The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-03-01
Crime Wave Follows End
 Of War In Great Britain

London, Mch. British police rAports admit that the process of de-
 civilization has turned loose 25,0O0 criminals in Great Britain. While police officials insist that crimes of violence are merely of unusually sen sational features and hence give rise Co reports of a crime wave, it is the popular belief that Great Britain is suffering from such wave of crime Is has not inundated it for decades.
 The wGf is un niversally pointed out as the cause. Men who have driven their bayonets into German flesh, have ao longer the horror of killing which made lawabiding citizens of them be- fore the war, it is explained.
 Murders and robberies alike are apparently on an up-curve. Some idea of the robberies which have angered London may be had from the fact that the London metropolitan police recovered $130,000 worth of stolen property during December alone, a figure which represents only a frac- ton of the total value of property stolen.
 Four sensational murders have staggered Britain in the last month. Side by side with accounts of them in the pewspap pers have been accounts of sensational suicides and robberies all of them together furnishing a sordid and tragic commentary on war.
 The 'tsandhills' murder was the first of the four. The body of a beau tiful young married woman was dis covered by fishermen in the sand dunes to the south of BIackpool. the Atlantic City of northern England. The dead woman had been the wife of a motor engineer, whom she mar ried at the age of seventeen and from whom she parted two weeks later. Five years afterward she met an of f1cer in the Royal North Lancashire regiment who Is now awaiting trial on charge of her murder.
 The train murder occurred soon after the Blackpool tragedy. Miss Florence Nightengale Shore, a re- gently demobilized army nurse, and the sister of Brig-Gen. Shore, c. B., c. I. E., D. s. O., who is now in Cali lorna, was assaulted in a compart- ment on the Hastings ex- press and died in a Hastings hospital She was a goddaughter and a distant relative of Florence Nightengale. the haTIl=7p or the Sr1II1Sdu WAT, ana ndO served as an army nurse in the South African War, as well as in the French Red Cross during the great war. Her sssaflant has not been arrested. and the tragedy of her murder on a crowded train has given great stim- 1 ulus to the demand that only corri- | dor cars shall be used on British ex- press trains. In one of the typica1l5 l British self contained apartments fl which she rode, she was cut off from ] all assistance and it was easy for hel murderer to render her unconsciou: and rob her without disturbance from l the other passen gers.
 The victim of the third murder ] also was a woman. 4 policeman smelling smoke just after midnight a ! the door of saloon. summoned ; fire company to Chelsea. the artist quarter of London The drernel | found a quantity of sawdEst snoul l dering in the basement of the saloon and in the midst of the heap the deat body of the woman saloon keeper
 with injuries about the head. Sh
 had been in the habit of keeping he
 bar receipts until she had some S3o
 Or s4o0 before she made bank de 4 posit, and this fact is taken by tn police as explaining the motive Q