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A hearing was given in the US, her contract, witness said that
on July 11, this again could not possibly in-department, which chartered the Court for China before Judge Milton D. Purdy, in tereat the Court. She was an White Star liner "Vedic" last the case United States v. CHfford honest woman, the mother of year C. Elrod, who is charged with as- children, and the questions of the emigrants to Australia, is so 1928, saulting his wife, Mrs. Eulalie counsel for the defence had no satisfied with the success of that Elrod, at 360 Avenue Joffre on bearing upon the case before the venture that the "Vedle" is to sail Jonce more to Australia under the the morning of July 3, with in-court. tent to kill.
Another question pertaining to Salvation Army flag with hun- Mr. J. B, Davies opened the her personal affairs, brought dreds of emigrants, all of whom prosecution as acting U.S. Dis-forth another refusal to answer. will be assured of work, reports trict Attorney, and Mr. F. J."I have studied law for three the "Manchester Guardian." Schuhl appeared on behalf of the years and know what to tell the It is hoped to send 200 boys accused.. Aa investigations are Court," witness said, "It does not between the ages of fourteen and still in progress in the case, it require that I should give these nineteen, who will previously have a short course of agricultural: was explained to the court that details. about my private life. the .hearing WAB for the Asked as the reason why she training on the Army's farms at purpose of getting certain testi- declined to give the Court in Hadleigh, in Essex, and who will mony into the records, two wit-formation regarding the break- go out to work on the land. There nesses, one for the defence and ing of her contract with the Mes-will be an equal number of women one for the prosecution, being sagerie Maritimes, witness again and girls, who will be welcomed answer on the same in domestic service, and a large about. to leave Shanghai. After refused to
number of families who go out this testimony, the trial was ad-grounds.
Under further cross-examina-under the nomination scheme. journed until the first week in
tion, witness stated that Mrs. The ship is to sail on October 6. Commissioner David Lamb, the August subject to call.
In opening the case Mr. Davles Elrod was Belgian and that Mrs. told the Court that accused had, Elrod had told her on several oc-director of the Salvation Army's on the morning of July 3,-left his casions about her troubles. Wit-international social section and on the head of its migration department, house at 360 Avenue Joffre be ness occupied a room
The is very eager to see similar tween 8 and 8.30 nm. to go to the second floor of the house. dentist. He had returned about other tenants were strangers to schemes carried out by the Gov- 10 a.m. After a few words with her. She had moved in on June 1. ernment or other organisations. At a luncheon given to his wife, accused had gone to a
Press representatives, he said he telephone situated in the entrance hall of the house arid had had On July 3, when Mr. Elrod had regarded the question of migra conversation with a woman. As a come into the room she had not tion as more important at the pre- nervous or sent moment than anything else result of this conversation, the noticed that he was
In this said, Mrs. agitated. Witness had greeted in the material world. District Attorney Elrod had been angry and a quar-him and turned her attention country there were a million men Witness and women seeking work and un- rel had begun. A French lady again to her sewing. living in the house had there- had never been told by Mrs. Elrod able to find it. Thousands, and after seen what had occurred, concerning the illness of Mr. perhaps tens of thousands, of which was, according to evidence, Elrod, but she had told her about people had been receiving Poor Witness know Law relief or unemployment bene- as follows. Mr. Elrod had gone his behaviour. into an adjoining room and pro-that Mr. Elrod had been in hos- fit for years. It was said by some that these people would rather cured a revolver and had sat pital in June.
Re-direct examination brought take the dole than work. "Don't down at a small table opposite to Mrs. Elrod. He had said "I am witness remark that she under- you believe it," said the Commis-
of this stay in sioner. going to kill you," and had fired, stood the cause The bullet had entered the left hospital to have been drink.
Mr. V. H. Bourne, Assistant breast of Mrs. Elrod, had come
Meanwhile, he said, there were] out through her back and had Commissioner of Revenue in the
gave great empty spaces in the Domin- evidence for Mr. Thomas Smith, Lexham-gar-been embedded in the wall of the Municipal Council then
the defence. ions where those people could live WESTOVE th hour for LOR NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that dens, W., who died in March, aged
He stated "that he had useful lives. It was a world pro- In healthy neighbourhood. unless the ORIGINAL
with CERTI 92 years, left estate of the gross THE QUARREL DESCRIBED. been
the Council blem, and the British Empire SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL FICATE is produced within One value of £376,434, with net per- First witness for the prosecu- since December, 1911. Accused could not separate itself from the BOYS. A few Boarders received Month from the Date Hereof, itsonalty £340,298,
tion was thereafter called, Dr. A. had been working directly under rest of the world. He had read in in the House of the Principal. In- will hereafter be held by the Com- Mr. Leslie John Friedlander, Bary being sworn as interpreter him for the past six months and a German newspaper the other dividual care and attention, For pany as NULL AND VOID and a Harley House, Regent's Park, un-of French to English. Witness had been employed in the Tax day an article pointing out that NEW CERTIFICATE for the said derwriter, who died in April, left was Mrs. Charles Roux, of French Collecting Department of the Europe had a right to those wide, personalty nationality, who said that she had Council between seven and eight vacant areas, and asking what
been in Shanghai for two months, {years.
