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knowledge to rely on to prevent a serious fiasco.

However so far in every prosecution save one they have given me a conviction and in every defence I have obtained an acquittal or what was considered such.

This is too good to last and there is evidently a fall waiting for me nearby. Your recent letters have been more than usually interesting and they seem to indicate that you are in rather better health. I saw what the papers had to say about Bobbie Wake's death & I know well the hospital where she was though have never been inside it.

BC Archives, MS-0055 Box 15 File 4 / CREASE FAMILY / Letters from Arthur Douglas Crease to his brother, Lindley Crease, 1918.