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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,
Stone Sentenced for "Callous and
Brutal" Murder of Ruby Keen
ELEVENTH HOUR STORY OF HIS CRIME
London, June 30.
Sentence of death was passed at the Old Bailey yester day on Leslie George Stone, the 24-year-old Heath and Reach labourer found guilty of the murder of Ruby Keen.
The body of Ruby Keen, a 23-year-old factory worker of Leighton Buzzard, was found on a footpath near her home. She had been strangled with a scarf.
At the end of the proceedings Mrs., Keen, mother of the dend girl, approached Mrs. Stone, mother of the condemned man. She was sitting in the waiting room, but before Mrs. Keen could say anything Mrs. Stone sprang up and ran away calling out: "Go away. Go away." Mr. Keen left the room at once.
The Jury, on which there were two women, was absent only 25 minutes.
When they had taken their seats the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Hewart, said he had received a note from them which read: "If as the result of an intention to commit rape the girl was killed, although there was no intention to kill her. is a man guilty of murder?" The answer to the question was: "Yes, undoubtedly."
"Pulled Her Scarf And
Knotted It
--Stone
The Jury then consulted for a few, if I had had any trouble with
moments and the foreman announcer their verdict of "Guilty." One of the women Jurors buried her head in her
hand, and I said I had not.
How The Lord Chlef Justice: many years before was it when you
truck the wall-In 1932.
hunds.
Mr. Healy: Was anything else
Lord Hewart, passing death sen- | said told her she was lucky that tence, said that Stong had been gulity | į had hit the wall instead of hitting. of a brutal and callous murder.
Stone showed no umotion when! 1nd she assumed you had been sentence was passed. He was allow
ed to see his parents before leavingt court.
Mr. Maurice Healy, K.C., after hav- ing put Stone in the witness-box, had picaded that the verdict should be one of manslaughter.
In his summing-up, Lord Hewart, referring to the manslaughter de fence, glanced at the clock and said:
"Even now at 2.30 p.m. I am puzzled to know under what head of man- slaughter it is represented that this case can conceivably come." STONE GOES
INTO THE BOX
Stone, wearing a dark reefer sult, walked slowly to the witness-box with a warder to give his evidence.
Mr. Healy's first question was: In the statements you made to the police officers in this case, did you tell them the whole truth?
Stone: No, sir.
tier.
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striking at her then?-No.
What effect did that have on her?-
She called me a dirty devit and hit me on the side of the heart just below the left car.
Was it a gentle blow? No. A full her gamtlet right-arm swing with glove.
Were you surprised?--Yes, What did you do?-I went up to
her and she struck at me with the other hand. It made me jump at her.
caught hold of her scarf, I think, and pulled it.
What else?I think I knotted it; again after that.
"I WAS IN A
KIND OF A RAGE"
The Lord Chief Justice: Was she
LUFS
MAY TAKE JEAN'S ROLE--Mary Dees, blonde füm actress whosa resemblance to the late Jean Harlow prompted Rollywood screen tests she hoped would bring her the coveted role of the beloved star. Miss Dees was taken out of a partially completed film to make the tests for the Harlow role, Miss Harlow's uncompleted picture was “Saratoga," with William Powell,
Robert
Star
Taylor to in England
By SETON MARGRAVE
JULY 28, 1937.
RADIO BROADCAST
Relay from London: "At The Theatres"
A STUDIO ITEM
Radlo Programme Broadenst by 2.D.W. on wavelengths of 335 metres (845 k.c's.), 31.49 metres (9.52 m.c.'s).
H.K.T.
12.30-2.15 p.m. European Pro- gramme.
12.30 Duke Ellington and His Or chestra.
Fantasy.
Foxtrot Ring Dem bells.
Foxtrot Three Little Words.
Slow Foxtrot Black
and
Tan
Foxtrot Doing the Voom Voom. Foxtrot Rent Party Blues
Foxtrot In Sentimental Mood. Show Boat Shuffle.
12.52 Two Songs sung by Paul Robeson,
Jea' Mah Song.
Shenandoah.
1.00 Local: Time Signal and Weo-
ther Report.
1.03 Two Songs by Gracie Fields.
My Lucky Day.
