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Baby Kicked To Death -Penalty Three Years
A Wife
Took Her Beating 'Meekly'
A former Church England deacon ordered lis
wife up to their bedroom
to be beaten. She went
MAN'S "MOMENT OF
LOST CONTROL"
John Charles Saxby, aged 27, kicked two-year- old Johnny Mundy. The kick killed the babyAt the Old Bailey last week Saxby was gaoled for three years for the kick that killed,
Saxby, odd-job man, was baby-sitting with two of the Mundy children-Johnny, and Helen, then 11 months old -- in Dudley Road, Redfont (Middlesex), when Johnny died.
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child in
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Said his counsel: This was and Mrs Heary Munde meekly and was beaten, said, were nat giving mother child, an isolated case of cruelty of a
birthday man kicking a M Justice Barnard in a four-year-old Doric, Birmingham? Court last rent. work.
moment when he lost control of
Mrs nged 27,
Mr Barry Hudrum, defending, ¦ uimseit.“ said the the jury In bi dond
Mr Justice Gorman, pesaing But two days inter the wife, speech: "I Saxby
harl
nol, sentence, suid: "If you had a Mr. Monica Smeurtion, '30-year gone to the police station myl history of violence the sentence old mother of four children.de a statement there would would have been heavier. This left the hour e She is matron have been no prosevstian." is not а case of continued of St Elphin's School, Darley
Johnny Mundy died ouʼuule, cruelty." Bale, Matlock, Derbyshire,
14, 1951. from a ruptured liver
WONDERFUL As far her 31-yea4waten, as the jury heard, might
Johnny's mother, John have been rehool-leucher husband,
cen caused by a kick, Gwendoline Mundy, Smeardon, of Pakenhain Rond. And it was not until January the mother of four daughters. left the court arm-in-arm with Saxby's 32-year-old wife Doris, who has a a baby of nine months. mother has been to me,"
she said, Mrs
Mundy said: "I see no reason for holding this against John Saxby's wife. We have bath had some horrible letters since the case started."
Erigbaston, Birminghan
as it
Just know this can't go on She petitioned for divorce at Birmingham Assizes, and was granted a decree on the grounds of cruelty.
The couple married in 1940. The husband was 10 and a Cambridge undergraduate, The wife was 18. No doubt, said the
jige, that one of the reasons why the marriage went wrong of them were was that both
12 this year that Saxby went a police station and confessed that he had kicked the child.
But next day he retracted h confession and sart he had
touched the child.
LYING LIMP"
dark
open-beck
Saxby, who was in a grey suit blue with a shirt, told the jury he found the child lying "ling" in bed.
And he said he made the confession
12 be January On cause he had had a row with his wife in which she
You are not the father of my child. I advise you to go be cause the police are looking for you.'
I
Then
she added wistfully: "She will see her husband- again. I'll never see Johnny..."
SPARATROOPER
To young to get married.
FOUR CHILDREN The wife had four childreo When she was expecting the first child in October 1941 her Busband
ma completely Be struck her in the femper, face with his firt. Mrs Smear- en said he behaved a similar! The judge had put the case to
lost
At 40 p.m. the jury retired.
them this way: Supposing this way before thɔ, birth of each
* little
fellow had been obstre- child. "I don't say he hit her 196
up- perous,
and on every occasion, but
supposing Saxby braided her," said the judge. had thought it proper to punish
To April 1943, said the judge, him. Mr Smeardon committed mis- product with a girl guest in his house.
The wife forgave him, and Shortly afterwards he became a dean of the Church
Eng- land.
"The feet thing he seems have done after being ordainei,” raid the judge. "is to find other
yeang girl and
ratondart with her.
SHE TRIED
an- commit
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If the jury thought there was deliberate kicking of the child,
could they say the punishment was within bounds of modern- lion.
At 5.0 p.m. the jury returned ↑ The verdict: Guilty of man- slaughter
Then Mrs Mundy heard for the first time where Saxby had been spending some of his time since he left her council house homet prison.
