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 dead 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." Mrs. 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 -Stowe
"2
The Jory then consulted for a few, if i had had any trouble with maments and the foreman announced! hand, and I said i had not. their verdict of "Guilty." One of the women jurors buried her head in her hands.
my
The Lord Chief Justice: How many years before was it when you struck the wall-In 1932.
Mr. Healy: Was anything else
Lord Hewart, passing death ser said?--I told her she was lucky that tence, suid that Stone hid been guilty || had hit the wall instead of hitting of a brutal and callous murder,
her.
Stone showed no emotion when Had the assumed you had been sentence was passed. He was allow ed to see his parents before leaving striking at her then?-No.
court.
What effect did that have on her?-- She called me a dirty devil and hit Mr. Maurice Healy, K.C., after lav-me on the side of the head just below ing put Stone in the witness-box, had the left ear. plended that the verdict should be one of manslaughter.
In his summing-up, Lord Hewart, de.. referring to the ma
manslaughter fence, glanced at the clock and said: "Even
Was it a gentle blow? No. A full right-arm swing with her gauntlet glove,
Were you surprised?--Yes.
What did you do?--I went up to
now at 2.30 p.m. I am puzzled her and she struck at me wtih the to know under what head of man-other hand. It made me jump at her. slaughter it is represented that this I caught hold of her scarf, I think, case can conceivably come.”
and pulled it.
What else?--I think I knotted it
STONE GOES
INTO THE BOX
again after that.
"I WAS IN A
KIND OF A RAGE”
Stone, wearing a dark reefer sutt, 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 started to fall down and L. caught officers in this case, did you tell them the whole truth?
.
The Lord Chief Justice: Was she standing up at this time?-Yes. She
hold of the front of her clothes.
Mr. Healy: In what state were you at this time?--I was in a kind of a
What happened to her clothes when you might hold of them? They all fore off her as she was falling.
Stone: No, sir. You are sworn to tell the whole' rage. truth here to-day. Are you prepar~j ed to do so?—Yes.
Stone said that while
was he stationed at Gosport in 1931 he met Ruby Koen. He went to the East with the Army in February, 1932. He had lee gone home while at Gosport, and on each occasion he walked out with Ruby Keen.
Stone said that he knelt down be cause he thought he bed just stunned her. He then got up and brushed his knees and trousers,
Mr. Bealy: Did you think she was dead or badly injured?—No, sir.
And
BIAY TAKE JEAN'S ROLE—Mary Decs, blondo film actress whosa resemblance to the late Jean Harlow prompted Hollywood screen tests alle hoped would bring her the coveted role of the beloved star. Miss Dees was taken out of a partially completed flim_to · make the tests for the Harlow role. Miss Harlow's uncompleted picture was "Saratoga," with Willlam Powell.
Robert
Taylor
to
Star in England
By SETON MARGRAVE
JULY 28, 1937.
RADIO® BROADCAST
Relay from London: "At The Theatres”
A STUDIO ITEM
Hudio Programme Broadcast by Z..W. on wavelengths of 355 metres (045 k.e's.), 31.49 metres (9.52 m.c.'s).
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme. 7-11 p.m. European Programme. 7 p.m. Variety.
Selection of Bing Crosby Numbers, I'art 1 Thanks, Love
Just Around the Comer,
Learn to Croun, Please.
Part 2 Love In Bloom, Down the Old Ox Road, Soon, Where the Blue
of the Night, June in January.
Tony Banjo Solo by Olley Oakley. White Rose Banjo Solo by Olley Oakley,
Gipsy Drinking Song Rode and His Tziganes.
Gipsy Fantasy Role and is Tziganes.
La Paloma
(The Dove) Horst
Schimmelpfennig at the Organ.
O Sole Mio Horst Schimmelp-
tlic Organ.
Allice Blue Gown Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians,
7.30 Closing local Stocks Quota- tions, and Hongkong Exchange Mor- kel Report.
7.35 Chopin. Sonala in B Flat Minor, Op 33.
Plano solo by Perey Crainger, Etude in D Minar Op. 25, No. 10. Piano solo by Perey Grainger,
8.00 Local: Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.
8.03 Bob Xavier vocni, and H. 1.. Ozork at the Plano.
Vocal I Wished on the Moun. Piano Medley The Way you look To-night. He Ain't Got Nhythm, With All My Heart.
