered the shop of Dagron the watchmaker and disch…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAt Nointel, the gamekeeper Bétourné is struck down by gunshot while attemp…
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1897 · 19th century · souvenirs publiés
Police & Underworld · FranceIn his memoirs published in 1897, Goron recounts the escape of Grison and…
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1867 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAt the trial of John and Mary Conde, neighbours recounted having seen youn…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceFormerly a tax collector at Guerchy and residing in Joigny, Michel-Marie F…
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1872 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandOn the morning of 17 June 1872, Sarah Margaret Rogers was wounded in the t…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · FranceIn Avignon, an assize trial brought ten defendants to the dock over the ma…
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1875 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · FranceIn 1875, Adolphe-Aimé Chasteau was brought to the bar of the Assizes on th…
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1875 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceFoix, July 1875. Two sisters and Anne Dejean, the widow Darnaud, stand tri…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Teigny, two incendiary fires separated by three months brought Claude P…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Paris, during the spring of 1871, Jules Mekerski served successively as…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn 1873, five individuals stood accused of forging and uttering counterfei…
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1875 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe discovery of Pierre Beaudenuit’s body brought the Loiret Assize Court…
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1853 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyIn 1853, at Wolfenbüttel, the death of Mathilde Dombrowsky brought her hus…
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1875 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Paris, the brothers Jules and Gabriel Lagutaire, alongside their associ…
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1875 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAt Pegassou, Picou accused his neighbour Revel following two gunshots and…
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1859 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyIn 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 · FinlandIn December 1852, Elias Nygren slew his four children on a secluded farmst…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAt the trial of June 22–24, 1874, three conflicting versions collided over…
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1715 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyJena and Ammerbach, Christmas Eve 1715. According to the retrospective acc…
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1810 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · GermanyIn 1810, the Special Court of Mainz condemned Damian Hessel, Franz Joseph…
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1860 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyEhrenbreitstein, February 1860: Johann Meder is murdered in his bed, and h…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAt the Seine Assize Court, the sums purportedly paid to officers by the fi…
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1861 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · GermanyOn July 14, 1861, a young man fired upon King Wilhelm I in Baden-Baden. Th…
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Justice & Scandals · GermanyAt Bruchsal, in 1861, Baroness Luise von Baumbach was brought before the a…
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1720 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · PolandWarsaw, July 5, 1720. According to the retrospective account in the Pitava…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Billé, a dispute over a sum of money removed from a drawer degenerated…
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1625 · 17th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceBourg-en-Bresse, 1624–1625. A discovery in a garden upends the proceedings…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceParis, 1874. The former cashier Pierre-Eugène Bouvot answers before the As…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Zurich, the cashier Émile Sehaer embezzled bank funds to gamble on the…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceA 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 KingdomFollowing a petitioning assembly near Kilmarnock in December 1816, a speec…
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1875 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · FranceIn Paris, thirteen defendants stood trial for swindles in wine and coal, o…
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1875 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAt Dolus, Pierre Collé was found dead in his isolated dwelling; the judici…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomAt Portsmouth, in 1829, the deaths of Mr. Langtrey and his housekeeper Chr…
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1836 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomAttorney George Edward Peacock used a forged power of attorney to sell sto…
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1829 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomFollowing the discovery of Mrs. Franks and her daughter Magdalene near Abb…
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1830 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomIn March 1830, Captain William Moir shot Malcolm, a fisherman crossing his…
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1839 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomAt the Central Criminal Court, George Cant, a Holborn publican, stood accu…
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1840 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomTwo brothers, James and William Lightfoot, stood accused of the murder and…
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1833 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomIn London, the political gathering of 13 May 1833 descended into a violent…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomAt Monmouth, Esther Stevens was found dead in September 1828. Sundry artic…
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1817 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomIn the spring of 1817, the High Court of Justiciary examined several indic…
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1839 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomIn 1838, the preacher James Rayner Stevens was apprehended following an as…
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1841 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomAt Houghton, Elizabeth Harlett died after swallowing a draught prepared by…
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1836 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomA scheme of loans conducted under aliases secured John Minter Hart an acqu…
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1834 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomOn 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 KingdomFrom October 29 to 31, 1831, the arrival of the Recorder, Sir Charles Weth…
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1819 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · IrelandIn Ireland in 1819, Ellen—named by the sources as either Conery or Hanley—…
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1830 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomCamden Pelham recounts two separate prosecutions brought against John St.…
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1877 · 19th century · historical setting
Loves & Betrayals · FranceAt Cuzy, in March 1877, Marie Cannet, a twenty-eight-year-old clog maker,…
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1878 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Cluzel, Marie-Joseph Chassagnette stood accused of having slain his bro…
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1877 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · FranceThree spurious coins discovered on a drunken locksmith led the police to a…
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1878 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · FranceA bootmaker is compelled to vacate his premises a full year prior to the d…
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1876 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · FranceIn the summer of 1876, Édouard de Bouyn shared a second-class compartment…
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1841 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · EnglandA gambler pays his losses with banknotes struck from genuine engravers’ pl…
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1877 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceA false address and an identified ring tied together several thefts charge…
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1878 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · FranceFirst in Brussels, then in Paris, Gogué secured goods and cash through two…
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1878 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceReturning from a parish festival, Philippe Cayrel found his mother-in-law…
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1826 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandThe insurance policy on the High Holborn house was augmented prior to seve…
