The career of a local solicitor laid bare, with an overview of his cases, financial problems, and harrowing family tragedy…
Category Archives: Crime and Criminals
Paul Rabey and The Foreign Girls’ Protection Society: They Died With Their Shoes On, Part Five
A sinister and extraordinary post…Victorian Cornwall’s most notorious con-artist and Victorian London’s dark underworld…an unpleasant conclusion to this series…
Paul Rabey and the Bristol Con: They Died With Their Shoes On, Part Four
Sham mines in Perranporth, Bristol men with more cash than sense, acts of vengeance, court hearings, valueless shares, forgery, suspect bank accounts, mountains of dirty money and, in the midst of it all, Cornwall’s most infamous con artist!
The Two Paul Rabeys: They Died With Their Shoes On, Part Three
Even criminals and rogues have families to turn to…continuing the career of Paul Rabey the Younger, Victorian Cornwall’s most notorious con man…
Paul Rabey and the False Imprisonment: They Died With Their Shoes On, Part Two
What happens when you cross Victorian Cornwall’s most notorious con man?
They Died With Their Shoes On: The Career of Paul Rabey the Younger, Part One
The first in a five-part series. Paul Rabey was a cunning and malevolent Victorian con-man who made, and lost, a fortune selling fraudulent mining shares to unsuspecting businessmen. In his day, he was notorious…
The Notorious Beatrice Small, Fortune Teller
Beatrice Small made her living telling the fortunes of the gullible folk living in the border country of North Cornwall. Her fanciful tales of spells and hidden fortunes found many willing ears, and she regularly ran foul of the law…
In Search of An Gof, Conclusion: An Gof Today?
What of extreme Cornish Nationalist groups and their activities today?
In Search of An Gof, part three: The Two An Gofs
The historic An Gof and the group known as ‘An Gof’: does the use of his name by the 1980s extremists corrupt An Gof’s memory, or are the two ‘An Gofs’ more alike than mainstream pro-Cornish activists would like to admit?
In Search of An Gof, part two: Person or Persons Unknown
The extremist activities of the 1980s ‘An Gof’ group laid bare and analysed…
Francis Edwards ~ The Cornish Historian 