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Who Killed Little Johnny Gill?: A Victorian True Crime Murder Mystery
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In 1888, in the Manningham district of Bradford, Yorkshire, a seven-year-old boy named Johnny Gill sets off one winter morning to ride on a milk wagon, and never comes home. His family, poor but close and respected by their neighbours, search for him through the town for three days before his body is found near their own door. The killing is grisly, and it bears a striking resemblance to the atrocities that the Ripper has been committing in London.
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Letters claiming responsibility arrive, and clues tied to Masonic ritual surface in a nearby house at the same time. Yet the man who was last seen with the boy, the milkman William Barrett, says very little. Was this a copycat crime, or something else? Drawing on court records and trial documents, the author recreates the people and streets of Victorian Bradford and follows the question of who was responsible for one of the most notorious child murders in English history.
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