LADY WHITE’S DEATH

Evening Star, Issue 17956, 1 May 1922, Page 8

LADY WHITE’S DEATH

JACOBI CONVICTED OP MDEDEE. Brets Ai3ooiatio!i~~By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April 28. At tho Old Bailey tho jury found Jacobi guilty of tho murder of Lady White, addin"- a strong recommendation to mercy, on the ground, that they did not believe he entered tho bedroom intending to kill. Mr Justice M’Cardle passed tho death sentence and) forwarded tho recommendation to tho Home Secretary.—-A. and N.Z. Cable. A cable to tho Australian papers on March 28 stated: A strange study in psychology is presented by a youth of eighteen, Henry Jacobi, late pantry boy at the Hotel Spencer, who is charged with tho murder of Lady White. “ Funny how much strength a man’s got,” ho remarked to a detective in a callous retrospection of tho crime. “We do not think of punishment when wo do it. What’s done can’t bo v.jdono.” Suddenly abandoning 1; s pose of selfexamination as a criminal type, ho asked a trifle anxiously: “ What’s the difference between murder and manslaughter?” On being told, he replied: “Oh, well. I feel easier now I’ve spoken. 1 can’t understand how any murderer could refuse to give himself up.” On entering the , dock this morning Jaoobi, self-possessed and smiling, asked: “(May I have a. defending counsel?” “Not at this stage,” replied tho magistrate. The prosecutor read a statement in which Jacobi was alleged to say that be “made up his mind to go to the bedroom and l steal money. He tli6|ight ho would take a hammer to use if caught.” When lie entered the room tho woman in the bad moved. “ She shrieked, and I got the wind up,” said Jacobi. “I hit her on the head with the hammer at least twice, because I heard her moaning after tho first blow. I did not go for jewellery, only for money. They can’t swear to money.” Jacobi ramblingly questioned a witness, a chambermaid, as to whether tho cause of death was haemorrhage. “ Hremorrhage due to fracture of tho skull,” said counsel.