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but ho dived into the street have been in his place7
and anger from the Socialists. horror is spreading through the His announcement burat like a As for the Torits we at glum cells because tomorrow at nlac o'clock 24 me." He. hurt his back and was bomb. The people were shocked, and quiet, not at all happy about his corpse will do its jerky dance 19-year-old boy taken away on a stretcher, astounded, incredulou9, Deep this curious decision. Aneurin at the end of a rope. named Derek Bert- When the trial took place, they down was a flerce resentment Bevan sprang into the breach.
At a little house in suburbas of Craig in a fow that the scoundrel who had done By what law of logic er decency London the father and mother ley is to hang. In the House disposed of Commons we have just moments. He was found guilty the killing was to remain alive could we only debate the right will die with their son even if of murder in the first degree and and that the other boy was to or wrong of a death sentence their sonlence is that they must emerged from a scene that was sentenced to be detained in
The die.
In after it had been carried out! protests grew
live on with shame and grief and threatened to break prison
"at Her Majesty's volume, culminating in the We, the House of Commons, were bitterness.
100 sonsational announcement lost the highest court of appeal in the through the self-imposed pleasure" because he was
that Parilament would land! The Home Secretary was discipline of the Chamber young to go to the gallows. In night
fistund fact it will mean about 24 question the Home Secretary our servant and we were the and end in uproar and dis- years, after which he will be set and, if necessary, compel him to musters. Why had Mr Speaker order. Now the House is so free if his conduct has been good. reverse his decision. That was. listened to the plea of the Home strangely quiet that we can
But what of Bentley? He was what really iny behind the Sucretary to save him from the
ordeal of answering to his fellow MP's.
with the same words,
equally in the custody of the
mercy.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Benticy was hanged on January 28.
POCKET CARTOON
by OSDERT LANCASTER
"Don't be so insular, Ítenry! : How many times have 1 told you one cannot expect foreigner's to conform to the same high standards we maintain ourselves!”.
My lords,
why not
yield to men
of the era?
almost hear the river as it
police for 18 minutes before the murmurs on its way.
murder was committed. Also he Almost the only movement in was unarmed. When questioned NOW we must note the proce- the corridors is from official by the prosecuilen he said that dure that had to be followed. messengers handing batches of he had shouted "Give it to them. Sitting at a table just in front
Never Spoke telegrams to individual members. Chi!" net ta en temast 10 of Mr Speaker's Chair are the There is no purpose in reading murder but meaning to hand two Clerks of the House, men of THE storm Increased, inte.- them for we know what
they over the gun. He aware that he great experience and experts on
rupted now and gain by contains. "Please save Bentley had only intended to break into procedure. If a MP wants to rulings from the Chair. Sir "You must reprieve Bentley," the warehouse and steal some put down a question to
Bat white-faced "British
justice demands that thing, and he did not know that answered orally by Minister. David Bentley shall not die." "As our Chris was armed.
he submits it to either of the grimly serious, but never spoke, Not a single Tory Intervened. member we look to you to save
Found Guilty
Clerks, who will ceceat it or We were trying to see the shape Bentley." All the morning at
suggest un amendment to bring of things before we came 12 my house
the telephone went THE found him guilty of that it is not in
er declare conclusion. NHE jury did not belleve him. it within the rules,
"Then if we cannot debate this This is Tuesday evening. Last
murder but recommended At eight o'clock last night the dreadful miscarriage of justice Saturday the Home Secretary,
No one way surprised. Bentley motion was given to the because our motion is not on the Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, as According to British law he was Clerks, who read It and accepted Order Paper," cried Silverman, decent and kindly a man as ever guilty as an accomplice, but the it without any alteration. Al 10 of new move the adjournment lived, travelled from Wales Jury's recommendation of mercy o'clock there had been so wird of
wird of the House in order to discuss Mr Speaker. 20 parents to from the gallows all:ough he
As the wily, little lawyer MP Royal Prerogative was of hanging age.
