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CASE

SCENES AT TRIAL

Mrs. Ethel Lillo Majer, aged 12. of Kirkby-on-Bain, neor Horn- castle, was sentenced to death at Lincoln Assizes for the murder of her 44-year-old husband, Arthur Major, a lorry driver, whom she Polsoned with strychnine.

The jury, in which there were three women, recommended her to: mercy. Knowing that A verdict} would be reached, crowds gathered outside the court an hour before; the proceedings were due to begin, They were kept in A queue outside the gates to the grounds of Lincoln Castle, where the Assize was held,

The gates were opened half an hour before the hearing was re- sumed and then people in the waiting crowd raced 100 yards across the Castle quadrangle to the court house in their efforts to get, front seats in the public gallery.

Mr. Justice Charles began his summing up by referring to the part that circumstantial evidence! played in the case.

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FOR A FESTIVE OCCASION

"But," he said, "sometimes cir- you are giving a party for cumstantial evidence goes more small children you want to truly to catablish a case than evi-have everything on the table dence that is direct."

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GOLD HUNTERS SET FREE

BUT COSTA RICA SEIZES GEAR

The British treasure hunters who wore arrested on Cocos Island and brought to Punta Arenan have been released.

The Costa Rica Government, however, is keeping all their equip- mont, which was confiscated na contraband.

The party is now returning to England by way of Panumn.

They appeared in the local court in Punta Arenas, Costa Rica, and in accordance, with the instruc- | Llons of President Jiminez made a declaration that they were merely the servants of the company en- titled Treasury Recovery, Limited, which had been formed in England to finance the expedition.

They were then informed that they might leave the country.

Mr. Stratford D. Jolly, one of the organisers of the party, testif. ed in court that the expedition had never thought of attempting to place Cocos Island under the British flag. He had understood that permission to neck for trea- sure in the island had been sccured. by the directora of the company before the expedition started.

A

CETTING IDEAS.

Ile aaid that the jury might that will appeal to them is called think it a misfortune that they had fairy candles, and each candle 18 Liverpool University recently weat party of professora from not the evidence Mr. Major Made of fruits and, nuts. might have given upon her oath round of tinned pineapple and, in a journey of inspection through

to the hole in the centre, fit half a contents

Germany to see the buildings and before them.

of the most renowned banana, To make the banana ft Mr. Norman, Birkett, KC., who you may have to trim the lower German libraries in order to gain defended, called no evidence for part a little. Then, from au al-experience for a projected new Ibrary in Liverpool. The first mond, cut a piece to act as the destination of this board of pro- the defence.

wick for the candle. The flame is fessors consisting of Senior Librar- a glace cherry pressed on the top lan W. Garman Jones, Mr. Stanley of the nut wick. When a number Dumbell, Mr. Lionel B. Budden

SON'S ORDEAL

Then the judge examined the

evidence in detail and dealing with the candles are arranged on and the architect Harold A. Dodd, the statements given by Laurenes dish they look very pretty. Major, Mrs. Major's 15-year-avidi son, he said: "He had the

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terrible ordeal of giving evidence that you could administer things on a charge of this sort against his frightfully bitter without the

man expelling it directly." very mother."

The judge drew the jury's atten- tion to the statements which Mra. Major had made to the police,

was Hamburg where they paid a |visit of inspection to the State and University Libraries accompanied s the Director. Professor Dr: Wahl.

The judge also referred to the shoulders of a warder, with a war- question of the poisoned dog.

dress holding each art.

"That is another strange happen-

do

Mr. Justice Charles excused the

years.

..

"You gather from those state-Ing." h said. "Criminals ments that she hated her hus.amazingly stupid things, but youry from further service for ten

WHA trans-i band," he said, " in clear that may think that this

EXECUTIONS RARE they not only quarrelled with one cendental stupidity to go out into another, but were capable of a place where everyone can see Until this sentence, the last

violence towards one another.

you, where n neighbour is looking woman to be sentenced to death at you, and serape the meat off the in Great Britain was Mrs. Jeannie plate and give it to this dog."

Donald, of Aberdeen, at Edinburgh last August. She has since been ruprieved,

"In the statements of Mrs. Major there are inconsistencies, some of which you may think The summing-up lasted an hour would have been more satisfactori-and a half and then the Jury ly explained or elucidated by the retired. evidence of the prisoner herself."

As they fled out of the court,

weren Mrs. the three

leading, Mr. teen Major stood between the two war when she dresses, who supported her.

During the summing up Major fainted. She had sitting in the dock, slumped forward. A wardreas provented her from crashing to the door. She was attended by a dow-

recovered in tor, and

minutes.

THE JURY RETURNS

In 1931, Mrs. Wise, of Walthanis- tow, was sentenced to death at the Old Bailey for the murder of her nine-months-old baby, but she

was reprieved and released in July,

1932.

Sentences of death were carried The jury were absent just a little out in the following cases:—1000, fL few ever an hour.

Louise Masset; murder of her son; Newgate.

Mr. Justice Charles did interrupt his summing up.

PUZZLED

When Mrs. Major was brought not up from the cells one glance at the. 1900, Ada Williams; murder, of

jury seemed to convince her that her son: Newgate, her fate was scaled. She sobbed.

1903, Annie Walters and Ameliu The foreman of the jury re- Sachs; baby farming murdera ; The judge confessed himself turned the verdict of Guilty, and Holloway. "very puzzled" over the allegation added: "We also wish to express by the Crown that Major had our view that second and fatal dose of strych-mendation to mercy should be lover, John Gallagher) at Womb nine on May 24-the day he died. given to the prisoner."

well for murdering Emily Swann's husband.

strong 1

recom-

He pointed out that strychnine "Asked if she had anything to was very bitter in taste, and that say, Mrs. Major replied: "I am in if the accond dose was in the glass nocent."

of water that Major drank, then

1903, Emily Swann

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12 Ja little Albert able to make the

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17 It is implied that this old

historian had us after all.

19 Bending.

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23 Whatever you do, you can't stop 'em from being fitle devils, 24 Knitting inversions.

25 Common complaint in a pipe.

It may require cleaning.

28 International European region. 20 Over the colliery, but not thô

directors.

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1907, Mrs. Leslie James, alias

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that small bulk of water had to Mr. Justice Charles, with a contain a quantity of strychnine falter in his voice, passed sentence (with Bywaters), for the murder 1923, Mrs. Thompson, of Ilford which, according to the medical of death.

of her husband, at Holloway. evidence, would require 2% pints of water to dissolve it.

The chaplain said "Amen," and The last woman to be executed then Mrs. Major broke down com in this country was Mrs. Louie "It Is very puzzling really pletely. Her walling could be puzzling." commented the judge heard in the corridors outside the Calvert for the murder of Mrs.

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