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The Brussels Post, 1961-06-29, Page 4Check Fore and Mt The Traffic flow Decide . On to Go( This Killer Talked Too Much I 04.9nty Tell* 'rho. irn in Plain '1.a.nol..o.pge. „.. THE BATTLE. OF WATERLOO — This cierleel view shows homes in Waterloo, rows, surrounded ley flood waters after a break in a dike allowed the swollen Cedar river to 'inundate the area, forcing 3,000 person's to flee their 'homes. when her nnfertuna.te husband died in molly in Sherburne Hee- pital, somebody was suspicious and there was a post mortem The pathologist found large quantities of arsenic in Mr Bry- ant's body, writes David Ensor "Tit-Bits". Husbands and wives may die of arsenic poisoning, but before YOU can convict a person of mur- der you must prove to the SatisS, faction of the jury that the 44" (used gave the deceased poison. And the evidence that Charlotte had - given .her husband arsenic was not strong. She dick however, help the prosecution by indulging in a re. markable conversation with a -,eighhour, After her husband's death she asked this neighbour: "What is an inquest?” iler.friend replied, rightly; "It must be because there was some- thing in the body that shouldn't be there." • Having been given that Wore mation, Mrs. Bryant still wasn't content, because she went on to say: "I suppose they will go to the Ohemiets and if they can't. find anything they can't put 04 rope round my neck," It was also fortunate for the prosecution that a tin was found. in the Biyant'S cottage which sot- once said . showed traces of ar- senic. Mrs Bryant denied all knowledge of the poison, but a ,careful. examination was made of the ashes under the copper and a substantial concentration of ar- senic was found, - When coal is burned, there • le always a greater concentration of arsenic ie the remaining ashes— because of the loss in total. weight. But the experts allowed for this — and found that the pro- portion of arsenic in the ashes was three times greater than, would be produced by burning. Science was too clever for Mrs, Bryant, who was hanged at Ex. eter, DRIVE CAREFULLY — The life yeti save may be your oWee In my profession I ant reluct- ant to propose the health of anyone. Dr, Arthur Dickson Wright. The Vette to Leaden:Me. 'aay.' Field Merebel The VlecoMet Mout- gomera .of Aleneeiu, e• e.fi When this 10091t by the testy. 73-year-old hero of Alamein ap- peared in Britain in Eebruare., • many people felt that the Field Marshal should have kept el- lenee. "A ragbag of sense and etarieenae," Len:dards Sunday Bey- nolds .News called the work. A • Glasgow newspaper spoke of "blinding glimpses. into the oh- -vieuee.," Malcolm Maggeridge, tomer editor of Punch, jueeed that "Monty" hae "e boy's paper mentality • what a pits, that he has strayed into the. civics The book, to be 'sure, is full of sketchiness, maxims, repetition, and highly unprofessional writ- ing (the author is as fond of ex- elemetion points as a high-school girl writing to her boy friend). But he may have more te etfer than would be itritnedintely clear to overworked critics. Thke Field Marshal has met alereeet every world leader of recent years, and all the present great heads of abate. Since the war he has had hours of private talk with Nehru, de Gaulle, Tito, Khetteltchev, Mao Teee-tung, And Chou En-lai, end. he gives sketches of. each (he regards de Gaulle id the Meet eineere and masterful figure at the West), All of them, he feels, are highly intelligent, richly in- formed, and. not at all rinegala. maniac. Ergo, he believes that Russia wants to extend its influ- ence without war, that Tito is dleterm:ned on Yugeslavian /rens- pendenee, and that Chime wants Stirs of peace in which to come of age induatriallyn It these eedeione are 'unlikely to appeal to prophets of, nuclear donee or apesiles of brinkmanship; they need not be dismissed as nears matndering, Seeking to define true leader- ship, Montgomery roolve briefly at many historical figures fern: Alfred of Britain through Abra- ham Lincoln to. Winston .Churc- hill, and, doing so, he pulls out many old stops, but they can still bear reverberation—the value of oonvi•ction in a cause, personal Sincerity, wide awareness of the practical issues, tenacity, cour- age. These qualities are not a drug on any market, - Having mapped - out, "I'll give you twenty minutes — be on time," the tweedy, graying eol- dier recently received NEWS- WEEK'S Robert Francis in the garden of the Montgomery coun- try home in Hampshire, "We'll sit here," the Field Marshal comuisrided, among the roses and forsythia. • Criticieree of the book? "Critics don't 'know anything about the. subjtrt. A erne: is a person who criticizes. He doesn't know any- thing about leadership. 