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He only proposed to call Dr. Pull- Hng, who would produce reports of Sir Bernard Spilabury · and · Dr. Rocho Lynch. The police were represented by inspector Polling -and: Chiat Dinspector Donaldson, and subject to anything they might say, the inquiry would ha cloxed, fr Pynska gail-3.28 - Dr. Pulling thon rehd an extract from thei report of St Bernard Who the woman was, and how, Spilsbury, dated July 4,1; dt mad to when, and where she came by her prisonJune 1911 made: a post death have not been discovered morton examination at the Brigh- |** The head and arms have not been ton mortuary: on the headless and found. Sir Bernard Spilsbury is limblesa body of in woman found Punable to state the cause of death. In a suitcase at Brighton Station.
These points were brought out. The body was that of a well- when the inquest was resumed at nourished woman In the neck, the Brighton recently hd indo line of division passed through the The Coroner was told by a polico Bith cervical vertebra. The armo officer that no useful purpose would had hech severed a short distance be served by keeping the inquiry below the shoulders the right.at open, and the inquest was there a lower level tiran the left. The Lupon closed with a formal verdict. lege had been severed a short dis
The trunk and lege of the wo-tance below: the hips, the left leg man were found in June' last. Only at a lower level than the right. evidence of the finding of the limba was given when the matter was frat brought to the notice of the Coroner, and it was adjourned until March in the hope that police in quiries would solve the mystery.
Nothing has, however, served this purpose, although Chief- Inspector Donaldson and Detective Sergeant Sowell of Scotland Yard and the Brighton police have in vestigated endless supposed clues during the intervening months.
The established facts are that on Juue 6, Derby Day, a cabin trunk was left at the luggage office at Brighton Station, and on June 7 a suitcase was deposited at the Cloakroom at King's Cross Station. The trunk contained a woman's body and the sultcase a woman's lego.
Chief-Inspector Donaldson and Detective-Inspector Pelling, chief of the Brighton C.I.D., had a con- ference with the Coroner before the Court sat.
The Coroner's Office notice of the inquest was headed:-"Re death of unknown
20-25 female person,
years of age, found in trunk at Brighton Station, 17/6/34."
NO MEMBERS OF PUBLIC
No member of the general public was present, and the Coroner sat with but seven of the original jury of ulno. One juryman has since
"A HEALTHY WOMAN”, ...
On June 20 I made a post-mor- tem examination of two human low- er limbs, found in a box at King's Cross LN.E.R. Station. The limbs formed a pair,which were exactly alike.
"The limbs had, been separated from, the trunk through the upper parts of the thigh, and each limb was further divided at the knee.
woman
"The trunk found at Brighton and the lower Ilmbe found at King's Cross are both of the same body that of #young about 20-25 years of age. She was well developed but not stout, and was about five feet three inchea in height..
She appeared to have been a healthy woman. No disease was found in her body. The structures of her leg bones suggest that she led an active life, and that there was probably no history of serious liness in childhood. The thigh, lege, and feet were perfectly clean, and, like the trunk, show no marks or injury.
"I found no natural disease to account for death. There were no Indications of poisoning, and there were no marks of violence on the body fore, unable to state the cause of or lower limbs. I am, there- death."
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Scenes in the Antarctic where Sir Douglas enylalans pleasure vesorts of the future. Inist, Sir Douglas
Melbourne. fits coming out of the south pole three men who scaled Mount Ere- bus and planted the Union Jack region under British control.
there.
The annual domestic argument about where to spend that vacation threatens to become more involved and complex.
Mother, who wants to go to the
seashore, and father, who wants to vacation in the mountains, in the future may have to put up with delate from junior about the merits of a sojourn in the Antarctic.
ESCAPE FROM DEATH
"It is obvious that unified control under British Inter-imperial admin- stration is most certan to procure the explorer anys, terrorystenefaction to the Contiguous British dominions have already claimed a considerable por tion of the land areas, and rightly for not only has Great Britain The Antarctic? you ask. Yes, played a leading part in their dis the Antarcties the place you ima-covery, but her proximate lands are gine as an unknown area of barron' better in a position to administer wastes, iceberge, walruses, pen- their control and development. dash east to ascertain the nature guins and polar bears,
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FISHING AND WHALING
The Antarctic is the resort of the'. future. For this prediction you The immediate prospects for may credit Sir Douglas Mawson commercial development are fish famous explorer of the south pole eries and whaling, which geo- and other far away regions.
graphically Australia" and "New Sir Douglas believes that steamer Zealand are best suited to develop, cruises to the pack leo of the Ant-"As a winter sports ground the arctic and winter sports at the Antarctic will be a thrill to Aus- lower tip of the world are pleasures tralian and also for
modern nors
which suited from. Hobart, Tas- In 1911 he headed his own party manu; in the schooner Aurora and
baso en the tin established a explored coastline of the Antarctic continent. The axpedition almost carried Sir Dougina to his death in December of 1913 he, with two companions, left the main base for
of the land in that direction. Sud- denly one of the group vanished! in a bottomless crevasse carrying the most completely equipped dog sleds with him. Mawson and his sur viving companion turned back with only one day's food, but by slaugh- tering their dogs, they hoped to The food gave, out and, the dogs make their way back to safety.
