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ROUSE

COUNSEL'S STORY OF THE BLAZING CAR MYSTERY.

EXPERT'S VIEW OF HOW THE FIRE

STARTED.

One of the strangest murder trials of podern times has been that of Alfred Arthur Rouac, a commercial traveller, who was `rocently convicted of murdering an unknown man, Rouse est his own car alight and hoped that the charred body, subsequently found in it, would be taken for his own. We give the Callowing full roport from The Times of the first part of the opening of the Crown case by Mr. Norman Birkett, K.C., one of England's greatest advocates, who conducted the prosecution.

Mr. Justice Tabort was the judge and the case was heard at Northampton assizes;

Mr.

lane.

Birkett

in opening the ease for the prosecution, said the jury would hear that the remains of the unknown man were burnt beyond all recognition in a very fieres fire in a motor-car in the Hardingstone But they need not be trou- Bled at all by the fact that the remains were not identified as those of any previous living person. It mado no difference in the law upon this matter, but they might regard it in the special circumstances of this case as a factor very import ant and most significant.

On November & about 20 minutes to two in the morning, two young men wore returning from a dance at Northampton and were coming up the road from Northampton to whers it joins the Hardingstone lane. They walked up the road until they reached the junction where the Hardingstone lane runs from Hardingstone village. It was a bright, moonlit early morning, and as they reached that junction, on the further side of the lane from which they stood, a few yards from the signpost at the corner, they saw a rather remarkable sight. They saw the prisoner emerge from the ditch at the side of the road, hatless and carrying a amallat taché ense. The two men passed him and no word was exchanged.

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FEBRUARY 21, 1931.

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Ho removed certain fragments ofA CARTOONIST AND the millet för oxamination, and evidence would be given by him and Sir Berard 6pilabury, The longest hair removed was e human hair, fair in colour. Other haire wero covered with dirt and it was. difficult to decide the colour, büt they had been broken off the head For all his playfulness, he in one of the person to whom they had of the fow men I have met who in the fesly, give the impres bolonged, and there were no definite roots. There was no blood, upon sion of genius. Shaw's another. the mallet nor any adhering skin, It is interesting to know that, onch but these human hairs were there thinks the other is much over upon the mallet found only 14 rated: yards ahead of the blazing car.

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Shaw has been drawn, sculped and painted more often than any ather living writer, but no artist, to my mind, has over got." the human being that is Show. They have usually been led miles astray of is mischievous cocky poso. Even the bust by Rodin which sits MAINTAINING in his study is not good, but, as he explained to me, Rodin did it without anything about him-which sonda Rodin and his methods down

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A very important question would be how the fire started. witness of very wide experience of fires and moter-cars, and fires generally, would say that his examination of the car indicated to him, that the When the four of them were there fire was designed and not necident Police, Constable Copping went asal. He also said that from the usar as he could and then observed intensity of the flame, its direction, that thero was the body of its continuity, its steadiness, the human being in that intense flame. most valuable, indeed almost cer- He sent for further assistance and tain, light was thrown upon the the rest of them endeavoured to put source of the petrol from whence the fire came. An expert would out the Are:

tell them that the union at the tank When that was done it was seen that the car was almost burnt out, ond of the petrol pipo was so loose in my catimation Photographs which would be pro-that he could easily move it and duced would show that the car was that the nut was one whole tunable? destroyed, and certain of the brass slick, He would also tell them that

H. G. Wells in another agreeable parts melted with the intense heat. Judging from the debris of the car, One of the most important parts there was probably a second source companion with whom it is difficult of the case, having reference to of petrol for the fire, and that to get a word in edgeways: Bat what he had said about circum second source was from the petrol he is the most stimulating talker stantial evidence, was that the tin which was discovered among the 1 know. When listening to H.G. I DRESSED IS A BOULAL body in the car was lying face débris,

can hear my own brain ticking. DUTY AND THIS After instancing several causes He is another of those personalities IS EASILY CARRIED downwards, with the face on the

Beat which might be responsible for an who cannot be caught sitting. He OUT AT driver's seat-the driver's being to the right of the car, with accidental fire, Mr. Birkett Bait must be observed on the mave the bucket seat, next to the driver's that in all those cases the engine. I did most of the preliminary seat. It was lying with the right must be running. In this case the study for my drawing of him while arm extended and lifted, burnt up engine was stopped. Thus the he was playing that stronuous ball to the elbow, and no left arm was causes or cause of an accidental game of his at Easton." In between Eye-witnesses of there were missing in this case. A whiles I pinyed the game myself. to be seen, position of the body would tell great deal of importance attached can still remember the bang on about the left leg being drawn up to the intensity of the fire. If they the car I got. and the right one rather extended had a scattered fire up and down This evidence might strike them as being a very important factor, in the case. He could not help them further as to how the body got into that position. Whether a man was stooping and fell, whether a man was placed in that position, from the outside of the door, he knew

not, but the position of the body, with the face resting upon the driver's sent, was a highly signi fennt and important circumstanes.

