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Within a cell in Winchester,
& wretched man does lie,
And for a cruel murder,
He is condemned to die ; ©
His name is Frederick Baker,
A young man in his prime,
Andon the scaffold he must pay,
The forfeit for his crime.

For murdering Fanny Adams,

Upon the gallows high, 3

Frederick Baker, now, alas!
A felon’s death must die.

It was in the month of August last,”
Upon one fatal day,
Poor Fanny Adams, eight years old,
With her playmates did stray ;
When the miscreant, Frederick Baker,
~ “Did that poor child decoy,
And in a hop-garden did her take, .
“Her life for to destroy. .

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A dias ae

| Unto his sitiful soul, .

| He had nto test

How that poor child was mangied,
To you is known full well,
And how Baker he was taken,
It is needless for to tell ;
How the heart-broken parents

Called for vengeance night and day,

Upon the monster, Baker,
Who their darling girl did slay.

When Baker was committed, .
He declared day by day,
That his was not the guilty hand,
. That did poor Fanny slay.
He called on God to witness,
As I to you unfold, -
And thus he added perjury

Now when, withitr his gloomy cell,
» The wrétched murderer lay,

Hie state of mind there is none can teli,
by nigiit-or day 5.

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For the shade of the poor inurder’d child
_. Was always in his sight,
| Saying, tremble, wicked murderer,
! It was you robbed me of life,

| When Baker he was at the bar,
For the murder'to be tried, 9
He in the face of all around, 2
The fou! deed still denied ;.
But the jury found him guilty,
And the judge the sentence passed
And said, now Frederick Baker,
Your die on earth is cast.

oie sae ead

You will be taken from this place,

__ To where from whence you come,

And there upon the scaffold high,
Must diea death of shame;

For there is no hope left for you, — a
You must fill a murderer's grave.

I'd have you make your peace with God,
Your sinful soul to save. +3

02 MARY EVER WN,
wanna eneenneeeeeceesces eats aetna ete ene
placed there, Ph, Y Were to tee fixed With thres nails

eich, but net ote ited With og hammer, but with the

ack of a pir Of pan SESS which Piiecers were te Ie civen

lo Miss Blyth, and by her hept the “Promted time. Phe
PMsoner tecordingly CMe At the tine She fixed On. ned
“SUN retuned home te Paved. Ag WAYS after was
“Ppemted, and she and the witness MUSE Be und peg the
hiaths made, for the Shoes must fie Matled ony bY three
Welock that Mternoon, The nits Were not te pas made
by their blveksmith, but hy one whe lived sat “tanmely,
tfOW miles a,

From Mr, Porisey's CNMnIMation it [Ppeared they genep.
ly recerved U letter every fortniaty. “CMeChinEs by the
Post-boy, and “OMetines at hey OW horse. iq hich ease
hie always bud for dont. letters Iistend of Lone inte
UV particular detail of the stats of Money she Obtsined
frown Nit, dre WAS shed te, State othe Men Of the
Whole amd fue MWe red. Pye believed Howas bore sey.
CHEN pounds. Mats ap atbesny Hwa, three, and four euin-
Cs tw tine. The valine Of the goods Mr. Porive had
“Wen her at ittere yyy MNCS conted fo fifteen of SIX-
teeny bornds ag the: Ce te steagy Ment oof Which he
presataye I SWeore te, In, thre madllle of April the Witness
Feed a dettap fren Wisy Bly th, by the Prisoner's hoy,
Which spoke OF am anes, hot wont a fey days
Mack henry both - med thy she STreonstD fags obleoed to
FIV thet sane Powders sane estneye, Whiely were to he
Valet sissy remedy ty Prevent ay Possible. sre an Morning
Vil Sty. Su the ecg. Ws Sette sty trey Freud Comite
teu] threat sthe WIS dheat COM GT teed Wath,

"DPoaweas Mitel, “Ht ptred ne this hy ets: snied My. Perivn,
UN Dect ty, Nitver ay Peron that ate ys et Tiehit shin
! PCUUMTCteD tay MV Wt wd, “eee toned, Lothian
Ptrontl any AVN settee se ents We trath ap SUH extra.
ord Piany MD psy Worry My Wile abestpend Mme ost ty
have Carthy. Us the Paced. hy the TUSSIST teres of Wy Blyth,
ted the Pavers of VW. Bay TU Wants Maine ay Hhitnes
rhelits abysay Whitt «fy. beth leanne Piva PU SHeeess til, ned
She Was es Maite of gp, Sots is | Pr tov Wenhl filer hy
adherine lO this Pens ng seed Weeden, EM Pracg my

Wife, Ot that Ung. PON Wee cengy of My donbts, anid
‘ve stil] Suffered the Distress tr oC eon me

“er ‘hers fore, Mt fey days After, Daan ier ane TCUNTONE ep yo
0 Taeods | Wilted on Mp Baten, Who seemed sure
prised | Nudd tye walle] MMMOT, AN sli yy US athand | had
deferred the UOT tee fate - Sle ait therefore write hy
POSt to Missy By thy thant MEN and cay AUSWer World be pee
Mirned to aye Mtwe a YS Diced ity US aneeridy thing
that Misg Blyet, Should haye such howler, nd eonuld
Poreseg Sich thins ag were te Tetppen, Me the Wess
hat was ty betalb ayy. Mrs. Bat, me desired gaye Hot ty
onthe, Irat te Mtr bonne, MACs bya BP strertatel find
INS Wife iM in bed Whey Ninpepretreat Weordingly, yy hen

A ee Henne | Shed her what her complaing Was;
She answered. MWS aan Hetelaetyes I Cheitaehyy the ear.
CUNIStances al] Very ON ruerdinary:, UTD sud. My leer,
Wwe Certunly are Dew ite ted - the CULE Wornin told Ine,
ato her Drotase, that should find | or | therefore
Prayed to ay, Lord ty remove the evil fron my habita-
tion.

“7 returned ty Vacods On the third day, tecording to my
Promise, Vrs Boeatetta any WOUS Weutine: for mes she lad
received 4 letter Cron Miss Blyth, Which she LetWer ane
to read, with TH Myunetion to Mary at Muneditely, The
PUrport of thy. letter Was, that) Miss Blyth could see
any thine Was Wrong, every day, by the Planets. sty
hem said, | SH HS. ry sees HOW Come for the honey 2
and wens down inte hier Collar and Dronnerdey pt small
jar of honey, aed pat SOMO White Powders ints Tis |
SED fone his jar ty be MY OW coed hed her Whit
Mie white Powders Waepy. for, Nts Pepiied. sig Sp posed it
St tines aay of the Wes. thyag Miss Blyth ronhd fore.
SCO DY Prep View inte Hie Phinetary SVsfet. wast, haps.
Pras the order Whoo tte Venietiny Visited us thepe.
WH, World Der terry hye

After the emery: Was mined. | took the Pot home. and
We opt its ag the cellar rb Before this. the deceased
lined Drennerdyt SOE De tr. Praeh Withy dey When Se Went
down ta the Plisoner's Preise. With letters marked on

3-4 WARY BATEMAN,

Sa aanes TNR Re ee .

them as follows: Monday, Tresdiay, Wednesday, Thurs.
day, Mriday, Saturday, :

“At the tine | fot the honey pot, the Plisoner Mentioned
the powders to Mey and wished as todo every thing
eearding to Vp otherwise,” said
she, “what you have vy will kill you ale *

Some of the letters frome Wis. Bly ih Were now Te |
in eourt, The Conse] Opposed tha reedin of thery Init
the judge sud, though the letters COULE not te received. jyy
CVidenee, Yet, for the Information Of the Pore, they mio
be read. Ep then ingnired Who Miss Blyth was, and why
she had hot been hrouehy forth, The Ollicer said fe had
VON to Scarboronsh, but coutd NOU fined that Any sueh
ie had resided jn that town for Several yours. The
Cllers were then read @s follows «—_ .

“My dear friends, this js (let you know that you muse
make up that Pudding whieh | told of in my letter of
the Uth of May; and You Must putin the powders which

sent from Searboronah to Mary Bateman at leeds, and.
Which she ga ve your wife when she was down, marked

londay, Tuesday, Wednesda Vy, Thursday, Friday, Satur.
day. Mind What] “tY UNtO you. and do every thing ag
ordered yon, and all will he Well: bate ig you do not it
Will kill us all Twill come over to Mary Bateman’s and
Send for your Wife and she Will take me by the hand
and say. “God bless yon that ever U found you ont’ ee
Pleased’ Goa Umiehty to send me into the World that |
might destroy the Works of darkness: | call then works
of darkness because they are dark unto vou,

Prrsetiny Bryer?
Berry U,
Prom Mrs. Noutheote ty Miss Blyth,

“Madam : ;

“BY a vision of he night | AM taformed you have un.
der your Pretetion tl cape Mes. Perigo, Bramley,
Who has been in % OOTY Sel the ot health fir several
YCurs past. Vou MUST UNSISC on it, if She sets a Vale on
her heslth, dhat she Suethy adheres 19 the exnet riles you

MARY BATEMAN, 35

eee SET TTTe aie Lid. eee ee O86 ie TINT eSA ENRON e eta ee oe one Seas ONTOS Oe cece ey Cos

have laid eva My ot sti hes MOU Wall [oe reveled to ane,
“On Mtst alse TUSEST tape bee ye “PMs tree from all hinds
OF sins, as they will MeTIE the displeastire of thuwhty
Cicud, Pex pect sonny tes hive ereaston, with divine pormas-
SOW. te visa YOO part of Pavel, Rest assured you have
MY best of wishes for the Salety of the fimily, Adieu.”

Letter Hf,

Irom Miss Vilyth to Mrs. Bateman,
“My dear friend:

“TD have reeewved a packs from ondon, contuning,
Mone other letters, one Soteernine Mrs. Petive. fy has
Pleased the Pan te reveal the UMTOriNALE Ease of this
family toy ONE MOST Saered| UM iru rase lady the ureat
Prophetess tnd Servs Of Coad, Under whose power we
re made partahs tot the hingdoms of heaven. Me pleas.
ed to Charge them ta do all thines Morden, and Cractly
in time, for if they dey nest they will inenr the displeasure
of almighty Ciel) canned that whieh iS intended for their
Seod will He the tess of therr destruction. Be careful
fo enjoin them 10 beware of SUS. Of ovepy deseription,
Minding the COMmmMandinent— «py, ye pure evenias | am
Pure.’ Do this. and all will be Well, Marewell.”

On the 11), of May, the first powder, marked for Mon-
day, was PUL ILO the pudding Mereeahly to the directions,
and the Fema: powders PYCry succeeding day; they
Perectved ne Perteular taste. MOP ANY thing but What wis
right. till Saturday. On, thet MOTHING Withess Was coimng
to Leeds. Reine Charced te See the powders PU tne the
Puddines, the deceased called him down from his Work
for thar Purpose, [f,. them seq Out for Davids, and on is
return fron Mrence, alana twenty MINES past twelve,
found a thouthtyl OF uke, of Which both he same his wite
Partook. — |y tasted ery hot ane heen, Vhe Powder
for that diay, tiihed Saturday, Was three or four
Uiues the WY OF he Mecediig days, but they looked
alike,

The Piddiag being lone, he ate t louthful of it,
and lus wafe our or five Uines as Much. Ee Would nog

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MARY Bp ATEMAN,

cnwtee abe dd Ce
TAC HOCH, teres Pre obey Het Tike the laste of jt.
Crveesd ale empha, but Would eats ay
PURI) a Se Parricd tite the Colle,
MZ Up, be heard “methine fal] from he
Matned; Wey sip Pam sick nae
Two diritti tes atte

MARY Bur WAN, 3

OER eter sie ass WN 8 Oe- Sete ccenis. ar Pee

hanl: Thetfer. Crerpye Ptped the iis, rods prt ares a) ee ee ‘I errs
He crys Whar? sents ofthe by | fC ees | fer aT aby
Vey. exeent the fine WIL pyc tet . Whately Pegs
his with lieved Plt the bee Wb Prresestyees anf’ glyes [Its eviner,
The Prison p faced Deen sy Wis Niotgey Wont fone Mines,
fo the best a his Kerner donfers . weaves WEEE he. tei Were
putin, ane TSM when tie “eUt Vee te Vel the nvafe
Medes wih Which thy: Prrsee tags OS tee be napfed on
At the tiny. he bespoke he trevihe tte [iserser cory Dhrs eeygi
Were lett 1) thee bretise Perret bye p, fer vueaee hw has p; Tiras
Sle nanse have COMTIVEd toy marke his Wile «,, OMe gt
the way. med Chet Opened thee ped al FeInaved the byes
Whe wae Perle they Were the ry When be Tetrernee |
he Hert hye Prisoner Mad has wap. by othe Moelves any
Tie Protnce On ae day ter tie beah, Were Serre teed
The witness Walted on the Pttsoner sy Pn Hite dee
CONLT tot Te Spoke with at Wt tring Was determined ter
remain in the Owns about tyr hovers Wer he was at her
honse, he mes the prisoner Ihe street. Hobely berg
Present Dee Met sedegeg ned sv ditety. Preys walkie With fier
‘tess Sel tie dead Opened the Peds sonnel ford nothin
bat hits of Po per, esd. Halt pene. Pirthines, MD Porat rears
tops. "Me Phone Sond fre Ficud Opened them Bem Sere eyy
but he UWSWercd fer Iny SAVE bres Mrennedie ay WAN fore
late, Tp tolE ther tyes would Coll tn the Mortis. vied
brine three Or four men down, ty AUS Were, DDeon's
rine ANY Men to my Horse, Doge NX a time OT en a aD
the Mornin Mone nnd You shall py. “Ure te find nye?
They eeordinpely VTC Hey reese Onn thyee WIV bevy!
He infornned Willian Resers ane Fries Stockdale. py
ON ey Preotey tyes THULIN trates ayy Daeeads ol ties GUS era
ed pees Toreed ter qy Wh tovether on 4 history Part ae i.
ecuntes canned eTeder Up feo then Whew Wee weeps Pal ape

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NTs, cir

Shiv Wiis Idea] Very Sick,

Witness himself Was taken a‘ sud.
thin ay a BU, and could hardly Sel to the tap before he
threw tp.

They both Fonuted: for twenty -fonr
had thei, Clothes of ll nighs. The
Ul Vonited EWiew brouche oh
MOK a tes Spoonful, UPOn Which
before, Ba that MN amd nex diy. ste Wk six op Seven
ta-Speontaly OF honey.

Yet Wwithecy look four, They
Tho drank qtantity op belin ten, an were
the whats ME the wigs.

the Wilhesy's Stomae),

howrs. and never
deceased, When she
Copetoaf honey: OU, one
she Vomited Worse than

sick during,
NViolene hhevet Cone Up from
Hs head yeas Liddy ned shinged
Un, and Very thing “Ppeared orogeny that he looked
+ i The deceased Comnphened Ol similar Symptoms,
SMO opeyy Very sore abene Sunday Ment and hers
Harehkish on Sunday, Ud creyy Worse ned Worse, so that
ATL TY Open at Witlreongt PUttitie Pyep hanes to it,
er SVM tones Wop Aeuly More eee TIT Be ane on the
Stnday Mer. digs hed No loeterr Was called in until
thint LLL TOO Mr. Chetrley, SUT eor ae
of Vide. Was sony lor: Dott Pues tea be Nore lies CAME, sq
Mat des VISE way OU E rode They did neg send
for 4 bre tee, HUD corederr thay Very tine Imesh be done
Areca yy 4, the Uireetyy, :

Mather boa, OB ruday,

pothoear r,

Nabe CVer, aed

ie Thad hewn ie

STOW Hep.
Velftty ad oof OM taler. Wt es “pered the |
UD Forage Uae Sm tive Wises Tete | Drerezy Pet nya.
Which lies tial biely, Ved ty COND aE Taney:
Meno Crat tte. Prisoner tel] Minny COMM atid
Proved ty hive Motlittye Wren Porny Hell peten:
Of dead thraxe Which She ssid Were Hel otitis
Ont tod. only Cirthiinyes ed thes Seven
be only Muatteny Ls Loans i So

brat Wits ay Wey
= Cine ator Ihe uw,
Well for four MTS De tivrys tS ONC Iie D, id |

On ety. ray ; rad |
al! of
or Noto

the TOrtpipper Hey net ‘Wreerbiyee a, aT
heen Ory tyes Pernt Stele S| tree: Fievl Se uities LY :
but on his Welter Ppp Hiatt Vicve] Piyesrnsad two MeN Work,
Veter oe tte Of rer, COND Dyes Ad ieee a Wrenn ny

}! VTE Gat Pasetey ee steh td [ire Nendo] ter dy. Pot by, \\ "

Tees teed beep Wpeoe Wis hig. Til for ‘toned digs Me.
!

TUN pre ype

Nes
or Pees
Mrned
Siti Pleees ty

Whiedy drowhy Netve held

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3A VARY BVPEAIAS,
hs tt foetal SUM SNC Me aia tial ty ailolit fea Ine
ame wav distin he bes alenh of ess TP have rin

of ital | thatrade at Dies prasened ns both 4 yg ak i was
With her to whom she then sehTe Didaiet yet sce Bane
AVE me a bottle lastumeht tl Phe y mad dole ne anes
SWer, Dut Wilh rm all. M“ Mires obey abbas Var sya he ra
bottle. Phe ramstiubles seen atte gr eceupn Hp tech dyer
lites etistordy They Jiottee Wats tt nwa sacar. fie al, wed

the Camp bead china. ten Culdyy cs peeee et eliotn. ana
several other getich s. Which wedi theo the wate
Biss ded iver ber ter xy tebe Mass BY the ace ps fotinied,

It wash HY provedt that the Vettes. drcaatide steed hy
Nehocea Pycca Were those prod al Py conrecave: subdpe
Binieter crepe] thay Livny heathy Wetsitron gy Joa hy Jose. The

Pry retuned and artes Cemstitine a heat tine, retirrnedd AY

Verdi tateriay "Phe sogate aes: of the Latics teens pro-
Hetigien cf Vipeoa tars whyie dy Was Pag } taken from
the bar ol day Pert bo thie prt one Peon wba HOO Ven enmes
that Vout ber re dovedd cag SM ne NE te tte Haul place
fatuddl Yyutare ets ad; that

Those TEN fang Cissecetion- -

Of eect, ae Uae be ter dae Levine
Vour belly then die SMe ty tee thie
aed the fied Preaye Tn
She bed watheane UN bese Toeany

After the Plrsener Was fered Sty. ste was Visited
hy: ey. GF fog fridge coe, Of the sane ede ehrine,
Sle preetoorded ghey : ay econ d spd ol that
Drrodit 7) ore Te whas Wael t Celave v hae veosetgd to eleg-
Oe We Se pe date oe al Med wore at hear
hea Leswaet: weebahd wet on vecur a | Wits Me atpes “{ lier
Lied? She vas Ct at ber ty hees. chad hiaye
nis soln of Cage bene nigel Weearsl Trend Boll eolp-
Ver sition warts Ve er Parte tte: nr Jetdua
a

This scntenee

seupg dig Te a

"hea epettic: Sa Gigs fev ts fer wither. thy werthes chry.
toot that otteae ote plenty th Wee dy of York
Watt Tere thi g git ‘Pry ered. evhvrtiing fey be confess
etree flag : yf ee Ce De re jt dew
Woth Gd secede, ne ae | lie ge

weted hing Pia’ uv mas } } vf talon (ote feoy, leat
eed Tapes dae ot :

MARY MVP. 39
Devers] Thin otiot te ee Pree ey POWeTIUN ape

preved hy the Vo. f $1, ty Fhe jen ~ Vie itp oreeng had thithe he
WUpression on her, therefore dies eth Tyee
EME Exica tia SM Sa ttipedesy Maveh (Sone te oud
Preparatious Were parade Tr eer tes thie MERA tery | three
ree ' .
law. ie Chapel hell tolled fia pravers. but thy: Prisaier
' fae 4
Would pet wttejid DM iescrvies Toectny etrebec| drew. Stbtpy-
Mone fo the jrte SS Verne The child todas r Precast she
sive "Ip a9 Wdrevrat Straw PEN ATE Oe appeny rhc ow Jrevt adres veer
SCONE TS panerthyey Peertine: wath beer efyld UE aS Stree
“orntore fox Daye Vevenny Fad eS e5he thsi, .

The Prlsoner Wits thye Toeeonive ved foo thre Place of ¢ Sate ny-
tion. She seetled ye Phetforina. eon the enette with
qiteh sad. tiem Steps She wos UMended ty sy Pi steep,
and by many poople Of ter own Seet, whe declared. an
Presenee of My Ot Pye Speetaters of the awl SCrbte,
that ste Weld baer sented Detore the PNeCutOner conte
Performa lis Oflice, — ag Her sen) wont be delivered from
the badly by SUPCHIUOIEAD power or th Ste would Ny off
the Seal i elon. OC Mt hroh. ame sayial
hy thre Hunedi ate: Us CaS of Pheu Slhie denied
being guilty of the ated roamed died extrennedy hore.
ened and Huarepentaiat,

After Niven the steal Hite, Ter body was delivered
to the “UEP ets She Dharnede: lhe Spread conn three seamiitd
Wits dlresseiPian Witte. sonnel sPreseys tie tas either of fear
OY pouttenee. Drag ep pes d ses cahpes roel see Provpapoy: as af
Fete to weddlines Vw tds at Mwenty Maas Spee.
fafors were Present at the CNC UT,

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by PAUL JERGEN

THE WAX DUMMY MURDER

HORTLY before midnight on a hot,
sticky evening last August, Tilling-
hast Young, a resident of suburban Lon-
don, went into his rose garden for a stroll
and a breath of fresh air. He ‘halted
abruptly.

On the other side of the fence, in the
garden of his next door neighbor, Stravos
Christofis, a fire was burning furiously,
Believing it to be a rubbish blaze that had
gotten out of hand, Young ran to the
fence and was horrified to see what ap-
peared to be the body of a woman, lying
in the flames. There was a strong odor
of kerosene.

Just then Christofis’ mother, Cyprus-
born Mrs. Styllou Christofis, a grey-
haired, fifty-three-year-old woman with a

' pleasant but rather plain face, appeared.

“Isn't that a woman's. body?” Young
demanded. ;

Mrs. Christofis laughed. She explained,
in broken English, that she was getting
rid of a “wax clothing dummy.”

Young glanced at the flames again. Of
course. A wax dummy, that was all. He
smiled wryly. Silly of him to suspect a
body. Murder in an English garden—that
was the stuff fiction writers turned out.

Young and Mrs. Christofis chatted a
while in the firelight, and then she said
goodnight and went back to her kitchen,
while Young returned to his home. Just
before retiring, he glanced out the win-

-HRISTOPIS Kyle Mo.

dow and saw Mrs. Christofis emerge from

her kitchen, go over to the blaze, which*
had begun to die down, and stir it to life

again. It was a late hour to be burning

a discarded dummy, he thought, but that

was Mrs. Christofis’ business. Just as long

as she did not let the fire spread, he had

no quarrel with her.

EXT morning, Tillinghast Young

got the shock of his life. A Scotland
Yard man called to inform him that the
“dummy” in the garden next door was
actually the body of a woman, as Young
had first suspected, and that he, Young,
was the star witness in a murder case as
weird as anything produced in fiction.

The murder victim was Mrs. Chris-
tofis’ thirty-six-year-old daughter-in-law,
Hella, a dark-eyed, German-born beauty,
who was a night-club entertainer. The
slaying came to light when Hella’s hus-
band, a wine waiter in a night club in
London's fashionable West End, returned
home from work, missed her, and found
her in the still-smoldering fire in the gar-
den.

His mother was promptly placed un-
der arrest.

Two months later, in line with Brit-
ain’s tradition of swift justice, Mrs. Chris-
tofis went on trial in Old Bailey before
the dreaded “Red Judge,” so-called be-
cause he wears a scarlet robe. This robe

is donned only in cases of major crimes,
such as treason and murder. P

The prosecution charged that Mrs.
Christofis strangled Hella with a nylon
stocking, then dragged her into the gar-
den, doused her with kerosene and set
her afire. The motive, or rather collection
of motives, was intriguing. First, Hella
liked fun, and Mrs. Christofis resented
that. Second, Mrs. Christofis was fed up
with baby-sitting. She had had to take
care of Hella’s three children while the
younger woman worked. But most of all,
Mss. Christofis hated Hella because of her
beauty. She was bitterly jealous of the
younger woman's lovely face and figure.

Mrs. Christofis’ story was that Hella
was slain by two men whom she heard
running out of the house, but this yarn
was knocked to pieces, primarily by
Young's testimony. A jury of ten men
and two women convicted the defendant
of murder in the first degree, and a day
later she was sentenced to die on the
scaffold.

Following pronouncement of sentence,
the prosecutor revealed that Mrs. Chris-
tofis had been involved in still another
in-law killing. Twenty-nine years earlier,
she had been accused of slaying her
mother-in-law by rammirg a burning
wooden stake into her mouth. Mrs. Chris-
tofis had beaten that rap, but this time
she made her payment in ‘ull.

Detectives, searching garden for clues, deduced that victim was
strangled with stockings, doused with paraffin ard burned.

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apect ax in inany others, their) railway are being examined and
tastes were alike, the supply of horses considered,

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William Dodd, was an Enylish
clergyman, born in May, 1729, and
educated at the University of Cam-

which, once engayed ince ef armies |
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entin the ‘'yrol states that Austria
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Was more apd more extravagant pronounces to be a matter of life or
and reckless in bis style of living. | death of Prince Milan. r

To meet his expenses he engaged TILE GORDIAN KNOT,

in) Titerary work ontside of his ; oe
clergical duties; he was inade tutor | Ou the dae ty a C lens
of young Phillip Stanhope, alter. | CSUE8 proba si xe ch adi tt
wards Lord Chesterfield, and at See of the Eastern qnestion wi!

be cut by the march of battallions

length was appointed Chupltain to ‘ :
the King. Chesterfield became his rather than by tho intervention of
diplomatists.

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to woney and to bis ruin, of course | DESPERADOES aT WACO.
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JOUN WASHBURN.

This, my friends, has this = led me to the scaffold. I”
was turned out upon the world when but a boy; my first
offence was that of intemperance, and from that to rob-
bery, and from robbery to murder inevery degree. I was
led on eed one eat to another until my skill in mur-
derin me m ast ! SKETCH OF THE M
1 became colleagued with others, and with them I UnEe OF
prowled through os country, secking ~ the most, profit. MISS REAY,
able victims, and many, too many did we fin 6
* strolled from city to city, and heme tows to town, killing _ _ Perpetrated by James Backman.
nnd robbing throughout the United States, and not satis- , "is geet
fied with that we went to Mctamoras! There we suc-
eceded to our hearts’ content, and returned loaded with
\ onr ill-gotten treasure, all of which we squandered in
| very short time.
~. «My friends—I mect my fate williogly. I deserve
thus to die on the scaffold; and I could this moment ~
joint out in the multitude before me-six or eight who ~
ave heen my companions in crime, and who also deserve ~~
the same fate. I now am done. Let my last words be a —
warning to boys, young men, and all others, to beware —
of intemperance, incoutinence, Sabbath breaking, and ©
- bad company, being the pecdominating principles which —
“have ‘ed me to this unhappy fate.—F'arewell !/!"

The following description of the scencs of this extraor-
dinary and romantic catastrophe are related by a person
who was an eye witness, both of the murder and the exe-

» cution.

On the evening of the seventh of April, 1779, I left my
lodgings in the Strand, at an early hour, for Covent Gav-
den Theatre. The house was filling, as I sought my box.
The play was Love in a Village, and the cast for the
night embraced some of the then most popular performers

in the vicinity of Marble Arch.

Either Benton was an accomplished
liar or else he was as innocent as he
claimed to be. The only way of de-
termining this, since his alibi covered
exact periods of time and named a
variety of persons, was for Scotland
Yard operatives to check every detail
of his story.

ILE this work was being done
a second lead of utmost impor-
tance was brought to light. The un-
developed rolls of film found in Nora’s
Soho flat were developed and on them
were found various photographs of
Nora in affectionate poses with a man
in the uniform of the Merchant
Marine.

It was a comparatively simple mat-
ter to secure the name of this seaman.
Scotland Yard agents rounded up the
painted ladies of Soho, found a blonde
harlot who was Nora’s best friend.
She had had a sort of loose working
arrangement with the strangled
strumpet which might almost be
termed a partnership. When Nora was
busy the blonde would frequently fill
engagements for her by posing as
Nora Upchurch, herself. This was done
in cases where the “client” knew
Nora by name and reputation but not
in person.

Reluctant to talk at first, the blonde
lady of pleasure poured out the entire
story when Superintendent Cornish
impressed upon her the fact that only
by being absolutely frank with him
would the slayer of her friend be
brought to justice. f

The name of the sailor, the blonde
prostitute said, was Bill Scotter and
he was engaged to marry Nora. While
girls of this class are not usually the
marrying kind, Nora was heartily sick
of the racket and had often told her
friend that she was anxious to get
out of it. In Scotter she saw. a means
of escape. Nora often confided in her
friend that she was worried about
what would happen if Scotter dis-
covered the real manner in which she
earned her living.

Scotter became one of the principal
suspects largely because, having been
engaged to the girl, he had not come
forward at the time the press blazoned
forth the news of her death.

Scotter was picked up on a coast-
wise coal steamer in Liverpool and
taken directly to the yard in London.
He was a strapping lad of about 24
years of age. It was quite obvious
from his awkward manner that he was
ill at ease as Superintendent Cornish
questioned him. He gave an account
of his movements for the two weeks
preceding the crime and, when this
was checked, it was discovered that
much of his alibi was inaccurate,

“although his claim to -have been

aboard ship on the murder night was
valid.

Questioned concerning these mis-
statements Scotter finally confessed
that, on the Tuesday night preceding
the crime, he had spent the night with
Nora in her flat. He happened to

notice a man’s hat and jacket hung -

in the closet. He said nothing to
Nora about what he had seen but,
not trusting his sweetheart he decided
to do a little detective work of his
own.

For a few hours during the suc-
ceeding two afternoons he spied on
the house, keeping tabs on the visi-
tors. who went in. Having seen
nothing that further aroused his sus-
picions during that time he rejoined

COMPLETE DETECTIVE CASES

his ship. The next thing he knew
he was being picked up in Liverpool.

Superintendent Cornish pointed out
to him that it would have been im-
possible for him not to have known
that his sweetheart had been slain
and that the normal thing for him
to have done would have been to come
forward.

The sailor’s answer to this was that
when. he learned in the news reperts
that Nora was a prostitute he decided
to wash his hands of the affair. To
come forward could only have made
him subject to unfavorable publicity
without in any way helping. the in-
vestigators solve the crime. + .

A second check was made on Bill
Scotter’s story with particular em-
phasis placed on his movements on
the day and night of the murder.
Again the result was the same. There
could be no doubt about it. Scotter

“Help! No! Not

For pity sake hurry!
a policeman—a PARSON!"

was aboard ship at least 100 miles
from London when the crime oc-
curred. He was released as innocent.

The reports on Benton’s alibi kept
pouring in simultaneously with those
on Scotter. Acid, likewise, there was
nothing damning to be found in them.
Everything tended to absolve him
from any complicity in the crime. It
was evident, in fact, that he could not
have been the man to whom Field
had given the key to the vacant store.
He was also released as innocent.

But it was this investigation of
Benton, carried on with the greatest
care and determination, that was the
turning point in the hunt for the
guilty murderer. A shrewd crime
analyst, Superintendent Cornish
knew that the clearing of Benton,
far from meaning the last suspect
had been cleared, really solved the
mystery.

Frederick Field, the sign painter’s
assistant, when he identified Benton
left no room for doubt as to the cer-
tainty of the identification. It was
far too positive to admit of error.
It meant, then, that Field was lying—
that he was deliberately pointing the
finger of guilt at an innocent man.

He could have only one motive for
such an act—to remove suspicion from
himself. Only a person with a strong
feeling of guilt would have done what
Field did.

Pursuing further

the theory of

Field’s guilt, it was clear that he was
one of the few people who had ready
access to the store’'in which Nora’s
body was found. His story of having
given the keys to Benton was a false
one, so that it could be assumed that
on the murder night he still had those
keys in his possession. His surprise
over the finding of the girl’s corpse
was evidently a manufactured one.
Scotland Yard agents brought him
to the Superintendent’s office. His
thin, gaunt face showed not a trace
of concern over his predicament.
Under intensive questioning he ad-
mitted being in Piccadilly Circus on

. the night of the murder during the

‘time of the murder. He said that he
‘was alone. He denied, though with-
oyt any heat, that he was the killer
and his whole attitude was one which
said, in effect, try and pin it on me!
. Cornish was morally certain that he
had the guilty party seated before
him, albeit he knew that he didn’t
have sufficient evidence to convict him
of the crime unless he could break
him down and secure a confession,
Despite a grilling that would have
broken a dozen ordinary men Field
did not crack. ;

A check into his background showed
that Field was married and the father
of a one-year-old child. He was far
from_ being a model husband. Con-
stantly in financial difficulty he was
‘always borrowing money from his
wife. On the morning after the
murder he returned a two-pound loan
to her. This was the same sum of
money he said he had received from
Benton five days before the crime.
The inference was strong that this
amount of money had been lifted
from the dead girl’s purse and the
purse itself gotten rid of in a manner
that defied the efforts of the police to
find it. It was the closest Scotland
Yard could come to a motive for the
murder of the beautiful strumpet.

The case was presented before a

Coroner’s jury. Before being sent
out to consider a verdict the Coroner
said, ““You’ve got to ask yourself very
seriously; is this case which is based
on a chain of circumstantial evidence
complete as against Field? If there
is any missing link or weak link in
it then the whole chain must fall.”
_ The jury was out only ten minutes
when it returned with a verdict of
willful murder, against person or per-
sons unknown. Frederick Field went
free—free from a prison of stone and
steel—but not from the prison of his
own conscience.

A man sometimes will escape the
punishment for his crime, but only
for a time. Justice has a way of
deferring payment, but in the end
visiting its awful judgment.

This was the case of Frederick Field
and it was to mark it as a story of
crime so bizarre and incredible that
it almost defied belief.

La in July of 1933, almost two
years after the murder, Frederick
Field walked into the Scotland Yard
headquarters on Marlborough Street
in London, was ushered into the pres-
ence of Superintendent Cornish. The
Superintendent was surprised by the
visit. Field didn’t keep him waiting
long.

“T want to give myself up ‘for the
‘murder of Nora Upchurch,” he said
simply.

Had he dropped a bombshell it could
not have created so much consterna-
tion. It threw the officials off guard,

otherwise they might have noted the

cunning glint in his eye as he made
the statement,

A stenographer was po yd sent for
and Field told the story of the crime.
He said. that the girl picked him up on
Piccadilly Circus and that he sug-
gested that they go to the empty store.
While he was making love to her she
bit him. He lost his’ temper and
strangled her with his hands. He
wasn't quite certain how he got the
belt around her neck and afterwards
he couldn’t remember doing it. The
bag and the keys he said he buried
under a tree near his home in Sutton,
a suburb about twelve miles from
London.

Police officers took him to the place
but were unable to find the tree.

Field was quickly indicted and on
September 20, 1933, was placed on
trial for his life before Mr. Justice
Swift in London’s Central Criminal
Court at Old Bailey.

The gaunt-faced sign painter still
showed no concern over his pre-
dicament. In fact he could hardly
suppress chuckles over some inner
amusement. The reason was not long
a secret. ;

His attorney placed him on the
stand where he promptly repudiated
his confession.

“Did you murder Nora Upchurch?”
the defense lawyer asked.

“IT did not,” Field responded with
alacrity.

“Then why did you confess to the
crime?”

“T had to,” the cunning defendant
responded. ‘Wherever I went people
pointed at me and said, ‘This is the
man who killed her.’ There was
nothing I could do or say. I wanted
to be arrested and put on trial so that
my innocence could be proved offi-
cially.”

‘, The case was now no stronger than
it had been when it was presented to
the Coroner’s jury. Mr. Justice Swift
took cognizance of this.

“I strongly advise you to find the
defendant not guilty,” he said to the
jury. ee
Their verdict acquitted him.

Field walked out of Old Bailey a
free man, immune under the statute
covering double jeopardy from ever
being brought to trial again for Nora’s
murder:

In the first round in his battle of
wits with Scotland Yard, Field was
definitely the victor.

He hastened to cash in on his ability
to outsmart the Yard. He wrote out
what was purported to be a full con-
fession. of the manner in which he
killed Nora and sold the story to the
editors of “The
London Sunday newspaper.

He wrote: “I killed Nora Upchurch
in an ay ad shop in Shaftesbury Ave-
nue. I freely confess it.
fed up. I’m in debt and I don’t stand
a dog's chance of getting a job. Once
and for all I want to get the whole
story off my mind. I have a wife and
a_ little daughter not yet three years
.old. Nobody else in the world matters
to me in the least.

“I first met Nora Upchurch eight
months before I killed her. I met her
on the street. She was a good-lookin

irl and she smiled at me. I smil
ck and she asked where I was going
and took my arm. I didn’t know her
name and she didn’t know mine.

“We went that day into a vacant
flat where I had been working on a

sign.
Sometime later, the confession read,

People,” a popular:

Now I am ,

Field said he met her in the street
and she said to him: “I wouldn’t like
to have to tell your boss about what
happened at the flat.” :

Field said he demanded to’ know

what her game was and she responded .

by asking what it would be worth to
him for her to keep quiet. It was
because of this blackmail that he
killed her, he said, and for that reason
he had no regrets. ;

Afraid that he might have left dam-
aging fingerprints behind when he
killed the girl, he used Nora’s handbag
to wipe the windows, walls, the door
and all other surfaces that his bare
hands might have touched.

The confession did not say how he
disposed of the handbag or whether
the two pounds he gave his wife the
morning after the murder had come
from the dead prostitute.

The braggart who beat Scotland
Yard made one slight error in calcula-
tion concerning immunity, He was
free from the law, but not from public
opinion. Faced with the scorn of
everyone around him he tried to lose
himself in obscurity. It was no use.
Even after he enlisted as a private in
the air corps, where he was given the
job of store-keeper, this same bitter
feeling followed him.

COME time passed and then on
April 4, 1936, Field’s name was
thrust violently into the news once
more. Neighbors complained to the
constabulary that there had been a
loud-voiced quarrel in the home of
Mrs. Beatrice Vilma Sutton on Edge-
ley Road in Clapham, a southwestern
London suburb. A constable went to
this street of cheap, shingled dwellings
which backed on a railroad. He
knocked on the door to Mrs. Sutton’s
house. He knew her as a large,
opinionated woman who was living
apart from her husband. When there
was no answer to his knock, the police
officer entered, searched through the
house and found the body of Mrs.
Sutton stretched across a bed. She
had been strangled to death. Although
her dress was in disorder, it was
obvious that she had not been the
victim of a rapist.

This time Superintendent Cornish
and his operatives from Scotland Yard
had a somewhat easier time in the
investigation. In the first place some
of the neighbors had seen the man
with whom Mrs. Sutton quarreled and
they furnished accurate descriptions
of him.

The man they described was short,
slim and had a gaunt, lined face.

The description clicked in Superin-
tendent Cornish’s mind. Frederick
Field. To think that at last he was
falling into the hands of the police
was the sort of thing that happened in
books, not in real life. Of course,
there were thousands of men whose
‘description would fall into that cate-
‘gory, but, it was the name of Field
that remained in the forefront.

A careful tab had been kept on his
movements in the intervening

years
and Scotland Yard knew that Field .

was an air craftsman. A telephone
call to the Hendon Airdrome brought
forth the information that Field was
AWOL.. After a short hunt he was
discovered in the home of Mrs. Edith
Caron in Tooting, a nearby town, and
placed under arrest.

This .time there was none of the
smug complacency about Field that
was ee during the Nora Up-
church case.

Superintendent Cornish didn’t waste

much time on preliminaries. wari /
did_you kill Mrs. Sutton?” he asked.

“I didn’t say I killed her,” Field
mumbled; tc

Two of Mrs. Sutton’s neighbors
were brought into the room. “Do you
recognize this man?” the
tendent asked.

is the one we saw running out of
Beatrice’s house.” ;
Mrs. Caron was brought in and she

told the Superintendent that at 11:50 ©

on the night of April 4th, Field came
to her house and said: “I have done
something. I will try to tell you what
it is, but if I can’t you will see it in
the newspapers.” He never did dis-
close what the “thing” was. But the
next day she read in the paper about
the murder of Mrs. Sutton...

The women were taken. out and’ the
Head of Scotland Yard turned back
to Field.

“T guess you have me this time,” he
said in a flat voice. “I killed her all
right.” He went on to say that he had
never seen Mrs. Sutton before the
night he murdered her. He happened
to be walking along Edgeley Road

when a woman as tall as himself, ac- .

costed him and asked him what he
was doing that night. Field told her
that he didn’t have any place to go and
she suggested that he put up in her
room for the evening. Field said that
although he accepted her invitation
he hadn’t the slightest interest in
making love to her—that he went with
her solely so that he could kill her.

“When we got to the room we fell
into an argument; that’s what gave me
nerve enough to do what I was going

to do. I put my hands around her ~
throat and pressed for two or three _

minutes. She fell back on the bed and
struggled a little and then she lay still.
I put pillows over her face because I
couldn’t stand seeing it, then I left

the flat closing the door behind me, ~*

The reason I did it was that I felt that
I had to kill someone and I didn’t
have the guts to take my own life.”
Two points in Field’s story were of
damning importance. Firstly, he fur-
nished a description of the woman’s
room that was so accurate that only
someone who had been there could
have given it. In the second place the
description of the manner in which he
killed the woman and the position in
which he left her body were such that
only the killer could have known.

HE confessed murderer went on
trial for his life on May 13, 1936, _
before Mr. Justice Charles and a jury.

Once again, as in the Upchurch case,
he repudiated his confession but this
time it was of no avail. The jury

turned with a verdict of lty and

Field was sentenced to be hanged by ©

the neck until dead. _

The condemned man. immediately
filed an appeal, but on. June 15th,
it was denied and the date for the
hanging was fixed for June 30th—a
provision in the’ British law making
mandatory that three Sundays elapse
between sentence and execution.

As dawn broke on June 30th, Fred-
erick Field walked up the wooden
steps to the gallows. A black hood
was dra ‘over his gaunt face, a
noose P tight about his neck. An
instant later a trap door under his feet

rang open and he plummeted to his

oom.

(The names Marvin Benton, Bill

’ Scotter and Edith Caron are fictitious

to prevent embarrassment to inno-
cent persons.)

Superin- -

In one voice they said: “Yes. He’

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day. There was a continual influx of beauty and |
Baise tail coe dnemnainslon sooumand an appearance of 3

te splendor. Plumes waved; jewel lifted

Sel qeien boand glass to Nee gem gg fib and all the
ircumstance of a iant audi —

sg the "One “ moral box still remained without its

occu * but at the close of the first act, they entered. ©
bk woldle ged, but fine-featured and cheerful-looking
wi

tl an Jrish iognomy, handed into her
Sake lady of such pind: oveliness, that,—the first
ance being taken,—I could scarcely withdraw from her
the patronage of my eye. She was dressed in the mag-
nificent fashion of the time ; her hair parting off from her
temples and forehcad like a wave, and falling in two
large masses on. either side of her polished nec : Her
brow was high and clear; her eyes of heaven’s own

‘ ; her noso had the fair lines and nostril-curve of —
frosts} evi cheeks and chin softly dimpled, and her ra-

x lips wearing ‘“‘a smile, the sweetest that ever was seen.”
’

e dazzling creature took her place, and adjusted her

scarf with inimitable gracefulness. Her dress, I well re-
member, was in the height of taste; the white lace ruf-
fles of her short sleeves terminating at the elbows, and
showing the perfect symmetry of her hand and arm, as
she plied her pretty fan, or peered through her glass at
the bride of the Village. I was quite overcome with ad-

— miration. Ss ag,

“ Pray who can that be?” said I to a friend. aa

“ Whee a question !”’ was the reply. ‘‘ How ignorant
you arc! ‘Not to know her, argues yourself unknown.

That ix the splendid Miss Reay.—the fair friend of Lord
Sandwich, who is her protector. He has given her the
rotection that vultures give to lambs. She has borne
Bis two or three lovely, cherub-like children. He is
twice her senior in years,—has robbed her of her best

. treasure,—and it is strongly whispered she loves him not.

When in public, as at present, she usually appears with-
t him.”
a did not prolong my inquiries,—for the lady er elf at-

_ -tled wildness; his face was

and a fore

tracted my sole attention, to the utter disregard of the a a

ay. As I was gazing in that direction, | saw a person

veciia at the door of a box near by, whom at the first

glance I took fora maniac. His hh ergo se
as deat c

hair hung in heavy thréads ae! his forchead. He ae

fooking at Miss Reay with an expression in which love

- and hate seemed struggling for empire. He was well-
ly presence. He was |
dressed in black. I never beheld a countenance in which _ -

sized, handsome, and of

#0 much mental excitement was depicted. His livid lips

moved as if in a kind of prayer: he would sometimes

his hand against his forehead or his heart; and

lly, after a long and lingering look at the lady I have
acer bce raised b é y

and disappeared.

perfect abstraction as this. toxication of beauty
overpowered me; and so rapt had been my attention, that
I scarcely knew when the play was over. I hurried out
as soon as the curtain fell, stepping to the piazzas,
waited to sce the fair creature enter her carriage. She

by me, with her attendant, his epaulets glittering -

the lamp-light. A kind of enchantment possessed me,

oe that some doleful disaster was about to
happen. I was —— onward, and stood within s few
feet of the lady, when I heard the loud and stunning re-
port of a heavily-charged pistol. Another followed,—and
shrieks and groans resounded along the arches. 1 rush-
ed toward the spot whence the deadly sounds proceeded,
and found the brilliant being whom I have described,
weltering in her blood. The ball had entered her fair
forehead, and her vestments were deluged with gore.
The sight was horrid heyond description. She was per-
fectly dead. I trated the crowd that had surrounded
the murderer. - It was the same person whom I had notic-
ed in the theatre, and whose looks were so desperate.
His face was white as snow; his eyes dilated, and his
lips compressed; but his demeanor evinced a kind of

Miss REAY. 381 ant

is handkereluef hurriedly to his eyes
I never remember to have an evenin in such —
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the king and his council, that they sent imncdiately to
~ have MeNiel taken into’ custody. But: MeNiel's: interest
~ > being tolerably great amongst the Roman Catholies, he
Fo taised a formidable force, and sent the sergeant away.
| much injured in his bodily powers. Such proceedings
> could not pass in British Parliament without some recom-
pense for their Joss, and they sent a larger force to bring
> MeNiel and his confederates to Kugland, and there repay ee
them for so much barbarity as they had exercised towards
> theie cilicers.” But these they whipped, and then set ip
the standard of liberty, calling on all men of spirit to join,
> promising land rent free, and luany other glittering ob- !
Jevts, that shone too bright for nearsighted persons: to
“pe view without breaking that commandment which SUYs,

S thou shalt not covet, ‘Tithes were to be taken ‘oil, und
Jand no longer to be held by lords, e ee
With suck prospects ahead, PE joined these blood: thirsty
favenous murderers, and commenced a life too shocking ==
to deseribe in full, and DP shall only give an abridged age 9.

count of those actions, that shall last in the hegrt of muuy te
> aman, ull death shall receive his commission to lay them. _
| low, and separate them from the ties of nature that bind
22} thei so strong on this earthly sod,
After P joined these iutineers, TE reeeived a captain's
7 commussion, and) was ordered to bring. to, head-quarters
© provisions, and other articles hecessury tostind a siege ut:
Mort Ned, a place that the English were about to besicge,
audon the tSthof June WSs, the foe appeared in view.
Our May was waving by a gentle breeze Gat AWEpt across
the plain, and the English, in haste to destrey our fort, =
commenced afire on us with all theic arullery, and we
returned their fire with so much bravery and firmness, | 3
thatit greatly surprised the: Muglish; peals. of thunder 9”
iat shook the elements of water, and made the tinh
S hewrttowsiuk. was all that met the ear fortwo hours afee”
he commencement, and many of our brave nen wepe:
hited ethis fight. Me Niel himself was borne olf er
of ise eatinon balls, dnd itis wonderful te insagine, for
tiuement, the constancy of this man. for while he rode
upon this stave of death, he waved his hat, and called out

SEVEN BROTHERS, ‘

to those around, “ Be of good courage, my brethren, and

don’t be slack in destroying these usurpers.””. These were
the Jast words he. ever uttered, and death soon put. an | >
end to his wild career.

The death of this man seemed to close one vietory, and ~~

fora while the roar of the deafening cannon seemed ta -*

hold us all in awe, but we soon recavered our spirits, and
once more bid fair to bring back our former renown,
Every clap of thunder burst upon us like as if the hea-
vens and the earth were coming together, but still, amid
the darkening frown of battle, our flag waved high, and
in the space of five hours we forced them ‘to retreat,
leaving us the glory of the battle.

Protestants and Catholies all united in the general eanse
of freeing Treland, and every obstacle gave way before
our rapid marches. After several battles that we wniy oi
our force became all Catholies, we began to think of
having our constitution formed on the Romish laws, and
in order to aceomplish this, we preached incessantly to the
Protestants. Butall our efforts to reclaim these brave
men proved ineffectual, and we at last resolved to extir-
pate them from this lane of the living. cia

This looked too hard. both on us and them, for. they ——3
composed our bravest troops, and PE must acknowledge |
they were mach the bravest men. After several councils
held on our side, we agreed to spare them till we reached
Waxford county. Having on our way to take several .~
forts, and knowing they were soon to end their lives, we
placed them in front of the battle,

Soon after our arrival in Waxford county, we had to
pass across a river whieh had become unfordable, by late
rains; this se exasperated us, that we separated the
Catholies from the Protestants. on the bridge, and eom-
meneed a shiughter, almost too shocking to describe,
shall give the reader a tore minute account of the pro-
ceedings of these rebelsgbefore P joined them.

Karly in the commencement of these bloudly times, the-
rebels sent ont parties (ealled break-ofeday men.) that
visited ali the houses before daylight. In their hands they
carried a card, that they used in laying on the uuder parts

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hearted fellows, an

9) The slaves looked
/ > spoke,

-= Yes, ded massa
war a midre sure 1
sh he sella,

at the same time reminding them of their punishment if.

they disobeyed.
the Quaker had i
cellar, they took on

They then took

d do not wish to shed blood, and if you

> show where that miser kept his purse, you shall be free.

ateach other for some time and then |

dar, pointing to the murdered man,
wf, and he hab hole purs money in de

We then told them to lead on, and we would follows

a bunch of keys that
this pocket, and leading down to. the
1¢ of these keys and unlocked the door,

Nhe door itself without a lock was suflicient to withstaud ae

al the force that could be got against it.

*uirl narrow, and o
hole to get in, and

cotld discern one object: from another:
wee of the negroes we made out. the chest.

leon box. four feet

it «was short? ~
ne had to squeeze himself through this
when in it was so dark that no one -
Penal by the assist”
It wax an

long and eighteen inches wide, and

completely secured by locks and other fastenings > and

Wwe four, with the.

assistance of the negroes, pot it out,”

ited divided the money, Which just amounted to six thone, =

sand dollars il-piece,
Charleston, loadened down with silver;
ssiNt in

“Daniel went to

After this exploit: we returned to.
and my brother

esheaded by one Francis Marion. a little man out of great —

Valor. and so eon
could surprise him

P shall give some account of one Colonel

horse company. |
and condemned to

meat Was tried before

suifer as a traitor

pletely did he Inanage that we never
- and yet he often surprised us, aS
Hayne, of a
fe fell into our hands, and was tried.
be hung and evibbetted. This brave. -
aosham jury, and condemned to
for instigating the colonies. to revolt,

tnd though great intereession was made for his release,

Yet Lord Rodney vy

"as inflexible, and when those in the”

ely brought out tive small children, the oldest not exceeds.

ing civht years left without a mother, and on the verga,

of lostuy their fat!
> most feelin Thocunanae
~ helpless children, y

wr. and though they painted in’ the
r the distress that must follow these
fet tall had no efleet on this governor

conquering a party of rebels, it

t9 court a girl fourteen years old.

SEVEN BROTUERS, —

One en see

he was resolved on the de;

his blood would appease the anzer of this haughty’ lord.

Let them ¢o to the poor house. and learn te respect their
king bettee than their father, he said, when they spoke of
their distress,

Hayne was bronele out, surrontnded by a small family
weeping and mourning iv the bitterest’ way at the loss
of their only parent, Children, said the colonel, as he
drew nigh to the place of exeeution, you have lost. a
tender mother, and uow | Go to join her, and you will
xeon follow; and E die in the
Mary in the bright region of eternal bliss, where. all iy
peace and tranquillity: where all the commotions of life
Will subside, and where the spirits of the just shall rest in

one continual day of glory, and [rejoice that it is Heaven's >

will © call me of: and may that Supreme Being who
first brought into existence your mortal frames, guard you
in all the trials of this life, and when his wise end is aes
captcha in you, may he take you from this world of
shadows, and land you in his heavenly rest. Then, ol!
my children, Emust take a final farewell of you, leaving
you under the charge of him who can direct you inal
the ways of virtue and honor. Grant these blessings, O
Lord, on the head of hin who quits this world. Aimen.

Colonel Hayne calmly resigned himself to God, and
placing the rope around his neck, he swung off without a
murine,

Many other such deeds were done in Charleston, which
I witnessed myself, and [ shall leave it now to my reader's
own judgment, how men could live where such actions
were carried on without joining in with bad company,
and from bad to worse, and from one action of infamy to
horrid deeds of bloodshed.

Daniel returned three months after his departure, and
gave the following account of himself,

After [ departed from Charleston, we passed at Snow
Island, a country well inhabited by rich people, principal.
ly Urish, all rebels, and after several skirmishes we fell
back toa fort for safety. While we remained here I-went
Her, parents were

ath of Mayne, and nought but

hope of inceting my dear

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SEVEN BROTHERS.

of the seats of those dicey visited, and in this manuer they:

would card them, ull they would consent to unite, or give

| them their anus. ‘Though they got a fine quantity in this
— way, yet they could not begin to supply the rebels with
— arms; to remedy this deficiency, they raised a horse —
* coinpany, and armed them with pikes, made at the black-—
— smiths shop. ‘The pikes were about seven fect long,
of them was an iron spike that]
* reached up in the handle. This spike went off tapering —
> frow the point, for about three inches, and then turned
foutina sharp prong. On the fatal bridge of Waxford,
© we joined on these helpless creatures, that we had stri ped
~/ Of theie defensive weapons, and securing both ends of the

—and on the point en

* bridge, we fell ov them with our pikes, throwing them ia

the roaring flood below. We had collected a quantity of —
women and children, and on this bridge we stuck our)
pie in them, and raising them above the railing of the”
ridge, we threw them, regardless of humanity, inte the —
flood beneath, and thuse who attempted to swim were —

shot immediately.
Any person with Iimanity, standing off, and lookin
on this awful seene of desolation, must have shuddere

- at this dreadful catastrophe. Who could have seen the) -
child piked in its mother’s arms, without feeling the ~
stroke on his heart?) But the screams of the child, and ~
‘the uplifted hands of the mother, entreating us to have ~
compassion on her child, had not the least effect on us.)

