A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 74: what you’re looking at

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66 A STUDY iN SCARLEP: minds of the masses, and the consequent weakening of all authority. The deceased was an American gentle- man who had been residing for some weeks in the metropolis. He had stayed at the boarding-house of Mme. Charpentier, in Torquay Terrace, Camberwell. He was accompanied in his travels by his private secre- tary, Mr. Joseph Stangerson. ‘The two bid adieu to their landlady upon Tuesday, the 4th inst., and de-- parted to Euston Station with the avowed intention of catching the Liverpool express. They were afterward seen together on the platform. Nothing more is known of them until Mr. Drebber’s body was, as recorded, dis: covered in an empty house in the Brixton Road, many miles from Euston. How he came there, or how hz met his fate, are questions which are still involved in mystery. Nothing is known of the whereabouts of Stangerson. We are glad to learn that Mr. Lestrade and Mr. Gregson, of Scotland Yard, are both engaged upon the case, and it 1s confidently anticipated that these well-known officers will speedily throw light upon the. matter. . 3 The “Daily News ” observed that there was no doubt as to the crime being a political one. ‘The des- potism and hatred of Liberalism which animated the Continental governments had had the effect of driving to our shores a number of men who might have made excellent citizens were they not soured by the recollec- tion of all that they had undergone. Among these men there was a stringent code of honor, any infringement of which was punished by death. Every effort shouid ‘be made to find the secretary, Stangerson, and to ax Gomicboo CSriG