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I don't believe

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1960.

THE FINAL INSTALMENT OF EDGAR LUSTGARTEN'S

The curious

ATTLEE DISAGREES]

[THOUGH LADY

telegram that

that I drive led a girl to better than my husband!

by KITTY DIXON

AMI to understand, after 10 years of uncertainty at the wheel, that I (along with most other women) am a better driver than my husband?

I know my husband would like to think so. And I was, until recently, convinced beyond any doubt that I could never hope to be a competent driver.

But brokers policies

อ

accidents...but Jimm of insurance have fewer

cut-rate they are definitely not better has issued

because drivers than men," she said.

"They dither. risks

They can't

fox women,

we, too

they say we are batter than men. We are less inclined neke up their minds, they go slow, they drive in the to drink when driving.. fake fower chances. .we middle of the bad, have fewer accidents,

I can't believe it's true. But Lady Attlee (that well- known wunian notorist) can She thinks cut-rate insurance policles for women are long overdue.

"You can't call that goed driving."

But what is good driving? "Surely it is getting there McCann, safely," said Denise head of the British School of Motoring

"And most women do, because they have an inborn sense of self-preservation.

"My

with

only criticism

women drivers "Of course are better than men," she told me, with some indignation.

"Manners of men on the road are atrocious. And I can tell women drivers is that they are terrible liable to window-shop as they you, I've seen some mishaps on

the roads during drive," rush

hours... all the result 'WONDERFUL

The only man I spoke to, Reporter Express Motoring

Cordew, Basil

has This drivers "Women wonderful-until they

of men who want only to get ahead whatever the cost.

10 drive

"I'd much prefer behind a woman.

"Women arc more sensi- say: tive.,."

'IMPATIENT'

to

are

her last date

THE

HE Bournemouth police had suspected him for weeks. And when at last they charged Thomas Henry Allaway, a professional chauffeur locally employed, with the wilful murder of Miss Irene Wilkins, they were completely satisfied that they had got their man.

But a case that satisfies the prosecuting police is one thing; a case that satisfies a judge and jury is another. When Allaway's trial opened at the

Winchester summer assize of 1922, the Crown were none the less upon their mettle for any inward as- surance that they felt...

Drawing

by

Jack

Whlisett

The instrument that had there to serve his own dark enticed Miss Wilkins ไป her ends?

telegram, "Excuse me, are you...?" violent death was a

her sent in response to

an- "Miss Wilkins, is it?" "Yes" A nouncement in a national paper sigh of relief; the telegram. The man and car are waiting... "Are you Miss Wilkins?” that she required a situation as honoured; the newcomer, spot- a lady cook.

This telegram struck a curious note of tension, which, in hind-

sight, seems highly ominous,

The fantasies

"Come immediately," it said 4.30 train Waterloo. Bourne mouth Central. Car will meet train. Expense no object, Ur- gent. Wood, Beech House."

Only the sender

10

"Thank you."

doors

Thank you. The car close; the engine revs; the ride starts to the slaughter.

Was meant to be a slaughter (in which case the culprit, seeking seemingly a victim indiscriminately, could could not spell "Bournemouth only have been a paychopathic or "expense," and both "Wood" killer)? and "Beech House" proved the purest fantasies,

His cunning

was

weaknesses

car

re

MURDER IN TRANSIT

But everyone in Bournemouth had access to those bushes. Sup- posing the valise had turned up in East Cliff Road; would it have told in any substantial mensure against Allaway that he had been obliged to wait outside the Russell-Cotes museum?

These weaknesses, barely

"Yes?"

"That is your daughter?" "Yes,"

“And it is signed 'Daddy'!"

"And you will swear that is not your handwriting? "Yes," said Alaway. The Judge wrote

gravely.

concealed in the Crown strength, Inskip handed up another post-

"Is that in your handwriting?" "No," replied Allaway. That's the same as the other."

Mr Justice Avory this card also.

would have been forcefully card. exploited by a great defender, with the constructive effect of building up a counter-strength that could have been cemented by a credible defendant. But in the event no great defender was forthcoming, and the prisoner's credibility failed to survive the formidable test of his appear- ance in the box.

