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The Brussels Post, 1961-03-02, Page 2Matchstick Hangs Brptal Killer In May, 1927, an attendant at catering Cross station left lug. gage office vomplained b:ttetly about the .awful smell coming from the corner cf the doper% anent -v FnUy e traced, the stench, tot an old-fasbioned trenk. lie prised it open, and, inside was a wornan's boclee cut up into five pieces. With the help of seienee. thes killer was finally brought to jute. e f‘ 4 The police constable who was called to the station would not allow the remaios to be „removed urittilepOli*"snikeon fled the woman was dead. It was a aeientifie miracle whitsheeentejelua Robinson to the gallows M 1927, With a cut-up body in a trunk there was a pieta' Of brown paper, a duster and a dirty piece of undereloths leg. Front that unpromielea ginning the scientists gut 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 lay lame „etehleh are ciliate, ateyieible to the naked eye. Sir Bernard Spilsbury, wh was trying to identity the re mains. had, a most rnpleasant taslarried'oatiPasittan was advanc- ed, but the mirrcles of medicine were soon at work `and he was able to state with confidence that Gay, Cozy, 1,asyl.. esee Family treasure! lake this eay-to-knit afghan pn 'trips to games, or use"'aftaaAntry antaalital, . Choose a lively 4 -color scheme death had resulted from strange,. lation. It leolted a pretty clear cut case Of murder. Then the infra -red and ultra- violet ray la rn p s predueed identifiable laundry marks, They in turn soon led to the identifi- cation of the reMains at; a wo• man ablawn as Minnie Donati, the wife of an Italian wait': She was, to say the Lit. promiscuous woman, having liv- ed with a number of other men in the previous year or two. The body identified, it was now a question of finding the pascal' reeponsihte. Onee again science helped. But thi Le:se. which became known as the Charing ceoss Trunke. Murder, was famous for the brilliant detective work that took place. Two of the junior officers con- cerned ultimately rdse to tin head of their profession. Hugh Young was to become Head ot the C.I.D. at the Yard, and Len Burt, Head of the Special Baes:eh. Then they were both seraaants. In the Charing Cross murder the eaientlfie and detective in- vestigation was brilliant. But in spite cf that it is doubtful whe- ther the police would have hen •suceeseful hi tracing 'the Mute d: rer without a lucky break. A shoe-eltiner outside Charing Crosti station had picket up a : lett luggage tiaras. Thie was arson identified as belonging to the evil smelling trunk, and before long the shoe -shiner wes able to I identify the taxi which had brotestit.. the efatal trunk to the . station, 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:tin the afternoon of May 6th. He had dropped his passenger and had immediatelytheen hailed by a "-fare from 'an °thee opposite the police station. Be 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 been sold to an unidentified man two days :before. An investigation of the prem. iseeashewed that one set of offices ,was noty empty. They had been occupied by Mee:Robinson who, whatelikevas interviewed, denied everything. Nor was he identi- fied by anybody. The police returned to the of- fices an& again they weregucky. At the bottom of an old waste- paper basket te'y found a blood- stained match. This was a vital clue the s police aiedeheen seek- ing. It made Robinson •the main euspect. Then the duster found in the frunk Wrapped round the dead woman was traced to a public house in Fulham — where Robinson's wife was barn-taid. When he was interviewed for ..he send Aline etrafeessai,obinson 'began this 4atemeaseaesyith the fatal words::: "Pil I1 you all eabouriti' He need never have had to teal the sty if science adn"t4Allifd thgliaatchstick. The story he told was an old or scraps foressatnalesbaataacleve nate. Aaardralan stgtaialgato scream. afghan. Knitted. shell medal- An eattemat to silence her, then lions — join later. Patter ns:a-Me spank. anceedeath. Reprieves — knitting directions. 'even acquittals — have been Send TH1RTY-FIVE CENTS.. known for such murders. But (stamps cannot be accepted, use John Robinson inade the mistake postal note for safety) for this of cutting up his victim and pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 14 23 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, nt. Print plainly PATTERN UMBER, your NAME and AD- 1DRESSs JUST INT THE PRESS! *Send aeow tor our exciting, neavaa96los Neediaelaft Catalog. Over 125 designs' to crochet, knij'''. acme,. embroider, quilt, weave — fash- ions, hoinefurnishings, toys, gifts, bazar hits. Plus FRVE—inestortic..