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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1956.

A MURDERER IS STILL AT LARGE!

LITTLE GIRL WITH

THE BLACK

WELVE dusty

in

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photographs black frames on shelf

the under jounge bar of the Star and Garter Hotel, Windsor, are the last remaining link be- tween that famous boxing hostelry and the cruel killing of a gay little girl four years ago.

It was a very hot summer Saturday noon, the bar was packed with a loud, hard. drinking crowd and a few locals. It was shorts, most

thal Jy

came doubles,

There was across the bar. hardly a beer to be seen.

DOLL

By Valentine Dyall

some

In the unpredictable me face to face with way of children Christine thing that drove all thoughts of

the big fight from his minti. suddenly got the idea of

A man, who had been fishing

was waving to him

BOON.

and

The Star and Garter bas been bought by a brewery," the lounge has been redecorated and refinished. Tho photographs have gone from the walls, ..young manager and his wife are working hard-after all this time to radicate the memory

member when they pass by the of a killing that people stil re- Star und Garter.

to Louth to miss a moment of the THEY

fight he reluctantly got up and rah ran over to the stranger whose

STILL HOPE...

Butchers had

κανό

up

and waving had a frantic look about " for a proper holiday in the

oo much more

embarrassod distance

taking her favourite black nearby. doll down to the pub meet Sugar Ray. She down into the street then stopped--she had left it.

Nexi minute the two men summer of 1951. After Christine a bag of sweets in the flat

their they counted she had for- were ruzning fast to the nearest had gone upstairs. If

telephone box. They had seen hullday money and Mrs Butcher gotten them she might come The pitiful body Christine said, "It's our lot, give it to

Christine." back soon after to dip into Butcher the bag, but she remem. There is

to They bought a fine headstone bered them too

The Her tell,

camo, police

the for her grave, It was all they But they never mother threw the bag out pathologist, the ambulance, and could give her.

a viil that grave. They think it of the window

to her and t

Hawking crowd of townsfolk and better to live with the happler then watched her run down trippers. As the light went down memories of her young life with the street and disappear police thadlights and car head them in the flat.

it the busy scene. into the crowd.

When the castle clock struck ler mother never

twe the spectators' grisly curio- uguin,

sily was satisfied. A tiny little When Christine had not come shape was lifted on a strelcher

carried to the ambulance. buck to beu al 4 v'clock her

The police search was intense. lather wem down the street

Everything was done. But the fetch her back. Star was 10%

killer still lives. there. Her mother and father started searching the town; they Brossard, the wait to the swimming club,

cuse Christine had remembered

Perhaps the murderer WELS already in Windsor that day. Maybe he was already in that packed brunt. Anyway, 14 mst horrible murder story was

to start from the very door of

This bar the next day.

SUGAR RAY VIP

PHILIP

saw her

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landlord, caine through the noug's arrangement and from the public inr and saw gone there alone, they searched the

through

They a everywhere

knew blanket of cigarette smoke Christine knew.

scene

that

lying at hend level across When dusk cure they went to the room. If the murderer the police, was there

und is reading this story now he may re- member the strange thing Christinu would inc her way that happened the next home or a policeman would

moment.

All that night their front door was left open in the hope that j

bring her.

While the worried and dis- The smoke worried Mr

Imught parents kept aight- Brossard. "No smoking in a vigastening expectantly here," he ordered, adding, to every foulfall on the pave-

Sugar Ray will be coming

ment below,

4

murderer

knew

t Christine would never again

in Boon and he don't like return to her home. smoke while he's training."

was Sugar Ray HIDDEN BY, GRASS

Such Robinson's

VI.P. status

among Mr Brossard's CUS COMETIME und somehow

W 21 N

unpre-

tomers that this cedented order from

a by her mother at the flat window landlord

obeyed and probably

early evening- without dissent although she had only eaten two the few remaining locals sacets--the murderer hød enticed

between the Limo sho was seen outside the Star and Garter

took a poor view of it.

