HENRY MAYHEW (1812-1887) AND

"Barbarous. " Love," "Mystdous." 'Taraer Crimes." aad tk like"
but wirhout
announcing any bpaniculars." "It was usually the detail of some "'barbarious and honible
murder", M a w ramntal, "or of same extraordhaq m e n ~ - e such as the attack
on Marshal Haynau - which has roused public attention" '" ud "been the case during
the progress of any absabing event subsequently." la' Running paEtaers cx "Death
Huaters" dealt in fabulous camivalesque street genres - "murdas, seductions, &-
cons, explosions, alarming acddents. 'assacsinatinnc' , deaths of public charaaers. hels.
and love-Iatas. But popular, a notarious, murders are the "great goes".1ag A running
panera disclosed that some of the mst popular fictidous murders ("cofks" '9 were the
murcjms at Chigwell-row lW. Sarah Holmes at Lincoln 19', Scarbaough 19, ~ivapool~~~,"
and the "Hmrid and Inhuman Murder, Committed by T. Dray, on the Body of Jael
lss
Ibid.
lS6 Ibid.. 215-16.
" Aamding to Mayhew. "When the Popish pla agitated England in the reign of Charles II, tbe
"Narratives" of the design of a handful of men to assassinate a mole nation. were eagerly
purchased in the streets and taverns. And this has been be case during the progress of any
absorbing event subsequently" (Mayhew, I: 216,222; Shepard, 1973: 73-74).
"' "A cock" is "a fictitim statement o evm a pretended fictitious statement**. acaxding to
Mayhew (Mayhew, I: 222).
190 Ibid.
I9
Ibid.
193 Ibid., 223.