Little Rascals.
Wiliam: Mother, may 1 go and play with Johnny Jenkat"
Mother: No, Johnny has gone away with his mother. Why not go and play with little Georgie Brown!" William: "Oh! 1 played with Georgio yesterday and he won't be well enough
Evidently poor Georgie is unable to infuse quite the energy into his games, necessary to personal safety. At any rate, not when in the company of the vigorous William.
yet."
GIRL'S FARTHING
DAMAGES.
UNREASONABLY EXPELLED FROM SCHOOL.
BUT NOT LIBELLED.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1930.
GIRL'S MURDER MYSTERY.
TARIFFS OF OLD DAYS.
SCENE ON RIVER THAMES.
PRINCE'S GOLF STORIES.
DRINK TRAFFIC "BRIBES."
JURYMAN AND HER LATE EMPLOYER.
EVIDENCE OF HANDICAPS
"NONE SO DEAF " One farthing 'damages was "It is clear that somebody is awarded in the King's Bench Divi-keeping back something," said the sion to Miss Mollis Frances Hunt, Coroner in adjourning the inquest of Elm-grove, Guernsey, in her
on Agnes Kesson, the 20-year old action against her former head Scottish waitress who was found mistress, Miss Kathleen May Damon, of Upper Chine, Shanklin, strangled in a ditch in Horton Isle of Wight.
lane, near Epsom, the day, after Derby Day.
The Court was so crowded that a
carried out.
TO TRADE.
SIR BASIL CLARKE CHARGED TOLD AT LUCIFER DINNER LORD ASTOR GIVES NAMES.
WITH ASSAULT.
CASE DISMISSED.
IN LONDON,
TO COMMISSION.
"CADDIE AND JUDGE. SIGNED STATEMENTS. Lord Astor, giving evidence Speaking at the Lucifer Golfing Society dinner in London, the before the Licensing Commission Prince of Wales asid:
in London dealt with many effects "You all know that I have had of the drink trade-from the viewa
William has a constitution of wrongfully expelled, and fibelled young man fainted and had to be where the discoveries have resaid Mr. and Mrs. Pogson went to my long trips round this great which, it was alleged, cash was
Miss Hunt alleged that she was
in letters written by Miss Damon to her mother and aunt.
The girl was employed at The Nook tea rooms at Burgh Heath, and on the day before the Derby she left to take a new situation at Carshalton. She did, not arrive
there.
After a consultation lasting 14 hours, the jury found that the let
defamatory and were not written maliciously,
however, that They found,
Fred Willam Deats, the em- plaintiff was unreasonably expell-ployer of the dead girl, said that ed, and awarded her one farthing he was the proprietor of a garage, but the tea rooms attached be- damages on that claim.
longed to his wife.
Iron because he has never been a grey to the childhood allments which undermine vitality. At the first sign of "oft colour," his mother always nipped the develop.tors were not
g ailment in the bud with Baby's Own Tablets, which she has never been without since her son was 'horn. Baby's Own Tablets -ecially prepared to fill the need for a reliable health regulator ely for the use of babies and Dung children.
are
The Lord Chief Justice reserved entering judgment until he can hear legal arguments...
The excavations were
41
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EXCAVATION RESULT.
Shakespeare's patriotic picture
A scene in a backwater of the of the splendours of Cymbeline Thames led to Sir Basil Clarke has been largely supported by the being summoned at Slough by Cap labours of archaeologists, after tain Norman Ambrose Pogson, a three wacks excavations at Cel-film company director, for assault, chester on the site of Camule and by Mrs. Pogson for causing dunum, the capital of Cymbeline her grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Guest, for the complainants, and the first city in England, vealed a more highly organised Windsor on Sunday, June 15, to community than had been gen- spend the day on the river. They erally recognised as existing be- tied their canoe up in a backwater when a man shouted, "Don't you fore the Roman conquest.
