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Drawing on a wide selection of sources and illustrated with more than fifty images, this collection of grisly tales explores the shadier side of Harrogate’s past. Among the cases featured here are a police constable stabbed in Pateley Bridge in 1831; a wife who poisoned her husband in Dallowgill in 1834; and two children murdered by their father in Ripon in 1837. Also included is a Beckwithshaw woman purportedly buried alive in 1888, and a baby found drowned in the River Nidd in 1842 as well as highway robbery, assault and mysterious disappearances. With murders, hangings, kidnap and violence, Harrogate & District Murder & Crime is sure to captivate and horrify everyone interested in the criminal history of this part of North Yorkshire.

Murder and Crime Harrogate and District

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    Publisher: The History Press Ltd
    Publication Date: 08/11/2010
    ISBN13: 9780752456225, 978-0752456225
    ISBN10: 0752456229

    Number of Pages: 96

    Non Fiction , Crime & Thriller

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    Drawing on a wide selection of sources and illustrated with more than fifty images, this collection of grisly tales explores the shadier side of Harrogate’s past. Among the cases featured here are a police constable stabbed in Pateley Bridge in 1831; a wife who poisoned her husband in Dallowgill in 1834; and two children murdered by their father in Ripon in 1837. Also included is a Beckwithshaw woman purportedly buried alive in 1888, and a baby found drowned in the River Nidd in 1842 as well as highway robbery, assault and mysterious disappearances. With murders, hangings, kidnap and violence, Harrogate & District Murder & Crime is sure to captivate and horrify everyone interested in the criminal history of this part of North Yorkshire.

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