CONTENTS

1. Some Hertfordshire Tragedies

2. The Trial of Spencer Cowper: Hertford, 1699

3. The Gubblecote Witch Killing: Tring, 1751

4. Death of a Highwayman: Bramfield, 1782

5. The Night ot the Double Murder: Hoddesdon, 1807

6. The Sensational Crime of Regency England: Aldenham, 1823

7. A Triple Hanging: Tewin, 1837

8. Death in the Line of Duty: Stevenage, 1857, Benington, 1871

9. The Green Lane Baby Liller: St Albans, 1875

10. Murder at Marshalls Wick: Sandridge, 1880

11. Guilty or Insane?  Elstree, 1882

12. The 'Hertford Horror': Hertford, 1899

13. Murder at the Asylum: Abbots Langley, 1899

14. A Love Tragedy: London Colney, 1910

15. The Last Hertfordshire Hanging: Waltham Cross, 1914

16. The Shop Murder Mystery: Hitchin, 1919

17. A 'Rum Affair': Redbourn, 1921

18. The Deep Freeze Death: Wheathampstead, 1957

19. Hertfordshire Connections: Martha Ray, Thomas Neill Cream, George Chapman, Samuel Herbert Dougal, Dr Crippen, Alfred Arthur Rouse

• Appendix 1: Jack the Ripper's Hertfordshire

• Appendix 2: Executions for Murder in Hertfordshire, 1735-1914

• Bibliography

• Index

As my great grandfather, Jacob Reynolds, had been involved in the Marshalls Wick case, I had a good look at this chapter - and the case is very well researched and documented, and the people mentioned are included in the index.