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This latest collection of chilling tales from old Lancashire gives an insight into the headline making news of bygone days. The horrifying headlines that shocked and stunned the inhabitants of the county are revealed once more within these pages. The terror of murder, the trauma of tragedy and the calamity surrounding catastrophy that all brought fear and foreboding to those involved.
The newspaper reporters of old rushed to meet the daily deadlines and report on the trials and tribulations of the criminals, the victims of accident or atrocity and the judges and juries who dispensed justice befitting the times. The executioners, whose work for years was within the public gaze, were kept busy and the prison cells full with those on penal servitude.
On land or sea, during day or night, in calm or tempest events unfolded that made bold headlines and brought tears and sympathy from the Lancashire folk. Many ended life in a watery grave, others perished at the hands of those with evil in their hearts, and passion or poverty engulfed many others.
Life in Lancashire with its rich and poor, its masters and minnows produced enough incidents to sell newspapers by the score. Enclosed are just some of those headline grabbing tales.
CONTENTS
Over Fourty Chapters including the following:
- Triple Tragedy At Farington
- Down The Pit Off Petticoat Lane
- Corpses Unearthed At Rainhill
- Girl Weaver Throttled To Death
- New Hall Lane Butcher's Ordeal
- At The Mercy Of The Accrington Undertaker
- Death Pact At The Derby Hotel
- Double Despair Of Daughter Jane
- Busy Time For Mr. Justice Park
- Peril Of Skating On Thin Ice
- Mystery Of The Horse Drawn Carriage
- Buried Beneath The Clods Of Earth
- Asylum Beckons For Killer Alice Ann
- Three Colliers Condemned To Die
- A Life For Sweet Eleanor's Life
- It Started With Threepennyworth Of Poison
- Goodbye To Kirkham's Little Angels
- Killing At Remote Rose Cottage
- A Tormented Man's Tragic Deed
- Pity All, After Harriett's Infidelity
- Savage Killing For A Few Shillings
- Sad Scene At The Serpentine Lake
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