Vocal
The One Rose,
Piano Basin Street Blues, Vocal Thru the Courtesy of Love. Piano Medley Let Go Slunmuity, Talk of the Town, Hurien,
Vocal Serenade in the Night. London Palladium Orchestra. 4.20 The Golden Valse Parts 1 and 2,
Kiss Me Again.
Echoes from the Puszta.
Wedded Whimsies-bumorous fun- tuzy-Parls 1 and 2.
Alsfa
8.45 Relay from London. *Note and About,
ROBERT TAYLOR, who jumped in four years from thews and His Concert
£7 a week film extra to fourth place in the star list and £700 a week, is going to London.
One-time medical student in Nebraska, "Buddy" (to his friends) now has four accretaries to answer the 10,000 letters a week sent by fans.
This Hollywood film star of the moment is to take a leading part in "A Yank at Oxford," the first British picture to be made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Apprentice for two years-a flm ex- periment that might or might not have succeeded.
45
Made good by the end of 1935. Place 83rd in the list of stars selected by <inema owners meaning money at the box-office. End of 1936 only Shirley Temple, Clark Gable, and the Fred Astaire- Ginger Rogers team were above bim in the list.
Mat-
8.55 Relay from London.
Swift Serenade, Tommy
Orchestra. Produced by David Porter.
9.30 London News and Announce- ments, 8.55
Violin Recital by Heifetz. Large on G String by Clerombault. Accompanied by Arpad Sandor.
(a) Minuette No. 1 & 2 from Bach Sonata No. 6.
(b) The Little Windmill by Cou- perin. Accompanied by Isidor Achron.
Concerto No. 2 in D Minor Op. 22. Wieniawski. Heifetz and the Philharmonie, Orchestra, London conducted by John Barbirolli.
Scherzo Tarantelle, Op. 16 by Wieniawski. Accompanied by Arpad Sunder.
10.15 Relay from London, Bik Ben.
At the Theatres.' Descriptions and songs of London shows by Dudley Gloss and Dorothy Brunton.
10.35 Dance Music. Foxtrot, Poor
Luise Rainer, the Viennese actress who won the award of the Ameri- can Motion Picture Academy for her performance in "The Great Ziegfeld," is also coming over to star in a later Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British film. "Finishing School," She, too, is one One of the screen's most handsome
of Hollywood's newest stars.
men, these six films have made him EXPERIMENT
Little Angeling, famous: "Magnificent Obsession"
brief:
Here's "Buddy" Taylor's career in with Irene Dunne, "Small Town Jay Wilbur & Ilis Band; Saddle your
Girl" with Janet
"The Blues to a Wild Mustang, Jay WII- Gaynor, the Hollywood Playhouse on his ford, "His Brother's Wife" with first appearance on the stage four Barbara Stanwyck, "Camille" with years ago, and offered a Bim con-Greta Garbo, and The Man in Pos- tract.
session" with the late Jean Harlow.
in the Golden Bell al 8.20, He was in apart from revenging the blow Spotted by an M.-G.-M. official at Gorgeous Hussy" with Joan Craw-i bur & His Bond.
On Sunday, April 11, he met her
sitting 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?--Yea.
Replying to Mr. Healy, Stone sald that the Golden Bell was his favourite i 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 port. They then went to the Cross Keys about nine o'clock and stayed there until nearly closing time.
During that time he had two pints of mild beer and she had two glisser of port. On leaving the Cross Keys they went together as far as the Star. All this time their relations had been perfectly friendly. They
|
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?-1 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. Had there been any talk that night about sexual relations?...-No, nir.
Stone added that he gave the blow at the time that lie pulled the seart. Mr. Healy it was just one grab? -Yes.
STARTED TO
WALK AWAY
Mr. Healy: After you knelt down and thought she wan uncutscious, what did you du?-1 got up off my walk down the street arm in arm, knees, dusted them, and started to
but side by side.
