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"Eve got good news for you, sir. Your son's just passed his axemanship test {"

THE LAST MAN IN BRITAIN TO BE HANGED

by

JOHN

MATHER

MAN who borrowed 6d, for

But A neighbour heard three his fare to commit a mur- screams and a groan at 0.30 that der has journeyed on night. into a niche of Britain's social history.

For it became clear that when Walter John Cross, an undistin- guished enough lorry driver, was hanged at Pentonville on February 19, 1948, he earned a doubtful enough distinction.

He was the last man to be hanged

in Britain-as far as the low con see ahead, which turns out to be five years.

There was nothing about his shish crime which sugggested that the 21- year-old perpetrator would enjoy Insting notoriety.

His condition was not unheard of among 21-year-old men and, Indeed, if they will not object, among lorry drivers. He was hard

up.

The money

He had a wife who was expecting a body. He needed money urgently, He thought he knew where he could get it.

For he and a friend had done business with a 55-year-old crippled watchmender at a shop in King Edward-road, Barking, E.

In return for a "few things" they sold Mr. Percy Busby, they were handed £1. Bot Mr. Busby, in handing it over, added his life.

He took the £1 from ¤ wallet containing £00, perhaps £70. And £70 is a lot of pounds to a mon who is not worth any at all. Cross and friend went but by November 14 of last year Cross was gelting an obsession about "old Percy's money bag."

away

He told the jury which tried him at the Old Bailey that his friend got a key which could open, Mr Busby's front door.

but his friend excused himself at They arranged to rob Mr. Busby.

unxepected guests.

the ground of

the last minute on

tried to

And although Cross prove he was home in Orchard road. Dagenham, Essex, at 9.30 p.m. the jury-to put it plainly thought he lied.

They were so certain he lied that

they found Walker John Cross guilty said so.

of the murder of Percy Busby and

There came nt this point the Cross's wife allting in court. fourth scream of the case-from

She continued to scream as Mr. Justice Cassels put on his black cap-now to be regarded

as museum curiosity? and sentenced Cross to die,

He appealed. He lost. He hanged. What follows, is for collectors of the minutine of social change.

The end

The story began for the public on November 15. The headline Murder at the Front Door.

was:

It ended on February 20. The headline was "Cripple's murderer hanged."

This was the final story;

WG3

Walter John Cross, 21, lorry driver, of Orchard-road, Dagen- ham, Esscz.

executed at Pentonville. Prison yesterday for the murder of Percy Busby, 55, 4 crippled watchmaker, Barking, on November 14. Cross was sentenced to death at the Central Criminal Court January 10.

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JD

on

WHY I SUPPORT THE COMMUNIST PURGE

W

ITH what emotions did

the House listen to the

By

not

Civil Servants aro

merely transferred. from Becurity Joba. They are sacked outright,” by the

Primo Minister's state.J. BROWN thousand.

ment on the stops proposed to

keep: Communists and Fasciats

out of posts in the publle service where their dual loyalty might

Independent. Membor 'of Parliament

be a danger to national securi- fully and freely, and to convert purged, for there must be no

ty? With sorrow, and with it they can.

the people to their way of thinking

די

of

The judiciary is purged, and thereafter ceases to be independent of the Government. The Fress 18

criticism of the operations of a Communist Government.

eritquidated. "Plots"

Opposition Parties are "embodied" are dis- covered, and inade the basis for trying, condemning and imprisoning political opponents. The Iron Curtain descends.

relief.

And the fourth is Limt the Sorrow, because there in in supremacy of impersonal and im Parliament a strong dislike of partial law shall be maintained, discrimination on political through a judiciary wholly Inde

pendent of Government and grounds, Relief, because all

party. parties have recognised, since the destruction from within of mises, then, whether he be of the itself from Communist penetration a man accepts these pre- A Slate which does not protect the democracy of Czecho Right or the Left, he is casentially is like a man who tendera his throat

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mocracy,

Slovakia, that a country which a democrat, If he rejects them, he does not protect. Itself from rejects the whole conception of de- Communist penetration is doom- ed to go the same way as that unhappy country..

Now this is precisely what both Fascists and Communists do; the Fuscists in practice, the Communizia both in theory and practice.

to the knife.

