Category: History - Other
Crime Distinguished from Law-breaking--The General Liability to Crime--Preventive Agencies--Plan of the Work--Different Types of Murders and Robberies--Crime Developed by Civilisation--The Police the Shield and Buckler of Society--Difficulty of Disappearing under Modern Condit...
Crime Distinguished from Law-breaking--The General Liability to Crime--Preventive Agencies--Plan of the Work--Different Types of Murders and Robberies--Crime Developed by Civili...
21. CHAPTER III.Captain Donellan and the Poisoning of Sir Theodosius Boughton: Donellan's Suspicious Conduct: Evidence of John Hunter, the great Surgeon: Sir James Stephen's View: Corroborative...
19. CHAPTER I.Judge Cambo, of Malta--The D'Anglades--The Murder of Lady Mazel--Execution of William Shaw for the Murder of his Daughter--The Sailmaker of Deal and the alleged Murder of a Boat...
34. CHAPTER XV.Richard Coster--Sheridan, the American Bank Thief--Jack Canter--The Frenchman Allmayer, a typical Nineteenth Century Swindler--Paraf--The Tammany Frauds--Burton _alias_ Count vo...
20. CHAPTER II.Lesurques and the Robbery of the Lyons Mail--The Champignelles Mystery--Judge Garrow's Story--An Imposition Practised at York Assizes--A Husband Claimed by Two Wives--A Milwauke...
31. CHAPTER XII.The Detective in Fiction and in Fact--Early Detection--Case of Lady Ivy--Thomas Chandler--Mackoull, and how he was run down by a Scots Solicitor--Vidocq: his Early Life, Police...
23. CHAPTER V.Origin of Police--Definitions--First Police in France--Charles V.--Louis XIV.--The Lieutenant-General of Police--His Functions and Powers--La Reynie--His Energetic Measures agai...
24. CHAPTER VI.Early Police in England--Edward I.'s Act--Elizabeth's Act for Westminster--Acts of George II. and George III.--State of London towards the end of the Eighteenth Century--Gamblin...
29. CHAPTER X.Mr. Sala's Indictment of the Russian Police--Their Wide-reaching Functions--Instances of Police Stupidity--Why Sala Avoided the Police--Von H---- and his Spoons--Herr Jerrmann's...
32. CHAPTER XIII.English Detectives--Early Prejudices against them Lived Down--The late Mr. Williamson--Inspector Melville--Sir C. Howard Vincent--Dr. Anderson--Mr. Macnaughten--Mr. McWilliam an...
33. CHAPTER XIV.Recurrence of Criminal Types--Heredity and Congenital Instinct--The Jukes and Other Families of Criminals--John Hatfield--Anthelme Collet's Amazing Career of Fraud--The Story of...
22. CHAPTER IV.The Saffron Hill Murder: Narrow Escape of Pellizioni: Two Men in Newgate for the Same Offence--The Murder of Constable Cock--The Edlingham Burglary: Arrest, Trial, and Convictio...
30. CHAPTER XI.The New System Compared with the Old--Early Difficulties Gradually Overcome--The Village Police in India--Discreditable Methods under the Old System--Torture, Judicial and Extra...
35. CHAPTER XVI.Criminal Women worse than Criminal Men--Bell Star--Comtesse Sandor--Mother M----, the famous female Receiver of Stolen Goods--The "German Princess"--Jenny Diver--The Baroness de...
28. ill. There is no guarantee for its wise and temperate exercise; and aUntil 1896 the outside public was apt to regard the police of New York as "the best and finest in the world." The eulogistic words are those of its own champions, who claimed fo...
25. CHAPTER VII.The "New Police" introduced by Peel--The System supported by the Duke of Wellington--Opposition from the Vestries--Brief Account of the Metropolitan Police, its Uses and Service...
26. CHAPTER VIII.The Spy System under the Second Empire--The Manufacture of _Dossiers_--M. Andrieux receives his own on being appointed Prefect--The Clerical Police of Paris--The _Sergents de Vi...
