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PILLBOX MURDER CLUE WAS A

PIECE OF GAUZE

IFTEEN YEAR-OLD Mary Hagan, sent out by her father to get an evening paper, had been dead some time when her body was found in one of the thousands of roadside blockhouses built in Lan- cashire, England, in the 'early days of the war.

THE CHINA' MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1952.

A thumb dressing, found by Dr Firth at the scene of the crime, proved an Irish Guardsman to be a murderer. Elaborate tests by Dr Firth and textile experts showed that the dressing was exactly similar to an Army field dressing, a piece of which was found in the soldier's home near Liverpool.

The case remains one of the most celebrated of Dr Firth's carly successes.

was case

Wicksteed

Now Joes to

Y

OU. go to Holy Island off the Northumber land const by taxi at law tide. It can be a stir- ring maritime adventure.

The drivers come of hardy seafaring stock and do not always bother to wait until the tide is out before they make the cross- Ing.

I did the trip this

week, and as the taxi carried no life boats I was jolly glad I could swim.

BY

CAB

AOFFICIANT+1197-4AUWEZA

charged me a guines and gave me a return ticket for one taxi passage to Holy Island,

"All you've got said, "is to take a bus 10 Beale to do." e and then ask for Charlie.'

There are about ten taxis in the fight from the start you feel the Holy Island feet, and they

nearly all 1933-4 Fords. like Alice in Wonderland be The islanders scour the scrap cause you book your passage heaps of the country for them, through a barber in Berwick. because they are one of "Arc, said the ticket collec- few cars that can go to sen.

the tor when I got off the train, They have more clearance than "the barber will fix you up modem models and the ignition with anything from a shampoo system hich fa a ticket för Geneva,”

up in the bon- net. So long as you can

The keep

crabs out the carburetter you can drive them through any- thing up to a third

TAXI TICKET

TO HOLY ISLAND I went to the Barber of Berwick and, in between his customers, he

shaving

THE CASE

BOOK OF

DR FIRTH

NUMBER SIX

By KEN COMPSTON

committed/ Samuel, Morgan, a 28-year ol Irish Guardsman, was being taken to the police clothing a dirty bandage. Work- murdered. A barmaid had be- station, ing on a particle like that, the come rather suspicious

As he was being questioned an of News of the murder had doctor had been able to report young Irish Guardsmon

who offleer was visiting his mother's Superintendent been flashed to Lancashire to

Gregson: had had several drinks in her home. There was found a damp police headquarters within a

"This has had zine ointment hotel.

cloth, apparently used as a face on it; it is Imprezanted with

The fow minutes of the crime disinfectant."

becoming cloth. stronger, but even naw police

the hands of Dr Firth that being discovered, and Dr

A strip of gauze

were far from establishing the "d" was the concluding link in Firth

associated identity the spot with the bandage on

of the

A double they the case. man almost as soon as Detective Identifed

been wanted, The Rummers hun- irregular stitching....the very us part of a field tiresis of them in that part of libre of the material cord | Chief Superintendent Greg- dressing....They were the first Lancashire - had .nil been exactly with the son, at that time head of clues. Things were pointing to cleared.

gauze. Hundreds of other types n soldier.

were tested, but in other w found to match.

Detective-Inspector Floyd had checked the heel impression with the heel of Morgan's boot. They were the same.

was

had

Telephone calls were

made

SPECIAL KIND

of

of

to

row

the county police Criminal Investigation Department.

Outside the pillbox at Bruok to Manchester Chamber Vale, Seaforth, on the very edge Commerce so that Dr Firth Then came Dr Firth again!

could speak La research This time it was with a detail chemists specialising In tex- ed report on the gauze, found Illes. Slowly light was being to be a special type issued Another officer, questioning the thrown on to the mystery

beca man, noticed he had a recently milltary units. It had checked with secres of Mary Hagan's death.

speci. healed scar on his finger.......... strip of guze were on

The dirty bandage and the mens collected by Dr Firth, The young guardsman realised

their and even the manufacturers the way to Manchester by speemt had been traced.