under- know this is private water?" taken by the Colchester Excavathe exit of the backwater. Later They went away and tied up near tions Committee, representing Sir Basil Clarke came in a dinghy; local interests and the principal learned bodies in England. Work and said, "If you don't clear out I has proceeded on a part of Shee-will bash you." pen Farm which, the time of Cymboline, was a thickly popu lated area not inhabited by the upper classes. It is thus evident that. Roman luxuries confined to the king, and nobles,
The houses appear to have earth or clay floors. But there been constructed of thaber with are also pit dwellings dating three from about the beginning of the Christian era, whose primitiva nature indicates a considerable advance in civilisation between the foundation of the city and the kindom of Cymbeline.
Hundreds of vessels of native pottery have been found, many of them of finer workmanship than those of the Roman period.
He said that before the girl left she said, ""Bob knows where I am going. Will you tell Bob to go to Mrs. Young? Tell him he is to tell
These pleasant-tasting little
Suprised by Verdict. tablets quickly correct stomach
Miss Hunt, who had appeared sent it and take it to her place and her to collect the box where I have troubles and constipation, check diarrhoea, expe!
worms, allay cheerful and unconcerned during keep it until I write her from
after Kept the case, looked pale and crest-Scotland." Shortly fever, colds and group.
edy and administered promptly fallen when she heard the verdict. o'clock Mrs. Deats and Bob Harper Very pretty and girlish in returned, and later he and Bob they have prevented the develop large black hat, white blouse and went to Wallington police station, ment of serious illness in many
black skirt, she listened attentive-
Deats said he lost £7 the pre- children. For teething they are ly to the judge's summing up, but vious week, and added, "With her invaluable, casing the pains and the verdict came apparently as a telling me she was going to Sutton thus inducing sound, natural great surprise, and Miss Hunt sleep. Obtainable, from chemists looked depressed when she join-to work and then my finding out she was going to Carshaltou in- stead, and as she also said she was going to Scotland, I came to the conclusion there was some- evi-thing in it."
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Several schoolgirls gave dence for the defence,
Miss Maud Widowson, matron of the school, told how, soon after she arrived at the school she had to attend to Miss Hunt's injured anklė.
The girl cried and said she was very unhappy at home and at school, and appreciated somebody being kind to her.
"I kissed her when I left," add- ed Miss Widowson. ·
After that she received a num- ber of letters from Miss Hunt, and in reply wrote telling her to "pull herself together and not make a fool of herself."
"Miss Hunt told me she was sick of the school and Miss Damon's grumbling." said, Miss Widowson, and asked me if I knew of another school. I replied "Yes, but if you go to it you will have to behave yourself."
In the
That was why he asked at the police station to have an officer search the girl's box.
Tap at the Window. On Derby Day, he said, he saw a motor-cycle go past, and it ap peared to him that Agnes Kesson
were
Extensive Trade,
not
"Would have Killed me," Mr. Pogson, fearing violence, seized Sir Basil's oar and tried to push Sir Basil away. Sir Basil Beized the oar of the dinghy and brought it down towards Mr. Pog- son's head. The blow was warded
off with a paddle. Another blow oar snapped off hitting Mrs, Pog- hit the paddle and the blade of the son on the temple.
Captain Pogson said if the first blow had hit him it would have killed him.
a crack at most forms of sport of Lady Astor on Prohibition, to generally very unsuccessfully cocktails, unsuspecting Admir but Overseas Empire sportsman als," and "innocent duchessOS." have helped me very much during He mentioned two cases, In
offered to Empire during the last ten years.
two Parliamentary "We are all agreed that golf is a candidates-Conservative and La- We get older. bour-for their support of the very fine game. We have all played more stron trade, uous games, but golf is a game
He was authorised, he said, by you can go on playing for ever, both candidates to give the Com- that when you are too old to play in confidence. and I once made ao bold as to say mission their signed statements
F
golf you had better die. (Laugh-
Lady Astor's Attitude. ter.)
