15 MARCH 1935, Page 6

I take this from the Sunday Referee :

In seven years of married life a Canadian couple have had no fewer than eighteen children, the births being After twelve months .. Triplets.

Ten months later .. Twins Eleven months later .. Triplets Twelve months later .. Twins.

Eleven months later - Twins Twelve months later .. Triplets. Twelve months later .. Triplets.

The husband is a French-Canadian jobbing carpenter who, at the age of nineteen, married an eighteen-year-old Icelander.

Would "Crime and Punishment" be too strong a heading ?