But with brutal joy at the thought of having them in ou
power, we were the more secure. :

The next deed of valorous enterprise we set about t
do. was the burning of a malt kilu, in Waxford county,

A large number of Protestants were gathered together,
sand when we got to the place, we drove them all in, man
wernan and eluld. to the ntimber of 4000) souls, then, =
setting fire to the kiln. we burnt them all. A malt kiln

is full of stall holes, about a foot wide, that convey the
amoke and heat all through the kiln, and as the raging
flames drove furiously through the kiln, the wenier
thrust their helpless tifants through these holes, in hope

we would have pity on their tender offspring, and spare

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their lives. But we were cither too wise, or too foolish, ©
and liwedless of the innocence of children, we drove our
pikes into the tender plant and sent it back to the merey ~
of the flames. ; s
Htundreds of these blooming buds we nipped like a”
frost sent to destroy the coming fruit, whilst thousands of
aged and infirm, fit to injure our cause none, were burnt, > |
flogged, hung, or put in a cask and thrown into the river, —
thus ending their fiver that God intended them to spend;
in his service, and then take them home to himself, to ree
ccive a crown and a kingdom, to reign when short-lived
mortals shall die, and pass away, and reign in glorious

~ splendor, when time shall be lost in a never-ending eter.

nity, when thousands of years shall roll round in one
succession of another, and all the fleeting show of this
world shall end in one final doom of real and. lasting
justice in the other world.

From the year{7s7, the year T enlisted, till the year
1796, it was one continued train of the most dreadful
murders and massacres that the world ever witnessed.
livery day brought new conquests, every week, month,
and year heard of new murders and rash massacres,
and we were backed by the French, both with guns and
ammunition, and a large force of men from France near-
ly landed on our shores, when they were seized by the
English, and carried in chains to jail.

Things new began to assume a more serious air in
England, the French threatened to bring an army in on
them, and while they were preparing to defend the king- >
dom within, little attention was paid to us in Treland.
But after a temporary pease with France, they began to
think of ending our triumphs in Treland. and sending a
large force here, we had the decisive batie of. Vinegar
Hill, that ended all our triumphs.

After a total rout of all the Trish, we were dispersed
over all the earth, Gog and Magog, some to America,
others to France, and some to Denmark, Rome, Italy
and Spain. :

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SEVI.N BROTHERS, a! ! (

After this battle, peace and tranquillity was once more |
an inhabitaut-of-treland, and threes of my brothers, who,
had been in America, returned to spend their days sin =
quietness and peace.

We all returned to our father’s house, who was living |
and then in tolerable health, though worn greatly with
age and the ravages of war. < ]

But we had not the company of our father long, for he-
had long been on the deeline, and six months after our re- 7 |
turn, he died, £300 in debt. Our thother had been dead 7 7
five years, and the property was sold to pay his debts. My-
self and six other brothers were all that now remained
of the family, and the youngest of the six was: sixteen =
years old, and myself forty-seven. ;

ROBERT LAUGHMORE.

Alfred, Samuel, and Daniel Laughinore,were born as?
follows ; =

Alfred was born 1751, Samuel, May, 1753, and Daniel, —
1756.

We lived in the south of Ireland till the wars broke
out in America, at which time we were ballotted, and =~
sent to America, where we stayed tll the war was ended. ee

I¢ may not be out of the way to give some account of
our actions during our stay in South Carolina. oe
“After taking the city, we met with no.opposition till?
General Gates appeared from North Carolina. But wee
goon put him to thyht, and took all his host, hanging

some and drowning others. Myself and two brothers
procured license from Lord Rodney to plunder all per->
sons’ houses who maintained. any rebellious notions, and-
more especially those who had any hand in carrying on?
this insurrection, We accordingly set out in quest of plane?
der, and came tu a widow's house; this widow had three”
- sous in the army, and four single daughters that wea
courted ll midnight, and then turned them out and took™
what booty we could get. After one night spent in this?
demoralizing employment we returned to Charleston and
spent the next night ina similar way. ‘The third night we
set out on the same business; leaving the garrison at nine a

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o'clock, we travelled an hour before we came to the place >
of intended depredation. By this time the news had 7”
spread that the English gave their soldiers liberty to 7.
plunder the neighborhood about Charleston. ‘The house >
we pitched upon belonged to an old Quaker, who had five © 7
servants. ‘There were but five of us. We stopped a while

to debate among ourselves whether we should attempt it or
hot; some were for itand some against it, but we could

hot agree; at length we agreed to decide it by vate.” Ie
was for itaud James Rout against. | won; so we came to
the house and rapped for admittance. We heard the old =~
Quaker rise from Iris bed, take down his gun, and come
cautiously to the door. Who is there? he asked. "Pwo |
benighted strangers, Lanswered. He carefully opened the
door. We all burst in at that moment. ‘Theold man fired ¢
his gun and James Rout fell. The next moment the old |
mau fell, shot to the heart. It was PT that fired, and it was>

I that killed him. The old woman was awakened by the o>
report of the gun. She rose distressed and besged for
life, LT was reloading my gun, but Samuel, uamindful of

her entreaties, run his bayonet through her heart; she fell
with a groan to the ground, pulling her long silvery gray
hair from her head. "Phe servants now entered the door,

and seemg what was done were about to retreat, when

we called to them to stop, or we would shoot them, pre-
senting our guns atthem atthe same tine. ‘Phey stopped
suddenly at our command, and, trembling with tear, they
waited our pleasure, to see what more we fiad to say.
We kept them in suspense for a considerable time, well
tickled at the consternation that reigned among them.
After a considerable time Daniel spoke. We stopped you
here to show you the fate of those you served, at the
same time pointing to the two on the floor that we had
shot, ‘This added new fuel to the flame of fear that rose

to a considerable height in these timid creatures. And
when we did so with the master what need) you expect?
Here he. paused ; the servants ina frenzy of fear stood
still, not daring to open their mouths. Samuel, ina hurry

to depart from this place, spoke more to the comfort of
these people than Dan had done. We are a set of warm-

THE UNRECOR

Joseph.
Who was execute

Fourteenth of March, 17

Capt.
the High Seas.

HALSEY,

Halsey,

moqd

8vo,

‘elared he must have a light, to write some letters.
we gave him the light, he went Np stairs to bed, and we ~

HS eae

SEVEN BROTHERS,

Phave taken so great a fancy for this lady, said the
man, that Leannot bear to have her from my sight at all,
and she has the same regard for me. No matter for all
that, we repiied, we have two rooms, and two beds, and

you must put up with that for this night at all rates, for —”
together you shall not he this hight, and here, lady, ix’

your room, and put up with it On seeing no better could

be done, the lady slipped up to bed, while the man de-
Afier

witted ull his light would be put ont, and himself -retirg

to rest.” But we waited in-vain for its extinction, and, |

out of patience, we went to the gitl’s room door, and tried
to open it, but it was fastened within, which Jed us to

suppose, that, seeing so many men and no women, she ~

was afraid of her character. But in despite of all her
exertions to hold the door fast, we burst mm, and bound

her fast, securing her arms behind her back, so that she ~

could not stir; we then took a knife and run it through
her heart, the blood ran fast, and the vital spark of
life began to fail: her lips were moving, but no sounds
reached our ears, and gradually her lips ceased to move,
and the red rose on her cheeks began to turn to an ashy

blue, and that heap of dust that now lay motionless and |

pale before as wis no longer to be adorned by the rosy
tints of youth, but left to moulder and putrefy away.
As TE gazed on her lifeless form, LE could not help feeling ‘a

dagger of conseiener siting my hearts but surmounting ©
-all such feclinys, FT ordered them to attack the man, but =
his candle was still burning. and Ff sent. Timothy cask |

for it. But he would not give it, saying that he had not
finished writing yet. T went up myself then, and said
More company had come, and we must have the candle,
for we had no other. Then you are prepared to entertain
travellers, said he: but, company or no company, this can-
dle you shall nothave. After trying to force the door, we
hoisted a ladder, and commenced tearing off the roof to
get in to him; buthe was gone, and shortly returned with

‘ ae -) yee
And what if we are not? said the girl, in haste, while) >
large drops of water stood in her eyes,

ite © he

SEVEN BROTHERS, °

a constable and several men, and took ‘us prisoners,
Carried us to trial in Omagh, and on oath declared, that
he saw a woman's breast in the pot for their supper,
tis we acknowledged, and now are condemned to be
mung.

ROBERT LAUGH MOOR,

Having read and examined cach one for himself, we

attest and confirm that this confession is true. :
ALFRED LAUGIMOOR., ne
SAMUEL, LAUGIIMOOR.
DANIEL, LACGHIMOOR,
TIMOTHY LAUGH MOOR. :
BENJAMIN LAUGH MOOR,
JOSEPH LAUCIIMCW OR.

These seven brothers Were hung on the tinh of May,
ISO, beheaded and quartered, and set up in the four
corners of the town, and there they remained tll the hws
of their heads blew through the town.

When we look at the long career these wretches run,
escaping the deadly battle across the great Atlantic. and
living near six years in that house where they committed

. the most shocking crimes—-we must weknowledge the

hand of God visible in their lives, At every roar of the

cannon they stood in as great daneep -- wm. Of these who .

cll. But it pleased the heavenly Giod te syotre them fora
more public execution. If they had been Killed inthe
battle they never would have heen an ewauple to our
rising youth. If they had sunk in the Stent Atlantie,
they would have perished, and yet been ne Warning,
But He who sees all things rolled romul the day that

unfolded to the view of the world those actions they

thought would have lain hid in the aresna of hature: and
it is so with all who trifle with the day of grace. that is
bestowed on them. ‘Phe Scripture assures us that the
Way of sin is death.

JOUN POWELL.

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1759 Pamphlet on London Execution

of Joseph Halsey.

THE UNRECORDED LIFE AND DEATH OF A BOSTON MARINER
HALSEY, Capt. Joseph. The Life and Dying Words of Capt. Joseph !
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Halsey, Who was executed at Execution-Dock, on Wednesday the
Fourteenth of March, 1759. For the Murder of Daniel Davidson. On
the High Seas. 8vo, modern & morocco, pp. 32. London: Printed by
T. Bailey, at the Ship and Crown, in Leadenhall-street. Where
Tradesmens Bills are printed neat and reasonable [1759]. $800.00 |

Only Edition. Halsey was executed at age 23 for the murder of two
men on his ship the Amazon while on a voyage from Jamaica to Eng-
land. "Halsey, was born of creditable parent (sic), at Boston in
New-England,...His father was a mathematical instrument maker at
Boston;..."' Most likely his father was James Halsey (1695-1767),
one of four Boston mathematical instrument makers of the period
with the same surname, two incidentally named Joseph (see Brewing-
ton, The Peabody Museum Collection of Navigating Instruments with

Notes on their Makers, p. 129). A detailed account of the events
by witnesses and Halsey, with Halsey maintaining his innocence to :
the end. A family skeleton in Admiral "Bull" Halsey's closet?
Not in the BLC, BLESTC, NUC, Sabin, etc.

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®

2 (gaa) ) 3 ue

scolt muftibe owned then, that‘the nega.
tive; atguurents jagainft the veracity of the
iwitnefles, “may feel) ‘now to carry fore
sweight with’ thems For if one murdet,
mich more; if two,lwere actually comntit-
fed in’a fhip,- in:company witha large feét
_ Of;merchantmen, ander .convey of two ‘of
this -thajcfty’s fhips;: with: fome :of whom

they: had’ intercourfe more thanionce, ‘and _

amight have daily,‘ why did they not accufé,
arreft,: and €onfine the murderer, ! and bring
chim home:in: jrons. placing aother ‘com~
mander in his ftead#.for if they then knew,

and believed: he hadmurdered two of their’

erew, Captain Gallop, ar they,; ‘thould,
nay they muft. have.idone thus’ much “for

be
3 *

their, own fafety, tho! they difregarded)ja- .

. fice, and the cry of ‘blood. But «if they
had‘not then fufficient reafon to know, ‘and
believe hich :gnilty of thefe. murders,’ when

ithe \death of them was recent, ‘tis: impofi-
ble any'new: reafoniifor this charge could
thave rifen afterwards; ' nor is it pretended.::’
«Or if they could:not fpare this crueliand
‘bloody commander’ till he brought the thip
to port, why did they not impeach him ‘at

, Plymouth, -during two or three weeks ftay

' theree.

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Shenitetipees

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Gntencee he wrote. a letter.to his motheron, mm 1 aim I bods
! iver ered to a. friendly ~ - | A SE ok Si pee to rake’
eat ‘to be forward ‘to her, but who, - — udtirn about; endat bes
for the. fatisfation of the “publick, Bae PEER: 7 *
be mitted! it to be plinted: ie -
ae Se ce “March, 11, 1759 *
ia ‘ Dearef eae and dutiful mothe, oe :
Tam very forry. 1o-lef. you. know, | that I am
at forced to depart this lifes ‘1 was tried yeRer= ;
Mee i day by. ‘the court of admiralty for my lif life, and. ae
Besah! amo die to-morrow, antag! dy Simpaes’s far _—

} i 4 ; 4

ae fe and apother boy, ‘and | is) “Italian, fa wer ;
q oa Swearing beat me, ‘and | bas fore ital . n Netigaed | f
se - meas falfe as God is ‘trie, and be bas ‘took. a | ople ‘orem

. pleafure in taking away my life; dont make.
yourself unealy,” or God's. ake, mother, d am.
only going out of the world a little hie, for’
if; spe Lam in bopes 0 teft “with m faker,’

See TS,
; “i

Saat SPP Pann RT met WG eg
- °; ital a .

God, fer ‘you ‘dowtck

f ri yor evér-and ever, time iain is > But, 3 know.
Be es this’ world i is “only ¢ a fi ingll [pace of: fine for. you £0. an accounk a it
man to dwell in, ‘and asd ‘die innocent, I me eHtons,* ¢ Wyld. 7 eesti as
oo. God will find'mé' Peft. Wha’ mother. T Am t

—— bapes.to meet you in beat. and is: Sather. As

a brother'and | fi iflers, a a nd all, fli Dt. Gallop .

had ed, this ‘never wat ba ave B for di ie j

i was a§ ‘Much as "L could do to Reep the vefel a

Bo ue eae reaNe ne i :

iz : csingineh |, | a

nde,

have. he wry cell Tad i if ‘not faa Ieee for
— thefe rogues.—It bar cof. te all: my wages,
wenture and hife-—Dort make yourfelf uneafy
fir it cannot be belp'd; I'll fend you bome “7
| flirts, buckles ard bat, Remember. me to,

“So nomore prom) 2h poor and erie
fa in this hi He :

ey xe

Helfer, was a of sraditable parent cat

‘Bofton in New-England, ‘who gave him a
“decent and:. religious ‘education, .. to which
“were added fuch Ainfiructions as qualified
“him for the. fea, which . be hag followed “ae

bout ‘ten -yeats, - _béiog now. about. his 234

oyear.. He had been: but. one voyage to Lon-
‘ don. before this, about feven.years. ago.
His father was a ‘mathematical. inftrument
“maker at Bo/fon ;-and—his grandfather, af 1

-yemembery. or creat grandfather, had’ ‘been |

Knight for Her iferdjbire ed this. was

he own expreflions * we
“He was asked about thei nfinuation thrown

out againft him. ‘by’ the witnels. Wiliam

-* Michel, agif ignorant of navigation andthe

-.¢ommand of the thip;* he afferted , it ‘to. be

uppoundles and malicious ; to which may be :

Ae ots ane ¥
es 2
“ees en
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srdy-of 3 an. expartdaced capes ae
a es ufed pt ce tee es
: id He. was k i

deavours, hd thote: sof féveral ot

sunk ‘is! owes

: eaten aco
ee Sarthe notice

Cid

tepgeaice on. the fetlder of bis be,

fear of you, and the dread of you shall, be up-

on.every beaft of the earth; fowl of the dir,

Jiftes of the fea, infoyour. band are they delte

‘vered Buery moving Abin that. veth foall be.

meat fo. ou.— And farely your blood of your

dives. feill Tre equire eH hofo Jheddeth b man’s

blood, by man foal! hit blood be fred: fwd

the, sfmage. od he man. aia] pao

. 'Thefe aod, she proper portions of . se: ' ie 7
| avtit were enlar and a dtohim,: 7} : ey Ae

with true zeal and. ey Be far his = BD: “at ve i eo) a ea: sc
-falvation, which he fgemed deeply fenfble | He had delivered this, sper to, the 6

of; but inftead of :producing.‘a eonfefliony | _ fore fentence’ he ai he had not

he an{wered'me agaig.and.again, you would
not have me. confefs what ‘I am ‘not guilty
ef, and put into.my. hand, a written papers in |
the, ollowing words#. ..

never firuck a mah. with a bended m4
iene Struck @ man with the main, SPoectes I
never. firuck:a man with a mop. I never
firucka man.with a bowlin. never faid;- a
mate {hamn’ d. A brah : Im never fad, when

Ce ey

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accor

per iaert
Se

sence

ty at Ww

‘

pec aéts of Bion

&c.- were Pao rdeabete him, Lhe fed.

gn the way, He was put in.a Cart be=
tWeen 8 andg in the miorning, ‘the depu yea
matfhal and other proper officers of the A

—milfalry attending: one of whom carried. 7
the filver oar. After’ the had been ‘carried. .

pai't of the way, it'appear'd on the HE
his book was "not fe ishand, having cafi
Bias fit in’ the cart,on. which | eodiee
ee yee baok' was handed to him: from my
ach. This he noWand then ufed, and
they nner eafy and unconcetned, ' the
- people paffipg no priene on him. ag ‘he

- Was carried biome, ee gazing at him with | |

a filent: ‘fof pence; tt Pender hearted “wo-
» Bren “Withelig. their harids and’ fhedding

. tears at feeing fo ‘comely and welFookiog

-syouny ah doom'd 't0 this fhameful: an
Bae ‘fate Being carried throa oogh “vat
Broads A the way to-that dock.in apping,
‘which Has. its haaie froin, being” the ufuat
lace Of extcation, sf low water mark, he

Riss led ‘aafoor frofte thecart to the feaffold \
A | baile on

Bley F

pant eit ee wy death, “ter: “the eo. “2A
— venicnee. ‘of | {landing to ‘pray; “anid eake
- What’ 16" nought properto fay. | Doel SRM ae
.~ Now? was’ the time and plice if ever ts ee
: expect the fri€teft trath’ from him. He,
Was + ‘therefore’asked if he had any” thing to.
dd to what He had faid before# He tet 4
~ he had nape told the whole truth Aon if
* to the fact Ie
ee ‘Gena of

ay : pian Mite, pri them.
: a ‘He declared his? mip See
i; that’ they. died ~ pap 7

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a way aoa ee fe

ft ae

bn atenie force’ their to pump or. worl the
fhip, if unwilling, left they fhould fall into
the like fnare_with,him, a efpecially he
warned ' feamen to.be obedient to their. of-

_ ficers, andvorderly:in. all their behaviour ; -

“and he defired earneftly to exhort all his

‘brother failors of every rank and degree, to -

avoid the:two prevailing deadly fins of their
profeffion; “particularly - common {wearing,
igsankcouets and Jewdnefs; the firft of thefe
he acknowledged he had been guilty of, but
proletied he. hed always lived a fober. lifes

« He then join’d inprayer devoutly and atten-
Be. for about half an hour, during which

he repeated the articles of our Belief, and

the Lord’s. prayer; profefied his entire and
umble. refignation.. tothe will of God, his |

Sty repentance f forall his paft fins, ; and

to be in charity with. allmen; praying. re- ©

| eatedly that i it may pleafe God to forgive
: enemies, profecutors and flanderers, end
to turn ‘these h

‘God to give true repentance. to thofe. who

d borne falfe witnefs againit him, This ‘

- was the greater victory gain’d over his: own
! deart, as he feem'd-to have a tendency » the
/Sontrary way, in a tequelt made.to me; this
| “morning,

| Teadily’ complied with as before: eferbed.”

earts:; particularly befeeching

ae siorhid “Aefring that I wont vad to nt.
eS. ethe: sSqueptilm, both i in the chapel; “anda
os the place of ‘execution? + ©! Ptr ee.

I'réad theabove palm’ to hig” seirfiedle

eA Siecle after’ his receptiGit Of ‘the hoty { fact
as «ment; ‘and’ hé thed téaés ’ plentifully during

‘the reading’ of it} but inftedd“of reading
the fathe’ pfalm to ith at the place of exe”

ae cution; he awas reminded that’ he fhould } ae
ye ona more ‘evangelic temper;, by! forgivi ng:

“and ‘praying g for his enemies,’ Which’ ‘he

Te 4%

-Daring“our prayers, (in! which’ ‘helape we

peared to me rather dejected ‘and overc Souhe*. fo

| 35.’ with forsow, than difmay'd. with fig a
“unlucky accident, which “(othe | like: the:
_.. burfting ‘of great guns very ear ns, on

3. more interrupted our lattention 5 it! was th
~~ breaking down and fall of a rile “ai

7 ®
’ Phi Gees

the water sedge, which proved -

. for, the numbers crowded upon-if. T hi }
pe turned our eyes, .as well as @ur pr: vets" ‘toe |:
’” ward the fafety : and deliveranéeof ede who

fell; and, ‘as the people reported or

; : ‘boned; Kut hearing of no réemarkabl

or damage done by the fall, ‘we returned to" \

siihaee OY: } After. which, aes a hearty:

. farewe Tt

- farewel; oa Jegving sim, the tcaffold. was

geemoved. from, under bis feet, and he was

configned’ to etcrnitys: having been &rft
snoft humbly and. carneftly committed to
God's. gracious caereyl and, protection, _ It

* fhould’ have been mentioned | before this,

‘that after his. devotion’ he again, repeated

‘with his laft breath to the people, that -+he
had never ftcuck a mas, vith, a hand{pike |
in all his life, as -was; {worn again{t. him,
that -be never -ufed ‘that expteffion, the wag.
_ aa: sd thatshe never-hindered a

ing downy § nis bs ened bese

En 6L40D

’

rar
holy clad

Happ IED, Feith

night, picked up a lead pipe lying on the

Report of latest legal developments

on published by TD

THE NUDE AND THE RING

(TD February, 1954)

The nude body was still warm when
found, covered by a blanket, in a ditch
beside a road near Troquois, Ontario,
Canada, on October 15th, 1953.' The
coroner determined that the young wom-
an had been dead not more than half
an hour, She had been throttled into
unconsciousness, then stabbed and mu-
tilated.

Identification of the victim as Marie

e Carrier, 23, a reserve army ser-
‘geant of Bienville, Quebec, put detectives
on the trail of a former suitor, Lieuten-
ant Peter Balcombe, 24, of London, On-
tario. It was learned that Marie had
sent Balcombe away on discovering he
was a married man. Jealousy of an-
other suitor of the pretty girl was be-
lieved to motivate the crime.

Balcombe admitted being in love with
Marie, but insisted he was innocent of
her death. A jury found him guilty and,
still protesting his’ innocence, Peter Bal-'
combe walked to the gallows in the
courtyard of the. jail at Cornwall, On-
tario, and: was hanged at 1:02 a.m. on
May 25th, 1954. ©

DEATH DRIVES THE CAR
(TD January, 1953)

Shortly after midnight on Friday,
June 11th, 1954, George Edward Gram-

-mer was hanged in Baltimore, Maryland,

for the murder of: his wife, Dorothy, 33,
on August 19th, 1953. Her body was

found in her wrecked car in northeast .. .

Baltimore and her death was believed
to be an accident, until a pebble was
found wedged beneath the accelerator
of her car.

Further examination indicated that
Dorothy Grammer already was dead be-
fore her car crashed on Taylor Avenue.
She had been bludgeoned on the head
with, it was later determined, a piece
of iron pipe.

It was found that George Grammer
was involved in an extra-marital ro-
mance and he was arrested, charged
with the murder of his wife.

Judge Herman Moser heard the case
without a jury and sentenced Grammer
to the gallows. On November 12th, 1953,

the Court of Appeals upheld the convic-

tion. A plea for commutation of sen-
tence was denied ‘and thus Grammer .
lost his chance to escape the gallows,
Accompanied by two chaplains and
four guards the former office manager
walked calmly to his doom. Voices of
other prison inmates could be heard
chanting prayers. There was ‘no sign of

4 emotion visible on Grammer’s face.

SILENCE AT DERLWYN FARM

(TD May, 1954)

“I am not guilty. My. consctence is
clear,” young Ronald Harries said in a
firm voice, after hearing Justice Havers
sentence him to die for the murder of
his relatives, John and Phoebe Mary
Harries, on October 16th, 1953.

The disappearance of the elderly
couple from their Derlwyn Farm home
set off a search by Scotland Yard and
500 neighbors. The bodies were found
on November 16th, buried in a crude
grave on the farm of Ronald Harries,
The couple had been bludgeoned to
death. :

It was learned that Ronald had raised
a bank draft given him by John Harries

from 9 to 900 pounds and stains of hu-.

man blood were found on clothing Ron-
ald had worn on a visit to Derlwyn
Farm that fateful night,

Protesting his innocence, Ronald was
tried in Carmarthenshire Assizes on a
charge of murder. On March 16th, 1954,
after deliberating 88 minutes, the jury
found the 26-year-old farmer guilty,
Shocked by what Justice Havers
termed “the brutality and callousness of
the crime,” a crowd of 5,000 booed the
prisoner as he was led from court to be
taken to the condemned cell. Harries
was executed at Swansea Prison on
April 28th, 1954,

SECRET OF HIGHWAY 115

(TD December, 1952)

Jonah Roberts’ wife, Mary, 43, died in
‘tthe family car on Highway 115 near
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on the eve-
ning of June 10th, 1952. She had been
shot twice through the head. On the
road, beneath the open door of the
car, lay her husband, shot through the
shoulder. He said they had been shot
by hitchhikers to whom they had given
a lift.

There was nothing to link Jonah
Roberts, 47, to the crime. In fact there
was no evidence the attack had occurred
as he described it. And _ his stories
varied in detail.

Astute detectives uncovered a motive,
another woman. And the bullets were
all from the same gun. A witness was
found who had sold the gun to Roberts.

On August 29th the Luzerne County
Grand Jury indicted Jonah Roberts on
two counts, charging murder and man-
slaughter. At his trial in February,
1953, he was convicted of murdering his
wife and wounding himself in an attempt
to shift the blame to hitchhikers. On
April 28th, 1954, Roberts was sentenced
to life in prison.

ground and started out to rob somebody.
He tried the doors of several cars in which
people were sleeping, found that Bates’
right door was unlocked, his window down.

Bates, who was sleeping in his swimming
trunks, woke up while Roche was search-
ing for the sailor’s pants. “He hollered
and I kept hitting him till he was quiet,”
Roche said. .

He then took five or six dollars and four
$10-travelers checks from the wallet in
Bates’ pants, which were in the back of the
car, and threw the bludgeon and the trav-
elers checks in the weeds of a nearby lot.
He later amended this statement, saying
that he buried the bludgeon and the checks
in the lot.

Pfeffer’s attorneys argued that Roche
confessed committing the murder from the
right side of the car, whereas Pfeffer had
admitted killing Bates from the left side.
the windows on the left side of the car had
been rolled up and the door locked. When
police found the car the right door was
open. It was possible, of course, that the
slayer had closed the left door after the
killing.

A smudged, bloody impript of a hand,
heretofore unexplained, had been found
above the right door. Roche had an ex-
planation. He said that he had steadied
himself against the top of the car while
reaching into the back seat for Bates’ pants.

This also was the first explanation given
for the blood on Bates’ trousers. Pfeffer
had said that he had committed the murder
after a quarrel with Bates, whom he did
not know, and that he had not attempted
robbery. Nor had Pfeffer ever mentioned
the travelers checks, whose existence could
have been known only to the murderer.

Law-enforcement officials, confronted
with two confessions to the Same murder,
by two ex-convicts who, admittedly, had
never known each other, will have to de-
termine whether Paul Pfeffer merits a new

' trial or if there is sufficient evidence to try

Roche for this killing. District Attorney
Quinn has agreed to a hearing on a motion
by Pfeffer’s attorneys for a new trial.

While four first-degree murder indict-
ments were being returned against Roche,
two more victims identified him as their
assailant. Both, Woodside housewives, said
they had frightened him away with their
screams. One of them had been stabbed
six times with a butcher knife. Authori-
ties hope that some day the full count of
Roche’s crimes will be known. ;

But while the police made legal plans
for the confessed slayer, friends’ and
neighbors of Dorothy Westwater and sym-
pathizers numbering over a thousand, filed
past the bier in a Lexington Avenue
funeral home. Two days later, on Thurs-
day, June 10th, she was buried from the
Church of St. Catherine of Siena while
400 students from St. Jean Baptiste High
School formed an honor guard.

And though all New York breathed a
sigh of relief when John Francis Roche

. was locked safely behind bars, the wounds

of the bereft can heal but slowly. Mrs.
Jennie Brown sobbed, “Nothing can bring
back ‘my Marion.” Mrs, Alexander Jab-
lonka told of her hopes to borrow money
on her husband’s social security to support
her two youngest sons. And when Mrs.
Westwater was finally told of Roche’s
arrest, she cried, “Oh, Pm so glad! So
glad for the other mothers,” rx x)

Epitor’s Nove:

The name Mrs. Emma Malloy, as used
in the foregoing story, is not the real
name of the person concerned. This
person has been given a fictitious name
to protect her identity.

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returned from a trip to Dallas in his
armored car. He stopped at his mailbox
—certainly an innocent thing. Before
he stopped, he took care to look around
in all directions. He saw no one.

He reached into the mailbox—and
that was when an explosion rent the
air with the force of a good-sized bomb.
The mailbox, Noble’s armored car and
Noble himself were blown to smither-
eens. The hood of the car was hurtled
through the air a distance of more than
60 feet before it lit ina tangle of brush,

Invesligators came and looked over
the wreckare. There was nothing fur-
ther that could be done for Noble ex-
cept to collect him and bury him.

-Next to where the mailbox had been,
detectives found that a small excava-
tion had been made. From this spot,
wires ran to the screen of brush some
60 feet away. It was perfectly clear
that a bomb had been placed by the
mailbox, and that when Noble stopped
there, a man hidden in the brush had
pushed the plunger that detonated it.

In fact, bent weeds amongst the brush
showed where a man had lain in hid-
ing, and the flying hood of Noble’s car
must have come very close to striking
the killer as it fell.

It would have been some kind of
poetic justice if that hood had ‘struck
the killer on the head and laid him out,
but it is seldom that things like that
happen in real life. Herb Noble, the
man with nine lives, was dead and the
chances looked slim that his killer
would be caught.

SOMETHING TERRIBLE WILL HAPPEN

days in a prone position.

The day wore on without unusual
incident. At about 4 in the afternoon,
during a period when she had no cus-
tomers, Mrs. Staunton retired to a
room at the rear. Ballam and Ander-
son could hear the rattle ofa few dishes,
and could smell tea being brewed.

“Wouldn’t mind a spot of tea my-
self,” Anderson whispered enviously to
his partner. ‘

“Or a glass of bitter,” Ballam agreed,
“A dry job, this.”

Ella Staunton brought her tea back
to a chair at the edge of the visible
circle and had a leisurely cigarette as

she finished it. Then she thought of.

something. She went away and quick-
ly returned with a needle and thread.

Anderson was doing the watching vat
the time. He saw her sit down, draw
up her skirt and begin mending a small
tear in her panties with the needle and
thread.

This gave Constable Anderson a
bird’s eye view of Mrs. Staunton’s legs,
from the point where her panties ended
down to her feet. A former dancer,
Ella Staunton had lovely legs. Ander-

“son suddenly began to think there were

compensations in this sort of work after
all. He fixed. his eye to,the peephole
and all but ceased breathing.

At length he felt a little selfish, and
he turned to Ballam. “Tyke a look,”
he whispered, “and don’t say I never
did you a favor.”

Ballam glued his eye to the hole,
and soon was gazing downward with
more than usual interest.

“I say,” he muttered, “she’s a looker,
wot?”

At this moment, the front door
opened and Mrs. Staunton quickly
ceased her sewing and got to her feet.
The caller was a gentleman customer,
a man who seemed to know her.

“Well, Ella,” he said, “I finally de-
cided to call on you. That’s one way
you can’t avoid me.”

“Apparently not,” she replied with a
coldness in sharp contrast with her

(Continued from page 41)

customary friendliness. She did not
offer him a chair, but he sat down any-
way.

“You’ve got your usual kind word
for me, I see,” he said angrily. Con-
stable Ballam could see the man’s feet
and part of his legs, but not his face.
He wore trousers of a rather shabby
Donegal tweed, and his shoes seemed
badly in need of polishing.

Ella Staunton’s voice, quite sharp
now, drifted up through the peephole.
“Just what do you want?” she de-
manded.

The man laughed harshly. “What do
I want? J] want you to treat me like a
human being, that’s all. A dozen times
I’ve called you within the past week,
and you’ve cut me off every time. I’m
getting sick of it, do you hear? I won't
stand for it!”

“You won't?” she replied with sar-
casm. “Well, Tom, I’m still a free
woman and able to make up my own
mind. I guess you'll just have to stand
for it. Please go now.”

“Not just yet,” he snarled, getting to
his feet and moving out of the con-
stable’s view.

At that moment, of all times, the typ-
ist in the next office decided she had
some correspondence to do. She went
to work with a verifeance, and the noise
of the machine was enough so that
Ballam could hear only snatches of the
conversation below. «

“She's arguing with a bloke,” Bal-
lam whispered to his partner. “A pretty
nasty customer, too.” ,

Both Mrs. Staunton and the man
were now out of his range of vision. He
heard the man say, “Ella, either

you'll—” but the rest escaped him. He
heard Mrs. Staunton cry out, “Tom—
please—please. . . .”

A moment later he was sure he heard
her scream. He, leaped to his feet.
“We'd better get down there fast,” he
told Anderson. “The blighter’s getting
rough with her!”

Unfortunately, in order to reach the
stairs they had: to pass through two

offices and a corridor. Luck was against
them, for two workmen were strug-
gling up the stairway with a large
drafting table, and it took the dfficers
several seconds to get by them. At
last they reached the street and ran
around to the door of the manicurist’s
shop.

_ It was locked... Anderson pounded at
it insistently, but there was no answer.

“Wait. here and see if he comes out,”
Ballam panted. “I'll run into the
tavern and telephone the shop.”

Ballam rushed into the Tempest
Tavern next door, seized the telephone
and called Mrs. Staunton’s number.
There was no reply. He hurried out
again.

“We'll have to break our way in,”
he cried. ‘

The two constables put. their shoul-
ders to the door in unison, and the lock
gave. They staggered inside—and saw
blonde Ella Staunton lying on the rug
no more than five feet from the: door.

She lay flat on her back, one arm
outflung. Blood still seeped from sev-
eral large wounds in her breast. Tight-
ly wound around her neck was a length
of electrical extension cord. Ballam
knelt to feel her wrist, even though he
knew it was hopeless,

“Dead!” he said bitterly. “And it all
happened while we were only a few
feet away!”

@ ANDERSON shook his head in in-
credulous amazement. “The scoundrel
knifed her again and again,” he said.
“He got away in a hurry, that he did, I
looked up and down the street, but saw
no one running. away. Of course, it’s
5 o'clock and a lot of people were go-
ing home from business.”

“He may have just drifted in with
them,” Ballam nodded, “and now he’s
gone.” He gazed: unhappily at his
partner. “This don’t look too good for
us, Jim—this poor lydy being mur-
dered, and us not even being able to
prevent it.”

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bit.”

Fifteen minutes later, Superinten-
dent W. A. Smith arrived along with
Chief Inspector Hall and several de-
tectives. Both Smith and Hall were
utterly astounded that the grim warn-
ing about evil doings at the manicur-
ist’s shop had proved true. They also
wanted to know why Anderson and
Ballam had not been able to avert the
tragedy.

The constables’. explanation, how-
ever, made it plain that fate had oper-
ated against them. Had it not been for
the workmen in the stairway, they
might at least have reached the street
quickly enough to nab the slayer as he
emerged.

Smith and Hall listened closely while
Ballam listed the few clues.

“She called ’im Tom,” he related,
“and it was plain he’d been chasing
after her and getting no encouragement.
He complained that he’d called her
many times and she cut him off. That’s
all, except he wore Donegal tweed
trousers, not well pressed, and his boots
was muddy.”

“No use looking for him now, with a
fog drifting in,” Superintendent Smith
said. “Well then, let’s examine the
premises.”

As .they began their search, the
police surgeon, Dr. Eugene Melrose,
arrived and made a preliminary exami-
nation of the body.

“She was stabbed 13 times,” he re-

ported a few moments later. “The death
weapon, whatever it was, seems not to
have been overly sharp. It tore the
flesh rather than cutting it cleanly.
One of the wounds penetrated the
heart. I’d guess she was dead before
the killer wound that light cord around
‘her neck,” .
’ In a back room, where Mrs, Staun-
ton had a small stove for making tea,
Detective Robert Kelley found an 18-
inch crowbar tossed underneath a table.
Both the curved and straight ends of
the crowbar were sticky with blood,
and several long blonde hairs adhered
to it.

“The murder weapon, without a
doubt,” Chief Inspector Hall nodded.
“Careful with it. There may be finger-
prints.”

“I doubt if Mrs. Staunton would have
use for such an implement here,” Su-
perintendent Smith remarked. “It’s the
sort of thing that’s used for opening
crates and packing cases in stores and
warehouses.”

“Which means,” Hall replied, “the
killer probably brought the weapon
with him. He came here intending to
commit murder,”

A thorough search of the shop turned

up no more clues. The stubs of two
cigarettes lay in an ashtray, but these
undoubtedly had been smoked by Mrs,
Staunton, ‘Detective Kelley found
Harry Thorpe, the elderly janitor for
the building. Thorpe seemed shocked
almost beyond words when told of the
crime.

“A lovely lydy she was,” he said
sadly. “Now and then she’d invite me
in for a cup of tea and talk to me as
nice as you please.”

However, Thorpe said he knew noth-
ing about Mrs. Staunton’s business,
private affairs or the men who had
called on her. He was certain that the
bloody crowbar did not belong to her.
Though the janitor seemed much older
than the killer, and was not wearing
Donegal tweed trousers, the investj-
gators were taking no chances. They

ascertained that Thorpe, at the time of '

- the murder, was having a glass of beer

at the Tempest Tavern next door.
It was apparent that robbery was not
the motive for the slaying. There were

seven pounds and several shillings un-

touched in a cash drawer, and a gold
watch and expensive ring had not been
taken from the murdered woman’s
body.

“A jealous lover,” Smith said. “Not
much doubt about that. She tried to
discourage him and he finally became
violent.”

The body was removed to the morgue
and the investigators hurried to the
victim’s home at 115 Ullet Road to
launch a probe into her private life.
In a desk drawer they found a bundle
of personal letters written to Mrs.
Staunton by four or five different men.
Only one of these men signed himself
“Tom,” and he had written only three
of the letters. The detectives naturally
scanned these missives with interest,

The context of these letters indicated
that Tom was Mrs. Staunton’s divorced
husband. One ‘of them in particular
was couched in angry terms, accusing
the blonde ex-dancer of “running
around with men by the dozen.”

“Well, well,” Smith murmured. “Even |

though they're divorced, he seems to

take a proprietary interest in her,”
Neighbors who were questioned on

this point, however, said that Thomas

and Ella Staunton had not been di- |

vorced but merely separated. The sep-
aration, they felt sure, was Ella’s wish
and not her husband's, It was rumored
that Thomas Staunton had visited his
wife several times during their separa-
tion, begging her to come back to him.
In fact, his last visit had been only about
ten days earlier, and it had ended in a
quarrel. A woman who lived upstairs
above Mrs. Staunton’s rooms had heard
Staunton talk to her in angry tones and
he had slammed the door as he left,
“It looks very much,” Chief Inspector

Hall commented, “as though Tom

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They asked a good many questions about Ella Staunton,
and at the end of a day’s work they were still deeply
puzzled. Among other things, however, they heard gossip
about the blonde manicurist that was not exactly compli-
mentary. A couple of detectives working on the case were
inclined to discount this entirely and to regard the entire
business as a peculiar hoax. But another sleuth had a
different idea.

He believed there was something undercover going on
at the manicurist shop in Tempest Hey. To put it bluntly,
he suspected that the shop might be merely a front for
a house of assignation, operated by the beauteous blonde.
He argued that the anonymous woman who said “Some-
thing terrible will happen there” probably meant instead
that “Terrible things are going on there.”

His attitude is perhaps understandable, in view: of the
gossip. In any case, Chief Inspector Anthony Hall thought
it over and decided that the best strategy would be to do a
little surreptitious peeking into the shop. Mrs. Staunton
could then be protected if any harm threatened her, and
if anything illegal was going on it would be detected. Both
possibilities would thus be covered in one operation.

This was carried out in a remarkably melodramatic man-
ner. There were curtains at the front of Ella Staunton’s
shop, so that street loiterers could not see what went on
inside. But above the shop was the office of the Portal
Engineering Company. It was arranged with the manager
of the engineering firm that.a half-inch hole be drilled in
the floor. This was done at night, and measurements were
taken so that when the hole was drilled, emerging through

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substances adhering to the death-dealing crowbar.

the ceiling of the manicurist shop, it was partly concealed
there by a lighting fixture.

Constables R. S. Ballam and James Anderson were then
assigned to take turns gluing their eyes to the hole and
observing what took place below.

It was a strange assignment indeed, but orders were
orders. All day on May 19, the two bobbies bent over and
squinted through the hole. They were occasionally dis-
turbed by a noisy typewriter in the next office, but for the
most part they could see and hear a good deal of- what
went on below them.

The half-inch hole through which they peered allowed
them to view a circle perhaps four feet in diameter on the
floor below. It happened that the chair’ on which Mrs.
Staunton sat while working on patrons’ fingernails was at
the edge of this circle, close enough so that they could see
one elbow, though her face seldom came into view. The
eavesdroppers could also hear most of what was said,
except when the typewriter set up a clacking.

Constables Ballam and Anderson had not been on the
job an hour before they were convinced that anyone who
suspected something off-color. might be going on in the
manicurist’s shop was dead wrong. Ella Staunton greeted
her customers in a cheery but business-like way. She sat
down with them, and as she worked on their nails she

talked about the weather, about events of the recent war, °

and about the chances of the British meat ration going up
an ounce or two.

During that whole day, only one male customer so
much as made a romantic overture to the pretty blonde.
This man, whose legs were visible and who wore gray
flannel trousers and brogue shoes, tried to hold her hand
a couple of times, but she skillfully evaded him. He also
asked her for a date on the following evening.

“So sorry,” she murmured pleasantly as she buffed his
nails, “but I’m busy-tomorrow night.”

By her very profession,,a. manicurist is exposed to the
attentions and solicitations of lonely and sometimes
amorous males. It was clear to the listening officers that
Ella Staunton -was accustomed to these advances and had
developed a neat method of turning them away without
offending.

When they returned to headquarters late that afternoon,
the two constables reported that as far as they were con-
cerned, the manicurist shop was purely and simply a mani-
curist shop, nothing else. They also agreed that Mrs.
Staunton appeared to be a thoroughly honest and respect-
able woman, in which estimate they were entirely correct.
Further, there was certainly no hint that “something ter-
rible” would happen, as the lady on the telephone had said.

m BY THIS TIME, Chief Inspector Hall was feeling a little
foolish about the whole affair, and was more than half
inclined to agree that it was someone’s queer idea of a
joke. Still, the clergyman had sounded very serious about
it, and Hall felt a responsibility for Mrs. Staunton’s welfare.

“Keep watching tomorrow,” he told the two constables.
“If nothing further happens, we’ll forget about it.”

On the next day, May 20, Ballam and Anderson con-
tinued their vigil. Surprisingly, looking through a hole in
the floor is not the easiest job in the world. After numerous
experiments, the two officers discovered that the only way
to do it without getting a backache was to lie prone
on the floor, first fixing one eye, then the other, to the hole.
This was probably the first time on record that two police-
men earned their salaries for two (Continued on page 88)

Staunton is the next person to see.”

m@ THE INVESTIGATORS drove” to
Staunton’s flat on Crosby Road. It wis
dark, and they knocked without resuit.
A neighbor woman finally appeared and
said she had not seen Staunton since
the previous day.

“He hasn’t been well,’ poor man,”
she said. “I’ve been wondering if he
might be in there, ill and unable to call
for help. It’s his heart, I understand.”

If Staunton had a bad heart, the
officers reflected, he might have come
home after murdering his wife and col-
lapsed. It was even possible that he had
committed suicide. Hall found a skele-
ton key that opened the lock, and: they
went inside.

It was a two-room flat, and they
quickly discovered it was empty. The
bedroom was in considerable disarray.
A number of soiled shirts and: other
clothing had been tossed carelessly on
the bed. Several dresser drawers stood
half open, and only a few items of clean
clothing remained in them. The neigh-
bor woman confirmed that Staunton
owned a worn Gladstone bag.

“The bag’s not here now,” Superin-
tendent Smith observed. “It séems that
the bird has flown.”

An alarm was sent out to police jur-
isdictions all over England, giving a
complete description of Thomas Staun-
ton and asking that he be held for
questioning. A list of his relatives and
friends was compiled, and their homes
were kept under surveillance, as was
the Crosby Road flat. It seemed only
a matter of time before he would be
arrested.

Meanwhile, fingerprint men had gone
over the murder crowbar as well as the
entire. manicurist’s shop. They found
no identifiable prints on the crowbar,
though they lifted several dozen differ-
ent prints from various surfaces in the
shop. Some of these were found to be
the victim’s, while others, of course,
might be those of innocent patrons. It
was’ clear that the slayer had merely
slammed the door as he left, causing
the cylinder lock to catch.

Meanwhile, other detectives were in-
terviewing men known to be regular
patrons at Mrs. Staunton’s shop. An-
other sleuth talked with the clergyman
who had given police the advance
warning. The cleric said he had re-
ceived a telephone call from a woman
who said she was a parishioner but re-
fused to identify herself otherwise. She
begged him to warn the police to be on

‘the lookout at the shop. It seemed

apparent from this she must be the
same woman who had originally tele-
phoned police headquarters.

Detective Kelley visited the victim’s.

sister, Mrs. Margaret Ponter, who lived
on Egerton Road. From Mrs. Ponter he
got a good deal of background infor-

mation about Mrs. Staunton.’

Mrs. Ponter said that Ella Staunton,
born Ella l’rench, was the daughter of
a prosperous Liverpool meat whole-
saler. He had sent her to exclusive St.
Margaret’s School and later to private
schools in France and Switzerland,
where she had studied dancing and
elocution. Always a stunning girl, Ella
had won a local beauty contest at the
age of 16, and at 18 had won the British
ballroom dancing championship | at
Blackpool.

She had then become a professional
dancer, rising to such popularity that
she was featured in two London thea-
ters and scored a smashing success in
Paris. Later she had gone on tour,
dancing in several eastern cities in the
United States and also in South
America.

Meanwhile, she had married Staun-
ton, a manager in one of her father’s
packing houses. Staunton turned out
to be an extremely jealous man, some-
times going into a rage if Ella so much
as spoke to another man. Further,
Staunton constantly urged her to quit
her dancing career and settle down
quietly in Liverpool. Ella refused, for
she loved dancing, and this widened
the gulf between them. -

The came World War II, with its cur-
tailment of travel and entertainment—
and with its bombing raids over Britain.
The Luftwaffe hit Liverpool hard, and
in a raid in 1942 Ella was badly
wounded by a bomb that exploded near
her flat. She recovered in time, but she
would never again have the litheness
and strength demanded of professional
dancers. Her career was finished.

This should have pleased Staunton,
but the relations between them did not
improve. Ella was an energetic woman

accustomed to a life filled with activity,

and she sought some outlet for her
energies. Though she was well fixed
financially, she decided to go into part-
nership with a Mrs. Maude Beavers in
the Tempest Hey manicure shop. Mrs.
Beavers was killed outright in another
bombing raid, leaving Mrs. Staunton
in charge.

@ WHAT WITH the shop and volun-
teer war work, she kept busy, but
Staunton strongly disapproved of her
running the manicure shop, which he
regarded as an undignified occupation
and also a reflection on his ability to
support her, At length Ella, weary of
constant bickering, secured a legal sep-
aration from him.

“He didn’t like that?” Kelley in-
quired.

“Not at all” Mrs. Ponter said. “He
was furious at first. Later he came
around and. began to call on her, asking
her to come back. But Ella was con-
vinced that they just couldn’t get
along.”

“Did he make any threats?”
“Not so far as I know. Tom Staunton
is really a gentleman, though he has

an ungovernable temper at times. If

you’re wondering whether he did this
terrible thing, I can assure you I’m

positive he didn’t. He was still too

deeply in love with Ela.”

Detective Kelley had his own opinion
about that. Love, as any homicide man
knows, can often be transformed into
jealousy and hate. “Was your sister
interested in any other men?” he in-
quired.

Mrs. Ponter debated the question. “I
don’t know that she was interested in
anyone,” she replied. “Of course, Ella
was still a beautiful woman and I think
there were at least a couple of men who
took her out on dates frequently. She
didn’t talk too much about that when
she visited me, but I remember she
mentioned an accountant named Hector
Bigley. Then there was a man who
operated a bakery somewhere on Tithe-
barn Street. He was very attentive to
her, but I don’t believe she ever men-
tioned his name.”

At length Detective Kelley took his
leave. The next morning, he set out
to check on the accountant, Bigley.
Though the nickname “Tom” ordinarily
stands for Thomas, the police were not
overlooking the fact that nicknames
sometimes have no relation to real
names. Hector Bigley, however, speed-
ily proved that at 4:45 P.M. on the pre-
vious day, the time of the murder, he
was seated at his desk dictating letters.
Bigley further said that-he had no idea
who the mysterious “Tom” might be.

The newspapers that day were filled
with stories about the murder. and they
were more than a little sarcastic about
the fact that the police actually had the
shop under surveillance when the crime
occurred. The atmosphere around
headquarters was anything but happy
as work progressed. So far, there was
no word that Thomas Staunton had
been apprehended.

At 11:30 that morning a_ slender,
pallid-faced man of about 45 walked
into the central station and said he had
urgent. business with Superintendent
Smith. When he was ushered into
Smith’s office, he caused the officer to
start when he announced that he was
none other than Thomas Staunton.

“T've just been reading the morning
papers,” he said. “I’m sorry about—
about what happened to Ella. I under-
stand you’re looking for me. In fact, it
seems you've practically got me hanged
for the crime.”

“That’s as may be,” Smith said coolly,
summoning a stenographer. “I’ll want
to ask you a few questions, and must
warn you that your answers will be
recorded and used as evidence. You
need not answer of course, if you feel
that to do so might incriminate you.”

"Maybe she had a feeling she was going soon," said "M
Mrs. Merrifield, entering court with police official. _fiel

”

®.

THE COMBUSTIBLE OLD LADY FROM BLACKPOOL contined

after her, the’ place was a mess. Not a
scrap of food in the house, only
bettie?” eS

_ Sergeant Steadman inquired when
the first: symptoms of illness appeared.

“She’s been dying ever since we

came to live here,” Alfred Merrifield
said, speaking up for the first time.
“Even while she was still ir fairly good
shape, we couldn’t get her out of bed.

My wife tried to make her eat some- -
thing good and solid but Mrs. Ricketts.

would scream. when you mentioned

food to her. Then last Sunday her

health just gave - out.”
“We had Dr. Wood, Dr. Page, and
Dr. Yule up here,” Mrs. . Merrifield

.. Said. “Dr. Wood gave her some aspirin.

But the only time she felt better was

after she made me give her four eggs.

’ with brandy, the dear old girl. None of
the doctors could do her any good. She

"hated medical men.” __ :
Sergeant Steadman unfurled his um-
brella and ‘was off. His report to the

coroner. was vague. Maybe there was
something fishy—maybe not.
. As a result of all this uncertainty,

Mrs. Ricketts, the woman who hated

all. doctors, was ,once more under
medical scrutiny. Blackpool Borough’s

medical examiner, Dr. J.B. Manning,

concentrated his attention on the dead

_ woman’s internal organs.

7 E DIDN'T like the way the liver

looked, all shriveled up, but whose
wouldn’t be after years and years of
egg flips and brandied black currants?
On the other hand, the yellowish col-
oring of the liver was definitely out
of line. The stomach linings showed

Signs of an ‘inflammatory irritation.

The kidneys had hemorrhaged.
Organic lesions due to malnutrition?
Virus disease? Dr. Manning decided in

favor of a third possibility: poisoning..

Mrs. Ricketts’ insides were packaged
and mailed to the crime laboratory. at

Preston, where much of Scotland ©

Yard’s work is done.

- Inspector John Dunn, Chief of the
Criminal Investigation Department at
Blackpool, sat in his office, meanwhile,
and flipped through a mental file he
had kept on Sarah Ann Ricketts.

y wife tried to get her to eat," said Alfred Merri-
d, in black hat, "but .she would. start screaming."

- Nearly 12 years before, on Novem-
ber 1, 1941, Chief Dunn’ had visited
Mrs. Ricketts’ bungalow for the first

"time. That was when Ma’s first. hus-
band, John Green, had died, in the

prime of his life, with his head ‘in the

“gas stove. Dunn’s investigation had

established that after years of being

nagged, needled, razzed and kicked by«

_Ma, Old John Green had finally ended
it all with the help of the. gas com-
pany. . 2
_ When Chief Dunn trooped to The
‘Homestead’ five years, ‘later, on the

_ blazing summer afternoon of August 4;

1946, the gas jets were again hissing
in Ma’s kitchen. This time, too, there
was a head in the oven. It belonged
to Ma’s second husband, William

- Ricketts.

The ‘evidence now, however, wasn’t
so clear that Ma’s temper and tongue
alone had driven him to death: The
autopsy revealed that there had been.
enough whisky galloping through Wil-
liam Ricketts’ veins to cause a bad
case of alcohol poisoning. The question
was had the man wound up in the oven

before or after he had passed out
from alcohol poisoning? Under ques-
tioning, Mrs. Ricketts insisted she had
been taking an afternoon nap during
poor William’s ordeal. Coroner Black-
hurst was suspicious, but could do
nothing. Even so, his official’ verdict
rapped the circumstances of the sui-
cide as “highly. unusual.”

