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PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 20, 1929.
YEARS WORK | HAYLEY MORRISS NO PENSION.”
DENIALS.
ÖLD BAILEY DRAMA OF. ALLEGED BRUTALITY AND
OVERWORK.
***CONSTANT PAIN."
"ORGIES."
HIS DIVORCE.
One word on peace at home. I said at Dury Lane that one-sided": rationalization is not enough. A" plutocratic oligarchy, tempered by a militant trade unionism, is not How Sir Herbert Austin, clerk at Mr. Hayley Eustace Morriss, of my ideal of the highest that civiliza. Old Bailey, had worked for years Pippingford Park, Nutley, Sussex, tion can attain to. We can do in almost continuous pain owing to gave evidence when the hearing was hetter than that-beliere me, we a disease of the ear was revealed resumed, before Mr. Justice Hor can. (Cheers) We have to pre-at a City inquest recently.
ridge, of the action in which he
Progress Hand in Hand
POSSIBILITIES OF THE GOLDEN ARROW.
SEGRAVE'S CHIEF MECHANIC INTERVIEWED,
APHRODITE OF RHODES"
FINDING OF A NEW ART TREASURE,
· [British" "United"Press.) "The Golden Arrow is capable of doing 240 miles per hour given An antique statue of Aphrodite, good conditions," said Mr. Harold stated to be of extremely Ang Irving. Major Segrave's chief Hellenic workmanship, and recall- mechanic, and brother of Captaining in its lines the famous Venu J. B. Irving, the designer of the of Mile, has been raised from the Golden Arrow, who arrived at outer port of Rhodes. The statue, Liverpool recently, in the White which is believed to have lain in Star liner Cedric.
the bay of Rhodes some 2,000 years,, continued Mr. Irving,
"When he made his record run,” | was only 12 or 13 feet under water, Segrave was driving in water, and that it should not have been Major and it is considered remarkable the conditions could not have been
If he had driven the next salvaged sooner. day, when poor Lee Bible was kill ed, he would easily have done 240 miles per hour. The first time. Major Segrave drove the Golden Arrow he clocked 190 miles per bour." I don't think this record will be beaten for some years to
worse.
come.
serve the initiative of people; while | Sir Herbert was found shot dead claims damages for alleged libel we learn to work in groups we have in his rooms at the court, and the against United Newspapers (1918), ta preserve and recognize the value jury returned a verdict that he took Ltd., of Salisbury-square, E.C. of competition, while we learn also his life, but that there was insuf-| The hearing was adjourned. to value co-operation.
ficient evidence to show the state of Mr. Morris complained that his mind at the time. They added a articles published in the Daily We have lightened the burden of rider that private letters to relatives Chronicle and the Sunday News agriculture by removing the whole and friends in. similar cases should suggested that he was a violent and of her rates, and we believe this is not be read in court at public in-brutal husband, that he brutally the most practical thing that we quests.
assaulted his wife, that he was 'n could do. We have done, two other I should like to take this op bruto and a coward, that he had Ealing, London, Mr. W. P. Cal things, not very great, but of real portunity of paying my tribute, both attempted to commit
a serious use, particularly I think in one as a City coroner and a member offence, and that he was insane. respect in the West country, and of the Bar, to the memory of the He maintained that by reason of that is by saying that for part of late Sir Herbert Austin," said Dr. the articles he had been held up the year English home killed beef F. J. Waldo, the coroner, opening to hatred, odium, ridicule, and con- shall be supplied to the Army" and the inquest. "I feel that his place tempt. Air Force and the Navy when in will be a dificult one to fill." home ports.
But in agriculture the time now is for the busins in that industry
can.
:
Serious Operation.
tion.
Defendants Plea: Publication of the statements Mr. Sidney Austin, of Cromwell-complained of was admitted by the to work, as they are working in road, South Kensington, a brother defendants, who contended that the other industries, at its rationaliza-of Sir Herbert, gave evidence of words did not bear the construction tion, and in that the Government
put upon them by Mr. Morriss are helping so far as a Government identification,
Sir Herbert, he said, was sixty- Alternatively they pleaded justifica Only last Sunday the order
He suffered caras into force for the marketing e on May 30 last.
