The Archive · 1928

Of a Higher Type

On the whole the men executed] yesterday seemed a higher type than those of the day before, who were members of the Dixwell Road gang of kidnappers. These were not only better dressed but scerne:! more conversant with soap and water. They. Jooked in several cases as though they might be moderately substantial shopkeepers and the one who possessed the fur coat helped the police to some extent by trying ty keep order among his companions on their way into the van. He was older and] seemed far more intelligent, but like the others he was a confessed kidnapper and went to his fate with the same composure he would assume in going woo ut a more honourable business.

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