Drawing on a wide selection of sources and illustrated with more than fifty images, this collection of grisly tales explores the shadier side of Harrogate’s past. Among the cases featured here are a police constable stabbed in Pateley Bridge in 1831; a wife who poisoned her husband in Dallowgill in 1834; and two children murdered by their father in Ripon in 1837. Also included is a Beckwithshaw woman purportedly buried alive in 1888, and a baby found drowned in the River Nidd in 1842 as well as highway robbery, assault and mysterious disappearances. With murders, hangings, kidnap and violence, Harrogate & District Murder & Crime is sure to captivate and horrify everyone interested in the criminal history of this part of North Yorkshire.
- ISBN10 0752456229
- ISBN13 9780752456225
- Publish Date 8 November 2010
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint The History Press Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 96
- Language English
- URL http://thehistorypress.co.uk/products/Murder-and-Crime-in-Harrogate-and-District.aspx