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This new series of outstanding present-day Trials edited by a barrister, the well¬known author who writes under the pseudonym of Ephesian, will contain a full report of the proceedings at the trial, an account of the principal features of the case, and, usually, a chapter on some pertinent legal, medico-legal or historical subject.
In addition each volume will be profusely illustrated. The volumes are intended not only for contemporary reading but to serve also as permanent records of the present-day machinery of justice.
The cleft chin murder was a killing which occurred as part of a string of crimes during 1944, and was mentioned in George Orwell's essay Decline of the English Murder. It became known as the "cleft chin murder" because the murder victim, a taxi driver named George Edward Heath, had a cleft chin.
The culprits were Karl Hulten, a Swedish-born deserter from the U.S Army, and Elizabeth Jones, an eighteen-year-old waitress. They were both found guilty of murdering Heath and sentenced to be hanged. While Hulton was executed at Pentonville Prison on 8 March 1945, Jones was reprieved and released in May 1954. Her subsequent fate is unknown.
