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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1931.
V.R.C. VICTORIES.
CHINESE ATA BEATEN IN
WATER POLO,
KOWLOON LOSE BY 11-9.
A very exciting match was played in the V.R.C. bath last night when two undefeated teams met in the senior division, viz, V.R.C. and Chinoso. Athletic As sociation. The latter had previous ly drawn with the Kowloon Swim ming Club but had never suffered defeat this season,
KENT GARDEN TRAGEDY.
CORONER ON “CASE OF POISONING."
LETTER FROM MR. LEWIS
TO A RELATIVE.
The inquest was opened and adjourned on June 2 St. John's Hall, Erith, on Mrs. Maud Lewis, aged 88, and Miss Freda Lowis, aged 18, the adopted daughter of Mr. Lewis, who were found buried under an ornamental pond in, tho, garden of their home in Erith-: road, Belvedere,"
They had apparently not been
The game was, an exceedingly fast one and the heme team won. by two clear goals both of which were shot in the first half. The since the previous Sunday
and inquiries came to be made Y.R.C. team were by no moazie comfortable with their opponents
owing to letters, received by a re. and although they had most of thelative and different people in the
game in the opening stages, it was not until: Laing stored with a' fast
backhand shot, followed quickly by a goal from C. Roza Pereira, that they began to play with confidence.
district.
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GUIDES OFFICER CHEERED
ON ACQUITTAL.
"AGITATION MIGHT HAVE SEEMED ADMISSION OF
THEFT."
A smartly-dressed, good-looking young woman, stated to be a liou- tenant in the Girl Guides, was
acquitted amid applause at Bourno mouth Polico Court on a charge of stealing a periodical, "The Scou ter," valued 3d., from a bookstall,
She was Kathleen Annie Dalo, aged 21, of Southern-rond, Bourne- mouth, and she pleaded not guilty..
A constable said he watched Dole') conceal a periodical "behind her stall attendant, and then walk arm while speaking to the book- away without paying
When he arrested, and charged her she offered to pay for the book, adding "I do not know what made. me do it. It came over me all of a sudden."
Dôle, in evidence, said she, car- ried the periodical under her arm when she ordered another book, and had 3d. in her hand to pay för it, but forgot
Mr. Charles Frederiek Lewis, the husband of Mrs. Lewis, is assistant education officer. He has not been seen since before the
Sho' might have been so agitated tragedy, and the authorities are
at the time that she gave the im- auxious to discover his whero-pression of admitting the theft, but the denied doing so. She was a solicitor's clerk, and handled","cash daily, and her honesty had never before been questioned..
Mr.
The Chinese had several sppor-abouts. tunities of scoring in the first half,
Mr. H. B. Sewell, coroner for but the splendid work of Soares West Kent, in opening the inquiry, at back and of Knight in the said: "Apparently from informa V.R.C. goal resulted,, in these option given to the police, the house portunities coming to nil. Nc was found to be deserted. Last Brown' said that he had not heard account of yesterday's game would Friday the police, searching the from the husband since. production. be complete without a tribute to back garden, found some newly Lawis was of a normal disposition. the Chinese goalkeeper who gave laid cement over a lily pond. They "I never saw him angry or in a cne of the finest exhibitions of took away the cement and found goal-keeping seen in the Colony the bodies of the two wonen un for many, a day and but for whom, derneath, cemented over. There the V.R.C. would have won by" a
was also a dog, which had appar- very big margin.
ently belonged to the elder woman, dead beside them."
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The Second Half. Undaunted by the two goals
"The bodies were removed to the scored against them, the second half mortuary and a post-mortem ex- found the Chinese team playing amination has been made by Bir pluckily to reduce the lead, Thoy Bernard Spilsbury, but, apparent had but few opportunities as the ly, no disease has been found at V.R.C. forward line, consisting of the moment sufficient to have caus the Pereira brothers and Laing, ed death, and that rather points kept their defence busy most cf to a case of poisoning. It will re- the time, while Remedios and quire an analysis of the contents Soares at back looked after the of the stomach and organs to dis Chinese forwards on the few occa covor what that is. That, appar- sions on which they managed to ently, will take several weeks, and, break through. The Chineso goalie therefore, today we can only take played a wonderful game and was evidence of identification and of alone responsible for the fact that the finding of the bodics, and ad- no gcals wore scored in the second journ for the medical reports.” half.. Zimmera was the only wenk link in the V.R.C. team.
