HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1960-12-08, Page 7Mistake That Led
To The Gallows
in London many of the name
innate -women who lose their
lives by murder used to the
known as street women. In spite
of their profession some of them
ewe Bind and generous,' with a
it overbill sort of gaiety which
go frequently part of that lite.
On the other hand, most ,lf
lee men who kill them are ut-
terly loathsome objects sunk ip
the depths of depravity. The
t!ooner such men are removed
from the public view the belle'
for all concerned.
Throughout the years these
monsters appear on the scene,
leaving a trail of death, destruc-
tion and misery, Frederick Field
was such a man.
In October, 1931, a small shop
stood vacant in Shaftesbury
Avenue, not far front Piccadilly
Circus. . A possible new tenant had
been making inquiries with re-
gard to fitting new signs on the
chop front.
On the morning of October 2nd
the sign maker's manager went
to the empty shop with one of
his workmen. Some days previ-
ously the workman had had the
key, but he appeared to have
mislaid it and another was used
so that the two men could enter
the premises.
It was gloomy inside but on
the floor at the back they could
nee a figure sprawled out. As
the manager passed he pointed
to it and remarked that he
"wished people wouldn't leave
these wax models lying about ail
over the place."
The workman, Frederick Fielcl,
knew that it wasn't a dummy.
He knew the figure lying on the
floor was the murdered body of
st young street woman, Nora Up-
church, She had been strangled
and had been dead for same
slays.
Nora was only twenty. She
was described as a dancer, but
actually she was an entertainer
of men clients at a small flat in
Shaftesbury Avenue, Her home
was in Victoria.
In view of the tact that Fred-
erick Field had had the key to
the shop it was not surprising.
.Field, however, was nothing if
slot resourceful and among many
of his more unpleasant charac-
teristics was an ability to lay the
blame for his misdeeds on other
'people.
He said that when he had
been in the shop a day or so
earlier a man had come to him
end told him that he was a pros-
'pective tenant. Field said he had
pm the key to thio man, of
wvhoin he gave the pollee a de-
tailed description.
He spent several days walk-
ing about the West End with a
koliee officer trying to find the
(prospective tenant. H o w e v e r,
they didn't find him, because
such a man never existed except
in the evil, fertile imagination
el Frederick Field, writes David
i✓rnsor in "Tit -Bits."
Nevertheless, as the result of
h'ield's behaviour several per-
fectly respectable citizens found
How Can 1?
By Roberta Lee
Q. Is there any way to remove
scorch stains from garments?
A. If the material is white
cotton or linen, moistening it
end exposing it to direct sun-
11i!tht may take the discoloration
out -- provided the scorch is a
light one. Unfr,rtunateiy, scorch
wan seldom he removed from col -
cored articles.
FOGGY DAY — Ping pang ball
sliced in half is placed over
the eyes of University of
Michigan graduate student
Janice Erskine. The effect is
fog. University psychologists
were testing her visual per-
ception. She saw no outlines,
just color and brightness,
themselves in the unpleasant po-
sition of having to account for
their movements on the night a
street woman had been murder-
ed.
Unfortunately, the police had
very little evidence, but Freder-
ick Field was taking no chances.
He made preparations for his de-
fence, in the event of being
charged, by selling his story to
a newspaper in return for fin•
anelal assistance,
No such charge was made and
Clearly two years had gone by
when Frederick Field walked in-
to the same newspaper office and
confessed to the murder of Nora.
Upchurch,
The newspaper promptly con-
tacted Scotland Yard and a little
later Field repeated his story to
the police. He was then charged
with murder.
Where Frederick Field had
been extremely cunning was the
fact that his confession contain-
ed several glaring inaccuracies.
For instance, he said he had
killed the girl with his hands,
whereas she had in fact been
strangled with her belt,
At his trial at the Old Bailey
he was therefore able to point
to these inaccuracies, which, lie
said, only confirmed that his
confession was bogus.
He withdrew it, saying he had
never killed the girl. He had only
trade the statement so that he
could appear before a jury and
be acquitted. He was tired, he
said, of having the finger of sus-
picion continually pointed at
hint,
Whatever the judge, the police
and the jury thought, there could
be no other result but the ace
guittal of Frederick Field for
the murder of Nora Upchurch.
Field, now a free man, prompt-
ly joined the R.A.F. — and then
committed the supreme blunder.
Having got away with murder
once, he did it again three years
later, and attempted to work the
same trick with his defence.
This time his fatal mistake
I was in describing the murder of
' another street woman. Beatrice
Sutton, in too much detail. He
described the situation of the
body and the flat in a way that
could only have been done by
the man who was there at the
time the crime was committed.
