Old newspapers
08 March 2013 | Detectives, research, Watching the Detectives | Post a comment
For the last couple of days I’ve been reading old newspapers as part of my research for Watching the Detectives. I love it — you come across such remarkable stories. And the language, particularly in the eighteenth-century papers, is wonderful. I enjoyed this item from the News in Brief column of the Times in 1921:
“At Old-street Police Court yesterday an old man complained to Mr. Clarke Hall that he had lent his daughter £10, which she refused to give back. The daughter said he had given it her to bury him.”
