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Mysteries of Police and Crime

By Arthur Griffiths

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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.