Zurich Herald, 1935-12-19, Page 2eein
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Adam Broome
SVNOVSIES
SIGNOR AItPLLL of Milan, a fain•
ons composer, is about to make his
first appearance in London. He is to
conduct the fust performance of a sym-
phony, of his own composition at the
Queen's Hall, The event has aroused
very great interest. The hall is crowd-
ed, and millions of listeners are waiting
for the performance to come over thu
radio.
Parelit makes his entrance, and rais-
ing^ his baton suddenly collapses.
Medical aid is immediately forthcom-
ing. but it is obvious that the man is
dead, lo the audience are two young
people, Lettice Manton and Stephen
Garton.
The two discussed the case at
length. The evidence showed that
Parelli was quite all right up to the
moment he entered the Hall—right
to the time when he grasped the
baton to start his symphony. Then,
as the medical evidence showed, he
died suddenly, apparently from the
effects of poisoning by curare, a poi-
son which used to be used by natives
in South America for poisoning the
tips of their arrows. Its use was very
rare in this country, and it wasn't
much contenanced in official medical
circles. It was a drug which was
fortunately not easy to acquire. The
Signor was not usually of a theatric-
al turn of mind. He had his little
weakness however. It had shown it-
self, only a few moments before his
death, in the ostentatious production
of the baton by the pseudo Martinelli,
in his exaggerated Fascist salute to
the audience, in the many and elabor.
ate posturings in which he had in-
dulged in face of the vast assembly
which fiad gathered to do him honour
at his first appearance in London.
Till now the police, whose enquir-
ies had been rapid, far reaching and
thorough, had found no trace of any
domestic worry, no sign of any ene-
my with sufficient grounds for hat-
red to beget a desire to murder him.
"Of course," said Haynes, "we
mustn't forget that there's still that
pile of letters to be gone through
and carefully examined. It's possible
they may give us some sort of a clue
to work on."
"If this is a murder," said Chief
Inspector Taunton judically. "Of
course, as you'll say, there's nothing
whatever to how at present why
Parelii might have wanted to do him-
self in. He was eccentric — we all
know that; he was a genius. if you
know anything about music, and his
that, he was a foreigner—an Italian.
Things might crop up that 'would
lead one of them to kill himself that
!wouldn't worry a Britisher in the
least. One can't say, yet. And while
eve sal' at present that she was shy
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of the skirts — avoided them — had,
uo wife — 110 fiancee -- no — well !--
anything like that — who's to say
that there wasn't some time or other
in his life — a woman? And this
affair of Martinelli's visitor is very
mysterious. You see," — the Chief
Inspector sighed — "there is a wo-
man in it after all. We're not to know
yet that she wasn't after Parelli him-
self. The visit to he valet niay have
been Just a blind -- a feeler,"
Taunton pulled himself together
and sat up: his air became more
business -like, his the less specula-
tive, "Anyway—time enough later on
to worry over that. It's a most Myst-
erious affair whichever way you look
at it. We know — we're practically
certain — that Parelli died of etirare
poisoning. We know, too, that if you
swallow it it's harmless—.or.usually
so. We know that, at the moment of
his death, he had just picked up his
baton. We also know that the baton
was brought into the Hall by some-
one who ought to Have been Martin-
elli and who -wasn't. We know that
Martinelli was visited by an Italian
woman he'd never seen before, who
got past the porter by pretending she
was Parelli's wife. We know that Mar-
tinelli was doped by the use of a
sponge by the woman with a pretty
hefty dose of chloroform. Then the
baton,disappears, and Is taken to the
Queen's Hall by someone made up
so as to look just like Rlartinelli —
like enough to pass the muster at
the artstes' entrance by the door-
keeper and the assistants who'd only
seen him once or twice on the day
or two preceding the concert," -
"It seems pretty clear," said Hay-
nes, "that the poison must have been
introduced into the conductor's body
through the baton, which mutt have
been doped in some way or other
by the woman or somebody else be-
tween the time she left the hotel
and reached the Queen's Hall."
The other man shook his head.
"That sounds all right," he said,
slowly. "But how do yon account for
the fact that there's no sort of trace
on the stick — or so the docors tell
us — of any .of the poison? Also that
there's no sort of point sticking out
of it that would be able to hold the
curare and also prick far enough into
the flesh of anyone handling it to
force the stuff into his blood? Therehe s
m�e "c,bcn'y ?j1iOE t
they possibly can be. The jewels are
all cut with rounded faces, and, any-
way, the few little points there are
on the diamonds aren't half sharp
enough or long enough or big enough
to be able even to puncture anybody's
skin — let alone to inject anything
into the blood."
