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"MADAME X’1⁄2 MURDER TRIAL ACQUITTAL.

HUSBAND SMILES AT JURY'S VERDICT.

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Astonishing scenes occurred at Swansea Assizes when Thomas Henry Jackson, aged 'thirty-seven, was found Not guilty of murder- ing his wife, Mrs. Kate Jackson, known as

Madame X after a trial which lasted five days and a half.

The jury decided on their verdict after they had been absent from the crowded court for a little over half an hour, and when it was announced there was an outburst of clapping and cheering, chiefly from women, packed in the gallery.

are generally of a different" typo from people capable of executing a murder,

"If any stranger did murder this woman it must have been done in consequence of a deliberate scheme and of set purpose. I have heard no evidence at all which would indicate in any way that Mrs. Jackson had any enemies likely to do her harm.

"It is a possibility, but a pos- sibility o bare that, although it is not to be eliminated, you have to consider the positive evidence in

the case.

There is circumstantial evidence Jackson smiled faintly when he against the husband, which, I ven- heard the verdict. He shook handsture to think, is very strong. with his counsel, and, after being discharged, went downstairs.

Was

Jackson's conduct that of an in- nocent or a guilty mant He has A great crowd, marshalled by the shown himself in the box to be police, gathered outside the court quick-tempered and quick-witted, to see Jackson drive away. and very ready with devices. Why Jackson left the court by a back were the neighbours not asked in at once Why were not the police entrance, and so eluded the crowd which had assembled in front of the called? Various explanations have building. He drove direct to the been made, but to me these ques- house of his father, Mr. Tomtions remain unanswered. Jackson, an ex-Welsh international Rugby football player, who is a publican on the outskirts of Swan rea. There he was greeted by his adopted daughter Betty.

AUGUST 20, 1929.

INDIANISATION OF ARMY.

PUBLICATION OF REPORT OF SUB-COMMITTEE URGED.

Mr.. M. A, Jinnah, in a statement to the Times of India says:-

"My attention-baa been drawn to the question put by Major Graham Pole in the House of Com- mons suggesting to the Secretary

of State for India to consider the

advisability of reversing the policy of the late Government, in with- holding from publication the report of the sub-committee of the indian Sandhurst Committee, and the reply of Mr. Wedgeword Benn, Secretary of State for India, which is reparted as follows:-

The Skeen Committee had the report before them and founded many of their conclusions thereon, quoting it in extenso where neces sary. His dificulty in consenting to the publication was that wit nesses when they gave evidence understood that they were express ing personal, and, to some extent, confidential views.'

not in extenso,

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Glasgow.-M. Curie has been presented with the freedom of the city.

London. The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges with thanks the receipt of £4 towards the reduc tion of the National Debt.

Margate. The 41st Congress and Health Exhibition of the Royal year at Margaret from June 21 to Sanitary Institute will be held next

June 28, at the invitation of the

town council.

Whitby. The death has occurred of Mr. Christopher Mordy, 15, general manager of the Newport and Britannia ironworks of Dor- man Long & Co., Middlesbrough..

Bromley.-A 12in. water main on Bromley Common, Kent, burst and the water supply to many houses was affected. The read was flooded

for about 200 yards."

London.-Police offers in plain eicthes from Vine Street Station visited the premises of the St. Martin's New Social Club in St. Martin's Street, Leicester Square, early in the morning recently, and took a number of names and ad- dresses

"As I was the Chairman of the Was Jackson quick-witted and Sub-Committee, I feel that this in- rapid in dealing with a situation accurate and misleading statement opening up a line of retreat and

of the Secretary of State for India defence? Can it be that when he should not be allowed to pass with-panied by General Balbo. Under

Rome. Signor Mussolini, accom. saw the neighbour, Mrs. Gammon, out correction. No doubt there Secretary for Air, flew to Orbetello, and told her that he would go for port of the sub-committee was brand reviewed the squadron of sea- "No Definite Plans,"

a doctor if his wife became worse, fore the Indian Sandhurst Com- planes who had returned from its be was so obtuse as 'not to appromittee and they have quoted from it Jackson said to a newspaper reciate the seriousness of the posi presentative: "I have no definite

tion 1 plans about the future,

For the present, at any rate, Betty and I will live with my father."

