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Bath. The City Council has re- solved to free all the five remaining toll bridges over the Avon.
Bournemouth-The Corporation has appointed Dr. Grace H. Wood, of Liverpocl, to the post of assistant medical officer of health at a salary of £600 a year..
PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1929.
DYING WORDS OF "MADAME X."
DRAMATIC STORY AT MURDER TRIAL.
FISH DEALERS ON CAPITAL" CHARGE,
ECHO OF EMBEZZLEMENT CASE.
Paris.-M. Masaryk, the Presi
What Madame X" replied dent of Czechoslovakia, is suffering when asked, as she was dying, who from a throat affection caused by a chill. He has postponed his visit to had indicted her injuries, was di Southern Moravia.
elosed as the second day of the tri- Glasgow-The Royal Scot ex-al, at the Glamorgan Assizes at presses in each direction between
Swansea, before Mr. Justice London (Easton), Glasgow (Cen- tral), and Edinburgh (Princes Wright, of her husband, Heary Street) will cease calling at Car- Jackson (33), a fith dealer, charged, with her murder. The question, it was stated, was put to the woman several times, and she replied by repeating the word, "Gorse," three or four times.
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Cardiff.-The headmaster of the new public school which is to be opened at Kinmel, Abergeir. North Wales in September, announces that Mr. C. H. Ivatts, formerly secretary at Stowe School, has bech appointed burwar."
Many: Women Present,
Jackson
The dead woman, Mrs. Kate Jackson (43), became known Manchester. John Edwards, 42, Madame X when she gave evi- dence under that name in an em scaman, a native of Jamaica, was sentenced to six months' imprison- bezzlement case at the Old Bailey, ment and recommended for deporta- It is alleged that the murder took tion for inflicting grievous bodily place outside the bungalow at harm on Robert Murray and for Lymeslade, The Mumbles. Swansea, failing to notify his address.
where she lived with her husband. London-The Home Office has Mrs. Jackson had returned from issued as a White Paper (Stationery a kinema, which she had visited Office, ed.) a Memorandum or with a neighbour, Mri. Dimick. the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925. The memorandum sets out, briedy and in plain language, the main provisions of the Statute.
Enfield. A 12-roomed house in Fore Street, Edmonton, has been given to the district by Mr. A. E. Beer, on condition that the premises continue to be used as a day nur- sery. For many years Mr. and Mrs. Beer have conducted the day.nur. scry there on voluntary lines.
Odessa The Italian Air Squad. ron, which is making a tour of the Near East, left Varna and flew in perfect formation to Odessa in less than three hours. At Odessa they alighted on a lake behind the town. The airmen were cordially welcomed by the local Soviet authorities.
London.The Indian air-mail has
The court was crowded mostly with women.
appeared who cheerful. Edward Thomas, lives in a bungalow near Kenil worth, Mrs. Jackson's home, said that on the night of Merday, February 4, he passed Kenilworth at ten o'clock. He beard nothing and saw no one near the bungalow. Further on he met Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. Dimick walking in the direction of their own bungalows Two other witnesses said they had been near Kenilworth shortly after ten, but had seen no one.
Ernest John Skidmore, another neighbour, told how at a quarter before midnight Jackson asked per- mission to telephone to the hospital been employed by the Royal Botanic After he had done so, he told wit
ness that his wife had been attack- Gardens, Kew, for the transport to ed on the way home from the pic England of a
rare shrub, the tures. He added that he believed Zelkova, which grows in the moun-it had something to do with that tains of Crete. It would have been old affair"-apparently the Harri- almost impossible for the shrub to have survived the slow journey by
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son affair.
Dr. N. S. Taylor said he was Rome.-Signor Mussolini has told on the telephone that Mrs. Jackson had been hit on the head. issued an order that in future thee was met by Jackson a short dis- Royal Anthem, and the Faucist Hymn shall only be publicly played
on official occasions or on civil an niversaries. Fears are evidently en- tertained that excessive familiarity with these tunes may breed some thing like indifference or disrespect. Toronto.-Mr. R. A. Haynes, Commercial representative of the
Commonwealth of Australia, has
tanes from
Kenilworth. During
their walk to the bungalow Jackson talked about the bad roads and the lighting. Mrs. Jackson was sitting on the door in the middle of the living-room, and Was semi-con-
scious.
