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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1952,
THIS TIME THE VANITY BAG HAS OVERSTEPPED IT
By JOHN JUNOR
parish of Altrincham, near Man- chester.
S there one Englishman at the centre of contro
capable of believing versy: Dr Howlett John-
During the next 20 years he that his country has son.
devoted some of his spare time sunk so low that she dell- With his gold cross of to giving "the children of the berately aprenda leprosy Christ glinting in the sun, parish the biggest strawberry behind the enemy lines in Dr Johnson has gone home teas they had ever knowo, and the rest of It 10 writing Korea?
to trouble such as he has Socialstic articles,
The children loved the straw- And loved the articles, Hewlett Johnson was way up.
Is there one Englishman never known before.
This time there was nn berries, Ramsay MacDonald
mind.
on the
The Socialist loader made him Dean of Manchester in 1024;
and then, in 1931, handed him
capable of sustaining and tolerant welcome for the aged read
This supporting such a slander cockatoo of Communism.
was not lightly dis noty circulated by Mosdow me he
mixed as merely harmless against the fine and galiant This time an angry, bitter ques British soldiers in Korea? tion bubbled in the people'#' Well, at least there is a Has the beaming Dean become related, aspect of Moscow's such a renegade that bis love Germ Warfare Campaign scends his love for his country for Communism not only tran. which finds one Englishman but now transcends even his
love for the Word of God? The W Word of God, as contained in
Commandment,
Paint Flakes Trapped
The Hit-run Driver
EVENTEEN - YEAR
11
OLD Joyce Mount- ford,
cheerful young cyclist, was a early familiar figure to morning workers travelling along East Lancashire Rond towards Swinton.
She took pride in getting to work early, and many local fotk Bald she was so regular that the could "et their clocks by her."
On April 8, 1940, workmen travelling along the road as usual found ber lying beside her machine. She died soon after words of the injuries she had received from being struck by a non-stop motorist.
THE CASE BOOK OF DR FIRTH
NO. 5
ments, no one doubted that the knocked down and killed as he mystery of Joyce Mountford's walked home slowly acress death had been solved..
Aintree Read, Bootle, Lancashire,
He proved that the specks of paint picked up on the road con- sted of Ave different layers, The car that killed the girl cyclist had been black, green and black again, and finally silver-green..... in a hushed court he went on to show that the new silver-green
Minute flakes of paint found on the East Lancashire Road resulted in Dr Firth proving thot a suspect car had knocked down and killed a 17-year-old Tyldesley girl. Through microscopic research in his laboratory the doctor discovered that the flakes—so tiny that they might have boon blown away by the breezo — comprised five layor's of paint of exactly the same colour and in precisely the same order as similar specimens taken from a vehicle paratively unknown man in found at Halifax some days after the accident.
Dr J. B. Firth cvas
com-
Lancashire then, and few people had ever heard of the squat, single-storey laboratory
which
had been opened in Preston less than nine months before.
But
of
when Captain A. F. Hordern, Chief Constable Lancashire. as the late Sir Archibald Bordern was then, heard that ell the evidence his officers had been able to find towards establishing the identity of the hit-and-run motorist was a fog tiny flakes of paint, a spot of dried mus and a piece of glass, he gave immediate instructions for the new forensic scientist to be called in.
PARTICLES
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was one of the first major cases in which Dr Firth bad been asked to help. Just over 12 months before he had been con- gratulated by Wigan magistrates for his part in getting an offer tory box thief convicted. That had been his first appearance in court as a forensic expert from Prostorf.
The motorist who killed Joyce Mountford, at the sanic time "made" the reputation of Dr Firth.
of
So Almsy were the fakes paint Dr Firth received that they might easily have been carried away in the breeze, and they were so tiny that together they barely covered a penny.
even
Yel, Dr Firth realised, then, that those particles could prove the identity of the motorist as certainly as Anger-prints could reveal hardened criminal,
the work of a
.cashire Road, palcemen
had
By KEN COMPSTON
He remained in the garage only long enough to chip a few specimens from the beautifully painted silver-grean car.
cost of the Halifax covered older colours. That, 100, had been black, green, black.
So skilfully had the tests been carried that Dr Fith went even further. Some parts of the mudguard had had even thirteen layers of paint, maybe to cover old bumps.
Before news of the death
reached Dr Firth a motor patrol officer in the centre of Bootle wa questioning a man alleged to be driving while under the influence of drinks,
It was the following morning when Detretive-Inspector Albert Lewis Allen, one of Dr Firth's senior assistants, collected the paint specks, so small that they did not cover a sixpenny-picze.
