The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer

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by Kate Summerscale

gardening, here, here

  gas lamps, here, here, here

  general election, here, here, here, here, here

  Geneva Convention, here

  George V, King, here

  German New Guinea, here

  Gilbert, Inspector George, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Gill, Charles, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Gill, Reginald, here, here

  Gissing, George, here, here

  Gladstone, William Ewart, here

  Globe, here

  Goldsworthy, Henry, here, here

  Goodenough, Len, here

  Goring, George and Olga, here

  Grace, W. G., here

  Gradley, William, here

  Grange Road school, here, here, here, here

  Grantham, William, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Gray, Ernest, here

  Greenaway, Isaac, & Sons, here

  Greenwich Observatory, here

  Griffin, Dr John Joseph, here, here, here

  Guano Works, here

  Gueudecourt, here

  Guthrie, Thomas Anstey, here

  Hadleigh colony, here, here, here

  Hadley, Captain, here, here, here

  Halfpenny, Miss, here

  Halfpenny Marvel, here

  Hall, Granville Stanley, here, here

  Hamlet, here

  Hampshire Telegraph, here

  Handbook for the Instruction of Attendants on the Insane, here

  Hardie, James Keir, here, here

  Hardy, PC George, here

  Hardy, Thomas, here, here, here

  Hare, Sherlock, here, here

  Harmsworth, Alfred, here, here

  Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, publishes Jude the Obscure, here, here

  Harris, Margaret, here

  Hay, Rev. Allen, here

  Hayward, Harriet, here, here, here, here

  Hayward, John, here

  Heliopolis, here, here, here

  Herd, Ernie, here

  hereditary criminality, here, here, here, here, here

  Herring, Lieutenant-Colonel Sydney, here, here

  Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire Reporter, here

  Hewlett, Ben, here

  Hewson, John, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Hitchman, Francis, here

  HMAS Australia, here, here, here

  HMAS Swan, here, here

  HMAT Ulysses, here, here

  Hobson, Private Byron, here, here, here, here

  Hodgson Burnett, Frances, here

  Hollamby, George, here, here

  Holloway gaol, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Home Office, here, here, here, here, here

  and Coombes case, here, here, here

  and Knowles case, here

  homosexual assault, here

  Horlock, Joseph, here, here, here, here

  House of Commons, here

  Hueffer (Ford), Ford Madox, here, here, here, here

  hypnotism, here

  Ibsen, Henrik, here

  Illustrated London News, here, here

  Illustrated Police Budget, here

  Illustrated Police News, here

  Independent Labour Party, here, here

  India, here, here, here, here

  Indus, River, here

  industrial schools, here

  infanticide, here, here

  insanity pleas

  and ‘cerebral irritation’, here, here

  and committals to Broadmoor, here

  and ‘homicidal mania’, here, here, here, here

  incidence of, here

  and ‘irresistible impulse’, here, here

  and Robert’s defence, here, here

  Islington waxworks, here

  Jack the Ripper, here, here

  Jack Wright and the Fortune Hunters of the Red Sea, here, here, here, here, here

  Jackson, Henry, here

  Jacobs, Eleanor, here

  Jacobs, W. W., here

  James, Henry, here

  Janet, Pierre, here

  Joe Phoenix’s Unknown, here, here, here, here

  Johnson, George, here

  Journal of Mental Science, here, here, here

  Joyce, James, here

  Karachi, here

  Keiller’s marmalade and jam works, here

  Kennedy, Dr Alfred, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Kennedy, Justice William Rann, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  and penny dreadfuls, here, here, here

  Kipling, Rudyard, here

  kleptomania, here

  ‘knocking down ginger’, here, here

  Knowles, Patrick, here

  Koczula, Paul, here

  Lancet, The, here, here, here

  Laseron, Sergeant Charles, here

  Last Shot, The, here

  Lawrence John, here, here, here, here

  Le Havre, here

  leapfrog, here

  Leeds Times, here

  Leggatt, Edward, here

  Lemnos, here

  Lewis, Charles Carne, here, here, here

  and Peculiar People sect, here

  Leytonstone Express, here

  Liberal Party, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Light Ahead, here, here

  Limehouse, here, here, here, here

  Lingard, Private Ray, here, here

  Little Elsie the Skirt Dancer, here

  Liverpool, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here see also Toxteth Park

  Liverpool Arms inquest, here, here

  Lloyd’s Weekly, here, here, here

  Lombroso, Cesare, here, here, here

  London, Jack, here, here

  London Daily News, here, here, here

  London Gazette, here

  London Standard, here

  Lord’s cricket ground, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Lowe, Jonathan, here