The Star and Garter, with its boxing gymnasium all the back, had long been pre-big fight rentre heavyweights.

never lost its character a local pub.

hot treo

her Wirough the teeming with Visitors to u

secluded field near the castle.

There, within calling distance

of hundreds of people, but hid- summer grass,

They buy flowers for her and put them beside her photograph on the dresser in the sitting- rim where she used to play.

daughter's killer will be found

Next Saturday: A Child Found Strangled

They still hope their

M

Also in the crowd was a man watching the little girl. Soon they were to speak; soon she was to be dend.

Politics apart, the French have achievements to their credit which any nation

USA ог USSR even Germany, Britain, the

WONDERFUL

T

would be proud to claim,

TRAIN-RIDE,

AND NO SIGNALMEN!

1IE Frenchman

har

for genius dividing up life into watertight compart- ments. It is a matter of international legond that he

manages to keep home life

from But it

completely divorced outside pleasures. goes much. much deeper than that.

Politics. for have their

instance, own separate indeed

compartment — as they must if sanity and social friendship are lo be preserved.

With no fewer than 29 porties the chances of your casual acquaintance being

to choose from, for den by the g

he criminally assaulted ond kill

J

But it had little Christine.

No COLO saw

han speak to Christine, no one saw her walk-1 Ing through the streets, silling in a car or walking in the field.

CHANGED PLANS

to the field outside.

ia

every

of like political views are slim. So it is best to talk of something else.

Another watertight compart- ment is work. Outside office and isn't the Frenchman factory. keen to talk about it. RAILWAYS

boasting

By Norman King

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

work beuse, how

A bas! Vie Pousad

"All right—maybe all our politicians do stink, but our

railways work-hein !"

even such thing as or the punctuality is divided in France

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crtch a muttered comment about

have been

the

block

system, relegated Together with up-and-down- lines, to the realms of history, Trains travel on either track, in elther direction. A slow train on one track can be overtaken by a fast one on the other. MARSHALLING MIRACLE

I confess that this control room gave me some anxious moments, but I was assured that every- thing way perfectly foolproof. The equipment 13 French- designed and French-built,

THE NIGHT WHEN YOU CAN'T SLEEP

8 Christmas approaches' "Wall," I "explained, "BOLSO old Jack Groves people can't scop if they are exposed to undue excitement always organises before retiring. Everybody local brains trust, and last knows how small children won't year I was conscripted on go out to bye-byes' if they Dru to it. So there I sat on the too alimulated.. platform with Miss Tanner, way adults who are prone

insomnia shouldn't suffer fromÍ Professor King from the read ghost stories or

or detective

man.

In

same

to

University, Donald Dawson novels before turning to.

"Apart from excitement they the artist, and the chair.

shouldn't drink tea or coffee late in the evening, for thoed The chairman handed us beverages contain caffeine. Nor all a piece of paper with a should they

or with too full A question written on it and hungry

bavo stomach or then said: "No doubt the clothes on the bed or too fow"

go to bed either

too many

doctor will start this off." "Yes, yes, yea, all very well," I stared down and read sold Mir Tanner ut sup- WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF posing your habits are healthy SLEEPLESSNESS? "The normal and you

I begon sense?" amount of sleep,"

nervously, "vurtea widely with

habit

and personality. age,

Infant of one month

Thus an

sleeps about 21

hours

Out of

24, while A

child ogod four needs some 12

hours.

Adults, of course, geo- erelly require eight

about

hours' sleep.

11:50 your common

"Most people,” I continued, "who can't sleep outside the cause I've mentioned fall to

ALL IN A DOCTOR'S DAY

by ...... CEDRIC

"Rubbish," Interrupted Pro- fessor King. "I sleep only three hours a night regularly without any impairment of my health.” "Yes," I tried to smile, "but most people who have had Inadequate sleep find it difficult to concentrate,

and lose their normal alertness and their sense of well-being. They are unable to carry out difficult mental activities."

CARNE

de so because of some anxiety or

depression that they may not even be aware of."

