The Saturday Review makes the following remarks on crime in England :~Even in London, 'if every one had his due, we suspect there would be at least as many murderers wailing their trials as in New York. It is strange how little attention is paid to the number of bodies that are found under circumstances strongly, presumptive of foul play. Corpses are continually being picked out of the Regent's Canal under circumstances that suggest murder rather than suicide. Infanticide would seem to be going on briskly again, if we are to\judge from the frequency of inquests on the corpses of children that have been cast out into, the streets. But jurors find tipen ; verdicts, andY isolated; inßtanceapaßßalmoßt unnoticed. * And < 1 ; goes- often undetected and unpunished^ it would a^
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 88, 12 April 1873, Page 5
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