Monson, the man against whom a verdict of not proven" was returned by' a Scottish jury in the famous Ardlamont murder case, has just been sentenced, together with another scoundrel—a Polish Jew money-lender who usually passed under the name of "Honour"—to five years' penal servitude for a fraud oman Insurance company. These two rascals carried on a system of.inveigling foolish young members of well-to-do families into crime and then blackmailing them or their fami they found it for a time very profitable business; but fortunately they have been prevented from resuming it for a considerable time tocome. The Ardlamont murder case is now perhaps a more easily solvable mystery than it was.
Sth August,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.