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4, Leighton Hill. Hong Kong. June 21. St. enclose, herewith an ex- truet the Sunday Sketch and
WEST END SHOOTING MYSTERY.
TRAGEDY OF MRS. BARNEY AND MICHAEL SCOT STEPHEN,
BIZARRE AND LUXURIOUS FLAT.
London papers to hand contain full accounts of the shooting tragedy in the West End for which Mrs. Elvira Dolores Barney. has been sent for trial on a charge of murder.
"I heard the cocktail party d Mes. Barney's' Bat," he
The
tute→→→ Day Express Tragedy was the semiel yesterday to a noisy cocktail party of Bright Young Things in a bizarre and ar-
A woman; crying in an extremity of grief, was, sitting in a chair by the body.
| Sunday “Few of May and (utistic flat in a Knightshridge mews, Dotativos called to the flat short- Possibly many ex:Service men in Hong Kong may not have seenly after five o'clock in the morning this account) which proves clearly found a young man in evening that the horrible träffie in old dress lying dead on the floor, war horses abroad still continues. Many of your ex-Service men read. ers, will, feel sure, wish to come to the aid of their old war, time pals, now in dire need, and the address to which subscriptions may be sent is given in the enclosed ex trnet, or, if they prefer, I shall be gind to send any donations on their behalf or on half in atamping out this dreadful trae if they will send such donations to me at above address or at the Colonial Secretariat.
Yours sincerely.
D. DAVIES. Where to send.-A correspondent
who signs himself A Working
Manaaks where he can "Send a few shillings to stop cruelty of this kind."
The answer is Lady Doria Gunston, 18, Smethwick-crescent. London, W.
Most of these old friends of our soldiers are in Egypt-over 25 years old and worked chiefly at night na their condition would not be tolerated by the Police,
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The man had died from the effects of a bullet wound in the chest.
He was:- Michael Scott Stephen, aged twenty-six, the son of Mr. T M Stephen, J.F. of Doubleton, House, Panshurst, Kent, Londor manüger of the North of Scotland Bank, whose offices are at Lothbury,' E.C.
The woman, in whose fat the tragedy occurred, is:-
Mrs. Elvira
Dolores Barney, daughter of Sir John and Lady Mullens, of Belgrave 'square.
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Nearly thirty people were present. Many the majority of them men. of them arrived driving their own.
Cars
Shortly after the other visitors had left the Aur Mrs. Bareng and i Mr. Stephen, in evening clothes, went off in Mrs. Barney's car.
Disturbed by Voices.
Their arrival back at about three o'clock in the morning dis curbed me. From my flat, which is
adjoining, 1 can hear every sound" next door through the thin parti- tion.
"I diapinetly heard them come In and go upstairs. The car was left putside in the mews..
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*For a time rverything was quict. Then, about a quanter past four, 1 was disturbed by voices. I heard n'man's voice and a woman's voice. About ten minutes later I heard Sir John Ashley Mullens, until four distinct, yaharp noises, like his retirement, was one of the chief | hard rapping on a wooden door. figures on the London Stock Ex-
Again, after a few minutes, 1
change, and was broker for the heard voices, and later came tão Treasury. Mrs. Barney married an sudden, urimistakable report of a American cabaret artist, one of the shot. party known as The Three New Yorkers," Her sister is Princess Imeretinsky.
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"Then a woman's voice sorvatn ing, Mickey Mickey! Come back to me!'
A Pitiful Tale. Some are still left, and the Society has to pay £6 a piece for them. In order that their owners shail not purposely, starve and il trent them the Society's ropre- sentative in Cairo writes me that more is paid for a decently treated animal. Eere is an extraet:-
"In the last 400 horses we have not seen & single sound animal-sion in the fat of a small revolver..come round to Williams mews; it is
A curious fact was discovered urgent." very many in the last stages of de crepitude, pain 'arid starvation, but all working!"
