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The First British Railway Murder

By James Gardner

Book information

Year
2013
Language
english
Format
EPUB
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254 kB (259713 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-04-05 18:03:51

Description

The murder in 1864 shocked the whole nation. On a busy London train on a humid summer’s evening, an elderly man, Thomas Briggs, was savagely attacked, thrown out the train and left dying by the railway tracks. A poor German tailor, Franz Muller, was eventually arrested, convicted and executed in front of a huge bloodthirsty crowd outside Newgate prison. At his trial his lawyer said that it was “a crime which demanded a victim”. Was Muller that victim?

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