The Nightingale Shore Murder (28 page)

Chapter 19

Primary sources:

Queen's Nurses' magazine Feb 1919 (Roll of Honour of nurses who died of flu) [accessed at the Queen's Nursing Institute]
Queen's Nurses' magazine May 1919 (Ellen Hancox re flu epidemic in Sheffield and Miss Knox Mearns re flu epidemic in Leicester) [as above]
Queen's Nurses' magazine Oct 1919 (sugar and influenza) [as above]

Secondary sources:

Britain and the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic: A Dark Epilogue by Niall Johnson, published by Routledge 2006
Flu – the story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it, by Gina Kolata, published by Simon & Schuster, 1999
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Influenza
The great influenza – the story of the deadliest pandemic in history, by John M. Barry, published Penguin Books, 2004
Chapter 20

Primary sources:

Sir Bernard Spilsbury's index cards [accessed at The Wellcome Library, London, ref PP/SPI/5]
Chapter 21

Primary sources:

Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900 (record of Harrington Offley Shore) [accessed via www.ancestry.co.uk ]
Letters Offley BFS Shore to Clarence Hobkirk dated 27th Feb 1920, 3rd March 1920 and 5th May 1920 – by kind permission of Julia Lisle
QAIMNRS service record for Florence Nightingale Shore [accessed via The National Archives ref WO399/7549]
The Medical Register 1921 [accessed via www.gmc-uk.org/doctors/medical_register]

Secondary sources:

The Ealing Gazette 24 Jan 1920 (‘Miss Shore's funeral') [accessed via Ealing archives]
The Middlesex County Times 24 Jan 1920 (large crowds at funeral) [accessed via Hammersmith and Fulham archives]
West London Observer 23 Jan 1920 [A doctor's tribute to the ‘White Queen') [as above]
Chapter 22

Primary sources:

Brighton Gazette, Hove Post, Sussex and Surrey Telegraph 24 Jan 1920 (‘The train murder – a deserter's statement') [accessed via the Brighton History Centre]
Daily Mail, 26 Jan 1920 (‘A blood-stained revolver') [accessed via http://newspapers.bl.uk]
Daily Mirror, 17 Jan 1920 (‘Fierce Fight in Defence of her Honour?', ‘Discarded Clues' and ‘Stranger to Miss Shore') [accessed via www.ukpressonline.co.uk]
Daily Mirror, 18 Jan 1920 (‘Florence Nightingale Her Inspiration') [as above]
Daily Mirror, 20 Jan 1920 (‘Nurse Shore's Friend', ‘Man in Brown Suit' and 'Missing Diamond Ring') [as above]
Eastbourne Gazette 25 Jan 1920 (‘Train murder sensation, Arrest at Eastbourne') [accessed via the East Sussex Archives]
Hastings and St Leonards Observer 17 Jan 1920 (‘Train mystery ends in tragedy') [as above]
Hastings and St Leonards Observer 20 Jan 1920 (‘Hastings train mystery') [as above]
Hastings and St Leonards Observer 7 Feb 1920 (‘Train murder deadlock') [as above]
Hastings and St Leonards Observer 5 Mar 1920 (‘No clue in railway murder') [as above]
Letter from OBSF Shore to Clarence Hobkirk dated 27th February 1920, by kind permission of Julia Lisle
Sir Bernard Spilsbury's index cards [accessed at The Wellcome Library, London, ref PP/SPI/5]
The Times 3 Feb 1920 (William Ernest Clements) [accessed via the East Sussex Archives]

Secondary sources:

G.R.Rubin (2011) Calling in the Met: serious crime investigation involving Scotland Yard and provincial police forces in England and Wales, 1906-1939. Legal Studies Vol. 31, No.3, September 2011, pp 411-441
Lethal Witness: Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the Honorary Pathologist, by Andrew Rose, published by The History Press, 2007
Sir Bernard Spilsbury, Britain's first forensic scientist, article by Ben Macintyre [accessed via www.timesonline.co.uk]
www.btp.police.uk (history of railway police]
Chapter 23

Primary sources:

Eastbourne Gazette 21 Jan 1920 (‘The man hunt') [accessed via East Sussex Archives]
Eastbourne Gazette 25 Jan 1920 (‘Train murder sensation, Arrest at Eastbourne, Struggle with armed man) [as above]
Eastbourne Gazette 28 Jan 1920 (‘Train murder mystery') [as above].
Chapter 24

Primary sources:

Daily Mail 15 Jan 1920 (‘Who attacked Nurse Shore?' Speculation on Merstham tunnel as scene of crime) [accessed via http://[email protected]]
Daily Mail 16 Jan 1920 (‘Where the police fail') [as above]
Daily Mail 19 Jan 1920 (‘New clues to man in brown suit') [as above]
Daily Mail 20 Jan 1920 (‘Unsolved crimes') [as above]
Daily Mail 7 Mar 1922 (murdered women) [as above]
Hastings and St Leonards Observer 17 Jan 1920 (‘Train mystery ends in tragedy') [accessed via the East Sussex Archives]
Hastings and St Leonards Observer 20 Jan 1920 (‘Hastings train mystery') [as above]
Hastings and St Leonards Observer 7 Feb 1920 (‘Train murder deadlock') [as above]
Hastings and St Leonards Observer 5 Mar 1920 (‘No clue in railway murder') [as above]
Chapter 25

