On Trial

Jul 8, 1960

Once a national hero in Britain, Sir Roger Casement, an Irishman, is tried for treason during the First World War.

Jul 15, 1960

An account of the notorious "Tranby Croft affair", which threatened to envelop the Prince of Wales in a gambling scandal.

Jul 22, 1960

After the fall of Minorca, a British admiral is tried for cowardice.

Jul 29, 1960

A seventeenth-century lawyer is tried for the murder of a Quaker woman.

Aug 5, 1960

The controversial writer Oscar Wilde is tried for gross indecency after his libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry has failed.

Aug 12, 1960

An eminent Victorian political figure is involved in a sex scandal.

Aug 19, 1960

A man is accused of impersonating an aristocrat to gain his fortune.

Aug 26, 1960

A newspaperman arranges for himself to be arrested on a morals charge so that he can use the witness-box to expose the white slave traffic.

Sep 2, 1960

An Irishman is, after serving as a governor in an African colony, accused of two murders when he returns to Britain.

Sep 9, 1960

A member of Parliament is accused of perpetrating a swindle.