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RUBY KEEN MURDER SENTENCED MAN SERVED
IN HONGKONG
"If you are satisfied that Stone was at the Firs with Ruby Keen, you that his was the may be satiifled hand that drew the scarf and killed
her...
"On the case for the prosecution, and particularly the evidence of his own clothing, It appears that his statements were false and that he was with her and killed her."
Mr. Richard In these words, O'Sullivan, x.c., ended his opening speech to the jury at the Old Bailey recently, when the "Sandy Lane" murder trial opened.
Lealle George Stone, a 24-year-old Heath and Reach, (abourer, of Leighton Buzzard, Beds, was charged before the Lord Chief Justice (Lord flewart), with the murder of Ruby Anale Keen, a 23-year-old factory worker, of Plantation-road, Leighton Buzzard.
He was found guilty and sentenced to death.
Mr. O'Sullivan sald Stone joined the Royal Artillery in 1930 and went walking with Miss Keen. In 1032 he They Was drafted to Hongkong. corresponded for a couple of years or more. Then Stone said she ceased
to write to him.
fle was discharged from the Army this year, and on March 28 saw Miss Keen:
On April 11-a Sunday-which was the day, Mr. O'Sullivan alleged, on which Miss Keen was murdered, Stone said that he left his home wearing a new gult for the first time, and went to Leighton Buzzard. After seven o'clock he went to the Golden
Bell.
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Soon after eight o'clock Miss Keen came into the Golden Belt and saw Stone. About nine o'clock they went to the Cross Keys until 9.60, or so, when they went out together,
Next morning a railway employee caine on the partly naked body of the girl in The Firs.
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Dr. Roche Lynch, Home Office analyst, produced from a box a piece: of silk threat about an Inch long. which he said he found on Stone's jacket.
to It was similar the material of the dead woman's frock. He had formed the opinion that it came from the frock,
On Stone's clothing he found sand which resembled a sample of sand from the scene of the crime, lo sald un attempt had been made to remove the sand from the trousers as some of the cloth had lost its nap.
The pants were also sandy at the knees. The sand might Five come from the sandy lane where the crime took place or from the sand-pit where Stone worked,
Accused's Story
In his evidence Stone vald that after leaving the Army he returned to Leighton Buzzard and met Ruby Keen, whom he had known in 1932, before going to the East with his they visited battery. On April 11 two pubile houses and then walked towards her home.
They talked about old times, and Miss Keen's as they approached home, they had their arms round ench other. Outside the cottage they embraced and klased several times.
Stone sald there was some talk about a former trick of the girl's, who used to tease him by tickling his cars. On one occasion he had struck at her, but missed, and hit his hand against a brick wall. That incident occurred in 1932.
Describing what happened on the night of April 11, Stone said:
"She asked if I had had any trous said I had ble with my hand, and not," continued Stone. "I told her she was lucky that I had hit the wall instead of hitting her.
"She called me a dirty devil and hit me on the side of the head just below the left ear-a full right arm swing with her gauntlet glove.
"I went up to her, and she struck at me with the other hand. It made me jump at her. I caught hold of her scart, I think, and pulled .
that."
"I think I knotted it again after
THE
HONGKONG
Bumming Up In his summing-up the Lord Chief Justice said:"
This crime, whatever its true dimensions, was committed as long ago as April 11. It is this morning the truth, You may ask yourselves that the prisoner has decided to tell whether he has told the truth even at this eleventh hour.
"You observe that during all this intervening period it has not ap- peared what defence, if any, there was to this prosecution. You must have wondered last night, as I can fess I wondered, what the defence in this case was to be."
Lord Hewart quoted the sentence: "After we had parted I could hear footsteps as she went down Planta- tion-road," and added: "A sheer in- vention as is now admitted, and you may think an invention not lacking In Ingenuity.
"To a person who has proved him- self so clever in the fabrication of falsehood, you may asit yourselves which he now tells you can trust what part, if any part, of this story unless it is corroborated by some other teatimony.
"It is with that knowledge of his statements you have to previous consider and weigh the evidence he has given this morning.
"You may have to consider whe- ther, in the most material part of it, it is not just as much a pack of lies as the first, with this difference-- that it exhibits n further degree of elaboration"
Prisoner, by his counsel, was ask- ing the jury to say that the killing of this Kiri
was not murder but manslaughter.
"Even now I am puzzled to know under what head of manslaughter it in represented that this case can Lord come," nddad conceivably Hewart,
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RECENT TRANSFERS, AND APPOINTMENTS
London, July 13.
ond ap- The King and Queen, who returned
The following transfers London yesterday after thele
willpointments have been announced by coronation tour in Scotland,
10 Wales. leave to-night for a coronation visit the companies concerred:
China Navigation Co. They leave Paddington in the and will
Mr. G. A. Abbs, sup'y chief officer, chief onteer. gonz Royal train at midnight
umeer, West Wales, visiting Newport, Car-Changsha,
and Mr. R. L. Stenner, chief make a two day tour of South and Kintang, ha al.
Swansea, Aberystwylli
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villages of officer, Shengking. mining through the Glamorgan and will thus see some- thing of the lives of the people who experienced the industrial depressioa Last night their Majesties went
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against such a suggestion?
Mr. J. Baldwin, Nanning, has gone Kweiyang.
second officer, second
oMeer,
second officer, Mr. A. Townley, Klungchow, has gone second officer. officer, Mr. H. Boyack, "second Sinklang. Anshun, has gone second officer, Tolyuan.
officer, Mr. W. Davidson, record "Is it conceivable," he asked, "that
Taiyuan, has gone second officer, Ansliun. man could be so callous as to leave
offleer, girl in that state for no reason?
Mr. is true he was as
A. Roddis, second aff his story
officer, Shengking, has gone second innocent as a babe. Nothing could prevent him going to a relative and Kiungchow. caying. As the result of a miserable
Mr. A. J. T. Halley, sup'y second has Lone second little accident, Ruby is lying uncon-
officer, on home leave.
Mr. C. O'Neill, second omeer, second scious in this lane. Go and attendoleer, Kintang. to her."
from home, has gone sup'y officer, Kintang.
n girl
"Not a bit of it. He says nothing his mother when he gets there, and on the way home to anyone, or to he goes to bed after brushing his trousers.
Mr. B. McLennan, second officer. from home, has gone sup'y second oficer, Kintang.
"He makes nine appearances at the
Mr. L. King, second officer, Hunan, police-court, and all this time he has
innocent explanation has gone second officer, Nanning.
oMeer, this simple,
Mr. W. C. Dyer, second
second officer, Nanning, has gone locked in his bosom,
"When you reflect how this story
Hunan. what the story was came to be given, he told previously, you can ask your- selves not merely, Can we accept the story he tells to-day?' but 'Is it conceivable to ask, persons, that this story is true?"
reasonable
Mr. D. L. Edwards, sup'y second in transit, has gone Terrible Condition
second officer, Nanchang. The Judge referred to "the terrible
officer, from
Mr. L. R. Pavillard, second officer, photograph" showing the girl's con-
Stone showed no emotion en hear-Nanchang, has gone sup'y second dition when she was found. Could the jury possibly belleve that she was brought into that state as the ing the sentence, ife was allowed officer, on reserve result of one casual grab? Did not to see his parents before being taken the intelligence of a person revolt from the court.
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