Mary Rose.
1.10 Variety.
Indian Love Call Accordeon solo
by Toralf Tollefsen,
Rose Marie Accordeon sota by
Tornif Tollefsen.
Tango delle Rose Serge Krolkoff and His Huwniluns.
Debe d'Amour Hawaiian guitar solo by Serge Krolkost.
Ask Your Heart Sung
by Val
Rosing
Chasing Shadows Sung by Val Rosing.
Sally the Circus Queen Warner and Darnell.
1.30 Reuter Press; Rugby Press; Local: Weather Forecast and An- nouncements.
1.40 Sergei Rachmaninoff Con- certo No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18.
Sergei Rachmaninoff and the Phi- ladelphia Symphony Orchestra con- ducted by Leopold Stokowski.
2.15 Close Down.
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme, 7-11 pm: European Programme. 7 p.m.
Variety.
Selection of Bing Crosby Numbers. Part 1 Thanks, Love in Just
Around the Corner.
Learn to Croon, Please,
Old
Part 2 Love in Bloom, Down the Ox Road, Seun, Where the Blue
Tony Danfo Solo by Olley Oakley. White Rose Banjo Sola by Olley Oakley.
ROBERT TAYLOR, who jumped in four years from of the Night, June in January.
£7 a week film extra to fourth place in the star list and £700 a week, is going to London. ·
His
Gipsy Drinking Song Rode, and
Tziganes. Gipsy Fantasy Rode and His aTziganes.
One-time medical student in Nebraska, "Buddy" (to his friends) now has four secretaries to answer the 10,000 letters week sent by fans.
This Hollywood film star of the moment is to take a leading i
standing up at this time? Yes. She part in "A Yank at Oxford," the started to fall down and I caught first British picture to be made hold of the front of her clothes. by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
You are sworn to tell the whole rage. truth here to-day. Are you prepar~| ed to do so?---Yes.
Stone said that while he was stationed at Gosport in 1931 he met Ruby Keen. He went to the East with the Army In February. 1932. He had twice gone home while at Gosport, and on each ocension he walked out with Ruby Keen.
On Sunday, April 11, he, met her in the Golden Bell at 8.20. He was altting there when she looked in and saw him.
The Lord Chief Justice: Had you arranged to meet her there?-No.
The Lord Chief Justice: It was merely an accident?--Yes.
Replying to Mr. Healy, Stone, said that the Golden Bell was his favourite? house, and the place where he was likely to be found.
At the Golden Bell he had three pints of mild beer and she had one ort. They then went to the Crass Keys about nine o'clock and stayed there until nearly closing time.
Apprentice for two years-a fim ex- periment that might or might not have succeeded,
Placed 83rd In the list of storaĮ Made good by the end of 1935. selected by clucma owners as meaning money at the box-office.
Clark Gable, and the Fred Astaire- Ginger Rogers team were above him in the list.
Mr. Healy: In what state were you | Lulse Rainer, the Viennese actress at this time?-I was in a kind of a who won the award of the Ameri-
van Motion Picture Academy for her End of 1930 only Shirley Temple, What happened to her clothes when performance in "The Great Ziegfeld," you caught hold of them?-They all is also coming over to star in a later tore of her as she was falling.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British flm.; "Finishing School," She, too. is one of Hullywood's newest stars.
Stone said that he knelt down be- cause he thought he had just stunned her. He then gol up and brushed his knees atui trousers. .
My. Healy Did you think she was dead or badly lujured?—No, sir.
And apart from revenging the blow in the face had you any object what you had done?-No, sir.
in
The Lord Chief Justice: Did you do this to revenge the blow on the face?—I just thought I had hit her, back.
Stone said that he did hit her in
the face.
Mr. Healy: I must ask you this, in view of all the circumstances. Bad there been any talks that night about sexual relations? No, sir.
Stone added that he gave the blow at the time that he pulled the scarf. Mr. Healy: It was just one grab? -Yes,
WALK AWAY
During that time he had two pints STARTED TO of mild beer and she had two glasses of port. On leaving the Cross Keys they went together as far as the Stag. All this time their relations bad bern) perfectly friendly. They did walk down the street arm in arm, but side by side. ANNOYED BY
"LITTLE TRICK"
not
ne
At this stage Mr. Healy satd wished to go back to an ineldent in the old days.
