Haigh's Error Was In Trying To Conceal Crime
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Received Friday, 11 a.m. • LONDON, August 11. The acid bath murderer, John George Haigh, made an error in trying to conceal his crime, according to the Home Office pathologist, Dr. Keith Simpson. In an article in Guy's Hospital gazette, entitled "Guilty1 but Insane," Dr. Simpson quoted the Haigh case as an excellent example of a hopeless defence to a murder charge on a plea of insanity. Haigh could have gone straight to the police and said, "I don't know what came over me, but I found I had shot this woman," said Dr. Simpson. Haigh, however, immediately took steps to conceal the body and seal any more charitable view a lay jury might take of such a crime, added Dr. Simpson. Juries were strange quixotic bodies, whose views on arguments -might - always be infiuenced to some extent by their plain unvarnished commonsense.
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 August 1949, Page 5
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