llieduardiaii .June3s 1054

':r...‘:...;‘ Strange But True

By I. ll. MacArthur On’ Christmas Eve. 1951. John Brokmyer was driving his ring turn across Lake Winnipeg There was no trail and Brokmyer was steering his course by com pass. not a very heartening ex- perience on Christmas Eve_. A-

head of him lay an upraised mound of white. What could it conceal if anything‘ Bi-okmyer

brought his rings in a halt. kicked gt the mound; it was solid Then he chopped it loose with his axe A full case of Johnny Walker‘ What a find on Christmas F.veI . . .

but I dnren the hurl)

"Believe it or not.“ trains sped along over of George Lesley as he lay flat on his tummy on a railway track near Dartfnrd, England. What do you suppose Lesley was lhlnlflflll about as the trains passed over him‘ He was counting the iron horses and wondering if anyone iiould hear his cries They did. and George was rescued before the 13th train arriierl He had broken his crossing the tracks. Many P9I'SUf\S \\’€l‘€ §lll‘[lI'lS9fl when they first read that the late Mackenrie King uas liever in spiritualism. Many iIlll- ers \\‘lll be <lil'pl'lS{‘(l to learn that members of Englands ioyal fnm~ iiy from the days of Queen Vic- toria rioun in tho present gencin» lirin claim to lla\(‘ t‘t"Cf‘|\'t‘(l atl- \'ice and comfort from the. spirit \iorld

Most of the scatices In Buckingham palace. Iiette forbids the telling of Whole story.

leg \vl\IlL‘

were held but etiq- the

. o u The following strange slnry is condensed from the corpse that winked. its story first appeared in Everybody’! Maguine.

Lord Chief Justice Nicholas Hyde glared at the witness and said: “I will remind you, sir. that

this is a court of law not a gathering of old wives eager for ghostly tales!"

These remarks were directed to an elderly person who occupied the Vi'l|nt"SS'Blflfl(l. a frail looking roan met the Judge‘: anger with steady eyes.

"My Lord." he said. “I am minister of this parish I hate no personal interest in this case. but I am sworn to tell the truth. and that I am striving to D

The words were spoken in such !li'lf‘,Fi‘lt_V that a deep silence set- tled over the court. and for the space of seconds Judge and Vt'lt— ness stared at each other. then the chief justice sat back and said; "proceed I see 5'0“ speak in faith."

The story the clergyman un- folded in the next few minutes was amazing. astonishing. tin- eanny ~- but to the point and convincing. Later. others wort‘ to t'ei'if§' it almost word for word That strange court scene took olare at Hereford Assizes in 1629.

a be-‘

and still is 0 subject of passing controversy and eoniaetun a- mong legal. medical and clergy- man’: minds. Becau I of it the case. -— the Norkat murder trial -—is still an unsolved mystery. a 323-year-old challenge to the 20th century forensic medicine. court procedure and crime de- tectinn.

u o o Of all the 17th century trials ‘in which superstition played a de~ cisire part. the Nnrltat case alone contains clear. irrefutable evid- cnce of an occurrence which can only be described as a physic phenomenon.

The modern researcher. ing the proceedings, has no al- ternative btit to accept the fact iltat the \'lf‘lln’l was able to accuse her murderers from beyond the grave.

The records of the famous trial are scanty. and some Dlpers have been lost. But fortunately the trial \\B.l attended by Sir John Mairiard. a man who held a wide knowledge of the law. When he died in 1690 there was found a- mong his papers a complete back- ground of the case.

i\lainard described the clergy- man as a grave person about 70 ycars of age. His manuscript be- gin with these words: "I write the evidence that was given which I and several others heard. and I write it exactly according to the ciident-e given at the trial at the Bar in the King's Bench.

".l-tau Norkat. the wife of Art Nut-kzit. being murdered. the ques- tion at-use how she came by her death. The coroner‘: inquest . inclined to find Joan Norkat filo de sc " 5

However’. this

review-

suicide evidence was not fully accepted by the dead woman's friends. Some be- lieved that vital facts were with- held Why'.' To make it look like stiicide.

Such a hue and cry went forth that authority could not longer ignore it Finally the body was cxhtimed .10 days after burial -- in the presence of the corner's jury. all the inquest witnesses. two doctors. and the minister and his brother. also a minister. Too. there were quite a number of cur- ious onlookers. When the coffin was (ipenecl and the doctors made their examinations. the jurymen tuck a peek at the corpse.

'l‘he woman's throat had been cut and her neck was broken. How could such ll’l]lii‘l€S be self-inflict- cd. in those days medical evid- once was not always accepted by the Judges and jurymen. We are not told whether the body was examined before burial. The clergyman who had buried Joan a month before. advanced to the grave and knelt beside the cof- fin. (‘losing his eyes he prayed to lieavcn for aid in finding the guilty ones. In the crowd was the. dead woman’: husband. her mn- ther-in-law. They all stood togeth- cr. apart from the others.

