Infamous crimes and criminals are recorded in this collection, with materials including a sample of trial papers and correspondence from over the centuries, Metropolitan Police files on covert London gangland crime solving, and a large series of photographs of prisoners from the late nineteenth century. It does not include exhibits from trials, with the exception of a few, such as the visiting card (below) used as evidence against Oscar Wilde.
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Visiting card from the Marquis of Queensberry to Oscar Wilde
Images of Edwin Bush, murderer of Elsie May Batten, 1961
Diagram of the skeletons of Ruth Fuerst and Muriel Eady
The Great Train Robbery, 1963
Note to the police concerning the murder of George Cornell
Letter written by Nelson Mandela while awaiting trial, 1962
Prisoner 6402 George Page, Wandsworth prison, 1873
Plan and sections of the gallows at Newgate gaol, c.1880
Policemen carrying a man on a stretcher, 1884
Tread wheel at Preston prison, 1902
Holloway prison, 1944
Personal minute by Winston Churchill, querying the use of the Witchcraft Act of 1735
Visiting card from the Marquis of Queensberry to Oscar Wilde
Images of Edwin Bush, murderer of Elsie May Batten, 1961
Diagram of the skeletons of Ruth Fuerst and Muriel Eady
The Great Train Robbery, 1963
Note to the police concerning the murder of George Cornell
Letter written by Nelson Mandela while awaiting trial, 1962
Prisoner 6402 George Page, Wandsworth prison, 1873
Plan and sections of the gallows at Newgate gaol, c.1880
Policemen carrying a man on a stretcher, 1884
Tread wheel at Preston prison, 1902
Holloway prison, 1944
Personal minute by Winston Churchill, querying the use of the Witchcraft Act of 1735