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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1955,
A PERFECT' MURDER
But it couldn't beat RAWLINGS of
the Yard
HERE are probably crime. He thought all the clr-
by
across
H
cumstances anyway.
were
on his sido
The setting was perfect for a murder. The London blitz.
the
mud-
and sharp nose, and denly lighting eyes.
Rawlings's favourite subject is
human beings-toe must ·Jnow human frailties," he says.)
Great cases of the greal detectives... No. 4
Daputy Commander William Hawlings, 58-year-old second-in command of the C.I.D. Could have been a barrister-passed Bar exaina →→→ bil preferred solving: crimes, The Dobkin case
called by a judge masterpiece of crime detection."
remains were found in the cellar of the chapel near where you were fire-watching in April 1941 and we are satisfied that they, are those of your wife,"
Sold Debkin; "I don't know what are talking about. I
A DYNASTY AT STAKE
THE ORDEAL OF QUEEN SORAYA
don't know. of any cellar at the SAM WHITE'S PARIS NEWSLETTER
bean
chapel and I have never down one there. In fact, I don't
believe it is my wife...
Then he made a mistake. He offered to write a statement. „He wrote: "In respect to what you Mrs say that wolfo
myw
has been "OR-MURDERED ..." them found dead
The
murder,
Who would ever know that ono psychology, "We deal with if the women In that cellar about polloo had said nothing to face a considerable ordeal, from
mong so many dead was not a
Would Scotland Yard?
bomb victim?
clever one.
Well,
WATCHING
descended
Finally, a compromise was sug→ stod and the stroot has been némed Rue des Tanks Royale,
Libel action
Paris. their seven-year-old son THIS week Queen Soraya have been banished. from of Persia ends her Persia. Tho Shah's five holiday in the South of other brothers are on their quito a few people
Dld this mean
that
Franco and comes to Paris mother's side walking about who
Dobkin had not needed have achieved a per-
a provious dynasty AM looking forward to the any more? That she was dead?
libel action Farouk vermis There she will be met by a and are barred by the con- Elsa, Maxwell, to be heard hero fect murder.
really was Mrs Dobkin, how did Crime - laboratory specialists panel of physicians und stitution from succeeding to soon. As I see it, the perfect
her handbag get to Guildford? had been busy too. They had gynecologists who will de- the throne.,
Farouk claims he was libelled crimo is one in which the
Here was a task, then, for a Did someone plant it there, to superimpon
full-face portrait
and when she
in an alleged telegram repro- victim's body has passed maybe, but this murderer was Holmes, Identifying the skeleton give the impression she had flext of Mrs. the dull. They will undergo a major upora-
on an X-ray cide where
Teheran court duced in Miss Maxwell'e'mamoirs commit the one alone would have seemed on the London bombs?
portrait of
(French edition only), which beyond recovery-by crema- not going to
mistake that so many murderers Impossible job to any ordinary.
matched exactly.
tion.
Also barred is the Shah's six- Miss Maxwell claims to have tion.- a n d two well-
make. The Yard might catch man.
Her dentist had been found. The threat of this opora- year-old daughter from his sent on recolving a dinner invita- intentioned, unsuspecting others, the stupid ones, but What was known about the
He was shown the jaw and, he tion has been hanging over previous marriage to
cx-King tion from him. doctors have written the never him. HE would be the strangled woman? Sho had been
Bald; "This is Mrs Doblin's
Farouk, incidentally, claims between 40 and 50; roughly 5ft. word #
THER inquiries were being upper jaw and those are my the 22-year-old queen for Faruk's sister Princess Fawzle.
Now that an operation on the never to He was justified, up to a point, tall. The lower jaw was mins-
filings."
the past three years. It queen boe been finally decided a telegram. Among the witnesses have received this too. "Natural нe was, if not clever, at least ing, but she had worn a dental
mado
Rawlings, dis-
Harry Dobkin
was still
Maxwell aro someone who remem-
not has been a reason, and often considerable part of the Teheran cited by Mis causes supremely cunning. That is why plate with, probably, saven falso covered
that ho
her court and close relatives of the General Nagulb, Colonel Nasser, "perfect teeth. the the uncovering of his
Four remaining
teeth bered a fire in the ruins of the clever enough to see
was doomed. He was confident the sole reason, for
Paris for
Norriman dress The date: April 15. " chapel.
Queen are gathering in widespread voyagings over
cx-Queen right through his trial
he final medical consultation. death certi- murder was one of the Yard's had Allings,
designers Dior and Dessee, and most brilliant triumphs.
