The professor may have obtained from his studies the idea of trying death by burning, said Dr. Hoare.
It was stated that Saunders had been suffering from a nervous breakdown which had prevented his taking a professorship at Oxford, Studied in East Miss Joyce Saunders, a sister, said he had spent a great deal of time in India, where he was employed by the Maharajah of Baroda, and in the Far East, Mr. Arnold Bernstein, the Jewish owner of the German Red Star Line was sentenced to-day to 30 months' penal servitude and a fine of £80,000 for "treason towards the people, violation of the currency regulations and bribery." The eleven months he spent in prison, pending trial, and time spent in a concentration camp, may be deducted from his sentence.
Mr. Grumpel, a director, was sen-had in mind the burning of the widows in India, which the British Government had so much difficulty in preventing.
It is, of course, possible that he knew of some other native customs of burning of which I have no knowledge, or he may have had first-hand knowledge of this form of burning.
This was such an unusual form of death that I thought his studies and knowledge of India and the East must have given him the idea, lozenge for sore throats in both adults and children.
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