Peper today, and tho
fore advanced to Mr Spcaker to hand An appeal, was immediately announcement
therefore WCS It was Her Majesty's Lord launched, but it was automatical- given out to the Press together him the written motion for the Chief Justice who tried the case by dismissed after a short hearing with the names of the signatories. Shakes" would deal with
adjournment, we wondered how uf "The Queen against Derek
because
the law was quite The newspapers made a big play
ORD FORTESCUE, Portal, or of the Earl Alexan- Bentley, and she alone has the clear on the point. Again no one of it and stated that the motion After all he has only been
Lord Allendale, Lord der. They are men who have debated Speaker since 1950. to reverse the decision of bothered because the ultimate would power
probably be
"This 13
in no! would rest with
order,"
Derby,
truly won their spurs and fairly and Lord represent the men and women the Court. But by long custom decision
the between seven and ten o'clock
Morricon said she leaves the decision to the Home Secretary,
calmly. "There Home have every virtue, of all degrees who followed Sl David tonight.
this is
established who
way Home
is Maxwel Fyic. Secretary,
When we met at 2.30
every grące, All are good them to victory. responsible for the peace of the
does not need
afternoon for the normal one censuring the Speaker arid this
sportsmen, good landlords, realm...
Imagination of a port nor the hour of qucations the flouse was does not conform to it, a
Outside in the streets crowds good patriots, and when should have to keep company The ad thing Is that they wisdom of a seer to realise Sir already filled, and by 3.30 it was David's difficulties. There is no packed, many members standing were gathering just to look at
needs be good warriors.. with others not so distinguished, LL during the week-end Sir reason to doubt that he talked because all the seats were oc- the Houses of Parliament, where
of a boy was being The same could be sald of David went through the with the Lord Chief Justice about cupled. But to the estonkhment the fate
Unless the Socialists Their Graces the evidence and studied the appeal it, which is entirely proper. He of the House the motion was not decided.
Dukes of Test pilots Ly the boy's parents. All during may even have discussed it with on the Order Paper. There was could defeat the rulings of the Wellington,
Portland, and the week-end the parents stayed eminent counsel on both sides, anger and excited resentment on Chair, the death sentence could Buccleuch. Worthy Britons, the In their humble little home in Knowing him
their gallantry. TTERE indeed was } am the Socialist benches, from which not be debated until it had been lot of them, Intimately suburban London waiting for the
the quite certain that he discussed most of the signatories had come. carried out.
uncontested, their chivalry un- letter which
arrived it with his only
wife Sylvia. The
And slowly on the Conserva- deniable, their pedigrees un- Must Be Master yesterday morning. The Home
clever and attractive slater of
tive benches we began to realise impeachable. • Secretary was, deeply sorry but im star Rex Harrison. know AT the end of the Question that it could not be otherwise. he could not bring himself
Secretary might be But what is to be sold of the alter the decision of the Court. that he studied most carefully Hour, Socialist Sydney Silver- The Home
clever, little Jewish wrong, the low might be gulity choice of these British worthles the representation made by the man, a That was when the rising tide condemned boy's parents.
for leading positions in the lawyer who had instigated the of a judicial murder in this case its burst of public opinion
is Confronting him was this ugly motion, rose to demand an ex--but what would happen if we Coronation procession? Is their bounds. Fifty MP's. mostly and dangerous dilemma. Craig planzen. Why had Mr Sersker established a precedent whereby right to be there, and the right Socialists, put down a motion on had committed the murder but refused to allow the motion to every murder case, where there of others like them, to be the Order Paper with the inten- would not hang because of his be placed on the Order Paper was an appeal, should be decided accepted without question? tian that it should
take
youth. Then was Sir David to when the Clerks had taken to by Parliamentary debate? precedence over nil other dochure that the older boy, who exception to it? Did Mr Speaker It could not be. It must not For, if you look at the affair business when the House met did not do the
Emotionalism, eloquence, realistically, they have no more murder, must realise that the motion could not be This was the hang? this afternoon.
