The Eliza Armstrong Case: Being a Verbatim Report of the Proceedings at Bow Street (Pall Mall Gazette Supplement, October 3, 1885) FIRST DAY’S PROCEEDINGS Wednesday, September 2, 1885. At Bow-street,…
Rebecca Jarrett’s Narrative (c. 1928) Salvation Army Heritage Centre Her experience written by herself for God Glory not for my Glory for herself but for God alone[.] Well a great…
My First Imprisonment W. T. Stead (London: E. Marlborough & Co, 1886) COLDBATH-IN-THE-FIELDS Sentence was pronounced, a buzz of eager conversation filled the crowded court. Friends were pressing round the…
Letter from Eliza Armstrong to Mrs. Comb (1885) Quoted in Alison Plowden, The Case of Eliza Armstrong: A Child of 13 Bought for £5 (1974) My dear Mrs Comb, I write these…
Lloyds Weekly London Newspaper (September 27, 1885) The expectation that the preliminary proceedings to the Armstrong casewould be concluded yesterday, caused the Bow-street police-court to be again thronged with an…
The Press on the Armstrong Case The Pall Mall Gazette (November 11, 1885) The Times says:— “In the weighty words which he addressed to Mr. Stead, Mr. Justice Lopes touched the essential…