Further sources are detailed in the Notes
PRIMARY SOURCES
Metropolitan Police, Home Office and court files
ASSI 25/46/8
HO 45/6970
HO 144/20/49113
MEPO 2/23
MEPO 3/61
MEPO 3/53
MEPO 3/54
MEPO 4/2
MEPO 4/333
MEPO 7/7
MEPO 21/7
Newspapers
The Bath Chronicle
The Bristol Daily Post
The Daily Telegraph
The Frome Times
The Morning Post
The News of the World
The Observer
The Penny Illustrated Paper
The Somerset and Wilts Journal
The Times
The Trowbridge & North Wilts Advertiser
The Western Daily Press
Journals
All the Year Round
The Annual Register
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
House-hold Words
The Law Times
Once a Week
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