ANOTHER CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19815, 5 December 1919, Page 5

ANOTHER CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE.

A CHEAT CRIMINAL. A remarkable career was broueht fa an end on the 30th June. , • • • after a long trial, \„.s condemned to dentil for a scries o'* crimes which slumped him as the jyeatest crinlmul of the century.. He was fi fascinating man in many wal: 5. hurl entry to somo of the best society', and was lookt'd upon for a lotifj vime in tno place whore he lived, as :i prosperous business man. There w;v;' t, good deal about him that suggested y'lolesl Louis' Stevenson's I>r Joky! j£y llydo. 31c was exct-eii'm'giy vvaiuinf, although the police were sure thai Ho was the man tlioy wanted for a number of crimes, no jury would euuviVr him on the evidence submitted. !■],> covered up his tracks so skilfully -that in several instances innocent were charged with the crime, and in more than one ca.se suffered the d-.-.yih penalty. It was proved in e\idonee that he had been iviuliy of innumerable robberies, of forgery, arson :uid murder of both women and men. ami that ho had amassed great wealth. The revel;;tions concerning his moral character showed him to have been a denraved degenerate from whom no child even • was safe. Instances of violation of children and women wero numerous, and when the jury found hiui p;uiltv', and the Judge sentenced him to death, there was a spirit of relief mingle! with tho horror that his crimes nasi excited. He was publicly executed yesterday. His name was The Liquot' Traffic. H Public Press. Ist July. 1920. 3