Book review: The Dublin Railway Murder is an engrossing read about true crime
Thomas Morris. Picture: Charlotte Machin
DUBLIN in 1856 is the world of this captivating work of historical research, where some of the incidental details are as memorable as the brutal murder that lies at its centre.
George Little was the chief cashier at Broadstone railway station in Dublin. When his colleagues reported for work one fateful morning in November, 165 years ago, they found he had been brutally beaten and his throat cut so deeply that he was almost decapitated. Stranger still, thousands of pounds in cash, gold and silver were untouched on the desk. It was not until afterwards that it emerged that the murderer did take a sizable chunk of cash on the evening of the barbaric killing.
