Ube spectator
January 26, 1867 •• The Regent's Park catastrophe seems to have been a sort of signal for persons who were not, but might have been, drowned, to abscond. In at least eight or nine cases there have .been dis- appearances by persons either benevolently anxious to give their relatives the temporary pleasure of thinking them no more, or cruelly bent on giving them the pain of a needless suspense, or actuated by more fanciful motives. . . . The remarkable unanimity with which,— of course without concert,—so many persons unknown to each other out of a comparatively small group seized simultaneously on the idea that it would be an advantage to be supposed dead, suggests a terrible sort of suspicion as to the worth of a considerable number of, family
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