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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13811, 23 January 1909, Page 2 (Supplement)

■ Anyone . who..; followed the- records of crime in and around London within the-past; few i weeks"(says the London correspondent' of li'the " Sydney Mor.iing Herald ") might be.' pardoned lor ci tertaining • seribjis doubts, as- to 'he efficacy of. that,i famous institutbn known as Scotland : Yard. :,. Very .recently there' wiis the mysterious murder of Mrs Luard, who' was ■ shot in her garden at Sevenoaks,'.- and whose death was followed a few. weeks later by the suicide of her husband. Then came the brutal murder at Bloomsbury of a young foreign wdmen; arid at about the same time all impudent forger, with the aid ofUi taxi-cab, raided seven branches of fchevone- bank in a single morning' and escaped with between-; £2OOO and £3000; and a AVest End jeweller's was \ relieved of some £lo,ooo' worth t: of ..Valuables.- So far each of "these mysteries has absolutely baffled-Scotland Yard, or at least the detectives have been unable to get evidence which would justify an arrest. It is satisfactory 'toj'notioe, however, that in these cases'the authorities appear to have'had a "Vim of bad hick, for between January *T, 1903, and the present date 82 murdqrs out of a total of 92 committed, iii the metropolitan area of London have Veen avenged by, the law—a record wliich, in view of the population of the city <qmd the extreme difficulties attaching in consequence to the tracing of-crinunaliv/cannot be regarded as a bad one. a / When children fail toMrjye .give them Steam's Wine.- It makejis weak; cMdren strong by gWng them better appetit* and digestion. They like to take it because its taste is pleasant... \ t