THE HONGKONG / TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,
APRIL 7, 1936.
TRAGIC CHILDREN OF CONDEMNED NURSE
Playing on Grandpa's Farm Unaware of Mother's Death Sentence
SULLIVAN'S
FIVE MONTHS
OF
TORTURE
Hucknall (Notts), Apr. 1.
THREE happy children are enjoying a carefree holiday on their grandparents' lonely farm near here, unaware that their mother is in prison under sentence of death.
They
the children of, arc Nurse Dorothea Waddingham, who was convicted at Notting He ham Assizes of the murder of Miss Ada Baguley by morphine poisoning. Miss Baguley was à patient at Nurse Wadding- ham's nursing home in Devon- drive, Sherwood, Nottingham.
The children, Edwin, aged nine, Allan, aged seven, and Mary, aged three, have been told that their mother is in hospital.
But while they, with childish delight, feed the cows and pigs and poultry, and ride in wagons, a grey-haired man and woman watch them with eyes,
tear-filled
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Lost
His
U.S. FAR EASTERN FLAGSHIP
Trousers Harbour at Hongkong. The Augusta will remain here until the week-end.
Berlin, Apr. 1.
A Swiss crossed Lake Constance into Germany to buy a suit be- cause by using registered marks it was cheaper than he could have bought it in his home town.
IIis dieulty was to get the new suit smuggled through the Swiss Customs,
He resolved to return by the nighi boat and throw the old sult The kiddies are their grand-Into the lake. children. The condemned woman in their daughter.
"We Have Suffered" "The children are very happy here," Nurse Waddingham's father suld to-day.
"While this case has been on they have been kept from school, but soon they will have to go back. | However much we try to prevent them hearing about the trial, they are bound to do so sooner or later. "We have suffered a lot, but the thought of what unhappiness the
U. 8. 8. Augusta, flagship of the American Far Eastern Squadron in Staf Photographer.
Killer Scares Girls, Escapes Into Forest
Paris, Apr. 1,
STEFANO ZAIMIS, Bandit of the Maures (S.E. France), who took to the forests after killing a gendarme at Sainte Maxime, has slipped through the hands of the police again.
He did, but he threw the trousers By goat paths he made his
of the new snit ererboard on welt way to two Var villages, of Le Exile's Life Of and had to land trouserless.—Reu-Muy und Les Arcs, where Riviera-bound trains often-stop to take on water.
fer
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Waiting until narkness, slipped through the police net
IN JULY into the village.
London, Mar. 26. news may mean to these kiddies JULY 1 is the provisional
upsets a terribly."
opening
date of the
Nurse Waddingham was strongly B.B.C.'s Alexandra Palace recommended to mercy by the jury. Mr. R. A. Young, her solicitor, television station.
decided to appeal on her behalf,
weeks after the hearing of the up- penl.
The last stages of con-
Suddenly appearing in a cafe, he demanded a bottle of wine. The landlord, recognising him, was so terrified that he held out the bottle and never asked for payment, being only too happy to see the man's back.
Police Cordon
He took a loaf from a shop in the rounded the village.
Adventure
TOLD THE TSAR TO ABDICATE
Paris, Mar. 17. Alexander Gutchkolf, the Russian statesman, who has died in Paris at the age of 73, has been a "character" in Europe since 1878, when, at the age of 15, he challenged ord Salisbury to a duel by telegram during the Congress of Berlin.
A few years later he started his duelling career in carnest in Ger many, where he fought a fellow
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Leave to appeal was granted and the date of the execution will be struction have been reached same way, Meanwhile pollee sur-student who had insulted Russia.Talkies played by Reginald Dixon automatically postponed until three and the delicate operation of fixing th 215ft. mast on Nurse Waddingham has two the summit of the rebuilt other children. Ronald, eighteen months old, is in a home at Bag-84ft. brick tower is about to thorpe, and her four-month-old girl berin.
Alexandra Palace.
the
is in the care of a foster-mother. During May and June festing on "My daughter's baby was nothoth sound and vision is expected born when this terrible business to be in full swing from began," Mr. Waddingham de clared. "Women will appre cinte what that meant., And: later, when the Inquest was on, she was nursing this baby and looking after Ronald.
"How she bore it all is beyond me. I am sure she is not guilty
of this thing."
Mr. Waddingham then paid a
his
In all he fought ten düels with (Cinema Organ).
1. Sweet Music--Selection: Robert-Selection; 3. Mississippi But Zaimis escaped them, and pistols, and challenged opponents
-Selection': 4. Naughty Marietta two girls picking to many more, encountering
After campaigning in Mongotin-Selection. mimosa in a field he levelled his
9.30 p.m.
Light Orchestral in the South African Music. And dashed back to
forest command revolver at them, chased them away and Manchurin, he joined a Boer
War, but was severely wounded Old Bohemian Town; Cara Min; hiding place-Reuter.
Mons Rose and captured by the British. My Dream-Waltz;
Valis: Romantic Waltz Medley: After a few weeks' enptivity, he Sweet Memories. said, many years later, "I learned to appreciate British character and ways which I had not under stood before." For the rest of Iris
fe M. Gutchkoff was great! | friend of Britain.
LES ARCS:-Village where Sasia, Killer of the Var, who was executed last week, lived.
NEW VATICAN JAIL
HAS A SHOWER BATH
Vatican City, Apr. 1.
tribute to Ronald Joseph Sullivan MEDIAEVAL dungeons of the Vatican have been
replaced by the smallest and most modern prison
who was associated Nurse Waddingham in running the nurs
ing home and was charged jointly the world. with her and acquitted.
