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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1949.
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The problem of what to do with
the body
body foils
People who plan the perfect murder
by
JOHN E. HORWELL, O.B.E.,
ox-Chief Constable of
Scotland Yard
MOR a perfect murder But even after
Foto be
two year
to be committed, the pathologists were able to give
body of the victim and all traces of the crime must be disposed of.
For hundreds of years criminals have tried. Some times, they have almost succeeded.
But, murderers tend to over- labic scientific fact. They ignore the sharp eyes of the public, the
suspicion of a neighbour.
Strange
the approximate time and cause
of death, and a murder inves tigation began.
From years of specialised study in anatomy the pathologist almost complete accuracy.
crime with
can reconstruct *
GIRL SAW ARM IN A PARCEL ONE of the nearest approaches
perfect murder was
the Ruxton case.
When Miss Susan Johnson, tides of rivers, holidaying at Moffat, Scotland. differences in the heat of a fire, paused to admire the view. DR. HENRY HOLDEN-Director of a cut or a bruise, have told the murder was discovered that led Metropolitan Police Forensic pathologist enough to hang a Dr Buck Ruxton to the senffold. rrunt.
The usual methods of dispos ing of an incriminating body have been by throwing it into the sen, river or canal, burning burying or dismemberment.
But once any part of the body is found, and identified, the_pursuitof the murderer. goes on until an arrest is made,
WHEN CRIPPEN'S
NERVE FAILED
CARELESSNESS
Crippen.
convicted
she shook
The girl saw an arm sticking
ever
Laboratory.
It is glow, painstaking job, which seldom yields. But it is never neglected.
Police, on so many occasions,
And that murder victims lonely, friendless people.
are
Such a case was that of Emily
WORK?-I
think you'll soon be calling it fun!
• Tho man who wrote "It's Fun Finding Out” suggests a way to approach the search for more knowledge...
ONE of the things I owe
to the war is the happy discovery that study can bo a relaxation and a pleasure.
I didn't know this before.
I always thought
it was just the opposite that study was insepar- able from hard work.
by BERNARD WICK STEED
You know how it is at school, They are always telling you to stop slinging ink pellets at the boy in front and get on with your Iwork.
Beaufighter patrolling up and with no one to reprove me if down the North Sea at night I was wrong. I tried, for the irst time in 20 years, to work out why the square ou the of a right-angled triangle was hypotenuse (the longest side)
equal to the sum of the squares know the thing.
sides. You on the other two
I couldn't do it. All I could remember was that the Orst man who proved it was called
But with the world full of birds' nests, rabbits. motor bikes, and toads hid- den in your pencil box, how can you be expected to give Pythagoras and that he was 3) your mind to irregular vegetarian because he believed.
In the brotherhood of men and beasts.
verbs?
it was the game with other subjects. When I looked out at the stars all could recall about astronomy Wha
So lots of us grow up to believe the whole set-up of knowledge study, think- ing, and using your brain Galileo made his own telescope, is something a red-blooded and Tycho Brahe had a silver person should shun. I know nose. The original was cut off
1 dit.
All I wanted to do when Kaye, whose murder might have I left school was to put the remained a secret had not Patrick greatest possible distanco Mahon left his bag at the cloak-between myself and room of Waterloo railway station and allowed his wife to thing resembling a sent of find the ticket.
learning.
In that bag was a cook's knife and some blood-stained clothing which led the police to The Crumbles, Eastbourne, where Mahon
found was
to have attempted to get rid of the body
his mistress.
of
any-
In
a duel.
that
of
metal gives a good echo to wire-
Because something made less waves, I began wondering if you could have picked up Tycho Brahe's silver nose on n radar set.
They fit!
UDDENLY, instead of being apprehensive of impending periis, I was relaxed and laugh- ing. And, there lies the clue to restful study. my private system of painless,
Thousands of others, I imagine, have left learning behind with similar sigha of relief. They find them selves in a world full of new and exciting experiences.
Instead Partially he suc- with no regrets for the
abandoned history books.
Something Missed
in
He dismembered the body and
tried to burn kitchen fire. ceeded.
grates
But when
the ashes of the were analysed it was proved that Mahon had been burning bones.
approaching astronomy in the
more ur- thodox ways devised in colleges, why not begin with Tycho's nose? What else did he do be sides wear a false nose? Ho FTER a while it begins to lived on an island in Denmark |AF NOTHING ESCAPES
dawn on you that you are
that Shake- (about the time missing something and you and he annoyed the Court by speare was writing "Hamlet"),
more marrying the wrong girl.
