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36

Britain's Murders In

N the Inst two years the By

murderers of 36 men, women and children in Britain have remained unde- tected. Despite the efforts of the police, the coroner's verdict of "Wilful murder by

persons person or

unknown" has remained unchanged.

some

PATIENCE ON A MONUMENT

·By 'JAN'

Nad in the last war, but for all that three [0 village in England fought harder than we

of us did havo to join up in the end. And of the three that went, three returned.

"Nevertheless, “ as the Vicar said, "It la diffing that we should take this opportunity of erecting some monu- ment, though, since we suffered no mortal losses, ́ It cannot be deemed a memorini."

Accordingly, a committee has been sitting to consider this delicate matter, and we have been siting, for, the last three years.

These meetings are held, that is to say, convened, every month. As the schoolteacher, Miss Lacay, is our chairman, we sit appropriately in the school desks whilst she beams at us with the blackboard behind her.

The vicar dozes on her right. The postman, ar secretary, doodles on her left.

For the last half-hour nobody has spoken-not since Miss Lacey put the question of what type of monument we should erect, to open discussion.

the

It is hot in here; my knees are cramped by school desk. I read on the blackboard: "What is the longest river?" The Amazon is the weldest river." And down in the left-hand corner there is chalked the laconte comments "Milton was blind."

CERTAINLY HOT

I, what it is to have the benefits of education, it A must open up so much to the enquiring mind.

The laburnum outside laughs with yellow derision through the window, Lanky hollyhocks lean

ogalast a wall, rather liko farm labourers who occasionally go on the dole for a holiday and stand for hours propping up "The Blue Fox" in elegant and self-satisfied idle-

ness,

Unsolved Two Years

It is certainly hot in here. Misa Lacey rises and opens a window. Outside, a drunken bumble bea saunters haphazardly over a clump of wallflowers. And the hum from the bee emphasises our committee's long silence.

We sit like broody hens. We are Chinking. Our ideas must be addled, it weren't for the vicar's un- comfortable starched dog collar, his head would fall in his lap. Miss Lacey sharpening her pencil. The point is at least an inch long.

Outside a yellowhammer finds a small worm. The bird devoure the worm; our committee devours each.

TOM TULLETT keep of foul murderers who rest in detail.

Crime Correspondent of the Sunday Express

".

·

Why so much juvenile crime? frequently arrested the criminal Why are our policemen fall- as a suspected person before the

crime could be committed. ing victims to gunmen?

Why so many crimes of all kindls?

Let us try to find out.

Practically every death was violent. Eleven of the victims

Is the chief cause the almost were strangled, Beven wero shot. Some died defending complete absence of the police- their property, others were man on the beat? beaten and robbed.

.

Has prison reform made con- ditions so soft that a sentence Seven were children under

is no longer a deterrent; or is 12, led away to death by a it the leniency of the courts?

maniuc.

Three times in six months a child killer has struck in Lan- cashire, within a radius of 20

miles.

Police are still working on those three cases. There are certain points in common which suggest that one man is respon- gible.

PROBE ENDED But in some of the others the investigations. have ceased. They include:

DEATH PENALTY

That risk of being arrested as, a suspect must have stopped many a potential criminal, more particularly

comfortable prisons for ten or 12 years from which prisons it seem easy to escape?

If the clause in the Criminal Justice Bill suspending capital punishment becomes law what will happen if the murderers of Sheila Marlin, found strangled in a wood at Fawkham Green, and the little girl snatched from her hospital cot are arrested?

Will they merely go to a

At these moments, a fly on one's nose serves as a welcome distraction; for nothing is no exhausting as glv- ing the Impression of thinking; it is more tiring than thought itself, and naturally more sustained.

NOISE LIKE A SINK.

F only somebody could have

idea, I could get back and feed my bees. But Milton is still blind, and the Amazon still wide and Misa Lacey is still sharpening her pencil. com- "If somebody doesn't come forth

If he or she had previous convic fortable prison for a few years? tions.

with a suggestion soon," she says, "this committee may find it is more A few weeks ago some boys un-than one war memorial behind."" der the age of 15 years were ar- Thla statement produces no effect. rested at Isleworth. They hnd kicked and battered a boy on the football feld and left him for dead. the Luckily the boy lived.

Had the killer of Elleen Lockhart or Jack Quentin Smith, two child victims, seen a policeman, would he have murdered? It is doubtful.

The criminal who carried pieces of a man's body to the pand on the golf course might have been the way to play football.

It was all over an argument about beats stopped had police patrolled as in the old days.

But the polleo are well

under

LAW AND ORDER

Where did the boys learn such due to the Criminal Justice Bill enough men to fill every beat. And violence?. Surely not at home or in suspending the death penalty most beats are twice the size they school.

were before the war, for five years?

But they will have seen it on the Or is it the extreme violence men are available to 11 25

Sometimes in London only Ave Alms. Are our young people tempt

bents. ed to regard what they see on the exhibited in many filma?

Is the recent outbreak of shootings, assault and banditry strength and it is seldom there are

DOG PATROL

...

nra life?

Three youths, one aged 15, are now charged with shooting a police- man at Acton. None had served in the fighting forces, but there is tilo doubt that they had frequently seen revolvers used on the screen.

