The 1861 trial of Dublin cabman John Curran for indecent assault on a young passenger, Louisa Jolly, transfixed mid-Victorian Ireland.
The trial involved interesting issues relating to identification evidence, and reports and commentary associated with it give a fascinating insight into the Dublin of the time.
My article on the trial ‘Outrage in the Bloody Fields: Cabman John Curran and the Great Dublin Rape Trial of 1861,’ recently published in Law Magazine, is now available to read free of charge here.
For those intrigued enough to dig deeper, a detailed contemporaneous report of the 1861 trial proceedings is also available here.
Or you can alternatively watch this presentation:
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