"Sullivan has had five months
in
L
The prison will be officially opened to-morrow. It consists of hell and has now gone away of only two cells. to be used for the detention of Vatican prisoners, broken in health," he said. The prison looks on to a courtyard, and is fitted with shower "Ever since Miss Baguley's death in September he has gone baths, hospital, and even a covered walk, suggested by the Pope, through an agony of suspense, so that prisoners could take exercise in the rain without getting "He felt all the time that he wet. was under a cloud, yet he knew, of course, that he was completely innocent.
"Then came the long ordeal of the inquest with Its verdict of 'Murder, and another interval until the police court proceedings opened in the middle of February. Then
the long trint which was again
largely a repetition of the evidence which had been given twice before.
"Smail wonder that he is broken
down in health.
"Throughout he has done bis ut- most to comfort my daughter, and before he went away he told us that he would not rest until every thing humanly possible had been done to save her from the death penalty."
Discover
America
Regina, Canada, Apr. 1.
There are no inmates for the prison yet. No one has been incarcerated in the Vatican prison for a year.
DILWARA'S FIRST TRIP WAS EYE-OPENER TO BRITISH TOMMIES
London, Mar. 1.
The British Tommy who used to travel out to the Colonies in
a creaking old tropship singing "purgatory, twist the decks and a
devil at the helm," can be found in the troopship nursery nowadays crooning "rock-a-bye-baby" to his offspring.
So far as one Canadian pro-ing_horses,
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sung by Garda Haft and George tim. "Musicni Comedy Selec- Baker.
10 p.m. Big Ben:
10 p.m. Dance Music by Jack and his Orchestra.
Close Down. 11 p.m. OF
He led the Octobrists Moderate Liberals in the Duma and became President of the Third · Duma. He WILS popular in military and naval circles because'
inar
of his energetic interest national defence. In the Great War he first organised the Russian
Red Cross and then played a lend-
ing part in mobilising industry for war purposes.
The Tsar And His Son The Tsar's dislike and distrust
of him prevented his holding high
M. Gutchkoff ard another office, however. In March, 1917.
Monarchist, M. Shulgin, were sent to Pakor by the Provisional Government to persuade the Tsar to abdicate in favour of his son. The two men had prepared their arguments, but when they met the Tear in his railway carriage, ho immediately told them that he had decided to resign not only on his own behalf, but also his son's. MM. Gutchkoff and Shulgin tried to persuade the Tsar that he had no right to sign away his son's rights, since they were both Monarchists and considered im- mediate ani undisputed succession vital to Russia's interests.
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1.38 p.m. Bidney Torrh. At the Organ of
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Describing the scene years afterwards. M. Gutchkot said: "He cut as short. The Tsar's When the new 11.050-ton Troop her hundreds of hammocks will be voice was no dry and cold that I Transport Dilwara, steamed out of occupied by schoolboys on vacation shivered. My decision cannot be
India cruises.
reconsidered, the Tsar said, with- First Man To Southaminton recently for
an out moving a muscle of his face. with several hundred soldiers and: The Dilwara, capable of their families there was special average speed of 14 knots, can enr- 'I cannot, and ought not, to part accommodation for the army's ry 1,150 men and is a far cry from with my son. Good-bye, gentle- unbies.".
the battered old ships of the 18th men, you will have the signed. which might take any document presently. He turned and we realised The nursery, delicately painted century
of time up to a year to abruptly away, in pink and baby blue, has a special length
course we had hoped.". stewardess and a squadron of rock-reach India with the troops packed that events would not follow the
aboard like sardines.'
M. Gutchkoff "was Minister of The government, a bit cautious, vince is concerned, Christopher The milltary tradition is pre-about introducing the nursery idea, War, for two months in the post- Columbus was not the first man served even in the nuracey, how hastily explained that the Dilwarn revolutionary Government, but he resigned when he found that un- to discover America. A "Lief ever, for the walls are decorated "violates no service tradition."
der the new system he would have Ericsson Day", in honour of the with toyland soldiers.
"It makes no attempt to pamperi Norse explorer, has been pro- On a deck just below the nursery the troops, it was announced. no power to repress seditious and mutinous propaganda in the army. claimed in Saskatchewan for is the "dungeon" for mutinous and They still will sleep in hammocks From May, 1017, he threw all his
drunken Tommies. But whereas and roll them up during the day- energien into combating the grow. TT. This is supposed to be the day the troopships of olden days had time. They will eat at long tables ing power of the revolutionary Dernand
T.T. Shanghai extremlata, ona dozen or more cells the Dilwara thut. Ericsson first landed
T.T. Singapore He took an active part in resist Japan American soll somewhere about the was built on the assumption that just as they do in barracks."
T.T. Indio year 1,000 A.D, Saskatchewan is soldiers are gentlemen now. the first Canadian province to tako has only one cell, but it is so of cabins for soldlera with families as ing the Bolsheviks, and did not such action but there will also be fectively padded as to cope with well as for both commissioned and cease his activity when forced to 7.7. San Frisco & New York
Two go into exile. He studied the T.T. Java
subterranean methods of the Cqm-T.T. France a "Lief Ericsson Day" in the the most violent prisoner. United States marked by church services and school celebrations.
October 9.
It'
Nevertheless, there are separate
non-commissioned. officers. hospitals are available,
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