Mr. Henly: After you knelt down and thought she was unconscious, what did you do?—I got up off my knees, dusted them, and started to walk away.
The Lord Chief Justice: Did you say you thought she was unconscious? --Yes.
Mr. Healy: You told us a little earlier about you being in a kind of rage. How long did that last "Had this girl a llide trick with When did you cense to be in a rage? her in those old times which used to-After I got on to the Heath road. annoy you?"
Stone: Yes, she used to put her; Jittle lagers in my cars.
Stone demonstrated with his fingers how she did it.
Mr. Healy: Had you had a little tiff about 17-1 just told her not to do it.
Stone added that on one occasion when she did it he struck at her, missed and hit the brick wall behind her, damaging his hand.
Stone then continued his narrative
of the events on April 11, saying that as they walked along they talked about old times and that kind of thing."
Mr. Henly: Was there any mention') of this tickling of the ears?--Yes, when we got as for as the collage wall.
ARMS AROUND EACH OTHER
When you had left the road was there any change in your attitude?- Yes. I had my arm round her and 'she had her arm round me.
Stone said that when he got home he brushed his clothes.
EXPERIMENT
La Paloma (The Dove) Horst Schimmelpfennig at the Organ,
O Sole Mio Horst Schimmelp- fennig at the Organ.
Allice Blue Gown Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians.
7.30 Closing local Stocks Quota- tions, and Hongkong Exchange Mar- ket Report.
7.35 Chopin, Sonata in B Flut Minor, Op 35.
Piano solo by Percy Crainger. Etude in B Minor Op. 25, No. 10. Plano solo by Percy Grainger.
8.00 Local: Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements,
One of the screen's most handsome men, these six Olms have made him famous: "Magnificent Obsession"
brief:
Here's "Buddy" Taylor's career in with Irene Dunne, "Smil Town Girl" with Janet Gaynor, "The Spotted by an M.-G.-M. official at Gorgeous Hussy" with Joan Craw-To-night, He
with the Hollywood Playhouse on
"His Brother's Wife" first appearance on the stage four Burbara Stanwyck, "Camille" with years ago, and offered a film con- Greta Garbo, and The Man in Pos- traci.
session with the inte Jean Harlow,
his ford,
Grocer Parish
No Vicar, Runs
HAS A DOG RIGHT OF APPEAL?
If a dog is "sentenced to death" by magistrates, can its owner appeal for a re. pricve7
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Whenever a couple want to marry in the village of Framp- ton, near Dorchester, the village grocer sends out an S.0.S. for a
clergyman.
For, though Frampton has about 270 inhabitants, it has had no vicar for six months, and the grocer, Mr. A. S. R. Gray, has to run all parish affairs.
Mr.
the
8.03 Bob Xavier vocal, and H. L. Ozario at the Piano.
Vocal I Wished on the Moon. Piano Medley The Way you look Ain't Got Rhythm, With All My Heart.
Vocal The One Rose, Plano Basin Street Blues. Vocal Thru the Courtesy of Love. Plano Medley Let Go Stumming, Talk of the Town, Harlem.
Vocal Serenade in the Night. London Palladium Orchestra. 8.20 The Golden Valse Ports I
and 2.
Kiss Me Again,
Echoes from the Puszta.
Wedded Whimsies-humorous fan- tazy-Parts 1 and 2.
Aisha.
8.45 Relay from London. 'Round and About."
8.55 Relay from London. 'Swift Serenade. Tommy · Mal- Orchestra.
thews and His Concert Produced by David Porter.
9.30 London News and Announce- ments,
Violin Recital by Heifetz, 9.55 Large on G String by Cierambault. Accompanied by Arpad Sundor.
(a) Minuette No. 1 & 2 from Baclı Sonata No. G.
(b) The Little Windmill by Cou- perin: Accompanied by Isidor knows Gray
trouble. Achron.
