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0 2 Rich, Old ladies Exhumed
I EASTBOURNE. England. Dec
20 i Scotland Yard's murder
souad tonight ordered iwedif-
fier- to exhume the bodies of two
rich old ladies In lonely ceme
teries near this Victorian seaside
town.
i The directive went out after a
magistrate's court et Jan. 14 for
the trial of Dr. John Bodkin Ad
ams on charcet of murderlnt; a
Wealthy patient, 11-year-old Mrs.
Edith MorreU. a widow, six year
60.
A detective testified la court that
Dr. Adams on belnf charged re-
t plied:
l-Murdert Caa you prove it was
tturder? I did not think yon could
prove murder. She was dying in
ar event."
' Scotland Yard detectives said
tie exhumations were connected
With their Investigation of Dr. Ad
ams, a highly respected 57 year
old bachelor physician whoe pa
tients Include many aged and
wealthy people.
Just Br lore Cava
The exhumations were to take
place just before t'awa.
tThe bodies for which coroner
C. Sommerville ordered the ex
hpmations were those of:
. Mrs. Julia Bradnum, an 15-year-eld
widow who died on May 27.
and Miss Clara Neil Miller.
Who died at the age ol a In Feb
rbsry last year.
They were reported to nave
been Dr. Adams' patient.
J'9 Wills Examined
Detectives examined more than
j 50 wills of Eastbourne's dead, be
fore they arrested Dr. Adams.
Before the physician was taken
to London's gloomy Brixton Jail
t await trial, Detective Supt Her
bert Hannam. tile "gentleman de-j
Consas City
Police Solve I
Extortion Try
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 20 tfV-An
e'-tortion plot against Leonard Mil-r-am.
retired vice president of a
j .jiuas City grocery chain, was
r. ., -ped In the bud by police Vv'ed
rVajy with the arrest of an odd
j s man.
James Clark. M, was arrested as
he walked out of a tavera with
I.'.. '-ram.
r,..;'ram three hours earlier had
r.-ceived telephone calls threaten
i z death to him and the kidnap
i, ? of his grandihild if be did not
j v r..v o in old. nnmarked $10
a-vl 0 bills.
IV, re aid Clark admitted he
J; I called MTam'a home.
i j the last of four calls.
?.. :-am asked the man to des
i , e a meeting place. He spe
t 4 the tavern.
j'o'.ice surrounded the tavera
v. ! e Kk'ram entered.
tl.trk told police he needed the
mmipy to send his wife home to
t her parents in Stuart, Iowa.
teethe." told the magistrates how
he srrested Dr. Adams.
He said be called at the doc
tor's bouse, bowed slightly and
said to the portly doctor:
"On Nov. 13. 1930 a patient of
yourr Mrs. Edith Alice MorreU,
died at Mardea Ash, Beachy Head
Rosd and you certified the cause
of death to be cerebral thrombo
sis." Dr. Adams stared at the detec
tive through his glasses.
"I am now going to arrest you,"
said the detective, "and take you
to the local police headquarters
where you will be charged with
18 th Dog Bite
Ends Patience
MINEOLA. N.Y Dec. 20 Ilk
Edward Servea, 42-year-old post
man, said in a Supreme Court ac
tion Wednesday that be baa beea
bitten 1 times by the same dog
in the past 11 years.
Servea filed a claim for 1100.000
against the dog's owner. The 18tn
bite, he said, caused him to fall in
shrubbery and permanently in
jured his back. Now, he said, he
itas to carry his mail in a cart.
the murder of Mrs. MorreU.
The physician looked astounded.
"Murder?'' be asked. "Murder?
Can yoa prove it was murder?'
"You are now charged with
murdering her," said the detec
tive. There waa a pause and then Dr.
Adams waa quoted as replying:
"I did not think you could prove
murder. She was dying la any
event,"
Hannam said there was another
long pause before the doctor
asked:
"Will there be any mora charges
of murder?"
"I cannot discuss that with you
now,", the detective said be re
plied. .
See Yea la Heaven
As Dr. Adams followed the de
tective, a woman receptionist
grabbed Dr. Adams' left hand. Dr.
Adams told her "I will see you
in heaven." the superintendent re
lated. At the police station the doctor
aaid: ..
"It is better to say nothing."
The - prosecution has not re
vealed bow it will seek to prove
that the doctor murdered his pa
tient, or how be is alleged to have
killed her. The motive, they Inti
mated, was for financial gain.
