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The Brussels Post, 1960-04-14, Page 5SHAH "WITH FIANCEE AND QUEEN MOTHER — Seated on a divan in the lioyal Palace al Tehran, Iran, are (left to right): Farah Diba, the Shah of Iran, -and The Queen Mther, Wdss Diled, 21, will move 'her personal possessions into the 80-room palace Hof the Queen Mother soon and will live there, until she marries the Shah. <It is reported that Miss Diba's 'dowry will be the equivalent of $70,000. '5‘ PARIS ,INDIA NEW 0,4. DELHi KAB Yettr tif , IRAN' 0 AFGHANISTAN TEHERAN bikENS G REECE otstititi ITALY :lyttitt ROME IRANCE ',IvtOkOdCO' eeiset a •PAKISTAN KARACHI PRESIDENTIAL ROUTE is air 'route of 'PreSrdetit hover " for his Vtiit 'to 'capitals'' around nine coUletelei. He 'it taking the 'Iri connection With his nieetifitt 'With le'arl~ Set *itdliii-„Oiititidti- and -West` Gerrndny, rictieitic , o Cue Exposed Exposed. .k.oposter 011 An evening in the spring of 1.929, Mrs. Dorothy Jackson returned home from • movie with the. woman friend who oc- cupied an adjoining bungalow in Limesiade Way,. Swansea, As they • parted, Mr, Jackson said :she 'must hurry• indoors as her husband would be waiting to. have tea with her. The neighbour had hardly en , tered her house and taken off her coat when she heard terrible screams. ..She rushed out and found. Mr. Jacicson bending over the prostrate body of -his wife. nearing the screams, lie, t.ao had run from his house, to find his wife lying in a pool of .hlu-d on the .doorstep. They took Mrs, ,l_ackson in, doors and 'phoned for an ambu- lance and the police, When a doctor arrived Mrs. Jackson was unconscious, She had been bat, tered on the head and was bleed. ing from several wounds. Taken to hospital, she never regained consciousness and died six days later, To the detectives holding vigil at his wife's bedsideeMr. Jack, son, made a strange statement. "I have been married for almost ten years, but I. have never dis- covered who my wife was. She never spoke about her past and she never told me how she made all that Money." - Friends and neighbours of the Jacksons had found the wife equally mysterious. She would make odd remarks about her "noble origin" 'and more than once had hinted that she was -the daughter of the second Duke of Abercorn and Lady Mary Anita Curzon, daughter of the. ,Earl 'Howe. She claimed th a t her brother, who succeeded to • the title in 1913, was the Governor. General of NOrthern Ireland. Mrs. Jackson contended that because of a family intrigue and the "delicate secret of her, birth," she was prevented from using her Tank and title. Her husband had, at times, seen let- IT'S A LIVING - Princess Pedal of Egypt works as a shorthand teacher tausanne, SWitzer- land, for $3'.5`o week. Just turn- ed 21, the eldest daughter of ex- King Farouk teaches at the ex- clusive school f'rom which she was graduated a few rnohths ago. swer*.e0eifritees"'"eistisse, „ ters bearing a coronet ,g' co it of arm.4,, but he was never el- lowed to read them-* 1411:s. Jackson always appeared to have ample means. Her home, into which she had moved tee? yeers before her terrible death, was 'luxuriously furnished. From time to time she left 'Swansea for undiseirNed. place:, and her friends l'ETQi vkql greeting cards from foreign countries, Yet Mr, Jackson earned only , email salary as a *demean for a pro, Visions firm. Mrs Jackson declared that .she derived her income from maga- zines for which she wrote short stories. Mar murder ,barl'led the pollee, Robbery was ruled out. No thict would be reckless enough to at- tack his victim in front of the lighted windows of her home, only a minute or two after she had parted from her neighbour. Moreover, nothing was missing. Even the handbag which Mrs. Jackson bad dropped when she Was attacked was untouched. Mr, Jackson was arrested, He was the only person seen near his wife within seconds after she had screamed for help. He was charged' with her murder and put on trial at the Swansea Assizes. But the evidence offer- ed by the prosecution was so flimsy that the jury almost-has- tily returned a verdict of "Not guilty," Mr. Jackson was told .by the judge that he was leaving the courtroom. Without a stain on his character. Indeed, he could not have had any motive to kill his wife who had provided so well for their livelihood, and with whom he had lived very happily, After Jackson's acquittal the police made a startling discov- ery, with the help of an extra- ordinary clue. At Mrs. Jackson's autopsy the doctor noticed that she had a tattoo mark — two small swal- lows — on her left wrist. The police circularized all tat- tooists in the hope that one might recognize the tattoo and have a record of the dead Wom- an's maiden name. It was a chance in a million— tattoo artists rarely know the names of their clients—but it came off. George Burchett,. the "King of the Tattooists," whose "studio" was in London's Wa- terloo Road, identified the swal- low design as one of his own. For fifty years Burehett had been tattooing the'., skins of all classes of people, famoue 'and unknown, but he had an eiccel- lent memory, He was able -to tell,the polite that his cent had been a young Irish girl, Dorothy Atkinson. By means of this ex- traordinary clue, the police dis- covered that Mrs. Jackson was not the daughter of .a duke, but of, an Irish f a tit worker in • County Down. Once her real identity was established, it was plain sailing - for the police. Dorothy Atkinson had a criminal record. Some