Fifty years ago . mark : if this man had gone straight FIFTY YEARS AGO to the nearest police-office, and confessed the crime ofhomicide, he would certainly have escaped he was so horribly frightened at what had happened,that he tried to hide the thing by cutting up the bodyand bestowing the fragments in various places, all ofthem the most likely to be discovered. There was another woman in thecase, proved to havebeen in his confidence,and tried with him,when all the pieceshad been recovered,and the murder wasbrought home to was found guiltyand hanged. Andnever was there ahan
Fifty years ago . mark : if this man had gone straight FIFTY YEARS AGO to the nearest police-office, and confessed the crime ofhomicide, he would certainly have escaped he was so horribly frightened at what had happened,that he tried to hide the thing by cutting up the bodyand bestowing the fragments in various places, all ofthem the most likely to be discovered. There was another woman in thecase, proved to havebeen in his confidence,and tried with him,when all the pieceshad been recovered,and the murder wasbrought home to was found guiltyand hanged. Andnever was there ahanging more numer-ously or more fashion-ably attended. Theprincipal performer,however, is said tohave disappointed his audience by a pusillanimousshrinking from the gallows when he was brought woman was sent to Australia, where, perhaps, shestill survives. There was also, this year, an extremely scandalousaction in the High Court of Justice. It was a libelcase brought by Lord de Eos, and arose out of a gam-. THE YEAR 1837 21 bling quarrel, in which his lordship was accused ofcheating at cards. It was said that, under pretence ofa bad cough and asthma, he kept diving under thetable and fishing up kings and aces, a thing whichseems of elementary simplicity, and capable of cleardenial. His lordship, in fact, did deny it, stoutly andon oath. Yet the witnesses as stoutly swore that hedid do this thing, and the jury found that he his lordship retired to the Continent, andshortly afterwards died,, without offspring to lamenthis errors. There was a terrible earthquake this year in theHoly Land. The town of Safed was laid in ruins, andmore than four thousand of the people were was a project against the life of Louis-Philippe,by one Champion, who was arrested. He was baseenough to hang himself in prison, so that no one everknew if he had any accomplices. The news arrived also of a dreadful massacre inJSTew Zealand. There was only one English settleme
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