Now six-and-a-half years later, Chief
Dunn had been notified that circum-
stances—again, “highly unusual”: cir-
cumstances—had ended the life of the
little old lady herself.

“I would suggest,” the coroner had

said, “that we maintain a news black-

out till we have definite word from
Preston.”
Dunn was all in favor of not tipping
' off the guilty party—just in case Ma’s
death was neither accident nor suicide.
Chief Dunn hurried over to The
Homestead. The place looked less for-
bidding to him than it had in years. A
new broom had obviously been at
work. The daffodil beds were neatly
. trimmed, the windows sparkling, the
net curtains clean. In a house where
nobody ever smiled, the Merrifields—
Alfred and Louisa—received him with
smiling friendliness. Chief Dunn asked
them how they happened to become
Mrs. Ricketts’ housekeepers.

ALFRED Merrifield explained it was

'- the result of an advertisement.
Mrs. Ricketts, he said, had put it in
the Blackpool Evening Gazette on
March 10, 1953. In it, she offered ’a
home to an elderly couple in exchange
for their services. .

They presented themselves. Ma was
in bed, sick. She said she hoped they
had understood that she couldn’t pay
them. To make up for it she promised
she would change her will and leave
‘them The Homestead.

“We didn’t believe a word of it,”
Alfred said, chuckling. “But we liked

the house and didn’t think that she °

would. keep us very busy.”

Chief Dunn nodded. Mrs. Ricketts’
wills were the talk of the town. ‘They
were her favorite sucker bait, the
gimmick by which she extracted work
and favors from gullible people. It was
the same story every time. She would
summon an attorney, go through the
motions of will-changing and _ then
cancel the transaction quietly a week
later.

“Did she make out a will in your
favor?” Dunn asked.

“You bet,” Alfred said. “But the

other day she told us it was all off
again.”

“What happened after you called
on March 10?”

“We waited to hear from Mrs.
Ricketts,” Alfred said. “After a couple
of days.a friend of hers came and told
us that we had been accepted.”

They had moved in on March 13.
Lou'sa Merrifield said. From the way
she described the place it had looked
like a dust bowl, a bottle graveyard,
and a spider haven, all in one. But-

Louisa set out to make The Homestead

into a real home for both the old girl
and themselves. The filth was quickly
cleaned up, but Ma’s eating habits
resisted Louisa’s efforts.

“For a few days I hid the bottles
and tried to make her eat something
good, like cabbage and corned beef.
But she would put the dishes on the
floor by the bed and not touch them.

Every time I showed my face she -

would open her mouth and put out her’
tongue to show me she wanted a
drink.” . = :

“Among the bottles you found,”
Dunn asked, “were there any that con-
tained some kind of poison?” ,

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“The Combustible Old
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‘continued from page 35
_ of,” Louisa said. “I didn’t see any.”

“Vermin killers, maybe?”

“No,” Louisa said, “not even DDT.” El-
bow grease and cleanliness had been Louisa’s
weapons against parasites.

“Did Mrs. Ricketts show any signs of
despondency ?”

“Yes—if you mean that she thought a lot
about death. She was afraid of dying but she
would always talk about wills and funeral
arrangements.”

“She never mentioned: suicide?”

“Never.”

“Did she have any enemies ?”-

The Merrifields burst out laughing. Every-
body knew Ma’s temper, how bad it was, how
she had nothing but enemies.

“And yet,” said Louisa, “the poor old Souk
was lonely and one could see that she really
wanted affection. Sometimes she would make
the wrong kind of friends, like this Godfrey
fellow—

“Godfrey ? Tell me about him?”

There wasn’t much to tell, really. Godfrey
would drop in once or twice a week to keep

Mrs. Ricketts company. What attracted him:

coukdn’t have been so much Ma’s personality
as the will she had made out in his favor.
“Ma told us she’d canceled the will right
after she had shown it to him, but he didn’t
know that,” Louisa said.
“When was he here last?” Dunn asked.

‘‘Vesterday and the day before yesterday. He’
a bottle of Scotch with him each time.

be he made her drink too much.”
“aGodiey was his first or last name?”
The Merrifields didn’t know. The way
Louisa described him he was a hoodlum with
a smooth manner, age 25, blond, handsome
in a brutish way, fairly tall and flashily
_ dressed.

“A scar above the right eye,” a added.

“Where is he from?”

“Not Blackpool,” Louisa said. “A couple of
times I heard him mention he had to catch
a train. He often came with a grip—a kind
of overnight case.”

(BANGING the subject, Dunn asked the
Merrifields what pions they had for the
future.

“We don’t lave any,” Louisa said unhap-
pily. “Ma’s death came: so suddenly. We'll
keep on looking after things here and make
arrangements for the burial.”

The next morning a report came from the
Preston crime laboratory.

First, tests had beer made for strychnine

and arsenic, with negative results. Next phos-
phorus was tried—the reaction was positive.
. But the amounts of free phosphorus present
in the stomach and of phosphorus’ already
_absorbed by the system added up to only a
fraction of the deadly dose of two grains. On
the other hand, pathological changes in the
viscera, and the intestine were clearly the re-
t of phosphorus poisoning. The explana-
& was that phosphorus often behaves in
@ unstable way and doesn’t remain in the
dead body for long. The original amount Ma

had absorbed may have. been as high as eight

} grains, the report guessed.
_ Now that the | Blackpool. constabulary had

a sure poison mystery on their hands, they
instantly phoned Scotland Yard in London
and requested assistance. Two crack detec-
tives, Superintendent Colin. MacDougal and

' Sergeant N. Carter arrived toward evening

after a 240-mile drive from London.
At a conference in Blackpool’s headquar-
ters building, Chief Dunn outlined the facts
of the case. The report from Preston was only
preliminary but it made clear that Sarah Ann
Ricketts’ death was due to phosphorus poison-
ing; that the victim had many enemies and
had probably been murdered because of con-

. fidence tricks she played with her will.

MacDougal .disagreed with the murder
theory right from the start. There hadn’t been
a single phosphorus murder in the British
Isles in the ‘last .25 years.

.“Have you ever tasted phosphorus?” che

oh “It’s so nauseating you couldn’t get it

over your lips. Aside from its prohibitive
taste, it has a horrible smell. It is practically

‘impossible to make someone swallow ‘the stuff

surreptitiously, as can be done, for instance,

with arsenic. Nor could Mrs. Ricketts have:

taken it accidentally. So before we go out on
a wild goose ‘chase, let’s make sure the old girl
didn’t commit suicide.”

HE DRANK like a fish,” Dunn said.
“Still, one would have to be in a com-

“plete stupor not to be aware of the smell and

taste of phosphorus. By the way, what else
was found in her stomach?”

“IT don’t know,” .Dunn said. “The full re-
port from Preston will be in tomorrow.”

“It might give us a clue as to what other
solids or liquids the phosphorus was ab-
sorbed with, whether in its pure form or in
the form of some commercial product,” Mc-
Dougal said, rising «and preparing to leave.

‘The report; 2500 words long, came on

'- schedule and bared the last secrets of Ma’s

cast-iron stomach. Aside from 0.0999 grains
of free phosphorus, it contained traces of egg

flip:-and black currant jam. It contained, too, ©

some coarsely ground cereal, the oa used for
stock feed.

~The Merrifields were asked what in fea gen S
name the old lady could have eaten. The
couple was sure that the stock feed had not
been within reach of Ma’s hands.

Then the next best guess was that the phos-
phorus had come mixed with this type of
coarsely milled grain. Was there perhaps a
commercial product that combined the two?

MacDougal long-distanced the Yard and out
of their card index came the answer: the
product was Rodine, a rat killer manufactured
in Canada. It is marketed in metal tins‘ the
size of a shoe polish container and in each
tin there are eight grains of phosphorus—
enough to kill four people—and bran of the
type found in Ma Ricketts’ alimentary organs.

Detectives. checked with drugstores, -phar-
macies, and all shops selling seeds, fertilizer

and insecticides. There were quite a number

of such stores in Blackpool, but only a few
carried Rodine and still fewer had had re-
quests for it lately.

The inspectors equipped themselves with a
sample of the rat poison and showed it to the

Merrifields. Had they spotted a container like

this in the house? -
They looked at it carefully, fits Louisa,

then Alfred. No, they hadn’t seen any Rodine .
- before, they said.

From employment records the name of the
woman who had worked as a regular maid
for Ma. before the Merrifields came was ob-

tained. She was Lavina Blezard, of Blackpool.

Dunn tried a flanking approach. “Do you
think Ma Ricketts could’ have committed sui-
cide?” he asked the woman.

“Excuse me: if I laugh,” Lavina Blezard
said, not laughing. “If she could buy herself
one more day of life by burying. you or me
she would do it. She nearly buried me. I
stuck it out for two years with her because
she paid me and I needed the money. But if
I hadn’t quit, you would have Sound ‘ne,
too, with my head in the gas oven.’

She was shown the Rodine. “Ever seen a tin
like this at Mrs. Ricketts’ ?”

Lavina shook her head. “Uh-uh,” she said.
And that was that.

MacDougal ordered a house-to- ‘house can-
vass of residents in Devonshire Road, Ma’s
street. Detectives asked, “Did you notice any
rodents around the house in the past year?”

. “Did you have to use a chemical product
to destroy them?”

The answers were all no.

The Merrifields were questioned again and
asked if they had occasionally left Ma alone

at the house.

Why yes, they had, they said. Evey Friday, ,
for instance, when they went to visit Louisa’s
three children of a previous marriage, in
Wigan, 34 miles away. The last of these trips
had been on April 10, three days before. Ma's

death.

* Ma, therefore, would have had the oppor-
tunity to go out, but did the bad. leg she was
said to have suffered from make this possible?

Said Louisa, “Ma was like some people who
pretend they can’t hear but always do when
they - want- to.:-Of: SOUT, ane. could walk
when. she tried.” !

Detectives asked nelgtbors ic ‘they had seen

Ma on the street that day. They: drew:a: blank.
Most witnesses worked during the day:at their
job;. those’ who stayed. at home hadn’t: seen
Ma hobbling down Devonshire road. °:
_ Add to this the fact that no. store clerk
remembered having-sold. Rodine to a woman
resembling Ma and you had little left of the
suicide theory. Hard to take as this was, Mac-
Dougal had to admit that, foul taste or not,
somebody must have Se icgs Ma a large
helping of rat poison.

GPF REY perhaps? It was easy to think up

a motive for him. He could have heard that
Ma had the annoying habit of pulling back-
handed switches on her last wills and testaments.
He had been to Ma’s three days before her
death. The whisky he had brought with him
could have been a mickey which would have
made Ma forget he was jprei solid food
down her throat.

So the city-wide hunt for Godfrey got under
way. The grip, and the train he had men-
tioned, made it likely that he was a stranger
in Blackpool. Railroad station employes were

asked if they knew of a rather tall blond.

man of 25, with a scar, and sharply. dressed.

They didn’t. :

.A similar. question was put to hotel-keepers.
Since Blackpool is a resort town it crowds
up like Coney Island come summer. The
number of hotels goes into three figures. But
neither the name nor Godfrey’s description
rang a bell.

MacDougal made _a last stab at tracing=the
Rodine, or. at least the empty container. He
put in a call for a mine detector and sent it
with a search crew to The Homestead. While
the mine detector was put to work in the daf-

fodil beds and lawn plot in front, then the

She stoked herself like she was loading a Roman

candle and, at 79, thrived on it.

Then. someone fed her a recipe even she couldn’t handle

energy than you'll ever get out-of it.”

People living on Ma’s street had
long stopped wondering about the gro-
ceries the old ‘lady had delivered to
her door several times a week. The
grocery bag—you could~be sure—al-
ways included eggs, black currant jam,
a bottle of rum, another of brandy,
and a third of potent English stout—
enough liquor, all in all, to make an
old lady’s stomach explode.

In Ma’s opinion, a cupful of black
currant jam with several shots of
brandy well whipped into it made top-
grade fare for the elderly. Nor could

anything be more nourishing, she .

thonght,. than plenty of rum with two
teaspoonfuls of sugar and two raw
eggs folded into it. And for a quick
snack between main meals—‘Just to
take the edge off your appetite,” she

would. say—a bowl of that darkish,

- full-flavored barley brew bottled as

stout. .
It was after a day of. such eating
that Ma’s robust health took a nose

dive. Ignoring the efforts. of ‘doctors,.

she barely struggled through one more
day, and then just past noon, on Tues-
day, April 14, 1953, she passed away.

Dr. Burton Yule, the last of the
three eminent practitioners summoned
to save, her, gave official notice of Mrs.
Rickett’s death. But when Coroner W.
Blackhurst asked him to sign the death
certificate, the doctor shook his head.

“T visited her five days ago,” he
said. “She was fit as a fiddle then.
When I came today she was dying, and
I don’t know what of.” —

The case was given to the coroner’s
investigator, Detective Sergeant N.

*
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Mrs. Merrifield, between police attendants, told of man named Godfrey who wooed the old lady with whisky. x aa

Steadman, who tilted his umbrella into
the squalls that came whistling from
the Irish Sea and set out for the late
Mrs. Rickett’s green-and-cream bunga-
low, The Homestead.

A gentle-mannered, elderly couple,
Alfred Merrifield, 70; and his wife,
Louisa, 50, showed the coroner’s in-
vestigator to the death room. Stead-
man examined the body for marks of
violence. There weren’t any. 2...

Mrs. Merrifield, the detective ob
served, was a chatty woman.

“Everybody warned us about Mrs.
Ricketts and ‘her hot temper,’ she
said to Sergeant Steadman. “But we
didn’t have too much trouble with her.
She appreciated. it when one was good
to her. Maybe she had a feeling she
would have to go soon. When we came
to live here five weeks ago to look

continued on. next page

WHO STRANGLED THE PRETTY GIRL
LEAVING HER BODY AMONG THE FIRS?

the young folks of poe Buzzard venturing, in pairs,
to sample once more the familiar seclusion.of The Firs.
After an evening of dancing at the Golden Bell Hotel or
the Cross Keys Inn, the town’s amusement centers; it had
become the custom for a youth to take his best girl for a
romantic stroll beneath the protective branches border-
ing the glade. -

The lane had not been deserted the evening of April
11, 1937. This became shockingly apparent the follow-
ing morning, a Monday.
¢ About 6:30 a.m., F. Cox, a middle-aged railroad work-
er, left his home, lunch pail in hand, and hurried on his
way to work. For years it had been his habit to turn off
the main road and take a short,cut through The Firs. He
always enjoyed the brief walk through the whispering
grove. It carried him back to'his youth, when he, too,
had found romance beneath those quiet boughs.

On this fine April morning the early sun slanted in
long golden beams through the closely woven branches.
As Cox topped a little rise in the sandy pathway, its rays
fell upon his eyes, so that he almost tripped over an object
lying directly across his path.

Halting abruptly, he sidled around the obstruction and
turned to study it with the sun at his back. He blinked
at what he saw, and began to rub his eyes with a hand
that trembled. For there, every ghastly detail illumined
by the brilliant morning sunshine, sprawied the nearly
naked body of a young woman.

She was lying on her back with her ent leg out-
stretched. Her left leg was drawn up along the ground
with the knee half bent. Both arms were resting beside
the body, and the gloved hands, resting palms upward,
were unclenched. Blood, trickling from the victim’s right
nostril down her cheek, had congealed in the form of a
letter “S”

HE GIRL had died with a hideous grimace on her

face. Her mouth was open, the corners drawn sharply
down, and her tongue was lolling. over the even, white
front teeth. Cox determined at a glance that the girl’s
black and white fringed scarf had been drawn tightly
around her neck, with the knot directly below the point
of her chin. So tightly had this -death-knot been drawn
that the Leighton Buzzard pathologist, Dr. John Frank

Taylor, later experienced the: greatest difficulty in in-.

serting the blade of a scissors beneath it.

One of the hamlet’s oldest residents, Cox was familiar
with every inhabitant. But for a moment‘he was puzzled
over the identity of this brutally murdered girl. Then it

dawned on him. The body was that of lovely, blonde Ruby.

Keen, twenty-three-year-old. daughter of & local widow.
Ruby, employed in a local manufacturing plant, lived
with her mother, an oldeg, sister and a brother who was
a truckman.

“Good God, this is terrible!” exclaimed Cox aloud. He

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wouldn’t let him out of the state in which
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at the board here.”

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down to the Parole office.”

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dress for Thomas L, Bacon, 39. It was a

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address. From the landlady they got
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door the detectives could hear him Pacing
up and down. With his service revolver
in his hand Bohart put his shoulder to the
door and pushed, As the door: crashed
open the man in the room whirled, panic
spread over his face.
“What's this?” he asked in a shrill
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weapon but found nothing. He kept watch
over the suspect while Bohart went into
a clothes closet. He soon came out with a
dark blue cashmere:sports jacket.

“Here is the Coat,” he said, holding up
the garment.

Bohart examined the sleeves and found,
on the right one, a Place where the

threads had been pulled. Something sharp

had caught in the cloth and stretched the
weave,- :

“The blue fuzz will match this,” the
Sergeant told his partner, “It’s the
clincher,” Turning to Bacon he asked,
“What did you do withthe gun?”

The suspect didn’t answer, .

ope moved: over to the bureau and
Started to search for the gun. It was not
until. he raised the mattress that he dis-

covered it—lying against the bedspring
Five shots had been fired from its clip.
Bohart, after inspecting it, swung back

to the husband, “Why did you do it,

Bacon?” he asked,

‘Thomas Bacon shrugged. “She wouldn’t
have anything to do with me, that’s
why!” he blurted,

The man told a story, part of which the
detectives already knew. Bacon said he
met Billie early in the spring and that
they were married in May. When she dis-
covered he was an ex-convict she left him.

“That was only an excuse,” Bacon went
on. “I knew that before she met me she
had been going with another man. I
thought maybe she was still in love with
him. I went around to her place several
times trying for a reconciliation. I even
sent her money, but it was no go. We
argued and fought but I couldn't get her
to come back to me.

“Then the night she got put out of the

house I saw her take a gun before leay-—

ing. Maybe she was scared of me, I don't
know. We walked several blocks, arguing
all the way, I lost my temper and grabbed
her purse to get at the. gun,

“We were passing a house at the mo-
ment. The lights were turned on the
Porch. Billie ran up the pathway, up. the
steps to the porch and tried to get.in.

“T ran after her; firing a shot. It missed.,.

Then she turned and came toward me,
looking as if she was going to take the
gun away from me. I went wild. You
know the rest.”
* Taken to headquarters, Bacon repeated
his story for District Attorney Willson
and signed a confession: An hour later he
was arraigned before Justice Sterrett and
held without bail for the action of the
grand jury. ,

The fact that Mrs. Bacon used the
name of Baker, keeping her marriage a

' Secret, was what caused the Police to
suspect another man, But now Dotson, \

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cleared by Bacon's confession, and his
own unshatterable alibi, was released.

Indicted for murder, Bacon was, on
October 6, 1947, permitted to plead guilty
in the second degree. A mandatory life
Sentence was meted out to the ex-convict
whose unwarranted jealousy had led to
the tragedy, .

(The name Francis Dotson is fictitious to protect
an innocent man Questioned in connection with the
crime.—The Editor.) ,

GALLOWS
LIGHT

[Continued from page 3]

slept. After a few moments the candle
was carried back to Smith’s room. The
light disappeared twice in Smith’s room,
then re-appeared each time.

Shortly after Franklin finished his
story, Inspector Brixton of Scotland
Yard arrived at the Derby Chief Con-
stable’s office. He was accompanied by a
London business man who said that his
brother, Henry Thomson, a well-known
Jjoureler, had disappeared a few days be-
ore.

Shown the clothes of the dead man
he identified them immediately as those
of the dead man.

“He had over a thousand - pounds
($5,000) in his wallet, which he was tak-
ing to Hull to buy some jewels from a

utch diamond cutter who was coming

there from Amsterdam,” the brother,
George Thomson, explained.

“The other day I got a letter from him,
Postmarked in Hull, saying he had com-
pleted this deal but had also bought a
Stallion there which he intended to ride
back to London.”

On hearing that neither money nor. -

diamonds had been found in the room
where his brother died, George Thomson
demanded that the remains be disinterred
and that a post-mortem medical examina-
tion be made. 4

This was done and a large amount of
arsenic was found in the stomach of the
corpse! ,

Inspector Brixton smiled grimly and
showed Chief Constable Henderson his
report on John Simth. This showed that
the gentleman farmer had a long criminal
record as a swindler, a check-forger and
a bigamist. He had served two ternis in
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John Smith smilingly denied ever hav-
ing seen or heard of the diamonds, When
the investigators said they wanted to
question Dora Simon, the housekeeper,
Smith said:

‘ “She vanished yesterday. I haven’t the

‘slightest idea where she is.” ;
Inspector Brixton then placed him.

under arrest on suspicion of having mur-

dered Henry Thomson. Though the case

against Smith was still weak, the in-

spector believed that Mrs. Simon, when

found, would be frightened enough to tell

the truth about the crime, knowing that
_her employer was already in jail.

Unfortunately, Mrs. Simon was not
located in the weeks that followed, though
Smith was quickly indicted for the
murder. The lawyers he employed im-
mediately began demanding a trial, |

Further searches of the Smith mansion
and surrounding property had turned up
only one clue—the glass stopper of a
medicine bottle that might have held the
arsenic that killed Henry Thomson.

The trial was held in Birmingham and
Gerald Walsingham, the counsel for the
crown, pulled a master stroke in his open-
ing address. He said that the case was
woefully’ weak and that he had no hope
at all of winning a guilty verdict. He put
Peter Franklin on the stand who told his
story about the candle. Walsingham also

’ produced the medicine bottle stopper,
admitting that the authorities had been.

unable to prove it belonged to Smith or
that it had ever been used on a bottle that
contained arsenic. - :

Shrewdly, knowing he couldn’t win
with what he had, Walsingham was hop-
ing the case would be thrown out before
being given to the jury. Then later, if
more evidence was found, the case could
be reopened. ‘

Being an experienced criminal, John .

Smith knew this well. He wanted the case
to go to the jury. After they freed him,
he could never again be charged with the
murder. i

The judge, Lord Chalmers, agreed with
Walsingham that the case would be dis-
missed for lack of evidence. He was about
to order this done, when Smith jumped to
his feet.

“TI arise ‘to my own defense,” he cried.
“Having been accused of murder, I sub-

mit that I never can,be cleared by a
disminnul based on the evidence being
inconclusive. I have the right to state my
own case, and call my housekeeper as my
witness!”

In saying this, though no one knew it
at the time, John Smith was tripping over
his own tongue! His lawyer explained
that the witness he mentioned was Dora
Simon, his housekeeper, whom the lawyer
said he’d concealed in his own house “to
shield her from the persecution of the
police.”

While Dora Simon was being sent for,
John Smith took the. stand and told his
story. He said that he was often taken ill
of indigestion at night. When that
happened, he usually went to his house-
keeper’s room, which

her to give him medicine.

On the fatal night, he explained, he
suffered such an attack, lighted a candle,
awakened Mrs. Simon and went back to
his room with her.

TE listening Walsingham noticed
that Smith carefully explained away

everything but one fact. He hadn’t said

one word of why the candle should have

‘twice disappeared and, re-appeared when

he and the housekeeper returned to his

. bed-chamber.

’ Standing in the courtroom, with his
back to the wall, the real truth about the
case struck Walsingham in a flash. He
reasoned that in Smith’s room there must
be a secret closet that the people had been
unable to find and that it was the door of
this which, being opened, hid the candle
light from Peter Franklin on the road
outside! et ,

Dora Simon came into the courtroom
just after Smith concluded his testimony.
She took the stand and told the identical
story about the fatal night that Smith had.

Knowing that. she hadn’t heard her .

employer’s testimony, Walsingham cross-
examined the woman and said, ‘You state
that the candle was on the table in the
middle of the room?”

“Yes,”

“Well, then, was the closet or cupboard
or whatever you call it opened once or
twice while the candle stood there?”

was next to the one
‘ Henry Thomson had slept in, to awaken |

‘small bottle that lacke

‘There was no answer.

“What T want to know,” said Walsing-
ham casually, “is whether, after Mr.
Smith had taken his medicine, he had shut
the door of the closet.”

“He shut it,’ said Dora Simon nerv-
ously,

“Then he must have opened it again to
put the medicine back in the closet.”

“That is right.”

“Did you say the closet was on the right
or left side of the window?”

“The left side,” Dora Simon told
him.

Eyes shining in triumph, Walsingham
turned to the judge, and requested an
adjournment, saying, “If you give me two
hours, I am sure I can produce new evi-
dence which will convince you and the
jury that John Smith murdered Henry
Thomson!” .

The adjournment was granted. Accom-
panied by Inspector Brixton, Chief Con-
stable Henderson and two workingmen,
Walsingham hurried to the Smith man-
sion,

_ Going to the master’s bedroom, they
ripped down the wall to the left of the
window and found there the secret closet
that Walsingham had envisioned by his
inspired deduction. ;

In the closet, he found more than
enough evidence to hang the cunning
John Smith—Henry Thomson’s wallet, a
wooden case containing jewelry, and a
a glass stopper.
The bottle was half-filled with arsenic
and a cork had been stuffed into the top.

Returning to the courtroom with this
haul, Walsingham put them into evi-

‘ dence, and got Dora Simon back on the

stand. Confronted by the tell-tale clues,
the woman broke down completely and
confessed that Smith had poisoned his
guest at dinner, robbed him after he died
and hid the loot in the secret closet.
Smith was promptly convicted and

sentenced to death. He was hanged in .

Birmingham on May 11, 1905, and Dora
Simon was sent to prison for ten years
for her part in the crime.

John Smith died on the gallows be-
cause he was being prosecuted by a man
with a detective’s mind, who was quick-
witted enough to take advantage of the
one mistake the resourceful killer made.

THE
TATTOOED
HORROR

[Continued from page 33]

Kolodziez leaned forward eagerly. “Do
you know him?”

Yes, said the woman. His name was
Steve Woykovsky, and he was employed
at the. Robert Gair Company plant

“where so many residents of that section -

worked.

This important information was secured
at 3 p. m. The investigators hastened to
the factory and asked for Woykovsky,
The man, sullen-faced and burly, peered
at them suspiciously as he walked into the
office.

“What do you want with me?” he
asked.

The police officers didn't explain. They
whisked him over to the barracks at

Groton. There he was questioned by Mul-
cahy and Mackenzie.

But Woykovsky would say only that
he had known Stella Mioduszewski. He
denied flatly that he had called on her the
evening of December 1.

“She must be mistaken,” he insisted
when informed that a woman had seen
him enter.-“I was never in her house in
my life.”

“Okay,” said Mulcahy finally.

He ordered Woykovsky held for fur-
ther questioning; then communicated
with Hartford and requested Lieutenant
Chameroy to get down to Groton as soon
as possible.

“Maybe we'll be able to prove he was
there,” Mulcahy said to Mackenzie.

When Chameroy arrived early that
evening, Woykovsky, still defiant, was
brought out and fingerprinted. Then
Chameroy compared his prints with those
he had taken from two drinking glasses
on the kitchen table in Stella Mioduszew-
ski’s home.

And the prints on one glass compared
with Woykovsky’s!

““Okay, Woykovsky,” said Mulcahy
softly. “You lied. We know you were in
the woman’s house.”

The husky man stared wildly for a
moment, then covered his face with his
hands and wept.

“Yes,” he. said. “It is the truth. But I
swear I didn’t kill her.”

“Then why did you lie?” pressed Mac-
kenzie.

“Because I was afraid I would be ac-
cused,” insisted Woykovsky. ‘That is the
only reason.”

He went on to say: that Mrs. Miodus-
zewski had invited him to call for a drink.
He had accepted, and he and the woman
sat at the kitchen table and had a glass
of whisky apiece. , .

“Was anyone else asked
Mackenzie.

Woykovsky said they had been alone,
but that at 10 p. m. the woman asked him
to leave.

“She said she was expecting some-
body,” explained Woykovsky. “So I got
up and left.” ;

“Did she say who was calling?” in-
quired Mulcahy. ,

“No,” replied Woykovsky. “Just that
she was expecting somebody. When I
left, she was still sitting at the table.”

Woykovsky was interrogated further
that night, but the investigators were

there?”’

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A STRAND OF
SILK HANGS
A MURDERER

A microscopic photo
of the silk thread
that forced the mur-

EDITOR’S NOTE: The efficiency of scientific crime de-
tection has become a byword in the. unrelenting and in-
creasingly successful war on criminals throughout the
world. But in many months there has been no more out-
standing example of its swift, deadly effectiveness, than
when it was recently brought into play by Scotland Yard
detectives to solve the weird “Lover’s Lane” murder of
pretty, blonde Ruby Keen.

_ A small-town girl, resident of quiet, provincial Leigh-
ton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, Ruby Keen’s private lifé was
no mystery to her neighbors. Yet when her body, the
clothing ripped off, her black and white silk scarf drawn
ina ghastly death knot tight about her neck, was found
grotesquely sprawled deep in a picturesque woodland
glade, none could hazard a guess as to the identity of her
murderer, There were-no clues.

Two young men readily admitted + a
they had been in her company the
night of the murder.

One of them was Patrick. Smith,
policeman in a nearby town. He was
Ruby’s handsome young fiancé. They
had expected to be married soon.
Smith had avi alibi..

The other was Leslie George Stone,

a former sweetheart of Ruby’s. Stone ,

‘ explained. that-he had accidentally:
met Ruby at a local tavern after her x
fiancé had left her to return to his *
home that night. Stone also had’an *™
alibi. :

Shocked and frightened residents
of Leighton Buzzard had but one ex-
planation for the appalling crime—
that a sex maniac was loose in their
midst! For, only two weeks before,

| amysterious fiend had criminally at-
tacked a fourteen - year - old high
school girl almost at the identical
spot where Ruby Keen’s body was
found. The child had been complete-
ly stripped of her clothing and left

’ Her attacker could not be traced.
Then Scotland Yard’s Chief In-

derer to confession.

spector Thomas Barker went to work on the baffling Ruby
Keen case. With a tiny filament of silken thread and a few
grains of sand as his clues, he tracked down the mur-
derer and sent him to the gallows!

How he did.it makes one of the most gripping true de-
tective stories ever to come out of England.

Buzzard, nestling so peacefully in the lush Bed-

fordshire countryside. The terrifying tragedy had
descended so swiftly and unexpectedly, that the tran-
quility of the townsfolk was completely shattered.

A fiend, lurking viciously in the depths of The Firs—
Leighton Buzzard’s Picturesque “Lover’s Lane”—had
pounced upon and criminally attacked a pretty, four-
teen-year-old high school girl, daughter of one of the
town’s better families. The- child, unaccompanied, had
taken a short cut through the glade on her way home
from school. :

Rescuers, attracted by her repeated screams, had ar-
rived too late. They: found the girl, semi-conscious and
hysterical, lying to one side of the sandy pathway that
unwound, ribbonlike, through The Firs. Except for her
stockings the girl had been rendered completely nude by

the vicious monster who: had way-
laid her. Her torn dress and ripped
undergarments bore mute evidence
of the ferocity of the attack.

* Overcome by shock and fear, the
adolescent victim of the madman
had been able to give police only

*, the most meager and conflicting de-
. Scriptions of her assailant.

Within a few hours, news of the
attack had swept the countryside.
Cottage windows throughout the
hamlet remained illuminated far into
the early hours of the morning as
excited householders discussed the
alarming crime and theorized as to
the identity of the mysterious fiend,

A fortnight passed. Leighton Buz-
zard police, working from. the
meager clues they. had, were no
closer to making an arrest. The gen-
eral belief was that the girl had been
assaulted by a stranger Passing

“through town on’ his way to London,
forty miles to the southeast.

But for what followed, the un-
Soived crime might gradually have

S INCE THE WAR ‘no such furore had swept Leighton

lying semi-conscious and hysterical Ruby Keen, policeman’s fiancée. Scotland been forgotten.
in the depths of the secluded glade. Yard’s experts enmeshed her murderer
with bits of evidence.

However, as blustery March melt-
ed into a vibrant April, the compel-

ling urge of Spring in the air found
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as part of the routine procedure. This
was included in due course in “police
informations,” that catalog of missing
persons, unidentified corpses and prop-
erty stolen and recovered, that is circu-
lated daily to the police forces of the
country.

The police at Crowborough—fifty
miles away from London—were asked
to make inquiries, and one of the vil-
lage constables set off to see Norman
Thorne. The young man explained that
inquiries he had made on his own initia-
tive had been fruitless, but he was able
to assist the police investigations in
Crowborough by supplying the constable
with a lifelike portrait of the missing
girl.

With this to help him, the constable
went to work to try to trace the girl, but
he had to report that he had met with no
more success than Thorne. He went to
railway stations and omnibus compa-
nies, and he interviewed villagers, but
found no evidence that Elsie Cameron
had reached Crowborough. :

Meanwhile, the police at Kensal Rise
had been. making perfunctory inquiries,
with results that discouraged them from
probing further into the girl’s disappear-
ance. Elsie Cameron, they found, was a
neurasthenic. She had lost one position
after another because she was always
giving way to “nerves.” She was sub-
ject to fits of depression, and had even
hinted at taking her life.

“Suicide!” said the Police, and dis-
missed the case from their minds.

Nothing more, outside of her own
small circle, would have been heard of
Elsie Cameron’s disappearance but for

the London newspapers—and Norman
Thorne.

It so happened that Elsie Cameron’s
disappearance occurred when Fleet
Street was suffering from a dearth. of
“human interest” stories, and so one of
the London newspapers sent a reporter
to Crowborough to see if the sweetheart
of Elsie Cameron was as satisfied as
were the police that there was no sinister
mystery behind the girl’s disappearance.

Thorne, it turned out, was anything
but satisfied with the suicide theory. He
had a premonition that the girl had met

“I've a surprise in store," said the
suspect in Wandsworth Prison (above)

Witnesses were sure they had seen
Elsie Cameron (below) going toward
chicken farmer's shack (left) but
what she did later was a mystery

up with a terrible fate of some sort.

The interview he gave seemed to point
to the- possibility of startling develop-
ments. It was enough to send the crime
reporters of London hurrying to Crow-
borough as fast as trains and motorcars

_could carry them. Fleet Street instinc-

tively sensed that here was a case which
had in it the elements of a great drama.
Almost at once the fate of Elsie Cameron
began to rouse nationwide interest, and
every new development of the mystery

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sand taken from the scene of the mur- ©

der by Inspector Barker. :

“And besides,” concluced the ana-
lyst, “I discovered three more grains
of sand lodged in a button on the sleeve
of Stone’s topcoat. They, also, matched
the samples that you sent from the
murder scene.”

That was enough for Inspector
Barker. The surprised and surly Stone
was immediately charged with the
murder of Ruby
upon hearing the news, rushed to see
him in jail, They scraped up all their
meager savings and engaged a lawyer
for him. The young quarry worker
pleaded not guilty to the murder
charge. He refused to vary his story an
iota from what he had originally told
Detective Palmer,

i SCIEN’ TIFIC crime detection had only

vaguely penetrated the conscious-
ness of the provincia] inhabitants of
small rural communities such as Leigh-
ton- Buzzard and Heath and Reach.
There was, therefore, much skepticism
and shaking of puzzled heads over
the methods adopted by Scotland Yard.
The mothers and fathers of Leighton
Buzzard’s young. women were still as
alarmed as they had ‘been before Stone
was charged with the Lover’s Lane
murder of Ruby Keen. They still be-
lieved that the real sex maniac was at
large. ..

Those who knew Leslie George Stone
and his family were Still convinced of
his innocence. Scotland Yard, they told
one another, was too anxious to get a
conviction. And what was to prevent
the analyst, these Same people asked
one another, from just saying that he

“had found that tiny silk thread and

those few grains of sand on Stone’s
clothing? They expressed the belief
that the Yard men might do well
to cross-examine Ruby’s Sweetheart,
young Patrick Smith, at greater length.
The controversy raged to such propor-

tions during the few weeks before

Stone was placed on trial at the Oldja
the wall instead of her.”

Bailey, in London, that young Con

Keen. His: parents, |

. The

stable Smith lost his job on the Hock.

cliffe police force.

Finally, late in June, Stone’s trial
went on. He still stuck to his original
story, and still held to his plea of not
guilty. Almost immediately the prose-
cution put in its evidence against.
Stone. The home Office analyst, Dr.
Lynch, told of his finding of the silken
thread, the grains of sand, and a fur-
ther discovery, some bristles from .
in’ the well-brushe a
knees of Stone’s trousers. :

“And these bristles,” Dr, Lynch ex-
plained, “matched Perfectly bristles:
of a clothes brush found in Stone’s
bedroom.” ete

Stone, seated in the prisoner’s dock, '
became noticeably more and more un-
easy and distraught as Dr, Lynch pro-
ceeded with his testimony. He blanched
perceptibly when the home office an-
alyst produced enlargements of the
microscopic Photographs he had made

” of the grains of sand, and of the silken

thread, and compared them with sam-
Ple grains taken from the murder
Scene, and sample threads taken from

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the murdered Ruby’s dress, They were

- identical!

Furthermore, kid ; ‘
duced, one'witness who identified Stone’.
as the mani she Had seen walking into
‘Firs with Ruby Keen the: night
before she was found lying ‘strangled

stand, he was tight-lipped and pale...
Every Person in the packed courtroom ~

leaned forward to hear his words. ss off

“I have decided,” began the young
quarry worker slowly, in reply to the
first question by his counsel, Maurice
Healy, “to tell the whole truth,”

“Were previous statements that you
made to the police the whole truth?”
asked Healy,

“No,” replied Stone flatly.

The spectators tensed. This promised
to be sensational.

Stone, nervously clasping and un-
clasping his hands, went on to describe
his meeting with the pretty blonde,
Ruby Keen, on the night of Sunday,
April 11th. He said that after making
the rounds of the public houses ‘where.
they had met by pre-arrangement,:

pe anid to the expectations of every-
one; except, Possibly,. Scotland Yard
and the Leighton.Buzzard Police, Stone
was admitting openly that he’ had
strangled Ruby Keen to death. Now he
-was trying to explain how those tell-
ftale-knee prints came to be found there
<4in'the damp, sandy soil.

“No, sir!” stated Stone emphatically,

“Did you ever try to interfere with
the girl in any way?”

“No, sir!” Stone answered again in
the same loud tone.

“And now, tell the court why you
did not tell the truth to the Police im-
mediately,”

Stone pulled nervously at the lobe
of his ear,

“T,” he replied hesitantly, “was

they started walking toward her liome * » thinking more of my family. than of

on Plantation Road. They were talking:
about old times. They had their arms“
about one another and kissed several
times.

“And did the discussion veer to an
annoying habit of Ruby’s?” queried

“Yes,” answered Stone. “Ruby had
the very annoying trick of putting both
‘her little fingers in my ears.” He dem-

tinued, “and in a sudden, blind fury I
had ‘struck at her with my fist, but
missed and connected with a stone
wall, cutting my knuckles quite badly.”
that old inci-
dent the night of April 11th?” asked
Healy. “What did you say?” he pur-
sued, as Stone nodded his head.

“I said that she was lucky I had hit

“And then what did she say?”-

“She called me a dirty devil. and hit -
me on the side of the head just below
the left ear.” tg ce eee |

“Was:it’a.gentle blow?” %

“No. Itswas a full right-arm swing.”

“What'did you do?”

“I went toward her and she struck

at me with the other hand. I made a

jump at ther. I caught’. hold. of her
scarf, I think, and ‘pulled it.”- :

“What else?”

“I think I‘ knotted it again, after
that.”

“In what state were you at this
time?” ;

“T was in a kind of rage.”

“What happened to her clothes when
you ‘caught hold of thein?”

“They all tore off of her as she was

falling.”

Tt AMAZED CROWD in the court -
“ Foom were now fully aware of the
fact that Stone admittedly thad walked
through The Firs with Ruby that
night and had not left her at the en-
trance as he had previously declared.

‘ myself.”

The defendant,. his face grey with
Strain, was then turned over for cross~
examination to Mr. Daniel O’Sullivan,
for the Prosecution. The first question
shot at the quarry worker was:

“After you had heard the evidence
about the silken thread—the grains of
sand—the creaseless trousers, wasn't
it then you came to the conclusion that
you could not continue the story you
had told up to that time?” :

Stone, like a trapped animal, glanced
first right, then left, and finally dropped
his gaze. His eply was barely audible.

“Yes,” he whispered hoarsely,

The local skeptics were at last con-

. Vinced that Inspector Barker’s scien.
tific analysis had tracked down the
culprit. ea

“And now tell us, Mr. Stone,”
continued the Prosecuting attorney,
“wasn’t it you who stripped Ruby
Keen of her clothing?” ‘

Stone vigourously denied this. He
also denied knowledge as to how there

either, he declared..

After fully Seventy-five minutes on
the witness Stand, the shaken Quarry
worker was permitted to retire to his
seat in the prisoner’s dock. The de.
fense rested, ‘

In summing up before the jury, At-
torney Healy attempted. to move the
jury to the belief that Ruby: Keen’s
death was not murder, but man-
slaughter. This brought some very
pointed comments on the subject from
the white-wigged Lord Chief Justice
Hewart, who Presided at the trial.

‘T am Puzzled,” he began, “to know
under what head of manslaughter it
is represented that this case can con-
ceivably come.” :' .

There are three types of man-
slaughter, he explained. There was
manslaughter by accident, manslaugh-
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where a man greatly provoked another
by serious personal violence. And that
was all.

Lord Hewart referred to “the ter-
rible photograph” showing’ the girl’s
condition when she was found. Could
they, he asked the jury, possibly be-
lieve that she was brought into that
state of nudity as the result of one
clutch at her clothing? Did not the in-
telligence revolt against such a sug-
gestion?

“Is it conceivable,” Lord Hewart
asked, “that a man could be so callous
as to ‘leave a a in that state for no
reason?

“If the defendant's story is true,”
the jurist continued, “he was as inno-
cent as a babe. Nothing could have
prevented him from going to a rela-
tive and saying. ‘As the result of an
accident Ruby is lying unconscious in
this lane. Go and attend to her.’

“Not a bit of it. He says nothing on
the way home to any one, or to his
mother when he gets there. A piece of

’ cake, and he goes to bed after brushing

his trousers very hard. He makes sev-
eral appearances in police court, and
all this time he had this simple, inno-
cent explanation locked in his. bosom.”
“ The jury, on which there were two
worgen, had been out only a few min-
utes when a note was sent in to the
judge. He announced later vera it had
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“Tf, asya result of an intention
to commit rape, the girl was killed,
although there was no intention
to kill her, is a man guilty of mur-
der?”

Lord Hewart, in another note, re-
plied:

“Yes; undoubtedly.”

After only twenty-five minutes of
deliberation the jury returned. The
foreman arose, and, while he delivered
the verdict, one of the two women
jurors covered her face with her hands.

“We find the defendant, Leslie
George Stone,” intoned the foreman,
“guilty of murder’ in the first degree.”

Stone, white-faced, but’ unfaltering,
rose while Lord Hewart sentenced him
to death on the gallows. He. Was aman
doomed to hang—by a silken: thread,
and a few: grains. ‘of sand,* Scotland

Yard hadagain proved the éfficacy of —

modern. ‘Grime-detection methods.
Asked by the judge if he had any-

thing ‘else to say, Stone straightened ,’

years. I had a hot dinner sent in to

- him today. I’m so glad he decided to
tell the truth. I know it will be all
right now.”

- Patrick Smith, Ruby Keen’s dapper
policeman fiancé was in court to hear
the verdict, too. He sat with his sweet-
heart’s bereaved mother, and another
daughter, Rose. With tears in, his eyes,
Smith heard the words dooming Stone
to death by hanging.

“That poor devil! Oh, that poor
ed he kept saying.

for the mothers and fathers of
eerie Buzzard, the surprising solu-
tion to the mystery of the Lover’s Lane
murder of pretty Ruby Keen did not
allay their fears for the safety of their
own daughters. For many still believe
that a sex-mad fiend is at large in the
countryside. The attacker of the little
high school girl has never been appre-
hended. Scotland Yard was called in
too late to do anything about that.

Today, once peaceful, easy-going
Leighton Buzzard is a sadly changed

his shoulders in military fashion, hie And The Firs, idyllic trysting

ted out his chin and snapped:

“No, sir!”

The shock of the verdict was most
overwhelming to Stone’s bespectacled
and grey-haired old mother and father.
Only fifteen minutes before the ver-

‘ dict was announced, the kindly-faced

Mrs. Stone had been heard to say:
“He’s been away abroad for so many

years in the army, Now I suppose I

shan’t see him again for five or six

place of Bedfordshire lads ahd lasses
for decades, has grown quite deserted.
The once clean white sandy path which

winds now through © an all but aban- ©

doned glade, is gradually becoming

overgrown with grass and weeds. Only |

an occasional bird pauses in the quiet
depths of the shadowy fir grove to
twitter a melancholy requiem over the
‘spot where life-loving Ruby Keen met
her untimely end.

MARRIAGE MEANS MURDER

(Continued from page 71)

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Dr. Du Bois had announced he woulda:

not be in his office at the usual time the:
morning he was killed. Yes, she had
been surprised, because he .was not in

office hours. No, she did not know why
he had chosen this morning to be late,
nor could she imagine anyone who
might have a grievance against the
young doctor. She. was certain that
none of his former patients bore a

. grudge against him.

There it was then. Geise hadn’t the
slightest idea where to turn first.
Neither did Tom Bryan, his partner.
But Geise had cracked cold cases be-'
fore and he wasn’t going to write this
one off as an accident until he’d gone
over the ground. Geise then visited the

scene of the shooting to see what evi-s"

dence he could uncover. ©: ~

Inch by inch he went over. «the ee

ment. After an exhaustive ‘séarch, all
he found were two small holes, in, the
kitchen floor, which had ‘been plugged
up with plastic wood. Carefully he’ re-..
moved the plugging and studied the

holes for a long time. Then he took’a_

.38 Smith and Wesson pistol from his
pocket and removed one of the-bullets. ;

Unless he was greatly mistaken, the. -

two holes in the floor had*been made
by bullets fired from.& .38 pistol. ;
And the Smith,and Wesson in his

ket was the same gun that had
ed Doctor Du Bois!

“4 Guise thumbed through the reports
the habit of absenting himself during :

of the Georgia Street men. He
found no mention of more than one
shot being fired. Moreover, when the
death gun had been turned over to the
Homicide Squad only one shell had
been fired—the one which had killed
Dr. Du Bois. Geise decided to-call on
Mrs. Du Bois.

He found her living with a friend.
She had partially recovered from the
‘shock of her son’s death, but the de-
tective felt sorry for the bereaved old
mother.

“Are you sure there was only one
shot fired, Mrs. Du Bois?” he asked.

“I’m perfectly sure,” she told him.

He asked her if she had ever seen
the Smith and Wesson before.

“Of course I have,” she replied. “That
gun was, given to my son as a present
by, the Pasadena police department

““§everal years ago. He used to ‘be. a
. police surgeon in Pasadena/’ ~

"““How can‘you be certain'this is the

‘game gun?” ‘he asked: :
“Because I have a copy of the serial

number. I put it down in a little book
when he first got it in case it was
Stolen.” She produced the book and

showed him the number,

“What made you think it might 1 be
stolen?” the investigator asked. —

“I suppose it is foolish of me, but
Charles and I always had a fear of
burglars. So many people we knew had
been robbed when they were away
from home.”

Geise nodded. Then he told her about
the bullet holes in the kitchen floor.

“My goodness!” exclaiméd the little
old lady. “I’d forgotten all about those
holes. Yes, they were made by bullets,
and I plugged up the holes with plastic
wood. One night we thought we heard
somebody prowling around outside, so
Charles fired two shots into the floor
to frighten them away.”

The detective went away. Now that
the bullet holes in the floor had been:
explained, he would have to look for
clues elsewhere. He went to Pasadena
to see if he could find any of the dead
man’s former acquaintances. He found
a lot of them, and spent days question-
ing them. For a time he made little
headway, although bit by bit he was
securing a complete description of the
moods and habits of the dead man. A
former close friend of the doctor told

-Geise:

“TI never heard of Du Bois associating
with persons younger than himself or
even persons of his own age, He was a
quiet sort of chap and always seemed

changed slides and debated their differ-
ences in private, but both sides refused to
budge an inch. They were utterly at vari-
ance over their conclusions.

But the rival scientific witnesses did have
this much in common. The girl had not
died from hanging. The most the defense
doctors could say in behalf of Thorne was
that it was conceivable the girl hed d‘ed
from shock while in the act of attempting
suicide by hanging. :

It has been argued in behalf of Thorne
that the unusual way in which he decapi-
tated the corpse is corroborative of the
hanging story, that it showed he realized
the necessity of preserving the evidence of
his innocence.

This would be all very well but for the
fact that there was indisputable evidence
that Elsie Cameron had died after a strug-
gle. Her glasses were found broken in her
suitcase and the locket she had been wear-
ing had been torn from its chain.

Moreover, Thorne was a_ student of
criminal cases. A book on pathology and
newspaper clippings of two sensational
murder cases were discovered in his hut.
In both these cases the body of the victim
had been dismembered, and Thorne had
gone to great pains to avoid making the
mistakes that had brought the criminals to
justice. f

Why, then, had he been so anxious to
preserve the neck if there had ‘been no
hanging, or attempted hanging? The
answer, surely, is this: He knew Elsie
Cameron had been suspected of suicidal
tendencies. So, when her body was
stretched out on the floor of his hut, he

simulated a death by hanging by putting
a cord around her neck, and pulling at it
with all his might.

He would not have known that post-mor-
tem marks do not remain like those made

‘during life—that strangulation after death

does not leave the traces that .are left by

strangulation that is the cause of death.
Norman Thorne was icily calm through-

out his trial. He gave evidence with all

the assurance in the world, but a man who
recites a story of dismembering his sweet-
heart’s body, and recites it with no more
show of emotion than if he had been ad-
dressing one of his Sunday School classes,
makes a bad impression on a jury. It took
the twelve good men and true who listened
to Norman Thorne rather less than half an
hour to return a verdict of willful murder.

Thorne simply staggered under the un-
expected blow. A deathly pallor settled
over his face when the square of cloth
that is called the Black Cap was draped
over the judge’s wig. He was numb as he
listened to the words of the death sentence,
“... that you be taken hence to the place
whence you came, and from there to a law-
ful place of execution, and that you shall
be hanged by the neck until you are dead,
and your body shall be buried within the
precincts of the prison.”

In the condemned cell, with his last hope
of reprieve gone, Thorne read his Bible
diligently, and his piety knew no bounds.

“The world seems bright and beautiful,”
he wrote in his farewell letter to his par-
ents, “but how much better must be the
Kingdom of Heaven to a believer! Try to
grasp the real meaning of this and your
sorrow will fade away, as mine has, in the
shadow of darkness,

“A flash and all is finished, no, not
finished; but just starting; and I shall wait
for you just' as others are waiting for me.”

A number carved on a flagstone in
Wandsworth Prison, London, marks Nor-
man Thorne’s grave.

Eprror’s Note

‘
The name Ilene Melburt, as used in
the foregoing story, is not the real name
of the person concerned. This innocent
person has been given a fictitious name
in order to protect her identity. Picture
of the perpetrator, Norman Thorne, ap-
pears on page 62.

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by HENRY JORDAN

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND, DEC. 3. 1953.

@ The “Little Old Curio Shop,”
located on a sad, sooty street hali-
way between the racetrack and
the docks of Liyerpool, England,
was a real weirdie. The shop win-
dow set the style. It was crammed
with junk and oriental tapestries.
A stuffed raven—that well-known
bird of ill omen—leered at the
passerby from its brass cage.

And if the passerby still felt
like stepping up to the entrance,
a vampire bat nailed to the ““@
gave him a second warning of
what to expect. A hand-written
notice next to the rusty bell-pult
gave the frankest hint: Ring, if
you must come in.

To set off the feeble tinkle of
the bell was no guarantee the
locked doors would open before
the visitor. All callers had to un-
dergo strict scrutiny from an eye
which pressed against the keyhole.
The eye was that of George Hugh
Walker, owner of the shop and
the building’s sole occupant.

WALKER was even more weird -

than the shop. He was past 80,
less than five feet tall, with spi-
dery arms and legs, rigged out as
a fashion plate of 1900. Some
people felt he was a blight to the
neighborhood. Such a crochety,
grasping old man was nobody’s
friend! On the other hand, he was
on the chummiest terms with the
world of the supernatural, for he
was fully dedicated to all sorts of
devil lore and to the hocus-pacus
of sorcery. On some nights visi-
tors could (Continued on page 68)

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continued from page 33

be seen slipping into the house. Behind the
blinds uncertain lights kept flickering, while—
and the neighborhood was dead sure of this—
hideous voodoo rites were being enacted.
Even though Walker did have an inside
track with the diabolical, he never seeméd to
have suspected the end that was in store for
him. :
. Some time, during the bleak afternoon of
Wednesday, January 14, 1953, someone
slipped past the eye at the keyhole. Thirty-
two brutal hatchet wacks later, old George

Hugh Walker was well on the long road from -
which no witchcraft or magic could bring a

man back.

~The crime was discovered in an ordinary
enough manner. The growling and whining of
Walker’s dog, Scottie, got on the neighbors’
nerves. Police were told about it. When they
got to the Curio Shop at 9 p.m. the next day,
they found the house plunged in. darkness.
Scottie, sticking his head through a freshly
broken side window, was howling. Bobbies
rammed the door with their shoulders, plunged
inside the vestibule, and stumbled over Walk-
er’s body.

Liverpool’s Chief of Detectives Herbert R. -

Balmer, the county medical examiner, and half
a dozen inspectors, arrived at the scene a few
minutes later. ae

Walker lay spread-eagled in a pool of blood.
Nearby was an ax with a split handle, and
th ad man’s bowler hat, bashed in and

bid . Walker’s head had been hammered 32
times. Rigor mortis was complete. The
medical examiner, Dr. Charles St.-Hill, esti-
mated the murder had been committed from
24 to 36 hours earlier.

- The detectives examined the tiled floor and
found the imprints of a wavy pattern. The
killer had obviously worn rubber-soled shoes.

From the vestibule the detectives extended
their search to the rest of the ground floor.
They had to. make their way through a maze
of passages carved in piles of the curio shop’s
wares—a collection of furniture, books,. statu-
ettes, stuffed animals, gas fixtures, wooden
stags’ heads and radios. And clocks. Walker
must have had a mania for them. There were
dozens of them around, old-fashioned pendu-
lums, cuckoo and grandfather clocks of every
size—all ticking away relentlessly.

