CRIMES OF PASSION
INFLUENCE OF THE WAR, It. w as a matter of congratulation that there were only eighty-seven persons for trial at a court which had jurisdiction over 8,000,000 people, said the Recorder, Sir Ernest Wild, K.C., when charging the grand jury at the opening of the June sessions of the Central Criminal Court. But the character of the crimes, he said, was a matter for grave thought. He was sorry to say there had been a. recrudescence* of crimes of violence. Commenting on two cases in which women were alleged to have thrown corrosive fluid oyer their husbands, the Recorder said that fortunately the law in England did not recognise what wan known as the crime passionelle. “Let us," said the Recorder, “leave that kind of crime to the apache. It is useless to try and diagnose the reasons for these crimes, but there have been many more of them eince the war, and perhaps because of the wax.”
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Evening Star, Issue 18717, 20 August 1924, Page 4
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161CRIMES OF PASSION Evening Star, Issue 18717, 20 August 1924, Page 4
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