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THE CHINA. MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1980.

ASSESSMENT

OF ANOTHER

.CRIME

WHICH

BAFFLED

THE POLICE

MURDER UNSOLVED

by Frank Entwisle

Part 2

Witchcraft? The police

AT about 1.30 on an unusually clear February

day in 1945 on old man was murdered in

a field within sight of the houses of Quinton village, Warwickshire.

His neck had been sliced three times with the long-handled slash hook he used in his job as hedger and ditcher, and the killer had left the scythe-like blade in the last wound, the point protruding through the face....

He had then been pinned to the turf round the neck with his own two-pronged plichfork. And strangely, the murderer had then wedged the shaft of the

fork ander a hedge as if to pre

vent the dead mun from getting to his feet,

The victim was Charles

NEXT WEEK

mistake over a bloodstained

ton. He was 74. He was practi-glove...but for

Ically pennless He had been

beni double with years,

It was

arthritis for

Savage

#murday of great

savagery. Yet

that

night

at

12 o'clock Spooner

when Detective Superintendent Alce

from Warwick

und Profesaur

J. M. Webster, the Birmingham

crime pathologist, regarded the human debris by torchlight on the slopes of Meon Hill, it did not seem the kind of killing that would fascinate criminologists for many years,

nor one that

chief won't

rule it out

three months.

was

Pamper that cuddly koala

THE Begum Baby is a Very Important Person

in homes all over the world.

He's the toy version of Australia's best known and best loved ambassador-the sleepy, cuddly koala, Australia's native bear-and ranks next in popularity to the old perennial; the "teddy" bear, The name "Kont" sounds have been manufactured · In a leas formidable than the scien- new factory in Princes Highway, life "Phascolarctos Cinereus." St. Peters," It is an aboriginal work imply- Inux that the animal seldom drinks.

Whilst on a business visit to America and England in 1950, Mr Morella died in London. This shy, retiring animal is a Mrs Irene Morella continuesi true marsupiul. It carries its the growing business, of which young in a pouch. The young she is now the governing daree.. one is barely an inch long altor. birth, and climbs instinctively The small backyard" factory up the mother's fur to enter the has grown to an organisation pouch.

employing more than 100 people, who produce more than 100,000 bears a year, as well as toy lean- woolly lambs, platypuses, garoos, white

sheep. skin rugs, and tur navelties,

The koalas ronge ir: silte from four Inches to six feet,

The small bears are mdst popular is souvenirs, but

At its first peep at the out side world, in about six months, the young koala is well furrea and about seven inches long.

FUSSED OVER

There are few tourists visit-

over,

One Italian prisoner was seen alush-hook; found footprints and washing blood from his hands tock auss. But afterwards these near Meon HUL. His blood were hil accounted for. stained Jacket

for was sent

They set up headquarters in ing Sydney who don't make a laboratory examination. But it the home of a local baker; and beeline for Taronga Park Zce- Morella's recently made a 24- togical Gardens where the inch bear with blinking eyes, proved to be rabbit's blood, they remained in Quinton for koalas who live there in happy movable arms and legs for m

Air force planes took pictures

gruciously allow television show. Do the pallet still believe that captivity

Morella's tan their own hides of the uren in the search for Charles Walton led in a witch themselves to be lussed

on the spot, ensuring clean- Soldiers used mine craft slaughter?

petted and pampered. detectors to search for the chrau

They nestle cosily against the liness, and use new filing made I put this question to Alec

akin of beauty from clean foom rubber, shaved that 27-year-old tin watch missing from it boot- Spooner. He is a large, down-Dench-bloom

lace watch-strap in Walton's to-carth fellow with a cautious quens, rub noses with friends Wood, or granulated cork.

