PERFECT MURDERS
GO
WRONG
GENERALLY speak-
ing there are two
sorts of murder-premedi-
tated and unpremeditated:
says
so there are roughly two Peter Cheyney
types of murderer; first, the man who thinks the whole thing out carefully and docs 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.
And it sometimes happens that the second type of mur- derer, his brain clarified by the realisation of his 'fearful deed and his own danger, produces, with tho sudden brilliancy of panic, the better schome for getting rid of the body of his victim.
This typs fuckily ́is rare, and is usually confined to murderers of "artistic" nature on whose highly strung nerves fear has a "tonic" effect
ALL WORKED OUT THE most cunning kind of criminal is the one who.
Crime has been
his life study
blood-stains, to the charwoman who came to the house to clean.
How 10 dispose of the body? That is the question.--It is one which interests many. Innocent people who, reading of a murder case, discuss-
as the most peaceably minded of us do" what they would do."
That is the question which every murds face to face with the mute must ask himself when he and accusing body of his victim.
What will the police do? Where will they look?
Shall he bury it as deeply as pos alble as Wiedmann buried a victim? Shall he take lonely cottages and distribute, bury, and burn cut as Landru
did?
Shall be use the technique of the surgeon; study books of anatomy BO that his knife may dissect into small pleces n body that may be hidden here and there?
But
there is always the head. What shall he do with the head?
Shall he use an acid and a bath? But the acld must be obtained, and having worked out his murder, chemists ask questions and some- decides on, one of two post-murder times remember faces. courses of action.
He decides that he will either "dis- cover" the murder himself and trust
SEEN BY LOVERS
to the excellence of his own method ALWAYS
A
Is
the unforeseen there. Some lovers walking
DICTATOR
Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Insurgent leader, who has inde himselt President- dictator of a reorganised Insur- gent regime in Spain. Insurgent supporters learned of the ap- pointment with the issue of the decree omeinl bulletin, in a
(the signed by "El Caudillo" Chief). The General sets up 12 ministries which, with under-
on the secretaries, will carry central administration.
NEW RECORDS
DANCE recorde in
the
latest lists include a number of Parlophone issues that should be tried out. I find the most attractive are "If I had you" and its reverse
side "Dinah," two pleces of swing that are admirably played by Eddie Carroll's band.
to allay suspicion, or to throw it on in the moonlight see and remember someone else; or else he plans the a strange sight; a child playing in complete destruction of the victim's the sunlight finds a human hand. body, knowing that the police must
The brain of a murderer may be havo
body before they can bring a 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 if there is no mis- "unforeseen happening" Luke-that
best plan wrong, that
sets the
band, But murderers are egotists. I The woman was presumed to have they were not they might think it been killed by the accidental explo- easier, more hopeful, to turn ston of a thot gun, supposed to have. knife against themselves.
the murder of a woman which took place in an American town early last year.
been unloaded,
which had been
handed to her "to see how she liked It" by the man who, immediately afterwards, reported her death from į the explosion that ensued,
A defective reasoned that if the woman had been handed a gun load- ed with dynamite charge, the mur derer would have used one of the shot cartridges which atted the gun, extracted the pellets and powder, and
Derted the dynamite charge in their
Не would then throw the ex- tracted powder and pellets away.
The detective found the pellets, as he had anticipated, caught in the joint of 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 dispos- ing of the pellets he would havo escaped.
BLAZING CAR CRIME
N outstanding example of the A second type of murderer (the wise one) who plans complete destruction of the body, thereby obviating any possibility of identify- ing the victim, is, in my opinion, Alfred Bouse.
Rouse who was a logical and cicar-thinking murderer of the Landru (the French "Bluebeard") type-decided that the best means
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Esquimaux Twins
the
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of disposal of his victim was by burn- A proud Esquimaux mother from ing the body in his own car.
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 adéquate identification, no suspicion would attach to himself, as he had now born twins photographed. The had no previous connection with the babies are sleeping well, untouched
by the hard cold. victim
Unfortunately for him, his con centration on the completion of his crime or the state of his nerves was
These are good dancing swing, os is also a fox-trot called "Once in a while," played by Victor Silvester's with on agreeable waltz, "Glønnina mia," on is reverse,
The
all
latest Leslie Hutchinson couple, "Please remember" and "My gipsy dream girl," show
bis charming neatness as a plonist and his very personal manner of getting a song over
There is
useful fox-trot Medley and another of walizes (three each), made by Billy Thorburn for the un- usual combination of plano, fiddle and drums.
JASTER LOUGH who rose to
MASTER WOhcrbos,
has now reappeared as Mister Ernest Lough.
He has made on H.M.V. double- side. He has a pleasing baritone volce, which he uses decently and without any vocal trickery,
THE first of the new-Columbia records I have played this month is one of Chopin'a Plano Sonata in B flat minor. The planist is Kilenyl.
This record is excellent. There is a Chopin Mazurka on the sixth side which also is extremely well played. Another blue-ribbon production is the H.M.V. record of Cesar Franck's Violin Sonata. The players ore Heifetz and Arthur Rubinstein.
Experience has taught one that great names, though possessed by players who are magnificent each in their own sphere, do not of necessity combine Into a workable ensemble. But in this case there is nothing to
complain of.
The record is eminently satisfac- tory. Of the individual playing
such that he omitted to hear the ARE YOU SURE? nothing can be said that is not highly
footsteps of some young men who weta upproaching.
