The Dublin Railway Murder-by Thomas Morris- True Crime

Victorian Dublin 1856 is a world away - but when a murder takes place behind a

locked door the world is intrigued. A clerk at a railway station who looks after

the cash is found murdered in his room. To begin with there appears to be no

cash missing but is later discovered some is missing from the safe whilst

hundreds of pounds, a lot in those days, remains on his desk. An average

man would earn around a pound a week and there were several hundred,

possibly thousands on the desk. He has been hit over the head and then

his throat slit. The door is locked from the inside. This is a true story and

research having been done from the apparently copious reports from the

time. We get a sense of what the station was like and a glimpse into the

lives of some of the workers. The investigation is run very differently to

how it would be now. Various suspects were arrested and released and

then someone came forward saying they knew who the perpetrator

was. Possible murder weapons have been found after a rather chaotic 

inquest and then exhumation to gather more evidence. A taste of

Victorian sleuthery and life, very well researched and presented.

A very interesting and intriguing case. 

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