New Missiles
Join Europe
Defense Unit
ROME. Dec. JO IB Europe's
bristling atom defense ring has
been bolstered by the arrival in
Italy of the latest Corporal guided
missiles, it was learned Wednes
day. The long range surface-to-surface
guided weapons can carry
either atomic or conventional war
heads. They have beea set op by
the U.S. SETAF (Southern Euro
pean Task Force) command in the
strategic region around Vicente,
in northern Italy.
The Corporal can deliver a
knockout atomic tunch to a pia
point on the map many miles be
yond the range of other weapons
so far installed in this segment
of NATO's defense ring.
Weather and visibility have no
effect on the corporal ai it streaks
home to Its target at speeds many
times that of sound.
A SET AT spokesman described
the arrival of the Corporal weap
ons as part of a routine pattern
of the SETAF buildup.
The corporal far outranks in
firepower the two biggest weapons
previously held in this area the
new 280mm cannon ar ' the Honest
John missile.
UN Position Defined
DAMASCUS, Syria, Dec. 20 Oft
Hedejl Tamoura, charge d'affaires
Lodge Says U.S. Hopes for Disarmament Progress in 1957
By FRANCIS W. CARPENTER
UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. Dec.
20 liftHenry Cabot Lodge Jr. said
today the United States sees hope
for progress in disarmament in
19S7. He pledged the United States
to take a further initiative for
agreement.
The chief V. S. delegate told the
12-nation Disarmament Commis
sion that the United States will
propose a meeting of the five
country disarmament subcommls
sion next March after the U.N.
General Assembly adjourns. The
United .States. Soviet Union, Brit
ain, France and Canada make up
that subcommission.
Lodge spoke shortly before
the commission unanimously ap
proved its report to the Assembly
consisting principally of records of
the subcommission meetings held
during the year. It did not make
any recommendations. Disarma
ment is slated to come up in the
Assembly's Political Committee
early in 1957.
Meet Vrgeat Prebleas
The Commission met at the re
quest of the Soviet delegate, Ar
kady A. Sobolev. He told the dele
gates the Soviet Union considers
disarmament the "most funda
mental and most urgent problem
btfora the U.N.7 r V '
The Soviet Unioa has modified
its long-standing oppositioa to !
"open skies" aerial inspection
plan made by President Elsen
hower at Geneva in 195$. Mos
cow announced Its readiness to
discuss such Inspection over a belt
1.000 miles wide through Central
Europe.
The President proposed mutual
aerial inspection of the United
Slatea and the Soviet Union but
the Russians called the idea an
intelligence mission.
Lodge,' who has been pushing
Eisenhower's "open skies" plan
at every opportunity, said the
United States welcomes "evidence
of movement on the part of the
Soviet Union toward positions that
give greater hope for the sound
agreement that is so profoundly
In the interest alike of the Soviet
Union, of the United States, of the
at the Japanese Embassy here,
told a news conference Japan will
be "a useful and active" member
of the Asian-African bloc in the
United Nations and will seek es
pecially to forge stronger relations
with Middle East countries.
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members of this commission, and
of the world." , .
Lookini 1 to the year ahead.
Lodge aaid: .
"We are aware of the difficul
ties. But wo are determined, with
sincerity and persistence, to seek
agreement. We are ready thought
fully to consider proposals of all
governments and .we will take
further initiative to reach an
agreement which would advance
the prospects of a Just and last
big peace."- i
He said nothing about American
proposals and neither did Harold
E. Stassen, presidential disarma
ment advisor, who sat behind
Lodge. But U.S. officials recently
disclosed the United States has in
cluded In Us disarmament plan
the control of long-range missiles.
E. Ronald Walker of Australia. '
told the delegates he was disap
pointed at the "meager results"
so far achieved but Joza BrileJ
of .Yugoslavia aaid he felt the
work of the commission during
the past year had beea construe
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STRATFORD. Ont., Dec. 20 m
S.iiall strips of the tent that
boused the Stratford Shakespear
ean Festival for three years are
being mailed to all parts of the
world. The tent will be replaced
by a permanent structure next
ye.ir. -,':
Festival directors voted to cut
l' canvas into strips 2M inches
l ng to be sent as tokens of ap-rreti.-ition
to all persons who
bmr;':t tickets or asked Informa
tion shout the festival. Some are
r ss far as Japan, Brazil,
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