Murder Appeal Allowed
First Successful Application By a Woman
For the first time in the his- tory of Britain, a woman's con- viction for murder has been quashed.
In the Court of Criminal Appeal, last month, Mrs. Ellen Harding (31) successfully ap- pealed against sentence of death passed on her at SusaEX Assizes at Lewes. She had been accused of murdering ber infant son, Neville, by throwing him into the Chichester chnal on December 23. Her casc was that she was at the canal bank when she fainted, and the baby fell into the water, and she was unable to rescue him. The decision was taken after fresh medical evidence had been submitted.
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Mr. John Flowers, K.C., in opening the appeal, said the defence was defence under the Poor Persons' Rules. There was one point only on which he relied,
A medical witness was callot for the prosecution, and his evidence was
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, MAY
Bridol group taken at the wedding, at St. John's Cathedral on Wednesday, of Mr. H. C. Hop-
kins, of the Chartered Bank, and Miss Phyllis -V. C. Weightman.
The Dietrich Gets A Spanking
The Film: "DESIRE" (Marlene Dietrich, Gary
Cooper). (Queen's, Current)
(Photo: Ming Yucu).
¡A SCOT LOSES
HIS WIFE- BUT WIFE HAD THE SCOT
THIS story concerns:--
1. A Scotsman, 2. His accent.
LOST
3. A voyage to "foreign
parts."
The Scotsman, his wife, and a friend set out by, road for
Malmesbury, Wilts. The hus hand had business there which would take him most of the day.
of vital importanco. The defence had ANY new Dietrich is a film event. And when the new Dietrich Ayrshire from Onksey,, near
is revealed as a romp through Europe with a couple of improbable crooks and a big goop of
an American—the thing becomes positively startling.
no evidence then to rebut it, but since
the trial it had come to their know ledge that modicat evidence could be put before the Court which would seriously challenge the evidenco given by Dr. Barber, called for the prosecu- tion.
UNSEEN
ACCIDENT
I find myself blushing to reproal the denouement--that blt where the big goop of an American says he's put the 'District across his knee and spanked her ta tesch her not to pinch The importance of it was that, al-pearls,
'It doesn't hurt much now.” says though, on the facts of the cone, there was very much against the pri|the Dietrich. It hurt me. sonar, there were very salient points which were in her favour.
PLEASING WIT
What
H
report?
to is there left "Upon a fair survey of the whole matter continued.counsel, "I submit. The above reveals that the world cele that the Jury might well have been brated Dietrich glamour has been left in doubt as to whether the ap-scrapped in favour of n meretricious pellant was guilty or not. It may hut wholly pleasing wit. This has been well have been that the medical caused by the firing of Dietrich's the scale Svengall, van Sternberg, and the sub. ovidence went to turn against her."
stitution of that popper of champagne corks. Ernst Lubitsch. -
The appellant wha n native of a village four miles from Chichester and the wife of John William Hart- ing, who was a canvasser for a firm
In Leicester.
Previous to the tragedy Mr. and Mr. Hurding had been in lodgings in Maidstone. Appellant had four children, and there was evidence that the baby was very well nourished. There was evidence that she wor shipped the baby.
She was seen sitting on a seat, át the ennal feeling the baby about the vital time the accident happened: No body say it take place. The baby was found in the canal by two' boys."
"Let's have Rome fun,"
Man Hunt That Lasted 14 Years
U.S. DETECTIVES IN ENGLAND
Plymouth, Apr. 20.
He handed over the car 10 his wife and the friend,
They arranged to meet at Chip. penham Post Ofee at four o'clock In the afternoon.
At the appointed hour the hus band went to the post office. No sign of his wife, the friend, his car. Six hours later an anxious wife phoned Chippenham police station. She 'phoned from Cirencester. the station was her, anxious husband.
The husband had an accent, He said Chippenham. His wife thought he said Cirencester.
Two New York detectives Submarine
landed at Plymouth to-night
Lubitsch-and off we go on n ay from the liner Manhattan. They Expedition
gallop through the Pyrenees, where are on the concluding stage of a the Marquis Crook (John. Halliday) world-wide search for men con-
Accomplice the Beautiful (Fraulein Dietrich) and the Dumbnected with an offence Stranger (Gary Cooper) in a castle inmittel 14 years ago. Spain.
corners
There he succeeds in filching the pearls from the D.S.'s pocket (where the B.A. put them by mistake).
SPANISH MOONS
com-
said
To N. Pole
In
2,1936.
RADIO BROADCAST
Selections by The Waikiki Trio
DANCE MUSIC
From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 kilocycles);
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme.
..7
p. Carnaval Suite" (Schu- mann, Op. 9).
7.25 p.m. Vocal Gems. Chauve-souris-Selection:
Memories Selection.