Under his supervision the radiator cowling of the small car was' 'removed so that inch by lach the paint scars could be scrutinised under powerful microscopes at Preston.
INGENIOUS BY
the most glittering perch of all the Deanery of Canterbury. And from that percht he has preached ever since.
WHAT has made him ding to Likes flattery
the mind of this curious dean Communism? Come Into
explicit Thou shalt not bear It is not a very profound mind false witness,
far as intellectual content is flow does the Dean rezoneils
concerned. that Commandment - which he as a vanity foug it is big enough But as a vanity big? Why, gets £2,000 a year for preaching to hold an elephant, The Dean
with the testimony ha ve dotes on on germ warfore?
Wicked charge
Jimited
flattery. He has un
capnelty for absorbing praise, an insatiable appetite for Man Hewlett Johnson muller was Lule applause fo
popularity. The applause the has been using: "I learned with him in England.
There was
words Dr
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But in Russla and In China? deeper shame that it is practised commissar's finger 100,000 people by pation which has the ehcer and cccialm his every audacity to call itself Christian," word. The Communists know different stuff This is quite from the sort of propaganda Dean habitually dispenser. This is wicked zerusation
serious
morality against the 01 Western military conduc!.
and
It is also an accusation in which manifestly there is no word
of truth.
on
their side. Thus they fote him and agree
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is no
himself, that reed to go to
Communism Poking for proot an ingenious method of
could be evil, of this.. No need lighting the tiny ridges on
then he would to rely on the the uneven surface of the
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"What is a Red Dean, Mum?" be almultaneously ol metalwork of the cowling and
rashing to the Allied milltary
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ground the paint commander.
the philosophy flakes were photographed.
Look instead at the Security based his life.
on which he has the bottle on a high shelf above the Then, like a child playing with Council in New York, where
source of smell Smelle vanish as. If But even if the Dean has been by magic.
stil committed
a glant gaaw puzzle, Inspector Russia's delegate, Jacob Malik, duped he has car. merely
pieces of paint. After hours of that an International and im- And his offence is that, in time Allen tried to fit in two tiny votoes an American proposal an offence of grave character. patient work he found the Idon-
Red partial Cross inission be of war, he has dont what may tical spots from which they had allowed 10 Investigate the be serious harm to the land that
een chipped.
Chinese charges.
gave him birth. Would the Rusalons do this it The rest of the world does not anything other theso "charges were based on have the measure, as Britain than propa. does, of the Dean and his work. gonda?
Many people abroad actually believe that he is the head of the English Church.
Wearing D spotlessly-clean white overall over his-grey suit. surrounded by all manner of equipment including a microscope that would make a human hair seem twb inches in diameter, the-could elve, and he left the dock-similar to those through which he
There was no answer Me "xes doctor began his lauk
soon after to begin a sentence of Perhaps he didn't realise, just 18 months' imprisonment,
then, that the tesis in which he was engaged were soon to become among British celebrated criminologists and police forces.
At their
PAINT SPECKS
Still not satisfied that that way all he could do, he passed the half-ounce of mud pleked from the roadway through steves riddled" specimens from under the car mudguard,
Only a
few hours after the
police one
Is it folly?
Can people abroad be blamed If-despite all the British and
If that
bears false witness, or else he edulity were sufleiently wide.
police had shown the driver TOW then cart the Dean's American denials they think copies of Inspector Allen's and-words be explained away? now that there must be some Ings the man was found dead, Either the Inaй of God sels truth in what he says? TIVE even smaller particles of but the case reports were aside
the Word of God and in own headquarters, paint played an important published Lancashire police chiefs. were part in the life of a Bootle journals to remain forever
official
as to raise revulsion awaiting the all-important report matorist.
Britain all against that would enable them to start
of the "show pleces" of forensic the biggest dupe, In
and Americu, Christendom.
then
the harm. done to the science. a prosecution.
could be Into which category docs Dr cause of freedom Next Baturday:
Hewlett Johnson prefor 10 silp? serious.
For A piece of gauze was the
myself am charitable, The Dean of Canterbury hay
i murder clue.
him the
shocking folly-it benefit of the emitted doubt, I believe his fault ig not evil.
in the witness box to describe in When anally, Dr Firth stepped detall the results of his experi-
Six years had elapsed since the death of Joyce Mountford when side, where Herbert Perry, an Dr Firth was called to Mersey- 83-year-old pensioner, had been
DIAMOND KING SCARES
A PRIME MINISTER
(BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)
Johannesburg. tages to be derived by South
the ing arguments.
folly. And in folly Dr Hewlett Why not go? Johnson has had some practice. NOW what is to be done about
Study briefly the career of him?
