Crime - Page 2 of 5

Image reference: CRIM 1/41/6

Visiting card from the Marquis of Queensberry to Oscar Wilde, purporting to read 'for Oscar Wilde, posing So(m)domite'. It was used to implicate Wilde at his trial in 1895

Image reference: CO 309/121

Colonial Office file concerning a petition from Lucy Washwood on behalf of Edward Kelly ('Ned' Kelly), Australian bushranger, hanged in November 1880

Image reference: ASSI 6/44/2

Note written by murder victim Cecilia Harris after being shot and having her throat cut by John (Jack) Edmunds on 20 February 1909

Image reference: CRIM 1/3661

Images of Edwin Bush, murderer of Elsie May Batten at Cecil Court, London, on 3 March 1961. This was the first conviction using the identikit system

Image reference: CN 22/1

The roof of Barlow & Parker's confectionery warehouse, Croydon, Surrey, scene of the shooting of PC Sidney Miles by Derek Bentley and Christopher Craig on 2 November 1952

Image reference: HO 45/25153

News Chronicle cutting regarding the eight-week imprisonment of playwright and producer Ivor Novello for a wartime motoring offence, 1944

Image reference: DPP 2/2246 Pt.4

Diagram of the skeletons of Ruth Fuerst and Muriel Eady, found in Christie's garden at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London, colour-coded to indicate the location of each bone

Image reference: HO 242/2

The Great Train Robbery, 8 August 1963. Inside one of the carriages of the mail train which was robbed at Cheddington, Buckinghamshire