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The "Thriller"

HERE, THERE

and EVERYWHERE

İSAME OLD STORY.

Here is another story from the rapidly growing collection of Hardly annuals.

It tells of the Chinese editor's letter of regret on returning an unwanted manuscript.

This story is telegraphed as new several times every year from every pronounceable and unpronounceable town on the map

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF OLD BAILEY

FAMOUS TRIALS OF A

CENTURY

CELEBRATION

PLANNED

(By R. E. Corder)

NAMOUS trials of a century will the first time in a British court it

of China. The Jetter usually J be recalled at the celebration was proved that a bullet fired from reads something like this: now being planned in Honour of the a particular revolver could be iden- "We beg to offer ten thousand centenary of the Central Criminal tified as surely as finger-prints.

The construction of the scientific thanks for the receipt of your Court, always assocated in the

evidence in this case was as con- peerless manuscript. Our thanks public mind with the Did Balley. must be accompanied by twenty The Central Criminal Court was vincing as it was fascinating, and thousand apologies for our in established by Act of Parliament the fertile brain of Brown ability to make use of it; for, if on October 31, 1894, to take the unequal to answering. Its damning we were to publish a work so displace of the old assizes, where pri-proof. tinguished, the authorities would soners from Newgate were deliver-

wan

ordain that never again should ed, Stones from the old prison Since that trial sclanca has made this humble journal publish any were used in the building of the even more progress in detection, Įthing of a lesser calibre, which, Old Bailey, which Was opened in notably in the recent burning barn case, when it was shown that one you will realise, would be a dream 1907.

one, knife only, could knife, and impossible of attainment.

a certain telephone bave severed. wire.

"DORA" AMONG THE DUTCH

The new building cost £392,277, and the annual upkeep amounts to £9,000, borne out of private funds

a convicted man

his sentence. He seems to be in a

Scheveningen, the Dutch sea-of the City of London. There is Rarely does side resort, is blaming its Govern- no charge to ratepayers or tax-show much emotion when receiving ment for the lack of British and payers. American visitors.

Changed laws have brought more state of hypnotism induced by the Last year a casino was opened humane sentences during the last long trial.

But there was an exception in the at Scheveningen and another one hundred years, and if stones could

at Zandvort. In one of them a speak, those of old Newgate would case of Clarence Hatry, who suffer- profit of £20,000 was made,

with grim memories the merci-ed five fearful minutes. He had The police did not interfere un-ful courfs of the Old Bailey, where taken his sentence with that frozen on behalf calm that usually follows the strain til the last day of the season, justice is administered

of a prolonged trial. He knew the'. when they confiscated the tables. of 9,000,000 people.

It was a gesture to maintain the "Defend the children of the poor, worst, and set himself to meet the [official prestige.

and punish the wrongdoer"-words last ordeal of the court. He des- sor of Psychology at Harvard, in

Throughout the present season, carved high above the main door cended the stairs from the dock his book entitled "An Outline of despite an energetic propaganda of the Old Bailey-intereret truly briskly and firmly. He made his

exit like a man.. Abnormal Psychology," refers campaign by hotel proprietors and the idea of modern Justice.

Then Mr. Justico Avory sent for to the passing of the old-time some tocal authorities, gambling The gruesome recorda of the stories of "fire and brimstone" has been banned.

Newgate Calendar are not repeated him again to explain the terms of which sent children cowering in A plea for a limited gambling in the Old Bailey trials, but many his sentence.

This second ordeal was too much fear to bed or some other place season was considered by the notorious criminals have stood in of retreat, but says, quite cor Dutch Cabinet.

the dock in No. 1 Court. Crippen, for Hatry. The braced nerves gavo

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Brides and the Bath case. were and he swayed as he listened among the condemned murderers; vacantly to the fudge's words;

left the oc- and Bottomley, Hatry, and Leopold finally, as he

Harris are familiar, names linked tottered and stumbled dock, he

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The Old Bailey a temporary.

A Haunted Court

No one could regard the intro-rectly that other fears and ter- The petition was contained in a Seddon, and George Smith, of way, the tensed muscles slackened, duction of "wireless" as any-rors have taken the place of the closely reasoned document of 20 thing but a boon to mankind; but old ones. It should be our aim to pages. in the march of science it would lessen these fears as far as It is seem that we can have no new possible to do so.

