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they love its delicious taste, and it ai
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Ask your druggist for a bottle 01
“Calif wnia Fig Syrup,” which has di
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bottle. Beware of counterfeits sold
here. To be sure you get the genuine,
ask to see that it Is made by the
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Man Shoots Wife, Drinks
Poison end Sets Fire
to Motor Car.
London.—The perfect crime; no due
or motive to raise It ajiove Hie level
of pure accident or natural causes—
the pet theme of novelists and sensa
tional writers for years past—was
very nearly accomplished In real life,
In rural Bedfordshire, England, In 1026.
Only o'te small flaw, accidental, or
thoughtless, and a couple of pieces of
real “hard-luck” spoiled a scheme
which was colossal In Its simplicity
and remarkable for the exactitude of
its planning. The scheme was spoiled
only In that It was discovered too late
to be of much Interest to the' principal
or his victim.
September 9, around midnight, a
large motor car was found blazing
furiously In a quiet-Bedfordshire side
road, and In It were two persons, a
man and a woman. Tne car seeming
ly had run Into a telegraph post on
the edge of a ditch, and the flames had
obtained such a hold by the time two'
bicyclists arrived that nothing could
be done—the two would-be rescuers
had to watch the car bum Itself out
But the thing that struck both wit
nesses most was that seemingly nei
ther of the occupants made, or had
made, any attempt to escape from the
car. >
The woman sat with her head rest
ing on the man’s shoulder. The man
sat rigidly at the steering wheel. The
doors were closed and there had ob
viously been no attempt to open them.
Eventually the Are brigade arrived
and the flames were subdued. But
although the bodies of the victims had
been burned beyond recognition there
was no difficulty In Identifying them
as Lindsay Hewitt Marshall, forty
five years old, prominent local market
gardener and county councillor, and
his wife, Mrs. Eve Constance Myra
Marshall, forty-two.
Apparently Happy.
The couple had been married twenty
years and had a sixteen-year-old son
and a nine-year-old daughter. The
boy was at a fashionable Bedford
school (one of England’s leading col
leges) and the girl lived with her par
ents at a commodious farmhouse
known as South Mills farm, Blunham,
near Bedford. The Marshalls always
had been a devoted and seemingly
happy couple; they lived well and had
no financial worries beyond the ordi
nary anxieties of a large-scale farmer
over crop fluctuations, etc.
It was shown later, at the Inquest,
that Marshall was overdrawn at his
bank to the extent of £14,000, but the
bank wasn’t worrying him because
they had satisfactory securities and
would readily have advanced him
more if he had asked for It.
On the evening of September # the
couple left home in their car after
dinner to visit friends—“just taking a
run around" as Mrs. Marshall told her
maid, after hissing her nine-year-old
daughter, Jean, good-night This was
quite a normal practice of the Mar
shalls and the servants did not worry
when the couple did not return before
the household bedtime.
The friends whom the couple visited
on the final night testified they stayed
an hour or so, that Marshall had a
glass of cider, and that tfiey parted in
the most normal way—both the Mar
shalls being cheerful and affectionate;
and they had even made tentative-ar
rangements for the next meeting a
day or two later. The position In
which the car was found was a little
off the direct route home to South
Mills farm, but it was on the road to
the home of another friend whom the
Marshalls frequently visited at all
sorts of odd hours. They-had not vis
ited this friend that night, but the
friend would not have been surprised
to see them. ,
Such was the “atmosphere” In the
preliminary inquiries into what seemed
■ sad accident.
Tet a Jury of the Marshalls’ own
country folk found themselves com
pelled to bring in a verdict of “willful
murder and suicide against Lindsay
Hewitt Marshall.”
^Here’s bow the evidence of murder
and suicide piled up;
Boys Find Revolver.
About 11 p. m., on the night of Sep
ember », two maiden sisters living in'
l small-house near a river bridge,
ome six miles from the place whi
he Marshalls’ car was found
lames, heard a loud “report,” ft"
ty the noise of a motor-car
tartlng up. .They w#| '
he “report” wairand *
,eard a revolver
i next:
revolver "In the river and, boyllke,
polled the trigger twice—happily wlth
ont harm to themaelvea or anybody
else. But two shots were fired, and
the boys’ cariosity being satisfied the
matter was reported to the police.
' The Bedfordshire police may not be
Sherlocks, bat; the affair happening
about six miles from the place where
the Marshalls’ car was burned they
did not dream Of any connection be
tween the two things.
Then things began to develop;
A gunsmith testified to baring sold
Marshall a revolver—the one In the
river—Just three days before the trag
edy. It -seemed that Marshall had
made preliminary Inquiries about the
purchasing of^revolvers a month or so
before, but he had to obtain the nec
essary police license, which 'he got
from a local Inspector who knew him
well Marshall already had an old
army revolver and he bad bought from
the gunsmith some shotgun cartridges,
the ones which had been filed down to
fit the new revolver.
