We are seriously asking our-neives whether England is being swept by a crime wave, and if s0, what is the cause. The discovery during Whitsun of the stabbed body of a woman at Brighton, brings the number of murders committed or alleged during the past week to even. They are:
Cambridge tutor and detective sergeant shot by undergraduate.
Waitress "strangled at Burgh Health, near Epson garages in St. James Mews, At the inquest evidence by the landlady Louisa 3fi wife of a licensed waterman, who said that Mrs, Prendergast has occupied a room in the house since the beginning of April; she usually left at midday and returned about midnight. She never said how she earned her living and was very' reticent. A police surgeon said death was due to shock, loss of blood, and syncope following severe puncture wounds, Mr. Kesson of Falkirk at the inquest on Miss Kesson, who was killed near Epsom showed great emotion when he identified his daughter. No other evidence was taken. The police are apparently working on clues doth cases, but they have difficult tasks before them, since both at Epsom and at Brighton thousands of people were about, and it seems difficult to follow up either woman's, movements,
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