THE CHINA MAIL, - SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1955.
Concluding Great cases of the Grant Detectives of Today
BEVERIDGE goes
into action!
TODAY'S detective CHIEF SUPERINTEN- DENT PETER BEVERIDGE - 56-year-old member of a well-known Fife police family. He has just retired from the Yard and is to live in Edinburgh, where his only daughter is a teacher of music Before foluing the Murder Squad he was chief of the West End C.I.D.
by PERCY HOSKINS
M
URDER springs from one of five obsessions envy, jealousy, malice, greed, or revenge,
Envious people, it has been saki, are devoured by their own disposition just as iron is by rust.
Few cases in my experience illustrate the truth of that saying so adequately as the triple mystery of Matfield.
Three women died in the garden of a lonely cottage on the Tonbridge road, near this secluded Kent village.
ONE WITNESS'
WHILE the Battle of Britain raged over-
head for it was a July afternoon of 1940, and 39 Luftwaffe planes were brought down that day-a telephone rang In the cottage.
No one answered,
Death hud come to the three women, not through the Luftwaffe, but through the barrel of a rabbit gun.
THE scene is Holborn during the war. A man raises its hat to a woman. They talk. He in Chief Superinten- dent Beveridge. She is a murderess.
there, shot between the temple
It was Mrs Hardet Gibbs who and the right ear.
inade the telephone call.
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She
the mother-in-law of Mrs Dorothy Sanders Fisher, who occupied the cottage with her 19-year-old daughter Freda and a middle-aged housekeeper, Mins Charlotte Saunders,
When she could get no reply Mrs Gibbs sent her gardener to find out why. And he found- this:-
WIN
lying shot
FREDA FISHEN across the orchard path, through the back.
HER MOTHER was sprawled
across
TL wicket
gate,
The only living witness of this frenzled triple murder whimpering dachshund.
Wig
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For in the orchard he found a left-hand white høgskin glove. A woman's glove.
Mrs
h Fisher,
discovered later, lived apart from her hus- band, though on the best of He now had a Peter terms with him. Yard farm at Piddington, near Oxford.
Chier Superintendent Beveridge of Scotland found the coltage in choos und among the debris A tray of broken crockery. You and I would have ignored tt.
ONE GLOVE
DUT dour,
paltent Beveridge Ď tht not. He took that tray of hundreds of
shot china fragments,
through the back (it scented she had seen her daughter killed and had tried to escape),
CHARLOTTE SAUNDERS had, apparently, come face to face with the killer at the door of the cottage. She was found
them, and pieced them together, And he found three cups and saucers? No, FOUR.
Who WIN this guest
for whom tea had been preparet" The murderer? Beveridge was soon to know the answer.
Boveridge drove the 70 miles
even left the farm.
the woman servant,
she
"Ank will
toll you the same," sald Mrs Ransome.
got UD to
Beveridge Casunily he pulled from his pocket, a white hogskin glove.
Would you mlad trying this on?" he asked.
Beveridge saw it fitted fectly.
JOURNEY INTO SPICE
Rockets will bring back the facts
RITISH scientists are to up more than 120 miles to find per-more
about the fringes of
Bare big rockets
He questioned the CT-
vand Mrs Ransome's own space.
mother,
He asked the woman one final question,
Was she certain that her daughter was at the farm at the time of the murders? Sho was not certain.
ONE BARREL
DEVERIDGE drove back to Metileld in time to join the tate Sir Bernard Spilsbury, Home Office pathologist, at the post mortems,
Sir Bernard had barely begun. before he said: "These are not revolver wounds. They were made by gunshot."
And then Beveridge recalled seeing a farmer's 410 single- harrelled shotgun few hours
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The information is vital -110- before manned space-flight can be attempted. John Bodle and science re- Artist
porter Chapman Pincher here chart the path of the rockets through the known and the unknown.
This much is KNOWN Above the height of 15 miles the rockets will be,bombarded by cosmic dlust.
ray's and meteorie
The summit of the flight 13 about 130 miles below the level of the earth satelllie project.