There were more clocks and more junk on

the second floor, which also accommodated
the few comforts Walker had required: wash-
ing and cooking facilities, and a bed in a dark
corner.

Chief Balmer picked up a .paper-bound
booklet from a chair. It was titled High
Miagic’s Aid. It was an introduction to what
seemed to have been the old man’s brand of
voodoo. Balmer picked up a line here and
there. ;

“Present-day sorcerers don’t use the fat of
a murdered babe, the slime of a toad, or the
eyeSeof a frog in concocting their brews.
BH «i has kept in step with modern
times”. . . Orgiastic dancing in the Magic
Circle leads to supernatural power. The cere-
mony starts with incantations to the Spirit of
Feil. The dances are performed in the nude.
‘The human body is surrounded by a mag-

netic field which can only exert its full power
when the body is in a state of complete
nudity . .. Only when the chants and dances
reach the pitch of orgiastic ecstasy do the
age-old secrets of Black Magic reveal them-
selves to the initiated... .”

TJlustrating this was—according to the cap-
tion—the photograph of a nude young witch,

- hair flying, at the height of “diabolical frenzy.”

The pamphlet wound up exhorting its
readers to band together in “hell-fire clubs.”

DETECTIVES had difficulty in picturing

Walker, with his gout-swollen joints,
taking part in the frolics of a hell-fire club,
except as a foot-tapping bystander. But what-
ever he had done mattered little now. The

“question was, did his interest in the evil cult

have something to do with the murder ?

There was still the vast backyard to be
searched. It was heaped with tons of rotting
junk,. ranging from baby carriages to bath-
tubs. The one item that suggested a con-
nection with the murder was a lady’s bicycle
the detectives found hidden behind the shrub-

_bery. It was painted green and was fairly

new. Draped on its handlebars was a com-

plete set of female clothing—coat, cardigan,

flowered skirt and underwear. Had
“witch” changed costumes there?

Could this be a woman’s crime? Balmer was
doubtful. Only man could hit as hard and as
often as this killer had. Perhaps he had ar-
rived disguised as a woman and left as: a
man, to give witnesses and police a run-
around.

Balmer hurried. the mopping-up job at
the murder scene. The green bike, the ax
handle, and all surfaces the killer might have
touched were dusted for fingerprints. The
effort was wasted. There weren’t any finger-

some

prints.

By examining the layers of dust blanket-
ing everything in the house, detectives tried
to get an idea whether or not the place had
been ransacked. It hadn’t.

There was also the broken window to con-
sider. It couldn’t have been broken during a
fight between the killer and the old man,
because all the glass fragments had fallen
inside the room, indicating that a blow struck
from the outside had shattered the pane. The
opening, however, wasn’t large enough for a
person to squeeze through.

Actually it was just about Scottie’s size, big
enough for the dog to make his way through
and announce that his master had been
murdered. :

By dawn, the detectives were ready to
find out what neighborhood witnesses had
to tell.

It developed that Walker had last been seen
alive on Wednesday at 2:15 p.m., cleaning
the very window which was broken later.

According to another witness, a man had
tried to get into the shop at 4 p.m., Wednes-
day. He had rung the bell and, not getting
an answer, had stepped back, looked up at
the windows, and then plunged into the
covered porchway again. There. the witness
had. Jost track of the visitor, who was de-
scribed as a slender man of 30, medium-
height, wearing a tan gabardine raincoat.

That was all the detectives were able to
find out. Their questions about a woman caller
riding a green bike got no response.

That left the bike itself as a means of
identification. Its-make was Raleigh. But the
serial number corresponded to none of the 17

Raleighs reported to police as stolen. The
manufacturer stated the bicycle had_ been
shipped. to a Liverpool dealer. One more
phone call, and the police had the dope on
the purchaser. Her name was Laura Weeks.
Detectives rushed to question her.

“My bicycle is in the shed back of the
house,” she said, brassily. She was a big,
muscle-bound woman who looked like she
could give a man 32 whacks and never lose
her breath.

“Are these yours?” one of the detectives
asked, pointing to a pair of boxing gloves on
the table. :

Laura nodded. “I have a workout twice a
week to build. up my biceps,” she’ explained.
“In my line a lassy has to have a hard punch.”
She explained that she was a barmaid in.a
waterfront tavern.

“Maybe you're interested in black magic,”
the other detective suggested.

“Black magic—what’s that?”

“Witchcraft,” the detective said. “You
know—the evil eye, black masses and love
potions.” :

“Say,” she boomed. “If I knew of a good
love potion I wouldn’t be jerking beer for a
living.” :

She, added that she had never been near the
Old’ Curio Shop.

““Let’s have a look at your bike now,” the

detective: said.

[Auk led the way to the shed. When
"~ they got there, she took one look at the
door and spoke some choice waterfront curses.
“Some bloody scoundrel must have snipped
off the padlock,” she said. She pulled open
the door. Her bike was gone. She turned and
looked at the detectives and the detectives
asked her to come to headquarters and explain.

“When were you in the shed last?” Balmer
asked her there.

“In October, when I put the bike away for
the winter,” Laura said.

“Put on this coat,” Balmer said. It was the
one which had been found with other apparel
in old man Walker’s backyard. The coat
might have fitted any number of hefty . girls
but when Laura forced her shape into it, the
seams were strained to the limit. “This is the
size my rompers used to be,” she jeered.

It all depended on how good or bad her
alibi was. She claimed to have worked at the
pub from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. that Wednesday
and then gone straight home. “Alone,” she
added sadly.

Detectives checked. The pub owner- and
customers readily confirmed the. statement.
That took the heat off Laura and turned it
full blast on the bicycle thief. Balmer as-
signed ten detectives to the job of finding him.

“Try the girl’s neighborhood first,” he in-
structed them. “Chances are he lives close
enough to have known what was in the shed.”

The puzzle of the broken window kept
Balmer worrying. There was more to it, per-
haps, than met the eye. Had the 4 p.m: caller
in the gabardine coat done the damage?

Neighbors were questioned again. Had they
ever seen a man of about 30 wearing such a
coat P :

A housewife said she had. “A week before,
Thursday or Friday. He was a pale, sickly-
looking fellow,” she said.

A shoemaker who worked. in the house next
to Walker’s had seen nothing on the day of
the murder. But he had _ heard something—
two things, as a matter of fact. Boys’ shouts

Did you know the owner, George Hugh
Walker? Had you ever spoken to him? Do
you know anyone who went to the shop or
was on friendly terms with the owner? Did
you send any clothes to the dry cleaners after
January 14, 1953? Where were you between
9 aM. January 14°and 10 p.m. January 15?

As each questionnaire came in it was im-

mediately cross-checked with information on

file. It wouldn’t have done a man any good
to deny he’d had a-suit cleaned after Janu-
ary 14. Police had a customer list supplied by
the city’s dry cleaners and the data had to
match—or else. Anybody disputing he had
known Walker would. be in trouble, too, if
his ‘neighbors’ questionnaires had him down
as a visitor to the shop. As all statements were
made on oath, the harmless-looking list of
questions had real teeth in them.

The forms flooded in at the rate of 3000 a
day. In the very first batches were statements
from several people who had attended Walker's
witching parties. But the black magic boys
were discretion personified. Orgies? What

nonsense. The gatherings had been dedicated ;

to the discussion, not the practice of the
Black Arts. One straight-faced witness as-
sured Balmer that Walker had been quite a
wizard at calling down evil or injury on
people, “but hardly ever used _ this power.”

THE questionnaires continued. By Janu-

-ary 25—eleven days after the murder—
the 18,000 mark was passed. One of the office
staff, Inspector C. McAllister, drew Balmer’s
attention to Questionnaire No. 18,245. It was
signed by a 22-year-old movie usherette named
Iris Tucker.

“Tris knows that clock repairer, John
Todd,” the inspector pointed out. “She says
he lost his gabardine coat. According to the
statement he made, he still has all his clothing.”

“Bring this Miss Tucker in,” Balmer ordered.

She was an attractive, slender girl with a
mass of dark, shoulder-length hair. She an-
swered questions with ease and assurance.
She had known John Todd for 16 months.
He had been anxious to marry her. She
liked him but was in no hurry.

What about the gabardine coat?

Well, the other day John had gone to the.

docks to look for work. He had left the-coat
in a hut at Sandon Dock. When he looked

for -it later it was gone. He reported the |

theft to the harbor police. “I’m glad he got
rid. of it,” Iris said, laughing. “It was so old
and shabby.”

“Did Todd ever mention Walker?” Balmer
asked.

“Once or twice. The old man gave him the
creeps. He was always talking about how he
could put curses on people.”

“Did Todd ever get paid for his repair
work?” Balmer asked.

“No. But Mr. Walker had promised to give
him a radio and a ring for me. John thought
he would have the things by Wednesday, but
the old man put him off. Then we read in the
‘paper he had been murdered.”

Balmer looked hard at the girl. “I think
Todd murdered George Hugh Walker.”

Iris swallowed hard. “That boy wouldn’t
harm a fly,” she said, softly. “If I felt he had
done something wrong I would tell you.”

Balmer picked up the Phone and asked for ~

the harbor police. Had a youth named John
Todd reported the theft of a gabardine coat
within the last nine or ten days?

The answer was no.

When Balmer mentioned the discrepancy to
Iris, she shrugged. “I’m sure he can explain.”

Balmer now put -Todd on the carpet.

“I only talked to an officer on the beat,”

the young man explained. “Iris has got me

wrong.”

That was possible. But why had he stated
to the police that he still had all his clothes
when he hadn’t? Todd had an answer for
that one, too. :

“I lost the coat the day after I was
questioned.” C

“Take your shoes off,’ Balmer ordered.

Todd smiled sheepishly. “They’re the only
pair I have.” P

“Never mind. We'll lend you some.”

The shoes were rubber-soled. The lab test
for blood marks was negative. But the fact
remained that the soles matched the wavy
footprint pattern found at the murder scene.

Balmer lent Todd a suit as well and sent
the one he had had on his back, and one
from home, to the laboratory. An hour later
the experts phoned to say that one outfit
showed traces of blood which had been partly
washed off. The blood wasn’t Todd’s type,
but Walker’s—group O. Todd was asked to
explain.

“The old man had a nosebleed,” he said.
“When I tried to help him, he kind of fell on
me. I didn’t say anything about it before be-
cause I was afraid of being suspected.”

It was very slim evidence on which Todd
was charged with the murder. But it made
all the difference when, after a week of sort-
ing through tons of junk at the curio shop,
detectives found a gabardine coat hidden in a
barrel. The coat, identified as Todd’s was
heavily stained with blood of the O group.

“When I told you about the nosebleed the
-old man had,” Todd explained, “I should
have mentioned that I didn’t lose my coat at
the docks. It had gotten blood-stained too. I
didn’t walk out with it for fear...”

He never finished the sentence. Balmer did

it for him. “. . . for fear of being caught. A '

mere nosebleed wouldn’t have worried you.”

Todd went on trial April 9, 1953. He was
smiling and confident. Iris expressed her firm
belief in his innocence. The prosecutor never
attempted to outline a probable motive: rob-
bery that didn’t come off ; a quarrel over pay
between Walker and Todd; Todd’s super-
stitious fears of Walker’s wizardry. .

The jury must have done some simple
figuring. Somebody had given Walker. 32
whacks, and Todd had been in an excellent
position to do it. So’ the verdict was guilty
and that meant death on the gallows.

Tris went home and put away the plates
and silver she had Jaid out for a dozen guests
in her dining room. The day before the trial
she had become engaged to Todd. She had
confidently planned. to announce it at a din-
ner celebrating Todd’s acquittal.

Todd’s attorneys appealed, produced evi-
dence that he was psychiatrically unbalanced,
and actually managed to get several postpone-
ments of the execution. But it was to no avail.
At 9:05 a.m. December 3, 1953, a notice was
posted outside the prison gates, as customary,
that the sentence had been carried out.

Evitor’s. Note: The names Laura Weeks,
Roger Moore and Adrian May are not the
actual names of the persons who were in fact
.barticipants in the incidents described in this
article. The names are used to avoid embar-
rassment to these innocent people.

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and simultaneously, the sharp clatter of break-
ing glass. He put the time at 3:10 P.M.

The boys had to be found. If they hadn’t
smashed the window, maybe they could tell
who had. Balmer addressed an appeal to

* parents and schoolteachers, asking them to

help find the youngsters.

Early. the next morning a high school prin- |

cipal phoned the police. He was sending over
one of the boys, a, 14-year-old named Roger
Moore. Roger admitted he had broken the

window. “It was an accident,” he said. “I -

was playing ball and it hit the window.”

“What happened to the ball?” Balmer
asked.

The boy bit his lip. “It . . . it bounced back.”

The boy was lying. Fragments of glass had
flown into the room as far as eight feet. What-
ever had hit the window had hit it hard. The
ball would have bounced into the room, if
anywhere, and Balmer made this clear to the
boy.

“But the man in the curio shop gave it back
to me,” Roger insisted.

ALKER wouldn’t have done anything of
YY the sort. He was an old scrooge who
would -have yelled bloody murder. But he
obviously hadn’t yelled. Because at that time—
3:10 p.m., he was either dead or just being
killed.
Balmer ordered cops to pick up the boy
Roger said had been with him at the time.
The boy was Adrian May, also 14 and also
insistent. He not only covered up for Roger’s
lies but he went his chum one better. He
swore that the incident had taken place a day
later, Thursday, by which time Walker had
definitely been dead. . ,
Exasperated detectives visited the- boys’
homes, seized clothing for laboratory tests and
questioned neighbors and teachers. The boys’
reputations weren’t good. They were well-
known as brawlers and troublemakers. No-
body put it past them to have killed Walker
as he scolded them for breaking the window.
Juvenile delinquency officers joined Balmer
now. When the boys were told of the sus-

picions against them, they broke down. They

swore to tell the whole truth. But even so
they couldn’t agree on the date, one sticking
to Wednesday, the other to Thursday—an
honest mistake, maybe.

. Roger now admitted he had bashed in the
window with a stick. “Accidentally,” he said
as he wiped a tear from his eye.

“No, out of spite,” said Adrian, blowing
his nose.

Why spite?

Well, Adrian said, because the old man
had given them a run-around. They had
wanted to buy a radio they’d seen in the
window. “Come back tomorrow,” Walker
had told them. That was Tuesday. Next day,
Roger returned alone at 2:30 p.m. This time
the man called him a “lousy brat,” told him
the radio was not for sale, and slammed the
door in his face.

Both boys wefe mad as the dickens. They
made for the store later. It was then that
Roger smashed the window.

‘Despite the contradictions, their story
sounded plausible. Once the lab report came
through it seemed to be the only possible
version. The boys’ shoes didn’t match the
crepe sole pattern on the hall floor, and their
clothing was free from any blood traces. The
boys were in the clear. .

Balmer coyldn’t helfy-but wonder why Walk-

er had given Roger such a rough welcome on
his second visit. “You’re certain it was the
same man you had talked to the day before?”

“I’m certain,” Roger replied.

“Describe him.”

According to the boy, Walker had had a long
pointed nose, was six feet tall and was about
30 years old.

Thirty !

Balmer shook his head. Obviously, the
boys had been dealing with another man al-

together, at a time when Walker was still .

alive.

Balmer arranged a line-up of ten detec-
tives resembling the stranger’s description,
then asked the boys to pick the one showing
the greatest resemblance to the man they had
seen in the shop. They made their choice.
Balmer next. sent for the housewife who had
seen the caller in the gabardine coat. This
time all ten detectives were dressed in gab-
ardine coats. When asked to pick, the woman
hesitated between two. One of the two was
the boy’s choice. He was a*man five feet 11
inches tall, 30 years old, dark-haired and
thin-featured, and with a long pointed nose.

In a newspaper appeal Balmer asked the
man in the gabardine coat to get in touch
with the police. He did. He said he had tried
to enter the curio shop on Wednesday, mid-

afternoon. But he denied having spoken to -

Roger and Adrian, a fact which the boys
readily confirmed, .

That two different men were involved, was
made clear by a tearful old lady who came
to: Balmer’s office. She was Mary Eliza Walk-
er, the victim’s sister. She had spent nearly
30 years in the United States, in California,
but she was living in London now. She had
only just found out about her brother’s mur-
der, she said, “because I haven’t read the
newspapers in days.” She sobbed. “I visited
him only the Friday before his death.”

Had he had any callers that day?

Yes, Miss Walker said; a clock repairman.
A timid man in his early thirties. He, too,
was wearing a gabardine coat. He had been
working on a grandfather clock and was sched-
uled to finish the job. some. other day. She
didn’t know his name or anything about him.

Nor did she know if her brother had had -

any enemies—or friends—in witchcraft circles.
On the other hand she was able to clear up
the question: Had robbery prompted the
murder? On her last visit, she said, her brother
had shown her his hiding place for valuables.
It was a stuffed tiger's head. The tiger’s
mouth opened when a concealed button was
pressed. :

Balmer accompanied Miss Walker ‘to the
curio shop. The tiger’s jaw was made to
disgorge a small amount of cash, some antique
jewelry, and a dozen old-fashioned gold and
silver watches. Miss Walker was sure nothing
was missing.

The detective told her how anxious he was
to get hold of the clock repair man. Didn’t
she overhear anything in the shop that might
shed some light on his identity?

She shook her head, then remembered
that the repairman had wanted to buy an
old console: radio from her brother. Walker
had said that the next time the repairman
came he would lend him a handcart so he
could wheel the large radio home. Which
meant the man must live within walking
distance !

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# ON LONG ISLAND, N. Y., one night re-

ently, brothers Perry and Donald King .

ot into a fight with Barney Hughes, a
nan from Missouri. According to wit-
esses (one of.them, Hughes’ wife, is
ictured above being questioned by a re-
orter), Perry aimed a shotgun he was
oting at Hughes and shouted, “All
ight, let’s shoot it out!” He-was to be
orry—as can be seen in picture below
1 which two cops carry him to an am-

ulan he story goes that Hughes
idn’t rk much of the threat, that he

stepped back and shook his head as if to
say, “You poor little boys.” Well, this

‘got the King brothers even madder and

one of them allegedly slapped Hughes’
wife. This did it. Hughes stepped for-
ward now, reached for a gun of his own
and began to fire. One bullet smashed
into Perry’s leg. Another grazed Donald’s
neck. The cops and the crowds arrived a
few minutes later and one person said
later that he thought he heard Perry
King mutter, “And I wanted to shoot
it out,” as they carried him away.

the watch repairman walked into his office and
introduced himself.

“My name is John Todd. I’m the fellow who
did the repair work at Mr. Walker’s, J thought
you might want to talk to me.”

‘The man was a sad comment on how much
stock you can put. in eyewitnesses, He was
nearer to 20 than 30. His nose was long, but
bulbous rather than pointed.

He was not a‘ professional clock. mender,
though timepieces were his hobby. He had
known the victim from childhood on. “When
my mother was a young girl,” he said, “she
took dancing lessons from the Walkers—they
had a school then in the house where the curio
shop is now.”

Todd then recalled the two young boys’
visits to the shop. He said he had merely
carried out Walker’s order when he sent the
boys packing.

Half an hour after young Roger’s call, at
2:30 P.M., Wednesday, Todd had left the
curio shop. As far as he knew, Walker hadn’t
expected a caller. Todd had an alibi for the
rest of the afternoon. He had been down to
the docks to look for work. This was cor-
roborated by a dock foreman Balmer con-
tacted on the phone.

“Just one more thing,” Balmer said. “Do
you still have all the clothing which you wore
that day?” ;

Todd said he had, and that was that.

DETECTIVEs hunting the bicycle thief,
meanwhile, had_ picked’ up a curious bit

Henry Johnson whose neighbors suspected
him of stealing women’s clothing from back-
yard clothes lines for reasons of sex fetishism.
Because of the items which had been found

cided to investigate.

When they got to his place, Johnson tried
to climb out the window. He was nabbed,
however, and he broke into wild gibberish.
Though nobody had accused him, he kept
Protesting wildly that he was innocent of
the Walker murder. A search of his lodgings
showed that he had not only been hoarding
Stolen clothing, but he’d been hoarding stolen
bicycles as well. ‘There were two of them
around, in the process of being doctored.

Asked about the green Raleigh, Johnson
admitted the theft. “I hid it in Mr. Walker’s
junkyard because I thought nobody would
look there,” he said. “Then the old man was
done in and I was in a fix. I wanted to turn
myself in, but I was too. frightened of getting
mixed up with the murder. Now I’m glad you
came. I was going crazy with worry.”

Balmer checked -on the man. Johnson’s
extremely small shoe size was particularly in
his favor. He was a panty-raider and bicycle
thief, for which he would be tried, but the
available evidence made it impossible to con-
nect him with Walker’s murder.

Balmer had run out of suspects.

His last resort was an old Scotland Yard

‘technique: to get statements from everybody,

house by house, Street by street, even in a
city as large as Liverpool with its 900,000
men, women and children.

Balmer had _ thousands of questionnaires
printed, assigned 100 detectives to take them
from door to door, and set up an office staff
to check and cross-index all answers,

The questions sounded deceptively mild.
Some of them were: Do you know the Old

Curio Shop? Have you been inside the shop?

of information. It was about a man named:

draped on the green bike, the detectives de-

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MOTHER OF SORROW _. :

@ “HE KICKED ME. He began hitting me with a kitchen pot, hard—and over the head.
I begged him—I begged him to stop. I screamed at him and I was crying.” Then Mrs.
Anita Arredondo (right) picked up a paring knife and plunged it into her husband’s
chest. He died almost immediately. The Cambridge, Mass., woman, mother of six
children, is shown with police matron Louise Nelson Darling during questioning. “I
“just couldn’t take it any more,” Mrs. Arredondo said. “He was as brutal with the
children as he was with me. It just wasn’t any way to bring them up—beating them
all-the time. They learned to hate him.” She is being -held pending charges.

: 2
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YES, THAT’S HIM

“YES, THAT ONE— he put me here,” she sobbed, Mrs. Catherine Zimmerman points
2 the man she accuses of having assaulted her. He is Henry Anderson (third from

mt) who was once her landlord. Already facing trial on charges of assault with
intent to rape and assault with intent to murder, growing ‘out of an attack ‘on Mrs.
Zimmerman a few months before, the Chicago man allegedly ambushed Mrs. Zim-
merman this time as she entered her place of employment. He pulled out a gun and

fired several bullets into her leg and hip. Beside the victim is Police Captain Louis:

12 Posschl; right with bow tie is States’ Attorney Lewis Manilow and an officer.

The cleanup
spot

OFF A DEAD MAN'S CHEST—Grady
Mallory, 24-year-old boat painter, was sen-
tenced in Mobile, Ala., to ten years in prison
for the slaying of Sidney Lyons Metcalfe

Mallory: the charge was manslaughter.

during a wine-drinking bout at a lonely .
Mobile River shack (42 Holes In A Dead
Man’s Chest, November FRONT PAGE, 1953).
Mallory had been indicted for first degree
murder, but the 12 jurors reduced the
charge to manslaughter.

SCARED—William A. Braddock, 33-
year-old father of five small children,
pleaded guilty in Winston-Salem, N. C., to
the killing of Mrs. Frances Mitchell (Scared
| Silly, February FRONT PAGE, 1954). The
plea, accepted by the state, ruled out the
chance that Braddock would go to the gas
chamber for the crime. He was given a
mandatory life sentence.

STRIPPER AND THE BABY—Mrs.
Tommie Dene Doughty, 17-year-old former
carnival strip teaser, was sentenced in
Muskogee, Okla., to 21 years in federal
prison. She had pleaded guilty to kidnaping
five-month-old Richard Lee Stammer at
Evansville, Ind., and carrying him to Bok-
chito, Okla. (... And Baby Makes Three,
February FRONT PAGE, 1954). She will be
eligible for parole after serving one-third of
the sentence, seven years, providing she
makes a good record behind bars.

TERROR’S END — Alfred Charles
Whiteway, 22-year-old father of two chil-
dren, was hanged in London, England, for
raping and murdering two teenage girls
whose bodies he threw into the River
Thames (Terror On The Towpath, January
FRONT PAGE, 1954) Whiteway’s victims were
16-year-old Barbara Songhurst and 18-year-

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EXCISE.

502

1805, Standish O’Grad
1831. Henry Joy. 6J
1838. Stephen Woulfe. 20 July.

1840. Maziere Brady. 11 Feb,

1846. David Richard Pigott; 1 Sept., died 22 Dec. 187
1874. Christopher Palles, Jan.

The last of the chief barons.
EXCISE. The

y (aft. viscount Guillamore) 5 Oct.
an.

system was established in
England by the Long Parliament in 1643, duties
being levied on wines, beer, &c., and tobacco, to
support the army against Charles I. It was con-
tinued under Charles IT, Sir Robert Walpole’s
ps for extending the excise and introducing the
onding system was withdrawn througk vehement
Opposition in 1733. Farming the excise duties led
to many evils, see Smegglers. Bonded warehouses
for the temporary storage of exciseable goods,
authorised in 1802, were begun in 1823. The
system was modified in 1882. Bonds for the pay-
ment of the duties are entered into by the imperters.
The old excise office was built on the site of Gres-
ham college in 1774; the present is at Somerset-
house. The excise de
revenue transferred to t
combined departments to
customs and excise, 1 April, 1909. The officers of
excise and customs were deprived of their votes fur
returning members to arliament in 1782; but
received them again in 1868 In 1849 the boards of
excise, stamps and taxes, were united, as ‘“‘the board
of commissioners of inland revenue.” Notwithstand-
ing the abolition of the excise duty upon numerous
articles, and the reduction of duty upon various
others, of late years, the total excise revenue, so far
from having decreased, has progressively advanced
(1847 and 1861 excepted) in its aggregate annual
amount. Additional excise duties were charged by
17 & 18 Viet. ¢. 27, July 3,.1854. The excise duties
were further modified in 1860-94; see Revenue.

REVENUE FROM EXCISE,
Great Britain.

e Board of customs, the
be called the Board of

artment of the inland |

The emperor of France, the ki
others, were virtuall
by name) on accoun
Romagna by Sardinia ‘ .

Father Geo. Tyrrel, b. 1861, excommun
account of his criticism of ;
encyclical ‘‘Pascendi,” condemning modernism, ioe

EXECUTIONS, see Crime. In the reign of
Henry VIII. (38 years) it is said that no lew @
number than 72,000 criminals were executed. Stew,
In the ten years between 1820 and 1830, there were
executed in England alone 797 criminals; but as oer
laws became less severe, the number of executions
decreased. In the three years ending 1820, the
executions in England and Wales amounted

ng of Sardinia, and —
t of the annexation of the

icated on

rally at Tyburn) was in front of N
to 1868, when an act w.
tions to take pl

ewgate from 1y#j
as passed directing exeew
ace Within the walls of prisons. The
dissection of the bodies of executed persons wae
abolished in 1832, see Death, 1868,

John Calcraft, born 1800, executioner for London, si

1871, died 13 Dec. 1879; his successor, Wm. cup
died 4 Sept. 1883; he was succeeded by Berry; :
to have resigned March, 1892 ; Jas. Billington, in pihee
died 15 Dec. r901; succeeded by his son &e
appointment is now made to the office of executionmes
the employment of the individual resting with tt
high sheriff in each case . . . i
executions in England 1850; 12, 186076, 1870;
1880 ; 16, 1890; 18, 1894; 10, 1893; 14, 2¢004 @
1902 ; 25, 1903; 18, 1904 ; 17, 1G05 ; 8, 1906; 80 SyMihy
12, 1908.

EXECUTIONS OF REMARKABLE CRIMINALA®
[m. = murder] :

Gunpowder plot conspirators, Digby, R. Winter,

Grant, and Bates, 30 Jan.; T. Winter, Rookwood,

Keys, and Fawkes, 31 Jan. ; Henry Garnett, jesuits wa

idee -
John Felton, m. of duke of Buckingham 28 No®. nd
James, duke of Monmouth, treason. 15 July, z
Charnock, King, and Keys, 18 March; sir Joba 5

Friend, and sir Wm. Perkins (‘assassinaties

il SES
Capt. Wm. Kidd and three others, piracy 23 wer,
James, earl of Derwentwater, and William, earl

1744. - 43:754,072 | 1880 to Mar. 31. $25,218,303
1786 51540,114 | 1890 »”» ” 24,160,000
1808. 19,867,914 1900 ,, 99 3713351542
1820 . - » 26,364,702 , IQOr sk »> 38,397,414
1827 (United |. 290% -.,, » 36,794,499

Kingdom) 20,995,324 1903 » »» 371414,767
1830. , 18,644,335 1904 ,, ,, 36,946, 387
1834 16,877,292 | rg05 as 1» 36,065,673
1837 14,518,142 1906, 1» 35,602,851
1840 12,607,766 1907 ,, —,, 355793,689
1850 , + + 15,278,208 , 1908 ra 19 35,720,000
1860 to Mar. 3r. 20,240,467 | 1909 v9 99 33,650,coo
1870 re »» 21,879,238 | 1910 bs 39 31,032,000

Kenmure, rebellion ; Tower-hill 24 Feb.
John Price, hangman ; m., Bunhill-row au pepe:
Jack Sheppard, thief ; Tyburn 16

Richard Turpin, highwayman ; York 7 or 10 Bere
Lord Balmerino and others, rebellion ed
Lord Lovat, rebellion; the last execut

beheading. Tower-hill) . . Sy a
R. W. Vaughan, first forger of Bank notes ot *
Eugene Aram, murder; York

EXCLUSION BILL (to exclude the duke of
York, afterwards James II., from the throne), was
passed by the commons, but rejected by the lords in
1680. The revival of the question led to the disso-
lution of parliament in 1681.

ce XCOMMUN ICATIO

N, orseparation from
aristlan communio

n (Matt. xviii. 17; 1 Cor, v.,
&c.), was instituted to preserve the purity of the
church. ‘I'he Roman church excommunicated by
Bell, Book, and Candle (which see). See Interdict.

Gregory VII. excommunicated the emperor
Henry IV., and absolved his subjects from
their allegiance

1077
Innocent III. exco

mumunicated John of England,

placing the country under an interdict 1208-14

Gregory IX. excommunicated the emperor
Frederick II. four times between . ‘

» 1228-45
Louis XII. of France was excommunicated by
Julius IL, r310; Luther by Leo X. rsar; Henry

VIII. of England

in 1535; and
Elizabeth by Pius V.

by Paul III.
. 25 April, 1570

6A
Earl Ferrers, murder of his steward ; Tye Mar. *
Theodore Gardelle, murder ; Haymarket 4 ont a
John Perrott, fraudulent bankrupt. ‘ mt ‘Det a
J. M‘Naughten, m. of Miss pau ; acrrepeia’
Elizabeth Brownrigg, m. 0 apprentice . é
Daniel and Robert Retinen., wine merchants, or eat
Tyburn . : ‘ : : scalk is
Rev. Dr. Dodd, found guilty of forging a ‘ ‘oe
the name of lord Chesterfield for snes
highest influence was exerted to save —_ he
when the case came before the coumrE ~
minister of the day said to George a bene
your majesty pardon Dr. Dodd, you wi Jom of
murdered the Perreaus ;” Tyburn : 27 poem
Rev. Henry Hackman, murder of Miss Reay, pe oF
tress of earl of Sandwich ; Tyburn : 1) dose
Capt. John Donellan, murder of sir Th Ape,
Boughton; Warwick . .. oben
Christian Murphy (or Bowman), a woman ; . March, ead
and burnt for coining A ee jan OF
R. Parker and others, mutiny at the Nore, 3°

wr,
Mrs. Phepoe, celebrated murderess; Old oe st

a SSEeroee re
* For some other executions, see England, *
189!-41-45-83 ; and Oates’s Plot.

y excommunicated (but nog a

=
4

29 March, afte

pope Pius X.g =

312; in the three years ending 1830, they wery
178; in the three years ending 1840, they" were &,
The place of execution in London (formerly geaite -

<P kentianane.

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HAYDN’S DICTIONARY

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RELATING TO ALL AGES AND NATIONS

BY
JOSEPH HAYDN

AND

BENJAMIN VINCENT

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EXECUTIONS,

ance, the kin
‘ually excomn
count of the

eee
$$

& of Sardinia, and
lunicated (but not
annexation of the
29 March, 1860

CUTIONS.

Sir Edward ¢
Messrs. Shea
Galloping Dick, hig!
Governor Jose

resbie, high treason - T
h treason ; Dubl
yman ; Aylesbury,

1, b. 186r, excommun murder of Serjea

of pope Pius X's
emning modernism,
NS, see Crime. In
years) it is said th
0 criminals were exe
tween 1820
ad alone 797
evere, the number

ey, m. of twe females :
m. of wife and child:

PUA tiny wibinniec

the reign of
at no less a
cuted. Stow,
and 1830, there were
als; butas our
of executions
ing 1820, the
amounted to
30, they were

gh treason; Horse.

John Hatfield (an impostor
of the most odi

murder of Mr.
spectators of
th, and num-

years ending 18
ears ending 1}
tion in Lond
‘sin Sront of
ict was passe

zhis execution y
vers were pressed, m

aimed and wou
7 Simmons, the man

of blood, murder ;
on (formerly gene-

gate from 1783
d directing execu-
alls of prisons. The
ecuted persons was

7 March, 1808
bell, murder of capt. Boyd in

spt. Sutherland, m.
Armitage, for
J Bellinghar, m. of Mr.
Philip Nicholson, murd
Bennenden-heath

rencis Tuite, m. of Mr.

; Execution dock
ery; Old Bailey
Perceval: Old Bailey,
ler of Mr. and Mrs,
300, executione °
79; his sucece
he was succe
reh, 1892; Ja

r for London, 1828-
ssor, Wm. Marwood,
eded by Berry ; said
Ston, in 1894;

: ‘ R 23 Aug. 38,
Goulding ; Dublin a Oct
er of Mr. Merry ;

i . ‘ 2 April, 1814
". Sawyer, m. of Jack Hacket ; Old B ,

made to the of > administering poison

tice of execution
the individua

? l _ one the shiman, Spa-fields riots ;
19, 1865: 6 ses Lyag family,
T4, IG00; 22, ” three Ashcerofts, father
745 5 8, 1906 ; 10, 1907; ines cat

ers, high treason ;
murder of Mr.

Derby, 7 Nov.
keeper; Bennenc

Bird and his pee oe 1818 | ,, Steat cruelty ; Liverpool
March, 1820

REMARKABLE CRIMINALS, *

anley ; Limerick, 16

Jan. : T. Winter, it, J. Ings, J. Day

Chistlewood, P
Garnett, jesuit ;

Pid (see Cuto-s
ihr Thomas Caleraft,
28 Nov. 1628
- 15 July, 1685

uth, vavasul
xeys, 18 March
assassination

- 3 April, 1696
23 May, 1704

stah Cadman, fe
>. Gr enwood, hig
v. Th irtell, m. o

orgery ; Old Bailey

2e others piracy ;
‘a ] Cc} V » r( -
iter, and William, tice es
1 hor se-stealing :

‘2
e of Thurtell’s

24 Feb. 1716 he becaine a

21 May, 1718
. 16 Nov. 1724
7 Or 10 April, 1739
18 Aug. 1746

-» Bunhill-row » highway robbery ; Ok
a8. Thos. Whi

te, arson ; Old B
E tward Lowe,

the last execut

9 April, 1747
tr May, 1758

rdrawn on a
r of Bank notes ps we gee oc og
k rder of Maria

4 April, 1761 seph Hauton, quaker
rke, murderer
Chapman, m, ofh

abane, 13 Dee, : 8
14 Sept. 1767 er child; OldB
wine merchants,

THE LAST EXECUTED F
y of forging a b WARE, hale
terfield for 4 Beth manis
erted to save
ge Ill,, “I¢

you will have

27 June, 1777

unnatural crime ;
ler of Miss Re

19 April, 1779

8 Ap
urdock, remarkable case of poisoning ;

der of sir Th
‘ j - 2 April, 178x

n), a Woman:

18 March, 1789 is wife; Old Bailey 7

»m. of l’'d w. Russell ;

FS, Wounding Mr, Mackreth; §

ons, see England, 1535-6, R. Blakesley 3 April, 1841
b Y,

m. of Mr, Burdon ; Old Bil

503 EXECUTIONS,
ning i aoe

»4 dune, 1798 | J. Delahun m, of Thomas Maguire ; Dublin - 5 Feb. 1842
12 July, 1799 | D. Good, m. of Jane Jones
4 April, 1800 | John Hulme

”

James Tapping, Inurder of Enama Whiter :
1803 F

Bailey

28 April,

| J. Connor, m. of Mary Brothers ; Old Bailey 2 June,
John Platts, murder of Collis ; Derby . °; April,
” Catherine Foster, murder of her husband ; Bury St.
1806 | . . . ‘ i - 17 April,
| James Bloomfield Rush, murder of Messrs, Jermy,

rm : . 21 April,

Fred. George Manning, and his wife, Maria Manning,
- 13 Nov.

P + 15 Jan.
Hy. Horler, murder of wife : Old Bailey . 15 Jan.

Grant, Quin, and Coomey, murder of Thomas Bate-
| 9 April,

Edmunds
Sen. and jun.; Norwich

1807 | in, of O’Counor ; Horsemonger-lane
James Barbour, murder ; York

i
t

. syd Oe Monaghan ; ‘ : ‘ ‘*
29 June, 1809 | Emanuel Barthelemy, murder of Mr. Moore and
| C. Collard : Old PR a, ee ee
| William Bousfield, murder of his wife and three
| children ; Old Bailey ‘ ; =) 31 March,
William Palmer (of Rugeley), murder of J. P. Cook
Ys by poison ; Stafford 14 June,

”

in Westminster ; Old Bailey ;
| W. Jackson, m. of two children; Chester

officers and Piracy ; Winchester 23 Dec.
D. Redaines, m. of two girls at Dover ; Maidstone,
1 Jan.

Thomas Mansell (after seven months’ respite),
murder of a soldier ; Maidstone j 6 July,
Capt. H. Rogers, murder of A. Rose, a black, with

his sweetheart > Taunton

grandmother ; Taunton

J. Castle, m. of his wife ; Bedford

Officers ; Winchester

EXECUTION FOR THIS CRIME); Chester

g.
Win. Cogan, murder of wife; Old Bailey, 14 Oct.
T. Jackson, m. of Sergeant J, Dickson ; Winchester,
27 Dec.
| Wm. Charlton, engine-driver, murdered Jane Em-
merson, to obtain the money she had saved ror
| i " A 15 March, 1862
| G. J. Gilbert, brutal murder of Miss M, S. Hall, on
| ‘ » 4 Aug.
W. Taylor, m. of Mr. Meller from revenge ; he previ-
ously killed his own children ; Kirkdale, 13 Sept.
poison [and
; _ Of several other persons}; Old Bailey ~. 20 (Oct.
William Ockold (aged 70), murder of his wife, after
5° years’ marriage ; Worcester - 2Jan. 1863
Noah Austen, m. of Mr. Allen ; Oxford, 24 March,
1. Be As Burton, m. of a boy ; Maidstone, 1,1 April,

str Ap,
Dennis Delane, hired Beckham and Walsh to mur-

her way to church ; Winchester

| Catherine Wilson, m. of Mrs. Soames by

| E. Cooper, m. of his deformed son; Shrewsbury

der his landlord, F, Fitzgerald - 13 April,
J. Ducker, im. ofTye,a policeman ; Ipswich, 14 April,
| W, Hope, m. of Mary Corbett ; Hereford, 15 April,
D. MacPhail and G. Woods, murder of Mrs, Walne;
Kirkdale , , . F ‘ x 25 April,
J. Brooks, m. of Davy,a policeman; Old Bailey,27 Ap.
J. Kelly, m. of Fitzhenry, a schoolmaster ; Wexford
1r Aug.

; Old Bailey . 23 May, ,,
, Samuel Bonsall, Willian Bland, -

murder of Miss Goddard ; Derby . 4 April,
28 Jan. 1802 | W. Crouch, m. of his wife ; Old Baile

27 May,
H , 4 ‘ ; - 24 March,
| J. Tawell, m. of Sarah Hart ; Aylesbury 28 March,

Pa | aes Hocker, m. of Mr. Delarue ; Old Bailey,
j
|
}

{

W. Dove, m. of his wife hy poison ; York . Aug.
Joseph Jenkins, alias Robert Marley, m. of Cope,
: 15 Dec.

- 20 Dee.
Lagava, Bartelano, and Pettrick, murder of two
» 12 March, 1817

‘ i - 1 Sept.
Thomas Davis, murder of wife : Old Bailey, 16 Novy.

|
| John William Beale, murder of Charlotte Pugsley,
| ‘ - 12 Jan. 1858
| J. Thomson, alias P. Walker, m.of Agnes Montgomery
by poison—discovered byachild; Paisley 14 Jan,
. 21 Nov. Boy Christian Sattler, a German, murder of inspector
ailey, 27 Dec. 78 Thain ; Old Bailey ; ; ‘ Z 8 Fe
pee L heal G. Lani, m. of Héloise Thaubin ; Old Bailey 26 Apr
9 ARS John B. Bucknall, murder of his grandfather an
" ‘ + 24 Aug.
Burgess, m. of his daughter ; Taunton . 4 Jan. 1859
- 31 March, 1866
an Youngman, m. of Sweetheart, Mary Streeter,
20 June, 1825 mother and 2 brothers ; Horsemonger-lane, 4 Sept.
vid J. Mullins, m. of Mrs. Emasley, at Stepney; Old Bailey
29Nov. 1826 19 Nov.
James Johnson, murder of two non-commissioned

Fe ; F ‘ : - rJdan. 1861
4April, 18238 | Marie Wedmore,m. of their aunt; Taunton, g

April,
Martin Doyle, barbarous attempted murder (Last
|

etecnepecenstere

EXECUTIONS,

504 EXECUTIONS.
Thomas, Alvarez, Hughes, Hugh Slane and

murderers ; Liverpool .

and O’Brien, ferocious

; - 11 Sept. 1864 Waine ; Durham
Alice Holt, murder of her mother; Chester, 28 Dec.

Samuel Wright, murder of his paramour,

”
12 Jan,

John Lyons and four others (foreigners); murder 7

John Hayes ; murder ot Joseph
f P 4 - 13 Jan. 1873
Mary Cotton ; murder of child; Durham, 24 March, 58
Henry Evans, at Aylesbury ; and Benjamin Hud.
son, at Derby, for murder of their wives

Aug. ,,

and piracy ; Old Bailey , 22 Feb: 5, ET, Montgomery, m. of Mr. Glass, Omagh, 6 one

C. Brickuell, m. of his sweetheart rAug. ,, J. Connor ; m. of James Gaffney ; Liverpvol, 8 Benes:

Franz Miiller, murder of Mr. Briggs in a railway Charles Dawson, William Thompson, and Edward
carriage (see Trials); Old Baile , 14 Nov. ,, Gough; murders; Durham ; Thomas Corrigan ; m.

F Kohl, m. of M. Fuhrkop ; Chelmsford, 26 Jan. 1865 of mother; Liverpool

Edw. William Pritchard, M.D., mur

and her mother ; Glasgow

J. Currie, m. of major De Vere ; Maidstone, 12 Oct.

der of wife
- 28 July,

”

Stephen Forward, alias Ernest Southey, murder of ”

wife and four children ; Maidstone

ir Jan. 1866 | James Godwin ; murder of wife; N

Mary Ashford, m. of husband ; Exeter, 28 March,

J. W. Leigh, m. of wife’s sister; Brighton, 10 April, i.
R. Coe,m. ofa young man for his wages, 30s. ; Swansea

J.-Grant, a Soldier, m. of a boy ; Exeter, 15 Aug.
J. R. Jeffreys, m. ‘of his son; Old Bailey, 9 Oct,

Jas. Langhurst, m, of Harriet Sax

12 April,

16 April, 1867 | J. W. Coppen; m. of wife ; Horsemonger-In., 13 Oct.”

H. Lingley, m. of his uncle, Benj. Black ; Norwich,

G. Britten, m. of his wife ; Taunton

John Wiggins, murder of his concubine, Agnes

Oakes ; Old Bailey

26 Aug.
29 Aug.

x5-Oct... ,,

Louis Bordier, murder of his concubine, Mary Ann

Snow ; Horsemonger-lane

Wm. O'Meara Allen, Win. Gould (or O’Brien), and

Michael Larkin, Fenians, for murder
policeman ; Salford ;

Frederick Baker, murder of a little girl, w

afterwards cut up ; Winchester ,

15 Oct.

of Brett, a
23 Nov.
hom he

24 Dec. ,,
W. Worsley, m. of Win. Bradbury ; Bedford, 31 Mar. 1868
Frances Kidder, murder of her husband’s child ;

Maidstone .

Timothy Faherty, for murder of his s
Mary Hanmer (for rejecting him), and
M. Weatherill, m: of Rev. Mr. Plow, of T

and his maid (for revenge); Manchester, 4 April,

F. Parker, m. of Daniel Driscoll ; York

J. Mapp, m. of little girl ; Shrewsbury, 9 April,
pting to assassinate the duke of

O'Farrell, for attem
Edinburgh ; Sydney, N.S. Wales

R. Bishop; m. of A. Cartwright; Maidstone
Michael Barrett, Fenian ; for Clerkenwell e

2 April,
weetheart,

odmorden,
4April, ,,
21 April,

»30April, ,,
xplosion ;

THE LAST PUBLIC EXECUTION IN ENGLAND; Old

Bailey

Thomas Wells, m. of Mr. Walsh, stationmaster at
EXECUTION), 13 Aug,

Dover (THE FIRST PRIVATE

26 May,

W. Sherward, for m. of his wife, Norwich, 20 April, 1869

Josiah Detheridge, murder of warder in
prison ; Dorchester . ‘

W. Taylor, soldier; m. of his corporal; Exeter, 11O0ct. |

Frederick Hinson, murder ‘of his coneub

Death, and of Wm. Douglas Boyd, her paramour,

at Wood Green, Middlesex ; Old Bailey,
W. Mobbs, m. of a child ; Aylesbury
Walter Millar, murder of Rev. Elias H
Ann Boss (at Chelsea) ; Old Bailey ;
John Owen or Jones, for murder of a
persons) at Denham ; Aylesbury
Thomas Ratcliffe : murder of a warder in
prison ; Dorchester

Margaret Waters ; murder of infants ; baby-

case ; Horsemonger-lane : ‘
P. Durr; m. of his wife; Manchester ,
W. Bull; m. of an old woman; Bedford.

Portland
12 Aug.

ine, Maria

13 Dec, ,,
28 March, 1870
uelin and

t Aug ;,
family (7

- 8 Aug.
Portland
15 Aug. ,,

‘ ‘ F - § Jan. 1874
Edward C. Butt; murder of Miss Phipp, through

jealousy ; Edwin Bailey and Ann Barry ; murder
of child; Gloucester j ‘ * + aizJan. ,,
Thos. Chamberlain ; m. ; Northampton, 30 March,
vewgate, 25 May, ,,
F. Stewart; m. of grandchild ; Newgate, 29 June,
Thos. Macdonald; m. of paramour ; Exeter, ro Aug,
Wm. Jackson ; murder of sister; York 18 Aug.
James H. Gibbs ; murder of wife; Usk . 24 Aug. ,,
Henry Flanigan ; murder of aunt; Mary Williams ;
murder of Nicholas Manning ; Liverpool, 31 Aug.

Private T. Smith, 2oth Hussars; m. of capt. Bird,
in revenge for slight punishinent ; Winchester,
16 Nov.
Robert Taylor; m. of Mrs. Kidd ; Stafford 29 Dec. ,,
James Cranwell; murder of Emma Bellamy; New-
gate. Michael Mullen, John McCrave, and Wm.
Worthington ; Liverpool . . : - 4dan. 1875
R. Coates; m. of girl, ro years old; Chelmsford,
29 March,
John Morgan; murder of comrade; Maidstone :
John Stanton ;m. of uncle; Stafford 30 March,
Alfred T, Heap, quack > Murder of Margaret
McKivett; Liverpool . . ‘ - 1g April, ,,
Wm. Hole; murder of wife; Bristol . 26 April,
J. Corkery; m. of policeman ; Warwick, 27 July,
McHugh, Gilligan, and Pearson (woman); murders
Durham ., F . H ; - 2 Ang,
P. Blanchard; m. of L, Hodgson ; Lin colnshire, 9 Aug.
Philip Lebrun; murder of sister; Jersey, 12 AUG. 5,
Wm. McCullogh; murder of Wm. Watson; and
Mark Fiddler; murder of wife ; Lancaster, 16 Aug.
W. Baker and RE. Cooper; m.; Liverpool, 6 Sept.
Henry Wainwright ; murder of Harriet Lane, his
mistress (see Whitechapel) ; Newgate, . 21 Dec.
Wm. Smedley; murder of Elizabeth Firth, his
mistress ; Armley, near Leeds ; az Dec. :* 5;
J. W. Anderson; m of wife ; Neweastle, 22 Dec.
Richard Charlton ;m™. of wife; Morpeth 23. D8G,; «5
G. Hunter; m. of fellow-workman ; Morpeth, 28 Mar. 1876
T. Fordred ; m. of A, Bridger; Maidstone, 4 April,
George Hill; murder of his illegitimate child, and
nearly of its mother; Hertford : - 10 April,
Edward Deacon; murder of wife ; Bristol, 24 April, .,,
John Webber ; murder; Cardiff . ‘ 26 April, ,,
Henry Webster ; Murder of wife ; Norwich, 1 May,
“Lennie” mutineers and murderers: Matteo Car-
galis, Pascalis Caludis, George Kaida, and
Giovanni Carcaris ; Newgate - 23 May, ,,
J. Williams ; shot. brother-in-law ; Durham, 26 July,
James Parris ; murder of a child; Maidstone x Aug. 45>
W.Fish ; m. ofa child (see Trials); Richard Thomp-
son, m. of J. H. Blundell: Liverpool, 14 Aug.
C. E. Baumbos (see Mutinies); and Crowe (see

farming

Ireland): Cork 25 Aug. 5

2F-Ock: .,;
26 Dec.
3 April, 1871

Michael Campbell ; murder of Mr, Galloway at

Stratford ; Springfield gaol, Essex. .
R. Addington ; mm, of wife ; Northampton,
Frederic Jones murder of Enily
through jealousy ; Gloucester

24 April,
31 July,

Gardner,
Jan. 1872

: 8
Edward Roberts ; murder of Ann Merrick, who re-

fused to marry him ; Oxford I

Wm. Fred. Horry ; murder of wife : Lincoln, 1 April, s
Charles Holmes : murder of wife ; Worcester, 12 Aug.

Thomas Moore, murder of wife ; James To

8 March,

oth, sol-

dier, murder of drummer ; Francis Bradford,

soldier, murder of comrade ; Maidstone,
C. Edwards ; murder of wife ; Stafford, .
Wm. Lace ; murder of wife ; Taunton J
A. Elliott ; m. of paramour ; Old Bailey,
Mich. Kennedy; murder of wife ; Mancheste

Edwd. Handcock; murder of wife; Warwick,

R. Spencer; m. of varamour ; Liverpool,

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26 Aug.

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John Ebelthrift ; murder of wife ; Newgate 26 Aug.
Charles O'Donnell ; murder of wife; Newgate rr Dec. ,,
R. Browning; m. of E. Rolfe, Cambridge, 14 Dec.
Silas Barlow ; murder of Ellen Sloper, paramour;
Horsemonger-lane ; James Dalgleish ; murder of
Sarah Wright ; Carlisle . : ; - 19 Dec. ,,
J. T. Green ; m, of wife; Leicester . . 20 Dec,
W. Flanagan: m, of paramour ; Manchester, 21 Dec.
I, Marks, Jew > mn. of Fredk. Barnard, for revenge ;
(Newington murder) ; Horsemonger-lane, 2 Jan. 1877
H. and F. G, Tidbury; m. of two policemen ;
Reading . . / 12 March, ,,.
Wm. Clark (or Slenderman); murder of Henry
Walker, gamekeeper; Lincoln ; 26 March,
J. McKenna; m. of wife ; Manchester, 27 March,
James Bannister; murder of wife ; Chester 2 April,
J. H. Johnson; in. of A. White; through jealousy,
3 April, ,,
F. Baker ; m. of Mary Saunders; Warwick, 17 April,
John Henry Starkey ; murder of wife; Leicester ;
Henry Rogers ; murder of wife - Stafford 31 July, ,,

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EXECUTIONS.

505 EXECUTIONS.

Caleb Smith ; murder of nominal wife (Eliza

Osborne); Horsemonger-lane . . 14 Aug.
John Goulding and Patrick McGovern ; murders ;

Liverpool : j is ‘ 21 Aug.
John Lynch ; murder of wife; Newgate . 15 Oct.
Thos. Pratt ; murder of paramour; Newgate 12 Nov.
Win. Hussell; murder of wife ; Exeter 19 Nov.
Henry March; murder of employer and fellow-

workman; Norwich . ; ¢ F 20 Nov,
Thos. Gray; murder of Ann Mellors, who retused
him; Nottingham . F ‘ ; 21 Nov.
C. Jones; m. of paramour ; Dolgelly 23 Nov.

