John F. Wake Horrors of the Dead House: Policing the Streets of Old Cardiff

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John F. Wake investigates the seedier side of Victorian life in Cardiff. As a former police officer, he approaches his research as investigations, and questions the motives and sentencing of the time. An absorbing, informative, and entertaining read. ARTICLES The Town Centre World Of The Rich Cardiff's Rise To Fame... And Rise In Crime Policing The Population Increase Policing The Streets Policing Bute Street Through The Years Beat Duties Police Vans Heroes Or Villains? The Police On Trial Charting The Growth Of Cardiff Horrors Of The Dead House Wife-Beating The Question Never Asked Children In Society The Scourge Of Alcohol Sunday Drinking On The South Side Religion In The Backstreets Sanitation Dungeon's Disease The Bull Ring Bicycles Darkest Cardiff Mary Ann Street - 1840-90s When Severn's Sweeping Flood Had Overthrown - 1842 Trouble At The House Of Blazes Noah's Ark Murder! - 1850 Timothy Harrington's Mysterious Dying Declaration - 1853 Consulates In Cardiff Disturbing Death In Windsor Place - 1860 Bute Street's Lost Police Station - C.1860-90 Knife Crime And 'Foreigners' - 1860s Another Senseless Baby Death - 1860 A Day In The Town Magistrates' Court - 1861 & 1905 Corpse In Dead House For Three Weeks - 1861 Dinah Pearson: Murderer? - 1864 A Murdered Man's Dying Declaration - 1869 Mysterious Drowning Of Sgt. Howard - 1869 A Tale Of Love And Death - C.1870 Walking A Hard Beat - 1870 Visiting A Mary Ann Street House - 1870-90s Monster Mogford: Baby Murderer? - 1881 Cardiff's First Police Dog - 1885-93 Tommy Irons: The Friendless Man - 1888 Backstreet Pubs - 1888 Election Riot - 1888 Street Of Shame: Flagon Alley - 1888-1909 Front-Line Officers' Problems -1891 The Problem Of Fire - 1891 Women Are Second-Class Citizens: Trollop Lane - 1893 Woman On Fire - 1895 Inspector Ben Davies Of The Bute Street Nick - 1895-1909 Sudden Death In Love Lane - 1895 The Ellen O'Brian Horror - 1903 Brutal Wife-Beating Leads To Murder - 1903 Kathleen's Story A Fictional Account By Cheryl O'Brien Endnote - A Twenty-First Century Perspective...

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