In 1879, Alphonse Bertillon, a clerk in the Préfecture de Police, introduced a system that would forever change criminal identification. Frustrated by the inability to reliably identify repeat offenders, Bertillon developed anthropometry—a system of precise bodily measurements combined with standardized p...
Met Policeman metropolitan police officer Midwife experienced woman who assists in child birth Milk Carrier Someone who carries milk. Milk Dairyman Someone who keeps dairy cattle and produces milk. Miller One who operated a mill; grain, cloth, timber etc. Milleress A female miller, or the mille...
The coroner’s office, the health department and the police department have been notified of the circumstances. The child was prematurely born a week ago to-day. Its mother, a well built Irish woman, is the wife of Robert Muldoon, a painter, paper hanger and decorator, who carries on a ...
As a member of the federal police I have recorded that In the past few months, particularly in December last year, Melbourne has turned into a warzone. Robbery, violence and crime on our streets on a weekly basis. Throughout last December 2017 a circle of various events have collectively hi...
BBC America’s compelling crime drama Ripper Street set in the seething backstreets of Victorian London: Haunted by the failure to catch London’s most evil killer, Jack the Ripper, Inspector Edmund Reid now heads up the notorious H Division – the toughest police district in the East End. Ch...
No police. People still patronised the business. And you’d stand on your side of the counter, and you knew – and he knew you knew – and you knew he knew you knew. And not a word was said beyond, ‘And a quarter of sherbert lemons, please.’ So – the notion that Joan ...