Murder on the Brighton Line: A Victorian Murder

A grim tale of murder and police incompetence

(Picture: The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine 1889. At Cuckfieldconnections.org;)

June 27th 1881. London, England: The height of summer. Even so a dark but significant day in the annals of British criminal history. Mr Isaac Gold, now an elderly but financially comfortable 64 year old; a dealer in coins. In the morning he visits his shop in East Street, Walworth which is a busy inner suburb of the capital just south of…