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THE CHINA MAI, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1957.
DEATH PENALTY FOR IRANIAN BELGRADE BECOMING
MOTORISTS
Law Amended To
Stop Wave Of
Violent Deaths
By JAMES NORRIS
Teheran, Jan. 14.
Any Iranian motorist found guilty of murder, after abducting his victim with intent to kill, rob or rape, will shortly be liable to a sentence of death without benefit of mercy from the Judge.
This amendment to the sentenced ti three years' solitary
criminal law of Iran, which was approved by Parliament at the Government's special request at the end of 1030, will come into offoot carly this year (1957).
Before the law was amended, if not prepaid a booking fee the Judge had the right to com- of 50 canta in charged.
mute the death sentence to life imprisonment in all murder Cases.
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Kontioned
ciaries,
́and 1950 led the Government to
take severe action against such criminals. They decided to treat this kind of crime as a special caso. In future, the Judge will not have the right to show any morey to highway-mmandørers.
NOT KNOWN
confinement by a multary court the for plotting to overthrow Shah and the Iranian Con- stitution,
Espionage, ploiting against the security of the state, sabotage, attempts on the lives of states- men or members of the Royal Family, and treaso
are all punishable by death under mill- iary law, whether the criminol Is à civilian or a soldier.
Those sentenced to death by military courte. face the firing
Under the civil quad. execution is by hanging.
PUBLIC HANGING
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EASTBOURNE MURDER TRIAL
Doctor Wins Wins
Important Legal Point
Britain, America and various
other countries.
Mry Morrell, who died in of Dr Bodisin-
The purpose of the defence in to prevent any public reference to other crimen of which the doctor li suspected,
MODERN CAPITAL
Belgrade, Jan. 14.
Belgrade, with its half a million inhabitants, is slowly beginning to look a more modern, more active and less poverty- stricken capital.
A Leaveller returning after fosalons, ranging from doctors. an interval
of, for example, at the top of the social scalo three years will notice many to slumbers and small "crafts- more vehicles on the streets, MT many new blocks of flats and offices and many more goods to buy in the shops,
By Westcom standards, Belgrado is sill a drab, over- grown, provinelal town with a low standard of living. Yet the discerning oye
can notice numerous signa of improve- ment today.
DO LITTLE
post-war
In the immediate years, a Yugoslav could do little with the dinars he earned. sinco many shop were virtually empty, except for picture of President Tilo,
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BASIC SOURCE
But, from tho Communist Party's point of view) these are not the people who moc deserve to
live well. The factory workers, on whom tho party looks on its basic sourco of political support, still have a siruggle to make both ends meel.
In spite of the low standard of living, which, according to sink in the face of rising prices, latest statistics, is tending to women have managed in
the past year to look better dressed in public, even in the present winter weather.
THIS pictures of President Tito are still there, not having
The small gypsy boys who been taken down as have the haunt the entrances to the main pictures of Stalin in much of hotels and be för dinars no Eastern Europe. But they are longer unerringly pick on the less noticeable among shelves foreigner from the West as stocked with goods for sale, their prayberBL150 of hla
clothes, Today,
they often, To take
some random and without result, accost examples, a Yugoslav can now Yugoslave. buy home-manufactured nylon
A stimulus is good stockings at 800 dinara to 850
dressing Canar
has been
President given by £1 (about
Tito, who in recent years han are also women's evening shoes; Unings his formal receptions in even- adopted the custom of holding sulfening.
berling),
A
Patr
There
A Suit complate with butions and thread: or thermos flasks for about 700 dinam (10, Bd sterling), these were unobtainable turee years ago.
The Iranian hangman works Eastbourne, Jan. 14. in public, and the gallows are
Dr John Bodkin-Adams, erected in the main square of
Eastbourne physician, 1050, was one an important town or
elty, an Execution, whether by hanging was today charged with Adams' patients. or fring squad, always takes the murder of an 81-year- The chubby defendant, smil- place at dawn, but
Bring squad tas no audience.
old widow, Mrs Edith and with his amali eyes wille
entered the sparkling, the hangman, who is usually a Morrell with morphine and room at a leisurely pace, cloa in be picked up.
heroin
In the two years before her 11. before inheriting a neat blue overcoat, and waved case_of_table amiably to his attorneys, from her a silver and a Rolls-Royce
the
Many of the murder, the exact number of which is not known, were committed by taxi- drivers. In several cases, the victim was a *Frombus, outside ✡
The
taxi- non-commissioned-officer of po- Mute loculos, etc., co purchase Jong term paynents oan be arrangoa,
driver took him to a lonely Uce, may be watched by early 21 China
Street, telepono fully in the Elburz foothills, risers. 27313.
north of Teheran, stole his wallet or brief case, which had been newly replenished
at the bank, and killed him to avoid future recognition.
