THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1928.
walking arm-in-arm. Ho was! PROFIT ON DRINK FOR
THE HONEYMOON BRIDE MURDER. wearing a bluo overcoat and a EXCHEQUER.
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EVIDENCE GIVEN AT
THE TRIAL.
PRISONER CONCERNED OVER WIFE'S ABSENCE.
WITNESSES' STORIES.
It was not green cord-It was white (Laughter). Witness was in the kitchen all the afternoon of the 19th cooking.
Mr. Theaiger: Is it possible for someone to enter the house by the side door and go upstairs without being seen from the kitchen?
Witness: Yes.
Mr. Thesiger: Are you sure you heard the prisoner walking along than the passage upstairs more twice?
Witness: Yes.
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grey felt hat, and she had a fur: coat. Witness never saw the lady again, but at 4.30 p.m. so saw :
the accused on his return. He CARLISLE REPAYS ALL
was then going through the trellis to get to the house. He was walk-
ADVANCES.
The Very Idea!
Among the 250,000 entrants for the Daily Sketch Empire Free Travel and Scholarship Scheme Is ing quickly, but she did not pptico it has been disclosed that a anything about his appearance. trading profit of £88,468 was made George Foreman, aged 16, of 5, She did not notice anything in his in the year to March 31 last on the larbottles-yard, Morpeth, Nor- hands. When she was in her bed-State's drink control schemes at thumberland, who, suffering from room she could hear anybody in Carlisle, Gretda and Cromarty the fearful handicap of being
Firth.
without arms, wrote out all the the accused's bedroom, but she
Of this amount the Exchequer answers to a series of examination did not hear anyone in that bod- room between 3.80 p.m. and 4.80 received £79,020. p.m." As far as she knew, they These figures are contained in papers with his feet. The Daily Sketch and its allied newspapers were not in the house between the seventh annual report of Sir have decided to make the boy an Interesting evidence regarding
William Joyneon-Hicks and Sir ward of a special grant and the movements of Chung Yi Miao, Mr. Thesiger: Did you go up to 2.30 p.m. and 4.30 p.m.
After entering the house at 4.50 John Gilmour. the young Chinese law student, to seo what was the tatter?
p.m., the accused went to his bed.
Trading receipts were more than medal in recognition of his plucky who was charged with the murder. Witness: No. of his wife whilst on their honey-) Mr. Thosiger: He would have room by the staircase near the sufficient to meet all the expendi- performance.
"The son of a minor, he has boon moon in England, was given when to walk along that passage to get front door. She then heard him ture, whether capital or revenue.
walking between the bedroom and Outstanding issues from the Ex-without arms since birth. On the the accused was charged at the to the lavatory?
Witness Yca.
the bathroom twice or thrice," and chequer In respect of the two 3cot-left side there is part of the limb, Keswick Police Court and subse- quently commlited for trial. In further cross-examination, she also heard water running from tish undertakings amounted at terminating at the elbow length thumb and foreinger. The accused has, since his com-witness said the morning of the the bathroom more than once. Markch 31 last to $60,091, while the with a mittal, been lodged in Brixton Pri-19th had been showery. The after-She saw the accused again about total credited to the Exchequer, in With this he can hold a pen, and, son, to enable him to previda for noon was overcast. At night the five o'clock in his bedroom. She excess of sums applied to repay out keeping the paper steady with his his defence, and he is to come be- prisoner did not suggest that he went to ask him if he wanted any standing issues, in respect of the chin, he is able to write. All his fore the Assizes on October 22nd should go down the village with tea, and she also asked him if the Carlisle undertaking amounted to school work has been done in this way. He is a more proficient lady was coming in for tea. Ho £62,153. witness to look for his wife,
The aggregate advances from the or 23rd.
penman, however, with his feet, Mr. Thesiger: Has a Professor said she had gone to Keswick to
do shopping. He had tea in the Exchequer in respect of the three and it was with his right foot Cross stayed at your house?
dining room, and at six o'clock State management districts, with Witness: Yes,
she went to his bedroom with interest, had therefore been rather that he wrote out all the examina-
Travel and Scholarship Scheme..
