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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1960.
Today a China Mail writer begins a report on five classic cases of Murder Unsolved. They are chiefly killings in which the files have never closed; where even now the murderer is probably living. First call: Potters Bar, 13 miles north of Charing Cross. MANY people in Pot.
Bar believe a
murderer lives among them unrecognised.
A murderer strong enough to have knocked n hole in the forehead of railway linesman Albert Welch one icy night in November, 1947.
A man cold-blooded enough to have, eut his body into pleces with a hacksaw, then to have buried the remains in the mad of n golf-course pond.
And a man clever enough to pommit the perfect murder.
Or at least perfect so fer. For the les en The Pollers Bar murder the case of the revered hand sre not yet closed..
Searching...
Still open...
the file on
the
perfect
killing!
First consider the identifica- The other week I clon Connoisseurs of such affairs strolled arost Potters Bur golf will remember it for two striking course with Colin Barron, en-
Kineer at a local
bails,
band.
It
A was
gunsons
One because it presents a tory. classic example of the identifica- Bon by meticulous pollee work of a dismembered corpse long immersed water.
Two: because of the extra- ordinary cunning with which the killer erased every meros cople trace of his grisly work so that all the laberatory selence of Scotland Yard, and all the probing and questioning of some
found Albor
Welch's
MURDER
UNSOLVED
by Frank Entwisle
Part 1
Many leads were followell 18, an aquest jury was shesi Censittering it unlikely that! Could it have been a gang-war the considerable evidened, and pech butchery could, have been victim? A missing, business agreed that the mains were long without, leaving tiny, traces inan? A lost Bristol senoolboy? those of Welcis, Titat he was they refiratied for bone dust and
garden shock,
A length Dr Tearo an killed on the night of November human tissue inj nounced ibis 'man was 5ft, lin. 17 or carly next morning under shelves, between banis
to 514. Gin. tall, well built, pro- exactly a year before. That he (crs, truding lower jaw.. Thirty- was murdered.
six missing men fitted. Eventual- For crime students, this was a ly 35 were eliminated. One re- text-book nchloveniert: mained.
They asked house decorators **to repert if they had seen any- But as for the murder hunt thing unusual. They checked on purchasea of decorating material. in
Ho was Albori Welch, 45-...All pointed to the likelihood year-old railwayman who had that the killing happened
Bar. supported from near-oy Cran- Potters borne Crescent slx months signs of violence or burning on ald known to Scotland Yard
before.
Beneving the remains were
the course,
those of Welch was one this Statements
jury.
I was lying there in the motil
the mong
weeds.... white, and with long, manicured alis, he said. "I can tell you,
dreams
Jong afternoon; haunted my
in the after."
was working as alreraft fac
hot of buttercups clumps rough; motionless leaves in the tall elms behind the pond; a team express rattling through the heal haze along the King's Cus line, hiding for a moment the council house where Albert Welch used to live.
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No clothes
wax on such a day after noon as this, 12 years hefore. s.
were Calin, then a 14-year-old
of the world's most determined that detectives came to nothing.
TV
schoolboy
searching for
FATHEADS'
IN U.S.A.
U.S.A. UNITE
golf
They demand ‘a square deal for dads'
New York.
AFTER years of watching themselves featured as
The hand had been immersed 6ix muaths The water had wasted all inger- But a pelvis which had apparently been lying mud-covered and unnoticed at the pund edge was identified as male. The area was roped off while Thames police drained the pond and raked through the 311. deep sludge.
During the following days * foot, another hand and arm, and a torso were recovered. After a week's work: the head.
But this had been defteed by burning. There were no clothes. Some parts of the body were. never foundi
fig-saw
tho
a
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There-woce, nu
would obliterate his
Every appropriate, selentine was employed in the biggest investigation since the Ruxton case ten years before.
The police worked on sus- picions and theories which oven now cannot be revealed without of prejudicļng the possibility
future soluiton,
But still they found no re evidence to justify a prosecution. The murderer had covered his tracks with incredible skill.
proving It to a coroner's unother. Especially as Welch's wife belleved her husband and
The estate where' Welch lived left her after a family disagree was a few hundred yards from ment und
the pond. It was teduced that miner.
the killer had burned and dis- The police team inquired into membered the
then curpse, evory aspect of Welch's Bite carried it a bog cross
the They discoveren the following: railway and golf course to the Welch had a cyst on his head, pond, cunningly walking where Tests snowed the recovered skut golfers had been severely burned as 11 to tracks,
And so the case of the severed remove this identifying mark.
