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Observer, Volume XXXII, Issue 25, 2 March 1912, Page 23

Thus the Sydney "Bulletin " on "The Vampire" melodrama : When a man shoots himself in full view of all the passengers on an Atlantic liner, and a tall lady, dressed like a, poster hoarding, stands over his dead body and laughs the raucous "Ha !Ha !" of spurn, the body is merely carted away, the blood stains swabbed up by a hard-working steward, and the captain gives the order to go full speed ahead. The lady is not 6erved with a subpoena to appear at the inquest; she is not even interviewed. This habit of captains of American liners probably accounts for the fact that there are said to be 100,000 murderers at large in the United States. Of course, the captain might have had a suspicion that Mabel Trevor was a Vampire, in which case it would have been injudicious to hold her for the coroner's inquiry. She might be thirsty at the inquest, and imbibe the coroner's blood, and suck the jugular vein of the youngest reporter, and get drunk on the contents of the police sergeant. So the steward merely hurries what is left of the suicide into a bucket, and places the vamplady's large-size deck-chair over tne spot that is doubtless marked by an "x" in the wireless messages to the evening papers, and leaves her to vamp and wear red roses that clash with her costume.