"When he gut into seriou tmble bout that girl his wife stood by bim. She went with; Watts,
POACHING
For Chief Inspector Leslie liling Saxby's 16 pre-
him and tried to save him when vious convictions, said the las!
he had an interview, with
Bishop."
had
theone was in January for pushing crippled farmer in Kent, who
found The husband then consulted a
Saxby, his father, payahlafrist. soid the judge, and a third man poaching, Into Writing to his wife, Mr Smear-a 4ft.-deep stream. don said that he was "emotion- For that Saxby was gooled
fer three months. ally immature." His recovery depended on "how long it will take me to
STOW
into maturity.
Before the birth of their fourth child the husband said she ought to get sterilised,
up
Then a fifth child was expect~ ed. "Later, as we know." sald the judge, "The husband com- pelled this unfortunate wife to have a sterilisation operation. I have come to the conclusion that this wretched woman hard- ly know what the was doing. I ium convinced that eventually be had reduced her to u
state! of complete subjection."
Radio Hongkong
The inspector said Saxby had twice been in mental homes, He had had many 'jobs. In the last he was described as a good worker, though he twice struck pis boss with a shovel,
A
KILLED
Fort Hood, Texas, Mar. 25.
paratrooper of the "g- gressor" 82nd Airborne Divisica fell 1,000 feet to his death 10- day and became the first real ensualty of the 17-day "war"
Jarge-scale United States manoeuvres in which 115,000 "Exercise men are lighting in Leng Horn".
The paratrooper was in the first wave of 3,000 jumpers,
The parachute fouled and he struggled desperately to open the emergency parachute. He failed to do so.
The trooper's body sent up a
of dust cloud
as it hit the ground and half buried itself in the dirt. United Press..
Dulles Resigns
Key West, Florida, Mar. 25.
Mr John Foster Dulles, Ad- viser to the State Department, tendered his resignation to Pre- silent Truman here tonight.
He said the main purpose, of his mission had been the pre- parution of the Japanese peace trewly and that the missjoni hud come to an end with the ratifi- eation of the treaty by the | United States Senate.—France-
Presse.
S. Africa Faces Grave
Crisis, Warning
they
tions of
(Continued from Page 1) Minister of Native Affairs, sald that the proposed legislation of Parliament, which
"ensure the Inter- spurned for years when South would
of the the founders Africa was fighting for its life?" Union that the courts should not
The motion by Senator have
testing right. IL Nicholls was: That this House would protect the courts against Summary: Children Half Hour takes the strongest possible ex- the danger of undesirable suspl
Beunaa (BBCTS) No.
the declared 1: Toyinwn gees West 6.30, Forces ception to
inten-
clon of their Impartiality." Handstand Concert Hall) Hand of tian at the Government to
IKT
Plop Emms
By kind permission of Lt. Col.
the
Dr Verwoerd said that the
Portia-
of the people could only
the King's Shropshire Light Infantry overrule the unanimous judg-will Barkow, DSO OBE conducted by Mrment of the Judges of the op- be expressed through
W.G. lley. 7. Time Signal, Warla pelate division of the Supreme ment. News and News Anaysia (London Court to the effect that the en- Relay), 7.15, "Lucky Dip Variety Cour Requests presented by Jeen Halliday. trenched clauses of the Con-
Week-long-
If
legislation
Established 1845
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1952.
Lagos Chief Visits BBC
Chief Oniru of Lagos, who is on a goodwill_visit_ to Britain, went to the BBC in London for a tour of the British Broadcasting Company's bullding at Lang- ham Place last week-London Express.
Borstal Sum Put
In Murder Trial
1
Keep Your Eye on the Ball But on Refreshment, Too
DRINK
Coca-Cola
CAIRO
SEQUEL TO
RIOTS: PARTY LEADER ARRESTED
Cairo, Mar. 25.
Ibrahim Shukri, Vice-President of the AI Ishterakeya, the National-Socialist Party formerly known as the Greenshirt Fascists, was arrested last night on charges of planning Cairo's fires on "Black Saturday January 26.
His chief lawyer-demagogue Ahmed Hussein
is now serving 18 months' imprisonment for crimes of lese majeste. He is awaiting trial on charges arising out of Cairo's rlots.