I went on to describe a nu- whom I'd re- ber of pulients ferred to a psychiatrist. For atminta con be a symptom uf some deeper tension.

"People who visit psychia- trists should have their heads examined,” said Donald Dawson,

"No,"

I protested, pertiòps The chairman pointed out to losing my stnic of humour. me that I wasn't answering the "Too many

question, so I started again.

of

have EL

prejudice against psychiatrists, but prychologdeni treatment la "Insomnia may be duo to much better sometimes thun faulty hobits of hygiene, or it contually resorting

to may be the result of acute ill- sedatives." nesses accompanied by, say, pain, Just then, the choinnin or lover. Then again insomnia handed me another little note, may be due to chronic allments 1 thought it was a further ques- Ilke cirrhosis of the liver, high tion but it read: Mrs Taylor is blood pressure, certain heart and

expecting a baby

one thing which is too fast for them-the River Rhone. Such a the current that navigation from the Mediterranean to Lyon was Jung diseases where not enough oxygen is going into the blood from Lyon to stream." always dificult the Lake of Geneva impossible.

The river's challenge has been accepted.

Compagnie Nationale du Rhone was formed In 1034 to do a tremendous job.

Lo

The Rhone is being made navigable for 1,000-L ships from the seu to Geneva, whence there will be connections to the Rhine and the Danube.

In the process, it is planned to extract hydro-electric

power from the worrent to the tune of 14,000,000,000 kilowatt-hours a year, and to assist irrigation in the plains of Bas-Rhone.

In-

involves 20

and though

Piense go

at once.

"Would you be good enough to excuse me?" I said,

"Fruity habits of hygiëne. Mrs Taylor and i were two Tanner asked belligerently, What do you mean?" Miss people who didn't get

I was sure she didn't sleep well at night just from her tone.

sleep that night.

(COPYRIGHT)

SYLVIA LAMOND DISCOVERS

much

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A SURE CURE FOR

"THE BLUES"

Near Dijon, 1 was shown an other modern railway mirucle the marshallig yards of Gevrey Chambertin, where men at con- trol panels in high towers

London "With this I can give you any sorting out up to 3,508 wagons

day on 61 parallel tracks. only three have so far been

GOT 80 thoroughly number of long-haired styles,

"You think

got you've these completed,

аго already down I went to see my troubles. providing a quarter of the total understanding doctor; and uke this is cut from the head Do you realise hair

This plan Gre

dividual projects,

It is all done with the case of a proud father playing with his son's now electric train set.

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To achieve this efficiency, the controllers use such devices short-wave radio contact with drivers, mote-control pnou- matic brakes and photo-electric cells which can be set to change the points when a train passes.

stoppages in winter-all points are electrically heated.

And there is

no

danger

of

scheduled power production.

GREAT STATION

Another project due to come into service in 1957 at Montell- mar will provide a further

kilowatt-hours 1,070,000,000 year.

One has to bear in and the interruption due to war, and also the colossal scale of even a aingle Individual project, "

"

I

I want to tell you about his of an Italian peasant giri-at prescription because it did the roots! She then wears

a

me a lot more good than the cap and starts again until she usual bottle of tonic.

has some more waist-length hair to sell!"

Riche gathered the straggly "Buy some vests," he said ends of growing hair. into the briskly, "and wear them. Half canoe-shaped bit of nylon and the women who come to me fixed it to the back of the head

don't wear vests because they with special non-slip clips.

bulge under tight skirts-or

"They think they're run down, when all they're suffering from is over-exposure to cold

The false hair flowed, over · each shoulder Juliet-fashion, felt ten yearn younger.

I

Riche was surprised.

As the long grass had the final hideous act, so did the thousands THE next day, Sunday,

of sightseers overflowing the Sugar Ray, rumour had pavements and the bonnet to

The it, would make

French, in fact, a personal bumper crawl of cars in

her extremely hard

But Christine and appearance at one of the roud hide

the Americans slayer on that fatal walk or unite windows of the Star and drive of half u mile from the Germans, they are not constantly into watertight compartments. Garter. After lunch EL

town

about it, the tact

some such nenseuse. If you are invited to a recep- Jargo crowd started to What thoughts this ghoulish often just on a world which is collect on the pavement and killer had that night and since more interested in their political tion at 11.30 am, they are sur-

It is vagaries,

prised to see you at 11.35. You BOUQUET FOR BUFFET in the road outside the may never be known.

