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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 Thompson. The killer was
wavy-haired Frederick Bywa-
ters, the secret lover of Thomp-
son's attractive wife, Edith. The
couple were jointly charged witu
the murder.
It was the most sensational
crime since Crippen killed his
wife and fled across the Atlan-
tic. And after the police court
bearing opinion swung heavily
against twenty - eight - year - old
Edith Thompson, For a series of
letters between her and By -
water's 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 wom-
an, dwarfed by the heavy fur
coat which was then the fashion.
Defending her was the mot
famous barrister of the day, Sir
Henry Curtis -Bennett, a veteran
of forty-eight murder trials, A
powerful pleader, ,a dangero:is
opponent,
Bywaters' counsel was Mr.
Cecil Whiteley, also highly ex-
perienced. In mariner and ap-
pearance he was not unlike 9
famous barrister of today --
Geoffrey Lawrence,
Trying the case was Su 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. Some had quened 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-
tracts from thirty letters to
prove their case. They had been
love letters but, now they as-
sumed sinister proportions. They
(showed, argued the prosecution,
that the couple had carefully
planned the murder,
The defence had tried hard to
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SYMBOL OF A NEW AGE — An impressive landmark rising
against a background of quiet English fields are these huge
stacks — landmark also in man's search far peaceful uses of
atomic energy. They are part of the Calder Hall nuclear power
station in Great Britain, which generates electricity on an
industrial scale.
minimize the importance of
those letters. But they had not
succeeded very well
Then, late in the afternoon of
the second day of the trial, came
the moment for which the court,
and the world outside, had been
waiting.
Federick Bywaters walked
slowly from the dock to the
witness -box to give his version
of the killing. He did not look
like the callous, stoney -hearted
killer the prosecution had paint-
ed him. He looked a weak-willed
youth caught up in the web of
passion.
The defence of both the ac-
°used depended on what he
would say about the letters. For
himself, he knew there was lit-
tle hope of acquittal. His de-
fence of being attacked first by
Percy Thompson was an obvious
lie.
But Bywaters held the life of
Edith Thompson in his hands.
Just as he had held her in his
arms for months before the mur-
der . ,
The couple met in high sum-
mer of 1921 at the Isle of Wight.
With had been married six years
to the somewhat dull Thompson
when Bywaters, with his good
planners, shy smile and engag-
ing way, came 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 w e r e 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.
His debt to her was monumen-
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pan, trees were infested with the big fellows, which sometimes
oxceed a foot in length.
tai. He had done the killing,
he had kept the letters she had
sent him; he had brought her to
the dock with his foolishness.
Now, in the witness -box, oppos-
ed by one of the best lawyers
of the day, he had decided to
fight for her a 1 on e. Like a
knight-errant, Or a foolish
youth.
He quickly gave his version of
the killing. "I struck Thompson
in self-defence . . that is the
truth ,
It was not — and he knew it,
Not once did he look at Mrs.
Thompson, sitting with bowed
head in the dock, Bywaters was
cool and composed as he an-
swered his counsel's questions,
His replies came in an off -hand
manner. And time and again he
looked at the prosecutor, almost
as if he relished the thought of
clashing with the Solicitor -Gen-
eral,
The prosecutor rose to cross-
examine. And the tension was
needle-sharp. Bolding a sheaf of
papers in his hands, Inskip fired
his first question. When had the
couple met? And when had she
expressed her love for him?
Bywaters paused before he
gave his replies. Quick as a ter-
rier Inskip pounced on the an-
swers. Holding aloft copies of the
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. He was going to lie
to commit perjury . do
anything so long as he could
avoid 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 do, for the pro-
secution conducted the examina-
tion with complete fairness and
complete ruthlessness.
As the Cross-examination event
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 mora
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 aske:
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.
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Tcdes 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
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Jack Sheridan eves once taking
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until a husky female fan leap-
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NOTHING BUT THE RUTH
The great Babe Ruth was no-
torious for his strike-outs—up
at the plate and with the spok-
en word. Driving his fancy car
in Orlando one day, he drew up
alongside a big Rolls Royce
bearing a white-haired old
gentleman.
The old fellow leaned out.
"Gee," he exclaimed, aren't
you the famous ball player,
Babe Ruth?"
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"That's some car you're driv-
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"Does it have hydraulic or me-
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"Sir," Ruth graciously replied,
"I haven't the slightest con-
sumption!"
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STEAMBOAT WHISTLE
T h e fabulous "Steamboat"
Johnson also loved to deflate
tormentors. One day a w e 11 -
known local doctor was making
life extremely miserable for
him. Johnson bore it as long as
be could. Finally he stopped
the game and marched over to
the stands.
Pointing a finger at the bel-
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MIAMI, BY CHRISTMAS — John
Frey, 64, posses Battle Creek,
Mich., as he steps off some
of the 3,600 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,"
'Bellying' Boys
A national Boy Scout official
has urged Scout leaders to stop
"babying" boys at summer
camps with such conveniences
as dishwashing machines, freez-
ers, hot showers, air mattresses,
potato -peelers and heated cab-
ins.
David Dunbar-, assistant na-
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the Boy Scouts, has character-
ized approximately hall of the
nation's Boy Scout camps 85
tending to be luxurious.
Dunbar said private camps
started the trend toward soft
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the armed services and the Boy
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The camping official spoke of
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attempting to "get back to the
pioneer spirit of self-reliance."
The. United States justly
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We rightly consider our "Plan
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tinuous unnecessary drudgery.
Many thoughtful observers,
however, profess to see an over -
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