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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1953-02-19, Page 33[d aaAsaan VAV -LV 1 Cl I a'V9N The Man Who Pat "Murder On The Mapr The U:1 it lvho "put murder on the map" as far as the English reading world is eancerne.d watt a cherubic, rosy -faced, elderly, kind -Hearted Sea wbit died et 84 last year, and whose name was William Roughead. His was a familiar figure in the law courts of Edinburgh, Glas- gow Anil the assize towns. Every court official in the country knew hien, and knew, moreover, that if there was an unusual, ex- citing, or evert mildly interesting murder trial on that William Roughead would be there taking notes, v;atching, listening, and observing the slightest detail in the behaviour "of the accused, the witnesses. the counsel, and the judge. Chat About Crirue 1 knew Roughead for many years. 1 used often to visit him on Sunday evenings for a chat About crime over his admirable malt whisky (warm and -.mellow like himself), writes Moray Mc- Laren id "Answers." He was a Scottish lawyer, and used his legal knowledge to explore the byways of crime — particularly murder. It was his editing of, and his introductions to, a well- known series of books, entitled "Notable British Trials," which made that series famous indeed. Roughend's methods of writing about crime were as painstaking and punctilious as those of any detective in fiction, or in real life bent on tracking down the crim- inal. There was no detail that he left untouched in his researches. lie not only read through the verbatim .reports of the Scottish trials taken down by the official shorthand writers to the High Court in Scotland, but pursued down to the smallest point of fact every known thing in the history of the accused, of the victims, of the witnesses, and often of the legal officials in the trials. Human Drama He had in his possession a small museum of crime, including the chair with which the unfortunate Miss Gilchrist was battered to death by the mysterious and un- known assailant for whose vic- ious attack Oscar Slater was un- justly condemned just before World War One, that it was large- ly due to Roughead's unremitting toil and the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's publicity efforts that Slater's penal servitude for life was cut short and a free par- don granted him, with a sum of money by way of recompense. Neither Roughead nor Conan Doyle got much thanks for this Light For Coronation -The fila- ment of the light bulb, above, In the form of a crown and the royal cypher of Queen Eliza- beth it is one of the souvenirs "of Coronation Year which have been approved by the Corona- tion Souvenirs Committee, long !arbour in the cause of pure justice. ltouglread used to take two or more years to prepare one of his famous "Trial" books. He knew, of course, every corner of every Court of Justice in the country, and every official personality connected with them. But he would also visit the places where the murders or alleged murders had taken place. If the trial was concerned with a hi,ppening that had occurred many years ago, he would (lig out of the obscurest libraries every piece of printed material, whether exact or scurrilous, whether picturesque or merely libellous, and sift the grain from the chaff. If the trial was of more recent date he would (without giving offence) talk to every available person connected with the event. Roughead so lived in his books when he was writing them that r used to conceive quite an af- fection for his characters, I•Ie used to refer to Katherine Nairne, the Baby Farmer, as "My Katherine." He told me that for the first ten years after he began to be interested in the classic Madeleine Smith case, he was convinced that she had been guilty of poisoning her laver L'Angelier by arsenic in a cup of cocoa. For the next ten years he thought her innocent, but for the remainder of his long life be held her guilty. "But," he would add, "what a lass she must have been — what a lass! I was in love with the idea of her all the time." He began his writing about crime with a two-year study of the Arran murder in the 1890s, when one mountain climber was accused of pushing another over a precipice. This two years' labour was wasted for fear of of- fending