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SCIENCE AND A
MURDER TRIAL:
"OPENING OF GUTTERIDGE
CASE.
Mr. E. F. Lever has a strong.
square face. He is an incisive and persistent cross-examiner. Mr. F.. Pawell, who is defending Kennedy, is young, skilful and extremely alert-
Mr. Justice Avory, the famous criminal judge, was as always, soft ly spoken, dignified, and firmly im- pressive. Sometimes there is a nap "DRAMATIC_SILENCE AT OLD in his voies when he correcta cour
sel, but usually has sterner moments are revealed only by the cold gleam of his compelling blue eyes.
BAILEY.
THREE TRAGIC WOMEN,
Invoking the aid of the camera and the microscope, Sir F. Boyd Merriman, K.C., the new Solicitor General, maintained" at the Old Bailey that the bullets which killed Police-Constable Gutteridge on an Essex high road during the early morning of September 27th of last year must have been fired from a revolver found in the posacasion of Frederick Guy Browne
Together with William Henry Kennedy, Browne stood in the dock charged with the murder of the village constable.
It was a masterly address that
opened the case for the Crown, an address as simple in language as it was dramatic in" substance.
Every sentence contained a thrill, but it was the scientific demonstra- tion of the Solicitor-General with an Army Service revolver that chiefly impressed the crowded court.
Displaying the grim, black weapon, Sir F. B. Merriman told the jury, which included three women, that just as no two finger. prints are alike," are the file- marks made by a gunsmith, on the breech shield of these revolvers different in every case, and owing
to the enormous pressure caused by the discharge of the cartridge these file-marks are plainly reproduced on the base of the shell,
ed.
Cartridge Marks.
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TROTSKY "WANTS TO GO HOME.
RECONCILIATION · TALK.
BERLIN
It is stated here that Trotsky, the former Soviet Commissar for War, who is now in exile, has asked the Moscow authorities for permission to return to that city from Turkes- tan to superintend the publication of his works by the State Presa.
The statement is regarded na mare At the beginning of the trial his surious than the tales of Trotsky's Jordship told the three jurywomen assasination or flight which have for three or four days he would which was traced to a Russian news- that as the case would probably last lately been in circulation, one of release them from the jury if they paper in the Baltic provinces, so wished; but none of the three which owned that it had published jarywomen shirked her respon-it to fool people on April 1st. sibilities.
When the court adjourned the jury were taken for a drive to ob- tain, as his lordship remarked, the benefit of the fresh air.
[Both prisoners ware found guilty and sentenced to death.]
It is further stated that Trotsky's ed in Moscow, as the present policy request is not unfavourably regard- of the Government, especially in the peasants' question, is similar to Trotsky's, and thus a reconciliation between Stalin's party sad the banished leader is a possibility.
TWICE SAVED FROM BEING AN INVALID FOR LIFE AFTER THE DOCTORS HAD
FAILED BOTH TIMES.
POO ON CHINESE HERBS CURED HIM PERMANENTLY,
Doctors advised amputation of arms in 1817 to prevent death from blood poisoning and the second time cat out tonsils and ex- tracted all teeth to cure rheumatism due as they thought to injurios. Man testifies that at both times Poo On Chinese Herbs were the only means of saving him from being an Invalid for life, relieving him of terrible pain,
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C. W. Owena, who now lives at; The following testimony was 920 Leon-street, Modesto, Cali-given by Mr. Owen in 1917 when fornia, U.S.A., and who formerly he took the Foo On Chinese Herbs
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Speaking in a clear, musical lived at 551 Wolfe-avenue, Turlock, for the first time: voice that gripped the court, the March 20th, 1917, I left
California, said recently On Modesto
Mr. Owen said: "Last year, on Solicitor-General, continuing call on science to support his argu- was engaged in a logging camp as
to for Tacoma, Washington, where I September 20th, my arm was hurt from a fall. I then began to suffer ment, added that a shell found in head loader. I worked at this great pain in my back and the bot- a deserted car stolen from a doctor trade up to this year. It was on
tom of my left foot began to swell. in Billericay contained the file January 1st, 1923, while working on
My ner grew smaller, from 12) marks seen on one of the several wharf, that a truck backed and inches to 5 inches, and my weight revolvers found in the possession of struck me. I fell and landed on
leh from 185 pounds to 145 pounds Browne.
Further, P.C.Gatteridge, said my right shoulder and leg. My in three months. The pain was so Sir F. D. Merriman, was abot dead right side was badly injured and were that I could not sleep at later on the company's doctor aight; sometimes only able to sleep. with a type of ammunition now examined me and ordered me to go five or ten minutes at a time. I very scarce, and cartridges of this to a hospital. I was in the bos- would have to sit up or keep mov- rate make were found in the posses-pital three months and during this ing about to feel easy and get relief, sion of Browne when he was arrest-time eight physicians examined and and could only lay on my right treated me. Each had a different side. My left hand and arm were For two hours the quiet voice of the Solicitor-General related one of opinion, but the majority thought practically useless. My left foot
was suffering from rheumatism,
was so bad that I could just drag the most dramatic narratives ever
due to my injury. Then they de
it around. I doctored with six heard in the Old Bailey. So silent cided I might get help from drug physicians spending $400. They was the court that the slightest less treatments, but after taking told me there was no hope for me Bound came as disturbing inter- rupties, and a whispering barris- them for a while my condition was to get well. I took the medicine. ter was rebuked by Mr. Justice even worse instead of better. The from them but it did me no good. physiciana then thought that I had | At last one doctor told me my arm Avory, who complained that the whisper echoed through the court. pyorrhea and catarrhal troubles would have to be taken off or
and advised that my tonsils and would never get any better, and Smoothly, relentlessly, the case teeth be all taken out and this was there might be a chance for my far the Crown developed, some done according to their advice, trouble to grow out by itself. I did times with grassome details.