Concerto No. 2 in D Minor Op. The stipend is only £200 and the
Ilcifetz 22. Wieniawsk
and the vicarage Includes a large house and
London Philharmonic. Orchestro, There is apparently no answer two acres of land. Clergymen will conducted by Jolin Barbirolli.
fake the living," he said Scherzo The Lord Chief Justice: Did you to this question, and magistrates not
Tarantelle, Op. 10 by cannot Wieniawski. Accompanied by Arpad brush your clothes very hard-
recently. "They
they Soy
Sandor. in different parts of the country afford to do so." brushed the knees hard.
10.16 Relay from London. Big The Lord Chlet Justice: Before are giving conflicting rulings. you went to bed?-Yes,
At the Theatres. Descriptions and songs of London shows by Dudley Glass and Dorothy Brunton.
10.35 Dance Music.
Replying to a further question by
15 MILES TO SERVICE
The villages are to protest to the They appeal to Surrey Archbiship of Canterbury.
It rose again when Mr. Thomson
Mr. Ilealy, Stone said that he did not Melintock, of Bagshot-road, Worples-
do anything to his pants.
dun, "sought to
Mr. Healy: You said you recover-Quarter Sessions Appeals Committee complain that there is no one to ed from the rage by the time you got nt Kingston against an order by visit the alck or bereaved. Church:
on the Heath road. Had you any Woking magistrales to destroy a idea you had killed her? No.
THE TWO TRAGIC
MOTHERS
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dangerous, dog which was not kept under proper control.
UNIFORMITY PLEA
f
Ben.
Foxtrot, Poor Little Angeling, Jay Wilbur & His Band; Saddle your Blues to a Wild Mustang, Jay Wil- bur & His Band,
attendances are, dwindling and the children have no Sunday school.
All this year a retired elergyman, the Rev. E. Jones, has travelled 15 Foxtrot. My Sweetle Went Away. miles from Weymouth every Sunday Scott Wood & His Six Swingers. to conduct services In the 14th- Foxtrot. Handel in Harlem, Scolt
Wood & His Six Swingers. century church.
Foxtrot. Jazz Convulsions, Duke Ellington & His Orchestra.
As soon as the case opened the chairman, Mr. J. II. W. Pilcher,
Canon W. J. Barton, chaplain to Stone, after hearing the sentence, raised the question of jurisdiction, the Bishop of Salisbury, who holds
Sir John Cameron, for never glanced in the direction of Mrs. and
the the gift of the living, said: "Five Keen, a tragic kile woman in blnek Woking Bench, said that at Middlesetergymen have been offered the who sat within a yard of the dock sex Sessions some time ago it was lying in the fast six months, but beside ex-Police Constable Smith, the held that there was right of when they saw the old-fashioned man do whom Ruby, her daughter, appeal. (In this case a dog named viegrage and the grounds they turned was la have been married.
Nigger was reprieved).
the offer down. Any incumbent will You were walking affectionately in Stone's mother with her crippled: Mr. Astill Burt, for Mr. McLintock, have to have a private income to
sat asked the committee to follow the keep up the place." throughout the day on a seat in the decision of the Middlesex Sessions, The living was formerly worth Stone said that when they reached corridor. As the frlal neared its so that there should be some degree £314, but a reduction followed the
(writes the wall they put both arms round close she told me
News of uniformity, but Mr. Pitcher an- centralisation of tithes. other Chronicle reporter): each other and kissed each
"I have al-nounced that they were of the -several times.
that way and got to the cottage wali? 65-year-old
Yes.
husband had
ready lost one of my 5018 since opinies that they had no Jurisdiction reporter: "It seems that the existence Mr. Healy: Was it at that stage Leslie's arrest. They will not hang in the matter.
of a right to appeal depends on the there was some mention about the him-I'm sure it will be 과 man- tickling of the cars, and what hap- slaughter verdiet. He was always An official of the National Canine particular Act of Parliament under pened to your hand? Yes, she asked a good boy."
Defence League told
London which an order is made,"
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Foxtrot. Moon Over Dixie, Duke Ellington & His Orchestra.
Waltz. Have You Forgotten to Soon, Jack Hylton & His Orchestra. Foxtrot, Did You Mean It, Jack Hylton & His Orchestra.
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