CRIMES IN LONDON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1596, 30 January 1884, Page 3

CRIMES IN LONDON.

Tho Director of Criminal Investigations, in a recent report, said that London was the safest city in the world for life and property. Three events, which have happened during the past fortnight (says , the .Home News). set this daring assertion in a strange light... 'ln, the first case, Mr Sexton M.P., was set upon by a gang of ... footpads in a street off the Strand, and a watch valued at £4O snatched from . his pocket. It is true that this took place at three o'clock in the morning; but the thieves phowed their respect for tho vigilence of tho polico by walk-1 ing coolly away, and but for a cabman 1 would have escaped altogether. That ' an outrage should bo committed on a Land- League member is perhaps, only retributive justice, but odd enough tho culprit was Irish also. A couple of days afterwards, a German was kidnapped at eight o'clock in the evening in the neighborhood of the Etstou-road —one of the most populous thoroughfares in tho metropolis. A sack w,as flung over his head, ho was dragged into a house, drugged, and robbed of g/ ' of about £BO which he had saved to K get married with. Ten or twelvo hours afterwards ho was found lying on tlio highway of Hertford Common, about a.dozen miles away, bound hand and foot. The following day a respectablo girl was found lying half dead on the . Thames foreshoro, near Elackfriars, .having been subjected to brutal treatment and'then thrown over the embankment. If, with crimes of this sort jof,daily occurrence, London is the "safest" city in the world, the others cannot bo desirable places of habitation." -