relatives, Pangs of Death In disappointment, Willie Roug- head turned to the unspeakable poisoner, Dr. Pritchard. This man murdered his mother-in-law, the n.aid in his house, and his wife, praying by her bedside while she was in the pangs of death which he had induced, and actual- ly entering in his diary on the day she died a note of his sorrow and the words of his prayer. Willie Roughead specialized in dry comment on dreadful facts, but on this occasion he really let himself go: "Thus perished on the scaf- fold one whom many in that vast assemblage" (Pritchard was the last clan to be hanged in public in Scotland) "must long have known only as the urbane and courteous gentle- man, the kindly physician, and the amiable and pious philan- . thropist , .,. However, no crim- inal career of which we have any record exhibits a more shocking combination of wick- edness, hypocrisy, and blas- phemy." "Truth," they say, "is stranger than fiction." Wille Roughead certainly proved the truth of this maxim in the realm of murder. OVERWORKED WORDS The odds arr more than 100 to 1 that you use 10 words one fourth of the time: the, and, to, you, of, be, in, we, have, it. Without then you could hardly talk at all. The odds are also 100 to 1 that 300 words snake up three quarters of all the words you speak and write. For the record Shakespeare used 16,000 words. Milton, 8,000. The Bible uses 5,000. A well-educated man commonly uses 2,000. An un- skilled laborer hardly knows the meaning 01 more than the 800 most common words in the lan- guage, CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACnOSS 1. Small evra'Iow 1 Ocean 7 Walk slowly 25 Odd number 1.9. vast 14. Straightedge 19, Biggest 17. Saute 19indigo paint 19 Puffs an 21 Fresh 0unplY 7 \iSht before 4 Pull after 27. Strin•dl animal P. (trent 30. rnnoisttna of line? 32 Plow aloft 45 Phut of ihr rye 00 011 or rose netals 19 nestle stroke. 39, nnrntnin4'.bIrd 40 Flxnminationv 44 Return 47 bend out 19 111and17r oleasino 80 rnrthgy 82. Moving 59. Torki•+h 0111s 04, 1401, 8G Pat•et 00. tt'nook 87. Carded febrle OOWN 1. Of the sun 2. Slily 9, Danger 4. fnatitute slit 8. Gaelic 6. Aeet''a bora 7 9 10 16 Coats with a SI Salt of nitrle hard au deep acid 20 Halt ,oeut.) 34 "reit Rees 22 Affirmative97 Recrystallized product vote 9ectaree 23 tarts (100.1 41 Dant. 24 Siang. 43 Slight Rugged 29 CourO cone coloration mountain creat a 43 Precipitous Donkey 29 Profession 43Wickedness 9 90 Part of t re 10 Puisne Tumult month 14 Weaken t4ulded 31 Une of 1'tvat s 19 1•tiliae Before rulers 51. Tent Answer Elsewhere on rills Page They Met at the Pump—While Mike Baglin, left, 18 months old, was having a quantity of ant poison pumped out of him in a hospital, Bobby McPheter, 1, showed up, also needing a pumping - out, Bobby had swallowed moth balls, Nurse Bonnie Norman tends the howling infants, fir Harry Sokol, of Monmouth Co., N,J., hasn't had any coccidiosis on his place for the past 3 years —yet he raises a 6000 -bird re- placement flock every year. The secret of his success, he believes, lies in following as closely as pos- sible the methods of the broody hen who steals a nest and raises a brood of chicks. "She doesn't keep them in a hot room and protect them from fresh air," he declares. "Neither do I." * 0 e Even in Jan. or Feb. the win- dows on the front of his brooder rooms are kept open day and night as soon as the clucks are 2 or 3 wks, old. Often, there will be a little ice forming on the drinking fountains. Yet his mor- tality for the 10 -or 11 -week brooding period will .. be only 1 to 2%. n 0 0 Sokol starts 400 chicks in each of his 20 -by -20 pens. "They grow better in small families," he ex- plains. "In a small pen you never get too much of a crowd under one stove," » r • The "warns spot" in each pen is provided by a gas-fired brooder stove—and it's placed not in the center, but near a corner. After the first week or 10 days, Sokol cuts the temperature trader the hover to no more than 70°, The local gas company reports that he uses less gas per stove than anyone else around writes M. A. Clark in Country Gentleman n * * For a deep, dry, rrestlike litter, Sokol uses 4 bales per pen of either chopped straw or shredded sugar -cane fiber. The latter cost hint $1.85 a 100-1b. bale early in 1052. When first put