- tions for ssix smart veil caps. Hurry, send 25i now! telling ' a lot' of lies until he realized there was a casOron casehagairtstimilii eesssse„. Such men are never popular with Melee. Mee:Rehinsort went to the gallows: By David Ensor in "Titaita," •- * Q. When' thaairie proposed to is person, should this person drink from his glass, too? A, No. he does not 'rise from" his chew, nor does he drink the toast. _ ALL DOLLED UP .eal,et'sgoaelsspiel.ts, actieS, JOhn gartymort Jr. and his wife; fortildrAtaliee Model Gaby Poildbbelta select et dell ds duringed visit to o Rome to sholl. the t dotes vise to ilie stare grouted speculation that they Pietybeexpecting�n heir. • i ' ee.„,,,„,e,„,„seeseessesessese . . • • ' .4` -e* , a ea.sesto ...e. it, • •. '‘,..74 , . ,.>, . .. .• , • e - • c. eeesseestateeta 4 4431.. *414tV • s'4,:el,„,g,,,,A; , j ,..,..es,„:. ., ir . ji 4, , ,•.' " c• , ''' r , "• , „sr,', : , ,` ''.;.'1/4„.., ' •\ '' H , , , 1 ki 1 . ' 5 IN IT—Mrs..1.01ari F, Kereesclys helps letunch the 19e1 Heart Fund conipe en by . ,,••,,,A4'"rtIrAt''1,..'Sr7>N ' .1.‘ '1*.,,, , * .7 ''. '' 1'' *.;''A', ' .....0t.,,,, . posing at the Waite ,House with Donna, left, and Debbie...it-terse- 6.,year-olcl identical iwins. The two Siris un'derwent identical heart operations in 1959, They presented the First Lady , .%T,? ' . President. • .'1:*0: • with valentines of ro:eisu'ds. In return they recejeed gold heart lockets as gifts ofthe 42' '11" have*been, covered had. ehe been es in Leseite,l, In ether words itqv- ea • - 9s. • ,„ e s hag hospital insurance did not RONICL benzlit her one cent. INGERFARD1 Cleeelte: ,Our chicken -pox grandsons are gradually, returning to normal, David is back to school, Eqie, and Jerry are dressed and run- ning around the house; so artd -- 'Tut I doubt if I can get you a bed for two months!" That "afrs. S." is a young widow with Iwo - small 'children: She has some kind of remittent lever whicheee far, her doctor has, been enable tq diagnese. He , thinks the: only solution is for her to go into hossaitaafoi a coan- plate'clieck-up. After" telling her thathe shook his head and add - 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 thine 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 hirn quietened down and then the other one would start. Or she Would wake up and fine Eddie had crawled into bed beside her, One time was just last week so we don't know what the end of that story , wilt 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 .preu- menials The,senteopad story —.no hospital bed available. Imagipe nursing a pneumonia patient on a second floor room with four small children running aroma! downstairs. What is the answer to this complex question? Here is one she found Eddie one side and aasolutiOn I Italie not yet seen mentioned. If out-patient • care were included in, hospitel, in- surance wouldn't there be, fewer ""clamoring for1 1 people ospi beds? ' Surely in 'the long 'run -opefatiefi *costs would ebe rather • than more. 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 ar,e to be giVen a fifteen percent boost. Jerry the other, but no Father. He had taken to the, chesteraield! Maybe he spent the rest 'of the night dreaming of the'tfrne when he wasn't Married. Oh -well, it's just one of those things that—, happen in the jeesa regulated families. Actually no one seems to have suffered too MIA. Art and Daare 'were here Friday night and brought us a lovely blinch of'red carnations as an anniver- sary gift. Saturday the junior branch of the family were here, ease 'fall' of life. The two, boy g had not' been.expesea to chicken-pex ets we'ee not, leolang t. trouble in that direction : Our third get'at'a'- iidn is itoeving up fast, sobni, that. evon't be any :babies at all, (1 wonder!) Anyway, Cedpicsahe youngest, will loe two years Gad in a few weeks time. It, doesn't seem possible. Poor little fellow — born intoan age of space travel and interplane- tary missiles. I• are glad things were not so eeinplicated when, we were raising a family: At that time our only worry, espe- cially during the depressiora was to keep