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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-03-09, Page 6,ire. ,heir were sta Matchstick Hcncss brutal Killer In May, 1927, an attendant at Charring Cross station left lug- gage office complained bitterly about the awful smelt coming from the corner of the depart- ment Finally he traced the stench • to an old-fashioned trunk; He prised it open and inside was a Woman's body, out up. into five pieces. With' the help of science, the killer was .filially brought to justice. The police constable who was called to the station would not allow the remains to be removed until a police surgeon had cerci. lied the woman was dead. It was a scientific miracle which sent John Robinson to the gallows , in 1927. With a cut-up body in a trunk there was a piece of brown paper, a duster and a dirty piece of undercloth- ing From that unpromising be- ginning the scientists got to work with their ray lamps. From a completely blank piece of paper, metal, or cloth, after treatment by acid, all sorts of marks can be read under the ray lamp which are quite invisible to the naked eye. Sir Bernard Spiisbury, who was trying to identify the re- mains, had a most unpleasant task, Decomposition was advanc- ed, but the miracles of medicine were soon at work and he was Gay, Cozy, Easy! Zifitas M¢R7CgIL Family treasure! Take this Vey -to -knit afghan on trips, to asimes, or use on wintry nights. Choose a lively 4 -color scheme scraps for this attractive ghan. Knitted shell medal - ons join lat e r . Pattern '718:mitting directions. ' Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use ostal note for safety) for this etttern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1, S Eighteenth St., New Toronto, nt. Print plainly PATTERN UMBER, your NAME find AD- 2RESS.. i JUST OFF THE PRESS! Send row for our exciting, new 1961 Needlecraft Catalog. Over 125 klesigns to crochet, knit, sew, broider, quilt, weave — fash- ons, homefurnishings, toys, gifts, • azaar hits. Plus FREE—instruc- Hlons for six smart veil caps. urry, send 25¢ now! able to state with confidence that death had resulted from Strange. lation, It looked a pretty Blear - cut ease of murder. Then the infra -red and ultra- violet ray 1 a m p s produced identifiable laundry marks. They in turn soon leds to the identifi- cation of the remains as a wo- man known as Minnie Bonati, the wife of an Italian waiter, She was, to say the least, a promiscuous .woman, having liv- ed with a dumber of other men in the previous year or two. The body identified, it was now a question of finding the person responsible. Once again science helped, But this case, which became known as the Charing Cross Trunk Murder, was famous for the brilliant detective work that took place, Two of the junior officers'con earned ultimately rose to the head of their, profession. Hugh Young was to become Head of the C,I.D. at the Yard, and Len Burt, Head of the Special Branch. Then they were both sergeants,. In the Charing Cross murder the scientific and detective in- vestigation was brilliant. But in spite of that it is doubtful whe- ther the police would have been successful in tracing the mur- derer without a lucky break. A shoe -shiner outside Charing Cross station had picked up a left luggage ticket. This was soon identified asbelonging to the evil smelling trunk, and before long the shoe -shiner was able to identify the taxi which had brought the fatal trunk to the station, The driver of the taxi was able to take the story a step farther, He was able to remem- ber that he had taken a fare to Rochester Row police station on the afternoon of May 6th. He had dropped his passenger and had immediately been hailed by a fare from an office opposite the police station. He had struggled to help this. fare with a large, black, heavy trunk and driven him to Charing Cross station. He identified the trunk, which was found to have beets sold to an unidentified man two days before. An investigation of the prem- ises showed that one set of offices was now empty. They fiad been occupied by Mr. Robinson who, when he was interviewed, denied everything. Nor was he identi- fied by anybody. The police returned to the of- fices and again they were lucky. At the bottom of an old waste- paper basket they found a blood- stained match. This was a vital clue the police had been seek- ing. It made Robinson the main suspect, Then the duster found in the trunk wrapped round the dead woman was traced to a public house in Fulham — where Robinson's wife was barmaid, When he was interviewed for the second time Mr. Robinson began his statement with the fatal words: "I'll tell you all about it." He need never have had to tell the story if science hadn't found n the matchstick. The story he told was an old one, A woman starting to scream. An attempt to silence her, then panic and death. Reprieves — even acquittals — have been known for such murders. But John Robinson made the mistake of cutting up his victim and telling a lot of lies until he realized there was a cast-iron case against him. Such men are never popular with juries. Mr. Robinson went to the gallows. By David Ensor in "Tit -Bits." True happiness is found in pursuing something, not in catching it. ALL DOLLED UP — In good spirits, actor John Barrymore Jr. and his wife, former Italian model Ga.by Palabbelo, select a doll dress during a visit to a Rome toy shop. The couple's visit to the store aroused speculation that they may be expecting on heir. TRAGIC CARPET—From Iran this knotted rug with picture of the kingdom's former Queen Soraya has come tp Duesseldorf, West Germany, where it is owned and displayed by M. Aghabek- zadeh, right. Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Po'hlevi divorced Soraya in 1958 because she failed to bear a male heir to the throne. ItONICLES cliGMBILAIF41,. Our chicken -pox grandsons are gradually returning to- normal. David is back to school, Eddie and Jerry are dressed and run- ning around the house, so abounding with energy they are almost driving their .mother crazy. She thought it would make it easier having • the two little ones down with .chicken- pox at one and the same time but there were nights last week when she changed her mind. They were so full of pox that for several nights no one got much sleep. One would wake up and want "camel" calamine) ointment rubbed on the spots. Dee would get him quietened down and then the other one would start. Or she would wake up and find Eddie had crawled into bed beside her. One time she found Eddie one side and Jerry the other, but no Father. He had taken to the chesterfield! Maybe he spent the rest of the night dreaming of the time when he wasn't married. Oh well, it's just one of those things that happen in the best regulated families. Actually no one seems to have suffered too much. Art and Dave were here Friday night and brought us a lovely bunch of red carnations as an anniver- sary gift. Saturday the junior branch of the family were here, also full of life. The two boys had not been exposed to chicken -pox so we're not looking for trouble in that direction, Our third genera- tion famjly is growing up fast, soon there won't be any babies at all. (I wonder!) Anyway, Cedric, the youngest, will be two years old in a few weeks time. It doesn't seem possible. Poor little fellows — born into an age of space travel and interplane- tary missiles. I am glad, things were not so complicated when we were raising a family. At that time our only worry, espe- cially during the depression, was to keep our heads above water and to make sure the children were adequately fed, clothed and educated — all minor prob- lems compared with the present space age. Well, one of the eye-catching news items last week concerned the Ontario Hospital Services Commission — in the red to the tune of over six million dollars. This is of vital importance to almost everyone since 95 percent of the population pay insurance premiums. Why the, deficit? Several explanations have been given which boil down to the primary fact that there are more patients than beds. Even so one wonders why it should be almost impossible to get a hospital bed except for an emergency. Now don't misunderstand me. I am not actually critical of the Com- mission. I think it is doing a marvellous job, Those Who ,are ill are getting better care than at any time in history. Last summer when Partner was in hospital we didn't have a thing to complain about, In fact it was our opinion that hospitals are leaningover backwards in giv- ing care to patients once they are in hospital. And there you have the crux of the story — once they are in hospital, But, unless you happen to be an emergency ,the chances are that while you are waiting for a bed you will either die or get better! Here are a few isolated cases, personally known to me. "Mrs, L." suffered a heart at- tack. Hospitalization was' clear- ly indicated but there was no bed available. Mrs. L._ was in bed ten weeks with only an elderly husband to care for her. In addition she had to pay for diagnostic services which would have been covered had she been in hospital. In other words hav- ing hospital insurance did not benefit her one cent. "Mrs. S." is a young widow with two small children, She has some kind of remittent fever which; so far, her doctor has been unable to diagnose. He thinks the only solution is for her to go into hospital for a com- plete check-up. After telling her that he shook his head and add- ed — "But- I doubt if I can get you a bed for two months!" That was just last week so we don't know what the end of that story will be. I am sure many doctors must be as worried as their pa- tients. "Mrs. 0." .is an elderly lady living with her son, his wife and their four small children. After Christmas she developed pneu- monia. The same old story — no hospital bed available. Imagine nursing a pneumonia patient on a second floor room with four small children running around, downstairs. What is the answer to this complex question? Here is one solution I have not yet seen mentioned. If out-patient care 'were included in hospital in- surance wouldn't there be fewer people clamoring for hospital beds? Surely in the long run operation costs would be less rather than snore. Diagnostic services for even one patient would surely be less costly than keeping him in a hospital bed for even one day. Anyway, it should be a service available to all policy holders — especially if insurance rates are to be given a fifteen percent boost. Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Q. I have parfait glasses and sometimes like to serve .a parfait for dessert. Since I have no par- fait spoons, is it all right to use iced -tea spoons, instead, and do you think a parfait makes a nice company dessert? A. Yes, to both questions. City Worries Over Absence Of Storks Pesidents in Strasbourg are seriously worried because their housetops no longer seem attire tive to white stories, Por 800 years, this fairy-tale bird has migrated there annually from South Africa and from this city the legend spread that the stork delivers, babies,, Not so long ago, •'there were at least seventy pairs dk white stades nesting in Strasbourg, and more in the neighbouring towns of Colmar and Mulhouse. Now Strasbourg' , a recent count revealed, has only five stork nests left. These arc giant structures made of dried twigs, grass and earth nearly five feet in diameter and weighing a good thousand pounds. According to Peofesser Augisa•. to Toschi of the University of Bologna, the storks are tiring of their 800 -year-old haunts. In- stead, several pairs are now nesting on rooftops near Biella in Northern Italy. The Italians are delighted, be- cause the storks are bringing an extra tourist attraiction. George Jessel Takes His, Own Tip For some weeks, radio listen- ers in Los Angeles have been hearing raconteur George Jessel in perhaps his best-known vau- deville routine: A telephone talk with Mama. This time he was promising to "send Mains a check every month" because he'd sunk his savings in a sure thing: The Beverly Hills Security In- vestments Corp., a firm which sells property deeds, guarantees its customers a 10 per cent yearly return. ` Jessel suggested that "Aunt Gussie should invest Uncle Phil's life insurance" in, BHSI. At this point, the unsentiment- al SEC rang down the curtain. A six -count complaint charged Jes- sel and the firm's three officers with "fraud" and "deceit." De- spite BHSI's claim that it was fully backed by a "substantial" equity in real estate, customers• who asked for their money couldn't get it back, the SEC said. Moreover, the firm never told its new customers that it wasn't 'meeting the payments to its older clients. In Miami Beach where he is vacationing, Jessel pointed out that he has no formal connection with the company, thus "I be- lieve I am entirely in the clear." Nor is he one to take his own advice lightly: "They asked me to do a commercial, and I be- lieved in it so much I bought some of it myself," he said. Rent A Castle For A Shilling A Year - Ass En gliehn'ian's les -rest is his castle, so they say. Welk, why not rent one? For a shilling a year you can rent Dunrobin, the fairy-tale castle belonging to the Duke of Sutherland, in Scotland. There's only one snag. The seventy -two-year-old Duke will ask the new tenant to produce £10,000 as an upkeep fund. This way it will be possible to avoid income tax. If the Duke dharged £10,000 a year rent, that would be siubjeot to income tax, But , by having a tenant pat up the money for upkeep, there will be no tax. Every penny of the money will be spent on maintaining 'the castle, which has been in the Duke's family for 500 years. In return, the new tenant will get grouse -shooting .and deer -stalk- ing and a fully furnished castle that looks like something straight out of Hans Andersen. Iteven has its own railway ISSUE 9 — 1961 station, which is still used, but only for request stops. Since the war the duke lice been almost continuously en- gaged in complicated burmesc- tions aimed at: preserving the family fortunes. Three years ago he sold his English man - slots, Sutton Plage, Guildford, for £4.00,000 to Paul Getty, al- legedly the riohest man in the world, The most recent deal 'was the sale of the Dunrobin estate (ex - eluding the castle) 'for £239,000, Most of the money went into a family trust for the benefit of - Iuis ' niece, Mrs. Elizabeth Jansen., While the Duke's tenant, en- joys the amenities of Dunrobin, the Duke and his wife will stay in, London. But so far no Intl- lionise has reached for 'his cheque-book, Beginners' Luck Pi'.11'1 TED PATTERN EACH, one main pattern part 471' SIZES 2-6 1t�P.f Look! Just ONE main pattern part each for dress and panties. No fitting problems tie cinchee back waist. 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