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The slowing stages were resched as tho Old Bailey yesterday (Jane 301 et Five trial of Courge Joseph Smith an indictment for murdering Trinia Constanes Aavis Mundy, "The whole of the day was occupied by the speeches
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Mr. Hodkin. Mr. Travers Humphreys, and Mr. Coit Whiteley are roun He for the Crown: Mr. Marsball Hall, K... Mr. Mentugas Shearman, and Mr. I, G. Pushe defend.
Continuing his final speech for the Crown, Mr. Belkin asked: "Am I unfair to the prisoner when I say that his motive was to get her money? Am 1 right in saying that he and she were, alone in that house, and that he had the opportunity to cofanit what, it is sileged here. the ciriumstances show he committed, and In evidence, which satisfet you, the possibility of accident has been exclused? So the motive is demonstratsil. the opportunity, is ad mitted, at the exclusion of accident is proved.”.......
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Chicago Daily News, which con. proti, discharged beyond reasonable tains moru special war news than any loub by the prescention, the presenter paper in America, and has stoutly su is entitled, ant entitled as a right, so ported the came of the Allies, although bo acquitted. I say that here the one published in a town predominantly Ger and only verliet you can rightly and ran in rucial interests, conscientiously restita is the verdice of striking tribate to the part Great Bri
tain has played in the war, and showing not guilty."
how Fritain is beinding her anergies to
CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE JURY, Mr. Justice Scratton said he did not propów Ni commence his summing-ap until the morning had haul the three baths placed in a large run down stairs, and he wanted the jury to ex4 amine the very carefully is view of the observations they had heard during Counsel passed on to the arcumstances of Miss Burnham's case, and the
the case. He asked them not to maka insuring of her life. "What is the next thing?" he asked. Just as in the
up their minds until they had heard his Mandy ensa, so you dad it here. He gathers in all the ready, money sha
When all the ready money haa beon collected shewazuning-up, but to make a preliminary pose, is entitled to. stands there alone with nothing s an asset except her life. She makes her investigation of the baths from the point will-gned to an entire stranger."
ALGOULATION OF RESEMBLANCES,
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A
colowsal task," Here, anys the Chiengo Daily News, ar son of the things Britain is doing:--
1. Holding the seas for the ships of her Alfve as well as for her own.
2. Protecting the coasts of her Allies as well as her own.
3. Struggling, in co-operation with the French, to sushi tha Turks and win the Balkans for the Allied cause,
war.
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4. Rendering great aid to French and of the view of each of the theories which | Belgia trops in resisting the terrible rates in any question of this prisoner had been put forward." As meu of the onslaughts of the tiennens on the Allied Mr. thallin dealt briefly with the going from one wife to another after the world. und men of non-sense, they left wing in the West.
were quite as competens to judge how} 5. Making lons and supplying muni. folly case, and concluded his speech by desta of ous. They could ret go ex- saying that such a large aggregation of kunstively into such question, and people tok baths as doctory were, with Googly all her partners in the There is no evidened about palling | Turing a Enancial policy, in South- reserablances in the three casex could therfore they should not deal with the greak respect to theta. ! not Inove overed without design. My butter cursorily. As a matter of fact
was the the poor, when he found his wife the knees or the legs, ne of finting, of Eastern Europe likely to promote the submission is," be nulled, facts of this case, that the prisoner didronations, or practically dead, reated her of an epileptic st. Consider possibilities, cause of the nationalities. deliberately, mid for the motive that head on the side of the bath, and did I will tell you tomorrow how far is is have suggests to you, take the life of net let the water escaps by pulling up any for year to be satisfied exactly the plug. The prisoner had never said how death was caused. Consider the Besate Constance Aunir Mundy.",
commenced Mr. Marshall Hall
histhat he did not let the water out for possibilities of all these theorica, looking that he did not her bure we to refer at the baths and the carestrements.
Mr. Marshall Hall I submit it is not Perhaps it never occurred to the prisoner
"APHYMICAL IMPOSSIBILITY."
person to be
entitled to have it.