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"NO TRACE OF POISONING" An extract read from the report
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analysed the organs handed to me like that sort of thing, in the hot through the pack lec, Mertz, Mawson's friend, grew slow The only recent witness was Dr. by Sir Bernard Spilsbury, and have too far distant future. II. J. Pulling, who at the time of detected no trace of any poisoning Antarctic area as a resort centre, it New Zealand similar to the Humiper-human struggle
"I visualize before long opera-ly weaker and finally died, unable to Besides the possibilities of the tions conducted from Australia and survive the ordeal. For thirty the discovery was police surgeon or noxious substance in them."
days more the explorer fought a in Brighton. He has now retired. The Coroner asked Inspector also may become an important point son's Bay company's activities, with
The Inquiry lasted only eight Pelling if, so far as he Was minutes and then, on the direction concerned, there was any
of trade, in the opinion of the ex-incinted, abore, posts, collecting seal front; starvation and toll and finally of the Coroner, the jury returned purpose to be
useful plorer Fur farming might be in-products, Fonguing eggs and fresh stumbled into his camp a mere 13T2 served by keeping stituted on a large scale, and there fish products and breeding Arctle skeleton. Even then he was com an open verdict.
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pelled to spend another year on the Bofors calling the only witness ether adjournment.
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The hidden continent of the Antleclocked peninsula, since the relief the Coroner, addressing the jury,
vessel sent to Lis aid had sailed; Inspector Pelling repiled:--
ONLY EXPLORED said that on June 19 Sir Bernard "None, no far as I can say."
{1, arctic, totala approximately 4,500,-
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square miles, according to Sirawny Chief-Inspector Donaldson said
The forecast of the noted explor- Douglas.
In 1929 he again led an expédi- examination on the woman which he agreed with Inspector. Pelling er puts a new light on the value of The Australian has had consid- tion, this time on the famous Die- was found at Brighton, and on the that no useful purpose could be the Antarctic, which so far hak erable experience among the covery, once owned by Captain next day, Sir Bernard examined served by an adjournment.
been penetrated by civilisation only: frozen wastes around the south Scott, and discovered a vast area the legs which werd found at Directing the jury that they through the efforts of exploration pole. He was a member of the ex-hitherto unknown. For his work King's Cross Slation and satisfied should return an open verdict, the parties.
pedition which Sir Ernest Shackle-In the first expedition he was: himself that they belonged to the Ceroner commented that it was
Sir Douglas Bees the most bene-ton led in 1907 and was one of the knighted by the King same body.
very unfortunate that, notwith- An analysis of the stomach and standing the investigations spread other organs was subsequently over a period of just over eight made by Dr. Rocho Lynch, and the months, there inquest was opened on June 20 and available to enable the jury to settle no evidence adjourned until July 18, and then the points which should receive again until August 22, when evid-attention at an inquest, ence was given of the finding of the trunk.
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From a ground-floor room came the scream of machinery. Red "This is how the camera works. lights glowered on a mass of On the Inside of the casing arc seemingly confused apparatus, glass two semicircles of film. They do tubes, gleaming metals, switches, not move.
The most important point wàs, of course, the cause of death, and as STILL NO EVIDENCE
there was no evidence to show how The inquiry was then adjourned the death occurred he thought the
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that proper course for them to take evidence would be forthcoming to would be to return an open verdlet.
and cables carrying 120,000 volts. "Révolving in the camera is a enable the jury to deal with points A verdict in that form would leave
The centre of Interest was a double-aided steel mirror, which which they were required by law the matter open, and although the
piece of glimmering machinery rotates In the centre of the circle to deal with as far as possible-inquest would be closed the case
covering about three square feet formed by the films so as to throw namely, who the deceased was, and would remain in the hands of the When one hundred of Britain's on a specially reinforced table. It the image from the lens en to them, how, when, and where she came by police.
most eminent scientists visited the consisted of an electric motor driv- The mirror revolves up to a speed her death.
Without retiring the jury im-Department of Chemical Techno-ing what appeared to be an enclosed for 30,000 revolutions a minute, and, Notwithstanding every effort,mediately returned an open verdict, logy at the Imperial College of dynamo with a large lens In one being deuble-sided, it costs tho
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