in, the litter —especially the chopped straw litter—is nearly knee deep and Sokol has to be careful in step- ping around so that he doesn't put a foot on some chick that has burrowed clown after tate grain he scatters about the pen each day. n n r Litter was fluffy and dry as dust all the way to the concrete floor, although it rained for six clays straight last April. Only time there is ever a trace of dampness, Sokol says, is occasion- ally under the roosts the • first few clays after he lets them down front the ceiling. He does this when the birds ata 4 or 5 wits old, n u a Somctilne5 Sokol will re -use the Barrie litter- for a second brood, yet .still has no trouble from "cosy:' With cool , room brooding, plenty of fresh air, and deep, dry litter, his birds feather fast. To further help them make - the change from brooder house to range gradually, he has a fenced -in "yard range" outside each pen and opens the door so they can run outside after they are 5 or 6 wits. old. "I'd be able to put them on open range even younger than I do if it weren't for the crows," he says_ Aside from his unusual brood- ing methods Sokol follows gen- erally accepted methods in feed- ing, vaccinating and other man- agement practices. He has had 25 years experience in the poultry business. a Use Rats To Test Diet -Alcohol Theory Two Yale University scientists have shattered a growing belief that bad diet has much to do with alcoholism. Their tests were made with rats, but are all the more startling because they are an ex- tension of others made here and abroad. All told, 25,000 individual tests on forty albino male rats were carried out over an eleven - month period, After world-wide attempts to connect defects in nutrition 01' metabolism with alcoholism in man it was discovered that if rats could choose between drinking water and alcohol, they would choose water on a good diet, alcohol on a deficient diet, To some scientists this helped to explain why men and women be- come alcoholics. Taste for Alcohol Greenberg and Lester decided that the evidence in favor of such a conclusion was insufficient. They fed experimental rats in test cages on diets of varied nutrition- al value. In each cage, just as their predecessors had done, Greenberg and Lester put a cup of water and another that con- tained alcohol. The poor -diet rats promptly went for the alcohol. Next the Yale team parried out their simple idea to prove the whole thing wrong. In each cage they put a third cup which con- tained a different solution, some- times just sugar -water, sometimes a fluid fat, sometimes saccharine. The result was immediate and startling, Rats on bad diets that had been lapping up alcohol, gave it up on the spot and turned to the third cup. If the third solution was sugar - water, even rats used to large amounts of alcohol quit their tip- pling entirely. But if the sugar - water cup was empty the rats wont back to the alcohol. Sac- charine and fat solutions also drew the rats away, but not so readily ti`s the sugar -water, Temperate Rats To Greenberg and Lester it clear "from the present data that as the choice of substances pre- sented to the rat is widened to in- clude more than alcohol and water, theeen ' 5 tmg preference for alcohol vanishes." The extension of the idea to human alcoholism is not justified—"not only be- cause man is not bound by the restrictions imposed on animals in experiments of this type, but because the behavior of the animals does not parallel that of the human alcoholic." The Yale men found that rats, even though they were kept con- stantly supplied with alcohol, never became intoxicated, They spread their alcoholic intake over an entire day, never drinking enough at any one time to get soused. It seems that rats don't drink like men, Human alcoholics drink to get drunk. Rats don't. Speedy Catnera A new camera, believed to be the fastest of its kind, has been developed by the University of California's Los Alamos Scienti- fic Laboratory, Explosive pheno- mena can be photographed at speeds up to 3,500,000 frames per second (about 150,000 times as fast as the usual picture seen at a movie theatre), A small thin two-faced mirror which ro- tates at 10,000 revolutions per second makes this high speed possible, The image of the ob- ject is relayed from the surfaces of the mirror to successive posi- tions on the fills strips through a series of lenses. The "shutter" is a small block of plate glass which is shattered and rendered vir- tually opaque within a few mili- lionths of a second by a shock wave front a high -explosive det- onator, Initially "open," the shutter remains so during a com- plete sequence of fifty to 100 -pic- tures, which are taken in one twenty -thousandth of a second. To "A New, Liberated Egypt"---Celebratin'g six months as Egypt's premier, Gen. Mohammed Naguib, reaffirms his loyalty to Egypt as he addresses a crowd of 100,000 gathered in Cairo's Liberty Square. 