How many women fitted these
Who was the policeman on the But the Jury found him guilty, this period to. France, With the Queen at present is the ficate.
uge and height Agures? At least
jewellery firm of Arpel. beat? Sure enough, Rawings after being out for only 20 Britain, U.S.A. and Switzer- her 50-year-old mother, Ger-
Q
on Farouk's side will 1,000 reported missing at
found a constable who remen- minutes.
man' married to the Persian
Rainier of Monaco, Prince time.
bered the fire. There was, he
She has น่ Marquis de Cueva, the Brazi that sald, someone else thero
It is the major reason for Ambassador in Bonn.
now been joined too by her 10- an Ambassador, the former night A man who volunteered
her present trip to Europe. your-old brother who is studying boxing champion Georges Car- the information: "I'm
pentier and the jewellery firm of Carliers. The absence of a mule heir architecture in Switzerland. is a grave threat to the future of the present Per
with the Queen are sian dynasty, already several courtiers from Teheran, of Persian Ambassador the threatened by religious and Paris, the head of the Persian THE present crisis in the Frin- political fanaticism.
cipality of Monaco, which army medical service, Colonel The brother of
brewing over since the Alady, and the court physician, has bean
one of the leading banks there present Shah, who was next Dr Agadin. in line to the succession, There is a certain irony in the crashed two months ago has onco He has in revealed the family feud was killed in an air crash presence of Dr Agadin.
Rainier's last year. His wife and to France not only to which divides the members of. attend the Queen but to go into exile here. Dr. Agadin belongs to a Muslim sect known as the that "Baghini" which is at present being violently persecuted in appear
If you don't think this can
1
happen I refer
FINDING
you
trul of Nurse I
was.
ما
the
He
mean crime; strangled a woman set fire
Waddingham to the body and then buried it
tho
-
head skeleton
SLOGGING
that
He
murder.
CONFESSING
fire- HE confessed during his lust watcher over there" (a nearby days, when his reprieve had a joking way: "j didn't do it," block of offices), and added in been refused and he realised that his had been no perfect
Rawlings sent out his men to
His wife, he said had been pressing him for more money. trace that fire-watcher.
He had wanted to be rid They traced him. His name?
And he had planted her her, Harry Dobkin.
handbag at Guildford.
1
for murder, in quicklime, under debris in DAWLINGS slogget on. back, in 1930. the cellar of a blitzed Baptist knew that the backbone of
Over con- chapel in Kennington. PERCY Adence
He felt safe in the certainty successful detection is really undoing that it would bo R long, long fanatical brand of thoroughness. He sought out the relatives of of Nurse Wad- time before the debris-clearing HOSKINS
those of
1,000 missing dingham. She gangs got round to that pile of each
women and asked: "Did she bad success- chapel rubble. fully got away with the murder It was. IL was in July 1942 wear an upper dental pluto with
The man was brought in and by morphine poisoning of ono that workmen prising up seven false teeth?"
A detective In- rich old lady and was ling
stone slab uncovered а Somewhere well down the list questioned. cremation
he interviewed the sister of Mrs Spector told him: "In fairness, Rachel Dobkin who vanished on thould tell you that human Good Friday-April 11-1941.
living apart Sho had boen from her husband.
pand Rachel, said her sister, about the age and height of the Her upper murdered woman. dental plate? Yes, she had one, but how could anyone say how many teeth there had been in itt
up
papers for
the
disposal of victim No. 2. The It could have been just an- certificates sald "Death from other bomb victim. But the natural
Everything skeleton was given a thorough causes."
examination. looked easy.
medical
Every bomb victim in the war got that.
Two things seemed odd.
So it would have been, if she had only put her ordinary Not-
There was an unusual quan- tingham address at the top of tity of lime in the soil around the papers, But she added the the bones, and a tiny bone in words "The Nursing Home" to the voice-box was fractured, make it look more imposing.
By chance the cremation official W18 also the district's medical officer; and he was also the authority of registration of nursing homes. This "horne" he know, was unregistered, so he passed the papers to the coroner. ordered. analysis An Nurse Waddingham was hanged. Today's chapter is the story of a man who did not aspire to #uct a degree of perfection in
Wis
KNOWING
TT was Dr Keith Simpson,
WAS
The search started for Rachel Dobkin's dentist. ...
Home Office pathologist, who disappeared her handbag had The day after Rachel Dobkin found the fracture. He knew been found 30 miles away, in what it almost certainly in- dicated: Strangulation.
Guildford, Rawlings pondered on that. turned over The problem was to Deputy Commander William
of
It was as sordid as that. He was hanged on January 27, 1943, at Wandsworth.
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land.
