... their insurance policies, but neither murder was brought home to him he was actually hanged for poison ing a betting friend named Cook. Dr. Lamson's case was another rather sordid tragedy of poisoning. CAf English murder trials the ones that most interest ...

... aspect of Mephistopheles, is the frankest of schemers the way in which he informs people of the progress of his plottings of murder, &c., is only equalled by the silence of his intended victims who know all about him, and still allow him to go on scathless ...

... poignant pathos, well able to redeem a melodrama of far less merit than that written round the iniquities of Francis Levison, his murder of the father of one of his victims, his heartless treatment of another, and his ultim ate conviction of the crime for which ...

... by almost cutting him out of the play. We hear enough of the hero to know that he has been w r o n g f u 1 1 y accused of murder, and twice after that he appears for a fewmoments j ust to remind us of his existence; but we see so little of him altogether ...