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Week-end Reading

TELEGRAPHY WEEK-END MAGAZINE

MOST WERE MURDERERS Who's

it is only in detective Betion that murder becomes a fine art, In real fe most murders are clumsy and Inartistic. The dramn In any murder trial lies not so much in the crime Itself as in the murderer's fight to escape the con- sequences of his act.

That this is so la llustrated by. Mr. W. Roughead in a book appro- "NECK OR priately entitled NOTHING" (London: Cassell & Co.) a dramatie re-tellig of some famous murder trials.

MR

AR. ROUGHEAD is an accom- plished amateur criminologist. His hobby is murder. Give him the printed necount of some par- Ucalorly horrid ertme, or leave to attend the trial of someone accused of murder, and he is, curiously enough, in his element."

At first glance this taste for blood may seem unduly reprehen- sible. But if this is so the author ns in distinguished company. He ha unibered among his corres- pondets H. B: Irving, the famous uctor, whose work. "A Book of Re- markable Criminals" is something of a classic on the subfeel, and no less a personage than that most delicate urbane,

fastidious and Henry James, who urged "go back to the dear

old

ond soclable murders

and adulteries and forgeries in which we are so agreeably at home, And don't tell me, for charity's sake, that your supply runs short." Funs

nversation

On one occasion-the story is told by Irving-Tennyson, the poet, art Jowett, the philosopher sat up talking to the small hours of the morning. When Irving asked what was the subject

of converson that so engrossed them. replied, "Murders." At the pre-

detective sent time any

story-and they are the most popular form of entertainment with all classes of readers from judges to the prover- tally tired business man-is not

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Be the author ever so ingenious, his tale lacks blood it losses fly per cent. of appeal. And all This although most readers would urn faint if they were involved In a minor motor uccident.

BUT leave such questions to the can be relied psycho-analysts, who can upon to furnish explanations more terrifying than the

Mr.

crione

Roughend's first case

Boys on Ice,

waways."

Itself. that of

Mr.

Roughead

similar

trial, violently disagrees.

DESPITE the recondite theories of the psychologists, he confesses that in his opinton both the accused would. In Lord Braxfield's famous phrase, be "nane the waur o' a hangin." Here, as elsewhere, the author shows himself a staunch Conservative.

The most interesting case in the book is entitled-Mr. Roughead delights in old-fashioned' rotundity of phrasing --- "Strychnine on Toast, or the Game- keeper at 1Tome. In 1913 John Saun- ders, tamekeeper, was tried on the charge of the attempted murder of his wife

by polson. From the author's detalled pecount of this dramatic. trial there seems itile doubt that for once an innocent man found his liberty endan gered by a serious sentence.

shame one of Mrs. Saunders, was women who "enjoy" poor health. Sho einimed that her husband had poisoned her food. The defence did not disputo that strychnine had been found in her food, but strenuously denied that her husband was responsible. Unfortunately for the lady, several doctors who had

attended her sald that in their opinion there was nothing wrong with her and that she was neurotic.

The defence suggested that she put the poison in the food herself, but this was never proved. In any case she gavę her husband, to whose patience and good character there were numerous witnesses, many anxlour hours before. Airy unanimously found him not Kulity.

notorious Among other famous or Casos detalled by Mr. Roughead are TRO those of Wicked Madam Branch. Boy Footpads and Tha Frightfulness of Mr. Williams, the mass murderer, whose horrid exploits aftracied the attention of Thomas Do Quincy, whose fantasia "Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts is one of the masterpieces of English prese.

"IMPERIAL TWILIGHT," by Bertha Harding (London: George G. Harrap

& Co. Ltd.).

IN is book, the third the authoresa Mrs. has devoted to the lipsburgs, Harding tells the story of Austria-Hun Eary's Inst monarchs, the it-tated Karl and his Empresa Zlta.

It is a story that is pathetic rather than tragic, although it did culminate in Karl's death in lonely exile in Madeira, severed from his people and than his friends no less completely Napoleon In. St. Helena,

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WEEK-END PARTY

boss here?

Host JONAH BARRINGTON finds out the leading spirits among the guests

THO knows? Perhaps you're a born leader, and you've never realised it. Perhaps, on your own particular qualities, you are predestined to rise from the ranks-what- ever your job.

Well, guests and playmates, leaders are needed to-day more than at: any time in this Empire's history--and it's just as well for you to find out whether you will figure among them.

Honestly, sincerely, answer the following ten questions-"Yes" or "No"-then took below, in Column Four, and find how high you rate in leadership qualities,

1. If you think you have been treated unjustly, do you complain?

2. Do you resent offlelousness?

3. Are you irritated by inefficiency in others?

4. At a social gathering, do you seek out the most important people

present?

3. Do you deliberately take on additional responsibilities?

6. Are you harsh and assertive to waverers?

7. Have you ever participated in a group or movement to Improve conditions?

B. Do you let yourself

be persuaded into buying

things you do ot need?

