Trial of Percy Lefroy Mapleton

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staff who took him to the police station to make a statement. An examination of the carriage that he had

down for the formal inquest at 10.15 a.m. before coroner Mr. W. E. Baxter. The body was then buried within the precincts The condition of this strange and somewhat battered passenger, who gave his name as Percy Mapleton Lefroy, was such that the station master arranged for the platform inspector to take him to the police station at the town hall, while the collector was sent to advise the Railway Police. on the beach for the gun, but the following day the police recovered it. In the meantime “John Williams” had been LEFROY (whose real name was MAPLETON) was hanged at Lewes on 29th November, 1881. At the time of the murder he was desperately short of money and went to London Bridge for the purpose of robbing a passenger. He had hoped to find a lady who would yield to threats but he met a courageous old gentleman who compelled him to murder. LEFROY was a poor specimen and incredibly vain. He asked for permission to wear full evening dress in court because he thought it would impress the jury. He was allowed to take his silk hat and took more interest in this than he did in the proceedings.It’s the latter fissure that’s thought to have supplied the proximate motivation for our date’s principal. Piekarski ( English Wikipedia entry | Polish), a petty noble, had long been noted as a moody, melancholic man too unstable even to be entrusted with the management of his own estates — the consequence of a childhood head injury.

One could turn here to Joseph Melamed, a survivor of the Kovno Ghetto who collected witness testimonies and published thousands of names of alleged Lithuanian “Jew-Shooters” ( zydsaudys). Melamed has charged that Žemaitis put his Polish fluency to use facilitating genocide and “having proved his efficiency and diligence in murdering Jews, was rewarded by the SS and promoted to the rank of Colonel” in the Police Battalions, Lithuanian paramilitaries that worked hand in glove with Nazi executioners.* the 29th of January 1913 by John Ellis and William Willis. He walked without assistance to the gallows. He weighed 148 lbs, and was given a drop of Eulogius lamented those Christians that so willingly accepted the presence of Muslims, their leadership, and their customs:William Marwood chatted to them in the yard prior to the execution. He told them that the rope he was going to In spite of obvious inconsistencies in his story and of the highly suspicious circumstances, neither the Brighton Police, nor the Railway Police considered it necessary to detain LEFROY. But they were uneasy and although LEFROY was permitted to join a London train arrangements were made for him to be accompanied by a detective named George HOLMES.

been shot and robbed of his gold watch and chain and his money. Mapleton managed to give his police escortunaided to it and displayed “great fortitude” according to press reports. He made no confession and continued to While in Cordoban prison being entreated by Islamic scholars to reconsider their path, they were admonished to militancy by another inmate, St. Eulogius, himself a future martyr in a like cause. Citing the example of courageous Biblical heroes like Esther, Elogius’s Exhortation to Martyrdom calls on the virgins not to shrink in the face of of their impending tribulations, even if they were to be threatened with rape. both Maud and himself, so there was evidence of premeditation. The jury needed just 25 minutes to reach a

watch the FA Cup final at Crystal Palace. They were both Liverpool supporters but were in low spirits on theMapleton ? or Lefroy, as he had given his name ? was taken to hospital to have his injuries treated before being interviewed by several officers and making a statement at the police station. Or alternatively, one could rely on the plain fact that Žemaitis was a trained, early-30s officer in a desperate war zone where everyone was being pressed into action, and that anti-Soviet fighters afterwards treated him as a General. That’s not the profile of a figure who simply kept his head down while the Great War raged past him. The post-USSR independent state of Lithuania, which has not been shy about whitewashing Holocaust collaborators, absolutely rejects such inferences and has retroactively elevated Žemaitis to its officially recognized head of state during his postwar resistance; there’s a Vilnius military academy that’s named for him. Gold’s body had been found. For the first time a newspaper ( The Daily Telegraph) was able to print a