Disturbing News.
temper." he added. Mr. Brown re- marked that he knew of no had feeling between any of the parties.
Discovery of the Bodles... Divisional Detective Inspector Cory gave evidence as to the find ing of the bodies.
They were under a concrete covering about five or six inches
in depth," he stated. They were
in £ hole whiih had apparently
been made, or intended, for a small ornamental pond. It was kidney shaped, seven feet long by four feet
three inches in width. The con crete covering had been commenced two feet below the surface level. and the bodies, which had been covered under the concreto" with three small sheets of corrugated Iron, each about two feet by two feet six inches, were in a space about soventeen inches deep, with a
For the losers, it must be cuUxbridge, step-brother of
Mr. Frank Brown, schoolmaster, concrete floor. The concrete had Mrs.eet hard on the surface but was ceded that they were very good Lewis, gave evidenes as to receiving softer underneath. The whole had swimmers, but one or two of them letters from her and the adopted been covered over with a new tar- gave the impression that they had daughter; one from the latter on paulin sheet," not played very much polo before.
April 9 stating that "father was They certainly lacked experience making a fish pond in the garden." but they made up for that by their
The Coroner: When did you first speed.
hear of this?
Kowloon "A" Well Besten,
Mr. Brown: The first intimation
In the second game, the V.R.C.I had was a telegram from a re- "A" team playing in the junior lative in Wales- brother-in-law division, trounced the Kowlcon of Mr. Lewis-stating that he had "A" to the tune of eleven gon's had disturbing news, and asking to nil, six of which were scored me to meet him at Paddington on in the first half. The V.R.C. players the following day. I received that were head and shoulders above their wire on May 25 and met him next opponents and certainly made full day. He told me that he had a use of their superior talent,
letter from Mr. Lewis, which was
Soldiers Go Under
The Coroner-Were they entirely covered!-Yes, completely covered over, apparently to keep out the rain. The sheet was green in colour.
Inspector Cory Baid that Mrs. Lewis's body was taken out first. She was lying with her head to wards the footpath, with the body
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London, June 17.-The suggestion that only British materials should. be used in the construction of
British Legation buildings in South America was made in the House of Commons to-day,
of a dark grey-coloured dog at her A Month of almost nightly foet Mina Lewis was lying the Transatlantic telephone calls has opposite way, her head towards the resulted in one of the biggest thea
Mby dividing fence of next door garden,trical deals of recent years,
"Both were in night attire," which Sir Harold Wernher, whose the First Commissioner of Works, In reply, Mr. George Lansbury,
very wild and apparently incon-added Inspector Cory, and each name has hitherto been unassociatated that the only British Lega sistent, but contained very disturb was wearing a woollen coat. Mrs. atqd with the stage by the generation building at present under con In the third game of the evening news. He told me he thought Lewis had bled from the right playgoing public, will become the struction in South America was in ing, the V.R.C. "B" met and de- that Mrs. Lewis and Freda were nostril and had a contused right foremost London West End theatre Lima, Peru, where British material was being supplied to a substantial feated the 12th Heavy Battery dead, and asked me to go with him eye. She had a bath towel tucked owner.
That is the romance behind the extent R.A. by a single goal scored in to Belvedere, which we did. tightly under her chin, and it was announcement, made last month the first half of the match. The The Coroner: Did you see, that bloodstained. Miss Lewis had no that five West End playhouses have contest was very even throughout letter? Yes, the police have it external signs of injury. Each changed hands. Those theatres and the. V.B.C. defence was par- nowi (2
body was wrapped in a bed sheet,
His Majesty's. ticularly conspicuous,
completely covoring the whole Galety. Apollo, body, and wrapped again in a
Shaftesbury. piece of carpet. Miss Lewis had a
Adelphi. second towel over her face, and the dog was also wrapped in a second
ON THE CASTLE PEAK ROAD.
