Crime Collection (page 4)

Guy Fawkes - Conspirator of the Gunpowder Plot
Guy Fawkes (1570-1606) - member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Date: circa 1606

UK Prisoner in a Straitjacket Date: 1920s

Timothy Evans pardon
John Reginald Halliday Christie. 10 Rillington Place. Conditional royal pardon for Timothy John Evans, after conviction for murder, signed by Roy Jenkins and Queen Elizabeth II 1966 Date: 1966

Wormwood Scrubs 1895
Wormwood Scrubs prison, whipping post, 1895 Date: 1895

DI Jill McTeague, Arts & Antiques Squad, with necklace
DI Jill McTeague of the Arts & Antiques Squad of the Metropolitan Police, holding a stolen necklace which has been recovered

The exhibit of the car of Gangster Jack Legs Diamond
Queues awaiting entry to the exhibition of the $20, 000 Killer Car ( Direct from New York ) of American Gangster and Bootlegger Jack Legs Diamond (1897-1931) opposite Derrys Clock, 16 George Street

Mary Frith aka Moll Cutpurse, a notorious master thief & an Ugly who frequently dressed as a man; escaped from Newgate by bribery. Date: c.15841659

Luigi Lucheni, the assassin of the Empress of Austria
The Italian anarchist, Luigi Lucheni, who assassinated the Austrian Empress, Elisabeth of Bavaria. Date: 1898

Lewis Thornton Powell aka Lewis Payne
Lewis Payne was implicated in the plot to kidnap President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. The group also included John Wilkes Booth, David Herold, Samuel Bland Arnold, Michael O Laughlen and John Surratt

Cole Younger, American train robber
Member of the notorious James-Younger gang, Cole Younger, after his capture. 1889

Ned Kelly- The Glenrowan Inn
The ruins of the hotel in Glenrowan after the siege. Ned Kelly and his gang attempted to derail a train carrying a number of police officers

Ned Kelly
The Australian bushranger, Ned Kelly. 1878

Max Hodel, the German would-be assassin of Kaiser Wilhelm I Date: 1878

The Australian bushranger, Frank Gardiner arrested at Apis Creek, Queensland. 1863

Assassination attempt on Kaiser Wilhelm I
Oskar Beckers attempt on Wilhelm I in Baden Baden. 1861

Highwaymen punished
A new plan is proposed fo the punishment of highwaymen by hard labour on the roads. Date: 18th Century

A Scottish highwayman at the entrance of his cave by the roadside. Date: 19th Century

Nicolas Jordan
Arrest of the Spanish bandit, Nicolas Jordan in Antequera, Spain. Date: 1864

Interior of cell block at Portland Prison, Dorset
Interior of a new wing at Portland, Dorset showing cell doors, iron stairways and corridors. Wire netting was placed between balconies to prevent inmates falling to the ground

Bleasdale Reformatory, Garstang, Lancashire
A view of the North Lancashire Reformatory for Boys at Bleasdale, near Garstang, Lancashire which opened in 1857. Reformatories could house convicted juvenile offenders aged under 16 for a period of

Metropolitan Police photographer at work
A Metropolitan Police photographer at work, focusing his attention on a car engine

Convicts being searched, Portland Prison, Dorset
Portland Prison, Dorset, opened in 1848 as a public works prison for convicts who were employed in quarries in the area. This view shows prison officers searching convicts on their return from work

Quarries, Portland Prison, Dorset
Portland Prison, Dorset, opened in 1848 as a public works prison for convicts who were employed in quarries in the area. This view shows small groups of men cutting stone by hand while prison

Prison reformer John Howard visiting a prison
An engraving of Francis Wheatleys 1787 painting of John Howard Visiting and Relieving the Miseries of a Prison. Howard (third from right) (1726-1790)

Chaplains visit, Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire
The prison chaplain, jocularly referred to as the sky pilot, visits a cell at Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire. The prison was originally built as a House of Correction in 1594

Midday mealtime, Wormwood Scrubs Prison, West London
Prisoners at Wormwood Scrubs prison, west London, return to their individual cells for their midday dinner. Uniformed prison warders watch as prisoners climb the metal staircases to the galleries

The Old Gaol, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire
Buckinghams castle-like town prison was erected in 1748. It was closed following the nationalisation of the prison system in 1877

Courthouse and prison, Knutsford, Cheshire
A view of the courthouse and prison at Knutsford, Cheshire

SS Megantic arriving in Liverpool
The ocean liner SS Megantic arriving at Liverpool to officials and a crowd of people. The Queens Own Rifles of Toronto who were taking part in army manoeuvres were on board

Crime Reconstruction
At the scene of the Leloutre crime case about to begin a reconstruction near the railway tracks. Date: 1920s

Dr Syntax robbed in St Giles, London. Date: 1820

Skagway, Alaska - Grave of J R Soapy Smith II
Skagway, Alaska - Grave of Jefferson Randolph Soapy Smith II (1860-1898) - con artist, saloon and gambling house proprietor, gangster and crime boss. Date: circa 1930

Two Naughty boys taking a drill to an unfortunate front door
Two little boys from Northern Italy up to no good, Here they are taking a drill to the door of a less-favoured relative (possibly a Battleaxe Aunt)

Burglar in disguise - not the most convincing transformation
Extract from an interview with a celebrated burglar - " The Old style of Crib Crackers is all done away with now-a-days

Cheeky Cockney man quizzes a London Policeman
The wit of the Classic London Cockney - cheekily enquiring of a Policeman (leading home a small lost child): - " Whats e done, Guvnor?" !!! Date: 1892

Barman has a stern word with a disreputable customer who has been stealing pewter beer tankards, which he has been turning into coinage to bring back to spend at the same establishment

The Prison Group - possibly 17th century Spain.. Date: 1846

Billiards Illustrated - Trying for the pocket - A youthful pickpocket has a rummage through an elderly gentlemans trouser pocket whist he browses some titles on a bookstall. Date: circa 1903

FERRER I GUARDIA, Francesc (1854-1909). Spanish anarchist and teacher. Police record. SPAIN. Salamanca. Archivo Hist󲩣 o Nacional

France (s. XVII). Kingdom of Louis XIV. Police troops. Litography. FRANCE. Paris. Army Museum

Spain (1858). Uniforms of the Civil Guard. Litography. FRANCE. Paris. National Library

Anarchist attack in Paris (1892). Etching

Crime Prevention / 1930
" Defending the home" : a rather elegant woman with a gun, prepared for any eventuality.. Date: 1930

Satirical cartoon on ballooning

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