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I was October. The bright flowers of the willow harbon Man chester blitz sites had been dead some time, The weeds were withering:
Instead of lingering, as -they had done most Bundays luring the summer, to gather flowers on their way home from morning Mass, 11-year-old Terence Corder and his young brother de eided to collect cotton boks- bins,
Searching among the de- bris in the shell of a former Deansgate office which Gor man bombers, had reduced
to
ruins, they stumbled across the body of a fair- haired woman.
The Clue Of The
WILLOW HERB
By KEN COMPSTON
Part of the withorbi lodf of a willów héiß, föund In a trollides turn-up lod to the cdhvletion of Walter Graham Rowland for thò muldor of a worhan on &. Blitz sito in Manchester, England.
In the fold of the turn-up were also small grains of blickdust, cinder and ath, Dr Flith matched them With specimens from the scono of the crimSTM T Dobbsgoto, Manchostor. The ovidence convinced a jury to reject Rowland's plea that he had not beón on the site.
As Detective Chief Super Intendent, W. Page. head a policeman a yard or two of the Manchester C.1.D. away, and members of his newly There was little help that formed murder squad rush- Superintendent Page could ed to the site, Dr Firth give him. Two identify spendliga restful cards found in the dead week-end at his seaside woman's handbag had even home at Birkdale.
shrouded her in mystery, and the hammer, made by a Sheffield firm, was the only TALK OF TOWN
real clue.
WAH
.
But even the most minute ex- amination of the clothing failed to produce a single clue.
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But, it is in the turn-up.
Strangeways condemned, call the trousers, that, De Finch found twice (Strangeways In Mariches the avidened is proved beyond rier's famous Cool) Emphat doubt that before him was the cally, densed any part in thể murderer'a sult♪:..... murder. alli Bachnhi
yes, he knew het as "L" but Carefully, caltecting the dukt the previous Saturday night he that had gathered if the fold, had never been in Manchester, Dr Firth, reached, for a fine alevé certainly never on the Deansgate like those throukh which he had blitz kilo.
pud specimens of debris picks dd.up of the scene of the crime.
Ah through the night the conta
They Were Exactly slika... ference, went, dh, in topm overlooking the gardens of the beleidust tement, sharcent and Botore either of the ofcers Friends' secting, House in Man- cinder, fit no other place could lind tune to pehl lie claim- chester, Rowland was hanging one expect to find thend in ed: "You don't want me for the him by a belfeeman.. Already, lent of a withered wilow herb. Into civilian clothes loaned to exactly these proportions, bus there, 100, was a fragment of thể Thurder of thịt women, đỏ an offices had been instructed you?" Then, redlising his slip, take Rowland's suft, shirt, col- The dylis punk that had he dressed in Allence his the de- lar, ile, sucks, and shoën 16 Dr hidden lowland's victim fram téelives walled to take him to Firth at Preston.
view, had proved him tha Ahurs . their car.
dérer.
The lost of the efname and theatre crowds had left the city, streets were almost deserted, as the car slipped into Bootle Street
Plček by, plece (tiey were fatd out of effefinity cleaned, tables to be marched for the moit tiny cllie,
BLOOD STAIN
„Ably defended at Mahéhester Adsizes, followed by an bloquént pien, in the Court of Appeal, slowland called.
pravo ani Bubi Rut he was Dài và
raval
in Deansgate The : night. Superintendent Page, in full
Balchin was murdered; but he evening dress, was relaxing for
was unable to upset the damn- the first time for a week at a Many times in his reven days ing evidence of Dr Firth. The dinner dance not far from liberty Rowland cleaned Man Who ₫ fów years before Then the tireless efforts of pollee headquarters. Ten minutes those shoes that now lay under had been sentenced to death for cores of Manchester detectives later, his bow tie hidden by the searching eyes of one of Eng- the murder of his young daugh- began to bring its trickle of in- white scarf, his dress sult cover land's leading forenate scientists, ter returned to the condemned formation to Room 12, the nerve ed by a heavy coat, he was yet, on the vertical part of the cell. centre of police headquarters walking along the corridor to lett, heel. ntar the instep, Dr from which the intensive in- Room 12,
Firth found the first tell-thic quiries were being made.
mark........A húmian blondstaln.
Edward MacDonald, a Down Ing Street broker, came forward to recognise the hammer as one So for as loctors could he sold on Saturday night for In just over 12 hours the crime had become the chief Judge, the woman had died three shillings and sixpence to a topic of
a rey suit and blue conversation in about midnight on Satur- man in
pullover, Manchester; city typists on day, and even as Dr Firth
Omeers discovered that Olive! their way to work stopped and Superintendent Page to gaze on the scene. Yet discussed the case detec- Balchin had been living in a few noticed the smallish tives were making a comb- Corporation Street hostel, man in dark sült
and out
of night cafes, taxi
public-houses in the hope
Homberg fint who slipped ranks, lodging houses and AN ARGUMENT from the car in the side street,
who
of finding someone
A waitress in a Queen Street Had seen her the night be- cafe described a man and two In appearance he looked fore.
women whom she had seen ei little different from the On the front page of one of fiertables late on the hundreds of other business nearly every newspaper in night of the crime. Norman Mercer, licensee of a Deansgate men driving into the city Manchester was a photo hotel, told of man and woman on that Monday morning. graph of the hammer, and he had heard arguing nóidily as For some minutes he stood, in Birmingham police were he took his dog for its evening just where Olive Balchin's trying to find Olive Bal- walk. body had lain, rather like chin's old friends. In Man- an architect surveying ground: upon which he was going to build.
