Guilty or not Guilty? (Stories of Celebrated Crimes)

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Description
The cases of murder dealt with in these pages. are, for the most part, still surrounded by doubt and mystery. The circumstances are of a kind to invite speculation and conjecture, and to leave a lingering fear that justice, which, being human, is liable to error, may have gone astray. We cannot quite determine the guilt or innocence of the accused person. We are just as doubtful of the justice of Jessie M'Lachlan's conviction as we are uncertain of the innocence of Abraham Thornton. We have as little belief in the innocence of Augustus Payne as in the exclusive guilt of Samuel Yarham.
Much is left to theory and to surmise, and though the celebrated crimes I have here related are fertile fields for thought and speculation, though they lend themselves to argument and debate, they leave us with the feeling that they are yet unsolved, and that the secret of them still eludes us.
Justice in this country is always tempered with mercy. Nowhere else, I think, can an accused person be so assured of a fair trial. It is guided, in practice and theory, by the assumption, that it is better for twelve guilty men to go free than for one innocent person to be hanged, and with this as the basic principle, the chances of mistakes are few.
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Table of Contents
I. The Story Of Mary Ashford
Ii The Case Of Harriet Candler
Iii. New Light On An Old Mystery
Iv. Edmund Pook And Jane Clousen
V. The Murder In A Third-Class Carriage
Vi. The Mysterious Murder At Gorse Hall
Vii. The Case Of Willie Starchfield
Viii. Who Killed Mrs. Reville?
Ix. The Great Glasgow Mystery
X. The "Bill O' Jack's" Murders
Xi. The Strange Case Of The German Baker
Xii. Mysterious Murders Of Women
Xiii. A Study Of Browne And Kennedy
Xiv. Voirbo, Mullins, And Maynard
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Author Details
Guy B.H logan