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MADAME GUERRA'S DEATH
ENQUIRY
Verdict Of Suicide While In
Di
Normal State Of Mind
A verdict of suicide while in a normal state of mind." was returned yesterday by the special jury empaneled at the Kow- loon Magistracy, to inquire into the circumstances surrounding the death of Mrs. R. Alves Guerra, wife of the Portuguese Con- sul General, who died at the Kowloon Hospital, at 5.30 a.m. on the morning of May 30 trom unshot wounds in the head.
The Inquiry aroused tremendous interest in the many con- filleting pieces of evidence which came to light during the hear- ing but as minute tnvestigation was made into the circum- stances by the Police, it was evident from the commencement that it was a case of suicide.
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Mr. E. 1. Wynne-Jones "sat as Coroner, while the following comprised the special jury Messrs. W. E Orchard (foreman). Ye Tse-chut and H Keller.
Inspector Lane of Tsim Sha Tsui Police Station Water- Police) ennducted the inquiry on behalf of the Police.
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Mr. Wynne-Jones pointed out to the jury the remarkable forecast in the paper which.foretold of the death of His Majesty the King of the Belgians by an injury, to his head. That had been perfectly true and had probably undermin- ed Madame Querra's mind.
Mr. Wynne-Jones: Is there any possiblity that Madame Querra intended taking her own lite or. of anyone else wanting to take her life?" Witness: None whatse- ever. This concluded the evidence of Mr. Guerra.
· MÍ. R. M. Marques, reception clerk at the Peninsula Hotel, said that" Mr. Guerra came down at and about 9.15 a.m. on May - 29 handed witness the key to the connecting door between Roonis 542 and 543.
Witness saw the deceased that, morning when she left the hotel at about 10. a.m. and again when she came into the hotel at about 1.15 p.m. The last time he saw her alive was at about 3 p.m. when she passed the cashier's desk but did not hand in the key to her. room as she usually did
During the discovery of Mrs. Guerra's body, witness recufled a telephone call for the key to Room No. 543 to which he replied that it was not at the office. A Httle was the while later he received another phone call for the connecting room key, which he sent up by a boy. Housekeeper's Evidence
Mr. R. G. Alves-Guerra, the de-," What upset her? I don't know. husband, was and she wouldn't tell me. She was ceased woman's
by the often like that. closely cross-examined Coroner and Inspector Lane when He resumed his evidence this after-
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The Coroner:-You told us yes- terday that your wife once men- tioned divorce, and that you didn't take her seriously. When Was that?"
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Witness: A few days before she committed suicide.
...Witness added that his wife was
The Coroner:-What
misunderstanding?
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Witness:-I told her not to go out too much in the afternoons. She was in the habit of going to Miss Charlotte Sarah Pearce Repulse Bay to swim every after-sald she was housekeeper of the
go I told her not to too Peninsula Hotel. At about 4.30 early, and to wait till about 5 p.m.
p.m.. on May 29 she tried to see Do you know what she was do- Mrs. Guerra, but in spite of knock- ing during the morning?--I did ing on the door three times she not know then, but I learned after-received no answer.
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excitable and would say things of wards that she went to Mr. Ohl's Witness then atempted to enter
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When did you last quarrel?— On the evening of May 28. I tried to calm her next morning. and when I left for the office she seemed to be composed. I met her at tiffin on May 29 and she simili- ed at me and was nice.
Did anything happen at tiffin Yes: all of a sudden she seem- ed upset and had tears in her eyes.
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office where she met some friends with the floor-boy's duplicate key who were leaving Hongkong that but found that the room door was afternoon"
locked and bolted from the in- Witness W15 then questioned | side. It was Mrs. Guerra's habit about the key to Room 543, and to lock the door from the inside. was asked where it was when he said witness, who knew the de- left. "I was certain 1 was in the ceased rather well, having spok- room," he said.
en to her on various occasions." Never Took Drugs
At about 8.45 p.m. witness re- you Coroner:-Do
krowceived news of the tragedy and at Guerra
Wis that after Madame
oncé telephoned for the ambul- removed to hospital your key was ance and then went to the recep- found in the hotel office,, and canton office to see what they were you explain?
doing for Mr. Guerra.
The
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Witness:-No, I did not take the kev to the office.
Inspector Lane:-On your way up to the room, did you go to the office and get your key?
Witness: No.
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Miss Peared thigh went up to Mrs. Guerra's room where she saw the deceased, sitting in armchair balt upright, her head reclining to: the left.. that side of the face being covered with blood "Mrs. Guerra struck me as being Witness: Because I thought my a very highly strung woman tem-'
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The Coroner:-Why not?
wife" was there.
