Quarterly Retrospect
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Crimes of the worst dye lie in profusion before us. A father inflicting murderous blows on his only son! Two gentlemen shooting, hacking, and smashing one another to death in a back drawing-room in a bye street in the Strand ! A surgeon charged with a professional murder upon an unhappy patient! Several husbands murdering their wives ! A lady attacking her aged mother with a bludgeon! A boy stabbing his schoolfellow ! A poor girl impaled by a runaway horse on the
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