ANNOYED BY
"LITTLE TRICK"
did
not
At this stage Mr. Healy sold nej wished to go back to an incident in the old days,
"Had this girl a lttle trick with her in those old times which used to annoy you?"
Stone: Yes, she used to put her ttle fingers in my ears.
walk away.
The Lord Chief Justice: Did you say you thought she was unconscious? -Yes.
Mr. Heaty: You told us a little earlier about you being in a kind of
Jong dikl How
that
No Vicar, Grocer Runs Parish
want to
Whenever a couple marry in the village of Framp- ton, near Dorchester, the village Igrocer sends out an S.0.S. for a
HAS A DOG
RIGHT OF clergyman.
APPEAL?
If a dog is "sentenced to death" by magistrates, can its owner appeal for a re- prieve?
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 parich affairs,
page. When did you cease to be in a rage? After I got on to the Heath road. Stone said that when he got home he
bruslig
bls clothes,
There is apparently no answer The Lord Chief Justice: Did you to this question, and magistrates not brush your clothes very brushed the knees hard.
in different parts of the country recently. They say
Foxtrot. My Sweetle Went Away, Scott Wood & His Six Swingers.
Foxtrot. Handel in Harlem, Scott Wood & His Six Swingers.
Foxtrot. Jazz Convulsions, Duke Ellington & His Orchestra,
Foxtrot. Moon Over Dixie, Duke Ellington & His Orchestra.
Waltz. Have You Forgotten so Soon, Jack Hylton & His Orchestra. Foxtrot, Did You Mean IL Jack Hylton & His Orchestra, 11 pm. Close Down.
JAPANESE DIVER
FINED
FAILED TO NOTIFY MOVEMENTS
Kancsukh Naga, D1-year-old Japan- ese diver, was fined $100 by Mr. W. tracy this morning for failing to re- M. Thomson at the Central Mogis- port to the police his departure from and return to the Colony.
to Sub Inspector According Mr. Gray knows the trouble. Edwards, defendant left the Colony "The stipend is only £200 and the on June 20 in his own, small boat, vicarage includes a large house and the Shinyo Maru. He came back by two acres of land. Clergymen will the ss. Helikon on July 14, and three take the Ilving," he said days later left again for Canton by train, returning two days ago. On they cannot none of these occasions did he make afford to do so."
any report to the police. Mr. Healy: find you hnd a little The Lord Chief Justice: Before are giving conflicting, rulings.
Imposing the fine, His Worship 15 MILES TO SERVICE about it?-1 just fold her not to you went to bed?—Yes.
sald: As far as I can see you have Replying to a further question by It arose again wh 1 Mr. Thomson
The villages are to protest to the been in and out of the Colony, with- Stone added that on one occasion Mr. Healy, Stone said that he did not McLintock, of Bugshot-road. Worples-
of Canterbury. They out paying any attention to the regu- when she did it he struck at her, do anything to his pants,
don, sought to appeal to Surrey Archbiship missed and hit the brick wall behind Mr. Healy: You said you recover- Quarter Sessions Appeals Committee complain that there is no one to lations.
Church her, damaging his hand.
ed from the rage by the time you got at Kingston against an order by visit the sick or bereaved. Stone then continued his narrative) on the Heath road. Had you any Woking magistrates to destroy n attendances are dwindling and the of the events on April 11, saying that idea you had killed her?-No.
children have no Sunday school.
Stone demonstrated with his fingers how she did it.
do it.
as they walked along they talked about old times "and that kind of thing,"
Mr. Healy: Was there any mention of this ticking of the cara? Yes, when we got as far as the cottage wall.
ARMS AROUND
hard?-----1
THE TWO TRAGIC
MOTHERS
dangerous dog which was not kept under proper control..
UNIFORMITY PLEA
As soon as the ease opened the chairman, Mr. J. H. W. Pilcher,
Was
ה
All this year a retired clergyman, the Rev. E. Jones, lins travelled 15 miles from Weymouth every Sunday to conduct services in the 14th- century church.
