POLYGLOT CRIMINALS
'' International Criminals, Past and Present." By Frederic Boutet. ' Translated by Walter Mostyn. .'London: Hutchinson and Co. Books about crime and criminals are having a run of popularity, and this little volume, dealing with French sensations from the French point of view, has its special interest. It consists to a large extent of very brief sketches which seem to leave too much unsaid, but there are some excellent things in it. Several chapters deal with pirates and piracy, and give -lurid details, which effectively dispose of the glamour of an abominable calling .which has, happily, disappeared from tho civilised world. There have been women pirates. Two are dealt with by Boutet. Among his ocean "heroes" is Major Stede Bonnet, a cultured man who graduated under the infamous Teach into "one of the strangest pirates who ever sailed tho seas." But M. Boutet's story deals less with the strangeness of Bonnet's piracy than with the astounding address delivered by the Lord Chief Justice Trott in sentencing him to bo hanged. Tho Judge, delivered a sermon, covering/seven pages, and so ." larded-with Scriptures" that it contains over twenty actual citations of chapter and verse. Bonnet was one of a group of twenty-seven who were hanged at this time.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 92, 19 April 1930, Page 17
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206POLYGLOT CRIMINALS Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 92, 19 April 1930, Page 17
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