The blessings without experiencing Man has lived in fear.

with gigantic frauds. some disabilities. With the pro-emotion of fear is one to which

When the historic. furniture in Your Daily Smile!

the superseded Sessions House was prison as well as a Court of Justice. In the basement are 96 cells, which Because of stance, there have developed, side lof men are able.

New York, is no longer dumping its sold at auction the dock, the jury- by side with the most excellent fear, nation watches nation and

docks in the courts above. were bought of programmes, certain forms of prepares for war. It is never garbage at sea. The Jersey bather box, the judge' seat, and the fittings communicate directly with the

The old entertainment which have been far from man as an individual, now has no way of knowing when the of two famous cells

watermelon season has opened in Man-for public exhibition. the subject of numerous pro- though it may take different battan.

dock in which thousands of hearts. To De

In addition to the single cells, Itests. Now attention is being forms in different men.

A Cook Would Know That! had been broken went for £10. called to the harmful effecta Quincey the knocking at the gate

succeeding the Chief Petty Officer: "The enemy are This was the dock where before there are association cells introduc likely to be produced upon the in "Macbeth" child mind by the radio "thrill- murder of Duncan, was a fears thick as peas. What shall we do?" Milsom and Fowler were sentenced ed several years ago at the sugges- Officer of the Day: "Shell 'em; shell for the Muswell Hill murder there tion of prison doctors. In these er." The best way of meeting ful incident, producing a state of em

was a horrible fight, and the glazed more spacious cells selected prison- this difficulty is for parents to terror in his mind. Psycholog forbid their children to listen, ists are trying to probe into its

screen was smashed to atoms while ers are placed in companionship to the jury were considering their prevent them from brooding... Young man, when 2 R 1, UC,

When a convicted prisoner re- verdict. Unfortunately, the parents can secrets, but the mind may still be not always be at hand to see described as an unexplored re-

Y grocery bills off double B;

ceives permission to see a relative I'd like some V's 4 bill 2 date,

or a friend the interview takes that their instructions are being gion. All we can say is that as obeyed; and many of them, for the child. is so will the man be. Not I OU's what U 8.

The cell from which Jack Shep-place in a "visiting box," a con- that matter, can see no harm in It may seem rather far-fetched

Right Shape

pard escaped-in spite of its double verted cell equipped with a steel. it. Moreover, it depends largely to suggest that "Father Christ-

A motorist stopped at a It is mas" should be abolished yet it

wayside grille and grating-brought only grille that separates the prisoner and visitor. Conversation only is upon the age of the child. conceivable, indeed, that many is a question whether, in deceiv-general store and inquired of the rastie £7 108,

Collectors of relles secured for allowed, and a prisoner on his way shape of automobile tires?" young people with latent hising our children, we are not de-Proprietor, "What have you in the trionic gifts might have their cciving ourselves. As the twig "In the shape of automobile tires r£5 the cell in which Lord George to penal servitude may not kiss bis talent stimulated by means of is bent the tree will incline. And have wreaths, life preservere, and Gordon died. He led his wild riots wife or shake the hand of a friend. and, thanks to Erskine's eloquence, Shortly after the Old Bailey was the radio play whether of the this is the whole point of the doughnuts," was the quick reply.

eluded the consequences, only to built counsel complained that Court "thriller" type or not and it argument in regard to the radio might prove a powerful aid to "thriller," the gangster and mur-Facts You Did Not Know libel Marie Antoinette, to escape to No. I was haunted. An elusive Holland, to be hauled back and die mocking voice was heard is the scat budding Hferary genius, partieuder scenes in the pictures, and

An implement that can be carried of gaol fever after emphasising of the barristers' bench nearest the larly in the direction of play-sensational fiction. But what is

to be done about it is not easy to in a pocket has been invented to em- his eccentricities by embracing dock. writing.

It is not vouchsafed to boss an owner's name in gold or colour-Judaism..

