So the Langham hotel. In our story it is where the King was staying and doing his business with Miss Adler. In the story it claims that in 1865 it was a very grand and luxurious hotel. Which does make sense after using the Charles Booth website and looking at where it was located. The hotel was smack dab in the middle of the yellow and red parts of town, or the well a do and the upper middle and wealthy classes. This makes sense to why the King would be hanging out in this part of town. I wouldn’t expect a King to go to the poor part of town even if he was being scandalous.

After checking the Old Bailey I found out about some of the crimes that occurred in the Langham Hotel area. The results: little to no crime what so ever. Mainly robbery, fraud and forgery. Which makes sense in a way. For being such a ritzy area. Why would they need to commit crimes. In such a wealthy area they have all the money they would need. But there were a few other crimes that were a bit more serious. There was one of each man slaughter, housebreaking and sexual offense. In a way all of these major crimes I could see in the story. From when the King was sending his cronies to attack poor Lady Adler. He really wanted that picture back and though they didn’t go into details about the attacks, I’m sure these men definitely broke into her house and attacked her. Women weren’t really treated fairly as we have seen so far in this class and especially one that is under the sights of the King. I could only imagine what these goons were doing to her to try and get the picture.

Though the Langham hotel was in a very well off part of town that doesn’t ward off all crimes. It’s kind of like Wall Street today. Lots of undercover crimes that we will never know about. That’s actually probably why there are so little crimes on the Old Bailey. There were probably way more crimes but all probably got paid off and swept under the rug. Go money and rich people!