Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Cumbria.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corder, Nicholas.

Series:

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Older people--Crimes against.

Local Subjects:

Older people--Crimes against.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

: Wharncliffe, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The criminal cases vividly described by Nicholas Corder in this gripping book take the reader on a journey into the dark secret side of Cumbria's long history. The hills, villages and market towns of this famous landscape have been the setting for a series of horrific, bloody, sometimes bizarre incidents over the centuries. From crimes of brutal premeditation to crimes born of passion or despair, the whole range of human weakness and wickedness is represented here. Swindlers, conmen, smugglers, pirates, child killers, deserters, fraudsters, robbers and common murderers people these pages, alon

Contents:

""TRUE CRIME FROM WHARNCLIFFE""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1 - John Paul Jones and the Whitehaven Raid 1778""; ""Chapter 2 - Forced Marriage and False Imprisonment 1788""; ""Chapter 3 - The Keswick Imposter 1802""; ""Chapter 4 - Charles Samuel Cave, the Swindler 1824""; ""Chapter 5 - The Death of a Solway Smuggler 1825""; ""Chapter 6 - Firing on the Mob 1826""; ""Chapter 7 - Sarah Fox and the Poisoned Coffee 1826""; ""Chapter 8 - The Mysterious Death of Barnaby Burns 1834""

""Chapter 9 - The Rampant Curate of Rampside 1835""""Chapter 10 - The Razor-grinder�s Wife 1844""; ""Chapter 11 - The Old Hutton Matricide 1845""; ""Chapter 12 - The Killing of the Governor of the House of Correction 1845""; ""Chapter 13 - The Motiveless Murder of Joseph Jackson 1848""; ""Chapter 14 - The Beckhouse Farm Murder 1860""; ""Chapter 15 - A Trades Union Murder 1865""; ""Chapter 16 - The Navvies� Punch-up 1870""; ""Chapter 17 - The Unsolved Murder of Lucy Sands 1882""; ""Chapter 18 - Hugh Grant, Child Killer 1882""; ""Chapter 19 - The Monocled Mutineer 1920""

""Chapter 20 - The Borrowdale Garrotting 1928""""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-78340-118-4

1-78340-846-4

OCLC:

854974965