THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH: THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1936.
MOTHER OF FIVE WEEPS: DEATH SENTENCE Children Called From Play Told Of Her Fate Earth To See
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ARE MAKING A LIVING IN 1936
Toledo, July 1.
DRAMA AT END OF
ARSENIC TRIAL
JUDGE'S VOICE BREAKS AS HE PUTS ON BLACK CAP
TWO CHILDREN WERE CALLED FROM PLAY
MONTH-TO
ONE DAY LAST
BE TOLD
THAT THEIR MOTHER WAS TO DIE FOR THE MURDER OF THEIR FATHER.
And three other children of the tragic mother, also at play, were kept in ignorance of the tragedy.
They were the sons and daughters of Mrs. Charlotte Bryant, 33-year-old widow, who was found guilty at Dorset Assizes, Dorchester, of poisoning her husband, Frederick George Bryant, 39, of Coombe, with arsenic.
The two children who were told were Ernest, aged 12, and Lily, aged 10.
They were playing in the recreation ground of Sturminster Newton l'ublic Assistance Institution, where all the five are staying, when the matron enlled them from their playmates.
She told them that their mother had "lost the day," and would not by back with thent.
understood. They Hoth
childron had given evidence at. their mother's trial the previous' day.
They turned away silently and went indoors for the rest of the day, and Lily went, back to the infirmary, where she had been for several days with temperature, due apparently to worrying about her mother.
FOREMAN'S WHISPER
the mother ended The trial of
the
Trilobites, 60,000,000 years old,dramatically. The judge's summing
y lasted for three hours. make a living for C. O. Miller of
jury retired for an hour. suburban Sylvania, in Ohio.
Miller colleets, tien sells them to geology departments of uni versities all over the world. For 18 years he has lived comforta bly from his trade in trilobites.
A trilobite is a marine erenture which lived in the past ages. To the reologist. it is a cephalopod which reached its maximum in the Cambrian and Ordovician period. To the Japon, the trilobite is a foil which resembles an atmoured ually, there are three mege in the fenail, the head, the TAX
the abdomen. The trilobit.
- med, could roll itarif int x11, tuck its entire bly into a protective sphere, and
scurry away,
FOUND IN QUARRIES Miller, whose face is burned to a ruddy tan from his fossil collecting. gathers in trilobitex fram quarries near Sylvania, He was led to the spot by a stranger, 13 years ago. Milter immediately recognised the fossils, for they had been his hobby ever since he saw one in a Chicago He was a newspaper re-
museum.
parter, then.
-
PEOPLE IN THE DRAMA
-MRS. CHARLOTTE BRYANT, 33, accused of poisoning her husband,
FREDERICK JOHN BRYANT, 39, cowinan, of Coombe, Dorset
LEONARD PARSONS, denler, and a former lodger of the Bryants, said to have been Mrs. Bryant's lover;
WELK
SIES. LUCY OSTLER, n neigh- bour, who gave evidence that Mr. Bryant said uhe
"devoted to Parsons;
PRIDDLE, wife Bryant's employer.
MES.
might have got into something Bryant ate. Hemeniler that this WIN dirty house.
П
"But there again-if the three ncases were duc 10 arsenic, it is Inconceivable that the nceldent should happen a second, still loss a third
When they returned, and the fore į man, a tali nervous-looking a time.
whispered the verdict, "Gulity," Mr. Bryant howet her head
almost
in silence.
"Then she raised her bead, looked round the court dazedly, and burst inte Box of tears.
nu, my
lord--1
gol she cried. She swayed in the dock
"The neured is the only person
Fiery Saturn Tip its Rings
SIDE VIEW WILL DELIGHT
ASTRONOMERS
Mt. Wilson, Col., June 28, To the delight of astronomera throughout the world, the planet Saturn will flip its famous rings sidewise to the Earth for a few nights at the turn of the month.
Peering some 800 million-miles through space with their power- ful telescopes, astronomers will take advantage of the phono- menon to delve into several outstanding mysteries about the planet. Saturn ordinarily tips NO that its 171,000-mile wide system of rings is visible to the as a gigantic, glowing Earth
The first high-speed, streamlined, luminated locomotive Ensuite in America. It will be put into serviceoval. between Cleveland and Detroit, The rings, of which there are When the engine is running at night three, are believed to be composed the driving wheels, rods and other or small meteor-like fragments moving parts are illuminated by whirling around the planet so fast hilden flood-lights,
they appear as n solid sheet-- much as a
spinning automobile wheel resembles a disc.
