p. 26 | Crime Records Fall Far Behind

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 20, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 48, No. 4.

Crime Records Fall Far Behind

An eccentric Londoner, nearly ninety years of age, who has given attention throughout more than half of this period to the collection and classification of reports of criminal trials, is getting discouraged, and says, “It may be that my increasing years render the task more difficult; but my opinion is that crime of the worst character is becoming so prevalent that no one can keep pace with it. My books of murders are far in arrears; I am far behind-hand with my divorces; and my forgeries have so accumulated on my hands that I have been compelled this week to employ a young man to aid me in posting up the records.”