THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
1985.
Mysterious
Death of
Magistrate
WOMAN COMPANION
QUESTIONED
UNUSUAL PROCEDURE
London.
Occasionally received presents from Mr. Allon and referred to two cheques for Bwan & Edgar's within a week, totalling 25 guineas. Mrs. Jackson said that Mr. Allen chose clothes which he liked in catalogues and bought them for her: he also paid all
all her living expenses.
NOT ALLOWED TO SPEND
Mr. Walker: Don't think I 'attack you on this matter, but I also made Home little. investigation into the pasa book, and I notice that when you aro with his cheques drawn to 'self' are greater than when you are not with him. May we take it that you were receiving money?- Yes, ho bought me a lot. I was not allowed to spend my own money
at all,
Lively passages marked the in- quest on Mr. Jefferys Charles Allen,
On some occasions you even an 80 years-old J.P. who was Yound! dead with his face in the fire on, stopped him buying you things? November 18 last at his home, MilYoe... House, Upwey, near Weymouth.
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Mr. Walkor then referred to Mr. Audrey Jackson, late com- other cheques drawn for Mrs. Jack- panion-secretary to the magistrate, con including one for £800 and one under Intensivo "cross for £1,400, the latter balng given examination," which became so tense her to pay the rant and all nursing at one point that Mrs. Jackson's and living expenses for one year. representative declared: "It has He questioned her about Mr. Allen's come to this now-that the cross-income and Mrs. Jackson sald she examination has developed into a had no idea of the amount of capital trial for murder."
ho had apart from annuities.
After half-an-hour's absence from the Court, the Coroner's jury brought in a verdict of "Accidental death and in our opinion neither Mrs. Jackson nor Mrs. Lawrence (her mother) had anything to do
with it."
Mr. Walker referred to Mr. Allen's alleged intention to give Mrs. Jackson £8,000, and Mrs. Jackson said it was correct that Mr. Allen wanted to provide her with 8 a week she was not sure whether it was £0,000 or £8,000.
EVENING OF DEATH
- French Forces were drawn up up outside Consulate recently to pay their respects to M. Jacques Meyrier, the Coniul- General, who sulfed for France with bli family one hour later. The top photo shows the troope at the salate, while insat and below are to be ***D M. Meyrier and M. Wilden, the Franch Minister, standing at altention listening to the stir- ring strains of "The Mar-
of the opinion that "given any time between 20 and 30 minutes it would In the Coroner's summing-up
be possible for the head to be Major Symes (the coroner) said:
charred as the portion of skull I "It is not usual for a coroner to: Mr. Walker then wont on to ques- saw, with that intense heat. I am allow counsel to address a jury.tion her about the events on the of the opinion that if Mr. Allen was sitting In that chair na represented My reason for deciding to do It was evening of Mr. Allon's death. that I was perfectly certain the Mr. Walker: I put it to you, Mrs, in the photograph, the injuries evidence would be put more clearly Jackson, supposing you did intend which have been described could if counsel had the opportunity of to put Mr. Allen on the fire, that have been caused in a certain man- addressing you. This method of you could not have thought toner accidentally, by his attempt to dealing with it has not constituted choose a more favourable moment rise from his chair. this in any way a trial. It is not in the week?-I have not thought i a trial. What you are here to do is about it. to inquire into the circumstances of the death of Mr. Jefferys Charles Allen." Turning to Mrs. Jackson's evidence the Coroner sald: "You have had unfolded to you a very long and curious story. In so far as her evidence has been verified it
Mr. Walker: Do you realise it now? Yes, I suppose It is correct. I suppose any night of any day of the week,
dispatched.