There was also found the charred heck of a boot or: ahos about oin,

One should have a sitting, on the the car, that was one thing other hand, before drawing Arnold they had evidence which showed Bonnett. A quieter, more restful conclusively that there was an in- and particularly kindly personality. tepse fire and, what, was more im With his white forclock, well-shap- portant, a sustained intense fire-ed nose, dreamy eyes and long in a word, it the fire was being chin, he is beat to be observed in continuously fed-that was another matter. If they had that, they would expect to find upon certain parts of the car evidence of it Colonel Buokle, the expert, would say beyond doubt that that evi dence was here

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Very Remarkable Words." After they had passed one of the two men said to the other: "What is the blaze up there pointing up the Hardingstone Jane, where some 400 yards distant there was a great glare. After the prisoner had passed them for about some 15 to 20 yards Rouse and these very to the left of the nearside running brasa, and it required heat of ever remarkable words: "It looks as if board, in line with the driver's seat1800deg. F. to fuse brass. The on the outside of the ear. Police brass, of the windscrees in this car someone has had a bonfire up

was so fused-but not all over-in thero" No appeal for help, no Constable Copping discovered an call for assistance, and then: "It other thing of immense importance two particular places, one at the top looks as if someone had a bonfire-a petrol can. It was empty; it about 4in. from the near side, one was hurat in one of its scams to. at the bottom about ein, from the The circumstance which the priwards the top, and the handle and near side, slightly out of the per- soner called a bonfire was the the screw cap were missing. The pendicular, fused na though by a burning of his own car. At the tires upon the nearside wheels had blowpipe. The conclusion to be time he spoke those remarkable been burnt off, while the offside drawn from that was that in close words about fomebody and the front tire was intact, and there proximity in an upward direction bonfire, there was the body of this were no marks upon the car which there was not merely intense, but some time which was heing ze. unknown man inside that car of the officers could discover at that sustained continuous flame for the prisoner's being steadily burn-time as indicating anything in the plenished and re-fed. One more ed beyond all recognition. That nature of a collision. The two important point was that in regard

to the gearbox's casing. This was chuckling and beaming over a heap ear, they would hear, had shortly offices made a very careful ex- composed of aluminium alloy, and of my own most tactless cartoons. before been drawn by the side of amination, and Constable Valen- that had heen partly fused by the Bywheel casing there Quickly Relieved the road, where it burned and line lifted up the bonnet of the car sides of the thy what But on bote

blazul, by the prisoner himself, he on both sides. He found that the were this projecting Jugs of the early Victorian puper-statesman gar ROYAL RICHMOND had that off the engiuc, and put cap on the petrol tank was in its same material. They were not ments he assumed when he became An the brake, and, it would be normal position. It was hot, but fused. The gearbox partly fused, Home Secretary. Jix put away in

the lugs, also of aluminium alloy, proved, the car was in second gear. it was loose.

not fused. If the fire had come moth balls the costume caricatured from the bonnet to the body of the and appeared, and continued for And yet at that moment his ob

ear those lugs, which were not some time to appear, in a light servation to there two men "A bonfire Yet 400-yards fused, would have been fused before doks as if someone has had a bon-awny there was this terrible Grethe, aluminium alloy of the car lounge suit with a buttonhole. A Few Minutes from this Famous Park.

with these clurred, unrecognize the hapirol tants was made of Jim" Thomas, fife."

The After. anying that, the prisoner remains of a man lying in the

barning car. Before they advanced sheet steel situated under the

How could one dislike ita wasked a few yards towards the very far upon the narrative they reuitle drah inside the car... It was main road and then turned and had, he submitted, the mast over intact with: no signs of bulging Thomas, that iron man who is an- whelmingly significant foot-that-it through internal pressure, The walked to his right toward the that hour, at that place, with a car joints appeared to be in good opn Farently impervious to insult1 One enjoys a Happy Home-like Atmosphere. Northampton road, and then turn blazing, the only observation which dision. They might regard that as night, by miraculous chance, 1 found All Public Looms are Spacious. Gaur edjand

and walked the other way to the prisoner made was: It looks of great significanco. From the myself seated next to him at a be quito Exceptional

as if someone has had a bonare petrol tank was a pipe leading to cinema, wards Stony Stratford. Then he

down there," when it was his car the carburettor. At the carburet stood still. And that was the last burning, set there by him, and a tor end the union joint was tight, Hullo, Low," he said, that that these two young men, Brown car in which a human being was but had dropped away from the was a dirty knock you gave me last and Bailey, edw of the prisoner, she morning and the scene of Caronetor owing to using the Thursday

visited intense and at the tank, end Brown and Bailey walked up

the tragedy on two occasions, and the unjon was loose. Experiments Hardingstone lane and saw a

at the second visit, about 1 o'clock, had been made by, Colonel Buckle motor-car in flames. It was n Morris Minor saloon, on the south he found a wooden mallet lying in showing that from that joint there side of the pond, drawn up on its the grass verge about 14 yarda-in was, a petrol flow from which hall & front of the car. He would say tumbler could be filled in just over proper side, by the side of the that when he picked it up the ima minuta Could it flow unob.

TAB, but not on the grass. Flames, which at that time wore, bursting pression where it had lain in the served Could it be the ordinary a deafening burst of talkice.” from the car, were as much as 12 grana was quita fresh and there find of thing which you might not. to 16 feet high, and the heat was appeared to be hairs upon the head notice? Colonel Buckle said that intense When they first saw it of the mallet it was quito impossible. He sub they did not observe that anybody was a strange place to find themitted that there was a deliberate thaamaamwerker Bland way there Inosening of that source of petrol men, Brown, went and brought upon one end of the head of they hav Police Constable Copping, of the mallet he found a considerable me the petrol that produced the Northampton Constabulary, and amount of dirt adhering to it and intense, sustained fire which pro

duced those-results. Bailey went to fetch his father, that several hairs were adhering to Ewho was the parish constable... the mallet by means of the dirt.

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