If those men have to attend to an Alms as a normal part of everyday Somewhere there is some accident or a drunk the ronds thing wrong, and if drastic not patrolled at all. action is not soon taken the Britain as they did of criminals may take charge of

many Special occasions, such as the American-States not so-long-Derby, draw-men- away from their

own areas to reinforce others, with ago.

the inevitable result. DAVID HARRIS, night In all these cases, many of

In one aren watchman, bludgeoned to death which occurred in daylight, no

recently wo men were employed checking up at Swansea, the fourth unsolved one sow the murderer, No ferce dogs and reporting

people murder there in five years, policeman has been near the without dog licences.

Although the Metropolitan Police Is nearly 5,000 below strength, there MRS IVY GRIFFITHS, found scene at the vital time.

With the police box and scheduled are still more than 16,000 available. kicked to death at Newcastle-

The job of the police force, working, the man on the beat no under-Lyme.

as laid down, is first, the pro- longer has the element of surprise tection of life and property; on his side.

Or had these boys so seldom seen a policeman on the beat that they did not appreciate this thing called on law and order?

INGE PETERSEN, battered second, the prevention of crime; And he is not happy in his job. to death in a house at Hanger- and third, the detection of crime The pay has not kept pace with lane, Ealing.

and the bringing of the offen- current costs. der to justice.

ROBERT JACKSON, shot dend in a Bristol cinema,

FRANCES VERA MIZZI, found strangled in a room in Soho.

In addition, all crimes of violence, and 'shootings have in- creased. In the 1947 report of the Commissioner of Police for London there were 61 cases of thieves carrying pistols.

On 71 occasions a stick was used for an assault; 220 pcoplc were knocked unconscious by the fists of bandits. There were 847 cases of wounding.

'OFF' THE BEAT What can be done to stop this state of crime?

Why so many murdara? Why 80 many robberies, bindings and gaggings?

How are they all employed? Wo don't see them on the beat.

beano like...." "ralls

1

on the vicar. But from the back of the class a noise like a sink prises. throat. It is Amos clearing his Amos has had an idea. Relieved, we all beam in his direction.

He gets to his feet, lifting the desi on his knees as he does SQ, "Pienso, ma'am, couldn't we just have

We arch our eye- brows. His

off. He sits down like a deflated

balloon, Silence settles on us again. The tun is going to set rather flom- boyantly.

how I wonder people are at this moment making the observation that "If one were to paint it, no one would believe it."

But this won't do, somebody must get an idea soon or "The Blue Fox" will be closed.

mary

THAT £50 RAKE my own mind. But it is dmcult combing vacuity, rathor like writing in water.

Bame

You see, since we didn't lose any body in the war we can't have on ordinary memorial. At the

me we cannot do nothing; or, if we do, what happens to that £507 What want is something not ungainly, yet durable; for no one's profit, but, as it were, a publle amenity....I have it! Something for the kids.

I rise to my feet, looking straight of Miss Lacey. "Couldn't we have a swing?" I suggest. Her look Hundreds of them are employed would have turned a worm-I do be- to sit in cars, either in the hope of lieve cho thought I was asking her

neeling crime or to control traffic. to n dance.

Silence falls through air. Now, He works odd hours,, with every Hundreds of them are employed suddenly the vicar stirs as though third month night duty. His meal on duties which a civilian could do: waking from his OWN scrmon. times are never the same two weeks such as clerking, answering the1ymn 531," he announces, think- running.

telephone, drawing plans, looking in he's in church. Miss Lacey con- In the days before the present after stores, helping Mnistry of Food Unues to sharpen her pencil. Only

reform, It and Board of Trade enforcement Amos, the fool, begins to sing.. enthusiasm for prison was common for Jurors and others officers.

THIRD MAXIM But has the emphasis shifted from practical protection and prévention? Have the au in court to see hardened criminals thorities concentrated too much weep on being sent to prison, It is

other not so today. on mobility, radio and

Only a few weeks ago, when And the detectives? scientific aids which help detec

the tion, the third maxim of police force?

Since the birth of the modern police force the man on the bent has acted LIS a deterrent to criminals.

But today, how often does one see a policeman on the beat or patrolling in plain clothes?

Hundreds of police are travelling around in radio cars, answering "999" calls, but they function only after crime has been committed.

The man on the beat, or the 'plain. clothed patrol,

NANCY

The Time of His Life

a man was sentenced to death at the Old Bailey, he smiled, But he knew that the sentence was a farce, be cause the death penalty had been suspended.

His reprieve was automatic.

THE DETECTIVES

They work long hours, often working a.m. and starting at 0 through until 11 p.m. Many of them have to Investigate

live four or crimes at once. Most of them have

polico to spend the morning at a court.

Every report they have to type themselves. They handle property, often large sums of money.

It is impossible for them to go out and patrol the streets, looking

BOY BATTERED Speak to any experienced delec- tive and he will tell you how crimi- nals feared the death penalty. They would steal, but commit no violence. for thieves.

So great wRS their fear of the All they can do is to try to bring rope, and the "three clear Sundays the offender to justice. And they

would work over 12 hours a day. before execution, that they rather run away than have to fight the occupler of a house.

And why should the Inw-abiding citizen be compelled to pay for the

BOY--- I SURE

AM A. LUCKY

GUY ---

Let us get back to the best de- terrent of all-the Polleeman on the detective, Beat, and the patrolling the symbol of law and order.

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