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HAIGH: THE ODD STORY
OF A STRANGE MAN
ETECTIVES Who In- vestigated the carly life of John George Haigh are convinced that he turned to crime as a result of bis introspective nature as a'child.
As a baby and through- out his boyhood George, ns he was known, was coddled by his parents.
The Haigh home was then in Ledgar-lane, Out wood, Wakefield.
Never played with others
the house lived
All around
muners
und their families. George, an only child, however, played with the other
never
children.
REX DINSLEY and E. V. TULLETT report the background of John George Haigh, recently condemned to death in one of the most amazing and dramatic murder trials in British history
"He liked playing jokes on people, but always had to be on the right side of the laugh."
A school friend said:
"Once when locked in a room to do an imposition, Chink un- screwed the lock and got out. He got a caning for that.
"A teacher once sald to him: Hagh, you will come lo a sticky
end.
junior salesman to a
Hoich described himself as company director and gave his nditrem as the Albemarle Hotel. A few weeks after the wed- tling they parted.
Haigh was arrested. While he was in prison a separation agreement was drawn up.
There was a child, who was adopted soon after birth to enable the young wife to work
HAIGH'S Brst job was to maintain herself. Before he went to a Wakefield Wakefield garage. kindergarten school his father
WHEN he came out of nrison, Halgh met
Hubert Plackett,
HOW
ow did he llvo when came out? In December 1044 he rented a basement ta In Gloucester- road, Kensington, for £7 10s, a month.
According to his own state ments he became professional
sums
of
deals and insurance under- writing.
Transferring his activities to backer of horses and dogs, and
considerable Guildford he described himself won as William Calo Adamson, B.Sc., money. solicitor,
lle sent hundreds of letters to addresses he obtained from malling list. The addresses
were those of men and women interested in Stock Exchange transactions.
Offered to sell shares As a solleiter he claimed to be administering the estates of people who had died leaving
big batches of shares in reputable
concerns,
He offered to sell these shares privately, explaining that if he unloaded on the Stock Exchange it would cause losses..
and mother gave him nightly Every morning he wrote aut inwyer of standing, Major Char. out he "d." lessons.
na a blackboard a list of up to les At three and a half he could 70 cars for sale with descrip- write the alphabet in capitals tons and prices. and in script. He could write
freely when he went to school
at six and a half.
IN early years he displayed
a marked musical talent. He could ang "like an angel," according to one who know h'm
lesman beautiful writer He is described by the chief
But four days out of six he wan
late for work,
The family moved to a new home, Stainburn-drive, Leeds,
In Leeds, Ha'gh got a job at a cinema na a lighting en-
"The
of rogues' Haigh tried to convince the lawyer that he repented his past and was the victim of rogues.
Hc moved to the Onslow appeared to be quite comfort Court Hotel. Kensington, and ably off until a short time be- fore the disappearance of Mrs Durand-Dencon.
Al the hotel Haigh was re- garded as
"We perfect gentle- man," most considerate for the well-being or elderly women who lived Qiere.
Engaged on
secret research During the war he said he
engaged on was
important War recret research for the Oflee.
New rich Germans dance
away defeat
From CHARLES FOLEY
10
NE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED members. of Germany's cilto throw off the cares of leader- ship one night recently and * danced defeat away at the biggest, rowdiest party İsince 1939.
They wern the new rich of the new mark, at 13 to the pound: sterling.
Textile manufacturers from Berlin, porcelain magnates from: Davarin with their flaxen-hair- fed wives, film stars, actors, and he purged hierarchy of the Press, plunged together into revelry that lasted until eight.
n the morning,
Not, they say, since the palmy Jays when Hitler used to meet steel barona here in the endquarters of the Ruhr-has. Dusseldorf put on such a show.
Spirits galore
Was
The city's magnificent Poví- lion of Arts was thrown open to he revellers. Tickets at three- ulnean a couple admited the lancers--but then there food and wine to pay for.
Champagne--the best German Henkel, which Hibbentrop used o sell before he went to Landen as ambassador-was £2 30. a battle,
There was wine from France, italy,
and Spain, and spirits, if no whisky, galore.
Two hundred dancers over- flowed into the colonnaded courtyard of the pavilion, which they called Arcadia, The walls were pecially painted with frescoes
Greek representing maldens guiding Rhino lugboats on an Aegean Sea.
It was the new Germany's rst big evening dress occasion. The women floated
in with stupendous new gowns. There
Menu pages
Once, when taxed with shirk- ing his duty, he said:
Iwere fans and falderals, a blaze BUT DUT he made a stupid "If I were not engaged 011 of boiled shirts and monocles.
mistake. He could not such important work for the Two bands crashed out. In a speli Guildford. He always left beneat of my country I should Arcadia amid the lanterns and
still be out of uniform, I could under the full moon, rhumbas partner in firm practising in police inquiries. The
The Senior
missing
caused not k my fellow man, no Jind sambas were the thing. swindle matter how I hated him. Leeds a Harrogate, and de- was exposed. was friendly, with Haigh's father. Surrey Assizes, and Mr Justice blood makes me lil.
"I am really a conscientious puty coroner for Ripon. He
Haigh pleaded guilty at objector. The very sight of
Two am. brought a parade Charles sent him victim
to penal
"Why,
even if I cut myself of Germany'a most beautiful servitude for four years,
when shaving and the blood
a score of them mannequins, runs, I am ill and sick at the trailing jewelled dresses intend- He was sent
sight of it all. How then coulded to take the fashion world by back to gaol
I ever face the horrors of
torm. battle?" Haigh, who was serving his
There was no formal time for At times he would spend The lawyer was interested in sentence
Dartmoor, was a hours after dinner talking to and carry on till dawn.
