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THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY,

JUNE 24, 1938.

MURDER

TRIAL

3rd DEGREE’

Freed Verger

Accuses Police

Leeds.

Police strove vainly for several minutes to silence a storm of cheering and applause at the Assize Court here recently as 40-years-old Jesse Peel, clerk to Fewaton Parish Council, was found not guilty of murdering his wife, Throughout the demonstration Mr. Justice Wrottes- ley-who had made some of the most outspoken comments uttered by a judge at a murder trial in recent years-sat impassive.

Dealing with dramatite ailegations of third degree made by Peel against the police in the witness-box to-day, the judge told the jury:

"If we have learnt nothing else in Rugland in recent years, we have at least learnest fital nothing is more unreliable than con- fessions mad by people who have been subjected to the third degree,

"You may find it difficult to beheve that police officers of the standing of these officers could have behaved in such a way. I should imagine that if it were proved that such men had behaved like this They worki lose their positions without any further

delay

DROWN YOURSELF"

It had been alleged by the jern secution that Peet hat has

in her village shop at Fewston with a Lyre lever, which afterwards recovered by 11 eden tro-magnet from

near Powston reservoir.

ATHLETE'S FALL TO DEATH

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Ingoon where

Feed was working.

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for days bearing dacering

At one point

one down and sped his eyes with

Sandkerchief

One of four young bache-

lor brothers who live to- gether at Western-road, Sut-

Heferring to what happened at ; ton. Surrey, Mr. Austin

Potter Station, he declared **1

bathed and brewbeaten by thee Heath Troughton, 27-years-

cal Them They were af me together, old all-round athlete, fell to They never left me alone. They told

e that I was splashed from head to foot with my wife's block

“One of them stood directly in front of me. Tooked into my eyes und said: "You are a murderer. You have murdered your wife. 1 can tell by the look in your eyes.” One of them also saidi 'Say that You

will go and drown yourself and we'll let you go." Mr. Justice Wratlesley. You are serisly asking us to believe that if vou promised to drown yourself. The police sadel that they would let

It is true, my lord

VAL

"A TEMPTATION "

Mr. G. B. Strenifleld (prosecuting? You did not touch your wife's body and get the blood in That waty" 1

I might

am not certain of it chine.

Mr. Paley Scott (defending

haves

skett

his death in front of a train

Victoria Undergroundį station recently.

JUDGE ON

Mr Joseph P Kennedy, centre, wife of the American Ambus- sador to Great Britain, with two of her daughters o they left thien Lumidor home to be presented at Buckingham Pulser Fewn is at left, with Rosemary, right. They were renka Reven

American debufantes presented Gols were white tulle

£400

Kath-

a Year "Pin Money" of Wife

Settlement of £400 a year "pin money" on a baroness

by her husband was mentioned in tthe High Court recently, The case was a domestic dispute between Lord Man- The housekeeper to Mr. Austin ton, of Westminster Gardens, Marsham Street, W., and Troughtou and his three brothers; the baroness, whose address was given as Rose Cottage,

† Somerby, Melton Mowbray.

said:

"MA Austin WHS in good health! and spirits up to the moment he left home this morning to go to the City, where he was employed by a firm of Masonic regalin makers

"So far as know i had not * traille in the world He had romantic entanglements, was firtan- clally well placed, and was happy in the comradeship of his brothers

FATHER'S DEATH

The 's the which might lan used brow am worrs recently was that her father Mi B Troughton, who wa r1 Frel Jauny

Peul. "You have nut tud a great deal of sleep these last two nights" replied, "Not a great deal, sit

Mr Paley Scott deser Bed the penz secutiun's case a "luttle, sad saad There was no scrap Tat reden

show that the tyre lever found in the

lagoon was the weapon.

When polfer questioned a in pected of crline their was never.

other person there.

No officer, whileven his Fur-ky,

going to come to cost und admit that

be went one inch beyond what he was entitled s da

chard 10+

Austin Troughton went about his interests as usual, even going with one of his brothers during the week-end to Bisley to take part in his usual rifie prac. Her for the RN V.R." ME Troughton, Rugby and lawn tennis player, and

Wak A keen

Lady Manton and her father, Colonel Philip Joseph Langdale, of Houghton Hall, Saneton, Yorkshire, claimed the return of house-hold furniture, pictures, silver and other articles, or their value, together with damages for their detention.

Lord Manton in his defence admitted that certain articles were the property !! Manton and denied that he had detained them.

Lady "Don't Rob Me

VERY OLD FAMILY

MP 1 Sundlands, KC, do the plaintiffs, sald Lord Minton was the second baron Uh April 17, 1923, the day before he married the baTREAS be settled £400 a yead upon her s "pri mny

Of My Baby"

Mother's Anguish

Sereanning. "They shall not cob me of my izby!" 11 mother fought Al Slough Juveuls Court for pissession th of a tree-your-old child

Lady Manton's parents, Colonel and Mrs Langdale, Claarsed the tinction of belonging to a very old family They possessed a great deal

xlvi. 31/ of furniture

fer, won the Chen Tennis Club which, from time to thine, found its championship list your At the elarb

i Lady Manton. Way Doughes

Was

by stated Fisher, son of the club secretary

She and her lausland bask Taverna Lammoned by the education authorit- ies, who alleged that by the parents figling to keep then home in a pros the child's pej state of cleanliness,

In addition to that Colonel Langi health was endangered

But mught there not Although My Troughton had seeme, duke tree her an allowance of £100

be a strong temptation to do sf quieter than usual during the last few they honestly believed they had got, the right man and he that not admit Werks he did not appear to have any

things they thought were true"

I hope there will come a day when, before a suspected man is questioned, there will be a rule that an official shorthand writer -not a member of the pulire fore-shall be brought into the room to report every word and every question.

"By that safeguard we should know whether what a mon has to my un-i corroborated and unsupported is true, or what is said by police.

said Mr. Paley Scoti

WOMEN CHEER

officers,"

Mr. Justice Wrottesley told the Jury: "You have to bear in mind that Ikut shadow at evidence has been produced that this man and his wife did not get on perfectly well together, You have also to remember that if Peel committed this crime in the way alleged against him it must have been

premeditated crune.

particular

worries He Mad! Just bought a new car

"He was not engaged, not had be

ony great interest in girls, though he was quite popular among those whom he met at the club **

Jury Call

For More Safety At

Car Races

A Weybridge coroner's jury "There has been some suggestion recently returned verdicts of mude that the murderer acted in death by misadventure on frenzy. I really cannot see how the theory of frenzy fits in with preme-two victims of a car crash into a ditation."

crowd at Brooklands track.

were

The verdict of Not Gulity was re- turned by the jury-in which two women after a 40-minutes re- tirement, and three-hours summing- un by the judge.

Women in the pubile gallery stood on their seats waving handkerchiefs and cheering. Many were in tears.

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