Primary sources:

Sir Bernard Spilsbury's index cards [accessed at The Wellcome Library, London, ref PP/SPI/5]

Secondary sources:

Hastings and St Leonards Observer 17 Jan 1920 (‘Train mystery ends in tragedy') [accessed via the East Sussex Archives]
Hastings and St Leonards Observer 20 Jan 1920 (‘Hastings train mystery') [as above]
Hastings and St Leonards Observer 7 Feb 1920 (‘Train murder deadlock') [as above]
Hastings and St Leonards Observer 5 Mar 1920 (‘No clue in railway murder') [as above]
Lethal Witness: Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the Honorary Pathologist, by Andrew Rose, published by The History Press, 2007
Sir Bernard Spilsbury, Britain's first forensic scientist, article by Ben Macintyre [accessed via www.timesonline.co.uk]
www.curriculum-press.co.uk (Bio-factsheet no 193 re TB prevalence in 1920)
Chapter 26

Primary sources:

British Journal of Nursing 24 Jan 1920 (A shock to the nursing world) [accessed via www.info.britishjournalofnursing.com ]

British Journal of Nursing Feb 1920 (memorial) [as above]

British Journal of Nursing 8 Jul 1922 (opening of new Home) [as above]

Free BMD Index (death certificate) [accessed via www.ancestry.co.uk]

Hammersmith District Nursing Association Annual Report 1942 (bombing of Home and subsequent moves of the Association) [accessed via www.lbhf.gov.uk] and personal correspondence with archivist

Passenger List ‘The Orbita' 1922 [accessed via www.ancestry.co.uk]

QAIMNSR service record for Florence Nightingale Shore [accessed via The National Archives ref WO399/7549]

Queen's Nurses' magazine Feb 1922 (sums contributed to the FNS memorial fund) [accessed at The Queen's Nursing Institute]

Queen's Nurses' magazine Aug 1922 (opening of FNS guest room) [as above]

Queen's Nurses' magazine 1926 (tributes to Mabel Rogers on retirement) [as above]

The Will of Florence Nightingale Shore died 16 Jan 1920 [accessed via The Probate Registry, London]

The Will of Urith Beresford Ffoye Shore died 18 Feb 1915 [accessed via The Probate Registry, London]

Secondary sources:

An Enchanted Journey – The letters of the Philadelphia wife of a British Officer of the Indian Army. Ed. Alan Jone, published by The Pentland Press, 1994

http://www.oocities.com/layedwyer/shore.htm re Dru Drury family history

Chapter 27

Primary sources:

Brighton Electoral Register 1920 [accessed via the Brighton History Centre]

The Census 1911 [as above]

Secondary sources:

Daily Mail 19 Jan 1920 (witness J. Smith) [accessed via http://newspapers.bl.uk]

Chapter 28

Secondary sources:

Daily Mail 28 Apr 1920 (‘Grey motor-car crime') [accessed via http://newspapers.bl.uk]

Daily Mail 29 Apr 1920 (‘Motor crime trail') [as above]

Daily Mail 30 Apr 1920 (‘Motor-car man hunt') [as above]

Daily Mail 8 May 1920 (‘Police hunt for Toplis') [as above]

Daily Mail 10 May 1920 (‘Still at large') [as above]

Daily Mail 21 May 1920 (‘Hunt for Toplis') [as above]

Daily Mail 5 Jun 1920 (‘Moor man hunt') [as above]

Daily Mail 7 Jun 1920 (‘Toplis shot dead') [as above]

Daily Mail 8 Jun 1920 (‘Unsolved crimes – Was Toplis responsible?') [as above]

Daily Mail 9 Jun 1920 (‘Toplis's last hour') [as above]

Daily Mail 9 Jun 1920 (‘Toplis buried secretly') [as above]

Daily Mail 10 Nov 1920 (‘Nurse Shore murder – Guarded man's reported statement') [as above]

http://www.eden.gov.uk/leisure-and-culture/museum-penrith-and-eden/museum-collections/percy-toplis/ re Percy Topliss

Chapter 29

Primary sources:

Jeremy Stone, personal communication

Secondary sources:

http://www.oocities.com/layedwyer/shore.htm (book ‘Who killed Nurse Florence Nightingale Shore?' with Mabel Rogers theory) [accessed 25 May 2011]

‘Who killed Nurse Florence Nightingale Shore', unpublished manuscript, by Patrick Pasciewicz, 2008, kindly shared by Reid Pasckiewicz and Erika Nelson

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