Nobody but the murderer could
have known such details,
When Frederick Field tried to
withdraw- his confession for 1
' second time it just didn't work.
He envied Up on the Wallow: as
he so richly deserved.
LIGHT PLANE ALIGHTS — Crane crew gently eases a light piano
Out of c tree in Peoria, III. Pilot John Zimmerman climbed
down unhurt after the craft landed in the branches 40 feet
fibs've the g,cund.
StTh Seeking That
Hidden Treasure
Once again they're seeking the
treasure hoard that hes hidden
in the forbidding Superstition
lelountains of Arizona. A new
expedition is being planned to
unearth the fabulous goldmule
believed to exist some thirty-five
mikes east of the city of Phoelex.
Ever since the clay, seventy-six
years ago, when Jacob Wolz con-
fessed to a nciehbutu' the loca-
tion of the mine, thousands of
prospectors have tried to find P,
hut all have failed.
It is claimed that a thwarted
love affair uncovered the mile in
the beginning, A young Mexican
peasant dared to lay seige to
t•he heart of a lovely senorita
who was the daughter of a
wealthy Mexican landowner. But
though his seige brought about
her complete surrender, he
overlooked the father's rage ai
this young man's arrogance in
supposing he would be accept-
able as a son-in-law.
The young Mexican fled, tak-
ing refuge in the Superstition
Mountains, then Mexican terri-
tory. And there by chance, be
stumbled across the goldmine.
Seeing a way in which ne
could still win the girl, the young
man hurried south and told
some of his friends. It would
have been easy enough for them
to return but a complication had
arisen meanwhile,
The U.S. government, wanting
to build a transcontinental rail-
way to the Pacific, was about
to complete what has since be-
come known as the Gadsen Pur-
chase. This was the purchase of
many millions of acres of semi-
arid land which included the
Superstition Mountains — and
the goldmine. It me -ant, too,
that the mine would then be in
U.S, territory and no longer in
Mexico.
The young Mexican quickly
organized an expedition and led
it to the mine. There they' dug
all the gold their horses could
carry and jubilantly set off
home.
As they were passing through
a rocky defile, disaster struck the
two -hundred -strong party. They
were encircled and massacred
by a horde of Apache Indians.
Except for two young lads who -
had ridden behind a bush mune
escaped, The Indians scalped
their victims and went off with
the gold, unaware that the two
boys were alive. These two made
for home, determined that one
day they would return,
Some years later they did go
back, taking a third young man
with them as a partner. -Without
difficulty they found the mine,
and began to dig.
It Was at this stage that Jacob
Wolz appeared on the scene.
Wolz was a Dutchman, big, lusty,
with a white beard. But his
noble -looking face hid an evil
heart, Looking for gold in the
Superstition Mountains, he had
been attacked by Apaches and
driven into a region into which
he had never before penetrated.
It was there he came across the
camp of the three Mexicans. Fall-
ing for his noble looks, they told
him about their mine. -
"Let me help you." Wolz plead --
ed. "I won't ask for any wages "
They led him to the imine and
Wolz quickly realized its fabul-
ous worth.
That night he shot the three
young Mexicans as they lay
asleep. So Wolz carte into sole
possession of the mine.
it wasn't lane before etley
prospectors heard rmnout- abs an
WOle,s goldmine. ..'any tried to
buy shares in it. but Wolz re
fused. Others. trailed him,. but
he outwitted them. Those he
couldn't shake ori' he killed,
Some years later, in 1884, Wale
on his death bed confessed that
he had killed his own nephew as
well as seven other men, each of
whom had :sought to wrest the
mine from him.
When he confided -•the secret of
the mine's location to the friend-
ly neighbour, the latter quickly
equipped - himself to make a
search. Everything went accord-
ing to Wolz's directions until he
came to the piece where a tree
with a peculiar pointing branch
should have been.
It had vanished without trace!
in the years that followed all
attempts to discover the mine
nave failed, many of the search-
ers dying of thirst and starve -
tion, •It seemed that the Supersti-
tion Mountains had become ac-
cursed.
Ironically, that friendly neigh—
bour who was in such a hurry to
find the aline never thought to
look under the bed on which
Walz was dying,
11 he had, he would have found •
indisputable evidence of the
mine's existence, end a small for-
tune as well, in a shochox. It was
full of gold ore!
A lady was mailing the old
family Bible to her brother at
Christmas. The harassed postal
clerk examined the heavy pack-
age carefully and inquired if it
contained anything breakable.
"Nothing but the Ten Command -
wilts," she replied stexply.
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