"Of course," said Haynes, "it all
looks rather as if we might have to
come back to the suicide theory. But
that's hard enough in all conscience.
For if he did commit suicide with the
stuff, he too must have had some-
thing sharp — a thypodermic needle,
I suppose, or something like that—
to inject it with, But as you know,
noticing like that was found when
we searched the body and the clothes,
and the platform and the floor at the
Queen's Hall. They were searched
as thoroughly as I've ever kno*n
any place to be."
TO BE CONTINUED
THE DOG TEST
(Horn a letter to the London Star)N1
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If your dog. '' were suddenly to
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HETI(
DAY LIVING
A WEEKLY TONIC"
by Or, M. M..Lappin
THOSE FATS OF. oepplk-SSIOIU
1 want to deal with a letter w)pch
I have received trout it Man wllp: is
suffering from depression. No, ! not
that industrial and economic depres-
sion about which it was so poplar
to talk, but of which we are i not
hearing quite so much, perhaps,',to-
day. That may be a good sigh for
many of us. Let us be thankful))
My friend seems to be sufferiing
from that sort of depression , which
settles upon everybody at soine trine
or other. The difference between him.
and some other people is just that
the others aro able to rise above it,.
but be allows it to overcome hint; "I
aur naturally an optimist", he writes:
"A bachelor in. middle lite, and I
have held my present position for
eighteen years, My salary has.always,
enabled me to live in a modioun: of
comfort. I never thought the sun
would darken in my sky. But it 10.
Two years ago my mother died, !find
since her going I have been"ion-
scious of an unutterable lonell ss.
I have kept on the old home. go.
to business daily and return h ire
and despite the entreaties of ,my
friends, I feel I cannot drag myself
out to a show or a party. All the
old zest has gone. Nothing but hat
awful feeling of depression. It is ith
me constantly. I take it to bed 1?itlt
me and it gets up with me in he.
morning. Is there anything I can 4 do
to get rid of it and to regain
former cheerful spirit?"
Altogether it is a sad lettter. . ut
I think this poor fellow is taking
an entirely wrong view of life. Is
it the attitude that his deceased
mother, to whom he seems to have
been passionately devoted, would
wish him to take? I can hardly think
so. I think if he puts that questioneto
himself he will see that he is acting
in a wrong way.
But I have only quoted part of his
letter. There are traces in his letter
which would lead one to believe. that,
subconsciously, he himself feels that
he is acting foolishly. It is not
enough to know that one's views :of
life is wrong, however, one has to
know how to correct it. And the ter-
rible thing about one of those fits of
depression is, that once a fellow has
allowed it to get a hold on him it has
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Being Looked After Much
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LONDON. --Great Britain is mak-
ing almost as much fuss over its
"quads"—quadruplets born to Mrs,
Walter Edward Miles, wife of a
track driver in St. Neots, Hunting-
donshire—as Canada did over its cel-
ebrated yioune "quints."
It is a costing $75 a day to main
tain the three boys—and one girl
who were born to Mrs. Miles on
Nov. 28. Four nurses from a Lon-
don hospital, working in relays, are
in constant attendance on the
"quads," who were moved over the
week -end from St. Neots Council
House, where they were born, to the
home of Dr. Ernest Harrisson.
Harrisson attended at the birth.
The transfer was effected two at a
time on cots in a specially -heated
car. Their room at the doctor's house
has been transformed into a giant
incubator.
Every precaution is being taken to
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safeguard them from germs. The
room was cleared of ornaments and
unnecessary furniture. Persons ap-
preaching the tiny, white enamelled
cots must wear masks. Human milk
obtained from a London hospital is
fed to the infants twice daily. Their
father drives to London and back, a
200 -mile trip, daily for this milk.
Mrs. J. F. Crossley, daughter of
Dr. Harrisson, is a licensed pilot
and has volunteered to fly to Lon-
don for the milk in case any diffi-
culty occurs in making the road trip.