11NDtYSCHOOL LESSON 138 Rev. R. Barclay Warrer4 B. B.A. How Jesus Answered igii.WetiAS Matthew 22:15 -?J2, 3ti .lith ".. Memory Selection: Never matt spike like this marl, John 7:46 Many questions are asked of those in public life. Same are for information; others are for the purpose of entangling the public speaker. But Jesus wag more than a match for his ene- mies. His answer with respect top paying tribute is a classic. They used Caesar's coin; they must ad- mit his right to collect tribute. But there is also en obligation to God. Some today would mar the truth that Jesus was teach- ing. They place their busines0 life and their religious life in twit mutually exclusive compart- ments. What goes on in one Le no business of the other. A col- oured woman was openly approv- ing of the preacher's sermon. But when he began to speak of the evil el stealing chickens she turn- ed to the woman next to her and said with disgust, "Ah, now he's; quit preaching and gone to med- dling." e Jesus silenced the Saduc es who did not believe in the res- urrection, He gave them more than they asked. I-fe lifted the conception of the future life from the merely materialistic. To the clever lawyer he gave an answer at which we would never have guessed but to the truth of which we must all readily assent. Picking out two commands which bad lain separate and obscured in the Old Testament lie put them together and said. "On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." 01 course, to love God supremely and our neighbour as we love ourselves is the answer to all our ills, personal and social. Yes, Jesus gave the answers quickly and simply and the world has been pondering them ever since. "The Saviour ran solve every problem, The tangles of lite can undo; There is nothing too hard for Jesus, There is nothing that He can- not do." NO REPERTOIRE Abel Green, the editor of Variety, tells about a vaude- villian who boasted to an agent, "My name is Projector and I can fly. Just let me show you my act," The blase agent consented to go with him to an empty theatre nearby. True to hiz word, the actor promptly took off from the stage, spiraled to the ceiling, circled the auditori- um a couple of thales, and zoom- ed down in a perfect glide. The agent yawned and said, "So yore can imitate b,', ,lo. What else can you do"" (f'pside flown io prevent pecking) 9 3 9 N v B ib a a S Cs' CI b' OS MO../. 3 30=i4 S._,2 r79 S Q n 7 9 -r .L S 9 9) s Y'P .SITTER 41.0 WHAT, ANan4OR,0 THIS r INVENTION? HONEY."' PUT A SMaLLRADIO SET M ▪ M°pigs', IN JITTER'S CAP... WITH THIS PORTABLE ne, S1; OUTFIT WE CAN BROAD• CAST AND CALL HI M HOME OR M - AkL8 HIM �MtND. SEE WHAT HE DOES1 WHEN I TRY IP JlrreR... o14.J1TTE2... rHls 1s FREa... Ey Arthur Pointer 2 3 ..44,'•`'9 ab:0 SIN 10 1111 11 111111111:•4111111 rall 11 FOSTAIIIIIII 11111 .ill .0 I eft: Answer Elsewhere on rills Page They Met at the Pump—While Mike Baglin, left, 18 months old, was having a quantity of ant poison pumped out of him in a hospital, Bobby McPheter, 1, showed up, also needing a pumping - out, Bobby had swallowed moth balls, Nurse Bonnie Norman tends the howling infants, fir Harry Sokol, of Monmouth Co., N,J., hasn't had any coccidiosis on his place for the past 3 years —yet he raises a 6000 -bird re- placement flock every year. The secret of his success, he believes, lies in following as closely as pos- sible the methods of the broody hen who steals a nest and raises a brood of chicks. "She doesn't keep them in a hot room and protect them from fresh air," he declares. "Neither do I." * 0 e Even in Jan. or Feb. the win- dows on the front of his brooder rooms are kept open day and night as