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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1925.
STRANGLED.
YOUTH ADMITS BRUTAL MURDER..
UNDER THE BED,
Married Man Takes Poison After Fight.
Two "lové bagedies" provided London's week-end sensation. A young marriest woman, who had been away from home all night, was found stanga under a tree in a park at Hampstead, and at the injust it was stated that her nephew, aged 18, had confessed to killing her. He asserted that she had asked him to strangle her while she was asleep, and then he gave details of how he choked her. In the other case, a man whose sait had been rejected by a girl when she learns that he was married, concealed himself under her bed. ther streams, or discovering him, brought her father, a powerfully-built man, on the scene, and after a struggle the intrader poisemal himself,
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tion of the police to the need for carrying them out to the fall This I have done.
I accept your strictures, and in- strictions ar being issued to the polico that any parsi whe is to be put up for identification is to be varbusly informed that he is entitled to have a solicitor or friend present. Not Douding in a roller to Mr. J. F. Pat the identification parade. Bawinson, K.C.. M.P., with they will overy such person be ver
hally informed and given a printed, points raised in his report on the police setting out his rights in the k inquiry inte, the arrest, through match, as you romerulat staken identity, of Major H. notices will also be dispused in Sheppard, the Hano Recretary, Sir convenient places at police stations, I do not, however, think it practis William Juynson-Hieka, suya :---- arble or, right thus a ongistrate Entil the mutations odieur has docd-should be present at an identifien-
to deept the charge tmada by tion parade. private individual the serrard beaunot under the existing law be ad-
mitter to bul.
She screamed and her father It is, however, important, and in At the impest on Beryl Thorn rushed in.
There was
a fierce the interest of the accused person ton, aged 21, whri was found, light for several minutes. and strangled, under a tree in the when Alice returned with assists desirable, that in all cases the newly-opotul publié park atance, both men were lying on the preliminary investigation should be Kenwood. Hempstead, a verdict floor, motionless. was returned that her nephew, | The father soon recovered, but Alfred Kopsch, aged 18. a piano-the stranger was unconscious. He maker. was her murderer. was removed to an infirmary, Mrs. Thornton's husband gave where he died. He was identified evidence that they were married as Joseph Williamson, 30 years of
in India. His wife's father was an Englishman. her mother a Kurasinn. His wife had never
previously been absent, at night time, and they had lived together kappily. When he awake, find ing his wife was absent, he fed their baby himself.
Kopsch father, in evidence, enid he had repeatedly warned his Bon against dissociation with a married woman, but his
son replied: love her."
After Kopsch surrendered to the police, and male a confession, in which he said: "She asked med to strangle her when she was asleep. We lay down a; 10 o'clock, and I strangled her, when, appar- enly she was usivep, at 2 o'clock in the morning, first prussing my thumb into her neck and then double-knotting my necktie round She is in trouble, and it is my faul
¦
A doctor, in evidence. con- traketed Kopsch's statement garding deedased's condition.
age.
DRANK DISINFECTANT.
It transpires that Williamson, who was separated from his wife and family, habitually dined at the coffee shop, and was friendly for months with Miss Davies until she learned that her lover was married, and dismissed him.
When both men were exhausted, the father alleges, Williamson drank from a bottle of disinftet
unt..
HOTEL SUICIDE.
UNKNOWN WOMAN'S
FATE.
The present general orders upen the subject shall be amplified with. ja view to ensuring that every pre- cantion will be taken in the interest of the accused person to make the conduct of the parade as satisfactory as possible.
FINDER-PRINTS.
Though it is often in the interest nude with proper care and con-of an secused person that his finger- sideration. It may well happen "prints should be taken at the curliest moment, the police, as you point lat, though an ecusation appears out, have no power to compel a at first well founded, the prelimin-person to have his fingerprints investigation shows crenely that taken. Instructions will be issued the accuser has made an unfortunata that before a person's finger-prints but honest-mistake I do not are taken by ih polien will be therefore, think the police should informed of his right to object, and enter a charge and admit aa accused notices to that effect will also be person to bail to answer a charge displayed in polics stations.
a court without a careful pre- liminary investigation.
The general orders ma explicit as to the facilities to be given to A with his On the other hand, I have come person to communicat.
the conclusion that when the friends and legal advisers. police are satisfied with the identity The attention of the police will of the accused person and there is drawn to these orders, and fur- to reasonable fear of his abscond ther instructions given regarding ing. it would be well it before any their interpretation in this sense luge is entered they had power most favourable to the person de- tansithin to bail to appear on tained. Char notices will in future lab day at a police station, if he exhibited at police stations in- required, instand of keeping him forming such persons of the facili in custody till their investigation is dies provided for their communien- completed. Such a power wouldling with their friends, and legal allow of the arrased person being advisers and also of the provisións pleased--instead of being detained with r yard by hnil
as at presnt-pending the result of
The above is the action 1 propose
the preliminary, Juvestigation. I to as, in the general interest, with Merefore propose, following your a view to giving effect to the recom art & clause for this purpose in the suggestion, to ask Parlament to in-mulations in your repert.
