... EXTRAORDINARY CRIME. The telegraph brings us intelligence of a triple murder committed London under circumstances which are, so far know, unprecedented in the history of crime. The affair is ao extraordinary a one that, apart from the enormity of the ...

... MOTIVES FOR CRIME. lii reading the cases of crime narrate 111 criminal Tecords, one is often struck the inadequacy the motives assigned as the causes of crime, and we have previously referred to remarkable example*. Small affront*, which most people would ...

... Somerset assizes on Monday, John Alien was sentenced to death for the murder of hia wife at Hatch Beauchamp, near Taunton. The crime was committed through jealousy. ...

... jaij-bird, whose lifeis spent in alternation cf crime and imprisonment, will receive no assistance from the Society whatever. All its efforts will point towards the reclamation of those who are young to crime, and who are willing to prove the sincerity of ...

... and over again been liberated on tickets-of-leave, which were merely licenses to commit fresh crimes. They belong to a class which lives by crime, and to crime they return as if by the sheer force of i their depraved natures. They are Ishmaels in the very ...

... place to make much further reference to the execution of the convicted murderer Brown. The convict paid the penalty of his crime, and once more the scaffold has taught its dread lesson to a company of spectators who were not disposed to receive it otherwise ...

... view of the present state of serious crime in the country, but any one must see the great importanceof doing something to diminish the increasing class of mysterious murders. As to murder, more than any other crime, is it expedient that there should be ...

... the conclusion of sanity and crime. What, we should like to know, crime but the act of a man who knows right from wrong, and, in spite of his knowledge, is compelled by some power to do wrong ? If were asked to define crime that would be about as good ...

... a bad pre-eminence in crimes of this class. Even the celebrated Pritchard case was laid to the door of our auld respected mither, a proof of the bad character of her offspring, and it is by no means improbable that Bell's crime will classified a peculiarly ...

... an atrocious murder had been committed Carmarthen. Upon inquiry as to the truth of the report, it was found be correct. The crime was perpetrated in house one mile and half from Llanpampsaint. Three men and a female servant were in the house the time. The ...

... doubt, if the morality of society were improved, there would be less crime. It does not roquire a conjuror to tell that, if you can make people good enough not to commit crime, then crime will not be committed. The deduction too self-evident to take rank ...

... brigand, guilty of numerous murders, was lately missed from the gaol there, but the police, after a raid on the haunts of crime, succeeded effecting his recapture. The man now avers that he did not break out of prison, but was taken out by angel, whom ...