ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses murder of Bow Street Patrol Man. Bow Street Runners, a small paid police force, after first assembling at the Brown Bear in Bow Street, went to the King’s Arms public house in Maynard Street, St. Giles, on 26 December 1798, between nine and ten o’clock, upon a search warrant for rogues and vagrants. Constables from the Holborn division went with the patrol belonging to Bow Street. The group of 58 officers included Duncan Grant, one of the captains of the patrol, who was ultimately murdered. Magistrates and the Lord Mayors of London regularly sought to use privy searches and general warrants to enforce the provisions of the vagrancy acts, in spasmodic purges of the streets and places of entertainment of London.
