Both Uses of
perpetrator
in
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- So perfect was the organisation of the society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the perpetrators.†
Chpt 5
- In a fit of anger, however, caused by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital sentence.†
Chpt 8 *perpetrated = done (something wrong or illegal)
Definition:
someone who has does something wrong -- usually something illegal