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ACQUITTED OF 3

MURDERS.

GENERAL DYER'S HONOUR.

BOY'S LOUS TO WOMAN.

SON'S STORY OF BOGUS SIR M. O'DWYER DEFENDS

CONFESSION.

TO SAVE MOTHER'S HONOUR.

LORD HEWART AND JURY LUCK

There was a remarkable scene at the Old Bailey when the jury re. turned a verdict of Not Guilty in the case of William Rust, aged 90, a warehouseman, who was charged with the murder of his father by enting his throat

The verdict was greeted with loud applause, and the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Hewart, exclaimed, Clear the court, clear the gal lery I'

Rust was further charged with murdering his two young brothers by similar means. He pleaded not guilty, and the Orown, offering no evidence against him, he was formally found not guilty.

Lord Hewart, in discharging him, said; You are exceedingly for tunate in your jury.!!.

IT

AMRITSAR RIOT DIS

CLOSURES.

GIFTS WHEN IN GERMAN ARMY,

HER ESCAPE FROM SPY'S DEATH.

A story of wealth, divorce, and benevolence was heard in the Second Divisiem of the ~ Anglo- Further, light on the rising at German Alixed Arbitral Tribunal Amritsar (Punjab, Northern India) when Mrs. Frede Helen Wilnis, of rin April 1919 and the measures Spickernatrane, Cologne referred Lewis Henry Wilms, a merchant of taken to cope with it by the late to as the divorced wife of air. Brigadier-General R. E. H. Dyer Hallar Yorkshire-claimed from has been provided by Sir Michael Hugo Daniel, a German national, who was Lieutenant 3000 marks (about £130), money

·lent on an 1.0.USA

LO.US Destroyed. Governor of the Punjab at the time

O'Dwyer,!!

aire wine maid that she was

It will be remembered that married in Berlin. Before the wat

General Dyer ordered his troops to fire on a crowd of 3,000 Ludians in an enclosed space outside Amritsar. About 350 persons were killed and amra thousand wounded more than a

and after her divorce the Hired with and alterwurzia in Germany, y her son when im was in England,

The money-which she leat at various times to Daniel was leat 1.0.0. Daniel was an appren tico boy women's clothing establishment in Germany, and his parents were very poor. The loans was given to him because he co-

fessed to her that he had taken money from his employers and wished to replace it.

The shooting gave rise to s great controversy. A year later the majority and minority reports of Lord Hunter's Committee of In quiry into the disturbances con demned, a varying degrees, Her Juggage was left at his parents' house, and she believed General Dyer's action. The general that they broke into it and destroy& was removed from his employmented the 1.0.U. She did not be Here Daniel himself would have done it d

In 1924 Sir Michael O'Dwyer Bust was sobbing convulsively as he went from the court into the brought a libel action in London central ball. Friends rushed up to against Bir C, Sankaran Nair, s chake him by his band, and to one former member of the Viceroy's of them be exclaimed, "Thank God Commeil, who was alleged to have that is all over." He said that he suggested that Sar Michael had em- was going away to friends in theployed methods of terratizm in the south of England.

Why He" Confessed.”

Punjab.

·In giving judgment for Sir Michael Mr. Justice McCardie ex

tonal excumstances, had acted rightly," and that he was wrongly punished by the Secretary for India Ser

She did not tell the German su thorities that she was a German national until they were going to

ber a British spy then the and Bisse derec Sha was really half German, but her mother was Scottish.

A Frail Youth..

She had a fat at Cologne after the Budhiah occupation a military billet having been placed at her disposat by the authority of a

Daniel was a frail, amail youth when she lent him the mouty. He afterwards went into the German army. She occasionally sent him money then. She also started tim in business to give him a chaines of repaying her..

Rust's father and two brothers ressed the view that General Colonel Turner ware found in their home at Step- ney, E., with their throats cut, and under grave and excep Rust went to the police station and "confessed" to the crime, giving a description as to how he did the deed. He now set up the defence that he pretended that he commit ted the crime to save family scandal.