Duplicate The Hen Lays Four Eggs A Day
she
(By A Correspondent) Duplicate, the hen laid two eggs at her frst-nt- tempt--is setting a record which Is confounding the experts,
In 88 days. Duplicate, eight months old, laid 21 eggs. In one week she produced 20 nearly four a day or one every six hours.
One in 18 hours 1s gcod even AMOAK the best layers.
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ON TIME Now Duplicate Is a North Holland Blue and seems different from the other 03 blue- white speckled hens kept by fair-haired Mrs
Living Language
Why we say Jerry- built,
A house is said to be "Jerry-built" when the work in it is. scamped and poor. There aro two explanations ·¡for- the word "Jerry," onc that it comes from the French "four" day, because the house only took a day to build, but - more properly it comes from the seaman's use
· of the "word "jury” for
temporary Hussein wQI On March 17 acquitted of instigating Д coup d'etat to overthrow the monarchy and the established social order.
Ibrahim Shukri WO3 AI Ishterakeya's only member of the Wardis: dominated Chamber of Deputies (Lower House) _dis- solved by King Farouk on Sun- day night.
New general elections are to be hold by May 18.
Egyptian opinion has been clamouring for the authors of the January 20 riots be brought to trial and punished.
Egypt's Supreme Military Court today sentenced 12 more Bayptians to prison terms with hard labour for arson and last- Ing on "Black Saturday",
90 SENTENCED
Four boys under 15 years of age were sent to a reformatory and eight other boys accused were acquitted,
Ninety-six Egyptians, in- ctuding two-Policemen have been sentenced to a total of 431 Hutchings, years' imprisonment in cases so 37-year-old wife of a farmer far tried.
should
at North Chichester, Sussex,
When I visited Duplicate las: week she had already laid two Her owner said: "She
be laying
about this time." And, on schedule, an down from Dupli- egg rolled
into the trap tray. No doubt where it came from. That was at 3.25 p.m. Tripli- cate, I thought.
Mundham, Gear
cate's cage
ΟΙ
emer-
geney. A "jury-rudder," for example, is a tem- porary rudder rigged up to replace
the one carried
by P away storm. "Jerry-built" therefore describes something put up in a hurry to last only for a short while.
Notices
Latest times of porting_ at G.P.0, and at Kowloon Post office. ragistared articles and muits close one. hour parcel warlier than the ordinary mail times shown below:
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20 - Dy-Air U.S.A., Canada. 2 p.m., P.AA. Malaya.
Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, & p.m., C.P.A.
Japan, Korea, p.m.. 1.0.A.C. Formosa, 5 pm H.K. Al-
Eight boys have been sent to ways." a reformatory
school. Sigh! other accused have
been ac-
quitted and set free.
About 300
other Egyptians awalt trial by court martial in awa cases still pending,
The Prosecutor-General demanded
How Many 1⁄2d Buns For 1/6d? egg, and Olive and Betty for people,
A Nineteen-year-old
soldier accused
of murder
said last week that he could not read or write although he was in the top standard when he left school at 14.
Fusilier Haydon Wallam, self- confessed deserter, is alleged to have strangled 51-year-old widow, Mrs Gertrude Honds, in her home at Southsea.
He pleads not guilty.
Wallam told the jury at Win-. chester Assizes that he joined the Army last August after being released from. Borsial on licence.
Prosecuting counsel, Mr Ewen Montagu, Q.C., showed a Borstal exercise book to Wattam, who admitted that the writing was
his, but said it had been copied and "meant nothing to him,”
ONLY THE FIGURES
1 compared Duplicate with the other birds, some of which
example are laying nine or ten egge a week, I read the careful laying chart kept by Mrs Hutchings. I examined the pellets of food on which all the birds are fed.
MR NICOLL Duplicate's
HONOURED
(From Our Correspondent)
London, Mar. 25.
A cocktail party will be held this evening at Malaya House in London in honour of Mr J. F. Nicoll, former Colonial Serre- tary, Hongkong, shortly to take up his new ap-
FU
who leaves
Governor
copy the whole sum 'down in a wife of the
of
cate
was
has
By Surface Macno, 12.30 p.m.; 6 p.m... ss Lee Hong/Taking.
