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Scores of Murderers Walk the Streets
UNDREDS of people who dio in England every year, apparent- ly from natural causes, are really the victims of poison-
cra.
I have not quoted this sen- tence from à sensational crime novel. It was used recently by sober British newspaper In reporting an address given to a very august body of chemists by a very cautious expert. It is, if anything, an understate- ment.
The poison laws of this and some other countries are such. that the intelligent criminal. can, with little risk and not much more trouble, kill for pro- fit or hatred and still rotain his place in civilised society. There without doubt; scores of are, murderers walking the streets of London to-day.
The poisoner need not employ the "deadly, untraceable" exotic Stubbs Road concoctions which gladden our reading hours, though such sub- stances do exist and are known
Hongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL' 1, 1936,
ITALY'S WAR METHODS
to most doctors. But he can, and does, use poisons which are fairly readily available to most of us.
By A. P. Luscombe Whyte
murders. He had Hved with women in various parts of the country. Each had died with symptoms which suggested ordinary diseases. Postmor toms revealed that each had been killed by some well known polson.
Here is one detected case. How many have never bean sus- pected?
The list of similar symptoms Belladonna pol-
Is a long one.
soning can be mistaken for mania or acute alcoholism, nar- cotic polsoning for apoplexy.
Several poisons are almost impossible to trace. Amonitine, one of the deadliest of them all, la a good example. Even after a large dose the ordinary chemi- eal postmortem tests (should they be held) fail to show traces.
True, by taking a solution from the stomach and hajecting It into a rabbit its presence will cause symptoms. But it is an unusual poison-though obtain- able without vast difficulty-and even post-mortem doctors are
busy mon.
One or two polsona leave no trace at all.
One is not a
polson but a substanco in com- mon use by sufferers from a cer- tain disense. An overdose causes
decomposes before a post-mor- tem can be held. Another re-
As the result of a most re- grettable series of incidents,
Detected cases of killing by Italy's methods of warfare in arsenic, strychnine, antimony, Ethiopia are coming in for belladonna and the barbiturate universal scrutiny, not unmixed or other drugs are fairly com- with feelings of strong dis-mon. For this reason there is approliation. It is to be conceded a fallacious belief that these "popular" poisons are as fatai that all wars are characterised to the murderer as to the mur
charges and counter-charges, deree. This is not the truth. and it is thus necessary to weigh
"The poisoner who is brought to justice," said Sir Basl up all the known facts before
Thomson, former C.I.D. chief, passing judgment, Neverthe- less, it is difficult to escape the suspicion that international) usage is being lightly treated by
Strychnine exists in many the Italians in their African
excellent tonics and In such campaign. In the matter of the KEY TO A CLOSED DOOR
preparations as weed-killer. It bombing of Red Cross units, Yesterday in the House of Com- Arsenic has always been the is a deadly and brutal poison. of the poisoner's favourite. It in Unfortunately, though, the Italy has endeavoured to ex-mcns there was criticism plain away these incidents by Imperial Airways from several easily obtainable in pure form, symptoms of strychnine poison
though standpoints, the most interesting to even though by law it must be ing,
characteristic, alleging abuses of the Red Cross Hongkong being that that air ser coloured with soot or indigo. closely
resemble those of on the part of the Ethiopians. vice should be extended in the Far And it exists in dozens of inno- tetanus. Recently a man was
Mavis Tate M.P.. No such charge has been laid in East. Mrs.
cent proprietary preparations. tried and convicted in California respect of the British units thinks the schedule should im Weed killers, sheep dip and for killing his "wife" with this
mediately-embrace Hongkong - and. Aaron which have suffered from the Shanghai. Apparently Mrs. Tate wood preservatives contain up-poison. Bad luck alone brought attentions of Italian bombers, is not aware of the obstacle. to 40 per cent. of white arsenic. him to justice.
When China will allow no foreign nation All have been used by mur- for the obvious reason that
to operate commercial machines derers, known and unknown.
Acute arsenic abuses would not be permitted over or in her territory. Her WHAT PRICE under the auspices of a British reason is that should she grant organisation solely concerned this favour to one, others would demand the same privilege under LOVELINESS? with succouring the wounded. the Most Favoured Nation Clause Some little time back, it was of treaties. China is afraid Japan pleaded in extenuation that the might have ambitions in the direc tion of aerial expansion. So that Italians had not been Informed is why Britain cannot land her of the whereabouts of a unit un-planes in China. There is a way til it was too late to prevent the out. Imperial Airways could or ganise in China a company with bombing, but it is to be recalled 1 per cent. Chinese interest, and that the unit subsequently again could operate it as a subsidiary. came under fire at the same spot. Lufthansa and Pan-American Air- So frequent have these attacks ways discovered this key to the closed door and now operate In on the Red Cross become that China. And in the circumstances, they can hardly be put down to when it la obvious that we cannot bargain for flying concessions with chance; indeed, so many eye-China, there is no mora need for witnesses of the incidents have hesitating to invite China-and and described them as deliberate American, Dutch, French that it is difficult to accept the German planes for that matter to uso Hongkong as an air base and so explanations sent out from add something to our prestige and Rome. On this point, we have prosperity. As for the Imperial the recent statement in the Airways connection with Hong-
recently, "has almost invariably been mistaken for one or other heart failure, and the substance proved to have killed other vic- of these. tims without exciting suspicion until he has grown careless."
