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THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1936
A GRUESOME FIND
Girl Of 17 Found Dead In Tube
MYSTERY OF JOSIE AUSTIN'S FATE IN TUNNEL
CIVIL WAR IN SPAIN
Night Attacks By Nationalists
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Paris, To-day.
ANAESTHETIC ERROR
Doctor's "I Admit Responsibility"
| CHILD GIVEN CARBON DIOXIDE INSTEAD OF OXYGEN
A cleaner walking along the
A young doctor described at a Bakerloo Tube tunnel last month
Sutton, Surrey, inquest last month found the body of a girl on the
how he had administered pure car- track about 60 yards from Re- The battle for Madrid continues bon dioxide, under the impression Igent's Park Station.
with unabated violence and that it was pure oxygen, to a six- She was identified as Josie Aus-tacks and counter-attacks of the year-old girl who collapsed while tin, aged 17, a clerk, of Winches-jopposing forces are following each undergoing an operation is the ter-mews, Hampstead.
other without even a temporary Sutton and Cheam Hospital.
"I am taking the full responsi» Scotland Yard and officials of lull in the fighting. The National the London Passenger Transport ist attacks are on the city block:bility" he added. Board were later trying to dis held by the Reds, which have been The doctor cover how the girl managed to get converted by the latter into verit-tram Pitts, of St Duatan's-hill, into the tunnel. It was impossi-jable fortresses, where the assault North Cheum.
are now mostly carried out a . The inquest WES on Julia ole for her to fall from a train.
There were extensive injuries to night, since the Nationalist gen Mothersale, daughter of Mr. and the head and legs, but nothing erals have found attacks made in Mrs. E. A. Mothersole, of Bynon- was found to indicate foul play. broad daylight are inevitably at gardens. Carshalton.
was Thomas Ber-
The dead girl lived with her tended by heavy casualties, the Dr. E. Newman said that the parents, brother, and sister in streets being then swept by ma-child, who was to be operated on Winchester-mews. She was ex-ịchine-gun fire by the Reds. for double mastoid, was the last ployed by an Oxford-street firm shelter for the advancing troops of eight cases. Her father is a carpenter.
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In preparation for the nocturnal Dr. Pitts had administered? A close friend of the family told attacks the Red positions are sub-anaesthetic to six other cases, and press representative recently jected to heavy bombardment by gave the child first ethyl chloride the Nationalist artillery and air and ether, and then ether and car- that the tragedy was inexplicable force during the hours of day-bon dioxide.
Josie," he said. "was an attrac-light. The motorised units of the During the operation the sur- tive, cheerful girl in perfect Nationalist forces are also show-geon. Mr. Dingley, noticed that health. She was a quiet, home-ing increased activity in those the child was turning blue, loving girl, and I am quite sure sectors of the front which lie out-immediately called Dr. Pitts' at- had no boy friends. She was, if
ide the city proper.
tention to the fact and the opera- janything, young for her age.
tion was stopped. "Late resterday I met her buy- The strategical aim of the Na-
As no pulse could be felt. Mr. ing sweets in local shop, and we tionalist commanders appears to Dingley told Dr. Pitts to give the laughed and joked for some time-be to establish contact between child pure oxygen
“She appeared in perfectly nor-the colunias of General Varela and "I then went to the other side mal health, and was her usual!
those of General Mocards. If the of the table and saw that the child bright and cheerful self."
Nationalists should succeed in was receiving pure carbon dioxide.” The police, it was stated later. effecting contact between these said Dr. Newman. were satisfied that for some restwo groups, the Red positions in This was immediately correct- son the girl must have walked in the Guadarrama Mountains would ed. Artificial respiration was ad- to the tunnel shortly after mid-be cut off and the encirclement of ministered and the heart was mas Inight.
Madrid then complete.
clares that a freighter conveying
A message from Algeciras de-aged without success.
Separate Cylinders
It has been established that a train which passed through the Regent's Park tunnel at 12.7 a.m.
ja detachment of 700 Moroccan Mr. H. C. Dickens, representing! was responsible for her death.
troops and a large quantity of war Dr. Pitts, asked: "It it the usual material arrived there on Wednes-method to blow a small quantity A Penny Ticke!
day night, to where it had been of carbon dioxide and oxygen to Near the body
or ether was a penny escorted from the African coast make the chloroform ticket issued at Oxford Circus by the Nationalist cruiser
Cana-vaporous?—Yes. The dead girl usually travelled rias.-Trans-Oceas Service. from Oxford Circus to Baker- street on the Bakerloo, and chang- jed there on to a Metropolitan Line
train for Swiss Cottage.
