“You're Samuel Herbert Dougal and there’s a warrant held for your arrest
on a charge of forgery.”

land. The city police, or the City of
London Police to give them their
correct name, are not part of Lon-
don’s Metropolitan Police. They are
a separate force policing the City of
London, which is only one mile
square.

Inspector Henry Cox came out of
the room with the cashier, and ap-
proached Dougal.

In answer to a question by Cox,
Dougal told the police officer that he
was Sydney Domville and he lived at
Upper Terrace, Bournemouth.

“You're Samuel Herbert Dougal,”
bluntly announced Cox, “and there’s a
warrant held for your arrest on a
charge of forgery.” Warned in the
routine fashion, Dougal said nothing.

While Inspector Cox was escorting
Dougal to Old Jewry Police Station,
the owner of Moat Farm tried a dash
for liberty, hotly pursued by Cox.
But Dougal, who had taken many
wrong turnings in his life took an-
other one on this occasion, for he
landed at the end of a lane, that led
nowhere. Cox clapped the handcuffs
on him, and they continued to Old
Jewry. When he was searched at the
police station he had about six hun-
dred pounds in notes, five of Miss
Holland’s rings and two of her
Watches.

TWENTY-THIRD EDITION

With Dougal under lock and key,
the police then tackled Moat Farm to
see if it had a secret to yield. It had.

A coroner’s jury returned a verdict
of wilful murder against Dougal, and
the bluff and bearded murderer came
up for trial before Mr. Justice Wright
at the Essex Summer Assize, 1903,
held in the imposing Shire Hall at
Chelmsford.

After hearing two days of evidence,
the story of little Miss Holland’s dis-
appearance was unraveled to the satis-
faction of the jury, for they only de-
liberated 15 minutes before bringing
in a verdict of “Guilty.”

Two weeks later, on July 8, 1903,
within the grim stone walls of Chelms-
ford Prison, Samuel Herbert Dougal
took his stand, bareheaded and shirt
open, on a narrow platform. Around
his neck was a noose of rope, the
heavy turns of the oversize knot
pressing harshly against his right ear.
As Billington, the official executioner,
stretched his hand forward to seize
the lever, the prison chaplain leaned
slightly forward and asked Dougal:
“Are you guilty or not guilty?” Dougal
half turned his head. “Guilty, he
mumbled, and a split second later the
metal floor sprang apart with a
clang. * *

Sex Crime Wave Blackest

In British Police Records

HIGH-LEVEL police conferences
are to be held in an effort to beat the
menace of sex crime—black spot of
Britain’s criminal. records.

Though statistics show that in 1949
the post-war crime wave was receding,
sexual offences were a startling ex-
ception. These figures have risen
steadily since 1948 to a worst-ever
total.

Last year there were more of these
dangerous offenders in every age
group—not excepting the “under
fourteens,” who showed an increase of
five per cent. In the age range 21-30
the increase was ten per cent.

Cases of rape and other offences
against women and girls known to the
police totaled 7,574, almost three
times the annual average for the years
1930-1939.

And police believe that many such
cases go unreported because women
and girls are reluctant to admit they
have been the victims.

Measures likely to be considered in
any new drive to end this menace are
extra vigilance in parks and open
spaces, better and later street lighting,
and pressure on local authorities to
help clear up the bomb sites, where
many of these vicious crimes take
place.

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