"I am delighted that so many "In 1919 my wife succeeded mo. golfers or should I say so many in the House of Commons,” Lord · fellows keen on golf-have been Astor said. able to come here."
The Oath,
The Prince went on to say he had heard that when one was very important to give a golf making a speech about golf it was
story."
"She made her maiden speech in favour of shorter hours; later
she piloted a Bill to keep the young out of the drinking bars
tried continuously to get her out he has not stood for prohibition. The trade, nevertheless, have
"I know some very good golf of public life."
The increase in drink trade stories, but I do not think I can tell them all here," said the advertising, said Lord Astor, was due, not to a falling off in con- Prince amid loud laughter.
Captain Pogson cross examined, said he was a director of Inter-
"With Lord Lonsdale's permis-sumption, but to the fact that ad- national Productions, Ltd. Hesion, however, I will tell you vertising was being found by did hot know it was Sir Basil who these. We have a good many tradere generally to be a paying caused him to be asked to resign motor accidents in this country. proposition.
I do not know whether they are from Whitehall Films, Ltd. He was
Money in Cocktails. tricked into resigning by his fellow
due to bad motors or to bad
"Cocktails are a habit that has directors.
drivers-but anyway a small boy been created by private enterprise witnessed an accident during because there is money in cock- week-end, and was put into the tails. Its development has been witness box.
aided by skilful advertising,
The drink trade, he added, was afraid of the women's vote.
A Charity Matince. Questioned regarding a matinee in aid of Middlesex Hospital in February, 1927, he said he had nothing to do with the financial ar- rangements.
Trade with all parts of the Western Empire was highly deve loped. There was an extensive traffic in wine and olive oil from Gual, and the Mediterranean, while at the same time 'Britain
Mr. Fox-Andrews; Were repre- was being flooded with pottery and sentations made to you after tho bronze ware from Italy, Gaul, performance that funds raised had and the Rhine. There has even not been paid over?-No. 1 been identified a particular brand Did you hand over something like As she passed she turned her of pottery which was
manufac-5500 in cash when you were pressed head to see if I had seen her ortured as far afield us
for it? I do not really remember; Arrezzo,
it is so long ago. and enjoyed a considerable vogue not,' said Deats,
in the time of Augustus. "It is evident," one
was on the back.
He described his movements on Darby Day, and said that about one oclock in the morning there was a tap at the window and he was asked by a man to go to Sut ton to pick,up Mrs. Smith. He did nat doubt him because he knew Sutton he failed to find her, and Mrs. Smith, and decided to go. At two other people hailed him and he drove them to a road in Sutton, He arrived home at 1.40 or 1:45 and must have been in bed by two o'clock.
of the
of new
"This process largely accounts
|
"The judge asked him, 'Do you know the nature of an oath? Yes, my lord,' said the boy, 'Don't I
On the question of drink pro- caddy for you?'" (Laughter.).
*iob- "Then, to illustrate the great paganda Lord Astor said: concentration necessary in golf, viously it is the interest of the licensed trade that their propa- there was a very rare occasion when an enthusiastic golfer ar ganda should be conducted by op- rived home in time for dinner.parently independent bodies.
"From the trade point of view (Laughter.) He sat down to dinner with his wife and his boy,it was better to divide subscrip tions among different societies and his wife Bald:
"Willie tells me he caddied for than to plump them all into one.
"One association," he said, “will you this afternoon.
"Dear me,' said the golfer. 1 catch the unwary clergy, another thought I had seen that boy some-league will entrap the unsuspect
ing admirals, a third will mislead the innocent duchesses, yet a fourth will take in the "man in the street," and so on.
where before."
"Fore!" "Then there is another which is about the golfer and the man I think is one of the funniest. It who was not a golfer who was very bored as he walked across the course,
This is what I am suggesting That you put into your pocket hun- excavating staff said, "that Bri-dreds of pounds intended for the tain was the victim of extensive Middlesex Hospital?It is a lie. dumping by enterprising manu
Did you disgorge money under facturers in search
pressure?-No.
