NEW PRECEDENTS
OLD BAILEY MURDER TRIAL Rec. 10.40 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 16.
A trial which began at the Old Bailey today created new precedents for the Court. It was the first time that a United States soldier appeared on a capital charge in a civilian Court in Britain, the first time that an American woman war correspondent reported a trial at the Old Bailey, and the first time that the 8.8.C. was represented there.
The soldier was a paratrooper, Karl Gustav Hulten, aged 22, who with a strip-tease dancer of 18, Mrs. Elizabeth Marina Jones, was charged with murdering a taxi-driver, George Edward Heath. The prosecution alleged that Hulten and Jones engaged Heath on October 6 to drive them, and that Hulten shot him and Jones took the dying man's wallet, containing £7 or £8, and everything else of value. Both pleaded not guilty.
The prosecutor state dthat although statutory provision had been made for the trial of United States servicemen in Britain by their own tribunals, the statute contained a proviso that the Home Secretary, on representations being made on behalf of the United States Government, might direct that they should be tried by an English Court. That had been done in this case.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 14, 17 January 1945, Page 4
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