One Of Oldest Stories In World -Judge

Northern Advocate, 27 September 1943, Page 2

One Of Oldest Stories In World -Judge

Lieut. Ludomir Cienski (43). Polish. Army officer, embraced fellow-officers and friends when at the Old Bailey he was found not guilty of the murder of Lieut. Jan Buchowski, of the Polish Navv.

“I knew all along,” he said, “that British justice would triumph and establish my absolute innocence.”

Mr. Justice Humphreys, summing-up, told the jury that all the essential matters of the ease look place in 60 seconds and those were the matters on which they should' concentrate. Jt was, he said, a case of one of the oldest stories in the world—the story of a woman and the two men. “One Comes Back Alive”

“The story usually goes on to a meeting between the two men where no third party is present. From that meeting one comes back alive.

. If tliq story of Cienski handing his pistol to the man who had wronged him were told to him by an Englishman, he would start with the idea that it was a fantastic story. “But this man is not an Englishman, and we do not know, and we would be very unwise to speculate, as to the sort of circumstances in which a Polish officer might say to another Polish officer: ‘lf you will not leave my wife alone i prefer'to die at your hands rather than to five on these, terms.’ ”

The jury were absent nearly 60 minutes, taking with them the automatic pistol with which the fatal shot was fired.