Remarkable Rogues (Illustrated)

That interest in crime and the criminal is universal no one will deny.
In a cruder age it was the custom to organize parties to witness the
public execution of notable scoundrels--Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton)
took Thackeray and, I believe, Dickens, to see Courvoisier's--but
nowadays we are more decorous, although on occasion several thousand
persons can assemble outside a prison and stare at a blank wall during
a private hanging inside. Most of us, however, are content to behold
crime through the eyes of our favourite journal and it is impossible to
complain that the press does not cater fully for us in this respect.
That crime retains its fascination for high and low is proved almost
every time there is a sensational trial at the Central Criminal Court,
for the attendance invariably includes distinguished politicians,
authors, artists and representatives of that nebulous class termed
"Society." It is, however, no longer possible for a special box to
be erected at the Old Bailey to enable members of the Royal Family
to watch a man on trial for his life, and it is now bad form for a
"popular judge" to surround himself with princes and peers and audibly
keep them _au fait_ with the evidence. These things have passed away
and we have "headlines" and contents-bills in their place. We are,
in fact, more respectable if less robust, but sin and sinners will
intrigue us to the end of Time.

CONTENTS                                                          

  CHAPTER I      A RUSSIAN DELILAH                           

          II     AN INFAMOUS FEMALE POISONER                

          III    BELLE STAR, THE GIRL BUSHRANGER            

          IV     THE WOMAN WITH THE FATAL EYES              

          V      MADAME RACHEL, THE BEAUTY SPECIALIST       

          VI     THE MONTE CARLO TRUNK MURDERESS            

          VII    MARTHA KUPFER, SWINDLER                    

          VIII   MADAME GUERIN, MATRIMONIAL AGENT          

          IX     THE MURDER OF MADAME HOUET                

          X      THE BOOTMAKER'S ROYAL WOOING             

          XI     THE BOGUS SIR RICHARD DOUGLAS             

          XII    THE ENTERPRISING MRS. CHADWICK            

          XIII   THE MILLION DOLLAR RANCH GIRL             

          XIV    JAMES GREENACRE                           

          XV     CATHERINE WILSON                          

          XVI    PIERRE VOIRBO                             

          XVII   EMANUEL BARTHÉLEMY                        

          XVIII  WILLIAM PARSONS                           

          XIX    ADAM WORTH                                

          XX     THE SECRET PRINCESS OF POSEN