Dramatic Days at the Old Bailey
By Charles Kingston.
Here is a taste of the juicy contents: There are 28 chapters in this book...here are just a few of the cases covered: Murderers and Atheism - When Providence did not interpose - Mr. Justice Hawkins and the Old Bailey - From prison governor to convict - A fatal blunder in cross-examination - The elderly orphan - The acquitted murderer who confessed - Great Britain's most remarkable female poisoner - The first of the "Hanging Judges" - The murderer who confessed too soon - Percy Lefroy and his "silk hat " - Perfect Ladies " in the dock - Beauty specialist and blackmailer - Fashionable preacher and forger - The humour of Charles Peace -The late Lord Halsbury and the Old Bailey - Prosecuting the Bidwell brothers - Bribing prison warders - The counsel who ate poisoned cake - A famous case of wife coercion - Some remarkable jewel thefts - Babies for hire - A love romance and a crime - The judge who had a past - Humour in court - Running two West End theatres on stolen money - Comedy and tragedy - The acquittal of Adelaide Bartlett - The judge who resigned rather than pass sentence of death - The repartee of two swindlers - The baby-farmer and the Milsom and Fowler dock fight - Religion and crime - The doctor as criminal - Marrying and murdering for money - Two French sensations - The Edinburgh doctor who forged a patient's will - The clue of the wine bottle.
London Stanley Paul (1929) 342 pages.