South Shields Murders & Misdemeanours

Laurie Curry

• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Year: 2008
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781445630991
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

'We never needed to lock our doors in the past...our door was always open, even if we were out...you could walk the streets safely in those days...Nobody bothered you.' This is what Laurie Curry's grandmother used to say when she was comparing her times to modern times. But how true was it? Laurie started to research into these good old days by trawling through the archives of the local history section of the Central Library in South Shields. He also looked through back copies of the Shields Gazette. He was looking for the ordinary Shields person, not the rich and famous, and what he found confirmed his thoughts. It was not all good old days, there were quite a lot of bad old days too. His research drew his curiosity to the criminal element in the town's past and here are the results of his research. Read about the South Shields Cannibal, Death by Dirt, Battered to Death and Murder on Board.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• The South Shields Cannibal: December 1903
• Death by Pride: February 1905
• Starved to Death: April 1906
• Death by Dirt: May 1906
• The Deluded Gunman: August 1906
• The Workhouse
• A Seaman’s Tragic Find: February 1909
• Insanity: March 1910
• Who Done It?: April 1911
• A Shilling for the Wife: November 1913
• Battered to Death: November 1917
• Brotherly Love: February 1919
• Vengeance: May 1919
• Murder on Board: July 1920
• Jilted Lover: March 1923
• The Police
• South Shields Police Report for the Year Ending: 31 December 1905
• A Gruesome Find: July 8, 1905
• ‘Dumped’: May 1910
• Twin Deaths: October 1910
• Concealment of Birth: May 1917
• Washhouse Battle: August 1906
• Ten Thousand Fellows upon Me: March 1923
• Double Throat Cuttings: June 1928
• Light List at Durham Quarter Sessions: July 1920
• Cases
• Trouble at Home: 1905
• List of Sources