The Brussels Post, 1954-7-28, Page 3SCRAP OF PAPER MEANT
THE GALLOWS
from his office window, John
Robinson watched the .constable
propel his unw111ing charge
through the entrance of Roches-
ter Row police station, RobirisOn
was an insolvent house -agent,
sick of waiting for clients who
never came.
Now, 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 not 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, Ile became
familiar and, whenresentment
was his reWd1+d,+ 'he became
rough.
Sometimes, in the past, in
similal'circustances, a clout had
settled the matter for John Ro-
binson. ,But on this particular
oceast:Q,lt thiplgs went wrong.
A violent woman, with the
best" reasons in the world for
self-defence,' is • as awkward to
cope with as a fistful of nettles.
An angry, woman who threatens
to screartl the house down and
that house 'opposite a busy
police Station, become quite in-
tolerable.. i
Knocking. ,his victim down
with a hard punch, Robinson
pinned het arms with one strong
hand while he reached for his
chair cushion.
Very soon the violent move-
ments Of the woman weakened:
and presently she was still.
John Robinson removed the
cushion from her face. He had
gen too far; been too thoroug1.
He got slowly to his feet and
went like a drugged man to-
wards the window.
Below, a constable stood at
the police station doorway. Sun-
light flooded the street. Boys
went whistling on their way.
John Robinson went out, lock-
ing the office door behind him.
He had to think.
Cuba's Choice-Isis•Fifllay, "Miss
Cuba," an entrant In the "Miss
Universe" contest. The 20 -year-
old beauty was so confident
that she has started taking
English lessons.
Ile had killed a woman. And
he had left her body looked 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 d0 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 in 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, youl" 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 t0
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 'im. 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. ;pi
w ma31 leang 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
so without difficulty.
SO John, Robinson was brought
to trial and charged with the
murder of Bessie Bonati by
smothering her.
Now, for a man 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 demand§ for money, He
had resisted them. She then
flew at him, and in self-defence
he ..lead 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 following morn-
ing.
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 10 the gallows.
But the science of anatomy,
and of the workings of the
human body, is an exact science.
..
Heat Stops Train In its Tacks - If you think the heat's making
you dizzy, look what it did to these railroad tracks near Hallo -
Well, Kans. Frisco Railroad officials said the four -foot sway was
due to 11Q -degree temperatures.
Roses Are Red Queen Elizabeth samples the fragrance of a
carnation at the Royal Agricultural Society flower show in Wind-
sor Great. Park,
Run Refrigerators 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. 13, Hey-
wood will enjoy free hot baths
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
glass tubes and heats fifteen
gallons of water to 160 degrees
Fahrenheit - or 71 degrees Cen-
tigrade.
Some neighbours think it just
an amusing+ novelty, B u t the
truth is that Dr. Heywood's
sunny home help points- to a
new era in the household use
of solar energy.
Not long ago a United States
scientist stepped outside his door
and performed one of the routine
hot -weather tricks of New York
by frying an egg on the pave-
ment. He explained to students
that if the pavement had been
insulated on the underside to
prevent escape of heat into the
ground, t h� eggs would have
fried a minute faster._With two
glass plates and a film of water
to trap the sun's heat, instead of
a paving slab, the eggs could
have been boiled,
At Mount Wilson Observatory,
California, the astronomers have
a solar cooker, Mirrors 0f spe-
cial cut and design concentrate
the sun's rays on heating ele-
ments in such a way thatthe
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 Blick of a switch.
But the cooking goes on. For oil
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 alight 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
fogad 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 liais-
ing been followed by death.
John Robinson was sentenced
to death.
SALLY'S SALLIES
"I'll have a double order at bread
fruit and --toast the bread:"
has meantime been heated by
the sun and stored m an .in-
sulated tank, giving enough beat
for thirty-six hours.
In India recently, a solar cook-
er was demonstrated at the home
of Prime Minister Nehru, and
cheap mass-produced mddels are
promised within a few months.
-Experts,of the ? Indian Physics
Labprato ' have even used sun-
shine to lrun, r!frigerators in a
block of fiats "in New Delhi.'
Trapping the sunlight on the
rooftop, a liquid is heated which
runs 'the 'frig.
As much solar energy pours
on the earth in an' hour as the
output of 21,000 million tons of
coal; and even cloudy Britain
can count on an average 1,500
hours' sunshine a yea r. Ever
since. Archimedes in the third
century B.C. erected huge mir-
rors at Syracuse to set a besieg-
ing Roman navy aflame, the idea
of harnessing sunshine has ob-
sessed scientists.
