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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1955,

A PERFECT' MURDER

But it couldn't beat RAWLINGS of

the Yard

HERE are probably crime. He thought all the clr-

by

across

H

cumstances anyway.

were

on his sido

The setting was perfect for a murder. The London blitz.

the

mud-

and sharp nose, and denly lighting eyes.

Rawlings's favourite subject is

human beings-toe must ·Jnow human frailties," he says.)

Great cases of the greal detectives... No. 4

Daputy Commander William Hawlings, 58-year-old second-in command of the C.I.D. Could have been a barrister-passed Bar exaina →→→ bil preferred solving: crimes, The Dobkin case

called by a judge masterpiece of crime detection."

remains were found in the cellar of the chapel near where you were fire-watching in April 1941 and we are satisfied that they, are those of your wife,"

Sold Debkin; "I don't know what are talking about. I

A DYNASTY AT STAKE

THE ORDEAL OF QUEEN SORAYA

don't know. of any cellar at the SAM WHITE'S PARIS NEWSLETTER

bean

chapel and I have never down one there. In fact, I don't

believe it is my wife...

Then he made a mistake. He offered to write a statement. „He wrote: "In respect to what you Mrs say that wolfo

myw

has been "OR-MURDERED ..." them found dead

The

murder,

Who would ever know that ono psychology, "We deal with if the women In that cellar about polloo had said nothing to face a considerable ordeal, from

mong so many dead was not a

Would Scotland Yard?

bomb victim?

clever one.

Well,

WATCHING

descended

Finally, a compromise was sug→ stod and the stroot has been némed Rue des Tanks Royale,

Libel action

Paris. their seven-year-old son THIS week Queen Soraya have been banished. from of Persia ends her Persia. Tho Shah's five holiday in the South of other brothers are on their quito a few people

Dld this mean

that

Franco and comes to Paris mother's side walking about who

Dobkin had not needed have achieved a per-

a provious dynasty AM looking forward to the any more? That she was dead?

libel action Farouk vermis There she will be met by a and are barred by the con- Elsa, Maxwell, to be heard hero fect murder.

really was Mrs Dobkin, how did Crime - laboratory specialists panel of physicians und stitution from succeeding to soon. As I see it, the perfect

her handbag get to Guildford? had been busy too. They had gynecologists who will de- the throne.,

Farouk claims he was libelled crimo is one in which the

Here was a task, then, for a Did someone plant it there, to superimpon

full-face portrait

and when she

in an alleged telegram repro- victim's body has passed maybe, but this murderer was Holmes, Identifying the skeleton give the impression she had flext of Mrs. the dull. They will undergo a major upora-

on an X-ray cide where

Teheran court duced in Miss Maxwell'e'mamoirs commit the one alone would have seemed on the London bombs?

portrait of

(French edition only), which beyond recovery-by crema- not going to

mistake that so many murderers Impossible job to any ordinary.

matched exactly.

tion.

Also barred is the Shah's six- Miss Maxwell claims to have tion.- a n d two well-

make. The Yard might catch man.

Her dentist had been found. The threat of this opora- year-old daughter from his sent on recolving a dinner invita- intentioned, unsuspecting others, the stupid ones, but What was known about the

He was shown the jaw and, he tion has been hanging over previous marriage to

cx-King tion from him. doctors have written the never him. HE would be the strangled woman? Sho had been

Bald; "This is Mrs Doblin's

Farouk, incidentally, claims between 40 and 50; roughly 5ft. word #

THER inquiries were being upper jaw and those are my the 22-year-old queen for Faruk's sister Princess Fawzle.

Now that an operation on the never to He was justified, up to a point, tall. The lower jaw was mins-

filings."

the past three years. It queen boe been finally decided a telegram. Among the witnesses have received this too. "Natural нe was, if not clever, at least ing, but she had worn a dental

mado

Rawlings, dis-

Harry Dobkin

was still

Maxwell aro someone who remem-

not has been a reason, and often considerable part of the Teheran cited by Mis causes supremely cunning. That is why plate with, probably, saven falso covered

that ho

her court and close relatives of the General Nagulb, Colonel Nasser, "perfect teeth. the the uncovering of his

Four remaining

teeth bered a fire in the ruins of the clever enough to see

was doomed. He was confident the sole reason, for

Paris for

Norriman dress The date: April 15. " chapel.

Queen are gathering in widespread voyagings over

cx-Queen right through his trial

he final medical consultation. death certi- murder was one of the Yard's had Allings,

designers Dior and Dessee, and most brilliant triumphs.