No container, no cutting hard remains unsolved. Welch had
complained ut instrument, were found, though pain in the faw. The skull countrywide check on ras And perhaps, somewhere in nowed sign of û jaw abscess. trucks that may have passed by Potters Bar, one man # lives
X-ray pictures of the teet trom was made.
with the horrible secret of how similar to plaster casts of the Welch's
pand
significantly The police team questioned all Albert Welch, railwayman, met
friends add many his death. inside of shoes Welch had worn. townspeople. They took 350 An enlarged picture of Weich statements perhaps one from was superimposed upon à skil- the killer utnong them. They ful reconstruction
the dug up from
gardens. They Look skull. The simtarilles were chimney suot striking,
analysis; There was also the wool's wages that Welch had not meant claimed-an unlikely neglect for a mere fugitive iron home. Appeals for Welch to come for- ward, a search for Welch in the coalfields, the publiekty of The murder search, all failed to produce the missing railwayman. There still remained the mani- state of the slim land Barron, Mrs
eured that the mur- It was clear
fatheads on television, America's fathers havejderer, who seemed to know the found by Colin
sald her husband had at last cried "Foul." They are forming a "Square course well, and must therefore Welch workman's hands. Bui Deal for Dads" organisation. Their aim: to local man, had carried the thick,
to the partly-drained fellow railwaymen sald Welch give the. American pop more prestige on TV. pond and buried 11 securely took unusual
beneath the slime, believing it that he used to sit and manicuru
nem at work. would never surface.
remains
But he had not foreseen the
setootbuy activities of Colin No prints
and his friends. It was their
can't cusioni to wade Into the pond
gott
care of his hands;
"He will write prufest letters whole neighbourhood in dark to the newspapers, petition the mess.
picket networks and
the This Is typical. The TV studios," said John Donovan, of type American father fulls oft
his car, New York, who is organising the ladders, crushes
And as for Angerprints, de- carry a package without drop-and feel with their feet for lost composition was overcome by a movement.
valla. Probably such now For years the US. father, ping it and gues to the office
technique of pumping the hand chemicals lato water eroded as seen in domestic comedy wearing different coloured socks. searching dislodged
fingers to re-define friction series on TV, has been a bumb-. Worse sull, his children and his and pelvis.
As pathologist Dr Donald ridges. That was partly success- Ing Incompetent rescued from wife ore beginning to believe
Teare pieced the human ig-ful. all kinds of blunders only by this image is a true one."
saw together Donovan says he has quizzed
al St George's But although they searched the ingenulty of his wife and
fathers in
his American Hospital, Hyde Park Comer, up children.
major ellies and found
Yard detectives Peter Beveridge signals where over.
he worked, and even examined the inside of a whelming potential of support." and Colin MacDougall began a
the laborious hunt through lists of radio he repaired, they found no to have expects.
men to establish the prints with which to check "A first," Donovan said, "it square deal" project working misung
However, on November was mildly funny. Now it is in at least six cities before victim's name.
Typical
positively exasperating.
He
mid-autumn-when nine ዘርንና
"The other night I saw Wit- domestic series comedies on the Bam Bendix in one of the Life "Life with Father" theme will
of Riley series, He tried to debut on TV,
mend a fuse and plunged the
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(5)
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1a Palindromic German. (4)
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hump? (5)
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but
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home, climbed
railway
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by Beachcomber
NOTE, for future reference, patience 35 A virtue. cpplies that shoppers are protesting particularly to the art of desi- | against bent
in a refined cucumbers. The ing with hot food Tomate and Cucumber. Board, manner. Nature has her own with admirable alacrity, has slow cooling process, All warned growers not to sell £rtificial alds, such as fahning crooked cumbers (or deform with the sleeve or blowing ed tomatoes) to wholesalers. would have been disdained by
Like a whiplash comes The Lord Chesterfield himself. If retor! of the Retail Fruit however, you blow, blow soilly, Federation. Apparently there unostentatiously, and noiselessly, are customers who like a con- like Mise Kelgwin." Miss torted cucumber, and judge an Keigwin blushed. octagonal lomalo by its taste
instead of by Its appearance. Mixed wheel-tapping Ant what about the giant Do OES the man who walks
polatces of Shepton Mallet, with along the platform tapping holes in them, which are being the train-wheels do anything exhibited in tho
Gallery as sculpture?
Risole Mio
Patterson else? This question, raised by
a correspondent, goos
어
the
heart of the matter. And are there any female wheel-tappers?
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so hard
his soup to cool a certain refinement to the job, it that a ripple overlapped the and might lead to marriages plate and splashed the table- based SA
community of cloth. "High tide at London Interests. A male tapper mar- Bridge," said Mr Whackstruw ried to a non-tapper" might well jovially, Mrs McGurgle frown- be reproached for thinking too ed. To
call attention," she _much about his job. ("You and sal, "to the bohemians manners your silly old wheels!") This of a boarder is an offence to good question is ignored in T. J. manners second only to soup Cleaver's "Some Aspects of blowing itself. The old adage, Wheel-Tapping."
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ticated, (5)
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Nothing to do with me THE man who ate prawns
the street, and was Aned for discarding the heada and talls and bits of shell, should have pleaded that he was taking part In a new kind of paper-chose, using the spare parts of prawns to lay the trail.
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