... faintly optimistic. Reading this popular author's writings, in which the ugly word blackmail is insisted on, and other vices and crimes hinted at, which are not usually discussed in polite circles, one cannot escape a suspicion that she takes her data about ...

... dove ; I am only a woman who risks her husband's displeasure to try to help him. It is no crime that he has committed. There are men who deem weakness a crime. If you are as strong as they say, you might have stretched out your hand to save him, ...

... police court said they needed a permanent interpreter on account of the enormous number of foreigners who were now charged with crimes. Lady Samuel will give her last musical reception to-morrow at the Mansion House, and will be presented with a souvenir of ...

... case, which has occupied some weeks at Indianopolis, ended on Saturday. The Federal Commissioner, Mr. Moore, said while the crime was a brutal one it was nevertheless of a political nature, and, therefore, not extraditable. His release was ordered. ...

... Peckham Murder. There is a distinct flavour of hitter in the interest with which we regard the recent Peckham murder. The crime reminds us rather forcibly that our country is the dumpingground of the surplus produce, human as well as industrial, of foreign ...

... constant fear of attack by some mysterious enemy. Off the Scent. Of course, the servant is suspected of having committed the crime ; of course he is not guilty. Almost every other character in the book incurs suspicion at one time or another, but the end ...

... named Annie Devall at Compton Verney, Warwickshire, has been arrested at Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, and charged with the crime. Cozens was the girl's discarded lover, and was seen in her company the night before she was found with her throat cut in a ...

... here in our midst. To-day we have to record a double political murder, better suited to St. Petersburg than Peckham Rye; a crime difficult to comprehend; a taking of life more in accord with the melodrama stage than with everyday existence. The blood feud ...

... THE CRIME OF THE AMATEUR. A Breezy Atmosphere. Here is a straightforward story with a sensible heroine. Irene Ronaldson, poor and dependent, comes into a fortune of twenty thousand a year, and instantly buys a big steam yacht to use as a convalescent ...

... pride of her well-ordered mind, and the idea of buying instead of making any of these things seemed to her little less than a crime. • Dainty Apparatus. The still-room of to-day may well be in advance of those of a hundred years ago, for in utensils at least ...

... not know, but it must, he said, have been revenge. After this nameless witness came a few English witnesses who had seen the crime committed—two working men, a hospital nurse, a couple of other women, and then the crisp, official voice of the police inspector ...

... several important works on criminology, for statements made concerning him in a book called The Mysteries of Police and Crime. Major Griffiths was formerly an Inspector of Prisons. The work in which the statements complained of appeared was in three ...