I heard the sound of a fall; Ourious Discovery,
and after that there was silence. An immediate problem of the broken only by subdued moaning, establish how the "A woman's voice called a nu police was to wound was caused which killed bar over the telephone, and some Michael Stephen. They took posses one said, Doctor, will you pienas
Unprintable Picture.,
when they examined the revolver, "I heard the duelor's car arrive. Two bullets had been fired from it, and, looking out, 1 saw him ad-
mitted to the flat.
At the ton of this page (right) have reproduced a photograph sent me from Egypt. It is the least disapparently killed Stephen. gusting of a batch of seven and I have in my possession one photo- grach that is so nauseating that it could not possibly be reproduced in any English newspaper.
one of which had lodged in the wall of the room, while the other
It show two animals that the Society is about to destroy after purchase.
But in the revolving magazine war an untouched cartridge be tween the two exploded ones.
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It was understood last evening that there had been a struggle for the possession of the revolver...
Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the patho-
4.
Finally, about a quarter past five, the police reached the mews and took possession of the fat,”
Many other people in the meva, heard the sound of the shot and the cries after the tragedy. Some werc under the impression that five shots had been fred.
A Kinder Fato. Well, there it is; a nasty blot on!
Telephoned for Doctor. the copy-book of nation that pro-logist, was called in to assist the fesses to love animals. So disgust police. He spent three hours ex-
"All the windows of Mrs. Bar. ingly have we behaved that it would amining the body, and later inspect-ney's flat were open, and I could have been far better had they all the flat, with the object of giving hear everything that went on in- been killed doing their bit...
CHINESE DRIVER
FINED.
DANGEROUS DRIVING IN POKFULAM ROAD.
Before Mr. Schofield t the Cen- tral Magistracy yesterday morning n Chinese driver of a public gar Lan Tat Sam, was fined 830 and had his license suspended for dan gerous driving in Pokfulam Road.
an expert report to the coroner on side," said a woman who liven above the shooting.
4 garage opposite. Mrs. Barney herself. telephoned for the doctor to come. There was a good deal of, noise just before the shooting,"
Soon after the tragedy was noti- fied to the police Sir John and Lady Mullens drove to the flat in Williams-mews. Following an in terview with their daughter they accompanied her to Gerald-row
Station.
J
Door Sealed.
Then, after three hours i the police station, she returned with her parents to their home in Belgrave
Mr. Stevenson, who prosecuted, square. said that the defendant overtook Seals were placed on the doors another car on a bend of the Pok- of rooms in the flat, and a políca falam Road, and it was with the
that he, Mr. guard, was left in occupation. The greatest difficulty Stevenson, avoided a collision. He whole affair is being investigated by asked H Worship to make an Superintendent Hambrook. example of the defendant, as such cases of dangerous driving were Michael Stephen and Mrs. Elvira
common.
Barney had been friends for the
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Mrs, Barney's sister Averil was married when she was only sixteen to Prince George Imeretinsky, a former officer in the Grenadier
Guarda.
Mrs. Barney will be the principal witness at the inquest, which will probably be held on Friday. Other
The news of the tragedy has been avidence will be given by visitors kept from Princess Imeretinsky,
who attended the cocktail párty,
The flat in Williams-mews, which who this week went into a London nursing home for an operation for is just behind Lowndea-square, s normally a double-floored dwelling eye trouble. for a chauffeur, with a lock-up garage Below.
Mrs. Elvira Barney took it n'year ago, and altered it into a luxurious fab, regardless of cost.
**Inevitable.
Penshurst (Kent), Tuesday. These things are inevitable," Mr. Stephen, the father of the shot man, said to me to-night when I saw him at the beautiful mansion, Double
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Up 11 4 p.m. yesterday only one case of cholera was reported. In view of the grave situation in Canton this news is indeed reassur- ing and it is to be hoped that. Hong Kong will escape thia, out" break just as it had escaped those in former years,
Cur representative called on Dr.. G. W. Pope, Medical Officer of There is a bright green front
Health yesterday and was told that the case that was reported was door and a bright green staircase.