  Lynch, Private Edward, here

  Machray, Robert, here

  Maclean, Roderick, here, here, here, here

  McNaughten, Robert, here

  McPherson, Duncan, here

  Macy, John William, here

  Macy, Mary, here, here, here

  Madame Tussaud’s, here

  Mafeking, siege of, here, here, here

  maggots, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  magic-lantern shows, here

  Marylebone Cricket Club, here

  Masterman, Charles, here, here, here, here

  matricides, here

  Maudsley, Henry, here, here, here

  Mauerberger, Isaac Jacob, here

  May, Mary, here

  Melbourne, here, here, here, here

  Mellish, Detective Inspector George, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  melodramas, here, here

  Melton, George, here

  mesmerism, here

  Mesmerist Detective, The, here

  Messines Ridge, here

  Mile End Old Town, here

  military bands, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Military Medals, here, here, here, here, here

  Milne, A. A., here

  Milton, John, here

  miners’ strike, here

  Minor, Dr William Chester, here, here

  Monash, General John, here, here

  Morel, Bénédict, here

  Morley, Henry, here

  Morrison, Arthur, here, here, here, here

  Morrow, Herbert, here, here

  Motherwell Times, here

  moving pictures, here

  Mulville, Alfred, here, here

  Mulville, Bertha, see Smith, Bertha

  Mulville, Harry, here, here

  Mulville, Isabelle (née Rockey), here

  Murchison, Kenneth, here, here

  Mu
ssy, Carmello, here

  Myers, Frederic, here

  Nana Glen, New South Wales, here, here, here, here

  Nancy school, here

  National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), here, here

  National Steamship Company, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Neaves, Henry Herbert, here

  ‘New Boy, the’, here

  New York Sun, here

  New York Times, here

  New York Tribune, here

  Newcastle, New South Wales, here, here, here

  Newgate gaol, here, here, here

  Newport, Wales, here

  News of the World, here, here, here

  news vendor, assaults policeman, here

  Nicolson, Dr David, here, here, here

  Nisbet, J. F., here

  Nordau, Max, here

  North Street board school, here

  Notting Hill, here, here

  Nottingham Evening Post, here

  Oakes, Richard, here

  Ocean Steamships, here

  O’Connell, Maurice, here

  Odam’s chemical manure works, here

  Oedipus, here

  Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services, here

  Old Bailey, here, here, here, here, here

  and committals to Broadmoor, here

  Coombes trial, here, here, here, here

  Orange, William, here

  Ordnance Arms pub, here

  Orestes, here

  Orpwood, Sergeant Charles, here

  Oxford, Edward, here

  Oxford English Dictionary, here

  Pall Mall Gazette, here, here, here

  Patten, William G., here

  pawnbrokers, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Pearson, Charles, here, here

  Peculiar People sect, here, here

  penny dreadfuls (penny bloods), here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Australians and, here, here

  inquest juries and, here

  Robert Coombes and, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  use of street slang, here

  warped chivalric code, here

  People, The, here

  Perseus, here

  Pett, George, here, here

  Pier Hill fairground, here, here

  Pike, Charles Leach, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  ‘pitch and toss’, here

  Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette, here

  Plaistow marshes, here, here

  Plimsoll, Samuel, here

  Pozières, here, here

  Price, Julius M., here

  Prisoner of Zenda, The, here

  Puerto de la Luz, here

  Punch, here, here

  Quarterly Review, here

  quicklime, here

  Ralpho, Signor, here

  Read, Harry, here

  Read, James Canham, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Reading gaol, here

  Reading Gas Company, here

  Reading Mercury, here

  Regent’s Canal, here

  Renton, Wood, here

  Revenged at Last, here

  Reynolds’s Newspaper, here

  Richards, William, here, here

  Rider Haggard, Henry, here, here

  RMS Otranto, here

  ‘robbers and thieves’, here

  Robertson, James, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Robertson, Rosina, here, here, here, here

  Robinson Crusoe, here

  Rock Rider, The, here, here

  Rodgers, Frank, here, here, here

  Rosebery, Lord, here, here

  Rothschild, Lord, here

  Rowland, Frideswide, here

  Rowntree, Joseph, here

  Royal Albert Dock, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Royal Australian Navy, here, here

  Royal Navy, here

  Royal Victoria Dock, here, here, here, here

  Rutland, Duchess of, here

  St Andrew’s, Plaistow, here

  St Bride’s school, Liverpool, here

  St George, here

  St James’s Epistle, here

  St James’s Gazette, here, here

  St Martin’s Mission, here

  St Vincent, here

  Salisbury, Lord, here

  Salmon, Edward G., here

  Salvation Army, here, here, here, here, here

  see also Hadleigh colony

  Sandhurst Royal Military College, here

  sanitary officers, here, here

  Saturday Review, here, here, here, here

  Saunderson, Reginald, here, here

  Scott, Walter, here, here

  Secret of Castle Coucy, The, here, here

  Shakespeare, William, here, here

  Sharman, Charles Crank, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Shaw, Rev. Francis Longdon, here, here, here, here

