THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1936.
MRS. BRYANT'S MESSAGE OF REPENTANCE
"When You Hear a
Add Your Prayers GOOD-BYE POEM FROM
DEATH CELL
JUST before Mrs. Charlotte Bryant, 33-year-old Dorset mother of five, was executed for the murder of her husband, Federick Bryant, 39-year-old cowman, she wrote a dramatic staement.
Her last thoughts were for her children. she pleads.
•
"Pray for them."
In the denth cel she wrote n, and good that those who look nsk- poem to her "little son," who gave ance to-day at their poor wretched evidence on her behalf at her trial mother may see her in their joyful company brought by their prayers al and has been inconsolable since his Inst to the Throne of God," mother's conviction.
In her statement Mrs. Bryant tells how, when she met her husband, she felt that he would it her to a place in the sun."
But Inter she writes: " did not love Fred; not in the way I might have loved a husband but I triert
to be a decent wife
"As to my little ones,” shr says, "pray for me and for them.
"God succour them in their awfu¦ need. If it be that I may one day be in Heaven, forgiven for the sina! of my pitiful life, then I, too, will pray for those who have in their turn had pity for my children, who: shared no sins of Bryant, none of mine.
"I must say 'Food-bye' Lo them; thr separation seems unbearable. Buf one day. unmeasurable for, the human mind, har souls will meet again.
"Wipe Your Eyes"
Bryant's
And then follows Mrs. poem, dedicated to her son:
"I'm not worthy, of your tears,
Httle Ban;
Wipe your eyes, live to your.
years, little son;
Take your sister by the hand; Make herote happy band;
You will find the promised land,
little an
"When you see a vulgar Iver,
ittle son:
Fling your soul upon the Cross; Yours the gin and mine the
Ions:
Add your propera to my re-
morse, little son.
"My Early Folly"
Of her husband Mrs. Bryant says:
When Fred asked me le marry him I felt that he was go- ing to lift me from flin depths to a place in the sun. But ere long I learned how little a wo- man has to hope from one man's compassion.
"Fred was many years older than
"And who knows? My little ones and professed to forgive my youth- may have lived a life so beautiful fut indiscretions, but during the 14
BULLET BOUNCES
years of our married life he showed what little pity he had for me, whe- ther it be of past or future misery.
"A1 rst when he was in bis pas- use to think, he had been FROM RABBIT:
cruelly ineensed by recollection SHOOTS MANmy early folly.
of
"But when these furies increased and became a regular habit sought Sydney, Aug. 18. protection where, my God! I thought Mr. John Sheather, of Wagga, pat! and found it, and brought into our up hie rifle. shol a rabbi-Andhomme one who led me to suppose wounded himself with: bullet.
the
kame
The bullet passed through the rabbit, struck a rock, ricochetted and entered Mr. Sheather's thigh. He is
in Wagga hospital.-Reuter.
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that I could trust him.
"I Did Not Love Fred"
"I did not love Fred. Not in the
Cruel Jeer, Little Son,
to My Remorse"
AMAZON S OF THE SPANISH WAR
ARMED WOMEN marching through the streets of Madrid, They took part in the fierce fighting between Government and rebel forces.
£2
LIBEL POETRY
IN
ON WALL
CLUB
TYPEWRITTEN notice in verse which was put
on the wall of a golf club led to a libel action at Lewes (Sussex) Assizes recently.
The plaintiff was Edmund Joseph Byrne, of Down Head, Sen-
| ford, a member of Seaford Head Golf Club.
Mr. Justice Hilbery, sitting without a jury, awarded him £2 way I might have loved a husband.damages and costs against Robert Heward Deane and Aletta
But still, nt first, I tried to be decent wife.
Felicia Denne.
"He was complu:ent in the mal- Counsel said that at all the of my past, and more than indif- material times Mr. and Mrs. Deane ferent to the advances of those who were proprietors and directors of met us in our early married Ite ¡the club, and Mrs. Deanc was
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CORERTE - GIAULED
****PRĀDZIEĦED
"Ile treated me with shameful secretary.
without unforgiveness, The notlee-which appeared after fund, I may say, cruct lack of any the removal of automatic machines
compassionate understanding during' from the premises-read: the lean, impoverished years when
our children came,
"Then the other arrived upon
the scene. I thought I had found
a comforter."
For many yours upon this spot You heard the sound of a merry
bull.
Those who were rash, and those
who were not,
Mary Astor's Alleged Diary
On
.
"My Mistakes?
New York, Aug. 5. LLEGING; that his ex-wife,
Miss Mary Astor, the flim star, aged 30, is gulity of "grosa Immoral conduct," Dr. Franklyn Thorpe has put in diaries which, he
says, were written by her, as his latest move in their fight for their daughter, Marylyn, aged four.
Last year Dr. Thorpe won his sult for divorce and was awarded the custody of Marylyn, although the child still lives with her mother. IIe alleged that his former wife is an improper person to look after her.
The auburn-haired actress is seck- ing the setting aside of the divorce and the annulment of her marriage on the grounds that Dr. Thorpe was atlll married to another woman when. they eloped in 1931.
Dr. Thorpe, In published entries from a diary, allegen that his ex- wife wrote them, admitting her con- duct, with the idea that the child should read them.
