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LABOUR PARTY'S DISSENSION.
EX-MINISTER'S SWAN SONG.
It is interesting to road of the dissension among Labour loadera
FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1927.
WOMAN DRUG
ADDICT.
།
MORPHINE TAKEN FOR
NINE YEARS.
LOVER'S SUICIDE.
PASSION FOR MARRIED WOMAN,
A remarkable story was told at a Leicester inquest. In mail week Stated to have been an habitual of how the infatuation of a mar- drug-taker for nine years, Blanche ried man for another man's wife at Home. Mr. Wheatley, one of Barnicoot, 39, a fashionably dress-led him to commit suicide on the the most bitter opponents of the ed woman, was charged at Cardiff woman's doorstep. The dead man Trades Union Bill, is reported to be last month with obtaining mor- was Lewis Colbeck, aged 85, a in bad odour with his Parliament-phine from a Cardiff doctor with chemist's traveller.
ary colleagues.
The most definite stage in the split among the leaders of the Labour party was reached in the House of Commons early last
month..
out disclosing the fact that she was being supplied by another Mrs. Frances Rose Hunt, wife of Ernest Kinton Hunt, a shoe manu- doctor.
near Leices- It was stated that she was fined facturer, of Anstey, in February last for a similar ter, said she met Colbock In May offence. On that occasion two last year and they became friend- The first indication of the new other charges were then adjourn-ly. Recontly she left him and re- development eame when. Mr.ed, as she undertook to enter au turned to her husband, Wheatley, who was Minister of institution, but she did not keep On Monday night, Mrs. Hunt Health in the Labour. Government, her promise. deserted the Front Opposition Dr. Burke, of Treorchy, Glamor-aid she was at home at Anstey Bench and took his sent among his ganshire, said the woman told him and heard a tap at the door, and Clydeaide colleagues on the back she had been taking morphine for then found Colbeck lying on the nine years to relieve pain. She path with his feet on the step. He had a disease of the right arm and said he had taken poison. He had undergone several operations. died in hospital. A doctor prescribed morphine, for her nine years ago, and since then she could not do without it. She had been taking up to five grains daily.
benches.
Once the leader of the Clydeside group, Mr. Wheatley (says the Daily Mail) never seems to have been at home on the Opposition Front Bench, Lately he has sat there but seldom, and when he sat he scowled. There have been rumours of disagreements with Mr. MacDonald over matters of high policy of quarrels between the two in private party meetings that have been hardly healed, of
The woman said she wanted to Mr. Wheatley's longing once more be cured and, on her promise to to fly a red flag.
enter an institution approved by the Home Office, she was bound
"He thought, however, this had now been reduced to a grain
Her only chance was to day. enter an institution.
The coronar read a letter which address you as "Turtle" 7-Yes.
Did you call him "Penguin"- Yes, and sometimes Lulu.
The coroner read a letter which Mrs. Hunt said was written by her a fortnight before she left. Col- beck after he had threatened to commit suicide:
Dearest Lulu, be good for "Tur- tle's" sake. She will perhaps one day need her "Penguin"; she will pray for you, pine for you. Be a brave mân, dearest, and wait for "Turtle.".
Recently, Mr. Wheatley spoke for the last time-for the present over. at any rate-from the Front Bench when he defended every act of the Choster-le-Street Guardians, and which is by ballot of the members, boldly declared for a policy of and latterly he has been seldom at sald: aubsidising wages.
A letter addressed to Mrs. Hunt
the House of Commons. Although My own darling Turtle, I love The following day Mr. Wheat it is almost exclusively a working you. You are beautiful, divine, ley's seat among the mighty was class district, his seat in Shettles-perfect, a dream. Your eyes are empty. Where he once loomed anton is regarded as shaky
sweet and beautiful, your face is
I
ex-Under-Secretary sprawled. Far In the country he has given supheaven. I must have you back. back among the Clydesiders, by port to Mr. A. J. Cook and others am living in hell already, and it the side of the sarcastic Mr. Max-in such a way as to cast a alur will drive me mad. I shall never ton and the oppressed Mr. Kirk-on Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Mr. carry it all out. I cannot live wood, smiling once again like a re- Thomas, and the other Parliament without you, perfect peach. For turned prodigal surveying an imary leaders..
God's make come back or else mense dish of veal, appeared the At one time it was thought that Labour ex-Minister of Health. he would seek to lead the left The more I see of you the more I His action had strange and im-wing, presumably in rivalry for love you. Yours in heaven and mediate effect. Mr. Sidney Webb, the Parliamentary leadership, but yours on earth, Lulu. from the Labour Front Bench, apzil chance of such a development The coroner returned a verdict proved the Pacific Cable Bill. Mr. has disappeared, for if anyone of Suicide, there being insufficient
MacDonald Wheatley's party spoke against it.supplanted Mr.
it evidence to show the state of Col- Mr. Buxton, also from the Labour would not be Mr. Wheatley. His beck's mind. Front Bench, approved the Crown colleagues realise that on the sim- Lands Bill The Wheatleyites opplest economic issues his outlook! posed. They even forced a divi-is hopelessly confused, and even sion and mustered no fewer than childish, and it is admitted that f 14 against the measure.
Investigation at Rome into the the Socialists were again in office case of the Hon. Violet Gibson, a sister of Lord Ashbourne, who shot he would not be included in the and sounded Signor Mussolini, the
· Declining Influence, The explanation of Mr. Wheat- Ministry,
With these facts in mind, he has Premier, lust April, has been turn- ley's ostentatious departure from
charge the Socialist Front Bench is simple apparently come to the conclusioned over to a special military tri- of the case entirely. Investigations (writes a correspondent of the that tenure of the Front Bench bunal, which now" has
There Scotsmon), but it is odd that he must be abandoned, and he at follow the normal course. should have chosen the day when tended last night with the deter is a widespread feeling that, owing Mr. Ramsay SlucDonald is spealmination to make his speech on the to the unanimous declarations of. Chester-le-Street question his last the doctors that the Hon. Violet ing in Glasgow,
Gibson is insane and not respon- Since the Socialists left office, from the Front Bench.
A further theory (coucludes the sible for her action, she should be Mr. Wheatley's influence, for u variety of reasons, has steadily de- correspondent) is that this is the released without standing her trial. clined. Two years in succession prelude to retirement from politi-but no decision has yet been reach- he has failed to secure election to cal life, but I am assured that thated, nor is such a declsion consider-
ed imminent. the Parliamentary Executive, is at beat premature.
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