He is also able to draw and some hot water for him to wash more than fully repaid by the endtion papers for the Empire Free
He then said, "My wife has not of the last financial year
The report states that an agree- returned; she said she would be
Gertrude Elizabeth Crossley, Borrowdale Gates, Grange, who carries on a boarding house, slated that on June 18 prisoner and a lady came to her house. They appear- 'ed to be of the same nationality.
Mr. Thesiger: When was that? Witness: Whitsuntide week-end, Mr. Thesiger: Did you know he
Witness: Tos.
They arrived by car about 3.30fcame from Rochester, New Yorkback" by alx." At seven o'clockment has been made with the Cor-paint, has a healthy interest in
The Dead Woman's Rings.
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her now."
of English-street.
WHAT IS THE MOON MADE OF
SCIENCE SCOUTS GREEN CHEESE THEORY.
Woman, at Southend: She has used such expressions about me that I have had to take proceedings for damnation of character.
"How many times did he kiss On Very Friendly Terms.
There being, neither blowing air you I mean, kick you?" the chair- About nine o'clock Miss Cross-nor flowing water on the moon, and man of the Southend magistrates ley went out and the accused ask-consequently no erosion or cementa-asked a woman.
American ed where she had gone, and wit-tion,
scientists are
Our
p.m. and, asked to see the rooms.
the accused. had dinner alone,poration of Carlisle for the sale to outdoor sport, and has played full- Terms were discussed, after which
At eight o'clock he went to the them of the Carlisle Arms, the site back for his school. He is intelll- they went away in the car, but they returned inter and took fooms,
Florence Mary Jackson, a lady kitchen door, and said his wife of which is wanted in connexion gent above the average, and in In a national scholarship com- one being a doublebedded room, in of independent means, staying af had not returned. Mrs. Thomp with a scheme for the improvement 1920 obtained a diploma of merit non was in the kitchen with her.
petition. which only one bed was made up. Borrowdale Gates, stated that she Some time after, the accused again They had ten in the dining room, first saw the accused and a lady went to the kitchen door and wald and the lady asked her to send a apparently of the same nationality wife had not returned and telegram ordering rooms at Reu-at dinner on the evening of June naked if she had told Miss Cross- ben's Hotel, London, for June 23rd. 18. They appeared to be on good ley. Witness replied “I will tell The kidy also said sømelking about terms. She had a conversation luggage having been sent on from with the lady for a few minutes Edinburgh to London.
about drives. She noticed the lady was wearing a beautiful supphire On Good Terms.
diamond ring on her wedding The prisoner and the lady up-finger. peared to be on perfectly good The next conversation was at forms. At night they both, after breakfast-time next morning, when she had mentioned the matter, ask-she observed two diamond rings ou od that the second bed in the bed the Indy's left hand, The rings he had gone to telephone to Kea- A committee appointed by the earn. Magistrate: What do you room should be made up. She did produced were similar. Witness wick to see if she could hear any Carnegie institution of Washing- carn? Defendant: I have no in- not see them again until noon of noticed at the time that the necus-thing, Accused asked "Did she ton observed the reflected rays of come, the following day coming in by the ed had a 'cold, ond at dinner-time, go over the bridge?" and witness the sun (moonbeams) and studied back door.
about 7 p.m., he said his wife had replied "No, to the Post Office, be After lunch she saw them going gone into Reswick to buy warmer fore you get to the bridge." down the garden path arm-in-arm clothing. The accused dined alone The accused then, said "Did shel towards the road. It ind been that evening at the tables. An-go to the place where they bathe?" at the moon's surface
le rainy in the morning, Prather lady guest staying at the and witness answered "No: to the rocks low in silien, nor iron, or "My wife is very careful with sener had not up till then said any hotel at the same times was Miss Post Office." After ten o'clock obsidians (glaggy voledinte rocks) her tongue to the neighbours-I thing about having a cold. At Nelson."
the man asked for a cap. Later are exposed in appreciable amounts, get it all."Plaistow man, at Bow. It does not seem to have occur- An East Ham woman, at Bow 4.30 pay. she saw the prisoner in In cross-examination, witness that night the police came, and
County Court: 1 have no the sitting room, when he appear said that when the accused told he was taken away. When he was red to anybody to suggest that por-
witnesses, only my husband, ed to he going towards the front her his wife had gone to buy cloth-asking the questions about his has the moon's surface, with all door. She thought he looked ing he added: "She wanted me to wife he seemed very irritable and its irregularities so suggestive of and he could not any more than I Hittle dejected, bat, apart from go to bed." Prisoner at the time spoke erously. that, there was nothing abnormal had a bad cold. about him. Prisoner and His Wife's Absence.
