The Chieftain: Victorian True Crime Through The Eyes of a Scotland Yard Detective

by Payne, Chris

  89 The Times (21 March 1867); Pall Mall Gazette (15 February 1867); Glasgow Herald (16 February 1867).

  90 TNA:PRO HO 45/7799 part 4, telegram from Mayor of Chester (11 February 1867).

  91 Kee (2000), pp. 331–3; Devoy (1929), p. 187.

  92 Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post (2 October 1867).

  93 Jenkins (2008), p. 93.

  94 Kee (2000), pp. 332–4; The Irishman (10 October 1868).

  95 TNA:PRO HO 144/1537/2 Confession of Fariola, pp. 57 onwards.

  96 Ibid.

  97 Novak (2007 and 2008); National Archives of Ireland CSO:LB 267; Matthews (2010), pp. 13–4.

  98 Jenkins (2008), p. 84; Kee (2000), p. 104.

  99 Anderson (1906), p. 71.

  100 The Irishman (10, 17 and 24 October 1868).

  101 Ibid.

  102 Kee (2000), pp. 330–40; Murray (1878).

  103 OBP (July 1867), Charles Stuart (t18670708–650); The Times (18 June 1867); Daily News (10 July 1867).

  104 The Irishman (24 October 1868).

  105 TNA:PRO MEPO 7/29 (11 July 1867); MEPO 7/30 (20 May 1868).

  106 Diamond (2003), pp. 28–9.

  107 The Irishman (24 October 1868).

  108 Freeman’s Journal (11 November 1867).

  109 The Times (31 July 1867).

  110 TNA:PRO MEPO 1/47 Mayne to Lord Naas (19 July 1867).

  111 O’Broin (1971), pp. 200–1; Jenkins (2008), p. 171.

  112 The Times (13 November 1867).

  113 ‘Belgians in the American Civil War’ (http://home.scarlet.be/gallez.nic/US%20Army/Colored/OctaveFariola.htm).

  114 National Archives of Ireland, F4067.

  115 O’Broin (1971), p. 124; (www.lisburn.com/history/digger/Digger2010/digger–29–01–2010.html).

  116 TNA:PRO HO 65/7 Liddell to Mayne (6 September 1867).

  117 Jenkins (2008), pp. 104–46.

  118 The Times (19 September 1867).

  119 TNA:PRO HO 65/8 Ferguson to Mayne (1 October 1867).

  120 Jenkins (2008), pp. 104–46.

  121 Smith (1985), pp. 187–8, including quotation from Mayo MSS, National Library of Ireland.

  122 Kennedy (2003), p. 106.

  123 Kee (2000), p. 343; Jenkins (2008), p. 141.

  124 TNA:PRO FO 5/1347 Report (4 August 1869).

  125 Kennedy (2003), pp. 106–7; TNA:PRO HO 45/7799 part 1, Superintendent Ryan to Home Office (8 October 1867).

  126 TNA:PRO HO 65/8 Ferguson to Mayne (7 October 1869).

  127 TNA:PRO HO 45/7799 Part 1; MEPO 1/47 Mayne to Chief Constable of Aberdeenshire (14 October 1867); Smith (1985), p. 189.

  128 The Times (14 November 1867).

  129 The Times (11, 12 and 14 November 1867); TNA:PRO HO 65/8 Liddell to Receiver of Police (2 April 1868), includes reference to Reading expenses claim by Clarke.

  130 Jenkins (2008), pp. 148–9.

  131 TNA:PRO HO 65/8 Memo (4 December 1867); MEPO 7/29 (9 December 1867).

  132 TNA:PRO HO 65/8 Ferguson to Mayne (9 November 1867).

  133 TNA:PRO MEPO 1/47 Mayne to Hardy (1 November 1867).

  134 TNA:PRO HO 65/8 Liddell to Receiver of Police (2 April 1868).

  135 Kennedy (2003), pp. 110–3.

  136 Ibid.

  137 Anderson (1906), p. 75; Smith (1985), p. 190.

  138 Smith (1985), pp. 190–2; Jenkins (1985), pp. 152–5.

  139 Ibid.; Ibid.

  140 Smith (1985), p. 192.

  141 Ibid.

  142 Moylan, p. 155.

  143 Wade (2007), p. 171.

  144 Browne (1956), pp. 141–3.

  145 TNA:PRO MEPO 7/30 Police Orders (7 November 1868).

  146 Kennedy (2003), pp. 110–22; Jenkins (2008), pp. 145–78.

  147 Jenkins (2008), pp. 179–208.

  148 Jenkins (2008), p. 180.

  149 Fitzgerald (1888), Vol. 2, p. 312.

  150 OBP (April 1868), William Desmond, Timothy Desmond, Nicholas English, John O’Keefe, Michael Barrett, Anne Justice (t18680406–412); TNA:PRO MEPO 3/1788 Report of Sergeant Sunerway.

