Masters of Crime (Studies of Multiple Murders)

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Description
The cases of murder, mostly of the whole- sale variety, with plunder as the instigating motive, described in this work, have been selected from the criminal records of two countries, England and France.
It is a mistake to suppose that every nation has its own particular type of murderer, that certain brands of crime are confined to certain races, that alien assassins are any worse or any better than our own. There are no national boundaries to crime. Humanity is inspired by the same motives the world over, and in the depths of depravity to which, at its worst, it can sink, no country can cry shame upon another. The human tiger is not a product of this or that race and country. He is at once the terror and despair of every civilized land. The hideous crimes which stain the pages of French history have similarly disgraced our own. The monster- murderer whose deeds we shudder at has had his parallel in other climes, and the only real difference is in the methods employed to run him down.
The truth of this was made manifest at the time of the " Ripper" murders in London forty years ago. It then transpired that similar crimes,
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Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. The "Ripper" Murders-New light on old mystery
CHAPTER II. Jean Baptiste Troppman, the inhuman slayer of the Kinck family, eight persons in all, seven of whom he buried in a clover field near Paris.
CHAPTER III. John Owen, alias Jones, the travelling blacksmith, who murdered Emmanuel Marshall, his wife, his mother and four children at Denham, Bucks
CHAPTER IV. Joseph Philippe, the French " Jack the Ripper," whose terrible crimes shocked and horrified the French capital during a period of nearly five years
CHAPTER V. Edgar Edwards, who adopted wholesale murder and robbery as a pleasant and profitable occupation
CHAPTER VI. Charles Avinain, a brutal miscreant, a butcher in more senses than one, whom seven policemen were re- quired to arrest
CHAPTER VII. John Gleeson Wilson, the destroyer of Mrs. Henricksen, her two children, and maid-servant at Liverpool
CHAPTER VIII. Georges Lacenaire, poet, philosopher, wholesale assassin. One of the most remarkable criminals in history
CHAPTER IX. John Williams, the Ratcliff Highway demon, who inspired one of the finest essays in the English language
CHAPTER X. Joseph Garcia, slayer of the Watkins family at Llangibby, and Caillard, the Nassandres monster
CHAPTER XI. Albert Hicks, the American Pirate-Murderer, who killed the crew of the E. A. Johnson
CHAPTER XII. More Multiple Murderers: William Godfrey Youngman -Frederick Bailey Deeming-Albert Crossman
CHAPTER XIII. Double Murderers: Walter Miller-William Seaman- Philip Nicholson-Charles Hussey
CHAPTER XIV. Patrick Reid and Michael McCabe, tried and convicted for the brutal murders of Mr. and Mrs. Wraith and their servant at Mirfield, Yorks.
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Author Details
Guy B.H. Logan