The trial was then adjourned:
Undersigned haru received instruc 1. tions from J. H. de Rats, Eappeech the the thesis with need this Conmil General for the Netherlands, to sell that the ease was without parallel in the by Public Auction,
history of English carine; it was extra- to let the water oseape. People did not per to the jury to consider any other The always think of the proper thing to drpothesis than that sahnitten by the Crown. I take local objection to your ordinary from every point of view.
at the right content. The main ques prosecution, he proceeded, was driven to
Mr. Justice Scrutten remarked that he prove not only that the prisoner mar- tion for the jury was. Did the prisonerardship's "alternative theory, deres Miss Mandy; but that he murmurder the woman, and, if so, how
would give Mr. Marshall Hail another dried all three of the woman. The jury
allow their The thoury put forward by the prose case for coraplaint if be, wished it. f. not (said counsel) winds to be prejudiced by the fact that eution was that the prisoort marcerven looking at the baths, another thoxy prisoner had wimittedly committed the woman by pulling up her legs and occurred to the jury better than lase higmy four tinius, or warped by the intersing the head in the water, It suggested, in his view, they were quite allis and sperinus argument that would be possible for a Tork Hallstand. Cpholstered Armchairsatie had done reprehensible things drugged or hypnotised, and death secured and Chesterfield Sofas, OÜ Taintings and in Blackpool and Highgate, therefore, he in that way, bat it was a part of his Pictures, Rugs, Cretonne and Lace Care was the sort of man likely to murder duty to advance any hypothetical eause? tains, Screens, Teaì: Fender Seat. Fire Miss Mundy. He could not my there Brasses, Ornamental Clock. etc., Large was an absence of motive. but. is a Touk Sideboards, Cabinets. Dining Wag-judge bad said only a few days before goas, Extension Dining Tables and Chairs in an joining court, Motive is an Card Tables, etc. (practically new), Large important faster, but motive onant Brass Bedstead, White Ecamelled Bod-convert, spicion into proof."
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man enld have done what prisoner was mersed of having done, and which, it Fis learned friend's conclusions wore Hond, formed one of the most disbulical of the series of crime that the records of any country had produced
DAYS OF THE 201ČIAS.
i would deal with the prosecution's I say continued counsel. case
SHELL FACTORY IN A VESTRY.
Factory,
7. Patting into the field more than ten times as any men as she ever pro mised.
8. Guarding her own soil and people against an invasion, which, if it came- aud it is believed to be fur from in possible-foubtless would be the most savage, that unsparing, ever known. With how many men? Well, with oncugh. To hear some people talk, one would suppose that upon Britain were laid the duty of defending every land but her own.
TO ANY SCIK SAFEGUÅLD,
The Chicago Daily News continues: Britain's wealth and sea-power and military power are, the one sur antegueri against the triumph of Germany's - paralleled war machine. Without Bri tain's help, France and Resin certainly Dins have been crushed. Without Bri- tain's whole-hearted participation in the
ventured to challenge the mighty not mercile Germania coalition? With! Tiritain cut of this struggle, would there have hern any hope of the Balkan States daring to mos
with all the emphasis at my command Scottish Clergyman Starts A Maaltion war, who will say that Italy would have
say, if you take the trouble to ex- are the bath minutely, and take the mcusurements of the hath and the body, it is a physical impossibility to have drowned the woman in that way nader these conditions. in 8a of water. It is impossible and incredible."
Just as Rotten Bow arose superior to the handicap of a-mere name, so Goor Green, Dulwich, is destined shortly, sayu The Evening Standard, to drop any possi ble suggestions of the poultry yard in the Coemsel pointed out that the deceased newer and lurger interests of Empire.