27. CHAPTER IX.Greater New York--Despotic Position of the Mayor--Constitution of the Police force--Dr. Parkhurst's Indictment--The Lexow Commission and its Report--Police Abuses: Blackmail, Br...
1. Part I.Crime Distinguished from Law-breaking--The General Liability to Crime--Preventive Agencies--Plan of the Work--Different Types of Murders and Robberies--Crime Developed by Civili...
6. CHAPTER V.Origin of Police--Definitions--First Police in France--Charles V.--Louis XIV.--The Lieutenant-General of Police: His Functions and Powers--La Reynie: His Energetic Measures agai...
4. CHAPTER III.Captain Donellan and the Poisoning of Sir Theodosius Boughton: Donellan's Suspicious Conduct: Evidence of John Hunter, the great Surgeon: Sir James Stephen's View: Corroborative...
11. CHAPTER X.Mr. Sala's Indictment of the Russian Police--Their Wide-reaching Functions--Instances of Police Stupidity--Why Sala Avoided the Police--Von H---- and his Spoons--Herr Jerrmann's...
7. CHAPTER VI.Early Police in England--Edward I.'s Act--Elizabeth's Act for Westminster--Acts of George II. and George III.--State of London towards the End of the Eighteenth Century--Gamblin...
5. CHAPTER IV.The Saffron Hill Murder: Narrow Escape of Pellizioni: Two Men in Newgate for the same Offence--The Murder of Constable Cock--The Edlingham Burglary: Arrest, Trial, and Convictio...
12. CHAPTER XI.The New System Compared with the Old--Early Difficulties Gradually Overcome--The Village Police in India--Discreditable Methods under the Old System--Torture, Judicial and Extra...
16. CHAPTER XV.Richard Coster--Sheridan, the American Bank Thief--Jack Canter--The Frenchman Allmayer, a typical Nineteenth Century Swindler--Paraf--The Tammany Frauds--Burton, _alias_ Count v...
15. CHAPTER XIV.Recurrence of Criminal Types--Heredity and Congenital Instinct--The Jukes and other Families of Criminals--John Hatfield--Anthelme Collet's Amazing Career of Fraud--The Story of...
17. CHAPTER XVI.Criminal Women Worse than Criminal Men--Bell Star--Comtesse Sandor--Mother M----, the Famous Female Receiver of Stolen Goods--The "German Princess"--Jenny Diver--The Baroness de...
9. CHAPTER VIII.The Spy System under the Second Empire--The Manufacture of _Dossiers_--M. Andrieux receives his own on being appointed Prefect--The Clerical Police of Paris--The _Sergents de Vi...
2. CHAPTER I.Judge Cambo, of Malta--The D'Anglades--The Murder of Lady Mazel--Execution of William Shaw for the Murder of his Daughter--The Sailmaker of Deal and the alleged Murder of a Boat...
10. CHAPTER IX.Greater New York--Despotic Position of the Mayor--Constitution of the Police Force--Dr. Parkhurst's Indictment--The Lexow Commission and its Report--Police Abuses: Blackmail, Br...
14. CHAPTER XIII.English Detectives--Early Prejudices against them Lived Down--The late Mr. Williamson--Inspector Melville--Sir C. Howard Vincent--Dr. Anderson--Mr. Macnaghten--Mr. McWilliam and...
13. CHAPTER XII.The Detective in Fiction and in Fact--Early Detection--Case of Lady Ivy--Thomas Chandler--Mackoull, and how he was run down by a Scots Solicitor--Vidocq: his Early Life, Police...
3. CHAPTER II.Lesurques and the Robbery of the Lyons Mail--The Champignelles Mystery--Judge Garrow's Story--An Imposition practised at York Assizes--A Husband claimed by Two Wives--A Milwauke...
8. CHAPTER VII.The "New Police" introduced by Peel--The System supported by the Duke of Wellington--Opposition from the Vestries--Brief Account of the Metropolitan Police: Its Uses and Service...