If the Episcopalian
this 78-year-old man. He loves Church were bared on the sound to tell how, as a boy, he work- democratic system of Scottish ed in a cotton mill for 13s, a Presbyterianiton ho could be week. It goes down well with dismissed.
Johnson
proletarian audiences, And he But the Church of England is did work in a cotton mill for not so bated. Unless he com- 13. a week.
mits a civil or an eclesiastical Indeed, between Hewlett offence, he can stay as Desa
ol untli he himself and the other cloth Canterbury He has returned withering are capped workers there was only
chooses to go.
Let him have the seare, so to Hewlett John- choose now. ASCETIC, dour Dr Daniel Oppenheinier, who is 43, was with calm but no leas devastat one difference Farther along the East Lan- Francois Malan, South nghting the Germany in
son's father owned the mill,
Let him understand that this From the mill he went, via time he has gone too far. found a few more specimens and Africa's Prime Minister, Western Desert.
Few in South Africa know the Oxford and a second-class de- He pressed for fighting duties extent of the Oppenheimer mil gree in theology, to the Church, and deeds, he has incurred the That this time, by his words a piece of Joyce's bicycle mud- has decided that in his fight guard exactly where it dropped for the establishment of a after being given a desk job at lions, but he ridiculed Dr He settled down in the wealthy contempt of decent people. from the car as it sped from the white master-race, prefer- Pretoria G.H.Q. He served as a Malan's statement that they scene of the datality.
Back in his laboratory Dr Firth ably of non-British descent, captain in the Fourth Armoured have been placed at the disposal
Car Regiment.
of the Opposition. worked and waited. Beyond tell his most formidable oppo-
Then he returned to his Ing the police the colour of the hont is Hurry Frederick father's fabulous world of dia-
'Off his rocker' car for which they were search-
the Oppenheimer,
Do- monds, gold, uranium, copper, He said: "I am merely chair-
ing there was little other help he minion's gold and diamond coal, and finance.
could give them.
TO YORKSHIRE
| king.
He has said of him:
Ho moved once again in a sphere that la allen to Dr Malan, breeding racehortes, ond enjoy- "He is behind the whole op- ing the rocini Ilio of Parktown, TIVE days later Superinten position to our apartheid (racial the Mayfair of Johannesburg.
dent Ashcroft, who had been segregation) polley. seconded by Lancashire' Con- "Oppenheimer with his mit-
Now he listens stabulary to work ds liaison tons exercises a greater in- oficer with Dr Firth, walked fuence than any man in South into his chler's office.
Africa has ever had."
"A car that may have been involved in the East Lancashire Road business has been traced to Halifax,” he said. »
'The Sailor'
It is ho, mid the Prime Minis-.
Soot, they wore travelling the ter, who finances "Saller" Malan road to Yorkshire. The car they and his 200,000 members of the saw there had been to Liverpool, Torch Commando.-
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man of the United South Africa Trust Fund.
Tirin fund draws, its contri-
buttons from the mining houses, and business men of all sorts down to the shillings subscribed by all those who see no future for South Africa under the Na- In Parliament, Finance Minister tionalist Administration. Nicolang Havenga quickly learned ''It is fighting fund to which that arguing with Oppenheimer I have contributed, but when Dr was like trying to teach the Bank Malon talks of millions of Op- of England its business.
penheimer money he is off his Now Havengo latens atten- rocker. tively to Oppenheimer during "My own contribution is in nnance debates.
keeping with my means, and Lanchshire, the day before Joyce No two men could differ more speaker, but in his quiet voice? We have contributed only in
Oppenheimer is 'an infrequent. I am not exactly poor. was killed, and, clearly, might than the men fighting this duel.
email way to Sailor Malan's been involved in the
with the minimum of gesture be a emi The humouries, bald Prime has made it clear that he stands organisation, which is mainly callision.
Minister from, behind thick- Timmediately Dr Firth began his lensed glasses stare at a dapper, for more British immigration, self supporting examination of the front of the
pence, with equal rights willfeic. Those who had seen the and Christ Church. Oxford
witty produnt ̈
Facial
English and Afrikaans, crown-tuDICTI
to the Turch Oxford. speaking people, „Ainy "chips of! paint on the East
Be courteous and so charming Harry Oppenheimer In 1943 Lancashire Road must have won Harry. Oppenheimer, dered, by the dotter seemed to finance, 14 a director of 30-odds he in Parliament that many of married an
attractive South ignore that this car (vario in companlod his political opponents like him. African Bridget McCall: Thoy colour: from that they word While Dr Matan was pro- One paid him this tribute. He have two children, Mary, eight- expectlag to find.
claiming in the war the advant never exaggeraica,”
and Nicholas, seven.
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