Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in South Yorkshire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howse, Geoffrey.

Series:

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal law.

Local Subjects:

Criminal law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

: Wharncliffe, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Geoffrey Howse explores the darker and sinister side of South Yorkshire's past in this diverse collection of crimes and foul deeds, taken from Victorian to modern times.Read about a shooting and 'mob rule' in Doncaster, sensational murder in Darfield, Mexborough, and Attercliffe; trade outrages in Sheffield and Rotherham, highway robbery at Wentworth, embezzlement in Barnsley and arson at Thorne.Unusual cases include a Doncaster elopement and robbery, burglaries by girls in Rotherham, the shocking killing of a police constable at Swinton and 'coal' riots and lawlessness in Wath-upon-Dearne and

Contents:

""TRUE CRIME FROM WHARNCLIFFE - Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Series""; ""OTHER TRUE CRIME BOOKS FROM WHARNCLIFFE""; ""Title Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""CHAPTER 1 - A Miscellany of Crime from the Reign of William IV to Queen Victoria""; ""The Swell Mob at Doncaster, 1834""; ""Gaoled for Shooting Gamekeeper, Wath-upon-Dearne, 1864""; ""Shocking Assault and Robbery, Barnburgh, February 1867""; ""Two Lovely Black Eyes, Assault at Doncaster, May 1867""; ""Assault on the Highway, Thurgoland, January 1868""

""Sheep Stealing at Darfield, February 1868""""Stack-firing at Brinsworth, December 1868""; ""Garrotte Robbery at Sheffield, January 1869""; ""Engine Fitter Cuts Wife�s Throat, Rawmarsh, February 1869""; ""Wife Beater Lynched at Holmes, January 1869""; ""Five Years for Post Office Robberies, Sheffield and Rotherham, February 1869""; ""Trade Outrage, Holmes, 1870""; ""Election Riots at Barnsley, 1874""; ""Brutal Kicking at Bolton-upon-Dearne, Boxing Day, 1874""; ""Attempted Murder and Suicide, Sheffield, February 1875""; ""Indecent Assault on an Imbecile, Dodworth, July 1875""

""Cannibalism at Rotherham, July 1876""""A Darfield Gentleman Sent to Gaol, November 1876""; ""Attempted Wife Murder at Rotherham, October 1876""; ""Manslaughter by Frying Pan, Sheffield, August 1877""; ""Wife Burning at Sheffield, December 1877""; ""Brutal Outrage at Rotherham, February 1878""; ""Officious Police Inspector, Rotherham, April 1878""; ""Assault at Conisbrough, 1882""; ""Affray with Bailiffs, Barnsley, 1884""; ""Ruffian Assaults Auctioneer, Shales Moor, February 1892""; ""The Attercliffe Concealment of Birth Case, June 1892""

""Murderous Assault on a Lady During a Burglary, Hillsborough, July 1892""""Assaulting a Railway Passenger, Mexborough, 1898""; ""CHAPTER 2 - An Assortment of Edwardian and Early George V Misdemeanors""; ""Goldthorpe Street Fighters Fined, 1900""; ""Illegal Betting in a Hoyland Garden, 1904""; ""Lodgings on the �Nod�, Ecclesfield and Conisbrough, 1907""; ""Assault at West Melton, 1909""; ""Thefts at New Conisbrough, 1910""; ""Thurnscoe Sensation, January 1912""; ""Mexborough Labourer Assaults Helpless Woman, December 1912""; ""Rawmarsh Farmer Drunk in Charge of a Horse and Trap, 1913""

""Game Trespass, Hooton Pagnell, April 1913""""Indecent Assault, Goldthorpe, April 1913""; ""Barnsley Burglar Gaoled, 1916""; ""Mexborough Suicide, January 1919""; ""Grimethorpe Infested With Bookmakers, May 1919""; ""Smart Fine for Unprovoked Darton Assault, 1919""; ""CHAPTER 3 - Foul Deeds From the 1920s to the 1950s""; ""Thief and Failed Suicide, Wath-upon-Dearne, 1922""; ""Armed Night Poaching, Wombwell Wood, 1923""; ""Darton Main Deputy�s Offence, 1925""; ""Great Houghton Hawker Gaoled, 1926""; ""Hooliganism at Mexborough, 1927""; ""Staincross Man�s Rat Poison Suicide, 1933""

""Husband Gambled Money Given to Provide for Family, Burton Grange (Monk Bretton), 1939""

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-78340-868-5

OCLC:

854974971