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All confessions of murder are re- How the retreat of the inst garded with a healthy suspicion, glacier from Staton Island
says a writer in a London paper. Northern Canada over a period of
That is because there la ao acidom
a sensationsimarder that does not 29,000 years was traced by the prod
one. As an in-study of 58,000 layers of clay in
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Wire The record of the clay banks, was on demand ged that the only reason studied by Dr. Reeds and Dr. E.On Calcutta- onfessed" to the murder Anteve, also
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at the police began to realize
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The bellet that he would River Valley, along the Connecticut On demand
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As it retreated the glacier left On demand hover,
ar behind layers of mud, one for each
On Manila- home scure year. Each laser consisted of two akes a man delight deposits, the Summer and Winter On demand.
he arouses. eful Memory
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a London street confessed that because of the more rapid melting 10 years previou he had mur- of the ice, being twice as thick as dered his nagging wife at Norwich, the Winter layer. Together the and buried her dismembered re-two layers are called a "varve." mains. The story was true. He Such a record in the form of Sovereigns (Bank's had found himself, he afterwards maps and diagrams. covering a explained, in the street in which period of 700 years and taken from he first met his wife, and the me- a study of clay deposita near mory filled him with remorse. The Haverstraw, N.Y., was presented by confession had its due sequel. Dr. Reeds.
Another mystery that was solved
An additional feature of this re. by the criminal's remorse was that cord is that it is a sort of baro- of the killing of a little boy named (metric compendium of the period Kent, the son of a Government ser covered showing the weather for vant living at Road, Wiltshire. Two each year as indicated by the persons had been successively ar- variability in the thickness of the rested and discharged, and the "varves." The thickness was gov- father had long lain under erned by the power of the sun each elang of suspicion. Then year as reflected in the melting of five years after the
mur-the ice. der; there came the startling This variation in the layers was that the victim's particularly perceptible over the announcement sister, who was then 21, and
eloven-year was so-called
Jun spot living in a religious institution at period studied by scientists and |Brighton, had confcased to her men- underwent a more marked cycle in tor and afterwards to a magistrate, three, four and five year periods. that it was she who had killed the The mud calendar, Dr. Reeds said, boy, her motive being a vague de- upsets the theory, that sun spots sire to "punish" her alapmother. govern the weather." On the con- Around the altar of the prison (trary, he maintained, the evidence church at Portland is some beautiful is that "bright spots" or faculae Fambidery mude by Constance Kent are the determining factors, a view during the 20 years' imprisonment first advanced by the meteorologist which this confession cost her.
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The Right Thing When a man walked into Hull Police Station and, said he wanted
The stately old aristocrat was ap-
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But he came again. And he said. that if search were made in a drain pipe in a certain spet the victim's gold
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"Yes, indeed," was the reply. found. They were. The coroner "Which one Interests you? who had conducted the inquest and maid or the cook?"
the detective who had made the in- quiries were then consolled, al- though they had both retired, and the man was charged.
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