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"I DENY SHE
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R.A.F.
MOTHER" BEAT
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STORY
(By A Special Correspondent)
A SMALL, SLENDER, pallid woman, clutching a rosary in her hands, drew herself upright in the chair in which she sat in the Old Bailey witness- box and in five softly spoken words startled the court.
Mrs. Florence Iris Ouida Ransom, accused of murdering her lover's wife, had given evidence that not until after the tragedy did her lover know that a Mrs. Guilford, who was her servant and lived in. a cottage near the farm where she was staying with him, was her mother.
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But later Mrs. Ransom denied that Mrs. Guilford was her mother. "Mrs. Guilford--that is, your mother," counsel had said, and she replied, "I have never be. lieved that." There was a mo ment's silence in the court-and then the cubject changed, with no further reference to this dramatic denial.
The woman whutn Mrs, Ransom The sister of a peer is accused of shooting, Mrs. acted as midwife when a torty-six, was found shot in an Dorothy Sanders Fisher, aged baby was born in a public orchard at Crittenden, Nearby shelter in London during were the bodies of her daughter Freda and their housekeeper, Mrs. an air raid.
Charlotte Saunders. They had all been shot from close range.
She is Mrs. Douglas Woodruff, rister of Lord Actun.
weighed
Many of the 10.000 people in the shelter clapped the mother and baby boy, who 734lb., as they were carried to an ambulance and taken to hos. pital at dawn.
The mother. Mrs. Trinder, bombed out of her home, with her
husband and ten other children. two days previons has named the baby Joseph, after Dr. Joseph Rosen, who attended her.
Mrs. Woodruff is i qualified nurse, but this is the first time she has assisted at a confinement.
Questions About Doctor
During cross-examination, Mrs. Ransom
was closely questioned about a man whose Christian name was Dudley. She said that she had known a man called Dud- ley many years ago, that he was now dead, and that she did not know whether he was a doctor.
Mr. St. John Hutchinson, pro- secuting, asked her if she had not seen another man of the same name last July, and added: "I will "She and other V.A.D.s and give you his address. I don't want Dr. Rosen are always on duty has done anything to be ashamed to bring his name in, not that he
at the first-aid post, which is, voluntary and has been running In the shelter now for two months," reporter.
He
Goering tried a new trick. sent over a force of Messersch- midts to fly up and down the Kent
coast in the hope of luring our Spitfires into a fight over the sea.
There much larger forces of German fighters were · lurking ready to pounce.
After flying in a wide arc over the shore the Messerschmidts split up into smaller groups and circl- ed aimlessly over the sea as bait.
The R.A.F. pilots refused to be drawn into the obvious trap "and called the Germans bluft by summoning reinforcements.
More Spitfires arrived and nel coast waiting for the Messer. patrolled up and down the Chan-
schmidts to make il bolder bid before attacking them.
More Germans approached the coast, but Goering carefully kept his finger on his pieces and hastily withdrew them when. ever one of the British squa drons swung towards them.
Kept Out Of Range Occasionally A.A. guns fired a few rounds to keep the enemy at u respectable height, but these were the only shots fred, for the Messerschmidts never ventured within range of the guns of the Spitfires.
The rival fighter formations flew patiently up and down for half an hour, the Spitfires check. ing every move on the part of the Germans.
Finally the game ended in check- mate in favour of the Spitfires when they had manoeuvred in front and on both sides of the main German formation, which quickly made off
towards the French coast.
two waves of
Earlier the attacks began with fighter bombers crossing the coast at Dungeness first wave consisted of a score of and heading for London. The
of, but he lives at 95, Harley
Do you know anybody and this was followed by a se- enemy aircraft flying very high, Street.
a Mrs. Spireto told a who lives in that place? Didn't you | cond wave of about a dozen.
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IS AN ADMIRAL
go there?"
"No, sir, not to my knowledge," answered Mrs. Ransom.