James Sachwell, John Upton, and John Wim. Swift;
brutal murder of an old man ; Leicester 27 Nov.
Geo. Pigott; murder of Florence Galloway ; Man-
chester . ‘ ¥ ‘ ‘ r ; 4 Feb.
J. Caffyn ; m. of Maria Barber ; Winchester, 11 Feb.
James Trickett; murder of wife ; Liverpool, 12 Feb.
John Brooks; murder of Caroline Woodhead;
Nottingham ; ; ; 13 Feb.
H. Rowles ; m. of sweetheart; Oxford 1 April,
Vincent K. Walker; m. of woman; York, 15 April,
Charles J. Revell; murder of wife; Chelmsford,
29 July,
Robert Vest; ship steward ; murder of Wm. Wal-
lace, a pilot ; Durham ‘ : ‘ 30 July,
T, Cholerton; m. of paramour; Nottingham, 12 Aug.
Selina Wadge ; murder of illegitimate child ; Bod-
Thin, . . : : , ;: 15 Aug.
‘Thomas Smithers, m. of woman, Wandsworth, 8 Oct.
Patrick John Byrne ; murder of two brother ser-
geants ; Northampton . ij . . 2 Nov.
J. Garcia, Spanish sailor, m. of W. Watkins and his
wife and three children, Usk 18 Noy.
James McGowan ; m. of wife; Manchester, 19 Noy.
Henry Gilbert ; murder of illegitimate child ; Hun-
tingdon i x A : . 25 Nov.
5. Gambrill ; m. of Arthur Gillow while defending
his machinery (Wednesborough); Maidstone, 4 Feb.
E, Whiston ; m. of A. Meredith; Worcester, 10 Feb.
Wino. McGuiness ; murder of wife ; Lancaster, 11 Feb.
Charles Peace ; murder of A. Dyson, Leeds ; (see
Trials, 1878-9) . 2 F 25 Feb.
James Simms; American seaman; murder of
woman ; Newgate ‘i 24 March,
Edwd. Smart; murder of woman; Gloucester, 12 May,
W. Cooper; m. of Ellen Mather; Manchester, 20 May,
Catherine Churchill ; murder of husband ; Taunton,
26 May,
John Darcy; m. of Wm. Mitechalle; York, 27 May,
T. Johnson ; mn. of Eliza Patten; Liverpool, 28 May,
Catherine Webster ; murder of Mrs. Julia Martha
Thomas ; Wandsworth (see Richmond), 29 July,
Annie Took ; murder of nurse-child ; Exeter, 11 Aug.
J. Dilley; m. of illegitimate child ; Newgate, 25 Aug.
J. Ralph; m. of Sarah Vernon; Birmingham, 26 Aug.
H. Bedingfield; m. of Eliza Rudd; Ipswich, 3 Dec.
Charles Shurety ; murder of child ; Newgate, 5 Jan.
Wm. Cassidy; murder of wife; Manchester, 17 Feb.
Hugh Burns and Patrick Kearns; murder of
Patrick Tracey, at Widnes ; Liverpool, 2 March,
J. Wingfield ; m. of his wife ; Newgate, 22 March,
Wm. Dumbleton; murder of John Edmunds;
Aylesbury . ° . . ; - 10 May,
J. H. Wood ; m. of John Coe; York 11 May,
John Wakefield; murder of a child ; Derby, 16 Aug.
W. Brownless ; m. of sweetheart ; Durham, 16 Nov.
W. J. Distin; m. of paramour; Bristol, 22 Nov.
T. Wheeler ; m. of E. Anstee, near St. Albans, 29 Nov.
G. Pavey ; m. of Ada Shepherd, and W. Herbert, mn.
of Jane Messenger, sister-in-law; Newgate, 13 Dec.
W. Stanway ; m. of Ann Mellor; Chester, 21 Feb.
J. Williams; m. of Eliz. Bagnall; Stafford, 22 Feb.
Aibert Robinson ; murder of wife; Derby, 28 Feb.
A. Moore ; m. of old woman; Maidstone, 17 May,
James Hall; murder of wife ; Leeds - 23 May,
J. P. McEntee; m. of wife; Liverpool, 31 May,
T. Brown; m.of Eliza Caldwell; Nottingham, 15 Aug.
G, Durling;m.of Fanny Musson, Maidstone, 23 Aug.
J. A. Simpson ; m. of girl; Manchester, 28 Nov.
Percy Lefroy Mapleton ; murder of F. T. Gold ina
Brighton railway carriage; Lewes . 29 Nov.
Alfred Gough; murder of a little girl; Darky
R. Templeton ; m. of landlady ; Manchester, 13 Feb.
Dr. G. H. Lamson; murder of Percy M. John (see
Wimbledon); Wandsworth 28 April,
Thos. Fury; murder of Maria Fitzsimons in 1869 ;
Sunderland R a F 16 May,

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i Wm. Geo. Abigale; murder of girl; Norwich,
22 May,
| O. O Brand; m. ofapprentice at sea; Leeds 23 May,
| Charles Gerrish ; murder of fellow-pauper ; Wilts,
i Wm. Turner; murder of wife; Liverpool, 21 Aug.
| Wm. M. Bartlett; m. of infant; Bodmin, 13 Nov.
Edwd. Wheatfill ; m. of Peter Hughes, York, 27 Noy.
B. Mullarkey ; m. of T. Cruise; Liverpool, 4 Dec.
C. Taylor ; in. of wife; Wandsworth 12 Dee.
Louisa Jane ‘Taylor; murder of Mrs. Tregillis;

Wandsworth ‘ $ ‘ . ‘ 2 Jan.
A. Thomas; m.of Mrs.C. Leigh; Manchester, 12 Feb.
James Anderson; murder of wife; Lincoln, 19 Feb.
T. Garry ; m. of John Newton ; Lincoln 7 May,
Patrick Carey, or John White; murder of Thomas

Eastam and Mary Moran; Chester 8 May,
George White ; murder of wife ; and Joseph Wedlake,

murder of Mark Cox ; Taunton. 21 May,
J. Burton ; m. of Elizabeth Sharpe; Durham, 6 Aug.
Henry Powell; murder of master’s son, J. H. D.

Bruton ; Wandsworth * : . 6 Nov.
Thomas Lyons ; murder of his child 13 Nov.
Peter Bray ; m. of T. Pyle; Durham 1g Nov.
T. Riley: m.of Elizabeth Alston; Manchester, 26 Nov.

| H.Dutton ;m.ofHannah Henshaw; Liverpool, 3 Dec.

Patrick O'Donnell; murder of James Carey, the
informer ; Newgate ‘ i «|. 17 Dec.
C. Kite ; m. of Albert Miles ; Taunton 25 Feb.
Michael Maclean ; 1nurder of Spanish sailor ; Liver-
pool . ; ‘ ‘ ‘ e - 10 March,
Mary Lefiley ; m. of husband; Lincoln 26 May,
J. Lawson; m. of sergeant Smith ; Durham, 27 May,
Peter Cassidy ; murder of wife; Liverpool, 19 Aug.
J.Laycock ; m.of wifeand 4 children; Leeds,26 Aug.
T. H. Orrock; n.of policeman Cole ; Newgate, 6 Oct.
Thomas Harris ; murder of wife; Newgate 6 Oct.
Kay Howarth and Henry Hammond; Swindell’s
murder; Manchester . j ‘ . 24 Nov.
E. Ewerstadt and A. Shaw; m. of women. 8 Dec.
Horace R. Jay ; m. of a girl ; Wandsworth . 13 Jan.
H. Kimberley; m. of Mrs. Palmer; Birmingham,
17 March,

John Lee, murder of police-inspector Simmons ;
Chelmsford ¢ ° A ; 18 May,
M.Shrimpton, m. of policeman ; Worcester 25 May,
Henry Alt, murder of C: Howard; Newgate, i3July,
J. Tucker, m, of Elizabeth Williamson ; Notting-
ham. ‘ ‘ : . 4 ’ uc 3 Ades
Thomas Boulton, murder of niece ; Stafford, 17 Aug.
Henry Norman, murder of wife; Newgate 5 Oct.
John Hill and John Williams, murder of Ann
Dickson; Hereford : ‘ «aay NOV.
Robert Goodale, murder of wife; head severed
through long drop; Norwich . 30 Nov.
Daniel Minahan, murder of wife ; Newgate 7 Dec.

John Horton, murder of his father ; Devizes 1 Feb.
Anthony Benjamin Rudge, John Martin, and James
Baker, murder (see Z’rials) ; Carlisle 8 Feb.
Joseph Baines, murder of wife ; Lancaster 9 Feb.
J. Thurston, m. of H. Springall ; Norwich, ro Feb.
George Saunders, murder of wife ; Ipswich 16 Feb.
Owen M’Gill, murder of wife ; Cheshire 22 Feb.
Thomas Nash, murder of child; Swansea March,
D. Roberts, m. of David Thomas ; Cardiff, 2 March,
A. E. Brown, and J. Whelan, for m. ; Winchester
31 May,

E. Hewitt, m. of wife ; Gloucester 15 June,
W. Samuel, m. of W. Mabbott; Shrewsbury, 26 July,
Mary A. Britland, in. of Mrs. Dixon; Mchr. 9g Aug.
Patrick Judge, murder of wife ; Newcastle, 16 Nov.
James Murphy, poacher, murder ; York 29 Nov.
J. Banton, m. of police constable; Leicester, 30 Nov.
G. Harmer, m. of an old man; Norwich . 13 Dec.
T. Leatherbarrow, m. of woman; Mchr., 15 Feb.
Thomas Bloxham,murder of wife ; Leicester,14 Feb.

E. Pritchard, m. of Allen; Gloucester 17 Feb.
Richard Insole, murder of wife ; Lincoln . 21 Feb.
B. Terry, m. of wife; Nottingham 22 Feb.

E. Berry, m. of daughter ; Liverpool 14 March,
J. King, m.of womanand child; Newgate,21 March,
Thomas William Carroll, murder of Lydia Green

(see Trials); Newgate ° : ‘ 18 April,
C. Smith, m. of wife ; Cowley near Oxford, 9 May,
H. W. Young, m. of child; Dorchester . 16 May,
Walter Wood, murder of wife; Manchester, 31 May,

A. Sowery, m. of sweetheart ; Lancaster . 1 Aug.
Israel Lipski, murder of woman ; Newgate, 22 Aug.

George Thomas, murder of woman ; Liverpool, 8 Dec.

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EXECUTIONS. 506 EXECUTIONS.

Henry Hobson, m. of Ada Stodhart ; Leeds 22 Aug. 1887 | J. Wilson, m. of Marion G. Crossman; Carlisle,

T. H. Bevan, m. of woman; Chester 17 Aug. ,, 22 March, 1892
William Wilton, murder of wife ; Lewes . 29 Aug. », | John Noble, murder of woman ; London, 29 March, ,,
William Hunter, murder of a child ; Carlisle 14 Nov. is G. H. Wood, m. of Edith Jeal; Lewes, 26 April, ,,
Joseph Walker, murder of wife ; Oxford . 15 Novs. 55 Harry Pickering, murder of wife; Leeds 14 June, ,,
J. Morley, m. of woman ; Chelmsford 21 Nov. ,, John Gurd, alias Louis Hamilton, murder of

E. Wadley, m. of woman ; Gloucester 28 Nov. Henry Richards ; Devizes 26 July,

T. Payne, m. of his sister-in-law ; Warwick 6 Dec.
D. Rees, m. of Thomas Davies; Carmarthen ,13 March,
Alfred Scandrett and James Jones, murder of

Philip Ballard ; Hereford - 20 March,
G. Clarke, m. of stepdaughter; Winchester, 27 Mar.
W. Arrowsmith, m. ofhis uncle; Shrewsbury, 28 Mar.
J. A. Gell, m. of Mrs, M. Miller ; Manchester, 15 May,

James William Richardson, murder of Wm.

Berridge ; Leeds. * ‘ ; 22 May,
Robert Upton, murder of w ife ; Oxford 17 July,
Thomas Wyre, murder of son ; Ww orcester 18 July,

J.Jackson, m. of warder Webb; Manchester, 7 Aug.
Arthur T. Delaney, murder of wife ; ; Derby 10 ‘Aug.
G. Sargeant, m. of wife; Chelmsford 15 ‘Aug.
G. N. Daniels and H. B. Jones, in. ; Birmingham

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28 Aug.
Levi R. Bartlett, m. of wife; Newgate . 13 Nov.
S. Crowther, m. of J. Willis; Worcester, 11 Dec.
W. Waddell, m. of woman ; Durham 18 Dec.
Charles Bulmer, murder of wife ; Leeds . r Jan.

Thomas Clews, murder of woman; Stafford x Jan.
George Nicholson, murder of wife ; Warwick 8 Jan.
W. Gower, and C. J. Dobell, confessed to m. of
B.C. Lawrence, timekeeper at saw-mills at Tun-
bridge Wells ; Maidstone 2 Jan.
Ebenezer Samuel Jenkins, murder of his sweet-

heart ; Wandsworth. 6 March,
Samuel ‘Rylands, murder of little girl; Shepton
Mallet gaol ‘ 13 March,
Thomas Allen, a Zulu ; ; murder of F. G. Kent;
Swansea - 1o April,
John Witney, niurder of w ife ; Bristol 11 April,

G. Horton, m. of little daughter ; Derby, 21 Ang.
Benjamin Purnell, murder of wife ; Devizes, 9 Dec.

W. Dukes, m. of Mr. Gordon ; ; Bury 24 Dec.
R. West and F, Brett, wife m.; Leeds 31 Dee.
W. T. Hook, wife m. ; Maidstone 31 Dec.
dx Higginbotham, m. of landlady 7 Jan.
J. Boswell and §. Boswell, for m. of Frank

Stephens, gamekeeper ; Worcester, 11 March,

William Row, for the murder of Lily McClarence ;
Newcastle-on-Tyne 12 March,
Thomas Neal, murder of wife ; Newgate, 26 March,
Richard Davi ies, murder of father (see T'rials),
Knutsford, Cheshire . ‘ 8 April,
W. Chadwick, m. of W. Davies ; ; Liverpool, 15 April,
Daniel Stewart Gorrie, murder of fellow- workman ;
Wandsworth 1o June,
George Bowling, murder of Eliza Nightingale, with
whom he lived ; Wandsworth July,
F. Spicer, m. of two children ; Knutsford, 22 Aug.

James Harrison, murder of wife ; ; Leeds 26 ‘Aus.
F. Davis, m. of wife ; Birmingham . 26 Aug.

F, Manteau, m. of F. De Grave; Newgate, 27 Aug.
Mary E. Wheeler, otherwise Pearcey, for m. of
Mrs. Hogg (see trials); Newgate -. 23 Dec.
Thomas Macdonald, in. of Miss Alice Holt. school-
mistress, near Bolton ; Liverpool; R. Kitching,
m. of policeman Weedy ; York + jo Dee.
Alfred Turner, murder of sweetheart, Mary forsh :

Manchester : 19 ] May,
Franz Joseph Miinch, murder of James Hickey ;
Wandsworth . ar July,
A. Spencer, m. of M. "A Garner ; Lincoln, 28 July,

Walter Lewis Turner, murder of Barbara Water-
house, 5 years old; Leeds. . 8 Aug.
ye Sadler, m. of W. Wass ; ; Chelmsford ; 18 Aug.
Robert Bradshaw, m. of wife ; Wandsworth, 19 Aug.
J. Conway, in. of N. Martin, a youth; Liverpool
zo Aug.

E. H. F. Watts, m. of wife; Winchester, 26 Aug.
H. Dainton, m. of wife at Bath ; ; Shepton Mallett,

5 Dec.

J. W. Johnson, m. of Margaret Addison ; Phphitn:
22 Dee.

Cc. Saunders, m. of child ; Hereford 23 Dec.
J. Stockwell, m.of C. Dennis; Armley — 5 Jan.

J. Muir, m. of Abigail Sullivan ; Newgate, 1 March,
F. Eggleton and C. Rayner, poachers, in. of two
gamekeepers, J. Crawley and. W. Puddlephat ;
Oxford. . . > ‘ ‘ 17 March,

J. G. Wenzel, m. of J. Joyce, a police officer ; and

J. Taylor, m. of wife; Newgate 16 Aug.
P. Gibbons, m. of mother; Liverpooi . 17 Aug.
Moses Cudworth, m. of wife; Leeds 18 Aug.

J. J. Banbury, m. of Emma Oakley; began ei

11 Oct.
T. Neill (Cream) (see Trials); Newgate . 15 Nov.
Joseph Mellor, murder of wife ; Manchester 20 Dec.
T. Edwards, m. of Mary Conolly; Usk, 22 Dec.

C. Duckworth, m. of Alice Barnes ; Walton. 3 Jan. 1893

Andrew G. M‘Rae, murder of Annie Pritchard at

Althorp ; Northampton . rodan.
A. Manning, m. of Jane E. Flew ; Gloucester
16 March,

Edward Hemmings, m. of wife; Leeds, 4 April,
R. Sabey, m. of Louisa Johnson; Northampton,
18 July,

Aimé Meunier, (extradited) murder of a old
woman; Worcester g July,

| George 8. ‘Cooke, police- constable, inurder of Maud

Merton ; ; New gate : 25 July,
C. Squires, m. of child; Shepton “Mallet, to Aug.
J.T. Hewitt, m. of Wm. Masten ; Stafford, 15 Aug.
J. Davis, m. of police-sergt. Eves; Chelmsford,

16 Aug.

Emanuel Hamar, murder of an old woman,
Catherine Tyrer ; Manchester 28 Nov.
John Carter, murder of wife; Reading 5 Dec.

G. Mason, m. of sergt. J. Robinson ; Winchester,
6 Dec.

Henry Rumbold, woman named
Rushby, at Lincoln - 19 Dec.
J. Wyndham, in. of his father; “Gloucester, 21 Dec.
William Harris, alias Haynes, murder of Florence
Clifford! Warwick 1 Jan.
G. Thomas, 1n. of Mary J. Jones; Carmarthen, 13 Feb.
Walter Smith, murder of Catherine Cross, hospital
nurse ; Nottingham : 27 March,
Margaret W alber, m. of husband, Liverpool, nary oe
Philip Garner, murder of wife ; Leeds 3 April,

murder of a

BOW. Fenton, in. of Florence Elborough ;
Birmingham 4 April,
J. Langford, m. of Elizabeth Stev en; Literal,
22 May,

Samuel Elkins; Winchester 18 July,

W. Crossley, in. of Mary A. Allen; Manchester,

31 July,
Paul Koezula, m. of Mrs. Rasch in Shaftesbury
avenue ; Newgate . 14 Aug.

Alfred Dews, murder of infant son ; ‘Leeds 21 Aug.
James W. Whitehead, mn. of wife, Mehr., 27 Nov.
Thomas Richards (sailor), murder of Mary Davies,

at Borth, 21 Sept. ; Carmarthen 29 Nov.
James Canham Read, murder of Florence Dennis at

Southend, June; Chelinsford 4 Dec.
John W. Newell, m. of wife ; Leicester 9 Dec.
S. G. Emery, m. Mary Ann Marshall; Newcastle,

rr Dee.
Cyrus Knight, m. of wife, and Wm. Rogers, m. of
woman; Winchester . 12 Dec.

E. Kesteven, m. of Sarah ‘Ann Oldham; Notting ham,

26 March, 1895

W. Miller, m. of E. Moyse; Liverpool 4 June,
J.Canning, m. of Jane Youell; Wandsworth 18 June,
H. Tickner, soldier, m. of wife-Wandsworth, 2 July,
R. Hudson, m. of wife and child ; York, 13 Aug.
Thomas Bond, murder of Fredk. Bakewell and
George Hackett, Stafford . ° 20 Aug.
R. Wingrove, m. of Jane Eagle ; Newgate, 19 Nov.
A. Covington, m. of Effie Burgin (20): Bedford, 3 Dec.
E. Winstanley, m. of detective Kidd ; dani 75
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Henry Wright (35), murder of Mary E. Reynolds,
her 2 sons and grandson; Nottingham 24 Dec.
Patrick Morley (38), murder of wife ; Leeds 31 Dec.

| Alfred Chippertield, m. of wife ; Newgate, 25 Feb.
Win. Seaman, Albert Millsom ‘and Henry Fowler ;

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EXECUTIONS.

507 EXECUTIONS.

Cc. T. Woodridge, m. of wife; Reading
S$. E. Smith, m. of cpl R. Payne; Winchester, 21 July,
P. Matthews, m. ofhis child; Winchester, 21 July,
F. Burden, in. of Angelina Faithful; Winchester
2x July,
Joseph Hirst, murder of child ; Manchester, 4 Aug.
W. Pugh, m. of Elizabeth Boot; Derby . 5 Aug.
Samuel Wilkinson, m. of an old woman, named
Kaye; John Rose, m. of wife; Nottingham, rz Aug.

Joseph Robt. Ellis, m. of wife; Leeds 25 Aug.
James Jones, m. of E. White; Newgate . 6 Oct.
Carlsen, Swedish sailor, m. of Julia Wood; York,
22 Dee.
J. Allcock, m. of wife; Nottingham 23 Dec.

Henry Brown, murder of wife ; Waudsworth, 5 Jan.
Robt. Hayman, murder of Esther Allchin ; Maid-
stone : A é A 9 Feb.
G, Paterson, m. of a woman; Glasgow 7 June,
Joseph Bowser, murder of wife; Lincoln 27 July,
J. Robinson murder of wife; and Walter Robinson,
m. of his cousin, Sarah Pickles; Leeds, 17 Aug.
Thomas Lloyd, murder of wife; Liverpool, 18 Aug.
William Betts, m. of father; Maidstone. 16 Dec.
G. W. Howe, m. of J. K. Pickup ; Manchester, 22 Feb.
J. Herdman, m. of Jane Calder or Souter; Edin-
burgh . ; ‘ . . 14 March,
Charles Smith, murder of wife; Durham, 22 Mar.
Private Kenny (Wilfrid Kreutze), a Prussian, m.
of private Goodwin ; Clonmel gaol 5 April,
Walter Horsford, murder of Mrs. Annie Holmes,
widow ; Cambridge. See Poisons. . 28 June,
Jiunes Watt, murderof wife; Norwich. r2 July,
William Wilkes, m. of wife; Chelinsford 18 July,
%. Jones, m. of Mary Bruton; Carnarvon 3 Aug.
J. Lewis, 1. of Robert Scott ; Swansea 30 Aug.
John Ryan, murder of police-constable James
Baldwin; Newgate . ‘ : 15 Nov.
Yhomas Daley, murder of a woman named
Penfold ; Maidstone * > ‘ ee OG;
John Cotton, murder of wife; Derby at Dec.
Johann Schneider, alias Mandelkuw, murder of
Conrad Berndt; Newgate. < is adam.
Y. Holmes, m. of Ellen Lawlor; Kilkenny, 7 Jan.
Thomas Kelly, m. of his father; Armagh, ro Jan.
Philip King, murder of wife and mother-in-law ;
Armagh ‘ ‘ ; ° . . 13 Jan.
George Robertson, murder of Mary Kenealey ;
Newgate . . ; < 28 March,

i. Andrews,m.of Frances Short; Wandsworth, 3 May,
Josiah Cornelius Parker, murder oft Mary Elizabeth
Meadows; Northampton . 3 y 1c July,
Charles Maidment, murder of Dorcas Houghton ;
Winchester i ‘ : 18 July,
Mary Ann Ansell, murder of sister, by sending
her poisoned cake ; St. Albans 19 July,
E. Bell, m. of wife by strychnine ; Lincoln, 25 July,
Elias Torr, in. of daughter; Nottingham 9g Aug.
Frederick Preston, m. of Emily Mears . 3 Oct.
Robert Ward, murder of 2 daughters. 4 Oct.
George Nunn, m. of Eliza Dixon; Ipswich, 21 Nov.
C. Scott, m. of Eliza O’Shea ; Reading, 28 Noy.
Samuel Crozier, m. of wife ; Chelmsford, 5 Dec.
Michael Dowdle, m. of wife; Manchester, 6 Dec.
Louise Masset, m. of son ; Newgate 7 g Jan.
Ada C. Williams, m. of a child ; Newgate, 6 March,
JI. Grove, m. of Heury Smith ; Newgate, 22 May,
Alfred Highfield, m. of Edith Poole 17 July,
Win. James Irwin, m. of wife; Newgate, 14 Aug.
Mellor, m. of his 2 children, and Chas. Blackhouse,
murder of a policeman ; Leeds 16 Aug.
William Lacey, a negro, m. of wife ; Cardiff, 2x Aug.
Charles Blewitt, murder of wife; Leeds, 28 Aug.
John Parr, m. of Sarah Willett; Newgate, 2 Oct.
Wm. Burrett, murder of wife ; Chelmsford, 3 Oct.
J. Holden, m. of grandson; Manchester . 4 Dec.
John Bowes, murder of wife; Durham ._ 12 Dec.
James Bergin, murder of sweetheart, Margaret
Morrison ; Liverpool . : : . 27 Dec.
Sampson 8, Salmon (32), murder of cousin, Lucy
Smith; Newgate . i . ‘ 19 Feb.
John Toole, m. of Lizzie Brennan ; Dublin, 7 March,
George Henry Parker (23), murder of Mr. W.
Pearson. See Railwuys, 17 Jan. rgor. 19 March,
Herbert J. Bennett, m. of wife ; Norwich, 21 March,
Joseph A. Shuftlebotham, a ininer, murder of wife ;
Stafford ‘ ‘ ‘ : ‘ 2 April,
Valeri Giovanni, seaman, murder of Victor Bailett
on the high seas; Bodmin , F . gJuly,

7 July, 1895

Chas. T. R. Watkins, a pilot, murder of Fred.
Heamerton ; Maidstone F : oi Oa
Ernest Wickham clerk, m. of Amy Russell in the
street at Brixton; Wandsworth, 13 . Aug.
John Joyce, murder of an old man, John Nugent ;
Birmingham . . ‘ . . 20 Aug.
M. Faugeron m. of Herman Jung ; Newgate, 19 Nov.
Patrick M’Kenna, m. of wife; Manchester, 3 Dec.
John and Robert Miller, uncle and nephew, murder
of Joseph Ferguson ; Newcastle . . 7 Dee.
John G. ‘thompson, murder of Maggie Lieutand ;
Durham ; é A ¥ F ‘ 1o Dec.
Alick Claydon, m. of wife; Northampton, 13 Dec.
J. Harrison, m.of woman, Wright; Liverpool,24 Dec.
Harold Apted, murder of Frances Eliza O'Rourke ;
Maidstone ; and Richard Wigley, murder of Mary
E. Bowen; Shrewsbury, ; .
A. Richardson, murderof his aunt ; Hull, 25 March,
Chas. Robert Eacl murder of Margaret Pamphilon ;
Wandsworth . ‘ . : E 29 April,
George Woolfe, murder of Charlotte Cheeseman ;
Newgate . ¥ . ; P é 6 May,
T. Marsland, m. of wife; Liverpool, . 20 May,
Samuel Middleton, m. of wife ; Worcester, 15 July,
W. Churcher, m. of Sophia Hepworth ; Winchester,
22 July,
John Bedford, m. of Nancy Price; Derby, 30 July,
W. Lane, m. of a woman, Dyson ; Stafford, 12 Aug.
George Hibbs, murder of a woman, Tye; Wands-
worth. 4 ‘ ° ° . ‘ 13 Aug.
John McDonald, a hawker, murder of Henry
Groves ; Pentonville , : . 30 Sept.
Henry Williams, murder of his child, Margaret
Andrews ; Pentonville . * ; . «1 Nov.
Patrick Leggett, m. of his wife ; Glasgow, 12 Nov.
Henry Mack, murder of Esther Elizabeth Bedford ;

Manchester 5 " : P ‘ 2 Dec.
William Chambers, murder of his wife and
mother-in-law ; Bedford . : ‘ . 4 Dee.
Thomas F. Barrow, murder of Emily Coates
his stepdaughter ; Pentonville . ° 9 Dec.
Jeremiah Callaghan, murder of a woman; Usk,

Monmouthshire ‘ ‘ ‘ 3 . 12 Dec.
William Brown, m. of his wife; Wandsworth:
Samuel Walton, m. of his wife, mother-in-law,
and infant daughter: Thomas Nicholson, m.
of a little girl; Durham é ‘ . 16 Dec.
W. J. Bolton, m. of. Jane Allen; Hull 23 Dec.
George Place, miner, m. of Elizabeth Chetwynd,
her mother, and infant child; Warwick: James
Doherty, farmer, m. of his son; Sligo 30 Dec.
Joseph Taylor, murder of John Daly; Kilkenny:

Mary Daly, his accomplice; Tullamore, 7, 9 Jan. 1903

Annie Walters, and Amelia Sach, for baby-farming
murders . : : i - “ 3 Feb.
William Hughes, reservist, murder of his wife;
Ruthin, N. Wales ‘ ‘ ‘ . 17 Feb.
Edgar Edwards, murder of the Darby family;
Wandsworth 5 : : ‘ 3 March,
Samuel H. Smith, murder of Lucy M. Lingard;
Lincoln. ‘ ft ‘ : . to March,
§. Klosowski, alias Chapman, m. of Maud Marsh by
antimonial poisoning; Wandsworth . 7 April,
William G. Hudson, 26, soldier, murder of Harry
Shoot, his comrade; Manchester 12 May,
Gustay Rau and William Smith, alias Dirk Her-
jaar, Germans, murder of the captain and 6 of
the crew of the Veronica; Liverpool . 2 June,
Chas. Howell, soldier, murdec of Mavd Luen;
Chelmsford ‘ y ‘ ee 7 July,
§. H. Dougal, ex-soldier, m. of Camille C. Holland

(Moat farm,Clavering, Essex); Chelmsford, 14d uly, 1903

Thos. Porter, and Thos. Preston, murder of
constable Wilkinson ; Leicester 21 July,
Leonard Pachett, m. of his wife; Lincoln, 28 July,
W. J. Tuffen, m. of his wife; Wandsworth, 11 Aug.
Edward R. Palmer, murder of Esther Swinford,
a barmaid ; Devizes ; . F 17 Nov.
Bernard White, soldier, murder of Maud Garrett ;
Chelmsford i : . $ ° « rt Dec.
J. Duffy, m. of Ellen Newman; Durham . 8 Dec.
W. Haywood, m. of his wife; Hereford . 15 Dec.
Wm. Brown, soldier, and Thos. Cowdrey, labourer,
murder of Esther Atkins; Winchester . 16 Dec.
C. W. Ashton, m. of Annie Marshall ; Hull, 22 Dec.
John Gallagher, miner, and Emily Swann, m. of
Wm. Swann, her husband; Wombwell 29 Dec.
Henry Starr, m. of his wife; Blackpool . 29 Dec.

30 July, rg01

18 March, 1902

”

Seitisoecumee ee

id to have been
1 Occupied by the
‘ed by Vespasian :
Excestre. It was
ital of the West
c anciently com-
inded about gog)
ie former was at
and afterwards at
ees were united,
Cornwall, before
Devonshire, 905 ;
Exeter, in 1050.

to a monastery
he Confessor re-
of Westminster,
‘al to the united
e king’s books at

income, 42008.
-) 52,000.

' Danes, and
-» 877 & 894
+ 1003
+ 1067
. 1136
+ 1200
+ 1236
+ 1250
. 1286

‘ x: eee

the city . 1469

- 1497

: soe Fae
ged on the

1. 2duly, r549
A Ane

aC :

i» 1643

April, 1646

: + 1675

‘ . - 1688

. 1694

+ 1773

+ 1778

. 1783

+ 1795

. + 1796

promotion

. 1803

. 1807

. 1818

e ”

. 1820

. 1821

. 1825

é P . 1837

. 1 May, 1844
ham, who
» charities,

26 March, 1866

4-5 Nov. 1867
thg town

21 April, 1870
» Reredos),
1 to be re-
id justice
vessed by
), 6 Aug.
he reredos

24 Feb. 1875
icrament-
thes; dis-

Oct;

uses, &c.

22 Dec. 1882
‘mance of
127 lives ;
coroner’s

EXETER CHANGE. 509

EXHIBITION OF 1862,

jury censure the licensing magistrates and Mr.
Phipps the architect. . . 21 Sept. 1887
Anew theatre opened. i : ‘ 7 Oct. 1889
‘fhe duke and duchess of York (now prince and
princess of Wales) opena new wing of the Albert
memorial museum and visit the cathedral and
hospital . : ’ ‘ . 7 » 4duly, 1899
Sir Redvers Buller receives the freedom . 22 Nov. tgoo
The lord mayor of London opens a manual school,
12 Sept. 1902
Karl of Devon, prebendary of Exeter and rector of
Powderham, dies, aged 92 . F . 29 Jan. 1904
Equestrian statue erected by county and city in
honour of Sir Redvers Buller unveiled by viscount
’brington, lord-lieutenant. , A 6 Sept. 1905
Death of the rt. rev. E. Bickersteth, bp. of Exeter
from 1885-1g90c, in his 82nd year . 16 May, 1906
RECENT BISHOPS,
1$03. John Fisher, translated to Salisbury in 1807.
1607. Hon. George Pelham, trans. to Lincoln, Sept. 1820.
8vo. William Carey, translated to St. Asaph, March, 1830.
1630. Christopher Bethell, translated to Bangor, 1830.
1830. Henry Philpotts, died 18 Sept. 1869.
itog. Frederick Temple, elected 1: Nov., and enthroned
(after much opposition from some of the clergy)
29 Dec. 1869 ; translated to London, Jan. 1885.
35. E. H. Bickersteth, resigned Nov. 1900, died 1906.
‘joo, Herbert E. Ryle, 3 Dec. rgoo, trans. to Winchester
Feb. 1903.
1903. Archibald Robertson, Feb. 1903.

EXETER CHANGE (London), was built
‘bout 1680, on part of the site of Exeter house,
‘he palace of Walter Stapleton, bishop of Exeter
‘nd lord treasurer in 1319, beheaded by order of the
ducen-regent, Isabella, in 1326. It was entirely
lemolished at the period of the Strand improve-
ments, in 1829. The new Exeter Change, built by
‘he marquis of Exeter near its site, opened in 1845,
was pulled downin 1862, for the Strand Music-hall,
gr inca the old Gaiety theatre. See Gaiety

‘heatre,

_ EXETER COLLEGE (Oxford) was founded
hy Walter Stapleton, bishop of Exeterin 1314. The
college buildings mainly consist of a quadrangle in

‘ue later Gothic style.
KHXETER HALL (Strand, London), erected

‘n 1830-1 for the meetings of religious and philan-
‘hropic institutions, concerts, oratorios, and musical
socleties, a large and magnificent apartment with a
splendid orchestra and organ, and having rooms

‘ttached for committees, &c., opened 29 March,

1531. See under Music. Religious services were

eld here in 1856 by the Rev. C. Spurgeon, and

in 1857 by ministers of the church of England, on

Sundays,

the Sacred Harmonie Society met here 1831-80; last
oncert, “Israel in Egypt,” 30 April, 1880.

the hall was purchased for the Young Men’s Christian
Association for 25,0001. July 1880 ; re-opened (jubilee),
_29 March, 1881.

‘entenary meeting of the British and Foreign Bible
ae under presidency of lord Northampton,
+ May, 1904.

‘ie Young Men’s Christian Association, rather than
Carry out the very costly alterations required by the
county council, sold the remainder of the Crown lease
(22h years) to Mr. Lyons on condition that no licensed
premises, theatre, or music-hall, shall be placed on
the site. The association gave up position 22 July,
1907.

Demolished, and Strand Palace Hotel erected on the
site, opened rq Sept, rg09.

EXHIBITION oF 1851 (THE GREAT EX-
NIBITION). The original idea of a National Ex-
hibition* is attributed to Mr. F. Whishaw, secretary

* Industrial exhibitions began with the French;
/tposttions having been organised and opened at Paris
'1 1798, 1801, 1802, 1806, 1819, 1823, 1827, 1834, 1839, 1844,

of the Society of Arts in 1844. It was not taken up
till 1849, when prince Albert, president of the
society, said, ‘‘Now is the time to prepare for a
Great Exhibition, an exhibition worthy of the
greatne-s of this country; not merely national in its
scope and benefits, but comprehensive of the whole
world; and I offer myself to the public as their
leader, if they are willing to assist in the under-
taking.”

Royal commission appointed ‘ , - 3dan. 1850

A subscription list opened, headed by queen
Victoria for roool.

The building t commenced, ‘ - 26 Sept.

Many persons admitted into it in Jan. ; it is virtually
transferred to the royal commissioners by the
contractors. : : : ‘ ‘ Feb. 1851

The Exhibition opened by queen Victoria . x May,

The number of exhibitors exceeded 17,000, of whom
2918 received prize medals and 170 council
medals.

The palace continued open 144 days (1 May to
15 Oct.), within which time it was visited by
6,170,000 persons, averaging 43,536 a day, whose
admission at the respective prices of one pound,
half-a-crown, and one shilling, amounted to
505,107/. including season tickets, leaving a sur-
plus, after payment of expenses, of about
150,000l. f é ; : : F : F :

The greatest number of visitors in one day was
109,760 (8 Oct.); and at one time(2 o'clock, 7 Oct.)
there were 93,000; these persons were assembled
at one time, not in an open area, like a Roman
amphitheatre, but within a windowed and floored
and roofed building. There is no like vast assem-
blage recorded in either ancient or modern annals,
as having been gathered together, it may be said,
in one room.

A memorial statue of the prince consort by Joseph
Durham, placed in the gardens of the Royal Hor-
ticultural Society, uncovered in the presence of
the prince and princess of Wales, to June, 1863

Prince of Wales elected president of the Royal
Commission of 1851, in room of the Prince Con-
sort, who had held that office since 1870, 10 Feb. 190

”

3
EXHIBITION oF 1862 (INTERNATIONAL),

A proposal in 1858 for another great exhibition, to
be held in 1861, was withdrawn in consequence of
the war in Italy in 1859, &c. The scheme was
revived in April 1860, when the prince consort

und 1849, the last, being the eleventh, exceeding all the
preceding in extent and brilliancy. The first exhibition
of the kind in this country was the National Repository,
opened under royal patronage in 1828, near Charing-
cross. It was not successful. Other exhibitions were
opened at Manchester in 1837, at Leeds in 1839, and at
Birmingham in 1849. Exhibitions have since been held
at Cork, Dublin, Manchester, New York, Paris, Montreal,
Florence, Constantinople, Bayonne, Melbourne, Vienna
Philadelphia, and many other places (which see). ?

t The palace, with the exception of the flooring and
joists, was entirely of glass and iron. It was designed by
Mr. (aft. sir Joseph) Paxton (who died 8 June, 1865)
and the contractors were Messrs. Fox and Henderson, to
whom it was agreed to pay 79,800/., or 150,000l. if the
building were permanently retained. It costr 76,0301. 138. 8d.
Its length was 185r feet, corresponding with the year ;
the width 408 feet, with an additional projection on the
north side, 936 feet long, by 48 wide. The central por-
tion was r2o feet wide and 64 feet high, and the creat
avenues ran east and west through the building ; the
transept near the centre was 72 feet wide and 108 feet
high. The entire area was 772,784 square feet, or about
1g acres. Four galleries ran lengthwise, and others
round the transept. The ground-floor and galleries con-
tained 1,000,000 square feét of flooring. There were
altogether 4000 tons of iron in thestructure, and 17 acres
of 9 in the roof, besides about 1500 vertical glazed
sashes.

t This was placed in the hands of commissioners, who
promoted the South Kensington museum, and in 1876
proposed the establishment of a science library.

EXECUTIONS.

508 EXETER.

H. Jones, murder of Mary E. Gilbert at Hanley ;

Stafford . , ’ ; . 29 March,
J. H. Clarkson, m. of Mary Lynas at Guisboro’ ;
Leeds. 29 Maych,

W. Kirwan, murder of his sister-in-law (M. Pike) ;
Liverpool ; ‘4 i A ‘ - 31 May,
J. Sullivan, murder of Lowthian on high seas;
Pentonville prison ’ . . . July,
S. Routledge, murder of Alice Foster; North-
ampton . ‘ ‘ . A - . xw3duly,
T. Gunning, murder of Agnes Allen, his reputed

wife, at Glasgow ; Glasgow . ‘ . 27 July,
G. Breeze, murder of Margaret J. Chisholm 3
Durham . 2 Aug.

J. T. Kaye, m. of Jane Hirst; Leeds . 16 Aug.
8. Holden, m. of Susan Humphries ; Birmingham,
16 Aug.

J. Potten, alias Conrad Donovan and C. Wade,
murder of Emily Farmer; Pentonville 13 Dee.
E. Hall, m. of J. Dalby at York; Leeds .-20 Dec.
E. Lange, murder of John Jones at Rhondda
Valley; Cardiff . ; . x . 21 Dec.
A. Jeffries, m. of fellow poacher, Leeds 28 Dec.
W. A. Handcocks, murder of his daughter at Birk-
enhead; Knutsford gaol. A - go Aug.
A. Devereux, for murder of his wife and two sous
at Harlesden; executed : ‘ - 5 Ang.
G. W. Butler, murder of Mary Allen; Pentonville
prison. : : ° : ‘ sy Nove
W. Yarnold, m. of wife ; Worcester wk ge Dee,
H. Perkins, m. of P. Durkin at Newcastle. 6 Dec.
8. Curtis, m. of Alice Clover at Wrotham ;

Maidstone . ; : ‘ A . ao Dec.
F. W. Edge, m. of sonof F. Evans; Stafford, 27 Dec.
G. Smith, m. of his wife ; Leeds . ‘ 28 Dec.

J. Silk, m. of his mother at Chesterfield 29 Dec.
H. Walters, m. of Sarah A. McConnell at Sheffield ;
Waketield > > . ‘ “ 23 March,
E. Hartigan, m. of his wife at Knutsford . 27 Nov.
E. J. Moore, m. of his mother at Leamington ;
Warwick . A A ‘ ‘ . 2 April,
W. E. Slack, m. of Lucy Wilson at Chesterfield ;
Derby F ‘ , ‘ j ‘ 16 July,
R. Brinkley, m. of R. & E. Beck; Wandsworth,
13 Aug.

F. Ballington, m. of his wife at Manchester, 28 July,
M. J. Dodds, m. of wife at Hamsterley ; Durham,
5 Aug.

E. Johnstone, m. of Jane W. Withers; Perth,
1g Aug.

J. Nichols, m. of Sarah Wilson at Feltwell . 1 Dec.
W. Bouldry, murder of his wife at Saltwood ;
Maidstone . ? ‘ ; ‘ ‘ 8 Dec.
H. T. Parker, m. of T. Tompkins at Coventry ;
Warwick y ‘ . ‘ é 15 Dec.
N. P. Collins, m. of Annie Lawrence at Albert-
ridwr ; Cardiff . A ‘ - 3 30 Dec.
D. Burke, murder of Frances Denton at Isleworth ;
Pentonville : ‘ é P : 5 Jan.
J. MacDonald, murder of J. Schlitte in Shaftesbury-
avenue; Pentonville. A : ‘ 6 Jan.
T, Mead, murder of Clara Hawell ; Leeds to Feb.
E. Hutchinson, murder of Hannah M. Whiteley at

Halifax ; Wakefield ; é ; . 2 March,
E. Elliott, murder of C. Hannaford at Plymouth ;
Exeter : 30 March,

Morris Reubens and Mark Reubens for murder of
W. Sproull in E. London; Pentonville, 20 May,
J. Edmunds, murder of Cecilia Harris near Aberyst-
wyth; Usk (Mon.) ‘ < A ; 3 July,
W. Davis, murder of Esther H. Richards at Mia.
dlesbrough ; Wakefield ’ ; ; 9 July,
W. Hampton, murder of Emily Barnes at Sterth;
Bodmin . . > . : : 20 July,
M. Shawcross, murder of Emily Ramsbottom ;
Manchester . f é F - 4 Aug.
J. Wammer, murder of Cissie Archer in Waterloo-
road ; Wandsworth . Fs ‘ A 1o Aug.
Madar dal Dhingra, murder of sir Curzon Wyllie at
Imperial Institute ; Pentonville ‘ 17 Aug.
A. Atherton, m. of Elizabeth A. Patrick ; Durham,
8 Dec.

W. Murphy, murder of Gwen. E. Jones at Holy-
head ; Carnarvon , ; : is 15 Feb.,
J. Wren, m of little boy at Burnley, Manchester,
22 Feb,

G. H. Perry, murder of Annie Covell of Ealing ;
Pentonville é . ‘ 1 March,

1904

”

EXETER (Devonshire), said to have been
named Augusta from having been occupied by the
second Augustan legion commanded by Vespasian :
its present name is derived from Excestre. It was
for a considerable time the capital of the West
Saxon kingdom. The BISHOPRIC anciently com-
prised two sees: Devonshire (founded about 909)
and Cornwall. The church of the former was at
Crediton, of the latter at Bodmin, and afterwards at
St. German’s. About 1640 the sees were united.
St. Petroc was the first bishop of Cornwall, before
900, Eadulphus, the first bishop of Devonshire, 905 ;
and Leofric, the first bishop of Exeter, in. 1050.
The cathedral originally belonged to a monastery
founded by Athelstan: Edward the Confessor re-
moved the monks to his new abbey of Westminster,
and gave their church for a cathedral to the united
see, 1049; the see was valued in the king’s books at
yet per annum. Present stated income, 42001.

opulation, 1901, 46,940; 1910 (est.) 52,000.

Alfred invested the city, held by the Danes, and

compelled them to capitulate . ‘ . 877 & 894
Exeter sacked by Sweyn . . ‘ : a + 1003
Besieged by William the Conqueror. ; >. X069
The castle surrendered to king Stephen . : . 1136
The city first governed by a mayor. : . + 1200
The celebrated nunnery founded ‘ ‘ . 1236
The ancient bridge built ; ‘ . . Sr Gy
Edward I. holds a parliament here. . . . 1286
The Black Prince visits Exeter . : ‘ » «+ 1373
The duchess of Clarence takes refuge in the city . 1469
Besieged by sir William Courtenay - eee
City assaulted by Perkin Warbeck . ‘ . + 1497

Exeter constituted a county of itself . ; oo 536
Welsh, the vicar of St. Thomas’s, hanged on the
tower of his church, as a Cornish rebel . 2 July, 1549

Annual festival established . : . 6 Aug. <4
The guildhall built , . : . . : + 1593
Prince Maurice takes Exeter for king Charles I.
Sept. 1643
It surrenders to the parliamentarians . April, 1646
The canal to Topsham cut . . : oo 2675

Aint established by JamesII. . $$ . . 1688
Water-works erected = : . . + 1694
The sessions-house built . ° ° . . + 1773
Thenew vridge built (0 yh St ag
The theatre erected . Seg a ae engi
Lunatic asylum founded =, ° : . + + 1795
County gaol bait: 3 a
Devon and Exeter institution for the promotion

of science established ‘ : . A . » 1803
Subscription library founded . ; : : . 1807
New city prison built . ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ore SONO
The last of the ancient gates removed. ‘ _ oo”
The subscription rooms opened . . ; ~ . ~« 1820
The public baths erected . 3 é . ‘ . 1823
Mechanics’ institution opened . ‘ : Page |
New cemetery commenced . . ‘ . 1837

Railway to Bristol opened ‘ ‘ . 1 May, 1844
Inauguration of a statue of John Dinham, who
died June, 1864, bequeathing 24,000. to charities,
26 March, 1866
Bread and meat riots ; suppressed F 4-5 Nov. 1867
Albert Memorial Museum given up to the town
OUGNON TO ee ee yay pel? 870
A new reredos, by sir Gilbert Scott (see Reredos),
set up in the cathedral (1873): ordered to be re-
moved by decision of the bishop and justice
Keating, 15 April; this decision reversed by
the court of arches (sir R. Phillimore), 6 Aug.
1874 ; the privy council decided that the reredos ?
should remain 24 Feb, 1875
The church-tax ‘ dominicals,” or ‘sacrament-
money,” said to be of the nature of tithes; dis-
traints for payment; much excitement . Oct. »

Destructive fire on the quay, of warehouses, &c.
22 Dec, 1882

Theatre Royal burnt during first performance of

Romany Rye ; panic and loss of about 127 lives 5
gallery exit insufficient, 5 Sept.; the coroner’s

jury
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Hoetress. Tatters wy re Continually Psst from her to
Joanna Sentheote. ag Pattabeth, ay WU Deotideany wud the
Prophetess had ret UMtere tadttste teens HVA TE she
had not Peta Marder thay Wiis she tht have en.
Joyed her dite ME Comlort te the Present Gaines buat all
deceptions Hottest ated: dies Pesan te MUN nedicines,
Without JUEsent in sy oie. ad OU IStecine them
Om aN Geeasionss feo sueh PPPs ead moneed of
ther,

All her pian, there fore, Was te Vomntort the bre ted, ty
find out what Property they were jy POSSE crf, bd acta,
deavor to Mauster they, PReperty te her ayy Haute,
to adiiniste Medes. to siye Ler deetures. and sell the
Seal all under the SHUCTHY Of religions,

Mrs. Perio, the deceased. Whe lived at Bramley, some
distance fron Daves, heme ins Very bad state of health,
Wis recommended to Mrs. Batenian for reheh under her
Complaint. Mp. Bittenan, tecording to her custom, ene
deavered te Hinael conn her Property. Nhe perstaded her
that she Wits bewitehed, and Chiat, in order to ret rid
Of thatevil, tie MUST Cake certain Inedicine Whieh she
would Prepare. pattie at Mato ae peldinnge, She Was also to
have and be ME possession of the Seals as she siid, where
thatevil ould never cuter. The credulous husband and
Wile Delve Hl this was Sep]: they tyreed to al]
Sle saad, and Promised huthtully to Pertormn the same ;
then departed to the own hotise, on “HeCOTUE OL the mule
Upheity of Pristness. sand CUstotwers at hand Waitiig for
SU Mterview with Myy. Pevtenaann,

About erhtoen Months previo ty this, Mrs, Panshaw,
a dady that had Peon darted x, verad years and had ne
elit, Oppled to Ves. Peteman fig ber curions charm:
she diteeted Her to takes CELUI Tiedietie Se Would eaticg
10 be mined "ps and Doct’. x, WE When ste as. Weed her
that COn Cention would tke Phitces wry h Nieappense al ie
cordinely. Nether By weentont ah NH OF Leith, we engnet
Cures buteertan it IS tt ie Ways Kelivercadl at’ a On
and heir. at tthe “PPE tine. te the STeE toy of deg
husband,

Vuother enrions PETE ENCe Oeeu eps Wl hecds just

MARY BATE WAN, 29

COP RUE PRR eee ees scene nea eee “SSO Oe eeneee euseey

before the UMfortnya te WOU Was taken inte custody + 9
lady having fost her son. a CUED atone fevir Vearsold. had
Applied to the Severat parishes rn the town ond country,
but eould nat Feeeve any watedlavegee of Dim anywhere ;
after three ays dived Olapsed. de pphed to Mes. Bateman
Coneering: tiny, When after COUSTTING ae she said. an
invisible agent, she told her ty voheme. ag herehild would
be left At the door Vy nother 4 OM before she vot there
herself: Which Driapopee need sve cordinaly for the ehild was at
home before the Unhappy mother,
faving given Sette anecdotes of this extraordinary
Woman, we Preceed ty state the ertreutars of her TRIAL,
which Commenced at the Cast In the city of York. on
Saturday, Mar hoUT, PSag The first Witness called
Was the husband of the deeensedd - Crem whose evidence
it Appeared that wher Ties Vivaced cnt Bicrmitey:, the prisoner
kept 2 house In the fown of Dares, to wheel a prea
Ntunber of People used te py Sort, They Were of thie
class of mankind whe beheve in the eXistence of wise
people, who CAN foresee events and piecflorm actions far he-
yond the reach Of Fania Power Whew he op lis wife
went to her house, she Viv. Ot aniest PCCASIONS. to consult
invisible bemngs before she could cave HUY GMSwers, from
Whom she used to receive ocular emoustritions of certain
facts that Would befall the Parties ules they porformed
certain conditions. Mecordine to the fenoref her advice.
A evreat coneourse of the most iterate of the People were
her guests, who beleved all he Sd of whom the Witness
Was one. His with was So firm ane the behefiog such an
Meehe heme thar She thonete it MMpossible for Mis. Pate.
Man to do wrong. They hive heen married Upwards of
MWenty vears - during the Tat three Venrs she fied heen
Io bed Slate of heatih, and had Upplied te ditterene
Ply stews: buat alte ne PULPOSE she gat nothing better,
bat rather Worse. Tn the spring of PSO ste complained
Oba beating in her side, baat Went shout her work as
Usual: in this state she lanenished, secking rest but find.
ing none,
Sarah Head. her Meee, Was the neve WHDeSS examined,

ee oe

24 WERDER OF wise We CREA,

Th dh tte three yal

putin Vey tre Oh, i

seri ihe esis WONDEnrur, rrp AND ROMAN «ree TRIAL
‘The Milita h. tree tothy troael } Yoreue Po | as

ee) PED ad Meese tes thy i a ee

Try thaeery Fates Was vb Gia be TT ey AY VR y R \ } bs iY | \N.

Wer tay, Es eee er f vont bie ail,

Bails, INN tems boggy ie “. Pertti dae Teave ly Worist:
Her hey. lind Hern de tray Fae edhe Saag “THN
Vhoathias, Pespraty Ve tea ties Wwe ee
Woh sa! thatin: Pe ad de, mr tty
Vines Senge ther rand oy Pttipeans 4, Var ty, :

Dyce thee at, Corbin age? He stein diy cuit
Vthamed bey a re
“Moth oll thy spood bic yy hd ttt cout Vie te
\ herded Ye he eh Ebvcdes, rr |
The ys Mane fivsged
Har tory seadp t!

iW hv (CUS ¢ neds Medi rd al urs

» Mareg II, Iago,

Deed peg:

MUR DER ay WR,

PERIGO,

Dohe Mather bene

stretelye Mpren the tied
Wher there Pepatins sat !

terre hherrid Prize ot Ulead t

He sank ak Teas. cn die lite

le swt H '\,
Aud Petssed oan

“TUES ct xg tine

the dreadtug day.”

Mirny ]

Vth ay Was born ny
She wes rely

opis Domine Pann

t
VANS 8 wWwornan Whe Ponetratead deeply inte }
Prophetic Hrstory, ned betes her mare; eM ted tay
Write her any, Fern ete Mus te,.,

iF of Doery,
Revelations She wa, TN ert acpy,

Vistoniry ress Of Barony
Jive! and ted fear ¢*

be
2

el sine three
rr Fifth
Puente eter ope. Whi
me both Pyty Hendon After i

26 MARY BATEWAy,

Smranenen eonennmngges a neercesseceeece, WOON eemeeee. cocecns Oot eee meee es ec eees hie Teer

death, ia set of VISONaALY den, tink Pothe home of = The
New-Jerusalem,” Opened several Chapels in London, and
In Other cities tn the hitedony, rolled theme lees the peo-
of heaven, and pretended that those Whe did not bee
eve their doctrine Never conld be Mnitted inte the
third heaven, inhabited only by the celestial angels: the
Spiritual tngels inhabited he Second heaven, anda thirsl
i of people Were to live in the lowest heaven, Swe-
denborg had been in all three, sel Comverse with Cid,
He had kewise beet Mehell, ated there SOW the tniseries of
the damned. He declares thar what trade HM prefers
On earth, le will follow ane the world af Spirits, and that
in that world there js Bary ines, selling aid trade, as here,

Such are the tenets Of these People, Smee this man’s
death they have PUBL SG several of his traets, in whieh
he deseribes the Visionary Transactions he say mn the world
Of spirits, Mary Bateman was Very zealous im that cause
Hot others Suited her Put pose better,

About the eur Te a new Prophet arose, under the
name of Riehard Brothers. aman Who had quitted his
BEES 'S Servier Peeatise he could Het tke anoath, Me
called himself = "pte Nephew af tests ¢ ‘host, and traced
his ancestors from the biuth ef Christ te the Present time,
He prophesied that the Jews Were all to he restored to
their own Hun in the year PFOS) Dis doctrines Mary
Bateman for some Mee alhered to. dat yet this would
Pet answer her obicct which was le get money,

About the Your PSOS we wonds rial Prophetess. Hamed
OOO Sontheate. 4 Second Deboraly. Hose, which was
ter bre sy mniehty deliverer ny Fete Ob teed = ste Was Wiser
than this least, for shies did HOU Wish te rieddle with, polities,
She pretended that Stee disned in hier Possession, delivered to
her hy SUpernateral POWers, certian: sent ned that all
Who favored tre Phiten tes. Nery gy it ef tlhe tein: Of their
death, and firmly De lien rnpe Net doubting. Wenld nied).
ately de MWateste pred pap, he Kicead Pool heaven Several
p ena don Peres ston of be, iL Dnt tyespees eVer pe.
Cirned te reyecat Wie secrets as thre Sport cd world How.
‘ ver, Wotid itil Not Td] Veeertionn Py \ lye ued ated thiade
Wis master vy Tt Ie pee ty Tha boy coed Pres His.