His was a blanket denial, ab- solute, unqualified: never sent any telegram, never was near the station, never knew or saw

examined

"It is addressed to your wife?" "Yes, to Mrs Allaway?" "Signed "Tom with kisses"

Yes."

"Is there any other Tom who would be writing to your wife?"

Allaway seemed to reflect. "No, I don't think so.” "But you swear," said ple

"Yes."

Silence...

or even heard of this Miss Wi- judge. "that this is not in your kins, save what be read in the handwriting." papers during subsequent days. to As he pledged his oath these negative asserifona, he wore an air of puzzled resent- ment, of injured Innocence, com- sonant with that of a simple, harmless man canghi in the paralysing web of elrcum- cards, tried a third.

"Is that in willing?"

stances.

Again the judge wrote gravely, friskip, still tolding the post-

►

your hand-

Allaway if the metaphor may be used was now beginning to see the writing on the wall.

Allaway's life reposing their hands, the jurors anxiously sought some definite sign which would denote how far they could That sign was not delayed rely on his sworn word. unduly, and when it came left none in further doubt...

"But Inskip, K.C. (afterwards Lord persisted.

Caldecote) had What was going on.. in Chief Justice

Allaway, in Allaway's mind, what protec- fashion, for tive mechanisms conflicted and

'Your writing?"

But now counsel

"If this one is mine, they are all mine," he said ambiguously.

is

it yours?" Inskip

"I will say it is in my hand- Anally, writing," he answered "because it's very much like it." "And so the others also are," said Inskip quickly.

"Yes,"

turned

found at

to

The judge, with great deli- beration, laid down his pea.

"You say they are all in your handwriting?"

Yes."

bed. "You're from Beech

familiar and established cunning sultant engineer did not forth House? The Woodses?"

subtle mouth of with recognise as such the "That's right." The valise felons-the

Sidney Fox the crafty nose of he saw. And all evidence the waking car. Neill Cream, carried

the sharp sea- trospectively "identifying" "Jump in. We'll be there in no time.'

persons lay, as it lles now, under lawyer's eye of Peter Manuel.

But cunning such as theirs the warning shadow cast by the

of Adolph beer questioning does occasionally lie hid behind heart-chilling case

in which 10 rather pedestrian the stolid, blunt exterior of an Beck-that case Allaway...

witnesses wrongly "identified" the Crown, Whom he saw that collided, nobody to the end of The case against Allaway, one who was, long afterwards, night; the time he put the car time will ever surely know.

away: the keys to the garage. il, though, initially although superficially strong, conclusively proved guiltless.

not without

Third a handwriting expert Allaway stonewalled steadily Just below the surface.

tendered his opinion that Inskip made small progress. First Crown point-the sole Allaway had written the decoy motor tracks leaving an impres- telegram.

But the notorious and repeal- sion on the unfrequented road get into

that ran nearest to the body ed blinders of handwriting ex- had a wheel base and tyres parts even rival those pertaining an emergency. They are usual-

The misspellings were selt- ly careful, slow moving, and

identical with those on the car to "identification"; one need only the fatal telegraph fonn, and to But when some evident, but not, of course, the

which Allaway drove.

think of the young naval cadet, certain postcards, and Miss Wilkins, Or was it meant to be a carnal

But more than one car has a George Archer-Shee, to, run a Allaway's home, with which it thing happens on the road to fantasies.

some essentials gratification,

com- been meticulously in the outcome 41. 6in, wheel base, and Dunlop mile from their comparisons and had take them out of their rutine having pushed unlucky,"

pared. left her literally resisted to the death (in is not an unfamiliar name in charts and diagrams

dend "I'm sure none of they are itist. They usually do Streatham home at three o'clock which case the culprit, making tyres.

Finally-the

woman's He handed one of these up to Allaway flushed to the roots of wrong thing at the right for Waterloo.

a blind date, could only have them would have happened had the

Secondone witness positively valise had been found behind Allaway, From that moment onward, been a sexual manize)?