Jackson's father had attended the ly in a state of acute anxiety when court all the week. He was obvious the jury returned after the judge's summing-up. When he heard the verdict of Not guilty with his arms extended and moved down the steps towards the dock where his son was standing,

is

" be rose

A policeman, with a kindly ges- ture, indicated that he could go no further, and then Mr. Jackson sank down in a state bordering on collapse on one of the seats immed- iately behind the dock.

His son, freed from the dock a

!! Extraordinary "Thing," Mr. Justice Wright added that Jackson never reported the matter from the hospital. That again, was to the police, who heard about it

most extraordinary thing,

to a certain extent, but certainly cruise in the Near East. In con- cluding a speech of congratulation, Signor Mussolini asked: "To whom balong the skies?" and was answered by a rending shout of" To us."

"The Skech Committee after full consideration unanimously passed resolution to the effect that the report of the sub-committee, the evi- deace of witnesses that appeared be

Brussels.-Otto de Beney, adven- fore them and the materials collectntenced many times for fraud and turer and impersonator, who was

It was difficult to believe Jacksoned by thera should be published ex- when he said that he did not know cept what was recorded by them

camera, and the resolution so pass ferent explanations did not agree. ernment of India. the matter was so serious. His dit-

ed was communicated to the Goy but were any of them consistent with the attitude of an innocent man whose wife had been attacked and severely injured ↑

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also for the illegal use of uniforms and decorations, committed suicide in Brussels by throwing himself from the third floor of a house. One of de Beney's exploits was the MYSTERY CITY'S SECRETS. decorating of General Allen, of the the name of the King of the Bel- United States Army, at Coblenz, in

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few minutes later, embraced and gloves for a fortnight after the to some extent, confidential views. charged with the murder of Miss some mouths upon excavations car-

kissed him.

Mr. Justice Wright snid that he did not pretend to understand the disappearance of Mrs. Jackson's murder, but it was inconceivable that, as Jackson said, they were time before the police discovered

them.

Nature of Evidence, "The excuse that is put forward now is devoid of any foundation, that the witnesses understood that they were expressing personal and,

Questionaires were sent in advance to the various heads of departments of the questionaires were drafted by the Skeen Committee in India, and the sub-committee information rela- tion to the points involved in the questionaries.

Marseilles. Francois Pinet,

Branson at Les Baux, was again in- terrogated by M. Rachu, the Examin- several witnesscs brought specially from Les Baux. No new evidence was advanced that could be said to confirm the suspicions against the accused, who persisted in denying

the murder." any participation or complicity in

Work has been in progress for ried out among the ruins of Great. Zimbabwe in Southern Rhodesia, been the site of King Solomon's Mines.

a fishmonger, murdered his wife insing where they were found for that and institutions concerned. Masting Magistrate, and confronted with beneved by earlier explorers to have

The accusation was that Jackson, their bungalow, Kenilworth, at the Mumbles. Mrs. Kate Jackson be-j It was a most extraordinary thing came known as "Madame X" be that there was found in Jackson's cause she was referred to in that house a tyre lever, not in the open, name when she figured in an em; but in a position of concealment, bezzlement case at the Central where it was almost incredible that Criminal Court,

it could have heen by accident dence of fact in other directions the "Where there is sufficient evi

This work has been in charge of an English woman investigator, Miss G. Caton-Thompson, i product London, as the Sub-Committee, from "Answers were received by us in

of Newnham, and perhaps one of the, most eminent living ärchaeolo- various persons who subsequently admitted by the Secretary of State tral Australia has ended with the sistance of Miss Kenyon, daughter appeared before us as witnessca, as

Alice Springs-One of the longest sista She has had in her task of man hunts in the history of Centery" city of South Africa the as-

investigating the famous

nected with Mrs. Jackson, but he question of motive ought not to be for India, to give oral evidence, arrival of Mounted Constable Mur- of Sir Frederick Kenyon, director and they knew perfectly well that

Mr. Justice Wright, summing up, said that there had been a great deal of talk about mysteries con-

could see none, at any rate since 1010, when she left the man Le Grys.

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til she failed to return from an errand. A search proved fruitless. The next day her mutilated body was found in a trunk on the banks

of the Seine.

important." concluded Mr. Justice Wright. There is no evidence of any secret hemy. There is merely a surmise or possibility, and against that there is still the evidence which the prosecution has produced."

