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Fanny Parker, suffragette, 1914
Photograph of the suffragette Fanny Parker, alias Janet Arthur, being escorted from Ayr Sheriff Court by a police officer. Miss Parker, a niece of Lord Kitchener, faced trial for attempting to burn Robert Burns' cottage in Alloway

Oscar Slater prison record, 1909-1927
Description and photographs of Oscar Slater from his prisoner record. Oscar Slater, a German Jew, was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Marion Gilchrist in Glasgow in 1909 after a miscarriage of justice.

City of London Police Box, c 1930
Illustration of a City of London Police box built by the Carron Company

Bottle labelled 'Arsenic Poison'
Bottle labelled 'Arsenic Poison', no. 212 of inventory of productions in the trial of Madeleine Smith.

Vagrancy warrant
Warrant to commit a vagrant to Dornoch gaol from the Justice of the Peace court.