More Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Wakefield

More Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Wakefield
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Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Total Pages : 246
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ISBN-10 : 9781783379033
ISBN-13 : 1783379030
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Book Synopsis More Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Wakefield by : Kate Taylor

Download or read book More Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Wakefield written by Kate Taylor and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historic account of the Northern England city’s crimes, including misdeeds that shed light on past ways of life—from death by neglect to police killings. How the body of a Wakefield murder victim was exhibited for a fee in 1853, the odd story of a Normanton miner attacked by a prosperous Crofton gentleman in 1875, the tragic death of a twenty-one-year old woman on what should have been her wedding day in 1909, and the case of the Sandal dental lecturer who killed his adopted daughter in 1966 are among the many foul deeds recounted in More Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Wakefield. In a companion volume to Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Wakefield (2001), Kate Taylor has assembled more than fifty further accounts of horrific deaths in or near Wakefield. Some killings reflect the tensions and resentment of domestic life but there are mysteries too like the case of a man found dead in 1860 in a shallow beck with no marks of violence on him. In an incident in Horbury involving the death of a baby in 1849 it was the assistant constable pursuing the inquiries who died. The book shows something of the cultural context that can promote murder—the stigma of illegitimacy in the past and the more recent risks of glue sniffing and the appalling bullying of immigrants. Take a journey into the darker and unknown side of your area as you read More Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Wakefield.


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