A Dark City
A Dark City
A Dark City
Glasgow’s Square Mile Of Murder
21 minutes Posted Mar 2, 2026 at 1:00 am.
Setting The Square Mile
Mapping Crime And Class
Madeline Smith And Not Proven
Sandyford Murder And Servant Peril
Forensic Photography Emerges
Dr Pritchard’s Poisonings
The Last Public Execution
Oscar Slater And Prejudice
Appeals, Doyle, And Quashed Verdict
Themes Of Power And Place
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Send us Fan Mail A city’s pride can hide a thousand secrets, and Glasgow’s Square Mile of Murder shows how easily elegance can coexist with danger. We step through Blythswood Square, Sandyford Place, Sauchiehall Street and West Princes Street to trace four cases that tested the limits of Victorian and Edwardian justice: the scandal of Madeline Smith, the brutal Sandyford killing, Dr Edward Pritchard’s poisonings and the wrongful conviction of Oscar Slater. We unpack how class and gender shap...