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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1955-11-10, Page 7iNECalvert SPOAS COLUMN 6 e% et 9e,c9cize sm e You don't look for a great deal of that commodity known as sportstnanship n prize -fighting circles, because there isn't, as a rule, much of it to be looked for. Usually, there are plaintive cries from the loser, that he was robbed, or out - lucked, or the victim of circumstances. So it was a refreshing change, as we sat in the dressing - room of veteran Archie Moore, after he had been hammered into defeat by the iron fists of Rocky Marciano at New York's Yankee Stadium, to near him say: "I have no excuses. The better man won. If everybody enjoyed the fight, then I'm very happy." This must be a record of sorts, certainly a precedent. Old Archie, hero of more than 100 fights, as he talked; was alternately pressing an ice -bag to a swollen right eye and rubbing the lumps on his head and neck where the savage downward smashes of the champion had landed. Moore lost like a gentleman: Manager Charlie Johnson had complained that Marciano had butted Moore. which is possible, and had hit him low twice in the ninth round. "Archie screamed out in pain" said Johnson, drawing liberally en his imagination. We asked Moore if low blows 'had bothered him. "1 guess he hit me low once or twice, but not hard blows and they didn't make the slightest difference to the result" said Moore. • Moore was hammered so badly in the eighth that Dr. Nardiello of the Athletic Commission entered the ring and asked him if he wished to quit. I asked Moore in the dressing• room afterwards what his answer to this had been. "Why" said Archie quietly, "I told him that championships are won and lost out there in the centre of the ring. Someone in the crowd enquired: "Is Marciano the hardest hitter you ever fought?" "I wouldn't say he's the hardest hitter I ever fought. But", Moore added witih a chuckle, "Tae hits plenty hard enough for me." Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge S;,, Toronto. CaLvt DISTILLERS LIMITED AMHERSTBURG. ONTARIO wOi COLD CHCKEN SUPPER STARTED POISON SPREE A poison maniac was at large le the 'affluent Surrey borough 41f Croydon . , . a poisoner who severed his or her tracks so cleverly that for at least a year )eo one was ever suspected. At one time three separate hlquests on members of the lilidney family were running aside by side, and experts jok- ingly propounded the theory that perhaps the whole of the local cemetery was an arsenic twine! Yet to-day—just twenty-five wrs MERRY MENAG>:tiik reb, they're just playing bronco they've seen too many West- ern movies!" years later—the amazing Sidney case is still unsolved. There was no happier family than the Sidneys. Popping cheerfull,' in and out of each other's back -doors, they never quarreled and they sought few friends outside the family cir- cle. Widowed old Mrs. Violet Sid- ney lived with her thirty-year- old unmarried daughter Vera; and her other children came constantly visiting. Her son, Tom Sidney, lived just around the corner with his wife and two small children. Comfortably married to Creigh- ton Duff, a retired commission- er of Northern Nigeria, her other daughter, Grace, was al- ways on call a few doors away. Then one evening Creighton returned from a fishing holiday and sat down to a cold supper of chicken and some potatoes, washed clown by a bottle of beer. The entire family had tasted the chicken. Only Creigh- ton drank the beer. Soon he complained of feeling unwell and of cramp in his legs. The next morning he died. His doctor considered the pos- sibility of ptomaine food poi- soning, perhaps from a snack on the train. An examination WHO SAID CHIVALRY'S DEAD? - With the temperature down to 29 degrees, 'a Western Airlines employe lends a helping— and willing -hand to warm some scantily clad showgirls arriv- 9ng in Minneapolis. The girls, flown from Las Vegas, to publicize' as new flight, seem to have found the airplane heater hose tar` their liking. Girl facing camera is Karolee Kelly. HE'S FOR IKE — This four -weeks -old Weimaraner puppy is being raised for President Eisenhower. A male, it was requested by the President to breed with a Weimaraner female he already has ori his farm. was ordered . .. but no poison was found. Poor Grace Duff did not bene- fit by her husband's death. "But for my relatives I do not know what I should have done," she said- in evidence long after- wards. "I was a happy woman. Now f am a miserable widow with no one to look after me." Criminologists, looking back, have discussed the theory that unmarried Vera Sidney could have been jealous of her sister