The "bear" sicins are really waistcoat Brian Smith

and subtle mind.

and, unimpressed, ambje back Detectives used to bulk up a

kangaroo skins, from the Blue, He replied: *This

to the more absorbing hobby of Red, Grey and Grey Flyer kan picture of the old man's habits. murder and we set about it in tree climbing might not have

The koala is 巋 In fact, Charles Walion was a the usual way. We followed cantankerous old man who every possible line of inquiry. 1 animal, and is mighty choosey mumbled to himself in the folds, am not prepared to admit, or to about which gum leaves it eats, gassed himself.

The Grey Flyer, found only in He had little money. He rarely deny, that I believe in the witch-preferring certain eucalypt with

a high oil content, such as the the northern state of Queens-

Victoria, my belter that neither manna-gum of

the land, has a soft, downy fur. The alcohol for years - never since Spooner nor Fabian believe that forest red gum his doctor had forbiddeen him witches had anything to do with Wales,

New South other three types of skin have a and the blue-gum in coarser fur very similar to the to drink the potent country the death of Charles Walton, Queensland. wines he used to make.

living koalas. I think they have a fir iden Because of its strict cuting who the killer was. And so habits the koala is very seldom silns have I.

exported After waiting

And the mystery went out. He had not touched craft."

of the headless

man' in the

River Severn

would be held amung the most might not have

curious of the century.

A combination of three things

have made it so

First, the killer has not yet

been arrested,

Secondly, every year on the anniversary of the crime, Supt.

been left unsolved.

Difficult

It is

killer

Spooner travels 33 miles from his Long Compton; and you might to predict and plan his murder with the truth.

present office in Nuneaton to revisit the scene.

And thirdly, there is the un- canny atmosphere of witchcraft that has surrounded the case since soon after inquiries began.

Quinton lles 10 miles along range of bills from the village of

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:

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cull Long Compton Britain's witchcraft capitel.

The recorded folk-lore of the There are district is full of it. still women

in the area who claim to be able to charm warts away by witchery.

For

men

But

Black dog

before dismissing

cumstance.

the

came aurous the

protected garoos,

SOFT FUR

trees. All after which the skins are olied, They are dried, and then go to a sawdust room,

Of

were-

were short koalas.

Controversy waxed

In alowly-revolving drums the hot in Australia, Government

skins are mixed with sawdust bodies

and were approached,

other materials Koalas are from them all traces of oil and to take the delight, of Australians

DS dirt, leaving the skins well as the tourist and many poble.

When the carefully selected srrive at the Murella factory, they are soaked over- 15 years Spooner is A tense situation developed night in a special solution which for him to make one when the City of San Francisco removes dirt and other foreign - He was under contract to slip, and hopes that the con- indiented & was keen to have material. several local farmers to repair tinuous circulation of the witch some koalas for a zeu.

The Then follows a week's tanning nud cut hedges for a small sum craft stories, or his own ammual

climate Was right. They'd it came to about five shillings visits to the Quinton area on the a chain. Because of his in- anniversary of the murder, mayowa specloi gum Armity he only went out to encourage someone who saw the they work in fine weather, 30 It

entering or leaving the would be difficult for anyone murder field, to come forward

in tho felds.

One unaccountable fact I dis-

soft and falks to villagers

Aussies belt that their American covered in WDS tha! the old

The skins are stretched to give neighbours across the sea, with a final touch of softness, then vistied Stratford about four

For publicity, times a year, and drew about supernatural completely. I must r penchant

room until they £10 from a stanil legacy left pont one more strange cir might very well argue. "Why measured and stacked in a store-

ko 10,000 miles? Visit

to the cutting your room. by his dead wife in a Post What connected Charles Office book years before.

In the public library at nearby own koalas at San Francisco,"

Here the cutters use cardboard Walton's death with this was

Warwick the hayfork. Killing witches By

Walton, leading

patterns of the animals, and un- TEMPERS his story of a Victorian farm boy

der their deft Angers the kan- piercing them in this way has humble village life in 1945, working in the village of Alves

£10 must have beca a large ton who reported seeing a black sides of the Pacific,

Tempers were frayed on both garoo skirs change character. been known for centuries. In

but Son But nobody can imagine dog eight nights in succession on rancisco now has te koalas, round, squat body come to life

The koala's Saxon times it was known as

esra, head, and how he spent it. "stacung."

