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MURDER LAW
Magistrate Urges Reform
A plea, for the reform of the law of murder is made, by Mr. Claud Mullins, the South Western police-court magls- trate.
"How much longer," he asks in "The Law Journal," are we lawyers going to tolerate a
there system whereby be only one sentence for all the manifold crimes embraced by our law, of murder?"
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D.L-Daventry," Traus. I. D.II-Daventry, Trans II. D.II-Daventry. Trans II. H.I-Holland-India.
most glaring example being the suicide pact. Other coun- tries had legalised varying degrees of murder.
Com-
Vienna City of my Dreams- 9.10-Programme of Netherlands Sieczynski); Solveig's Song (From songs and musk (HI). 6 p.m. Dance Numbers (Record-Peer Gynt" Grieg: Wiegenlied 9.15 The Fifth Fox-Trots Sweet Is The Word Kiss" Smetana).
"Der Kuss" (Cradle Song The Commentary by Howard Marshall
For You: "Blue Hawaii (From 'Wai- 10.32 p.m. Haydn-Symphony In kik! Wedding)-Eddie Carrol and C Major ("Military"). The Casan! Club Orchestra with
Played by the Vienna Philhar. vecal retrain: Tango-Echos Du manic Orchestra conducted Passe: Waltz Although Jean Bruno Walter. Tapponnier's Ballroom Orches-
11 p.m. Close Down. tra Fox-Trots-A Foggy Day From 'Damsel In Distress"); Nice Work if You Can Get It (From 'Damsel in Distress')--Car- roll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans with vocal chorus; swing | Music-Way Down Yonder In New Orleans: Ain't Misbehavin'---Max Abrams and His Rhythm Makers; Fox-Trots Silver Salls On Moon- lit Waters On The Bridge Of Sighs-Ronnie Munro and His Or- chestra with vocal retrain; Tango Con Canto-MI Musa Campera
Madrecita From Boliche'); Pompeya-Orquesta Tipica Fran- cisco Canare; Waltz-You Got The Best Of The Bargain; Fox-Trol My Heaven In The Pics-Jack Harris and His Orchestra „vocal re- Irain by Sam Browne Waltz The Girl In The Alles Blue Gown; 'Fox- Trot The Pretty Little Patchwork Quilt-Jack Harris and His Or-. His question is prompted by the chestra Vocal refrain by Sam "grim story of the unhappy wo- "What justiäcation." he Browne; Fox-Trots-Blossoms On man" who appeared before him tinues, can there be for allowing Broadway (From the Film); I Etus committing magistrate and the threat of a death sentence to Love To Kiss You Goodnight was subsequently sentenced to hang over the accused for weeks, (From '52nd Street')-Carroll Gib-death at the Old Bailey on June often for months, or for compell- bons and the Savoy Hotel Or. 124 for dropping a baby from the ing its recitation even when the pheans; Fax-Trots---Throwing Pea-¡ window of a moving train. A few trial judge himself will be the first nuts To The Moon: Toodle-oo-days later the Home Secretary re-person to advise a reprieve?” Brian Lawrence and His Lana-jcommended a reprieve., “-
* OPTIONAL PROCEDURE downe Orchestra with vocal chorus The law placed this woman, in To avoid placing an impossible the same category as Bedɗon- j burden on the trial judge Mr. 7 p.m. John Goss and The Cathe hanged in April, 1912. for the Mullins would recommend only dral Quartet.