Twp TM.C.A. recreation tenis for was lying in the bath with her faen to! wards the door, and would have seen Kitchener's men had endowed the Green Do with the more popular khaki shade, the accused or the batherman, you think," asked Mr. Marshall Hall. Many had passed by without making
Dat when he entered the bath room mental note. Not so the discerning yo
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And Dritala-mver forget it--was cot compelled to go to the aid of France. Cone want right, the rust that ever Britain promised" France were six divi. wax not in signs-120,000 men. She honour bound to want a single soldier more. She could have stayed out of the war, Germany had begged her to stay! i was such a mastor of the expression of the Rev. Percival Mckenzie, the new out of the wor. Disgraced she might They had to go back to the days of on his face that she could see nothing rector of St. James's Scottish Church, has been-us Britons think, must have the Borgina for a parallel, but there they sinister on it?" The theory for the Goose Green. He decided that just now been-if she had left Belgium and France had a political atmosphere which raised prosecution was that so instantaneously the material as well as the spiritual side and Juropean liberty to their doons." -
But she could have done this.. Few the crimes ahova the level of the com. did the prisoner catch hold of the wool life made a special enlt to clergymen
man that she was immediately under the as to othersomething must be done cations are without disgrace, without zempluce.
historical pages they fain would oblite I have not only heard it, but I was Counsel submitted that the fact that writer. Was that possible? The woman at once for the national canse.
The secret leaked out oddly enough rate. Fritain was not attacked. France there, and saw it all." Another story, 657 the prosecution had to bring in the other must have clutched the sides of the batt
nailed the two cases impliedly proved that the evi- such a thing happened in oiler to A Jady resident near St. James's Church and Rasia were attacked. Britain but this I have not had authenticated. Sa Sho world." heard during the afternoon strange ex might have dence in the case of Miss Mandy was try and save herself.
The Officer in a very tight corner. not conclusive. Was there one of theus added counsel, have had time to have plostre noises and grating sounds. She America in awaiting the obset. Britain this. Again a party of our troops were Pwim, if the case of Miss Mandy had clutched at the sides of the bath when spread the alarm though the household, tight have stood clear, might have hus Commanding said: There is nothing NO. 8, QUEEN'S GARDENS, lat No. 8, STEWART TERRACE, Peni; ted alone, and they had known nothing she was sinking down to her doom. for, they had all her discussing the banded her sources of ten and money for us but to surrender or make
1st May; unfinished. of the prisoner's antecedents, would have The fact that she caly clutched a pieso test Zeppelin raid. "Hurrying out of might swiftly have prepared, aven might for it. Which will you do "
thes sounds-inteltnittrut but have loomed over the stricken adversaries
Apply to ventured to say that he was satisfied that of soap was conclusive proof against loors, the prisoner was guilty of her murder? nurder. Unes the woman was drugged onion-led them in the direction of in the end and claimed the hegemony
of Europe for herself... Ile ventured to think no one would have rendered unconscious, what was as the church vestry.
Britain did not dy The door was slightly ajar. and an dared to take on himself that awful tes doing when the prisoner eaught hall of ponsibility. He was, therefore, entitled her legs? Would the prisoner have sum. they proped in anxiously. there they ro, ask them to hesitate before finding moneda doctor while the body was perceived the energetic young Scottish warm? There was always a possibility clergyman with sleeves uprulled and verdiet in that ease. Referring to the evidence of Dr. Spils of artificial respiration being successful toiling at a lathe driven by a small petrol She threw her gold into the série-and It would engine, turning out raitions of war. she is incetealably rich. She threw into bury and Dr. Willcox. Mr. Marshall Hall while the holy was warm..
much medical evidence be a bit awkward for a would-be mar. It was az awkward moment for the the balanes her inpressive reial record
her prestige. iz unrivalled diplomatie declared that opened the door to the worst form of dered If his intended victim should visitors; bas sort the situation was ex-
She threw is throwing-will plained. Mr. MeKenzie, with the fine skili. Americanism in the administration of over under such circunstances,
throw into the balance the whole país." sagacity and practical sense of the men British justice. Suppose the prisoner had
from "ayont the Tweed, took the opsance of Jur Empire. And all for what? think way: not been the pauper that be was, but had hoc possessed of unlimited means
portunity at once to rall för valuatees For the principle the fruits of the prin. munition workers. They rust do some tiple-of the liberty of the individual{
the State. like many recent American prisoners, he rault have procured experts to my that
thing for England-or, at any rate, for against the despotism of Scotland, he explained. The strong Britain. one can believe, may be, the
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the cause of death was other than that He was a double bigamist. He had toXorthern strain of the purisitioners was author of some acts of which she is bot
sare his own skin. In addition, it was given by the experts for the Crown. What was the value of expert evidence obvious that the prisoner did not wish, promptly responsive so the mention, pud-may have done some things to
1 whole? Ho submitted it was a
Miss Pegler to know anything about any To a brief space of time tea or a dozen her, looking back upon them with vere dangerous procedure, which should other womes. Ho did not want her to able-bodied men, chiefy of the business full light, to wish they never had been he watched with the greatest possible think that the money had come from and professional classes, promptly placed done. But in this war this old and their services at his disposal as muni- proud demency is unfolding, applying, care, and an absoluts limit put upon another woman. Had she known it, it
material strength and a moral splen ir: "Thus far shall you go and no fur might have destroyed the relations which tion workers,
This was an encouraging but somewhat doar that for countless ages after this ther." It had reached its lizit in this existed between theni..
