The Instruments of Darkness

The happy attendant upon the forthcoming opening of the Crystal Palace has been marred by two Inexplicable fatalities. Two days ago at half past six in the morning, a scaffold was seen to fall abruptly some 40 feet to the floor of the Oriental Tea Room and yesterday morning, an even more macabre death was to follow a man was seen lying motionless 60 feet up in the branches of a sycamore tree-the centre-piece of a horticultural display!