Criminal Justice Bill.
extivs are trying to solve the Scolend Yard and Hastings de
mystery of the identity of a hand- re-found dead. hanging behind the Home Woman of about 31 who was
door of her bedroom at the Na- Tu transferring Major Sheppard tional Fotel, Upper Bedford-place, fanm Vine-street Station to Hunter Bloombury,
NIGHTIN BEDROOM. Alice Davies (21), living with her father at a small coffee shop in Bethnal Green, was aroused at 11 m., and, being an intuition that a baryar was in her bed room, stretched sut her hand and felt a man crawung on the floor.
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In the particular case of the offi- cers who have been censured by you. Fram only add that the Coni- missioner of Police of the Metropolis is the authority in all matters of police discipline, and has now con- siering what action he shent take,
V ved ut the hotel Inte at night and registered as Mrs. Daon, Whie Rock Louie, lastings, She stated that she would stay for only wight and paid 8s. 6a, for her Her only luggage was a Sit-use
As she failed to answer a call in In the present case I agree that last sight of that the original cause the maraing the door was forced and the preliminary examination might of Major Sheppard's urgent was the the woman was found hanging bo- have been completed at Vine-street mistake of Miss Dennistoun; that hind it. On the floor were four Station and Major Sheppard ad- sha was supported in this by other blood-stained razor blades, and deep mitted to bail here. I have issued apparently credible witnesses, and ents on the woman's wrists in further directions to the polic, pon that the learned magistrate, having dicat that he had tried to sever this matter.
heard all the evidence, committed the alleries before hanging harwolf.
In the report von incidentally ex-him for trial. In the suit-ce were a small pressed the opinion that if the The case was quite an exceptions) clonybox with the init is ** A.M." "alleged offene, bad beai committed one, and hus brought to light cer- ada hudkerchief with The laundry mark “* KALAG."-
street Station, the police were following the usual practice. It is, as a ruly, more convenjent to the While deep regret must be feti at afrity of persons concerned in the painful experience to which eluding the excused) that the pre- Major Rh purd has been subjected, luminary investigation of the accusa-and while strict disciplinary inquiry tion should be conducted where he will be made into the conduct of alleged crime was committed. the police involved, it must not be
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• WRONGTEL QUESTIONING,
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Au otpiest was opened and ad- journed. A snail is crawling up my
Rock House, the addres office desk, writes Paris corres-g von by the woman, is a large poulent of the Dally Mail.” ma son on White Lock Cliff over
Barely an Abus go it was fast | looking Huntinga nun. It is being with 206.000 of its vital ado bals on tune is st brothers never in one of the present utajiitä, biggest Paris cold-torage depôts: awailing the water season when
Little Kenny aged 3, wES it could be with its suit- able advolip,MEAL of parsley, wandung Winter while his
I have reely drawn the atten. garlic, and but..
Paschall Was COO.........ng AIS sister a tion of the rolice to the urgent Snails
n in the sum- dag for aer ondast. Pre- necessity of strictly observing the mer months is rage, though seasy mother put the way on a rules laid down by F Majesty's they form deacy in the by Keany, Julges regarding the quest ouing of
But still bala:And Won Konay like a prisoners in txire rustody and pra auturan and wa....
"A ropemakeri "Good heavens, there exist on fem which ur break-on spected of crime." have to be kept and stored for the 243?" "No," no repled grave- I gather that you approve, these why?"
ly: "I don't
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want une lying rules, are of opinion that they wore town. I want one standing up. not properly carried out, and sug- certa.n aptitude for spinning
gest that I should call the' atten- yarns."
It is known laat during the bard winter frosis shails burrow down between the rous of bushes, and, in fact, into any sheltered place, and there, having drawn tight a door of skin over the opening of tew n. they go to sleep waiting for better weather.j When the agat of summer is on and no osy W. to eat snails,' French snuit ner take the, molluscs by the addred thou- Band, packsa wala wat greatest care in wooden cucca on layers of straw, to the great suburban cold storage dept.
There
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to aln.ost every hedgerow.
One of these cases was loose and it was there that with finger I pried out à homely "grey" snail to see what he looked like,
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