The Old Bailey and its trials.
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New York,
Macmillan,
1951.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Then and now
- 2. Newgate and the social scene
- 3. Earliest trials
- 4. St. Sepulchre's bell of doom
- 5. High treason and highwaymen
- 6. Introducing a hangman
- 7. Virtue and villainy
- 8. Chaplains as gallows birds
- 9. Reformers versus authorities
- 10. Two bad men and some others
- 11. Farewell to the "old" Old Bailey
- 12. Old Bailey tradition
- 13. The "new" Old Bailey
- 14. Some colourful imposters
- 15. Echo of the Oscar Wilde case
- 16. Goliaths of crime
- 17. Men who killed twice
- 18. The Old Bailey of the future.