THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY. 20, 1949.”
'VAMPIRE MURDER' SENSATION FRIENDSHIP WITH
Defence Admission Of
Series Of Murders DRANK VICTIMS' BLOOD
London, July 18.
John George Haigh murdered five women and four men, dronk their blood and dissolved their bodies in acid at the bidding of a dream spirit. “Defence counsel,~SirD ́avid-Maxwell-Fyfe,-said-this-in-Court-at-Lewes, Sussex, today in a dramatic bid to prove the dopper 39-year-old compony director... to be insane.
"When the opportunity came to do these dreadful deeds, he felt that he was carrying our not only his own desires, but a divinely appointed course which had been set for him,” Sir David declared,
High is charged with only one murder that 18
ofve Durand-Dearn 12 wealthy 49. year-uitl wilow -but 311 the #1051 serasistautul defence plen In modern criminal history. hs catused lead wirbt other king before the Jury.
Hnigh, he sak, had confessed to all of ther
th
theer,
himself into an asylum. (Haighj| hurt usked how a man could at out of Brondinoor Criminal Asy- Jum).
Shortly after Mr. Justice, Hum- phreys returned to the Bench for the afternoon session, the thial alleged statement by Haigh was read in part by defending counsel. The statement read: "In 1941, disposed of the
of W!! Body Fiam Donald Bimilar
1
McSwinn manner (by acid
bath)
A Detective Inspector admit1- På under plussèxamination that the puller had krawledge of live In the basement of Gloucester of these, hat had been unable to
Road, London. and of Donald Confirm the
Maßwann and Amy McSwann Earlier,
(the parents the prosecuting coun-
of William) sel, St Hartley
Paweross, an- | Hripated the defence plea of in- munity by saving of Haigh's enn- fession that he hard drunk Mrs. Durand-Deacon's blood; That
may or may not be true."
Haigh had askeri a Police Ins. pector what the chances were of
1946 at the same addrean."
In 1948, Dr. Archibukt Hrader- Ron and his wife, Rosalie Heuder- sen. also were disposed of in za similar manner, the statement continued, at Leopold Road, Craw-
Concernin Willany Donald
being released fum the erlmin- | McSwann, the statement read: "I al lunatic wsybom at -Benheimoor,
Sir Hartley remain berd "There was certainly no
TEBRON When
tuttering
ESTEMTE OF #ts throne.
mau, apparently SUM
murder to
is charged wit which there is run possible 4- wer un the Lært, before he ena Jook fory apt to getting out of Broadmoor B bar to consider whether and how to can met himself 1."
Film Star A Spectator
The American fim star, Robert Montgomery, was atting in the 137-year-old oak-panelled "court. room when torkay's hearing begar
hit him on the head with a roch withdrew a glass of filaud Fram his throat us before, and drank
False Names
Haigh was alleged to have in- veigled Mrs. Darand-Deurn to building at Crawley, in H Visit Sussex, where her body was par tially dissolved in sulphurie webt after she was allegedly murdered
by the defendant.
Next day, the prisoner, using false names, was seeking to ob tain money that he needed from the sale of the woman's personal belongings. The prisoner was aald to have previously ordered Cross-sulphuric acid from n London
While Haigh leaned bark in his chair in the dock daing
word puzzle, occasionally smiling and glancing around, Sif Hartley read statements he was said to have made to the police.
One described how be berame
Mrs. friendly
Durand- with Dencon at a
a Kensington (Lomien) hotel, took her auf tes a store- room and "shut her through the hend, removed her fur goal, en- ptici the yaluable, from her handling and stripped her of the jewellery she was wearing."
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After that he pushed the body into a drum and led the truc with sulphuric acid.
In the second statement, Haigh was said to have admitted drink
ing Mrs. Durand-Deacon's blood.
Arm.
of
to
to
A
second referred The "youngish man about the autumin of the same year," who “lentie with me.
the same thing lappene ns before."
The third one referred to u girl "who told me her name was Μπεν
In reply to Sir Hartley Show- cross, Inspector Webb fald that he had no confirmation of Haigh's alleged statement that he mur- dered the three persons indicated ia the documents.
Superintendent Guy Mahon sald evidence that he had found in
relating to the McSwanns popers and Hendersons in Haigh's hotel Toom, He was asked if he had been able to
to establish the truth
or niherwise of whether. Haigh kilted other people.
Superintendent Mahon replied: " found no evidence that there is any truth in that last statement" (meaning the confestion to three other murders),
Defence Plea
Sir David Maxwell Fife, ad- dressing the Jury sold: "Die de- fence in this casse is concerned with and depends on the state of mind of the serused. The rourse that have taken, of not leafi with the actual facts-
parti culars of the killing here, corres us with the special verdlet for Which I am going to ask you, which is in the form of guilty of the nets charged, but insane at the time when they were com- mitled."
