NEWS FROM BRITAIN
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1959,
Last Minute Pleas
A Bernard Harris INVESTIGATION
Could Not Save Him The caller who offered
AT
London.
Tnine o'clock one morning last week, while London's work-bound crowds were streaming through the Spring sunshine, Ronald Henry Marwood walked his last steps on earth, from the condemned cell to the execution shed in Pentonville Prison.
Petitions, appeals, last minute plens had failed and Marwood was paying the penalty de- manded by the law of England for having stabbed a policeman to death.
As usually happens when a man is to be hanged, a crowd had gathered outside the prison Bales. Sora were there out of morbid curiosity to gaze ut the blank walls behind which, as the clock struck nine, a man would die by the legally prescribed method.
The other people in the crowd were demonstrators. They h co to the grin lortress in T Ahabby London oren to protes against the whole business of Naptal punishment
By PETER BURGOYNE
The explanation later given to the Italian Embassy and graciously accepted-was that The Green Jackets Brigade were surving Overseas when the Hallan entry in the official band parts of "National Anthyma of All Nations" was brought up-
10-date.
Artistically-minded colleagues green Jackets assure me that on red face; match nicely,
In the mean streets, the at- In Mercy's Name
At
rosphere was explosive.
the Then a man wore stolid pollee posted to keep The police grabbed him urder. and hustled him, kleking and punching, into the cordoned-ot approach to the prison.
From death in the course of justice to death in the name of inercy.
The whole vexing question of euthanasia
WHS
Aushed unce Into the
open recently That was all that was needed more to turn the crowd into a mob. when a Leicester doctor told a Hissing and screaming their Rotary Club gathering that he hysterical hate, they surged had once elven a lethal drug to towards the! police barriers e dying patient. outside the prison, to be driven back by mounted police.
Police reinforcements rushed to the scene. But they were hardly needed. Above the
tמ4 זנו?
On the heels of this admis- sian came a stalement from
pathologist Dr 47-year-old Charles K. McDonald, chairman of the Euthunasin Society, that
which knew would shorten life to patients dying in Intoler
is nothing able pain. This exceptional-1 think there must he very few doctors who hove Cene the same Sort of ot
nhouting and cursing a elock have personally given drugs tolled out nine
and. magically, the crowd fell silent. In the hot silence of that voice grimy street a man's rank out! "God rest his soul." Of the nine executions carried out since the Homicide Act of 1037 (mited the sorts of kliling for which a man might be hanged) I have told you of this one beenuse never before have heard so much question- ing of rupliol gainshinent.
thing."
will
For all that, I am one hundred
cent certeln per
tho the of Firituin government
ever in the foreseeable future gislate for euthanasiu.
Moral considerations apart——— The scale of the disturbance and they are many and strenX outside Penlunville Prisou is, 1 there could be no guarantee believe, some measure of that. That the motive in every death the name of Round Henry Marwood had perpetrated in
mercy. stabbed an unshined policeman, rullenasia would be who courageously was trying to
break up a street fight, and had
left him to bleed to deuth on the pavement,
A jury of his fellow-eltizens
Osborne And The Press
mouth (a pre-London try-out) some people walked out and others slept, come to the Palace Theatre both things are easy to bellove."
Now that I has
Critic Milton Shulman of the
Evening Standard observed that the first night audience "seemed to be about equally divided be (ween those who loathed it solltely and those who hated it audibly,"
Osborne's sumining-up of the erities' reception was typical:
to set me
for life...
up
AT 8.15 p.m. the floorbell rang. I knew who the caller was. He had come to my home by appointment. He had come to show me how to obtain "lifetime financial independence" by building my own "large and profitable business."
llo was going to tell me how, starting with a few hours a week of "pleasant, part-time work," I could en- joy an "excellent Income" for the rest of my days.
"I have had the worst notices Those were the attrac- since Judas Iscarlot."
have
had been me in 4
BUT ON SECOND THOUGHTS
I DECIDED TO LET MY CASH
STAY `RIGHT IN THE BANK
which tions The bad notices cun
Inrgest organisation of Osborne, dangled before been no surprise to
from the Master kind in the world." For not only
per-letter
With the letter was a card formance booed, but some angry Vending Machine Company
fac Inviting me to apply for further theatregoers slayed behind after- | Limited, which has a
na "with absolutely words to jeer at Osborne as he tory in north-west London details left the theatre.
-London Express Service). and describes itself as "the obligation."
the wag
I see for myself
Cocktails For The Stationmaster
by ANNE SHARPLEY
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1
its
"But how is it going to make me financially independent life?" 1 Inquired,
for
•
""}
am The
I applied. Back came another letter. It said, "We are greti- hed to learn of your interest."
sold But the details? Those, the Arm, could be conveyed unly "by means of a personal discussion. So one of its staf of interviewers would telephone me to Ax an appointment.
