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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1958-09-17, Page 3head in the dock. Fiywaters was cool and composed as he an, sweied his counsel's questions. 'Us replies came in an off-hand manner. And time and again he looked at the prosecutor almost as if he rclisheel the thought of clashing with the Solicitor.,Oen- era The prosecutor rose to cross- examine. And the tension was needle-sharp. liolding a sheaf of papers in his hands, Inskip fired his first question. When had, the couple met? And when had she expressed heelove for him? Bywaters paused before he gave his replies, Quick as a ter- rier Inskip pounced on the an- swers. Bolding aloft copies of t.h3.. 'letters he was able to tell the court that the prisoner's replies were untrue. So it went on. Question - and answer, And many times the answers were damned by the evidence in the love letters, And then Bywater's plan be- came clear. Be was going to lie to commit perjury do Anything so long as he could a v o i d admitting that Mrs. Thompson was in any way im- plicated in the crime, Yet almost every letter showed she was! There was nothing defence counsel could ale, for the pro- secution conducted the examina- tion with complete fairness and complete ruthlessness. Ac the cross-examination went on it became clear what the jury thought. Bywaters - brave and stupid and chivalrous by his own stan- dards - had only made matters worse, with his lies. For all the facts pointed against him. And so did the love letters which Edith Thompson had written to him. Yet it would have been easy - and more credible - for him to have told the court that the damaging phrases in' the love letters were the dreams of the woman he loved. Already the court had heard evidence, called by the defence, that she was a woman of ima- gination, given to day-dreaming. Why did not Bywaters pursue that line, as his counsel wanted him to? Bywaters took his secret with him to the gallows. Could it have been conceit that made him fight his own case? Could it have been that he was blind- ed by love? No one can say. For Mrs. Thompson was also executed at the same time as Frederick By- waters stood on the gallows. But even today the world asks: would Mrs. Thompson have died if Bywaters had not taken his strange line? The answer must be, yes. For her letters were proof of her guilt. Tales Of The Baseball Diamond IN POISON TODAY Next to managers on the hate slate of the men in blue are those stentorian savages-rabid rooters. Players can be under- stood and argued with, but what can you do against the howling terrors in the stands? The wise course is to turn a deaf ear to their taunts. But even the calmest and gentlest of umps will sometimes be goaded into action. Jack Sheridan was once taking a terrific needling from a big crowd. 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One day a w e 1 known local doctor was making life extremely - Miserable for. hint. Johnson bore it as long as 'he - cOtiltl,. Finally he stopped the gande -and "marched, over to, 'the stands. n finger at the hel,is, sawing medic, he yelled, "Yott got no right to beef, doe. When • you Make a mistake, it's folloW,. ed by a funeral, When I make di' . It lives fOretterr UGH This Sphinx moth arva is a :small one: 'Gloria Manville rirould have something to "ooh" about; for lure,, if"her - frangi, Ohl }roes *ere infested With: the hlq fellowii which sorHetimes *kaki d foot his lerigik Love Letters Sealed Her Doom They were practically con- demned long before they entered the dock. Convicted in the inns, clubs and drawing-rooms of a shocking murder in a dark street at midnight. The victim was shipping clerk Percy Thompton. The killer was wavy-haired Frederick Bywa- ters, the secret lover of Thomp- son's attractive wife, Edith.. The couple were jointly charged with the murder. It was the most sensational crime since Crippen killed his wife and fled across the Atlan- tic. And after the police court hearing opinion swung heavily against twenty - eight - year - old Edith Thompson. For a series of letters • between her and By- waters clearly suggested she had egged him on to commit mur- der. They called her an enchan- tress . , . a siren . . . a wanton. But when she stood in the. docks - at the Old Bailey with 'Bywaters in December, 1922, she was a pale, haggard-faced worn- an, dwarfed by the heavy fur coat which was then the fashion. Defending her was the most famous barrister of the day, Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett, a veteran of forty-eight murder trials. A Powerful pleader, a dangerous opponent. Bywaters' counsel was Mr, Cecil Whiteley, also highly ex- perienced. In manner and ap- pearance he was not unlike famous barrister of today - Geoffrey Lawrence. Trying the case was Sir Mon- • tague Shearman. A few months earlier he had passed the death. sentence on Irish gunmen who had assassinated a senior Army officer in broad daylight. Outside the Old Bailey, hun- dreds of people were turned away. So m e had queued for twelve hours to get a seat. There were fireworks from the start. Defence counsel applied for separate trials. In a cold voice the Solicitor-General, Mr, Thomas Inskip - a West coun- tryman known as "Honest.Toni" - opposed the request. The judge upheld him. The first vital round in the battle for the lives of the ac- cused had gone against them. The prosecution relied on ex- traets from thirty letters to prove their case. They had been love' letters but now they as- curried sinister proportions. They showed, argued the prosecution, that the couple had carefully planned the murder, The defence had tried hard to minimize the importance of those letters, But they had net succeeded very well. Therii late in the afternoon of the second day of the trial, came the moment for which the court, arid the world outside, had been waiting, Feder-kis Byw a t er§ walked slowly from the dock to the Wittiesssebek giVe ve rsion of the killing. He `'did not look like the callous, stoney hearted killer •the ,PreSettititin had paint, He looked a Weak-Willed youth caught bp in the Web•ef tedslart. 'the 'cleferiee of both the ail: etiSed. &banded Oft what he -Would bey about the letters, ter hit-Melt he knew there Was lit- tle hope Of acquittal. HIS de, fence Of being attacked first by • . &•.V.,1%% MIAMI, BY CHRISTMAS - John Frey, 64, passes Battle Creek, Mich., as he steps off some of the 3,500 miles between Regina, Sask., Canada, and Miami, Fla., where he expects to arrive on Christmas Day. Frey has walked some 9,000 miles in the last four years to .get in stride for the "stroll." AGENTS WANTED DEALElltS wanted to handle* highqUal• ity low priced German automobile. 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Percy Thompson was an obvious he. But Bywaters held the life of Edith Thompson in his hands. Just as he had held her in hit . arms for months before the mur- der . . , The couple met in high sum- rner of 1921 at the Isle of Wight. Edith had been married six years to the somewhat dull Thompson when Bywaters, with his good manners, shy, smile and engag— ing way, caine into her life. Mr. Thompson invited him to come as a paying guest' to their home at Ilford, Essex. Soon Edith and Frederick were going everywhere together; soon they were deeply in lOve until a row between. Mr, Thompson • and Bywaters separated the levers-for a while, Then came the letters, the fatal correspondence which the prosecution Were to spotlight. Among the words of love were the seeds of murder, the jury were told, Those letters were read and re-read at the trial. As Bywaters entered the wit- ness-box everybody wondered how he would explain them, away . . if he could. But no- body knew that Bywaters had ready made up his mind on What to say. Nobody knew that he had disregarded the advice of his counsel, that, he would', in effect, conduct his own defence and he hoped the defence of Edith Thompson. ills debt to her Was rechituten- tel, He had done the killing, ' he had kept the letters she had stilt hire, he had brought her to the dock with his foolishness's. Now, itt the witheSs-boX, oppose ed by one of the best lawyer of the day, he had deckled to fight for her al on C. Like a knight-errant: Or foolish , youth. He quickly .gave version of the killing. "I struck Thompson in self-defence' . that is ttUth It was not -arid he the* it, Not once dicl look rt 1+#1.4s; Thant-sort, sitting' Customer: "What's this vege- table soup on today's menu?" Waiter: "That's yesterday's ite4. rigated hash." 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