Mr. Justice Wright's rumming-up took one hour forty minutes.

CHILDLESS WOMEN IN POLITICS.

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Over 2,000 members of branches of the Mothers' Union attended the

my

their evidence was being taken downy bringing with him an aborigine of the British Museum, Mins D. on somme occasions by shorthand named Willaberta Jack, who is ac- Norie, an expert in architecture, writers and on others by the Secre-cused of the murder of a cattle and a photographer. targ of the sub-committee Major "wner, Mr. Harry Henty, more than With a motor forry for transport,

Aix months ago. The police have and Lumbey.

gang of Makulanga boys for been searching for him ever since.labour, these intrepid women, with but, being a master of hushcraft and the photographer, have been at work with a very intimate knowledge of on a task which has puzzled scfen- the country," he was able to evade tists and explorers ever since the ruins were re-discovered by Adem Renders in 1868.

Ashford.-The Kent

Standing

"No witness was left under the impression that his evidence would not be published or that it was to be treated as confidential, barring them. the Indian cadets who were examin ed in camera, as they were the only ones who desired to do so for ob-Joint Committee have appointed vious reasons.

Mr. W. L. Platts, clerk of the Corn- "I regret to find that is the Peace for Kent and Clerk of wall County Council, as Clerk of Majesty's Government are still with- holding publication of very import of Mr. W. Prosser, who has resign. the Kent County Council, In place ant and valuable information re-ed, and the appointment takes effect Sarding the question of Indianisa- tion of the army and are prevent

from October -1.

Southampton.-William

The police arrested an English man, Sidney Harley who pleaded that he was eyeling when he knock ed down and killed the child. He lest his head, carried 'the body to his room, and decided to conceal it in a trunk. Harley, who is an engineer in the British Army, lived in the same hotel as the Bigognes.

He complained of the police's rough handling, and said that, des- affection for children which was and scrutinise the question more his office. Cardy was remanded in

Mystery to be solved. The ruins of Zimbabwe consist of a vast circular atructure known as

which...

stands on one side of a valley. the Elliptical Temple," Below are the remains of a city of circular houses and, winding streets, while on the hill top is an impregnable fortress known as the

Acropolis,

The question of preserving the ruins has been taken up by the

A French couple, the parents of Jeannine Bigogne, 4 years, who live in Paris, heard piercing screams but did not associate them with her annual festival at Durham Cathe. ing the people of India from having Leeds-The Gilchrist Educational dral. The special preacher was the real and true perspective of the Trust has made a grant of £250 a Bishop of Durham, who said that training given at, and the working year for three years to enable the it was one of the disadvantages of of the institutions of the four coun- T.M.C.A. to extend its special edu- the admission of women to politic-tries we visited, namely, America, cational work to Lanenshire and Rhodesian Government, and the al life on equal terms with men Canada, France and England.

Yorkshire, and has decided to make Curator of the Zimbabwe Reserve, that inevitably the representation "The Bimay ground that is put permanent its present grant of £50 Mr. S. C. A. Wallace, estimates.. of women in public life tended to forward for withholding publica- a year towards the general educa-that over 60,000 tons of stone were

used to build the fall into the bands of women who tion is the strongest proof in sup- tional work of the Y.M.OA.

"Elliptical were unmarried or childless. They part of the condemnation of the at-

Temple," and nearly twice as much would never be the truest exponents titude of the late Government Maya farmer, of Thornhill Park polie."

Cardy in the construction of the "Acro- of the woman's mind and charac. I request the new Secretary of ter.

State for India, who, of course, has charged at the Southampton Police he was once the flourishing town Farm, Bitterne," Southampton, Wes Explorers are agreed that Zimbe- They all knew unmarried, child- to depend upon information sup less women who had in a wonderful plied to him by the Department, Mr. Robert Hughes, a solicitor, bynystery to be solved--and to which Court with attempting to murder of a gold-mining community. The way disclosed that unselfishness and to go more deeply into the matter shooting at him with a revolver in these English women explorers are Lo make such an important contri- truly called motherly, but for the minutely and critically 1 a

custody.

bution-is who were the people who most part it, was a fact that the

"I feel that his difficulty in con-

lived there, and at what: date was natural experience of child-bear-senting to give publication to the

the city built? ing, with all its pains and sacifices, sub-committee's report will dis-

! was the indispensable condition of appear, and what is more, it will Harley complained that he was needs think it unfortunate that the charge that these materials are sup motherly character, and he must abagive his Government from the tied to a bench by one hand with a rope and interviewed in this con representation of women in public pressed, as the Government do not life should be so largely in the dition by newspapermen. "They hands of those who did not possess

pite the fact that he told them the full story, they lashed him to a shair in the full gaze of callers. Crowds outside the prison called "Hang him."

wish to face the light of day and

haven't given me a chante, as you that primary qualification of public opinion."

see," he said. They have. treated me terribly."

