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Making Crime a Business by Lord Somerset in Blenheim Swamp
Detective Murray unravels a Canadian murder plot as English con men Birchall and Benwell lure young men to Ontario farms. Pelly and Benwell are killed in Blenheim swamp after Birchall poses as Lord Somerset to secure a Canadian partnership. Birchall is convicted and hanged.
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Hastwood
Ontario
Canada
Blenheim
Joseph
George Elaridge
John Wilson Murray
Toronto
Murray
England
Princeton
Benwell
Paris
Sam John Wilson Murray
Department of Criminal Investigation
White
Pred Bentwell
Benswell
London
Niagara Falls
Falls
Reginald Birchall
Birchall
Binchall
New York
United States
Douglas Raymond Pelly
Baldwin
Pelly
R. P. Pelly
Walden Place
Saffron Walden
Essex
Oxford
Lady Pelly
Lord Lansdowne
Sid Birchall
Primrose Club
Park Place
St. James
J. R. Burchail
Burchall
J. R. Burchall
McDonald
Woodstuck
Flollington
St. Leonard’s-on-Sea
J. R. Burehall
Stafford
Buffalo
Hellmuth
Canada Side
Mrs
representa_ at
Falla
Scotland ' Yard
J. R. Birchall
Joseph Birchall
Church Kirk
Whalley
Florence Stevenson
David Stevenson
Northwestern
Picadilly
Stewart Sproat
America
Woodstock
Stafford House
Mra
Hotel
Gether
Stafford ‘House
William H. Poole
Grand Trunk
Windsor
Eastwood
Blenheim Swamp
Matthew: Virtue
Eng Mghmen
Miss Lockhart
Blandford
Alfred Hayward
Eastwood Station
John Crosby
Blenheim Township
Governor's Road
Alice Fallon
Somerset & Co
Brockstreet
Stevenson
J.R. Burchall
Primrose’ Club
Petty
Col
Cheltenham
Somerset
Gedly
Iire
Lady Somerset
Wonilstock
Lord Somerset
James Rapson
Mias Fallon
Jang
Charles Buck
Buck
Gables Corners
Niagara’ Falls
George Hay
Bin
Pitchell
Perry
Sirchall
Ana
Pine Pond
Brridges
Birchail
Co Birchall
France
Germany
Italy
Frederick Benwell
Gi ‘Chapman
Great Britain