A Memorable Scene Amongst the items of news missed because of the amount of attention that must necessarily be paid to the war, is the report that Sir Alfred Tobin, former judge of the Westminster County Court, died during the frst few days in Switzer and at the age of #3. Known as "the kindly Judge" Sir Alfred Tobin was probably better remembered as the man who" defended Dr. Crippen. That he was unsuccessful Is now generally admitted to be due to the manner in Which Crippen insisted that his case should be conducted, in the hope of saving Miss lo Neve from trouble. Sir Alfred was a tall, stately man, and the memory of how he fought for Crippen In the Criminal Court of Appeal will long remain in the memory of those fortunate enough to witness it, 'Throughout a long cold winter morning, in the dingy well of the Court, Sir Alfred "addressed his pleading tothe lessened judges in scarlet seated on the dais, and lit up almost theatrically by the cheerless' light coming from the big windows over the public gallery. Away on their left in the dock stood Crippen, a harmless-looking, little man with blonde," walrus y moustache, and thick eye glasses, rocking backward and forward on his feet, as he clutched the rail in front of him listening to his counsel, whose brow listened with perspiration under the ordeal which he was suffering in endeavouring to persuade the Court than his client had been wrongly convicted. The argument was resumed after Tuneh, and when at last Sir Alfred had said all he possibly could, the courtly old gentlemen on the bench. put their bewigged heads together for a while in consultation, after which, as they resumed their seats, the presiding judge announced that the Crown would not be called upon to reply. The warders with Crippen in the dock touched him on the shoulder, he turned and disappeared from public sight. Sir Alfred Wasa bachelor, who believed in calling a spade a spade. On one occasion when he became Budge, a witness described himself as a "com~ mission agent" He was promptly told to call himself a. bookmaker. "Why. should men ashamed of saying they are bookmakers?" the judge asked, "It's a perfectly respectable calling recognized by the Taw, Bless me, judges ha had their bets on, 1 suppose."
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