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Some foreigners were robbed this way, but the thieves, whether comident of avolding recognition or afraid of the con- Goquences, stopped short of mutlar PRINTING of every description to- pluding Booklets,
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One schoolgirl who took a toxi because she was hate for examination at school failed to notice that the driver was going in the wrong direction
When she realised what was happen- and ing, she began to scream
the car into the jumped from rond, suffering severe injuries.
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to get out of the taxi when she was in the same predicament,
was raped and murdered. Her body' was found at a lonely spot just outside Teheran,
KIDNAPPING
There have also been cases of kidnapping for ransom. A well- dressed
man in a smart new American car would call at the school when the children were about to leave. He would tell child from some wealthy family that his or her parents had sent him, arid would then drive the child mto a country hide-out, later sending demand for
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Ety, the end of 1950, police had this crima wave under control, The new law is expected to stop it altogether. The amendment provides lite imprisonment for drivers whose victims do not die, and ten years for those found guilty of attempting such crimes or complicity in them.
But
runs
Under civil law in Iran, mur- der is the only crime which carries the death penalty, the
Army
Penal Oode parallel with the civil law, and Many crimes are tried by mill- tary courts. The most outstand Ing example In recent years was the trial, in 1953, of the former Prime Minister, Dr Mohammed Mossadeg, who was
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The
Melford prosecutor, Stevenson, outlining the case against Dr Bodkin-Adams sold:
ing dress,
All
In the Yugoslav keeping Belgrade.
M
home,
the 100, woman finds house- Httle easier in Electricity cuts are not so frequent as two or three ago, and porinble gas years, containers are available as an
The problem now is not so much how
to find something worth buying but how to make enough money
to buy alternative means of cooking. The Government le trying The average wife, however, the low standard of does not spend her day at which results from an home. She usually has a job monthly wago in of her own to supplement her
on November 13, 1900, to raiso death, Mrs Morrell had been under Driving Bodkin-Adatn's care. When she averigo died, the doctor_had_certifled | Yugoslavia of about 12,000 husband's salary. that the cause of death was a dinara (about £14 da sterling). A fow people, nevertheless,
cerebral thrombosis.
As the trial opened, Defence | Counsel won an important legal
point-testimony which is likely Whereas, the prosecutor said,
to appear to be excluded from the record the real cause had been poison-money both the public and press ex- will be heard in camera, withing, chiefly by morphine and comfort. herain which the doctor had category fromcluded.
administered.—Franco-Presse. but above
The doctor who read a list of 17 charges by the public pro- socution in a packed court room attended by leading lawyers and about 40 newsmen
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Accommodation remains unsolved problem and it is stili quite normal for more than ond family to live in one flat,
Coat is another problem. It stin 'takes wegler, und BOTIC. times months, to get supplies delivered to a private home.
Traveling to work can take a long time, too, because buses, trolley buses and trams are hopelessly overcrowded during
the
shay. However, new, Yügun-built trolley buses
are being put into service and the municipal trolley bus net- work has been extended to the town of Zemim, three miles away over a new bridge opened last autumn across tha River Save.
It used to bo common for trans and trolley buses to run without
indication of their route, number or destination, so that intending passengers had to dal the driver or conductor where he was, going. This defect of organisation has now been largely remedied.
SNOW IN STREET
The Belgrade housewife used.. to find that her garbage lay for weeks and sometimes months. before being taken away. Now, the municipal authorities collect It more or less regularly,
Three winters ago, BLOW drifts.
were allowed to accumulate even in main streeto and the city's communications were paralysed. Now, however, snowploughs appear while the snow is still falling and start toʻ clear tho streets--China Mail Special
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