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English law is strict on this point. HAT afternoon an emergency meeting was held in the offices of Scotland Yard’s legal department. Attorney General Sir Per- cival Clarke was present, and so was Sir Harold Scott, commissioner of the metropoli- tan police. They faced the serious possibility that, as a result of the newspaper story and others that would follow, the case’ against Haigh might have to be dropped. This would not have been a catastrophe if Haigh could have been charged with murdering another of his victims. Under the circumstances, however, the man would be beyond the reach of the law. Commissioner Scott drew up a confidential memorandum and had his public information officer send it to all newspaper editors, warn- ing them that any further speculation about the Haigh murders would definitely become a matter for court action. This had the desired effect. Every paper respected the commissioner’s warning and thereafter printed only the information of- ficially released. Every paper, that is, but one —and the editor of this tabloid later found himself summoned to court on contempt charges. He went to prison for ‘a stretch of three months. oe On July 18, when John George Haigh was led into the dock of the Sussex Assizes to be tried for murder before Mr. Justice Richard Humphreys, the lone chance that remained for him to escape the hangman lay in being proved insane. In England, under what are known as the M’Naughton Rules, a jury is confronted with two questions: Did the ac- cused know what he was doing? And did he know that what he was doing was wrong? If the answer to both questions is “Yes,” the prisoner is legally sane. A single witness testified for the defense : Dr. Gregory Putnam, a psychiatrist, stated that Haigh suffered from delusions of grandeur and therefore did not know he was doing wrong when he killed Mrs. Durand- Deacon. He was cross-examined by Attorney Gen- eral Clarke, “In your opinion, Dr. Putnam,” Clarke began, “would you say that the accused knew what he was doing when he fired the shot that killed Mrs. Durand-Deacon ?” “Yes,” said the psychiatrist. “It was a de- liberate act.” “But you believe he didn’t know that do- ing this was wrong?” “A victim of delusions of grandeur fre- quently behaves as though he can do no wrong.” “That he is above all law?” asked Clarke. “Exactly.” “Then can you tell us why such a person would bother to conceal his crime by destroy- Ing the body of his victim?” Dr. Putnam hesitated. “When you put it that way,” he conceded, “I must admit that it would seem as though he sought to escape being caught.” 7 “And would it not be fair to say that he wanted to escape capture because he wanted to avoid punishment ?” “I would think so,” “Then,” Clarke pressed the psychiatrist, “does it not seem that the accused was well aware that committing murder was wrong ?” “It would seem so,” conceded Dr. Putnam. Clarke turned to Mr. Justice Humphreys and said quietly, “I do not consider it neces- sary to call any evidence in rebuttal.” It wasn’t necessary. At the end of the two- day trial, John George Haigh was found guilty and sentenced to hang. Once the trial was over, London papers erupted with stories about the condemned man. He was described as a fiend and a “beast that walked on two legs.’’ But, as one writer pointed out, such labels obscured the real horror. They conjured up images of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde—while the truth was even more terrifying, precisely ,because Haigh was not like Robert Louis Steven- son’s famous split-personality character. At no time in his life had he ever betrayed his twisted mind. He seemed emotionally stable. According to business associates and personal acquaintances, he had always behaved like a gentleman. (THE true horror of John George Haigh was that he murdered like a gentleman. He was no Jack the Ripper, no sexual sadist, no lover of violence. He was the businesslike slayer of the century, a man who was capable of making a career out of destroying other human beings. His sole weakness was that he was inhuman. : : In all, Haigh boasted of killing nine people, all of whom he had carefully singled out for . death. But Scotland Yard investigators could only verify the murder of six. Despite inten- sive police work, no trace could be found of the other three he claimed to have slain. This pleased Haigh tremendously. He bragged that he had destroyed the other three victims so perfectly that “they might just as well never have existed.” With this triumph Haigh went to the gallows—smiling. “I am cleverer,” he told the governor of Wandsworth Prison, “than all of them at Scotland Yard.” Ey FOR THE GREATEST IN ADVENTURE READING — LOOK FOR THE FOLLOWING ~ SYMBOL ON THE COVERS OF | YOUR FAVORITE MEN'S MAGAZINES: neg GE CoOnnicloooks (C(O)