“MURDER IN THE STALLS.”

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19523, 24 June 1933, Page 15

“MURDER IN THE STALLS.”

The Archbishop of York once told an audience of Cambridge undergraduates that there were circumstances in which he could imagine an undoubted saint committing murder. An English writer says: “I do not remember that he was as explicit as Mr. Justice Charles permitted himself to be in the King’s Bench Division. ‘Have you ever sat in a theatre near a person who tells you what is going to happen next?' He put that question to counsel, and rounded it off by observing, ‘lf there is one thing in this world that makes me want to commit murder it is that.’ “Should the judge ever yield to that temptation I can promise him such a petition for reprieve as Home Secretary never saw. The learned judge might hope, indeed, for something more. Lovers of the theatre, though they could not reverse the Archbishop’s order of things and canonise the murderer, would none the less hold the slayer of their pest in perpetual honour.”