Chronicles of Bow Street Police-Office Fitzgerald Paperback Volume 1
Chronicles of Bow Street Police-OfficeWith an Account of the Magistrates, Runners', and Police; and a Selection of the Most Interesting Cases\nAuthor(s): Percy Fitzgerald\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108036948, 978-1108036948\nSynopsis\nPercy Fitzgerald [tel] was a prolific author, critic, painter and sculptor. He was born in Ireland and attended Stonyhurst College in Lancashire, and then Trinity College Dublin. When he moved to London, he became a contributor to Charles Dickens' periodical Household Words. This two-volume work, published in 1888, gives a stirring account of the work of London's eighteenth-century law enforcers, the Bow Street Runners. Drawing on records of criminal cases, it tells how magistrates Henry Fielding and his blind half-brother Sir John Fielding helped to set up the Runners. Their actions dramatically reduced violent crime in the city and paved the way for the m.
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