THE PERILS OF "BROOKLANDS.
JURY'S RIDER AT THE CRASH INQUEST.
CONSPIRACY CASE AT KOWLOON.
GIFFORD GETS A YEARS'
· IMPRISONMENT.
On the re-appearance of Douglas | Gifford before Mr. Whyte Smith at NEED OF SUPERVISION. the Kowloon Magistracy this morn! ing a Chinese man and woman were The rules in regard to racing at also brought before the Court on a Brooklands should be under stric-joint charge of conspiracy to ob ter supervision.
tain by false pretences a sum of This was the jury's rider at the $180 from au Indian doctor. at 11. inquest on the two victims of the Wong Chuk Street. crash during the Double Twelvo Gifford was in addition charged
hours' race
with larceny by bailee of a rain-
THE HONGKONG
FOUR KILLED IN CAR CRASH.
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T
COLLISION WITH A BUS NEAR NEWMILLERDAM.
PUSHED INTO A WALL
Four persons lost their lives in a collision between a motor-car and motor-bus on the main Wakefield,
TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1930.
LAUNCH "COXSWAIN EERIE GIFT OF
FINED.
NO SCREENS TO NAVIGATION
LIGHTS.
Kwok Man the coxswain of steam-launch Kwong Yat, appear-
ed at the Marine Court this mor
ning before the Hon. Commdr. G. F-Hole, in answer to a summons for falling to provide screens for his port and starboard lights. Defendant pleaded guilty.
WOMAN SEER
CLAIM TO BE ABLE TO ¦.. DETECT CRIME O
PSYCHOMETRY.
A strange, tall woman in the of early 30's, given to storms laughter, rambling in speech,. beautifully dressed, short-haired,
Barnsley and Sheffield road at Pled-Describing it as a very serious with strangely-fascinating eyes.
Wick, near Newmillerdam.
offence, his Worship pointed out
Edward Allery, aged 28, a mech-coat and a metal watch and chain were killed on the spot, two dicto defendant that the lights he had ladies and a frank turn of phrase
anie in one of the racing cars, of Surbiton, and Mr. F. R. Hurworth, of Ashford, Middlesex, a spectator. Two Talbot cars were in collision, one of them being fung among the spectators.
belonging to the doctor in April last and of larceny by baitee of a raincoat, also the property of the doctor, in March.
The original charge of disorder ly conduct which was brought Willam Francis Allery said so against Gifford and a Chinese far as he knew. Friday was the first named Kang Wan-chiu, a teacher, time his brother had been in à ràc-was withdrawn by Detective Ser ing car in a race.
geant Fitches.
Mr. Frederick Hurworth, of Stroud, Gloucestershire, father of the spectator who was killed, said it was the first time his son hnd been to a motor race meeting.
Raymond Stewart Hebeler, of Bedale, Yorks driver of Talbot 21, which was involved in the collision. said:
I was coming down the finishing straight and I remember seeing No. .22 (the ill-fated car) practically level with the front of an Alfa Romeo car, which was about 25 feet in front of me.
side and my car hit it.
Two passengers in the motor-car shortly afterwards, and two cupants of the car were seriously injured. The dead are:
Mrs. Beatrice Goodyear, aged 27, of Riley-road,
Wath-on-Dearne; Her son Arthur, aged 31⁄21⁄2¦ Mr. Alfred Goodyear, aged 36, husband of Mrs. Goodyear;
His mother, Mrs. Susannah Good- year, aged 67.
The injured are: Mrs. Rose Grafton, aged 28, of Riley-street, Wath-on-Dearne, and Miss Eva Barnfather, of Burman-road Wath-
His Worship: rather think that this defendant (Kang Wan- chiu) is to be a witness in the other case? Is that right?
Detective Sergeant Fitches:-on-Dearne Yes, your Worship.
Gifford entered plesa of guilty to all three fresh charges while the two new, defendants admitted that they had gone to the complainant's house but said it was Gifford who had done all the talking. They could not understand what he had said to the complainant. -
Tragic Shopping Trip.
a great hatred of superstitious.old on might have misled other craft almost shocking at times. in the vicinity and his offence-That is Frau Loitle Plant. She might have proved dangerous. I went to London from her home in
was sheer. carelessness and his Worship could not but take a seri- ous view of the matter
Defendant was fined $50, with the alternative of six week's hard
labour.
