The murder in 1864 shocked the whole nation. On a busy London train on a humid summer’s evening, an elderly man, Thomas Briggs, was savagely attacked, thrown out the train and left dying by the railway tracks. A poor German tailor, Franz Muller, was eventually arrested, convicted and executed in front of a huge bloodthirsty crowd outside Newgate prison. At his trial his lawyer said that it was “a crime which demanded a victim”. Was Muller that victim?
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