and cold - bloodedly poisoned Creighton. B u t barely ten months after Creighton Duff had been laid in his grave, the killer struck again. This time it was Vera Sidney herself who complained of feel- ing ill. After lunch with her mother and an aunt, she and her aunt were sick. So was the cook... and so was the cat. A little stock soup was kept in the pan- try near the kitchen door and heated up from day to day. Al- most any member of the family could have, had access to it. Old Mrs. Sidney did not take soup. The . cook avoided it a second time. Vera Sidney, however, again helphed herself to the soup the following day—and died. Here again was murder ap- parently without motive, mur- der undetected. Only old Mrs, Sidney asked the strange ques- tion, "Will there be an in- quest?" As it happened, Vera's death was attributed to gastric influ- enza and no autopsy was held. To be sure, Mrs. Sidney bene- fited from her daughter's death by a life interest on £2,000 be- queathed in Vera's will. But she was terribly distressed by her bereavement and the doc- tor prescribed a special tonic. The cook took it in when the delivery boy brought it to the house. But then Mrs. Sidney appears to have hidden the bot- tle. Though all the remaining members of her family were in and out of the house, trying to cheer up, none could remem- ber seeing it. All too soon events took the familiar pattern. Scarcely three weeks after Vera's death, the cook found Mrs. Sidney one morning with wineglass and spoon in hand—and the bottle nearby — finishing almost the last dose. Later that day she complained of cramp and pain. Within a few hours she was dead ...` but not before she had drawn attention tothe medicine bottle and whis- pered, "It was so bitter!" Now the whole family was alarmed„ and Tom Sidney de- clared: "This trust be seen in- to!" Certain organs were re- moved and a bacteriological ex- amination made, but nothing was found amiss. Tile third poi- son victim was laid beside the other two. Somebody, however, was still not satisfied. Police experts were asked to examine the medicine bottle, the wineglass and spoon. All three showed traces of ar- senic. No arsenic had been pre- scribed in the tonic nor could it have entered the mixture by accident at the chemist's. The poison had been added in the house by someone who knew what even the cook -housekeeper did not know—where the medi- cine was kept. In the early dawn of March 22nd, 1929, the bodies of Mrs. and Vera Sidney were exhumed. Silent in death, the body of Vera Sidney showed the pre- servative effect that so often denotes arsenic. "If they found arsenic in con- nection with Mother, there is no reason why they should not find it in Vera," said Tom Sidney. "Thank God I was in bed with the 'flu for a week at the time she died." If the remark was 'to earn him a certain amount of cross-questioning at the hands of the coroner, it was also to show proof of his innocence. In all this remarkable case, in fact, not the slightest suspicion at- taches to any one person. Yet the analysts extracted 1.48 grains of arsenic from Miss Sid- ney's organs. They found ar- senic in Mrs. Sidney's hair and nails and it was obvious she must have been taking arsenic in small doses for about a week before her death. Then the body of Creighton Duff was exhumed and traces of arsenic were dis- covered in almost every tissue tested. Luck had indeed been on the poisoner's side. At the original autopsy on Duff, it was decided a laboratory mix-up had oc- curred and probably the organs of another person had been ex- amnied instead. In the same way, no immediate test was given for arsenic after Mrs. Sid- ney's death. Scotland Yard men found a tin of liquid week -killer con- taing arsenic in a shed in Mrs. Sidney's garden. Mrs. Duff had handed it to the gardener months before, innocently ex- plaining, "I don't want this around my house with the chil- dren." At Tom Sidney's house, his wife thought there was no poi- son on the premises . . but just then Tom arrived and in- terposed, "You forget we have some weed -killer," and he pro- duced the weed -killer he had bought several years before, signing for it with his name and address. Were there three murders in the Sidney Case—or two? The juries brought a verdict of mur- der against some person or per- sons unknown in the case - of Creighton Duff and Vera Sidpey. But as they considered the cir- cumstances surrounding t h e death of Mrs. Sidney they qual- ified their verdiet with . "There is not sufficient evidence to show whether she killed her- self or was murdered . . " Officially the Sidney Case has never ,been closed. 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