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Were I not sitting down at a bridge table I would take off my hat to Lady Flora Hastings for her able defence of wonien bridge players, for a defence it undoubted ly is. I congratulate her on the way she has mastered her peints, but her statement that "in playing friendly bridge the women I have met have been, on the whole, better players than the men," leaves me mystified. She must have been very fortunate in her choice of partners,
To deal with her arguments one by oneWomen are the safer players. Is that any sign of a good player! The surprising call" is often the only correct one, and the sign of a good player who reads the hands well.
Sometimes Essential To Over-Call. I agree that men may be more selfish in playing mixed bridge, but I sincerely think that it is because women rarely call up to the fall strength of their hands, and men know this. In proof of this I eno use one of Lady Flora's own argu- ments, that if a woman calls high, one can usually depend on her, having cards to justify her call."
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MAN AND WIFE IN INQUEST DRAMA.
POISON BOUGHT BY MR. LERWILL.
MR. ROUGIER'S £3,000.
SCURRILOUS NOTE INCIDENT,
WAKING.
Mrs. Lerwill. a slightly built. delicate-looking little woman, whose pals, drawn face was hidden by a brown velours ha: pulled down over her eyes and a big fur collar round her neck, gave evidence at the resumed inquest on Me. Hilary Rougier, the 77-years-old farmer who died on August 14th, 1923, and whose body was exhumed on March
16th last.
Mrs. Lerwin followed her husband in the witness-box, Mr. Lerwill, continuing his evidence, admitted that he had received between "£3,000 and £6,000 from Mr. Rouzier within two years of his death, and he gare an account of a purchase | of laudanum which he stated he had made for, the dead "man.
Coroner's Questions.
Mr. G. Wills Taylor, the coroner, cross-examined Mr. Eerwill for an hour and a half. Time after time he asked him to state whether he could explain why a man should give away thousands of pounds and leave himself almost without means.
Mr, Lerwill reiterated, "I haven't the fairtest idea; I suppose he must have known."
Referring to the discovery of mor Phine by Dr. G. Roche Lynch the senior Home Office analyst, Mr. Taylor, asked: "What`have' you got to say about that?"
Mr. Lerwill, stroking his chin with his hand, retorted, "I have nothing Mr. to say about that at all." Lerwill frequently replied when in doubt, I haven't the faintest idea."
Mr. Lerwill stated that he had purchased a bottle of landanum for Mr. Rougier's dog, a cocker spaniel, which he said was suffering from dezema and ought to have been shot,"
Mr. Taylor remarked that the dog. was still alive and asked whether the purchase was made at Woking or Horsham, but Mr. Lerwill could
not say,
A bottle of laudanum, which is one of the exhibits in the case, was banded to Mr. Lerwill, who ex- claimed, "I have never seen that bottle in my life before."""
Later he said that except on the one occasion he had never bought poison in his life.
Mr. Lerwill's Chair Collapse. Mrs. Lerwill told her story with her elbows resting on the rail of the witness-box and held her hands interlocked with the fingers tightly
clenched.
As she related incidents of the domestic life of Nuthurst, where Mr. Rougier died, her voice was at times almost inaudible and Mr. Taylor asked her to speak louder.
There was a sudden interruption in her evidence when a chair on which Mr. Lerwill was sitting be- side his counsel collapsed and he disappeared under the table.
The jurors and officials, startled by the crash, stood up to see what had happened and after the coroner had inquired whether anyone was hurt, the proceedings, after two minutes' interruption, were tinued.
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In a tense atmosphere, in which the licking of the court clock could be heard, Mr. Taylor asked Mrs. Lerwill whether she could explain how morphia came to be found in Mr. Rougier's body. Her voice was] tremulous when she said she could give no explanation, since she was unaware of the presence of morphia in the house.
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When she left the box after more
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The last witness was Superinten- the trouble with a little. Bisurat dent Boshier, who said that since ed Magnesia, which instantly Mr. Lerwill had made his statement neutralises harmful stomach acid, of purchasing landanum in Horsham stops food fermentation, prevents inquiries had been made there by the formation of gas, and keeps the the police of all chemists and no stomach contents sweet. It la the trace of any purchase there could one remedy which protects the in- be found.
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The inquest was adjourned, when Mr. Taylor will sum up.
Mr. Lerwill's Note.
A letter addressed to him at the
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WEDDING EVE SUICIDE.
BRIDE-ELECT AT INQUEST.
An inquest was held at Sutton- in-Ashfield. Nottinghamshire, on Randall Wood, a miner, aged 28, whose body was recovered from a dam close to Mansfield.
He was to have married a Mansfield girl, Miss Doris, Mel- churchi. bourn, at the parish Furniture had been bought and the wedding breakfast ordered.
The bride-elect attended at the inquest but was not called to give evidence.
Wood's stepmother said she knew of no reason to cause him to take his life. He was of a very nervous temperament, but healthy.
When found Wood had in his wallet a statement of the purchas- ed furniture and three £1 notes.
A verdict of Suicide by Drowa- ing was returned.
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