soon as the clucks are 2 or 3 wks, old. Often, there will be a little ice forming on the drinking fountains. Yet his mor- tality for the 10 -or 11 -week brooding period will .. be only 1 to 2%. n 0 0 Sokol starts 400 chicks in each of his 20 -by -20 pens. "They grow better in small families," he ex- plains. "In a small pen you never get too much of a crowd under one stove," » r • The "warns spot" in each pen is provided by a gas-fired brooder stove—and it's placed not in the center, but near a corner. After the first week or 10 days, Sokol cuts the temperature trader the hover to no more than 70°, The local gas company reports that he uses less gas per stove than anyone else around writes M. A. Clark in Country Gentleman n * * For a deep, dry, rrestlike litter, Sokol uses 4 bales per pen of either chopped straw or shredded sugar -cane fiber. The latter cost hint $1.85 a 100-1b. bale early in 1052. When first put in, the litter —especially the chopped straw litter—is nearly knee deep and Sokol has to be careful in step- ping around so that he doesn't put a foot on some chick that has burrowed clown after tate grain he scatters about the pen each day. n n r Litter was fluffy and dry as dust all the way to the concrete floor, although it rained for six clays straight last April. Only time there is ever a trace of dampness, Sokol says, is occasion- ally under the roosts the • first few clays after he lets them down front the ceiling. He does this when the birds ata 4 or 5 wits old, n u a Somctilne5 Sokol will re -use the Barrie litter- for a second brood, yet .still has no trouble from "cosy:' With cool , room brooding, plenty of fresh air, and deep, dry litter, his birds feather fast. To further help them make - the change from brooder house to range gradually, he has a fenced -in "yard range" outside each pen and opens the door so they can run outside after they are 5 or 6 wits. old. "I'd be able to put them on open range even younger than I do if it weren't for the crows," he says_ Aside from his unusual brood- ing methods Sokol follows gen- erally accepted methods in feed- ing, vaccinating and other man- agement practices. He has had 25 years experience in the poultry business. a Use Rats To Test Diet -Alcohol Theory Two Yale University scientists have shattered a growing belief that bad diet has much to do with alcoholism. Their tests were made with rats, but are all the more startling because they are an ex- tension of others made here and abroad. All told, 25,000 individual tests on forty albino male rats were carried out over an eleven - month period, After world-wide attempts to connect defects in nutrition 01' metabolism with alcoholism in man it was discovered that if rats could choose between drinking water and alcohol, they would choose water on a good diet, alcohol on a deficient diet, To some scientists this helped to explain why men and women be- come alcoholics. Taste for Alcohol Greenberg and Lester decided that the evidence in favor of such a conclusion was insufficient. They fed experimental rats in test cages on diets of varied nutrition- al value. In each cage, just as their predecessors had done, Greenberg and Lester put a cup of water and another that con- tained alcohol. The poor -diet rats promptly went for the alcohol. Next the Yale team parried out their simple idea to prove the whole thing wrong. In each cage they put a third cup which con- tained a different solution, some- times just sugar -water, sometimes a fluid fat, sometimes saccharine. The result was immediate and startling, Rats on bad diets that had been lapping up alcohol, gave it up on the spot and turned to the third cup. If the third solution was sugar - water, even rats used to large amounts of alcohol quit their tip- pling entirely. But if the sugar - water cup was empty the rats wont back to the alcohol. Sac- charine and fat solutions also drew the rats away, but not so readily ti`s the sugar -water, Temperate Rats To Greenberg and Lester it clear "from the present data that as the choice of substances pre- sented to the rat is widened to in- clude more than alcohol and water, theeen ' 5 tmg preference for alcohol vanishes." The extension of the idea to human alcoholism is not justified—"not only be- cause man is not bound by the restrictions