On the first floor is a maitton House, in which he liyes.
given as of "no fixed abode." I have not seen my son for some When asked whether it was a local case or an imported, one, Dr. Pope- said it was probably local.
designer, and had businessta in London nad in Paris.
A previous conviction for dan-
greater part of the past year. They kitchenette and the dining-room, in time," he added. "He was a dressi gerous driving was proved against. the defendant, and the Magistrate became acquainted at a fashionable corner of which was construct imposed penalties as stated above. London, dance club. He was a freed a complete bijou cocktail bar.
Striking and unusual figures are quent visitor to the fat.
painted on the walls, and there is an allegorical picture over the Are place.
FATAL ACCIDENT IN HENNESSEY ROAD.
DEFENDANT'S. BAIL REDUCED.
Often they were seen driving toge. ther in Mra. Barney's, luxurious car. Only last Sunday they motor- ed off together.
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Formerly on Stage.
"I can say no more. It is too terrible."
son.
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Regarding the question of sea- The shot man did not visit his bathing, Dr. Popo said there was a certain amount of risk in it but family regularly.
He had come home for several in his opinion places like Repulse werk-ends," Mrs, Wiles. a neigh Bay and Shek-0 were reasonably The marriage of Miss Elvira Do.bour.. told me..
fa The speaker said that ther "He was very litable boyfarther out, one want the less risk One day recently, when Michael lores Mulloss to Mr. John Stirling.
Barney, in 1025, was a suciety ro- gay and handsome. He always thers was but he strongly advised Stephen came to the news, is was
kept things lively.
they berhour Remarking that he had Previously noticed that he suffered from a ramanen.
Ms. Stephens was badly upset against bathing in fixed bail at 8800 because of the ther conspicuous black eye.
by the news, for he was her favourite where all the city sewage and also
that from ships and junks do nasibility of more serious charges On Monday evening Mrs. Barney.
posited. Boing introduced, Mr. Wynne Jones gave a cocktail party in her fat at Mr. Barney was appearing with She has been in uncertain health
Frequenters of fan Castle Posic yesterday reduced to 850, the which Michael Stephen was one of The Three New Yorkers in for some time, and the family mov
Beach are particularly asked to amount of bail required by the the guests. The party numbered London, and had met Miss Mullens, ed to this beautiful part of Kent
note that during this time 'swim- Conrt from a Chinese chauffeur who about twenty young men and ton who was then twenty-two, at, her in the bope that it would be bene-
ming in that vicinity is not at all was charged with failing to stop girls. There was a considerable father's house, where he had a con- ficial to her."
destrable in view of the fact that after an accident in Hennessey mount of marriment which was cert engagement.
all boats from Ganton come in Road. It was stated that a young heard by other residents in the A few months later they were
vid that way. irl was knocked down and killed mew's.
quietly married. at a register office.
danger there was of a cholera Our representative asked that in by the heeidrat,
The party broke up about nine Mr. Barney is how in Amorin, Hearing of the case was fixed, for o'clock when Mrs. Barney and For a time, after she left school carrier being in their midst, but view of the fact that such a large the when asked aptin whether he number of people use tho Repulse. Thursday afternoon next week. Mr. Michael Stephen loft together in her Miss Elvira Mullens was on Wynne Jones was informed that car, being later seen together at a stage,
thought it advisible not to use the Bay Beath did he (Dr. Pope) think the Corber's inquest into the London renariat.
Bir John Mullens, her father, an Repulse Bay Beachs: became there it who wodesirable to bathe there The Medical Ofear's Circumstances of the fatality had What happened afterwards in besteld Etonian, is mixty-three years of was always such a large number of as well. heen concluded and there was no told in the words of a chauffeur who age. Ho ritirad in 1920 from his people there. Dr. Fore repeated reply was that the larger the crowd further charge to be brought occupies an adjoining dwelling in position as senior partner in the that he thought it was reasonably that frequented any place the more against the defendant,
} {Continued un Previous Volume: the muws.
Brm of Mullens, Marshall, Steer, safe."