How did he get the informa tion 1-The information was sent to him in the letter, from Mr. Lewis, with an intimation that a similar letter was being sent to me, but I had received nothing.
What happened next? We came ALLEGED THEFT OF MOTOR immediately to Belvedere sad called
TOOLS.
at the house first because wo thought Mr Lewis might have been A Chinese with the name of auffering from delusione, but, as William John Simpson appeared there was no reply we made no yesterday before Mr. E. W. attempt to get in, but immediately Hamilton at the Kowloon Police went to a polles station and gave Court charged with the theft of
information. motor-cycle":"accessories from garage on the Castle Peak Road Whep would that be-Friday, and with riding a motor cycle the 20thalten
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without permission of the owner,
Inspector Cory added that Sir Bernard Spilsbury had made post-mortem examination.
a
The Coroner And the organs have also been referred to the Home Office analyst for analysis'?
Yes, to Dr. Roche Lynch. That will probably, take several weeks ↑ "Fon:
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On searching the house did you find anything in disorder thero -
are
Circumstances varied so much, he said, that each scheme had to be. treated according to its needs, For reasons of urgency and cost. it would not, in his opinion, bo del sirable to adopt the suggestion made:"
their
The controlling shares in the company which owns them (Asso- selling those theatres because of ciated Theatre Properties, Landons any dissatisfaction with Ltd.) have been sold by the Shubort money making capacity. But things Brothers, the American theatrical have not been too easy for them magnatos, to Sir Harold Wernher lately in the United States and
Sir Harold owns the recently built Cambridge Theatre, which is to be merged in the Associated Theatre Properties group.
believe that Mr. Lee Shubert. who is a wealthy man, wants to tako things more easily in the fu
ture.
Pte. Angus, of the Argyll and the police entered the The three beds had been slept in Eng playhouses (including the Properties as managing director.
Sutherland Highlanders. Defend premises 1-Yea
police went
The purchase price, it is under. "Sir Harold Wernher, I under- stood," runa into six figures, but stand, is acquiring, control of these £400,000,TM mentioned in cablegrúms| West End theatres puroly as n from Now, York, is described by Bir real estate speculation, and, not Harold Wernher as an exaggern with any idea of becoming a domi- tion.
nant theatrical magnate." Mr. Lee Bhubert and Mr.. "Jake" | Mr McLellan is remaining on Shubert acquired control of West the board of Associated Theatre Winter Garden, which was resold Sir Harold Wernher is 38 years and they gore unmade, tim
tola British bompany in March of age. He is the second son of ant denied both charges and stated with us and the matter was thon Any signs of breakfast or a meal 1028) aix years ago, being associat- the lato Sir Julius Wernher, the that the tools were given to him by in their bands at all? No!! Everything had beened with Mr William Clifford South African millicnaire, from a Portuguese motor cyclist to repair
washed lip and was clean. Gaunt, the Yorkshire wool mag whom he inherited a large for tune, Ho, married in 1910 Lady. Almost every night. I have been Zin Torby, daughter of the Grand manking by Atlantic, telephone to Dako Michaol of Russia. He has Mr Lee Schubert," Mr. McLellan, numerous City interests, and both the Schuberte managing, director, he and Lady. Zia Wernher are in- said and his brother af det terested in sport, partididarly rat (Vontinued at foot af nézi column.)
....
a pucture in the tyre of a motor-Yon identified |, the, bodies.—I cycle he was riding. „He had, pro- | knew from what I could see of] mised to return the 1568 the next them that they were the bodies of day, fish, cand va t
|| my sister and of Freda Lewis;
Replying to the Coro
Coroner, (Continued on next. Column.)
Defendant denied having, ridden
on Pte. Angus' motor-cycle. The "onse was adjourned.
There was nothing at all in the house to help you in your investiga. tions?-Nothing at all."
The inquest, was, June 20
until
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