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KENTISH WOOD MURDER.
ACCUSED MAN SENTENCED
TO DEATH.
JUDGE AND SUBMISSION BY DEFENCE.
The murder trial which arose out of the discovery of & child's body buried in a wood at Ruckinge; Kent, concluded at the Old Bailey, when Arthur James Faraday Sul- vayo (3) was found guilty and was suntenced to death. -**
Referring
the
of
SINKING OF THE IRENE.
MAST NOW VISIBLE ABOVE WATER
ory * Mummy," Mr. Justice Maenaghi ten said he thought the jury must accept that there was a sound which came to the cars of Mrs. Gudden and Peter. The jury, how- Four years ago to the day on ever, might think there was not which the as. Irene was sunk in sufficient evidence to satisfy them Bias Bay by shellfire from the that it was the voice of Ivy or that submarine L4, a report was made she was then alive. The ovidoneo to the Commodore from the co with regard to the bloodhound was manding officer of H.M.S. Storm cloud that the most of the vasaci inconclusive, but it did increase, the whs visible. It has boon obscrved presumption that the murder car projecting above the surface in route taken Bias Bay,
It was on October 21, 1927, that ried the body along the by the dog to the grave where he the Irene was being taken into Bias Bay by pirates who had seized con- buried it."
Speaking of the allegod state-trol when she was called upon to stop by the L., on patrol duty in" menin by Salvage, the Judgo said the vicinity.
To extract à confession the police. know quito well is contrary to their duty. They know quite well it is
Salvage was charged with the Murder of Ivy Godden, aged eleven," whose body was found buried near his bungalow at Ruckinge..
He gave evidence denying the their duty to wain a person whom charge, and stated that an alleged they bave arrested and charged confession that he did so was un-that he is under no obligation to true and was made by him because any anything at all but that if he he was fed up with questions does it may be taken down and naked him by police officers..
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The pirates refused to obey the order, and after warning shots had been fired, the Irene was sunk by the subinarize. Since that time no trace of the vessel has been visible until now,
An action for damages, brought against Lieut. Comdr. Halahan, who was in command of the L.4, but it failed it being held that the officer used in evidence. It would be acted in accordance with his right-
ful duties. Mr. Marston Garsia, addressing gross breach of their duty to at-. the jury fore the defence, said he tempt either by threat or by hope divided the evidence into two parts to induce a man whom they have that relating to the alleged con-arrested to make any statement fessions, and the remainder of the prejudicial to himself. You will ¡evidence. sny with some con- fudge from the way Superintendent lence that if it had not been for Robertson gave his evidence whe the alleged confessions you would ther you think he was a witness to navor, on the other evidents alone, truth, when he denied the allega have brought in a verdic of tinns made against him." guilty,"
With regard to the evidence of the. bloodhound, the Judge himself had
That an innocent man who is, ar- rested should make a charge against himself is not, you may think, in accordance with the experience" of mankind."
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The jury returned after an ab sence of 35 minutes, and Salvaga heard, their verdict without flinch. "In ä case of murder," Mring or showing any sign of emotion. Macnagöten continued, 'Asked if he had anything to say, Justice "and especially such a murder as Salvage paused for a few moments said that it was most inconclusivo. this, it seems difficult to suppose and then appearing as if making. So far as the goat hairs found on, that anybody should have held out an effort to speak, he shook bis the sacking ware concerned, many any inducement to a man to con-head.
After the sentence had been pass-' goats were kept in the neigh-fesa. It would be better for your bourhood. Even it. the sacking mother and yourself' is whated Salvage, responding, instantly eame from Salvage's goat house Superintendent Robertson, is alleg to a tap on his shoulder by the chief anyone other than the accused coulded to have said. How could it be warder, turned on his heel and easily have obtained it without be better for his mother or himself to walked swiftly across the dock and ing poen. The other evidence re-confess untruly that he had done down the stairs. Mrs. Salvage left, lating to the ropes, the knots, and this dreadful deed? It seems diff-the court before sentence of death the charred fragments of a hat was cult to see, assuming the prisoner was passed. It is understood that is innocent, how there could be any, she did this at the request of her equally inconclusive.
course for him but to protest be- so0.
Allegod Confession
Mrs. Gedden thought she heard her daughter cry
" at Mummy 5:40 p.m. on July 3. She was not. certain about it, but thought it might have been a presentiment, But Ivy's brother Peter said he heard it, and it could not be. imagined that two people could. have presentiment. "I submit there was a cry from that little girl about that time," said Mr. Garsia, "but it did not come from Sal vage's bungalow," or Mr. Stutch- bury, his neighbour, would have heard. It may be she was struck down elsewhere by somebody other than Salvage."
Salvage's explanation that he had confessed when, it was not true bo- cause he was fed up" with police questions might not sean very logical, said Mr. Gersia. But was it not possible A man in his position," said "Mr. Garsin,
"who had not committed the crine might say, I am sick and tired of this. will say anything and nothing will happen, because I have not done it. Do you think a man, who has committed a crime would say that I say he would not."
Mr. Gerold Dodson, replying for the Crown, said that the circum- stances under which the statements were taken bad. been criticised. The underlying suggestion, "al though it was never definitely ne serted is that these confessions were wheedled or cajoled out of him, that he was questioned until, out of weariness, he made a full con fession, and that under the banda of Superintendent Robertson ha was compelled to confess. It in only fair to say that a more genial police officer than, Superintendent Robertson. it would be difficult to imagine, and that the police officers stoutly Bony the allegations.
Is it possible you can accept
| his explanation given yesterday that the confessions were a series of falsehoods uttered for the benefit of his mother It is two months since he was arrested, and there has been no word of retraction until he goes. info the witness-box.
Summing Up..
Mr. Justice Macnaghton, sum ming up, said he had seen no ronson to exclude the confessions after herring the evidence and
| cross-examination-of-Superinten
Bent alobertson, no, this the gase
now came before the jury in cir- cumstances which included a con fession of guilt by the prisoner.
fore heaven and the police officers The sentence was later commuted that, dark as the case might be to imprisonment for life, and against him, he was innocent. Salvage was committed to Broad-
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