1ell yt... was strong. "I'll -] he said. messenger, bound for a city As

As Dr Firth worked

At Liverpool Assizes Superintendent - Gregson --- was-February-1941 he was sentenced receiving from the records office to death for the crime he had of the Irish Guards the names commited three months before, and addresses of men who had

of the Lancashire force's area, a uniformed policeman was stand- ing guard. Inside, nearly ankle deep in water. Superlatendent Gregson and Dr Firth were re- constructing the savage assault that had been made upon the girl by some unknown assailant. HEELMARK

Beside the child was the even- ing paper she had been out to buy and clearly-defined boat heelmark. But hundreds of folk had trampled the ground in the dark. damp miniature fortress, It only by the gun slits in its thick walls and,

now, by the open door.

Bils of paper, old cigarette packets.and all manner of other artletes #itered the floor. Hidden beneath the water might be scores of other potentini clues when

examined the laboratory at Preston.

tested in A handkerchief bearing

and

the

-research-station.

Back at Seaforth....one de teelive had discovered a young woman who gave a description of sidier who had tried to trip her up on the very bridge where Mary Ragan had been

cata,

a failiom sea waler,

They only last about 4 year on the run. Then the sand gets in their bearings and the salt Parsis the bodywork to nothing.

Charlie's vehicle-or vessel looked as if wouldn't run a mile, but he said it was good for many more voyages yet. He plled six of us into

Of course, you've got to know what you are doing," sald Charile at the helm, "be cause there BTC quicksands, "I had been thinking the same thing when I saw the sands were littered with the half-burled skeletons of ing cars.

too.

Just-

I thought they were. the re- malos of taxis that had perish- ed on the Journey, but Char- He said they were put there in the war to stop alders land- ing.

About 230 people live on Holy Island and support them- looking after holidaymakers. selves by farming, fishing, and

happily placed, because For this last industry they are they have four pubs and no police-

man.

Recently the police tried And lodgings on the island for a constable but, oddly enough, though they con 200 holidaymakers, no one had accommodate

room for one polleeman.

Bernard Wicksteed

(OF THE ISLES).

it four in the back visits Holy Island

and two beside him on the "bridge."

one

There was no lock on of the doors, EO, nfter ho had squeezed us in, he bolted us below decks with a steel pin and then cranked up.

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More publicised, though less haisy pilgrimages than those to the pubs are made to the ruins of Lindisfarne Priory. It was on this island, in A.D. 035, that Christianity was 121- The engine made the most traduced to the North of Eng- unholy Island row you ever land. heard. Charlie' said this was because the silencers on this model are below sea level, so you have to take them off.

tolu

On the mainland they me that on Holy Island you must never Say "pig." You have to call it "the thing" or The first 100 yards over the "the article," It was

rather sands is all right, then the hard to confirm this without road ends abruptly beside using the word. So at lunch- notice that says: "Unsuitable time, in one of the pubs, I ask- ed outright: "Is it true you for cars."

mayn't say pig?"

we

At the state of the wide when made the crossing the notice seemed hardly neces- sary, because there was noth- ing ahead but sea. But Daunt- less Charlie plunged in.

Deeper and deeper we went, the sea was up to the bon net and we were sending out a bow wave ilke a

torpedo

boat..

THEY LAUGHED

3

TOR a moment they looked FOR

at me like a man in Bateman cartoon, then every body burst out laughing. It was an old fishing superstition, they sald, but no one bothered

about It now.

WE REACHED

Another shing supersillion used to be that it was unlucky DRY SAND AGAIN

thing to meet the vicar first women and the back. not avoid the vicar you OOK out!" shouted one of In the morning. If you could did "The water's coming in the door." not go fishing.

That's, ali

sald right" Charlic, "you don't have

tli in worry

reaches It soat."

Over on the starboard quer- ter

another taxi,

relatives in the Seaforth area. The seventh case in this cories On November 15, 1940, Just deals with "The Careless Forger," thirteen days after the crime was on thle page next Saturday.

The brilliant

pattern of

MONEY and ROMANCE

London.

HE romance of the en- Igagement between 19- marking "G. Rimmer" r also lay year-old American Virginia dirty on the floor. It may have Fortune Ryan and Lord been dropped

By Ephraim Hardcastle

Ryan, #randson of a very ly want, but which of people

accidentally by

any one of the scores

Ogilvy, is in the perennial who had been in the

block pattern of wealthy heiress house to shelter....but there marrying into the peerage.

was

a falat hope that it might have been left by the derer.

mur-

But behind it is a romanec of finance of two German-

tion of immense fortunes.

she is

He did, however, live to see that only to you would she sell daughter marry John Bar- the object you don't particular- rich 2ndustrialist, Thomas determined to sell." Fortune Ryan-though John Ryan was not overburdened with wealth.