Malaya, 2 p.m.. es Bougainville. Indonesia, p.m., sa Tikampek. Formoss, p.m. as Shengking. Indo-China, 3 p.m., 84 Eisbeth.
THURSDAY, MAŭćH 27-*
By Air
Basro Siam, Burma, Pakktan.
Am viz B.O.A.C.
Indo-China. 5 p.m.. Air Vietnam, Philippines, N. Borneo, ô p.m., C.P.A..
penalty the death
.
By Surface Macao, 12.30 p.m.; 6 p.m., x Les Hong Tac sung.
for those found guilty of set Beirut, Great Britain, Eirope. B ling fire to the Turf Club, Barclay's Bank and Shepheard's Hotel, causing the death of 30 including 10 British and six Egyptians.
About 700 establishments, including 02 bars, restaurants and cafes and 40 cinemas were damaged or looted in the riots. ---- Reuter.
MPS MAY DOZE
China, People's Republic, a.m., train via Canton,
Japan, 10 ant., sa Glenroy. N. Bamen, Noon, an Gleniffer.
FRIDAY, MARCH 28
Japan,
via C.P.A.
By Ale Canada, U.S.A..
6.30
& a.m..
Siam, India, Pakistan, Middia
| East, Africa, Great Britain, Europe,
Ba.m., B.O.A.C.
Burma,
Airways.
India, 19.30 e... Thak
THE SECRET I had a cup of tea with Mrя Hutchings, then went back to
cage. There another freshly hid egg in the tray. It was 4.55 pm. Dupil-
Karachi, Mar. 25. Members of the Pakistan Par- had scored four for the day and justified a new nameliament were told today that they...A/RWAL, Quadruplicate.
may deze in the House but must If there is any secret about not snore.
Mrs performance Duplicate's
The Chahman, Ebrahim Khan, Hutchings does not know it had his attention called to Nor does her 30-year-old hus-member snoring and was asked if band,
who farme 125 acres, it was allowed. Duplicate gets a normal ration
He replied, "I do not think that
re-
Formosa, Japan, Noon, C.A.T. Formosa, Okinawa,
4 p.m..
Malaya Indonesia, Ceylon, India, 3 p.m., B.O.A.C,
Philippines, Guam, Hawall, U.S.A., Canada, è pim., P.A.1.
N. Borneo, Auxirašia, New Zea-
China,
9.50
land, & p.m., Q.E...
By Burfaco Macao, 12.30 p.m.; 6 p.m., 21 læs Irong/Tak Shing. of ordinary food, plus a little there is Any provision
People's Republic, wheat and grass meal.
garding snoring in the rules. I... train via Canton.
Malaya, Burma, 10 a.m., as Hello». The accepted laying record is think dozing may be allowed but
Slam, 10 a.m., es Anne Reed, 325
eggs in 330
days by a York-not snoring."—Router.
Philippines, 2 p.m., as India. shire hen. As so many experts doubt Duplicate's performance. Mrs, Hutchings is willing to feed refresh anyone who will and sit by Duplicate's cage for a whole day and check the hen's performance.
Death Of Sir John Irvin
Mr Oliver Lyttelton, Secretary of State for the Colonle, and air Alan Lennox Boyd, Minister of Mr Montagu; Here anState for the Colonies, have ac- exercise which says how many cepted invitations. halfpenny buns could I buy for Others who will be present is. Od. and so on. Then there include Rear Admiral Sir Is a calculation. If you did not | Arthur Bromley, ceremonial know the question how did you end reception secretary at the do the calculation?
Commonwealth Relations and Wattam: I had only to do Colonial Offices, Lord and Lady the figures. We were told to Miivesten, Ford Mancroft, Lady late Str
Aberdeen, Mar, 25. book and calculate how much Henry Gurney, Lady Clements,
and Sir John Irvin, 78-year-old Lady Gent, Sir Richard and it came to.
Mr Montagu, speaking of a Lady Water, Sir John Hay, Sir
Winstedt,
and lending member of the Aber- "Sir Geoffrey and
deen fishing Industry and hear Lady subtraction sum, asked:
Were Ralph and Lady Hone, the Tunku of the firm of Richard Irvin did not know what you were
Mohamed of Negri Sembilan, and Sons, Limited, of Aberdeen, copying how did you know you
Ahmad of Johore arid Director of Irvin and John- had to take one from the other the Tunku
con and representatives of Malayan died today.