Welsh
7.40 p.m. From the Studio. Selections by "The Waikiki Trio."
Programmac
1. Song of Hawali; 2. Hanchang Hanalei; 3. Io Nohet Oc; 4. Honeymoon Inlea; G My Hawaiian Home.
8 p.
Timo Signal, Weatbor Report and Announcements.
8.03 p.m. A Varlety Programme. Plano Solos-Fox Trot Medley......... Gerry Moore; Humorous Abdul Abulbul Amir: The Car- Vocal-Americal
Cousins; Accordeon Solo-Czar
iyle
das.
.Frank Crumit:
Gigetto Castorcelli; Songs--- Lovely to Look At; Love me forever
again.
The Street Singer; Piano Solos-
Carlo Medley. ...Rajo da Costa; Humorous Life
Begina, Band Flanagan and Allen; The Japanese Sandman. ..Roy Fox and his Band; Song-Signorina. Albert Prejena; Orchestra-Memories of Horatio Nicholls. New Mayfair Orchestra; Song-Me and my Dog... Frances Day.
p.m. Daventry News Bulletin. 9.15
p.m. A_Recital by Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone).
1. Young Briton's Heritage (Hen- easy); 2. Our River Thames (Hon- (Pinsuti); 4. The Bandolero ftuart). Denny); 3. Bedouin Love Song
9.30
1pm. Hongkong Hotel Dance Orchestra.
10 p.m. Big Bon
12 midnight. Close Down.. Note. There will be a relay from the Ko Shing Theatre on ZEK, on n frequency of 640 kilocyclos from 8-1 p.m. (Chinese).
SUNDAY'S BROADCAST
The Band of The Royal Ulster Rifles
10.30-11.30 am. Moming Servicn from the Union Church.
11.30
a.m.-12.15
p.m. Morning. Service from the Hop Yat Church
(Chinese).
12.15 p.m.
"Concerto In B Minor"
(Op. 61) played by Yehudi Menuhin (Violin) and the London
Symphony Orchestra.
1 p.m.
Report
Time Signal and Weather
1.10 p.m. A Concert.
WILKINS EXPECTS TO Pinnoforte Solo-On Wings of Song Lt. George Magee
(Mendelssohn)....Mark Hambourg: SUCCEED
Song I Love Thee (Grieg). that the search began in 1922,
Sir Hubert Wilkins, the ex-Charles Kuliman (Tenor); Song-My when
"envelope switchplorer, has given the London Dearest Heart (Sullivan) Doria swindle" was committed in New Sunday Referer particulars of
Vane (Soprano): Violin Solo--Scre
(Tosel)..... York.
the second attempt he proposes Song-The Late Player (Alltonnet; Ailitson)... men approached fur to make to reach the North Pole Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone). success than that with the B.A. After
1.30 p.m. Press Bulletins."" seven long nights under a Spanish dealer and offered to sell him furs to by submarine. His first attempt, moon, though, his Americau morality the value of £2,000 for £600," he said, made several years ago, failed. tions by Band of H.M. Coldstream
1.35 p.m.
Light Opera Selec- surges upwards like 11 eurnged "They stipulated that the dealer This time he is confident that he Gods
should produce 2000, and the money will succeed.
But the D.S. Ims a far
greater
grampus and he persuades the gal to
Three
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Mr. Flowers read the medical evid- once given at the trial, and then sub-!-take-thu-pearls-back-and-return-with was sculed. In an envelope. in the pre-fis new plans include the use of Cloches de Cornville (Planquette); to shock by the baby either falling No, I know that doesn't sound a The dealer then took the scaled vessel 100ft. long and 20ft, wide
mitted that the death was, in fact, due
from the mother's arms or rolling down the canal bank and coming into contact with the icy water.
In view of the fact that nobody saws what happened, and the uncertainty of the matter, it was quite obvious that the medical 'evidenco was of the most vital importance, declared Mr. Flowers.
MEDICAL OFFICER'S EVIDENCE,
The Lont Chief-Justice (addressing Mr. St. John Hutchinson, for the Crown)--Have you any objection on behalf of the Crown to hearing the Medient Offeur for Holloway Prison?
Mr. Hutchinson-Not at all.
him to Detroit.
bit like a Dietrich picture; but I do assure you it is--and I enjoyed it more than any since "Blue Angel" days.
Flies Baffle Airmen
By An Air Correspondent
take off from the ceiling?
How does a fly land on and
I suddenly asked this question an wirmen's luncheon, in London recently.
at
sence of the four of them.
paper.
H.M.S "Pinafore"--(Sullivan) :-Les- Pirates of Penzance (Sullivan); folanthe (Sullivan,
envelope and was told that he was to which will cost at least £20,000. hand it over on the delivery of the There will be nine in the crew, in
2 p.m. Light Orchestral Selec- furs. The furs never turned up, and cluding three sefentists, three en- tions.. the dealer then discovered that the gineers, and Sir Hubert.