"Is that in your hand. his hair, glancing from side to it not been for impatient male time.

swore that it was Allaway whom some bushes directly opposite a

side, as if searching for escape. - she is virtually lost to sight Or was it, perhaps, meant 10 he had seen, clad in chauffeur's house where Allaway had walted writing?" drivers,"

until, as a bleak December dawn be a simple robbery (in which uniform, meeting the designated a full hour and a half for his

paused-to makce broke on the next day, an early case the culprit, staking so much train at Bournemouth Central employer's wife on the afternoon. quite certain, or to calculate? labourer found her battered for so little, could only have and driving away a Lady, dressed immediately following the mur- "No," he said "I don't think body by the fence of a Beld in been an Insensate gambler)?

a der.

thel is mine." exactly like Miss Wilkins, in Bournemouth's eastern

It was a fair and reasonable These represented the feasible very distinctive and uncommon-

"Do you swear it?" Mr Justice skirts.

afternatives. Choose which you looking car.

conjecture that the valise, miss Avory interposed. like; you will in any event, be Now It ine that the car in ing from the locus of the crime, left with a criminal of unusual, Allaway's charge, was a Mer remamed in the murder car un- it perverted Ingeaulty.

the pedes, then as now exceptional noticed and forgotten, till in this country, but the witness, murderer realised he must get although styling himself a con- rid of St.

What reason does Lady Atlee considerate. have for her own accidents?

"I've been explained.

ste

into

a small valise,

"My wife, who drives, tells

Allaway Allie's me, Men expect women to do silly things, so I do them and make then wait.'

But, despite Lady confidence, I am sure there must be a lot of women drivers who, like myself, gei casily rattled when ....jam on the brakes honked at... and drive dead slow, even on the M1.

And a top rally driver, Nancy Mitchell, agrees.

thum

"This about surps up the mentality of a woman driver,"

A GAG But Sheila Van Damm, an- other inotorist, defends

the motoring mentality of our sex

"For years it has been drummed into women drivers

the often that they are hopeless. It is a

terribly old and worn out gag.

"When women drivers are good, they are very, very good But when they are bad... they are nd nearly so danger .ous as the men.”

"That is what makes careful drivers," she sald "Because

згле Worten nervous and feel inferior when they drive, they are much more alert, much more aware of what is going on. "And so they have fewer accidents than men,"

But another rilly driver, Pat Moss, disagrees. "Women may

THAS

-(London Express Service).

-out-

of

The advance of rigor mortis and the condition of her clothes shower she had been lying dead since the evening before,

Trying to picture him, you Cannot one vividly imagine might recall the features even now, that brief and terrible dialogue, spoken in

hall light outside Bournemouth Cen-i tral station, between the well- of bred, well-educated woman 31 (she had expressly stated her age in the advertisement), and. the schaming, semi-literate criminal who had decoyed her

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"Having just said they are not?"

There

Allence.

was utter

There remained two days to: go, but the trial was virtuallý

Ove

The War had betrayed him. self and, in so doing, had álao "It's too good for my writing," betrayed the murderer as well Allaway said doggedly.

-as clearly as if he had then "It is addressed" the Judge and there "confessed in open sald, reading, "to Miss Gladys court, instead of in the prison Allaway?"

upon execution eve.

THE ROME OLYMPICS

19 60

THE ONE-ARMED HERCULES

HAROLD Vincent Connelly has suffered from

born.

paralysis of the left arm since the day he was

Today that withered limb hangs loosely at his side. It is four and a half inches shorter than his right arm. And the size of his left hand is just over half that of his right.

But with only one sound am Connolly became the greatest hammer thrower in the history of athletics. World Btle-holder. And Olympic champion.

regularly. In June, 1958, he rtised the world record once again--to 225 ft. 4 in.

