ENGLISH AND IRISH CRIME.
The Pall Mall Gazette of Saturday April 30 says : —
Yesterday three charges of murder were tried in English courts, and in each case the trial resulted in a verdict; of acquittal. If similar failures of justice had occurred in Ireland, everyone knows what would be said ; bub as they only took place in England they escape attention. No stress need be laid on the acquittal of the young woman charged with murdering her child at Bromley. The evidence was slight, and the painful scene in court might naturally incline the jury to mercy. G-eorgo Eiehings, at Aylesbury, was accused on his own confession of having burned his paramour to death in the middle of bis room, but as the poor vroman, like Desdemona, declared with her dying breath that her lover was innocent, he was acquitted. In the case of the Slough murder, as the evidence against the butcher boy accused of killing his mistress consisted solely of an apparent similarity between his handwriting and that of the murderer, it is not surprising that the jury ref usod to convict. But ifc is decidedly unpleasant to think of the number of undiscovered murderers who are at large just now.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3144, 26 July 1881, Page 3
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