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Bandit's Roost is the Internet's most intriguing resource for authors of nineteenth-century crime fiction.
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What’s in the Coal Cellar? (opens the original)
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Life was different in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Everything that was different provides opportunities and options to murderers that do not exist today. They can be options for committing the act, or for disposing of or concealing the victim after the deed was done.One of these examples is coal cellars. Coal was the major source of heating and large quantities were delivered and stored. Quantities large enough to bury a body.Thanks for reading Bandit
Anatomy of a Bertillonage Card (opens the original)
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Is it not astonishing that while there have existed from time immemorial, under the name of Hippology, special marks for the precise description for the shape and colour of the horse, there has never existed until the present time, so far as we know, a methodical treatise on human description?” Alphonse BertillonSystems to identify criminals existed prior to Alphonse Bertillon’s (pronounced Bertiyohn) creation, but his was the first to succeed. Rather than using the ̶
Does He Measure Up (opens the original)
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An idea floated around Europe in the 1800s. If you could expel those individuals predisposed to crime (aka recidivists/repeat offenders), the result would be a crime-free utopia. That was the logic behind Transportation.This is the era when gentlemen scientists categorized and catalogued everything from insects to people. That criminals could be scientifically identified gained popularity from about the middle of the century. A great many scientists believed that criminal tendencies were inherit
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