murder of Eliza Barrow at Tolling- | one alternative sentence that
indeAnite Haul Away, Joe; What Shall Wejton Park, N-declares. Mr. Mullins, of
detention. That Do With The Drunken Safer who adds; "I do not complain, would merely be an enactment of" | <Arr. R. R. Terry); Blow.The Man but I do protest against the the present practice. He would Down; Tom's Gone To Hito (art.hideous formality of a death sen- not recommend the phrase "dur- Terry); The Sailor Likes His Bottence in such a case as this.. ing his Majesty's pleasure," for it tle-0;"Clear The Track, Let The VARYING DEGREES OF MURDER is not true Bulgine Run (Arr. Terry); Ten "Is it not time that, apart; The procedure fie suggests Thousand Miles, Away (Willan); altogether from the difficult pro-would be optional and elastic. Agincourt (Willan); Here's "Ablem of capital punishment, we "Where the full facts are not Health Unto His Majesty' (Harris). lawyers, especially those of us who known at the arrest or at the first
betare 7.15 p.m. London Relay-The have to take part in the trial of appearance
magistrates, The first stone of the Strand Fifth Cricket Test Match England murder cases, should use our in- the case would proceed as now, but Bridge was laid on October 11, 1811, | v. Australia,
Huence to obtain a modification (as soon as it is clear that execu-" and the bridge was renamed after A commentary during play by both of the law that demands ation could not be justified; the Wellington's Waterloo victory in Howard Marshall from Kennington sentence of death in all proved prosecution would inform police- the inscription on the leaden
1815,"
Oval, London,
cases of murder and of the bar-court or assize-court that the al- piate.
Contemporary records state that 7.40 p.m. Musical Comedy, - barous and untruthful terms internative sentence would be asked Describing the find a workman the foundation stone of Comish | "Bow. Bells" - "Selection * (But which a capital sentence 18 for. employed on the reconstruction granite was lowered op the Surrey Ivan). Intro:-Mona Lisa; Builder | worded?"-2 said:
ide of the Thames "wer an ex-of Dreams; All roads lead to Dow · Mr. Malins points'ont that There was
great, excitement cavation containing gold and silver | Belle-New Mayfair Orchestra; The our law of murder. embraces when the plate and foundation coins of the reign, over which was Miracle Of Wichsow Careless many" crimes that the min)n- stone were discovered, because fixed a plate commemorating the Rapture"---Ivor, Novello, orch, and structed layman would never there had be much speculation cyent.
art by Charles Prentice)—Drury regard as murder at "all, the
Stone
The original foundation-stone of Waterloo Bridge-sought "ever Since the new scheme for the new bridge was decided upon-was found recently during excavating near the south abutment,
Below the bed of the river. hidden amid a mass of piles, the stone was discovered by a gangster,
It still bore the leaden plate as to the actual whereabouts of the by Brian Lawrance. which was placed in position in original, stone. 1811, and the inscription was easily discernible.
Behind the plate on the founda tionstone was a glass controller. about 3in. long, hermetically sealec and in an excellent state of pre- servation.
The container was found to have. hidden in It 13 coins, mostly of gold and silver, all of which wrapped in olled silk were.'well preserved.
A parchment also, tightly packed inside the glass told in brief the story of the founda- tion stone laying and repeated
"The plate, about 12in. by sin.
| was soiled with age and dr ?rator:.
THE STRAND" BRIL ¿
"The Inscription coz. ined the name of a man wh、 was an ALP.. at the time the stone was laid, and a reference to the fact that it was for the Strand Bridge. The date was 1911."
"In some cases the executive might not feel able to decide until after the trial so occasional sentences of death and reprieves would occur, but they would be
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Hospital's SOS For 'Iron Lung'
Doctors Make 70-Mile Trip In Response
Despite an $.D.S. broadcast for the "iron, lung,” and a car Journey of 70 miles made by two doctors with the necessary apparatus, a nine-year-old boy stricken with infantile paraly sis died at Ipswich recently.
He was Reginald Gill, son of a porter at the Ipswich Hospital, of Berners-street.
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Many telephone calls and telegrams were received at the hospital resulting from the 3.08. Two doctors left the London Hos- pital, Whitechapel, E, for Ipswich with a lung. They did not learn of by TH. Gill's death till they arrived at the hospital.
While they were on their way seven, doctors and six por- ters worked in relays to give the boy artificial respiration. All this time Reginald lay in a tiny room at his home, too to be moved. C
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Sir Henry Gauvain, Medical superintendent, gave instructions that it should be prepared at once for transportation, before it was known that apparatus, was being sent from the London Hospital Earlier, at the Lord Mayor Dr. Langley said "The child was Treloar Hospital, Alton, Hants, It taken suddenly 31. To get an 'iron was stated that there was one hung with greatest speed was our patient in an iron lung." There one hope. There are only about "Was" & spare apparatus.
half a dozen in this country.