Did you pay some money?-I markets. There was no tariff on paid something out of my own poe- the historian Strabo, writing in foreign imports to Britain, but ket. A.D. 15, tells us that British Because the hopes of everybody Why, if you were not responsible? traders were then severely handi- concerned had not been realised to capped by a high tariff on their the extent I would have liked. exports to Gaul.
The Sinking Boat. The Coroner-You say that on
Capt. Pogson said that it was end, continued the Wednesday night you went to Sut for the rapid progress of Roman untrue that he pulled Sir Basil's matron, the girl encountered her ton. Have you heard the police area in the British kingdom," oar in such a way as to tip the boat at all sorts of times, and was mak-officer say that he saw you turn he said. "So far we have excavat- until it was half full of water. He ing her the laughing stock of the towards Tadworth? Supposing Ied only the lower part of the long did not know that Sir Basil's boat staff.
did, it must have been very funny. slope rising above the Colne sank before he could get it to the I don't think I went that way in valley. The centre of the town bank. less I went from force of habit with the King's palace was on the In re-examination Capt. Pogson and then turned round to go to top of the slope, and it is not yet said that as a result of his being whether excavation forced to resign the directorship Sutton again. I might have been easy to see
will be feasible. The whole town of Whitehall Films, Ltd., an action dreaming at the time.
A Juryman What time did extends over hundreds of acres, was entered and a compromise was Mr. John Singleton, K.C.. (10 Agnes Kesson go upstairs?-I can. and this season's work will con-made whereby the company paid very expert way in which thay One was the present system of ·
tinue at least until the end September."
"Boys This Time."
she
Mise Widowson said that was leaving Miss Damon's school to take up a post near Eastbourne.
this
The Juryman-But you said în your evidence that she went out between 2.30 and 3 o'clock.
Miss Hunt): You take that post because of your knowledge of not tell you. CHINA UNDERWRITERS, LTD. girls? It is boys time.
(Laughter).
Miss Marion Phillips, a pupil, said one day Mollie Hunt came Into the dormitory and ridiculed an interview she had with Miss Damon. She said: This is my last term and I am going to have the best time I can."
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and leaned forward over the wit Deats appeared not to hear this, neas-box with his hand cupped bo- hind his ear and remarked, "I am afraid I did not hear what you said."
The Juryman-There are noner
GLIDER DIVES INTO SEA.
PILOT RESCUED BY MOTOR BOAT.
of him £2,000.
. Sir Basil's Evidence. Sir Basil Clarke gave evidence that he had a lease on land adjoin- the backwater, which was barred at one end with buoys, and at the other end by a wooden erection. When he called to the occupants of a boat that they were in private waters he did so in a friendly voice. He was surprised half an hour later
various societies are connecting "Or, to put it otherwise, the links with or provide avenues of approach to, high society, bust- ness, women's circles, the 'betting" "Suddenly there was a shout of and so-called 'sporting' fraternity, "Fore, and then there was a hum the middle-classes, medical and ranks, the clergy, in the distance, which resolved it scientific self into 'For he was a jolly good rotaries and clubs, the man in the street, and those laymen who, fellow.""
Speaking about other branches
es politicians, co-operate with the of sport, the Prince said there trade. were too many eminent and expert
Public Ownership. cricketers around for him to say anything about that game, but There were only three possible. they were all very glad to see the systems for dealing with drink, men from overseas, and to see the said Lord Astor.
owner-
played the oldest of British games. competitive commercial
"I have," added the Prince, ship? (2) disinterested public played pole in my time, though ownership; and (3) the prohibition do not play polo any better than of the sale of intoxicants."
cricket."
THE INNOCENCE OF THE EGG.
Thousands of people at Scar when he took out his canoe to find ONLY RELATIVE, CONSIDERS
Is there any so deaf as those who will not hear.borough saw a-glider: crash into it was Captain Pogson he had
Mr. Singleton: thing unusual in ealling a head- miatrces "an old cat-It is not a term that is generally used every day, but such expressions were used.
