Mad or bad? : studies of criminal insanity or wilful wrongdoing
Title:
Mad or bad? : studies of criminal insanity or wilful wrongdoing / by John C. Woodiwiss.
Author/Creator:
Publication Information:
London : Quality Press, 1950.
Physical description:
176 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Includes John Francis, who was arrested in May 1842 for firing a pistol at Queen Victoria’s carriage, and transported for life to Van Diemen’s Land.
Contents:
Mrs. Brownrigg -- James Aitken, incendiary and higwayman -- Renwick Williams --Henry Frederick Moon -- George Edwards, spy and homicide -- Spring-Heeled Jack -- John Nichols Tom -- "In-I-Go" Jones -- Queen Victoria's assailants -- The holocaust of Stanfield Hall -- The Road Hill House mystery.
Record ID:
SD_ILS:1104759