our heads above water and to make sure the children were adequately fed, clothe and educated — ail minor prob. Geore Jesse! Takes His Own Tip For some weeks, radio listens ers in Los Angeles have been hearing racontetir George Jessel in perhaps his best-known vau- deville routine: A, telephone talk with Mania. This time he *as • promising to "send Mama 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 ipvest lents compared with the present 1, Uncle Phil's life insurance" in spece age. BHSI. Welt, One of'the 'eye:catdhing 1 At this point, the unsentiment- newa items last week :concerned the Oritario Hospital Services Cotrimission. -- in the red to the tune of oyer siscomillion dollars. This is el vital importance to almost everyone since 95 percent of the population 'pay insurance premiume, ' Why the deficit? Several explanations, have ebeee given which boil down, t.o., the . primary fact that Deere rife more patients than bods,' lVerf alro'he° wonders why it shdtild be almost impossible' to get tr hospital bed eXcept for .an emergency. Now don't misunderstand me, r etn not actually critical of the Cc:nil- /mission. 1 think it is doing' a marvellous job. Those attalai 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 ate leaning over backwaters in give Ing care to patients once they are in hospital. And there you have the crux of the story once they -ate in hospital, But, uriless you- happen to be an emergency the ehatees 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 rte. "ktrs. L." suffered a. heart at. tack: PlospitaIl2ation was clear.ly indicated but there, was no bed availablej Mr, las was in bed hill. week a with only an elderly lnisbatid ne tate for her.. In bolditiote slit had to pay far diegnostie tereleee 'which would . al SEC meg clown the turtam, A six -count complaint charged Sege sel and the firrres three officers with "fraticia, anels"deeeit." De- spite BH$P-S' 4idirni tha:lit'f•*is fully backed_ -4.53r47-e' estibatatittarl equity, in real estate, customers who asked for tha4,e0111oelleY couldn't get it bagetagaaeasb,Atsa said. Moreo'vereotlae,ifSelallaia;ara: - told its new datigene.ta:t11001Vac • wasn't meetialatliee'asaynieritiaCts. its older elidgo. In Miami'. teach. where he is vacationing,, Jessel pointed oat that he ,has rid formal connection with the coflanes elms el sbeyee lieve ram entireljain tie d1har.! Nor i he one to takes his own advice lightly: "They asked me to do a, commercial, and I be- lieve& in it so much I bought some ief it myself," he said. , • •—• ..• setty.'s SAUTES • 'You reales atieh et perfect. eattpla I'm glad aelidn't accept fiipeopeatiV Costs. More TO lap: Ood.liver oil, a shilling (14. • ..cents) and orange juice, 1 shit.. ling -sixpence (21 cents.). a 6 - ounce bottle Vitamin pills,•siX • pence ..(7 ct1/44,),-.E.p0c06, of 45,;-. • ?reseriptiorls, 2 shillings (2i • cents) for any .drug. Private hos. • pital beds, up . .3 •pounds shillings ($23,52) a week. AT THE READY — Jayne Turner, member 'of the .'Tenderloin". cast, iarriaes jeaca in New,York,„ from: ce. visit, . fully equipped with . her. own ,shevel. Said -she's been frightened ,.by, the weather, reports. City Worrieso, Over Absence Of Storks A Residents in .Straehourg .area seriously worried because their houselease eto longer' seem attraes: tive to •white &ries. For 800, years; this faiey-tale bird has thigrated there annually feem South Africa and from this city the ijgehd aalveaclathat the stottk delivers' babies" Nce sto long agorthere were at least seventy paireepa white •,• storks nesting in•Steasbourg, end more in the neighbouring towns 'of Conner end Mulhouse. Now Strasbourg a recent count revealed, • 1.1 tiaaeo. stork •nest s left. 'Ithese, are giapt structures metre, 61 ,dried tangs, grass"and'feet in dianigtir aria e<reagleiriW aegeose thousand' peursda • • -1 AccaSitingi td Professor Auseee to Toscha tif the. -University,, cif tolognoi, the stokicsAra tiring do., their , 6.00-year;Rid„. haunts,, Iris , steaca several aire ' nesting on risoftcps neat Ttlialla in Northern Italy, The Italians aTh delightedr be-, cause the storks are bringing en extra tourist attrection. .1'•• s i ••• eee. Relax Add -Chtve--- But Not The Rag L. Incredible AS it may seem to Americans, these suggested prices were met with the tradi- bona' political cries of "Shame!" and "Resign!" wben Britain's Minister of Healtia.Enochepowele. announced-betala'atheellotisaaadf Commons that Britons would have to pay a bit more for their socialized medicine. "This is a major assault ee the health ser - 'ire," Peotested. OPP as itsien Leader Hugh Gaitskell. But in one of Commons' most rowdy sessions, the Laborites last month failed to muster enough. Prelimi- inary voteeto reject the govtaar ment's new health prices. Pas- sage seemed assured. By this 'action Britain's twelve- year -old National Health Service, which pays, out .