Mr. Comyns Carr, E.C., con- of foreign eggs. But we are now from ear-ache badly, and fifteen or
tinuing his opening address, refer grading eggs. There are 151 pack twenty years ago he had a serious red to a passage in one of the Ing stations organized under the operation for mastoid. Three or Sunday News, articles in which it National Mark scheme in this coun-
was suggested that Mrs. Stevens' try already. They came into opera-four years later he had another daughter, Grace, was ill-treated by tion in February. The legislation operation on the same ear.
Morriss, and found it necessary to was passed last yeat. Do you know
Sir Herbert was quite deaf on cacape from the house by climbing at present there are 10,000,000 graded eggs per
one side," said Mr. Austin, "but out of an upper window and down week coming through? "Eggs have been turned no one would have known it." out at a rate equal to the total con- Mr. Austin said that just lately tribution of Danish eggs to our his brother had been suffering markets. The two top grades re-
present 85 per cent. of that turn-severely from headaches. over, and that 85 per cent. is selling at prices above those of the hole graded eggs in market.
wholesale
we been more sensitive than we
a creeper.
That was a physical impossibility, said Mr. Cart.
Mr. Morris said that he first met Madeleiné Roberts at a palais de danse. She went to live with him shortly afterwards the next day he thought. He obtained a divorce while he was still serving his sen-. tence. The co-respondent was Detee- tive Dudley Wood.
The coroner: Has he ever com plained of pains the head-buz zing, or anything like that Often. The Colonial Empire."
**There is one thing I should like "Our undeveloped estate is the to add," said Mr. Austin," and
I met him about six weeks be- Colonial Empire of Great Britain that is that my brother, during the fore I was arrested," remarked Mr. Never, I think, in this country have last few seat, told me that owing Morriss. He represented himself are today to the conditions of the to the Act of 1992 or 1923, by which to be Sir Francis Dudley Wood." native inhabitants of these great they sent all these criminal cases in one article that amazing orgies Mr. Comyna Carr: We are told Colonial possessions. Our scientist from the country to the Old Bailey, were staged at Pippingford Park! are fighting the diseases which have decimated them for centuries, and his work had been nearly doubled,To my knowledge there have been a study is being made of the raw and he thought it was too much for orgies staged at Pippingford materials that can be produced and
him." of their agricultural problems.
(Continued on next Column), with Compared
the potentialities of these lands, little
enormous
+
The Day's Work.
"He always kept up to the end
as yet has been done, and that of the day's work. After that he is why we have decided to allocate
to them, when we return-(checra) was in intense pain, and broke down
a sum for their development and to frequently, but he never allowed)
promote the material progress of any one to know it. Although bis the Colonial Empire and the vast
exchange of goods and services bework had been increased he had no tween them and the Mother extra assistance, said Mr. Wright, a Country."
Central Criminal Court Account-
リ
LEVEL CROSSING
ACCIDENT..
TWO MEN KILLED.
aDt.
Sir Herbert arrived on a recenti Saturday about 10 a.m., and Mr. Wright saw him a little later.
"He told me he felt bad at first, and then we discussed four ques- tions."
Just after the Auckland to Well-
Sir Herbert, he said, appeared ington express
through distressed, and complained about passed Shannon the engine struck a lorry his ear, and said he wished he had baden with furniture on a crossing not come that day. south of the station.
The coroner Did he complain One of the two men on the lorry of violent pains in the head Yes, was killed outright, the other dying his own words were, "I cannot before he reached hospital. The stand it any longer. I am done." names of the dead men are: H. The coroner: Did you suggest he Tureman and J. Retter, both of should take advantage of a fine day them residents of" Shannon.
for exercise 1-Ter, but he The engine-driver states that the like the rest of us, he could not train was travelling at 45 miles. an because he was wanted there. He hour it the time of the collision.said, "If I had a pension ---. The lorry" appeared to slow down. as it approached the erossing, but suddenly accelerated in an effort to cross before the train, and was caught square on. The lorry was completely wrecked.