Two years
cariler at the Piddington farm. Instruments in the rockets will Beveridge now set out to get measure temperature. pressure, proof that Mrs Ransome bad and the speed! of the upper been in the neighbourhood at winds
The time of the crime, And
within 24 hours Yard men had The rockets will be fired from tinced 13 people who had seen the desert range at Woomera womon in blue slacks carry-Australla, or from Britain's new in a long, narrow, brown-paper rocket range in the Hebrides. parcel.
Supply Ministry scientists
They hod scen
the hope to build them within two her in and at right place
the right years. Then university scientists, the ied by Professor Harrie Massey, time; and she answered
will plot results. description of Mrs Ransome
to the farm and there he heard T
ONE ALONE
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another plan
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STRATOSPHERE
This much is SUSPECTED. Scientists think that a certain vapour into the atmosphere and in New Mexico.
Scientists will scientį, under glow in the sky-the altglow-watching to see whether the try to make artificial moonlight, just ajunced. Is due to minute amounts of the glow becomes brighter.
Some of the British rockets, Sueltorms cari affect the Moclaim IS was it, Beveridge drove metal
In the upper So a rocket to blast sodium too. may
blast out sodium earth's atmosphere and radio, for the first time
and teraphle communications. back to Piddington.
Mrsatmosphere.
vapour into the sky 60 miles up vapour. They believe they can prove will be fired in Florence Iria Oulda Ransome, a Ransome had gone.-"to Bec
October from STORMS on the sun are to be A cent warning agency whi this by ejecting more sightly bullt,
closely by So on to
sodium the White Sands proving ground watched
world issue wd alerts. aumurn-haired ductor In London," widow of 35 who acted as London. secretury-manager.
of Mrs
an
He picked up her trail as she She was, he was told, in bed crossed the City to keep
ՏԵՐ covering from bruises re appointment i Holborn.
But eventually wore a light costume and hat, reived in a fall. answered some questions. he SEW her
and she and brogues, and now she wore brown gloves. She carried Yes, she knew the Fisher small holdall, and she was family well. Very well, She alone, often visited them, to be given the FOURTH cup. But no, she had not been to see them on the day of the crime. She had not
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CHINA TRAVELS ALONG
THE RUSSIAN ROAD
1 was standing close by when Beveridge stopped her outside a stationer's shop, He raised his hat politely. And no one knew, in all the crowds in Holborn then, that at that moment murderess was under arrest.
It was a premeditated crime. Three
weeky earlier Mrs Ransome had asked a farm-Soviet Union, About this
later she asked how it worked.
а
to be shown
T
HE road we shall take is the road traversed by the
made
By STEPHEN GARNETT
USSR.
formed. Formidable
are claimed to be
to disopra là the great purges laly one determination to destroy natural capitalism” of the penis, No victory over circumsts or opponents
"Purging and
be
hand: "Is that gun of Dick's (we have not the slightest to everything to be more scaned up by expelling 170,000 ever claft without the warn- farm-hand) dangerous? Would doubt." That it kill anyone?" A few days claration
was the de- "political." To' be political, it members. Stalin pushes forward that dance must be main- by the is explained, is to be aware nationalities policy and the tained on increased, and that leading theorist of the Com- of the acute struggle. That imeuitles, sten always in terms Party a State must
equipped onsure. it. munist Party of China, Liu is for the ordinary citizen or of "oppositionists" ond "class Shao-chi, when he reported countryman, for
the man enemies," on China's draft Constitu- who has not yet learned to THEN
PHEN she asked if she could tion to the newly-elected think of sowing his crop or National Assembly in mending someone's shoes
been sufficiently or teaching mathematics as a political activity.
SIX SHOTS
barrow it-to shoot rabbits.
She returned it on Wednesday,Peking in August, 1954. July 10. The day after the murders,
vvercome.
consolidating its ranks, stroying the enemies of
By and relentlessly It le assumed after the death combating istortions of the
For the minority in the Com- at the Sixteenth Party Congres Chinese eeches and leading
have been done.
