Show CRIME THRIVES IN LONDON new york gladly yields to london the palm tor for having more criminals than any city in the world old london and the district is a network of dens and dives which are the mecca for the worlds criminals and the various grades of lawbreakers law breakers during the last year persons were haled baled to the bar of justice in london for crimes of various kinds the annual crop crap of burglaries averages 1500 and the property looted represents about crime in london is unquestionably on an the increase murders are more frequent and the severer the punishment the more criminals seem to delight in braving the danger and risk of being caught in three murder ewes cases within a fortnight the culprit has committed suicide on being arrested in four murder cases no one was made I 1 1 N TYPICAL ENGLISH CRIMINAL amenable one of these cases was the murder of a servant girl whose body was found in the junction canal though the body was not disfigured it was never identified our police with the assistance of the press can in ia a few hours unravel a mystery a thousand times more tangled the second was the murder of a child whose body was found at walthamstow Waltham stow the sherlock holmesen Holme ses are still searching tor for the murderer |