ABSTRACT
Once the nightman brothers had been executed and the rest of them had been sent to Bremerholm and the Spinning House in mid-September, Niels Lind could heave a sigh of relief. Niels Lind had laid down new norms for the administration of justice. He had pursued the wildest series of thefts across the boundaries of town and county. He had got a grip on the underworld, which had its base among the socially isolated nightmen, and he had made it clear that even in these dark recesses the laws of the land applied. Niels Lind had harboured the notion that the court case would leave him with a significant profit. The principle issue between Niels Lind and the Wivet brothers-in-law was presumably allowed to die a slow death in the jointly representative tribunal of the commission.
