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The Seaforth News, 1960-04-07, Page 7Phoney Sea Dog Tracked The Navy A hot rang out in a woad near Cologne, Germany, and a big, bearded man slumped to the ground with a bullet in his head .. One of the world's greatest setoundrels and one of its most lnotorious liars had cheated the hangman by blowing his brains out, Not long afterwards the West Middlesex Coroner, on the out- skirts of London, conducted an inquest into the deaths of a young woman and her mailer. They had both been severely battered in a home they ran for old people in Ealing. The coroner's jury had no dif- tliculty in saying that the young woman's husband had murdered iris wife and his mother-in-law. The murderer and the corpes in Cologne were the same. If a Scots jury had not been so empathetic, or perhaps stupid, in 1927, at the trial in Edin- burgh of John Donald Merrett for wounding his mother, sever- al lives would have been spared during the next twenty-seven years. Merrett, alias Chesney, alias Milner was a crook, gun -runner and smuggler - a vicious bully, a braggart, a liar and a rat who lived off women, He was also a murderer, but Lord Alness, the Scots Judge, could hardly be expected to fore - ;tee the future when he presided et the trial in Edinburgh. Chesney's lies led him on two occasions to the steps of the scaf- fold. On the first occasion he was lucky, on the second he avoided the final ignominy by his own hand. In my time I have prosecuted • hundreds of criminals. I have spoken to thousands, both inside enol out of prison and to -day many well-meaning people say that crime is a disease and that eriminais should be treated as alek persons. In many cases that is a per - hotly correct statement, but 'What so many people forget is that there are a great number rpt criminals who indulge in a &tfe of crime from. choice. /they are not In crime because gt poverty, heredity orenvirozl- `t neat, but because they ai 4 vicious and idle. .: John Chantey was such, a per-• son. He was bad from the be- ginning and was quite incapable of telling the truth to anyone, or making any attempt to earn an honest living. For such peo- ple there can ultimately be only one end. In Chesney's case, the end was postponed for a few Years by the intervention of the war. In 1927 1VIrs. Bertha Merrett was living in Edinburgh with her only son, Jack Donald, who was then nineteen. The daughter of a wealthy merchant, who had been separated from her husband for a number of years, she lived comfortably and lavished both selection and money upon her only child, who had decided to study art at the university. He was supposed to he attend- ing his classes, but quite un- known to his mother he was leading a very different Life. Jclle and dissolute and unmindful of his mother's obvious concern, he had been for some time a habitue of dance halls, public houses, low -class cafes and clubs. Obviously he was a young ras- cal and early in 1927 had embark- ed on a life of crime which he wits to follow for the next twen- - ty-seven years. For some time he had been robbing his mother by getting possession of her cheque book and forging her signature. Even- tually he was found out when his mother received a letter from her bank manager, disclosing the appalling state of her bank ac - retina She showed it to her son and he then promptly shot her. She did not die immediately and during the whole time she was in hospital before her death, she never macre any suggestion against him. In his address to the jury Merrett's counsel asked them . to send out this lad with a clean bill and he will never die - honour your verdict". Unfortunately the jury were misguided enough to accept this e.,timation of the prisoner and their verdict on the murder charge was "Not Proven." On a lesser charge of forgery Merrett was sentenced to twelve months in prison. The trial was remarkable for lvieseir! tr icialeh'ae C etiE atter.- ea a mill 1 le where it made!" OFF TO ITALY — Actress Tinct Louise readies her camera to take photographer's picture cis she leaves for Rome. She wi'if spend the next three months there filming a new movie, "Sapho." the number of experts who gave evidence, including the great Sir Bernard Spilsbury, who in the whole of his career gave evi- dence only twice for the defence, of which the Merrett case was one. The prisoner added to his ):les by giving evidence that his mother had shot herself. It was a vastly improbable account, but apparently the jury believed him. He swiftly took advantage of this chance. Shortly atter his re- lease he married and before long he was back in prison again, af- ter a string of bad cheques had caught up with him, When he coxae out from this sentence he inherited e, fortune which, had been left in trust for him by his grandfather. The Public Trustee, who was handling the affair, persuaded the young man to settle nearly £9,000 on his wit. Under the settlement she was to receive the interest during her life, but if she died before her husband the capital would go back to him. Nobody could, of course, realize that years later that settlement was to be the girl's death war- rant. After his second release from prison Chesney persuaded his wife to join him in what he call- ed a series of adventures. For some years, right up to the 1939 outbreak of war, they were in- volved in smuggling incidents on the Continent and running con- traband and guns in the Medi- terranean. His wife left him on several occasions and throughout those years he was in prison again at least twice, In 1938 Mrs. Chesney retired to a London suburb with her mother to run a home for old people. On the outbreak of war, Ches- ney, with complete confidence, tricked the Navy into giving him a commission, Throughout his service he was regarded by the junior officers as a swashbuck- ling sea -dog, who had tales at fine adventure to tell and stories of fascinating people he had met, But he omitted to mention that the adventures were criminal and the "fascinating people" ware ie prison. During the whole of this time he was seldom without some woman at his elbow and after the war he indulged in a riotous spree of illegal business and smuggling in Germany, But the time was running short for Ronald John Chesney and so was his money. He made desper- ate attempts to persuade his wife to divorce him or to break- the trust in his favour. But Mrs. Chesney r'ef'used both his requests and that for her was the end. In 1954, by an ingenious plan Chesney came to London from Holland by air, murdered his wife and her mother in the old people's home and got back to Harland before he was dis- coverea. However, the call went out that Ronald John Chesney was wanted I'or murder and so he walked into a wood near Cologne with a pistol to commit the one and only decent act in his life. Only one person followed his coffin into the cemetery. Need- less to say, it was a woman. A teacher gave her class this problem. "If there are seven files an your desk and you kill one, how Amy will remain?" 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