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VERSES AT MURDER U.S. CRUISES STOPPED. CONSIGNEE NOTICES.
TRIAL.
SEQUEL TO TRAGEDY ON
A FARM,
Verses written on leaves from a notebook were read at the trial, at Oxford Assizch, of Frederick Boxull (19), cowman, who was accused of murdering Katherine Mary Baker, the 15-year-old niece of his employer.
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"COMERIC" by American tourists who visited New Zealand and Australia in the having arrived, Consignees of Cargoes nera Franconta and Carinthia at by her are informed that all Goods the criticisms they received in the the hazardous and/or extra-hazardous aro being landed at their risk into columns of the Preas. Whether as a Godowns of The Hongkong & Kow- result of this or not, the organisers leon Wharf & Godown Co. Ltd., of the tours have decided to omit whence Delivery may be obtained. the Dominion and the Common- No claims will be admitted" after- The verses were found in Box-wealth from the itineraries of the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered all's room. They were all in the Complaint was mado at the time after 25th July, 1927. 4 p.m. will be same handwriting, but some bore
All claims against the Steamer. Boxall's initials and others the by the tourists, and the matter subject to Rent,
presented initials of the girl. Verses sup- was taken up by the New Zealand
Tourist League when in January signed on or bented to the Under is hard to lose a friend" and last the Carinthia, conveying thear they will not be recognized.
reached tourists.
Sydney, A All broken, chafed and damaged "I am in love with you."
Mr. J. B. Matthews, K.C., for cablegram was sent that the visi-Goods are to be laft in the Godowns, the prosecution, said one of the tors complained of the comments where they will be examined on 25th verses was that frequently written of Now Zealand papers, and the July, 1027, at 10 a.m.
league wrote immediately to the as an autograph, reading-
Carinthia's owners and asked for ed fuller information.
TO SAN FRANCISCO VIA HONOLULU, SHANGHAI,posed to be from the girl began.
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Molly Baker is your name, Single is your Station, Happy is the little man,
That makes the alteration. Another read
It's hard to lose a friend,
When life is full of hope, It's harder still to lose a pal,
When your eyes are full of
soup.
Mr. Justice Greer, charging. the Grand Jury, said that after the tragedy Boxall walked seven miles to the police station to give him- self up. The facts of the case suggested that an inquiry into the young man's mental state might- be necessary.
future tours.
Undignified.
The league has now received the following communication from the agents, Mossrs. Raymond, Whit- combe, and Co., of Boston, United States:
No fire Insurance has been effect
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General Apants. Hongkong, 18th July, 1927.
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From EUROPE.
"KABINGA"
The clipping from the Auckland papers that you sent us seems to sum up the feelings of the passen- gers in the matter. To our mind The Steamship, the attitude of the Preas, in Aus- tralia particularly, was entirely having arrived. Consignees of Cargo andignified, and this left in the by her are informed that all Goods minds of the passengers very un-are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra-hazardous pleasant feelings,
On our previous year's cruise Godowns of Holt's Wharf, whence there
were similar occurrences, Delivery may be cbtained.
No Claims will be admitted after and our visit to Perth and Freman- Plen of Not Guilty.
all Goods remaining undelivered after Boxail, a tall, fnir-haired, good-ele especially was made unplea-the Goods have left the Godowns, and looking youth, pleaded not guilty.sant by the attitude and audible 25th July, 1997, will be subject to All Claims against the Steamer Mr. Matthews said that after comments on the part of those rent. the girl's aunt and uncle had ninde ashore at the time of our arrival.
We do not feel that it is worth must be presented to the Undersign search for her with terehes Box-
A broken, chafed and Damaged
Tuesdays Goods are to be left in the Godowns, or Fridays, hetwon the where they will be examined on any hours of 10,45 a.m. and Noon, with- in the Free Storage period of one week.
all showed the police the spet while going into this matter more ed on or before 1st August, 1927, or where her body lay under a hedge.seriously with you, as we have cut they will not be recognized.
New Zealand and Australia from) Boxall Inter made a farther statement. said Mr. Matthews, as our itineraries, and, for the pre- the result of which the body was sent at least, have abandoned our exhumed. Sir Bernard Spilsbury, visits to your part of the world.. the pathologist, made, a post-for- tem examination, and found on- firmation of Boxall's statement, The girl had been strangled by a handkerchief,
NEW SCULPTOR OF GENIUS.