— .-

MARY BATEMAN, 27

ter resided in the Perish of on Jonna remain.
ed invisible, heing se Stered as notte be Spoken to, until
the wonderful dreaming boy had fiese Mead tT conference
With the parties so destrons of the ores Mmieul seng,
Several hooks y Te published, sed ate Ir tenets explame.
ed to all Such as had a CUPOSITY ta fear them: and
they for atime had se wondertil seetof Money vetting
people, When the hoc trines Of these people were re.
ceived at Leeds, ne MME WIS so forward te beheve them
| as Mrs. Bateman. She assented te the trath of all ned
Immediately Caused letters tu te forwarded tay London for
| the books ind seals, that She mioeht Convert all her neigh.
hors,
| ODta ttyes receipt Of these letters, the books amd Visi-
ble seals Were forwarded ta Mrs. Bateman. With instrae.
tions how they were to be used. and for whist Purposes,
They were to he apphed on UD ocenstons, Such as nese
of any kind, all sorders of the tind or body, &e.: if
death’ should happen, were ty be certain Passport: into
the kingdom of heaven: with a variety of other Virtues,
both temporal and spiritiial, :

Mary Bateman WAS ho sooner jn Possession of the
Secret, than she contrived too make it serve hep OWN pure
pose, "The doctrine of Swerdlenhore Would no longer d
hor yet Brothers they did net prodnece profit, Wy do
Hot find she ever eit sage Anal Magnetisin,”
‘ Astroloay or Phiretetosey

Mrs, Bateman ds TT a TS any) POSsession of the “amos
Seal whieh was ty Porton niiraetes. She began te put the
SUMO INO praetien. Her hattse Was sitmated inthe popu
{eTown Leeds. in Yorksture. £, He A Woman of some
talent, seve always having words Wf command, She Lave
Jeetures sy Stated thes. for CNP nie thy above MVS.
tertes Vitor beer lem titres yey POOver she way Visited by a
SPeOO tttmber of MMMUETY people that were aMheted with
Vartorps eoerpleints = onply Wet te Pers tenped OMtoof merry.
ber. were SOMOOE Ter Pace CUS omer.

She wasn tel] PROT ae Of tyes Heoen tions for Upwards
of twe Vecrs She id not ful te SEV pee im oall
Chrome Ttsenteey - He Short. thes Was oc Complete quack

o—

30 WARY RATEMAN,
SArnntn een enna tenn eees eee cae, OS PRG te ee wee. at Tee eee SN NNenetesnatan i ewesassaa

She said, that hearing her aunt was WN. sti ese to see
her; When She ene Slim fone ev cent. y sposed, who
told her of Hts Curions Wotan resting at Laceds. and that
by a charm she Performed Wonderful Mess alse that a
Man, named Buttertiotd, one day atthe Market told her
that an evit eye lay on hers this: she thought boded ho
Rood. ft alerwards Ppeared that the Psoner, on nape
ket days, Used to vet x Me people of her SeCl tO hiauice
alter the health OF peonle that resorted thither, ane Wany
complained of ness, hey were told (hat they were
Cither bewiteled, OF an oval spirit ruled them, und that
if they applied to such person in the town, famous
Jor dispelling this Kind of demons, they would eertauly
de released from their troubles: they world Hol forget
those parts of SVrtpture favorable ty their purpose: by this
Means the Hetero country People were delided, On
her return ty Paeeds she called on the Prisoner, related
Te ease of her UME, santa eXpressed a wish Chat she would
Undertake her eres on whieh she returned: Coad thanks
Chat) ste Fal thet Wher power hit world etre her soul
as well as her benly:, MOAN The Seopa seal She said,
When you Fevur to voue aunt, let her send ane somo
SATOH she Wears MONG her shan” Her nels Called
On the prisoner thout a week After the teee hid deliver.
ed the Messe, Mpg. Bateman sked lina ay he had
brought the Vine Petticoat: fie rephed he had: She said
she muse Send atcty Sea ‘boroueh Dy that Mehts post.
Coach, toa lady tamed Blyth. whe Was ct resident an that
town, and that he Wes foeall in Leeds on the following
Week when there Would be at letter to tell hit what Was
to be done. He did not ful to attend Wweording ty ip.
Poutanen, When he Called ste had a letter m her hind,
Which she sind Was returned trom Miss Blyth of Nea.
Dorongl: and after reading the Sid letter lofi, ste put
Moan the fire ane burnt qe: his her Mele was SUE prised
at, believing that the letter Wes to be riven tor fein,
Tt stated that Mary Beaten an Wits fo va aver a) Mr. Poy).
$s house the followin Week CV hiursdiy y ned take foie
UNO Hotes With her, one of whieh Wats for die PE ata enedy
Corner of there level - tnd they Were te Live prey fone. her

WARY Batiwyy, 31

EUINCA Notes WD retires
Bateman Wh Wane: toy Tae Pett asa thane ee tor Mr tents, lor
if fonehed before: Wat tere OV thee ty Cocmoadd. ay Weld hall
her— x flash of Visebitynneyes World Visapopmeny Creat weonnte inn
mediately be thre CUMS OF Jrep le ath: tht Mrs Blyth
World not take her wa diced te Pertornna thy CUTE, titles sMae
Would consent ty tits scanned tasag every other promise matist
likewise De Perfortned. The POsoner come ti py rige’s
house at the time Appomited. sty. Was teeeiyed ay an
angel from heaven, Whe came forth ts Aeliver her aint of
her troubles, shy look out forap SUINOT testes, fig Whieh
he gaye her four LUO tasters any POUT, ste thet took one
our Stoll bags of SUK, sued “ewe the qotes she fronds
in then - nd these bass Were Dat twe hy Whe deceased,
and two by the WIthiess. at the Iour corners Of the bed.
Prisoner then Came AW, cane Sud Parte Went call an
her when he came to Varedds. sas iy Was Tike Wy there: would
be a letter left for Nit: ste Mie tek her eave nel dle.
parted,

About a fortniens Mer, Ne peeeived letter by the prix.
Oners foot-boy. whieh PUrported to conse eta Meo bop.
ough, and was stoned by Way Blyth. Pcs, Mer fees at tepe
wards burnt, as direeted by the prisoner, She viete thus:

Sir :

* Enclosed is a letter from: Miss Blyth, Of Secrhoroneh,
Which when YOu Ave perused bet a rE ied pags,
tents thereof: should HY One Pere the SMe Von anal
your wite’s lite wall bee any Cancer, say the eliareny y HD be:
broke = i¢ You should not lie, yan ys UT dae Pleated with
tll hinds of CVils, Which it Wail tat bee ay NY Power ty
Prevent,

We shall Whe wise hrvow an ay We sled biayy HWoex.
plamed te Miss Ey thy canned me. Panny vours,

M. Pateway

* CeO emececceses ae

After this Mother letter was Meeenved. any Which the pris.

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warm darkness of a July midnight.”

On the fameus courts that afternoon
scions of English society and the sports
world had witnessed the thrilling finals
of the All-England tennis tournament.

It was at 12:15 a.m. of July 13, 1938,

that the man returning home from late.

office work swung his car into the lane
which skirts the south border of the
common. The bright headlights cut
sharply across the lawns and hedges.
They shone full on the body of a woman
outstretched in death!

One close look at the waxen face sent
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lonely spot. Deputy Chief John Sands
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Wimbledon Nursing Home was sum-
moned.

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rived. Thé'Scotland Yard official studied
the victim: who, he judged, was about
30 years :old. She was fairly well dressed
and had been attractive.

“She.was stabbed; once through the
heart,” ‘the doctor said. “Death was

An hour before she was slain, Rose
Atkins had borrowed four shillings.
Was she, then, a robber's victim?

almost instantaneous, I should judge.”

“How long ago was that?”

“Not much more than an hour. There
is no rigor mortis and the body is not
yet cold.”

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the morgue for an autopsy while as-
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siderable bleeding?”

The physician nodded: “Oh, yes.
Profuse.” ;

“Well, there isn’t any here.” Sands’
powerful flashlight illuminated. the
ground where the body had lain. It was
true. There was no pool of blood any-
where.

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violently for some: minutes—wherever
the slaying actually took place. The
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ward. That would mean that it had
been here only a short time before it
was discovered. And bleeding had
stopped.”

Sands and Detective Cowper con- ©
ferred on the rnystery facing them. It
now appeared obvious the killer had
driven his (Continued on page 10)

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victim to the spot, possibly half an hour
after her death.

“In that case we probably won't find
the weapon around here,” Cowper said,
“but we'll keep looking. I'll tell the
men. We can concentrate on trying to
find footprints and tire tracks.”

The search was resumed along those
lines. There would be time enough to
learn who the attractive victim was,
and then to theorize on who had struck
so savagely to put her out of the way.
There was no purse, so robbery could
have been a motive. But the power
behind the deadly thrust indicated a
man, and a thief rarely went to such
lengths to steal a purse. Could there
have been a double reason for the
tragedy of the tennis court?

Carefully the investigators scruti-
nized a strip approximately 12 feet
wide leading from the body to the road.
On a soft. spot they saw the well-de-
fined print of a large sole. It was fresh
and pointed in the direction where, the
body had lain. What was more, it cut
deeply into the soil, indicating: that the
wearer of the shoe had been heavily
laden. Cowper and Sands bent close
and studied the print with their flash-
lights. :
“There are some letters—a trade-

mark,” Sands said. He pointed to what

appeared to be the figure 9 followed by

a space, a reversed “S” and a “T’. Let-

ters or numerals before and after those

-which were legible could not be made |

out.
Fell While Running

“If you held a mirror to these,” Sands
said, “you would see how they must
appear on the sole that made them. The
order then would be reversed. The zd
would be first, followed by the ‘S’. Then
there would be a space and the mark
which looks like a figure 9 undoubtedly
would prove to be a capital ‘pe
“When we get a cast we'll Have a re-
production of the whole thing,” Cowper
agreed. He signaled a technical as- °
sistant and ordered him ‘to start mak-
ing a plaster replica of the find. Then
he rejoined Sands, who had reached
the roadway. “Anything. else?” he
asked.

“Plenty of tire tracks here,” Sands
said. “Too many, in fact. However,
your cast men can eliminate’ those. of
the motorist who found the body and
the others we know. ‘We'll want the
‘rest, of course. Ah, here’s something
“more!” :

He was pointing to a scuffed area
which indicated that someone had
slipped on the sandy roadway and
taken a tumble. “Running back to his
car,” Cowper suggested. “Took here.”
He indicated a long scrape which could
have been made when an arm was
thrust out to break the fall. There was

lightly scraped some of the top layer
into an envelope for later analysis un-

der the microscope.
But except for the footprints and tire

| marks the area yielded nothing. The

victim could have been slain anywhere
within half an hour’s automobile travel

time, and for any of a dozen reasons

a chance that shreds of cloth had been -.
held by the sandy ground and Cowper .

rom robbery to unrequited love.
Leaving the area heavily guarded,

Cowper and Deputy, Chief Sands re-
turned to headquarters to see what
further evidence Had been turned up.
They learned that further examination
of the body had revealed that an un-
usual knife had. been used in the

/slaying.

“The wound shows that the blade had

a sharp hook or curve at the end,’ the
physician said.
sort of knife, cobblers' usé “to cut.
leather.” : :

“Tt could havebeen the, °*

Identification of the victim ran into 244.
a snag, however. Like most women, the:
victim carried nothing to identify her
once her purse was gone. The-tabels in
her clothes showed them to be of good
make but not from- exclusive shops
where she might be remembered. Her

-fingerprints failed to check with any

on file.

“We'll have to ask the public to view
the body and hope for an identification .
that way,” Sands said.

This was done on the following day
while Sands and Cowper reviewed
their meager clues with Superintendent
Frederick Cherrill of Scotland Yard.
Long lines of spectators filed slowly
past the body but it was not until the
evening of July 15 that a man came
forward and identified the victim as
Mrs. Rose Muriel Atkins, 32, a shop-
worker. Of late months, it was learned,
she had taken to spending considerable ie
time in pubs, and had worried her jy;¢
friends with her conduct.. She had been, 44

estranged from her husband for foureGe

years. :
The identification gave fresh impetus
to the investigation. Detectives began
a round of all public houses in the area
seeking to find her companions on the
fatal night. But while this phase of the
inquiry was moving slowly forward,
developments occurred on two other
fronts.
Plaster casts of the footprint with its
partial inscription were. shown to man-
agers of various shoe stores and the

With all hope gone, the killer con-
fessed. "I don't want to die with
this upon my conscience," he said.

print was identified as t
turned out by the “eae a
parly. Superintendent Cherrill and
; eputy Sands headed at once for the
ae distributing office of the concern
which handled the sales of the shoes
Meanwhile Detective Cowper and 2
eaued e men checked out the tirf
oe oe at the scene, particularly
nies ees es Abe ee what obviously
. Such a i
have been ideal for the ae ae
performed three days before ae

_ Coincidence of Clues

Sands and Cherrill found ‘the shoe |

» CMMpany managey in hi
+ 0m is offi
‘ eee him the plaster cast. “It’s we
i right,” he conceded. “What else do
you want to know?” oe
le bought the shoes?”
(manager smiled and shook hi
gee ee supply Saas ee ee
e. Each shop has hun-
ee ioe customers. I belie you will
ree at most of them have lists of
eir patrons, but I don’t envy you the!
i of questioning each one.” ;
or were the officials leased i
re Prospect, but it could 2 done Mi
A entire staff delegated to the work
Si sekel if the shoes had been pur-
ve in another part of the country
: ue effort would go for nothing.
oes a chance they would have to
They were leavin
g the shoe co
2 the new line of fart cn
Mae €y were surprised to see an
cial car drive up and Detective

ET he Oe

cones 6 step out.
ought i
marks," uh ek ye checking tire
am,” Cowper repli
; plied. <
Proust me here. After we ioe
- lat of tire I looked over the records’
ae e local sales office and found that
we ee uses the tires on its de-
prey cks. There were plenty of
: ers, too—in fact this is the thi
Place we've visited.” gees
oes ce Cherrill exchanged
arian €y were ‘acutely aware of
se ee eee by which two separate
le mee @ the same place, It could
cv —or it could mean a great
“A man who o
perated a y,
ries company probably would we
a bene made by that concern if on]
nae . reason that he would get hers
ae iemgey Press Cherrill observed
aie S deserves special consider-
The three investi
gators agai
ee a ae ne eet a ae
E ey foun
Peed it with og eee aa a
Pag hea! the victim was bled out
ae ae) se = the ‘tennis court.”
( r : she were tr:
ve truck, there should be ae
vidence of it.” sats
But even as th
t ey drew
a they -experienced oe
ae gs. It was washed and polished a
: avoscne had taken great pains with
re ete Pa the double doors in
thrown open, t
of soap and a digit ae rel

a aid

‘anf

able, Flashlights directed into the in-
terior showed spotless floorboards,

The men looked wordlessly at the
scrubbed flooring of the van. Was this
the way it always was kept by a
meticulous operator? Or had it been
cleaned for a special reason?

Cherrill made a swift decision. “Have
this truck driven to headquarters,” he
said. “I want Dr. Gardner to go over
it. If it was used in this crime, he will
be able to prove the fact. No matter
how much scrubbing is done, blood will
tell.”

While ‘an assistant carried out the
order the detectives made a minute
search of the garage. Fifteen minutes
slipped by while they looked over vari-
ous tools, none of which appeared sus-
Picious. Detective Cowper found a
small heap of ashes in a dustbin and
poked at them with his finger. He bent
and sniffed, then. called the othérs. _

“There’s a smell of petrol here,” he -

said. “It’s a strange place to make a
fire.” .

Cherrill examined the bits of charred
debris in the ashes. “Cloth,” he said.
“Rags were burned or . . .” he glanced
significantly at his colleagues
“bloodstained garments.”

The ashes were gathered up and the
police officials continued their search
of the garage with renewed vigor. It
was Sands who climbed a wall ladder to
reach the dusty attic. He turned his
torch behind the iron girders. Within
ten minutes he gavé an exultant shout
and clambered down. He was holding
two objects.

Fingerprint On Purse

One was a woman’s purse. , It was of
brown leather and could not have been
very old. In the other hand, by its

. charred tip, he held a cobbler’s knife.
The blade was stained and burned, but
still appeared deadly with its sharp
hook. The handle was almost burned
away.

He .placed the knife gently on a
piece of paper. Then, using a handker-
chief and proceeding with utmost cau-
tion, he opened the purse. It was empty.

Cherrill swung to Cowper. “I want
you to stay here,” he said. “Talk to the
manager of the company but don’t tell
him what we have learned. These
things will have to be examined care-
fully at headquarters and then- we will
come back.” He paused. “I hope,” he
said, “that when we do we will know
exactly for whom we are looking.”

The plan of action was carried out.
While Cowper remained behind to
make preliminary soundings about the
employes of the company, Sands and
Cherrill drove speedily to headquarters.

They found exciting news awaiting
them. Dr. Eric Gardner, a pathologist,
already had taken scrapings from the
wooden floor of the truck. He reported

. that in the pores of the wood he ‘had
found minute traces of human blood.
There also was a report from Dr. Roche
Lynch, an analyst of the Home Office,
who had examined the sand scraped
up at the murder scene roadway. It
contained tiny particles of cloth which
had come from a dark brown -tweed

12 suit, the microscope showed.

Now the laboratory experts went to
work feverishly on the new clues, From
the metal rim of the woman’s purse
they lifted a single fingerprint which a
quick comparison showed had not come
from Rose Atkins. But neither did it
check with any of the prints on file in
Scotland Yard. The cobbler’s knife had
been so burned that it was impossible
to tell whether the stains on it had been
caused by blood. oe ee

Cherrill pondered: the eVidence to.’

“I. have reason: to believe now that
your present employes all are inno-
cent,” he told the official. “But how
about former workers? Did anyone
leave your company in recent months—
anyone, that is, who could have taken
keys with him?” *.-

The manager studied briefly, and
then his face lighted. “Of course,” he
said. “George Brain used to drive that
truck for us.’He left about three months

“ago and I never gave him a thought.”

date. “We have a killer who wore ai®s. “Could he have taken keys to the

dark brown tweed suit and Cat’s .Paw

shoes,” he said thoughtfully. “He had’#esked eagerly.

access to a van which almost certainly
was used in that murder, and the first
thought is that he was a. driver. But
he also used a knife which could indi-
cate that he was employed in the shoe
repair section of the company. There
is no evidence so far, though, to show
that Rose Atkins knew anyone at that
plant.” _

“It will be a lot easier to check the
employes of the shoe company than
the customers,” Sands said.

Cherrill rose. “Quite,” he said. “Let’s
go back and take it up with Cowper.”

Within a short time the three investi-
gators were closeted with the shocked
manager of the shoe concern. The lat-
ter was astounded to learn that all the
evidence in the murder of Rose Atkins
pointed to an employe of his company.
But he immediately called in the three
men who used cobbler’s knives in the:
shoe repair. department. ;

All stoutly denied knowing anything

of the slaying. Despite alibis which they "Pertain sicse ct thelr anan, the Scot

offered they were .fingerprinted, while
their stories for the time of the killing
were checked. Shortly after it was
established that none had left his
fingerprints on the purse, investigators
reported that their alibis were ironclad.
Cherrill smiled grimly. “That merely
makes three fewer suspects,” he said.
“We'll go on along the same lines.”
This time two employes who had ac-
cess to the van and permission to use it
were questioned. They too were able
to establish their innocence with alibis
and fingerprints. Cherrill’s confidence

vhad begun to give way to gnawing

doubts when he went again to the shoe
company office.

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§arage and the van with him?” Cherrill

“He tuyned in’ our keys when he.
left,” the “manager said. “But he had
them’ lonagenough to have had any
number’ oF uplicates made.”

aie

Away From Home

The officers soon had a complete de-
scription of Brain. “He was 27 years
old, five feet seven inches in height
and very heavy, weighing in the neigh-
borhood of 190 pounds. His hair was
thick and wavy and his complexion was
ruddy. His principal amusements were
billiards and dog racing. He owned a
dark brown tweed suit.

Detectives hurried to his home in
Richmond, Surrey. They were doomed
to a new disappointment. Brain, they
learned, had left three days earlier and
had not since been heard from.

4, ,/:Send out a general alarm,” Cherrill
“ordered. “Have all docks watched. He
AY. not yet have gotten out of the

land Yard investigators pressed a
countrywide search. The sprawling
City of London failed to reveal a trace
of him. But shipping records did not
indicate that he had left from any of
the principal ports, and officials were
hopeful that he still would be captured.

Meanwhile one more pathetic detail
of Rose Atkins’ last moments was
learned. An habitue of a tavern in the
Wimbledon area came forward and re-
vealed that he had seen her at 10:30
P.M. on the night of her death—ap-
proximately an hour before she was
fatally stabbed.

“She told me she was stony broke,”
the informant said. “I loaned her four
shillings, all I could spare. She put the
money in that purse.I seen a picture of
in the newspapers.”

The information was more puzzling
than enlightening. Though George
Brain was no pillar of society, his his-
tory did not indicate that he was a man

.y,to do murder for four shillings. What

‘had been his connection with Rose

Atkins, and how had he happened to
meet and murder her within an hour?
His continued absence despite the
widespread manhunt served to con-
firm the suspicions against him.

It was on August 4, 1938, that a
weather-beaten man came into the of-

fice of Kent police. He identified him-

self as the captain of a fishing trawler.
“Look here,” he said. “I’ve just seen
something odd, and I think you should
know about it.”
He explained that as he was bringing
his trawler in from the sea off Minster,
Sheppey, he (Continued on page 44)

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a heavy-set young man ex- tracks and footprints. They examined
i sous. The ropes cobbler’s knife and heard the head of

He found

the aid of a car he was hauled to the top. print found on the metal rim 0°
He was taken to the local hospital jn woman’s purs' i i

looked at. the girculars sent out by Scot- to be hanged.
land Yard and then at the young man who In the wee

was being given stimulants. ; | /
“It’s George Brain;” the Kent chief said. obtain commutation of his sentence

“Cali the Yard at once.
Superintendent Cherrill and Deputy called Superintendent Cherrill to his

Sands personally drove to Kent to inter- in Wandsworth Prison.

ks that followed Brain

view the man who had been rescued from “J know I’m going,” Brain said. “J don’t
nt. to die with this on my conscience.

such a strange predicament. He was con~ t.
scious and taking food when they arrived. T° F,tell you the truth.”

A uniformed constable stood at the door of He>
his room. ' «ih

“Why did you kill Rose Atkins?” Cher- Wut-thad been determined to £0 through
with his marriage. On the fatal night he

capture, George Brain did took duplicate Keys to the shoe company

rill demanded.
But even in

not surrender so easily. “1 didn't kill her,” garage and “porrowed” the van to pick up
he said. “But 1 heard about it and knew some furniture which he had loaned to

URSES \; you would suspect me because 1 saw her Mrs. Atkins.
| This was news to the detectives but leave for my new rooms when Rose came
they did not betray the fact by so much along,” Brain said. “We talked about
as a raised eyebrow. “Then why did you things and ‘she insisted upon going along.

run away?” Sands asked. I let her get in the truck beside me, and
“J just told you,” Brain said, defiance drove to the courts at Wimbledon.

on his pudgy face. “I knew Rose Atkins “There was a terrible argument when
and saw her that night. When I heard she we got there.’ She bit my hand.” He dis-

was dead, I rea ;
p my mind that I -wouldn’t be taken lying on the seat and I grabbed it.”

alive, and so left Richmond.
He said that eventually he had gone to the knife once. Rose Atkins went limp

the cliff overlooking the sea, determined to he quickly placed her in the back of the
a leap to the water and truck. He drove around the area consider-

end his life in
jagged rocks below. He noted the pro- ing what he should do. Finally he

trading ledge and had no desire to fall carried her'to the spot where she
that relatively short distance and lie there found. He left. the furniture at his
injured but still alive. So he climbed down home and’ took the truck

to jump from a i i

nerve failed hi
discover that he could not climb _back light sweater which had become

“J couldn’t g° either way,” he said... “{ stained. When he saw how diffic t
shouted but nobody heard me: -After a da i i

% remember the passage of * hidden it with the knife.

would be suspected in a murder of which

was brought back to the Joeale of the mur-
der in handculls. While the Crown prey
pared to charge him with murder in the
first degree, the detectives reopened’ their
investigation. in the light of the admissions

king the water. They found that heshiad been among
on him and he was not half a dozen admirers’ of Rose Atkins and
moving. he said. “All the time 1 watched had, in,fact, occupied the place of favorite

he didn’t so much as, move ;
the top of ‘the ‘ But™recently he had started keeping

company with a younger woman and ha
pro marriage to her. Theorizing that
he had found it difficult to. break off with

evidence 0

to the spot and Baker was lowered. testimony of experts concerning the tire

regained conscious~ of Brain's left hand. They found h
sho he was. They guilty as charged and he was sentence

weight rapidly. When every attempt to
ha

failed, a haggard and trembling prisoner

lized I'd be blamed. 1 made played several scars. “There was 4 knife

c
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time. But now I know that I must have George Brain appeared relieved after
spent eight days on that ledge.” making _his confession. But it did not
The Scotland Yard officials were not con- change his fate. On the morning of No-

vinced that George Brain: had attempted vember 2, 1938, he was hanged in Wands-

suicide merely because the feared he worth Prison.

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MRS. BEATRICE SUT.
TON: The killer who
Openly boasted of
having outwitted
Scotland Yard made
9 fatal error when he
added this woman
to his list of victims.

with a broad square pattern, a gin-
ger-bread brown tweed cap, a gold
wrist watch with a thin leather
band,

Field was then taken to the
Rogues Gallery, where he spent
days on end going through the file
of pictures. The description was
flashed to the local constabulary
throughout England and all were

cautioned to be on the lookout for .

the man in question.
While Field was thus engaged a

second possibility as to the manner ‘

in which the girl gained entrance
was uncovered by a Scotland Yard
operative. He learned that a restau-
rant proprietor near the scene had
duplicate keys that fit the front
door and that he rented them out
to the ladies of the evening for
short periods of time.

The cafe proprietor was brought
in and grilled at lengh. First he
denied that he carried on any such
traffic, but later admitted that this
was the case. However, he was

A view of New Comp.
fon Street in London
showing the shop
(marked with X)
where the strangled
strumpet was found
by two sign-painters,

‘* 3apositive’ that none of

out that night, He swore, also, that ®:
“$2.0... NoraUpchurch had. never been: one:
“yi + Of. his* customers. ‘Nor, ‘he’ added -

~.. (the “truth, » He reasoned - that ‘the

the keys were™::

ice parenthetically, had ‘he been’ one ot.
her customers. 9°')./." ei
‘It ‘was’ Superintendent Cornish’s’ '*

opinion that this man was speaking

_ Proprietor,» having ' ‘admitted: the
traffic in keys,” which. was: most ;
damaging to his reputation, ‘could :’
have admitted handing them out on
the murder night without doing
‘further damage to his name, and
certainly without implicating him-
Self in the crime in any way.

‘[ {HE hunt for the mysterious

individual to whom Field had
given the keys became the focal
point of the investigation. The
fourth day following the crime a
constable, Patrolling his beat in
Richmond, a suburb of London,
Saw a tall, slim man walking
swiftly along the street. The
manner in which this individual
walked was highly suspicious, for
he seemed to be hugging the
sides of (Continued on page 51)

over and have a seat, Sheriff. They’re
not so bad once you get used to
them.”

“I’m glad you feel that way about
3.”

“Yeah, but
that name.
enough of it,” Mitzfelt said. “Do you
have any good news for me?”

“I’ve got some good news, but it’s
for me and not for you.”

The smile on Mitzfelt’s face faded.
“What do you mean?” he demanded.

“I mean,” Booth said, “that we have
arrested two young Negroes over at
Tucumcari. They had a .44 calibre
revolver, the same kind used to shoot
Wanda Lee Martin. We thought it
was strange that those two colored
boys should want to shoot that girl.
Then we found out why. They told
us. It seems there was a little money
involved—with. you on the paying
end. You almost fooled us, Richard,
with that iron-clad alibi. That was
pretty smooth, all right.”

Mitzfelt had been too stunned all
through the sheriff’s story to say a
word. But now, he jumped to his
feet in a storming rage, and shouted,
“Why those bungling fools! Ill kill
them for this. They promised me
that if they were arrested they
wouldn’t spill a word.”

Booth’s trick was working, but still
he didn’t have the information he
wanted—the names of the Negroes.
The sheriff kept leading Mitzfelt on.

“How did you happen to hire those
two fellows?” Booth asked.

“Oh, I don’t know. I found them
working in a bowling alley over at
Tucumcari.”

There was one good clue—they
worked in a bowling alley.

He said, “Which one of the fellows
did you talk to first, Mitzfelt?”

I’m getting about

the buildings where the shadows were
heaviest.

His suspicions aroused, the con-
stable hurried across the street and
laid a detaining hand on the stranger’s
arm.

“May I enquire as to your name?”
the constable asked politely.

“Marvin Benton,” ‘the man replied,
attempting to move on.

The constable’s. hand tightened on
his sleeve. “Just one moment please.
What is your occupation?” ,

“I don’t know the reason for this
inquiry,” Benton said in an indig-
nant tone. “But if it is of any inter-
est to you I am a leather goods sales-
man,”

It was then that it clicked in the
constable’s mind. This man answered .
abst the description sent out by

cotland Yard. He was a shade over
six feet tall, slim, had a mouse-col-
ored moustache, hair that was cut
short at the back and sides. Even
his clothing was a match, for he was
clad in a suit of plus fours and’ wore
socks with the same square pattern
as described in the alarm.

The occupation Benton gave—that
of a leather goods salesman—was in
keeping with the one the mysterious

FACTS FROM OFFICIAL FILES

“I don’t know what his last name
was,” Mitzfelt stormed, “but his first
name was Clarence, and he said he
could get me another boy who
worked there named Charlie, and
they would do the job for me. I told
them I’d give them $500 if they
would kill Ilene, and $100 if they’d
kill Mr. or Mrs. Watkins.”

“You sure wanted them out of the
peer pretty bad, didn’t you?” Booth
said.

“Sure. It made me mad_ because
Ilene was going to divorce me, and
I made up my mind if she wouldn't
live with me she wouldn’t live with
anyone else.”

“And why did you want to get rid
of Mr. and Mrs. Watkins?”

“Because,” Mitzfelt said, “I knew
they were trying to keep Ilene away
from me.”

Sheriff Booth phoned the Tucum-
cari police chief. “I have some more
leads on those two Negroes I called
you about before,” he said. “One of
them is named Clarence and the other
is Charlie. They work in a bowling
alley.”

And in less than an ‘hour, Police
prong Durrett called Sheriff Booth
ack,

“We have your men,” Durrett said.
“That information was all we needed.”

And that night, Sheriff Booth and
Texas Ranger Arthur brought the
two Negroes, Clarence Ingram and
Charles Wilson, back to Texas and
placed them in jail.

Ingram, thinking that Mitzfelt had
squealed on him and _ his buddy,
came out with the whole story.

He said the same thing that Mitz-
felt did about the price and about
where the New Mexico farmer had
contacted him.

“Mitzfelt brought us to Clovis,”

Theres said, “and gave us the re-
volver, then took us out by the Wat-
kins farm, and showed us a picture
of his wife.. He wanted us to be sure

to get her and, if we had time, to get’

the old folks, too. My buddy and I,
we laid down in a ditch out there by
a road till it got dark, then walked
over to the house and saw this girl
sittin’ with her back to the window.
She looked just like the woman we
were supposed to kill, so I took good
aim at her and shot.

“There was a lot of screaming, and
the old man blew the lamp out, so we
beat it back across the field. ‘We
walked into Clovis and got here
about He peers gt We stayed in Clovis
all night and the next day we caught
a_ freight train back to Tucumcari.
We stopped off at Grants for a while
and sold that revolver.”

Wilson added that they were sup-
posed to meet Mitzfelt on the corner
of First and Main Streets early the
next morning. He was to pay them
off then. But he didn’t show up and
they read in the papers about his
arrest, so they beat it back to Tu-
cumcari. :

On January 19, 1941, Mitzfelt, In-
gs and Wilson all pleaded guilty

efore Judge James W. Witherspoon

toa ge of assault with intent to
murder. itzfelt and Ingram were
both sentenced to 25 years in the
Texas State Penitentiary at Hunts-
ville. Wilson was given a fifteen-
year sentence at the same place.

When Sheriff’ Booth loaded the
criminals: up and started for Hunts-
ville, Mitzfelt made only one State-
ment. “All I’m sorry for,” he said,
“is that we got the wrong person.”

(The names Frank Kinion and
Jack Miller are fictitious to save inno-
cent persons from embarrassment.)

THE STRANGLED STRUMPET

(Continued from page 21)

stranger had given Field.

Benton, protesting bitterly over the
action of the constable in arresting
a citizen whose only apparent crime
was walking on a public thorough-
fare, was taken to Scotland Yard for
further interrogation.

Superintendent Cornish asked the
suspect whether he knew Norma Up-
church, and Benton replied that all
he knew about the beautiful strumpet
was that her strangled body was
found in an empty store and that he
had read this in the newspapers. So
far as his telling a man named Field
that He was intending to open a lug-

gage shop in the murder store, that

was just so much ridiculous nonsense.
Nor, he maintained, was he in the
shabit of handing out ten dollars to
strange men.
- The following morning Field ar-
rived and was confronted with Ben-
ton. The short, gaunt-faced sign
ainter looked up at the tall Benton.
here was no hesitation in his manner.
“That’s him, all right,” he said.
Superintendant Cornish looked at
Benton. “Well, what do you have
to say about it now?”
Benton looked stunned. “I swear
he’s made a mistake,” he cried.

Superintendent Cornish pointed out
to Field that there was one slight
discrepancy in the description. The
original one furnished by the sign
painter was that the man who made
off with the keys had a gold tooth
in his right upper jaw. Benton
had none.. Despite this minor differ-
ence Benton fit the picture in all other
details. Field answered this by say-
ing that it was his impression that
the man had a gold tooth, but that
despite this there wasn’t a shadow
of doubt in his mind but that Benton
was the right person.

All that day questions were shot
at the suspect. y nightfall he still
stood up under the barrage. He still
denied having had relations with the
beautiful strumpet or, for that matter,
ever having seen her. His alibi, cov-
ering the period of time when Field
said he had handed him the key,
was that he was attending a movie
show at the Strand, a half mile re-
moved from the vacant store. At
the time of the murder—the division-
al police surgeon set the time of death
at between eight P: M. and twelve
midnight of the night immediately
preceding the finding of the body—
he was in the company of five friends

responded with a half dozen of his
assistants.

The divisional police surgeon
leaned over Nora's body. The girl’s
face was blue, the lips puffed and
the eyes bulging, making it obvious
that the cause of death had been
strangulation. Examining her throat
he found that, not only the belt
from her coat—it still dangled
loosely from her neck—had been
used, but the killer’s bare hands had
also been employed, for fingers had
made purple marks over her wind-
pipe. Following his examination on
the scene and his later autopsy at
the hospital the police surgeon in-
dicated that the girl had had sev-
eral men visitors that night. He
said that, aside from the disordered
condition of the clothing, there was
nothing in his examination which
would suggest that the girl had
struggled with her last visitor.
Superintendent Cornish: had al-
ready ruled out rape as a possible
motive.

From scuff marks on the floor it
was easy to see that Nora had been
slain in the front part of the store
and then dragged—there were
parallel marks made by the high
heels of her shoes—to the rear
room.

There was nothing on the scene
which gave any indication as to the
motive for the crime or the identity
of the perpetrators.

Superintendent Cornish sent con-
stables on a house to house canvass
in the neighborhood in an effort to
discover whether any of them had
seen the girl enter the store the
previous night. An appeal was is-
sued through the newspapers for
any chance pedestrian who might
have witnessed it to come forth and
tell his story. There were none.

There were no clues left by the
killer or killers. However, Super-
intendent Cornish had three leads
on which to work. The first was
that the painted ladies of the eve-
ning, with whom the victim had
been friendly, all said that the girl
never went out on a night’s work
without carrying her handbag with
her. None was found on the scene
of the crime.

The second was the manner in
which she had gained entrance to
the store the night before. It could
be taken for granted that she
wouldn’t climb through the narrow
window as did the sign painters.

The third was that in the girl’s
flat in Soho, a searching constable
found an undeveloped roll of film.

Scotland Yard agents secured a
description of the handbag usually
carried by the girl and it was cir-
culated amongst the pawn shops
throughout England.

NORA UPCHURCH:
Did ‘she lose her life
‘because she tried to
keep the man. she
loved’ from. learning
about her “profes.
sion" or was there a
more sinister reason
for her bizarre death?

On taking a second statement
from the sign painters, one of them
——Frederick Field—nervously con-
fessed that he had the key to the
store two days prior to the slaying.
He had been reluctant to tell this
to the authorities, however, because
he feared that his employers would
learn about it and discharge him for
negligence.

The story he told was that on the
previous September 20, he had been
working in the store when a tall,
slim gentleman appeared and pro-
duced an order purportedly from
the real estate agent ordering Field
to hand the keys over to him. They
chatted for a few minutes and Field
learned that the man intended us-
ing the premises for a fancy leather
goods business.

Knowing that the man would
require an electrician Field asked
whether he could do the job pri-
vately. They made an appointment
to meet at the Piccadilly subway
station that night and the man paid

him ten dollars on account. They
then set out for the New Compton
Street store. The man suddenly
discovered that he did not have
the key.

“Wait here a moment,” he said,
“Tll return with them directly.”

Field waited but the man never
came back.

He told Superintendent Cornish
that he knew that if his boss ever
found out he was certain to be dis-
charged.

Superintendent Cornish poised a
pencil over a pad. “What did the
man look like?” he asked.

The man Field described was
about 30 years old, six foot one inch
in height, tanned complexion, hair
cut very short at the back and sides,
a gold tooth in the right upper jaw,
a mouse-colored mustache which
was clipped thin, with a small space
between the mustache and the lip,
a person of somewhat energetic
nature who was dressed in a beige
suit of plus fours and wearing socks

Pr or

RA UPCHURCH was a beau-

tiful girl She had soft,

honey-colored hair, bold,
sensual lips set in an attractive
face, and she wore clothing that ac-
centuated, rather than covered, the
undulating curves of her body.

She was the sort of girl at whom
men looked more than once and
that was as she would have it be-
couse she lived by selling her
favors to men. Although she was
only twenty years old she was al-

a familiar figure on Picca-
dilly Circus, the Broadway of
London.

She appeared briefly on the night
of October 1, 1931, on the Piccadilly
Circus, then she was not seen
again. A few clients who made
inquiries learned that she did not
spend the night in her Soho room-
ing house.

The following morning two men,
Douglas W. Bartrum, fat, jovial,
manager of a sign company, and
his slim, gaunt assistant, Frederick
Field, set out to do a job in Lon-
don’s West End.

In order to have a clearer under-
standing of the action, it might be

. « well to explain that London is laid

out like a wheel. The hub is Picca-
‘dilly Circus while one of the prin-
cipal spokes is Shaftesbury Avenue.
Near the hub this street contains
swank hotels, theatres and large
stores, but, as it continues west-
ward, becomes a street of dingy
residences and cheap shops. New
Compton Street parallels Shaftes-

bury Avenue in the poorer end of

town and it was for a vacant to-
bacco shop on this street that the
pair were headed. pea

They reached the store only to
discover that the front door was
closed and that neither of them had
a key.. Rather than travel all the

. way back to the heart of London

where their office was located, they
walked around to the rear and
forced entrance through a small
window. As they groped through
the semi-dark room Bartrum
stumbled and almost fell. There
was something sinister about the
object that tripped him. He felt
his flesh creep.

“Freddy,” he called tensely.
Somehow, in that single word, he
managed to convey the terror that
gripped him.

In an instant his assistant’ was
at his side. Field struck a match,
drew back white-faced and horror-
stricken. Lying on the floor, par-
tially covered by newspapers, was
the body of Nora Upchurch. Her

green coat was open and her cloth-

ing disarranged in such a fashion
as to imply that carnal assault had
been the motive for the slaying.
Field recovered first. He dashed
back to the small window, squeezed
out and ran shouting down the
street. He found a constable on the
corner, poured out the story and
the constable telephoned Scotland
Yard. ;
Superintendent George Cornish,

head of this famous. police unit,

eae ory, or dead ea “al, heed, ed calm that = |
a tempest wis even ay
tions of the brain of his victim were on his sleeve. Never we
shall I the terror of that scene. He had attempted
~ iomedi efter killing Miss Reay to destroy his own _
life; but his murderous weapon failed in its effect, andhe
stood mute before the multitude, a personification.of im- —
The next day, all the events which led to the deplora-
ble deed-I had witnessed, were brought to light. The ©
g clergyman, named James Hack- _
man, y an officer in one of the British
ments; and being invited on one occasion todine —
with Lord Sandwich at Hichinbrook House, he met Mise —
Reay, and soon became so rately enamored of her as
to weaken his health. He finally,—move pr
expose OF balie Bene Nee ee ee than for
other cause.—left the army. took holy orders, and
the living of Wiverton in Norfolk.
Perhaps.a more affecting and melancholy termination
- of unlawfal love never occurred than this. Miss Reay
pach wronged hers gad the Srst cbjct of her passion ©
- foully wron ; the first object *,
was Tadonbiedly the young military clergyman. In the.
course of time he completely won her heart, and alienated
her if any she h ay Sahl her first lord. —
A series of letters between them for several years, @
printed copies of which are now before me, and some of ©
which, or extracts from them, it may not be improper to.
give. He ultimately remov
turn found the heart of his versatile mistress changed for-
ever, and in favor of a third admirer. | While, however, ~
_ iu the mutual “tem torrent, and I may say, whirl-
wind of their passion,”—while he was in the constant _
' course of dishonoring the man whose hospitality he had
so often enjoyed, (if dishonor it may be called, under the |,
circumstances, ) the epistles which the parties addressed to
each other breathe the very soul of feeling. Never, per-°—
haps, was there a more awful exemplification, than in —

MISS REAY.

ie was

bly for the’

to Ireland; and on his re- ~

MISS REAY. a

_ the case of these short-lived lovers, of the truth of Shak- a
_Speare’s line : | , Ate

« These violent delights have vislent anda: |.
. Sed te eu enarten dia ae

ear soul from her -

" 4To Miss — bop phd mags
not sce that all which

about at A if i

can claim tude,
: dea rarer, rou He Look
e, t at the expense of yours. over my let
. thiak over my conduc sh bam your own haer,
+ these two long letters of your own writing, which I re-
: turn you. tell me whether we love or not. And
_ if we love, (as witness both our hearts,) shall gratitude,
ee ep

acknow

“ony youre phe ae shes
* 0 e! I can neither write nor th
. Send one line, half a line, to = er
coe ‘ i Your vg ha iH.”
"This im joned letter. wit so] ious! .
‘Induced the following reply : Lit Marea! Pape
an #7. 10th Dec., '75.

- To Mr. H——. Your two letters of the day before
rday, aud what you said to me Saag » have
rove me mad. You know how such tenderness distracts
me. As to marrying me, that yon should not do upon
any account. Shall the man I value, be pointed at and
hooted for selling himself to a lord for a commission? *
* * _* My soul is above my situation. Besides, I
will not take advantage of what may be only, perhaps,
(excuse me) a A Apiary passion. After a more intimate
acquaintance of a week or ten days, your opinion of me
might very much change. And yet you may love me as
sincerely as I——
“But I will transcribe you a verse which I don’t be-
lieve you ever heard me sing, although it’s my favorite.
At is said to be a part of an old Scottish ballad,—nor is it

Huntingdon, Sth Dee. 1775,

doubly claim by love, Ihave {1 -
my happiness at any

have your soul, and he your band, |

Miss REAY.

nerally believed that Lady L. wrote it. It is so descrip-

tive of our situation, I wept over it like a child yesterday: rs

would think on Jamic, but that would bu
I cat e’en do my best a pe wife to be, :
n

‘I gang like a ghost, and I do not care to “ti be oe :
For auld Robin Gray has kind tome!

“ For God's sake let me see my Jamic to-morrow. Your

name is also Jamic.”

It would of course be uscless for me to follow up these -

epistolary details of passion and crime. Atm ere .

», when “tho hey-day of the blood is cool, ar
aad waits upon the judgment,” I look upon them as the
confessions of two minds alienated from reason by tempo-
rary madness. ‘Three days after the date of the foregoing,
the reverend lover wrote thus; — . e

é Huntingdon, 13th Dec., ‘75.

“To Miss ——. My Lifeand Soul! * But I will never
more use any preface of this sort, and I beg you will not.
A correspondence begins with dear, then my dear, dear-
est, my dearest, and so on, till at last panting language
toils after us in vain. ' oS
“« No language can explain my feelings. Oh, yesterday,

yesterday! Language, thou liest! Oh, thou beyond my
warmest dreams bewitching! Are you not how convine-
ed that Heaven made us for cach other? :
Have U written sense?) [know not what I write.

“ Misfortune. 1 defy thee now. M. me, 2
soul has its content most absolute, No other joy like this

‘ceeds in unknown fate.’ ha
To say that the whole correspondence is marked on
both sides with good taste, often with learning, and al-
ways with enthusiastic but guilty tenderness, is but jus-
tice to the memory of the parties. In one of his letters,
Hackman quotes the following among other stanzas, en-
titled, “The moans of the forest after the batile of Flod-
den Field :”’ Be AG

_ “T have heard a litling at the ewes’ milking, A
I A’ the lances litling before La oll pi = oe
there’s a moaning, in ilka gree ee
Se Sines the fowers of the forest are weeded away. .

M. loves me, and my

m@ was furnished.

4
a

“MISS REAY, |

rig ind are lonely, ead awis, and cop 3 ™ ae
| Nae daffing, nae gabbin, but sighing and sobbing, |
Uke i her legiin, and hies her away.”

During the lover's sojourn in Treland, he wrote to his

f mistress, and in iis a spoke unwittingly of pleasant
t

female acquaintances that he had formed in that kingdom.
This, T have reason to believe, was the first impulse to her.
estrangement. Her previous Jetters to him had been
overflowing with affectionate sentiments. In one of them, ©
speaking of her devotion, she sa 3,—' I could die, cheer.

fully, by your hand,—I know { could.” The letter to
which I have just alluded, however, provoked the follow.

ing reply:
England, 25th June, 1776.
“To Mr. -_ Let me give you joy of having fonnd_
such kind agreenble friends in a strange land. ace
count you guve me of the lady quite charmed me. Neith--
er am J without my friends. A lady from whom I have —
received particular favors, is uncommonly kind to me.
For the credit of your side of the water, she is an Irish =.
woman. Her agreeable husband, by his beauty and ac-
complishments, docs credit to this country. He is remark-
able, also, for his Seelings.

“Adieu! This will affect you, 1 dare say, in the same Oras

manner that your account affected me.”

This latter, with others that followed it, soon brought
Mr. Hackman to London. He lodged, on his return, in _
Cannon’s Court, and addressed an immediate letter to his"
mistress, answer returned purported to come from
a female servant, writing by the sick bed of her lady, and
at her dictation. The epistle was humbly written, and
fiNed with prevarications and cold eos By de-
grees, the melancholy truth of the la y’s estrangement
was established. Proof of the most positive description

Tt drove the lover to despoir.—ani he re-
solved upon self-destruction. Information having been
communicated to him at his 7 rsonage in Norfolk, (whith-

= er before the full proof of his suspicions he had retired,)

MISS REAY.

lated to awaken every dark surmise, he hastened to
roe sgl Dh every thing was confirmed. In his first
tumultuous resolve for self-inurder, he ex ressed his fears
in a letter to his friend, as follows: “ My passions are
blood-hounds, and will inevitably tear me to pieces. The
hand of nature has heaped up every species of combusti-
ble in my bosom. The torch of love has sect the heap on
fire, ned I mnst perish in the flames. And who is he
will answer for passions such as minc? Aé present, 1 am
innocent.” His last letter before cominitting the deed for
which he suffered an ignominious death, was addressed
to a friend, and couched in the following terms.

“To Mr. B——. My Dear F . When this reaches
ou, I shall be no more,—but do not let my unhappy fate
tress you too much. I strove against it as lorg ag pos-

ble, but it now overpowcrs ~. _ You know w my
ving

a placed; m
i were ;

aac los hers, (an idea which 1 could not sup

driven me to madness. God bless you, my dear

by.some means or

f a sum of to leave you, to convince
sab at senda rd! May Heaven protect my be-
oved woman, alia lovaite the act which alone could re-
lieve me from a world of misery 1 have long endured !
Oh! should it be in your Leto to do her an «
friendship, remember your faithful friend, -H.

In the afternoon of the day on which the preceding let-
ter was written, Mr. Hackman. took a walk to the Admi-
ralty, from his lodgings in St. Martin’s Lane, bly to
take a last view of worldly objects, ere he plunged into
the great gulf of eternity. Near the Admiralty, he saw
Miss Reay pass in a coach, with Signora Galli, an atten-
dunt. He rushed into the theatre, in the desperate con-
ditiou I have before described; and unable to control his
thick-coming and bitter thoughts, returned to his lodgings)
where he procured and loaded the pistols, with one o
which he conanitied his dreadful ernme. In his attem
tw kil himself after Miss Reay, he was severely wou F
Mr. M'Namara, a gentleman who was ——— the lad
into the coach, was so covered with blood, and led wit
horror, that he was seized with violent sickness. The

”

; bring me some poison !
on

has
oy Lames

act of |

‘wich add

MISS REAY.

mangled remains of the « beauty once admired” were

conveyed to the Shakspeare tavern, near the theatre, to.

await the coroner’s*inquest.
The unha

whence he

“To Charles ——, Esq.
I shot her and not myself. Some of her blood is still up-
on my clothes. I don’t ask you to speak tome. I don't
ask “te to look at me. Only come hither, and bring me
a little poisor; such as is strong enongh. Upon my knees
I beg, if your friendship for me ever was A wala, do, do
is was not furnished him,—and his trial soon came
- I was present. The prisoner sat with his white
handkerchief at his cheek, his head resting languid
hishand. His face wore the gloomy pallor of the
The plea of gerne os in by his counsel, did not avail.
When he rose to offer his defence, many an eye glistened
with the tears of pity. His words, Lollow and Ichral
in their sound, seemed to come forth without their bre.th
from his livid lips; while a large dark spot on his forchead
seemed like a supernatural seal of ruin. His defence was
brief, clear and pointed. ‘ In the course of it he said: I
stand here this ay the most wretched of human beings;
but J protest, with that regard to truth which becomes my
situation, that the will to destroy her who was ever dear
er to me than life, was never mine, until a momentary
frenzy overcame me, and led me to the deed I now de-
— Before this dreadful act, I trust nothing will be
‘ound in the tenor of iny life, which the common charity
of mankind will not excuse. Ihave no wish to avoid
my punishment.” This state of mind prevailed to the
last. He hungered and thirsted for death. Lord Sand-
him, anonymously, the note subjoined, to
which I annex the reply :
17th April, '79.

“To Mr. Hackman, én Newgate: If the murderer of
Miss —— wishes to live, the man he has most injured

ensuing note to a friend:

8th April, 1779.

will use all his interest to procure his life.”

clergyman was conveyed to Newgate. a

I am alive, and she is dead.

idly on
grave. —

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haughtiness; hugging myself in my two arms; and mut-
Be tering between my gtating tecth, —‘ what a complete wretch
aie Lam!’ The clock has just struck eleven. ¢ gloomi-

always so congenial to my soul, would have been still
heightened, had he ever been -

St. Paul’s clock thu
the condemn

. i devour it! And yet,
Wi apirit!—rest till then!

He met his fate at the scaffold wit
despair. Only two or three
had attended

~ y J | ness of my favorite Young's Night Thoughts, which was >

*SePie

MI8S RBAY. MISS REAY.
“ The condemned Cell in New lem his ve description of that scene, as a
| = At, 17th April, 1 oleate oF the which attended his own death, as witnessed _-
“The murderer of her whom ferred, far ff by me; and with it, close the melancholy tale. “At last.
to life, suspects the hand from which he has just received arrived the moment. The d away of the cart
such an offer as the neither desires nor. deserves, His {§ was accompanied by a noise which the
: wishes are for death, not for life. One wish he has: & feelings of spectators for the eulSerer. you never.
} * could he be pardoned in this world by the man he has observe, at the sight or the relation of vaya berets
be most injured! Oh my Lord, when I mect her in another that you closed your teeth hard, and drew in your
be world, enable me to tell her, (if departed spirits are not M hard to make a sort of h sound 7
‘ i nt of earthly things,) that you forgive us both, and ff This was so universally at the fatal -moment, that I
j that you will be a father to her dear infants! J, EL” am the noise must have been heard at a con-
Al siderable distance. For my own part, I detected myself,
ya The rest of his time was passed in a state of mind al- in a certain manner, accompanying his body with my
‘ | most tco horrible to relate. Among his writin were own.”’
such records as these: “Since 1 wrote my last, T cangh - His agony was soon over, and his cold form conveyed
myself marching up and down my cell, with step of F@ to its last couch of silence and oblivion.”

Bw -

a atel ly Me
‘ ;

‘ z
A A Ae Oe coe cea

ie wealthy, and herself a beautiful picture. But she, like all 7

ed. She consented to go, and [led her to one of those —

296 = SEVEN BROTHERS,

other young girls, was too casily courted. Yes, said Dan,
T have done many a horrid crime, but put them allin one,”
and that crime would overwcigh them all. When I had ae
gained her good will, by promises strong as the heavens, ~
broke them all for love of another girl. About two
months after this, she sent mea letter, informing me of ~
her condition, and then desired 1 should come and marry _
her. TP set out ina passion, and soon came to her house.” =
I told her TE had deserted and had dug a cave to hide ing?
and asked her if she would not come and see how it look-

excavations that is frequently found in South Carolina. [7 ”
took her into this trap, bound her hand and foot, and
wured a vial of aquafortis down her throat, then left her 7
Period in that grave. FT then returned to the fort, where [7 ~

was called on to accompany Colonel Dale in an expedie 7 ~
tion against Gabriel Marion, General Marion’s nephew.

prisoners. These we fell on with the buts of our guns
and killed them, But our conquests did not last long ;_
we were taken by a party of rebels, but soon set free.