THE PATHOLOGIST
up from out of a parcel. In all Two ment, Oliver Newman THE greatest single develop-wish you'd taken she found nine brown paper and William Shelley, were ment of the last 30 years in notice of what you were
They pleacient purcels containing parts of two arrested.
that crime detection Is
the expert
What did he do for astro- told at school. The trouble that wild Ayres had been killed in a fist knowledge of the pathologist. bodies, sprend
time and rugged countryside.
Th
From his post-mortems, which ia that it is then usually too nomy? Well, before his
everyone presumed that This was another case of an
may take anything up to six late to do anything about it. stars moved in perfect circles. oversight by the murderer.
hours, he сап determine the clothing and a piece of new
approximate_time of death, and By the time you have done By following their course across your day's work you are the sky from his land obser- paper. Both were traced to
vatory he discovered that some too tired to catch up on of them didn't-notably
The remains were wrapped in
But wounds on the hand told a different story,
The pathologists proved that
that hand the exact cause.
the
the
had been hit on with a heavy weapon.
The tiniest remnant of skin, a That bruise ruined the de- minute blood stain on clothing knowledge. All you want to comets. fence of the murderers and they or furniture, a hair, even the do is relax.
mark of n Angernail become But
From if you know how, you only a step (for me) to want to this discovery it was were sentenced to death.
evidence when examined can relax and study at the same know more Vilal under
the microscope.
time. I'll tell you how I found ceptions of the early
about the miscon- Such remuant was a vital this out.
nstroud- in the Rouse trial He Everyone
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE MISSING? FEW names are added to the
point
every
ever nade to bureau at Scotland
Lancaster and Dr Buck Ruxton. Tuxton had all the advantages of medical knowledge. He had skinned the faces and limbs of destroyed the eyes, his victims, Mrs Crippen disappeared cut off the fingers and thumbs. some time after January 1, 1910, and drawn the teeth.
that time, it was the most A Bles at the missing persons might have get away with pour-fought in a war knows those in- when at midnight hands with her departing guests. thorough effort
While she was merely wipe out the traces of a murder, day, missing person"
was well. uli
It took three pathologists to In the average year 1,200 victim.
Ale, but by man's Crippen said she had gone to put togeher those remains. After naines go on that
were able to December 31 only about 60 are America and died. Then he four weeks they changed his story and sald she say that the remains were those outstanding.
of Mrs. Ruxton and Mury had left him.
He satisfied the police of his Rogerson. innocence.
The pathologists had only the Then his nerve falled him, bone structure and the faces on He Bed with Ethel Le Nove. which to work.
como
It is some of those 60 which under the heading of "probably murdered.".
Whenever a body is discover- ed and cannot immediately be
But
a
I
from that I got Inunched on modern astronomy.
I
who has actually mers, and ing petrol over the body of his tervais of waiting when there
It was enormous fun because is nothing to do but think and small piece of the dead wonder and feel afraid.
I was doing it for pleasure. trousers was shielded
read just what interested me, During one such period the heat of the blazing car tried to get my mind off worry thing else.
and then passed on to some- That piece of cloth was still soaked in petrol.
ing by thinking back to my schooldays. Some of the sub- Rouse had almost succeeded jects we studied weren't so in destroying the body,
not bad really. If only we'd The body was never identified.had to work at them. Even Rouse, the murderer, did So I invented a private game to see how much I the murder of a could remember of what I had
once learned. Sitting In
His flight was discovered by Police photographers took a identified, a search is made at not know who he was, but he trying Inspector Dew, who wished picture of that and then super- the bureau; working only from hanged for
an entirely
Chief unsuspicious
to imposed a
of the description. photograph ask Crippen a routine question, victims taken while they were Finding Crippen absent the allve. The answer was positive police decided to dig up the Identification.
cellar of 39, Hilldrop Crescent, The same formula was used London, and there they found in the Potters Bar pond mystery the remains of Belle Elmore, of last year. whose dismembered body Crip- In that case it took ninc pen had burled in quickline. months to establish the identity The chemical. had left little of the dead man That murder for the pathologists to examine, remains unsolved.
young
It
was
Dr Bernard Spilsbury who found one plece
of skin which the quicklime had
falled to reach.
It was part of the abdomen of Belle Elmore on which there "was a scar.' There was nico
"person unknown."
Yet the curious thing was that facts which at first seemed to began to slip into their place.
have no relation to each other
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USSR CHANGES: EXPERTS' 'MAYBES'
JUST under ten years ago the move is of undoubted political
night of May 3, 1939-algrificance, Moscow radio set the world The most significant fact is talking with an announcement that not just one member of the MICROSCOPE WILL almost identical with that, of Soviet Cabinet has been moved.
March FIND THE TRUTH
this year.