There was his long walk home. rot much left in the book when On the ninth night, instead of

some of which promply settled on the cutter's table. down and had babies, ke died

Machinists then sew the seven a dog, he met a headless wWÜZDRO

tare albino,

to twelve pieces of skin to- Walton lived in a coltage in black. Next day he heard of

But the thrill of koala gether-a dehydrated bear. wi!!! his niece Edith who the death of his small slater.

ownership for most overseas The Bluegum Baby goes back Is six miles worked in

Alveston local factory. And it is cold fact that in 1875 when she returned home after Quinton.

from

people is confined to the toy, to the filling room for his black within Wallon's lifetime

The man who was murdered

Nearly every ship or plane rubber nose, and to be filled. yokel at Compton killed on 80- dark on St Valentine's Day, and

that leaves Sydney today has

All that's left then is a trip 'year-old vliläger called Ann found her uncle had not re- at Quinton in 1945 had worked

on board a consignment of de- to the finishing room, where Tennant with a pitchfork and turned, she called on a neigh- as a boy at Alveston.

And the boy's

ribboned koalas, many of them the bottom is sewn on, and he hook, saying at his trist that tour. a Mr Beasley, and to-

Charles Woltợn.

from the H. Moretta company, gets his claws and eyes. "she was the properest witch gether they went to see farmer

of St. Peters, a Sydney suburb. Superintendent Spooner had

final grooming, Mr and Mrs Morella made much brushing of the soft fur. Alfred Polier, for whem Walton already heard of the story. ever known."

had been working. They found the boy Walton the

their first toy bears in a small so like the koala's own and the It was a Warwickshire police- the body in a corner of one of man?

murdered

factory in Abercrombie-street, finisher ties around his neck who recaled the trial Potter's felds at about seven "It has never been established Sydney.

shiny coloured ribbon with its Superintendent Spooner o'clock.

for certain,” he said

Increasing trade meant a move pale green label shaped like a and Superintendent Bob Pablan, When the polico arrived, they

Larger Nor did the police over Iden- 0

premises in who had arrived from Scotland found

Lord- gum irat. Angerprints other than try the frightened boy follow-street, Newtown. For more The Bluegum Baby is ready Yard.

Walton's on the pitchfork and ing a black dog on Mean Hill. than three years now the toys for his world trip

mun

to

The stories

After thls the steries multiplled.

witchcraft

Police were told that a dog had been found hanged in μ hedge near the murder mes- dow. The killing of a dog and murder by pitchfork are sold to be part of an ancical Raman agricultural rite which took place on February 14,

Walton жая murdered Đ11 February 14 St. Valentine's Day.

Superintendent Fabion has Bald since that black ty followed by дл unknown. frightened boy, were seen by palice during thel investiga- lions on the hillside.

1

Anger

It has been anid that Walton's throat wounds were En the shape of an Inverted cro!9 — u witchcraft symbol; that enttio hod. mystorfously died. and crops unaccountably falled,

During the meticulous polio? Investigations in and around Quinton, experts of folklore

and supernatural phenomena | were in touch with the police and were heard with intement, The detective gave every op- pearance of taking this strange aspect with great seriousnesa,

After all, the terrible busi- ness of stapling a man lo the ground with his own hay fork was unusuni. Either the murderer believed Walton was a witch, or this was the Anal violent gesture of manlae angor. The more conventional pollca investigations were thorough,

Superintendent Spooner told me: iWo turned the place inside ORIT Everybody

Quinton had to, necaur for his movements, Wo questioned thousands of men in nearby "PQW, "Anny' and 'RAF ORDE

BUITI.

name WOR

Was

one

a

There's

ACHIAN

That was a bright stroke telling Grandma there is

famous Grandma-artist in

who is 100 years

ofd and didn't take up.'painting till she Wee

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