  151 National Archives of Ireland CSO LB 267 Mayne to Larcom (18 December 1867).

  152 ‘Edmund O’Leary’ (http://nga.ie/Fenians-Edmund_OLeary.php).

  153 National Archives of Ireland CSO LB 267 Larcom to Mayne (28 December 1867).

  154 TNA:PRO MEPO 1/48 Mayne to Home Office (2 January 1868); Mayne to Scudamore (11 March 1868).

  155 The Times (21 April 1868).

  156 Williams (1890), Vol. 1, pp. 182–4.

  157 Ibid., p. 184.

  158 The Times (28 April 1868).

  159 Ibid.

  160 Ibid.

  161 Williams (1890), Vol. 1, p. 203.

  162 Jenkins (2008), pp. 197–202.

  163 The Times (27 May 1868).

  164 Jenkins (2008), p. 181; OBP (April 1868), William Desmond, Timothy Desmond, Nicholas English, John O’Keefe, Michael Barrett, Anne Justice (t18680406–412).

  165 Campbell (2002), p. 78; Devoy (1929), p. 249.

  166 The Times (27 December 1867); TNA:PRO HO 65/8 Liddell to Receiver of Police (2 April 1868).

  167 TNA:PRO HO45/7799 Report from Superintendent Butt (20 December 1867).

  168 TNA:PRO MEPO 21/15/5056.

  169 Jenkins (2008), p. 207.

  170 O’Broin (1971), pp. 227–40.

  171 TNA:PRO MEPO 1/48 Mayne to Larcom (13 April 1868).

  172 Jenkins (2008), p. 188; Wikipedia, ‘Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha’.

  173 TNA:PRO MEPO 1/48 Mayne to Ferguson (9 May 1868); Wikipedia, ‘SS Great Britain’.

  174 The Times (14, 16, 22 and 24 July 1868).

  175 Smith (1985), pp. 183–4.

  176 Porter (1992), p. 81.

  177 TNA:PRO HO45/10002/A49463.

  178 Ibid.

  179 TNA:PRO HO45/9442/66692 Minutes of Evidence, paragraphs 457–62.

  4 Back to Basics

  1 Davitt (2001), p. 1, the first verse of the poem Innisfail.

  2 Warrington Advertiser (18 April 1868); TNA:PRO HO 45/9419/58406 Report from Inspector Clarke (24 April 1868).

  3 TNA:PRO C16/828/T45; C16/829/T74.

  4 Warrington Guardian, Supplement (18 April 1868).

  5 Ibid.

  6 Ibid.

  7 Ibid.

  8 TNA:PRO MEPO 7/31 (21 January 1869).

  9 Leeds Mercury, Weekly Supplement (4 January 1890).

  10 Cavanagh (1893), p. 80.

  11 Ascoli (1979), p. 138; Browne (1956), p. 172.

  12 TNA:PRO HO 65/8 Liddell to Henderson (6 July 1869).

  13 Ibid. (12 May 1869).

  14 TNA:PRO MEPO 7/31 (15 May 1869).

  15 TNA:PRO HO 65/8 Knatchbull-Huguessen to Henderson (2 June 1869).

  16 TNA:PRO MEPO 21/10/3018; Pall Mall Gazette (31 August 1869).

  17 TNA:PRO MEPO 7/31 (6 July 1869).

  18 TNA:PRO MEPO 7/32 (17 October 1870).

  19 ‘The Police of London’, The Quarterly Review (1870), pp. 87–129.