Coeur Ardent Waltz; Souvenir blank envelope contained
The submarine will have several Fleuri Waltz; Traumende Glocken and heen "switched over" for the en-unique features. It will have no Krome); Blauer Pavilion (Arman-
Britelodia will dola);
(Humphrice):* Spanish Dance No. 1 (Granados);
No. 2 (Granados). Spanish Dance
2.30 p.m. Close Down.
velope containing the rested Roon propellers, electric motors
"Three mon
were
after, but two of them, who were al force a jet of water through a lowed bail, chsenndel. Their photo-stern-pipe to thrust the vessel graphs, fingerprints and descriptions through the water. were circulated to every police force
in the world, and in 1928 we arrested one man. He,
whs sentenced to
UNDER THE ICE
A single accident might be fatal.
not allowedke the man who ws Once the submarine sinks below the! five years' imprisonment, and then we ice it will be in constant danger, continued the search for the third and so a diving compartment has been installed through which it man of the party. "A few days ago we heard that he is a diving-suit can slip out into had been arrested on another charge the water and do any necessary re- In England. When he is released pairs to the outside of the ship. Pilot No. I did not know.
from prison on Friday we shall de
And in an emergency all the crew Pilot No. 2 said: "Easy. It fiestain him and apply for an extradition may escape through this towards the ceiling, rolls over, illes order,
ment and reach the surface-provided Dr. John Campbell M'Intyre Mathe-inverted, au makes a perfect and son was then called by Mr. Flowers, Ing upakle down.
Filet No. 3: "No! The fly performs and stated that he was medical officer an inverted loop and then lands." of Holloway. Prison. He gave it as his opinion that the conditions were few near the ceiling, did a half roll, Pilot No. 4: Flies I have noticed compatible with the child having died
and made the landing."
The Lord Chief-Justice-We all think that, owing to the exceptional clrcumstances, we ought to hear the further evidence.
compart-
Scotland Yard, for they are the only of ice above them,
"We shall be greatly, indulated to they are not doomed by the celling alert enough to catch international police force in the world who
cronks."
from the top of the are l Two special dillls will stretch submarine. They can both bore through the hardest ice, and one 60 feet long. will admit air.
རྩྭ';
to
4-7 pm. Chinese Programme. · 7 p.m. "Organ Concerto in B Flat" (Handel) played by Dr. E. Bullock.
7.10 p.m. New Light Symphony Orchestra.
4
An American in Paris (Gershwin): The Waltzing Dell (Poldini); Inci- dental Music ta "Mary Roste"
(O'Neill).
7.10 p.m. From the Studio. A Recital by Irene Miller (Soprano) accompanied by E. O'Neil Shaw.
. Programme.
1. Aria-Biel du bei mir (from the Little Notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach)....J. S. Bach; 2. Er, der ferriichste von allen (from Song Cycles "Women's Love and Life") -.
Warlock: Schumann; 20 4.
6. Ro
li
feet in thickness. But if spur of nounlah Musson: 0.
from shock through falling into ley
The ice ranges from two Pilot No. 5: "The By flies in the A FRENCH VOTE ON water, and to water suddenly getting normal position in a steep climb to up the nostrils, and was not depenthe ceiling and makes Arst contact dent upon the Brow of skin which with its front legs."
came into contact with cold water.
"VERY DISTRESSING CASE"
We agreed that the fly remained | on the ceiling by means of its suction pads.
THE TAKE OFF "Well, then," I said, "how does the fly take off from the ceiling?"
Pilot No. 1: "He just turns off the suction, falls off, flaps his wings and resumes his Journey.
GERMAN ENTENTE.
ice renches down to 40 or 50 feet
below the surface-well, the Vossel und all its crew may vanish for ever in the depths of the Arctic Sea
TRIAL CRUISES
Love went a-riding Frank Bridge. 8 p.m. Time Signal, Weather Ro 75% In Favour
port and Announcements.
8,03
pm. "Faust"-Balict Music (Gounod). The Lord Chief Justice-I under-
BIG POLL AGAINST
At the end of this year the new 8.20 p.m. "Concerto No. 1 in G submarine will make experimental Minor (Max Bruch) (Op. 20) played stand. Mr. Flowers, you are submit
SANCTIONS ting that if you had been in a posi
cruises in the waters of Lake Erie, by Yehudi Menuhin and the London on the Canadian border. If it stands Symphony Orchestra. tion to cross-examine the doctor who gave evidence at the trial upon, the
SIGNIFICANT indications of up to the experiments it will set out
Songs by Stuart Re- on its great adventure.
