The Italian Boy (62 page)

Shearing, Thomas

Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer

Shields, Michael

appearance of

arrest of

attitude of

Bishop’s confession and

Bow Street magistrates hearings and

career of, in resurrection trade

charges vs., dropped

coroner’s inquest and

meeting places and

Pigburn murder and

social ostracism of

trial and

Shoreditch

workhouse

Signs of Murder
(Hunter)

silk trade

Simpson, Abigail

Simpson, Constable

Slaughtering of Horses Bill (1824), defeat of

sledge beggars

Smirke, Robert

Smirke, Sydney

Smith, George

Smith, J. T.

Smith, John Gordon

Smith, (missing youth)

Smith, Mr. (St. Bartholomew’s Hospital)

“Smithfield bargain”

Smithfield (Smoothe Field)

changing attitudes toward

markets and slaughter houses of

passageways and criminality in

“snotter-haulers”

Soane, John

Society for Foreigners in Distress

Society for Relieving the Houseless Poor

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Society for the Suppression of Juvenile Vagrancy

Somerville, Dr. James Craig

Soup Society

South, Dr. John Flint

Southey, Robert

Spencer-Warren, Mary

Spitalfields

Spitalfields Gang (body snatchers)

Spoor, James

Starbuck, Charles

Statute of Apprentices, repeal of (1814)

Stow, John

Strand

streets

entertainers

who has right to be in

Stringall (body snatcher)

Stuart, Lord Dudley Coutts

“Student of 1815, A”

subpoenas

Sue, Eugène

Sullivan, William

Sunday Times

Sun
(newspaper)

surgeons.
See also
anatomists; medical profession

allow public to view dissection

attacked by Radicals

Bow Street magistrates hearings and

cost of corpses for

education of

fears of murder to supply

Old Bailey trial and

Pigburn case and

resurrectionist’s legal expenses and

secrecy of, about dissections

urged not to accept fresh corpses

Surgeons Hall

Survey of London
(Stow)

Sussex, duke of, Augustus Frederick Hanover

Tale of Two Cities, A
(Dickens)

Taunton, Samuel

Tavernor, Thomas

Taylor, Ann

Taylor, Joseph

Thames river

Thames River Police

Thomas, Joseph Sadler

arrest and

arrests of Sarah and Rhoda and

background of

Bishop children and

Bow Street magistrates hearings and

charge against Bishop and Williams and

coroner’s jury praises

on darkness of London streets

evidence amassed by

identification of Italian Boy and

“information received” and

life of, after executions

May’s list and

Old Bailey trial and

Pigburn murder and

Shields and

vagrant children and

witnesses and

Thurtell, John

Tighe (Tye), Robert (James Kettle or Cattle)

Tilt, Charles

Tim Buc Too (street-crossing sweeper)

Times

Tindal, Sir Nicholas Conyngham

Tories

Town Swamps and Social Bridges
(Godwin)

Trader, Thomas

Trench, Sir Frederick

Trial and Execution of the Burkers for Murdering a Poor Italian Boy, The
(broadsheet)

Trueby, John

Trueby, Sarah

Trueby family

Turner, Elizabeth

Tuson, Edward

Twyford, Samuel

typhus epidemic of 1837–38

Tyrrell, Frederick

unemployment

Unicorn tavern

unions

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

University College

urbanization

Vagabondiana
(Smith)

vagrancy.
See also
poor and destitute

Vagrancy Act (1824)

arrest of Italian boys under

“vagrant collectors”

Vaughan, Sir John (Baron)

Vaughan, (resurrectionist)

Vaux, James Hardy

Victoria, Queen of England

Vidocq, Eugène-François

vivisection

vote, expansion of

Waddy, James

Wade, John

wages

Waithman, Alderman

Wakely, Thomas

Walsh, Caroline

Wandsworth policing

Warburton, Henry

Ward, Edward

Ward, John

Warner, Elizabeth

Warren, Mrs., tomb of

weaving trade

Weekly Dispatch

Weeks, James

Welch, Catherine

Wellington, duke of

West, (tailor)

West End

Westminster Hospital

Weston, Jane

Whackett, (gravedigger)

White, Charles (victim of attempted burking)

White, (magistrate)

White, (murdered Lincolnshire drover’s boy).
See also
drover’s boy from Lincolnshire

Whitechapel

Wigley, Thomas

Wild, Jonathan

Wilkinson, William

William IV, King of England

Williams, Morris Meredith

Williams, (publican)

Williams, Rev. Dr. Theodore (vicar of Hendon)

background of

confessions and

newspaper reports and

Williams, Rhoda Bishop (Rhoda Head, stepdaughter and half-sister of Bishop, wife of Williams)

confessions and

executions and

life of, after execution

marries Williams/Head

Old Bailey trial and

Pigburn murder and

taken into custody

Williams, (runaway boy)

Williams, Thomas (East End body snatcher), name of, possibly borrowed by Head

Williams, Thomas (of Eaton), name of, possibly borrowed by Head

Williams, Thomas (
originally
Thomas Head,
aliases
William Jones, John Head)

appearance of

arrest of

attempt of, to sell boy’s corpse

background of

Bishop’s confession and

body of, after execution

Bow Street magistrates hearings and

charges vs.

clothes of, exhibited by executioner

confession of

confession of, additional reported after death

confession of, official

coroner’s inquest and

criminal career of

Culkin and

execution of

exonerates May

lack of evidence vs.

language of

likeness of, after death

man waves goodbye to, at Old Bailey

medical profession and

name and aliases of

note to Russell before execution

Nova Scotia Gardens cottage of

Old Bailey trial of

phrenology of skull of

physiognomy of skull of

Pigburn murder and

plaster casts of head sold

in prison after trial and

resurrection trade and

Sarah Bishop on

verdict vs.

Wilson, “Daft Jamie”

Wilson, John

women

abandoned

missing

sold by husbands

Wontner, John

Wood, Alderman (sheriff of City)

Wood, Charles (blind beggar)

Wood, Thomas (alias Buxton or Cox)

Wood, Thomas (undersheriff)

Woodcock, Hannah

Woodcock, William, Jr.

Woodcock, William, Sr.

Wordsworth, William

workhouse paupers, attempted burking of

workhouses

working classes.
See also
lower classes

workingmen’s organizations

About the Author

S
ARAH
W
ISE
is a historian of Victorian England, with a special focus on poverty and class, criminal justice, urban architecture, and the city in literature. Also a journalist, she has written for
The Guardian, The Observer,
and
The Independent on Sunday,
as well as
Marie Claire
and other magazines.
The Italian Boy
is her first book. She lives in London.