THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, AUGUST 24,
1936.
MRS. BRYANT'S MESSAGE OF REPENTANCE
"When You Hear a Cruel Jeer, Little Son,
Add Your Prayers to
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, 30-year-old cowman, she 'wrote a dramatic staement.
Her last thoughts were for her children.
she pleads,
"Pray for them."
In the death cell she wrote n, and good that those who look ask- poem to her "little son," who ove arice to-day at their poor wretched evidence on her behalf at her trial
and has been inconsolable once his mother's conviction.
In her statement Mrs. Hryant tells how, when she met her husband, sho felt that he would "ft her to a place in the sun."
But Inter she writes: "I did not love Fred; not in the way I might have loved a husband but I tried
to be a decent wife.
whe "A to my little ones." Bays, "pray for me and for them, "God succour them in their awful need. If it be that I may one day ben ilcaven. forgiven for the sina of my pillful life, then I, too, will pray for those who have in their turn and pity for my children, who shared no sins of Bryant, none of mine.
"good-bye'
onc
to
"I must say them; the separation Kerms
Bul unbearable.
day, unmeasurable for the human mind, our souls will meet again. "And who knows? My little ones may have lived a life so beautiful
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mother may see her in their joyful; company brought by their prayers at last to the Throne of God."
"Wipe Your Eyes"
And then follows Mrs. Bryant's poem, dedicated to her son:
"I'm not, worthy of your tears,
little son;
Wipe your eyes, live on your
scars, title con:
Take your sister by the hand; Make herole happy band: You will find the promised loud,
ttle.
"When you see a culgor terr.
tittle sou
Fling sur soul upon the Cross: Yours the gain and mine the
1rone
Add jmer prayera to my re
morse, ittle sov.
"My Early Folly"
Of her husband Mrs. Bryant says: "When Fred asked me to marry him I felt that he was go- ing to lift me from the depths to a a place in the sun, But cre long I learned how little a wo man has to hope from one man's compassion.
"Fred was many years older than I and professed to forgive my youth- ful indiscretions, but during the 14 years of our married life he showed what little plty he had for me, whe- ther it be of past or future misery.
"At first when he was in his pos- sions I
use to think he had been cruelly incensed by recollection of my early folly.
"But when these furies increased and became a regular habit I sought protection where, my God! I thought had found It, and brouglit into our home one who led me to suppose that I could trust him.
"I Did Not Love Fred"
the
"I did not love Fred. Not in way I might have loved a husband. But still, at first, I tried to be decent, wife.
a
"He was complacent in the mat-
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 IN
A
POETRY CLUB
ON WALL
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, Sea- ford, a member of Seaford Head Golf Club.
Mr. Justice Hilbery, sitting without a jury, awarded him £2 dainages and costs against Robert Heward Deane and Aletta Felicia Dennc.
Counsel said that at all the of my past, and more, than indif- material times Mr. and Mrs. Denne ferent to the advances of those who were proprietors and directors of met us in our early married life. the club, and Mrs. Deane was
"He treated me
with shameful secretary.
disregard, without unforgiveness, The notice which appeared after und, I may say, cruel lack of any the removal of automatic machines compassionate understanding during from the premises--rend; the lean, impoverished years when
our children came.
"Then the other arrived upon
the serne. I thought I had found
a comforter."
"For many years upon this spot You heard the sound of a merry
hell.
Those who were rush, and those
who were not,
Mary Astor's Alleged Diary
On "My Mistakes
Now York, Aug. 5. LLEGING that his ex-wife,
Miss Mary Astor, the film star, aged 30, is guilty of "gross 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 suit for divorce and was awarded the custody of Marylyn, although the child still lives with her mother. He alleged that his former wife is an Improper person to look after her.
The auburn-haired actress 18 seck- Ing the setting aside of the divorco and the annulment of her marriage on the grounds that Dr. Thorpe was still married to another woman when they cloped in 1931.
Dr. Thorpe, in published entries from a diary, alleges that his ex- wife wrote them, admitting, her con- duct, with the idea that the child should read them.
On February 6, 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 be und gets into jams, to know that her mother was a champion at making mistakes."
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LITVINOV
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Montreux, Aug. 10.
The Soviet Government have conferred the Order of Lenin on' M. Maxim Litvinov, Commissar for Foreign Affairs, to mark, his sixileth birthday.