Guest MPs FOUR MP-two Tories and two Socialists are to spend will the summer recess in America Now the granddaughter marry into one of the noted as guests of the US Govern- families of the

peerage. For ment.

satisfac-Lord Ogilvy, the

26-year-old

They are Darwin's C. Fletcher hels of the Earl of Airlie, has Cooke, Major F. M. Bennett been included in that select (Rending North), Woodrow Ust of young men who

have Wyatt, the former Under-

It was a quaint collection cf born boys who started in material that Dr Firth had to

offles and tasted the study. Like a receding tide, the pumped off water had left all kinds of articles, chocolate paper, bits of wood, a dirty bandage and a strip, ci gauze,

TO THE LAB.

One of them came to Britain as a penniless boy, and came the wealthy,

at one time or another been Secretary of State for War, and

Sir Ernest Cassel. His grand-pped as Princess Margaret's Arthur Blenkinsop.

daughter, Elwina Ashley, fol- lawed the pattern by marrying

With Mary's clothing, all of it Lord Louis Mountbatten exact went to Preston where thely 30 years ago. forensic laboratory staff toiled

to eliminate first one a 3 then The other boy who "made another of the articles.

good was Otto, Kahn. He Hek-

in

It was the boot heel Impres-et

stamps slon, the piece of bandage and n banker's office the gauze in which De Firth before coming to: was most interested, but the Britain. 'Then ho handkerchief might still be a went to Ameries to connecting link.

become 鹾 great

with

#

While Dr Firth worked in Anancier his laboratory, Superlatendent one time a reputed

Gregson directed the pelice i fortune of 20,0000,000 vestigation. Hundreds of Home dollars,

Guard units were checked for

the tell-tale heel mark, dozens

of soldiers home on leave were But the fatcs questioned..

which sustained Sir

-In Liverpool local polico Ernest Cussel were were watching and checking not so kind to Otto the movements of sailors and Kahn. He was. in the whole of Southwest Lan-selected

were ve candidate

Conserva

for

cashire village pelicemen calling on all the Rimmers. the Gorton Division

In the Seaforth area

doloc- of Manchester in. tives brought in specially from 1912, but when war many districts of Lancashire broke out he with- were making house-to-house drew. He died in inquirien

in the hope of pick- 1914 after losing jog-up acme slender clusto porhaps as much as the identity of the murderer. half his fortune in.

· At· Preafon Dr Firth in the American, alump found in the fold of the child's of the thirties.

husband.

Honeymoon ideas

Thus Virginia Fortune Ryan DANCING in a London night has completed the pattern of club were Pitt Oakes, 22- Money and Romance and 'add- year-old gon of the lato ed a happy ending to the story wealthy Sir Harry Oakes of the of the two boys from Ger- Bahamas, and his bride of five

model Eunice Ballcy. thought you were

many.

BIISH VIRGINIA

en

A peer's ideal honeymoon," I said. "We are." "WE shall have go away. I can't see the point the nicest and of spending money on environ- loveliest girls

in. ment." sales-

rald Mr Oakes. "But we didn't

London

wom.ca.

•

zald Lady Dalrymple Champ-

A couple not following that neys, talking about example are the Hon. Gerald Lascelles, son of the Princess

function/

a forthcoming Bri- Royal, and ex-actress Miss An- tish Saltors Society gela, Dowding, who married at St. Margaret's, Westminster. They went by car to France, Switzerland, and Italy.

Briefly

So I asked vice-

prezident | Lord In Lord Dunboyne, barrister friend of the queen, is editinum

verclyde his idea of

the

a book on acid bath murderer, Ideal charity John George Haigh. saleswoman..

●A bronze bust of Ernest Said ho; "She Hovin, presented by. Transport must have sufficient House, 1s to be placed in the personal charm to Foreign Office. Meanwhile, the

former Fareign

make you feel that widow, Dama

Secretary's Florence, has

on a ten weeks, cruiso to

you are her favour-- ite customer, and South Africa,

was

to the

The first thing visitors ask when they get to Holy Island Is "What do you do in the winter?". I confess I asked the same thing, and the answer I RoL was: "We talk about all the daft folk who come here in the summer and ask what dry we do in the winter."

and together we ploughed the sea In convoy, for half a mile, till the water shallowed out and we were en reasonably sand again.

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