A MURDER TRIAL.

Bruce Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 73, 17 September 1917, Page 4

A MURDER TRIAL.

BStITISH OFFFIdER ACQUIRED. Lieutenant Douglas Malcolm, of the Field Artillery, litis been tried 6n a charge of the murder of Autbn Bauiiiberg, otherwise known as Count Debore lu Tn Opening' the case for the prosecution, counsel admitted that Deborch seduced .Malcolm's beautiful young wife while Tie was absent at the front. Malcolm returned, discovered the intrigue, and' thrashed Deborch. I.Malcolm pleaded with 'his wife to give up Deborch, but she refused, saying that she loved him. Malcolm subsequently shot Debbreh. Then he lit a cigarette and walked across the street a policeman, to whom he surrendered, saying: "J did it for my houour." . Counsel for the prosecution said that the "unwritten law" : had never been pleaded in a British court, and he hoped it would not be pleaded now. Sir .John Simon, K.C., M.P., who defended Malcolm, elicited the fact that Deborch was well known to the police as a white slaver, and that he had lived in Loudon 'with a German spy variously known as "Baroness Veremberg" and "Mrs 'Meyer," and who was subsequently shot as a spy in Trance. Malcolm was acquitted. The public cheered and demonstrated for five minutes, the court officials being powerless to check the cheering, whiieh also extended to the crowds outside the court.