On my going to lift one in a clover I have oft-times como across a
meadow, in this trance-like state. rabbit or a hare crouching and it suddenly zig-zagged and escaped then simulating death as a mesus by laboured flight over the hedge. of escape. This can be under-I think most birds practice this stood, for we all know how a dog felgning art, for I have noticed. turns up its nose at a dead thing. when the cruel sparrow-hawk in- vadon their haunts they immediate- On Sunday last as I was ambling!
ly "silence and freeze," down my favourite green leaning,
Many species of insects, I find, a large frog (ovidently not yet hibernated because of the mild folgen death when you seize them, weather), crawled and-lcaped in spiders notably; while many birds Mcs. Jackson is the wife of a front.. Immediately I touched it it which appreciate a live beetle will Rangoon pilot, at present on leave became perfectly rigid. I lifted it, give a dead one the go-by. Most in England. She originally joined but it remained quiet, not a beloved of all our insects is the Mr. Allen in 1930. Several times
motion, not even
Watch him, top- she tried to leave him but he always
in its eyes, humble-bee. begged her to stay. She got When I laid it on a grassy spot it heavy, rolling and toppling from
flad precipitately.
his favourite blossoma. Here married, however, in 1931 and re- mained with her husband for 10
again should you wbstruct him he I have seen pheasants flutter and will feign death in order to elude months after that without having at all. She went out to Rangoon again when the unwary sportsman Mr. Allen was on the fire, and that with him in the autumn of 1931 but made to claim his prize. The shy in her quaint ministry is over you wore particularly agitated be
A result of many letters from blusive cornerake is another adept yleiding Instruction to the teach- cause you had not been able to get Mr. Allen asking her to return to at feigning death when at bay. able and listening mind. Bigwood the nurse) and had in him ake eventually did so, in 1933. tended Bigwood to make the dis- Mrs. Jackson said that Mr. Allen Mr. Walker during his interroga-ravery? No, I did not know that told her he wanted to be certain of tion of Mra, Jackson, naked: You Mr. Allen was on the are. aaid that Mr. Allen interfere with had been questioning Mrs. Jackson leaving her enough money so that When Mr. Walker sat down he her future and that he said he was the maids. Did he also interfere for an hour and a half. Major she could live in England if she with you?-He told them what to Symas the coroner then put several wanted to.
questions to her. He referred to the bottle of whisky which she had left with Mr. Allen, and asked her whether she thought he had had too w much to drink, to which Mrs Jack- son replied in the negative.
has been found to be perfectly
true,"
Mr. Ridge appeared for Mrs. Jackson and Mr. W. Maitland Walker represented the police.
COUNSEL'S QUESTIONS
do and how to do it.
Was it something physical?-No, I think he wanted to take care of mo. When we were away in hotels I must not speak to anybody, I must not go out alone, I must not wear short-sleeved dresses and I must not have my window open in my bedroom at night. If I
opened it he would come and close it.
Mrs. Jackson said she had never had any improper relations with Mr. Allen. She said that when she first went to Mr. Allen as his secretary he paid her £ a month. "He did not pay this for very long" sho added, "because he did not want to treat me as his secretary and did not want to pay me wages.”
Mr. Walker asked her if she
Mr. Walker (referring to Mrs. Jackson's absence from the house when she went to fetch Mr. Allen's male nurse): I must put it to you that you knew perfectly well that any communication with Mr. Allen drop as if shot dead, only to rise your grasp. So it is that Nature
Jackson said: It has been sug- Mr. Ridge who appeared for Mrs.
gested that Mr. Allen was on the Are before you left the house. Your baby was in bed ?--Yes,
BABY PUT TO BED
"Mr."Ridge: Would your have loft your baby in the house where there was likely to be a fire? No.
Dr. Devereux said that certain experimenta had been conducted at Mill House and he said that he was.
ANIMALS FEIGN DEATH
By J. T. AITKIN..
During my wayfaring in the quiet country places I have en- countered many instances of the cuteness of animals in feigning death when cornered.
The other morning while I was crossing a field with a farmer friend a weasel bolted from an old stone dyke. We went in hot pur sult. After an exhausting chase we cornered the weasel in a cul- de-sac. Here to our surprise it lay motionless as if dead. Re- treating to a distance, we watched. The weasel, seolng that the coast was clear, bounded over a wall and escaped.
I once say a poor fox when cornered by the hounds feign death to elude the dogs. It lay inert, completely puzzling the dogs, who stood still. The fox made a bound away and holed in an adjoining plantation, only to be dug out and
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