This remark caused a stir in the Court, sad, the Coroner's officer had to call for order.
"You Must Tell Everything." Another Juryman-Have you heard any more about the strangera LAWN BOWLS LEAGUE, you picked up at Sutton?-No.
CLUB DE RECREIO TEAMS
FOR TO-MORROW.
The following will represent the Club de Recreio in lawn bowls league
matches to-morrow:
1at. Div. Team versus Craigengower (Home) to commence at 4 p.m. sharp.
A
In answer to questions, by the Coroner, Deats said that after the girl left he felt that she was being hidden by Mrs. Young, who was "not so good as she painted her self."
think that? I cannot tell you.
The Coroner-What made you Here Deats scratched his head and gazed up at the ceiling.
S. Gomes, L. C. R. Souza, C. G. The Coroner-You are à man Silva, F. F. Luz (Skip); Dr. R. A. C. who likes to worm his own way Baste, H. A. Alves, C. E. Marques, through with this thing. You A. C. V. Ribeiro (Skip); C. H. Basto, have something in your mind and L.A. Gutierrez, C. A. Lopes, P. A. Yvanovich (Skip).
you want to work it out yourself. 2nd Div. Team veraus Craigen. With regard to some things you gower (Away); J. Boste, J. M. 3. have told us, where have you heard Alves,
R. E. Roberts, A. H. Baste them? I have been listening in (Skip); F. V. Ribeiro, H. Rozano, the Duke's Head, and I have met M. Remedios, X. M. Silva a friend of Mrs. Young-a married (Skip); H. F. Baptista, A. V Barros, man who lives at Carshalton. C. M. S. Alves, A. E. S. Alves (Skip),
HONG TENNIS DOUBLES.
We want you to realise that you must tell us everything you know?
I will, and I have.
the sea. Its pilot Herr Mager-spoken to and that he was still suppe, was rescued by a motor- there. They had an argument, Sir boat.
Basll added. Herr Magersuppe and Herr I said to him: "Pagson, if you Kronfeld, the German sail planing are impudent to me I shall smack expert, arrived at Scarborough your face!" He said, "Will you from likley to give demonstrations. repeat that?" and I did. He Scarborough Castle Hill, 350ft snatched hold of my oar and pulled high, was chosen for the take-off my little boat on to its side, and the and 4,000 people were watching water poured in. when Magersuppe got into his ma- chine for the first,daplay,
From the launch the machine glided out to within about 60ft. of the cliff edge, but failed to rise into the wind and, striking a feace, damaged a wing.
Sir Basil said be struck at Capt. Pogson's arm with the other oar and hit the side of the canoe, the or snapping. It was nonsense to say that anything from the broken Dar could have gone within five yards of Mrs. Pogson.
'A DOCTOR.
The "innocent" egg-particularly the duck's egg-is not so innocent as it might be, according to an article by Dr. W. M. Scott, a Minis- try of Health medical officer, in the current British Medical Journal,
"One habitually regards an egg of the safest and most as one wholesome farms of food," he writes.
"But there is strong reason to believe that this innocence of the egg is, after all, only relative, and that, in fact, eggs are responsible for many cases of food poisoning which remain mysterious-that is, cases of severe or fatal gastro- enteritis due to salmonella in- fection, in which none of the usual-
FANLING GOLF.
STARTING TIMES FOR" SUNDAY.
9.20 a.m.--G, G. Johnston and W. J.
Clerk:
9.24.am—A, D. Humphreys and E.
Des Voeux
9.28 am Dr. Dovey and E
Shrubsole
8.32 a.m.-F. Leach and A. Young. 9:36 am. T. Burton and
Castle
9.40 a.m.-D. J. Keogh and J. S.
· B Gordon and J. R. 9.44
Collis
9.48 am-0, Enger and D. Forbes. 9:52 am-W, Wright, and D.-E.