'tie's never given a teed in anything .except criticising. He's never • had to. try h lead people in liv- ing -decent, honorable • lives, which is what I've tried to. do. Monty eniaeged in rapid - fire feehion on those who anpreciatO his work, "A quarter of a mil- lion copies of my memoirs said, and that's the teen of a book, Already on 'The Path to Leader- ship' I've had letters from the kind of people who matter, who understand what em saying about the need for • leadership and of character building in young people. Nancy •Mitford and Daphne du Maurier wrote to me. I had a nice letter from de Gattule this morning, School- masters have. written, A com- pany chairmen wrote me that he had ordered 100 copies for his. top men." He turned to the world situa- 'don. "The hidden inference in my book is this: The type of de- mocracy being practiced in the Western, countries won't stand up against the "gradual pressure from Eastern ideologies unless we achieve unity and leadership. The East has got a faith. Deci-• sive leadership. is lacking itt Britain now. The trouble with our British leadership training is it is done by people who are themselves no longer young, Leadership has got to he taught as a course in schools and uni- versities. The only place it is taught in Britain now is in the army." How about the .U3.? He an- swered:, "To the extent that U.S. leadership has needed a man of decision, the country has not ace hieved greatness under Eisen-. hower,. Western leadership has got to be in U.S, hands, and how they have used it has not been good, We are in a mess. I have great hopes for Kennedy. He is young, dynamic, and decisive." Montgomery was asked whether he himself would wish to have been a politicial as well as a military leader. "N eve r. I wouldn't have made a good poli- tician. I speak truth." The twen- ty minutes had expired. The Field Marshal took efficient. charge of the departure. "Turn your car here," he ordered. Then he stalked out into the road to see that the car cleared the old stone gates. Charlotte Br rant was a slut ahe • was m, dirty, lascivious woman, in ,spite of her lies she. was fleetly sent to the gallows. .the scientific evidence of Pr lloolo Lynch the famous pathol- ogist, Poisoners frequently forget the strides made 'by .science in the last century. Police are equipped with the latest scien- tific aids to detection, Charlotte's husband worked hard on a farm in North Dorset. In those days neither farmers nor farin-workers were noted for their wealth, The Bryants were no exception. Nevertheless many people in similar circumstances lived hap- py, healthy lives amidst thc' peace of the countryside, But not Charlotte Bryant, • She was incapable of keeping either herself or her home clean. She was dirty in habit and in mind, She had, five ohildren, not all legitimate, Over the years the three prin- cipal motives for murder have been love, jealousy or greed, In Charlotte Bryant's case it was certainly love, of which even She was capable. • Some husbands and wives seem to think that the only release from, marriage is the death of their partners, and if that shows no signs of coming about natur- ally, they are prepared to re- sort to other means to achieve their object. In 1936 Mrs. Bryant had been having an affair with a man named Leonard Parsons, also .known as Bill Moss, for several months, Either Mr. Bryant didn't know, or he was a singularly complais- ant husband, because Mr. Par- sons, alias Moss, had been living in the Bryant household as a lodger, It would hardly be un- charitable to assume that he was committing adultery with Mrs. Bryant. He had, on at least two occasions, been away with her for the week-end. Lodgers have sometimes ac- quired unenviable reputations and eventually Mr, Bryant's pa- tience was exhausted. Before Parsons left, Mrs, Bryant was unwise enough to tell her lover that she would soon be a widow. When that event occurred she hoped he would marry her- Parsons wisely said nothing. Before long Charlotte's husband was a very sick man, It's surpris- ing that poisoners who use arson« is get away with IL for so long when the symptoms are so typi- cal and so well known. However, Mrs. Bryant did get away with it for some time, but Taught By Book Caught By Book The exact wording of a ran- som note in his mystery novel "The Snatchers," kept California- born author Lionel White puzzl- ing