Franz Muller
Franz Müller (31 October 1840 – 14 November 1864), a German tailor, murdered Thomas Briggs in the first murder committed on a British train. The case caught the imagination of the public due to increasing safety fears about rail travel at the time, and the pursuit of Müller across the Atlantic Ocean by Scotland Yard.
Read more about Franz Muller: Crime, Investigation, Transatlantic Escape, Trial & Conviction, Death, Legacy
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“The train was now going fast. Franz suddenly clutched his side, transfixed by the thought that he had lost his wallet which contained so much.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)