When the Communist Party within a country is in effect the Fifth Column of a hostile foreign power, acting as a spying agency in time of peace, and as a trojan horse in time of war the danger of military destruction of democracy and all human freedoms,

•

THE Communists and their

The message of Masaryk has got home, Being dead, he yet speaketh

Within the accepted premisea of political democracy there is no case THOSE, who think that the Com- whatever for the application of munist Party in merely a party political tests for employment in somewhat to the left of the Labour the public service. Since 1870; Party should read Marx's Manifesto, when the old "patronage system" issued a hundred years ago, and still sympathisers will doubtless gave way to open competition, meu the Bible of the Communist move- raise a great shrick about · de- and women have been appointed ment. Saya the on their meriis

Manifesto: mocracy and liberty in relation to as determined by "The Communists disdain to conceal the Government's decision. their preformance in examination. their views and alms. They openly

But those whose purpose it is to It is only when the premises of declare that their ends can be a destroy, democracy, have democracy are expressly repudiated tained only by

no right the forcible over- to invoke it Nor that it becomes proper to consider

are we obliged throw of all existing social con- to give them freedom the application of such tests. Then ditions."

to destroy - treedom. it is not only proper, but imperative.

It has taken centuries of struggle to nchlove the freedoms which we enjoy in Britain. We have not de- fended those

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We cannot say that we have not been warned.

The penetration of the existing 117HAT are the essential premises organs of society, such as the Trade

W of democracy? They are four Untous, the Co-operative movement, foreign foss to

in number.

The first is that the will of the people, as expressed in secret 'bullot, shall prevail.

The second is that social change shall be effected by legislation and not by violenco.

The third Is that opposition parties shall be allowed to function

the Labour Party, the Civil Service, and the rest, are means to this end of forcible overthrow.

When the penetration is wide and deep enough the whole apparatus comes into, action, as we have seen in recent weeks in Czecho-Slovakia.

Democracy is then comes the purge.

destroyed. And

freedoms against surrender them to

the enemy in our midst.

Meantime, ought wo to allow the legal existence of n Communist Party pledged to the forcible over- throw of all existing institutions? And what does the Parliamentary Labour Party propose to do about. the fellow-travellers in its Own

midst?

WHAT THE EMIR ASKS FOR

by CHARLES FULEY THE little king who today

makes Page One news has waited 30 years for his chance. Thirty years of scheming, argu- ing, persuading, 30 years filled with the restless, harrowing ambition.

Abdullah regarded his desert kingdom merely as a symbol of a greater glory. To cross the Jordan into Palestine was for him-destiny.

When last I called on him it was without notice, in the heavy #iesta hour when everyone in Aminan, the dusty Transjordan! capital, seemed asleep.

HE

IS 08-year-old, greybearded, King Abdullah Ibn Hussein. HE rules Transjordan, a Middle East key Slate of 300,000 people and 34,700 square miles flanking oll-rich Persia. HE has been Britain's friend since the 1914-18 war, when his people helped Colonel Lawrence of Arabia to harry the Germans and Turks, and so, with British troops, free their land. HE stood by Britain in World War II, sending his best Bedouin warriors to fight Vichyites in Syria and rebels who threatened our Trng oil. HE was rewarded when Britain made him an RAF.

Air honorary Commodore, a Knight Grand Cross of: St. Michael and St. George, and, after ad- ministering his territory under mandate (like Palestine), gavo independence in 1946 and made him king. He lives in a mountala palace at Amman and loves to set his guests chasing each other round the main hall, which is hung with distorting mirrors. HE plays chess-his favourite places are models of British tanks and planes and adores, poetry. HE buys a rifte when he visits a foreign city-but always. carries an exquisitely worked golden dogger 200 years old.

J. A. A.

Nevertheless, Abdullah broke his reverie, bathed his face In

The the sake of unity in the Near perfumed water, donned a dress unity of the Arab States he told East. }

. What was his cause?

of muslin worked with gold me, as sherbet and slices-of-iced-Through the interpreter, -a thread, and sallied out from his lemon were set out on silver Transjordan doctor with an bedchamber to meet a man from trays. Syria, the Lebanon, Edinburgh degree, I expressed England, who might, in some Transjordan-yes, and above my

astonished admiration. way, be able to forward his all Palestine must surrender Could it be, I said, that the part of their sovereignty for absolute ruler of this kingdom wished to strip himself of his

cause,

C.V.R. THOMPSON Reports The U.S. Scene er for so magnanimous an

NEW YORK.

finding out who will be their next wages, A frustrated passenger President than who will win the chased one bus for a mile and a;

object?

confederation.

