Jerome Caminada

Rather than let the alleged evidence of male prostitution be brought to public trial, the magistrates' court bound over all the suspects for a year on two sureties of £25 each.

[7][8] In 1888, Caminada's national reputation for policing – he was reportedly responsible for the imprisonment of 1,225 criminals and for the closure of 400 public houses[9] – earned him promotion to inspector.

Bob Horridge, regarded as public enemy number one in 1880s Manchester, was a Blacksmith in Angel Meadow[10] by day[11] and a violent burglar and armed robber by night, and arch rival of Caminada, who eventually apprehended him in 1887.

[19] He died in 1914 at his home in Moss Side at the age of 70, as a result of injuries he had received in a bus accident in North Wales the previous year.

[19] Angela Buckley, a British historian and trustee of the Society of Genealogists, claims that the Victorian-era detective who featured in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novels was based on Jerome Caminada's life.

Dubbed 'the Garibaldi of Detectives', Caminada rose to prominence in the mid-1880s, shortly before Doyle's debut Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet, and during his time as an investigator is said to have helped imprison 1,225 criminals.

[22][23] Caminada wrote the first volume of his autobiography anonymously as Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life in 1895,[24] dedicating the book to the then Chief Constable of the Manchester City Police.