... PUNISHMENT AND CRIME. In the City of London records of 1364 it is stated that a certain John Penrose, a taverner, was convicted of selling unsound and unwholesome wines to the deceit of the common people, to the contempt of the King, to the shameful ...

... CONFESSION OF CRIME. A remarkable career of crime h:►a been resealed by a prisoner under remand at the St. AugnAtilies Gaul at Canterbury for burglary and robbery of jewellery and other valuable property at Worth, near Saudwi, h. The man. whose n .me ...

... CURIOSMEB OF CRIME. ST TSB LATE JAM'S NW KATT. THE COBBLER'S KNIFE. Await ry I ban bad asytbiog to do with demos air My dreams been et peopo'-day bled wiles a woo wide awake se they say. sod sp to a thin at two. w••satw asses the duties the day, William ...

... hours. Naturally the population is sparse—a person committing a crime there is not likely to be found out, and I suppose Lieut. Hancock (who undoubtedly was the instigator of the terrible crimes perpetrated) thought it was a fit place for him to work in. ...

... Crime in Banffshire Mr William Hope, Chief Constable of Banff,hire, has issued his report to the Standing Joint Committee of the county for the year ending 31st December last, and we have been favoured with a copy of same. Mr Hope notes the following ...

... CRIMES OF LONDON. Additional Grant under Section 67, 3. Grants from Science and Art Department, 4. Amount paid by Rating Authorities at 100 per £l, the Rateable Rateable Value of the District being £21,130, 5. Income from Endowments—Dick Bequest ...

... CRIMES AND OFFENCES. The total number of crimes and offences reported to the constabulary during the year was 825, and the number of persons apprehended or cited in connection with these cases was 858. Compared with the returns for the year 1900, there ...

... Crimes in Scotland LOCAL RETURNS. The report on the criminal statistics of Scotland for the year 1908 states that a general view for the year indicates a slight decrease in the total number of persons proceeded against fur crimes and offences — namely ...

... PUNISHMENT AND CRIME. In the City of London records of 1364 it is stated that a certain John Penrose, a taverner, was convicted of selling unsound and unwholesome wines to the deceit of the common people, to the contentpt of the King, to the shameful ...

... CRIME IN MORAYSHIRE. Mr John B. Male, chief constable of Morayshire, in his report for 1900 states that 106 crimes and offences were reported or made known to the police during the year, as against 1168 for the previous year, being a decrease of 116. ...

... STORY OF THE CRIME. Lewis Adolphus Edmund Staunton, who was one of the prisoners in the celebrated Penge case, and was sentenced to death, the sentence being subsequently committed to penal servitude for life was released from Pentonville Prison on Thursday ...

... CRIMES AND TRAUEDIKS. ♦LLEGED MURDER IN EDINBURGH. The Edinburgh police authorities are engaged making enquiries into what is alleged to be a case of murder, and as the result a man his been arrested on the capital charge. It appears that on Saturday ...