years before her marriage to Jackson she had figured in a .. sensational blackmail trial:. She bed blackmailed a weal- thy businessman, and was, 'In fact, known to the police in various Pates of Britain as a clever and ruthless blackmailer. Several Men, who 'had fallen for her. charms, ,had_ been. her •yiefirns.. - -e'kerther inveetigations reveal- ed that she had derived . an In- come from this' sordid source for Many years, After serving her prison sen- tence she left London, married Mr; Jackson two years later and became known as a "resneet- e able" housewife. But she continued her black- mailing business, though none t of her victims came forward I during the ten years 'of her mar- riage. Her murder 'was now seen in a different light, T h e police were convinced that the wom- an's killer was one of her vie- aims, whose desperation had dri- ven him to murder, Investigations led to several men, after the police had traced 'the senders of some of the let- ters found at the dead woman's home, and after a meticulous scrutiny of her bank account. However, in every case the suspects were able to prove an alibi and there was no prose- cution. The murderer must have studied M r s. Jackson's move- ments carefully over a period of many days, , He must have known the dis- trict well. He made his plans very skilfully and struck with deadly precision. But he was never discovered. The murder of the bogus "daugh- ter of the Duke of Abel-eon-1" must be recorded as an example of the perfect crime. Statue 'Of Liberty Gets Much Abuse Forty people can — and fre- quently do — stand in the colos- sal head ,of the world-famous Statue of Liberty at the entrance to New York Harbour, +he seven- ty-third anniversary of which was celebrated by millions of New Yorkers recently. Weighing 4.00 tons and com- posed of copper and Iron. "The Lady With the Light," as Ameri- cans call her, stands 305 ft. high and was a $500,000 gift from France to the United States to mark the hundredth anniversary of American independence. It is believed that the sculp- tor, Frederic August Bartholdi, took' his mother, a woman of im- posing appearance' and great charm, as his model, The statue was Made in 350 separate parts and has a foundation of solid cOncrete 65 ft. high. The torch held in the 42 -ft, long arm of the statue is illumin- ated every night. Fifteen people can easily' stand around the torch balcony. As you gaze at this mammoth monument to liberty — the largest statue ever made — you can well believe that it ° took sixty men ten years to build it. • Every few years about $100,000 has to be spent On the statue so that it can withstand the ravages of the weather, n 1941 the statue was said to be "suffering from an acute case of lipstick serawlinge contracted from tourists." "Hun- dreds of inscriptieris have been daubed in lipstick On the Walls," wrote` an American reporter. "The Lady, is red inside and it doesn't look good, In places the lipstick is so thick that visitors are carving their names, and home towns in the Lady's war- paint and not touching the walls. It almost looks as though she will have to stay in the red." But the workmen got busy for some Weeks and scrubbed. Out the inscriptions, The work.east $20,000, .0* Is there any way t can tent, edy dents in one of MY ettlelee of furniture? Sentethetee yeti can .talee the dents- by Pla6ing cloth over the dent, 'then a bottle 'Can (flat &We) to -localize fleet oil' . the tient then test a Vestries irdn lightly on the cap. Th is swells the Woad fibres. If the ;dent. -fails to' rise - after' iteieriet applicationS,-youqt, have to re',1 moue' :the -finish 'otter the dent With etinie fine sandpaper and try again, Refinish, if fidedeSarge then rub With tottenstorie,. and, Wine, Beside Janos, his wife, who had brought him out to see this -thing, looked at him fixedly, and in the light of the lantern she carried, her eyes glittered strangely. "It's beyond mel" Janos mut- tered. "Who put it there? What's it for? "What's it tfor?" his wife echo- ed. "Why, it's for you, Janos — to hang yourself with!" —With a growl Janos turned to her, "lifting his huge fist. Then a strange thing happened. He saw that she seemed to be gazing through . . beyond him. At that moment something crashed down on his head and he crum- pled. to the ground. Early next morning a scream aroused the sleepy ranch in the Tisz a Valley, in Hungary. A couple of cow-,punchers, ambl- ing towards the corral, halted in their tracks and stared at the white-faced woman who -stag; gered out of the barn, "It's happened again," she moaned, "This time it's the mas- ter — in there!" They glanced at each other, then raced to the barn. Inside they started back in horror; the body of Janos the rancher was hanging from a beam. The police w e r e profoundly mystified. What was the matter with these Tisza ranchers? What strange suicide epidemic had got among them? This was the fifteenth case in less than two yeers. All the victims had been wd11-off, healthy, and with no troubles—unless wives could be counted as troubles. Yes, all had been married men, all nagged and hated by their wives. But what could the Tisza wives have done or said which was sufficient to drive their husbands to suicide? And it did seem to be suicide. Examination of the bodies had shown that they died by stran- gulation in a noose, with no marks of a struggle, or sign that hands or feet had been tied. But an extra-careful examine- ton of Janos revealed something unusual — his