How many women fitted these

Who was the policeman on the But the Jury found him guilty, this period to. France, With the Queen at present is the ficate.

uge and height Agures? At least

jewellery firm of Arpel. beat? Sure enough, Rawings after being out for only 20 Britain, U.S.A. and Switzer- her 50-year-old mother, Ger-

Q

on Farouk's side will 1,000 reported missing at

found a constable who remen- minutes.

man' married to the Persian

Rainier of Monaco, Prince time.

bered the fire. There was, he

She has น่ Marquis de Cueva, the Brazi that sald, someone else thero

It is the major reason for Ambassador in Bonn.

now been joined too by her 10- an Ambassador, the former night A man who volunteered

her present trip to Europe. your-old brother who is studying boxing champion Georges Car- the information: "I'm

pentier and the jewellery firm of Carliers. The absence of a mule heir architecture in Switzerland. is a grave threat to the future of the present Per

with the Queen are sian dynasty, already several courtiers from Teheran, of Persian Ambassador the threatened by religious and Paris, the head of the Persian THE present crisis in the Frin- political fanaticism.

cipality of Monaco, which army medical service, Colonel The brother of

brewing over since the Alady, and the court physician, has bean

one of the leading banks there present Shah, who was next Dr Agadin. in line to the succession, There is a certain irony in the crashed two months ago has onco He has in revealed the family feud was killed in an air crash presence of Dr Agadin.

Rainier's last year. His wife and to France not only to which divides the members of. attend the Queen but to go into exile here. Dr. Agadin belongs to a Muslim sect known as the that "Baghini" which is at present being violently persecuted in appear

If you don't think this can

1

happen I refer

FINDING

you

trul of Nurse I

was.

ما

the

He

mean crime; strangled a woman set fire

Waddingham to the body and then buried it

tho

-

head skeleton

SLOGGING

that

He

murder.

CONFESSING

fire- HE confessed during his lust watcher over there" (a nearby days, when his reprieve had a joking way: "j didn't do it," block of offices), and added in been refused and he realised that his had been no perfect

Rawlings sent out his men to

His wife, he said had been pressing him for more money. trace that fire-watcher.

He had wanted to be rid They traced him. His name?

And he had planted her her, Harry Dobkin.

handbag at Guildford.

1

for murder, in quicklime, under debris in DAWLINGS slogget on. back, in 1930. the cellar of a blitzed Baptist knew that the backbone of

Over con- chapel in Kennington. PERCY Adence

He felt safe in the certainty successful detection is really undoing that it would bo R long, long fanatical brand of thoroughness. He sought out the relatives of of Nurse Wad- time before the debris-clearing HOSKINS

those of

1,000 missing dingham. She gangs got round to that pile of each

women and asked: "Did she bad success- chapel rubble. fully got away with the murder It was. IL was in July 1942 wear an upper dental pluto with

The man was brought in and by morphine poisoning of ono that workmen prising up seven false teeth?"

A detective In- rich old lady and was ling

stone slab uncovered а Somewhere well down the list questioned. cremation

he interviewed the sister of Mrs Spector told him: "In fairness, Rachel Dobkin who vanished on thould tell you that human Good Friday-April 11-1941.

living apart Sho had boen from her husband.

pand Rachel, said her sister, about the age and height of the Her upper murdered woman. dental plate? Yes, she had one, but how could anyone say how many teeth there had been in itt

up

papers for

the

disposal of victim No. 2. The It could have been just an- certificates sald "Death from other bomb victim. But the natural

Everything skeleton was given a thorough causes."

examination. looked easy.

medical

Every bomb victim in the war got that.

Two things seemed odd.

So it would have been, if she had only put her ordinary Not-

There was an unusual quan- tingham address at the top of tity of lime in the soil around the papers, But she added the the bones, and a tiny bone in words "The Nursing Home" to the voice-box was fractured, make it look more imposing.

By chance the cremation official W18 also the district's medical officer; and he was also the authority of registration of nursing homes. This "horne" he know, was unregistered, so he passed the papers to the coroner. ordered. analysis An Nurse Waddingham was hanged. Today's chapter is the story of a man who did not aspire to #uct a degree of perfection in

Wis

KNOWING

TT was Dr Keith Simpson,

WAS

The search started for Rachel Dobkin's dentist. ...

Home Office pathologist, who disappeared her handbag had The day after Rachel Dobkin found the fracture. He knew been found 30 miles away, in what it almost certainly in- dicated: Strangulation.

Guildford, Rawlings pondered on that. turned over The problem was to Deputy Commander William

of

It was as sordid as that. He was hanged on January 27, 1943, at Wandsworth.

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land.

OF

ISRAEL'S WAY

KEEPING ALERT

WA

By DONALD WISE

arcas.

word

Also

Persia.

