Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Uxbridge

188 Pages·2013·4.12 MB·English

by  Dr Jonathan Oates

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Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
Other murders known to have been committed in and around Uxbridge from
the sixteenth century to 1962
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 - Uxbridge and its Environs
CHAPTER 2 - Law and Order in and around Uxbridge
CHAPTER 3 - A Turbulent Priest, 1529 – 1534
CHAPTER 4 - The Uxbridge Martyrs, 1555
CHAPTER 5 - Marital Strife in Harefield, 1784
CHAPTER 6 - A Regency Whodunit, 1816
CHAPTER 7 - Horrid and Mysterious Murder near Uxbridge, 1837
CHAPTER 8 - A Schoolboy Stabbing in Hayes, 1839
CHAPTER 9 - The Second Stabbing in 1839
CHAPTER 10 - Murder in Uxbridge, 1869
CHAPTER 11 - A Family Butcher, 1870
CHAPTER 12 - The Hayes Tragedy, 1884
CHAPTER 13 - Who Murdered Sarah Higgs? 1895
CHAPTER 14 - Murder or Suicide? 1899
CHAPTER 15 - Dreadful Murder at Yiewsley, 1899
CHAPTER 16 - The Uxbridge Gas Chamber, 1906
CHAPTER 17 - Disappearance at Yiewsley, 1933
CHAPTER 18 - Murder without Motive? 1937
CHAPTER 19 - The Assailant who Never was, 1938
CHAPTER 20 - Murder by Person or Persons Unknown, 1954
CHAPTER 21 - Spies in Suburbia, 1961
CHAPTER 22 - Manslaughter, Murder and Suicide, 1962
Conclusion
Bibliography