THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 15, 1941.
TRAITRESS WIFE SECRET DIARY
.1
JUST AN ORDINARY WOMAN
A NAVY PENSIONER and his dog are sitting by the fire at their home, Osborne Villa and the man is staring in bewilderment at another chair drawn up to the fire.
STOLEN
FROM FLAT
Described Visits To
Banned Areas
Miguel Piernavieja Del Pozo, Spanish journalist who has been allowed special facilities to ob- serve conditions in Bri- |tain, has lost a large diary
The wife who should be sitting there is in Holloway Gaol, under sentence of death for betray-in which he kept detailed
ing her country.
Everybody who knew Mrs Dorothy Pamela O'Grady is deeply amaz d 21
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Winchester Assizes.
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revelations
tao now say they "elt
there was something about he but the usual I guessed it" wee.
here is silent.
There wa Landlady in
he an ordinary
a urnished apart
ments Villa, nerd forty-two and t Engleh. No glamour shirt, slont, trizzy-hamed
Five people out of six have! cald; "She seemed 50 inoffen. sive.
And then; "Ter
ribly bad luck for her husband
Such a nice man."
The Neighbours Say
11
you In tened
to
Mrs.
O'Grady's neighbours talking this is what you would hear...
"I always thought of her as the wonton who walked by night. She slayed heme all day, but after Suppe: would put on her brown, coat with the Jur collar. her brown felt hat, and set off for a long walk in the darkness with her og black retriever, Rob
"She adored that animal often went without a meal her self to cook for Rob.
"She was passionately fond of flowers,
She could Fansei bluon in her garden in the par-
est son
"She called often to visit my Invald mother with daffodil. geramums, and chrysanthemums she had grown herself.
"Hemed very ordinary, didn't She' Spoke in almost a childish voice, but was a poor conversa- tionalist i never rated her telligence high
Ja-
"She had few kiea, of her own, But
there
WIS a kind of mental reserve which gave me the impression of a dual personality,
She first came
F
FAMILY
"SAW"
THEIR END
notes about his visit.
Del Pozo who was once quot- ed by a newspaper as saying he thought Germany would win; a statement he withdrew after studying London - says the diary vanished from his wardrobe J few days ago while he was away from his Piceadlily fat
Whoever took the diary was not interested in a gold cigarette- case and other valuables plainly ¦
on view in his flat.
Spanish M.0.1.
No. Del Pozo represents the tional Institute of Political Studies Edward J. Ford, his the Spanish equivalent of the Bri- wife and his only daugh-ish Metry of Information. ter Joyce, had a quiet patches on London go back regu-
He
alsa a journalist, and his dis-
newspap’r
family talk in their home larly to the Spanish
**Madrid," at Ridgeway, Cliftonville, Kent, last May.
Cally they discussed the possi- hilty of all three being killed at the same time. They decided that war mude it a probability and framed a punt will “in the event of anything happening which may prove fatal in which all three are killed “
Mr. and Mrs. Ford went to
London to spend a single night with their daughter, who worked as a secretary at the War Office during the week,
On that night a bomb killed ail three, as well as Miss Kate Bur- tan, one of seven legatees of will, with whom Miss Ford used to stay during the week.
The joint will has been provert and it reveals that Mr. Ford left
Mrs. Ford, £407:
£1.544; and Miss Ford, £204.
CATHEDRAL ESCAPES
"I don't mind who gets hold of my diary," Det Pozo sald to a reporter, "it contains nothing that I mind anybody seeing. "But i wish whoever has it when they have salisted them- serves on the point wih return it to me, otherwise I shail bave to start the whole work Over agoin
"When J cune here two the age I thought London had been destroyed. It took me only two days to find out my error,'
THE HITLER “TICKLE"
Dew
Com-
be
"City
sneeze"
the throat, caused by plaint of dust and fumes from charred de- bris of London's big fires has seized hundreds of City workers
It is similar to hay-fever, and the It was disclosed that Norwich the irritating "tickle" leaves
sufferer with sore and watery Cathedral narrowly escaped ser- ious damage during a recent raid.eyes.