TELEPHONE.

An. Aerial Survey.}},

Paris-Marshal Pétain has been clected to the Académie Française in place of the Inte Marchal Foch, de Curel was inconclusive, and the The ballot for the successor to M.

In this direction, Miss Caton- election was adjourned sine die.

Thompson' proposes later to seek for. undisturbed evidences of build- Dunedin.-The ownership af ings in the district which, it found. Lake Omapers, New Zealand which would shed much light on the period has been in dispute between the of the buildings and the nationality Ngapuhi tribe and the Crown, has of the people decision of the Native Land Court.

Vienna. Forty-seven Canadian newspaper proprietors and editors, who are on a tour through Con- tinental capitale, have arrived in Vienna, and have been received by the President of Austria and the

Union Air Force for the purposes ly obtained the assistance of the

of an atrial survey.

It was a grave matter that so many people should be so badly Harley admitted that the story housed that a healthy, physical, and JUDGE'S ONE USE FOR THE been awarded to the Maoris by a Miss Caton-Thompson has recent he originally told the police that moral appearance seemed to be al- he had knocked down the little girl most prohibited. It was a grave while cycling was untrue. "I was matter that lack of employment in such a state that I did not know and low rates of wages made pro- what to my," he added. Each per feeding and clothing for the day the child's mother would go to family so extremely difficult. But work. On Tuesday, when I return those were not the worst conditions, ed from work, I met Jeannine in of home life. The most ruinous the corridor of the hotel, invited circumstance of all was the absence her to my room, and gave her of a good mother. Motherhood spects. The child cried for her mo

was by general confession the ́ther, and I was frightened. 1.tried

crown of marriage. to stop her crying, and then she died."

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The public and newspapers are Woman at Willesden: She insult- indignant at the crime. Harley ed me, my biting my arm through was employed as a telegraphist. He my coat.

is married, and has a daughter the

same age as Jeannine. His wife Judge "Cluer.

at

GIFT FROM THE BENCH.

WHEN PEOPLE ARE TOLD TO ‚”‚PUT.”IT ÎN -WRITING.".

"You will have to be very care- ful to keep your lips away from the dictaphone occasionally if it repeats Chancellor. all you say you would frighten Bome of your typists, I should think," remarked Mr. Justice Eve in the Chancery Division when told that a solicitor used a dictaphone ed the Bill by which Hungary re-wandering abroad without visible

for dictating a draft of a deed of voluntary settlement which it was bought to rectify.

Mr. Justice Eve also remarked, Shoreditch you will employ such means and child are at present in Ami- | County Court: I regret there is not I do not wonder that it has gone ens. When Harley was taken in a rule which prevents me from co-wrong. People want to talk to me order to be present at the search of mitting a person to prison where bis hotel, the crowd was threaten the judgment creditor is a money ing, and a strong body of police lender, a tallyman, or a credit was required.

draper, but there is not

sometimes over the telephone, say to them, 'No, put it in writing." I do not mind discussing pleasure over the telephone."

La Hague. The Hungarian Lower House of Parliament has ratified the Kellogg Pact and pass

cognizes the competence of Article 36 of the Statute of the Permanent International Court in The Hague.

Three magistrates sitting on the Enfield Bench each subscribed half- a-crown to Frank Bird, aged twenty-eight, in unemployed labourer, who was accused of

means of subsistence.

Bird stated that he recently re- turned from New Zealand, and was penniless. He wanted to go to Somerset House to obtain some papers in order to claim money. A barrister at the Old Bailey which was due to him He was referred to a woman as a "dress warned by the chairman that if bin maker." The Common Serjeant: story was a myth he would have a She calls herself a gown specialist-hot time" if he was seen again like an artist in chimneja

in Enfield.

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