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“At ten past two on the afternoon of 28 December 1836, Constable Samuel Pegler, 104‘S’, was patrolling his beat down the east side of a snowy Edgware Road when he heard panic-stricken shouts of ‘Police! Police!’ coming from across the way near the Pine Apple tollgate.”
― Joan Lock, Scotland Yard's First Cases

“with five other officers to pick up no less than eleven prisoners of six different nationalities. These were the men from the sailship, The Lennie, who were accused of murder on the”
― Joan Lock, Scotland Yard Casebook