and nostrils should Eyes A heavy bomb dropped near Nurse Cavel's grave, but, failing bathed in a weak solution of bor- here May in soft earth, it did comparatively acie and warm water. 1937. Rented a little coltage at slight damage to New Road, Lake, after a holiday Several windows in the island with her husband. and high up in the roof the win- "She used to have summer hol-dows of the triforium were dam- day its but the cottage wasaped. too small
she moved Osborne Va That was tu 1939, a few mutas before war broke out Never Wett to church or chapel, though, did she'
"They came
Middle; ex."
the cathedral. were shattered,
HITLER'S JERICHO
From Feltham, in ment, speaking
"The dust and fumes cause an Irritation of the nasal mucous membrane," a London specialist said.
The Ministry of Health are con- ¦sidering a means of counteracting
this new Blitz nuisance.
MASS BORSTAL ESCAPE
Dr. Cisar, a member of the pro- visional Czechoslovak Govern- in London, said that millions irt Europe were A mass escape of boys from the awaiting the day when the cry Borstal Institution, Feltham, Mid- "Freedom" would become adlesex, took place when 17 lads nighty blast of trumpets, before got away in the dark. Their ab- Ann M. O'Grady in lus bewil-which the walls of Hitler's modern sence was soon noticed, and three derment could only
· Om | Jericho would full,
And The Husband
Saty
man med lite was perfectly happy. [ She was splendid wite."
Since the war Mr. O'Grady hus worked in the In A.F.S., out every night 16 the blitz, fre- | fighting.
One might a Scotland Yard de- tect.ve called at the fire brigade
mess.
"Can you spare ne a moment or two. Mr. O'Grady? It's about your wife." They went outside together.
Mrs. O'Grady, wanted for two minor offences
under the De- fence Regulations, had disap. peared from Osborne Villa, leaving a pencilled note outside the back door: "No moro milk til return."
Later she and her dog were traced to a quiet little apartment house near Totland Bay. She was living there under an assumed name as a visitor.
were recovered before long.
3 GHOSTS BLAMED
BY A DIVORCEE
"I WANT TO LAY three ghosts which have appeared in this case:
My five marriages and divorces. The fact that I was an actress. And the fact that I am an American.
"I cannot help but feel that been receiving aliment of £800 a these ghosts were there, and, ul-year from her husband. though I do not wish to say that "Because of lack of money," they influenced the Judge, these she states, she is unable to employ ghosts have laid their hands sur-counsel, and is conducting her reptitiously and psychologically own case. Mr. O'Grady resigned from the on the scales of justice." brigade, handed in his uniform, Mrs. Ada Prentice made that rubber boots and helmet, and plea when she began in the Court came home to see what he could of Sessions, Edinburgh, with the do. "I just can't understand it-appen against a decision last year the whole thing is a complete divorcing her from her fifth hus- mystery to me," he told the police. | band, Thomas Prentice; a Glas- Only once since her arrest | gow chartered accountant, whom has he spoken to his wife ashe married in London in Novem- few words in Ryde Police Sta-ber, 1935.
tion after the magistrates com- Since January, 1937, she has
mitted her for trial.
She refused to sce him in
Holloway Gaol, and he was not at
Mrs. Prentice told the Court:- "My past history has been a sort of hotbed in which the 'Lord Ordinary's opinions have taken root and flourished", until he belleved [anything · against me."
She referred to a suggestion by her husband's counsel that she deliberately tried to deceive the Court by altering her appearance to mislead two witnesses.
"It is ridiculous and mean to put such a suggestion on my changes, of dress," said Mrs. Pren- tice.
"I am sure no woman wears the the same road and went along as same hat for two years or doesn't. The news was broken gently to a good neighbour.
change her hair."
Winchester Assizes when Mr.him by Dr. L. Standish O'Grady, Justice McNaghten put on the a Sandown medical
man. The block cap and passed sentence of doctor is no relative, but lives in death.
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