right Great Britain had to keep F. H. CRAPNELĻ, (£131,722. He gave:
On June 17 witness had sent the areas empty. Secretary.
£20,000 in trust for. his sister and that since June 1 she had
"We cannot afford to ignore Hylda Ethel Freeland, for life and had a room at 360 Avenue Joffre, for the accused to confer with then for such hospitals in England where there were several other him about unsatisfactory work the fact," said the Commissioner, As the executors shall select.
for a week or two previously. "that while the populations In £2,500 each to Lloyd's Benevolent! On July 9, the morning in ques- Accused had been in a very bad some European countries are Fund and the Jewish Board of tion, witness had been in the room nervous state, and when his at-stagnant Germany, Italy, and Far Guardians..
when Mr. Elrod returned. She tention had been called to the con- Eastern countries are feeling the £500 each to Ella Byford and understood that a quarrel was in dition of his work he had said, pressure of population. We have! N INTERIM DIVIDEND of Rhoda Henley, servants, and H. W. progress, although she did not "Yes, I am a wash-out. I haven't these lands waiting for develop- TWO DOLLARS per share Levitt, chauffeur, if respectively in understand English. Mrs. Elrod slept for four nights nor eaten for ment, and for the last seven years for the six months ending 30th his service at the time of his death. had interrupted accused while he five days." A doctor was advised, we have had a million people un- and promptly printed."China June, 1928, will be payable on One year's salary to each of his was at the telephone, and witness and accused said he was going employed. During those years we
2nd August, Mall" Office, No. 3a, Wyndham St., THURSDAY,
seen that accused had into hospital that night. As far have been paying about a million an clerks who have been in his employ had which date Dividend Warrants may for twelve months.
threatened his wife. He then as witness knew, although accus-aweek in unemployment benefit, Telephone Central 22,
be obtained on application at the And after other bequests, the went into the bedroom adjoining ed had been under his observation and probably another million a This Company's. Office, 3 Chater Road. residue as to.
the dining room where witness for drink, in the effort to deter-week in Poor Law relief; The TRANSFER BOOKS of the
sitting sewing and mine a possible reason accused country has been paying out One-half for hospitals in Eng-was Company will be CLOSED from land as the executors shall deter-shut the door. A few had not been drinking to excess. two millions a week for nothing, EXQUISITE BEAUTY SATURDAY, the 21st July to WED-mine, and
moments had elapsed when Accused collected licences money when the money could have been etc., put to good use. Six years ago NESDAY, the 1st August (both The other half for such charities he came back by another door, from hotels, restaurants, days inclusive) during which for the benefit of persons of the the one opening into the hall. and at the time of the conference, the Empire Settlement Act was period no transfer of shares can be Jewish faith as the executors may Accused had sat down in an arm witness had noticed that he was passed, and £18,000,000 was avail- registered.
chair and the quarrel had appar- hazy and forgetful. On June 26 able for migration schemes, but Witness had when accused came out of hos- only £3,000,000 has been spent on The Countess of Moray, Wim-ently continued.
I sometimes feel that if borne, and late of Darnaway-castle, gone on the verandah adjoining pital, witness had instructed that them. Forres, N.B., who died in March, the dining room, from where she extra-special supervision should none of the three political parties Secretary aged 76 years, widow of the six-could view the whole thing. She be given to Elrod. Steps had realise the immense importance teenth Earl of Moray, left unsettl: had wanted to go to her room been taken, though as yet not of this question I should like to ed personal estate in Great Britain upstairs, but Mrs. Elrod had ask- officially to recommend that ac-see a fourth party that would con- ed her to stay as, witness said, cused should get a doctor's state-centrate on Empire settlement." The Hon. Sir Charles Russell, Mrs. Elrod had explained, "other-ment as a preliminary to recom- The Commissioner said that he Dean's-yard, wise her husband would beat her." mending that he be favalided by had received an excellent report Bucks., Burnham,
about the party of 640 that sailed Westminster, and Norfolk-street, Witness had smelt "alcohol" the Council.