OF
ISRAEL'S WAY
KEEPING ALERT
WA
By DONALD WISE
arcas.
word
Also
Persia.
.be
Frinos
The crisis,
family. This time Rainer has ordered
34-year-old should no Antolootte
ملط
at
Princess Ani
Bistas
longer functions.
a slight and
amart woman, has life in recent years. Four years ago she married, in
hadi-a story
Before leaving Teheran
the exoedingly doctor told the Shah that he would take this opportunity of taking refuge in France.
Tanks Royale
A
the
Monaco Consul-G00
office in Genoa, the tanis champion Aloco Loghes Sho divorced him a year ago.
Since then she has been a close THE city council of Amiens has friend of a wealthy Monty Cario been in touch with the lawy, Jean Charles Ray, who British Military Attache regard is a former member of, the 18- The man Monaco National Council a special problem. council wish name a street in and who is a bitter opponent of honour of the art British Army Prince Rainier. unit to liberate Amiens.
Back went the answer the honour belonged to the Shrop
Stormy reign pOLITICAL NOTThe for
Tel-Aviv. of the prophet" and other Jews are exempt from military dissenting Arnb service, cat carefully and refuse 7AR planes are wheeling irregular
forces started to penetralo to recognise the state. The above my hotel. Navy
Jewish
await the They were promised land must the her units are moving on been In that bag had
thrown out.
of God, they
say, and Rawlings-a man who actually ration book and identity card.moonlit Mediterranean. In May 1948, when the state they spend their days la prayer looks like Sherlock Holmes. He No one came forward to claim Empty taxis are roaring of Israel was proclaimed, the and study.
ahlực Light Infantry,» has the height, the lean checks, or renew-thewon
through the streets on their Jews found themselves opposed
the fighting
Resilent-General of the
Kibbutzes. This however, created a Morocco Gilbert Grandval, whose way to be army-tested for by seven Arab countries, Egypt,"
Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and formera
Fond as the French stormy rolga thare lasted only roadworthiness.
Jordan had armies on
Everything is done on co-opera-problem. Israeli
tive lines. There is centralised are of resounding street names, two months, plans to enter politics territory. Saudi Arabia and
Mendes France." supporting them education and medical care for they could not quite rise to Rueen a supporter of former Premier Yemen wore
children, and communal feeding. du Shropshire Light Infantry. vocally,
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It is part of Israel's way of keeping alert,
wis
Then there are
יין
The time is midnight in
No one has pocket money. Some steamy Tel-Aviv and the
liberal. Some left Kibbutzes are
heat,
wing. All of them constitute a con- despite air
In 1949 the war of libera- fighting unit inside a farming dif'oning, has driven me on tion," as the Jews call it was co-operative. Hand grenades are to the roof for a cigarette. halted. Atmistice agreements
tossed into their wedding cere I can almost see the length were signed with Jorden, Egypt, montes, Children are slaughter- and breadth of this tiny, Syria and Lebanon The Jewe
ed if they stray too far afleld. places round brand new state that can be lost their holy
It is impossible to guard each the Hebron. yard of Israel's frontiers. The hit by its enemies from 360 Jerusalem and
They gained Galilee,
nerve- Kibbutzes, hard-tried, degrees round the compass.
the rocked, do the nearest thing. Imagine it. Drive 300 miles from Syria in the north to the head of the Red Sea at Eilat-that is Israel. At its fattest its girth is Lurely 70 miles. At worst it shrinks to eight. The coastline stretches about 120 miles, with a dangerous strip about 30 miles the flashpoint Gaza strip.
This is one of the many flashpoints on the. Arab. dominated land frontiers. Seawards the danger comes
commando from
gangs paddling their dynamite into Israel by canoe from ships that, in the past, have shelled Tel-Aviv.
If I listen hard enough I might hear a water well blown up inland. Or a set tler's family wiped out in a burst of sub-machine-gun fire. Situation normal-for Israel.
Nations Relief Works
all Tricklest of Gaza Strip. Egypt occupied that and, administers the 250,000 Palestinian refugees. The Uni- ted Agency feeds them. The area is barren and unproductive, so the Jews do not want it.
attention of her starving
MILT.
