Mysteries of Police and Crime
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Mysteries OF Police and Crime
CONTENTS.
Part I. A GENERAL SURVEY OF CRIME AND ITS DETECTION.
I.—THE CAUSES OF CRIME.
II.—THE HUNTERS AND THE HUNTED.
III.—THE PRESS AN AID TO THE POLICE.
IV.—THE IMPORTANCE OF SMALL CLUES.
V.—“LUCK” FOR AND AGAINST CRIMINALS.
VI.—THE TRACKING INSTINCT IN AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES.
VII.—THE SHORTSIGHTEDNESS OF SOME CRIMINALS.
VIII.—SOME UNAVENGED CRIMES.
IX.—A GOOD WORD FOR THE POLICE.
Part II. JUDICIAL ERRORS.
CHAPTER I. WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS.
JUDGE CAMBO OF MALTA.
THE D’ANGLADES.
LADY MAZEL.
WILLIAM SHAW.
THE SAILMAKER AND THE BOATSWAIN.
BRUNELL THE INNKEEPER.
DU MOULIN’S CASE.
CALAS.
A GROSS PERVERSION OF JUSTICE AT NUREMBERG.
“THE BLUE DRAGOON.”
CHAPTER II. CASES OF DISPUTED OR MISTAKEN IDENTITY.
LESURQUES.
THE CHAMPIGNELLES MYSTERY.
JUDGE GARROWS STORY.
A CASE AT YORK.
HOAG OR PARKER?
A MILWAUKEE MYSTERY.
A SCOTTISH CASE.
KARL FRANZ.
THE CANNON STREET CASE.
A NARROW ESCAPE.
CHAPTER III. PROBLEMATICAL ERRORS.
CAPTAIN DONELLAN.
MADAME LAFARGE.
THE STOLEN JEWELS.
MADELEINE SMITH.
The Wharton-Ketchum Case.
THE STORY OF THE PERRYS.
CHAPTER IV. POLICE MISTAKES.
PELLIZIONI.
WILLIAM HABRON.
THE EDLINGHAM BURGLARY.
LORD COCHRANE.
Part III. POLICE—PAST AND PRESENT.
CHAPTER V. EARLY POLICE: FRANCE.
La Reynie.
Hérault.
D’Ombréval.
Berryer.
M. de Sartines.
Lenoir.
De Crosne.
Fouché.
Savary.
Fouché Again.
CHAPTER VI. EARLY POLICE (continued): ENGLAND.
GAMBLING.
RIVER THIEVES.
“Fences.”
COINERS.
The Fieldings.
THE BOW STREET RUNNERS.
CHAPTER VII. MODERN POLICE: LONDON.
CHAPTER VIII. MODERN POLICE (continued): PARIS.
CHAPTER IX. MODERN POLICE (continued): NEW YORK.
CHAPTER X. MODERN POLICE (continued): RUSSIA.
CHAPTER XI. MODERN POLICE (continued): INDIA.
CHAPTER XII. THE DETECTIVE, AND WHAT HE HAS DONE.
THE CASE OF LADY IVY.
A LAWYER TURNED DETECTIVE.
HOW DENOVAN RAN DOWN MACKOULL.
VIDOCQ.
CHAPTER XIII. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN DETECTIVES.
Part IV. CAPTAINS OF CRIME.
CHAPTER XIV. SOME FAMOUS SWINDLERS.
HATFIELD.
COLLET.
COGNARD.
MAJOR SEMPLE.
CHAPTER XV. SWINDLERS OF MORE MODERN TYPE.
RICHARD COSTER.
WALTER SHERIDAN.
JACK CANTER.
ALLMAYER.
PARAF.
TAMMANY FRAUDS.
BURTON, ALIAS THE COUNT VON HAVARD.
DR. VIVIAN.
MOCK CLERGYMEN.
HARRY BENSON.
MAX SHINBURN.
CHAPTER XVI. SOME FEMALE CRIMINALS.
“MOTHER M——.”
THE “GERMAN PRINCESS.”
JENNY DIVER.
THE BARONESS DE MENCKWITZ.
EMILY LAWRENCE.
LOUISA MILES.
MRS. GORDON-BAILLIE.
A VIENNESE IMPOSTOR.
BIG BERTHA.
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