.be

Frinos

The crisis,

family. This time Rainer has ordered

34-year-old should no Antolootte

ملط

at

Princess Ani

Bistas

longer functions.

a slight and

amart woman, has life in recent years. Four years ago she married, in

hadi-a story

Before leaving Teheran

the exoedingly doctor told the Shah that he would take this opportunity of taking refuge in France.

Tanks Royale

A

the

Monaco Consul-G00

office in Genoa, the tanis champion Aloco Loghes Sho divorced him a year ago.

Since then she has been a close THE city council of Amiens has friend of a wealthy Monty Cario been in touch with the lawy, Jean Charles Ray, who British Military Attache regard is a former member of, the 18- The man Monaco National Council a special problem. council wish name a street in and who is a bitter opponent of honour of the art British Army Prince Rainier. unit to liberate Amiens.

Back went the answer the honour belonged to the Shrop

Stormy reign pOLITICAL NOTThe for

Tel-Aviv. of the prophet" and other Jews are exempt from military dissenting Arnb service, cat carefully and refuse 7AR planes are wheeling irregular

forces started to penetralo to recognise the state. The above my hotel. Navy

Jewish

await the They were promised land must the her units are moving on been In that bag had

thrown out.

of God, they

say, and Rawlings-a man who actually ration book and identity card.moonlit Mediterranean. In May 1948, when the state they spend their days la prayer looks like Sherlock Holmes. He No one came forward to claim Empty taxis are roaring of Israel was proclaimed, the and study.

ahlực Light Infantry,» has the height, the lean checks, or renew-thewon

through the streets on their Jews found themselves opposed

the fighting

Resilent-General of the

Kibbutzes. This however, created a Morocco Gilbert Grandval, whose way to be army-tested for by seven Arab countries, Egypt,"

Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and formera

Fond as the French stormy rolga thare lasted only roadworthiness.

Jordan had armies on

Everything is done on co-opera-problem. Israeli

tive lines. There is centralised are of resounding street names, two months, plans to enter politics territory. Saudi Arabia and

Mendes France." supporting them education and medical care for they could not quite rise to Rueen a supporter of former Premier Yemen wore

children, and communal feeding. du Shropshire Light Infantry. vocally,

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It is part of Israel's way of keeping alert,

wis

Then there are

יין

The time is midnight in

No one has pocket money. Some steamy Tel-Aviv and the

liberal. Some left Kibbutzes are

heat,

wing. All of them constitute a con- despite air

In 1949 the war of libera- fighting unit inside a farming dif'oning, has driven me on tion," as the Jews call it was co-operative. Hand grenades are to the roof for a cigarette. halted. Atmistice agreements

tossed into their wedding cere I can almost see the length were signed with Jorden, Egypt, montes, Children are slaughter- and breadth of this tiny, Syria and Lebanon The Jewe

ed if they stray too far afleld. places round brand new state that can be lost their holy

It is impossible to guard each the Hebron. yard of Israel's frontiers. The hit by its enemies from 360 Jerusalem and

They gained Galilee,

nerve- Kibbutzes, hard-tried, degrees round the compass.

the rocked, do the nearest thing. Imagine it. Drive 300 miles from Syria in the north to the head of the Red Sea at Eilat-that is Israel. At its fattest its girth is Lurely 70 miles. At worst it shrinks to eight. The coastline stretches about 120 miles, with a dangerous strip about 30 miles the flashpoint Gaza strip.

This is one of the many flashpoints on the. Arab. dominated land frontiers. Seawards the danger comes

commando from

gangs paddling their dynamite into Israel by canoe from ships that, in the past, have shelled Tel-Aviv.

If I listen hard enough I might hear a water well blown up inland. Or a set tler's family wiped out in a burst of sub-machine-gun fire. Situation normal-for Israel.

Nations Relief Works

all Tricklest of Gaza Strip. Egypt occupied that and, administers the 250,000 Palestinian refugees. The Uni- ted Agency feeds them. The area is barren and unproductive, so the Jews do not want it.

attention of her starving

MILT.