On February 8, 1935, he says she [wrote: "Why I keep writing things down in this book I don't know," Maybe Marylyn some day would like to know what sort of person her mother was, and maybe she will he consoled, when she makes mistakes and dels into jams, to know that her mother was a champion at making mlatnicas."
LITVINOV
IS SLIMMING
↓
Montreux, Aug. 10,
The Soviet Government have conferred the Order of Lenin on M. Maxim Litvinov, Commissar for Foreign Affairs, to mark his sixtieth birthday.
A. Litvinov in pleased, but he
is more pleased at the fact that
he has lost 401b. by dieiing.
MARY ASTOR
"..a champion at making mistakes."
--And How are YOU Feeling To-day? HERE are four freak
CASES
Lost and windo a spot of cash. But he who gave the game away May Byrn, in Hell and rue the
day." Counsel said that it was signed. "Didileramus,"
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Mr. Flowers, K.C., said that the plaintiff was the only member of the club named Byrne. There had been Lrouble between Mr. Denne and Mr. Byrne, and an unpleasant seeno look place in the first tee.
POLICE AND AN INFORMER
Some time after that there were in! the club house certain fruit machines | known as "Diddler."
Someone gave information to the police, who notified the proprietors that unless the machines were re
JUST. WHAT
THE
DOCTOR
ORDERED
These doctors are sly folk-and human, too.
You remember what has been said at the British Medical Asso- ciation's meeting at Oxford?
Breast, butter, cheese, huttermilk,
eggs, leaf and root vegetables, fruit,
|ment and water have been proclaim-
ed us the ideal diet.
Alcohol has been said to have adverse effects,
But just look at the menu for the doctors' annual dinner.
Cantaloup Frappe
Eliziv de Tortue un Xeren Truits Saumonco Champexoite
Nid de Foi Gras a la Gelee de Porto Coeur de Laitue Pluie d'Or Volaille en Cocotte L'erigourtne Pommes Nouvelles a la menthe Petits Pois Frais n Beurre d'Isipny
Peche Glaces Primeraar Corbrillo de Mignardiser Dessert Cafe And the wines were--
Madeira.
Niersteiner (1929). Beaujolns (1925). Medoc Superieur (1926). Vintage port.
What do you tunke of it?
moved there would be a prosecution. Killing Flu Germs
Mr. Byrne was certainly not the in- former, continued counsel. After the
machines were removed the libel by Violet Ray
appeared on the wall.
The word "Burn" was not speltj
New York, Aug. 12.
"Byrne" (sald Mr. Flowers), but was The killing of free influenza virus undoubtedly directed against him.; by ultra violet rays by two Harvard Afterwards it was crossed out and scientists is hilled as opening "burn" was placed above it.
vast
feld of preventive medicine by which the air of schools, hospitals, theatres, Counsel added that he did not know, and publle halls may be cleared of who put the notice up, but the persons dangerous germs.
charge of the club took no steps to remove it.
"THE EVERLASTING BONFIRE"
Following five years of experiment- Ing. Dra. W. F. Wells and H. W. Brown believe they have proved that air can be cleared of the viruses of
"Mr. Byrns is not anxious to press respiratory diseases just as water can the question of damages, but has come‡
Curricy,
here in order to show in public that be cleared of the germs It of this kind and has done. nothing80 the way of typhoid
ele not a man who does anything making it possible for influenza to
which makes him worthy of being
They found that when a person passed into the everlasting bonfire."ancezes droplets are expelled which
virus,
Mrs. Deane gave evidence that evaporate Instantaneously but leave a when she saw the notice the
word residue like tobacco smoke, drifting "burn" was over a word which and through the room with the been crased. The members had their which lives for at least thirty minutes, little jokes, and it seemed to her thint or ample time to infect all breathing
it should be treated as such.
the nir.
Virus from the lungs of a ferret In awarding 40s, and costs the with typical influenza was atomised Judge said that Mr. Byrne would into a large scaled tank from which it have the satisfaction knowing that
had been catablished that he was was drawn off though two tubes. not the man who informed the police. doctora
Stay of execution was granted.
which American are to-day trying in vain cure:
to
A Negro turned white all
over
A girl suffering from an attacke of yawning that has lasted a week;
A middle-aged man turning into something that resembles an ape;
A boy's hair turned red one side,
blond the other.
These add to An incredibly of unsolved medical long list mysteries which includes: hearts that make whistling noise, skins that change colour dolly, Cari that sick ko watches muscles that turn to stone.
One sample taken directly from the tank infected all, the ferrets which were inoculated with it The other sample, passing through a glass chamber in which was ultra, violet Japanese Prince May light absolutely failed to carry the
Attend Coronation
Tokyo, Aug. 15,
Prince Chidiibu, brother of the
discase. It was the same air, the only difference being in the irradia- ilon of the one sample.
Dr. Wells said no selentist should Emperor of Japan, will probably at go beyond experiments, but "in view tond the coronation of King Edward of the proved possibility of infected next May. He will be accompanied able efforts to free air supplies from matter being carried by air, repson- by Princess Chichibu, daughter of
Mr. Matsudaira, Japan's Ambassador living micro-organisms were justl f London.
fted in the light of general sanitary Prince Chichibu,is thirty-five, eldest principles,
The effectiveness
ot
of the Emperor's three brothers. Ho violet light for such purposes.seems was an undergraduate at Magdalen to be demonstrated by our experi College, Oxford-Router.
ments."
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