M. Litvinov in pleased, but he s more pleased at the fact that
He has lost 401b, by dieting,
"..
'MARY ASTOR champion at making mistakes."
-And How are YOU Feeling To-day? TERE are four freak canea H
which
American doctors are to-day trying in vain to
curo:
A Negro turned white ali
over;
A girl suffering from an attack
of yawning that has lasted a week;
A middle-aged man turning into something that resembles. an apej
A boy's hair turned red one.side,
blond the other, ⠀⠀
There add to an incredibly long list of unsolved medical mysteries which includes: Hearts that make a whistling noise, aking that change colour..... dally, cars that tlek Uko watches. muscles that turn to stone,
Lost and made a spot of cash. But he who gave the game away May Byrn, in Hell and ruc the ------day,"
Counsel said that it was signed|
"Diddleramus."
Mr. Flowers, K.C., said that the plaintiff was the only member of the club named Byrne. There had been trouble between Mr. Denne and Mr. Byrne, and an unpleasant scene took place in the first tee.
POLICE AND AN INFORMER
Some time after that there were int 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 kaid at the British Medical Asso- ciation's meeting at Oxford?
Bread, butter, cheese, buttermilk, eggs, leaf and root vegetables, fruit, meat and water have been proclaim-. ed as the ideal diet.
Alcohol has been said to have adverse effects,
But just look at the menu for the doctors' annual dinner.
Cantaloup Frappe
Elixir de Tortue an Xerca Truite Saumonce Champenoise "Nid de Foi Gras-a-la Gelee-de-Porta Coeur de Laitue Pinio dOr Volaille en Cocotte Perigourdine Pommes Nouvelles a la menthe Petits Pais Frais an Beurre d'isigny Perhe Glaces Princesse Corbeille de Mignardines Dceecrt Cafe
And the wines were-
Madeira.
Niersteiner (1029). Beaujolas (1926). Medoc Superieur (1026). Vintage port, -
What do you make 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 appeared on the wall..
The word "Burn" was not spell
by Violet Ray
New York, Aug. 12.
"Byene" (said 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 hailed as opening a vaat "burn" was placed above it,
of
feld of preventive medicine by which the air of schools, hospitals, theatres, Counsel added that he did not know and public halls may be cleared who put the notice up, but the persons dangerous gerins. in charge of the club took no steps to remove it.
Following five years of experiment- Ing, Drs. W. F. Wells and II. W. ; "THE EVERLASTING BONFIRE" Brown believe they have proved that
air can be cleared of the viruses of "Mr. Byrne is not anxious to press respiratory diseases just as water con the question of damages, but has come be cleared of the germs it
carries,
here in order to show in public that making it possible for influenzn to he is not man who does anything
of this kind and has done nothing to the way of typhoid. which makes him worthy of being They found that when a passed Into the everlasting bonfire." sneezes droplets are expelled which
person
Mrs. Deane gave evidence that evaporate instantaneously but leave a
word
residue. like tobacco smoke, drifting when she saw the notice the "burn" was over a word which had through the room with the virus. been erased. The members had their which lives for at least thirty minutes, little jokes, and it seemed to her that or ample time to infect all breathing.
the air. it should be treated as such.
Virus from the lungs of a ferret, In awarding 40s, and costs thewith typical influenza was atomised Judge said that Mr. Byrne would into a large scaled tank from which it have the satisfaction of knowing that was drawn off though two tubes. it had been established that he was not the man who informed the police.
Stay of execution was granted.
Ono 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 ight absolutely failed to carry the
Attend Coronation
Prince
the
disease. It was the same air, only difference being in the irradia- tion of the 'one 'sample.
Tokyo, Aug. 16.
Dr. Wells enid no scientist should Chichibu, brother of the Emperor of Japan, will probably at of the proved possibility of infected go beyond experiments, but "In view tend the coronation of King Edward matter being carried by air, renson- next May. He will be accompanied able efforts to free air supplies from by Princess Chichibu, daughter of
living micro-organisms were Justi Mr. Matsudaira, Japan's Ambassador fied in the light of general sanitary
effectiveness
in London.
Prince Chichibu is thirty-five, eldest principles. The
of
of the Emperor's three brothers. He violet light for such purposes seams was an undergraduate at Magdalon to be demonstrated by our experi ¡College, Oxford-Router.
ments."
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