Sir David said that the point was that the accused did not know the nature of his acts. While Sir David was speaking. Halgh sat back in his chair, his head bowed. head Bo
Czech Cabinet Ministers Ga To Moscow
Prague, July 18. Blx Czech cabinet ministars left by plane today for Mon-
cow.
They were: Vaclav Kopecky, Education Minister; "Ludmila Jankavesva, Food Miniator, Dena Nejdly; Emanuel Slechta, Minister of Technics: Aloíà Noumen, Minister of Posts: Joseph Plojhar, People's „Party......Minister._.__ sviptrided.
orless.
The Foreign Office said the trip is a private journey on Terve-United Press,
Toll Of Chinese Floods
Canton, July 18.
Floods scourging China have driven 350.000 persons from their homes in the Southern province of Kwangtung alone, Nationaller officials estlimate.
The
Pearl East, West and North Rivers, converging in, the vicinity of the Kwangtung dupl- tal, all are out of their banks.
Floods are also reported to be causing havoc in the. Southern or South Central provinces of Hunan, Fuklen, Kwangsi, Kiang- st and Kwelchow, with no éstí- mates of the homeless available,
UK STRESSED IN MANIFESTO
Paris, July 18. The French Socialist Party today called for close co-operation with Britain and tighter Euro- pean-political and economic unity,
A manifesto approved of the closing session of the Party's annual congress here denounced "the liberal offensive recently conducted against Britain's Labour Government international capitalism."
It added: "France has no in- terests in the weakening of the British-Commonwealth on either the political or the monetary plane. On the contrary the must envisage a profound economic co- ordination and · fraternal ro- operation with Great Britain."
The manifesto callest for По long-term co-ordinated European economic policy opposed to
the "uxtaposition of national plans an far achieved by the Or- Kunisation for European Economic Co-operation."
"The necessary European unity cannot be realised by conferences of experts nor by negotiations be- tween Governments," it added.
Socialist members
the French delegation to the Strak- bourg Council of Europe next month will seek close co-opera- tion with other Socialist dele- gates.
of
Admission Of Germany
"What
we are seeking to Greate is not a Western federa. tion, but a federation of all the free peoples of Europe, the door Pemaining diwaya open to thona who are absent today from the day when they have recovered thair liberty," the
manifesto
asid.
by
ATOMIC OFFICIAL MISSING
Los Alamos, July 18.. Tracy Snelling, 37, public re- lations director at the 'Los Alamos atomic, installation, is niging under mysterious cir cumstances.
The police at Los Alamos, who sold Mr. Snelling had access to a limited amount of information about atomic energy, has been missing since Wednesday, A statewide alert was sounded for him, with the search concentrated at Santa Fe and Albuquerque.
Carroll Tyler, atomic Energy. Commission chlet, at Los Alamos, said in a statement: "The AEC Administration would like very much to know where Snelling Is."
Snelling's wife, Sally, told in- vertigators she received a letter from hlin postmarked in Albu- querque at поход оп Thursday. The contents of the letter wero not divulged.
"This ha happened before but never for
extended period," sold Mr. Gooiling. Mr. Tyler said that on Wed- nesday, Snelling asked for his
leave. Ho
apparently
The manifesto urged the ad- mitting of Germany to the Euro-annual pean Assembly as soon as she had intended to take u holiday has an elected Legislature.
trip with his wife. However, she reported on Friday that the hud not seen him for two days,
United Press.
The Hunan Provincial Govern- ment estimates that $7,870 per- sons have been drowned in that
M. Marius province, but gave no indication
Moutet, former how it had arrived at such an Minister for Oversean Territories, exact figure. (Hunan is in the made a strong plen in the moru- WAT ZONIC, 30 that any casualty ing's debate" for "the Great Paw- figure is likely to be merely Ors to formuiste rough guess.}
policy on Asia.
The provincial government described the Hunan floods the worst in 50 years and said 5,000,000 persons face the threat of starvation.
The Nationalist Ministry of the Interior estimates that 20,000.000 pareants, and affected by floods throughout China, bút wald any figuren on the home- lose are guesswork.
Rivers in Communist-held
North and Central China are also in flood.
Along the Lower Yongtse alone,
was
Communist
in
|
01 common
M. Moutet said that the pre- sent situation in the Far East is a threat lo. peace, but if the Great Powers show a united front they may find, à modus vivendi with Russia.--Reuter.
RAF Men's
Burial In Berlin
Berlin, July 18.
..
