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pro his final speech for the Q.CCCUtion' Mr* RudolPh Lyons, l4th' V'aS reP?rted on December torhi as describing the trial as 'a th^ tunnel that has led us ^fath Srimmest and almost th0ur?0n}able recesses of juvenile the ' *n which we have plumbed juVen..UnPrfcedented depths of Mr l wickedness'. 'In Norma,' sim'J y?ns c?ntinued, 'you have a e? backward girl of subnormal intelligence. In Mary you have a most abnormal child, aggressive, vicious, cruel, incapable of remorse, a girl, moreover, possessed of a dominating personality, with a somewhat unusual intelligence and a degree of cunning that is almost terrifying.' Mr. Justice Cusack's summingup was reported on December 17th. The evidence, he had said, was that Mary had a propensity or inclination to seize people by the throat. Assuming that Martin and Brian had died from attacks upon their throat, if one wanted to identify the guilty it might be a help if there