Later, on arriving at the hospit- al, the witness asked Jackson through the taxi window, how his
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word Dr. Taylor: The "Gorte." She repeated it three or. four times" Gore, gore, gorse, gorse." I asked her husband what she meant, and he said he did not know.
CHILD KIDNAPPED BY AEROPLANE.
FATHER'S FLIGHT WITH SON,
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"GROSS CONTEMPT OF COURT."
Mr. Justice. Bateson, in the Divorce Court heard a motion to attach the respondent in a divores suit of F. E. Adami versus P, G. Adami for contempt of court.
Dr. Arthur Robinson Thomas, Mr. T. Buckmill, supporting the who attended Mri. Jackson in bos-motion said that the case was a pital, said the woman had aine very serious one. It disclosed" gros head injuries. The forefinger on contempt of court. Mrs. Adami, the right hand and the little finger of Sinclair Mansions, Shepherd's on the left were injured.
Bush, filed s petition for divorce against her husband, Mr.. Adami. Eending the hearing of the quit she was ordered the custody of the child. That order was opposed by Mr. Adami, and he went to the Court of Appeal to set aside the order, which they refused to do. From time to time he was allowed to see his son Ronald and take him out, and on one of those oc-
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Nurse's Evidence. Mias Winifred Davies, a nurse at Swansea Hospital, said that on the second night she sent for Jackson, who, standing beside his wife's bed, said, "If she would only open eyes, I know she would tell me who did it. They are trying to say that I did it. She got mixed up in a case some time ago, but I forgave her for it. We adopted a little girl and lived quite happily."
Jackson also said that he did not
know who she was.
Cross-examined, Miss Davies said that Jackson did not appear to be very perturbed about his wife's condition.
casions he abducted the boy and few with him in an acroplane to France..
Counsel said that this was a dagrant breach of the jurisdiction Inspector Henry Thomas, of the of the Court, and he asked that a Swansea Police, who visited Jack-writ of attachment should go as son's bungalow in the early morn respondent must be taught to realise how serious" thing it was to dis ing following the murder, read statement which, he said, was made obey the order of the Court. by Jackson.
It read: I was in bed when I beard an unusual noise at the rear of the house, as if someone shouted went to the back, where I saw my Oh. I immediately dressed and wife at the garden door and Mrs. Dimick about Ave yards away and Mrs. Dimick running towards us. lifted her up and told me, Molly has been hurt. I was frightened and ran to telephone for the doctor; The doctor asked her if she had fallen and who caused her injuries, and she mentioned someone's name, which I could not catch. I bave no idea who struck my wife, but I krow she has enemies, as she has Teocived several anonymous let- ters,"
"Did Not Appear Shocked."
said that Jackson did not appear Cross-examined, Inspector Thomas
at all shocked when he B&W him first.
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A dumpy" seat was produced in court Superintendent Fox, of the Swansea Police, said that he found a motor tyre lever under neath the cushion and another lever in a box of tools, Jackson said he
Mrs. Adami, in a affidavit, stat- ed that on the evening of the day when the child disappeared her hus band telephoned to her from some where in France telling her that he had chartered an acroplane and Aown with the boy to France and she would never see him again an less she abandoned the proceedings. He gave her two hours to make her choice. He added that he would have to be satisfied that the pro- ceedings were withdrawn before be disclosed his whereabouts.
In a letter to her he wrote: "Ronald is my son and I have as much right to him as you, but I do not want to deprive you of him unless you try to do wrong. My duty to Ronald is to let him have bis mother, but his father, comes frst."
Respondent Apologizes. Mr. P. B. Morle, for the respon dent, said that his client desired him to apologise, as he did what he did in the mistaken belief that he was acting rightly and in the best interests of the child. The child was originally in his custody
The Judge, making an order for sense of the wrong that had been done by Mr. Adami and the very gross contempt of court he had com- mitted in removing the child.
dian offices. He will make efforts wife was. Jackson replied, "She had only one lever, which be kept attachment, said he must mark his
arrived in Toronto to open Cana to increase Canadian imports of dried and canned fruits and frozen meats. The appointment of a num ber of trade commissioners through- out Canada is contemplated by Aus tralia. 12
is sleeping comfortably. Although I have been married to her for ten years I don't know who she is. She has never been open with me."
