In the eyes of officialdom the mystery had been cleared up. Detectives walk the streets with the consciousness that they are the men who cleared it up and brought the murderer to the gallows. The list of persons who shared in the reward offered by the Government, with the amounts allotted to each, has been published.[1] It does nothing to allay the sense of public uneasiness to reflect that by far the greater part of the reward has gone to men and women whose society would be shunned by every decent person. That in itself should be sufficient to raise doubt. But there are graver reasons for thinking that justice may have miscarried in this extraordinary case. The purpose of this short review is to show how strong are the grounds for the prevalent feeling of uneasiness, and how much reason there is for believing that the life of Colin Campbell Ross was, as he himself asserted as he went to the cells with the death sentence ringing in his ears, “Sworn away by desperate people.” [1] The Government reward of £1000 was distributed as follows:—Ivy Matthews, £350; Sydney John Harding, £200; Olive Maddox, £170; George Arthur Ellis, £50; Joseph Dunstan, £50; David Alberts, £30; Madame Ghurka, £25; Maisie Russell, £25; Blanche Edmonds, £20; Muriel Edmonds, £20; Violet Sullivan, £20; Michaluscki Nicoli, £20; Francisco Anselmi, £20. A reward of £250 offered by the “Herald” was distributed pro rata. It was never disclosed, either on the trial or in the press, what the services rendered by Madame Ghurka or Maisie Russell were.