Page 13 - All About History - Issue 08-14

The Puritan Mary Dyer being led
to the gallows in Boston, 1660
Crime

Police forces have developed
specialist riot police departments to
combat violent disturbances

Women in Chicago are arrested for
wearing one-piece bathing suits without
the required leg coverings, 1922
Electric chair, Sing Sing Prison, New York, 1900
This issue

14 Hall of fame
10 crooks you definitely wouldn’t want
to meet down a dark alley
Famous criminal
George ‘Machine 16 Crime through the ages
Gun’ Kelly
A timeline of history’s lawbreakers
and the often-gruesome punishments
dished out to them

18 Inside history
Get the inside scoop on one of
the 20th century’s most notorious
robberies, the Antwerp diamond heist
20 Anatomy of…
A Victorian English bobby

22 How to...
Rob a train in the Wild West

24 Day in the life
Of a prison officer at the world’s most
notorious prison: Alcatraz
26 Top 5 facts © Look and Learn; Alamy; Getty
One of history’s most infamous
highwaymen, Dick Turpin
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The Archbishop of Canterbury being robbed when
travelling during King Stephen’s troubled reign