  Shaw, George Bernard, here

  Sheffield Independent, here

  Shellshear, Captain Cyril, here, here

  shellshock, here, here

  Sherwood, Frederick, here, here, here, here, here

  Shultz, Thomas, here

  Simon, Dr Jules, here

  Sims, George, here, here, here

  Smith, Bertha, here, here

  Smith, Harold William, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Smith, Jesse Weber, here

  Smith, Pearl May, here

  Smith, Samuel, here, here

  Society for Psychical Research, here

  Somerset House, here, here

  somnambulism, here

  Sorrell, Corporal Harold, here, here

  Southend, here, here, here, here

  Spectator, here, here

  Spurrier, Henry, here

  SS America, here

  SS Egypt, here, here

  SS England, here, here, here, here

  SS Erin, here

  SS France, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  SS Holland, here

  SS Ionic, here

  SS London Belle, here

  SS Rossano, here

  SS Spain, here, here, here

  Star, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Burrage interview, here

  Staten Island, here

  Stead, W. T., here, here

  Steevens, George, here

  Stephens, Reginald, here

  Stephenson, Guy, here, here, here, here, here

  Stevenson, Robert Louis, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Stock Street school, here, here

  Stoddart, Andrew, here

  stokers, ships’, here, here

  Strand Magazine, here

  Stratford Express, here, here

  street vendors, here, here, here

  stretcher-bearers, here, here, here, here

  Stutfield, Hugh E. M., here

  Suez Canal, here, here, here

  suffragettes, here

  suicides, rise in number of, here

  Sully, James, here, here

  Sun, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Sunday Referee, here

  Susman, Private Eric, here

  Suvla Bay, here

  Sydney, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Sydney Mail, here

  Sydney Morning Herald, here

  Tate & Lyle sugar refinery, here

  tennis, here, here, here

  Thames, River, freezes over, here, here

  Thames Iron Works Shipbuilding Company, here, here, here

  Theatre Royal, Stratford, here

  Times, The, here, here

  Towells, Mick, here

  Townsend, Thomas Henry, here

  Toxteth Park, here, here, here

  trench foot, here

  Truelove, Charles, here

  Tucknor,
R. J., here

  Tunbridge Wells, here

  Tunmarsh Lane, here

  Turpin, Dick, here

  Twain, Mark, here

  Twort, PC Robert, here, here, here, here

  Under a Floating Island, here

  unemployment, here, here

  Union Jack, here, here

  Verne, Jules, here, here, here

  Victoria, Queen, here, here, here, here, here

  Vincent, James, here

  Volckers, H. A., here

  Volunteer Defence Corps, here, here

  Waldie, Captain George, here

  Walker, Dr George, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Wandsworth prison, here, here

  War Graves Commission, here

  Weekly Irish Times, here

  Wells, H. G., here

  West Ham election, here, here, here, here

  West Ham Herald, here, here, here

  West Ham magistrates’ court, here, here, here

  West Ham United FC, here

  Westcott, Wynn, here

  Westminster Abbey, here

  White, Ada, here

  White, William, here, here

  White Ridley, Sir Matthew, here

  Whittaker, Frederick, here

  Wilberforce, Canon Basil, here

  Wilde, Oscar, here, here, here, here, here

  Wimbledon lawn tennis championships, here

  Windsor police, here

  Winslow, Lyttelton Forbes, here, here

  Witch of Fermoyle, The, here

  Wood, Rev. Hugh, here

  Wortley, Richard, here

  Yates, Rev., here

  Zola, Emile, here

  A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR

  Kate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestseller, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2008, the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and adapted into a major ITV drama. Her first book, the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, won a Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award. Her third book, Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace, was a Sunday Times bestseller. Kate Summerscale was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2010. She lives in London.

  katesummerscale.com

  BY THE SAME AUTHOR

  The Queen of Whale Cay

  The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

  Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace

  Sketch of the Coombes family home at 35 Cave Road, Plaistow, published in Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper on 21 July 1895, four days after the arrest of Robert and Nathaniel Coombes.

  The Thames Iron Works, the West Ham shipbuilding company at which Robert worked as a ‘plater’s boy’ in June 1895, and (below) the Japanese battleship Fuji Yama under construction at the yard that month.

  Newspaper sketches of Robert and Nattie Coombes, aged 13 and 12 respectively, in July 1895.

 

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