The Italian Boy (61 page)

Middlesex Hospital anatomy school

Millbank Penitentiary “Panopticon”

Mills, Thomas

Minshull, George Rowland

animal cruelty cases and

arrest of Sarah and Rhoda and

Bow Street magistrates hearings and

cause of death and

murder weapon and

Nova Scotia Gardens search and

Old Bailey trial and

parents of missing children and

Pigburn murder and

revelations about dissections and

Shields and

Thomas and

Minto, earl of

Montero, Giacomo, (possible identity of Italian boy)

Morgan, Henry

Morning Advertiser

Morning Post

Mortimer, Robert

Murder of the Italian Boy, The
(Egan)

Murders in the Rue Morgue, The
(Poe)

Murphy, (Holywell body snatcher)

Mysteries of London, The
(Reynolds)

Mystères de Paris, Les
(Sue)

Nag’s Head Court

Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleonic Wars

National Guardian Society

National Union of the Working Classes

New and Comprehensive Vocabulary of the Flash Language
(Vaux)

Newgate Prison

Debtors Door

press rooms

Press Yard

Newgate Shambles meat market

New Inn (inn of court)

New Monthly Magazine

New Poor Law (1834)

newspapers

additional confessions and

Newton, Sir Isaac

Newton, William

Nightly Shelter for the Houseless

Nottingham riots of 1831

Nova Scotia Gardens

condition of, after murders

description and history of

killing at, in Bishop’s confession

neighbors’ testimony and

obscurity of

topography of, described at trial

tours and crowds at, after executions

Nova Scotia Gardens, No. 2

Nova Scotia Gardens, No. 3 (Bishop’s House of Murder)

admission booths in

description of

men seen moving sack from

police searches of

survey of, for trial

washhouse

well

Observations on Injuries and Diseases of the Rectum
(Mayo)

Observations on the Vagrant Act
(Adolphus)

Observer

Old Bailey

as center of carting trade

executions at

resurrection culture and

Sessions House

Old Bailey Experience
(penal-reform volume)

Old Bailey Sessions House trial

aftermath of

courtroom

date set

defense attorneys

difficulties of prosecution

judges

jury

length of

model of Bishop house made for

summing up

verdict

witnesses for defense

witnesses for prosecution

Old Red Lion Tavern

Old Slaughter’s Coffee House

Old Street

Oliver Twist
(Dickens)

On the Truths Contained in Popular Superstitions
(Mayo)

Otter, Rev. William

“outdoor relief”

Oxford Street

Padmore, Robert

padroni

Palmer, William, the Poisoner

Paragalli, Joseph

Paragalli, Mary

Paris

abattoirs of

Revolution of 1789 and

parish constables

parish relief

Parliament.
See also
House of Commons; House of Lords

Parliamentary Select Committees

on Anatomy (1828)

on Destitute (1816, 1821, 1828)

on Fleet River (1837)

on Medical Education

on Policing (1828)

on the Police of the Metropolis (1828)

on the State of Smithfield Market (1828)

Partridge, Richard

background of

dissects Bishop’s body

grants to, for corpses

Italian Boy case and

life of, after trial

Paterson, Mary

peddlers

Peel, Robert

Pelham, Cresset

“penny gaffs” (performances)

Perceval, Alexander

Phillips, Charles

Phillips, S.M.

Philosophy of Living, The
(Mayo)

phrenology

of Bishops and Williams

physiognomy

of Bishops and Williams

Piedmont

Pigburn, Fanny (Pighorn, Pickbourne)

cause of death

child of

confessions and

indictment and

lessons of murder of

Pilcher, George

Place, Francis

plague of 1664–65

Plough Inn, Smithfield

Poe, Edgar Allan

police.
See also
Metropolitan New Police

Police Gazette
(formerly
Hue and Cry
)

police levy or rate payments

Police Select Committee Report
(1828)

Pontifex, Henry

poor and destitute.
See also
beggars, children

Anatomy Bill and

areas inhabited by

causes of poverty of

charities attempting to deal with

history of

lack of social justice for

legal restrictions on

living conditions of

meat bought by

Metropolitan New Police drawn from

middle classes separate from

number of

ordinary working classes vs.

policing of, as game

poor laws increase

settlement and

Smithfield market and

as source of wonder and intrigue

Poor Law Amendment Act (1834).
See also
New Poor Law

poor laws.
See also
Vagrancy Act

poor-rate levy

poor relief.
See also
parish relief; settlement system

Prior, James

prisons

children in

floating, or “hulks”

religious reform and

vagrants in

prosecutors, private

prostitutes

pubs.
See also
specific pubs

order of visits to

as resurrectionist meeting places

Pye Corner (meat market)

Quadrant (County Fire Office)

Quakers

Queen Square magistrates office

Radicals

Randall, John

Reform Act (1832)

Reform Bill (1831), defeat of

civil unrest following

satirized as “burking”

resurrectionist(s) (body snatchers)

Anatomy Act and effort to end

anatomy schools pay, not to supply rivals

Bishop’s success and early arrests as

Brookes’s dispute with, over prices

convictions and punishments for

demise of, as trade

fiction on

gangs and

Holywell Mount feud among

lack of historical information on

May becomes

meeting places and

methods of

number of

panic over murders by

payments to, by surgeons for legal costs

piecing together criminal careers of

prices for corpses and

slang names for

tools of

Williams becomes

Revelations of Prison Life
(Chesterton)

Rex v. Lynn
(1788)

Reynolds, George William MacArthur

Richardson, Ruth

Rippingille, Edward

Rockingham Arms pub

Roe, Mr.

Ronchatti, Alexander

Ross, Eliza

Rotch, (magistrate)

Rowan, Charles

Royal College of Physicians

Royal College of Surgeons of England

Russell, Rev. Dr. Whitworth

St. Albans, duchess of, Harriot Mellon

St. Albans, duke of

St. Andrew’s parish, Holborn

St. Bartholomew’s Hospital

St. Clement Danes Church burial ground (Green Ground)

St. Clement Danes workhouse

St. Giles parish

St. Leonard’s Church

St. Luke’s

St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields watch house

St. Mary’s parish

St. Matthew’s parish

St. Pancras parish

St. Pancras workhouse graveyard

St. Paul’s Church

St. Paul’s parish

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

Scharf, George

Scotland Yard, Detective Branch

Scott, Sir Walter

Seagrave, James

settlement system

Sewell, Sir John

Shearing, John