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Granite Noir: The steely stare of Victorian criminals still command attention today

Updated: February 18, 2021, 9:22 am © Supplied by Phil Astley The steely stare of Catherine Anderson, twice tried for infanticide. Sign up for our newsletter and let our nostalgia team take you on a trip back in time Thank you for signing up to our Nostalgia newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up The gaze holds you… the piercing stare of a Victorian criminal reaching across more than 150 years from the instant in time their prison mugshot was taken. But who was this man in the sepia photo? What was this woman’s crime? What was their life in Victorian Aberdeen like?  Was their time in prison truly hellish?

Double murder: Butcher James Harrow went on the rampage in Aberdeen in 1901

Updated: January 11, 2021, 10:31 am © DCT Media A sketch of Harrow and Tasker before the fatal fight took place. Sign up for our newsletter and let our nostalgia team take you on a trip back in time Thank you for signing up to our Nostalgia newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up They were three men who finished work at a slaughterhouse and ended up being involved in another one later the same evening. What should have been a relaxing conclusion to a gruelling shift of physical labour at the Wales Street premises in Aberdeen instead turned into one of the most notorious double murders ever carried out in the Granite City.

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