  20 The Times (6 October 1868).

  21 The Times (13 October 1868).

  22 The Times (1 March 1869).

  23 The Times (24 October 1868); Lloyds Weekly Newspaper (25 October 1868); Reynolds’s Newspaper (25 October 1868).

  24 The Times (1 March 1869).

  25 TNA:PRO MEPO 7/31 (1 and 5 March 1869).

  26 Meiklejohn (1912), p. 80.

  27 Ibid., pp. 79–89.

  28 The Times (1 November 1869).

  29 Ibid.

  30 OBP (November 1869), Hyppolite Longuay, Emile Antoine, George Christiens, Andre Berthier (t18691122–59).

  31 The Times (6 and 15 December 1869); OBP (December 1869), Hyppolite Longuay (t18691213–117).

  32 TNA:PRO MEPO 3/99 Report by Clarke (13 February 1871).

  33 Ibid. (21 February 1871).

  34 Paterson (2006), p. 200.

  35 TNA:PRO MEPO 3/99 Report by Clarke (25 February 1871).

  36 Ibid. (6 March 1871).

  37 TNA:PRO MEPO 7/33 (21 April 1871)
.

  38 Williams (1890), Vol. 1, pp. 291–2.

  39 OBP (April 1871), Michael Campbell, John Calbraith (t18710403–332).

  40 OBP (April 1871), John Calbraith (t18710403–333).

  41 TNA:PRO MEPO 3/99 Letter from Henderson to Treasury (12 April 1871) and Memorandum from Clarke (2 May 1871).

  42 OBP (April 1869), James Gambier, William Rumble (t18690405–432).

  43 Ibid.

  44 Ibid.

  45 The Times (18 February 1869).

  46 The Times (5 and 12 March 1869).

  47 OBP (April 1869), James Gambier, William Rumble (t18690405–432); The Times (10 April 1869); Lloyds Weekly Newspaper (11 April 1869).

  48 The Times (6 December 1864) and (6 and 7 February 1865); Wikipedia, ‘CSS Rappahannock’.

  49 Wikipedia, ‘Alabama Claims’.

  50 Petrow (1994), p. 280.

  51 Stewart (2000), p. 19.

  52 Petrow (1994), pp 279–80.

  53 Petrow (1994), p. 246.

  54 Davies and Metcalfe (2010).

  55 Williams (1890), Vol. 2, p. 113.

  56 The Times (21 April 1869).

  57 Ibid.

  58 The Times (30 April 1869).

  59 Ibid.

  60 Ibid.

  61 Pall Mall Gazette (6 May 1869).

  62 The Times (16 and 21 October 1871), (21 January 1872) and (15 July 1872).

  63 The Times (21 June 1869) and (5 August 1869).

  64 Ibid.

  65 The Times (24 January 1870).

  66 The Times (14 September 1870), (2 and 3 November 1870), (4 November 1871), (19 July 1873), (11 March 1875), (22 and 31 May 1875), (11 October 1875) and (4 December 1876); Illustrated Police News (1 October 1870); The Ipswich Journal (25 December 1875); Reynolds’s Newspaper (2 January 1876); Penny Illustrated Paper (3 June 1876).