Superintendent Day said that
POISED MASSES THAT SEEM Eoxall's mother died shortly after
TO FLOAT. her son was arrested. She had. been in hospital for five years. With his exhibition at the Boxall was an illegitimate child, Claridge Gallery, in Brook-street, and his great-unele was at pre-w, Mr. Maurise Lambert definite: sent in a lunatic asylum. "
suddenly.
had Boxall under
observation
on some
ed.
No fire Insurance has been effect- Bill of Lading will be counter- signed by,
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basis of Sienna marble.
Mr. Lambert seems to court dif-
ly establishes his claim, says a culties of this kind-heavy masses He agreed that the post-mortem Lender paper, to rank among the revealed that the girl had a weak few modern British sculptors whof Poised on the slightest süpport as heart and might be liable to die count--the few for whom the art though they were floating in air. of sculpture siguifies not the imi- This is notably the case of "WO- Dr. W. R. K. Watson, Medical tation in plastic material of nu-man in a Hammock." The ham- Officer at Brixton Prison, who had tural forms, but the invention of mock is invisible though it is in- dicated by the curve of the reclin- plastic rhythms based said that his intelligence was motifs derived from nature, and ing nude figure, while its swing is above the normal, and there carried out with due consideration Buggested by the varying angles
O symptom of insani-
of the qualities inherent to the of the wooden basis.
Much thought ia invariably Ly. His great-aunt, whom he
material employed. had seen that day, was suffering
This appreciation of the mate-given to the relation of the pedes the actual sculpture. In from delusional insanity.
rial finds expression in the infinite tal to
the brass Sunfish," for instance, labour and care bestowed by Mr the veins of the alabaster are used Lumbert en surface finish.
was
Alleged Confession.
I thought she had fainted, but when I left go she fell against the
"I caught hold of her by the
No one who has seen-and to indicate the ripples of the throat, and felt her bodytwitch. caressed with his hands-the water..
That Mr. Lambert, if he chooses flawless cold roundnesses of the
In to do so, can produce realistic por- "Kneeling Torso," Carved hedge. I went to the police and alabaster, will be able to resist the traits of sterling merit is amply told them I had committed a mur-sensuous charm of this lovingly proved by his bust of Sir Edmund der. I meant to frighten her more wrought piece, in which the Davis: But as a ruiò he prefers rhythm of the human body is made to formalise the features and to These words were part of an at the motif for a happily invented go straight for a synthesis of es-! leged confession by Frederick abstract plastic design of extra-sential character. The polished Boxall, the 19-year-old cowman, ordinary ingenuity, when the trial was resumed at Ox-
than anything else."
ford to-day.
aluminium head of Miss Edith The Birds," so happily describ-Sitwell is a real triumph of trans-
terms of metal. Boxall, who gave his evidence in jed by Mr. E. Dulac in his foreword ating a human personality into as a glittering swirl in space," are
In everything, he does Mr. Lam-
a perfectly calm voice, and appear carried out in polished brass, bal
ed to be quite collected, said:anced like a stag's sprending intert proves himself an artist who The girl thought that I had got her
speet for his material. into trouble, and when I told her lers, on an inclined egg-shaped thinks and who has profound re-
not to tell she smacked my face. This made me get into a temper, and it was at that time it came into my mind to kill her, because I was afraid of what might happen if she told.
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He then made the statement quoted above, and continued: stood looking down at her for some time, and then felt her pulse and found that it had stopped. I will be loading for MARSEILLES, ROTTERDAM, picked her up, and some blood and other Scandinavian ports on or about came out of her mouth on to my skirt.
I picked her up again, and took out my handkerchief and tied it round her neck to stop the blood coming out.
I then carried her through the fence and hedge, and left her lying on the grass. I walked up the road and sat on a wall for a time, wondering what I could do, and whether I should tell the police, Ithan walked into Oxford and told the police I had committed a mur der. I loved her too much to medn killing her. Before the quarrel started we had been on friendly terms; the girl having asked me to moet her that evening, as she had something to tell me.
Cross-examined by Mr. J. B. Matthews, the prisoner sald he did not tie the handkerchief round her throat.
Mr. Matthews-Do you deny you strangled the girl? I can't very well-way. I did.
Prisoner said he caught hold of the gil's throat with his hands, but although he could not deny he killed her, he had no intention of doing so at that moment. "I meant to frighten her more than anything else," he explained:
A verdict of manslaughter was returned againet Boxall.. Sen- tence was postponed till later in the day.
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