During the time I lay a prisoner, 1 composed a song on
her 1 had murdered... It was as follows.

+ 7. * 7 ©. Pensive mourned the dove, bereft
cee Of its companion dear,
© > © Loud howled the foxes in the way,
: ~~ And all around was drear.
©) & The sun, ashamed to view the deed,
ee <a Withdrew behind a eloud, -
And nature, calm, in silence poured,
On ine reproach aloud.
All nature mourned with one consent,
As FT approached the door,
And loudly shrieked a faltering voice,
As | stepped on the floor. 2

I saw Maria with her hands

Gabriel Marion was a young man, and unacquainted
in the art of fighting, and we took him and six others —_

os SEVEN BROTHERS.

But when she saw my traitorous smile,
: Into my arms she flew,
And there forgot her grief and care,
With pleasure ever new. PE Sy. Ve
And rs my false deluding vows Se Pa at
To bring her back again,
She followed me into a cave, = Bet ay
; (hut of the reach of inan. ; im
I bound her fast in spite of all
Her efforts to get tree, . Riss
Nor had her cries, nor tears, nor prayers
The least effect on me. aah
T poured the burning liquid down
OF aquafortis sore, ie
And parted life and joy and peace ‘Ch
From her for evermore, :

The manner he beeame acquainted with this girl is
singular and rare. Tt was one of those evenings while
Dan was in the fort. that he strayed out to divert the time
away, that he wandered some way from the fort, aid
saw a girl busily engaged in fighting with a rattle-snahe,
and seeing her imminent danger, he sprung forward bes
tween her and the snake, and immediately killed it. The
lady commenced to pour her hearty thanks to him, and
declared she should never cease to be thankful while she
had breath to draw, and hearing her speak so freely, he
asked her if he might not accompany her home.” The
lady accepted his offers with kiisehaie and they set off
together. .

On ascending a piece of high ground, they looked
around on the valley beneath, and the sight was so plews-
ing, that they sat down to view it more perteetly. A
gentle breeze of wind swept across the plain: the undu-
lating fields of rice waved their tall hends majestically —-

“how sinking, new swelling, like the rolling waves of the

tempest-driven ocesn. which gave a pieture of the most
pleasing and exquisite. beanty that any eye could fal,
upon.

Does net the valley refresh your spirits! said Dirnel,
after gazing seme moments in speechless admiration. on

the seene.,

ft does insieed, said Maria Moral, and Lo think the

SEVEN BROTHERS.

>) Sweetest sight Fever beheld: and this place shall be held,”
— dear to meesin memory of the ast. On this’ spot they. —
—plghted their vows of love: an heart-felt joy, and they —
agreed to meet there every evening and spend one hour,
It was in this manner they beeame acquainted, and
according to the promise made, they both met there, and
from that hour they were undone, |
In the city of Charleston lived a very rich man, and we
had long fixed our eyes on him, as a choice fellow for
Working a project or ‘twe on. His house was six stories
hish, and greatly adorned with handiwork, and the only
Way we could get to view the inside, was for two of ns to
commence digging on the corners of the house, and attract
the attention of those within, Accordingly two set about
the work with great industry, while two more went and
informed those in the honse that some persons were abont
to spoil the house. One may imagine the bustle that
suceeede:L this information, and in a short time the house
was eleared, and we commenced a round of search uy
Atairs. We carried off several gold watches, and other
sneall articles of value, besides several bank notes of ‘a
thousand dollars each. We then went out to see the
Sport with the two diggers, and Sport it was sure enough, =

for the street was erowded and every one had their own |

Mory to say aboat these follows, Some said these two.
had a spite vuvinst the owner of the house, and intended)
to throw it down. and kill thdse in it. Others declared:

Viet was wrous, for hey could not expect to get it down —

before day: then the first declared that it confirmed theie

file and asserted that they commenced before dark, in:
order ty have it down before day; and searcely two could:
hit on one opinions and they presently left off search
decide their intention for commencing to undermine suet
house,” But so varions were their opinions on this. that:
hey commenced ta quarrel amongst themselves, abont.
who was right and who was Wrong. In the midst of thigs
Confusion our two workmen passed tinknown thronch the,
crowd. and tursing down an alley they escaped observes

a uted meeting us, We divided the money amongst Oure
sclves, i

6) aha dap @Z

PSS

SEVEN BROTHERS,

; €

But the hidden mystery Was. soon discovered of the |
cause of their actions, and after their seareh liad proved |
tuisuccessful, they returned to the’ store, and saw. the ng
Watches gone, and that opened their eyes considerably, > &
and they saw quite clear the advantage they hid gained
by following a fool's adviee. But the bills set: worst on
them, and after cursing a considerable: time, they sate
down in meek resi shation, to console themselves in the
best way they Sciild: ae

But the day of deliverance was fast drawing nigh,
Whenall such horrid actions of detestation were to end ins
America, A large foree of rebels, under command of" :
General Lee, approached the city, but was put to flight, ae
wad Cornwallis ordered all his men to commence a ro Yes
Licsuit of these new foes. ‘The first day he took up with? =
them just as they had erossed a river, and the rain began:
to fall in torrents at that time on Us, and stopped our
further march for several days. When we got up to them
a second time, they had just crossed another river, Which>
came down in such a flood that it detained us twe or —
three days more, and wheu we got Up tethem again, they |
Were prepared to meet us, and in despite of all our army,

they put us to flight and a great slaughter ensued. He
After our return to) England we were discharged, and |
We made the best of our way home to old treland,
ALFRED LAUGIEMOOR,

Having examined this narrative, we see nothing in it
but the perfect and naked truth, fully disclosed to the
view of the world. And we do protest and declare that
this story is true, and to our shame we do acknowledge ©
that if all our actions were written, they would be the

most shocking sight that one’s eyes could tall upon.
SAM. LAUGIEMOOR,

DAN. LAUGIIMOOR,

Atter the property was sold and all the debts paid, we
were enabled to set up a lodging house, by the money
brought from America, ina house situated on a public
read lying between Omagh and Straban, and so near the |

e ; ~

SEVEN BROTHERS,

= centre of the way, that it get the niane of half way house
_ We seven brothers had taken up oa dodging house, ands.
_feceived Little or no custom, and we soon saw that anew ae
plan must be taken to get money, and the casiest way wee
could come by this trash was by playing tricks on the =
6 Roman Catholics. gif
> Many a trick we worked them, but these are. the
Rreatest. sh
A preconcerted plan was formed between us wll, and tas

carry this into efleet was our greatest study. At hast it 2

Wits agreed that one of us should fein limuselt dead. aud Ke
wnether one toaet priest, and take in the Inoney to fee!
hin from purgatory, a place the Catholics have reserved

fov the punishment of the wicked. Accordingly we pros >

chumed the death of one uf our family, aud had Alfred =
diessedk in priest style, and we took every caution to have!
butone priest there, knowing one would do as well us
twenty, and that would do just what we wanted. After
Sa large multitude was assembled to witness for the priest®
that he had done his duty in freeing the soul of hun trem
purgatory, Alfred begau to show them the fate of Anas
Bias aud Sapphira, who were destroyed for holding buck
thes money, when it was ouly required to assist in builds
ing up the church, and then, said he, what will beeom
of you if you refuse to bestow your money on se erent ay
cause as this! He then knelt down beside the supposed ©
_ corpse, and commenced crossing himself, and praying ne
the: solemmest manner for the delivery of this man, and]
(hen. sending reund his cap, he got showers of money es
After working iu this Way for some time, and draining:
away theireash, he called out, fifty pounds more will free
hin and make han happy. He would then sterke hi

breast, amd utter with emphasis, ves, be shall be happy

Where ne sorrow can inte reupt his joy, where all the
comnotions of life will subside, aud he shall reine
Povee gud dranquilhty, comming his beads to the blessed
Wits viay ated all the holy scnits. 2

ne givht have some ideaoof thes bustle Moone the
crowd as hievcatled for the fast fifiy: pounds: The diad pest

ceived already the greatest: portion of what money the
: ; ie 2

SEVEN BROTHERS,

had, and yet to ask for fifty pounds more scemed going ae
on the large seale + some declared he was an extortioner,
‘others said the Lord required more of a) French priest oo.
thanan Erish one, and wondered greatly that they had no-
more sense than to bring a Freneh priest to pray for an ~
Irishinun: thinking Alfred one of these priests who made
their eseape in the time of the French perseention. ©
Others said he was a decent man andl asked no morethan —
Was reqiired, asserting that they were well acquainted
with the deceased nan, whe had committed a great many
crimes, and must hare perished eternally, had not the
prayers of the priest ascended up to the throne of grace,
and worked wonderful things in his favor: and the rest
Of us brothers asserted that in Ameren we had frequent.
ly known the sins of poor beggermen refused to be ree
mitted for four times as much, ‘
With these and other treuments, joined with the hap-
Ppiness the priest had deseribed, we at last got them pre.»
vailed on to make up the desired sum, though not withe
outa great deal of flattery. After all the ceremonies were
gone through, and the erowd dispersed, we disrobed ong
priest and raised the dead, and commenced to distribute
ie with ourselves. And when we had all gathered n
fogether, it) just amounted ‘to. three hundred and fifty
pounds and seven) shillings. Overjoyed at the sight of so
great a treasure, we eould not help daneing round it in
frantic joy.
Soon atter this my brother Benjamin. the youngest of
US seven, Was ata fhir at Strahan. and ted his lnek an
swindling from the clever papists. He dressed np in rags,
and got in amonest the brotherly set. and made a long
Story ont of nothing, telling haw his brother, us nice a
man as wasn frekind. was insulted on the way, and kill.
ed by a Protestant. and now, says Ben, PE eome to crave
your advice on the subject, whether [shall take it to law,
of lie under the injury. PE have no money to take it to
law. and nnless you will assist me, beth with your Purses
and counsel. it wonld be the height of folly to take itte ad,
Protestant judge. An old priest whe was standing by
Rot into the Knowledee of our discourse, and weve it as

whe hnews what injury these malicious heretics nay do”

this poor tay to get hin anit to haw, and thea bebe the

them, Vetf wo tek the saddichags witheut his leave,

ALVEN BROTHERS, =

his best opinion, to reise a donation forme; for, said he,”

ts, ween how that iin encaped | Psy we shottd axsist 2 —
jodge todo his duty, and now what say you all! Land >
shewits and veclamiations toudly proclaimed there willing.
Brews tee tessint Fae, ceed ine the space of two hours he had
np wards of three hundred pounds collected, aq ee
"TMreme aid five hundred other such (ricky we did, and
Hongh we lived in gued repute for some time, we san
fomt at all. "The curd table was one choice place to retire —
tee at ngeere Totere, ened os the ele ar rhe sayin, ot turned
out wo, that whieh comes in over the devil's back in sure”
te gave eotat tortor Tous foetly. red eo it way with wa.” Eno
eatne ten imoere herd part of the tole, : ee
After we spent nll one money, aid were found out to”
work tricks, we were compelled to choose same other way”
than following ane that woukl sooner or later send as te
tony Bay, ned we at last resalved to commence a
carer mor bloody than any part that hax heen deweribed
yet. | Afice several weeks spent in fixing a foam of twee
Mp stries, we opened a taluine howe, again, We fixed
mevernl lente cape stirs con a teved with the Gee, ated ceder
therm we hind atrap cheer, that worked on a pivet im the
centre, nied jist as moon ne the helpless belere ot bin
foot on tee fell fast chown ann bed of sharp spikes, art em
Ceerte ecvecds Vevrlow, tre nave Grieve Ceevese brite bevart coe the i aa
greraed. But before we aot thew te complete eprration,
we commmetied the Callow norders, we:
Chee evening an odd pruthman pawn ahong our way,

awd the shades of revenge ovrdiakig hen, be was come

Hed tee got ape nt ene dedzinee, Olen aadlichags were
she with pleaty af sash, and we were greed ved on having

we wer litle to enfor fer that cane, and yet with his

ely way we contd chy was to mnedee lum, we that be

revere mull ctawm thom agai, At alent tow e'chwk we

11 thes creed mew a viet, and taking a kul wr cut hte
a Me

ne: are

SEVEN BROTHERS,

one word, and than waking wp. he gave one gran that
showed us the deed was done. ths eyes set im their

sockets, his hair stow! on his head, and with one faint _

struggle he expired in an ageny ton shocking to desenbe.
Hix money fell to us fora reward of our bravery. and his
dead body we cut up and pickled im salt, aud fed at
those that dined with vs, *
The next we ended was a young man that staid with
us another might. Wecame to hin at twelve o'clork ; he
was lying awake. After some apologies for interrnpame
him, we proceeded to search for some articles that we said
were in the room. Som raised a hatchet and drew it
over his head. and eut it off at one blow. ‘This man we
also fi to the hungry, and it passed for cond meat. ies

this manner we killed all who staxl with us over night, :

till we got our siting bed ready, and then we srsted
through the night, satistied they could not escape. Many
a poor benighted seul we separated frem its (avd com
panion, ber was eter memy shown to any that fate placed
mour power. But heaven's nghieous King coukl beag
na longer with these insults to humamty, and | shall now
oe the last munter we committed im this place. On

uewlay evening, the Yeh of Apnl, IMM, a lady and
frntleman came nding up to where we kept lodging. wes
and cold, and nested on ons mving them a night's lend
ing. which we gracimnly ernpled with, ziad to have the
lady's company. When they ahghted, we petawey theses
herers, Mam went i: te keep them om talk.

Ne prrena could begin to mmagme how tedioee the se
matung part of the evening pamed away. We bngrd
to ert Gneenng their money, and we ined to make thene
bebeve they were srk, best all was im vain, and we had
tee wait tall moghe a herd befage we got thre to theig

pe shat é jae a ira HA ch

SN lp he Aa, Ma ta mR me

\Se% pleadéd: ‘not. Sit ve perk ) P Bics

‘ ; “oh Rey a the th, and: ‘So
the ea ‘of March, i 3 * ot
Halfey, late of-4.0) dog. icakp Shasta
Fe wae oe the, murder “of Toba aie
_ Wards, a mariner,’ omsboatd the fhip Amat
“zon by ftriking. him: avith.a certain. hands
» Spike value one} 1s, (ands other uglawful
- weapons; -on the 2 ant of Aucuit Yai, two.
hundred leagues tq the weft of Cape Finite.
flats, whereof he languifhed to-the - 1ft ohe
September'and théngiegy OT Y Ge
| oe a Jofeph: Halfey was indiGed. as
‘fecon me, for the mu
Sia oan Sa th
byedtriki g hidimayitl

| oad ! ‘te Mio iN ,
| Feige diet iol aah ed Stor ce
ie

OF oe BOR 2 BOO

3 of Godana jis@oun
it

Abe ial afed fey a $00 wal
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retrial. we

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Bee and, admitted, could :

4 ete al Stak ba}

ce “of. the two. are
| nd | William, Mitehe},. was |
ther’ ¢ confiftent or unfufp peGted in he
Cele, . “oe ; or eaag by others, ae %

i ees

ne ppataboard the canoe & a

man: of war, after gthe |
4 ‘tho’ ‘nothing. materal fe
to impeach it, eo iss Ve
roravated above® wh

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_ INTRODUCTION

"Death ahd life are in the power of the defies
| oe ; Prov. xviii, 21.
fe HE more villuc and encouraged our
B.. brave feamen gre Jor their many ufeful
‘om , ittes, ‘the more it 1s to
be wifhed, thdt they would be prevailed on to

. feta due value onthemfelves. chiefly on their

_ immortal fpirits; and not m
of faith and a gon .
Ral loft? >

» . What e

Bi ole ( XE
as 24 a “¥ ! Z, lil
Seed cs # 2 bien ts 65,8 AN eye x a
hat the..Janguage.of mer, 20k
Aambile that 3s,the language of any maphyd

fo th

facrifi

ahs

gs te Fa ¢ wh He Ans
a

40, be,the danguage of <hendsk:

ay ey, ; . ;
terfperfed with then
and reBrai nt tt
ea HESS
Je ATTO
fagacity of the mo
sof juftice alwa’ ss [cern
‘bring it to'condign punt foment
d.:. this 1s the Royal, 2 2
f the Searcher
Sis A 2-

a Beg
ay ay a M
thee

ik 6)
| together, With View to apply: rea métey

ifi the prifoner's’ behaif, on the’ day before :

; €xecution ; 3, but not agreeing in Chee

dis, Sart Mh was ' don as. ji f 4

_ Saturday March te ofeph Halfey h
Ging fentente prodanced on him to ih

fie 12th, ‘according? toa late a@ of parlias

“pent, théfe: was hO"time' to be Toft in pre-

paring him.’, He was therefore: Nilited. this

eVening, and earneftly applied to, in order ies

t6-give him’ a fenfe of his fituation ; pres
fentitre ‘to his’ thoug! ts the tremendous,
anda. featching ju Judgnient of God, oe
_. éxhorting him infantly to prepare hit nfel
by true repentance, and.a lively Faith, . and.
' éfpecially by acknowledging his crimes,, and:
the juftice of his fentence. " But he perfaft-
ed’to affert, > that’ he was as innocent as. a,

child of the murdetg laid to his char’ ge, and: ;

that the witniffes. i Aworn falfel agit
him; earheftly wil thed his Maj Ay

Pe George knew hiéi inn6cence, an nda, kei =
_{. there'no way of making it’ known’ to~ hind :
|) and’ getting off this fentence? He'was cone, F.
vinced by many réafons of the in diffi, :

culty,” if nor tim pofhbil
teal was pres ‘and tis lot

ee, we

Pets

pencentenatl wip febined? ey
tock adh and? baal se: on

ME ad spe: alted Po syeniee
fhouldinor be able.to, hurt him. <Dhis °
-withAach.an air of . integtity; and.
fy -asit mult be owned, gave ©
arn in| bis, favours /fram the

ted, in: daring hisi{trialoraHe
sould; have 'f Fite bps

n: Ak pee oat. Of ean | 1
as ont, bbajbli_ yous ee
m heresy ohn: $e
abis, fu foisnake his defencey HE -eouldy %
es a+ Ad: confution, .(h4vipig neved” Yo":
fore): eeedlleCtowhhe shes

ean,

‘¢ Cs tt M

| mitt: Lk ihe th hadnt sistigetd then
“ oe rrestign to pump; that: the

on the one haiid, He ae confcious of kis : : epg 3 septa es ae

innocence as he was, “OF might be ‘him@lf, = SEALE ast Fe
on the other, they could ‘not pojne all their. § -Bescouldit ‘and aks rep heh
queftions {6 properly as him(elf, had he he - ater 5 it aaa oe

kill-and DNC _ forwant: of, c¢ (a proper: Bie
defer Boi to pe if them’ in i owe S Gareth Che bintle might have! Sespel

- He now ‘declared Shy the mon pofitive. : g inthe agg-boal ty anid Piha: mere oe
terms, as if he were’ to die that tae. t would Sars CG ae

~- that he never ftruck any man witha hands ~~ a h vy : aid, torhim: th that éafet

{pike . in his whole lifejand he tegk ‘pains b = pega freee fed to: ot ey

feveral ble 2. explain: the difficulty anc
-emprobability of ftriking' with a handy ike; oF 5 ee 7
beinprall tithe down*wnder the: bis ae : ‘Apean; came out of Jamsicg wath a
during a voyage; befi ides; that i it is too heavy -Fe- oe proyians; Mba ie ae a
and unweildy to ftrike'with. That the [| told Aig athe - hyrri far a cee.
_ boys who witnefied' this-againt: ‘him, had =| = =—- Whole ific ota Shai an ae ;
been: tutored.and told-bya certain ‘perfor; - Patlage ob eweive ici
- that ifithey did:not mention this,\'or fone.
- > pnlawfdl weapon ufed by ‘him again the
oe deceafed, in’) aed tie Spee Rens ‘could

¢ Aly ti i i ema “
fruck ‘ome of them, bib Sabout | Voie ‘bors tg
one, and? twelue lowe? . P @not ber,’ oF 0k

en ;
pad ae fetious advo telling bien hs had

ttied; all religions, and - found. reft and fatis=: -

_»faétion only i the Rownan-Catholick-Church :

_ that by turning to that/faith, he had difo-
-bligéd-all -his "friends: and. his: father, who
lived at Briftol, afd’ kept an equipage,s

greatly extoll’d thes piety, | devotion, and.

ftetét fatting of the Gatholicks, With{uch
infinuations, true.omfalfe, he endeayoured
towin: ovet. his. attention and; affections to
‘his caufe; in whichtgeal.of this emiflagy-is
remarks able’s. fort higyane perfon wwa
1 his-motious anid the iffue

1 ‘his trials “and | 40 Yd him(elf in, conver eS

tion with 4. New- England capt. ; whom he
ebferved ‘to: Speak favourably, of Halfey’s
caufe; towhom hg.bb troduced shimfelf, by
fayi : dsbe was innocent... Chis
1e-from, the, aids captain,
-and the fubftance Of-it partly from, Fial ai

who rejedted, theiratiftance, . telling the

| TReiknew nothing 0 their. religion; AOE. the
_ was bréd-in the church: of Reglaad and
1 eyabuld live:and dig, in. it- eer tee ‘Sa
suc The day -before: execution,; mr. : Eepaeeds
ryifited hit, sand, being fway’d sby - the, ap-
Lpeerence and frontiers of his. ina-
fF 3 cence

‘y
aoe
Seyi

. 4 4 4 aK
Opt’ > : hy
5 th ) Late

ipa ing to''get ref pité
: flowing. ‘devountvebithe

st Thomas ‘Sims of t

veh
ae ftions 1 te

oy, after” fo:
more t thant j ‘9s co mi

Je hay
inven to dinner: “was calla. on bya ftranger,
one, W.———n a, lumy er 5. who renewed

d ea ath of his fon, aed.”

2 Heginner at prefent,.
Tea: oe him ta: eae ‘the matter, again,
cand. made him. reftlefs. ‘all he garried ey
ithe profecution, . in. whieh - the two boys
now,mentioned..were the princi pals witneffes. —
-Halfey being... asked ifa any difference had _
hag ppened’ between him. and this lumper; —

with him to. ‘unload “the fhip ata certain:
Tgaenby the.cask or: ‘Hogthead, he -would-
ver have his men,paid odd half, days,
Me Halfey not complying with, he ftir ‘d.
mp this profecution againft him, |
~Ag.to, the refimonse Ok Bafaro the Italian
~feaman, itis affirmed by fome perfons who

heard it, that it differ’ © much. fromisitfelf |
-before the juttice, and on: the trial. For - i
that he never faid before, ‘the juftige that \f
“Halley. had ftruck Davidfon. with a’mops..°

: > ‘but only pufh’ d him with: a. MOP; ‘and was”
“ very cautious in his evic énce, not charging”

- him with the hurting or ‘death of Davidfon, . +
_ peut, peat. J fai mach more, “hat he J

Cbs ; pe ruck.

: tio ‘was found'very matty “2. 7
“and .y¢ et would : ftand" ftock fill =

On he | fell’ Sale, 2
ar se oer “with

5 and that. ha

si po i evident Te

j haved ‘ well to,

1; “had‘no ' marks. of blow en

PPR FS pl
ee fe
Wee Faas rote F

ey Ae
¥

sryoffenfive; ‘and Te 3 : :

lean ‘him(elf; he,

7 - Bee fey, “Spawilling'to" Tone ae

pis ‘hands, “took” the, mop

eset

but neither ftruck,, igor Ne :
hy Bethe maeP: ‘And ‘whereas :

» William 8

8
ees
ie

Wi baa Mitchel ae : fed, dhat Be: Jot
ack. tha new point, which
is a Hat’ rope for reef net. i} ; < x
; plained this: to be an 1 one, fplit i in two,

and grown { foft wi ho wearing, and which

would not hurt a child’ *“ Another charge ! a-
gzintt him by the fame’ witnefs was, that

he had beaten; the med with a. Joom of.’ ‘an -

oars. that} is, “the br ‘flat end. of: an. Gary
which he had cut npand kept for that pur-
pofe.— This Halley affirmed to be, thus; he
was chopping up. ap. old broken: oar for
chips to kindle the fire, when dne of the
men. pafling ne heslap'd, him in jeft,. with
the flat piece
i in tt é fire.—

es into, the guilt of ‘mi Coie
«But the. wworftand,, 4
Mitchel’s ¢ evidence ;

ticd-up:David{on to the Pioads: and whipta

him -feverely. the, ‘day . before ‘his death, ey
"Whereas, ; befides: Hee -improbability. “Of his :

: being able. fo) hold h ager p in the air and tie
pie fingle handed,.”

| ligk. him in his life. woes

e held: in, his hand, and thea.
4 this. manner may, a.
witnefs. pervert harmlefs or anmeabing: frie ;

dan gerous aie :
~ that Sens hiatie

alfey. has’ mot fo-
emonly denied, that Byer he tied him ae fo

* 9 F Acc |

{23 ]

- Avewfedipertons,. particularly! tr ,
«are oftonileaded. and. oppretied mie ,
»geports, Ob this an inflance is faidte :

shappen’d, op the epprehiendi of Capt.
Halley, pe wanda were j ores ete
aad told about; in fuch Grabiictek papers,
: seshilys ‘facrifice. truth for a bate: pethiat .
é.was taken up in a -bad. howl, 3 pea:
“awit. two <conmon wemen ¢ 6

‘ftiend: of hisy avho was on board with jim, os
whe takta op, canidepole, that he -wds <—

notafhore, nar had any woman, muglatefs
‘any, bad woman, withihinisi ehedbip) -

| Hlalfey.always-in fitted what hdd: Captain
Gallap jini

pnd cou’d defend him,
this, he faid Gallop ois oa ddale welts.
apugh theep weeks atone sime, emo waa

atianother, end three. days ‘at anoters: re i eo ;

was able ta come on deck mott days.¢lu

the: ‘voyages (as. may appear by the: affidavit *: : zh oe

of Capt. . Man, now in the hands“of. .

eo" Cahil) “and “particula‘ly, that he'read s ¥

_ the burial office over one of the men.that ig

‘ dieG; and himeelf over the other: . He ad- eH
pe phar ae Salle was in no ‘se

- 4 oad wisver becn.eteutedor Ae
‘- iaieoneee ‘beeau fe brew be ingacence: 2° 4s
| ding asked Poent.: Fs

h|
4
i

rae cr Har eT ets ee ee ae
RE OE A rae .

Pa METERS:

‘

haat

iy
XN

aaa wae

ie oa
oi

see ret
— i aoe
ete al

way, . till fome dinteliefrer he ‘nirived.ar’ Il
Ply month, and then® being taken witha §&

rupture, he died-in the paffage from thence

to London, off Pdtifinouth Now the-
argument drawn from thence is, that. had
_ he been guilty, or. accufed of two mur-
ders, when’ Capt. Gallop arrived at Ply-

mouth, he atte have been there brought
to Suitice. But as no hint was given, or
ftep taken tothis purpofe there, itis inferr'd _,
he was then neither Mppoght guilty nor ae-
cufed,: :

On the iwhole ffiry: a’ perfon ‘of good
ciedit, who knew the: proceedings in’ this
profecution, from the apprehending to the
execution, * affirms, that Halfey in his de> ~
fence, ‘ was: éver confiftent with himfelf,

- and faid the fame thing from firft to laft;
and from my own fhort experience. and. obs

fervation, he never appeared to ay. in’ ‘his
er yeertts

»
a

‘commen n tare

Hof ‘Exaeurton,
Fi | 74) oIgth TSI.» wie t.

hi =< vilited ‘by the Ordinai vie of
* _ he Vier ale the

+ hoe Se
The

fe. rai banding ee
ay brought'out;. inf smuch
be patie Of prayer$ le A
what a ‘nab there is, which was new.and ui un,
as. almoft: a ftranger. é
is apes him againit, na
difmay on this accor t, inthefe =
ments of prepating for et aie ash.

ihe horte {.to fet befor@him fa fy Cates; ae
exepuple of a erg Lapse whom

was, now « cor
ble’pa ttern

| aig nd ‘hece!

s{e incom i idea able i obieae but to. Ps, his
sl on, a MHD the other moft: i
Me ; eee

{

ENGLAND

: ee ee ba

HENDREN, Thomas

abs Ydenenies

Officers are seen at the entrance to the manicure shop wh

Perhaps the most humiliating experience a police officer
can suffer is to witness a murder—actually see it committed
—and yet be unable to arrest the killer or even to identify
him. Impossible? Here is how it happened...

m@ IN ENGLAND'S teeming port city of Liverpool—or in
any city, for that matter—Ella French Staunton was the
kind of woman people wondered about, talked about, even

hanged July 17, 1946.

PhS bo ae ee ee Saeed

ere the murder occurred. Astonishingly, the crime was committed

suspected to a certain extent.

For one thing, Ella Staunton was a divorcee, and there
are still a goodly number of folk who somehow have a
feeling that a divorcee is not to be trusted.

For another, at the age of 34 she had a most interesting
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The man named Tom—jealousy galled him.

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career during the war and opened a manicurist’s shop at 7
Tempest Hey in Liverpool. Her customers, naturally, were
all men. There was some speculation about the number
of well-dressed men who entered the shop, each of them
to be closeted privately for a half-hour or so with the
gorgeous blonde. There was no doubt that men found the
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SOMETHING TERRIBLE WILL HAPPEN continued

As for Ella Staunton herself, she was a sociable, good-
humored woman who had traveled widely and was well
versed in the vagaries of human thinking. She knew there
was talk about her, but she let it bother her not at all.

“Let them say what they will,” she shrugged. “If people
could not gossip, life would be dull, wouldn’t it?”

It was true that several men were interested in her,
women of her intelligence and striking beauty being rare,
and maybe there were some who even found fault with
that. Occasionally she went to the cinema with a male
escort. Now and then she appeared with a gentleman friend
at the Tempest Tavern, next door to her shop, to have a
quiet cocktail. She drank sparingly, always deported her-
self in a strictly ladylike manner, and was well liked by
those who knew her. ;

“A real lydy,” nodded 4 Tempest Hey greengrocer ap-
provingly. “She’s been around, she has, an’ she’s ’eard
audiences applaud her. But there’s no side to her. That’s
wot I likes.”

The funny business began on May 14, 1946, when a
woman who refused to identify herself telephoned Central
police headquarters in Liverpool.

“TI think you had better investigate Ella Staunton’s mani-
cure shop in Tempest Hey,” she said. “Something terrible is

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rted by Inspector Hall (left) and Superintendent Smith

going to happen there.” Then she hung up. :

The police, though always suspicious of anonymous tips
made an investigation. They did not question Mrs. Staun-
ton directly, but talked with various citizens and shop.
keepers in the area. They learned that there was som
gossip about her, but were ‘assured by several substantial
informants that Mrs. Staunton was extremely honest, re:
liable, and so far as they knew, in no danger.

After a cautious bit of poking around, the police wer
convinced that the telephoned warning was the work of :
crank, and they let the matter drop.

™ THREE DAYS LATER, however, a local clergymar
telephoned headquarters. He identified himself and said ht
had been told by one of his parishioners that somethin;
strange might be going on at Mrs. Staunton’s manicuris
shop. Just what this “something strange” amounted to, ht
did not know, but he thought it might be wise to keep the
place under close surveillance.

Once more the police looked into the matter, again
without mentioning it to Mrs. Staunton. The British police
are much more cautious and less direct than their Ameri:
can brethren, and in many cases their sense of discretion
is to be applauded.

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| : @ THE POLICE of Blackpool, the famed
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figured that Gas-Stove Ma, 79 and
spunky up until a day ago, had died as

q the result of an accident, had killed
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townsfolk couldn’t be bothered with
E hair-splitting’ details. To them, Ma’s

demise was the result of her “high-
energy” eating habits.

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Ann Ricketts for éfical -purposes—

had never passed up a chance to ex-

eo pound her views on eating. “Solid food
is bad for oldsters,” she would. say.

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de-rol,” Staunton said irritably. “Of
‘course I’ll answer questions, but I’m a
sick man and would like to get home
and to bed. What is it you want to
know?” : ;

Smith eyed him. “It seems to be well
known that you and your estranged
wife were on anything but friendly
terms. In fact, you had heated quarrels
with her more than once. Naturally, I
want to know just where you were at
4:45 yesterday afternoon.”

“That’s easy,” Staunton said. “I was
in Belfast.” ;

The superintendent stared. “In Bel-
fast?”

“I was. You see, I have a heart ail-
ment. In fact, I’ve just been given the
news that I probably don’t have long
to live. Well, day before yesterday I
took the’ plane to Belfast to see a noted

- specialist there, Dr. John McCready. I
saw him twice while I was there, and
just returned this morning.”

“You have proof of that?”

Staunton nodded. “I finished my sec-
ond appointment with Dr. McCreedy at
4:15 yesterday afternoon.” He smiled
mirthlessly. “I think you'll agree it
would be impossible for me to get to
Liverpool from Belfast and murder
Ella, all in a half-hour’s time. I’m
afraid, sir, you’ll have to look else-
where to solve your case.”

“We will,’ Smith agreed, “If your
story holds up. Wait just a moment.”

He put in a telephone call to the
doctor in the North Ireland city. In two
minutes Staunton’s story was borne
out. The quick solution which the po-
lice had looked for blew up in their
faces. Staunton was released and Smith
was left without even a suspect.

@ DETECTIVES were still trying to
identify the bakery owner on Tithebarn
Street described by Mrs. Ponter as an
admirer of her sister. They had no im-
mediate success at this, but the canvass
of Mrs. Staunton’s clients turned up a
new name, that of Thomas Parent. Par-
ent was described as a steady customer
of the late manicurist, and was seen
leaving the shop around noon on the
murder day. It was said also that he
was romantically interested in Mrs.
Staunton and had often escorted her
on evening dates,

Parent, a rotund 45-year-old bachelor
who worked as a salesman for a leather
‘firm, was picked up at his place of busi-
ness. .He looked gloomy and dispirited
as he was brought to headquarters.

“Ella was a very dear friend of mine,”
he said. “This ghastly affair has hit me
hard.”

Questioned by Smith, Parent readily
admitted he had called at Mrs. Staun-
ton’s shop on the day of the murder.

“That was my day off,” he explained.
“I stopped in to see Ella right around

12 o’clock and asked her if she would
have a cocktail with me after she closed
at five. She agreed to do so. I then

went to the Circle Cafe and had lunch.-

I didn’t return to Ella’s place until five
or a little after, and there were police
cars there and a large crowd in front.
-It was a bad shock, I can tell you, when
someone said she had been murdered.”

“What did you do between the time
you had lunch and the time you re-
turned to her shop?” Smith inquired.

Parent said he had visited a mer-
chant on Brimhall Street who was a
friend of his, not leaving there until
about 3:30. He had then gone to the
Tempest Tavern to kill some time. He
had a couple glasses of beer there, and
at about 4:30 had gone for a walk in the
park returning shortly after five to
learn of the slaying.

By his own admission, Parent was in
the vicinity of the murder scene around
the time of the crime. The merchant
and the tavern proprietor recalled his
visit, but this still left the actual mur-
der time unaccounted for.

Luckily, Parent recalled that he had
stopped to chat with a bobby in the
park around 4:45, just before he headed
back to the manicure shop. The bobby
was found and_ verified his story,
whereupon Parent let out a sigh of re-
lief.

“It looked a bit bad for me for a
moment,” he admitted ruefully. “All
right, now that I’m cleared I ‘can tell
you something. I didn’t want to say.
this before lest you might think I was

‘trying to invent a suspect. It’s this.

When I left the tavern around 4:30
there was a rather seedy-looking man
at Ella’s door. He didn’t look at all the
type of customer Ella usually had.”

“Did you see anything more?”. Smith
wanted to know.

“Well, as I crossed the street, Ella
opened the door and spoke with him
for a moment. I got the impression
from her attitude that she wasn’t glad
to see him. She didn’t seem to want to
let him in, but finally she stepped back
and he entered.”

The superintendent gazed at him
thoughtfully. “It’s very probable that
this man was the killer,” he said slow-
ly. “Think hard, now. Can you de-
scribe him more closely?” :

Parent knit his brows. “I'd say he
was around 35 or 40. I can’t describe

or twice to see if anyone ‘was listening
to the argument. There was something
angry and menacing about him. He was
around average size—not thin, not fat,”

“How about his clothes?”

“Oh, yes, he wore a light-colored cap °
cocked on the side of his head, sort of
rakish-like. He had on a worn-looking
raincoat, and I think his trousers were
light in color.” ,

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worn light-colored Donegal tweed
trousers. He now asked Parent whether
he knew the baker on Tithebarn Street
who had been an admirer of Mrs.
Staunton. j

The leather salesman shook his head.
“I don’t know anything about that. Ella
mentioned to me once, though, that
some man was making himself rather
difficult—telephoning her at all hours
and trying to see her.”

m SMITH THANKED Parent for his
help, then conferred with Chief In-

‘spector Hall about the case. On Hall’s

desk lay a report from the police lab-
oratory which had just arrived. It told
of chemical tests made on the murder
crowbar and other objects found in the
manicure ‘shop. ,

“The blood on the crowbar is Mrs.
Staunton’s blood,” Hall said, scanning
the report. “The hairs on it are her
hairs. In addition, the laboratory found
particles of two other substances on
the crowbar. One of them seemed to be
wheat flour, and the other calcium soda
phosphate.” i
' Smith leaped to his feet. “Calcium
soda phosphate!” he echoed. “That's
baking powder, isn’t it?”

“That’s right,” Hall said, looking
puzzled. ‘

“Then we're hot on the trail!” Smith
cried. “Remember that baker fellow on
Tithebarn Street? Who'd use flour and
baking powder but a baker!”

The only trouble was, Tithebarn
Street was an important thoroughfare
some three miles long and containing
many a. bakery and pastry shop. But
Smith was not dismayed at this pros-
pect.

“Get every available detective we've
got,” he ordered. “We’ll start them on
Tithebarn and Tempest Hey. They’ll
canvass every bakery until they find a
man called Tom who answers the de-
scription given by Parent,”

The work started almost immediately

and was interrupted only by closing
time. On the second day of the can-
vass, Detectives Kelley and Robert
Galloway entered a large baking estab-
lishment at 145 Tithebarn Street, about
a half-mile from the murder scene.

“Yes, indeed,” the proprietor nodded.
“We had a fellow named Tom working
here—Thomas Hendren, his name is.
But he’s not the owner, y’know. That’s
me. Well, Tom quit about a week ago,
and I can’t say I’m sorry to lose him.”

When he last saw Hendren, he went
on, the man had been wearing a light-
colored cap, a raincoat and a rather
bedraggled pair of Donegal tweed
trousers.

“When was that?” Kelley inquired.

“Let's see. Yes, that would have
been May 20. Hendren was a pastry
baker here, and a pretty good one, but
hard to get along with. Well, he quit us
on May 17. Then on the 20th he came
in and talked a bit with Hughie Crostick,
one of the apprentices. That was when
the crowbar disappeared.”

The detectives pricked up their ears.
“A crowbar disappeared?” Galloway
inquired.

“Yes. You see, Hughie was working .

in the back room when Hendren came
in to see him. After Hendren left,
Hughie went to get the crowbar to open
some cases. It was gone. It was there
before Hendren came, so I have no
doubt Tom took it. He wasn’t too fussy
about other people’s property.”

The detectives also talked with Cros-

tick, who verified the story. “Tom said

he hadn’t found another job,” he re-
lated. “He told me he was thinking of
joining up with the merchant marine.”

“Everything fits like a glove,” Kelley
remarked to Galloway as they hurried
away. “Hendren’s our man!”

“Now all-we have to do is find him,”
Galloway agreed.

The hunt for Thomas Hendren, 38
years old and single, began at once. The
man was not found at his room in Ox-

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ford Street nor at any of his regular
haunts, so it seemed clear that he had
fled Liverpool. His relatives were ques-
tioned. One of them admitted that Hen-
dren had called him long distance from
St. Helen’s on the previous day. Hen-
dren sounded excited, and the connec-
tion had hardly been made before the
line went dead, Hendren apparently
having changed his mind and hung up.

All merchant marine offices were
warned to be on the watch for him. The
police all over England had his descrip-
tion. The authorities at St. Helen’s
found that he had Stayed there over-
night at a cheap hotel and had left early
in the morning, not saying where he in-
tended to go. The fact that he had
registered under the name of Barker
showed that he knew he would be
hunted.

@ THERE WAS THUS no point in
attempting to keep the manhunt secret.
The story was given to the newspapers
in the hope that this widespread pub-
licity would aid in his capture.

It did. At 7 o’clock on the morning
of May 26, a carpenter of Salford was
walking to work when he saw a man
snoring soundly on a park bench. The
carpenter had read the papers. He no-
ticed that the man answered Hendren’s
description and wore a cap, a worn
raincoat and Donegal twéed trousers.

A few minutes later a Salford bobby
aroused the sleeping man and he was
under arrest. Taken ‘to the police sta-
tion, he at first denied any knowledge
of the crime and claimed he was an
unemployed ‘mechanic named Barker.
But when a silver cigarette case en-
graved with the initials “ES.” was
found in his pocket, he admitted he was
the slayer.

“T killed her, right enough,” Thomas
Hendren said listlessly. “I found that
cigarette case in her shop and kept it
because I wanted a little keepsake to
remember her by.”

Returned under guard to Liverpool,
Hendren made a complete confession of
the crime.

“Why did I do it?” he demanded. “I
did it because I couldn’t make her love
me, that’s why. I tried and. I tried,
every way I knew how, but she just
wasn’t interested in me.”

Hendren related a familiar tale of a
man driven berserk by a hopeless and
unrequited love. He had met Mrs.
Staunton at a small card party, and had
been smitten with her on ‘first sight.
From, then on, he had besieged her

with télephone calls und requests for-

dates. He had been out with her ex-
actly twice, once to a movie and once
to a dance. After that, Ella Staunton
politely turned him down.

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he said, almost in tears. “Maybe I
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Hendren went to trial a month later,
on June 12, pleading temporary in-
sanity. He was found guilty and, Eng-
lish justice being far speedier than the
American variety, was hanged at Wal-
ton prison on July 17.

Five months later, Thomas Staunton,
Ella’s estranged husband, died of a
heart attack. -

Only one mystery remained. Who

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was the woman who had warned that
“something terrible’ would happen to
blonde Ella Staunton? The police were
never able to answer that question pos-
itively. But they felt:sure than Hen-
dren must have made threats against
Mrs. Staunton that were heard by a
friend or relative, who vainly tried to
prevent the tragedy.

Eprror’s. Note: To prevent embar-
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Columbia, with officers on the watch
for a large, dark-colored sedan marked
with bullet holes. A memo was set
aside for the day detective force to
check with cleaning establishments, on
the theory that the killer’s. clothing
might have been stained during com-
mission of the murder. A telegram was
sent to the Chicago police asking them
to check with Carson, Pirie Scott & Co.
for possible identification of the buyer
of the plaid coat.

By morning it was apparent that the
blockade had failed to bag the killer,
nor had a search of public garages and
parking places turned up a suspicious-
looking car. A check of the police fin-
gerprint files had failed”to match those
of the slain redhead. Her fingerprints
were then sent to the FBI with a re-
quest that the G-men make a search

-of their massive files containing the

fingerprints of almost 100,000,000
persons. If she had worked for any
government agency, the FBI would
undoubtedly have her prints.

Washington newspapers that morn-
ing headlined the sensational case of
the killer who sought to dump the body
of his victim into a sewer on quiet
Seventh Street. Detectives made a
further canvass of ‘that vicinity in the
hope that someone might have heard a
fusillade of bullets the previous night,
but had no success.

At 12:30 that day, Detective Chief
Barrett received a telephone call. It
was Mrs. Schroeder, the rooming house
proprietor, on the wire.

“I've just read the papers about that
woman who was murdered,” Mrs.
Schroeder said. “I’m afraid—it sounds
like Charlotte Robinson, ona of my
roomers. She went out last night and
hasn't: returned.”

Barrett and Flaherty hopped into a
police car and sped to the rooming
house on Capitol Street, less than a
half-mile from the spot where the body
was found.

“Charlotte is red-headed and was
dressed just like it said in the papers,”
the landlady told them. “She got a
telephone call last night and lefta little
after 7.”

Mrs. Schroeder was taken to the
morgue, where she identified the vic-
tim as her roomer. Mrs. Robinson, she
said, was 30 years old, a divorcée from
Chicago. She had been working as a
secretary for the War Hospitality Com-
mittee.

“You say she received a telephone
call before she went out,” Barrett said.
“Do you know whether it was a man?”

“It was a young woman,” Mrs.
Schroeder said. “I answered the phone
and called Charlotte.”

“Did you hear anything that was
said?” :

“I was in the room, but I only heard
a little. I heard Charlotte say, ‘Well, all
right, I'll come this time. But remem-
ber, it will be the last time.’ ”

™ THE LAST TIME. ... The words,
the officers reflected, were indeed pro-
phetic. They questioned Miss Harrison,
Mrs. Robinson’s roommate, and other
women who lived at the lodging house.

Verna Harrison revealed that Char-
lotte had been keeping company re-
cently with one Otto Kruger, a former
acquaintance from Chicago. Kruger
was employed by some government
agency, but she could not name either
the agency or his home address.

“I do know that Charlotte was trou-
bled about some man,” Verna went on.
“She did not say who he was, but ap-
parently he had been bothering her.

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ductive skill of a name nor where he lived.
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mouthpieces of the
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he would ‘throw the
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American bar ever surpassed name, _

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d the famous Henry Thom- in London, Though John
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Simon, brought in
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AS A LAWYER HE HAD NO CASE, UNTIL

John Smith, the gen- traveler died, he had
he mansion, asked the at three a. m., on

nd stay overnight. In _ load of vegetables.
aveler was found dead in bed. é

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yard in the back, detectives turned the inside
of the bungalow upside down. If the con-

tainer could be found, there might be a store -

label or fingerprints on it. Either. could settle
“once and forall the question of:suicide, or
point the way to the killer. But in spite of
all efforts, the Rodine container did not turn
up. *

Up to now the news blackout on the case
had been enforced to the point where not
even Ma Ricketts’ name had appeared in the
newspapers. Now MacDougal pulled a switch,
in hopes that full publicity might flush a lead,
and he gave reporters the dope in time for
Saturday’s evening papers.

Mrs. Jessie Brewer, of Blackpool, read

about the Ricketts case in one of the papers.

Sunday noon ‘she phoned headquarters. .
“I’ve been reading all about Mrs. Ricketts,”
She said. “What day was it she died?”

‘THE CONSTABLE taking the call said he
didn’t quite get the question: “The date was
in the paper wasn’t it?” =.

“I wonder if it could be a mistake. A couple
of weeks ago I met Mrs. Merrifield on the
street—” -

“You'd better talk to the detectives,” the
constable said, cutting her off. “Your address ?”

Chief Dunn rushed over to Mrs. Brewer's.
The story was this. She had run into Mrs.
Merrifield on the street. Mrs. Merrifield. had
told her she had been working for a lady
. who had lately died, leaving her a fine house.
Mrs. Merrifield hadn’t mentioned Mrs: Ricketts
by name, but it couldn’t have been anyone but
the old lady. When this conversation took
place, a date very early in April, Ma was still
alive, unless the paper was wrong about: the
date... oe ah
“The. date in: the paper is correct,” Dunn
said. “Are you sure you're not ‘making a mis-
take regarding Mrs. Merrifield’s story? Didn’t
she pethaps say she was going’ to inherit this
bungalow?” ~~ sae eye”

Mrs. Brewer shook her head. “She said it
was hers.” :

Dunn reported this to MacDougal. “Let’s
ask the Merrifields about this,” the Yard man
suggested. : a

Fifteen minutes later Louisa Merrifield was
telling the two officers that her good friend
Mrs. Brewer was a chatterbox: who had got-
* ten everything twisted up.

The occasion was as good as any to
straighten out the matter of Ma’s last. will.
According to Louisa, the attorney in the mat-
ter was William Arnold Darbyshire. Ma had
called for him on March 30. Darbyshire had
sent everybody. out of the room, but after
the papers were signed both Ma and he had
informed the Merrifields that they would be
the beneficiaries. Now if Ma had canceled, her
will as. announced, Darbyshire would be the
man to know about it.

Was the will still in effect ?

“Yes,” Darbyshire informed the Yard de-
-tective. “My client never canceled it.” For
once, Ma had made an empty threat and the
Merrifields were the owners of a handsome
Piece of real estate.

MacDougal didn’t give them the happy
news, But he did ask them if they could prove
that Ma had intended to call off the in-
heritance deal. “She threatened to do it three
or four times,” Alfred Merrifield said. “The
last time, George Foran, the delivery man from
the liquor store. was here.”

George Foran was located. that

“What the Merrifields told you is entirely

correct,” he told MacDougal. “I heard Mrs.
Ricketts say she was fed up with them and
would disinherit them.” He didn’t recall the
exact date Ma had made this remark but it
couldn’t have been more than four or five
days before her death. mt

Next day ‘a worried-looking - middle-aged

lady who said she was the owner of a dress

shop on Blackpool’s famed sea front prome-

nade, came to headquarters in search of ad-

vice or help. ‘
“Mrs. Merrifield bought a coat from me a
year ago,” she said. “She still owes me money
on it. A month ago she dropped in at my
shop and said she would pay me and showed
me a check made out to her for 40 pounds,

I refused to cash it. The signature looked
peculiar—” :

“In' which way ?”

“It looked kind of labored as if it had
been traced first and then inked in.”- ;
' The police couldn’t: help the woman col-
lect payment on the coat, but they did ask
Louisa Merrifield about the check.

“Ma gave it to me so I could buy new
curtains and other things for the house,”
Louisa explained. But 40 pounds—$110—is tall
money to spend on curtains in any hquse-
hold. Besides, was Ma willing to pay off her
maid’s debt at the dress shop?

“She promised me a little extra bonis,”
‘Louisa said sweetly.

MacDougal didn’t believe a word of it, how-
ever. Louisa; he was sure, was pulling some
funny business.

‘The detectives who had. been combing

the town for Godfrey, meanwhile, reported .

that no trace of him had been found.

“I’m' not too ‘surprised;” MacDougal said.
“Maybe this Godfrey is-just a ghost.” Mac-
Dougal spent the rest of the day slipping in
and out of doctors’ offices.

Hs FIRST call was on Dr. Burton Yule, the

physician who had refused to sign the
death certificate. Dr. Yule consulted his ap-
pointment book. “I went to see Mrs. Ricketts
on April 10, four days before her death, at
Mrs. Merrifield’s request,” he said. “She told
me Mrs, Ricketts had signed a will in her favor
and asked me to certify the patient’s mental
fitness so that the will couldn’t be contested
later. When Mrs. Ricketts saw me come in
she flew into a towering rage and screamed
at me to get out as she hadn’t called me.
I could truly certify that.she was fit, but told
Mrs. Merrifield I didn’t want to have ahy-
thing to do with the whole thing. I was very

much surprised when four days later Mrs. .

Merrifield’ asked me to come again. I only
did when she implored me, saying that it was
an emergency.”

“I presume,” said MacDougal, “that she
wanted to be safe, so nobody could hold it
against her later that she didn’t try to save
the old lady’s life.”

Dr. A. V. Wood, the next physician Mac-
Dougal interviewed, had been summoned. by
Mrs. Merrifield on April 12, two days before
the fatal date. “I didn’t want to go, because
I knew the old woman, but Mrs. Merrifield

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complained about pains in the stomach. The
only thing I could find wrong was bronchitis.
She had had the same bronchitis when I
examined her five years before. I was put
out about having been called under false
pretenses, and told Mrs. Merrifield so,”

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ood’s partner and had filled in for him
@ Mrs. Merrifield came over on the morn-

of April 14, just’ before Ma’s death, and
begged for someone to come as the emergency
was extreme.

“T had heard about Mrs. Ricketts from my
colleague,” Dr. Page said, “and didn’t want to
have anything to do with her. But I did go
over and, as it turned out, I was too late.
Her heartbeat was so feeble, I couldn’t even
get it. That’s fatal in a woman of her age.
If I had been asked to sign a death cer-
tificate, however, I would have refused.”

“Why was Mrs. Merrifield so insistent ?”

“Playing safe, I presume. Wouldn’t you if
somebody was dying of poison in your house?”

B ACK in his office, MacDougal issued orders

that the canvass of shops selling Rodine
should be. extended to the whole northwest
of England, particularly its largest city,
Liverpool.

While this was set in motion, the news-
paper publicity given the case washed in
another witness.

She made her appearance in the form of
an out-of-town letter to headquarters. “This
is what I got from Louisa Merrifield,” the
woman wrote. Enclosed was a letter from
Louisa to her, dated’ March 31, 1953. Once
more Louisa had been--counting her chickens
before they were hatched.

“I had a good job nursing‘an old lady who
has died and left.me a lovely little bungalow,”

love, all will. come right in the end. Happy

ter to us all.”
MacDougal decided- not to show Louisa
the letter, not yet, inasmuch as one of the
detective teams canvassing Rodine_ outlets

= letter read. “I thank God for it. So you
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"Merrifield

around Blackpool had come up with:a catch.

The shop didn’t stock that particular rat
killer, but a saleswoman, Mrs. Elisabeth
Baker, asked if she could have a look at Mrs.
Merrifield. The detective told her this wasn’t
possible, yet, but urged her to tell him what
was on her mind.

“Well,” Mrs. Baker said, “I was waiting for
a bus in Lytham Road on April 13. Also wait-
ing was a grayhaired woman of 50, with
eyeglasses, a complete stranger to me. From
what I have been reading in the papers I
think she was Louisa Merrifield.”

At any rate, this woman started talking to
Mrs. Baker. She seemed very nervous and
apparently needed somebody to talk to. She
said she was in trouble with her husband
and would have to see a lawyer. It had all

started a few days before when she’d gone

to Wigan to see her three children by. a
former marriage. On her return she found her
husband in bed with the old lady in whose
house they lived.

“T got mad as hell,” Mrs. Baker quoted the -

woman at the bus stop as saying. “If this
goes on I'll poison the old battle-axe, and
him as well. She is leaving the bungalow to
me, but my husband is so greedy, he wants
it all to himself.”

At this point the bus had arrived and Mrs.
Baker had lost track of the talkative stranger.

MacDougal summoned Mrs. Baker at once.
Sizing her up as a level-headed, trustworthy
witness, he said a meeting between her and

.Mrs. Merrifield could be arranged. He had

Mrs. Merrifield arrested. Mrs. Baker picked
her out of a lineup of six women of similar
age and appearance.

“All this is trash and more trash,” Louisa
shouted, when asked about the
story she had told Mrs. Baker.