Two-Mikoyan and Molotov- Maxim Litvinov, said the have been "promoted" at the how well No matter
the speaker, had been relieved of same time. murderer covers the traces | his duties as People's Commissar
his
truth.
some
from
The other "maybes" read subtler motiven into the change.
*
sky and Menshikov can be re- pudinted and no harm done.
Evidence of a strong new turn in Soviet nerve war policy aro the recent speeches
of Com- muniat chief Thorez in Franco and his colleague Togliatti in has Italy.
Stalin, dissatisfied with the way the cold war is going, wants to assume a closer per- sonal foreign policy. He
In almost identical terms they declared that they would wel come an Invading Red Army as liberators,
of his crime the pathologist with for Foreign Affairs. His place has been a confict of opinion and
It suggests strongly that there sacked the powerful Molotov
the powerful microscope will find the had been taken by Vyacheslav inside the Soviet
Mikoyan. torn shred of a pyjama jacket
Cabinet to He
with has replaced them Molotov,
deputy Prime the which had been sold to Crippen.
which this promotion is the mere executives. In June 1031 labourer, Minister. There was practically nothing
Ilving in
1 had
sequel.
Vyahinsky does not enjoy the just returned to London derelict huts, eise left by which to identify
The simplest "Maybe" reads personal authority and prestige That scar was near the Scratchwood railway
A visit to Mrs
Moscow my nothing much Crippen.
more into the of Molotov.' He will not "in- siding at Mill Hill, London, was first ever. So 1 was at once announcement enough.
than right in the thick of the debate actually says. getting his evening meal.
what it terpret" Stalin's orders but do 3 The move itself is part of
What he is told. He built a fire, but had no which, followed then as it did matches, co he walked across to recently a burning rubbish dump hearby to get a light.
BODY
WEDGED
IN A BARREL
TONG before that, in 1880, a
method..
Ilan lio sacking of tho
Foreign Commissar political
BY SEFTON DELMER
潞
the nerve war. It is in- tended to frighten the bourgeois Cabinets of the West into the 13ea that sinister new manoeuvres are in preparation thus mako them more susceptible to Saviat pressure.
*
Then he saw a hand in the significance and, if so,
what? Stalin is growing old. He is Menshikov bears the same and doctor living in Harley rubbish.
No one at that time guessed feeling the strain of his work relation to Mikoyan Menshikov Street had tried- " similar That chance brought to light the truth: that Stalin and Hitler Molotov and Mikoyan, his oldest is not even Mikoyan's number Another murder because the were on the point of concluding and most trusted advisers, are one deputy-a post hitherto or- His crime was not discovered killers overlooked the fact that an alliance, that Litvinov was being moved up to take a bigger cupled by a certain Krulikov. until two years later, when heat causes muscle to contract. being dropped because he was share in the general direction -there were new tenants in the
The
The promotion of Molotov rubbish dump was distasteful to Hitler, as a cham- of Soviet polley, house.
and Mikoyan eliminates burning strongly on the left side plon of Soviet alliance with the Perhaps. But I think It is The Kremlin is planning a The butler found a barrel in of the dead man, which caused
them from Stalin's succession. Western democracies
remarkable that both Molotov
new political hia cellar in which a body had the
campaign It has been cleverly engineered hand
und to push through I have got in touch with all and Mikoyan are Ministers who against the West. This cam by Berla. been wedged face down. It was twelve inches of refuse.
my most knowledgeable experts are cancerned with foreign paign may prove a flop.
And Beria decomposed, dried and mummi-
alone of the big The dead man was identified who specialise in Soviet affairs, policy, Molatov ns Foreign Com-
Neither Molotov nor Mikoyan, three retains the power and in- no Herbert William Ayres And there are some good ones in missar,
Mikoyan дз Trade both rivals of police chief Beria duence that direct command of The mistake that murderer
He had died from a blow on London. The news found them Commissar Neither of them for Stalin's succession. wants made was to bury the remains the head which fractured his as unprepared na that of ten has been conciliatory towards to in chloride of lime Instead of skull. The blunt end of a blood years ago,
go
into the last lap of the major Ministry gives, as com
vague rupervisory. pared with the West. Mikoyan's stubborn- dictator stakes saddled with a powers of quicklime. Ho WES
Primo never stained axe' found nearby by the
a deputy They could offer only a series ness wrecked the Soviet major failure. -caught.
police flted the wound exbelly. of "Maybes" ns an answer, No American financial talks at the He had two years' start of the The man was dead when one had a precise vlow,
end of the warthe first big their underlings. It all goes "maybes." police, and the victim had 'not placed on the burning rubbish The one point of which they ritt in Soviet relations with the (boen, reported missing.
all certain was that the West.
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