AN EXTRA PAWN FOR CHESS
ANCIENT GAME
MAY BE REVOLUTIONISED
BY
Vienna, June 10.
who was living in this house on each Y the addition of one, of these three ocenalons, I know the. children were there, but I imagine pawn A. Kalinterna,
you can dismiss the possibility
that
he
Royal Game" the rules of which have remained un- changed since the time of the Crusades.
of the children as not worth thinking one of Yugoslavia's fore- most chess theoreticians "Except for the children, the proposes to revolutionize the .. beganeused was the only other person to crumple up. Two wardress up living in this house in May, August ported her as she collapsed. She was and December. In May and August half-carried below, moaning and cry- The man Parsons
was there, but ing.
was not there in December. JUDGE'S EMOTION
December Mr. Ostler w Even the judge (Mr. Justice, Mae-there, but she was not there in
This pawn which Kalinterna Kinnon) was overcome by emotion as August or May. Then comes Lhe he rend the death sentence.
After a careful trial you have been question of whether there was arsenic suggests to designate as "Red
| In the house available.
Pawn" is not just one of the found guilty of the, murder of your Referring to Lwound Parsons, husband by killing him by a long and dealer, who gave evidence for the ordinary pawns, and it should painful death," he raid, his
jadge said: im- be distinguished from them by prosecution, the hiniost breaking,
agine that you regard him with the its shape.
version that such a. character deserves."
votee
It is understood that two doctors-
NEW RULES
In his summing-up to which Mrs Bryant listened with rapt attention,
According to its inventor's plan the judge said there were twɔ ques- tions facing the jury:
attended Mrs. Bryant after she had the "Red Pawn" has the following (1) Did Bryant die of arsenical been taken to the cells.
functions: Later she was taken to Exéler Gnol, ¦ poisoning 7
"If he did, was thai poison ad-168 miles away, by car, ministered by Mrs. Begant?
"As to the first question-after the evidence we have heard, I think there
After he had sent some apples is now reaily no claubt that his ult M'HI GUM JO
to Ohio State university, he was commissioned as trilobite-hunter for the university.
Now Miller's Ohio trilobites are to be found in every state university in the nation except Utah. He has sent them to Paris, London, Rome, Persia, Spain and Portugal.
PRICE NOT FIXED Miller had a few of his fossils on display when the Ohio Academy af *Science, met the University of Toledo, He said he didn't have a fixed price. As one bystander put it:
a-t
"Ask him what he'll take ind he'll argue with you."
Individuals, as well as universities, are prospective buyers. It seems a trilobite makes something of a sou-
mata illuess and death were due to
by arsenic.
pother
remaink the more
serious and doubtful question- infinitely more doubtful whether the arsenic war administered by the accused.
"It is physically passible that in
extraordinary
some
venir. grain
way arsenic
Hollywood, July 1.
1. At the beginning of the game Teach of the two players can place his "Red Pawn" on any free field on his respective half of the board.
"Red 3. The
2. The field of the "Red Pawn". lis-blocked;ic_it_can_be_Cccupied. neither by any white nor black figures If censor Will Hays were aj
Pawn" is im- Chinese he would say “M'hi Gum movable. It makes only one real", Jo!" (You can't do that!) move by taking an enemy figure. Motion picture directors, at-And with this only move the "Red tempting to sneak in à risque Pawn" itself disappears from the scene here and there, have heard board.
4. The "Red Pawn" must take the edit with painful regularity.
But people who buy them Now they are hearing it in any enemy figure that comes with- in its ranch, with the only exception nothing except the right to Chinese—“M'hi Gum Jó!”
of the ease in which the enemy
ay, "I have a trilobite"just as Filming of Pearl S. Buck's Chinese king is simultaneously attacked, in they might say, "I own a Romandanna, "The Good Earth," caused it,
A Roman coin, 2000 years old.
about $500. A trilobite mach older and costs much less United Preus.
costs
NO PERFECT FILM FACE
IN HOLLYWOOD ·
Hollywood, June 25.
FTER years of talking about the necessity for the perfect
A film face, Hollywood has just discovered that it does not
exist.
Dolores Deì. Ria
Thousands of girls have been turned away from the studios after being told that their faces would not photograph, and that they had not that film face necessary to inceras,
Now comes the film make-up men with the ́announcement that the only way to get a perfect film face would be to assemble various features from a dozen of the leading stars in the film city. Here they are:
The mouth of Dolorca del Rio, the teeth of Anita Louise, the chin of Binnie Barnes, the checks of Belte. Davis, the forehead of Caroli Lombard, the nose of Tala Birell, the neck of Helen Gahapan, the eyes of Frances Drake, and the long tresses of Evelyn Venable.
WATSON'S
Every day the watchful eye of which enso the king naturally must Gen. Theodore Tu, lent to Metro-be withdrawn from check. is Goldwyn-Mayer
as technical expert 5. All other figures can be moved by the Chinese government, follows across the field occupied by the the shooting.
"Red Pawn" as if the latter was For instance, if Luise Rainer non-existent. sought the inside walk beside Paul 6. In other respects the "Red would admonish her with "hi Gum Pawn" is governed by the same Jo!" "Get behind him," he would rules as the ordinary pawn; in Fay. "A Chinese wife walks duti other words, it blocks the same two fully and respectfully behind her lord fields which would be protected by
Jan ordinary pawn.