  67 Dilnot (1928), p. 182.

  68 The Times (14 September 1870).

  69 The Times (2 November 1870).

  70 The Times (3 November 1870).

  71 Penny Illustrated Paper (3 June 1876).

  72 Petrow (1994), p. 250.

  73 TNA:PRO HO 45/9526/34897.

  74 Ibid.

  75 Dilnot (1928), p. 214.

  76 Petrow (1994), p. 280.

  77 TNA:PRO MEPO 3/92.

  78 TNA:PRO MEPO 3/92 Report by Inspector Druscovich (1 December 1869).

  79 Arnot (1994).

  80 Ibid.

  81 Archer (2008).

  82 Lowndes (1872–73), pp. 397–412.

  83 Archer (2008).

  84 Arnot (1994).

  85 TNA:PRO MEPO 3/93.

  86 TNA:PRO MEPO 3/94.

  87 Ibid., Report by Clarke, concerning Mrs Clarke (7 October 1870).

  88 Ibid., Report by Clarke, concerning Mrs Davis (7 October 1870).

  89 Ibid., (2 January 1870).

  90 Arnot (1994).

  91 Ibid.

  92 TNA:PRO MEPO 3/94 (23 December 1873).

  93 TNA:PRO MEPO 3/95.

  94 Arnot (1994).

  95 Rattle and Vale (2007).

  96 TNA:PRO MEPO 3/96 Report by Chief Inspector Clarke (28 December 1870).

  97 The Times (16 August 1870).

  98 TNA:PRO MEPO 3/96 Report by Chief Inspector Clarke (28 December 1870).

  99 Ibid.

  100 British Medical Journal (1 July 1871), p. 15.

  101 The Times (15 July 1871); OBP (July 1871), Charles and Sarah de Baddeley (t18710710–560).

  102 Bowen-Rowlands (1924), pp. 96–100; The Times (14, 16 and 17 December 1880).

  103 TNA:PRO HO45/9329/19461.

  104 TNA:PRO FO5/1347 US Legation to Earl of Clarendon (9 August 1869).

  105 TNA:PRO MEPO 7/31 (23 October 1869).

  106 Campbell (2002), pp. 14, 85–7.

  107 Healy (2010).

  108 Freeman’s Journal (27 June 1870).

  109 Freeman’s Journal (28, 29 and 30 September) and (1 October 1869).

  110 Ibid.

  111 Ibid.

  112 Morning Post (2 October 1869).

  113 Freeman’s Journal (18–21 February 1870); Wikipedia, ‘Isaac Butt’; McCracken (2009), p. 37.

  114 Freeman’s Journal (24–27 June 1870).

  115 Anderson (1906), p. 81.

  116 Anderson (1910), p. 58.

  117 OBP (July 1870), John Wilson, Michael Davitt (t18700711–602).

  118 The Times (18 May 1870).

  119 King (1999).

  120 The Times (21 May 1870) and (3, 6, and 15 June 1870).

  121 OBP (July 1870), John Wilson, Michael Davitt (t18700711–602); McCracken (2009), p. 35.

  122 OBP (July 1870), John Wilson, Michael Davitt (t18700711–602).

  123 National Library of Ireland: NLI 5697, Samuel Lee Anderson Papers; Journal and Date Book (7 July 1870).

  124 The Times (16, 18 and 19 July 1870); OBP (July 1870), John Wilson, Michael Davitt (t18700711–602).

  125 The Times (19 July 1870).

  126 Davitt (2001), Vol. 1, pp. 43–80.

  127 Kee (2000), p. 373.

  128 Davitt (2001).

  129 Wikipedia, ‘Franco-Prussian War’.

  130 TNA:PRO HO 45/8444 Report from Inspector Pay (6 September 1870).

  131 O’Mahony (2000); McCracken (2009), p. 46.

  132 The Times (24 and 28 September 1870).

  133 TNA:PRO HO 45/8444 Report from Inspector Brannan (1 October 1870).

  134 Ibid., Telegram from Frederick Bernal (8 October 1870) and Letter from Foreign Office (11 October 1870); TS25/1695 Legal Opinion (5 October 1870).

  135 TNA:PRO HO 45/8444 Orders for Clarke (10 October 1870) and Report from Clarke (19 October 1870).

  136 Ibid.

  137 O’Mahony (2000).

  138 Ibid.

  139 TNA:PRO HO 45/8444 Report from Clarke (19 October 1870).

  140 The Times (22 and 29 October 1870) and (4 and 21 November 1870).

  141 TNA: PRO HO27.

  142 Comerford (1999), pp. 81, 166, 185; Leeds Mercury (9 January 1872).

  143 Porter (1987), p. 9; Porter (1992), pp. 81–98; TNA:PRO HO45/9303/11335.

  144 TNA:PRO MEPO 3/1778 Report from Chief Inspector Clarke (27 August 1872); MEPO 3/3070 Report from Chief Inspector Clarke (8 January 1872), (30 December 1872), (28 June 1876) and (26 December 1876); Irish National Archives Fenian Papers R series Box 13 6992R and Box 14 7059R Correspondence and Reports by Chief Inspector Clarke relating to Arms Supplies; Belfast Newsletter (20 and 21 July 1871); Freeman’s Journal (23 July 1873); Pall Mall Gazette (30 July 1873).