TROUSERS THEFT.
CS.O: MESSENGERS AT VARIANCE
The Goodyears, acompanied by The theft of a pair of serge friends, had been on a shopping trousers by one messenger in the expedition to Leeds, and were on Colonial Secretariat from, another their way home when the accident-taxed the patience of the occurred.
Magistrate (Mr. Lindsell) who was The bus was proceeding to Wake-given this morning, contradictory field when apparently it skidded on explanations by the parties. the road, which had been made.
The defendant, a young boy of preasy by rain. It crashed into the motor-car, which was travelling 17, stated that he was unable to fn the opposite direction, and push-collect a debt from a foki, who hinted that he would have to
Detective Sergeant Fitches in The next thing was that No. 22 timated that 'Gifford had acted as seemed to swerve across to the off-interpreter as the complainant
could not speak Chinese.. "I applied my brakes, and the
Gifford was sentenced to sixed it into a wall. next thing I saw was a telegraph months' hard labour on the first pole seemingly coming towards me charge and a further three months" and it seemed to hit me in the ou each of the other two counts, he face."
having two previous convictions. The second and third defendants were convicted of conspiracy and each fined $50 or one month's hardly, and it was some time before res labour in default.
cuers found them. The car was smashed to pieces, and the bus was damaged.
Crash at 103 M.P.H. The Coroner: Were you able to form any opinion of the cause of the accident?-There was a small car on my near side wall in the
middle of the track. After that I EX-MARKER MAKES HIS cannot say. Talbet 22 was pass- ing the small car.
His speed, Hebeler added, would be about 103 miles an hour. The other Talbos az-1. the Alfa-Romeo would be doing. the same, and the small car about 85.
The track surface was in the or- dinary Brooklands state-it was rh.
Foreman: Do you ersider
MARK.
BUYS HOTEL IN TOWN
WHERE HE BEGAN,
From billiard-marker to owner of one of the largest and oldest established hotels in the High-
Jands.
a diarence of abo:t 25 feet behind
That has been the wonderful a. other car at 103 miles an hour a
to career, in brief, of Mr. Frank safe distance 7-1 you want keep your "slip" speed it is quite a teven, who has just become the good distance. I was not unsight-owner of the Caledonian Hotel, Inverness, and adjoining pro- perties. The total purchase price was £18,500.
ed.
No. 22 "In Trouble."
"boots."
WON
A portion of the wall collapsed.fight for it. The proposition was All the occupants were thrown out. out of the question, as the latter Four fell in the roadway, but two, was of a better physique, "In the the young mother and her son, alternative," defendant explained, were buried by heavy stone. "I took his trousers and pawned it
They were killed instantaneous-in satisfaction of the debt."
The road was blocked by the overturned bus and debris, and all main road traffic had to be diverted for hours.
William Bright, who was tramp- ing from Leeds to Sheffield, had just passed the spot when the ac- cident occurred. He went back to get assistance and used his scarf and belt to bandage the injured.
SECRET KEPT. FOR 20 YEARS.
SENSITIVE WIFE AND A
COVERED HAND.
Over 40 years ago be Arthur Wingrave Fox, of Cob-billiard-marker at the Station
A husband who knew there was ham, who entered the Talbot cas, Hotel, Inverness. In turn he be something wrong with his wife's said that drivers were thoroughly came under "boots" and head hand during all the 20 years of tested unless they had considerable
their married life, but never liked previous experience.
Twenty-eight years Ago Mr. to ask her what was the matter for He thought that No. 22 going to be in trouble because of Steven was appointed manager of fear of hurting her feelings, gave
the Caledonian Hotel, which he evidence at a Maesteg inquest. the small car (which he understood to be Austin 92) on its rear side. It did not look as if there would be room for. No. 22 to get
Was
now owns.