When MacDougal questioned her about the
letter she had written pronouncing Ma dead
before she was, Louisa said the letter was a
phony. “I have many enemies,” she declared.

Two handwriting experts found the writing
to be hers. ~

When she was asked about telling a friend
Ma was dead when she still had a short way
to go, Louisa clenched her fists and said, “I
have many terrible enemies—they’ll all be
punished.”

MacDougal wished now that the detectives
checking on the Rodine deal would hurry and
find the shop where it had been bought. —

PROVIDENCE sometimes answers the pray-

ers of hardworking detectives. Next morn-
ing, in Liverpool, Harold Hague, drug store
owner, told detectives that in many months he
had sold only a single tin of Rodine. There had
been two purchasers—a portly white-haired
gent aged about 70 and a bespectacled woman
‘of 50, presumably his wife. He gave very
accurate descriptions of both.

A salesgirl corroborated the boss’s declacs-
tions and added on her own that the customer
had worn a plugged-in hearing aid..It turned
out that Alfred Merrifield did use such a
device whenever he was away from home. The
girl further remembered that the woman
customer had put the Rodine in her handbag
and then inquired whether they could get an
ointment for an injury on her husband’s leg.

Detectives inspected Alfred’s leg which was
afflicted with an ulcer that wouldn’t heal.

The druggist and the salesgirl were con-
fronted with Alfred and Louisa Merrifield.
Both witnesses. identified the couple as the
Rodine purchasers.

The legal windup came on May 30, "1953,
when a magistrate’s court found Alfred and
Louisa Merrvifie'd guiltv-of murder, and ordered
them to be held for jury trial. Louisa, who had
pronounced Ma Ricketts dead more than orice,

‘pleaded not guilty. Alfred Merrifield: didn’t

enter a plea. When told he was charged with

murder he gave forth with a cheery “Thank

you,” looked over at his wife and smiled.
Louisa didn’t smile back.

Ten-Buck Fever

continued from page 29

now. Actually it was a little over two months

- ago—March 1, to be exact—when Ezra’s wife

was found dead in the driveway alongside
the house. She’d been run over by a truck
Ezra was driving. Ezra had said it was an
accident but some people in the area had
said differently. It was a dirty thing to say
but sometimes dirty things catch on and be-
fore long practically everybody was going
around hinting.

The rumor went around for three days and
then on the morning of the fourth day it
stopped. The county coroner, a very” much
respected coroner, announced that the death,

. like Ezra had said all along, was accidental.

The rumor stopped but nobody knew for
sure whether or not the hurt that must have
grown in Ezra’s heart during those: few days
had stopped.

Now, a little over two months later, Ezra

g to do was to go over to his place and

mM out why, but everybody—still embar-

rassed, ‘still ashamed—closed: their ears and
made believe they didn’t hear a thing.

At about six o’clock that night; though,
one man felt he’d had enough.

b:: cattle were bawling and the right

- The man, a thin, spindly fellow in his early
thirties, was a farmhand and had worked at
the St.Clair farm until about a year ago.
He’d quit then and taken a job at a big farm
not far away. He sat on the porch of the
farmhouse now with two other men.

“I know Ezra,” he said. “He wouldn’t let
something like this go for very long. He’s

proud of his livestock. Man, he’s proud of

them. He cares for them more than some
mothers care for their kids.” He got up from
where he was sitting. He motioned to the
two other men with his head. “There’s some-
thing wrong there,” he said. “Let’s hop into
the car and take a ride over.”

HE three men were at the farm ten
minutes later. It had just begun to get
dark and the first thing they noticed was
that there were no lights.on in the house. Then

they noticed a Ford, Ezra St.Clair’s car, stand-

ing in the driveway, its left front door open.
They parked behind the Ford and the tall,
spindly fellow -hopped out of the car and
headed for the house. His two friends were
behind him.
They went in through a side door. The hall

first, then the kitchen, the dining room and
the living room were empty. They walked
out onto the back porch.

One of the men swore and gave his neck
a hard swack. The fly that had landed there
a second or two before fell to the floor.
“Damn,” he said. “This place is swarmed
with ’em!”

Flies were buzzing around the small screened
porch and the man’s first reaction was to see
whether the door had been left open.

It hadn't.

Then he saw how the flies were getting in
and he called to the other men.

“Look here,’ he said. He pointed to a
portion of the screen just to the right of the
door. “Look at these holes.” He counted
them. There were six. They. were small and
neat and they formed a rough circle. “You
know what they look like?”

“Yeah,” one of the other men said.

“Yeah,” the third man said.

The first man went back into the house,
fast. He knew that Ezra .St.Clair had been
crazy about rifles, that he was one of the best _
shots around. He looked where Ezra usually
kept his guns.

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LTHOUGH newspapers receive many

murder tips, relatively few help in

the solution of a crime. But a notable

exception was the one received by News

of the World, the English Sunday paper,
on Thursday, August 9, 1951.

At 2 o’clock that afternoon, a call from
Nottingham to the London offices of the
paper was routed to Norman Rae, crime
reporter. “Would you pay for an exclu-
sive murder story?” a man’s voice asked.
“So exclusive the police haven’t yet gotten

. wind of it.”

“Possibly,” Rae countered. “Who's
calling?”

“My name is Herbert Mills,” the man
went on. “I live on Mansfield Street here
in Nottingham, but. I’m using a phone in
a public booth. I’ve found a woman’s
body in an abandoned orchard.”

The dreamy quality of Mills’ voice made
his words sound far from’ convincing. yet
the quick-thinking Rae ate up time by ask-
ing questions. Mills said he was a poet
and had wandered into the orchard to
write a sonnet when he came upon the
dead woman.

wees three minutes had passed, the
toll operator cut in and asked for an
additional deposit. Mills said he had no
change, so Rae instructed him, “Give me
your number. I'll call you back.”

Before getting Mills back on the phone,
Rae transmitted the phone number to the
Nottingham police. Then the reporter
held Mills in conversation until a second
voice broke in saying, “This is Detective
Sergeant Burrows, Nottingham C10:
We've nabbed Mills. Thanks.”

“His report is probably cock-eyed,” Rae
commented. “Poetry and murder usually
don’t mix. But if there is anything to it;
I’d appreciate a flash.”

Two hours later, Rae received a call
from Burrows which took him aback.
“There is a body,” the sergeant. reported,
“that ‘of a Mrs. Mabel Tattershaw of
Longmead Drive, Nottingham. Definitely
murdered, but we don’t yet know how.
Last Thursday night, along with a Mrs.
Wilson, she went to the movies and there
made a date for Friday with a strange
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left home Friday, presumably to meet
this stranger. She didn’t come back.”

“And Herbert Mills?” asked Rae.

“Young chap, only 19,” said Burrows.
“He was most cooperative.”

Rae consulted his editor and caught a
train for Nottingham to purchase Poet
Mills’ story. Arrived, he engaged a hotel
room and hunted up Mills—a tall, ethe-
real-looking youth. The two repaired to
the hotel where Mills wrote his story.

Later, at Nottingham C.I.D. head-
quarters, Rae found the police still puzzled
over not only the identity of the murderer
but also the method of killing. When dis-
covered, Mrs. Tattershaw’s face had been
black, leading to speculation that she had
been beaten to death.

The next day, the post-mortem report
gave the cause of death as strangulation.
Immediately this news was released, Rae
returned to his hotel where he found
Herbert Mills awaiting him.

“Listen,” said the poet, “I’ve for sale
another exclusive story on the murder.”

The two remained in the reporter's
room all night, and by morning Mills had
written and signed a lengthy narrative.
Then Rae took the document and its
author to Sergeant Burrows. “But it’s
not a news story alone,” the reporter ex-
plained. “It’s a confession!”

Burrows read and learned it had been
the young poet with whom Mrs. Tatter-
shaw had made the date in the darkened
movie. “I’d always wanted to commit the
perfect crime,” Mills’ statement went on.
“But after six days had passed and her
body hadn’t been discovered, I realized
my crime wouldn't be perfect unless it
was recognized as such. So I phoned the
newspaper.”

“Did Mills make this confession to you
without any urging?” Burrows asked the
reporter.

“Hardly,” replied Rae. “He was trying
to sell me a second story giving the cause
of Mrs.Tattershaw's death as strangula-
tion. But I’d just heard the pathologist
cite that as the cause for the first time,
so I knew Mills couldn’t be aware of it
unless he’d done the strangling.”

Early in December Mills was convicted
of murder and sentenced to be hanged.

—By Charles Boswell

sentence,

Officers were stationed
scene of the 1927 crime, but. i
occasions, they failed to cate!

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Young's death--December 2
solution of the case seemed |
than ever. In the interven
slayer might have died, mig!
to some distant part of th:
he might be behind bars som
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torney, James C. Bane, |
Washington County, and
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had been unabte to solv
Young mystery during thei

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local authorities and the s'
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tempted rape. The complai
in Carnegie, a Pittsburgh s
five miles northeast of W
well as in Washington its:

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escaped molestation una
scribed their would-be ass:
powerful man with staring
years of age.

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an attractive Washington
typical.

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Oregon Avenue when this :
from behind a tree,” she sai
me and pulled me toward
he meant to batter my he:
was able to scream, and Iu
motorist came to my aid.
off in the darktess.”

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turnal prowler sounded lik
Thelma Young. But effor:
went unrewarded.

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ington and Allegheny Co
maxed on January 18 by th:
of Elizabeth Louden, a !
mestic worker. That nig!
residence where she was
started walking along a
her home in the hamlet of
just a few miles from Ca:

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was revealed when her |
found beside a brook nea
had been ravished and bee

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other attempted assault +
Carnegie police by a wa
in one of the restaurants
business section. Her st:
to all the rest—the big :
at her as she walked a!
street, her screams, her
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spect. She had recogniz

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clared. “His name is Rob:
he commutes here fr:
every day to work in |
road shops.”

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the Washington detectis
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over six feet in height.
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i girl’s fiancé, as they left court at Old Bailey, London, where Lord Chief Justice Hewart

f was convinced now that a sex maniac, a mad killer, was

ha] at large in Leighton Buzzard. First the high school girl
ie ‘had been attacked. Now Ruby Keen had been murdered.
Heh * And both of them had fallen prey to the roving monster
| in almost the identical spot in The Firs.

Cox removed his light overcoat and placed it over
Ruby Keen’s nearly naked body. Then he sprinted to the
office of Superintendent Harold Folkes, senior officer of
the Leighton Buzzard Police Department, and excitedly
<announced his grisly find. It caused consternation.

Folkes and his aides rushed to the
scene of this newer and more horrify-
ing crime. The police superintendent’s
jaw set in a grim line as he examined
the body of attractive Ruby Keen, now
grotesque in death. He knew the girl
and her family well, had watched her
grow from childhood into lovely young
womanhood. He knew, also, that She
had only recently become engaged. to
marry Patrick Smith, a handsome
young policeman in the nearby town of
Hockcliffe.

‘ “Look at that,” growled Folkes as he
knelt beside the body in the sandy path-
way and removed the coat that Cox had
thrown shieldingly over it. “Garrotted
with her own scarf. Poor child.”

A closer examination disclosed that
the girl had been wearing a matching
coat and skirt and a yellow crepe de —
chine frock. The coat had been torn
open and the link button which had
fastened it was found nearby and had
obviously been torn off. The officer preserved it.

ai The frock and undervest had been ripped from top to
Ah - bottom in front, and the elastic of another undergarment
! was broken. Still another filmy undergarment was
ti wrapped around her left ankle. Both of the girl’s stock-
ings were down to her ankles, and her shoes were off.
“Decidedly there has been a struggle here,” comment-
ed Superintendent Folkes, as he glanced about at the
scuff marks which showed clearly in the sand of the
pathway. “Evidently Ruby Keen put up a brave fight

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for her life. ‘From “the signs I am able to read here,” he

added, “she kicked off her high-heeled slippers during
the struggle with her assailant. The soles of her stock-
inged feet show definitely that they have come in contact
with the ground.”

The white sand yielded other unmistakable signs, too.
One of them was the clear impression of a man’s shoe
print, undoubtedly that of Ruby Keen’s attacker and
slayer. And then, between the shapely, naked legs of the
girl, Superintendent Folkes discovered in. the soil, damp

from the Spring rains, the distinct im-
pressions of a man’s knees. In fact so
distinct were they that, even with his
naked eye, the superintendent could

“This is a case for Scotland Yard,”
he announced finally, directing his men
to rope off the path leading through
The Firs at both ends, and. to stand
guard at the scene until relieved.

Meanwhile Ruby Keen’s body was
carried to the laboratory of Dr. Taylor,
the local pathologist. He surprised Su-
perintendent Folkes with the announce-
ment that there were absolutely no
signs that the girl had been criminally
attacked. Death, he stated, was due to
strangulation from the tightly drawn
silk scarf. There were a few wounds
and bruises on the body.

Like railroadman Cox, who had dis-
covered the body, the rest of Leighton
Buzzard was firmly convinced that a
sex maniac was at large in their midst.
Nervous, semi-hysterical mothers forbade their young
daughters to venture out of doors, even in broad day-
light, without an escort. Windows and doors were firmly
latched at night, and, in some cases even during the day-
time. Terror had descended on the once easy-going little
village, and every strange passerby was scrutinized. °:

helped trap the

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sending to Leighton Buzzard two of the Yard’s ace de-

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looks as though we will then have to
check on the names of all the customers
of tailors who have ordered suits made
of this material recently. In that host,
somewhere, will be our man.”

Superintendent Folkes shook his
head skeptically.

“A mighty long job, Inspector,” he
commented.

“Yes, it is,” replied the inspector.
“And just on the chance that it might

‘not be as difficult as it appears, I’m
first going to ask you to take me to
the shop of your local clothing dealer
and determine if he stocks anything
similar to this. And if he doesn’t,” the
inspector added significantly, ‘“we’ll
visit the tailor at Hockcliffe and check
up on his stock.”

The Leighton Buzzard police super-
intendent looked startled.

“Do you really think that young
Smith——” he began, only to be inter-
rupted by Barker, who urged that they
get under way immediately to the lo-
cal tailor shop. .

“In a case like this every minute
may count,” the inspector explained. -

While Inspector Barker, Sergeant
Tomlin and Superintendent’ Folkes
made their visit to the Leighton Buz-
zard men’s clothing shop, an amazing
thing happened. The stranger who had
escorted Ruby Keen on a round of the
local. taverns after her fiancé had de--

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stable of tiny Heath and Reach, a
hamlet but a few miles from Leighton
Buzzard, had received a telephone call

from an agitated young man. ,

' “My name is Leslie George “ge
he had said over the wire. “I h ae.
something important to report. Might
I come right over and talk to Consta-
ble McCarthy?”

Upon being informed that ‘the con-
stable was not immediately available,
Stone had announced his intentions of
coming over anyway, as the matter
was of great importance.

When he arrived at the McCarthy
residence, the constable’s wife was so
touched at the young man’s wretched
appearance that she went into theécel-
lar and brought out a bottle of her hus-
band’s favorite after dinner brandy.
Stone, who said he was a quarry
worker in town, sobbed almost hys-
terically for a few minutes before he
was able to tell what had brought him
there. A drink of the constable’s good
brandy seemed, however, to help
steady his nerves.

Holding his head between his hands,
and bracing his elbows ‘pn his knees,
Leslie George Stone told the consta-
ble’s wife that he was so upset because
he had just learned of the murder of
Ruby Keen over at Leighton Buzzard.

“Why, did you know her?” asked
Mrs. McCarthy, who was not quite able

to place the young man.

Dim

“Did I know her?” echoed Stone, al-
most on the verge of “tears again. “I
was out with her last night. So far as I

know I was the last one to be with her“
before she was killed. We were sweet- .

hearts a long time ago. I just returned '
to this part of the country, ran into her
by accident, and we decided to have a
final evening together for old time’s

‘sake, before she was married.”

Mrs. McCarthy poured Stone anoth-
er drink of brandy and gave it to him.

“You wait right here,” she said. “Tl
be right back to hear your story
through, you poor, unhappy boy.”

In the next room she whispered
hoarsely into the telephone: ,

“Give me Leighton Buzzard Police
Headquarters right away, operator!”

‘Detective Palmer made the trip to
Heath and Reach from Leighton ‘Buz-
zard in record time. At the McCarthy
residence he found the orytente.”
Stone still poyring out his story-to:
patient wife of the constable. The oft
cer identified himself to Stone.

‘I am glad you came,” Stone said
forthrightly. “I thought that the police
would want to hear my story.”

“What is your story?” asked Palmer.

“Well,” began Stone, his nerves con-
siderably steadied by the brandy he
had consumed, “as I was just telling
Mrs. McCarthy here, I was with Ruby
Keen last night and left her at 10:15
Pp. M. at The Stag. She went toward
her home along Plantation Road, and
I started: toward home along Heath
Road, I want to make this statement to
clear myself, as I was with her. I have
known Ruby since 1931.”

“Oh, you have, eh?” said Palmer.
“And have you been seeing her regu-
larly since then?”

. “No,” continued Stone. “You see, in
1930 I joined ‘the army and: was.at-
tached to the Royal Artillery; . stationed
at Gosport. In 1931 I came: hoiie here
on leave and met Ruby. ata’ dance -
Leighton’ Buzzard. We seemed, 't

attracted’ ‘to one another at once, tel

before‘my leave was up I had seen her
twice more.’

When his leave finally ‘wept.
Stoné/explained,: he ‘discovered, to his
dismay that he was” being transferred
to Hongkong, China. There would be
no chance to see Ruby again. Enam-
oured of the pretty little blonde, he
had determined to keep in touch with
her by letter, but when three of them
remained unanswered, he said, he had
become discouraged and stopped writ-
ing.

In 1937, when he left the army, Stone
went on, he was still thinking of Ruby,
and wondering what had become of
her. One of the first things he did when
he returned to his mother’s home at
Heath and Reach, he gaid, was to make
a Saturday night visit to Leighton
Buzzard as was the custom of the other
young men of the vicinity. In town he

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had.immediatély made inquiries as to
Ruby’s whéreabouts.
“And. what did you find out?” asked
Detective Palmer.

‘SI learned,” continued Stone, “that

she Was’ still unmarried, but that she
‘was engaged to Constable Patrick

Smith of Hockcliffe. So I thought to
myself that there was no use trying to
see Ruby again and I determined not
to look her up because I did ‘not want
to make a fool of myself.

“But, quite by accident, I did see
her again,” he explained. “I ran into

her one night when she was alone at .

The Stag. She seemed rather glad to

‘see me again after all those years and

suggested that we have a night out to-
gether for the sake of old times.”

“And you did?” queried the detec-
tive.

“Why, yes,” said Stone. “That was

‘last night. We met casually, but by pre.
arrangement, at the Golden Bell Ho-

* tel.”
“And you knew that Smith, her
flancé, had just left her?”

“To tell you the truth, she didn’t
mention her fiancé at all. And-I didn’t

_ ask her about him. In the course of our

conversation,” Stone added, “she mere-
ly indicated that she was to be married
soon. That was about the only refer-
ence made to the subject.”

“Were you jealous of Smith because.

he was going to marry Ruby?” per-
sisted the. detective.
“T had never seen Smith in my life,”

countered Stone. “I don’t even know

what he looks like.”

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ing, the young quarry worker said
that he and Ruby had lingered for a
while at the Golden Bell Hotel, drink-
ing and talking. He said that he had
had three pints of mild beer, and ‘Ruby
had had a drink of port.

Later, about ten e'élock, they had
sauntered on to the Cross Keys Inn.
There Stone had taken two pints of
mild beer, and Ruby had had two
glasses of port. About a half, or three-
quarters of an hour later, according to
Stone, he and Ruby left the Cross Keys
and walked on to The Stag. There,
after conversing a few minutes, they
decided they had better separate and
go to their respective homes.

‘T left her at Plantation Road,” Stone
explained. “And I walked on out Heath
Road. She must have decided to take a
short cut to her home through The
Firs.”

Stone’s explanation seemed reason-
able, since the sandy pathway through
the picturesque glade was on the way
to Ruby’s home.

“Now, young man,” said Detective
Palmer sympathetically, “I wouldn’t
worry about it too much. You go on

home and get some rest. If we need -

you further we will call on you. Thank
you for cooperating with us.”

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house of Constable McCarthy and re-
turned to his home, where he lived
with his parents.

Palmer hastened back to Leighton
Buzzard, and began a routine checkup
on Stone’s story. With the exception of
insignificant details, most of it was
fully corroborated by bartenders at the
Golden Bell Hotel, the Cross Keys Inn,
and persons who had seen Stone and

4 Ruby talking near The Stag. After be-
‘ing thoroughly investigated, Stone’s

story was accepted by the police.
News of Stone’s statement to the
police was soon broadcast among the
excited villagers of Leighton Buzzard.
Now both Smith and Stone, the only
two men who had been with Ruby
Keen that fatal night, apparently had
established alibis. Those who knew
Ruby Keen, also, remembered that
from the time she was a school girl,
she had always taken a short cut
through The Firs on her, way to‘ or
from the town, They reasoned, then,
that her slayer must have deliberately
followed her into the dark lovers’ lane,
skulking along in the shadows until
the middle of the grove had been

The reason the attempted criminal

'@ attack had not been completed, it was
j surmised, was because the madman,
yj after strangling Ruby to death follow-

‘ing a struggle with her, had been
frightened away by a noise. Perhaps,

@ it was suggested, the maniacal killer

was still right in the midst of Leighton
Buzzard, even now discussing the grim

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To the frightened villagers the case *
seemed at a complete standstill. For
the investigation being conducted by
Scotland Yard was being kept in strict-

est secrecy.
Inspector Barker. was destined to

obtain results much sooner than he an-
ticipated. In the second clothing shop

“a he visited on Leighton Buzzard’s main

street, the proprietor adjusted his spec-
tacles and immediately identified the

<4 pattern recorded in the plaster cast as
4 corresponding to that of some suits he

had in stock.

“Have you sold such a suit recent-_
ly?” the inspector queried.

The shopkeeper consulted his record

A books. Running a forefinger down the
(list of names on the ledger he said:

“It seems to me that I sold one only

Flast week to a young man who lives

somewhere in this vicinity. It was a‘;

blue suit with white pin stripes. ats.¢

pattern matched that you have shéwh ~
me perfectly.” ge

After a few more minutes oftsearch-»””

Ging, the shopkeeper’s forefinger finally

stopped at a name scrawled in the

Giedger. At sight of it, Inspector Barker

and Superintendent Folkes pursed

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@senificantly. The inscription’ inthe
@ledger read: Ped

Leslie George Stone, of. Heath and

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while he was at work in the quarry
nearby. While the young man’s mother
was surprised at, the unexpected visit,
and voluble in her assertions of her
son’s innocence, she did not object to
their examination of Leslie’s room.
For, it seemed, young Stone had al-
ready advised her that he was cooper-
ating with the police and had half ex-
pected to hear from them again.
Inspector Barker directed first that
Stone’s new suit be confiscated and
subjected to a thorough examination.
The trousers were examined firsts The
inspector took them from their hanger
in the closet, and walking over to the
light streaming in through the., bed-
room window he scrutinized the knees.

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Sylvia Bradshaw was detained and ques-
tioned concerning espionage activities.
When she was cleared Federal Officials
ruled that she had entered the United
States without an unexpired immigra-
tion visa, sent her back to England.

Two things became immediately ap-
parent. The crease was gone from each
knee of the trousers. And the knees
Baye evidence of having been brushed
’so-vigorously that.a part of the nap had
béén removed from the material.
Then, too, Stone’s. shoes fit, almost
, perfectly, into,the plaster cast impres-

“ scenewof:the murder in The Firs, .

Stone was summoned from work for’

a_talk* with Inspector «Barker. : ‘The
Scotland Yard man. called’ the young
quarry worker’s attention to the po-
lice findings. He showed him the plas-
ter cast of the knee prints made from
the impressions in the sand found be-
side Ruby’s body, and pointed out how
the pattern etched in the cast matched
that of Stone's trousers. Barker point-

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ed out, too, how he had discovered a
few grains of white sand impregnated
in the cloth of the trouser knees,

“How did you come to soil the knees
of your new suit like that?” he asked
Stone, who had turned suddenly sul-
len.

The youth explained that he had
been climbing about the quarry the
Sunday after he had purchased ‘the
suit, and had inadvertently slipped and
fallen to his knees.

But. when Stone was shown how his
shoes matched the cast of the prints
found in The Firs, he remained glumly
silent. Through more than an hour of
questioning he. stuck tothe original
story that he had given Detective
Palmer of Leighton Buzzard at the
home of Constable McCarthy.

Obviously, the mere discovery of a
few grains of sand ground into a pair
of trousers, the crease of which was
spoiled, was far from enough evidence
t Fbnvict a man of murder. Even the
fact’ that the pattern of the cloth
matched that of the knee prints found
in the sand was not enough for a con-
viction. But it was enough to hold
Stone on suspicion of murder.

Upon his arrival at home Stone had
changed from his work shoes to a pair
of bedroom slippers. He was without a
necktie. And it was in this garb that
police took him to Leighton Buzzard
headquarters.

Inspector Barker, meantime, dis-
patched Stone’s suit and topcoat to the
London laboratory of Dr. Rhode
Lynch, Scotland Yard’s home office
analyst. Dr. Lynch immediately sub-
jected the garments to a thorough ex-
amination under high-powered micro-
scopes,

After hours of painstaking work the

home office analyst pushed aside the -

apparel he had been examining so
carefully. Between the thumb and
forefinger of his right hand he held
gingerly a tiny pair of metal tweezers.
In the nippers of the tweezers was a
minute filament of silken thread,
scarcely a half inch long, which Dr.

Lynch had. plucked from the right

sleeve of Stone’s new suit. ;

Studying it carefully under the lens
of the microscope, he finally decided to
make a microscopic photograph of it.

_ This accomplished, he unraveled a tiny

silken thread from the yellow crepe de
chine frock which Ruby Keen had
been wearing the night of her murder,
which also had been sent to Dr. Lynch

' for examination. He made a micro-

scopic photograph: of it. Then he com-
pared the two photographs. One long
look and he reached for the telephone,
to ring up Inspector Barker at Leighton
Buzzard.

“I seriously believe,” he told Barker,
“that we have at last discovered ‘the
evidence that will clinch the case
against Stone. A tiny silken thread
that I discovered on the sleeve of his

.hew suit matches, beyond a doubt, the

material of which the Keen girl's
dress was made.”

In addition, he explained, he had
found that the grains of sand found
impregnated in the knees of Stone’s
trousers matched exactly samples of

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Leslie George Stone, hatless and‘ in slip-

pers, is arrested for questioning. Read
of his many :alibis,

tectives, Chief Inspector Thomas Barker, and. Detective-
Sergeant Jesse Tomlin. Together with Detective Henry
Palmer, of the local police, they went immediately to the
scene of the murder to search for clues.

“Amazing!” exclaimed Inspector Barker as he exam-
ined the knee prints in the damp sand through a large
magnifying glass. “In all my experience I have never
seen the texture pattern of a cloth impressed so clearly
in soil. It is fortunate it rained before, and not after, this
murder.” :

“Now if we could just find a man Wearing a suit of
that pattern—” began Leighton Buzzatd’s: Detective
Palmer. : Bo

“And that’s exactly what I propose to'do,”’ declared the
inspector firmly. “But first we must occupy ourselves
with the very delicate operation of making a moulage
cast of these impressions so that the tiny lines of the pat-
tern etched here in the soil will not be broken. Make a
moulage of that: footprint, too,” he directed Sergeant
Tomlin. Be

While the Scotland Yard men were thus occupied, Su-
perintendent: Folkés directed a routine check-up on the
last movements of Ruby Keen, and on her background.

The girl’s bereaved mother said that Ruby, the day
before, had gone out with her fiancé, Patrick Smith, the
young constable from Hockcliffe. She had not been unduly
worried when Ruby failed to come home that night, Mrs.
Keen explained, because she had remained away before,
to spend the night with a girl friend'in:town.

Smith, a handsome, squarée-jawed. young man, with

piercing dark eyes, had already; received word of .his

sweetheart’s murder before Léighton Buzzard detectives
arrived in town to question him, He appeared genuinely
distraught, and retained ‘his.composure through the ques-

tioning only by great effort.
The young policeman, who admitted that. hé and Ruby

Were planning to be married.in a few mgnths, declared’ .

that he had called on her the:afterngon of the preceding
day, Sunday, April 11th, and*had remained in her com-
pany until quite late in. the evening. Then, he said, he
had caught a bus back.to Hockcliffe in order that he might
get enough sleep to:fit him for work on an early shift the
next day. Smith*denied that he and Ruby had ventured
into The Firs“that-day at all. He had been of the belief,

ae ‘

Stone, formerly with the Royal Artillery,
pictured at work in the quarry near .
Heath and Reach Village.

Along this sandy path in The Firs, a
body of Ruby Keen.

he asserted, that she had returned to her own home after .,

they parted.

So far as he knew, Smith added, Ruby had no other .

admirers who might have been inspired with a jealous
rage at the thought of her impending marriage. Police,
for the time being, accepted Smith’s explanation.

As the investigation progressed, however, it became
apparent that Ruby Keen had not gone home immedi-
ately after her fiancé left her that night. Friends of the
dead girl told detectives that they had seen her at a local
tavern with a strange man whom they did not remember

. ever having noticed in Leighton Buzzard before. That

was shortly before 10 P.M., it developed. And Smith de-
clared he had left for Hockcliffe on the nine o’clock bus.

Had Ruby been deceiving her policeman fiancé? Or
had she had a fight with him that night and deliberately
taken up with a stranger as soon as Smith left town? Was
the stranger the dangerous sex maniac who was believed
to have pounced upon the little high school girl'a fort-
night before? Was he the murderer of Ruby Keen?

But before they could answer these questions, detec-
tives first had to establish the identity of the stranger.

In their patient efforts to obtain a description of the
Stranger the Leighton Buzzard police questioned dozens
of the town’s inhabitants. While they learned amazingly
little as to the man’s identity, they made the surprising
discovery that apparently Ruby and her unknown escort
had, on that Sunday night, made the rounds of all three
of the village’s amusement places—the Golden Bell Hotel,
the Cross Keys Inn, and a tavern known as The Stag. For,
in each of those establishments, the bartenders, who
knew Ruby as a town girl, remembered her having been
there that night with the strange young man. But none
of them could give any but the most meager description

of this man. They remembered that he was young, rather .

slender,’and seemed to be dressed well, probably wear-
‘Ing a-new suit.

“A new suit, eh?’”” commented Scotland Yard’s Inspec-
tor Barker who, by this time, had completed with pains-
taking care the moulage cast of the knee prints found in
the damp sand where Ruby Keen had died. He showed
the finished product to Superintendent Folkes. “Our job
now is to locate the manufacturer of cloth of this pat-
tern,” he stated. “And it

workman stumbled over the nude slain’

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LOVE LETTERS OF DOOM

(Continued from page 15) Cameron had
first met in the Kensal Rise Sunday School
they had both attended in their youth, and
it was characteristic of Thorne that when
they became engaged, one of his first con-
cerns was that Elsie should follow his ex-
ample and join the Alliance of Honor, an
organization for young people who pledge
themselves to chastity. He duly took the
girl along to be enrolled as a member.

Further inquiries in Crowborough
seemed futile. It appeared that the trail
would’ have to be picked up elsewhere,
but some sixth sense kept us quartered in
the Sussex village.

Thorne was at all times accessible and
talkative. He never evaded a question and
he posed readily and-often for the photog-
raphers. He was constantly calling at the
police station to ask for news, and in the
evenings he often tramped the long dis-
tance to the hotel we had made press head-
quarters, to go over the case.

All at once came the break we had some-
how been expecting. The wide publicity
we had given to Elsie Cameron’s disap-
pearance brought a startling clue. Two vil-
lagers came forward who declared they
had' seen a girl answering Elsie Cameron’s
description enter the gate leading to
Thorne’s farm. They had watched her, in
the fading light of the winter afternoon,
walking: up the path to Thorne’s hut!

The first Thorne knew of this was when
he made one of his . periodic, voluntary
visits to the. police station.

“Are there any fresh developments?”
he asked.

“Yes,” he was told. “Two men say they
saw Miss Cameron at the entrance gate of
your farm about 5:10 p,m on December
fifth.” : ;

Thorne did not dodge the implication. He
assured the police the witnesses must be
in error; but, he said, for his own sake
and to clear the matter up once and for
all, the police should make a thorough
search of his farm. The police did, with
Thorne rendering every assistance, and
no trace of Elsie Cameron could be found.

However, the villagers, who were so
sure they had seen a girl like Elsie Cam-
eron walking toward Thorne’s hut, were
hardheaded countrymen, not the type to
make wild, imaginative statements. Could
they have been mistaken? The towns-
people seemed to think not.

Yet the more the finger of suspicion was
pointed at Thorne, the more nonchalant

he became. He even began to make a’ joke,,

of the fact that it was becoming common
gossip that he had murdered Elsie
Cameron. ae
“That’s where I am supposed’ to have
buried her!” he said to me one day, point-

. ing to the chicken run nearest his hut.

Nothing upset his equanimity. He was
quite agreeable’'that any*‘of us should
search his hut or anywhere else we. liked.
And if the police wanted to dig up his

farm, by all means let them!

A few of us took Thorne at* his word
and made a thorough inspection. There was
no possible hiding place for a corpse in
any of the huts, and the farm itself cov-'
ered such a large area it would have taken .
weeks to dig up every inch of the ground.

Most of us‘ newspapermen were running
a red-hot campaign for Scotland Yard to
be called in, but the famous criminal in-
vestigation department had no authority to
intervene except on the invitation of the
chief of the county police force.

One evening, when the Elsie Cameron
mystery was nearly a month old, a party of
us drove cross-country to urge upon the
chief constable of Sussex the necessity of
calling in “The Yard.” We won our point,

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and next day Chief Inspector Gillan and
his assistant, Detective Sergeant Askew,
arrived in Crowborough to take charge of
the case,

Gillan was an ideal choice for the case—

the ace of Scotland Yard’s homicide spe-
cialists. When he retired some time ago, it
was with a record that has probably never
been equalled, In‘all his thirty years’ ex-
perience, he never had to admit failure
on a single case. :
_ Gillan’s methods of interrogation were
regarded as somewhat unconventional in
England, where the law has a most rigor-
ous regard for the rights and privileges of
the subject. They were methods he had
picked up in the United States, where he
spent some years during the war on Secret
Service work. This gruff, burly Irishman
had an almost uncanny talent for upsetting
the composure of the most accomplished
liars.

“If Thorne is guilty, Gillan is the man to
make him ‘squeak,’” everyone agreed.

But Gillan was in no hurry to have his
little talk with Thorne. Such were not his
tactics. He spent two or three days gather-
ing up the other ends of the case, ferreting
out information that no one had known to
exist.

Thorne still maintained his air of care-
free bravado, but the Suspense of waiting

_He wrote to his
fiancee, "Il am
afraid | am be-
tween two fires"

and waiting for a visit from the redoubta-
ble Scotland Yard man was not too good
for his nerves,

“An innocent man never dreads interro-
gation,” Gillan often soliloquized. “But a
man with a guilty conscience wants to get
it over and done with. There’s no harm
done by keeping a suspect waiting.”

One morning I was sitting alone with
Thorne in his hut, and I happened to know
that Gillan was on the point of showing his
hand.

I broke the news to Thorne that he could
expect a Scotland Yard visit shortly.

“Suppose,” I said, looking very hard at
him, “suppose they want to dig up every
inch of your farm?”

“That’s just what I should like them to

do,” he replied. “It woulda clear me once
and for all,” ’

Soon after this Gillan walked into the
hut. When I left, Thorne had sat down and
written a letter. The ink was scarcely dry
on the paper when the Scotland Yard man
picked it up. This letter showed one thing
at least. Norman Thorne had another love
affair with a handsome village girl, Ilene
Melburt, whom he was now trying to keep
in the background, The letter read:

Dear Ilene:
'_ It was a hard struggle last night, but
since it is for the best I must be brave
‘ and wait till you send for me again.
The sooner the papers find something
fresh to boom the better, for then the
police can get to work without so°-
many rumors to put them off. I suggest
we do not correspond, and that you tell
people you have considered it advisa-
ble ‘to terminate our friendship until
matters pertaining to the present situ-
ation have become more clear. They

will then regard you as having adopted
a wise course, and you will rise in
their favor. Never mind about me; it’s
my affair until it is cleared up. I am
very sorry for you indeed, but you
know that at the time of making your
acquaintance I did not know that all
this anxiety was coming or that we
should begin to fall in love. I hope you
are happy again, and believe me, I
shall await your call. Don’t worry. I
have a clean conscience, however
things may look.
Yours as ever,
Norman

Just why Thorne did not want to be em-
barrassed by a public association with
Ilene Melburt was abundantly clear from
letters which had passed between him and
Elsie Cameron. Thorne had been foolish
enough to keep this correspondence, which
was more than enough to show that Elsie’s
disappearance had come at a highly op-
portune time for him.

The letters, in fact, showed that Elsie
Cameron had been insisting on an early
marriage on the plea that she was expect-
ing to become a mother, and that Thorne
had been using every subterfuge at his
command to sidetrack her claims.

The first letter was from Thorne to the
girl:

My own darling Elsie:

Thank you for your letter. You seem
to be taking things for granted. There
are one or two things I have not told
you for more reasons than one. It con-
cerns someone else whom you do not
know. I am afraid I am between two
fires, but don’t go and tell anyone else.
Don’t let anyone see this letter, and I
trust you to keep secretive, please.

With fondest love and kisses,

Norman

Elsie Cameron had no intention of being
put off in this way, as her reply, sent by
return mail, showed:

My own darling Norman:

Certainly I take everything for
granted, and I shall expect you to go
and arrange our. marriage‘as soon as
possible. You seem to be taking things
rather lightly—not as I thought you
would. I really do think you might
comfort me. You must realize. this
worry is very bad for the baby, put-
ting me out of the question altogether.
Really, Norman, your letter: puzzles
me. Why are there things you have not
told me, and in what way does it con-
cern someone else? What do you mean
by you are afraid you are between two
fires? Oh, I don’t understand it at all.
Well, Norman, please arrange about
getting married as soon as possible.
Things will soon be noticeable to
everybody. I feel so worried about
things now.

With all my fondest love and kisses,

Elsie

Thorne had no desire to comply with
this peremptory demand for marriage, and
so he played for time. He replied:

What I have not told you is that on
certain occasions a girl has been here
late at night. I am not going to men-
tion her name. Nobody knows. When
you gave in to your nerves again and
refused to take interest in life, I gave
up hope in you and let myself go. This
is the result. I must have time to think.
She thinks I am going to marry her, of
course, and I have a strong feeling for

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until he married her. After a long argu-
ment he had told her he had to go out to
keep an appointment with Ilene Melburt,
and Elsie had reluctantly agreed.

“When I returned to the hut about 7:30,”
Thorne’s statement continued, “the dag
came down to meet me. When I opened the
hut door I saw Miss Cameron hanging from
a beam by. a piece of cord. I cut the cord
and laid her on the bed. She was dead. I
then put out the lights. She had her frock
off and her hair was down .. .”

A description of the dismemberment fol-
lowed:

“I went down to the workshop and got
my hacksaw and some sacks and took them
back to the hut. I tore off Miss Cameron’s
clothes and burned them in the fireplace. I
then laid the sacks on the floor, put Miss
Cameron (who was then naked) on the
floor and sawed off the legs, and the head,
by the glow of the fire. ... Next morning
just as it got light I buried the sacks and a
tin containing the remains in a chicken
run. ...I1 then went to the hut and had
some coffee and tried to build up evidence
to clear myself... .”

The hanging story told by Thorne was
not taken very seriously. It was regarded
as a murderer’s last desperate line of de-
fense. -» Nevertheless: the authorities in-
tended.to take no chances, and when Sir
Bernard Spilsbury, the. brilliant medico-
legal expert assisting Scotland Yard on
sensational crime mysteries, arrived at
Crowborough next morning to perform an
autopsy, he was asked particularly to look
for signs of hanging.

Sir Bernard reported there were no in-
dications to support Thorne’s story; on the
contrary, he was emphatic that,the girl had
died from shock caused by severe injuries
which had left extensive bruises on her
body.

Gillan decided to put Thorne’s story of
the suicide to a test. He took with him a
weight corresponding to the known weight
of Elsie Cameron.

At the hut, the beam from which Thorne
said he had cut the girl down was first
carefully examined. There was no dent
in it. The Scotland Yard man tied a length
of cord to the beam, attached the weight to
the cord, and let it fall. The pressure on
the cord left a distinct groove in the soft
wood!

This convinced most people interested in
the case that there never was a clearer case
of murder. Yet Thorne himself was
serenely confident of acquittal.

A man charged with murder in England
is allowed no contact with ‘the outside
world. Reporters are not supposed to

have access to him, but all the same, I did
have one opportunity of talking to Thorne
while he was awaiting trial.

There was nothing dejected or penitent
about his manner. He told me he was
writing his life story, and he was trying
to persuade me to buy it—at some fabulous
price—for the newspaper I represented.

“Have you written anything yet?” I asked
him.

“Oh, dear no!” he replied.
plenty of time for that.”

“Take my advice,” I retorted pointedly.

“There is

' “Start pretty soon.”

The inference was not lost upon Thorne,
but it only caused him amusement.

“Oh, I know you think I am going to be
convicted, but I’m not,” he replied in a
cocksure way. “There is really only Spils-
bury against me, and we’ll soon knock
down his evidence. I’ve a surprise in store
that will startle people. You wait and see!”

I was not the least bit impressed. But
Thorne waved his manacled, hands and
shouted a boisterous “Cheerio!” as he was
taken away.

It was not until some weeks later, when
I was sitting in the quaint old Assize Court
at Lewes attending his trial for murder,

that I knew what Norman Thorne had had °

in his mind.

Thorne’s defense was so ingenious that
it caused many notable logicians to argue
there was no legal proof he had committed
the crime of murder.

Even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had his
qualms. Strangely enough, the scene of
the Elsie Cameron mystery was not far
from the country home of the great master
of detective fiction. Thorne’s farm was
within walking distance of the beautiful
house in which Sir Arthur then lived, and
of the rose garden in which he was to be
buried.

Sir Arthur, however, made no personal
firsthand investigation of the case. He
formed conclusions simply from a study of
the evidence at the trial, and he summed
up his unofficial opinion in these words:

“I am not quite easy about this case. In
ninety-nine cases in one hundred there are
absolutely strong reasons for a conviction
for murder. Personally I am against capi-
tal punishment unless the murder has been
definitely established. It is one thing to
hang a man, but it is an impossible thing
to bring him back to life. In the Thorne
case there does seem to be a faint doubt
existing.”

The trial of Norman Thorne is memor-
able in English legal records. In spite of
his own terrible admissions, in spite of all
the rest of the damning evidence that was
marshalled against him, Thorne put up one

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The most eminent medico-legal experts
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alized until he was standing in the wooden,
iron-railed dock at the Assize Court, was
that he had started to build up his defense
not, as he had said himself, after he had
buried the dismembered corpse, but before
he had embarked on his grisly task of cut-
ting up the body.

He had been cunning enough, even then,
to prepare for the contingency of having
to stand trial for murder—although the
contingency must then have seemed to him
to be remote indeed.

Thorne laid the foundations of his de-

_fense when he cut off the girl’s head. He

carefully refrained’ from cutting straight
across the throat, as almost any other mur-
derer would have done, but went to par-
ticular pains to cut as close to the shoulders
as possible to avoid lacerating the neck.

Thorne kept silent when Sir Bernard
Spilsbury gave evidence during the pre-
liminary hearings in the magistrate’s court
that there were no signs of hanging. But
back in prison he played what he regarded
as his trump card.

He sent for his lawyer, and demanded
there be an exhumation of the girl’s body.

“Spilsbury is wrong!” he said with an
air of triumph, “and we can prove it. I dis-
tinctly remember there were two red
marks round Elsie’s neck. If the body is
exhumed, clear proof will be found that
she hanged herself.”

Thorne’s lawyer deliberated long with
his client before he gave his approval to
this step. ‘

But Thorne insisted that evidence would
be found to corroborate his story.

The Home Office granted an exhumation
order, and at the second examination of the
body, distinguished pathologists were
present on Thorne’s behalf.

Thorne sent a wreath of palm leaves with
one chaste white lily to the girl’s second
funeral. “Till we meet again,” was the
inscription he wrote on the card.

The second autopsy led to one of the
sharpest conflicts of medical+ opinion in
British criminal records. This was the
great surprise Thorne had promised me
he would spring at the trial.

He had ranged on his side an impressive
array of physicians of unquestionable in-
tegrity, who stood at the very head of the
medical profession in Great Britain. And
they all contradicted Sir Bernard Spilsbury.
Such a thing had never been known before.
But they contradicted Sir Bernard Spils-
bury, whose name had always been syn-
onymous with infallibility!

The controversy raged around the marks
on the neck, which Thorne had been so
confident would be found. The defense
doctors maintained the marks existed. Sir
Bernard Spilsbury retorted they had mis-
taken for cord marks natural grooves in
the skin such as are to be found on almost
any woman’s neck.

The defense doctors replied they were
not so foolish as that, and moreover they
did not rely merely on what they had
seen with the naked eye. They had made
microscopical examinations, and produced
slides in support of their contention that
they had: found subcutaneous hemorrhage
consistent with the pressure of a cord.

But Sir Bernard Spilsbury had made his
own slides, and was firm in his opinion that
these showed no extravasation. .«

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trial, sanctioned a conference between the
contending experts in the hope they would
arrive at some agreement. The doctors ex-

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the front pages of the newspapers,

I was one of the reporters who worked
on the case from its start to its dramatic
climax, spending hours with the princi-
pal figures in the drama, seeing and
hearing far more than ever found its way
into the official record.

Crowborough was more than a little
bewildered and agitated when the horde
of newspaper investigators and photog-
raphers descended on the quiet village
to probe the depths of the Elsie Cam-
eron enigma. This delightful retreat in
rural England, where retired colonels
and prosperous businessmen lived se-
cluded lives and where nothing more
exciting than a golf competition had
happened for years, was shaken out of
its long tranquillity by the feeling that
something strange and frightening was
impending,

Thorne’s poultry farm was off the
beaten track, away from the sheltered
homes of the wealthy inhabitants and
in the least attractive part of the village,
where there were only a few scattered
cottage homes. It was approached by a
winding country lane, without street
lamps or sidewalks, along which an oc-
casional farm laborer plodded his way.
The farm itself was but a barren, deso-
late waste of ground with a few coops
for poultry and a number of small
wooden huts.

One of these tiny sheds was Thorne’s
home—a miserable little structure with
only enough room for a trestle bed, a
small table and a rickety chair. A smoky
oil lamp supplied the dim illumination
a good deal of the time; for there was
only one small window in this primitive
abode. ;

Not the sort of home, I reflected, that
one would expect to appeal to a rather
delicate town girl like Elsie Cameron,
accustomed to the comforts of a pleas-
ant house in a London suburb and all
the advantages that come with city life.

Thorne’s farm was gloomy enough by
day, but at night, when the countryside
was shrouded in darkness and the utter
silence was broken only by the whistling
of wind or the beating of rain, the soli-
tude of the place was creepy.

I sat down with Thorne and tried to
take stock of his character. He seemed
to be an agreeable enough young man.
He was dark, good-looking, well-spoken,
with a pleasant, frank smile. His self-
chosen life of toil suggested sturdiness
and independence.

Elsie Cameron was obviously in his
thoughts to the exclusion of everyone
and everything else. He told me straight
away that he feared the worst.

“Something dreadful has happened to
Elsie,” he insisted. “I feel sure of it.
Why should she commit suicide when we
were looking forward to a happy mar-
ried life together? Why have I not
heard from her? Why have her parents

heard nothing? Mark my words! There -

is more in this case than appears on the
surface. I know that one day I shall be
proved to be right.”

He faced his own position with perfect
candor. Elsie Cameron had left home
Supposedly on a visit to him, and so he
would never be clear of suspicion until
the mystery of her fate had been solved.

“T can’t understand,” he said, “why
Elsie left home on a Friday. She had
written that I was to expect her, as
usual, on Saturday. I went to meet her
on Saturday, but she was not there.”

Our first move was to check up this

part of Thorne’s story. It was just as
he said. Thorne had been making a prac-
tice of meeting the girl at Groombridge,
the nearest station on the main line. He
had, we soon discovered, left Crow-
borough by train on Saturday to meet
the London train at Groombridge and

had waited on the platform in vain.

His past record was next placed under
examination. It was without blemish.
Thorne was an intelligent young man of

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suspect jokingly had said, "T%-t's where | am supposed to have buried her!’

twenty-four who had served in the
Royal Air Force during the war, and
when he lost his position with a London
engineering firm in the great post-war
trade slump, he had resolutely refused
to join the dismal army of men on the
dole. Instead, he had borrowed a little
capital from his father, and was living
a Spartan life trying to support himself
by raising chickens in a Village that
offered none of the attractions which
most town youths demand.

His early upbringing had been im-
peccable. He had been carefully reared
in the strict Wesleyan code of his par-
ents. He was a Sunday School teacher,
a Band of Hope speaker, and the organ-
izer of a troop of Boy Scouts.

He and Elsie (Continued on page 62)

Telegram caused Mr. Cameron
(above in black hat) to visit police

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and Chief Inspector Gillan of CID

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The nameless girl was, of course Tlene
Melburt, but Thorne’s story that she was
in the same plight as Elsie Cameron
proved to be nothing but a product of his
ready imagination. Elsie did not see
through the deception, but Thorne had not
reckoned on her iron tenacity, her de-
termination to overlook any lapse on his
part rather than to be the mother of an
illegitimate child. She wrote again:

My own darling Norman:

I’ve received your letter this morn-
ing and you have absolutely broken
my heart. I never thought you were
capable of such deception. Had I gone
off my head it would have been no
excuse for you carrying on with an-
other girl. You are engaged to me, and
I have the first claim. Your love for me
(as you said you loved me) should
have kept you true to me. It’s a poor
thing .for a man to let himself go be-
cause his girl has her nerves bad (and
the doctor told me when I wentrto be
examined it was the way we had gone
on that had made my nerves as they
were, because knowing we were not
married we had it on our minds that
we might be found out). You say you
didn’t know last week what you know
now. So I am to take it that you have
got this other girl into the same condi-
tion that you have me? Apparently
you have deceived her too (or else she
isn’t much good). You say you must
have time to think, but whatever this
girl expects of you, your duty is to
marry me. I expect you to finish with
the other. girl and as soon as Possible.
My ,baby must have a name, and an-
other thing, I love you in spite of all.
If anyone but yourself had told me an-
other girl had been in your hut late at
night I wouldn’t have believed it.

With all my fondest love and kisses,
forever your own loving

Elsie

These letters, of course, were very dam-°
aging to Thorne, who had found himself
obliged to accompany Gillan to the police
station, but, apart from the statements of
the two villagers who had seen a girl
walking toward his hut, there was no evi-
dence to connect him with Elsie Cameron’s
death. :

A clear motive for murder had been
established, but the fact that Elsie Cam-
eron was expecting to become a mother
and her lover was balking at matrimony
was equally a reason for the girl to com-
mit suicide,

The first battle of wits between Gillan and
Thorne began late in the afternoon and
continued for ten hours until far into the
night. Thorne emerged triumphant. He ad-
mitted his intimate relations with Elsie
, Cameron in a way strangely matter of fact
for such an enthusiastic member of the
Alliance of Honor. He was frankness itself
‘ about his courtship of Ilene Melburt, and
the half promises of marriage he had made
‘during the long winter evenings they had
j spent lovemaking in his primitive home on
_ the poultry farm, But he was insistent that
ihe knew nothing of Elsie Cameron’s fate.
/ Scotland Yard’s most deadly cross-exam-
jiner plied him with questions almost until
‘dawn was breaking, but failed to extract a
single incriminating admission from him.
4 Gillan promptly ordered a party of po-

licemen to begin digging up the farm, and
by a lucky chance, almost at once they
made a discovery that might have escaped
them in a _ week’s steady digging. They
found Elsie Cameron’s suitcase buried in
the ground near Thorne’s hut! It was the
suitcase the girl had taken with her when
she left home. A pitiful trousseau was in it,
including a baby’s frock. .

This was enough evidence for Gillan to
tell Thorne, “You will now be detained,
and you will probably be charged with
causing the death of Elsie Cameron.”

Thorne said not a word in reply, and the

Scotland Yard man left him in the solitude
of a jail cell.

Digging was continued at the farm all
day, but with no further success. The
police party was withdrawing when dark-
ness fell.

Very late that evening, the police dig-
ging party was hastily reassembled and
formed a small procession that tramped
through the.darkness down the winding
country lane leading to Thorne’s farm.
Gillan directed them at once to a chicken
run on the farm, and ordered digging to
begin. :

Rain was falling in a steady drizzle. The
policemen worked ankle deep in’ mud by
the flaring lights of oil torches and the
dimmer illumination of lanterns. Report-
ers, whose cigarettes glowed in the dark-
ness, were the only spectators,

Not a word’was spoken as the stolid
country policemen dug. They had been at
work only a few minutes when the spade
of one of the constables found an obstacle.
A moment or two afterward, three bulky
none were being lifted out of the damp
soil.

One proved to be a battered old biscuit:
tin shrouded in rough sacking. The two
others were heavy, limp bundles tied up
with string.

The biscuit tin was examined first. Gil-'

lan wrenched off the lid. Inside was some-
thing wrapped in more sacking. It was
wedged in so tightly the detective had to
exert all his strength to move it. Another
detective tugged at the tin. Gillan pulled
at the sacking with all his might, and out
came a lumpy bundle. The detectives care-
fully unwrapped the covering. A human
head was revealed!

The head was that of a young girl with
neatly dressed hair. It had been severed
from the shoulders by someone who had
cut down almost to the breastbone so that
the neck was not mutilated—a method of
dismemberment that proved to be not
without significance.

The two other parcels were examined
later. One contained a female torso with
arms. In the other were the legs of a girl,
severed at the thighs and bound firmly to-
gether from top to toe.

Such was the grim explanation of Elsie
Cameron’s disappearance! The dismem-
bered remains had been dug up at the very
spot on which Thorne, with chickens
perched all over him, so often had posed
for the press photographers. It was the
same chicken run he had pointed out to me
when he had made his grim joke, “That’s
where I am supposed to have buried her!”

Then was no doubt that it was Thorne
who had disposed of the corpse of his
sweetheart in this way. He had already:
admitted it. After a whole day and an eve-
ning in the loneliness of his cell, he had
sent for Gillan and had made a belated
admission that all the stories he had told
since the girl’s disappearance had been
nothing but a tissue of lies.

He admitted everything—except that he
had killed the girl. His story was that Elsie
Cameron had walked in on him unexpect-
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