imposed on animals in experiments of this type, but because the behavior of the animals does not parallel that of the human alcoholic." The Yale men found that rats, even though they were kept con- stantly supplied with alcohol, never became intoxicated, They spread their alcoholic intake over an entire day, never drinking enough at any one time to get soused. It seems that rats don't drink like men, Human alcoholics drink to get drunk. Rats don't. Speedy Catnera A new camera, believed to be the fastest of its kind, has been developed by the University of California's Los Alamos Scienti- fic Laboratory, Explosive pheno- mena can be photographed at speeds up to 3,500,000 frames per second (about 150,000 times as fast as the usual picture seen at a movie theatre), A small thin two-faced mirror which ro- tates at 10,000 revolutions per second makes this high speed possible, The image of the ob- ject is relayed from the surfaces of the mirror to successive posi- tions on the fills strips through a series of lenses. The "shutter" is a small block of plate glass which is shattered and rendered vir- tually opaque within a few mili- lionths of a second by a shock wave front a high -explosive det- onator, Initially "open," the shutter remains so during a com- plete sequence of fifty to 100 -pic- tures, which are taken in one twenty -thousandth of a second. To "A New, Liberated Egypt"---Celebratin'g six months as Egypt's premier, Gen. Mohammed Naguib, reaffirms his loyalty to Egypt as he addresses a crowd of 100,000 gathered in Cairo's Liberty Square. 11NDtYSCHOOL LESSON 138 Rev. R. Barclay Warrer4 B. B.A. How Jesus Answered igii.WetiAS Matthew 22:15 -?J2, 3ti .lith ".. Memory Selection: Never matt spike like this marl, John 7:46 Many questions are asked of those in public life. Same are for information; others are for the purpose of entangling the public speaker. But Jesus wag more than a match for his ene- mies. His answer with respect top paying tribute is a classic. They used Caesar's coin; they must ad- mit his right to collect tribute. But there is also en obligation to God. Some today would mar the truth that Jesus was teach- ing. They place their busines0 life and their religious life in twit mutually exclusive compart- ments. What goes on in one Le no business of the other. A col- oured woman was openly approv- ing of the preacher's sermon. But when he began to speak of the evil el stealing chickens she turn- ed to the woman next to her and said with disgust, "Ah, now he's; quit preaching and gone to med- dling." e Jesus silenced the Saduc es who did not believe in the res- urrection, He gave them more than they asked. I-fe lifted the conception of the future life from the merely materialistic. To the clever lawyer he gave an answer at which we would never have guessed but to the truth of which we must all readily assent. Picking out two commands which bad lain separate and obscured in the Old Testament lie put them together and said. "On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." 01 course, to love God supremely and our neighbour as we love ourselves is the answer to all our ills, personal and social. Yes, Jesus gave the answers quickly and simply and the world has been pondering them ever since. "The Saviour ran solve every problem, The tangles of lite can undo; There is nothing too hard for Jesus, There is nothing that He can- not do." NO REPERTOIRE Abel Green, the editor of Variety, tells about a vaude- villian who boasted to an agent, "My name is Projector and I can fly. Just let me show you my act," The blase agent consented to go with him to an empty theatre nearby. True to hiz word, the actor promptly took off from the stage, spiraled to the ceiling, circled the auditori- um a couple of thales, and zoom- ed down in a perfect glide. The agent yawned and said, "So yore can imitate b,', ,lo. What else can you do"" (f'pside flown io prevent pecking) 9 3 9 N v B ib a a S Cs' CI b' OS MO../. 3 30=i4 S._,2 r79 S Q n 7 9 -r .L S 9 9) s Y'P .SITTER 41.0 WHAT, ANan4OR,0 THIS r INVENTION? HONEY."' PUT A SMaLLRADIO SET M ▪ M°pigs', IN JITTER'S CAP... WITH THIS PORTABLE ne, S1; OUTFIT WE CAN BROAD• CAST AND CALL HI M HOME OR M - AkL8 HIM �MtND. SEE WHAT HE DOES1 WHEN I TRY IP JlrreR... o14.J1TTE2... rHls 1s FREa... Ey Arthur Pointer