$2.4 billion a year for medical benefitswould get another $182 million in in- come. At the present time 13r1 - tons pay only 26 cents out of their weekly paychecks, In re- turn, they gets (besidee free medical care) .free vitarnies and cod-liver oil. Thercanl'et any preScription filled for only 14 cents, and if they want a private hospital bed it costs only about $12 a week. -.New, under the new NHS plan the weekly paycheck 'decluctiort Li raised from 26 cents to 38 cents and the employer's contribution -from- 7 cents to '9s cents. At the same time, the prices, ofeisome items like pre- scriPtipes have been raised, and hitherto- free itetns, like cod- liver oil, will be Charged for. ,Actually, the' average Briton clidta seem as upset b' the price rise as the Laborite politicians.. were, 1 He didn't like it, but agreed an .most eases he could afford to pay the bill. As, ore London father of two children put it: thankf'ul' for getting benefits still so cheaply.' -But many Britishscroctors fear- ed that sortie chronically ill could not afford, the higher pre- scription costs. The medical pro- fession, which for some time has been enthusiastic about sociali- zed Medicine, sided emphatically with ,the Laborites, in criticizing the price rise, , "We have always opposed pre-. ., scription eataeges,",, a, -British. Medial Associatiere, spokesman said. "We ;feel they Create a fi- nancial, barrier between the pa- tient and' the treathaeht he eiaay require."—Prean' NEWSWEEK. a • Rent -A-Castle Fore. A Shilling A'. Year An. Englishman's, home is his castle, so they say. Well, Why not rent one? FM.' a shilling a year you can rent Duerobin, the fairy-taile castle belonging to the Duke: of 'Sutherland, Scotland. 'Theneltaieflaese ongieseag, a The „- seventyetevoeyearealca Duke will ask the new tenant, to ateaduce 110,000 ae an upkeep fund. This way it will be possible to avoid incomeetax,"11 the Duke charged ammo. a year rent, that would be subject to income tax. :But by having a tenant ,put up the pacriey or upkeep. , there will he nb' tee, Every penny of tfiel TritTney will be spent 'on maintaining beetle, which haseleeen in the. Duke's family „ter 5oo, yeapse Ip e.resturn„ the new tenant will get Steady and constant cheat -me' relakee aiarae net -ilea.' Atleast, abla say fieave erietiottaists in the,' • United States. «le Chewing.egum, for instance, helps -you to keep your temper, IlVen Eskimos, who normally chew blebber, have ehatiged over to gime because they find that it makes thetri feel happier end more content, say the ex- perts. e. , One Scientist says that chaise big gtite teohaique 4 Of - 1 a xa ti op — a reethocr of dissi- pating' eSseese eteiay, elaaeS that meneal-jariglingy.perten oil :tapping and -•whietlittg also. help people 04 all „ageseto relaxe These are hectic. tintea,,and we're living at such a fast pace that any tips an how tO 'relak are niertil.. But Teel relaxation is far frOrri easy. If you perse, • vere, it's • wonderful how you . can kill tension and the feeling that yotit Whole system is tight; ening Up. "Relax and stay youtigt" say the experts, If you can really alet go't arid telex, you.' will be surprised at the. "facial rejuven- ation" you can ttialtieve, advises one. grouie.shocCrip. and deerea.telke log and a Italy smashed eastlet, that Woke like something straight out of fleas AnderSen. It even has its own railway statim whieh is still used, but only for request stops. Since the war the duke 1at4 been.' nlsuest continuously ea - gaged in complicated transac* Clops aimed at preserving the family fortunes. Three years ago he sold his English man. sion, Sutton Place, Guildford, for 4400,000 to Paul Getty, il- IegedLy tine richest man in the world. eluding the castle) .for 4239,000„ Most of the money went into a family trust for the benefit of Itis niece, Mrs, Elizabeth Jansen. ,,I,Ehtle :the. 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