Supper-start when
like you a rm of cleaners and dyers in good-conduct pelsoner, and was the elderly women guests. Lecas, and through his Influence released on licence on December
You could have Russian eggs, Haigh was taken on as assistant 8, 1940.
COMETIMES he would or just eggs and bacon, roast He went to London for a hol- manager.
On February 22, 1941, ho
play the piano. Ha teef or
Boven kinds of steak day, and saw an eksetric news
(two of which, with a graceful Bul took money from regis ered for National Service, played classical music brillant-w
tho acknowledgment to display round the dome of a people on the promise of find- and was classed as being in ly.
a
·ing-them-jobs-in-the-firm.--}lu-resorved-occupation.-—
"Jazz I hate." he said. "It is querors' magnanimity, were cinema.
named rump sicak Westmorland, While still on licence he was so disjointed, so nerve racking.
and flet Nelson), faced with a charged with stealing a refrig- crator,
Or you could order a double curtains,
other difficult problem, I sit down and goods.
play the plano, something by Jentrecote for 17a. 6d. With this
would At London Sessions on Juno Mendelssohn."
Mozart, Chopin,
recommend a perhaps one
claret or a Cotes du Rhone, The 31, 1941, he was sentenced to 21
menu ran on for three pages. months' imprisonment,
The war is over. Some Gor- mans
can buy
forgetfulness; And yet not quite.
a boy, and he was given a
treble noloist in the gineer. Enlace s
Wakefield Cathedral Choir.
Nocl Gay, the composer, said:
I'ttle
"I was assistant organist, and I remember Haigh as a rather under-sized, pale-faced |_fellow,____in] whose Eomewhat strange eyes there always seem ed to be a twinkle.
Sat beside. the organist
A holiday
in London
he
He took this idea back to the was dismissed. After a trip Majestie, then the largest cinema
to Scotland he in Leeds, and put before the tried London, posing as a single directors an advertising scheme man. entalling the installation of an
in
round the dome.
electric news service revolving DURING the
"When I went to play Bach's St Matthew, Haigh asked perm'ssion to come up into the over the organ loft and turn music for me,
war, when he admitted being mar He fitted up this revolving ried, he said his wife had been
ted in a blitz. sign.
At that time Mrs Hoigh wan His next venture was In ad- "He sat beside me and fol- vertising by neon signs.. He living the Earl's Court dis-
every note; he
was hacked orders from Leeds firms trict of London, supporting oblivious to everything save the gor installing, neon sigris,
benzell" "somgumes as a cinema music.
cacuer or as assistant manage-
towed
Afterwards he discussed the rendering of some of the pas-
sogen in a way that surprised ture.
inc.
pros-
THEN he embarked unos 1st auf witress in restaurants.
first criminal ven- Haigh always appeared
During 1930 he was He made money by insuring paurer as a big business man "He was quite a likeable little apparatus for signs despatched on interested in Stock Exchange. fellow, highly intelligent, and the railways or by lorry. All que might almost say saturated that was needed
was for the
in the classical compositions. apparatus to be broken in transit.
"I was quite fond of him."
Haigh arranged Jur tris..
Mr Robert Watson, grocer, of claimed the insurance, hemside, Wakefield, said of netted useful sums
Haight-
unci
Then he sold cars on hire-
"At school he was nicknamed purchase agreements and por- Chink' because of his slitted keted deposits or first instal-
They were just like menis.
Lyes.
Chinoman's.”
ק
MR HARRY OGDEN.
who lived only 20 vards from the Ilaighe, sald
"He was a little bully. "He would tweak little girls' ts, hlt boys smaller than him- self and run back into his own jate,
Met and wed
a pretty girl
At Leeds Assizes on December 12, 1034, he received his fira!!| prison sentence-15 months.
But before he was brought to court he went on holiday to Bridlington.
"He was, vindictive, 'too. I He stayed at the Albemarl remember he trod deliberately Hotel, where also was a striking- on my wife's fingers an she was ly pretty girl named Beatr washing the steps."
Hamer, 21-year-old daughter Mr Jon. Broadhead, Wake- of music-hall feld joiner, who was a choirboy Stockport. On July · 6, 1934. in the cathedral. at the same they were married by the time as Haigh, said this
Bridlington Registrar, Mr R. J.
“He was'a quizotio, unpro-. Oke..
comedian o
dictable, type of la. He never Witnesses were two people look anyone home. le Just staying in the hulet and went, his own. way.
Dridlington woman,
NANCY
LOOK AT DAT GULL FLY AWAY WITH_TH``CLAM
Clam Shelled-
+
HOW DOES HE OPEN THE CLAM TO EAT
I?.
...VERY SIMPLE --- HE JUST LOOKS DOWN
ON TH'. BEACH---
|--- AND. DROPS IT ON A ROCK OR THE HARDEST THING HE CAN
SEE
in
and
"When I arr
or
-(London Express Service)
THE NEW GERMANY
FOUR pictures from the Ruhr's Big Party
On
In
сод
1942
the fashionable centre of Dusseldorf on the day after the party, I was stopped by threo :. young men. They were support- ing each other against a will singing in harmony "Lil' Mar- But these were not rem
They wero Afrika, Korpa veterans with a beggar's bowl between them, and only ong leg each.
the left is blando German film-stur Camilla Horn. The mon behind the two botlles is the editor of a Ger-
vellers. The girl in the mantilla is caburet man "newspaper. 'ster Niña Konsta. And, on the right, one of the guests demonstrates Germany's new-look for dancing.
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