Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) MYSTERIES OF POLICE AND CRIME [Illustration: WATCH HOUSE AND WATCHMEN A CENTURY AGO. (_From a Contemporary Print by Rowlandson and Pugin._)] MYSTERIES OF POLICE AND CRIME BY MAJOR ARTHUR GRIFFITHS FORMERLY ONE OF H.M. INSPECTORS OF PRISONS; JOHN HOWARD GOLD MEDALLIST; AUTHOR OF "MEMORIALS OF MILLBANK," "CHRONICLES OF NEWGATE," ETC. _PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED_ IN THREE VOLUMES VOL. I. SPECIAL EDITION CASSELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED _LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK & MELBOURNE_ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED [Illustration] CONTENTS. Part I. A GENERAL SURVEY OF CRIME AND ITS DETECTION. .....PAGE Crime Distinguished from Law-breaking--The General Liability to Crime--Preventive Agencies--Plan of the Work--Different Types of Murders and Robberies--Crime Developed by Civilisation--The Police the Shield and Buckler of Society--Difficulty of Disappearing under Modern Conditions--The Press an Aid to the Police: the Cases of Courvoisier, Müller, and Lefroy--The Importance of Small Clues--"Man Measurement" and Finger-Prints--Strong Scents as Clues--Victims of Blind Chance: the Cases of Troppmann and Peace--Superstitions of Criminals--Dogs and other Animals as Adjuncts to the Police--Australian Blacks as Trackers: Instances of their Almost Superhuman Skill--How Criminals give themselves Away: the Murder of M. Delahache, the Stepney Murder, and other Instances--Cases in which there is Strong but not Sufficient Evidence: the Great Coram Street and Burdell Murders: the Probable Identity of "Jack the Ripper"--Undiscovered Murders: the Rupprecht, Mary Rogers, Nathan, and other Cases: Similar Cases in India: the Button Crescent Murder: the Murder of Lieutenant Roper--The Balance in Favour of the Police.....1 Part II. JUDICIAL ERRORS. CHAPTER I. WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS. Judge Cambo, of Malta--The D'Anglades--The Murder of Lady Mazel--Execution of William Shaw for the Murder of his Daughter--The Sailmaker of Deal and the alleged Murder of a Boatswain--Brunell, the Innkeeper--Du Moulin, the Victim of a Gang of Coiners--The Famous Calas Case at Toulouse--Gross Perversion of Justice at Nuremberg--The Blue Dragoon.....51 CHAPTER II. CASES OF DISPUTED OR MISTAKEN IDENTITY.