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The arrest and committal for trial upon a charge of attempted murder of the well-known philanthropist, Mr. Sheldon-Brown, was the sensation of all the newspapers the next morning.
There were so many intriguing points about the arrest. The wealth and social position of the accused, the sudden incursion of London's two most able Police Court advocates into the little town of Chelmsford to fight the case, the bitter and acrimonious dispute, as if it were a matter of life or death when the question of bail came to be considered, the hinting by the police that even graver charges might follow, and, above all, the fact that the great international detective, Gilbert Larose, was back in harness again and had been one of the chief witnesses for the Crown, all made the case one of outstanding interest.