"Criminals I have known" was the attractive title of the talk given on January 27 at Lord Luke's house in aid of King Edward's Hospital Fund for London by Sir Chartres Biron, who practised for years at the Old Bailey before he became Stipendiary Magistrate at Hoxton, and who was for 13 years chief magistrate at Bow Street, states the "Manchester. Guardian."
He talked about his days at the Old Bailey, where he appeared on behalf of the Treasury. The men who practised there did not make money by large fees but by the number of cases, for which they would receive from £1 1s. to £10 10s. One always had enough to do.
Sir Chartres referred to the case of Beck, who had been identified by ten women as the man who had robbed them in a peculiarly mean way. "There was such strong feeling against him that everyone in the case seemed to lose his head. Beck' served his seven years, and when he came out was charged a second time.
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