A Churchgoing Nation

·

A vival

From NEWELL ROGERS

New York. They are wartime friends. He GREAT spiritual re- wants to keep their friendship on this level in harmony with is sweeping the "Genova spirit.” America. Six out of 10 Americans now belong to SEVEN out of every 100 US. homes with TV aerials on Again, there are cosmopolitan some church.

the roof have no sets, The mast A hundred years ago the is to make neighbours think Jews teeming down the baking streets of Tel-Aviv. Bronzed figures were two out of 10, they have one. And 12 out of

100 motor brict says the National Council of every

cara with inen in shorts, carrying The Egyptians have no in-

cipes; girls with Lollobrigida Churches of Christ, report radio serials have no working

of 250 radios, tention of trying to make it

haircuts and snazzy off-the-ing on membership La

religious bodies, a useful shoulder blouses.

are fighting productive. It frritant and battleground. Here

churches gamned BUSINESS- men Protestant hard- too are

Dthe toll roads. These Jews

Owners of is Egypt's chance to divert the working, confident, ready to put to reach it total. DE 57,000,000. Pestaur

1,286,817 new members in 1954

stations, mate, and Fellahin. from their domestle on uniform at the ring of the

Roman Catholics goined 927,071 restaurants along the free figh to reach 32,000,000. Jewish ways paralleling toll ronds face miseries and whip up the old telephone.

The Arab state has never bodies gained' 500,000 to reach

ruin. The New York through- anti-Jewish feeling throughout

been formed as visualised. By 5,500,000.

way has already cut 30 percent the Arab world.

boycott, iniltration and in-

More than 37,000,000 children of the traffic on parallel route.

No. 20. Premier General Deposed

cidents around the frontiers the and adulte go to Sunday schools, says in his

So the Naguib

autoblo-

Route 20 Free-way crazy to fight Arab world hopes to wear Israel six percent increase over last

teaders year.

Association is issuing 500,000 shifts from EAVY buying on the never booklets to advertise the scenic frontiers claim. So tension needio them

one end of the pint-sized coun- nevar plan is wrecking hap- advantages of their roud and slip commando raiders in-

try to the other.

piness in U.S. homes, says REMEMBER Cohn and Schine, country.

the youthful Red-hunting side the

in white-family relations UNO truce teams painted jeeps rush from srtillery Semple. She had to help 320 team went to Europe by Senator bombardment

familles at Norwalk, Connect McCarthy? to machine-gun Now fields of wheat diep duels. Local commanders glower cut-10 percent more than inst

other across barbed year. pear overnight, stolen by pirate at each

What she found: People go .hire- harvesters from enemy territory, wire, sometimes make short. deeply in debt on

They cut down on purchase. Farmers may be ambushed by lived local truces. Then It starts 100 infiltrators hiding under their "we were

up all oger renin

clothing, and children's ipso food, io collapso going

needs. And then trouble trees. At any time every – fruit fut be prepared to rush we would have done it in 1850 between husband and wife.

the "liberation war," the сит от commandeered bus in

military service on the Irraclis tell you.

raphy that 11 a wer with the Jews. Better down, so the Jowish

one

by

for Sibee the British started to border. withdraw from Palestine the

Jews have had a score of run- ning fights on their hands.

In, November 1947, when the United Nations agreed on parti- tion in the form of a Jewish and an Arab state, the "army

on the

They did not, They believed that they could Uck all ~-the Arabs in the Middle East, They still do,

A million and a quarter Jews have been living this way since 1949. All sorts

of Jews they

In that respect they feel they are,

can even afford to be light There abo true orthodox types in round hairy hats, full hearted, men whiskers and frock costs. These

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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN.

SUDDENLY-A HOLE APPEARS IN THE WALL-NO SOUND ƒ THESE GUYS WALK IN--TIG ME UP == MAKE ANOTHER HOLE IN THE VAULT --- THEN GO----

WERE YOU SOBER WATCHHANT

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TrOW

oficer Grayen

H9 many citizens of this democratic republic of 160 million people are "In society" Society anys 17,000. A new Blue-book the List of THE PRESIDENT frowns on

publication of official short hand notes on his Geneva talks with Marshal Zhukov, Russian Defence Minister.

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

I NEVER DRINK," HE WAS ONE OF THEM--AND HIM CHIEF. THEN,WHEN

THEY LEFT--THE

HOLES CLOSED UP-

LIKE THEY NEVER

· HAD BRIN/

THE CREEP GANGI WHICH ONE MADE

THE HOLES?

NEITHER ONE, IT WAS AFAT LITTLE FELLOW

*THE

WITH HEAVY GLASSES : TOURIST

TALKED FUNNY--.

Wealthy David Sching, now 27. and Onishing his national service as an army corporal, has lost his civilian job as head of the Roney Plaza Hotel, at Miami Beach, Florida. But be

not need

worry the new owners pay $500,000 a year for it to his father..

DEJOINDER by New York

radio station WNEW to Sir Washington is a city of bad Jacob Epstein's criticism Chat "Perhaps ho refcered status: to the absence of any Epstein, statues... most Americans are

Lincoln by: pleased Memorial."

the

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