9. Do you hesitate to do things you have never done before?

10. Are you ahy in the of your supe- presence riors?

TEASER

LL coaches from a cer- Atain coach station Ro that to Anbury. After some branch off to Ban- bury and Conbury, and othera Affairs of

Dunbury and Kept from contact with Stato hy his jealous, uncle, the Arch-

The fare to Fanbury. duke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassina- Lion at Sarajevo, brought him to the Conbury and Fanbury is dual monarchy's already unstable throne

other to 1s. The fare when the Emperor Franz Joseph died in 1010, Karl was hardly fitted for the great

stops is bd. task he was called on to perform.

But what he Incked in statecraft and experience he made up in part by his Humanity and greatness of heart. It was these qualities which dictated the peaco efforts he made through his wife's brother in 1917-efforts which, had they received sympathetic support in Berlin. might still have saved the crowns of Hapsburg and Hohenzollern and left a better world than that re-made at Vere Mailica.

to

A woman buys a 6d. ticket. She doesn't take the first coach, which was travelling towards Fanbury, but gets into the next coach. Where was she travelling to? (An- sier in Col. 7. A

Two new records

en the leo, or the Arron The Pathetic Fall of the Hapsburg's make the grade

yhose ages ranged from 11 to 10, flowed away on the wooden sail-

ing ship Arran, out of Greenock

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Quebec. The

The captain and mate

or the Arran, angered by this un- looked for addiilon to the ship's company, proceeded to treat the company, boys with sadistic cruelty,

They beat and starved them and finally capped their crucity by put

bare-footed ging the youngsters,

nd -clad over the side on an icefeld 10 miles from the New foundland coast. When two of the lads died on their journey both the captain and mate were tried and sentenced to terms of imprison- ot culpable ment on the charge homicide.

The most dramatic moment of the trial was when Bryson, one of the boys, told the court how he and

companions had left McEwan, one of those who died, "greetin" on the ice because he was too weak to move and they were too weak to help him.

King's Park, Edinburgh (once the ancient Sanctuary of Holyrood Walter and immortalised by Sir

the murder in "The Heart Scott of Midlothian") is the scene of the author's next crime. In 1934 a young married man named Toomey was indiented for a particularly trocious murder. His victim was

young woman. There was no. doubt about the accused's guilt. The interest of the trial lay in his- counsel's plea of "diminished re- sponsibility," that Toomey was in- He sane at the time of the crime. was found guilty, but insane. With this verdict, and another one in u

THE only care quoted by Mr. Roug- head which does not concern murder is of particular Interest to Australians. * And in its own way it is more interest- of the ing and ramantle than any others. In 1783 an earnest young Scots advocate named Thontas Muir made the mintake of admiring the leaders of the French Revolution and forming an or ganisation known as the "Friends of the Pronto" in England.

For this he was tried for sedition and sentenced la transportation to Botany Bay. Friends and admirers in America who regarded Muir as a martyr in the -cause of freedom set out to rescue hilm. An American ship, the Otter, was fitted out and on January, 1703. Muir was Ingled aboard her while the lay at Sydney Cova.

The Otter was wrecked on the return voyage, only Muir and two of the crew renching the shore, where they were im- inediately taken captive by Red Indiana, Escaping from the Indiasts, Moir wen deret for hundreds of miles along the coast until he reached Panama, then a Spaniali possion.

He was at first well received by the Governor, but when his political views herane known he was shipped back to Spain as a prisoner.

Br

OFF Cadiz his ship encountered a Bri tish squadron commanded by Sir John Jervis, and in the battle that followed

bear was compelled to blulr against his fellow countrymen.

Wounded in the head by a cantion. ball-it cort im the sight of one oyun he was almost thrown overbeard as dead by the victorious English Ashore. with the rest of the wounded Spaniards, he made his plight known In the French revolutionaries, who brought about his release.

scamen.

When he reached Paris he was given an enthusiastic welcome, but the hard- ships and wounds he suffered had so weakened him that he died at Chan- tily in September. 1798, a few months after a release.

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Is a gentle and humanitarian figuro who emerges from Mr. Harding's pages - man who not only strove hard for peace long before It was finally won In 1976, but who opposed the German palley of unrestricted submarine wAT tare with all his strength. And states, man though he was not, Karl could yet see that Austria could hope for no great benefits from a German victory. Pan Germaniam was already in the air. Soon after the war ended, as Mrs, Hard- ing tells us, Vienna led an Austrian vote In favour of Anschluss with Germany,

It was characteristle of the disinterest- ed Karl that peace and abdication should find him penniless, dependent on- International charity. He was no oppor tunist, no calculaung monarch with big Investments abroad as Insurance ageing a dynastic rolny day, ·

Through the periods of exile. Brat in Switzerland, then in Madeira, through the two ill-starred sitempts to regain power in Budapest-these undertaken under pressure from the restless and wilful Zita-Mrs. Harding traces the sorry stary of the last occupant of the Hapsburg throne.

It is an intimate and affecting picture sho gives, a picture in which the gentlo Korlatoride out. If not as a great mon- arch, as a lovable and kindly man in whom the springs of humanity and generous instincts towed strongly.

The story is continued briefly to ins clude the tale of Zita's widowhood since Kari's death, an event which left her in the blackest despair. Dynastie schemer though she was, the and Karl had mar red for love and no occupant of A throne has ever been more devoted an wife and mother.