The
or Lenin that agriculture has Party line,the final words take a sharp tura to "Socialist Russian
revivified to of the preibed chapters of tory are today Industrialisation with the First echoed faililly and repeatedly Now a man or a party does
Five-Year Plan. By June 1930, in It was also a crime of frenzy, not necessarily dominate
munist Party itself there is Stalin declares:
We are on
These
Apters of the con- Mrs Ransome shot Freda Arst history just by saying so.
eve of the transformation of our vulsions ofore than 20 years and then her mother. Sho Nevertheless.
more specific educational drive, when the The standard of appreciation of country, from an agrarian to an ago, in otherland, reloaded and shot the mother power of a modern dictator- Marxist-Leninist principles, it industrial country, and by certainly nithe whole answer again, as she lay on the ground. ship over 600 million people often complained, is far from January 1933, this is stated to to the only of China in 1955. The Idea thChina would avoid Then she retired to Freda is gathered, in ostensibly what it shoud be. As long ago
the mistal and excesses of and fired two more shots into pyramidal pattern, into the Chapters
as July 1053, the study
Russian 12 of the "History
Cmunism is sti alive, thou it grows fainter. hands of a group, it is use of the
was made com-
There are derences in the field of operatio which the most pulsory for all members of the Chinese Communist Party, and
elaborate tiles of "universal Its theoretical corollary, the truth" will rdly overcome: to from time to time reminders collectivisation of agriculture. are still issued, The road is a
was not (says the official history me only, Chinese agricul
ture does map is with masterly Russian road and the
provide millions understatement) of kulaks scapegoats furt Russian also. What signposts "just a peaceful process." does it provide?
failure,
the girl's sido. Sho killed the housekeeper to get rid of the only possible witness.
Her trial lasted three days. Sho
found guilty was
and sentericed to death. But she did not hang. She was
Inter certified insane
to scat Broadmoor,
and
ful to bear in mind what in Soviet munist Party of the
intended.
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"Whither China?"
may
Jen
an
The
Was
campaign against the private ownership of land, dramatised 1 still be the world's most The period covered by the "the
Of aliminating NIGHT years later inmates of open question, with every chaptens
class," E"
now considered vital time kulay
China is that Stalin's answer to the crisis in Broadmoor put on a play discussion dogged by the for Communist called "The Eari and the Girl," hopes and fears of the people m 1921 to 1934. It starts, in grain farming, followed logically and this is part of the notice outside, and little means of Soviet Republic,
the official pictorious in which with the bych
But whats thought to be a crisis in livestock farming,
difference, the of which appeared in the
insuficient fundamental Evening Standard
knowing the hopes and fears the revolutionary war, turning marketable surplus for the aril- aptarian as opposed to ja of the people inside.
to heal its wounds and rebuild ncially growing towns and proletarian rolution, seems to "One of the most outstanding
a shattered economy, while at threatened that "tho
be somethin) whilch the rulers army and performances of the night was What we do know is that the same time dealing with the the urban population would be of China are trying to forget, piven by Daphne Brent, She played the part of a fair in this year of lightening attacks of "all kinds of counter faced with chronic faming," It and indood
revolutionary elements."
19 generally belleved to have aro
not ground dog trainer's girl friend skies, the population of
cost at least, mix million lives Warnings, and did so with an aplomb that Chim is not, even for a
and to have set back Soviet transformat without the
accomplish agriculturo for a generation, but
frightful that does not
dtructiveness of appear in the "History."
Stalinism the will do so. ・・ necessary What does appear, on almost
would วันเบน startled many moment, being invited by
experienced
actressca,"
Daphne
actora
and
Leniri'a New Economic Policy
Introduced,
They bllad to they can Their achoduled
But the rendanger of the big ambly in sinchuustralisk
its rulers to relax. Along- Brent? She would side the universal "vigilance"
mounting is have been better known to the demanded in a three wonien who died at Mat- campaign against counter relaxation offering incentives to every page of these chaplers, is tion is that I premises ou not
the hard-pressed peasants, per- tenson -- the alruggle against and dangerous miting private trade and small internal enemies, the detection primarily comic but political. Ithoughts, there is the appeal private factories. The Party is of the political rivals who were.
field as Mrs Florence Iris.Ouida revolution Ransome.
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