Ho stepped out of the shadow of a hedgerow, and they saw and ques- tioted him about the burning' car. This Incident-unforeseen as usual- led Rouse to the gallows.
RUXTON'S MISTÁKES.
Ewe seek a case where the murderer "used" diabolical cunning in the prep¤ration of bla plot only to nullify all his thought by two faluous mistakes, we noed not look farther than that of Dr. Buck Ruxton, of Lancaster,
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ANSWERS
(a) No; (b) Yes; (c) Yes; (d)
No; (e) No; (f) Yes.
2 Hohenzollern,
3 1900.
4 Antigua. St. Kitis.
Gregorian.
6
6 Vice-Chancellor,
York.
7 Cricket (Yorks); Rugby football (Harlequins and England); Soccer (West Bromwich Albion); Coursing (Waterloo Cup); Racing (Lincoln- Buxton plantied the cold-blooded shire Handicap); Polo. murder of his wife. He killed her, 8 Napoleon. dismembered the body surgically, Winchester, Salisbury. and disposed of the remains over an Rochester. Durham My.
10 Hat ren 100 miles distant frem his home. arca
Yet all All Aotalled. Coredfought 11 Elbaz, Bildad and Zophar.
12 not sumclent to prevent this (a) No, (b) yes, (c) yes, (d) was not extraordinary murderer from wrap no. ping part of his dead wife a-torso in 13 13 a blouse which belonged to his own 14 Melsaen,
15 44. servant mald a process which de
10 Quiepo finitely brought the crime back to
"Aranda. Davila. his own hole.
de
Liano.
17 German black' bread. Not content with this, he actually! presented his sult, which still bore 18 80S.
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Have Never Learnt HOW to HIT
Declares
PAT MURPHY
NOT very long ago I
fellows? They show promise in some novice affair, are taken up by a manager, sent to work in naslum, given a few tips, and then started on a series of fights.
Kym-
Those with superb physique or a natural hard punch beat a few tenth- raters; gradually work their way up
among the Ofth-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 boxera,}
tHair> 'príme. In this His primary explanation was, country who are really skilled and this: Most of the big, strong ing slugger into a boxer able to use
quite capable of turning 'o promis athletic boys go into football his weight, speed, and intelligence nowadays, and that is the chief and become ac champion. reason why they are absent from Timing and balance have far more to do with victory in the ring than our rings
rushing and banging and swinging.
I saw the full film of the Farr Braddock Aght before it
was re- leased, and I think anyone with even knowledge of the art Baxding
MANA a_rudili agree with me when
of
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Well, football may be robbing the ring in some measure, but I have made careful observation during the past year and I think there is a fur- ther explanation
Some months ago The Dally Mali
at I say that Fart could have won de- organised a "recies of competitions for clsively if only he had stood up and prizes amounting
in ***£3,000
an punched straight and hard. effort to hearth a promising heavy Weaving and bobbing and jump-10 him on the right lines ing is of no use against preh
weight and
as winner Petersen's Lepre
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WATCHED Jack Polerson in his second fight with Walter
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6 This comes from bad use of
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14 Foreign coin (5), 15. Payment (3).
16 Algrand time of the year? (0)) 18 A salt is obtained from these
mountains (5).
21 Assorted · (5),
22 A good game; they say there's
a lot in it (8).. 24 Bird (3);
27
27 This
man was feared when Jolly (5)...
28 Should the caber be made of
this wood? (9).
32 These seadons deal with bar ins
terests in a way (8),,
be presented to the riderzign" | sympathing but the air, evokes eighth" round, of that second fight|| 31 Musical Instrument (B).
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Any man who could stand before showed the least evidence of having Neal and punch his face at long properly taught Pla-box Page would beat him with com- This parative east. The amount of ener
energy that Whe
For the space of one minute in the powerful
that Dunches
Petersen shot straight - lefts at but
not hdmiration. It Neusel's Nousel was power- two of the most experienced men in For that bad”“
"ut this "unerey: the gamers
boxing in the manner a real boxer "Why can't these fellows land their would have chosen for him. Then, punches7%-1-asked one of them dur- for no reason, at all, he stopped, and ingut interval,
*** Neural closed in on him and con "Naver been properly taught," was tinued hammering at his ribs.
fably
A night that Petersen should have: if they ever
won cally he lost hopelessly. "Now they will just go from Bght Larry Caina: the coloured Cana
díasšbestarimo Carpars in London
the
before the Italian - beosTE
of the world; and "enfärkis the veteran
33 Surrender (6)..
84 Of course a car that lost these
parts would self be lost (8). TAP DOWN
1 Here you ate me in plous SLT- roundings, tit, is quije seimple and plain, 0),
2 Minority (d).
An allows10)
This workers: parently
Le Feminins: Dapse
vegeta
Fix This word may
13 Piece of wood useful to naviga-
tors (3)
Page
17 Not the top dog certainly, more
like the bottom fish” (9).
19 This kind of worker seems to
be a little wanderos (8).
20 Scanty (8)2UQUE
22 One stage of a butterfly's life
(4) AMS 23 Marine ma
monster. (8).
25 This sort of clină seems partly
·at any÷zutelaumoney-making concern (8), ****
20 Is it because, they are new ta housework that brides make
rish this mess? (6). 29:7ar: from voluble (9),- so this worker might become a
water carrier if he lost his head.
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