An counsel addressed the Jury The question that is raised say,

Some undoubted bargains were the voice whispered his words into here le similar to that relating to us to peer into the future; we can ed enamel on personal property.

in the low, enticing a certain class of films. We can only speculate, with past experi- Measurement of lengths by light had at this remarkable sale. The his left ear

has been found by Beltish Judges beach (with royal coat-of-tones of a young girl asking a not say what Impressions may ence as a guide, and experience be left upon the plastic child shows how great and lasting is scientists to be accurate to within four arms) was sold for £6 65, & favour.

mahogany dinner-table which had

Many an eloquent speech Wła mind by what is seen and heard the influence of early impres-millionths of an inch to a yard. at the pictures or heard over the sions.

been in the Sheriff's Parlour for Bellows operated by a foot, have

by a foot been designed to supply air, warmed generations was bought for £4 10s, polled by this ghostly voice

echo. The "ghost" vanished when films, at all events, are concern- FUNERAL PYRE OF and moistoned, to the mouths of players and two iron roasting Jacks, about which was found to be an elusive of the larger, orchestra horns a 200 years old, were secured for the present glass celling was intro

Among the many famous trials 1

duced to cover the domed space.":

wireless; but, so far as the

ed, we do know that in some cases

very harmful results have been produced. It has been suggest

ed that there should be special

PRINCESS

picture theatres for children un- Hindu Rites At Woking

For Envoy's Wife

der a certain age, but without|- the co-operation of the parents so many of whom treat the matter lightly the idea is not

a very practicable one.

Of

OPEN AIR CREMATION

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A band magnifier has been inverted have witnessed at the Old Balley

in Germany för viewing pictures made

with cameras using negatives, only two stand out vividly and ImpresBut what of the grim ghosts about an inch and a half square, alveg of shooting dead her carnival of the grand centenary sively the case of Mme. Fahmy, that may very well haunt the ried out in accordance with the Egyptian husband in an hotel bed- next October? most orthodox rites of the Hindu room during a heavy storm: and religion. The shrouded body the conviction of Brown and Ken- was borne on a bier from themedy of the murder of F. C.

course, we have always had the For the first time for many house to the crematorium by Gutteridge.

Chriller" in fiction and the centuries a funeral pyre was lit Hindus of the highest caste, fol- The Fahmy trial, with its glam- modern boy, despite all parental in Britain on July 18, and on it lowed by the mourners.

it, just as the boy of an earlier Princess

orous Oriental setting, Its tense

INSANE CHINESE

ARRESTED

care, manages somehow to read was consumed the body of a It is forbidden to wear or car

ry anything made of leather at scenes and amazing revelations Dies At G.C.H. Shortly

was a haunting tragedy. Never

After Admission time got hold of his "Deadwood This was the funeral of Prin- a funeral, and it had been at first shall I forget the dramatic scene Dicks. But with one thrill for cess Shunshere Jung, the young thought that the four bearers of Sir Edward Marshall Hall de

Reported to be violently insane, lowing fast upon another, there wife of the Nepalese Envoy to and the dozen followers would

automatic pistol before a pale, a Chinese was arrested in I Des is no telling what changes will Great Britain. It took place at have to walk the half mile to the monetrating the deadliness" of an take place in the world's meir the village of St. John's, near crematorium barefoot Canvas tality. Great changes have al-Woking, where the Princess had shoes with rubber soles, how-beautiful woman who had no know Voeux Road West late on Saturday

ledge of firearme. The re

great crim-night but died at the Government ever, were obtained. ready taken place, and the world been in a nursing home..

As the party walked through inal lawyer won his case, and Mme Civil Hospital an hour after admis of the future depends upon our Her husband, Commanding attitude of life to day, and the General Bahadur Shumshere the village street and along the Fahmy was freed way we educate our children Jung Bahadur Rana who had canal towing path they scattered The mind of the child is a tender, been in Italy, was flying, to silver and copper coins.These. impressionable thing, and it is land, but did not arrive in time which

hard to eradicate what is sown for the funeral, He had

• news early impressiona... may có v have lifelong effects Dr. Willness but not liam McDougall, FRS Profes

Brown-Kennedy Trial

A post-mortem examination will

cause of death.. eagerly gathered The Brown and Kennedy, trial rebe held to-day to determine the adway by the village

aign the

done with ear

the pers

man had the appearance, of being an ordinary labourer, but the

body has not been identi@ed"