The Italian Boy (60 page)

Great Windmill Street School of Anatomy

Green, Joseph

Green Ground.
See
St. Clement Danes Church

Grey, Earl

Guildhall magistrates court

Guthrie, George

Guy’s Hospital.
See also
United Hospitals of St. Thomas’s and Guy’s

medical education and

Hackney Express and Shoreditch Observer

Haldane, Mary

Hall, Mary Ann

Halls, Thomas

Hare, William

Harmer, James

Hart, Mr.

Head, George (Williams’s father)

Head, John (brother of Thomas Head/Williams), birth and death of

Head, Mary (Williams’s mother)

Head, Rhoda.
See
Williams, Rhoda Bishop

Head, Thomas.
See
Williams, Thomas (
originally
Thomas Head)

Henoge, Charles

Henry VIII, King of England

Higgins, Constable Joseph

High Church Anglicans

Highgate

Hill, William

Hilton, John “Anatomical John”

History of the London Burkers, The

Hitchcock, Mrs.

Holborn

Hollis, (body snatcher)

Holloway churchyard

Holywell Mount (burial ground)

Hood, Thomas

horse market

Horse Patrol

Horsey, Samuel

hospital medical schools.
See also
anatomists; medical profession; surgeons;
and specific hospitals

Houseless Poor Association

House of Commons.
See also
Parliament

House of Lords.
See also
Parliament

Hue and Cry
(later
Police Gazette
)

humanitarianism

Hunt, Henry “Orator”

Hunter, John

Hunter, William

Hunterian Museum

Hyde, David

Image Boy, The
(poem)

image boys, defined.
See also
Italian boys

informants

payments to

Isaacs, James

Islington workhouse

Italian artisans

Italian Boy, The
(play)

Italian Boy case (Bishop and Williams case).
See also
drover’s boy from Lincolnshire; Ferrari, Carlo; Italian boys; Pigburn, Fanny; resurrectionists;
and specific anatomy schools, hospitals; legal proceedings, lodgings, pubs, suspects, and victims

Anatomy Act passage speeded by

awl and

“blood money” to witnesses and

bodies of convicted murderers, after execution

Bow Street magistrates hearings on

burial and exhumation of body

cause of death

cause of death, Bishop’s confession on

clothing, as evidence

confessions and

confessions and, official

confessions and, unofficial additional, in newspapers

continuing mystery of extent of murders and identity of body

coroner’s inquest and early story on

corpse, delivered to King’s College

corpse, viewing and early identification of

crime scene analysis and detection and

decline of, into obscurity

destitute parents view body, in hopes of finding lost children

entertainment about, after execution

executions and

eyes of nation on

fiction inspired by

furry cap and

hamper and

heart empty of blood, significance of

identification of body, as “Italian boy”

identity, Bishop’s confession and

identity, continuing mystery of

illustrations of

indictments and

jackdaw story and

last seen alive

lessons drawn from, in England

likely solutions to puzzle of

metal implements and

mice and

Old Bailey trial and

Partridge stories on

Pigburn murder and

police searches of Nova Scotia Gardens and

prints, poems and broadsheets on

revelations about anatomy schools and

rumors of more murders and accomplices, after execution

teeth, displayed by dentist

teeth sold to dentist

temple wound

tortoise and

unpleasant aspects of life in London revealed by

well and

Italian boys

child-trafficking and

display of animals and figures by

seeks help from Dicity, in 1834

“Italian Savoyard Boy, The” (Bayly)

Jack Ketch’s Warren

Jerome, John

Johnson, Black Joe

Johnson, Dr. James

Johnson, William

Jones, William.
See
Williams, Thomas (
originally
Thomas Head)

Joseph (victim of Burke and Hare)

Justin, John

Justitia
(ship)

Kahn, Dr.

Key, Charles Aston

Key, John

Keymer, Abraham

King, John

King, Margaret

King, Martha

King of Denmark pub

King’s College

Kirkman, John

Knight, Charles

Knox, Dr.

Laing, Allan

Lamb, George

Lancet

Laurie, Peter

Lewis, Jane

Life in London
(Egan)

Lillie, Sir John Scott

Littledale, Sir Joseph (judge)

“Little Italy”

Little Windmill Street School of Anatomy.
See also
Great Windmill Street School of Anatomy

Lock, Henry

London.
See also
City

beggars and street life of

gaslights in

jails, registers of

lessons about, from Italian Boy case

loneliness in

Metropolitan Improvements, underground discoveries and

migration into

migration of Italians to

physical layout of

place and district names of

police reform in

prices of early 1830s

safety and violence in

settlement system and

sewage problem

street boys, attitudes toward

unrest in

London Apprentice pub

London Hospital

London Society for the Suppression of Mendicity (Dicity) (Red Lion Square)

Long, George

Loniski, Antonio

Low, Mrs.

lower classes.
See also
beggars; poor and destitute; working class

Macaulay, Thomas Babington

MacFarlane, Charles

Macher, (son of army surgeon)

Magendie, François

magistrates’ courts, records of.
See also
Bow Street magistrates

Malvarham, Barnard

Mann, Henry

Marine Society

Marquis of Anglesey pub

Marshalsea debtors’ prison

Martin, Col. Richard “Humanity Dick”

Martin’s Act

Mary Adelaide, Princess, duchess of Teck

Mary Tudor, Queen of England

Massa, Pietro

Maule, G.

May, James

additional confessions and

alibi of

appearance of

arrest of

background of

Bishop’s confession exonerates

Bishop vs.

Bow Street magistrates hearings and

confessions of, on resurrectionists

coroner’s inquest and

criminal career of

Culkin and

death of

list of potential killers and

lodgings of, searched

medical profession and

nickname of

Old Bailey trial of

pardoned from execution

physiognomy of

in prison after trial and

as resurrectionist

sale of body and

smock-frock and

teeth of boy and

verdict and

Mayhew, Henry

Mayne, Richard

Mayo, Herbert “The Owl”

M’Dougal, Ann

meat markets.
See also
Smithfield

medical profession.
See also
anatomists; surgeons;
and specific doctors, hospitals, and private academies

attacks on

education and

memoirs of, on resurrectionists

Pilcher on resurrectionists and

reformers and

revelations about dissections and

secrecy of, about dissections

students and burking charges and

Melbourne, Lord

Mellon, Harriot.
See
St. Albans, duchess of

men

abandonment of families by

selling of wives by

Merritt, Charles

Methodists

Metropolitan New Police

resistance to

wages of

Metropolitan Police Act (1829)

middle classes

Middlemarch
(Eliot)