Great Train Robbery

Pierce's mistress

Miss Miriam

26 yrs. old, bad cough, first met pierce at bull and bear public house screwsman

Agar

screws man of The Great Train Robbery

Agar

Who was the Bug Hunter who ratted on pierce

Agar's mistress

Who participated in the jolly gaff

Barlow (officer), Pierce (drunk irishman), Clean Willy (snakes man), Agar (screws man)

What? nose is crapped

Barlow killed Clean Willy

Phrase: a bell tied to a dead person's body in a coffin so that if he were still alive, they would hear the bell ringing

Bateson's Belfry

"skipper" did not imply

an occupation but a way of life

what does Henry fowler go to pierce about

how to get rid of his std- thinks he can help him fix it

a rather severe and devout gentleman he rarely drank nor smoked, he has five kids, his first wife died and second wife was thirty years younger

trent

Phrase: basically an unknowing friend

unwitting accomplice

eel skinner

usually a metal worker gone bad or one too old to keep up with the furious pace of legitimate production

the setting for the great train robbery is

victorian England

stocky rugged man with a white knife scare across his forehead

Barlow

rotten row

"sexual outlet" vratod base within society and allowed prostitutes to intrude boldly into acceptable arenas of Victorian society such as

the guy at the beginning of the story that attempted the robbery and was not seen for a while; He was more than likely thrown of the train at the beginning of the story.

(spring hill jack) Jack Perkins

At the time, what were three reasons why several people would be willing to help out at a crime scene?

1) They usually thought that it was children 2) Firearms were extremely rare 3) The police force was pretty new and untrained

Explain how a lodging house of 8 rooms could be used. What is a "penny hang?"

A lodging house of eight rooms might take on a hundred boarders, each paying a shilling or two a week to live in "hugger-mugger promiscuity," sleeping with as many as twenty members of the same or opposite sex in the same room. ost bizarre example of lodgings of the period was the famous waterfront sailors' "penny hangs." Here a drunken seaman slept the night for a penny, draping himself across chest-high ropes, and hanging like

garroted for a uniform, said to be the head of pierces public house, cab driver, had a scar across his face

Barlow

specialist at hiding crimes (leopard) who got the key secretly in an unlawful manner

Andrew Taggert

this person helped with the leopard

Andrew Taggert

Pierce's loyal cabby driver who manages to commit other crimes like the murder of Clean Willy

Barlow

Who? cabby driver

Barlow

a thug at heart, hired by pierce for his Buck cabby worked for him for about five years

Barlow

Explain the extraordinary English domination at the time.

Because of the new railway system, they were way ahead of every other country. Thus they dominated them because of their amazing progress.

a guard on the railway who was bribed by Pierce to "turn away" during part of the criminal activity

Burgess

best snakesman available in London

Clean Willy

snakesman in at Newgate, escapes Newgate, helps with part of the robbery, ends up going to the police, killed by barlow

Clean Willy

What? snakes man turned nose

Clean Willy tattle-taled to the police on Pierce

senior partner of the firm Huddleston and Bradford

Edgar Trent (Mr. Trent)

over the detectives, tries to figure out what is going to go down with pierce- clean willy informed to him

Edward harranby

Who was the skipper, and what did he do

Henson and he got in a crate and watch the guards during the night for pierce

47, didn't know much of pierces background. brother in law to gear Huddleston , unwitting accomplice

Fowler

manager of the bank

Fowler

Who? eel-skinner

Harkins

skipper who kept track of the night guard's schedule for Pierce

Henson

the firm designated to arrange for the payment of British troops fighting he Crimean campaign

Huddleston and bradford

ow fast was London's population growing during that time? How many a day? What was the result of that growth?

London's population was growing at the rate of 20 percent per decade. The number of people in the city was increasing by more than a thousand per day, and even with massive building programs and densely crowded slums, a sizable fraction of the population lacked both shelter and the means to pay for it. ppl seen nights outdoor

Clean Willy's girlfriend

Maggie

snower, clean Willys girlfriend

Maggie

weakness was ratting, daughter was Elizabeth, the banks senior partner

Mr. Trent

What happened to Pierce, Barlow, Miss Miriam, and the money?

Nobody knows for certain what happened to them, however there were many reports. One report in 1862 said that they were living in Paris. Another report said they were living in New York. The money, however, was never recovered.

How did Pierce escape at the end?

Nobody knows for certain what happened. However, they think that the w h o r e that kissed Pierce, handed the keys to the cuffs. When the police put Pierce into the van, he unlocked his cuffs and drove away with his buddy. Later the officers were found in a ditch and the van was found in Hampstead.

Where are all the keys?

One around Fowler's neck One in Trent's wine cellar Two in railway office

mastermind behind The Great Train Robbery

Pierce

red beard, mysterious, aka John Simms, Andrew miller, Arthur wills, fund a large scale criminal operation, putter-up

Pierce

What does this story have to do with the Crimean War?

The gold being shipped on the train was being used as payments for the war.