The Dunzere - Mondragon known that after strangling her Some of their achievements Texactitude" and realise that it hotel.

with the belt of her blue rain have attained recognition--the would

The French Railways wouldn't scheme, which came into service

"Have an early night with hot coat he covered the little body

much more be French if they weren't think in 1931, involved the digging of railway system, for instance, gentlemanly to arrive nearer

19 miles of main canal widermilk, then an evening out- In the crowd, in fact over with it. Whether that was

the Rhone

ing in terms developmení

Even of still higher than Sarez, and the erection of which will probably buck you twelve. a lost and

speeds. They are now pondering two dams and a power station. actually in the courtyard a pathelle reverent act

Not

enough, nearly

up more than the early night. "You usually look as if you can moment of remorse or because project,

results of two things But by arrivals and departures the

an experiment

"Be a bit extravagant and do earn enough to take good, care tow months ato when

Then there was a host of something to your face and of yourself. Now you look as it French trains I used, you can

minor matters, such as irrigation hair," he added. "You can't you nood protecting." new electric locomotives

was canals

and housing for the fool me that you're too alck to Wonderful man! Bilssful whipped up to 200 mph.

workers.

try!"

words, as any modern womin That final knock went home, know with being housewife, Another idea which is to

Today, with six great turbo-I went off to see Riche about a What tried soon is the remote-COR-

There alternator untis helping to make now hair style. "And it had mother,

dccountant, cook,... Its main hall look like something better be good," I said.

Just a bouncing "The career-girl planet, this one doctor sent me!"

bundle of reliable Meloncy-it's from another

no wonder we feel like breaking power station is producing more

10000 sometimes. electricity than is used by the whole of French Railways. Its output is nearly enough to serve the whole of Southeast France.

knows.

for these

be

entrance of the hotel, stood we could not walk away till he owever, a gay fair-haired little girl had hidden, from his own lust-are among the most magnificent c the Mistral and of all other a

a train drawn by one of their of seven clutching her crazed gaze, the horrible sight have ever seen in my life. favourite black doll for which

GDE he had caused, no

The really impressive thing is act your watch. Sugar Ray to sea.

the speed and gusto with which

It is an uncanny feeling when Beside her lay the little black things are done,

travelling at

to such speeds Joil.

its eyes closed, and the un-

al- Also in the crowd, in the mished bag of sweets. For two

realise that signalmen ors The speed-mad car drivers of most non-existent. There used to trolled main line train. hotel or nearby, was a man days she lay there la the shadow Paris are well enough known, be 800 of them between Paris will be one driver aboard watching the little girl, of the Castic, while mounted After two accidents in her first and Lyon. Now there is only one, first, just in case, but it may be

the Life Guards two works' driving there, B

possible to dispense with him Soon they were

speak, squadrons of

passed within yards and police woman colleague propounded the He sits in a room of Dijon, later on. soon she was to be dead.

dragged the river a little way maxim: "If you stop to think of sorting out by remote control safety you'll be killed at once." the traffic on the 10-mile stretch Who that man was ΠΟ

of main line between Dijon and ways without mentioning lunch And

everywhere, and

in Blalay-Bas.

in the station buffet at Dijon. one knows for certain. Let

everything, It is the same. • us call him the unknown

to

but revolting Mr M; it is

Dway.

