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Show Delays of Justice. A man has been arrested In Australia Aus-tralia for a murder committed at Chis-wick Chis-wick in 190S. Legal records supply Instances In-stances of a longer Interval than this between the crime and the arrest. The leading case is that of Eugene Aram, who was hanged for the murder of Clarke fourteen years after the offense. of-fense. In the eighteenth century a man named Home was executed for the murder of his child 35 years after the crime. There is also the well-known well-known case of Governor Wall, who was hanged in 1S02 for a murder committed com-mitted in 17S2. But Sir James Stephens Ste-phens recalls what is surely the most remarkable case on record. He prosecuted, prose-cuted, as counsel for the crown, in 1SG3, a man who was charged with stealing a leaf from a parish registry sixty years before. |