Five British airmen who were kled when a Royal Air Force
TOUR lift, plane crashed in Berlin on
PRIMATE'S TOUR OF AMERICA
The prosecution's case was thai, after having secured the delivery Sir David said that the dis-
a large supply of sulphurle
order which had affected Haigh's acid to his premises at Crawley, renson was known as pure para- Haigh persuaded the victim
Boia. There was
London, July 18, a history of xo there on the pretence of ex- violent alternation of religious
The Archbishop of York, Dr. amining
250,000 persons are homeless, Cyril Garbett, will sail on August some beauty
estimated prepara- experience in Haigh, and further tions and then shot her before there was a dream-ridden exist- Shanghal-Associated Press,
74 from Britain on a two month visit to Canada and the United attempting to dissolve her butly
ence "pressed on the subject from in a vat of neid.
enrly years, Sir David said.
States, during which he will His parents were extremely "controlling spirit" was determin-pigach and address meetings, severe members of a religious ed that he should have it...
The dreadful deeds he had car- sect known as the Plymouth Brethren,
ried out, Sir David. continued, Sir David sold
were not Haigh's own desires, that in Haigh
"but the the
divinely appointed ressive
development of fantastic and mystical ideas
real world. One of the three mental experiences which Haigh picked sut as being of importance in his life
Haigh was alleged to have stated that between putting the body into the tank and pumping In the weld, he went round to the Ancient Prior's Cafe for a cup of tca.
The statement said that he then
The tour follows his acceptance last year of an Invitation from the Prinate of All-Canada to preach at the Triennal Synod of the
pumped in some neid, went home, cume ever less related to the pe- course which had been set for / Church of England In Canada.
In the third, Haigh was alleged and next day returned to Craw
to have said. "In 1844, I disposedly to find that decomposition was
not complete. of William Donald not of the body
"A piece of fat and bone was McSwann in a similar manner (by an acid bath) and of Donald still flouting on the sludge. Then pamped a further quantity of acid into the tank to decomposu the remaining fat and bone. left it to work until the follow Ing day," he was alleged to have stuled,
McSwann and Amy McSwann (William's parents) in 1948 by the same means,"
Alleged Statement
The Attorney-General, Sir Hartley Shawcross, prosecuting, nald In " 40-minute opening specch In the small, crowded court-room of this little country town: "The prisoner asserts in his statement that, having killed this unfortunate woman (Mrs. Durand- ink Deacon), he proceeded to drink some of her blood. That state- inent may or may not be true."
murder, When charged with Sir Harticy sald, a man has to consider first how he could get
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"Then I returned to Crawley and found the decomposition cam- piete, so I emptied the tank off.
I found the only thing the peld had not attacked was the plastic handbag.. I tipped this out with the sludge."
After
detalls of his giving duct after the death of Willam McSwann, the statement continu- ed: "In the following year I
con-
took
was that from an early age- about the end of his school Wife he believed that he was under divine guidance and was required to drink his own water because of the reading of certain passages in the Bible.
Forest Of Crucifixes
He had carried on these prac- tices through his life. He got this Idea and tried to propagate
It Sir David described a series of which had compulsive dreams effects. "He began by seeing in these dreams a veritable forest of
him,"
"You will hear
the dream
is
repeated six or seven times, and the prisoner's account is that as the blood was takeh he tried to get near the men, but could nevér get near enough, and he falt an overwhelming desire for blood, and, secondly, that his controlling spirit was determined. that he should have blood "
In addition, the Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States has aliced him to address the Chur ches General Convention in the autumn.
The Archbishop will addreas
meetings and preach at Halifax Victoria, British Columbia, and Québec; and later will visit The United States cities where he will peek or preach include Boston, Washington, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San
The badge of paranoia, Sir David said, was that "the victim who suffers from it khows that his secret life of fantasy has di to be lived alongside the ordinDiego. Reuter. ary life of the world?) I
When Sir David had the judge told the Jury) “You are free to go, but your good sense will tell you, apart from what
crucifixes, As the dream deve loped, the crucifixes became trees and
even to men appeared to be collect- ing something from these dripp- Ing trees."
separately to the same basement It finally developed that blood
say, neither to allow anyone to speak you about this case, nor make up your minds about it one way or the other until you have heard all tha évi-
dence.
the father, Donald, and The was dripping from these trees, Try to think of other things mother, Amy, disposing of them | Slr Duvid suid und that the If you will"
in exactly the same way as the dreamer felt an overwhelming The Court adjourned until to-
sor
"I
met the 'Hendersons #y answering an advertisement offer
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"In February, 1948, the Ben- dorsons were staying at Kingsgate
Castle, Kent. From here I took
Dr. Henderson to Crawley and disposed of him in the store rooni at Leopold Road by shooting him in the head with a revolves.
him in a tank. put
tank of acid.
This was in the morning, and went back to Brighton
and
brought up Mrs. Henderson on the pretext that her husband
was III. 3. shot her in the atore room and, put her in another, tank and disposed of her with
·acid."
Detective
Haberr
"Tapped Her"
Inspector
statement in which Haigh was alleged to have confessed to
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