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1931
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Manufacturers of Coal Oroids or briquettes under the trade name
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KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1931.
ROUND GLASS IN
HER FOOD."
WOMAN'S COMPLAINT TO DOCTOR!
CORONER'S REQUEST - TO -
HOME OFFICE,
The Bodford Coroner was last month in communication with, the Home Office concerning an examina- tion which is to be made of certain of the organs of Mrs. Tomar Annie White, of Bedford, the inquest on whom had been adjourned,
BURIAL MYSTERY OF CROMWELL.
CENTURIES-OLD VAULT
MAY BE OPENED."
A jovement has been started in London to remove the remains of Oliver Cromwell, the Proloctor, which are believed to be interred in the vault a Newburgh Priory, the home of the Wombwells, pear here, for burial in Westminster Abbey,
Avontuuries-old mystery will be solved if permission is given to open the vault."
BRITAIN AND U.S.
BIG SHIPBUILDING PUSH.
NEW CUNARDERS.
Liverpool. Tho, New Year will
the beginning of a great struggle between Great Britain and the United States for a prizo worth millions of pounds.
:
Both nations are competing for the favour of the vast army of woalthy Transatlantic travellers whose patronage amounts to hun- dreds of thousands of pounds a moek.
The bulk of this money is avail-
This is the situation which bas developed within the last few weeks, and there are indications that it will resolve itself into against time.
rnco
At the opening of the inquest
Legend here declares that when medical evidence was given that the Protector's daughter came northble for the nation with the best
ships, Who will win itt.;.. death was due to peripheral and married the then owner of. neuritia, which it was stated could Newburgh Priory, she brought the be caused by Jend poisoning or by remains of her father with her and arsenical or alcoholic poisoning.they were buried in the vault of the
Mrs. White, whoas, age was 50, 'was the wife of Mr. Sidney Heary White, an employse of a local firm of aholcarló grocera. They lived in a fat in Ashburnham-road, Bed ford
Dr. J. Mackenzie Stuart said that when he was called on November 10 ho found Mrs. White sitting, by the fire. She was in a very weak, and emaciated condition, and complain- ed of feeling sick, and of loss of: power in the lower limbs.
He found that she was suffering from peripheral neuritis.
Husband's Vixit.
priory.
Sealed Tomb
Newburgh Priory was for years the home of Sir George Wombwell, who took part in the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclars, and it is stated that when Cromwell's body was placed in the vault the tomb was scaled up and has never since been opened.
"British hopes of attaining Atlans tio supremacy are in the two new. Cunard liners, the first of which, to be built in the yards of Messrs. John Brown & Co., Ltd., Olyde.. bank, was to have been launched in 1833,
Thres Months Ezrjler..
In view of the latest news from
This step is being taken because
the United States, however, the work is to be speeded up so that the ship may be afloat months, be- One of the villagers told mefore the date originally decided to-day that the Wombwell family upon. have strenuously rosisted ali appeals to them to have the door of the vault taken down, and it was recalled that the late Sir George Wombwell even declined to accede to a request from the late King Edward, when Prince
the sudden spurt which has been put on by the United States, whose fortunes are in two new 30,000-ton liners, which they hope to have ready before the end of 1332. The latest information is that the keel
He asked her how long the trouble had been coming on, and she said, "Gradually for the last 12 months."ing the movement in London an ber 4, and that the building of the
of Wales, to open the tomb. of the first of these United States
She then told him that ground glass had been put into her food...
On November 11 Mr. White called to see him, and witness informed him of her serious condition, and mentioned the ground glass. Mr.
It is stated, however, that follow-liners was laid down on Decem
appeal will in all probability be made to Captain Wombwell to allow the tomb to be opened to solve this centuries-old mystery, and also to perform what is considered to be
net of atonement. interested in the suggestion that the Residents of Coxwold are keenly tomb should be opened, but Captain Menzies Wombwell, a grandson of Sir George, who succeeded to the rstate some years ago, said recent
White said it was all nonsense.
On December 17 Mrs. While told him that she was leaving the next day. He heard nothing further un-ly:- til the 20th, when Mr. White called I have not yet been approached and said his wife had not gone by any one who wishes to move the
remains of Oliver Cromwell, but away..
certainly should not consent to their Witness arranged to call the fol-removal this year, at any rate. lowing morning, but before he ar rived she had died.
Dr. Stuart aid he was present when the post-mortem examination was carried out and he could not even now suggest the cause of death. 'He knew it was from heart failure, but he did not know what caused the heart failure. There was noth- ing to show whether her food, bad heen tampered with or not.
The Post Mortem.
