In dealing with criminals and throughout a long series of human trials over which he presided, he showed his capacity for justice "and his great knowledge of criminal law. No criminal ever escaped his severity, but no unfortunate victim ever failed to secure this Judge's fund of human sympathy. It was his sense of humanity that prompted. him to remark on one occasion that, although Edith Cavell, the heroic nurse, had met with the due penalty of the law, she had, in the minds of English: men, obeyed a_ higher law and would'in that sense be held in_honour for ever.
We have spoken of the man in probably his most prominent setting, but we should not leave a picture of him without a reference to his other attainments. He is, as we have said, a scholar and during his early days won the prizes of scholarship. He is a linguist of some distinction, a quality which has, no doubt, assisted him through his judicial career very materially. It may be recalled that on one occasion, just As Mr. Justice Darling was about to sentence a foreigner to death, he was requested iby the prisoner to speak French im passing sentence which he immediately proceeded to do.
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