The Wicked Boy (46 page)

Huge thanks to my friends and my family, particularly to Sam Randall and to those who read or talked to me about this book as I was writing, among them Philippa Barton, Lorna Bradbury,
Cristina Bruno, Alex Clark, Toby Clements, Will Cohu, Hal Currey, Tamsin Currey, Miranda Fricker, Manuela Grayson, Stephen Grosz, Victoria Lane, Sinclair McKay, Ruth Metzstein, Chris Michallet, Kathy O'Shaughnessy, Robert Randall, John Ridding, Fotini Roberts, Martha Stutchbury, Wycliffe Stutchbury, Claire Sturge, Ben Summerscale, Juliet Summerscale, Lydia Syson, Georgia Vuksanovic and Keith Wilson.

Thank you again to my agent, David Miller, to the rest of the brilliant team at Rogers, Coleridge & White, including Laurence Laluyaux, Stephen Edwards, Peter Robinson and Federica Leonardis, to Julia Kreitman at The Agency and to Melanie Jackson at MJA. I am grateful to my wonderful editors, Alexandra Pringle and Anna Simpson in London and Virginia Smith Younce in New York. Thank you also to Kate Johnson for her superb copy-editing; to Vicky Beddow, Richard Charkin, Madeleine Feeny, David Mann, Nigel Newton and Rachel Nicholson at Bloomsbury; and to Ann Godoff and Scott Moyers at Penguin Press. And my thanks to the other publishers who have supported this book – Dominique Bourgois in Paris, Sofia Ribeiro in Lisbon, Nikolay Naumenko in Moscow, Andrea Canobbio in Turin and Henk ter Borg in Amsterdam.

INDEX

adolescence, 
here
,
here

Adventures of the Brave Boy and the Bushrangers, The
, 
here

Alabaster, William, 
here
,
here
,
here

Albert, Prince, 
here

Albert, 
here
,
here

Alexander the Great, 
here

Alexandria, 
here
,
here
,
here

Allen, Tryphena, 
here
,
here

Amiens, 
here

anarchists, 
here

Anzac Coves pierrot troupe, 
here

Armistice and Anzac Day parades, 
here

Ashbridge & Co., 
here
,
here

Asquith, H. H., 
here

attendance officers, 
here

Attendant's Companion, The
(Red Book), 
here
,
here

Australasian
newspaper, 
here

Australian Imperial Force (AIF), 
here
,
here

casualties, 
here
,
here

Gallipoli campaign, 
here
,
here

London headquarters, 
here

on Western Front, 
here

Avory, Horace, 
here
,
here

Baden-Powell, Colonel Robert, 
here
,
here

Baggallay, Ernest, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Baker, Dr John, 
here
,
here

Balaam Street recreation ground, 
here
,
here
,
here

Banes, Major George, 
here
,
here

Bankruptcy Act, 
here

Barking Road police station, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Battle of Passchendaele, 
here

Battle of the Somme, 
here
,
here

Baulch, Sergeant Henry, 
here
,
here

Bean, Charles, 
here

Beeston, Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph, 
here

Bell, John, 
here

Bernheim, Hippolyte, 
here

Besant, Walter, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Bethlem asylum, 
here

Bicêtre asylum, 
here

billiards, 
here
,
here
,
here

Birdcage Walk, 
here
,
here

Birkenhead, 
here

Birmingham, 
here

Boer War, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Bogus Broker's Right Bower, The
, 
here
,
here
,
here

Booth, Catherine, 
here

Booth, Charles, 
here

Booth, General William, 
here
,
here

Bourne, Richard, 
here
,
here
,
here

Bourneville, Désiré-Magloire, 
here

Bow Cemetery, 
here

Boy's Own Paper
, 
here
,
here

Brache, Captain, 
here

Brailsford, John, 
here

brass bands, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

see also 
military bands

Brayn, Richard, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

and committal of Frank Rodgers, 
here

and committal of Patrick Knowles, 
here

retirement, 
here

and Robert's release, 
here

Brecht, John, 
here
,
here
,
here

Brecht, Mary Ann, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Brighton, 
here
,
here

