Tag: William Calcraft

• William Frederick Horry – England’s first ‘long drop’ hanging.

  

  His name isn’t going to ring any bells with many readers, I know, but Horry (an otherwise unexceptional murderer) occupies a singular place in the chronicles of crime. Horry met, fell in love with and married wife (and victim) Jane in 1866 and the couple went on to run a hotel together in Burslem, Staffordshire…

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  April 22, 2021

  History, True Crime

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• Watching the detectives: The arrest of the inappropriately-named Daniel Good.

  

  With Good safely in his grave, the Metropolitan Police had to reconsider having only uniformed officers in their ranks. Had some officers been working out of uniform, they reasoned, they might have caught him far sooner. With that in mind a permanent cadre of non-uniformed officers. the Detective Department, was set up in August, 1842.…

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  April 25, 2018

  History, True Crime

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