A portion of the public are showing, in regard to
the charges against the three detectives, much the same kind of interest as was shown in the Balham Case. They are writing a 'multitude -of letters to Sir James Ingham, the magistrate at Bow Street, telling him how he is to deal with the charge, and are sending to the counsel for the prisoners anonymous post-cards, full of abuse and threats. William Kurr, the convict, continues his history of the amiable and generous relations existing between the gang of betting-sharpers and the guardians of order. Fes- tive meetings at London railway restaurants and taverns, with champagne flowing as water, were frequent occurrences, and the intimacy did not stop there. When Kurr started "the City of
. Paris Loan," which the French Government apparently regarded as a swindle, Druscovich and Meiklejohn are said to have been consulted as to the possibility of penal proceedings being taken in this country, and of the culprits being punished at most with only a fine of £100 and three mouths' imprisonment, which Kurr said he did not mind. According to the convict, his Scotland-Yard friends were always in difficulties ; and we hear of Meiklejohn getting presents of brandy and sums of £100, £20, and £500. £200 are said to have been left in a cigar-box in Meiklejohn's house for Druacovich ; £25 was put on one occasion into his coat-pocket, without much resistance on his part ; and once the latter came to Kurr, saying, "I have not bad enough," and received another bribe of £100. The prisoner's counsel have not yet indicated the line of defence, but it is understood that there is no likelihood of a long cross-examination, unless Benson, the scholar of the con- spirators, is called by the prosecution.
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