Inside, beside a small table, his hair dishevelled, his face lined with worry, sat Rowland. Hunter and hunted were face to face.
per
This time there was no re- prleve.
The next case in this gorica la Wrexham Shot-Gun
On the Jacket was discovered one or two greylag Ught coloured hairs which, under a powerful microscope, proved to be identi-The From start to finish this dap- cul with specimens taken from Mystery," which will appear on
only Olive Bitchin's hend.
this page next Saturday. man-the
youn
R. M: MacCOLL'S AMERICAN COLUMN
DID
THE MAN WHO
NOT WANT MONEY
WASHINGTON. a separate civil suit, And he is amazed everyone by handing in NOTHER chapter
Then came a vital piece of in: A written in the extra 200,000. chester women acquaint- ·formation. A man answering ordinary story of Robert
Congratulation were short ances, were being asked to the description given by Mr Kretzer.
lived when it w3g found that he help in tracing any of the MacDonald was staying in d dend woman's men friends.
It starts in the car-tamine of the money by another con cheap lodging house.
ndence trick. He told friends Staying indoors nearly all the days after the last war, when he had bought a Christined tree day and venturing out very he guaranteed delivery of new estate in Canada.. seldom at night, he had aroused cars under market price. the curiosity of fellow-lodgers.
One by one he picked up pieces of material that in- terested him a block of NO CLUE blood-stained masonry, bíts
Roll and ash.
...
Oh, and Bing Crosby has just bought a big new twin-engined plane.
is far too long since we have seen Herbert Marshall in n movie but that's being taken cere of now.
His phone rings in New York, and Herbert is told by RK.O. THE OTHER NIGHT; in "Please be in Hollywood to- He also interested the police, Crowds nocked to his amée of rubble, specimens of fine It seemed likely that now in the seventh day of their and pretty well forced deposits Springncia, linols, a business morrow. You're starring in The
like stranger appeared at the on him.. as investigation. Even some of even had she screamed
gabl. "George Hulem United Murder." the withered leaves of the she was being clubbed to dying willow herb wetit luto death, Olive Balchin's cries the collection....Even such would have been drowned slender clues might be of by the roar of the news. paper presses inside the extreme importance,
building by which she was found. It was doubtful... if anyone had got a very clear view of her in Manchester's starlit streets.
At polico-headquarters later in the morning he was given a case containing all Olive Balchin's clothing, a bloodstained leather-beater's hammer which the police had found a few feet from the body and a plece of brown paper picked up by
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"marshal,'
who turns out to
Man Called X."
CTING just like a Rocke,
70 noe to New York's Metro-
ing it £3,500,000. Lyrically. my board of trustees, describes Roland Redmond, president of
the note as "a superb and perfect document."
It was late on Saturday night
He used the deposits to buy States marshal," he snapped, In New York he has been Detective-Sergeant Blake- more care, but finally the bubble fishing a badge, "Knezer is to doing a radio show entitled "The as
and Detective Nimmo burst and there was Kuetzer come with ano, Ho will be mure
returned later" strode from their car across the owing £1,000,000. wet pavement into the bright
of entrance of the hostel.
went Robert with the A feller, John D. jun, dashes oft Upstairs in
small cuble's Walter.
Graham Rowland, AT his trial the district be as phoney as Robert's politan Museunt saying he is giv weary-eyed and restless, was attorney asked why he thought schemes, trying to sleep. Over the back he would ever make any brés
Now the G-men afd searching of a chair was throwni a grey that way. Replied Knetzer: "f sult and blue pullover,
just wanted to make a reputa- for the pair of them. Back in his laboratory. Dr Quietly Sergeant Blakemore tion, not money."
second
★EIGHBOURS or anusole Firth and his staff Foon estab- opened the door. In a
He was sentenced to 110 years. N Hugo Linwal, a 41-year-o]a shed that the group' "A" blood Rowland sat up in bed; he was on the hammer, and, clothing only
surprised....The in gaol, but last year was tem- carpenter, and his pretty wife half corresponded with that of the moment he had feared for a porarily released because he said. Ellin, who lived on New York's
he could raise money to pay off Lexington Avenue, were always rabes hunted by anxious
Vetim.
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hoping that there would be a réconciliation alter they guar- relled some time back and Hugo moved out,
The note-or, tlie cheque?- HEADLINE: "Coronation
CHARLES DICKENS, visiting
New York, described the in- stitution on. Phadiy ventilated, badly lighted, none too clean, and very uncomfortable.
He came back, Ellin answered his ring. Smiling, Huge opened ¡à ̈box; took out a rawn-oit
He was talking about the City double-binrelled shotgun and Home for Dependanta (a poor killed, his wife and himself. house) on Welfare Island.
NEAT switcheroo on, the "war
Now 21 big, spotless, and
drid
is not inevitable" theme. modern home is being, operjed, Britain's ambassador Sir Oliver with beds for 2,000. It is some Franks visits Dartmouth College years now since the people there in New England, and says stopped being. "Inmates" roughly that in a speech. The ficially became "guests." undergraduate newspaper,
porting the event, headlines:
War evitable, says Franics."
Bon
AMERICA: "ürning but more alibis than aeroplanes?" Jim Lucas, investigator for a big chain of newspapers, is but to discover the facts. And, from Los Angeles he reports
on HOPE got a belly laugh on the air when his straight man arked him what he knew about the United States Govern ment. "All I know is that I put The plaries, we make ccat down the Government as brie of millions: The Rustins turn but rny dependants on my income tax cheaper and les complicated return, cracked Bob.py planes by the thousand.""
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