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THE CHINA MAIL, APRÍL 28, 1941.
£40,000 FORTUNE HANGS ON WORD "THEN"
A FORTUNĘ OF £40,000 hung upon one word. The word "then" A man killed his wife, "then" shot himself.
Was he (in this case his heirs) entitled to bene- ft under her will?
The man was Mr. H. Rivers Pollock, a barrister and member of a distinguished legal family.
He shot his wife with a revolver in the morning room of their home at Erchfont, one of the loveliest villages in Wiltshire.
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The Question
Pollock was insane when
he hut his wife, then his heirs. were entitled to benelit
But was he insane"
The inquest jury's verlet was that Mrs Pollock was shot by herį Inusband, who then killed himmett; while the balance of his mind was | tanlanged.
That was the problem before
Mr Justice Farwell 'm The Chan. evy DiviSHE and here are the two sides to it.
On One Side
Sir Lancelot Elphinstone, colin- sel for the administrators of Mrs. Pollock's will, Pollock was insane.
MAN WHO MADE MISTAKE
A tudy of the pauses and pre- plume accident.
P
NO AID AS SON DIED
A mother with a new- born baby dead by her side shouted half an hour for help in a maternity home air raid shelter while two nurses on duty were having their supper.
This was revealed at a Cardiff inquest on the baby boy of Mrs Sarah Roberts, of Fidlas Road. Cardiff
The chuld, two days old, was suffocated by blanket. Misadven- ture was the verdi:l
Nurse Katherine Jane Jones ad- mitted to the coroner, Mr Gerald Tudor, that for half an hour she and the other nurse were in the | kitchen having supper and coulzi not hear the mother's shouts frun the shelter.
Unattended
a student plot who narrowly escaped a etach in the vir over Roosevelt Firk, New
She agreed it was not right fo York. has become
have left patients unattended so training guide throughout Amer-long without means of communi-
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The essay
standard
was written as a
|cation.
The coroner said it was not pos- penalty for a "flagrant mistake"sible to say whether the absence
in the air on the part of San- ford B. Perkins, a member of the Yale University Flying
Club. argued that Mr.
When the jury gave their ver- | chet they did nut mean that he suddenly became insatte after kill- ing her.
The jury meant that he was in sane all the time. And when they! sand his mind was unhinged, They meant the same thing as un- Sound mind,
The instructor ordered him to prepare an exhaustive study of landing technique as a punish- ment. He listed six "du's" and "dont's" for pilots tu make certain that no other planes will interfere throughout the pattern of a manoeuvre; to consider all other pilots; to give right of way to pilots executing a more dif- cult manoeuvre; to be prepared for any
collision however remote; not to start a Mr Charles Romer, KO..
a 'plane interfere and peared for one of the defendaits
Miss Margaret Gordon Pollock, not to rely too much on right of In his argument the word then way even If you
consider you have it.
On The Other
of the nurses made any difference To the fate of the child. He added
"Whether there are regula- tions or not, it is far from satis. factory that patients in a ma- ternity ward should be taken to a shelter and left there without nurses or means of communical. ing with them."
The sister in charge said Ar- rangements had been made so that this would not happen again.
possibility of DAD'S
manoeuvre if there ap-
abend that night
important. Whatever AVIS
may luve been the state of Mr. Pal- lock's mind when he killed him- self, there was no evidence what- ever to show that he was insane, when he killed his wife except that he did kill her.
Clearly, in the absence of any proof of insanity, the ordinary law must apply. No man (or his heirs) may benefit if he kills his wife.
The Answer
Mr. Justice Farwell said: There was no one present at the time of the killing and therefore there is nobody who can give evidence of what occurred."
Whatever the jury may have meant when they said Mr. Pollock then killed himself while the ba- lance of his mind was unhinged, the only evidence he had was that the wife died by a revolver bullet fired by her husband.
Since insanity could not be es- tablished the ordinary law must apply and the husband's heirs
could not benest,
WOMEN'S CLOTHES FROM DOG'S HAIR
An elderly Sussex woman is using odd pieces of firewood and old rags to make into expensive- looking dolls for children who have lost their homes in the bombing of London and other big cities.
Carefully sewing the rags round the drewood and then painting in the features, she has already made many dolls, some of them for children evacuated from the Channel Islands,
Many people are learning to dye and spin the hair from their dogs' coats into wool to knit into comforts.
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One woman Weaver there wools into cloth, which she then has n.ade into costumes and
• skirto.
Another woman has a hobby of making things out of rubbish. From all types of waste, such as fish bones, fruit stones and pick- ings from the waste paper bas- ket, she has madą, drtificial flow- ers,
blotters and toys,
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CANARY SURVIVES
SHOCK
When bombs fell during a Naźi raid on Brighton, Bobby, a five-} year-old catary, was buried be- neath
and suffered so much from shock that he never sang again for seven months.
debris
But now people stop in the street to listen to the canary. He started singing when the first rays of spring through his cage.
sunshine filtered
the
Mr. Arthur Guy, of Kemp Town, Brighton, owner of canary, said:-
"Bobby was the finest singing. canary in the district until we were bombed I never expected to hear him sing again.
"We all think that his repewed life as a songster is a prelude to good war news."
BOOTS
SAVED BOY
Father's big rubber boots help- ed to save Peter Wilby, thirteen, who was trapped by falling brick- work when શ bomb-damaged shelter collapsed outside his Lon- don home.
When workmen ran to his re- scue his legs were under a mass of debris.
Peter. consclous throughout his ordeal, did not shed a tear. While the workmen tore at the bricks and concrete Peter slid his his feet out of his father's boots which he had been wearing and was dragged out.
But one of his legs has had to be amputated below the knee.
The shelter had been damaged by the blast from a bomb some time before and was due for re- pair.
"The boy never whimpered,” a workman on the scene told a re- porter.
"It was his presence of mind which led him to wriggle out of the boots which helped us to get him out in a few minutes and rush him to hospital,
"He has been brave all through."
Warren William, cards in hand, calmly recommends some new villainy to Porter Hall in this scene from Wesley Ruggles spectacular "Arizona," which stars Jean Arthur at the King'? Theatre with William Holden.