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Edgar Lustgarten, who is unequalled as an analyst of the motives of murder, studies six classic cases with a single theme: a journey with sudden death as the inevitable terminus.

DID THIS

MURDER

IN TRANSIT

CHILD DIE FOR £12?

OMEHOW she looks an even sadder figure in the box than she has done

these last days in the dock. Slighter, frailer, considerably more than

her 36 quiet and inoffensive years.

"Your name is Louise Masset?" "Yes"

The cultivated voice rises just above a whisper. "You are a spinster?"

arabitions.

"Four years ago, did you give birth to a child?" The mousy little woman able strain upon her purse. It finches, hesitates, and then may restrate her matrimonial begins to weep.

If may even--for the child can become an unwitting symbol excite her animosity instead of her affection But zone.

of these motives sfected Louise Masset.

None can be absolutely posi- the for whom: whether for that child, who has now been mur- dered: cr for his mother, who is charged with murdering hea.

Sometimes compelling metives prompt an unmarried mother to contemplate ridding herself of ari legitimate child

Its mere existence ray in- volve her in continuous share.

Its needs may place an insupport-

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Her cance against the moral code so far as it was knows had long since been for- given and forgotten.

Her earnings as a teacher of" French regular if modest, were

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5 Authoritative doctrine (5),.

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supplemented by an allowance from the. child's father.

Her present lover, in wham

a boy, was hardly more than and never broached-por seemed

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els to broach the theme of marriage.

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Above all, Louise was a fond, attentive, and solicitous mother; visiting her small son on every opportunis at the home of a Miss woman Damed kindly Gente, with whom he had beer "boarded out**

Grim logic

by EDGAR LUSTGARTEN

children were playing we got

talking."

Naturally enough And, just as naturally, they talked about themselves: Louise, of her grow- ing concern for Manfred's educa- tion: the two ladies (who gave their name as Browning) of their residential kindergarten sahool in the King's Road

An offer

The Crown, indeed, did not suggest any convincing mollye for the crime they sought to lay at Louise Masset's door. C course-though juries can't be

Their interests patently con- prevented from asking the verzed and, after much discus- selves

ralesion an offer made by one side zecessity required the Crown was accepted by the other. to do so.

London Bridge station was They took their stand, as they, axed as a mutually convenient were aniitted.

What appeared the grim logic of point for transfer of the boy and for payment, in advance, of the events...

annual fee.

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It was in October, 1899, that Louise told Miss Gentle of new plans which had been made for the future of her boy.

"Twelve pounds," Louise said, almost musingly. "It was really more than I could afford. But they seemed such nice people."

"Had you inspected their

Hi French father, she said, wanted him to be educated in school? France and so, with - many regrets and deepest gratitude,

meant to go with them that

she found herself forced to take Friday, but they arrived so late

hire out of Miss Gentle's tender tare.

The ladies embraced fach other sympathetically (the boy bad been with Miss Gentle since he was three weeks old), and Louise arranged to call for him on Friday the 27th in good time to the boat rain at London Bridge.

it would have meant missing my train. I said I was of to Brighton for a day or two, and, to expect me up some time during the following week."

I those two "rice people" ever existed at all, then assuredly they were baby farmers, and they coldly murdered that little boy for prot

I though, they did not exist,

She would take him across to then, no less assuredly, Louise France herself, and see him murdered him herself and in- safely settled.

vented them as a blind.

Louise had given exactly the same account of her inter-

"Louisa was going ~ away for the weekend- but instead of to France with the child by her- sell to Brighton,”

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(6), 16 No laughing matter is (7), big 17 That, mamtain greenery, per..

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aloustamer (6)..

people (5)

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24 Tour-legged primates (4);

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tions t her married rister's house

Stoke in

Newington, where she lived; the journey abroad and back, with perhaps a night or two in France, meant she would be away for the whole of that weekend.

Her

young lover. though, heard rather differently.

She was going away for the weekend, yes-but instead of to France with the child by here. se to Brighton; and he agreed follow her there on the Saterday.

to

For at 20 past six on that scie stemoon, "Manfred body, stripped of all his cloth

C disccpered in the Edies' Toilet at Dekton, June- tron, on the other nie of the river and

miles some three

array.

The Brownings of King's Road were never traced

But there were much more doubtful features in Louise's Darrative that counsel now called upon her to explain.

You lied to Miss, Gentle about your plans for Manfred. Why.

"My

Miss relations with Gentle were of the friendliest possible character." No conscious her prompted affection meticulous teacher's English.

The parcel

"She would have been heart- broken if she knew the child Louise punctually kept her was going to be placed with Friday appointment with Miss anyone else in England Gentle. The latter, as a final

But you told the same les to token of devotion to him, bad, your sister. Why? Errayed the little boy in his dis- "So that I could snatch a linctive best: a blue coat, with little while with....him." She bright gilt buttons, over a blue couldn't, or wouldn't utter the "So that I frock, ornamented with white young man's name! . braid

could be away without creating any trouble".

The next and last authen- ticated sight of them "oemurred

inside a parsangers! waiting room at London Bridge ja de parture station, incidenmily, both for Brighton and the Continent). They remained some time, so that the child grew fretful, and Louise volunteered to the at- tendant that she had come to meet sometne who was late.

But nobody appeared, and, shortly before, three o'clock, mother and son went out and in hand.

Two ladies

Why didn you ask these women for proper rejETENDES?,

"They were such nice people,”" Louise repeated. "Such perfect ladies."

And get their exact address? "I didn't think there'd be many other schools in King's Road," Louise said.

The white lle to spare the feelings of a friend, the grey He to conceal a sexual percadillo, trast external the naive. respectability all these might have passed as feasible, Li not as conclusive, explanations,

There was, however, a fer worse hurdle to negotiate, a hurdle, that Louise had been dreading long enough,

What happened to them, where did they go, what did they do during the rest of that su-

You have listened to the hoon afternoon? In court, and evidence called before my lord upon cath, Louise declared she and the jury?

ARA

with could answer only for herself. Yes, Louise had listened,

You see, immediately, after fast-beating heart

"Which, ladies?".

left the waiting room, at = You know from that that on found the two ladies I had been Sunday, October 23, a parcel Looking for

containing clothes was found son. Brighton Station? The ladies “I had met at Yes, beaven help her, Louise Foltenham Green. You know knew--- three or four weeks earlierly And that Hus. Gentle has Louise spoke witures often do identified those lather at as if everybody knew her Flory without her telling it

The ladies with the litte

who knew my little hoy Hale Manfred, she sake Millie, he said. And the

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you take Manfred's clothes to Brighton

Never, never, bevér. Did you leave his clothes at Brighton?

Never, never, never.

Can you suggest how other write they got there?

Could she suggest bow other- wise they got there? No, she couldn't Pack her brains' *s she might, it wasn't any good, she couldn

In that moment of trembling Masset's helplessness, Louise late upon the scaffold. was fore- told by a child's bine coat with

white braid.

for £12

will

And yet. And yet.... "If you ́con" imagine yourself "a baby farmer-that is, an utterly ruthless and stopy-hearted criminal, who murder A `sman ~` child-wbat would you do, under similar cir- cumstances, in order to shift suspicion and divert the blame? You have get the dead child's clothes You know that his mather has gone of 'for's day or two at Brighton. You know that unclaimed parcels left on rail- way premises are likely to be opened and officially examined

Think carefully over those three factors once again. What would you do?

Yes. So would I

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