- Hello, loyal readers and fans.
Basil Sinclair, chief correspondent of the "Police Illustrated News," with only the most intriguing and salacious headlines for you.
Will William and Eliza ever take the plunge?
This story may be beyond even my extraordinary journalistic capabilities to crack, but I do have some delightful stories for you.
Some of them, too delicious to be true.
So shall we see who guessed correctly in Victorian Headlines: True or False?
"Face Shocks Woman!
Fine for Man who Peered in Carriage Window While Train was Moving."
- I feel like it's gonna be true.
I don't even quite understand it.
- While train was moving?
- I'd say that it's true.
- True.
- I'm gonna be very good at this.
I've got a feeling.
- I mean, I'd like to say true.
- True.
- Yes.
- I'm gonna say that's true.
- True.
- True.
- True.
(whimsical music) - [Basil] This one is true.
- It is true.
- Yes.
- Hey.
- Come on.
- [Basil] "Deranged Pigeons Suspected to be Possessed by the Devil After Vicious Seaside Attacks."
- False.
- True.
- False.
- I'd love to say true.
I love the idea of a deranged pigeon.
- False.
- I feel like that is true, and it's from the "Illustrated Police News."
- False.
- [Basil] This is a cheeky fake.
(Tim groans) (Kate laughs) (Stuart sighs) - It's like a quiz show.
I like want to get full points.
- [Basil] "Man's Nose Amputated After Being Thrown out of a Cab."
- Gosh.
Wow.
- This is hard.
- That seems plausible.
- True.
- False.
- I'm gonna say true.
- So his nose was amputated after he was thrown out of a cab and he hurt his nose.
Yeah, I'd say that's true.
- I'm gonna say false.
- That's true.
- False.
- False.
- [Basil] This one is real.
- True.
- Hey.
- (groans) Come on.
- [Basil] "Young Duchess Loses an Eye on Wedding Day After too Many Fragrant Flowers Cause Her Great Distress."
- False.
Surely.
- Loses an eye to flowers?
No.
False.
- False.
- Oh, true.
- That's got to be false.
- I'm gonna say false.
- False.
- [Basil] This one's a fake.
- Yes.
- Oh, thank goodness.
- Yes.
- [Basil] "A Peeping Tom Discovered in a Ladies Swimming Bath.
Fair Swimmers Capture and Throw Him in."
- (laughs) That's definitely true.
- I feel like it's gonna be true.
- False.
- True.
- That's quite a lot of female emancipation.
But you know what, I'm going for it.
It's true.
- I hope it is true.
- Yeah, I wanna say true.
- Oh, I hope that's true.
- [Basil] This is true.
- Yes.
- Yes.
- I love that that was news.
Do you know what I mean?
There's a Peeping Tom found and we chucked him in the water.
- Good for them.
- Those women taught him a lesson.
- (claps) Brilliant.
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