skull, which was very thin, had. -been cracked. This gave the police their first inkling that it was not suicide. They now began to study the activities of a suspect — a hard- riding, hard-drinking and bad, tempered cowboy. He had two peculiarities, He was never seen without a pipe stuck in his mouth, which :had led to his nickname of "Smoking Peter", and he was friendly with several married women. Yrott eta* Moak 'with my very beet regeedes .?" :+i•frmto00,, -Nmasoopeas . ,OFOry that her maiden 'name Was NU- toria p"oedi, she was forty ye** old and was the daughter of to wealthy peasant who had Mar* Tied her 'off, when she was ,eigh)* teen, to a :rich widower of fifty. She claimed that the old male end his grown-up daugthtershatili treated her like 'a !servant. ;She. put up with :it for a Ow yeas* then ran away, taking the with her. Her -hUeband, unable to trace her, had -divorced her. The police traced the husband Who -confirmed what she 'had. said, except that he maintained that he had not ill-treated her,. ehe was impossible to live with owing to her ferbelogs temper, When he saw her in ;prison he Was unable to reeognize her- She had been a lovely girl when he married her; now her face was Weather-beaten, seasculipee looping, and she vat.. 11(4,-4110: • 'The prison 'doctors Who etre =Med. "Peter" foand that -she was suffering If-rem ,glandolee disorder which developed :after • she tan Away, giving her ,A 'deep voice and e ,man's -eheraeterip. -They, thought that leer .gritit- ance against her husband pre34 ed on her -mind until the got the fixed 4dea lthat all wive* were ;persecuted, and that It would be -a kind of crusade go around liberating then' le murder, 1933,In she •was convicted two of the murders and Was teeit to the .gallows From ITit,43it,.. •-• RE-TIREMENT PLAN — This radically different auto tire, made in Italy, features a three-band replaceable tread, The section can be mounted on the casing to replace worn ones by de- flating. Upon Inflation, the new tread is held secure, Detroit's New Convention Hail --- Detroit's bid to grab off lucrative convention business will be helped by the sornpletton of the city's 54-million-dollar convennon building, Cabo Hall. The hall and adjoining arena (round building) are shown near completion agointt the skyline, (fibove). A 'modal of tire tomp'ex is shown, (below). Some impressive statistics are involved: Coloo's 33 meeting rooms will hold 12,500 people. Its four exhibit halls enclose five and a half acres cf cloor space, Tivie are two restaurants, parking for 2,200 cats and a proposed helicopter deck The arena—for sporting events, circuses and the like—seats 14,000. Cobo will be completed by Sept. 15, 19'60. Beauty 'Turned To beast To Run Murder 'Racket A True Crime Story By Jack Drum Janos, a rancher, stood in his barn and gazed at the sinister thing swaying gently in the night air. It was a hangman's no o s e, fastened to the main beam of the roof. Outside all was q u i e t. The deep hush of night lay -over the valley, broken only by the stir- ring of some restless animals among the great cattle herds. The police learned that the epidemic of apparent suicides had begun after Peter "first came to the valley and, most signifi- cant of all, Piter had been friendly with every woman whose husband had been found hanged. The police were abbut question Peter when the, case took a sudden unexpected turn A farmer, full Of jealous fury 'told the police that the widow of Boeecsoelt, a wealthy, cattle breeder, •had confessed to him that she had paid Smoking Pe- ter 'to hang her lnisband. Peter's method, ehe said, was to rig up a noose in the barn, Then, after dark, the 'woman persuaded her husband to tome out to the barn. He:saw the rope and When he turned to ask his wife what it was Tor, Peter coshed him from behind. When he dropped, stunned by the blow, Peter and the wife lifted him, placed the noose round his neck, and left him to die by strangulation while still unconscious. The police asked the man why he had come forward with this information and he admitted that he had been courting the widow since h e r husband's death, Recently, however, she had grown tired of him, and he had heard that she was seeing Smoking Peter again. He had come to the police to rid him- self of a rival, When Peter and tie Widoet were arrested they denied every- thing. But the pollee used the trick of telling gut, prisoner that tho, other had confessed, and then brought them face to lace, "This man says ;that you never Paid -him for getting eld of your husband," the police chief -an. nouncede "It's a foul lie!" the woman snapped. "I ,gate him $150 for the job — and that's more than he ever got from anyone elser "Shut your stupid mouth!" yelled Peter, "You'll spoil `every- thing!" He swung his fist at the widow but a policeman, blocked the blow before it could land. Peter 'was overpowered and then the wideW blazed at him again, "So you claim you did it ear nothing!" she screeched. "Yeti, low doWn, thieving sign* you got mere from inc than anyont. What did, Fleet Dohelt give you to 'slaughter old An ton?" "Shut up, you imbecile" yells ed Peter, "Weill hang us 'both With your big mouthl" But when she was led away sobbing, the police had heard enough, 'They clapped Peter in prison, and then the police themselves get a surprise, When they gave him his first prison bath, they found that Smoking Peter was -a woman! Once her secret was out, Sin-eking Peter was ready -to tell the Whole of -her story. She said