now be debated. and in the uproar, deflance, prejudice, pity. real right to be there than most the wording of the motion:
theatricalism....How of their tenants and game- Final Letter
meantime a 19-year-old boy was publicity, "That this House respectfully
going to
machinery of the law established dissents from the opinion of the QUCH a dichion would cause had not for a murder he could these things replace the keepers, foounen and chauffeura.
committency. Silver- over the centuries? Home Secretary that there are ▷ Immense resentment in the
The Home not sufficient grounds-on which public mind, with its normal man continued, had of course a Mumbo Jumbo to advise the exercise of Her instinct of fair play and its perfect right to Majesty's prerogative of mercy weakness for simplification. decision according to his judg-QUDDENLY the uproar sub- in the case of Derek Bentley; On the other hand, was Sir ment, even if the decision was aided "The Clerk will now THE list of men and urges him 10 reconsider the David to reprieve Bentley and wrong. But in the end Parifa proceed to read the order of the cluster round Queen Eliza: Whittle? At a window in his matter so as to give èfect to
declare to the criminal ment must be the master, and day," said the Speaker, uttering beth II as she moves through club? And Sir Robert Watson and to the expressed view of the world: "All you have to do is any Minister-even the Prime the mumbo jumbo of procedure the sacred ceremony of crown. Wait, who gave the Jury's recommendation of mercy
to leave the shooting to boys Minister-must be answerable to business of the day. The Home reads strangely, indeed,
to which ushers In the maining and dedication next June radar? Lord Chief Justice that Bentley's under 10 and the
Thus you Parliament,
Silverman sest of Quilt was less than that of will escape simply be a confronted Mr Speaker.
the rope.
wearlly to his Such a developed his argument, and then Secretary rose
On the daring, and · imagina- The Christopher Craig."
It is almost as though half of tion of Why feet and walked out. decision would
men such as these the House
had been discerningly depends the outcome of Eliza thinned quickly, most of of security for adult had the Chair resolved that Crime-infatuated charter
selected by a man of vision, the beth's reign. They should have and must create a Resolution could not be debated? us going into the lobbles where FOR the first time in my long
Crtment of gangster-minded
other half picked out of an old Mr Speaker Morrison, known officials were waiting to hand us
a place of honour at its in- would to us in the old days as "Shakes" mere batches of telegrams urging copy of Debrett with a suitably ception. None, would give way who swagger about as the professicaal Morrison because of his liking us to save
eraldic pin.
to them more gracefully than unarmed for spouting Shakespeare in a
•At Buske Peace is the
Lord Fortescue, "Zord Allendale, No one will quarrel with the Lord Derby, and Lord Home, force Scottish dialect, explained young
Queen in whose Famic had a perfect Bentley was tried, condemned cholco for this high honour of
Viscounts the Home and dented a reprieve.
Some the
Cunningham,
ANDREW HOPE
the thus
boys
years at Westminster an at- perverted
perver tempt was being made to induce Parliament to invoke its will on killers the Minister to whom the Queen older criminals. confides her prerogative of mercy over the law.
among their
Aware of the storm that would that the House burst Sir David sent a letter to right to
discuss
come to
-
them
-How-picked?.
for the
chanco young :: Queen' to surround herself not only with the men who served her father's Ceneration but with the 'men who will serve her own, by 'creating
tha
and weapons thoughts of a new nge,
Was there nol a place in the entourage for test plots Jahri Cunningham or Neville Duke. men who follow up careers of matchless wartime gallantry with even bolder
explorations of the skies?
Could not the atom knight, Sir William Penney, have been itted in among the eminet, And perdeillin's discoverer. !
Alexander Fleming? And where who will stands Jet-man Sir Frank
At this point it is essential Bentley's parents- sympathetic Secretary's decision but only where in one of Her Majesty's Alanbrooke, Montgomery, and
that
I should reccun! the nature but final letter. Their son must after his decision had been prisons is the 18-year-old boy
of the crime. Christopher forfelt his life. Knowing what carried out. That, he said, was who did the murder, beginning Craig, 18 years old, was one of he had gone through, I wrote Sir precedent long
a those crime-infatuated boys who
have sprung up in such numbers David a letter of sympathy. through the years.
in Britain over the last three
No one can explain this Now I can tell it;
yourd phenomenon, but juvenile crime has been a most sinister recent development in the life of the British people.
