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HOW THE MURDERER- GETS IT. [AYET. NEATHERCOAT, CILE, J.P., FRI. SIDENT, PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF

GREAT BRITAIN, 1910-1924.1 When the average man turns to the thinks of a subject of poisons he notorious murder or recalls one or two recent suicides.

MEN AUSTRALIA WANTS. MR. SEYMOUR HICKS'S BOOK. Mr. Seymour" Hicks is a comedian of the first order, but he does not always jest, and in his book, "Hullo, Austra lians" (Duckworth, a)-ha has written number of things which merit the most serious consideration.

His chief character, Mr. Green, a cheer. ful English bachelor, decided to visit It may come as a shock to him to learn Australia and see what it and its people that about 1,000 lives are lost each year are like. through poisons taken intentionally or accidentally or administered with intent to murder.

From time to time a particular poison, or group of poisons, has been singled out by the authorities for special attention and commendable work has been dose in tightening the regulations governing its sale. Periodically the sale of poison has been considered omprehensively and improvements in legislation have been effected.

But an analysis of the registrar's a nual figures will show that the poisons which take the largest toll are those still obtainable with relative ease. 1922-the latest year for which figur are available more than 25 per cent. of the fatal accidents resulting from the we of poisons and more than 48 per cab of the suicides were attributable to a bolic acid and to disinfecting fluids which that poison is employed. We may lock up certain notorious poisons secure in the chemist's shop and threaten pharmacist with dire penalties it be plies them without proper authority, but on a shelf in almost every house is a bottle capable of causing agonising death to the whole family."

DANGEROUS DISINFECTANTS. {

To deprive these disinfectants of their poisonous qualities would be to me them almost aseless for antiseptic put- poses, but their continers might be made distinctive so that it would be practially impossible for them to be mistaker for anything else, whether the label be p sent or not. Furthermore, steps should be taken to ensure that their distri tion to the public is restricted to take who are trained to appreciate, the th

gera.

" CRIME. "LOLLORY'S *TAME" ZOO WOLF ATTACKS A KEEPER.

Loilopy, once the tomest wolf in the London Zoo, bus lost her character, and her cage now bears a disgraceful label which runa...

THIS ANIMAL IS DANGEROUS,”' A warning was especially necessary in her case, for her earlier tameness was so well known that many visitors tried to impress their friends by stroking ber. Lellopy earned the label by turning On the subject of a Wh Australia berper and slashing his arm with he hits hard. Bingland, an Australian whose acquaintance he makes, speaks strongly:

FASHION NOTE- SKIRTS MUST "FLARE" SAYS PARIS.

The wider hemline is the most notable feature of the autumn modes, Godets are As a rule the flare" included in all the best designs; even fur coats show them. is at the front, or back, only when the falness is arranged at the front of a cost or frock, the back of the garment is left quite plain and straight. A circular, vandykel apron-front, like that in the design for a navy and grey rep frock shown below, provides an alternative way

it was only an attack of nerves, but na

The effect of godets is obtained by her fangs. Those who know her best say of introducing a very graceful fainess. Zoo creature can be allowed a second padded panels of for added to wrap coate bite, "Lollopy's" career as a pet-The niedel illustrated shows how charming squirret koks when used in this way an is finished,

She arrived at Regent's Park when heavy grey velvet quite & rub, and was named Lollopy because she was unsteady on her rickety legs. Therefore she was given evening exercise after the gardens were, closed With terrier deg she Your're overcrowded: why not. send to the public. us over a few millions of your best had great times ratting in the dusk." The people? Look at the rotten, class of terrier killed the rats and Lallopy" emigrants your share on to us. Shop-devoured the remains the dog looking boys and bookkeepers-we want agricul on rather disgustedly. turists who can go up country and stay there and work the land which will ultimately become their own.

Your people at home haven't troubled! to realise that the making of a White Australia means almost more to the Motherland than it does to us; they have no vision: Australia should be Greater Britain

If you lost ua,

it would be the beginning of your down- fall.

WASTERS AND AGITATORS. Mr. Green 'expresses his surprise, and Jackson, another Australian declaras that the emigrants do not realise that the 70 acres of land allotted to them is refeared, and thinks the emigrants before them. He adds: would not emigrate if they knew what was

Fine as it would be, and I'd give all I have to see it, I don't believe there ever can be a White Australia--we shall have to employ coloured labour, and the sooner we realise it the better..

Of course, not the Japs Imperial

She was wonderfully obedient to the command Heel," and more than once passed unrecognised through a crowd of departing visitors when being led out for the evening'a sport.

Inverted box-pleats are seen on num bers of coats which are made of too heavy a material to take the godet well. Coats of für are slit and joined to inverted pleats of velvet, and thus gain the

hemline fashionable, full, swinging effect at the

PIGEONS .