over his typewriter for hours, Finally 'he had it—"Be good, Mr. Wilton, and follow instructions * , ." White figured everything out so well that his words seem- ed to leap out of the pages when a Parisian racketeer known as • "Beau Serge" picked up a paper- back edition in French, Shortly thereafter — almost word for word—a typewritten copy of White's ransom note turned up in real life at the exclusive Saint Cloud country club. From this club, police claimed last month, "Beau Serge" and. pal known as "Roland de Beau- fort" kidnappped 4-year-old Erie Peugeot, grandson of the multi- millionaire head of he Peugeot auto company, They made their getaway in a stolen Peugeot— relying on the ransom note to get them their money, It did. As instructed in the note, little Eric's father did not call in pee lice but began collecting $100,000 in French bank. notes, In 48 hours he had the notes, all used and none numbered in a series that could easily be checked, The boy's father delivered the money at a' midnight rendez- vous. Soon the child was releas- ed—as promisbd—and returned unharmed to his pretty mother, Colette. That was nearly a year ago, In France — where kidnapping was a new and shocking thing— the case became known as "kid- napping a l'americane," And having aped Americana in grime, the suspects promptly set off on a spending spree that would put the average American tourist to shame. In the night clubs of Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, they spent as much as $300 a day on liquor. Such a splash soon brought them under suspicion. And in checking up on the pair, police finally located the typewriter that had been used to produce the Peugeot ransom note: Rol- and's ex-wife said he had bor- rowed it from her and never re- turned it, Last month, checking out the 3,240th tip received through Interpol, police tracked their quarry to the fashionable Megeve ski resort in the French Alps, where the Peugeot family was also enjoying the winter sports. There, they surrounded the suspects in an eleven-room chalet which was named "Les Enfants," The man khoWe. as "Roland.' turned out to be Raymond Rol- land, 24, a playboy who was ee- corting Ingelise Bodine 19, a blond model and runner-up to Miss Denmark in 1960. "Beau Serge" was Pierre Leacher, 38, who was already wanted on an extortion charge, "Inspired" by' White's mystery novel, Larcher told polite, he had teamed up with Holland and culled through. Bettie. Mondain (France's Social - Register) to choose a likely Vitt:ire, NOW, fee. irig twenty years for kidnapping '(tlto, girl faces charges of know- ingly receiving stolen money), the men had nothing left te, silo* for the escapades Of the $100,000 ransom, they had spent to8,600„ 13nt the laat word canto from novelise White. "They stole my caper," he said, adding that his latest book„outlines the plan for a hank robbery. VroM • BITTER MEMORIES — Mrs. Swia L u botk in, testifying' at the trial of Adolf Eiohmann in Jerusalem May 3, tells how the Jews, armed with home-made weap- ons, rose against the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto, Mrs, Lu- botkin told how the 500,000 Jews in the ghetto were reduced to 60,000 by starvation and de- portation to the extermination camp of Treblinkcs, Adventures Of A Stamp Collector My wife is a stamp collector and I don't mean philatelist — I mean stamp collector. She collects green stamps. She collects blue stamps. And she collects Top Value stamps, Double Value Stamps, Gold Shield Stamps, Gold Gift Stamps, Golden A Stamps and, if there are any other kinds or colors have omitted, she probably col- lects them, too. She collects them, but she doesn't redeem them. I don't mean to suggest that she doesn't plan to redeem them. Quite the contrary, she Vans constantly to redeem them, The trouble is that when we have assembled almost enough stamps of a particular color or kind to have earned say, a Free Form Vase, describ- ed by the catalogue as "a fascin- ating hand f6rmed design in tawny color" (1 1/5th books) she begins to thumb through an- other catalogue and is entranced by Salem' Dinnerware in a "quietly charming Wild Rice pat- tern." A 53-piece set of this can be yours far just 9 4/5the books, so we're off and running in that direction for awhile. Now, counting our dog, we are a family of three. And even if we were all to chop wood or run the low hurdles every day to sharpen our appetites, it would take us several years to consume enough food and earn enough stamps so we could be- gin to enjoy our meals on the quietly charming Wild Rice din- nerware