On July 1, accused had been for Australia in the "Vedic" last Strand, solicitor to the stewards of about accused as she passed him.
As the "war" increased, wit made a first class collector, and October. Six months after they Over twenty-five years' Practical the Jockey Club and on various oc- experience in America curing the casions for the Dominion of Cana-ness had seen Mr. Elrod put his as far as witness knew, there were had landed he was told that there had been no failures. On May 1 Bick with Chinese herbs, is now da, and one of the leading divores hand in his pocket and take out no black marks on his record.
Cross examining, Dr. Davies seventeen of them were tempor- within your reach.
If you are suffering from Equity and Law Life Assurance never seen a revolver before, ap-asked whether the Council would arily unemployed, not through Catarrh, Kidney, Stomach trouble Society and the Law Reversionary peared at first to her to be a piece record auch a thing as a convic-, lack of work but because of some Dropsy, Indigestion, Castritis, Interest Society, Ltd., who died in of wood presumably to beat Mrs. tion against a man for drunken-difficulty. Ninety per cent. of Eczema, Blood Folson, Diabetes, March, aged 64 years, second son Elrod. Mr. Elrod had raised his neas and obscene language prefer the boys who had been sent out in hand, put it on the table, aimed red in the U.S. Commissioner's previous years were at work on Bright's Disease, Lung. Consilpa- of the late Lord Russell of Killo- and fred. Mrs. Elrod had been Court. Witness said that he pre-farms two years later. The aver tion, Tumor, Ulcer, Hay fever, wen (a former Lord Chief Justice), standing the width of the dining sumed so, but as far as accused's age cost of selecting and training and trade Statistics Malaria, Nervousness, Rheumation, left estate in his own disposition Coughs, Throat Trouble, or other of the gross value of £78,626, with table away, behind a chair. The conduct in office was concerned a boy, providing him with an out- bullet had penetrated below her there were no black marks. Ask-fit and passage, and placing him 11 Partzo Hotung 40 Po Wah St. Uls, there is hope for your relief net personalty £60,696. Hls be-
left shoulder and come ed whether it would surprise him in Australia, was about £50, and through the POO ON CHINESE quests included:
lout through her back to learn that the time spent in of that sum £40 was refunded by HERBS.
$100 to the Hospital of St. John' Witness thereupon identified hospital in June by accused had the Government, while the boy and St. Elizabeth, St. John's-wood: the Government's exhibit * · 1, been for the purpose of curing ex-usually paid back £3. There had 250 each to the Beaumont College as the revolver she had seen Mr. cessive alcoholism, witness said been no fuir objection to the Fund and the Society of St. Augus- Elrad use. Mr. Elrod, after the it would surprise him. The medi-scheme, nor could there be. Why
shooting had gone into the bed-cal certificate did not state as could not the example of the Sal £200 each to his secretary, Ethyl Jolley (in addition to gifts already room, and flung the revolver on much. One June 15, witness had vation Army. he widely followed?
told the Commissioner that he the bed; made to her), his accountant,:C. J.
could not be responsible for Elrod, RUSHED TO HOSPITAL. |Chapman, and his manager, George
The aeroplane of Captain Alfred. Winter; £100 to his former accre-
Mrs. Elrod had remained stand if accused continued as a tax col
Loewenstein, the Belgian financier, tary, H. J. Brashlar.
ing, shaking, and when witness
No further questions were which conveyed him and his party £50 each, if still in his service, had gone to her assistance, she Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Kong to Ethyl M. Clemente, Florence had asked: witness to telephone asked, and the case adjourned from Buffalo to Toronto for a fur during July, 1923, standard time Hayward, Eva Southgate and Mary for an ambulance, which, as wit until early in August. One other ther conference with the directors for the 120th meridian, East of Cross.
ness was unable to use the tele-witness, Mrs, Elrod, who is at pre- of the Brazilian Traction Company, Greenwich, is as follows:-
£3,500 to Mrs. Helen Andorle, phone owing to her lack of Eug-sent in the General Hospital, was temporarily "seized" by Cus- Sunrise. Sunset. with the request, but without creat lish, Mrs. Elrod had done herself. would appear for the prosecution, toms officials at Toronto because of Ing any trust in the matter, that she An attempt was made to get an Mr. Davies told the Court, while an infraction of the regulations re- will apply this aum for purposes al-ambulance, but eventuated in there would be eight or 10 for the quiring prior notification that the ready, indicated to her.
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