The Yard, LondonJames Fritz frames a Victorian story as folk tragedy and political interrogation " exuberant in its ambition, just occasionally not quite fulfilling its potential In July 1889, an investigation into thefts at the London Central Telegraph Office led to a 15-year-old employee called Charlie Swinscow, who was found to have 14 shillings in his locker. So began the Cleveland Street scandal, in which telegr…