A previous owner of the Cale- donian Hotel Was formerly a by, as it was opposite the Alfa-boots," and Mr. Steven's succes- sor as chief "boots" in the Station Romeo. It suddenly swerved at right angles, and the collision Hotel became the proprietor of a occurred with the following Tal-large hotel in the Highlands.
bot car.
from the
He was David David, a butcher, and he said that his wife, Annie, who had died, was very reserved and sensitive. She kept her hand
covered with mittens.
She became ill but refused to see a doctor. Eventually she became so ill that he insisted on fetching
one.
The owner of the trousers declared that the debt claim was a fictitious one, while the police also stated that they heard a different story from the defendant first taken into
when custody.
he was
her two children, to exhibit to Oldenberg, where she lives with psychologists her eerie gifts, whereby she has at will, and by holding a relevant object in har hands
Lived back in the times of the Carthaginian Empire.
Detected murderers by holding their coats,"
Found lost doga.
Rediscovered old masters. Heard voices that whistle words in English of the lives of dead mediaeval characters while she holds their bones.
Seated in a little chair in her bedroom, her silk-stockinged legs neatly crossed beneath her short, black dress as she fingered. a photograph, she said to me (writes a Daily Chronicle represen. tative..
"Ah, yes; I can see all inside you right through.
"I can see you" just- What is it in English? Ah! Just though you had no clothes on, Funny, isn't it?"
aš
"Indeed!" I murmured; button- ing up my east.
"Yes, I can often see anyone like that, and the insides of their brains working, too.
"I feel their pains, too. I am at a tea party, and I say to a lady when I see inside her, 'You poor thing, you have had your appen- dick out. I feel your pain myself, too."
I asked her to give instances of The two charges preferred the power, she claims. He, Ha, Ha! against the defendant were theft But she put a pencil in my hand and illegally pawning the article, and said "You try.' I laughed, and on these he was remanded for but I suddenly started telling her 24 hours, the Magistrate remark- all about the owner of the pencil. ing that that would give him time Ob, what am I doing,” I said. to think the matter over andThat was how I started.” warning him that he would be sent to gaol if he persisted in his lies.
QUEEN'S THEATRE.
STAGE LIFE PORTRAYED IN
"BIG TIME." .
Frau Plaat atates that she is regularly employed by German police to detect and interrogate prisoners in their cells,
These are two of her 'crimino- logical exploits, as told to the Daily Chronicle.
A German nobleman brought her a coat. Holding it she cried that it was the coat of a murdered man, and that she was seeing the murderer drive a blunt instru-
"Big Time," the current feature at the Queen's Theatre is an allment into the victim's chast, and talking film of the Increasingly throw him in the water. prevalent backstage type and con- stitutes amusement fare of good average quality.
She described the man as hav-) ing a front tooth missing and tatooed arm. By this means the caught and a guilty man was confession was elicited by Fran Plaat in his cell.
On another occasion she con- fronted a murderess with an exact description, gained psychically, of how she strangled her sister-in- law. a
The story deals with dancing partners who marry but who are forced to split up in their act. They eventually separate and come together again in Hollywood where the wife has become a leading lady and to which place the down and out husband travels on Questioned by counsel as to the
For stealing letters 3
Reading from a Ring. track, witness said he heard
Dr. Wilfred Jewitt said that the freight train. Lee Tracy is re- complaint about a hump on the Post Office where he was employ-woman's hand and arm were badly sponsible for much witty dialogue
Passages from her reading ot spot where the accident accurreled as cleaner. George William ulcerated, and some of her fingers and carried the firm along by him-
self.
the signet ring of Mr. Harry Price Have you seen any depression Mann, 33, was sent to prison for were missing.
Death was caused by general An attractive item on the pro-read as follows: on the track? There are depres 15 months with hard labour at
"This is a man... can be ter- Norwich Quarter Sessions. He blood poisoning resulting from in-gramme is a short feature film of sions all over the track.
Captain Archibald Frazer-Nash, admitted having been stealing sufficient treatment of her septic-Madame Kurenco who sings "The ribly rude, absolutely awful... oh, such a child. If you of Kingston Hill, who was driving letters for 12 months, and sat arm.
