WAVE OF CRIME.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17402, 13 March 1922, Page 7

WAVE OF CRIME.

murders and suicides in ENGLAND. I A SHOCKING LIST. (By Cable—Press Association—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association*.) (Received March 12th, 0.0 p.m.) LONDON, March 11.

An extraordinary wave Of crime is sweeping over England, including many mysterious murders, which are baffling the police. There have been many illicit love affairs, some ending in double suicides and others in murder. "Within the past fortnight several such cases have been reported. The wife of a prominent Manchester business man ran off with a skatingrink instructor. The pair occupied a cottage in a Hampshire village as a honeymoon couple. They were not seen for several days, after which the police discovered their .bodies in a bedroom. Another couple, a married man and a single woman, made a double suicide nact They took poison and entered the 'sea at Southend. The man was drowned but the woman cheated deatn. A married curate and his lover drank poison in at a Nottingham hotel, and both died. Another inexplicable affairs was a case in which two lovers were doping in a train. Suddenly the man shot the girl and turned the weapon on himself. He expired, but the girl was not seriously hurt. There have been numerous gas tragedies in which couples have died together An unmarried mother at Chelsea ana her two sons died from gas" poisoning. The verdict at the inquest was suicide and double murder. A verdict of murder was returned against a young man accused of strangling a girl at JBrixton with a silk stockjjlg| A labourer was sentenced to death for murdering a woman of 79, an oldage pensioner, of Holborn. " A youth was similarly sentenced tor murdering his fiancee at Clapton, and a boy is awaiting trial for giving his father a fatal blow after the latter had struck the boy's mother. A widow of 55, living alone at Hen-ley-on-Thames, who was in constant dread of some man residing abroad, was found murdered. The police suggest that deceased met the murderer while travelling either to Canada' or Australia. On the day preceding the tragedy she had left instructions regarding her money. The sensation,of the moment concerns the death, of a beautiful girl, a West End dancer, believed to be a victim of the drug habit, and the death of another girl in connexion with which a married airman has been apprehended. CRIME ON THE CONTINENT. (Received March 12th, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, March 11. Paris is experiencing a startling number of what the French describe as. crimes passionels. Poland is terrorised by a modern "Jack the Ripper." Within three weeks 'the bodies of nine girls have been found mutilated.