Haron and his Liberals are trying ONCE America's

Socialist Author, John Dos conference. Truman's reason: No smothered it with klases, star-

My mistake was rapidly correct- ved. Abdullah's aim whs Indeed a TTALY is asked to return the Louis-Walcott fight. In other words, half in a taxi one day, and when "greater Syrla" to include the other

compliment and step in they will not postpone their can he finally boarded it he stabbed the himself as the inevitable ruler

States, but it seemed that he snw against the Communists

in an didate-picking convention on the driver,

ol the American election.

night at June 23 for fear more radio The request comes from Murray listeners will tune in to the Louls TO FRIENDS, President Truman At this point the Interpreter, Baron, a leader of New York's fight than to theirs.

has admitted that he hopes who had been addressing Abdullah Liberal Party.....

Stalin does not accept his invita as "you Highness," fell on his knees,. to do what overy party has falled Passo

his most eloquent tion to come to Washington for a seized

master's hand and

announced he would cam- good to do sinco

would come 1042-throw out Con- paign in this year's election for Russians would use it as a sounding | ness

of it, and the mering, "Your most Royal High- shall be blessed with gressman Vito Marcantonio.

Senator Robert Taft, most-Tory Ite- board.

endless progeny and empire over Son of an Italian immigrant, publican candidato for President.

the nearby lands" an Oriental. Marcantonio represents a slum dio-

told mo

all I to know about Abdullah's

PROADWAY is applauding the

n lynching party in America's

trict of New York, peopled mostly Busually dapper Jacle Buchanan South recently. Police from Colum-nims.

FOR A CHANGE, Negroes went on quien aahge that by Italian Americans,

The orime

Cross went alone to King Edward-

His constituents ignoro Marcan- for taking over its 'most difficult bin. South Carolina arrived just in And when I attempted to balance road and walked into Mr. Busby's worshop. There was the crippled tonio's admitted Communist to-ups role-the whimsical drunk who time to save Thomas White, a Negro the case between Jows and Arabs.

at every election ho at imagines he is accompanied on his railway worker, from a a mob Mr. Busby, leaning on a table-In the ecause

of in Palestine, Abdullah burst out: least promises to try dark.

to end the pub, crawls by a oft white rabbit nearly 200 angry Negroes.

"But surely you can have nothing poverty, crime, overcrowding, and called Harvey. Says the New York The mob alleged that White had to say for the Jews! Nover in all racketeering which plague Cross shone a torch on him, saw

their World-Telegram: "Harvey's latest beaten his 11-year-old son to death these years have I allowed a single district.

pal is a likeable bloke."

bernuse he would not tell who had Jew In the "money bag" peeping from a

Transjordan," Baron trouser pocket.

given him a dollar, He took that wallet.

proposes that all ItalCONGRESS is purposely dawdling

Abdullah's forces, trained by What happened the process of latives advising them to vote anti-

Arabla who is a brigadier in the was one story Communist in the recent

city taking the wallet

whose main street in 35 British Army, a major-general in. long, is becoming the best Transjordan, are the only modern when told by Cross and quite elections should answer those letters. New York, Says Senator Ralph miles another when the evidence Was And in a postscript they might Flanders: We cannot bring a dying customer for the small, British cars striking forco In the

back to life by building a now being sent to America. People many years Abdullah has received sifted.

]"dwell ́upon the satisfaction

of body

there are buying them not for their a large annual subsidy "All Busby said was 'Oh." He just turning a Communist out."

snob appeal, as in the New York British Government to keep his let go of the table and fell. I did THE REPUBLICANS, or Tories, an- NO WONDER drivers of New area, but because they use half as not strangle him, I used no violence nounce they are confident that York's overcrowded buses are much petrol as the smallest Ameri- army equipped and mobile in the at all."

Americans are more interested in threatchingto strike for

interests of peace,

who get letters from New York re- U over paying. UNO £10,000,000 OS ANGELES, a vast sprawling/Glubb, the Iaftor day Lawrence of":

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