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1831 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · EnglandIn Coventry, an analysis of the fluid extracted from the stomach of Willia…
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1877 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Austria-HungaryAt the Botzen assizes, conflicting testimonies and evolving medical opinio…
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1825 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandA witness watches Charles Lynn strike down Abraham Hogg in a Buckinghamshi…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn November 1828, four men broke into Grove Cottage, bound the household,…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · EnglandIn February 1828, a newspaper advertisement for a loan led Mr. Mullay to R…
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1840 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandAcquitted of the murder of John Templeman in April 1840, Richard Gould was…
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1834 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandIn 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 · EnglandIn London, in 1888, Charles Mar Schroeder stood trial for uttering a forge…
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1872 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceToulouse, 1872. According to the report of the Gazette des Tribunaux, the…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn 1874, the Seine Court of Assizes tried Adolphe Fabret for passing count…
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1809 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · PrussiaIn 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)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)On the outskirts of Leerdam, an investigation remained without a culprit f…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn 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)In Berlin in 1803, a widow was prosecuted following the repeated poisoning…
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1862 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · Historical AustriaIn Vienna, Karl Kalab purloined tens of thousands of letters from the cent…
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1701 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Paris, Gabriele Perreau was prosecuted by her husband after preserving…
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1861 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAt Carpentras, Fortunée Béridot and François Denante stood trial following…
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1872 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn 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)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 KingdomRichard Gifford passed himself off as William Green, and subsequently as R…
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1833 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · United KingdomA London letter carrier, Job Cox was condemned to death in May 1833 follow…
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1872 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn January 1872, the body of merchant Grego Angelo was discovered inside a…
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1885 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn 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 · FranceBefore the Assize Court of Eure-et-Loir, an 1874 account follows Saintot,…
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1885 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Brest, the judicial report of the Finistère Assizes of May 1885 traces…
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1877 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceBefore the Seine Assize Court, the death of Courtefois at Neuilly set the…
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1885 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceBefore the Court of Assizes of Corsica, a press report from June 1885 reco…
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1885 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Berkem, André Carvin the elder lured Dr. Benoit under the pretense of a…
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1884 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAt the Seine Assize Court in June 1885, Félix-Albert Pel answered to two c…
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Justice & Scandals · FranceThe 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 Gazette reports that following a clandestine four-year courtship, M. B…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Melz-sur-Seine, the Seine-et-Marne Court of Assizes brought Ernestine B…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceAt Courbiac, Marie-Anne Béchaud, wife of Cousty, stood trial following the…
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1875 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceFollowing the demise of Gérard Soubrier in 1875, an alibi furnished by Vic…
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1875 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceParis, 1875: a letter announces a situation, yet Marie Bigot, fifteen year…
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1875 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceThe court proceedings of August 11 and 12, 1875, record the accusation of…
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1874 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Paris, the report of the Seine Assize Court for 24 August 1874 recounts…
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1885 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceParis, 1883–1885. Albert, a furniture dealer, was found dead in the Rue de…
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1885 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Paris, in April 1885, Mathilde Gumulinska was accused of throwing vitri…
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1878 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceParis, 24 February 1878. The Scribe elevator cab at the Grand-Hôtel shoots…
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1876 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn 1876, in Lodève, Cuvilier was accused of having interpolated the noble…
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1885 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceBranges, December 14, 1885. Following a forbidden liaison and threats reco…
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1884 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn October 1884, a quarry powder magazine near Roanne was forced open; the…
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1887 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceSaint-Léonard, Orne, winter 1886–1887. The indictment read before the Assi…
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1886 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceMeulles, Calvados, October 1885 (an inference drawn from the phrase “last…
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1886 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceNaives-en-Blois, 1886. François-Émile Chard demanded that his wife’s grand…
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1886 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceDecazeville, 1886. In the wake of Watrin’s death during the strike, ten de…
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1899 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceLecci, 1899. Following an ancient property dispute and the slaying of two…
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1800 · 18th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · EnglandRichard Ferguson, known as “Galloping Dick,” rose from the stable-yard to…
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1812 · 19th century · historical setting
Police & Underworld · United KingdomLondon, 1812 (inferred year). John Clayton and William Jenkins are apprehe…
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1899 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · FranceParis, January 1899. The woman Pesnel, wife of Dumortier, admitted to sign…
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1812 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandDaniel Dawson, a tout for turf bettors, was accused of poisoning racehorse…
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1810 · 19th century · historical setting
Impostures & Fortunes · EnglandLondon and Gosport, circa 1810. Having fabricated a pregnancy and a son fo…
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1805 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandSpitalfields, 1805. Samuel Wild Mitchell confessed to the murder of his tw…
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1886 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · FranceIn Villemomble, the disappearance of Élodie Ménétret led investigators to…
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1816 · 19th century · historical setting
Brigands & Highways · IrelandJeremiah Grant, styled a captain by Pelham, returned in 1816 to Queen’s Co…
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1746 · 18th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandMatthew Henderson, footman to Sir Hugh Dalrymple, pleaded guilty at the Ol…
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1809 · 19th century · historical setting
Justice & Scandals · EnglandCompton, Surrey, 1809. Joseph Hollis was discovered lifeless within his co…
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