Harold Connolly, a 6 ft tall, 16 st, Boston (Mass.) school- master. Arst took up the sport He could scarcely have after "caddying" for the hom- chosen an athletics event in mer throwers at Boston College. which he seemed so hopelessly He found that he was throwing handicapped. His triumph is back the hammer farther than one of the wonders of modern they were heaving. It in com- sport and a tribule to his petition. astonishing courage and deter- mination,

He went on to win the New England title four years in suc- His withered ат broken cession (he was also shot-put when he was born, has snapped champion in 1953). He became five times since then. But Con- the national, A.A.U. champlon nolly never considered quitting, for the first time in 1955. He never eased-up on his rigid

was the first American to clear training schedule.

200 ft..

Snapped

by John Cottrell

*The American 'braced him- self for a supreme effort. Then, perspiring profusely, he wound up for his afth and penultimate tuow. The metal ball sailed 207 ft. 3.75 in.

I was far short of Cornelly's best. But good enough to set á new. Olympic record and bring him a gold medal.

That dramatic triumph is only ode of Connolly's happy memories of Melbourne. It was there that he first met his wife, beautiful, brown-eyed Olga Fikotova, the Czech-born Olym- ple discus champion.

Small-talk

Their friendship began with smalltalk through

the wire wetting that aparated mes from woman at the Olympic viagg and blossomed into the greatest of Olympic romances.

After overcoming opposition from the Czadi. Govemment, they were married in March, 1857. The bride and brice

How has he done it? Connolly gives the credit to On two occasions he sustained Karl Starch and other German

*Storch showed · us severe fractures. Lying on his experts..

were Olympic cham back he gripped a 125 lb. weight how to get the ball, to follow

plons. So were the best man with his powerful right and our hands, so that it chased us

(Emit Zatopek) and the matron caretic left hand and tried to instead of us chasing the ball. lift it.

Now we always have body and

At Melbourne, 1958, Connolly of honour (javelin-throwing His left arm suapped Uke a grm-power in the throw at the left hand which perspires freely matchstick

moment of release."

when he is nervous and some won the lensest Olympic vam Dana Zatopicova)..

Today, the Connollys have a Daten bis br broke again Connolly is unduly modest, times slips down the handle of mer-throwing contest ever held during woight, training Again His spectacular success is due the hammer. He learned to use and became the first American coe-year-old son on ere, both steer to win the gold medal in this as active an ever in American Com-ielly "resized “his exercises most

his own his weak hand to exert of all to

Athletics. as soon as the fractured bone courageous and highly scientific ing influence on the steel grip event since 1924.

Last September, · 28-307-qti had mended.”

Application to his chosen sport, of the hammer, maintaining it

The battle was farve fron Medinal and athlelles experts for several years this soft during the first two turns in the

With his first Herold bad an operation for a were amazed by the results. In spoken, studious New Englander ring. He adopted wearing golks the beginning.

throw, the Russian Samotsvetov femida. But he made a great October, 1958, he set a new made a thorough study of the less shoes or basketball boots.

various methods tised world record of 224 t. 10,5 m)

by Connolly learned from the reachol 203 ft. 9 in nearly 6 recovery and returned to his for throwing, the 10 lb. weight. athletes in different countries. glents of the past. But he also ft mire than the Olympic retraining programme of weight-

thing, running and throwing In December he raised the In 1964 he went to Europe to get made a basic change in hammer cord Olstole record to 207 ft. 3.75 frst-hand advice from famous throwing training by practising in and the world record for the coaches and former Olympic four or five turns instead of end of the third round when to lako hard in Rome to re-

the usual three.

another Russdan, former world 35 lb weight to 66 ft. 8.5 in. - hammer-throwing champlonk

Only a few years earlier 200 “Over the years he leamed the Thus he achieved a finer record holder Mikhail Krivono fl was thought to be unattain best ways of overcoming his degree of body sense and body sov, went ahead with a throw able. Now Connolly was break- handicap. He began wearing comel than any other hammer of 20503 in. Connolly was

still 18 inches behind. ing the double-century barrier a thick glove over his parotic thrower in athletics history,

This throw led until near the

Courageons Connolly mempe

in his Olympie title,

MONDAY Wonder Boy