It was a cruel night, and surely one fit for the perpetration of cruel deeds.
"In the Brooding Wild"
Ridgwell Cullum
But he had sent his letter to Scotland Yard within a few hours of the perpetration of the crime, and had not given the actual murderer time to get out of England.
"The Hampstead Mystery"
John R. Watson
By the time of the Stuarts the powers claimed by the Crown were recognised by the courts of law as well founded, and, to quote the words of Adams, "the forms of law became the engines for the perpetration of judicial murders."
"Freedom Through Disobedience"
C. R. (Chittaranjan) Das