Royal Navy Captain Escapes Justice for Double Murder

This is an exposure of the murders of one Captain Charles Kinraid.

I have damning evidence from eye witnesses that he shot dead two sailors on a fight on a ship called 'The Good Fortune'.

Despite this, he has never been called a murderer. In fact, he has been honoured and promoted in the Royal Navy.

I am rectifying this, and calling him a muderer now. Not only a murderer, but a double murderer.

So confident is he, in fact, of the favour of his Admiral that he once boasted that he could use his influence to get an ex-girlfriend's marriage annuled.

He has since married an heiress, the former Clarinda Jackson.

He has in fact, something of a reputation as a Lothario. One of his ex-girlfriends is even rumoured to have gone into a decline after he left her for another.

In the area where the murder was committed, the residents have no objection to the shootings. His cousin, one Molly Corney, is quoted as saying, 'I dare say he did shoot them dead...I think it serves them right, I do.'

The shocking thing is, that many academics know of the murders, but choose to ignore them.
So far as I know, only Graham Handley has come out and called Captain Kinraid a murderer in a footnote.

The Caddish Captain has got away with murder for a long time (now that really sounds like the Sun!).

Since the novel 'Sylvia's Lovers' was published in 1863, in fact.

I have been shocked for some time that Elizabeth Gaskell, the most moral of writers, should have allowed this character to get away with a double murder and go on to find honours and glory, when so many of her other characters are made to suffer miserable fates for far lesser wrongdoings.

Of course, in real life, the wicked flourish, and murderers do sometimes get away with it.
Nevertheless, Elizabeth Gaskell seemed to take the view (perhaps odd in a Christian, perhaps not) that wrongdoings are often punished in this life; or perhaps the fates of her erring characters were meant to be examplary (she was after all, Victorian).

I find it most extraodinary that she allowed the caddish Charley Kinraid to escape any sort of retribution...

More later. Off to drink some carrot juice...

Lucinda