Answering the legal representa- tive of the husband (Mr. R. H. Barrett), Dr. Stuart said that peri-
[pheral neuritis, could not be the result of natural poisoning.
.
Dr. Kenneth B. Bellwood, who made the post-mortem examination, aid the precise cause of failure of the heart could not be determined. I saw no suggestion of irritation from ground glasɛ......
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The husband said he left his wife to go to work two and a half hours before she died. He had no idea she was so seriously ill.
Next year, however, I may con- sider it, as there is always a pos- house like this, and if this house sibility of fire in an old country were destroyed by fire the supposed mystery of Cromwell's remains would never be known,"
The Tomb.
The vault is built in a corner of the oldest part of the house. It is of wood and is about eight foet square. A plate on the tomb bears the inscription:-.
second liner will begin three months later.
Added to this comes the news that
the preparations at Clydebank for the first Cunarder are months ahead of the scheduled time. The yards
receive the keel of the biggest ship? have been organised in readiness to
building may start almost at once." in the world, and work on the
World Baon.
The shipbuilders of Britain and jobs simultaneously... America will begin their enormous
second Canarder may be begun on It is possible that work on the the Tyne before the end of next year. Each of the ships will be of 72,000 tons, and will be capable of 35 knots,
tic nations has inspired a world This struggle between two Atlan-
boom in shipbuilding,
Franco is building a 28,000-ton ship, the Champlain, in an effort ta capture some of the traffic be- tween Europe and Amerion,
Germany is contemplating big. new liners.
Italy is hard at work on two new stips.
Next year will be launched, by the Prince of Wales, the new 40,000. toon Canadian Pacific liner, the The White Star Line have a second motor ship, Empress of Britain.
sister to the recently-launched Britannic, which will run between Liverpool and New York.
In this vault are Cromwell's remaina, hrought, here by his daughter, Alargaret Countess of Fauconberg, at the Restoration from Westminster Abboy," There is a hole in the wood of the tomb which is covered over with Two of the three present big wire, and it is said that King Cunard ships--the Mauretania, the Edward was so annoyed when Sir Berengaria and the Aquitania-are George would not open the tomb to be transferred to the Liverpool that he asked for. part of it to New York service. It was announc be opened, and this was done. fed that the White Star headquar Nothing but stones, however, can betera are to be changed to Liverpool seen through the hole. The tomb from London.[ goes some five or six feet beyond- this hole.
Oliver Cromwell died on Septem- The inquest was adjourned until ber 3, 1659. His body was original- December 12,
THE BRITISH POST OFFICE.
ly burind in the chapel of Hoary VII, in Westminster Abbey, but at the Restoration it was exhumed, and on January 30, 1081, the on- niversary of the execution of Char- les 1, it was drawn on a sledgo
from Holborn to Tyburn, together | with the bodies of Ireton and Brad- shaw, to the accompaniment of "the universal outcry and curacs of the
BIGGEST EMPLOYER IN THE people"
COUNTRY.
The body was hanged on 'a gallows al-Tyburn, and in the evening | taken down, when the head was cut off and set upon Westminster. Hall, where it remained until 1884 The trunk was thrown into a pit under- neath the gallows.
In every country of the world the Post Office, by virtue of its chief functions, is closely associated with the life of the people, but probably nowhere is its association more in- Various legends state that Crojo- timate than in Great Britain. Here well's Inst burial place was Noseby its original purpose of providing an Vield or Newburgh Abbey, but efficient postal service has develop others state that the body of the ed to a degree nadreamt of by its Protector still lies. in the neigh founders, until now the variety of bourhood of Connaught square, near its functions is extraordinary. It the old site of Tyburn.
is the largest employer of labour in my
the country, having about 230,000
employees, including 30,000 women is nearly £300 millions, Depositors on its books. The postal and tele- are allowed to invest in Govern. graph service, the air mail and ment stock, of which War Savings money ordor service are still its Certificates are the chief attraction. main concern, but to them must be The total number of investors is added the sale of excise, motor about eight millions and in War, vehicles, wireless and other licenses. Savings alone £372 millions are in- the payment of war pcasions, old vested. The state insurance schomes age and widows pensions to name have added greatly, to the work of but a few activities which have the Post Office, the annual value of como within its scope in recent insurance stamos issued being near. years.
£70 millions. At present the For the person of all means, British Post Ofice more than pays Faith pught aldamat
dom plays a most useful part asta made to turn over a profit. It is banker, To-day it had more than one of the fluest examples in the twelve million, depositors, and the world of state, enterprise, from the sum of money held on their behalf point of view of lowness of coat and (Continued at foot of next column.) of general efficiency.
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