The Doctor's Question.
"Ia cross-examination Dr. Taylor Jubbulpore.-Lieut. A Kidwaii,
said that while he was attending late executive officer of the Jubbal
to Mrs. Jackson Jackson spoke to pore Cantonment, has been ser
her and used endearing terms. He tenced to 18 months' rigorous im-
behaved உ5 -1 devoted husband prisonment and. a fine of 1,000 might be expected to behave in rupees (£75] for criminal breach of the circumstances. While attend- trust in respect of 12,000 rupeeing to Mr. Jackson the witness said [2000] of the Jubbulpore War to her three or four times at in Memorial Fund, Lieut. Kidwaii is tervals. "Who has done this. to appealing to the Sessions Judge you?": against the judgment.
Toronto. A British Free Church party, numbering 1,055, has reached Toronto on a good will pilgrim- age They are under the leader- ship of the Rev. Dr. A. G. Sleep, and their object is "to see the
Canadian, experiment in Church
union in action. It is four years ago since the United Church of Canada was formed by a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Coa- gregational churches.
Vienna.-Excavations carried ont by the Hungarian National Museum have resulted in the unearthing of a large Aver cemetery of about the fifth century situated in Moso szentpeter near the Austrian border south-east of Pressburg. Long rove of tombs were brought to light containing splendid specimens of bronze jewellery and ornaments characteristic of that period, and many well-preserved skulls,
in the tool box.
When the Superintendent pulled the second lever from under the cushion Jackson said it was his, and he did not know how it got under the cushion, and that his wife might have put it there.
at Jackson told him that his wife Detective Inspector Gubb stated had enemies of whom she was in dread, and that the rarely went out. She had told him that she was the youngest daughter of a duke, that she was a well-known writer, and
he believed her,
birth certificate in the name of Further, she had told him that a Kate Atkinson" related to a girl Mr. Jenkin Jones (for the de- who went to Australia, whose ident- fence): Do not answer this quesity Mrs. Jackson had bought. tion at once. What was the auswer
When charged, Jackson said, "Rub- to your question ?
bish. I won't say anything at all." Cross-examined, Inspector Gubb said that Jackson told him that be believed his wife to be Ethel M.
Mr. Trevor Hunter, K. C. (for the presccution: I have no objection to having the answer. It is better that there should be no mystery.
Mr. Justice Wright: It is not strictly admisible, but everyone will feel more happy. if we know what the word was What was it?
Rhyl-A woman received a regis- tered letter from King's Heath, Birmingham, containing a sover- eign, with the following note:-"1 once stole this off your counter. I'm sorry." The woman has been out of business for 20 years, and left Birmingham 15 years ago.
Dell.
The Judge: I understand that Eshel M. Dell's income from her profession was rather lucrative. The hearing was adjourned.
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SVEN HEDIN TO VISIT URGA.
BUDDHIST TEMPLES BOUGHT BY CHICAGO.
The world famed Swedish ex-
plorer Sven Hedia, recently anno→ unced his intention to organize & small axpedition to go to Urga, where two huge Buddhist temples. had been purchased, one of which was intended for Chicago and the other for Stockholm..
From Urga he intended to travel across Outer Mongolia, in order to meet the main body of his expedi- tion which, it will be remembered, he had to leave on account of illness in order to go to the United States for medical assistance.
HAVOC OF STORM IN JUGO-SLAVIA.
100 DEATHS. FROM"
LIGHTNING.
During the past month over 100 peasants are reported to have been killed by lightning in various parts of Jugo-Slavia. Terrific thunder- storms accompanied by cloudbursts still continue with great frequency. Great damage has been done by vina, and Montenegro. Fruit has such storms in Bosnia, Herzego- been destroyed by hailstones the size of hea's eggs, which also smashed the windows and destroyed the roof of a village school at Loparama,
near Tuzla. Great foods resulting from cloudbursts have destroyed thousands of acres of field crops in various parts, swept away eighty ī yards of railway line, and blocked many roads in Montenegro.
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