GARAGE TRAGEDY.
BULLET DISCOVERED IN
MAN'S MOUTH.
No Pension,
*
Was
The coroner (intervening): He would have had pension --No, none.
+
No age limit-No, I am sixty- nure, and I have been there fifty- three years, but there is no pen- Bion.
Mr. Wright then described the finding of the body.
Dr. Waldo, holding the letters Sir Herbert had left, turned and spoke to the jury.
Twill tell you what my prac When Joseph Simons, a 30-year-tice is," he said. "I have had old Syrian, wie shot dead," and his some experience. With regard to cousin, Phillip Malouf, was critic these letters, they are often left be- ally wounded, in a Darlinghurst, hind by people who are found shot, N.S.W., garage, one feature of the and so on. My experience is that tragedy puzzled the detectives if these letters are read in public- SERVICE TO READERS.·. making inquiries.
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"I happen to be a doctor as well as a lawyer, and doctors tell me Later, however, an X-ray examine that there is each a thing as imita- If, when at home, they will call | tion of Phillip Malour, who lies in tion by suggestion. It has & won- or telephone to the above address, St. Vincent's Hospital in a critical derful attraction for certain people, they will receive the utmost assist condition, revealed a ballet....em- particularly those persons suffering ance and the latest available infor- bedded in the roof of his mouth. | from unbalanced minds,· They read mation on all subjects of enquiry | It had, apparently, entered through these letters, and they are often will be placed at their disposal, the lip.
followed by other similar cases."
Park.
Qa-arrival at his home in West
enthusiasm in Italy and the pre- With the present archeological
sence of a government commission on the spot, it is hoped that many other art treasures may be
recovered from this island.
DEATH AT A DANCE.
OF HIS PARTNER.
vert, оле of Major Segrave's mechanics, said to areporter: the day Lee Bible went out, but MAN FALLS AT THE FEET "The beach was absolutely perfect when Major Segrave made his at- tempt the beach was very lumpy, and be had to drive through stretches of water. We were walt- ing to go out after Lee Bible when the news of the accident came along, and that put a stop to overy thing out of respect for the unfor-
tunate driver.
Tragedy stopped a City firm's dance at St. Bride Institute.
A young Swiss interpreter, named Frederick Beck, "aged thirty, of
employed by the Stirling Boiler Coldharbour-lane, Camberwell, and
had just asked a girl to dance with Company, Farringdon-street, E.C., him when he collapsed and died at Ler feet.
the Eighty young people saw ly stepped, and the dancers left the tragedy. The dance was immediate
The Golden Arrow's engine worked perfectly, and after the trip Major Segrave remarked that it was just like driving a touring car. Had Major Segrave been able to get out on a second day he felt very confident that he would have exceeded 240 miles per hour. That
Mr. Beck had previously taken was my opinion also, because he out when he went down the mile" in the jolliest of spirita. was not running the engine full part in a fox trot, and he seemed
די
room.
ENRAGED LEOPARD. Whipping Denied. Did you betray Mr Stevens SEIZES CIRCUS ATTENDANT: daughter?—I have never betrayed anybody in my life.
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One of the wild leopards" belong- ing to Wirth's. Circus at Sydney seized one of the attendants and annuled him.
Mr. Morrisa said that he had' sever whipped Madeleine Roberts or struck her on the face. Some time before he was arrested she made an excuse to leave the house,
The leopards were being changed and he followed her and found that from ons cage to another, and as she had met a man and had gone George Gribble, 34, one of the at- with him to an hotel.
tendants accustomed to handling Referring to his trial, Mr. Mor-wild animals was bending down, ful that my witnesses were not call- rise said: I think it is disgrace one of the leopards crept stealthily to an aperture between the cages ed Every man has a right to be and struck at his head, which was defended properly, I now desire defended properly, and I was not lacerated by the beast's claws.
Gribble sprang away before the to appeal to the House of Lords. animal could inflict further The Home Secretary dare not grant wounds. me leave to appeal to the House of Lords, because, he knows that
would win my case."
He was taken by the Central Dis- trict Ambulance to Sydney Ecs- pital.
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