A drug store man test/fled to haring
sold Marshall one ounce of prussic
acid—enough to kill ten persons—only
the day before the tragedy.
The poison had been sold in a thick
yellow-glass bottle, and In the rains of
the burned car there were pieces of
glas? which might have been part of a
yellow bottle, but the druggist could
not Identify them, nor could he give
an expert opinion as to 4he possible
effect of Intense heat on his yellow
bottles. There was much melted glass
from the car windows.
However, the culminating point was
the fact that neither of the victims
had made the slightest attempt to
escape from the blazing car, and It
was clearly shown that the fire was
due not to engine trouble or explosion
in the fuel tank but to something
which had caused a fierce fire to start
in the body of the car.
One Flaw and Bad Luck.
Piecing the evidence together, the
coroner and jury could only arrive at
the conclnslon that Marshall had shot
his wife (at the river bridge) and
thrown the. revolver Into, the rivej;
then driving to a, likely place, where
the car might be run Into a ditch and
overturned, soaked his Wife’s body |nd
his own with petrol, set fire to It, and
Girl Dancers Wear
Names on Armlets
Paris.—The ‘labeled dance
girl” with the name of the
dancer—Estelle, Marie, Jennie
or Snzanne—cut out In black
velvet In a decorative armlet of
the same material, Is the new
freak of fashion seen at many
antumn social functions.
The armlet Is fixed up above
the elbow in place of the more
stereotyped slave bracelet of
gold, Ivory or jade. One partic
ular cutout with the letters of
the wearer’s Christian name, lay
outlined In rich- black velvet
against the whiteness of the'
skin.
Besides names, monograms
and monomarks, lucky emblems
are being cut out In similar arm
lets, while another variety of
the novelty was shown by a girl
wearing a black velvet bracelet,
which had a cut-out of a cat as
a medallion In tbfe center.
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Washington Ua* a coral
«toll la the midst of the Pacific
ocean, aeir Panning Wand, la
inhabited by a hundred Gilbert
ese black*, Imported by a Brit
ish company from the Gilbert
ialanda to work coconut plant**
There are only two white men
on the Wend. One Is Harry G.
Glen* the “kin*,” and manager.
The «*her Is hla assistant, the
“primfc~mlnlster.” ;
..Wife-lending Is s native way
of combating matrimonial ennui,
says Glenn. When a husband
and wife tire of each other, the
man lends his spouse to a friend
for a time, her consent being
necessary, however. Often the
friend is a young bachelor who
has boarded with the family.
gulped the bottle of prussic acid—
which would have killed him before
the flames completed the ghastly work.
The one real flaw in Marshall’s pljtn
was throwing the. revolver Into the
river. JUe threw it over the wrong
side of the bridge. Had he thrown it
over the other side It would have
fallen into 18 feet of water and prob
ably would have remained there foir
ages. As it was he threw It over the
wrong side, which left lty under 18
inches of water, and the pokings of
restless schoolboys caused . Its recov
ery. Had the boys not even fired it,
the" two maiden ladles probably would
have forgotten all about the “report"
that disturbed them the previous
night
So much for the naw. xne two
pieces of “bad lack" which marred the
"perfect crime” were, first, that in his
last-moment effort to drive the blazing
car into a ditch he did not quite suc
ceed, but hit a telegraph pole, which
halted the car instead of allowing-It
to turn completely over—in which case
there probably would never have been
an inquiry. The secdnd piece of "bad
luck” was that there were two bicy
clists within range—a most unlikely
thing on such a deserted road such as
Marshall chose for the "accident”—
and they arrived in time to see that
neither of the victims made, or had
made, any attempt to escape.
Had the car overturned (as Mai”
shall obviously Intended it to do) or
had the stray bicyclists arrived Iff
minutes later it would have been im
possible to deduce anything more than
a most unfortunate accident.
The Bedfordshire "Blazing Car Mys
tery” (as it was called in the English
press) looks like being one of the un
solved crime puzzles of history.
And it was very nearly, oh, so' very
nearly, the "perfect crime” long theo
rized over by novelists and others.
Berlin** “Rotten Row” to
Give Way to Progress
Berlin.—The “Rotten' row” of Ber
lin, which runs through the middle of
Eurfuerstendamn, tbe Broadway of
the arltsocratic West end, will soon
be a memory.
Car tracks are being removed from
the street and laid on the bridle path
where once rode members of the
house of Hohenzcllem and the no
bility. “Rotten row” lost its glamor
when William II fled to Holland.~And
the increasing traffic made necessary
the replacement of the car tracks.
But the two lanes of elms will remain
so that in summer street cars will
travel through a bower of green.
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