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Doncaster has world-wide fame as a railway town. For many years the name was associated with engineering, transport and of course coal. But there is a darker aspect to its history. The sinister side is explored through the research and writing of an experienced crime historian. Sensational tales have been uncovered concerning a variety of dark deeds, including a cloak-and-dagger meeting in an Elizabethan tavern and the murder of a Civil War leader. Over the years Doncaster and district has been the scene of riots, Suffragette militancy, terrible domestic tragedies, sad suicides and brutal murders. The stories here range from the notorious Baccarat Scandal which shocked Victorian society to a betting-room robbery at the races. The author also reminds us about famous criminals associated with the town, as well as a Prince and a hangman, a notorious fraudster , even a London playboy. Shocking, surprising, at times chilling but true, a new layer of the towns social history is now...
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I n researching a book of this kind, a great deal of help is required. Dr Charles Kelham of Doncaster Archives has been most helpful in providing illustrations. A case book like this needs a variety of images in order to reflect the range of sources. Library staff at the University of Hull have been an excellent support, also, and thanks are due to previous writers on the history of Doncaster, notably Brian Barber, author of a new standard history of the town. Staff at Doncaster Library Local Studies have been very helpful in the hunt for material in the lesser-known by-ways of crime.
A particularly unusual source (and therefore a wonderful help) for this volume has been a work by Ernest Pettifer, once Clerk of the West Riding Justices; his memoirs really opened up some dramatic and fascinating stories.
T here has not been a great deal of material in print on crime in Doncaster history. As usual with such sources, the writing has been scattered and piecemeal, but in one way that is an advantage. It means that the writer has to reconstruct the stories from eclectic sources and make a sense of drama come through. Nevertheless, there have been some major cases, notably the 1829 betting room robbery, and the two principal executions in the twentieth century. For the former, historians have to rely on contemporary records across the press and in trial reports. Apart from the strain on the eyes, the challenge there is to sort out the likely truth of events from the anecdotes and the prejudice of reporters. But one of the pleasures of crime history is that, surprisingly for many, not all the stories in that area are grim and gruesome, and there have been surprises on the way.
The sources therefore range from small booklets from local writers to massive reference works, and I hope that this book will perhaps spark some interest from other crime historians in the Doncaster area, as there are still many more foul deeds stories to be told. Without monographs and learned articles from specialists, it would be very difficult to assemble a solid casebook for the general reader.
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The images from Doncaster Council, kindly provided by Dr Charles Kelham, are referenced at AB/RACE/69 at Doncaster Archives.
The original artwork is by Vicki Schofield, as credited in the text.
Credit for the use of the map illustration in the railway story is to Cassini Publishing (see www.cassinimaps.com)
The innkeeper played pimp to his wife, to trap Sandys.
I n Elizabethan England, there was paranoia and duplicity on all sides: the Queen and government were constantly struggling to keep the balance of power in Europe, pitted against Catholic Spain. Our island status was a great advantage, but that also meant that spies and double agents were always on the move, and the coast was very hard to patrol.
The Queen needed a spycatcher, and she had a number of excellent ones, including Sir Francis Walsingham and Sir Christopher Hatton. These men recruited agents to work in their networks and to go undercover. It was not a difficult task because the universities were full of the younger sons of well-to-do men, and they needed something to do. There were always armies being raised to indulge in either suppressing the Irish or taking on Catholic armies in Europe. Spying was a good choice, too, and several amoral and two-faced rogues signed up to work in espionage.
Two of these men, Bernard Maude and Robert Poley, figure in this nasty little plot that took place in Doncaster. Maude was a graduate of Trinity College, Oxford, leaving there in 1566. Poley was a Cambridge man, but in the lowest grade, called a sizar which meant he had to do some of the lowest chores around in order to have fees paid, and continue. Poley was, after these events in Doncaster, to be involved in the famous Babington Plot to murder Queen Elizabeth in 1586. Maude was to prove to be a guttersnipe born survivor, escaping from attention and retribution, even after that major political piece of skulduggery.
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