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DEATH PENALTY
INQUIRY.
Sir Archibald Bodkin's Evidence.
"POTENTIAL MURDERERS."
WIFE ACCUSED OF MURDER.
Husband Said to Have Been Jealous.
AMUSEMENT
NEWS!
QUEEN'S present George O'Brien and Sue Carol in "The Mrs. Netrobelle Williams, the Lone Star Ranger," a gripping widow of a Welsh. tailway con- story of the racy West. An out- tractor who died at Gwelo, South-law attempting to gain pardon, ern Rhodésia, was charged recent finds he has to arrest the father ly before the magistrate with the of the girl he loves. A romance among the prairies of more than murder of her husband,
The dead man, Thomas Williams, usual interest. A talkie film. The chairman, the Rev. James Barr was born at Llanelly, South Montmartre Follies are in sup- (Motherwell, Lab.), said that they Wales. His wife, who le 34, is port.
When the Select Committee or the House of Commons which is considering the Capital Punish ment Bill met in mail week the
had expected to hear evidence of Dutch parentage, from the Archbishop of York" (Dr.
was unable to attend.
Evidence
CENTRAL was given that the
again features Temple), but owing to important couple had been unhappy. There Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette Church business the Archbishop had been frequent quarrels, it Macdonald in "The Love Parade." was alleged, because the husband "The whole tone of the picture Captain Clayton, Governor of was jealous of a young farmer is one of majestic lavishness of Dartmoor Prison said he would named Pearce who often visited production blended with inspired retain capital punishment for the house.
simplicity and directness of action what was called premeditated
Threat to Shoot.
sequence. The songs fit neatly into the scheme, the plot unravels murder, particularly for house- Mr. Pearce, in the witness-box, without a pause or an over-hasty breakers and burglars who carried said he discontinued his visits to leap, the characters are natural, lethal weapons and used them the William's two months after the comedy is free-flowing, and with fatal results. For people receiving a letter, from Mr. robustious, the satire is spicy, the
who committed murder on the im- Willams threatening to shoot him. dialogue racy, yet not maudlin- pulse of the moment he would. Mrs. Williams, in a statement the picture, in sum, is an amazing have an indeterminate sentence alleged to have been made to the piece of entertainment, one that dependent in length on the con- police, said her husband bought marks a high point of achieve- duct of the prisoner and the some strychnine a week before his ment in the New Show World.": safety of the community.
death to poison dogs. He actual-A talkie film.
arms
and
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He was certain that professionally poisoned or dog. burglars
other criminals
On the night of his death he MAJESTIC presents Neil would be more apt to carry fire-came home on his bicycle in a Hamilton and Bebe Daníels in
If there were no capital state of exhaustion, went to the "Take Me Home." punishment. He suggested that kitchen and drank two cups of leading man essays the role of a The popular murder cases should be heard infcoffee and, three glasses of beer. country boy who goes to New came, and only the announce Shortly afterwards he became illYork to win stage fame. Through Tment of the trial at the assizes and died.
should be made public. Publicity
Bebe he succeeds in finding.work, A Message. encouraged murder among weak- After receiving a message Mr. brilliant climax. The story offers the story building up to a minded people who saw murder Pearce come to the house short-Miss Daniels an opportunity to ers treated as heroes and desiredly afterwards, and she repeated play a different type of role than to share in the hero worship. the statement to him.
Protesting their Innocence?
Theretofore. A silent film. Before the arrival of the police
Captain Clayton.—No, 1 have known none.
In his experience, he added, the majority of murderers confessed before being executed.
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Dr. Ethel Bentham (Talington. on the following morning the E, Lab.). Have you ever known coffee pot and other utensils had in "New York." "The story tells STAR features Ricardo Cortez any murderers go to the scaffold been washed, according to her al of gangsters and millionaries of protesting their innocence?
-leged statement.
Evidence was put forward that the Bowery and Park Avenue, of a jazz band player and a Society Mrs. Williams had threatened to kill her husband
miss, and of despair and happi- The testimony of two native who climbs out of the squallid en- ness. It is the story of a man, servants was conflicting. One of vironment where birth has placed them said the woman husband some coffee to drink and nacle among the pleasure-loving gave her him, and raises himself to a pin- that he then fell down and died. world. Success gives him the girl The other said that Mrs. Williams of his heart, and then-Fate, that had said that her husband took well known spectre of real life- the coffee himself.
blow." A silent fim. -steps in and deals a surprising
To illustrate his contention that thoughts of capital punishment LAMMERT BROS. prevented many criminals from carrying lethal weapons, Captain Clayton said that he always talk ed with new arrivals at the pri- son about their cases. "In. dozens of cases," he said, "men have told me when describing how they tried to escape, 'Thank good- ness I had no "barker" with me or THE Undersigned have received I might have used it."