What was the law concerning a married woman in criminal activity?

The husband was always responsible for his wife's crime.

Explain England by the middle of the 19th century.

The population has nearly doubled to 24m,and half the ppl live in the urban centers. Victorian england was a nation of cities.

expendable but has good spirits

a taste dog

Why was London such a perfect place for the criminal class?

You could rob a mansion and disappear within seconds with the complicated buildings.

what is a made dog

a dog that has experience fighting

a mary blaine scrob

a guard of the railway

is someone who is missing teeth

a gummer

slums

articularly since the slums, or rookeries, were refuges and breeding places for "the criminal class." hese slums existed in part because they were profitable for landlords.

transportation

being sent to Australia

knighted after the battle at Waterloo. he had a passion for card games and he wagered a crate of wine, but then didn't wanna part with it when he lost. he put an empty crate on the train and the people thought it was robbed

captain John alderston

he was known informant, pierce went to him to get five guns, and this guy ratted him out when questioned

chokee bill

famous mountaineer

coolidge

policeman

crusher

smashers job of "ringing the changes" meant

disposing of counterfeit money

a true soak meant a

drunk

clothes

dunnage

Give examples of the railroad revolution in England after 1830.

e new railways were privately financed, profit oriented ventures, drew plenty of criticism,

Phrase: a person who was too old to produce metals to sell so they would produce metals for a crime

eel-skinner

notorious axe murderous hanged in Newgate square

emma barnes

Women of the lower classes took on what type jobs?

flower girls, field workers, or any of a dozen lowly occupations.

why does pierce want the leopard

for the lady and we learn why later

Phrase: when someone lures another into a dark corner, beats them up, and takes everything they have

garroting

Phrase: public executions as a source of entertainment

hanging party

what is unusual about clean Willys hands

he has burnt palms and hands, he got this from working as a child around fires and hot metals

in order for pierce and agar to make it safely out of the trent resident Barlow creates a distraction. what does he do to cause a commotion

he puts rats in the dog pen so that they bark and cause a lot of noise

what is one fact about Edward pierce that is known for certain

his enjoyment of criminal activity

Daughters of middle and upper classes were raised for what? Did they work? Why?

it was terribly important that such women should marry. The failure to marry--- spinsterhood--- implied a kind of dreadful crippling, for it was universally acknowledged that "a woman's true position was that of administratrix, mainspring, guiding star of the home," and if she was unable to perform this function, she became a sort of pitiful social misfit, an oddity. she must not work for profit, or engage in any occupation that money can command, lest she invade the rights of the working classes, who live by their labor...."

Phrase: a staged event to distract everyone from what was really going on

jolly gaff

chubb

manufacturer of quality safes

prop a crusher meant

merely asking for an all out manhunt through the rookeries until the culprits were apprehended

police

miltonian

pierces mistress

miss Miriam

teddy burke

mobster who pickpockets. approached by pierce to act like he was robbing Trent

Phrase: dead snakes man

nose is crapped

what was not a characteristic of this time period

people in general were reluctant even unwilling to get involved when they saw a crime being committed

a master cracksman or burglar who over the years had accumulated sufficient capital o finance a large scale criminal operations

pierce

a tall handsome man in his early thirties who wore a full red beard in the fasion that had recently become popular

pierce

the putter up

pierce

Phrase: a person who finances a crime

putter-up

when a fast moving train passed a train standing at a station, both carriages had the tendency to be drawn together

railway sway

Phrase: dogs killing rats for sport

ratting

railway guard, wife was a sower, and his son was very sick so he needed the money

richard burgess

Phrase: a specialist in keys and safe breaking

screws-man

manner of trap, hinged door in the roof of the train

slapper

Phrase: the snakes man snitched

snakes man turned nose

Phrase: a small person able to get through small places when needed

snakes-man

child or a small man adept at wriggling through small spaces

snakesman

during the time in which. the novel is set, what occupation might cause a man or woman's clothing to glow in the night

someone who makes matches

What type places in London during the Victorian era could you find all social classes mingling together?

sporting events, gambling, entertainment

what was a common crime

stripping

Huddleston and bradford

the bank that supplied the gold

a ploy that works for a burglar because the footman of a well to do respectable household could normally expect a tip from a well dressed guest who arrives at in an elegant closed carriage

the carriage fakement

the most famous rookery

the holy land

what was snowing?

the lowest form of laundry stealing

the most dreaded English prison

the steel

what circumstances make it neccessary for the high rear window to be broken

the team put on a fake robbery. Miriam acts like her purse is being taken by a kid then the kid runs into the office and Barlow breaks the window

Explain the new Victorian Cities and their inequalities

they stank of poverty as subjects, as any society has ever suffered, the inequalities provoked many calls for a reform.

What is Bateson's Belfry

this is when people put a bell into the coffin to make sure if the person wasn't really dead they could signal the bell

why does pirece want a made dog

to use it as a way to connect with Trent to find out about the keys

folkstone

where the train went to that had the gold