IDENTITY CHECK

bour

I cannot leave French Ral

at

"Let's keep it this way" I sald wildly.

dozen

But Riche wanted to be prac- Riche came at me with the tical. He wound the hair into, Adjoining the power station is scissors. "I don't want any off," half o

can also ships I warned. "I'm growing it' for

the I chose to telling styles. A superb lunch, Inquiry re- a lock which

one, he I shall never forget the sight Due to difficult terrain, this

called "the bottleneck" which ed it had been France's cham- nine minutes a world record "This in between stage be, mt on top of the head. It gave a good cipher. M for mur. PACK of the Star and Garter of four tugs in Marseilles bar- has been left as a two-track Youled that the man who cook through 20 metres in less than the longer look,"

swinging round the defle In what is otherwise there was great activity. That 28,000-lon liner

chef two as four or six-track system. Hence Which reminded

pion

years before. both for height and speed. And tween short and long hair is me two extra inches of height, Orcades derer, moron and maniac, was the last place where Chris- though she were a cockle-shell, the human hand at the controls acknowledged best chet in Paris people.

me that the the entire plant employs only 80 impossible," said Riche. "No and in a curious way, that up- wonder women como in here so swept coiffure made me pull up except that maniac is too line had been seen. Stables, cup- For the bost example of elsewhere the signala are en- is at the Gare de l'Est.

depressed"

in every way. .... kind a word for a man who boards, lotta, and attics were speed, let us direct our step to tirely automatic,

Show-pieces like this, and the He produced a yard of thick I was all set for that evening did what he did.

searched in case she had been wards the railway for a

On these two tracks, Gallic Nature has played a delicate railways, have few equals any-chestnut brown hair attached to out. lockod In while looking for aboard Europe's fastest train, the enthusiasm and Ingenuity have trick on the French by providing where

A little "canos" of stift nylon.

(COFYRIGHT),

Ray.

The

trip

Mistradowift as the wind after

Yot, if it had not rained Sugh boxer himself was quen-which she is named.

un- tkned by the police. He was

that morning this

pleasant story could

have been told.

never worried lest one of the many SMOOTH, SPEEDY

bangers-on who had

collected

round his training centro might, Running daily between Paris Mrs be involved in this dianppearance, and Nice, the train has gleam- coaches which Photographs and alms taken of ing aluminium

crowd outside the fare smooth as well as speedy. and Each individual, rail is half-am published far

That morning Butcher had planned to the Sunday tako her son John and hotel were Christine to the swimming wide, and the police started an mile long and rubber-mounted 'club for the day. But identity chock on every figure into the bargain-ideally suited

In those pictures.

for a train which when it started to rain sho

rogainrly decided

Came the night of the big fight cruises at 90 mph and tops 100 to cancel the Sugar Ray lost it, many people on the rare occasions when there arrangement and make a mid, because he was so worried is time to be made Sunday lunch at home. That and embarrassed by the events The Mistral carried me from

the plotaks of Dijon to

the is how Christine came to be of the wook-and

Listening to the fight on

southern sunshine of Valence, looking out of the window portable radio in some long grass 190 miles in 175 minutos, In- when the crowd was near the esalle", was Bineth clacing a stop of ten minutes at gathering outside the Star Firth, He had run out from Lyon to put on a steam locomo- and Garter four shops down Eating to walay the warm even live in place of the electric one. Inge: Before he could", laten. It all went, excretly according the road,

through to the riskih, he was to la achadiala am an illustration, ca

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

IT'S HOPELESS TRYING TO FIND THE CLAY CAMEL. YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT HE'LL LOOK LIKE NEXT.

A HOTE UNDER THE

000A-

PRINCESS NARDA,

THIRD TIMES THE CHARM. I'LL GET

YOUR CROWN JEWELS

I KNEW ITË HIS

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

| VANITY'S BEEN

HUAT, HEWON'T REST UNTIL HE HAS THEM!

I'VE HAD ENOUGH. I'M SENDING THE JEWELS BACK TO COOKAIGNE SECRETLY

NOT SECRETLY. PUBLICLY. FULL SER THE COCKAIGNE, AMBASSADOR. THIS IS THE BREAK DVE WAITED FOR

WHAT WILL YOU DO, MANDRAKE?

TALK

ABOUT

MAGIC!

You seen

Admiral