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"WHO SAID MURDER" by Chars- THORNTON" by D'Arcy Marsh,
es W. Bell, K.C., (Macmillan's, To- (Macmillan's, Toronto) offers an in-
ronto) is a good, fat volume of tense, well-written study of a mag -
crime in Ontario. "I have never de- netic, genial, capable roan pitting his
fended a murderer in my life," personality and capabilities against
blandly stated C. W. Bell, K.C., when the steel of Canada's two railways.
asked by a reporter how he planned Mr. Marsh gives unforgettable sketch -
his defence of a murder. The state- es of the various personalities in-
ment is legally true of course, for volved during the naineteen-twenties
the twenty-one persons charged with in the„destines of these two great
murder and defended by Mr. Bell all transportation systems.
were acquitted. So of course they * * *
were not murderers. "ASYLUM" by William Seabrook
But one feels that many of these (Geo. J. McLeod, Ltd., Toronto) is
persons would not be as fortunate in an amazing chronicle of the author's
their present classification and status experience's in an asylum, where he
if they had been defended by less demanded he be placed so that he
able counsel than Mr. Bell, who has would not be able to satisfy his
reviewed a number of the important craving for alcoholic stimulant. The
recent cases in his book. Newspaper- narrative offers a candid picture of
men of the province have long re- the daily life in the institution, the
cognized that when Charlie Bell was treatments of various cases—person-
mixed up in a criminal case spect- ality studies of the staff and patients.
the peculiar power of perpetuathrg acinar copy was sure to break. How- Part of the book was written while
itself mitis the victim feels that thee ever, Mr. Bell has allowed little glam- undergoing treatment. It is an ex-
traordinary document and dispells
many delusions the public have eon
corning institutions of 4'
is simply no way of escape, and
might just as well be dead.
But there is away of escape, It I
our to creep into his book. It's 111-
tense interest lies in the drama of
s the cases themselves, told clearly
t within. ;tire individual: ^A man tai ' t and unaffectedly and flavored only
nrus g In arils two of these cases
appear to be gloomy; but there are . Bell appear in his popular role, de -
never really as bad as they seers. I fending a person charged with murd-
Winter' is a dull season. Everything is ' er. Peter Bunce, his first client was
dead. No trees in leaf; no flowers in saved froin the gallows by a real
Marshall Hall touch and twelve little
froggies that did not die. The other
lowed by spring with it quickened is the recent famous Niagara murder
and renewed life. And life is some- case in which Mr. ')ell defended
times like that1 • Elliott and Gast'le charged with the
I think my friend wants to take a murder of Mrs. Risley.
firmer grip on himself. The death of On interesting view of the other
his mother was probably a shock to side of the picture is found in the
him that bad phyo'cal effects. His stories of the two other cases where
vitality may be low, and that lowered Mr. Bell acted for the crown. He
vitality nt iy have had a reaction tip_ gives an unforgettable picture of
on his s iirits. He should not keep that piece of rural ghastliness, the
himself;. so much to himself. ife murder of Leo Bergeron by Lavic-
should ;gait out among his friends. He toile and Larocque in Renfrew County
should -011r to see the brighter side of and the sordid drama. Dr. Pratt of
Smiths Falls, the murder of Eve Mc-
Lean and the uncovering of the Onto
ario abortion ring.
A clearly organized and graphic
account is given of the Dorland case,
and the comic opera atmosphere of
the Labatt kidnapping would be
laughable if -a man who is widely be-
lieved to be innocent was not still
serving a fifteen -year sentence in
Kingston. Mr. Bell recites the whole
history of the amazing case.
Besides his record in criminal.
pleading and his political record of
may from time 10 time be seized by three times member of parliament,
similar fits of depression, .perhaps
.I Mr. Bell has to his credit the author -
similar
to add that the best way to ship and direction of many success -
unselfish
'them is to forget sell in p
unselfish thought for others. It is
always true that "He that will save
his life shall lose it, but he that is
willing to lose kis cite shall always
find life".
Attorney—And what makes you
think you are entitled to a pension,
Mrs. Gnaggs 7 Did you do any fight-
ing the war?
Mrs. Gnaggs—Yes, my husband
and I fought the whole four years.
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"`7hea 's a Christie Biscuit for every t`us
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bloom; no singing birds — a dull,
dreary, dead season. But it is 101.
life. lig' should remember that there
is a work for him to do in the world
quite apart from his actual calling
or profession. And the greatest work.
that anyone can do is to cheer an.:
other soul and bring happiness to
someone who does not know it. In
the companionship of one upon whom
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whose interest and for whose well-
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* * *
"THE TRAGEDY OF HENRY
NOTE: The writer of this column
is a trained psychologist and an au.
thor of several works. He is willing
to' deal with your problem and give
you the benefit of his wide experi.
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