PERFECT MURDERS GO WRONG
GENERALLY speak-
ing there are two sorts of murder-premedi- tated and unpremeditated: so there are roughly two types of murderer; first, the man who thinks the whole thing out.carefully and does it; and second, the one who just does it and thinks after- wards.
The murder committed, both find themselves confronted with the same difficulty-the disposal of the body,
says
Peter Cheyney
Crime has been his life study
blood-stains, to the charwoman who came to the house to clean,
How to dispose of the body?. That is the question. It is one which interests many innocent people who,
murder case, discuss reading of
peaceably minded of us as the most peccably b
And it sometimes happens
do"what they that the second type of mur
That is the queation which every derer, his brain clarified by the murderer must ask himself when he realisation of his fearful deed stands face to face with the mute and his own danger, produces, and accusing body of his victim.
What
will the police do? Where with the sudden brilliancy of wifi they look? panic, the botter schome for Shall he bury it as deeply as pos- getting rid of the body of his sible us Wiedmann burled a victim? Shall he take lonely cottages and victim.
cut up, distribute, bury, and burn us Lundru did?
This type luckily is rare, and is usually confined to murderers of "artistic" mature on whose highly strung nerves fear has a "tonic" effect.
ALL WORKED OUT
1
THE most running kind of
THE
having worked out his
Shall he use the technique of the surgeon; study books of anatomy so that his knife may dissect into small pleces a body that may be hidden here and there?
always the head. What shall he do with the head?
But there in
Shall he use an aeld and a bath?
criminal is the one who, But, the acid must be obtained, and murder,chemists nak questions and some- decides on one of two post-murder times remember faces, courses of action.
SEEN BY LOVERS
ALWAYS the unforeseen is
there. Some lovers walking
in the moonlight see and remember a strange sight; a child playing in the sunlight finds a human hand.
Ho decides that he will either "dis- cover" the murder himself and trust, to the excellence of his own method to allay suspleton, or to throw it on someone else; or else he plans the complete destruction of the victim's body, knowing that the police must
The bruin of a murderer may be have a body before they can bring clever and cool, but it cannot see charge.
The most striking case of the first into the future; it cannot obviate that type that I can discover is that of one mistake-or it there is no mis- take that "unforeseen happening"
the murder of a woman which took that sets the best plan wrong. place in an Amerlenn town early last year,
But murderers are egotists. It The woman was presumed to have they were not they might think it been killed by the accidental explo- casier, more hopeful, to turn slon of a shot gun, supposed to have knife against themselves.
been unloaded; which hind been thanded, to her to see how she liked
by the man who, immediately afterwards, reported her death from the explosion that ensued.
A détective reasoned that if the woman had been handed a gun load- ed with a dynamite charge, the mur- dever would have used one of the shot cartridges which fited the gun, extracted
the pellets and powder, and inserted the dynamite charge in their place. He would then throw the ex-| tracted powder and pellets away.
The datocilve found the pellets, as he had anticipated, caught in the Joint of a drain pipe.
The suspected man, confronted with the evidence and a police photo- graph of the murdered woman, broke down and confessed.
But for his carelessness in dispon- ing of the pellets he would have escaped.
BLAZING CAR CRIME
AN'outstanding example of the
second type of murderer (the wire one) who plans complete destruction of the body, thereby obviating any possibility of identify- ing the victim, is, in my, opinion,” Alfred House.
Rouse-who was logical and clear-thinking murderer of the Landru (the French "Bluebeard")| type decided that the best means of disposal of his victim was by burn-
ing the body In his own car.
Esquimaux Twins
the
A proud Esquimnux mother from Northern- Alaska who has under-
He knew that, providing the body taken the long travel by sledge to was destroyed sufficiently to prevent the nearest photographer to get her adequate identification, na suspicion would attach to himself, as he had new born twins photographed. The babies are sleeping well, untouched
had no previous connection with the by the hard cold.
victim
Unfortunately for him, his con-
centration on the completion of his
rime or the state of his nerves was
such that he omitted to hear the ARE YOU SURE?
footsteps of some young men who
were approaching.
He stepped out of the shadow of a hedgerow and they saw and quess Honed him about the burning car, This incident-unforeseen as usual- fed ftouse 'to the gallows.
RUXTON'S MISTAKES
“, „murderer
we seek a case where the used diabolical running Jin the preparation-of his plot only to nullify all this thought by two fatuous mistakes, we need not look farther than that of Dr. Buck "Ruxion," of Lancaster,
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No; (a) No; (f) Yes..
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Waterloo "Cuo); "Racing thire Handicap); Polo.
Napoleon. P Winchester. Salisbury, Rochester. Durham, Ely.
10 Hot 11 Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar, 12(a) No, (b) yes, (c) yes, (d).
Ruxton planned the cold-blooded murder of his wife. He idlied her, dimombored the body surgically, i and
of the remains over un area 100 miles distant from his home. Yet all his detailed forethought was not facient to prevent this extraordinary murderer trum wrap- no. ping part of his dead wife's torso In a blouse which belonged to his ow servant indif;"a" finitely brought the Cr
cod which de
York.
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Not content with this, he actually presented his suit, which still bore
Hollow Want
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by
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fellows? They show promise. In some novice affair, are taken up by a manager, sent to work in a gym- nasium, given a few tips, and then started on a series of fights.
Those with superb physique or a natural hard punch beät a few tenth- raters; gradually work their way up
NOT very long ago I on the Afth-raters, and then are
They are usually beaten, and re-
launched against some fairly good asked Lord Long- foreigner. » dale why it was that Eng- main chopping-blocks for other ris- land, the cradle and the ing young men for years to come. home of boxing, had not pro- Futile Swinging duced a good heavy-weight boxer for years.
THERE
are a number of boxers past their prime in this
His primary explanation was country who are really skilled and thie: "Most of the big, strong, quite capable of turning a promis- athletic boys go into footballing slugger into a boxer able to use his weight, speed, and intelligence nowadays, and that is the chief and become a champion. reason why they are absent from our rings."
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Timing and balance have far more to do with victory in the ring than Well, football may be robbing the rushing and banging and swinging. ring in some measure, but I have Braddock fight before it was re- I saw the full flm of the Far-. made careful observation during the past year and I think there is a fur. leased, and I think anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of the art ther explanation.
boxing will agree with me when Same months ago The Daily Mail I say that Farr could have won de- organised a series of competitions for cisively if only he had stood up and prizes amounting to £2,000, in a punched straight and hard, effort to unearth a promising heavy. Weaving and bobbing and jump- weight and put him on the right lines ing is of no use against a man who to follow the great. English cham- keeps his eye on your chin and hits plons of far too many years ago. it the moment you are coming from
Now the very basis of that enter- prise was a clear intention that the your hiding place on the floor. young man who emerged as winner Petersen's Lapre
This,
Go-should receive proper tuition. tack
recently between
contests Newsel. weights,
WATCHED Jack Petersen in his second fight with Walfer
range would beat him with com Neusel and punch his face at long
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