The spacious conflict in stilled will to shining un- puzzling development. Dealing with the suggestion of the prosecution in the Burnham case that little vestry of the picturesque iry.clad dimmed amid the first glories of history. One austanding feature of the case, the prisoner expected to increase his church, with erous and weathercock, the juman touch in that great drains." Gavity on his birthday, when the rates seemed all too small to accommodate was the relations of this alleged great would be lowery, and that he expected dozen, or possibly even a score of braw master of crime, who stack at nothing to do so with, the money ho obtained lads of the North. Already" Goose in his revolting murders of inuocent froth the woman's death, Mr... 3farshall Green is beginning to be known to Church circles as Dulwich Munition with Miss, Pegler. In the Hall declared that this was unduly strain- witness.box," said counsel. "the girting the case against the prisoner.So Headquarters." Tree, there is only a Iathe and a small petrol engine, yet in thing." who has lived with this man for seven human being could do auch
The following we extracts with which spirit of operating. But there is years, and loved him, who now that she he said. Nature would not allow a knows the truth that she never w his man to live, who was such an appalling willingness everywhere except, perhaps, Colcaiba contemporary has been favour. lawful wife, that he was a bizarnist write that, before he had Bren met with the petrol engine, which unpatrioed, from a letter from the wife of s tically-perhaps it was of Gerosan ex deceased M.F., a titled lady in the West not even faithful to her at girl cangirl, he could say, I am going in ble out & Valve one morning of England, so a friend in Ceylon, which tell her story and admit that he was crease the annuity on my next birth-7
The i not recall as having had any prominence always kind to and fond of her, imply day, meaning dut he was going to find New these are rutears of British made describes an aspect of the war we do that she was fond of him, and that she some woman he had not then met; téma engine being substituted.
Some wonderful things are happening. has forgiven him that which women find marry, itsute, and murder her." Dulwich men will supply their own or attention in the home press
plant, and dovete their apate hours to is difcult to forgive his infidelity to Courel said he had sitempted to the work, and the War Office, it is that the front, which, if true, makes one her. Can such a man be the tumitigated deal with motive. The evidence of stood, is arranging to provide the feel that Go is fighting on our side. monster it is suggested ho in by the purity was of the men, mengre des readful materials for munitions. Quite Tris story was told to CROWD evidence of the Crown? What is the cription. He submitted that there was secret of the power this man ha of la ant sufficient evidence upon which they fortnight will be required to get all daughter at C They are spiring affection in wonten? There is no could safely give an afbrmative verdict things ready. And then the grand respected faundy This nicer told her, doubt about it. It is part of my learned that prisoner was guilty. "I make no offensive will begin! friend's case. Within two hours of his ples for morey or for sympathy on be chance meeting with Miss Mundy at half of the prisoner," Mr. Marshall Hall
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he and his man were surrounded in a placa Where they had taken shelter and the Uhans were upon them, lie said Ten to his men Nothing can SAVO UN LOW,
doah They
to make a dash, ani abesting our For St. George and the King" thev... did dash, when, to their infinite surprise, the Germans surrenderod--and the Ger man offer who was taken prisoner asked the British officer, who "that man was, “ on a white horse, who was fighting with
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