Naish 9,56 am—A C. I. Bowker and A.
Reld
10.00 am, E. Lissaman, and, W.
Shields.
mL H. Geare and Capt. Weir,
10.04
10.24 N. E. Littlejohn und W.
A Stewart,
Colonel Alfred Dreyfus, the hero
Magersuppe rose again, how-
One of the blows struck by Capt. ever, high above the castle cliff, Pogson cracked the side of his then diving down in a 400ft. canoe. swoop, fell into the sea.
The Bench dismissed all the sum-ly suspect articles can be in and victim of the "affaire" that The aviator's peril as his ma-monses, each party to pay its own criminated." chine began to break up was seen by the assembled thousands.
coata.
There have been a number of shook French society to its founda- such cases during the last three tons over 30 years ago, has writ Sir William Edge, M.P. for Bos-years, he adds, affecting both in ten a letter to the Cure on the He climbed out of the cockpit, worth, took part in a novel dividuals and groups of people.
occasion of that organ's publishing took off his flying coat and sat un contest when he tried to reach
the top of the fuselage, ready to dive the mining town of Ibstock, be taken in using ducks' eggs in any Attache in Paris at the time. General von Dr. Scott etates that care should
papers of Swarzkoppen, the German Military into the sea shoud his machine Leicestershire, before a number manner in which thorough cooking: sink beneath him,
Scarborough Hfeboat was berated at the time he start making creams, ices, custards, or papers make me live again with of racing pigeons which were is not involved-for example, in Colonel Dreyfus atates that the launched, but a number of motor-ed. The contest was the result of even lightly boiled to dete
painful intensity and with auch. "Well, we will leave it at that boats raced ahead and from one a challenge recently made to Sir He agreed that the risk of food physical and moral sufferings that now," said the Coroner. "Stand ropes were thrown to Magersuppe William by a member of the Ibstock poisoning from eggs is compara- the years between have not been down for the time being...
and he was hauled on board,
Homing Society, and it was arrang-tively rare, but he is inclined to able to soften the memory of them. After other witnesses had given The wrecked glider was taken in ed that the pigeons should be think that salmonella infections They confirm in Irrefutable fashion evidence the Coroner said that they tow and brought fato harbour, and liberated from the Palace Yard, from eggs are, in reality, a little the facta established by the master had heard all the available eri- its owner, on landing, was at once Westminster. The "pigeons, after more common.
ཏྟ ''',
ly inquiry of the Court of Cassa- dence with the exception of a wit- motored away.
flying once round the Palace Yard,
tion that resulted in the revision of ness with regard to the window He was suffering from shock set out northward. As the last one
1906. "General von Swarzkoppen," Only ons match was played in the tapping.
Calf and an injured leg
left Sir William left in a taxi-cab It is advertised that the first Colonel Dreyfus continues, acted first round of the Hong Tennia "It is the duty of this Court to Undismayed by his colleague's for St. Pancras, where he took the meeting of creditora of the induslike an honest man in revealing all Doubles at the Hongkong C.C., yester find how Agnes Kesson came to accident, Herr Kronfeld decided train. He lost the race by two trial and Commercial Bank, Ltd., he knew it is, however, profoundly. Stabb (3/6) met and G. W her death, and the Court is going to continue the display, but his minutes, owing to a mishap on the wil be held at the City Hall on regrettable that he did not feel Stabb (3/6) met E. M. Bryden and to do this duty," aid the Coroner, machine, after rislag only a few line between Kettering and Bedford. 29th August, at 11 am Con- it his duty to do so the day he un- won in straight sets, the scores being The inquest was adjourned till feet, fell to the ground and was He clocked in at Ibstock 14 minutes tributories will meet at the same derstood that a judicial crime had
August 187
damaged.
after the first pigeon.
place on the same day at 12 noon. been committed.
ANOTHER TIE DECIDED
YESTERDAY. ---
D. 8. Robb (15/1). The former pair
6-2, 6-4