Amongst the items of news missed because of the amount of attention that must necessarily be paid to the war, is the report that Sir Alfred Tobin, former judge of the Westminster County Court, died during the first few days in Switzerland at the age of 83. Known as "the kind judge" Sir Alfred Tobin was probably bert remembered as the man who defended Dr. Crippen. That he was unsuccessful is now generally admitted to be due to the manner in which Crippen insisted that his case should be conducted, in the hope of saving Miss lo Neve from trouble. Sir Alfred was a tall, stately man, and the memory of how he fought for Crippen in the Criminal Court of Appeal will long remain in the memory of those fortunate enough to witness it. Throughout a long cold winter morning, in the dingy well of the Court, Sir Alfred addressed his pleading to the learned judges in scarlet seated on the dais, and lit up almost theatrically by the cheerless light coming from the big windows over the public gallery. Away on their left in the dock stood Crippen, a harmless-looking, little man with
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