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Cocaine Sandwiches. Next to the Duke of Manchester's acquittal, nothing so revealed the quality of British Justice, poetic and otherwise, last week as the windup of Bournemouth's famed "Mallet Murder" (TIME, April 22). When police burst into the home of Sentimental Lyric Writer Mrs. Alma Victoria Rattenbury, 38, who called her rich and aged husband by the pet name "Rats," they found him dying, found on the wooden mallet that killed him fingerprints of callow, adoring Chauffeur George Percy Stoner...
...days later near Bournemouth one William Mitchell, a herdsman, was walking by a lily pond near the late "Rats" house. He saw Mrs. Rattenbury advance slowly into the pond, a dagger in her right hand. "Hi, stop!" cried Herdsman Mitchell but the Sentimental Lyric Writer stabbed herself six times in the breast, finally pierced her heart and slipped with a gush of blood among the lilies...
...lipped as usual, dropped a quiet hint that he now believes the Waterloo-Brentford man, pieced together by his freckles last week, was murdered by a woman. Not a mystery of Spilsbury calibre but England's robustious crime of the week was the preliminary police court hearing at Bournemouth of Mrs. A. V. ("Lozanne") Rattenbury and her chauffeur charged with murdering her husband. Mrs. Rattenbury always referred affectionately to the dead man as "Rats...
...hitting a ball against a wall. By the time the six months were over, he had won a minor tournament at Chiswick Park, trounced Italy's No. 1, Baron Morpurgo, at Wimbledon, been selected for England's Davis Cup team, and defeated Jack Crawford in their first meeting at Bournemouth. That autumn Perry toured the U. S. and South America with a British team, winning the Argentina championship. The next year he reached the semi-finals at Wimbledon, defeated Sidney Wood and Jean Borotra in Davis Cup play, beat seven of the first test players...
BASEBALL April 14-Opening of the Major League season. BOATS April 24-May 3-National motor boat show; at Chicago. ROWING May 2-M. I. T.-Harvard-Princeton on the Charles River, Cambridge; Yale-Pennsylvania-Columbia on the Harlem, New York. TENNIS April 27-British hard court championship at Bournemouth, England...