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THE EGALLOWS
11'rom his office window, John
Robinson watched the constable
prOpel his unwilling charge
through the entrance of Roches-
ter Row police station. Robinson
was an insolvent ,house -agent,
sick of waiting for clients who
never came.
le7ow; ` turning from the win-
dow, he emptied his pockets on
to the cheap pine desk: four
pawn tickets, a bunch of keys,
five pennies. That was all .
and the rent overdue . . , and at
home a worried wife and four
kiddies.
The office could take care of
itself, he mused. And, a moment
later, went out into the sunlit
street, The year was 1927.
John Robinson was riot merely
decent -looking — he was good-
looking, and in a way that ap-
pealed to women..
In Victoria Street, where she
was doing her shopping, Robin-
son met a pretty, dark, plumpish
young woman. He. had charm,
a] certain grace, superficial, it is
true, but Of the showy kind
which women fall for.
He made it seem perfectly
respectable for this chance -met
acquaintance to walk with him.
And presently, when he invited
her to inspect his place of busi-
ness, she had no feeling of dan-
ger.
Once within, the attitude of
this chance -met cavalier under-
went a change. He became
:familiar and, when resentment
was his reward, he became
rough.
Sometimes, in the past, in
similar circustances, a clout had
settled the, matter for John Ro-
binson. But on this particular
occasion things went wrong.
A violent woman, with the
best reasons in the world for
self-defence, is as awkward to
one with as a fistful Of nettles.
An angry woman who threatens
Ai
JO scream the house clown and
that house opposite a busy
police. station, become quite. in-
-lolerable.
Knocking his victim down
with a hard punch, Robinson
dinned her arms with one strong
hand while he reached for his
chair cushion.
Very soon the violent move -
Dents epts Of the woman weakened:
wad presently she was still.
• John Robinson removed the
eusbiOn from her face. He had
goo too far; been too thorough.
Be gat slowly to his feet and
went like a drugged man to-
wards the window.
Below, a constable stood at
Bhepolice station doorway. Sun-
70glit flooded the street. Boys'
went whistling on, their way.
John Robinson went Out, lock-
ing the office door behind him.
Be had to think.
Cuba's Choice—Isis Finlay, "Miss
Cuba," an entrant in the "Miss
Universe" contest, The 20 -year-
old beauty was so confident
that she has started taking
English lessons.
He had killed a woman. And
he had left her body locked in
his little office, the window of
which looked out towards the
police station,
Next day he went back to his
office. The long watches of a
sleepless night had produced a
plan of action. He could get
out of this mess, and do so quite
simply,
The plan was neither new nor
clever. It was to dismember
the body, pack it in a trunk, and
deposit the trunk in the left-
luggage office at Victoria Sta-
tion,
Before returning to his office
he went to Brixton, where he
was unknown, bought a cheap,
second-hand trunk, using the
money he had found ii, his vic-
tim's handbag.
Next, he bought a large knife
and a large quantity .of brown
paper,
By midday the task was ac-
complished, the battered old
trunk securely corded.
He went out into the street.
"Hey, you!" he accosted a seedy -
looking man, "want to earn a
bob?"
Together the two men carried
the heavy trunk to the street,
and hoisted it on to a taxi.
At Victoria Station, the porter
in charge of the left-luggage
office, glancing from trunk to
depositor, scribbled the ticket.
John Robinson, feeling relieved
almost reckless, hailed another
taxi and drove out of the sta-
tion yard.
"And that's that!" he no doubt
said, in self-congratulation, as
he tossed the small piece of
paper which was to put the rope
around his neck out of the taxi
window.
"Bloke chucked this outer his
taxi winder," explained a porter,
handing the check in, to the man
in charge of the left-luggage of-
fice.
"Oh, 'e did, did 'e. Yes, I re-
member 'int. Left a blooming
'eavy trunk, 'e did."
A week later the police were
called in. The trunk had be-
come offensive. And now the
great network of police investi-
gation began to function. A
laundry mark led to the identity
Of the victim. She was a mar-
ried woman — Bessie Bonati—
separated from her husband. A
woman leading the half -world
life of the London streets.
When Robinson had packed
that trunk he had absent-minded-
ly left with the remains of his vic-
tim a cloth. That cloth bore the
name of a hotel — the hOtel
where Robinson's wife was em-
ployed, and from which she had
taken it.
•The left-luggage office eaten -
dant was invited to identify the
man who -left the trunk. He did
see without difficulty. •
So John Robinson was brought'
to trial and charged with the
murder of Bessie Bonati by
smothering her.
Now, for a pian to dismember '
a dead woman does not mean
necessarily that he first killed
her, His action might have fol-
lowed on an embarrassing acci-
dent.
That, put very briefly, was
Robinson's defence.
He had invited the woman to
his office. She had made black-
mailing demands for money. He
had resisted them. She then
flew at him, and in self-defence
he had struck her. She had
fallen, face down on to the hearth
rug and, greatly upset, he had
left the office and had not re-
turned till the fol]owing morn -
in Said defence cousel: Bessie
Bonati might have died of shock.
Then, as a second line: Bessie
Bonati might have died of coal -
gas poisoning, for the gas leaked
and she lay there all night.
• It may have been improbable,
but it was plausible, And no jury
wants, without proof positive, to
send a man to the gallows.
But the science of anatomy,
and of the workings of the
human body, is an exact science.
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Run 'efr gerators On Just Sunshine
The household of a London
University teacher at Sidcup,
Kent, is hoping for a sunny
summer. The more sunshine we
have, the more Dr. H. Hey-
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or easy washing up with lots of
hot water.
At the side of his house a
solar water heater traps the
warmth of the sun in a mesh of
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Some neighbours think it just -
an amusing novelty. B u t the
truth is that Dr. Heywood's
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Not long ago a United States
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At Mount Wilson Observatory,
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scientists can bake bread or cook
themselves a chicken dinner. A
small battery keeps the trap -
mirrors constantly focused on
the sun — like a burning glass.
Clouds sometimes cut off the
supply like the click of a switch.
But the cooking goes on. For oil
has meantime been heated by
The expert anatomist who assists
justice does not theorize. He
deals only in facts.
It was the late Sir Bernard
Spilsbury who was invited to
give his opinion on the medical
propositions put forward by Ro-
binson's counsel.
"It might have been shock?"
suggested the defence.
"Had it been shock it would
have been evident from the con-
dition of the heart. Post-mor-
tem examination revealed a per-
fectly healthy heart."
"Coal -gas even if diluted, can
cause death, if the period of
exposure to it is prolonged?"
"That is so. But I examined
the blood for evidence of coal -
gas poison idications — and
found none."
What the medical expert had
failed to find in Bessie Bonati's
blood was carbon -monoxide.
"It might have been asphyxia?"
"In asphyxia the blood turns
dark. In carbon -monoxide poi-
soning it turns bright red. I
found the blood to be dark,"
The medical expert patiently
reconstructs, like the parts of a
puzzle, what actually occurred
from what remains.
Bessie Bonati was suffocated
by the pressure of a soft mater-
ial over her mouth. There was
the bitten tongue, the congested
lungs that were suddenly de-
prived of air. There was the
dark blood. There were the
bruises, with their signs of hav-
ing been followed by death.
John Robinson was sentenced
to death.
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