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FELIX VILLAS MURDER CASE FOR SESSIONS.

ACCUSED'S STATEMENT TO THE MAGISTRATE,

case

MUSIC FROM THE ETHER.

WIRELESS EXPERT OFTEN NEW ENTERTAINMENT,

A French wireless instructor: The preliminary hearing of the

Bookmel, who was also a musiclan, has Chu against charged with the murder of a given to the world a new electrical Sau-hel, a house-boy In the employ sound-wave instrument. While he of Mr. Oh! at No. 9, Felix Viling, was instructing American soldiers Inst month, concluded before Mr. In the use of wireless at Fontain- in 1918, Maurice Lindsall at the Central Maglebleau, near Paris,

Martenot, a distinguished French do- tracy, yesterday afternoon,

Speaking of the relations which pianist, cellist and existed between the accused and tected the musicales of the deceased whist in his employ, the sounds made by the wireless Mr. R. Oh, the local agent of transmitter and since then he has the Messageries Maritimes, who been devoting his time to the per- was formerly the occupant of 9fection of a musical instrument Felix Villas, sald that there had founded on this observation. bean trouble between them, while the accused had also quarrelled with the cook. It was on this ac-

the that count dismissed houso

Professor Martenot is now on a world tour and will commenco his tour in the Orient from Japan Recused was in February next. hin and

duties an

to "boy""

The Instrument resembles the

given the small square piano of the Nineties, decensed in addition to his work and is not unlike a small, flat desk. as coolle. It was the cook who had made the final complaint against the accused and not the deceased.

There la h five octave koyboard, similar in appearance to the key- board of a planu, and Inside the deak-like apparatus are electrical tabes similar to those used in a radio set. These tubes set up vibrations which are transmitted by means of a diffuser to what resembles a load speaker placed on a stand near the instrument..

Referring to the morning of Decembar 13, witness said that he was aroused from his sleep at about 5 o'clock by shrieks from to downstairs. On going down investigate he found the deceased

A sensitized wire extends across lying in the passage way. After failing to find the number of the the keyboard and it in the mové- Police Station in his Telephonement of this wire which regulates his the pitch. The wire is held in the book, witness went out in

the thumb and second finger and the car and made n report to

serves as a guide no the keyboard Police at the No. 7 Station.

the intonation is always exact, Answering question by

By alight movements of his hand, accused, witness said that whilst on his way to the Police Station M. Martenat can perform trills. and diatonic scales. he did not see anybody resembling chromatic

grace notes and nearly all the the accused on the roadway. went vin Jubilee Road which was tricks of the virtuoso's, repertoire. deserted but for a solitary coolie.Ita range can be extended to em- Witness said that he had never brace eight octaves. seen the accused lose his temper,

He

Nor has M. Martenot been con-

being of a quiet and sober dis-tent to stop here. From the left hand corner of the instrument ex- position.

tends a shelf, not dissimilar to a which is a set of cigar box, on little buttons. By pressing these

Evidence of arrest was given by a Chinese detective, who, act- ing on instructions, wont bo, No. 28, Kennedy Road and there' aphe controls the timbre, or colour, who of his tone. Thus the sound is prehended the defendant,

violin, answered to his name, which had sometimes like the tone of been previously supplied by then flute, a cello, or can even simi- Inte the quality of the brass In- deceased's widow.

strumente,

Mr. T. Murphy, A.S.P., deposed to the finding of what looked like blood-staina on the accused's fingers, and also on his clothing In his statement to the Court, accused denied the charge. He

he bore declared

no

a

From the same little shelf ex- tends a wooden key, in appearance like a telegraph key, and by mani- pulation of this M. Martenot con- trols the volume of sound, from enmity the loudest to the softest tones. against the deceased, and would The tone quality is exceptionally not have thought of killing him clear and pure.

Mr. Martenot's life has been de just for that one quarrel they

Bince his early had. He would not have com- voted to music

When he was nine. mitted the act under any circumschildhood.

be and his sister Ginette, who is tances.

Continuing, accused argued with him, and who has work- that It was clear that the volceed with him in the development of concertizing in which called out to the deceased his invention since he first con- that night to which he responded ceived it, were

person Europe. For several years he and so readily was that of a with whom deceased was familiar, his sister have been at the head or with whom the deceased used of their own music school in Paris. Martenot is idealistic about his to meet at that early hour, with whom he had previously instrument and its true purpose, he says, is to eliminate the ma arranged an appointment

Accused further disputed the torial processes that Intervene be mental idea and its evidence given by the Bacteriologist tween the

"He realization in the ordinary In- Tegarding the blood-ataina.

This instrument has said the blood might have been struments. his own blood caused by scratch-no hammers, no bows, or valves, to come between the mind and the ing himself, or the blood of chicken. In any case, it was not actual production of the music. recent blood.

Or

It is easy to play, says M. Mar- At the time of the murder hetenot, and six or eight weeks in- was sleeping at No. 28, Kennedy struction will bring the student to Road. and he declared that the degree of proficiency to the pro- atory givon by the widow of the gross made by the average student deceased was invented because of of violin or plane in three or four of course. the years, provided ill-feeling she had for him.

At the end of his statement, student be musically inclined. the accused was committed trial at the next Criminal Sessions.

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