Episode #25: 1881 Timeline Twist & The Brighton Railway Murder

5/15/2024: On today’s episode, Valerie presents two assassinations, three events from the “Old West”, the “bustle gap”, how you don’t have to go to prison to get jacked if you buy (or build) the New Iron Horse, the recipe for Shaken Baby and how to get your babies to make you homemade ice cream, as well as the dangers of E-Bike ownership, in the 1881 Timeline Twist. Next Amy Jo tells the tale of an entitled and image-conscious young man with delusions of grandeur, whose plan to earn money ended in a bloody and violent act followed by a bungled investigation, including a very detailed, yet unflattering, suspect description that went out to the press. Follow along as we practice our police sketch artist skills and learn of the murderer’s delusional demands in court as his “House of Cards” collapses around him, in the story of the Brighton Railway Murder.

Cover Photo: Mapleton in the first Police composite picture

1. 1881 Programme for Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience

2. Luncheon of the Boating Party by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1881

3. "Black Bowl", by George Seeley

4. Bustle Frame

5. Traveling Suit (no Bustle between Bustle Eras 1 & 2) 1881

6. Dr. Warner's Coraline Corsets Ad, 1881

7. Dinner Menu, Library Association of the United Kingdom, September 13th, 1881

8. The "New Iron Horse"

9. Miss Violet Cameron

10. Miss Violet Cameron

11. Pawn Stars Best I Can Do

12. Photograph of the Accused

13. One of the large articles produced by The Daily Telegraph throughout the case – pictured to the right is a facsimile image of an agreement between Lefroy and a gentleman to whom he owed money, ‘Fac-simile of Lefroy’s agreement’, The Daily Telegraph, 30 June 1881

14. Wanted poster for Mapleton, 1881

15. ‘The Brighton Railway Tragedy – Percy Lefroy Mapleton before the Magistrates at Cuckfield’, Graphic, 23 July 1881. 19th Century British Newspapers
    

Sources/Photo Sources

Intro Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard

Timeline Twist Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1881

https://www.history.com/topics/art-history/impressionism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luncheon_of_the_Boating_Party

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictorialism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism#Photography_and_film

https://silhouettescostumes.com/the-eras-we-build/1881-1887/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1881_in_music

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patience_(opera)#/media/File:1881_Patience.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maid_of_Orleans_(opera)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Bonnie_Lies_over_the_Ocean#cite_note-humphries-2

https://www.periodpaper.com/products/1881-ad-warner-brothers-coraline-corsets-victorian-lady-underwear-clothing-ysn1-237677-ysn1-037

https://www.reddit.com/r/VintageMenus/comments/11ornbj/dinner_menu_from_the_library_association_of_the/#lightbox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maids_of_honour_tart

https://www.linkedin.com/company/piper-drinks#:~:text=PIPER%20is%20a%20feel%20good,of%20Lemon%20Balm%20and%20Passionflower.

https://www.bakerspeel.com/courses-vs-removes/

https://www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/1880

Timeline Twist Photo Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1881_in_art#/media/File:Auguste_Renoir_-_Luncheon_of_the_Boating_Party_1880-1881.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictorialism#/media/File:George_Seeley-Black_Bowl.jpg

https://silhouettescostumes.com/the-eras-we-build/1881-1887/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patience_(opera)#/media/File:1881_Patience.jpg

https://www.periodpaper.com/products/1881-ad-warner-brothers-coraline-corsets-victorian-lady-underwear-clothing-ysn1-237677-ysn1-037

https://www.reddit.com/r/VintageMenus/comments/11ornbj/dinner_menu_from_the_library_association_of_the/#lightbox

The Brighton Railway Murder Sources:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43839170-trial-of-percy-lefroy-mapleton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86q8flfB61w

https://www.cuckfieldconnections.org.uk/post/1881-the-physiognomy-of-a-murderer-there-s-no-art-to-find-the-mind-s-construction-in-the-face

https://www.btp.police.uk/police-forces/british-transport-police/areas/about-us/about-us/our-history/crime-history/murder-of-issac-gold/

https://review.gale.com/2016/03/03/the-compartment-was-much-bespattered-with-blood-the-brighton-railway-murder/

https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/mapleton-percy.htm

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/eaj5gnx9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8_1oQu70LM

https://cabinetcardgallery.com/2014/04/07/miss-violet-cameron-scandalous-stage-actress/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOvG2Khrt7E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86q8flfB61w

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Lefroy_Mapleton

https://www.historybytheyard.co.uk/percy_lefroy_mapleton.htm

https://www.btphg.org.uk/?page_id=5775

https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/mapleton-percy.htm

The Brighton Railway Murder Photo Sources:

https://www.cuckfieldconnections.org.uk/post/1881-the-physiognomy-of-a-murderer-there-s-no-art-to-find-the-mind-s-construction-in-the-face

https://philanthony5092.medium.com/murder-on-the-brighton-line-a-victorian-murder-3822516aefdf

https://review.gale.com/2016/03/03/the-compartment-was-much-bespattered-with-blood-the-brighton-railway-murder/

https://cabinetcardgallery.com/2014/04/07/miss-violet-cameron-scandalous-stage-actress/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Lefroy_Mapleton#/media/File:Mapletonposter1881.jpg

https://imgflip.com/i/5geagr