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RAVINE MURDER
· MYSTERY
Doctor Committed For Trial
London, Dec, 13.
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
MONDAY, DECEMBER 16. “Anniversaries and Holidays.-
| St. Eusebius, Bishop and Martyr.
St. Alice, Empresa.
Cinemas
King's: “Redheads On Parade." Queen'a:-"The Big Broadcast
1936.
Scandals."
Central-Chinese Picture." "Oriental:-~-~"George. White's 1935 "Oh, she's all that. But she will Dr. Buck Ruxtong of “Dalton keep interrupting, me
to-day when Tm8quare. Lancaster was dictating to ask me how to spell committed for trial charged with World: "Chinese Picture."
having murdered Mary Jane- Alhambra:-"Musle Is Magle." Rogerson and Isabella Ruxton, his Majestic:"Hat, Coat And Glove." Star-The Tives Of A Bengal
Lancer." Dances-Cheero Club Dance, 8.30
words"
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Very red in the face and slightly out of breath. Tommy arrived home from school, pushing his bicycle.
"Well, Tominy, what has hap, pened to your bicycle?" enquired his mother,
"Nothing very serious," replied Tommy airly. "My front tyre in punctuated, that's all "
"Punctured, not punctuated." corrected his mother gently.
"Anyhow, mother," replied Tom- my with conviction. "I came to a full stop!"
"My dear John, what ever are you taking three umbrellas with you to town for?" exclaimed the Professor's wife hurrying out” into. the hall "Surely one will be enough for you?” dedicat
The old Professor smiled through his glasses at his wife,
wife.
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D.q.
These two women disappeared under peculiar circumstances some weeks before Dr. Rurton's arrest and shortly after they vanished. the bodies of two unidentified per sons were found, dismembered, in a gorge within a few miles of Dr. | 2.45 p.m. Ruston's nome.
Mary Jane Rogerson was a young | serving woman in the Ruxton home and it had been thought that she was visiting her family when she no longer appeared at the place of her employment. Mra. Ruxton was thought to have been visiting her sister at a seaside
town
It was not until the findings of the bodies in the gorge that polles came to the conclusion that it might be wise to Investigate Mrs. Ruxton's and Miss Rogerson's whereabouts Neither could b found.
An examination of the bodies then confirmed the police mipicion that they were of the too wow who had mysteriously disappeared from Dr. Burton's home. doctor himself could “give no ex- planation. He was consequently
“You see, Martha, I am sure to leave one in the bus; the second will be sure to be left in the re-charged staurant, and the third will come At preliminary hearings he was in very handy should it come on hysterical and interrupted the to rain to-night,” replied "the, old
court with imprecations and wild Professor toddling towards the denials, but at the more recent door,
proceedings the was been relatively calm.
The little girl walked sedately across the room, holding a doll by one arm, and placed her hand on her mother's lap.
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When the Lancaster magistrate. committed him for trial to-day ak the Manchester Assizes, there was no outburst. ··· He
дов pleaded "Mummy, can I have those guilty. grapes on the sideboard?" she lisped
"Yes, dear, if you like." smiled her mother indulgently.
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"Oh, thank you, mummy,” cried the little girl, clapping her banda. "I'm so glad you said "Yes"."
"Why, dear,, are you very hun- gry?" exclaimed her mother in sur- prise.
"It"in't exactly that, mummy," replied the little girl demurely. "But, you see, I have eaten them already!"
FAR EASTERN SITUATION
The prosecution called over 100 witnesses and the exhibits num. bered more than 200.-- Reuter.
DEATH WARRANT FOR" HAUPTMANN
Trenton (N.3.), Dec. 13.. Bruno Hauptmann will be sen- tenced to the electric chair during the week beginning January 13.
Judge Trenchard has signed a new death warrant, which is being sent to Flemington 1 tó- morrow to be signed by the County Clerk
The exact date of the execution will be fixed by the Warden of the State Prison.
Mr. Frank Kellogg's Reuter
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Specal to the "Hong Kong Daily "Press" (Copyright.)}·
Washington, Dec. 13.. The Far Eastern situation is not meniacing at all; I do not see. anything to indicate war, there; and I do not
Geneva, Dec. 13. see anything in Japan's movements in China thai Answering the Abyssinian Gov violates the Nine-Power Treaty," enment request that the League stated Mr. Frank B, Kellogs. In of Nations Council be assembled
the course of an interview.
Mr. Kellogg added that he saw nothing to justify the belief that another great war was Imminent; the fact was that much of the unrast in the world was due to
economic causes
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'immediately, the League of Na-· tons General Secretary had tele- graphed the Neguson Friday night, pointing out that the Council had already convened to meet next Wednesday to consider the proposals made by both the Governments. In view of this Referring to the Italo-Ethiopian curcumstance the Council's Prest dent considera It expedient to dispute, Mr. Kellogs Birog'y con await the result of Wednesday's demned Italy, for whom, he said,
deliberat
deciding on there was no excuse" whatever, but, he did not believe in any
the Abyssinian Pran kind of sanctions. He saw no makes necessity for further legislation
TAA SITALIAN DISPUTE
on the American neutrality ques- question tion,
Clovernor George Earle and tion were Senator Guffey of Pennsylvanis believed conferred with Mr. Cordell Hill, the Secretary
was stated
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