Forgotten crimes
By: by J. W. Poynter.
Publisher: The Macaulay Company
Published: 1930
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Crime and criminals -- Great Britain.
Notes: Printed in Great Britain.
"First printed February 1928."
"The stories of this series are all true ... The majority of them are cases which have come before British legal tribunals; but three are from the records of other lands."--Pref.
Table of contents: title: The false Demetriuses.; title: A hundred years ago.; title: "Mad Bainbrigge" and his wills.; title: Two strange cases.; title: Who was Kasper Hauser?; title: The Cardigan duel case.; title: Ships of fraud and "coffin-ships".; title: The bite of conscience.; title: The peculiar case of the Smyth estates fraud.; title: A very curious case.; title: Cases of false accusation.; title: The Kirwan mystery.; title: Mrs. Wilson, the poisoner.; title: The amazing Roupell forgeries.; title: Gould and the "gold corner".