And now that was his shadow 1 could sen through the frosted pañes of the front door.
He provod to be a man of early middle age, carrying bulging briefcase. lie had breezy hanner. Re pleasantly, rengsuringly.
SATURATED
"Simplc," he said, personally convinced of
coundness of the scheme which I am now going 10 outline to you."
From his case he drew a type- written sheet headed The Master Homie Cigarette Cabinet Potential Profit Analysts."
"Look," he wald, *3 his stubby tinger sought the figures. You buy 60 machines from us
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PRODUCTION
RFEND
nt £8 each. That's an invest apologetically. "But it does the country. It would require much ment of £450.
"You ll each machine with
trick."
The letter explained
capital."
to the
"Capital wouldn't
I said, " 100
be any per
30 packets selling at 1s. 114 "dear felend" that i had been probl:m," which brings you £2 18. 9. specially appointed by the arm cent could be earned so easily. You make a profit of about 25s an operator" and would soon packet 05 We Bull the be calling to "let you use, absɔ- spoke cigarettes to you wholesale fer tutely free, the most beautiful home cigarette cabinet you have CV scen ..... coin-operated,"
I went on-
"You'll be the envy of all
COUNTRY railway stations have always seemed
As we settled down to busi- to me to have the best of both worlds. Rural).
neis over a whisky and soda he We were quiet and ample means of escape.
asked my cerupallots, 11e standing in the middle of the track at Godstone inquired about the state of my
He wanted and for two and a half miles in each direction the bank balance. steels stretched with a brave, bright disregard of decision quickly, dazzling woods and green, inviting fields.
"Terrlic, Isn't it?"
said the Britain's youngest
master
Seldom has any theatrical had found him guilty, and the production taken such o panning law, enacted by the elected re- as was administered last week presentatives of the people, had to Golden Boy John Osborne's isken its determined corey, excursion Into musical comedy. And yet never in such a ense The show was called "The have heard the principle of World of Paul Silckey" and had capital punishnient brought inta its central character ("hero" questiori to widely.
Le certainly not the word; an
likable newscuzer columnist. Hemoles, as through a sooty could indeed The fart that the most widely gun-barrel, ene read chroniclers at the gloss and catch the sunlight at the other Glitter sct pre the Daily end of the tunnel. Express,
Right Country, Wrong Tune
The Italian succer team which played England at Wembley seeined to have little sense of
grinned They
0:
escaped few.
But the hammering handed out by the, eritles was in no way revenge for Osborne's puke at Fleet Street.
now if I could come to
to
Apparently satisfied with my answers, he drew a photo album station-from his case.
£2 13. l.
"But what about yourself? You're a rengible fellow. Why do you travel hundreds of miles week in that litla car‘öt yous trying to persuade folk like me to become 'operatore" when you could sit comfortably
дад al hcing
run your own
"Su if your friends buy 20 cigarettes T
each day from machine you mike a weekly proat of just over £8. or £314 your friends with this enchant chain of cigarette machines? 4 year. If the sales are 30 aingly unique and lovely home day you make over £9 a week appilance...
ir £472 a year."
"A profit of £472 on investiment of £453 is more 18m 100 per cont #year," I sald. *Sounds awfully good. doesn't it?"
'YOUR JOB'
The
So then, once "Don't you also want toine and for all, away with the blens - youror!! Anantially ridenestept ed annoyance and frustration of for life?" searching the house high low
and not. Anding smoke anywhere."
and
The voice became harsher.
VITAL CLAUSE
my
I wondered it any of my friends were likely tu run out of cigarettes to the tune of 30 whlic and the new
I am wasting lord of all that surveyed steel.
every day, Wouldn't they stock "Look down the tunnel. It's edging one of his staff of six is That, he said, showing me one of the pictures, is a bubble-
up at the local shop! He had time," he growled. Abruptly he machine. 1,327 yards long but you can giving to the platform.
This on
"No difficulty If pushed the photo album back "It's a minute early," says gum
Interviewer brightened an answer. see the daylight at the other
Mr Clark as the express rushes indicating another glossy photo- end."
splendid," he wild. I don't home, Lower middle class la back to his car he had his final ccross England from Hastings to graph-is for the &t my enthusiasm. "It's really you choose the right sort of into his case. As I cavorted him Birkenhead.
sprays them with scent Here's know where you could possibly best. They're the ones who like Aing" must say I dislike your attitude," he said. He let In the clutch and was gone. equal It," they put another which sells
the
cards.
in a coin.
greetings
um
"But where am
buying a home."
