Extracts from Tough Times and Grisly Crimes
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- A fight to the death: Prize fighting and bare-knuckle boxing
- A gruesome spectacle: Public executions, gallows and hanging
- An unholy row: Corporal punishment, birching and flogging
- Highway to hell: Highway robbery and "The Sunderland Highwayman"
- Let there be light: Horrific cruelty and inhumane treatment
- Nests of vice: Villians, crooks and petty thieves
- On the waterfront: Race riots
- Ship Shape: Juvenile delinquents
- The Birtley Ripper: Horrific and brutal murder
- The Day of Judgement: Police corruption and miscarriages of justice
- The Devils Mudbath: Prostitutes, Prostitution, Brothels and Red Light Districts
- Till Death us do Part: Cold blooded killing
- Wicked War: Black market, Rations and decline in sexual morality