Sources

• H W Holland, 'The science of garrotting and housebreaking', Cornhill Magazine, vii (1863), pp. 79-92.
• Garrotting sources on Deviance, Disorder and the Self website (Birkbeck College)
• Garrotting sources from Victorian London
  
• Nineteenth Century British Newspapers, the Times, the Guardian
  

• Bill for the further security of the persons of Her Majesty's subjects from personal violence (Garrotters Act, 1863)