(South Africa) Limited, Waitam: We were either told gundents in Britain. by the education
Sir John played a notable be received The guests welli signs were
the development of the Counsel commented that most by
Agent-General
for part in
Aberdeen as a fishing port. During World War 1 ho was adviser to the Board of Trade on Ash and food supplies. On his way home from the Con- tent in Government business, the vessel in which he was passenger was captured by a German submarino and -bo spent two years in an intern- ment camp. Reuter,
ofcer
or the
Wattam was then shown his
of the sums seemed to be ticked Malaya and Mrs W. A. Ward. Parliament Was tfie by right and said:
"I suggest (Studio). 100 Weather Report siltation remain of full force then it was not right, as Senin- and sovereign legislative authority,
REDS ARRESTED you can write perfectly well?r. From the Editorlats (Recorded Ro Fayl: 8.10, Gisele Ballet, (Adami elfect.
and demands that the
Wattem: cannot write, sir." Joyal Opera House, Orth Covent Government shall give an un-tor Nicholls claimed, to give the Garde conducted by Coration deriaiding that it will act in ac- Appeat Court power of repudia- Army enlistment form and was long Music Festival: Part of Price Cordance with the Constitution, ting
askød:. "How did you know you Winneru Cond:rt College: Commentator: Leonard State that the Government is in hop
from Queen's falling which it is of the opinion Parliament.
had to put block capitais if you buck (0,00 .10, Orchestra of the
cannot read?" resion. Week-N.B.C. Symphony Orchestra; sur bound to p.30, Canterbury Talts No, 11
In the House of Assembly, UBCTS):
Merchant's Tale. The
the United Party leader, Mir Chaucer's Prem adapted or Broad- rasting by Nevill Cornil; 10.30, A G. N. Strauss, failed yesterday Concert of Popular Music by the
in his second attempt in three Queen's Hall Light Orchestra; Tuc
passed by
Court not have that power but Not only should the Appeal it was never intended that they should have it, De Verwceed
sold.
me,"
He replied: "The captain told
IN TOP CLASS He claimed that, as a mem- Mr Justice Pilcher: If you
the Transvaal Republic, whether it was going to South decision against the Party Icador) had been clearly easilo? Wattan:. No sir. General Smule (late United sea, Bournemouth, or
Veters Act.
COUNTER MOVE... The Nationalist
Artists: Gwen Catley (Soprano) and days to initiate a debate on the her of the Kruger Government saw a bus you would not know Jalin Brownely-113041onel 11, Radio crisis arising from the Supreme of New Reel Recorded Relay): Goodnight Music) 1120, Weather Court's
Report: God Sava The Queen: 11.30. Separate Representation
close down..
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Tunis, Mar. 25. Police arrested two Communi- ist lenders here last night, one of them, M. Georges Adda, à mem- ber of the Central Committee of the Tunisian Communist Party.
No reason was given for the arrests, which were made at the
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Communist Party Headquarters. Opposition Defeated
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He said that General Smuts Mr Montagu next asked: Aro decuments which are to pres,
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censure
London, Mar. 25.
ot The opposition - motion
against the Govern- ment's proposed national edu
in catlon budget was defeated the House of Commons to- night The division was 312 votes to 283. France-Presse.
French Budget
three
Paris, Mer. 23. (red, yellow The French Government will ensure that the will of the Africa was constituted), when read or write? At the time I blue) and their secondary tinta table before the National people, as expressed through he had advocated the British was at school, yes..
(orange, green, violet) formed sammbly a budget | proposal Parliament would remain so-system under which the courts
administered laws enacted
You must have been the most | by the passage of light through providing · Yor 3.780.000.000 vereign.
by backward boy in the top. class?. a prison. 6. A flah of the herring Franes (about US$10,780,000), The Nationalist amenament, Parlament but had no Bower --No. Several could not read family found on the nontheart It was learned here, tonight, moved by Dr H. F. Verwoerd, to test it, Router.
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