The first and most sensational case that I was called upon to preside over was known as the Penge case.

These are, as nearly as I can give them, the words of one of our most distinguished advocates, and one of the most brilliant who was in the Penge case: "We felt, and the Bar felt, that a great power had come upon the Bench; he summed up that case as no living man could have done.

Ever since the 'Penge mystery' trial many have termed him the hanging Judge.

The Nightingale is also common at Lee and Lewisham, Forest-hill, Sydenham, and Penge-wood; in all these places, except Hackney and Mile-end, I have myself often heard it, and in the day-time.

That affair at Penge.

That affair at Penge.

That affair at Penge.

That affair at Penge.