On the direction of the Judge, Mr. Hutchinson then said that the name of the man was Dr. Benja- field.
The Judge: Do you know Dr. Benjafield? Mrs. Ransom: I think, my lord, that is a specialist I saw some years ago.
"I Don't Remember"
Did you see him between July 9 and 12 this year? - No.
Mr. Hutchinson:
Didn't you
DORIS TWISTS FISH'S TAIL
Her morning bath has become an adventure for Doris Duke Cromwell, the world's richest girl, in her Honolulu home of fantastic luxuries.
Long dissatisfied with a mere bath as used by poorer folk, Doris а bath
first by an artist in wood, then cast in metal;
from
The shower is sprayed
write to him on July? No, sir, designed and had made Not to my knowledge, my lord. worthier of her millions. It is in Mr. Hutchinson then produced a the form of a gigantic fish carved letter written on blue notepaper Although she is an Admiral--
and handed it in as and Britain's only woman Ad- After reading it the Julge handed an exhibit. miral-she hates the sea. By virit to Mrs. Ransom and asked: "the mouth of the fish when Doris tue of her position as Mayor of that your signature?"
is graciously pleased to twist its Chester, Mrs. Kate Clarke is also❘
Electric lights glow from fish's tail. Admiral of the Dee.
eye sockets. Each scale has phosphorescent glow.
When next you eat sardines,
Probably not more than two other women have ever held the title of Admiral. They are Mrs. Phyllis Brown, who was Mayor of Chester last year, and Mrs. L. M. Foster Welch, a Liverpool woman who was Mayor of Southampton in 1928.
Since 1342 the Mayor of Chester has held the rank of Admiral with power over the tidal waters of the
inches long, which is the emblem of the Mayor's power, and which was presented to the city in 1719.
She examined it closely and then said. "It might have been but I Judge told her to read the letter. don't remember writing it." The
She looked up at last and said, "Yes, my lord," when she was asked if it was her letter. The Judge: Did you go and see him after writing that letter? -
Yes.
memory is better. He is a gentle- Mr. Hutchinson: I am glad your man you know quite well?—Yes,
sir.
Street?
it.
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think of Doris twisting the tail of her big fish miles away in Hono- lulu.
COLLIES TO LEAD THE BLIND
are
Dee from Eccleston to the mouth of the river, more than 20 miles Did you go and see him on July away. In the Mayoral regalia the 127
To replace Alsatians, Border Yes, sir.
collies and golden retrievers smallest item is a silver
oar," 14
Did you tell him about your loss being tried out as guide dogs for of memory, this doctor in Harley sightless pedestrians, says the We did not talk about Journal of the National Institute
for the: Blind, ' Judge: Was your visit a pro. It takes three months. to train Toasional vialt or not? No, my a guide dog and three weeks to lord, nothing to do with my accustom a blind person to a health at all.
dog. By a new method of teach- At this point the trial was nd-ing the period is being reduced. journed but for nearly a minute after she had finished speaking Mrs. Ransom remained in the
SHE FOUGHT BLAZE
LIKE A PROFESSIONAL
When fire broke out at her home witness box, sipping water.
In Strawberry Hill Road, Twicken- ham, Counelllór Mrs. Walton call-
ed the local brigade and then, with NOT RUNNING AWAY:
her family, attacked the flames with a stirrup pump.
ATTLEE
£1,847 FOUND IN GAS MASK
A Luton man on his way to work in the black-out found gas mask ip its case, v
She got on the floor and held Mr. C. R. Attlee, Lord Privy ............ Inside were hotes to the value. the nozzle overhead in real pro- Scal, referred in a speech at Pon- of £1,847, §. fessional style, and had done the typool, South Wales, to the bombs. He took it to the police station, work so well that when the fire-ing or Whitehall. Mr. 'Attice said, and the money was returned to men arrived they allowed her to amidst applause, “We are not the owner. completerite o saradn
The finder was well rewarded,
dhungama i going »to run away,