Such diseases are compara- tively common. Murder is not There are three reasons why considered so. Who is to blame doctor for murder by poison is still com- the overworked
By paratively safe. The ease with stating "natural death"? which deadly poisons can be the present law he can sign a obtained; the fact that many of death certificate without ever them produce symptoms suf- seeing the body so long as he ficiently similar (to the hurried has attended the patient some
unnoticeable; and the rather lax system of signing death certi- ficates.
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kong, the Dorado ja already House of Commons by Mr.
operating and It is only a question Anthony Eden that the British of time until the service will be Government was quite unable to supplemented and accelerated, we regard as in any way satisfacbellove. The sooner the better, wo
might add. tory the Italian answer to B protest in connection with the
and
attack made on a British unit. this time, Rome must be fully But there are other incidents, aware of the indignation which quite apart from the attacks on has been created as a result of the Red Cross, which have these reports,
nothing aroused public opinion in short of the most definite re- Britain and elsewhere-the ter- butting evidence, coupled with rible destruction wrought on solemn assurances of an inten the demilitarised town of Har-tion to respect humanitarian rar, and the allegation that for principles in future, will satisfy seven days the Italians have public opinion throughout the been inflicting terrible injuries world. These are not matters
Ethiopian
two and which concern one troops civilians by the use of poison nations they are of vital im- gas. If the facts are as reportance, to all countries. If ported, there can be no question- adequate stops are not taken to prevent outragea of the type ing the fact that Italy is com-reported from Ethiopia, the mitting further breaches of laat vestige of humanity will international agreements. By vanish from modern warfare..
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cently discovered vegetable poi- son is 5,000 times deadlier than strychnine and leaves no traco. Botanists say it could be grown in the ordinary conservatory.
But perhaps the poisoner's greatest ally is cremption. Poison will remain in the buried- body for years, generations even, sometimes having a most remarkable preserving effect. But cremation destroys without trace. It has been suggested cremation should always be preceded by a post-mortem, or that bodies should be kept six months after for three or death.
that
BIRD COURTSHIPS
ABOUT this time of the year there is a certain liveliness among our birds, more especially
those whose thoughts turn to love; for, be it noted, there are bachelors and carefree old maids in the bird world as well as man's
the woman died, the local doctor thought death was poisoning, caused by tetanus. His belief brought about by large, fre was strengthened by the sight quent doses, is readily detect- of a deep eut on her arm, caused, able. But slow polsoning, the husband said,. by a garden- spread over weeks or months, ing tool. Such a wound might produces much the same symp- well have been responsible. world. toms as those of food poisoning, When the police followed up peritonitis, gastric ulcers, colic this man's past they discovered or even cholera. It has often no
fewer than four previous
SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
TOP AC
"Look, Joe, the boss has hired another one of those hu man ilyaumos."
I notice the gulls on ponds nro il- ready sosuming their black hoods, the badge of courtship. I notice the gay groups of bachelor finches are break- ing up, and some of them doing ordeal by battle for their lady loves.
You can tell at a glance that court- ship has begun, as most of our winter birds change their phamage, reosanm- ing their gayest-colours as the wed- ding day approaches.
Pleasant to listen to their cheerful mating
calls, especially when the bit
tor cast wind fulls and a gleam of golden sunshine passes over the brightening fields. Already the yel-
low yerling has assumed his golden brown dress to meet his affinity by the golden whin bush, where he becomes a poot and a lover. The starling, debonair
in rainbow-spinshed plumage with crocus-yellbrations of love talk.
is all athrill with tremulous vi
I saw tiny cole-tit and its "Intend ed" house-hunting in a city park
It
was amusing to watch them, eiggling and pecking at every likely tree, then buzzing off dissatisfied. At length, after much cogitation, thes alighted at the door of nesting-box set high up on a beach bele, After much look ing round, first one and then another ttle fluffy ball of blue disappeared, venturing Inside. Ona stood at the. doorway looking at the view, ovidont- ly delighted.
The little Jenny wren, which holds. the record in my nature calendar as the earliest pest-buildar, has already begun to weave his huge nest of mosa on the branch of a spruce fir set in a thicket." Heru he is singing at his work, with his afflanced beaming over ali.
Upon the tallest trees both black- bird and mavis, despite the cold, have found voice, and between each fitful chaffinch chirrup there is a glist of golden sunshine. Even the groat tilt, not to be outdone, is telling the old tale to the listening trees in the quaintost, of voices, ranping like a saw-sharpener; but it speaks of love and the hope of spring, dete
low happy the trees must be to hear again the sons of the birds in. their branches." Bo Bang Richard. Jeffris, Nature's best interpreter. J. TURNBULL. ÁITKEN.