my wife's heart is set upon. Fortunately for our waistlines, the Salem Dinnerware phase (or any other phase) of my wife's stamp collecting career soon passes, Often this passing is brought about when a new supermarket opens and invites our patronage during its open- ing celebration by offering double stamps all week long. No matter that the new supermarket is in the next city — or county — and that we are on the verge of filling the final page of an- other of our books of stamps, we absolutely must look into this new bonanza. So we do. And we return arm- weary from bundles of good things we have bought, including an enormous number of staples for our emergency shelf. (Under the stamp plan, our emergency shelf occupies most of the kit- chen cabinets, and we are forced to live off these emergency Items which thereby forever need replacing — at stores that give stamps.) We return, too, with all those extra stamps — a new kind, of bourse — arid a brand new color- splashed catalogue just bursting with wondrous things that can be ours if we persist, in trying to corner the market at that particular market. So we change course agaih, Gone is the driving urge for that Salem Dinnerware in the charm- ing Wild Rice pattern and gone, too, is any lingering, desire for the Free Form Vase. Nothing will do but we must hoard our stamps for something even more practical, Once it was a bird cage planter with polyethylene foliage arrangement. This, the catalogue confided, would be "a charming addition to any room," And it further confided that we could have it for just two books, uo far we haven't gotten anything but we're still stub. Unify saving stamps as if the entire economy depended Upon it — and it may, for all I know, Certainly the economy of the men who print the stamps de- pends on it, Writes S. Nariettett McKenzie In th ti Chrietitiri Science Monitor, have long eitele tto the How About A Trip To The Moon 7 III r.T S A spacecraft that may one day take three men on a 14-day voyage around the moon and back is shown in full-scale mock. up, above. Recently unveiled, it is a study design 4ri the Apollo moon project. Windows are for observation purposes and would not be in actual vehicle. Drawing, below, shows the croft in space. It 'hoe luet separated from a booster stage, which also served as working quarters, and is headed back to earth. 0-.E crewman rests in harness in foreground. litteitS rott, THAN DRILL? idea of getting my wife to buy our groceries on the basis of nutritiot al needs rather than the stamp value of the things she brings home. It is bad enough keeping all those stamps and etanip books in order, but my wife insists on thrusting the catalogues at me and enthusing about some new treasure she has discovered "Leek, Honey," she'll say, "aren't these lovely?" and she'll hand me her latest catalogue, Usually it has a cover with a hap- py family smiling to • beat the band, They are up to their ears in all manner of nationally adver- tised treasures. In one, a man and his wife gaze raptly at their flaxen-haired daughter* In Dad- dy's hands is a Kodak Pony II Camera, f 3.9 (no double ex- posure) which he presumably got by saving 8 2/5tais books, At Mommy's side is a steam iron (six books). On the wall is a handsome cordless electric clock with brass and gold finish (8 3/5ths books) and there beside the flaxenehaired tot is Daddy's 3/4 -in, electric drill (it's a dandy— for six books). On the floor is a clock radio (each fun to wake up to reusic!-9 3/5ths books), On the table (this Must be borrowed — it is not listed it the cata- logue) sits a copper-and-brass chafing dish (for making those tasty treats — six books). Final- ly, the happy picture is complet- ed with an attractive brass planter (you furnish your own ivy), a 3 2d5ths-book item. This shows it can be done. Fig- uring $36 a leek for tied, reap- ing one stamp With every ten cents *met, this happy group as- sembled all their treasures in no time at all — three years, eight months to be exact. Dut they concentrated on one kind of stamp, They redeemed them, Now they've got to start alt over again, Meanwhile, we're still having all the excitement of pasting, 'ever So many kinds of stamps in ever so many kinds of books and poring over ever so Many kinds of catalogues With all those delights to choose from, And, If I know my wife, we'll 0111 be doing this three years, eight tittlittha from nOrttt. itt here- Is as Man Who, When 3rett ash lune he is, tells yeti! A dentist at Eberberg, West Germany, helps patients ire lax by first doing a few maid tricks'.