Off the rails: the first murder on a British train
11th May 2016
Something else for the London International Antiquarian Book Fair? A scarce slipsong ballad, jauntily memorialising Franz Müller’s trial for the murder of City banker Thomas Briggs on a London train. Late in the evening of 9 July 1864, Briggs was attacked in his first class compartment whilst travelling home on the train from Fenchurch Street […]
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