Toxicology in relation to crime is discussed by the Medical Adviser to the Home Office from the time of Nero down to the present day. Up. to 400 years ago poisoning in some countries was regarded as a fine art and political marder by means of poison wan held to be a legitimate practice. In the sixteenth century King Henry VIE discouraged this practice in England by ordering persons convicted of poisoning to Be" hotied to death:
An account is given of the cliff culties of police work in Palestine, of the blocd feuds peculiar to that. country and if the blood money. settlements by which such feuds are sometimes. terminated, when the parties concerned together with the arbitrators and their friends cat roast mutton and rice until bare bones and empty bowls are all that remain, Essentially technical but not less interesting to the lay reader on that count, is an article by an Ass ant Engineer at New Scotland Yard in which mechanical and electrical appliances for traffic control and other police purposes are described {in some detail. The extent to which radio can be used as an aid to police work is hardly realized.
In other articles accounts are given of the criminal tribes of India; of the famous escape of Jack Sheppard from Newgate Prison in 1724, and of the various attempts that have been made to reform the [criminally inclined youth of large Shanghai Policeman's Gallant Work Especially interesting is an article written by Brig. General C.D. Bruce, C.B.B., formerly' Capt-Supt. of Police in Shanghai, in which the suther discusses Shanghai, ite police force and its police problems. Very properly he emphasizes a fuct which Icoal residents, both Chinese -and foreign, are all too apt to ignore, namely, that while the S.M.P. per forms all the duties of any other civil police force, it nevertheless fers from almost any other civil police force in the world in at least Gne most important respect. This dae to the fact that its members, day in and day out, continuously and as a matter of routine, literally and actively risk the in the protection of the community's interests. How often in these days do we fail to find in our daily news-Paper an account of some serious shooting affray between our police and members of the armed criminal gangs that frequent the Settlements and surrounding Chinese districts? So seldom, indeed, that we have come to take these occurrences as matter of course. Do we ever stop to think of the tremendous courage displayed time after time by individual members of the force? Do we realize what the pursuit and capture of armed miscreants to whom murder ix of no account really means? Do we ever picture to ourselves the-solitary. congtable—
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