8.15
p.m. lines of the evidence given by Dr. Pilot No. 2 believed the fly dropped the trend of French public Why are these men risking their
bertson (Baritone). reasonshin doubt as to their verdict? dive to gain Aying speed, and was of sanctions against Italy, and that fleets of submarines could be Down among the Dead Men; Frini- Matheson, the jury must have had off the celling, did a short inverted opinion in regard to the question lives in a fourney as perilous as this. Myself when Young ("Iwa Fer- The chief reason is to demonstratesian Garden") (Liza Lehmann): 2. Off. Mr. Flowers-That is what I sub Pilot No. 3 hold that the fly, having also in favour of an entente with used to transport United States pro- culi, Funicula (Donza); 3. The Road mit, my lord. I don't know whether left the ceiling, rolled over and flow Germany, are revealed by the ducts to Europe via the Hudson Bay to the Isles: Wrap me up in my old I am entitled to say it, but one felt away in normal position,
4. In Summer- that possibly it was the
results of a referendum on the inter- route at cheaper rates than any now Tarpaulin Jacket medical Plot No. 4 declared that at the evidence which settled thro ease take-off the fly dropped head first and national situation conducted by the in operation, and to show that sub-ime on Bredon (Peel): 5. Sen Fever.
marines alone Can overcome the (Ireland). against Mrs. Harding. I submit that regained normal flying position almost independent des Pyrenees-Orientales, frozen waters of Hudson Bay, and 9.n.m. Reuter Press Bulletins. there must have been a reasonable Inimediately.
one of the lending nowspapers in the so make it a busy trading centre all
*9.05 D.m. From the Studio, doubt. The jury, in fact, considered Pilot No. 5 merely said that files south-west of France, with a highly the year round instead of for The
The Band of the 1st Batta: Tho circulation. representative
present six months in the year, The voting was as follows:-
Royal Ulster Rifles. (By kind per- Meteorological observations will mission of Liqut: Colonel R. M. Rod- In favour of a world con-
also be made to see if it is possible well and Officers). ference to discuss
peace trea.
Franco
In favour of a Franco German Entente
their verdict for over an hour and were natural acrobats.”
half
“IT'S SO SIMPLE”
The Lord Chief Justice And male In spite of much further discussion a strong recommendation for mercy, the airmen were not able to solve the What do you say, Mr. Hutchinson? problem, but when I sought know- fedgo from Mr. A. Moore Hogarth, Mr. Hutchinson-I am very ro Director of the Institute Micro luctant to say anything to influence Biology, he said: "It's simple. The your lordships one way or another, fly alights on the celling Пying up
particularly don't want
to it at an angle and gripping first, anything in this very distressing with its front foot,
kase,
to
prese
The Lord Chief Justice gave the udgment of the Court allowing the appeal and quashing the conviction.
ties ** favour In
of a British Entento
In favour or removing sanctions against Italy
1.
Programme.
to develop a norvice of air-lines 4,872 across the Arctic Circle-a develop
ment which would mean a tremendous 2,916 Raving of time in any Transatlantic
Overturo-Light Cavalry.. flight
Suppo; 2. Selection from "Romeo 5,560 For every moment of the journey and Jullet.....Gounod: 1. Inter the submarine will be in constant mezzo Love in Arcady......Haydn peril But Sir. Hubert in confident Wood: 4. Excerpts from "Rose ***. 6,580 The returns show that 75.7 per cent. he will be successful.
Mario" Friml 6. Saxophone "When It leaves the ceiling it of the voters were in favour of a "It was in 1913 that I first got the Solos by Bam. T. Gibson, G. Melo- releases the auction pads, makes a Franco-German Entente and that idea of using the submarine for Polar
Heus Momories.. small glide completing the loop, and 60.28 por cont, were in favour of research. We shall avoid any col
arr. Finck. 10 p.m. Big Bensh so resumes the normal fying abandoning the Anglo-French En-alon with heavy ice-flocs by staying. 10 p.m. Dance Music, - position.”
tento.
well under the ice," he explain
10.30 p.m. Close Down..
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The Immortal Indian Picture
" ILLUSION"
or "MAYA"
will be shown again by public request specially of some of the Chinese and foreign friends; by a special arrangement with the Distributors,
at the PO HING THEATRE Nathan Road, Kowloon
Popular Pricos
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Sunday, May 3, 1936.
The rainfall registered at the Hongkong Botanic Gardens, during April amounted to 5.09 inches, more than half of this being recorded_on
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Where?
-KING'S
RESTAURANT
-of course!
Breakfast
Morning Coffee
Tiffins
Teas
Dinners
"Open"from"7 ̄aim.
First & Mezzanino Floor,
| King's Theatre Building.
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fall on April 20 was 2.14 inches.
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