A History of London's Prisons by Howse, Geoffrey -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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TRUE CRIME FROM WHARNCLIFFE OTHER TRUE CRIME BOOKS FROM WHARNCLIFFE Title Page Dedication Copyright Page Table of Contents Introduction Acknowledgements CHAPTER 1 - The Tower of London

Sir Walter Raleigh Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford Other Notable Tower Prisoners

CHAPTER 2 - Newgate

Notable inmates of old Newgate Notable New Newgate Inmates Later inmates The last few Newgate hangings

CHAPTER 3 - The Marshalsea CHAPTER 4 - The Gatehouse CHAPTER 5 - The Prisons at Clerkenwell

Middlesex Bridewell The New Prison (Clerkenwell House of Correction and Detention) Coldbath Fields Prison

CHAPTER 6 - Holloway Prison CHAPTER 7 - Pentonville Prison

Charles Jeremiah Slowe, 1903 Conrad Donovan and Charles Wade, 1904 Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen, 1910 Frederick Seddon, 1912 Edward Hopwood, 1913 Roger Casement, 1916 Louis Voisin, 1918 Henry Julius Jacoby, 1922 Frederick Bywaters, 1923 Ewen Stitchell, 1926 John Robinson, 1927 Maurice Freedman, 1932 John Stockwell, 1934 Udham Singh, 1940 Karl Gustav Hulten–The Cleft Chin Murder, 1954 Neville George Clevely Heath, 1946 The Antiquis Murder 1947 Timothy John Evans, 1950 John Reginald Halliday Christie, 1953 Ronald Henry Marwood, 1959 Edwin Albert Bush, 1961

CHAPTER 8 - Wandsworth Prison

Thomas Smithers, 1878 Dr George Henry Lamson, 1882 Robert Ward, 1899 Edgar Edwards, 1903 George Chapman, 1903 Stratton Brothers, 1905 Reginald Dunn and Joseph O’Sullivan, 1922 Frederick Herbert Charles Field, 1936 George Brain, 1938 Gordon Cummins, 1942 Harry Dobkin, 1942 John George Haigh, 1949 Derek Bentley, 1953

CHAPTER 9 - Other Prisons North of the River Thames

Millbank The Fleet Prison Ludgate Prison The City of London Compters Bridewell Tothill Fields Whitecross Street Prison Wormwood Scrubs

CHAPTER 10 - Other Prisons South of the River Thames

King’s Bench Prison and House of Correction Horsemonger Lane Gaol The Compters of Borough and Southwark White Lion Prison, Southwark Brixton Prison Fulham Prison Belmarsh Prison Belmarsh West Prison

CHAPTER 11 - Ecclesiastical Prisons

Lambeth Palace The Clink Ely Place

CHAPTER 12 - Miscellaneous and Notable Small Prisons and Lock-ups

Sponging (or Spunging) Houses The Tun, Cornhill The Savoy Neptune Street Prison Watch Houses and Round Houses The Lock up at Cannon Hall, Hampstead The Hulks

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