Police Gold Medal Essay Competition
| Published date | 01 October 1939 |
| Date | 01 October 1939 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X3901200419 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
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THE
POLICE JOURNAL
took the dead girl's bicycle to Manswood, was not forthcoming
until afortnight after the finding of the body and then only
came out more or less by accident.
The
investigating officers
thought
that
much of
the
trouble was due to fear of Burton,
who wrote letter after letter from prison to potential witnesses
telling
them
what to say, reminding
them
of this incident
and
that
incident, all favourable to his story.
However, with the accumulative power of a snowball
the case for the prosecution gathered weight, and on
the
4th
June, 1913, Burton was duly convicted of murder.
There
was no appeal against verdict and on the 24th
June, 1913, the legal penalty was exacted. Before this took
place Burton confessed to the crime, became reconciled to
his wife and, as he firmly believed when he went to
the
scaffold,
forgiven by his God. William Walter Burton was
the
last
man to be hanged in Dorchester Prison.
Police Gold
Medal
Essay
Competition
Subject of the Essay for 1939
" Discuss the Psychological Aspects
of
Crime and
Punishment',
Essays
must
be
submitted
on or before
rst
November, 1939,
to:-
THE
SECRETARY
OF
THE
COUNCIL
OF
THE
POLICE
GOLD
MEDAL
ESSAY
COMPETITION,
HOME
OFFICE,
WHITEHALL,
LONDON,
S.W.I.
Essays
must
be
the
original work of the competitor,
7,000
to
11,000
words in length, typewritten
and
submitted
in triplicate and. anonymously.
A sealed envelope bearing on outside anom de plume or motto, and con-
taining
the
competitor's name
and
address,
must
accompany
the
essay.
(For
full conditions see THE
POLICE
JOURNAL,
April
number,
p. 256.)
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