Evening star., 1927-11-13
I'd Yards Ceverest Successful in Elusive Murder Case

, $50 in the morning and drove them
! to North London. One of these he de-
clared was Morrison.
SO far the evidence put together
by the detectives was fairly reliable
They now fell into difficulties hard to
surmount. The rest of their wit
nesses were drawn from group of
foreign Jews. some of whom scarcely
understood English. The stories told
by these people had to he sifted and
tested. Had their evidence stood
alone it is almost certain that Morri-
son would have escaped.
One thing emerged clearly. Morri-
son had been much in the company of
Leon Boron in the weeks before the
death of the latter. There was little
Jewish restaurant where Beron had
taken his meals for several years On
the last day of the old year he and
Morrison had been together there for
many hours. On arrival Morrison had
asked waiter to look after parcel
which he said contained a flme-the
waiter told Ward that il was rs heavy
as n bar Of iron" Just before mid
night Morrison took this parcel and
left with Beron. There were two or
three persons who saw the pair in the
streets of Whitechapel between / and
, in the morning.
btNOIlu tIlS IL was eStaDllSHcu InaJ
| a couple of days before Christmas
Morrison was so hard up that he had
to pawn watch and chain to raise
money. Yet on New Year day he
bought gold chain, he gave change
| for a check for $40 and he gave a
girl present OF SO. He was seen
to have paper bag with gold and
| bank notes OF the source Of this
money he could give no convincing
| account.
THIS, in outline was the case put
| together by Ward and Wensley.
| They knew that it had its weak points.
They could not guard against the gra-
| tuitous lies that were told by the wit.
nesses on both sides. What is the
use of looking at one liar more or
less?" asked the judge, ironically, dur.
ing the trial.
| Among many dramatic points Of the
trial was a fierce attack on Wensley.
Ia was alleged that either he or one of
| his officers had told Morrison almost
| immediate after arrest that the
| charge was one of murder. The i'm
piled suggestion was that the prisoner
was being "railroaded." Wensley met
| the accusation with contemptuous
| eQuanimity, and, although a young
| police officer was called TO subStantiate
| Morrison's story, the authorities pre-
| ferred to believe the detectives. A
conspiracy of that sort among Scot
| land Yard detectives was TO say the
| least unlikely. Ward, against whom
nothing was said, was the man in
charge of the case. The credit for ii
would belong to him. There could he
no object for Wensley and his staff
to perjure themselves.
Morrison advanced feeble alibi and
was found guilty after a nine day
trial. AS the judge concluded the sol
emn words of the death sentence
and may the Lord have
mercy on your SOUL" he broke into
passionate protest. Il decline such
mercy. l do not believe there Is a
| God in heaven either"
The death sentence was commuted
| to penal servitude for life. Morrison
never ceased to protest his innocence
and became a violent and intractable
prisoner When. during the war the
news reached him that Ward had been
killed by an aircraft bomb. he is said
to have Indignantly asserted that his
belief in God was restored. After some
years he weakened even his magnifi-
cent physique by a series of hunger
| strikes and at last died in prison in
1921.
THE END.
tCopyright. 1927