THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,
AUGUST 5,
1937.
THE
Drugged Minister Found In Vestry
DOCTOR-FIANCEE QUESTIONED
BY CORONER
DR.
¡R. ELINOR MARY GELLING was questioned at a Liverpool inquest recently about the possibility of her minister-fiance having obtained morphine from her surgery.
Dr. Gelling found her flance, the Rev. David Dougins, aged thirty, off 31. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Rodney-street, Liverpool, unconscious)
In in church vestry on June 23. The
bad apparently been there all night; and died in hospital without regaining consciousnes
"Suicide, with Insufflelent evidenten)
io zlow his state of mind,"
the verdict.
Dr. Gelllag sold she had treated Mr.
Douglas for middle-ear trouble.
and tonsilitis. Ite was depressed ati
times.
When she found hito in his vestry
there was a smell of gas.
Husband
Freed on Attack Charge
Leeds, July 15.
The coroner (Mr. G. C. Mert: Wej ACQUITTED at the Assize
live been at considerable pains toj know how he came by this drug, Can you help us in the matter?—No, vir.
Mr.
JURY SEE DIARY Dr. Gelling
shown Wan Douglas's diary, and asked by the coroner to scan an entry in March. The entry was shown to the fore- man of the jury, but was not read } out.
The coroner: He refers to mor- phing in 1 dary. He was under your medical care, but I don't sup- pose you ever prescribed morphine? -No.
Doctors keep these drugs for emergencies. Is it possible that he could havO obtained morphine from your surgery without your knowledge?—He could have got morphine tablets.
Court here to-day on a charge of wounding with intent to murder a man he alleged to be his wife's lover, Albert Hall, aged 28. a steel worker, of Percy- street, Sheffield, left the court building arm in armi with his wife, who had waited outside throughout the case. "Everything is all right with; the wife. a slight.; us now," dark haired woman, told me. "We have our own little home and we have forgotten the troubles. of the past. We have been
ROYALTY AT A GARDEN PARTY—Through lines of appinuding guests, King Georgs and Queen Elizabeth move in the first garden party, held at Buckingham Palace, London, during the new king's reign. The sovereigns are followed by their two daughters, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Mar- garet Rose, the last partly hidden by her grandmother, Queen Mother Mary.
GERMANY'S FOOD PROBLEM
Breaking "Hunger Blockade"
RATIONING, ECONOMY
50 Years Married
CHOSE DEATH TO
SOLITUDE
Stanley, Co. Durham,
July 15.
ONLY
a few weeks ago the "Darby and Joun" of this town, Mr. James Walker Ed- munds, aged 73, and his 66- years-old wife, Emily, celebrated their golden wedding-to-day Munich, July 12. of paper. Then I go to the play-
they were lying dead. They found together in the in Germany, im-round and throw them in the box: were
The teacher asks who has brought house in Theresa-street here in pressed by the healthy and well-anything. I stand up and he praises which they had planned to spend Hall smiled happily at his wife, nourished appearance of their | us." "We have had our ups and downs hosts and by the confusion of
their last happy years. "This In in life." he said.
He had been under certain married years and have two specialist treatment in addition to what you yourself had done for him? jehildren, aged ten and two."
-Yes.
As far as you know he was not given treatment by drugs evenl small doses of morphine?--No, sir.
DREGS IN CUP
was the!
Tourists
A
Prices are kept stable and no pre- worst thing that ever happened to dishes on the ordinary restaur-ference to custoiners la permitted. ELK, A mun has the right to protect ant menus. his home and wife, and I had aware of the tremendous efforts butcher's wife refused to sell him any. are probably un-shopper in Munich wished to pur-
chase pound of cutlets. being made by the Nazis to She was therefore arrested and fined ensure the Reich's food supply. 150 Marks (about £12),
IN WIFE'S ROOM
A policeman said that in a cap-show that I could do it." board he found a cup which had Buid dregs at the bottom which smelt of wine. He took this to the infiemury with him.
room.
The
, Awakened in the night, Mrs. Ed- imunds found her husband had. taken his life. Unable to face the loneliness without him, she Im- mediately took poisan,
Mrs. J. E. Hogarth, a nicer of Mr.
Hall was charged with winding William Henry Peaker, aged 25, ol· Although foreigners may complain; The distribution of grain in care- Edmunds, discovered the tragedy. Century-street. Sheffield. It The coroner: I am concerned stated that Peaker had lodged with
w that they cannot obtain all the things fully controlled, and only limited She found her uncle in a front room with the possibilities of this man's the Halls, and in July last year fall are accustomed to have at home, grades of flour life having been saved, and I am returned hom
are permitted for with throat wounds and her aunt wondering what happened to that found Peaker
unexpectedly and they see no signs of the "hunger- | baking purposes.
in the next room, a cup that had in his wife, bed- blockade," which Germany claims is cup. It appears to have dis-
being waged against her by the world 000 Germans has, at least, given the
The problem of nourishing $5,000, contained carbolic acid by her side. appeared into thin air. One sus-/
"SO PROUD AND HAPPY" pects that if there had been mor- "There is no doubt," said Mr. H., at large, and which she uses as an Reich's administrators plenty of food, phine in that cup it might have R. Bramley, prosecuting, "that Ball excuse to enforce discipline at the for thought By marshalling every of their long married
"They were so happy and proud been found within a short Bme believed Peaker had betraged him." dinner tables of her citizens.
life," Mrs. and due precautions taken?—That?
enlory and regimenting the markets, Hogarth
said, "I cannot think svas the reason I took the cup in
they have also succeeded in obtaining whit made my uncle take his life, but the infirmary.
enough food for their subjects.
