Crime Collection (page 3)

Cover design, Popular Aviation Magazine combined with Practical Mechanics, showing two criminals in a red car being pursued by two policemen in a biplane

Convict transportation to Australia
List of convicts embarked on the ship Merchantman from Portland to Western Australia, June 1864 Date: 1864

Dick Turpin
Indictment of Richard Dick Turpin, for stealing a mare worth three pounds from Thomas Creasy, at Welton, Yorkshire, 1st March 1739 Date: 1st March 1739

American Gangster Jack Legs Diamond
American Gangster and Bootlegger Jack Legs Diamond (1897-1931). Date: circa 1928

Dick Turpin shoots fellow highwayman, Tom King Date: 1839

LINCOLN ASSASSINATION. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth at Fords Theatre, Washington D. C
LINCOLN ASSASSINATION. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth at Fords Theatre, Washington D.C. 14 April 1865. Contemporary lithograph

AL CAPONE (1899-1947). American (Italian born) gangster. Al Capones 1928 bulletproof and bombproof Cadillac photographed in 1933

CHARLES LUCKY LUCIANO (1897-1962). American gangster. Photographed by the New York City Police Department, 1936, digitally colored by Granger, NYC

Pirates capturing a ship
Pirates capturing a galleon on the high seas. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century Howard Pyle illustration

Deacon Giless Distillery temperance cartoon, 1830s
" Bringing back the rum, " temperance cartoon showing liquor barrels labeled with forms of death, Salem, Massachusetts. Hand-colored woodcut from an 1830s temperance pamphlet

Sheriff removing criminals boots
Western sheriff arresting law-breakers and making them remove their boots to reduce escapes. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

Winson Green Prison, Birmingham
The castle-like entrance to Winson Green Prison, Birmingham, built in 1849 as a local gaol for adult male offenders

Inkerman Barracks, Woking, Surrey
A view of the entrance to Inkerman Barracks, Woking, Surrey. The buildings were originally opened in 1860 as an invalid prison for convicts not fit enough to be sent to Dartmoor

Prison reformer Elizabeth Fry visits women at Newgate
Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845) on a visit to Newgate Prison, London. In 1817, Fry and a group of like-minded, mostly Quaker, women formed the Ladies Association for the Reformation of the Female Prisoners

Girls room, Aylesbury Borstal, Buckinghamshire
A typical inmates room at the Aylesbury girls borstal, Buckinghamshire, established in 1909 as a youth prison for those aged 16 to 21

Skull and Crossbones - Inverted
The Jolly Roger is the name given to any of various flags flown to identify a ships crew as pirates. The flag most usually identified as the Jolly Roger today is the skull and crossbones

Skull and Crossbones
The Jolly Roger is the name given to any of various flags flown to identify a ships crew as pirates. The flag most usually identified as the Jolly Roger today is the skull and crossbones

Thuggee Chief 1843
Chief of the Thugs, captured by Captain Vallancey in Arcot disguised as a travellers escort

Top police dog Russ wearing his handlers hat

Tableau synoptic des traits physionomiques: pour servir a l etude du " portrait parle", ca. 1909

Witches destroying a house by fire - Swabia, 1533. Woodcut from Francesco Maria Guazzo Compendium Maleficarum, Milan, 1608. (Colorised black and white print)

General Gouraud escapes an assassination attempt on route from Damascas to Kunaitra, 1921. General Henri-Joseph-Eugene Gouraud (1867-1946), French High Commissioner of Syria

Last of the Charlies -- watchman at Brixton Hill, London
The last of the Charlies (the traditional nickname for watchmen). Seen here is Mr R Stokes at his watchmans box, 160 Brixton Hill, South London, well equipped with a truncheon

Princess Diana and Prince Charles visiting the Met Police
Princess Diana and Prince Charles on a visit to the Metropolitan Polices burglary squad. Date: circa 1980s

The highwayman
A highwayman, mounted on his horse, prepares to set off across the countryside in pursuit of his next victim. Date: 1880s

Smoking shotgun
Smoking gun. Smoking chambers of a double- barrelled shotgun

Crime / Resurrectionists
Robbing graveyards for corpses which will be sold to medical schools for purposes of anatomy

Dick Turpin meeting fellow highwayman Tom King (engraving)
2654241 Dick Turpin meeting fellow highwayman Tom King (engraving) by Pyle, Howard (1853-1911); Private Collection; (add.info.: Richard Dick Turpin (c.1705 - 7 April 1739)

The cast of CATS Eyes. TV Detective series. C. A. T. S
The cast of CATS Eyes. TV Detective series. C.A.T.S. Eyes was a British television series made by TVS for ITV between 1985 and 1987

Michael Greco Actor January 99 Eastenders actor who had his jaw broken by three men on christmas day

Prince and Princess Ito of Japan and their family, 1909. Artist: Herbert Ponting
Prince and Princess Ito of Japan and their family, 1909. Ito Hirobumi (1841-1909) was educated in Japan and Britain. He served as prime minister four times between 1885 and 1901

The Youngers, American outlaws, c1868-1876 (1954). Left to right: Bob, Rhetta, James and Cole. The brothers formed part of the notorious James-Younger gang, with Jesse and Frank James

Lochleven Castle, Scotland, the prison of Mary, Queen of Scots, 1840. Artist: C J Smith
Lochleven Castle, Scotland, the prison of Mary, Queen of Scots, 1840. Mary was imprisoned here between 1567 and 1568. Illustration from Historical

Title page of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886. Treasure Island, Stevensons (1850-1894) classic adventure novel for children was first serialised as The Sea Cook: or

Illustration, crime scene, man in street being fired at with shotgun from car window, both men in suits and fedora hats, pair of onlookers in background

Broadside issued by the War Department on 20 April 1865 offering rewards for the apprehension of John Wilkes Booth
LINCOLN ASSASSINATION. Broadside issued by the War Department on 20 April 1865 offering rewards for the apprehension of John Wilkes Booth

ALPHONSE CAPONE (1899-1947). American gangster. Photographed after having been arrested in Miami, Florida, c1930

SILK STOCKING SAL, 1924. A scene from the film directed by Tod Browning

Wormwood Scrubs Prison, West London
A general view of Wormwood Scrubs Prison in West London. The prison was opened as a convict prison in 1883 then used as a local prison from 1890

Lambro the Pirate
Mr Dry in the role of Lambro the Pirate

Cover of Police Mag. 1933
Magazine cover showing a dangerous masked woman

Borgia Family / C16Th
Francesco Borgia, with Lucrezia, his mother

Old Ford car, Trinidad, Cuba, West Indies, Central America

Highwaymen / Redington
Redingtons horses: famous highwaymen including: Tom King, Captain Hawk, Jack Sheppard, Claude Duval, Captain Macheath & Sixteen String Jack

C18th Highwaymen / Robbers
John Everett & Richmond Bird rob a coach on Hounslow Heath

Richard (Dick) Turpin
The daring highwayman who made a dash from London to York, riding his mare, Black Bess

L Apache est la plaie de Paris (colour litho)
2779339 L Apache est la plaie de Paris (colour litho) by French School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Apache is the plague of Paris. 30, 000 criminals against 8000 policemen)

Untitled (27), c. 1890. [Bridge of Sighs, Venice]. Creator: Unknown
Untitled (27), c. 1890. [Bridge of Sighs, Venice]. Photogravure, no. 39 from the portfolio " Calli, Canali e Isole della Laguna"

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