Then my hands and joints all over nat want to take the chance of Blended with the statement alleg my body began to swell and I got losing my arm and then not recover ed to have been made by Kennedy, declaring that Browne shot the stiff as boards. My head ached Poo On Chinese Herbs Company, wored and worse. My wrists got as ing. A friend told me, to see the policeman, was the story of a vil lage dog barking round a dustbin. and I bad pains all the time all and find out if the Chinese Harbs Mingled with the recital of the find. had that I could not sleep at night. heard of other cases similar to mine over my body. My pains were so could benefit my case. He had ing of human blood on the running My appetite was absolutely no good being cured. I really did not have board of the deserted blue ear from and I could only drink a little milk much confidence in becoming well, Billericay were descriptions of
or take a little light food. I could but on the strength of my friend's Browne's moustache, whimsical
not lie on my back or on my side. advice I called on the Poo On descriptions by a blunt witness, who If I did my breath would be cut Chinese Herbs Co, to learn what caused Browne to chuckle" in the short. At times I could only lie resulta I might expect from the dock.
on my left side for 10 or 15 minutes herbs treatment. My brother and but this was the longest as my pain my wife took me to the Poo On aroused me. The physicians at the Chinese Herbs Company, assisted hospital tried all they could to give me into the place My hand and me relief and to cure me, but they arm were practically useless." said they had done all they could, could not raise it to put it on the and that I could only let nature desk without assistance, and could have its own course, as mine was only drag my left foot. The first an imposible case it was some dose of herh tea I drank that night, thing unusual to them and they sleeping soundly all night, and exhausted their ability to bring me felt better every day. Now I have satisfactory results. They said that no pain, sleep well at night with Nature will take her course and out any trouble, and my arm which the trouble will wear itself out. had shrunk from 12 inches to 61 Then I began to think bow badly inches is now filling out and is over & soft biscuit-coloured collar. He was when in Modesto, in 1916, 9 inches I can now use my hand
Six Wardera.
The two prisoners were accom- panied in the dock by six warders and a doctor. They were separated by two wardern."
Browne, a dark man, with smooth nently parted black hair, and a greying waxed moustache, wore & navy blue suit, soft collar, and blue tis. Frequently he chatted and amiled with the nearest warder.
Kennedy, a blonde man, with thin yellowish hair, was dressed in a brown suit, with a brown tie and
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Pathetic, Widow.
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weight. been married a few months, sat in arms must be amputated or I would Herbs for three weeks, I was able the corridor outside the court with die of blood poisoning. After re Mrs. Browne, a middle-aged wo latives and friends recommended to plough two acres of land and not suffer any ill effects. I now FYIN to take the Poo On feel fine!! Chinese Herba I decided to try. them.
Thousands have been made well I was then a complete nervous wreck and a cripple and by the Roo On Chinese Herbs which had painful sufferings. After tak are simple and harmless. Catarrh, ing the herbs for three weeks I went Kidney, Stomach Trouble, Dropsy. Eczema, to work on my uncle's anch and Indigestion, Gastritis, could plough two acres of land a Blood Poison, Diabetes, Bright's day and chop wood. I have been Disease, Lung, Bladden, Constipa- well man and enjoyed the best tion, Tumor, Ulcer, Hay Fever, of health and had no illness of any Malaria, Nervousness, Rheumatism, kind until this last accident hap- Coughs, Throat Trouble, and many On January 1st, other diseases without poisonous poned to me. 1925, I weighed 196 pounds and drugs or knife. when I left Tacoma I weighed only 127 pounds When I arrived in Modesto "I was on two crutches. I
A pathetic figure in black was Mrs. Gutteridge, widow of the shot constable. Pale and thin, she was supported by a woman friend in the witness-box, where she broke down while replying to the ques- tions of Mr. E. F. Lever, Browne's counsel.
He wished to know if the deal policeman had quarrelled with a man who was now in a lunatic asylum Mrs. Gutteridge struggled to say that she knew of no such quarrel and no such man
"Take her home now," ordered the judge kindly.
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was unable to get into the house THE POO ON CHINESE During the afternoon the public of the Poo On Chinese Herbs Com- composition of the court changed pany, without help. After taking People, mainly young man who had the herbs in the neighbourhood of waited for hours in a queue to gain two weeks, I threw away my admission to the small gallery over crutches and now I am able to the clock opposite the jury box, walk naturally. My wrists aXA found their places taken after free from all swelling and stiffness luncheon by a new company which and all pain has left me. I sleep" well every night and eat everything included several young women, ja
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walk one or two miles a day with- Many women sat in the body of out distreis or difficulty. My only Hong the court, and among the large complaint is that I cannot chew number of counsel present were because my teeth are all gone. I three women barristers. One of eat things I am able to without my Office them, Miss Enid Rower, ant behind teeth and everything digests find. Mr. H. D. Roome, who, during the My case seemed so impossible and later houre led for the Crown in so many doctors had given me up. the temporary absence of the Bolici- I certainly feel that the Poo On tor-General. Mr. Rooms is a clever Chindie Herbs have done wonders. counsel, with piercing' dark eyes for me. I cannot say enough to and an engaging voice and manner.
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