Muni as Postians decree, General Tu
and master,"
pro-
Upon meeting a friend, Muni must
MORE REEDOM shake hands with himself--not the friend.
The idea, underlying this "Chinese do that because it's more juct, is to give the players more sanitary," said the general.
freedom of action and to permit Every action is bound by rigorous them to develop individual ideas, Chinese etiquette. Walter Connolly, Kaliterna says that, during the x Mun' ancle, learned this when last decades, chess playing has be he wished him a lappy New Year come more and more mechanized. in a scene. He bowed politely,
Rules for all conceivable oper "Mi Gum Jo!" The older man couldn't bow to the ings have been worked out, accord- younger. The "Patterns of Filialing to him, so that a man with Plety" specify that the younger man grent experience and with a good. must bow.
memory is almost bound to win, Other rules require children to and that, therefore, there remains address parents with honourable pre- fixes. Also an 8-year-old boy must hardly any room for the develop be sedate, and set an example of ment of Individual ideas.
Ho
recalls that great chess dignity for a brother only two years his Junior.
champlons, such na Capablanca Even Lo, the water buffalo, came and Emanuel Lasker, have com- In for technical advice. A Chinese plained about the stagnation, wouldn't call the animal by his name, caused by this situation, and that Tu said. He must be addressed as these men, aside from many minor. "friend."United Press.
players, have also come forward with reform proposals.
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INVINCIBLE PLAYERS Kaliterna quotes Capablanca 19 having exclaimed in disgust at the Moscow chess match of 1205: "Within the near future we will have a multitude of invincible cheng players."
He further recalls that at a chess tournament of former champ- fons, played at Buenos Aires, the first 24 moves of a game were absolutely, Indentical with 24 moves of another one played in the same fevent, only
VAST GAPS BETWEEN RINGS Saturn
itself is 74,100 diamelor. · Between ele
miles i
planet's
OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT
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surface and the nearest ring is n SMART COTTON GOODS
to
7,000-mile gap-nearly enough wedge the earth in. The first ring, faint and gauzy, in about 11,500 miles wide, and the bright guter two are 16,000 sind 10,000 miles wide.
Sunlight strikes the rings and is reflected earthward, transforming the rings into beautiful gleaming ovals when seen through a telescope.
On the night of June 30, the Earth passes through the plane of Saturn's
after, the rings will be seen on edge system. For a a few nights before and -like coking
squarely at the face of the tyre on a moving auto wheel. Less beautiful this way, Saturn nevertheless is much more serviceable
to astronomête.
THICKNESS NOT KNOWN
They hope to learn the rings thick- 1:083. Patimates vary from 10 to 100 millest fa 10,000-mile-to-the-inch; model were built, the rings would be 17 inches in diameter and somewhere hook paper, according to astronomers. between the thickness of tissue und
Speed at which Saturn rotater la Janother matter astronomers will in- stigate during the few nights that
the rings will obscure their vision. Whirling
so fast that its poles are Battened like an apple's, the planet rotates in less than half the 24-hour period of the vastly smaller earth. Most accurate checks so for indicate Salum rotates once every 10 hours and 144 minutes.
The opportunity to study the planet with the rings sidewise comes only twice every 29 and one-half years.
Two Men
· Keep Rendezvous With Death
DRAMATIC stories of men who voluntarily contract deadly diseases in the cause of science were told by Sir Malcolm Wat- sou, Director of the Ross Insti- tute of Tropical Hygiene, at a London conference recently.
At no time in the history of ro search, he declared, had thero been a lack of volunteers when men were required to risk of sacrifice their own lives and health for the benefit of their fellow creatures,
"WORLD BENEFITS" "When," he added, two young American soldiers, knowing full well the danger and suffering of an attacke of yellow fever, allowed themselves to be bitten by Infected mosquitoes, one of them said:
"We are doing this solely in the interests of humanity and the cause of selence"," In another experiment conducted by Patrick Manson, mosquitoes which had fed on patients suffering from malaria in Rome were sent to London, Ten days later. they were allowed to bile two volunteers who had not been exposed to malaria previously. One volunteer was Manson's son, Dr. Thorburn Manson; the other, Mr. Warren, of the London School of Tropical Medicine.
After the usual incubation period both volunteers went down" with malaria, and parasites of that dis- {ease, were found in their blood. That mosquitoes fed In Rofe had given these two people In London the Roman malaria.
"So one discovery leads to another," Sir Malcolm said, "and the whole world benefits."
individual genius of the chess player would recover its freedom of action, an infinite number of new openings would be created and the routine openings which have been By the addition of his "Red worked out, would become practical- Pawn" Kallterna maintains, they valueless.-UnitedPress.
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