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FACT AND FICTION

A JUDGE AND A NOVELIST ON CRIME

MR. MASON'S LAMENT

Southern textile mills heard har rowing stories of the conditions

Lord Darling's long experience in which have caused the workers to the criminal courts has confirmed his revolt.

belief that there are people who, apart Workers told of literal. "sweat-altogether from the gains of wrong ing," with humidifiers fillingdoing, take pleasure in crime for its rooms with steam to offset the own sake. Happily he believes quite aridity of the temperature, of as strongly that there are people who girls on miserable wages fined if are not in the least likely to be tempt they fainted at work or if they Club on "Crime in fact," Lord Darling ed to crime. Speaking at the Forum stopped to powder their noses; of said he had aways doubted the truth conditions so generally unbearable of Richard Baxter's comment on see that employees struck even before ing a criminal pass by:-"There but attempts were made to form them for the grace of God goes Richard into Unions.

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The most striking witness was Martha Bowen, who had before been outside Tennessee.

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There are lots of people." said Lord Darling, "who would rather die of star- vation than steal, many poor people who would rather live in

extreme

And there are people much wealthier thân I should care to be who cannot keep their hands front picking and stealing or their tongues from sland- er; people who will seek opportunities for doing evil things that afford them definite satisfaction. Other people are not to blame when these men go wrong, nor are they to be praised when the good men go right."

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"The Countess of Granados." in reality

maidservant, named Gabrielle Bernard, has been con It was useless to say that some of demned in Paris to six months these criminals who loved crime must imprisonment, with the benefit of because they were criminals be pitied, the First Offenders' Act. coddled, and endowed with rest homes. Gabrielle, it

Sinceres was alleged, made The people who were inclined to crime presents of her employers' jewels and enjoyed it should be made to suf-

WI.. Powells to a professional dancer, named als organisations, gangs who possess "There are professional crimin- Carlos Alini.

Alini, who was als0 motorcars and lead lives of luxury, and put in the dock, protested that he in some parts of the world there are, accepted the gifts in good faith. more of them than in others." ""How," asked the Judge, "could

The Root of the Law you imagine that

Lord Darling nade interesting ex- with a Countéss?” He replied:cursion back to the days of our The cloakroom lady assured me aboriginal British ancestors to show she was. Carlos's sentence was where the national law with regard to six months, without any benefit. criminals took root. He said the truth enunciated in philosophical terms by Jeremy Bentham, that criminal act must punished or have a widespread disastrous effect on the life of the community had been realised centuries ago by the common sense of the people and penalties exacted for crimes of New examples of the law's in theft or violence. The English system of administering justice was, he believ- dulgent attitude to victims of theed, the best system that existed in the steal a car he must use it to rescue thei Paris flat famine have recently world.....

FLAT FAMINE

PRINCESS & FAMOUS ACTRESS IN COURT

been given in a case in which

Lord Darling turned to the theory Mlle. Spinelli, the actress, applied put forward by men who described for a writ of ejection against one themselves as expert psycholoists or of the tenanta in a block of flats, psychiatrists, that in certam circam-

complained that the writer of fiction heard Lord Darling he had believed could never overtake fact. Till he

that criminal gangs

were an inven- tion of the novelists. In novels kill-| ing was always a crime. No writer would dare to take Lord Darling's. view, that to drive off with another man's moter-car was not necessarily a crime. If the hero were allowed to

heroine He would be trapped by the The car gang and perhaps tortured. would be driven off by them to some remote place and its discovery would lead to the discovery and capture of

No novelist a week ago would have dared to write, a story about a lion getting into a field near Lyme Regis, attacking a cow, and being shot by three farmers. Readers would have said it was absurd. Now they would Bay How true to life,' which shows that the novelist cannot overtake fic

which she owns. The court would stanger the accused were not responsi- the gunigoly and capture of not grant it before, July 16. The ble for their actions. This theory was tenant, the Princess Colloredo making headway in some other coun- Mansfield, who is herself a house-tries where, if a case were sensational owner, was allowed to remain till enough, large funds would be raised to provide this defence. Under Eng then, on pleading that she was lish law a person to be found guilty unable to eject her own tenants. must be proved to have been in posses

sion of his faculties, when the crime. WAREHOUSE FIRE was committed. Psychologists and ton

psychiatrists now pleaded successfully.

Mr. Mason told of a story he had in some countries that the criminal based on the newspaper report of a might be automaton. Lord Darling strange sucido, Ho made his story referred to a brutal case that had stranger still, but in the short time come before him when this theory Was

that elapsed between finishing his advanced. The Acensed had murdered story and its publication his version An outbreak of fire at the large woole man and wife thu thair two chil had happened in real life. He gave a warcheuse in Limehouse of Mesers, dren. The motive for the first mur-

very interesting account of two inci- Brown and Eagle resulted in the deeder was theft and fear of discovery in the East End of Londen, that gave dents one of them in France, the other. truction of the building. O was the motive for the others A

him the idea for his detective novel "At

LIMEHOUSE BUILDING

DESTROYED

London, July 29.

A number of other buildings in the psychologist had tried to prove that the the Villa Rose," but it was clear to the vicinity were seriously threatened but accused was a man of excellent charac the efforts of the Fire Brigades savetter and motivo, and that when he com- them from being sat alight—"Singa-mitted the murder he had been in the Bore Free Preas.”

condition of an automaton.

OLD TAYLOR

AGED BY TIME

Crinie i Fiction "I do not think there is much an getonid Darling that such a theory will ever find much encourage ment from the Judges of the King's Bench

MAE. W. Mason, who followed with a discourse on Crime in Fetion, "

audience that only Mr. Mason could sockilfully have woven those incl- denge into an elaborate thriller...

While a party of eight negro wo men was crossing the Johnson River at Beaufort South, Carolina, in a beat, one of them stood up, causing the craft to overturn. All were drowned.

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