  145 Porter (1992), pp. 101–10.

  146 OBP (December 1871), William Anthony (t18711211–102); Illustrated Police News (7 October 1871).

  147 Wikipedia, ‘London Fire Brigade’; Wikipedia, ‘London Salvage Corps’.

  148 OBP (December 1871), William Anthony (t18711211–102).

  149 Ibid.

  150 Illustrated Police News (7 October 1871).

  151 The Times (18 October 1871).

  152 Ibid.

  153 Penny Illustrated Paper (2 December 1871); The Times (8 and 23 November 1871).

  154 OBP (December 1871), William Anthony (t18711211–102).

  155 Pall Mall Gazette (14 December 1871).

  156 Liverpool Mercury (15 December 1871).

  157 TNA:PRO MEPO 7/34 (3 January 1872).

  5 The Tichborne Claimant, Theft and Fraud

  1 Chetham’s Library, Axon Ballads, No 16.

  2 McWilliam (2007), pp. 5–52; Maugham (1936), pp. 17–314.

  3 Ibid.

  4 Ibid.

  5 Ibid.

  6 Ibid.

  7 Ibid.

  8 McWilliam (2007), pp. 27–33; Maugham (1936), pp. 108–50; Summerscale (2008), pp. 263–6.

  9 McWilliam (2007), pp. 35–52; Maugham (1936), pp. 153–314; Freeman’s Journal (7 March 1872).

  10 TNA:PRO MEPO 21/18/6786.

  11 Bowen-Rowlands (1924), p. 81.

  12 Maugham (1936), p. 318.

  13 Manchester Times
(9 March 1872); Bristol Mercury (9 March 1872); Lloyds Weekly Newspaper (10 March 1872).

  14 Williams (1890), Vol. 2, p. 1.

  15 McWilliam (2007), pp. 53–82; Maugham (1936), pp. 317–21.

  16 Maugham (1936), p. 322.

  17 The Times (17 January 1874).

  18 Bradford Observer (29 December 1873).

  19 Summerscale (2008), p. 266.

  20 Leeds Mercury (22 May 1873).

  21 Daily News (28 May 1873) and (19 August 1873).

  22 The Times (9–11 October 1873).

  23 The Times (15–18 October 1873); TNA:PRO HO 144/1/4877a, Treasury Report (21 May 1879).

  24 Freeman’s Journal (15 December 1873); The Times (1 and 18 November 1873).

  25 The Times (31 October 1873).

  26 The Times (1, 18 and 27 November 1873).

  27 The Times (28 and 29 November 1873).

  28 Atlay (1899), p. 378.

  29 The Times (1 December 1873).

  30 Pall Mall Gazette (8 December 1873); The Times (9 December 1873).

  31 Liverpool Mercury (9 December 1873).

  32 Pall Mall Gazette (8 December 1873); The Times (9 December 1873).

  33 The Times (19 January 1874).

  34 The Times (12 December 1873) and (9 January 1874); Lloyds Weeekly Newspaper (14 December 1873).

  35 The Times (5 and 13 December 1873).

  36 The Times (9 January 1874).

  37 Daily News (16 January 1874); The Times (19 January 1874).

  38 Daily News (21 January 1874).

  39 The Times (24 January 1874) and (2 April 1874); Exeter Flying Post (28 January 1874); McWilliam (2007), p. 71.

  40 Kenealy (1875), Vol. 7, p. 380.

  41 McWilliam (2007), pp. 107–8.

  42 Hawkins (1904), Vol. 1, pp. 328–9.

  43 Maugham (1936), p. 72.

  44 The Times (7 March 1874); Pall Mall Gazette (19 March 1874).

  45 The Times (10 and 11 April 1874); OBP (April 1874), Carl Lundgren and James Brown (t18740407–273).

  46 McWilliam (2007), pp. 113–85.

  47 TNA:PRO MEPO 7/37 (27 March 1875); TNA:PRO MEPO 7/38 (15 April 1876).

  48 McWilliam (2007), p. 163.

  49 TNA:PRO HO 144/1/4877a, Reports of Chief Inspector Clarke (7 February 1877) and (11 and 12 April 1877).

  50 McWilliam (2007), p. 273.

  51 The Times (26 June 1873).

  52 The Times (5 July 1873); TNA:PRO MEPO 7/35 (5 July 1873).

  53 The Times (11 and 20 May 1872) and (14 June 1872); Illustrated Police News (18 May 1872); OBP (June 1872), David Edwards, Sarah Edwards, Elizabeth Hopkins (t18720610–486).

  54 Ibid.

  55 The Times (14 June 1872); Daily News (14 June 1872); OBP (June 1872), David Edwards, Sarah Edwards (t18720610–487); TNA: PRO HO27.

  56 Ibid.

  57 Williams (1890), Vol. 2, p. 134; Hawkins (1904), Vol. 2, p. 15.