.The catalogue of crimes perpetrated on life and property con-
tinues to be enormously heavy. A new fraud which comes out this week in the Great Northern Railway Company is unimportant in amount, but important as showing the number and extent of these depredations. It turns out that Redpath's subordinate, Kent, is more implicated than he was at first supposed to be, while the settlement of his property on his wife seems to imply a deliberate intent. Redpath's discovery was preceded by rumours pointing out the man by name ; and there are new whispers of another fraud to be detected elsewhere.
In the catalogue of murder the most conspicuous is that of Mr. Little, cashier at a Dublin Railway station. It is not un- like the English case of Marley and Cope, with the difference that the murderer penetrated to a more private place, and was most likely familiar with the building. Coupled with the mul- tiplicity of garottings, burglaries, and suicides, this sudden at- tack upon a peaceful man presents a picture of a domestic inse- curity which was thought to be incompatible with an age of gas- lights and police. The Italian proverb says, " Given the law, to find the flaw " : our improved securities have but set rogues upon improved devices, and our security is their opportunity..
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