The difficulties of trapping
sunpower in a confined space
without great capital expense,
the inefficiency of existing mir-
rors and methods Of storage were
always perplexing problems. Yet
today sunshine is cooling a cine-
ma in Tarfgier, supplying water
heating for schools in Nigeria,
and sun -warmed oil stored by
day now provides night heating
to French Army hospitals in Al-
geria.
Maybe you, too, will soon use
sunshine indoors as well as out.
The Massachusetts Institute of
Technology has built two houses
with flatplate sun storers in-
cluded in the sloping roofs.
Passed into chemicals, the heat
is then drawn to §terage radia-
tors that heat the rooms.
In an observatory at Meudon,
on the outskirts. of Paris, the
rays of the sun are harnessed by
mirrors to a solar furnace. There,
in concentration, they can melt
any metal into liquid, including
thorium, one of the toughest me-
tals known. Temperatures as
high as 9,000 degrees Fahrenheit
have been Obtained.
A Spanish scientist, Frederico
Mollero, was placed in charge
of a new hello, or sun, institute
in Soviet Russia with huge mir-
ror installations.
He dreamed of the fruits of
solar energy in the vast arid re-
gions of Soviet Central Asia,
particularly around the agricul-
tural area of Tashkent, remote
from sources of ordinary fuel.
Today, the Soviets boast that
long-distance shipments Of fuel
to Tashkent are no longer neces-
sary. Sunpower plants provide
all the heat and power neces-
sary at the two great govern-
ment cannery and frozen storage
plants, Another hello -installa-
tion is in use at a metal smelt-
ing works and helio-engines are
to be used in local silk weaving
and leather -tanning.
Where They Nave
it REALLY Hot
When it's really hot in Death
Valley, Lower California, the
temperature rises t0 anything
from 140 to 160 degrees in the
shade.
The people of Marble Bar, the
hottest town in Australia, claim
that one summer there were 113
consecutive days when the tem-
perature was over 100 degrees.
Of these, ninety consecutive days
were over 103 degrees. The rec-
ord there is 120.5 degrees,
There are mountains in the
Persian Gulf whose bare rock
gets so hot that it can be tinelimb-
able. The heat has been known
to burn through the stoutest
boots.
One of the hottest days re-
membered this century in Brit-
ain was August 9th, 1911, The
thermometer at Greenwich Ps.
servatory recorded 100 deux es
in the shade.
It Is all relative. Seientists.:es-
timate that the temperature of
the sun at its centre is 30,000,000
degrees. Is stu'fare is practical-
ly cold by Comparison -• a more
10.000 degrees Fahrenheit.
Walked The sands ,
Of Miles on Stilts
::Mould you ever call on Sid-
ney Pepper, of Kennington,
near Ashford, Kent, He'll .prob-
ably show you an old pair of
stilts at his little cottage. And
proudly he'll declare that he has
walked at least 3,000 miles on
them,
For Mr. Pepper, aged fifty, has
been looking after a 44 -acre gar-
den near his home for twenty-
five years and in that garden
grow hops. Up and down the
evenues of hops struts Mr. Pep-
per on his faithfpl stilts and
They've never let him down.
The avenues are about a quarter
of a mile long. e
Just now, and until the hops
are picked, in August, Mr. Pep-
peris specially busy directing
. forty women as they dress and
train the hop vines and prepare
for the great harvest. He will
be in charge of 800 men, women
and children pickers when the
harvest is gathered.
Mr. pepper's 3,000 -mile record
on stilts takes some beating in
Britain where a man on stilts is
a rare sight nowadays.
The world's most famous stilt
walkers used to be the farmers
and shepherds in the Depart-
ment of Landes, France, an area
noted for its damp soil. One
stilt 'walker of that district, Sil-
vain, Dornon, a baker, created a
world record by walking on.
stilts from Paris to Moscow, a
distance of 1,580 miles in fifty-
eight days. •
TRUE TESTIMONY
Maybe you haven't heard of
Mick Kinsella, who was dying,
was persuaded to send for Andy
Reynolds, a wizard at drawing
up wills,
But before Andy could set
down all the provisions Rick
died, ,That was a problem now
for Andy because conscientious
Nora Hallissey, the housekeeper,
might testiify at a legal con-
test that Mick died before he
could attach his signature.
Andy, to ease Nora's mind, trap-
ped a live fly and thrust it
quickly into the jaws of the de-
ceased.
Then looking at Nora, Andy
said, "And, if they put you in
the (witness, ) box, remember
that when he signed the will
there was life in him."
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Dayton, Ohio, by a confidence
man,
"How could you swindle peo-
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"Judge, you can't swindle peo-
ple who don't trust you."
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