Man, at Penge (summoned by ness replied "To the Post Office." curious to know just what The accused asked what she would beautiful satellite is made of, if his wife for maintenance:) She can have three parts of what I be doing there, and witness said not of green cheese.
19th it was lighted.
Cross-examined: She went to her room that afternoon because ahe was suffering from toothache. She had never seen anybody bathe in the river,
Mr. Thesiger: Did Mr. and Mrs.
Registrar, at Bow: You are the the effects of moon-surface reflee-defendant's wife; what about it? lon on the sun's rays (sunbeams.) The wife (with an ingratlating One negative conclusion le that smile): Would 23, 4d. a week-sult no dark you? The registrar: Admirably!
the landscape of our Antarctic con- tinent, is just-Ice.]
GIRLS RESCUED FROM BLAZING HOUSE.
No Signs of u Struggle. William Pendlebury, a detective Later she heard him walking to in the Southport Borough Police, and fro above to the bathroom sinted that on June 19th lust he several Ulmes. She knew it was was staying with Mr. Mounsey, a Mine seem to be on very friendly, CARRIED IN NIGHT ATTIRE
FROM WINDOW LEDGE, him because no one else was in relative, at the Manor House, terms?-Witness: Yes. There was the sound of hot water Grange. About 4 p.m. that day he Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, A
Two servant girls had a narrow being turned on. On the evening saw the accused on the main road general servant with Miss Cross- of the 18th they had asked for the between Roathwaite and Grange ley at Borrowdale Gates, stated escape from death when fire brake fire in the bedroom to bu hald so fridge, walking towards Grange that when Mr. Mino returned alone out at the house at which they are In Alexandra-road, that it might be lighted the next fridge. Accused looked pale and on the Tuesday afternoon he was employed morning. On the murning of the seemed hurried, Prisoner was holding his hands together on his Farnborough, Hants,
Finding their bedroom Alled carrying a camera. The same right side. She later heard somet When she saw prisoner in the evening certain information reach-one walking between his bedroom with dense smoke, the girls ellmb- drawing room on the afternoon of el witness, in consequence of and the bathroom about twice, ed out on to the ledge of the next the 19th he told her his wife had which Mr. Moansey and he went The accused seemed to be upset window in their night attire, and gono shopping for
some warmer together to a spot about 600 yards because his wife had not returned, shouted "Fire!"
Their alarm was heard, and in underwear. She (wilness)
ng from Grange Bridge, in the direc- When witness saw them together tioned that the lady might retortion of Rosthwaite, and about 150 they appeared to he on quite good a very few minutes the Farn- by the.bus, the prisoner suggest yards from the highway. Before terms. After Miss Crossley had borough fire brigade arrived and ing that witness might ring setting out he had telephoned to the gone to the post office on the Tues-renewed the girls from their peril- Home shops in Keswick to see if
day evening. the accused saldous position. she had been there. As the ludy
On reaching the spot about "what do you think we should do; had not returned at 8-15...m, she Buggested to prisoner that shen, he saw the dend body of a wonder if we should inform the back portion of the residence, (witness) should go and meet their lying on her back. The brown pulice." Witness told him to do from which the occupants, Colonel bus. He then said his wife would murella produced was open over nothing until Miss Crossley came and Mrs. Prickett, were away at
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Police Station at Keswick.
her head and shoulders. Sho ap-back.
not come by the 'bus but by car.peared to be of Chinese nation- Afterwards prisoner went up 10 allty. There was cord very tight- bed after asking for the are to be ly tied round the throat. Tho re-lighted.