The previous night she told her) parents after supper that she was; KENT TAYLOR going for a walk It would seem that she reached Oxford Circus. and purchased the penny ticket.
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Up to April was there a cylin- der on the apparatus containing a mixture of carbon dioxide and
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bon dioxide been in the place where the oxygen used to be?--Yes.
Dr. Newman agreed that Dr. Pitts had not been in the operat-i The world-famous iron and steeling theatre for a month before the
M. Gibson, representing, the hos works of Friedrich Krupp A. G. operation, and, in reply to Mr. E. of Essen, Ruhr, which this year celebrates the 120th anniversary of pital governors, said that Dr. Pitts its foundation, devates the Decem- had resigned, but had agreed to ber number of its house organ to help with the anaesthetics until a describing the part played by its successor was appointed. įrailway locomotives in the develop-
A green cylinder was handed to The title ment page carries 2 picture entitled the Coroner; Dr. W. J. Lord, and ME. Gibson pointed to a label "Krupp locomotives in China,“
marked "C02"-carbon dioxide. Mr. John Burns, aged 78 recent and shows how narrow-gauge en- ly, suffered a bereavement last gines are unloaded from ships and month through the death of his placed on tracks for transport to "Dr. Pitts is taking the whole of wife in Bolingbroke Hospital, Bat- the starting point, Tungpu, of the the blame on himself, and is not tersea. They had been married railway, where they are unpack suggesting that the apparatus is work at fault, or that anybody else made ed, assembled and set to for 55 years.
im-ja mistake."
Dr. E. Gardiner, of Weybridge. A Londoner, like her husband, Another picture shows
mense locomotive with tender from Mrs. Burns before her marriage the Krapp works destined for the said a post-mortem showed that
Tientsin-Pukow Railway-Trans-the child died from asphyxia. Ocean Service
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At this point Me Dickens said:
Mr. Dickens pointed out to the Coroner that the position of the cylinders had been changed in the spring, and that Dr. Pitts had been away.
In reply to Mr. Gibson, Dr. Pitts said he had administered several other cases on the day in question. **I have admitted the respon- sibility,” he added.
A verdict of death by misade venture was returned.
WAR DEBTS TO AMERICA
London, To-day. The De Havilland Company havej made a cat of £100 in the price of "She was a wonderful woman. the popular Hornet Moth light ca said Mr. Burns. "She helped me bin biplane, of which over 100 are in all my public life and municipal already in daily use all over the work for nearly 60 years and we world. At £775 the machine's de- |were extremely happy.
tailed finish is stated to be even This was her first illness. She superior to the 1986 model. had been in hospital only about a touring form and with fuel o week and had been ill for a few board for more than 600 miles days before that.”
(non-stop in calm air, the Hornet As be stood at the door of his Moth carries two persons and ap- Asked in the House of Commons house overlooking Clapham Com-proximately 180 pounds of lag whether he had any information mon, Mr. Burns recalled, how he gage at 18 miles to the gallon-a as to the negotiations in Paris
In
Question Asked In Parliament
London, To-day.
met his wife, he mid- better fuel consumption rate than concerning the French debt to
A protest meeting was being is reached by mat media or America and whether he would held on the common against the high-power automobiles. It has intimate to the Government of the authorities who had tried to supa Gipsy Major 130 horse-power United States that His Majesty's press our meetings in July, 1878. four-cylinder engine, and cruises Government was also anxious to The police arrested us for alleged at about 106 miles an hour--Bri-settle, the Chancellor of the Ex- obstruction of the public footpath, tish. Wireless Service.
{st the eastern end of the common,
"While I was being arrested and
chequer replied: "I understand that no negotiations of any kind referred to are taking place. In
taken to the police station Mr. Three cases of diphtheria and reply to the second part of the The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd, Burns-then-almost a gide one of puerperal fever were re- question I would refer the House Street, Victoria, me." She was attracted to me and ported to the local Health Author-to the Note addressed to the Un- it was reciprocated. That was the ities during the 24 hours ended ited States on June 7 Jast Bri | beginning of our courtship." last Tuesday.
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