I am sure my sunt decided she could not live without him,
You know nothing of where that kup went?--No, sir.
Professor W. 11. Roberts, Liverpool elty analyst, naid that Mr. Douglas! lived thirty hours after taking the morphine.
effective 1[
treatment had taken place within an hour of his being found his life might have j been saved.
Dr. Frank
i
¿
Later Hall went to Peaker's new home and stabbed him with a knife.
Penker, in evidence, said that when found in Mrs. Hall's bedroom tall "gave him a good Reling an turned him out.”
"I feel 1 deserved all I got." he said. "7 17 bigger man than Hall but my conscience made me
afraid."
Hall, in evidence, sald his wife house was living with him when he went Harwood, physician at the Liverpool Royal to Peaker's house and was still living Infirmary, said that Mr. Douglas was with him. "I was not happy until not regarded at first as a morphine) I had given him a good hiding as o
Hittle man should."
ense.
DOWNOAST. ENVOTS--with downcast eyes, here are Joachimn von Ribbentrop, left, Chrman Ambasador to London, and Count Dino Grandi, Italian Ambassador, shown in London. They re- gentig objected at a Non-Intervention Committee meeting, to Lika plati zor, želiain and Francs to patrol Spanish coasta..
The Four Year Pinn, agricultural exhibitions, "Fight Waste" campaigas. food laws and marketing decrees are some of the measures used by the Government to make ends meet under the present restrictions on Imported foodstuffs and insufficient home pro- duction. is "The Community before the In- The National Socialist érved
dividual," and groceries are appor tioned accordingly.
BUTTER AND GUNS Now that every soldier has got his gun, every citizen is to have his butter but only a certain amount: for housewives must register the number; of mouths they have to feed at their local grocer's, and may only pur-j chase rationed amounts of bulter and fals at this shop alone. If they get real cream they are exceedingly for tunate, fur after olive oil this is the rarest liquid in the country.
LOST EYE
"AT 24
ΑΤ I'M OLD"
Heywood, Lancashire, July 15.
"TM only 21 but I'm like
an old woman, I've lost the desire to do all the things that any ordinary girl does. I don't want to dance, I don't want to go to the films. Why, I even don't want to read."
"They were always together and Mrs. Edmunds would not even go shopping unless her husband went ipo."
A note in Mrs. Edmunde's writing. left in the house, leaves a pathetic ¦ record of her devotion-"Jim cut his
throat so I have killed myself."
MUSEUM MAY BUY £250,000
LIBRARY
Valued by one collector at £250,000, the Ashley Library-
Newspapers inform shoppers daily,
Miss Kathleen Gibson, aged which comprises some of the what food to buy nad how to prepare 24, of Healey-avenue, Heywood, greatest treasures in rare books
most economicaly and tastefully made this statement 10 and manuscripts-may be Radistes, rhubarb, asparagus, fish and night after hearing Judge Cros-
ac-
cheese have occupied the preferred thwaite al Bury County Court/quired by the British Museum.
list so far this year.
order that her compensation of The library is probably the finest Radio and film propaganda con- 19s, a week for the loss of an eye private collection in existence and stantly remind their audiences that while at work should be reduced to belonged to the lale, Mr. T. J. Wise, too much fat is "unhealthy," that it is. 7d. # week.
the bibliographer, of Hampstead, is a duty to the Fatherlandi lo cal fish,{ The Unity Ring Mill, Heywood, N.W. save scraps and eat vegetables instead had asked for the termination of the of meat. The new "science" of compensation paid Miss Gibson. nutrition may easily be understood it was stated that a broken driving if one knows, for example, that the she was having her luncheon.
Bell struck the girl in the eye while
[elty of Munich with 750,000 inhabi- iants slaughtered only 65 head of beef on one day.
It is learned that, in accordance with his will, the executors are for negotiating with the museum the library by the museum trustees at a price lower than the collector's eslimate of £230,000.
It is possible that the raising of the
"I consider. Miss Gibson han Ruffered a terrible injury and a mast grievous tom." said Judge Crosthwaite. "But she has got to make the best of it. I beg of her purchase noney may be the subjec! to realise that I think there is a of a statement by the trustees with-
lot of work she could do,"
"HE IS VERY PATIENT"
In the next few weeks.
MUST REMAIN INTACT
Another illustration of the economy drive is the latest campaign in Nurem- berg, where housewives are being. urged by the Nazis to purchase special retuse cans, at from 7 to 12 shillings per can, and put their food scraps into them. The contents of the cans are to do everything I can, but you must Muscum should have the first offer collected and given to pigs. Nazis realise it is very difficult" Miss at the low valuation he named, Mr. Gibson said to-night. "NO onc hope to feed 4,000 extra pigs yearly knows what I have gone through as
Wise insisted that the library should in Nuremberg by this method.
PRICES STABLE
"I am ready to go back to work,
In stipulating that the British
a result of that accident. It has remain intact--whatever the form of taken a lot of the joy out of life... its disposal,
I just don't feel like galety, any The catalogue of the collection,
Children in schools are alven more." written tasks on the Four Year Plan, The Bavanian Teachers' Journal published one such theme, written by
| an eight-year-old pupil last week.
compiled by Mr. Wibe, runs into 11
I asked Miss Gibson about her volumes. Among the possessions of sweetheart's attitude. "Well, he just the library are a first edition of
does sot go to the pictures now and
he does not go to dances," she said. Gray's "Elegy," "wrote in a church- "Now we collect bones in school. At "Ho-knows how I feel about it and yard," and one of the two copies of hema I look for all the bones I can he isn't keen onyhow. Ho is very Shelley's first edition of "Queco And. My mother puts them in a ploce patient."
Mab,"annotated by the poat.
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