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  • Talbot, James Beard,
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  • Tardieu, Ambroise,
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    • Étude médico-légale sur les attentats aux moeurs
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  • Taylor, Dr Alfred Swaine, 46, 200, 204, 207;
     
    • A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence
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  • Teague, Inspector,
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  • Theakston, Solomon Wilkinson,
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  • Theakston’s Guide to Scarborough
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  • Theatre Royal, Stock, Essex,
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  • Thomas, Cecil (‘Sissy’):
     
    • at Strand Theatre,
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    • friendship with Stella,
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    • Inspector Thomas pursues,
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    • tried
      in absentia
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    • later career,
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  • Thompson, Inspector James:
     
    • and arrest of Fanny and Stella,
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    • overwhelmed with testimonies,
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    • and Fiske’s status as Consul,
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    • requests search of Fiske’s premises in Edinburgh,
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    • and disappearance of Lord Arthur,
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    • travels to Scotland to apprehend Harry Park,
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    • and Fanny and Stella’s lying-low on bail,
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    • payments to George Smith,
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    • meets Dr Paul before arrest of Fanny and Stella,
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    • conspires to bring charges,
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    • retirement and death,
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  • Times, The
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  • Toole, J.L. (actor),
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  • Tottenham,
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  • Treasury: payments to witnesses and police officers,
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  • Tristan, Flora,
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  • Tyrwhitt, Mr (magistrate),
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  • Vane-Tempest, Lady Susan,
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  • Veyne, Dr François-Auguste,
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  • Victoria, Queen,
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  • Vincent, Howard,
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  • Wakefield Street: house investigated by police,
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  • Walker, Police Constable Charles,
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  • ‘Walter’:
    My Secret Life
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  • Warner, Henry B.,
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  • Weekly Times
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  • Western Mail
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  • Westminster Hall,
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  • White, Police Constable George,
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  • White, Mr (of Gresham Street),
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  • Wight, Albert,
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  • Wilde, Oscar,
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    • Lady Windermere’s Fan
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  • Wimpole Street,
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  • Yardley, Mr (magistrate),
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  • Yokel’s Preceptor, The
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29th April 1870: An excited crowd looks on as Ernest Boulton and Frederick Park in full drag leave Bow Street Magistrates’ Court the morning after their arrest at the Strand Theatre

‘And such a stock of togs was there.’ The police raid Fanny and Stella’s secret dressing-rooms in Wakefield Street and confiscate their entire drag wardrobe

Stella Boulton, ‘the most wonderful impersonator of female character ever before the public’ with ‘the most perfect soprano voice’, photographed in Scarborough in October, 1868

‘Rose of the Garden, blushing and gay’ – the captivating Stella Boulton dressed as a man

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