As the, minister eyed them he recalled the old maxim: “If the body of one murdered be touched by its murderers. the wounds will iii:-ed afresh . " The thought came to him. \vhy not put these persons to the test. They did with

rtartliiig results. One by nne they

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2’Lieut. Ray MacDonald. of St. Margarets. P. E. 1., gets a few pointers on the new Belgium FN rifle front 5: Belgian OiTli’f‘I'.

MacDonald is by the Ctinatiiaii

Lieut. liriiirz tried out

serving with the

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Iy GAIL IAITIAN

PARIS. tAP)— To most hench- niui Pierre Msndes-Pranu. their new premier, la the man who wants peace in Indo-Ohina.

If they don't. know anything more about hirn_ they know that and like it. The war has never been pepti- lar. It is much lead popular now that there is talk of sending draft- ees. for the first time. as well as professional soldiers.

In 1952 Mendas-France said:

“Our negotiating position was better two years (so than last year. better last year than this year, it is probably less bad now than it will be next: year."

Now A year after that " next year." he has put his stand in the form of a “cont.ract." If he oa.ri‘t get peace by July 20. he will quit. If he can. he will go on with the rut of his program.

This 41-year-old lawyer. econom- ist and former bomber crewman hu a lot of ideas on subject: he- sides Indo-Chins. Most. of them are new_ and so are his methods of putting them into effect.

For instance: He has thrown overboard the usual procedure by which a new premier got: a pro- gram and I cabinet. This is a dip- lomatic trading of policy point; and political plums to get. the support of as many depuues as possible. The result has usually been a cabi- net almost indistinguishable from the one befors—"lmtnobiliam," the French call it. Mcndea-France Just interviewed the people he wanted. told them what he meant to do, asked if they were willing to go along. and tapped the ones who said yes.

In the past Mendel-France has let. loose blasts fierce enough t.o keep him out of political posts for nearly a decade.

Back in 1944, when he was last in the cabinet as minister of na- tional economy. he drafted an au- sterity program that rivalled Brit- ain's: stiff rationing. a. crackdown on the black market. is wage-and- price ireeae, confiscation of illicit wealth — what. was called the "horse doctm".s remedy."

The French, tired of hardship, .wouldn't. take it. He quit. When another premier called him back he had thought. up some additional lngredienu: tax increases. I. blfl on printing press money_ a cam- paign against apeculat.ors_ These

Infantry Brigade. were even less palatable. He didn't

fro.

cideiitally.

were led in the shell and ordered to lay hands on the dead. Seconds later the cr=nictery was in an up- ioar with people Why" ln life and the finger of the. cof- fin wrappocl \\tll"fli'-ill pointed at the relatives. Scores witnessed the iJht-nomcnon. but weeks passed be- fore the full story gut in of the Et"l’lt‘l'ill

posterity by Sir John.

At trial number two the verdict was changed to “murder by per- running to and son or persons unknown," The corpse had come four suspects were clizirgod with

’the crime and all pleaded not guilty.

light and at the third trial the Jury Hf‘C|\lllli‘i‘l .lnlin ()kt-man but

the ears public -- and. ar't'Iii'ntcl_\' l‘t"(‘(ll'(‘lf‘t'l for worn liaitzcd in duo ('nlll'Sl"

The motive for the crime mained obscure. and in one sense still unsolved. How after

The .

More evidence was brought in the cnrp“.-.- Was it a miracle -« or is there

in-lfniiitd the other three guilty. Tlicy 3 7“t""" “Fllllfll *‘XDlM1lll0n7 YOU ofltake it from liorc.

get the Job.

what he, did get. was a lot of respect from cabinet: that found his brand of policy rnnklfld ‘D0 strong for their stomachs. He was made French governor of the in- ternational monetary lund Ind served as chairman of its board. He was sent. as delegate to the UN economic and social council. and to the UN economic commit sion for Latin America.

Mendes-France. of

re-

was it thirty days interment warm blood flowed from

well-to-do

riiiiicil iiorrs Foil iitoottiiiiu ’ SEITLEMENI uiiiisii itrw rniaiign

Jeviab parents. was simultane- ously taking oouuaa while still in ,hia bone at the law school of the Borbonne and the school of Politi- cal Sciences. lither one is can- aidsrod an extremely heavy pro-- grant for a. normal student.

The story goes that he first went. into ltica ssrioualy because of e mi out political brawl where he took I punch in the non whose effects can still be seen in his photographs.

He became the youngest mem- ber of the French bar and later the youngest member of Parlia- meat at Is. At St he was under- secretary of the treasury. The second World War broke out the year after and he went into the air force.

1"ra.nce fell end he tried to shop for North Africa with the idea that the war could be canted on from there. _.The Vichy government sent him to jail with a 10-year sentence for daurtioii. He escaped from a hospital at Lyon. made his way to nrimm and joined Gen Char- ies De Gaulltrs itrhuns French I" force_ De Gaulle soon insisted on taking him into his first cepinet

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