Rust, giving evidence, said that on December 1st his father told him that his mother had been gun- Laithful to him with a man med Frontiam. His father threatened

to do Frensham in. He (Rust) then went out.

When I got back, he continued, I saw my father in the kitchen vutting his throat. I snatched a razor from his hand and he fell to the floor. I tried to stop the bleeding, and to get him on to the bed I then saw my two brothers dead on the bed...

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I was too dazed and upset to know what I did text. Î ̧ kitenw my father and brothers were be yond help, so I locked the bed. room door: I then went out bo see Frensham, but I met my brother Charlie, found my sister, and we all went to the polies station On the way I said to my star, I have not the pluck, but I will take the blama I told the police at the station I had killed my father and brothers.

Taking The Blame.

Mr. Valetta defending: Did you cut your father's throat that night No.

Mr. Percival Clarke, prosecut- ing Why did you tell the police you had-You have heard how things were at home, and I didn't

Oity In Mob's Hands. Sir Michael, who spoke of the annual dinner of the Old Com radca Association of the 25th Lon- don Regiment at Harrods Bestan yant, indd

We know that, undess sterly and promptly repressed, what had happened an Amritsar would spread to every station in the north of India. Mensures were taken. They were only waiting to hear news of what had hap peded in Amritsar to play the same game elsewhere, rege

Mobs of over 20,000 people sallied farth from Lahore city to try to do the same thing there. Prompt measures were also taken at Lahore. Troops arrived on the scene, and we were able to hold our ownL

Then there came the question of restoring order in Amritsar. The city of 200,000 people was then in the bands of a rebellious mob. Fortunately, under Major- General Sir William Beynon's able directione, Brigadier General Dyer promptly arrived from Jul Pundur(applause) bringing with him your battalion to the

ne of camage

drastic

measures, measures that no one regretted more than himself, but. I took those measures unflinch ingly, like a man, and be saved the situation (Applause.).

"General's Honour, Major General Sir William. Bey- on, who was Divisional Commsa der, 18th Indian Division, at the

want it to come out about mother time of the disturbances, said. and Frenehard, so I said I did it.

But the first thing you said to the police was, My mother has been carrying on with another man"-In the excitement of the moment the very thing I wanted to keep back I brought out.

Why didn't you go on and sty that your faller cut his own

1should like to recall to your memory that, before his death, General Dyen had been reinstated and his honour proclaimed by a British judge and a British fury applause) and the man who was chiefly respoprible for that was Sir Michael O'Dwyer.

Dr. Oxley, medical officer of the Poplar Guardians, aid he thought throat-I thought if I took the if most likely that the wound was blame nothing would be mid and inficted by the man himself. that unnecessary details shout the Judga And Counsel, scandal would not come out in Lord Hewar in summing up,

court

When you went to look for Fren- shambad you a knife and razor. with you! Yes

Bald

There were other important docu ments left i Daniels's house, for he had lent quite a lot of money. She also started a newspaper in Berlin, y

The tribunal held that Mrs. Wilms was British and awarded her £16 11s with interest at 5 per cent, and Es coets.

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Counsel on the defence haa thought it compatible with his duty, not once or twice but five times, in his closing speech for the prisoner to convey to your minde that the prnishment in a QUANTS esec of warder is capital punish-

‹ Did you think your mother's honour should be revenged by your killing Frensham 1-Not so far as that I certainly intended to #bash" him.

BREV Kment He referred to the remark PINTS

Dr. Hogan, medical officer to the Stepney Guardiane, said the dead man had suffered from”, asthma, He knew more than one, caso "where" a man so muffering had committed suicide,

Lord Howart: Do you say that people suffering from asians are prone to suicide-I do not go o

far as that.

LO HOWATE: People with red hair commit ancida.

there was a nobleman who.com

ted suicide because he had a dir tasto for hic drawing room farmer- kures" (daughter, des

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