Craig, who had been in trouble before, managed to get hold of a revolver and persuaded his 10- year-old friend, Derek Bentley, to join him in breaking into a warehouse on a Sunday. Bentley Was a G3
stupid, slow-witted fellow who had been rejected from the
Army because he could not pass the lowest intelligence test.
Thereiere we have the bale dominating his senior, The
situation of
1
younger boy
master mind was Craig's.
Film Idiom
estabilshed his long years of enged con-
finement. In another prison is
THE TORPEDOED EMPRESS
.
By RALPH WALLING
REMEMBER well the A.TS. aboard, and a clutch of "What ship, what tonnage?" And Wrens surely the it was the tallah doctor who, night that the first English
staunchest half-dozen young from a raft, raised his arm and Empress of Canada sank, women who over evacuated a was hoard yelling: "Don't shoot, just ten years ago. It was liner rope ladder.
fellow-countrymen."
They
a mystery then, and the She was torpedoed, travelling The U boat took him aboard.. at 17 knots plus, in t one and was cont. Other Italians mystery has not been ex minute-to-midnight attack under shouted to be rescued. plained to this day.
thin moon casting the palest were ignored. It is just as mysterious fans of light from the horizon to as the fire which destroyed the ship's bow. The ship heeled
over in a 10-degree list.
THEY arrived at the warehouse the second Empress of
and had reached platform when a family living opposite Canada in dock at Liver spotted them...and telephoned pool.
the police. For reasons which
ཇ
I and the others who survived -sinking, the sharks, and
Diary entry
READ the Admiralty war.
diary entry on the subject the other day: It saldima
the barracudas which crowded with "It (the sinking), may have
The first Emprèss, 21,000 us, the gentle-rippling South bean pure coincidence and bad
Atlantic that night,
and two luck, but the possibility of leak-
have proved wire over a long tons, was on the way from days and nights adrift before we age of information on this roule
time, the British police do
Durban to Liverpool in were rescued by British war- carry arms except a truncbeca. Craig saw, them coming and March 1948,
climbed to á higher-platform by
war.
the
i Kors succested that sn.
·The":
the
ships, had reason enough to
muiltary doctor who had She carried 1,400 Allied wonder why." using a ladder. Before Bentley Servicemen and women, and
complete liberly on board could By chance? could get up to join
him, he
have 'homed' U, bonts to the shipg (Bentley) was caught by the 500 Italian prisoners-of-ALL but one of our prisonera. This officer was taken on board palice.
of-war had, been confined to the U boat.
Admiralty Constable Miles shouted: t Up to 11 p.m. on March 13 the the holds, That one, an army considered this pocsible but to drop his gun and come voyage followed its normal, zig- doctor had mixed freely with highly Improbable," zapatos.
Craig's zag pattern. Twice, two days biher passengers.
FOOTNOTE: Hero of accepted before, she had been diverted Some resented it, complained sinking was another doctor, a sagter film idiom: "Came and from the course originally laid that what was there to stop married in Durban just before Was given too much Erstiala surgeon Heutenant, liberty. him signalling any U-boat lurk the Empress-salled. He swam Ing around. by chance?
from iratt, to rall, k-with-his Bentley then shouted "Let them COME of her passengers, I res. By chanoor deslant For doctor's bag round his neck, it, Chrial", and Crele fired ▷ member, had been to the the Ubout which can us was tending victims of barracuda and and shot lies between the eyes, ship's races. Other tad danced Italian. It surfaced, switched on sharkin. He was swimming: - kuling him. The other policemen Tharu zward Tolish, and Trench, Its searchlight Ki araw shouted: when he disappeared aroin nigirt.
down and surrender. reply
.In the WIN
gat ma
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