A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 73: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO. THE papers next day were full of the “Brixton Mys- tery,” as they termed it. Each had a long account of the affair, and some had leaders upon it in addition. There was some information in them which was new to me. I still retain in my scrap-book numerous clippings and extracts bearing upon the case. Here is a conden- sation of a few of them: The “Daily Telegraph” remarked that in the history of ‘crime there had seldom been a tragedy which pre- sented stranger features. The German name of the victim, the absence of all other motive, and the sinister inscription on the wall, all pointed to its perpetration by political refugees and revolutionists. The Socialists had many branches in America, and the deceased had, no doubt, infringed their unwritten laws and been traced down by them. After alluding airily to the Vehmge- richt, aqua tofana, Carbonari, the Marchioness de Brin- villiers, the Darwinian theory, the principles of Malthus, and the Ratcliff Highway murders, the article concluded by admonishing the government and advocating a closer watch over foreigners in England. The “Standard” commented upon the fact that law- less outrages of the sort usually occurred under a liberal administration. ‘They arose from the unsettling of the 65 CONNIE LOOKS O