We wound up during the last few days the investigation into the Maltby case, which showed that the man shot Mrs, Middleton, in his Regent Park house as long ago as August, and that he lived in the same place, with her body in the bath, for four and a half months, and even apparently ate his meals om a board placed over her. The fiction writers are in despair, because they suggest that, if they incorporated in their writings some of the occurrences which are recorded in real life, nobody would believe them. Almost every day we have new forms of crime, the latest being a long series of robberies by a masked and armed burglar, who is holding up residents and looting houses in the Shenfield district of Essex, which lies just east of the London border. Coupled with occurrencies of this nature are a whole string of gas tragedies, which are considerably perplexing the public. It is suggested modern gas contains a good deal more carbon monoxide than it used to, and a very little of this will kill people. Some have been killed, and others have been just rescued in time.
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