'PLANE.

As a rule birds give aeroplanes a wide berth, but recently, just after ascending from the London Air Station on a flight Her fist downward step wus when she to Paris, the pilot of & Handley Paga lost her temper with her friend the dog. machine was surprised to see a consider He showed signs of terror when she snarable number of pigeons flying towards The birds shot between, and over the led, and the two were never allowed to his aeroplane. tionata with her human friends, and wings of the aircraft, some of them com- meet again. She was still most affec- many women have been in the cage with ing infu contact with the propeller. The neroplane ustained no damage.. but at her for a romp

least 3 of the pigeons were killed.

But never again.

coloured labour, that's what Lean HAMBURG AMERIKA LINIE.

The natives of India are under the Deion Jack. They work for Britain in their own country: why shouldn't they work for us in ours And there are countless thousands of others under British protection.

Mr. Green remarks that cheap labour

Next to carbolic acid, as a "popal" would crush every trade union, to which: poison, come the mineral acids-bi-Jackson replies: chloric, nitric and sulphurie. Within spirits of salts." - this group come dustrial requirements and domestic s as well as their employment in the c- cumulator batteries of wireless sets and other mechanical apparatus, make them readily available.

In the 192 statistics oxalic and or accounted for 13 strides salts of lemon and two accidents. Here, again, in drastic article much favoured as cleanser.

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It will be seen, therefore, the The agents responsible for the large part of the melancholy roll of deaths goi- soning are articles of common use. They are not the poisons usually emplced by murderers, and, for that reason, we do not shullder at the mention of teas we do, perhaps, when arsenic andurjcb. ning are spoken of but the het re "mains that they are more devasuing. IN THE HANDS OF CHILDREN. The poisons employed by the murderer are obtainable almost as easily, parti- cularly when the murderer is not averse from a little mendacity, as few materers

ure.

Arsenic, which laid low Mr. Yabrick nud was employed by Seddon, rise in both instances, obtained from papers of which equally deadly kinds we still on sale to the public. Armstrong, too, used arsenic in two forms, obtained on the pretext that he had weed exter- For this innocent purpose he minate. was able to secure sufficient poison to Wed-killing kill nearly 1,000 people. and sheep-dipping remain suffient ex- cuses, in law, for the purd of arsenic, and both have destroyd many lives accidentally, labourer is drunk such poison from a beer bottle a etror; children have been killed by drinking water from a weed-killer cask and a leaks drum of it has injured's Whole family.

Arsenie is most extensively pedin dustry and agriculture.. It is me of the oldest of poisons, and was preably res ponsible for some of the mysterous tar ders which darken early histo

Photography is the purpose for which much cyanide of potassium is sold Collectors of muths and butterflies (often juveniles) also get it in what re known Britis medical as killing bottles." practice has little use for it."at many schoolboy photographer posse auf- ficient to kill several families since five grains are fatal. Whitaker Wight used cyanide of potassium to chew the gaol, and it gared, too, in the recat tragedy at Shoreditch, where a libarian who Iwas an amateur photograph, took

quantity after accidentally noting his

Assistant..

or

SOME FAMOUS CRIES, From belladonna, Judy-night shade, comes the hyoscyamic and hyo- scine which Crippen used a poison his wile. Belladonna is commos used in liniments and lotions protribed for feminine ailments.. As a masquence most of the persons killed such lini- menta, taken internally, are women.

Strychaine, though it is relatively new discovery, is, perhaps, little old fashioned as a murderer's at Wain- wright employed it, as also Palmer, bus Vaquier gave it new storiety by using it to murder Mr. Jone ofBy feet. Vaquier, it will be recalled, tained his supply of strychnine for ceriments in photography and wireless, hough there was no truth in the anggision that if could ever be useful for a purposes.

La the Vaquier case th regulation which enforces, the registrata of each purchase of strychnine furned at that piece of evidence which, in judgment, put the guilt of the murret beyond doubt. Restrictive legislate here show. ed its value. but, imitud it is to prose the purchase of pois a mur dever, it is better to has regulations which, so far as is humanlyble, put such poisons beyond kia r

Ah you've said it. Trade iniens They're at the bottom of the whole thing-trade unionism is a fine thing to protect the individual in unfair circum- stances, but it is generally the last thing to think imperially, which is what a young country needs.

Mr. Jackson is definite on Labour: "

It's not Labour in itself that's going. to ruin Australia it's the tick, on Labour's hack, the wasters, not the werkers, those who agitate continually. for higher wages, shorter hours, in- and sometimes numerable Eolidays. treble rates of pay for overtime.

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