ABOUT CRIMINALS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 113, 4 July 1911, Page 3

ABOUT CRIMINALS.

OASES OF LONG!-I)ELAYEI) JUSTICE. ; A week or two ago a man gave himself up and confessed that he was responsible for the Cafe Royal'murder in 1894. It will he remembered that an ol,d watchman was shot by.! a man unknown. ThotiglU this confession proved, like many others, to he untrue, it recalls the fact that many a crime lias been brought home to the guilty party when many more than sixteen years have gone by. A VIENNA SENSATION. Just over a year ago one of the richest and most respected of the business men of the city ol \ ienna was arrested on a charge of haying embezzled a sum of eight pounds from Iris employer thirty-five years ago! It transpired that this merchant began his career as*a commercial traveller in cheap prints, which he 1 sold in towns and villages. One day ho tailed to turn up, and, oiving to the difficulty of proving the defalcations, the case was not proceeded: with; His solicitor, when lie was charged after this long interval, procured Ids release by arranging that the eight pounds that his client had embezzled, together- with compound' interest for tire thirty-five years, should be deposited ini court. ’ > ' j BROUGHT. TO BOOK. Another case that. runs the above very clpse also proves the truth of the old,) saying, ‘Murder will out.” There' lived in Nome, nearly forty years ago, a woman named Marie iionslli, with her husband and three childrpp,. ~ Shy . ha,d. a...h).yer„.named Giaconi,- .andybhecoming tired' of her Husband and children, deliberately poisoned them. 'The guilty pair fled, and finally settled down together in Naples.l ■( Thirty years afterwards, during a violent quarrel, Giaconi threatened his mistress that heNvould inform- the police of the crime she had committed. A passer-by who overboard the threat’ denounced the pair, and . just, thirty-one years after the dastardly murder, Marie Bonelli was brought to trial and convicted. PERJURY BY THE POLICE. Oddinghyy, a little .village in. Worcestershire, was, the scene of-a ghastly crime that remained' unsolved fur-a quarter of a century. The rector was; found murdered one day, and shortly alter, a man named Hammings, the local village carpenter disappeared, that he was the murderer there was little doubt, hut though there was a great hue and cry at the time, ho was not discovered. Twenty-five years later some workmen who wore digging up the foundations of a barn discovered tho skeleton of the carpenter. This discovery frightened a man into confessing that he had murdered Hem usings. It came out that ho had urged the carpenter to kill the rector, and then, frightened that ise would ho found out, he had in his turn killed Hemmings,. Only as recently as last February the real author of a crime was discovered after fifteen years had passed and six people had been unjustly sentenced for it. Fifteen years ago last August, six miners were condemned at Essen, .for .perjury. The chief witness against them was a policeman named Munter, and, though witnesses were brought to prove that his evidence was, false,, a policeman's word in Germany,..at , that time .was considered to he combined, evidence. Not tjjT.hisx. Fchaiaiy was the innocence of \ these six, deeply - wronged miners ppoyeyl. and, a‘formal verdict of acquittal•',<ent’ered against them. But under German laws they are totally unable to got any compensation ! ‘