British Bandsman
, 
here

British Medical Association, 
here

Broadmoor, 
here
,
here
,
here

bands, 
here
,
here
,
here

escapes, 
here

inmates, 
here
,
here

inmates' employment, 
here

and matricides, 
here

and newspaper reports, 
here

and Old Bailey verdicts, 
here

and outside world, 
here

patients discharged, 
here
,
here

recreational activities, 
here
,
here

regime, 
here
,
here

use of solitary confinement, 
here
,
here
,
here

Broadmoor Cycling Club, 
here

bromide of potassium, 
here
,
here

Bryant & May match works, 
here

Buffalo Bill
, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Bulwer Lytton, Edward, 
here

Burnage, Colonel Granville John, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Burrage, George, 
here

Burrage, James, 
here

Burrage, Mary Jane, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Cairo, 
here

Campbell, Dr Archibald, 
here
,
here

Canning Town Library, 
here
,
here

Canning Town police court, 
here

Canterbury music hall, 
here

Cantlie, James, 
here

Cattel, William, 
here

Cave Road, floor plan, 
here
,
here

Cave Road school, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Cearns, Percy, 
here

Century Magazine
, 
here

Cheap Trains Act, 
here

Chelmsford, 
here
,
here

chess, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Child's Guardian
, 
here

childhood and child development, 
here

see also 
adolescence

Children's Acts, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Chisholm, Hugh, 
here

churchgoing, 
here
,
here
,
here

cigarettes, boys smoking, 
here
,
here

‘clicks', 
here

Cockney Bob's Big Bluff
, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Cody, William F., 
here

see also Buffalo Bill

coffee shops, 
here
,
here

coffins, double, 
here

Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, 
here
,
here

Coleman, Charles, 
here
,
here

Coleridge, Lord, 
here

Collopy, Casimir, 
here

Colombo (Ceylon), 
here
,
here

Conan Doyle, Arthur, 
here
,
here

Conrad, Joseph, 
here
,
here
,
here

Conservative Party, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Cook, Captain James, 
here

Coombes, Ann, 
here

Coombes, Emily (aunt), 
here
,
here
,
here

and inquest, 
here
,
here

and magistrates' court hearing, 
here
,
here

and Old Bailey trial, 
here
,
here

widowed, 
here

Coombes, Emily Harrison 

burial, 
here
,
here

and Burrage interview, 
here

discovery of murder, 
here

inquest, 
here
,
here

letter to husband, 
here

manner of death, 
here
,
here
,
here

marriage, 
here

medical certificate, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

and Nattie interview, 
here

and Old Bailey trial, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

and origin of the crime, 
here
,
here
,
here

and Robert's letter, 
here

and Robert's unusual intelligence, 
here

and Robert's revelations in prison, 
here

Coombes, Frederick, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Coombes, Mary, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Coombes, Nathaniel (Nattie) 

bad reputation, 
here

behaviour after murder, 
here
,
here
,
here

birth, 
here

and Burrage interview, 
here

cared for by relatives, 
here
,
here

and discovery of murder, 
here

East London Advertiser
interview, 
here

and father's strategy for defence, 
here

and father's will, 
here

illness and death, 
here

and inquest, 
here
,
here

inquest verdict, 
here

magistrates' court hearings, 
here
,
here
,
here

and New York interviews, 
here

newspaper artists' depictions, 
here

newspaper verdicts on, 
here

Old Bailey trial, 
here
,
here

plays truant, 
here
,
here
,
here

remanded to prison, 
here
,
here
,
here

resides in Australia, 
here

reunions with Robert, 
here

and Robert's guilty verdict, 
here

and Robert's revelations in prison, 
here

serves as ship's stoker, 
here

suicide risk, 
here

visits docks, 
here

visits Lord's, 
here

visits pawnbrokers, 
here

visits Southend, 
here

visits theatre, 
here

wartime service, 
here
,
here
,
here

and waxworks, 
here

Coombes, Nathaniel (uncle), 
here
,
here

Coombes, Robert (senior), 
here
,
here
,
here

bankruptcy, 
here
,
here

death, 
here

Evening News
interview, 
here
,
here

learns of murder, 
here

marriage, 
here

New York interviews, 
here
,
here

and Old Bailey trial, 
here
,
here
,
here

returns to London, 
here
,
here
,
here

returns to sea, 
here

second marriage, 
here

strategy for sons' defence, 
here

his will, 
here

Coombes, Robert 

arrives at Hadleigh colony, 
here

awarded Military Medal, 
here
,
here
,
here