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GREEN
HE Defence in a murder trial is not compelled to suggest some plausible alternative cause of death any more than the Crown is compelled to suggest some plausible motive.
But if it can suggest a motive,, the Crown does improve ita chance of securing a conviction--and if it can suggest an alternative cause of death, the Defence does improve its chance of securing an acquittal. There is always danger, as seasoned dofenders, know, in leaving a jury alone with the thought: Well, how else could it have happened?
It
Especially when the outcome is so dellentely poised as was throughout that memorable court battle which took place at Leicester in the June of 1920, and has its own niche in criminal history as The Green Bicycle Case.
UNFORTUNATE CHOICE
Ronald Light must often have cured the fate that prompted him to buy such a flamboyant bicycle. Had it been lese distinctive and conspicuous, the odds are substantial that he would never have stood in the dock on a charge of murtiering Bella Wright.
Oh yes, certainly, he had criemmtered Bella on that sunny summer evening (though it wasn't until a later date he even learned her name). He had gone out-on his green bleycle-for 4 spin round the countryside, had come upon her having trouble
orthodox her-mere
with
her
machine and stopped to lend Krow the general assumption of spanner and nsslet, had his gullt. Presently, to come for- then ridden alongside her, in word would have seemed almost to making a full civil conversation, to the nearby tantamount Jime of Belta's uncle, where confession.
not she called, had rejoined
Light, therefore, could her when she came out-relatives bring himself to reverse his looking on-nod ridden off course. He now took active and
In her ugaln
company, back positive measures to conceal his towards the town.
tracity. And these measures very achieved completo Bella nearly Only 39 minutes later, Wright's dend body was found ruecesi, lying by her bicycle on the glass verge of a lonely lane between two and three miles away. She had been shot through the head. A revolver bullet was pleked up a few yards from the spot,
CYCLIST SOUGHT
promptly
BICYCLE
Circumstances may have 'con- spired againg Light, but
ho
neized every chance of joining the conspiracy himselt.
At his
the full effects of this trint, were felt. Not only the circum- stantial evidence, but his dis- sembling silences, his furtive actions, his untruthful Rinte- mente--each and all hind not to be explained. And If ever the explanations seemed to fall- er or fall short—as even genuine explanations have been known to do--that dangerous question lay ready to intrude itself. Well how else could it have happen- ed?
Light's defender, however, was to point a way.
Morshall Hall's peculiar faculty for cross-examining ex- pert derived in part from his extensive range of expert know- ledge. He was specially familiar with firearms and their use-in actual practice as well as the mere theory and, having ec- cepted the brief for Light, he
by Edgar
The tow-rope raised into the bargeman's view the battered frame of a graan blcyclo.
Lustgarten
SABUBU
conducted certain pracilcal ex- bullet, which for some moments he had been examining mder perimenty of his own.
his own Irma. "Look at it closely and tell us what is that maric
The firm conclusion Marshall
Bella Wright had been already dend eight months and the un- detected green bicycle had been
when Belf-forgotten
a prosaic destiny Instrument of
Inter vened. The low-rope of a burge gliding through a canal near Leicester Surtdenly jerked and Ifail hnd drawn from these upon it."
not momentarily raised into
Wright could the that Bella
been shot at close range the bat inve bargemen's view
either by the bullet in the road or by any bullet from the re- volver Light hast possessed on service powerfully influenced
Wos
The
police
and tered and water-worn frame of naturally acted on the Informa- a green bicycle.
conal
forthwith tion given them by Bella's rela- tives. They announced that they dragged, and the bleyele yielded wished to interview the 2372 with the green bicycle.
the
that rond was the last I saw of her? Why Instead dk Light de- liberately keep -mum?
Expert
Why didn't Light come for- ward? Why didn't he tell the detectives there and then story he afterwards told the Jury From the witness box? Why didn't he say: 'It's quite true I was with the girl when ahe left her uncle's, but we very soon discovered that our Ways diverged, I kept on towards Lei- up. From a steret identification edster, she took the other road mark. the police were able to her back disappeuring
down establish that it had belonged to Light. The canal also yielded up a holster containing live m munition exactly corresponding His explanation can. be com with the bullet discovered near the body of the girl. From its pressed into one word. Panic.
It was widely assumed from survice, origin, the police were the start that the police need able to establish that this holster look no further; the man with also had belonged to Light-and the green bicycle and the mur that he had as m Army cfficer, derer munt be one. (Motive owned a revolver in which such might not be clear-cut, or even ammunition could be used. evident, but a comely giri and a lonely Jane
At first Ronald Light, now were sufficiently
met suggestive.) Light-a former more panic-stricken still, shell-shock victim-look fright the challenge of events with and hesitated-Aid, of course, blank deuials. Nat his bicycle.
the Not his holster: Never had the longer the man with green bicycle turned a deaf cur green bicycle. Never met Bella to the continuing hue and ery, Wright. Hada't been in that dis- the more deeply entrenched.trict on that Saturday.
