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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1618, 9 December 1912, Page 8

Superintendent Froest, .head of the Criminal Investigation Department, who recently retired from .Scotland Yard, says, as to the material for the best detectives: "My ido-v is to get men at twenty-one years of age and train them up. That is what vre are doing, and.the class ot recruit who now presents, himself is distinctly satisfactory. I wanted three men the other .day, one to speak French, one to write, shorthand, and another to speak German, and I got three. Englishmen ot. once. Most of the recruits como from the country, and' they mate the best men. If you get a young fellow, the son of nice people who have sent him to a grammar school, or have put him into a bank or a municipal office. Tie makes a good man as a rule." To protest against the Sunday opening of all places of. public amusement a meeting, convened by the Variety Artistes' Federation was held on September 22 at the Tro'cadero Restaurant, London. The following resolution, moved by Mr. Olemart, was adopted: "With a view to preserving Sunday as a day of rest and recreation for all concerned m the production of public entertainment, this meeting calls for the abolition of entertainments on Sunday in dramatic, variety, and picture palaces." , Ernest George Mott, a carman, of Queen Ann's Terrace, Murchison Koad, North Kensington, was summoned at West London for assaulting his wife, Emily Mott. Mrs. Mott said her husband had a quarrel with her and tried to strangle her. He also struck her on the forehead with liis first. The defendant said his wife asked him to peel the potatoes,. make the beds, and clean the windows, and ho did. not think it fair that he should do tho domestic work after lie had worked hard all tho week. Addressing his wife, ho added: "You got hold of a novel and said to mc: 'If you don't peel the potatoes you'll get no dinner.' " The Clerk: "What was tho novo'?" Tho Defendant: "A Bride of Faith." (Laughter.) All he did, ho added, was to seize his wife by tho wrists and prevent her from hitting him. Mr. Garrett bound the husband over in £§ to keep the peace for twelve .months.