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KILLER WAS LIFE "WITCH"
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After killing his blonde sweetheart with a knife, middle-aged man her clothes and carefully washed went to a dance held by a fraternal order of which he was a member.
He was the life of the party. But beneath his veneer of gaiety, Louis Grondine, forty-six, had a troubled. conscience.
After one last burst of "whoopee," police and Grondine went to the gave himself up. He took them to his flat where they discovered the nude body of Elaine Rossi, twenty-three, lying on the floor, her head battered and deep knife, gashes in her back.
Draped around the room drying were her under-clothing stockings and dress.
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Grondine said that they argued. Then he got the hatchet from the kitchen and struck her many times. He undressed her, carefully washed her clothes, and departed for the dance.
He told police his first intention was to cut up the body and send it to her home in a pickle barrel.
PRINCE IN LEGION- SECRET
Not even the closest friends of Prince Aly Khan knew that the
to twenty-nine-year-old heir richest and most powerful ruler in the East, the Aga Khan, is serving in the famous French Foreign Legion
in Syria.
TRIAL IN LONDON
London, To-day.
A piece of rope woven and "treated" by a witch-doctor, the contents of a witch-doc- tor's bag, and a broken piece of a clay pot come into the story.
And it will be told to the Judicial
Committee of the Privy Council-the highest tribunal of the Empire.
The committee will hear the ap- peal against sentence of death of Chief Fakisandhla Nkambule, a sub- ordinate chief of Swaziland, in East Africa.
This dusky, many times married, Zulu chief was sentenced for pro- curing the murder of one of his wives, his brother, and the wife of his brother.
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GAVE THEM POISON
While at No. 10, Downing-street, the the Cabinet may be meeting to make war plans, a few steps further down the street this picture will be recon- structed:-
The Princess Aly Khan, formerly the Hon. Mrs. Loel Guinness, is in
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news of the Prince's decision to fight for the Allied cause in Syria came in a letter from the Princess to her sister, the Countess of Cadogan,
On the night of September 11, 1937, a score of Zulus sat in a semi- circle round a camp fire at Buseleni, in the district of Mankaiana,
Then, it is alleged, Nhloko Hlatsh- wako, a native doctor, handed round some harmless medicine until he "I had a letter from the Princess came to the three people who were the other day," the Countess of Cado-to be killed. He gave them poison gan told a reporter "and in it she under the guise of medicine. told me of the Prince's decision. We knew, of course, that, with war
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Chief Fakisandhla Nkambule was
not present at the ceremony, but it is alleged that afterwards he got in touch with the witch-doctor to re- ward him with money and cattle for what he had done. A
CURE FOR DREAMS
The trial, in October 1938, lasted three days, and the Zulu chief was sentenced to death.
It was alleged at the chief's trial that he instigated a "medicine man" to administer poison to the three people, because he suspected them of killing his daughter, who had died some time previously.
Chief Fakisandhla Nkambule, how- ever, maintained that he had noth- ing to do with procuring the mur- ders.
The "medicine" for which he had asked, he declared, was the perform- ance of the ceremony of "Luzego,' to cure him of dreams.Our Own
Correspondent.
LOT OF DIRTY LINEN TO WASH, M.P. SAYS
"The public thinks that there is a good deal of dirty linen which wants washing at the Ministry of Supply."
So said Captain A. H. M. Ramsay in the House of Commons when Members wanted to know the inside story" of the sacking of Mr. David Behar, Mr. Robert Behar, and Cap- tain C. P. Davis.
Mr. Herbert Morrison was very curious. Were they sacked for some- thing that happened while they were at the Ministry, or before? If before, why were they taken on at all? And did the Minister. know that two the men were prospective. Conserva- tive, candidates for Parliament?
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Mr. Burgin's reply was that nothing was said against the officials' conduct while they worked at the Ministry.
Bir Peroy Harris, mentioning the "publicity and... advertisement" given to the sackinge, asked if the country waan't-squally entitled to know the rdasons?
But Mr. Burgin denied that the Ministry or the Government had
given the affair any publicity.