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Charles Peace (14 May 1832 – 25 February 1879) was an English burglar and murderer, who embarked on a life of crime after being maimed in an industrial accident as a boy. After killing a policeman in Manchester , he fled to his native Sheffield , where he became obsessed with his neighbour's wife, eventually fatally shooting her husband.
The murder of Julia Martha Thomas, dubbed the "Barnes Mystery" or the "Richmond Murder" by the press, was one of the most notorious crimes in the Victorian period of the United Kingdom. Thomas, a widow in her 50s who lived in Richmond , London , was murdered on 2 March 1879 by her maid Kate Webster, a 30-year-old Irishwoman with a history of theft.
Pages in category "19th-century English criminals" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Getty Images The notorious serial killer known as Jack the Ripper may finally have been identified more than 130 years after he terrorized Victorian era England. The story of Jack the Ripper has ...
They fled when their crimes were discovered. [147] Their fate is unknown, although two members of the posse that found the bodies made deathbed confessions decades later where they claimed to have tracked down and murdered the family. [53] Albert Pel: France: 1872–1884: 1–4: Watchmaker suspected of multiple poisonings.
They invested in fast cars to transport their loot, and to use as getaway vehicles which could outrun the police. [1] Loot was also transferred through the British railway system. The members used trains to travel to a town and deposited their empty suitcases at railway stations. During their return trip, the suitcases were filled with stolen ...
Women in Plymouth, England, parting from their lovers who are about to be transported to Botany Bay, 1792. Penal transportation (or simply transportation) was the relocation of convicted criminals, or other persons regarded as undesirable, to a distant place, often a colony, for a specified term; later, specifically established penal colonies became their destination.
The Bloody Code listed 21 categories of capital crimes in the eighteenth century. By 1823, the Judgment of Death Act made the death penalty discretionary for most crimes, and by 1861, the number of capital offences had been reduced to five. The last execution in the United Kingdom took place in 1964, and the death penalty was abolished for ...