Later she was present when the clothing was disarranged and torn. The third finger of the left prisoner was taken away by the hand was marked as if rings had police shortly after 11 p.m.
been worn, and there was a bruise had seemed rather concerned heas though the rings had been pull- fere that at his wife's absence.ed off. The left glove, having They had brought three pleces of evidently been pulled off the luggage to her hotel when they hand, was lying on the ground. | came a sult cane, a black leather A handkerchief was also there. bag, and a black ense, which were He observed no indications on the In the bedroom when Inspector ground of a struggle. He waited Graham locked the bedroom door until the police arrived and the when prisoner had been taken photographs of the body away. Two other lady guests were taken before it was removed, staying in the house at the same
Answering Mr. 'Thesiger, in time as the prisoner and his wife,
cross-examination, witness suld but they were both out on the that while on the road he did not afternoon of the 19th,
faded
see a car puss.
were
Mr. Cohen: So far as you are, aware did any stronger enter your Domestic Servants Evidence, house?
Dorothy Beatrice Holliday, a Witness: No. She added that in domestic servant employed by Miss an unlocked cupboard in the co- Crossley at the boarding house at ner of the bedroom prisoner lind there were odds and ends, includ- Borrowdale Gates, Grange, stated that the accused and a lady of ing pieces of string and
the same nationality arrived at green picture cord. She could not
the boarding house at 8 p.m. on tell whether, the pieces, produced came from her house or not, Cord June 18th. They had tea and din- was kept in an unlocked drawer inner together and took a large bed- the kitchen. Green cord similarly room (No. 5). The following 'faded was at the present time in morning the lady came down to use in the house. Witness went breakfast first and then the ac
down. They had on to say that she had seen the used came prisoner carrying a camera. She breakfast together,, Witness was belleved also that the lady carried not out of the house that day. an umbrella.
Prisoner's Movements.
After breakfast they returned to their bedroom where they had a fire: Witness saw tho accused go In cross-examination by Mr.jup the front staircase about soon. Thesiger, witness said she made a After seeing the two in the bed- atatement to Inspector Graham ou room after breakfast, she did not the 19th about the cord. She had see them together again until made a statement about cord to lunch time in the dining room,
About half-past two in the She had seen Mr. Oglethorpe, cord in the cupboard in bedroom afternoon she saw both of them No. 5 which prisoner occupied, butigo out of the house. They were
(To be Continued.)
Firemen confined the fire to the
the time.
OVER 10"|
A number of valuable of paint- ings were destroyed.
HDA SERVICI, BROCK
"You'll hang around here till I lose my job and then we
can't get married, sure enough."
can say I know.
A man who complained to an official at Bow that hia name was last on the list of de- fendants said that his name was Last.
[It is prophcated that in another fifty years English will have be- come the universal language in which all nations will be able in communicate with each other.]
The English tongue is, so to speak,
unfurled.
In Afty years, they tell me, all tho
-world
Will speak our language. Ol most
happy duy
For youth at school, for then our
younglings may
No more be forced strango uncouth
tongues to con,
Nor need the golden hours be spent
upon
The French irregular verbs or rules
of syntax,
Which pierce the weary pilgrim's
fect like tin tacks.
How well I recollect, ong awful
term, an
Attempt, which wholly failed, to
teach me German,
How new and horrid sounds I
learned by rote,
While guttural words stuck side-
whys in my throat.
But soon all fear of such like paine
will vanish;
Gorman and French, Italian, Rus-
sian, Spanish-
With none of these we'll need to
tax our braina,
When every decent foreigner main-
tains
A pleasant flow of English unde-
filed,
Learned from his able teachers as
a child..
Even the Free Stato may consent
that day. -
To liep in Saxon is a business way, Somo talk of foreign languages, in-
Jood, As being more and more a pressing
need
リ
In modern business training. By
the powers,
"Tis best to set all others learning
ours!
A Fijian butcher's boy made a had mistake which cost him threa months in gaol.. It seemed that there was going to be a Fijian dinner party, and Elidimi's share of the offering was some meat. To this end he stole some corned meat and steak out of a Suva but- cher's shop, and put it in a box, carefully placing a block of ice on top to keep it fresh until he could romove it. But he made the mis- take of placing the box on the roof In the sun, The proprietor notle- ed the constant "dripping" in the shop, and sent a man to investi- gate. As he could get no satisi faction (as one would not tell on the other) he wont aloft himself and found the box and the selected titbits. Ellkimi missed the party.
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