... THE HORRIBLE CRIMES IN AUSTRIA. A Vienna telegram says:—The popular excitement over the terrible story of the coldblooded crimes recently brought to light, far from subsiding, is rather on the increase. Schenck, the sinister hero of the drama, is a man ...

... ROMANCE AND CRIME IN FRANCE. An atrocious case has just, been tried l>y the of the Loire. Fhilip Berger and his wife lived Briennon. They were both good family, and in easy circumstances. They had four children, and for fifteen years led happy married ...

... THE HAUNTS OF CRIME LONDON. correspondent of the Times has been exploring the haunts of crime in the English metropolis. Here is what he says of the low beer-houses:— Over these (the beer shops) the police have no power in any way. If house with a spirit ...

... little to say ; but that little is important. In a day or two Mr Gladstone will have made considerable pro- gress with the Crime Bill, if the Irish party render that obedience to the mandate of their leader which every leader bas a right to exact from ...

... TERRIBLE CRIME IN BELGIUM. At Ghent Assizes, a Belgian named Dobbelaere has been condemned to death for an atrocious double murder at Lille. A widow lady, Madame Wattine, lived with her daughter in the Rue Blanc Ballot, and although she kept no servants ...

... ee UDGET, WHISKY, AND CRIME. Phe Maser ot at the annual meet- ing of Dundee Ladies’ Union, remarked that the prison population was at present lower than any year since 1887, notwithstandi the in. crease Gf population. He attribut the im- proveimnesit ...

... apon the cter of the crime investigated by th: police darin that period. Daring the year 528 crimes aud offences were Made known to, and invest: gated by, the police, # decrease of 9 compared witb ihe previcUs year. For these crimes aud offences 520 persons ...

... CRIME DECLINING IN HAWICK. The annual report issued by Chief-Constable Thom, Hawick, states that the number of crimes and offences reported to the police during the past year was 252, and the number of persons apprehended or cited 261, against 286 and ...

... THE YEAR’S CRIME IN PEEBLES- SHIRE. 1905 in Pecbleashire, accordin to Colonel A. Borthwick’s re rt jast bas been a good year on the whole. be total offences reported were 423, as compared with 467 the previous year, a decrease of 44, and the stand at ...

... CRIMES AND OFFENCES IN BERWICKSHIRE. Chief Constable Morren, in his report on crimes and offences in Berwickshire in 1914 states that there is a slight decrease the number of crimes and offences made known to the police as compared with 1913, while the ...

... A MIDN. CRIME Robert Ormsby was a well-to-do farmer in Shropshire, England, At New-Year, 1821, his eldest daughter, Mary, who was head housemaid in a family in Cheshire, came to spend a week with her parents, A heavy snowstorm set in, and in a few days ...

... CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT THE NAVY, A blue book, containing report and series of I tables respecting tbe crimes committed and punishments inflicted in the Navy, and in tbe Marine Force on abore, during the year 1804. has just been published. For tbe first ...