The Coroner:-But you rang your wife, up half an hour before and she was not in then?
Witness: I had a presentiment that something was wrong and I went up straight to the room.
peramental and excitable and in- clined to be upset.at times I did not notice any fits of depression although deceased was not in good health. She was regarded by the servants as being eccentric." con- cluded witness...
The Weapon Used Crown Sergeant John Edward' Scott said the automatič pistol used by the deceased was of 25 when calibre Browning. The ammun)-
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to 40 cigarettes a day, against my tol with similar rounds and found New Magazine Just Published advice. She also drank, French that it had between an eight and wines against my advice, but never nine pounds finger pressuré took drugs. '.'
"In order to fire a second shot
"The Literary Miscellany," a magazine issued by the English Department. of the Sun Yat Sen
Can you explain why there was from this automatic pistol ang a bottle of chloroform in the room? compelled to release the trigger University has just been published
No, I was told she bought chloro-first and then pull again. which
and contains a number of interest- form, but I never saw it.
is unlike some pistola which reing articles.-- Who told you?--I don't remem-peat like a machine gun on one
In the introductory, note the ber. I was told a few days after pressure," said witness.
Editor, states: For several years,, her death."
Witness said the pellets he Inspector Lane then produced found in the walls of Room No. forts have been made to create the black attache case which wit- 543 could have been fired from some such medium as this Maga- zine, through which our own im- ness said. had contained the pistol. the automatic pistol which WA mediate circle of friends, literary
The Inspector said the case was found.
not locked when the police found Mr. Bone Ohl said he was Vice-devotees, aspirants and talents may contribute their ideas and crit- it, and contained a pair of dancing Consul for the Argentine and was shoes belonging to Madame Guer- the manager of the French Mall, cisms of literature," which un- doubtedly is the most venerable ra. Mr. Guerra was. asked for the the Messageries Maritimes. } and significant of the Arts. As its
key. but could not produce it.
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He had known both the deceas- A Remarkable Forcast
ed and her husband well, in fact When did you last see that gun? he made their acquaintance in --Towards the end of January or October of 1933; -
in the beginning of February, I
Generally Happy have not opened the box since "Madame Guerra was generally then.
happy but at times in my wife's inspector Lane produced a company and in my and her hus- brown leather hand-bag which band's company she would start witness identified as that which to cry for no apparent reason and contained his wife's jewels and when we tried to cheer
her
very name suggests, we have tried to make the articles appeal to all tastes, however Imperfectly and haltingly."
The articles in the rat number, include a tribute to the late Pro- fessor W. J. B. Fletcher, whose un- timely death in Hong Kong octur- red only a few months ago. There
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are nineteen articles in all and we agree with the editorial writer that the magazine "caters for tastes."
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which was found in a bottom she would fail to answer. us," said drawer of the cupboard. It also Mr. Onl.... contained some
letters. Inspec-
Witness said he saw the deceas- tor Lane asked witness whether ed in his office on the morning it was possible that the revolver of the tragedy when she came to
had been hidden in it and received visit several friends who were row it as protection when he went
his answer in the affirmitive.
leaving Hong Kong the same after up the river to Canton.
His Worship then addressed the His Worship then produced a noon. At about 12.50 p.m., Mada-
deceased's newspaper published In France me Guerra left witness' office and Jury and sumarised
several which foretoïd
dreadful he next saw her, in the chair at movements on the day of the tra calamities during 1934 and which the Peninsula Hotel when she was gedy and pointed out the effect of was found. with some letters and discovered wounded..
the firing of the revolver in a jewels in the brown hand-bag. Hils Witness corroborated Mr. Guer-position demonstrated at the Kow, Worship said, the paper was dis-ra's evidence as to his movements loon Hospital which fully satisfied covered by Inspector Rovsky, neat-when the latter went to Mr. Ohl's His Worship that it was the only ly folded and showing signs of house to see if his wife was there possible manner in which Madame having been looked at several and their subsequent trip across Guerra could have fred the shots times.
the harbour, and the discovery of which killed her. Madame Guerr
Witness, admitted that the pistol
When shown to witness, Mr.
The Jury retired for. five minutes;
Guerra said he did not know any-
and returned, a verdict, of suicide thing about it but knew that his belonged to him. He had parted by shooting herself twice through wife had been in the habit of re- with it soon after Christmas when the head while in a normal state ceiving French newspapers,
Mr. Guerra asked if he might bur- of mind.
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