Yorkshire's Murderous Women : Two Centuries of Killings

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wade, Stephen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crimes.

Local Subjects:

Crimes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

: Wharncliffe, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The criminal history of Yorkshire has its share of nasty and brutal murders and the majority of these killers have been men. Statistics show that most homicides are men. But the records over the centuries have tales of women killers and in these tales the murders are often cases of poisoning. Stephen Wade has investigated records across the country to find out stories of women in the years between the middle of the eighteenth century and the mid twentieth century who have taken lives through jealousy, hatred or sheer desperation. Some of the tales are sad, melancholy accounts of infanticide co

Contents:

""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Part One - Between History and Folklore""; ""CHAPTER 1 - Witch Stories""; ""CHAPTER 2 - Was Robin Slain by Elizabeth?""; ""Part Two - Murder Casebook""; ""CHAPTER 3 - Threesome Problems: Elizabeth Broadingham 1776""; ""CHAPTER 4 - A Deadly Potion in Batley: Ann Scalbird 1794""; ""CHAPTER 5 - The Sad Tale of Mary Thorp 1800""; ""CHAPTER 6 - A Domestic Tragedy: Mary Chapel 1802""; ""CHAPTER 7 - A Violent Temperament: Ann Haywood 1804""; ""CHAPTER 8 - The Deadly Mary Bateman 1809""

""CHAPTER 9 - The Killing of James Barber 1821""""CHAPTER 10 - Ursula Lofthouse: Hanged with Two Men 1835""; ""CHAPTER 11 - Child Murders in Tough Victorian Towns""; ""CHAPTER 12 - Alice Levick 1854""; ""CHAPTER 13 - Charlotte Barton: The Hammer Murder 1870""; ""CHAPTER 14 - �Never Wed an Old Man�: Kate Dover 1881""; ""CHAPTER 15 - The Wombwell Murderers 1903""; ""CHAPTER 16 - The Tragedy of Mrs Castle: Driffield 1923""; ""CHAPTER 17 - Louie Calvert 1925""; ""CHAPTER 18 - A Lover�s Knife 1925""; ""CHAPTER 19 - A Hired Assassin 1962""; ""CHAPTER 20 - Taxi Driver Killing 1972""

""Chapter 21 - �A Sad History� and a Murder 1980""""Chapter 22 - A Plot to Kill in Sheffield 1989""; ""Part 3 - Curiosities""; ""CHAPTER 23 - The Mysterious Murdering Mylneburnes""; ""Chapter 24 - They Escaped the Noose Long Riston, 1799""; ""CHAPTER 25 - Letting Go Was Too Hard Bridlington, 1909""; ""CHAPTER 26 - Almost Murder Elizabeth Ward, 1816""; ""CHAPTER 27 - A Miscellany of Modern Murder""; ""Part 4 - Destinations""; ""Chapter 28 - Prison, Asylum, Noose or Over the Seas""; ""Acquittal: Leven Carr Poisoning (1871)""; ""Transportation""; ""The Asylum""

""Gaol and House of Correction""""Mercy Killings: Kathleen Mumford (1938) and May Brownhill (1935)""; ""Self-Defence: Accidental Death � Just. The Irene Wray Story""; ""Diminished Responsibility: Shirley Campbell (1957)""; ""Reprieve: The Cruelty of Two Sheffield Parents (1953)""; ""Reprieve: Elizabeth Rhodes � Self-Defence?""; ""The Scaffold""; ""The Workhouse""; ""An Outline of Relevant Legislation""; ""Sources and Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-78340-130-3

1-78340-858-8

OCLC:

854974881