They Hanged My Saintly Billy.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Contents -- I The Old Bailey: May 14th, 1856 -- II The Wiles of Jane Widnall -- III Mr Duffy's Sample Box -- IV Colonel Brookes's Resolution -- V Stafford Infirmary -- VI At Bart's -- VII The Courtship of Annie Brookes -- VIII The Nursery -- IX An Unfortunate Series of Deaths -- X English Cholera -- XI 'A Good Life' -- XII A Gentleman of Property -- XIII 'Two Narrow Shaves' -- XIV Financial Straits -- XV Death at The Talbot Arms -- XVI Step-father to the Deceased -- XVII The Inquest on John Parsons Cook -- XVIII Stafford Gaol -- XIX Unreliable Witnesses -- XX Absent Witnesses -- XXI If Doctors Disagree -- XXII The Verdict -- XXIII A Change in Public Opinion -- XXIV The Execution -- Endnotes.

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