FERDINAND
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
THEY'VE REACHED THE ISLE STRANGE LOOKING PLACE, 4-NOT ON THE MAD-
YES,SIR. REMINDS ME OF SOMETHING --CAN'T THINK
WHAT--
LOTHAR, DRIVE A STAKE INTO THE BEACH AND THE UP THE BOAT. THEN JÕIN US.
The gunsmith peered pondered.
on Johnnie Ray's dressing table
By
JOY. MATTHEWS
blurb on the cover
Tell us that the book
is "the cad's-eye view of debs,
plebs, show
girls,
shop girla, and blondes in the platinum and highor- specific weighta."
Mr Ray, who has escaped the knot (excess for a period of seven months when he was married) once went on record with: "I love her... but she deserves a man who btn_la more for her than I can."
of his audience, gove them time. "Suppose it to have been fired
the label I would have a from a rifle. ratge, wouldn't it, of at least a thousand yards?"
Clarke believed it would. "And at fly or sixty yards, it could penetrate an inch of deal?"
Clarke belleved it could.
DISTANCE THEORY
now
the
Point Four-and harvest to be reaped,
"Supposing the shot to have
In the book this comes under "DUTIFUL PLOY," with which is given this speci- men statement: "These are the best years of your lite, my girl. And I'm not going to let you waste them on me."
'Hateful'
WHEN he didn't marry Sig- WH
norina Novells Paragini, o picturesque portrait painter re siding in Rome, Mr Ray said: I'm going to learn some good Italian swear words that I'll use next time we meet."
been fired some distance away said Marshall Hall, "and that In its fight it came into con- and tact with a fence or tree; atid
Compare tils with the then struck someone on the "HATEFUL PLOT"-the book's rond. Wouldn't you expect to example reading "It's over now
with a few find that bullet feet of that person?"
"You see the mark?" "Yes," Clarke said, "1 see it." "It's a rifling mork, is it not?"
under
the
which means bitllet has vasged rifled barrel?"
fire
-over for good. So long, shrew, and don't show your kisser in any joint of mine."
When "not strictly engages. lo zinger Sylvia Drew Ray Raid: "I love that girl-i love her like heck. But, öh dear, oh der. I'm all mixed up about 11.”
Note the book's equivalent quotation under the title the TEARFUL PLOY": "No, no The gunsmith thought through | Cynthia, for goodness' sake, I the supposition, stage by stage. I can't take it! 1 must yes I Yes, he finally answered, must go-now-right away?".
that that through a
it is possible."
Light himself
Clarke said. "It's a to line of questioning when he
confront Mr Henry riffing mark." came to Clarke, the gunsmith for Crown.
"In this bullet
was which picked up in the road of a type common use that has been ever since the Boer wor?"
"It is sold Clarke. "Would you like to any how
thousands of many have been made?"
"I wouldn't"
a rifled Increase
A
did much win in ultimate sequittal
to
by
"Yes."* "Whether in a rife or the transparent frankness of his oti oath. But the barrel testimony revolver, does
the foundations were fald and the enormously
stage was set by Marshall Hall, millions weapon's range?"," "YCB"
when, with superb court crafte Point Two gained and the manship and technique exper- sharper thembers of the jury se, he forestalled the jury's where unspoken question. "Well, how it have happened?" else could beginning to apprehend the frall was legding.
with the plausible alternative of
"But," said Marshall Ball, "they are made in thousands of millions, are they not?"
The witness agreed, and Point One had been quickly gained such a bullet might have been hired by countless other hands.
"Now look at it closely will you, through the microscope," Marshall Hall passed back the
I CAN'T GET OVER THIS PLACE-NO BUSHES --NO ROCKSTREES
·WITHOUT BRANCHES OR LEAVES-·OUP»•
That bullet you have there could be fired from a rifte os
"Yes," Clarke said. well as a revolver?"
Feint Three--and the slower up. Marshall Jurors catching Hall, with a virtuose's command
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SWISSAIR
But joyful Johnnie still has plenty of time to
practise the ploys he's 30 and the book says that between 80 and 40 a man is mora or less settled down to bachelordam, but still In peril from snipers,
'Playful'
DATTERNS of bachelor behu.
viour civen in the book and still to be used by Mr Ray: The
"PLAYFUL PLOY": "There's many more fish la the sen, as the old saying has it, And you're stlii attractive enough to get yourselt another feller."
or the WISTFUL PLOY": "I shall always cherish your memory with affection. Please don't spoll it now."
Or the "THOUGHTFUL PLOY": "This, my dear, is the way of the world. We must meat like ebriets and part like planets,"
Or the "FORCEFUL PLOY": "I'm a plain man, and reason ably honest one; I couldn't fo on living a life of pretence with
Fort."
Any girl who's out to be more than good friends-in the légal sense, of course-with a practis ing bachelor like Mr Ray. had Letter buy the book. Or better stil, employ some ploys of her owni,
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THE MAN Who's been dita good friends with a notre in more of, girls has danÉ ANG one thing that nobody' ever doen. He hdë takoj advice. And from die of thiye. Xlow Not To Do It books · Jóhante Ray, that romanilo “ory baby" of sobe, bass, copy of "low To Avoid Mairimony”” on his +de+sning-rooni, table, al Khm: Palladium. How upę 'li tarta ed out to be fa- shown.
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