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In reply to Mr. Ayles (Bristol, N., Lab.), Captain Clayton said he thought murderers who committed premeditated, crimes, such as the slow polsoner, found excitement in pitting their brains against the brains of Scotland Yard. The element of adventure and sport in pitting their brains against others did operate in regard to criminals
of this type.
"Potential Murderers," "
Sir Archibald Bodkin said he
was "called" in 1885
and prac-
Mrs. Williams was remanded peuding an analyst's report
APOLOGY TO THE
KING.
Chairwoman - Who Forgot the Toast.
"I owe a sincere apology to. hib Majesty and I hope he will for
give us for making this mistake." The speaker was Mrs. Corbett Ashby, who presided at the recent annual lanch in London of the
On View from Tuesday, August tised at the Criminal Bar until British Commonwealth League.
1920. From 1892 to 1920 he was She had forgotten to propose Treasury Counsel and. from 1920 the health of the King before give to March last he was Director of ing the company permission to Public Prosecutions..
smoke. "My opinion," he said, "is mat
Directly she realised her mis- andoubtedly that capital punish-take she made her apology and ment should be retained, not only the King's health was drunk. as a suitable punishment for the
LAMMERT BROS,
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WORLD presents "The Life of a Tuchun," a Chinese' drama. silent film.
A
OPIUM IN MALAYA.
CONDEMNATION BY CHINESE DOCTOR.
Klang, July, 22. Coast Rotary Club on the aubject of Speaking before the Klang and "Opium Suppression In Malaya," Dr. M. Y. Lum strongly criticised
the action taken by the Govern ments of the F.M.S. and the S.S. the League of Nations Commission "He pointed out that the visit of of Inquiry into the spatrol of opfum
smoking in the Far East showed that the people of the West had at last begun to take into account the principles on which the League was founded. The three members of the Commission represented nations opium production, for they re- which had absolutely no interest in
presented Sweden, Belgium and Mr. Lovat Fraser-No doubt Czecho-Slovakia. He was confid-
terrent against the commission of der cases he had been concerned that most heinous crime of mur-with, he replied "Scores." der. I have no doubt that there
is a number of potential murder-you are engaged in writing your ent that their findings would be ab- ers-persons who harbour murder reminiscences.I am not, and solutely impartial.
in their minds--and I believe they are deterred from carrying
never will.
use of
"We have beard much of the 'diff. Sir Archibald Bodkin did not culties of aboilahing the cut those designs by the thought agree that murder trials should eplum, such as the unwillingness of of capital punishment.
There are also persons who do dissent from that view," he said. danger
be heard in camera. "I entirely the Chinese, smuggling and the
of increased not deterred The hearing of cases in camera ism
alcohol- either by hanging or life sen-was tried in one crime only and narcoties, but the question of and the 180 of other tence because they are so deliber-we went back to public trial" stely wicked and malicious.
revenue in conveniently left alone. Mr. Lovat Fraser-You call These alleged difficulties are so
not care and are
The opportunity of serving you Those enemies of society--the wild
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will be a pleasure and your com-beasts of society if they can murderera the wild beasta of exaggerated and magnified that mands will have our best atten- gain their immediate end of mur-who say these criminals are not The opium problem in Malaya is one society. There are other, people they, eclipse the real issue--money. dering A, B, or C, or A, B, and wild beasts-that they are sick of revenue. It is a question of will C, without too much risk of im- people. Oh! Absurd-piffle, versus money, and the format, if 'PLANE FOR PRINCE. mediate discovery will commit those crimes. There is case after gested that, juries were loth to battle."
When Dr. Ethel Bentham sug-existent at all, has fought a losing case of murder committed for bass convict in murder cases, Sir motives and for those murders Archibald Bodkin dissented.
"I was one of the few Chinese "I who went before the Commission'in there can be no other punishment think British juries are very cour-Kuala Lumpur last year. Among than hanging."
Resplied From Death Penalty.
ageous," he said, and
the questions showered on me there Sir Archibald Bodkin added evidence, and they rightly demand important,
"They pay rapt attention to the was one which seemed to me very The chairman, asked that there were cases in which it very high standards of proof. If me, "What steps would you propose Sime, Darby and Co., Ltd., that the of the 120th Meridian, East of was right and proper that the the evidence does not come up to to stop opium smoking and poppy Prince of Wales has placed an order Greenwich) are as follow:-- person concerned should be res that standard they acquit, but I cultivation? I suggested that a
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