Crime
On 9 July 1864 Thomas Briggs, a City banker, was beaten and robbed while he travelled on the 9.50 p.m. North London Railway train between Fenchurch Street and Hackney Wick. The robber took his gold watch and gold spectacles and threw his body from the compartment. The driver of a train travelling in the opposite direction spotted Briggs lying on the embankment next to the tracks between Bow and Hackney Wick stations. 51°32′23.08″N 0°1′36.21″W / 51.5397444°N 0.026725°W / 51.5397444; -0.026725 The banker died of his wounds shortly after being taken to the nearby "Mitford Castle" pub in Hackney.
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Famous quotes containing the word crime:
“Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
“Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.”
—Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)
“The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)