A Churchgoing Nation
·
A vival
From NEWELL ROGERS
New York. They are wartime friends. He GREAT spiritual re- wants to keep their friendship on this level in harmony with is sweeping the "Genova spirit.” America. Six out of 10 Americans now belong to SEVEN out of every 100 US. homes with TV aerials on Again, there are cosmopolitan some church.
the roof have no sets, The mast A hundred years ago the is to make neighbours think Jews teeming down the baking streets of Tel-Aviv. Bronzed figures were two out of 10, they have one. And 12 out of
100 motor brict says the National Council of every
cara with inen in shorts, carrying The Egyptians have no in-
cipes; girls with Lollobrigida Churches of Christ, report radio serials have no working
of 250 radios, tention of trying to make it
haircuts and snazzy off-the-ing on membership La
religious bodies, a useful shoulder blouses.
are fighting productive. It frritant and battleground. Here
churches gamned BUSINESS- men Protestant hard- too are
Dthe toll roads. These Jews
Owners of is Egypt's chance to divert the working, confident, ready to put to reach it total. DE 57,000,000. Pestaur
1,286,817 new members in 1954
stations, mate, and Fellahin. from their domestle on uniform at the ring of the
Roman Catholics goined 927,071 restaurants along the free figh to reach 32,000,000. Jewish ways paralleling toll ronds face miseries and whip up the old telephone.
The Arab state has never bodies gained' 500,000 to reach
ruin. The New York through- anti-Jewish feeling throughout
been formed as visualised. By 5,500,000.
way has already cut 30 percent the Arab world.
boycott, iniltration and in-
More than 37,000,000 children of the traffic on parallel route.
No. 20. Premier General Deposed
cidents around the frontiers the and adulte go to Sunday schools, says in his
So the Naguib
autoblo-
Route 20 Free-way crazy to fight Arab world hopes to wear Israel six percent increase over last
teaders year.
Association is issuing 500,000 shifts from EAVY buying on the never booklets to advertise the scenic frontiers claim. So tension needio them
one end of the pint-sized coun- nevar plan is wrecking hap- advantages of their roud and slip commando raiders in-
try to the other.
piness in U.S. homes, says REMEMBER Cohn and Schine, country.
the youthful Red-hunting side the
in white-family relations UNO truce teams painted jeeps rush from srtillery Semple. She had to help 320 team went to Europe by Senator bombardment
familles at Norwalk, Connect McCarthy? to machine-gun Now fields of wheat diep duels. Local commanders glower cut-10 percent more than inst
other across barbed year. pear overnight, stolen by pirate at each
What she found: People go .hire- harvesters from enemy territory, wire, sometimes make short. deeply in debt on
They cut down on purchase. Farmers may be ambushed by lived local truces. Then It starts 100 infiltrators hiding under their "we were
up all oger renin
clothing, and children's ipso food, io collapso going
needs. And then trouble trees. At any time every – fruit fut be prepared to rush we would have done it in 1850 between husband and wife.
the "liberation war," the сит от commandeered bus in
military service on the Irraclis tell you.
raphy that 11 a wer with the Jews. Better down, so the Jowish
one
by
for Sibee the British started to border. withdraw from Palestine the
Jews have had a score of run- ning fights on their hands.
In, November 1947, when the United Nations agreed on parti- tion in the form of a Jewish and an Arab state, the "army
on the
They did not, They believed that they could Uck all ~-the Arabs in the Middle East, They still do,
A million and a quarter Jews have been living this way since 1949. All sorts
of Jews they
In that respect they feel they are,
can even afford to be light There abo true orthodox types in round hairy hats, full hearted, men whiskers and frock costs. These
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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN.
SUDDENLY-A HOLE APPEARS IN THE WALL-NO SOUND ƒ THESE GUYS WALK IN--TIG ME UP == MAKE ANOTHER HOLE IN THE VAULT --- THEN GO----
WERE YOU SOBER WATCHHANT
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oficer Grayen
H9 many citizens of this democratic republic of 160 million people are "In society" Society anys 17,000. A new Blue-book the List of THE PRESIDENT frowns on
publication of official short hand notes on his Geneva talks with Marshal Zhukov, Russian Defence Minister.
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
I NEVER DRINK," HE WAS ONE OF THEM--AND HIM CHIEF. THEN,WHEN
THEY LEFT--THE
HOLES CLOSED UP-
LIKE THEY NEVER
· HAD BRIN/
THE CREEP GANGI WHICH ONE MADE
THE HOLES?
NEITHER ONE, IT WAS AFAT LITTLE FELLOW
*THE
WITH HEAVY GLASSES : TOURIST
TALKED FUNNY--.
Wealthy David Sching, now 27. and Onishing his national service as an army corporal, has lost his civilian job as head of the Roney Plaza Hotel, at Miami Beach, Florida. But be
not need
worry the new owners pay $500,000 a year for it to his father..
DEJOINDER by New York
radio station WNEW to Sir Washington is a city of bad Jacob Epstein's criticism Chat "Perhaps ho refcered status: to the absence of any Epstein, statues... most Americans are
Lincoln by: pleased Memorial."
the
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