DECISION
At Cudsione and next-door Nutfeld, three and a half miles
going to William Hickey and Well now, if all that shining up the track, which is also in Daily Mall's Paul Tanfieldtrack is your responsibility and Mr Clark's domain, cleaning. "That's the sort of thing, we and 50 people willing to instal
gardening
one of these machines in their you're not 23 until July, and repainting and
Is he been making,” he went on.
tromes?" I asked. "I suppose
the in them
Now came
moment of " the market have Just going on. British Railways
well saturated. basket of homing pretty
ou provide the ailes?"
declsion. The Interviewer pushed cautiously announced that you're
Perhaps a
another document over to me. probably the youngest station. pigeons has arrived, usually from going to offer you something
"Oh, no. That's your job. It was an order form. ever mastered a minster that
instructions much better." North with
You and the customers and The critic of The Times station
these In
to when they are About
And ho turned to another spend a few hours a week going which has no cause to leap to you've got three hats with the released. Or a horse has to be out the Italian national anthem. the defence of popular colum-golden, words station-master loaded. A complaint answered. picture showing a simple little round to collect the money and
keep the machines filled. The Englishmen would have nists, wrote of the show's embroidered оп them-life is It is all as quiet as though been grinning too, had they "extraordinarý dullness," and bound to seem pretty good.. rallways had never been in- known that what the bandsmen commented: "They
that Say
Your enthusiasm is sure were playing was the anthem of when
World af Paul make your station seem a little the old monorchist regime. Slickey was put on at Bourne- brighter, the trains a little more
punctual.
occasion the milliary band of the cruck Greva Juckets Brigade pounded
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DEBONAIR
So it is with Mr Conrad Clark. And when trains pull into God stene station
passengers see his new shoes platform. hia
-barck"
his hand, they're apt to wonder whatever has come over British Rallways.
Nor is that all. For if you look beyond the neat, brick square of the Biatlon building you will see a small hous, of that infer- mediate size between a cottage and a country residence, settled comfortably in a fruitful acre of orchard and lawn, The station- master's house,
"Come and fight your way through the Jungle," invites Mr Clark, opening his garden gate. He has the debcnair, throwaway air and the half-frame spectacles of a young executive who knows he's brighter than his job, Ani he is a bachelor,
chose the wallpaper myself," he days,
wwving towards a printed arm of prim- roses. The carpet is going to be red. I'm getting a three-piece Butte, n cocktail cabinet, som coffee tables and TV chairs, And a dining-table with siz choirs. BIG MOMENT
Hire purchase? Not this young man. I've paid for it all straight off. It's one of my principles,"
I
Then how? "I've saved. started as a clerk in the railwayr straight from school when I was 15,"
-
PROKLIPI
"Lovely view of the station from here, Lon't it?"
4
It was a lovely view but I rather think he meant he'eruld keep an eye on it all the time from every room in the house. We had returned to the station
its big moment.
for
The
Birkenhead express, through Godstone disregarding
coar
be
vented. Will the rural charm hold, one wonders, for this alert young man?
cabinet.
"What is it?" I asked.
In
Back Indoors I had a closer look at some of the literature he had left behind.
Two lines at the foot of the order form cought my eye.
"The purchaser," they read,
"Just a moment," I said. " " not to rely on any repre- sentations, promises, or other Esame your company 13 business to make a proft. If, inducements purporting to be as one of your friendly opera made on behalf of the company whether verbally or in writing." But we shall help you. We tora, can make 100 per cent "A coln-operated cigarette provide you with alette to
profit on my machines, why Just as well, I thought, that machine.
"Do he Bald.
you send out to likely prospects in doesn't your company Instal 1 had not relled on the induce- smoke? Does your wife smoke?! the arch you choose."
them itself and keep that hand- ments hold out by my visitor. Don't you know how awkward
some profit?"
My dreams of "lifelme finan- run you
out of From the briefense he drew a it is when
cisi independence" had that- The suove voice grated a little, tered. But I went happily to bed copy of the letter. I noticed cigarettes?
"The administration would This machine is the answer. It started, "Dear Friend." Mr
be too big for us to do it direct. Knowing that my £450 was at If your lends instal one
lenst ante in the bank home they need ever out You may not think much of We would have to set-up, distri
contres All over the of cigarettes."
Eight more moves have yet to be made at an average of three years spent at each before he cun dream of Waterloo. Clark is looking steadily up the In-the-Verlosure -London Express Service).
at
the way it's written," he "cald,bution
REJECTED
ROYAL ACADEMY 1959/
"Maybe everyone's had enough messages for one week, Alphonse.{{.
-(London Express Service];