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Show ' ',TTWE.ITTEH'X"A:vr? WINS IN, ENGLAND Lieut Douglas Malcolm. One of the most oonsational criminal crim-inal cases in many years ended in London recently with the acquital of Lieut. Douglas Malcolm of the Brit- I ish army for the murder of the bogus "Count,r de Borch, who, in the guiao ! of a friend, attempted to wreck tha homo of the defendant while the latter lat-ter was fighting for his country. Although Al-though the unwitten law was not invoked in-voked by the defence it prevailed in the minds of the jttrors, who had no evidence in support of the claim of "self defence" upon which the do-fence do-fence rested. |