Dixon, in evidence, said he went to the public-house in Euston-road and "French Marie" signalled to him to meet her outside. They were "pretty drunk."
He went with her to her flat, where they talked, sang and smoked cigarettes. When she told him to leave he knocked something over and she started pushing him. He pushed her back and she fell. I grabed the ends of her silk scarf when I pushed her back, Dixon said, and I think it must have tightened. I fell with her when she fell back.
Dixon said he thought she had fainted. He had 'a drink out of a bottle and lit a cigarette. He had given Mrs. Torchon 5s, and he took it from her handbag.. He took the scarf from her neck and pushed the bottle between her lips to give her a drink, but it had no effect.
The judge tied a long piece of red tape round the outstretched arm of his clerk and asked Dixon if that was the way the scarf was tied.
Dixon replied that it was.
Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the pathos logist, who had given evidence of finding depressions on Mrs. Torchon's neck was recalled.
Replying to Mr. Curtis Bennett, he said that he'did not suggest that the abrasions were caused manually. The mark round the neck was very narrow and must have been caused by something narrower than a scarf. He suggested string or a boot lace.
The foreman of the jury said that if one end of a scarf, knotted once, was pulled, the scarf would tighten definitely and very quickly, The judge tied his handkerchief round hig clerk's arm in the way the scarf was said to have been tied, and pulled one end of it.
The jury retired, and after an absence of an hour and 25 minutes returned and asked for further directions.
The foreman said that they were agreed that the strangulation was the result of a struggle in a state of anger. They wanted to know when ther, if the motive was robbery, the verdict should be murder or manslaughter.
Mr. Justice Atkinson said that if there was stealing, the stealing was House to Complete Action on Relief Washington, June 11.
Probable completion this week of House action on the slightly reduced Federal relief bill tonight elicited a National Economy League plea for elimination of W.P.A. waste and a warning from the Labours Non-Partisan League that passage of the proposed measure will result in the loss of 1,000,000 relief jobs—United Press, Lizard at Zoo Blushes Turns Blue When Angry A rare Malayan lizard whose colour-changing powers rival the chameleon's, is attracting attention at the Zoo reptile house. He is known as a Londok lizard, or "Sumpahsumpah," and is 14in. long, with a long, stiff tail.
The keepers have to be careful with that tail. It is so rigid that even a light blow might knock it off, for it is made only of cartilage, and has no bone.
The Londok spends most of his time perched, like a bird, on a log in his show-case, and, keeps almost as still as the log. Except at feeding time which comes twice a week.
Then he leaps down and gobbles up the meal worms and other insects put in his case.
The Londok's colour-changes are so striking that visitors who have sech him when he was one colour do not recognise him next time in a different hue.
Sometimes he isa light apple-green all over. Sometimes he goes dark green, or even blua—anger always makes him blue—and he can change far more rapidly than the chameleons.
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