Shadow Song" and "Song of but.. Austin 92, said that he heard the furnace. Stolen letters on
burned them in the The jury returned a verdict ac- India." The news reel includes take the right way you women him cordingly, and said the husband some interesting pictures of the could do what you like with him screeching of a tyre behind him to the right. He glanced quickly when caught contained cheques unintentionally neglected his duty Byrd Expedition and of the Lin- over his shoulder and saw a lot £100, and there were postal orders,
to the aggregate value of over in not calling a doctor before. colnshire Handicap at Home." of dust with one car apparently notes, and stamps to the value on end going over the fence. He of several pounds. agreed that one of the Talbots might have been in difficulties owing to
that he
his (witness's) place on the track be made to keep spectators further
He had put up time and again | back.
to their committee and stewards
that this practice of hanging on
Railings No Protection..
should not be allowed. He con- Mr. Arthur Bradley, clerk of
aldered it a very dangerous practice, but it was a universal
one..
Mr. Kaye Don, of Sunbury, said
the course, said as far as he had heard there had been no breach
of the regulations.
The Coroner (referring to the he was about 150 yards from the fence): Do you consider, that accident. The Alfa was leading reasonable protection was pro- the front Talbot by about 25 feet,vided the spectators against. In- and the other Talbot was just behind. At the bridge the lead-| ing Talbot swerved and skidded and the near Talbat collided with
it.
Drivers' Complaints.
Lord Howe (who drove in the Tace) said his attention was at- tracted to a group of cars coming up the straight, partly because they were all very much banched together, and in his judgment too close for safety.
In his view it was dangerous to be close behind a car when it came to a place, like this, where the leading driver had to brake.
In view of the many new comers, merchants were asked to keep a look.out.
The Coroner: Did you see any cases where that was not complied with? I am afraid I did, and I believe complaints were made by drivers.
An inquiry was going to be held, and he thought arrangements must
jury?—Yes.
What afforded the protection? The railings.
withstand the impetus of a car Do you consider they could
weighing a ton and going at 80 miles an hour?-Nothing less than a 'fortification would have with- stood an impact like that,
Kenneth Skinner, secretary of Brooklands Racing Club; said he resented the suggestion that be- cause the track was built in 1908 it was therefore not safe.
After an absence of a quarter of an hour, the foreman of the jury said:-
"In the case of Allery we find, a verdict of death by misadven- ture. We wish to represent to the club that the rules with re- gard to racing on the track should be under stricter supervision. In respect to Hurworth, it was ac cidental 'death."
The coroner said that he as sumed that the authorities would take notice of the jury's rider, with a view to necessary action.
· ÜHTI KEK, SEBAGË
The boy who used to watch the games through a knot hole now reads the box score.
"He can say 'damn' quite nice- ly. He has nice eyes, I like his eyes; he has beautiful eyes, his eyes are soft.... He does not; sit on his money like the Dutch. Does he live near the hills in the country (Mr. Price lives at Pul- borough, Sussex, near the South Downs.)
Now I see his body.".
"I shall look forward to visit- ing some of your English anti- quities," said Frau Plaat. "But I cannot go into the Egyptian roqua of the British Museum. When I went there last time I was almost forced back by voices shouting at me Stolen! Stolen! Stolen!'
Mr. Harty Price, president of: the National Laboratory of Pay chical Research, told a reporter that Frau Plaat comes of a high- ly placed family, and that her.ob- ject in coming to England is to
end herself to science."
One of the most deadly aerial weapons yet devised-an especial. ly fast torpedo seaplane has been bought by the Swedish Gov. ernment. It is the combined pro- duct of the German aircraft firm of Heinkel, and the British Arm-: strong Siddeley Aero Engine fact- ory at Coventry. This new tor- pedo seaplane has a 700 h.p. Arm- strong Siddeley engine, and carry a torpedo weighing over á ton. Flying at a height so great that it is practically invisible, the machine can swoop down at a speed. approaching 200 m.p.h. to- wards an enemy. ship, launch its torpedo, and rise again almost vertically out of range of the ship's guns.
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