Zita's

The visit

of Karl and son, Ollo, to Amerith his schemes for gives this book a topical Interest a central European federaton Otto may yet play a pari in the affates of his lost real and give back to his mother that imperial prestigo which, proud daughter of Bourbon-Parma and mother of seven Hapsburgs, she still belleves in hers by divine right.

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For many years fiddler Manto vani has entertained the customers with his band of strings. Now, for the first time, he has hired himself 6 brass section to implement his simple, soothing style. Effect is as though, the band's voice had Firet. broken, on growing up. record is, despite the Mediter- rancan situation, "O Mama Mia." „Definitely grade_A________

The tugubrious Stanley Hollo- way comes through with the best Albert monologue" since the Hon Evacuated" on one in "Albert Columbia. Here's a little lad who, unlike other child stars of the time, never grows a day older.. P. 11.

POCKET JIGSAW

Cut out these pieces, fit them to- gether and you'll recognise-who? Answer in Columa 7.

Saturday, JUNE. 22, 1940.

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

"Call for Mr. McGillicuddy

BBAER DEAN

Cept, that by Vačled Feature Dyadicals, Xoo.

call for Mr. McGillicuddy!"

EVERYBODY'S

1.

QUIZ

The family, between them, should get 10 out of 10

At 5 am. on June 20, 1837, two high State dignitaries summoned Victoria from her bed to tell her she had be- come Queen of England. One of them was undoubtedly: Dis- raeli, Ped, Gladstone, Lord Conyngham, the elder Pitt, Bonar Law. Which?

2. Who was the other dignitary?

3. Storting with the smallest, arrange these infantry army, units Company, regiment, section, brigade, platoon, army In order of size: corps, battalion, division.

4. Charles Kingsley fans would add (a) bright, (b) bad. (v) gay, (d) clever, (f) witty to his quotation (or is it misquotation?): "Be good, my child, and let who will be

6. If you saw more than one mongoose would you say: "Looks ni those sweet, darling (a) mongi, (b) mangeese, (e) mongeeses, (d) mongoose "'?

Fun & games: Junior dept.

ROUND THE ALPHABET. You sit, all of you, in a circle on the Foon Crosslepped (crossicoped because it helps you to think). You then choose a subject-trees, birds, sports-anything you like. Then going clockwise, you start of each player taking the next letter in the alphabet.

Suppose you choose trees Of you go Ash-birch-cedar-Ah- ha, No. 4 can't think of a tree beginning with D. He's given ten seconda then, as a penalty, he stretches out one leg. If he misses on the second round he stretches out the second leg. For third miss he raiser right arm; for fourth, left arm. After which, he's not allowed to com- pele, but instead must yell "Kamerad" each time his turn comes round. Last player in wins.

POLICE AND ROBBERS. Divide into two sides--one police, the other robbers. Each player has his private den or hide-out-cach trics to take prisoners (forcibly) and conceal them in the hide-out.

When prisoners are taken it is up to the other side. (forcibly) to release them Side first capturing_and_kolding (forcibly) a given num~ ber of prisoners wins.

FOLLOW THE SYLLABLE. First player gives a word; next player must start his word with the syllable for rough equivalent) which Sultry-- Thus: Momentous-tussle. finished first player's word.

Larceny-nepolism, Can be played tremendous. Dustbin-binocular. with two or more.

J. D

Don't let

"War Nerves" destroy your "Sleep!

6. If you rusite up the brain-box you will instantly realise that a colour- sergeant was (a) a negro N.C.O. nerv ing in the British Army, (b) an Army eye doctor, (e) a sergeant who looked after the regimental colours on cere. monial occasions, (d) a quartermaster's clerk.

7. When a film director says, "KIH that baby," does he meant murder?

8. Any schoolboy can tell you that camphor comes from (a) frees. (b) B¢a• weed, (c) the yolk of a sozgull' egg. (d) copra.

D. Only one of these words could resis sibly be associated with Hyde Park, "relativity, rodeo, London: Rumba, thetoric. rheostat, thabdormancy,

10. Musing upon the subject of rode water syphons, you will be quite con- vinced that the lever comes (a) bala the spout, (b) above the spout.

Answers at foot.

ANSWERS

WHO'S BOSS? The natural leader answers "Yes" to the first seven ques- A score tions: "No to the last three. of eight right indicates that you, are A born leader; six indicates that you have got undeveloped qualities of leadership; under six rather demon- strates that you are on enzy-going. though nice person who prefers to be ird.

QUIZ ANSWERS-1, Lord Conyng- ham 2 The Archbishop of Canter- bury. 3, Section, platoon, company, battalion, regiment, brigade, division. army corps. 4, Clever (and it should be "Be good, weet mald"). . Mon- gooses. G. A sergeant who looked after the regimental colours on ceremonia! occasions. 7, No-he means put out the baby spotilght. 8, Troc. 9, Tetorie. 10. Above the spout.

JIGSAW. Sir John Simon.. COACH PROBLEM. She was travel- ling to Banburg.

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