Conon W. J. Barton, chaplain to
FALSE TRADE
CHINESE COMPANY
MARK
FINED
which a false trade
Stone, after hearing the sentence, raised the question of jurisdiction. the Bishop of Salisbury, who holda Convicted on summonses for seil- never glanced in the direction of Mrs. and Sir John Cameron, for the gift of the living, said: "Flve
ing goods to Keen, a tragic little woman in black Woking Bench, said that at Middle-clergymen have been offered the EACH OTHER
who sat within a yard of the dock sex Sessions some time ago it was living in the last six months, but description was applied, the Paic On When you had left the rond was beside ex-Police Constable Smith, the held that there
right of when they saw the old-fashioned Company, af 230 Des Voeux load there any change in your attitude?-man to whom Ruby, her daughter, appeal. (In this case a dog named vicarage and the grounds they turned Central, and the Fook Wah Company, Yes. I had my arm round her and was to have been married.
Nigger was reprieved).
the offer down. Any incumbent will of 310 Des Voeux Road Central, were 'she had her arm round me,
the Central Magistracy this morning. You were walking affectionately in Stone's mother with her crippled
Mr. Astill Burt, for Mr. McLintock, have to have a private income to each fined $100 by Mr. Thomson at The summonses were taken out at that way and got to the cottage wall? 65-year-old husband had nat 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 the Instance of Messrs, Melchers and Stone said that when they reached corridor. As the trial neared Its so that there should be some degree £314, but a reduction, followed the Company, for whom Mr. D. B. Evans the wall they put both arms round close she told me (writes n
appeared, and the goods related to of uniformity, but Mr. Pilcher an centralisation of tithes, each other and kissed each other | Chronicle reporter): "I have al-nounced that they were
Eau de Cologne brillantine. several times.
ready lost one of my
His Warship directed that half of since opinion that they had no jurisdiction reporter: "It seems that the existence the fines be awarded to complainants Mr. Healy: Was it at that stage | Leslie's arrest. They will not hang in the matter. there was some mention about the him-I'm sure it will be
[of a right to appeal depends on the as costs. tickling of the ears, and what hap- slaughter verdict. He was always An official of the National Canine particular Act of Parliament under The goods seized were ordered to
told | Defence : League
a London which an order: Is 'made,” pened to your hand?--Yes, the asked a good boy."
be conflacated.
--Yes,
Aona
Newa
A man-
of the
WHITE
SHOES
Smart and cool, those shoes are made
with light canvas or calf uppers, leather
soles and heels.
Haff sizes and various fittings.
$21.00, $28.50.
•
Leo 10% cash discount
MACKINTOSH'S LTD.
MEN'S
WEAR
SPECIALISTS
as
Fair
the
blossom
The beauty of the blossoms must fade, but the youthful beauty and fairness of your skin may long be preserved by "HAZELINE SNOW."} Use Hazelino Snow" in your toilet daily,
“HAZELINE
Glase fara, from all
Pharmacies and Stores
(Trade Marki
SNOW"
BURROUGHS WELLCOME
(1)RONNIEYORS THE WALLCOME FOUNDATION
LONDON
7412
$1 TIFFINS
at-
Also
China Bldg., Hongkong.
Brightly Cheerfully
LVD., LONDON,
AND SHANGHAI
co.
Kxp.t
COPYRIGHLY
Jimmy's
A la Carte
START YOUR DAY
IN A
MODERN BATHROOM
It's one of the most satisfying Investments you can make to have Warren's instal modern fixtures in an antiquated bath-
The modest cost is far overshadowed by the added comfort. Suggestions & Estim- ates free.
room,
C.
Hankow Rd., Kowloon.
E. WARREN. & CO., LTD.
St. George's Bldg. 1st Floor Tol. 20269 WORKS DEPT. 216 Wanchal Rd. Tol. 24406
$250 CASH PRIZES, SILVER TROPHIES, MOVIE CAMERA & OTHER AWARDS MUST BE WON IN THE "TELEGRAPH'S"
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC
COMPETITION
See particulars on another page