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OBITUARY.
DEATH OF MILLIONAILE
TOBACCO MAGNATE
London, Aug. 2.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1929.
PEDESTRIAN'S DEATH.
DRIVER OF MOTOR LORRY GIVES EVIDENCE,
At the resumed henring of the The millionaire tobacco
case in which the driver of a Ford nate, Mr., Bernhard Baron died motor lorry belonging to Messrn. suddenly at the age of 78. Wallace Harper & Co., Ltd., is poor Russian Jew he emigrated to charged with causing the death of was knocked America and later settled in Eng- pedestrian who land. His charitable benefactions down in Nathan Road on July 5, are estimated t £2,000,000. He the driver of a lorry which was frequently avowed his determina about to turn into Waterloo Road Kave evi- tion to die poor.--Reuter
prior to the Incident, dence before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday.
Bernhard, Baron, the millionaire tobacco manufacturer and philau- thropist, was born in Russia' of Jewish parents in December, 1850. When he was 16, he went to see the U.S. to avoid serving in the Russian army. While working for a New York tobacconist for 18- he experimented in the making of cigarettes which, in those days, were not much sinoked and gradu- ally worked his way up to a good position.
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Mr. L. R. Andrewes is conduct- Ing the ease for the Crown, while Mr. H. J. Armstrong is. represent. ing the defendant...
Mr. M. 1. de Ville, Land Sur-! veyor, produced plans of the vicinity of the accident,
Witness said that the defend- aut's lorry, on passing the one in front, missed the mullah by about twelve feet.
A witness, who gave evidence on the first day of the hearing but who, it is understood, was absenti A Cigarette Making' Machine. from the Colony at the last hear. ing, was cross-examined by the Eventually hia experiments defence. Witness said that he did culminated in the Baron cigarette-not know the significance of the making machine. He took it to traffic algnals, but slated de Eugland, but found it difficult to finitely that the hand extended obtain what he considered an fro.. the lorry which was preced- adequate price for it. Eventually, ing the defendant's vehicle was however, he sold it for £120,000 still and not moving forward or and bought for £150.000 the downwards, tobacco business of Carreras, which now employs 2,500 hands In 1905 he went to live at Hove and became a naturalised British subject. Although he was a Jew, it gave him great satisfaction to help Jews and Christians alike. During the last few years he made huge donations to charities. Thus to celebrate his birthday in 1925 ke. gave £50,000 to hospitals. He had just previously given £11,500 to the Liberal Jewish Synagogue Building Fund, £10,000 each to three London hospitals and £10, Examined by Mr. Androwes he 000 to Jerusalem University. ile sald that he was conveying a load also distributed large aunts to his of firewood from Public Square employees and his total benefac- Street and was on his way to lo tions during the year came to muntin, travelling along Nathan £200,000. In December, 1926, he Road. On neuring Waterloo Road gave £25,000 to hospitals and other witness gave instructions for the charities and an extra week's coolie, who was sitting on his
A Hesitating Witness,
The driver of the lorry, which preceded the defendant's, was next called. The
witness answered
several questions, put by the pro- seculing solicitor as well as by the defending solicitor, after con- siderable liesitation.
wages to all his 2,506 hands. He right, to put out his hand, to in- also bought and equipped a large dicate that the lorry was turning house at Brighton as a convales-into Waterloo Road, past the cent home for his employees. For Dogs' Home. 1926 Carreras again declared a 50
Witness saw the coolie extend per cent dividend and the £1hig hand. At this period the shares went to £17. £500,000 was distributed in humus shares many lorry was travelling at about six miles per hour. Witness turned, of which went to the work-pemple. and when the lorry had reached the middle of the road another lory, travelling at twice the speed of a bus, passed in front of him. Witness then stopped and after the accident continued on his way to o Mun Tin,
Member of Labour Party. Baron, who was not a sporting man and did not care for society, WHS a member of the Labour party and a personal friend of My Ramsay MacDonald, Mr. J. R. Clynes, Mr. Henderson and Mr. J. Rave II. Thenins, In 1924 he £5,000 to the Labour election cam palen Fund. A strong supporter of the Zionist movement, he made a donation of £25,000 to the Keren Hayesod Fund in October, 1926, on condition that Jews should be taught agriculture and not allowed to po luto small trades or become that there were no vehicles follow- pedlars in Palestine. He had aling. ready given £15,000 to jonlam
In reply to Mr. Armstrong wit- nens uaid that his lorry was equiti- pel with a mirror. Before turn- Baw through the ing witness mirror that, the roud behind was clear. Witness added that he did not have a good view of the road through his mirror and asked thei coolie to look. The coolie replied:
Mr. Armstrong: Did you reallas
and had taken stock to the value that it was your duty to see that of £100,000 in Rutenberg's, elee the rond behind was clear before tricity project in Palestine. Į turning to the right?-Yes. Baron, who had bull and fitted
np a new wing for Hove Hospital
It was immediately after being
In memory of his wife, declared told that the road was clear that witness instructed the coolie to extend his hand.
that he wanted to die poor and that he had no use for money ex- cept to give it away.
BY-ELECTION RESULT.
LABOUR RETAINS SOUTH- EAST LEEDS.
Mr. Armstrong: If you satisfied yourself that the road was clear how do you account for this lorry (defendunt's) suddenly appear- Ing?
Witness: Because it was going at a high speed,
Mr. Armstrong asked witness if be believed what the coolie hud told him and received the reply from witness that he did.
London, Aug. 2. The by-election at South-East Further questions on the point Leeds, due to Sir Henry Slesner'a failed to elicit any other explana» appointment as a Lord Justice of tion than that the defendant's Appeal, resulted as follows: lorry was going at a high speed.
The case was adjourned. Mr. Milner (Lab.) - 11,804. Mr. Brain (Comm.) -Reuter,
512.
7,385 of the Conservative candi- (Sir Henry Slesser Wan redate Mr. J. C. Spurr. In 1924, turned at the recent general Sir Henry was returned with a election by a Labour majority of majority of 4,429 over his op 16,018, polling 22,403 to the ponent, a Liberal.]
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