THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,
NOVEMBER 23, 1937.
THEY FOUND A POLITE NAME FOR MURDER Girl's "I Shot To Save My Honour": Men Claim Right To Kill
MAKING "WHOOPEE"
AT U.S. TRIALS
Kentucky Belles Crowd Judge From Bench
By Lionel G. Short.
New York, Oct. 24.
Murder was politely called by another name in two American States-New Jersey and Kentucky-to-day.
Twenty-years-old Margaret Dren-j nan, still a schoolgirl, was tried at New Brunswick, Now Jersey, for the shooting of Paul Reeves, a inarried man and the father of two children. It was declared that Heeves hud assaulted Margaret whom he took out in his cor.
The defener was the familiar has a right to Woman cry "A defend her honour."
Margaret, it was stated, was about to become a mother, and her attorney pictured her as "a poor little crest- fallen country girl."
Shouting dramatically at the jury, he cried, "What else could she have done. What would you have your own daughter do."
JUDGE PROTESTS
Their swift verdict of "Not Guilly" caused the judge to protest that the unwritten law was not recognised in the State of New Jersey,
The acquittal was erected with the wildest cheers from specta- tors, who hicluded many school- girls,
The defence was that a man is en- titled to shoot in Kentucky in self- bul' no evidence WAA defence,
General brought forward that the was carrying, a spun.
The triat had more the appear- aner of a cock-tall party than a Court of Justice.
Nobody doubted what the verdle! would be.
LET'S CELEBRATE Friends of the two men packed the court, some of them crowding up on the Judge's bench,
Some of them
were Kentucky
belles who dungled their shapely legs before the eyes of the Jurors.
When it was announced that Judge Marshall dismissed the case against Jack and the jury freed Roy there was a burst of applause.
When it had subsided Mrs. Jack Garr walked down the, court shout- ing. "We will celebrate until the sun rises over our old Kentucky home."
Fugitive Pursues Sheriff
Kissimee, Fla.
There was one sad person in the court, the young widow of the man Margaret had killed, "Tel the truth for the sake of my children.” she pleaded, but Margaret, tossing back her head and laughing triumphantly. | telephone to surrender in connection walked from the court.
"I feel swell," was her parting re- mark.
SHOT GENERAL
In Shelbyville, Kentucky. two brothers, Roy and Jack Garr, were acquitted of the murder of Brigadier- General Denhardt, a former Lieu- tenant-Governor of the Slates
Denhardt was awaiting trini ໂດ the murder of the men's sister, Mrs.
Verna Taylor, when he WAS shot down in the streets,
Handy 1. Bourey tried for 24 hours to reach the sheriff's office here by
with a shooting case. He finally gave it up as a bad job and drove into town and gave himself up.
Shop Caters To Dogs
Miami, Fla.
While la Duchess staged in a hotel the Duke of Windsor, two hours after arrival in Berlin, was on his, way to visit the Stock machine works in Gruenewald, nearby. Above. Dr. Ro- bert Ley, Labour Front tender, points out interesting facts to the Duke. The factory employs 3,000 skilled men and women to make precision 100ls.
A War To End War
--American
Style
New York. powerful anaesthetic, devised exclu- Three American chemists have sively, by them to be used in place exposed before the American Chemi-of ordinary ammunition, and instead cal Society an Infallible system for of killing the enemy, would put them puting an end to all armed hostilities, all to steca..
Shanghai To-day
In Defence Of Curfew
(By Fanya Graham)
United Press Staf Correspondent
Stunghai, Nov. 19. Midnight, the one-lime "witching hour," now And Shanghailanders. who don't have curfew passes but who do have scruples about spending the night in gaol, at home or on the l wny there.
Midnight used to be the hour when parties guined new momentum und party-goers hastened by ricksha and automoblie from one night-club to another. But not slice the night of August 15.
When Japanese forces completely surrounded Shanghai in mid- November, there was talk of sus- pending curfew, of permitting Shanghailanders to be abroad be- tween the hitherto banned hours of 11.30 p.m. and 5 am. but the International Settlement and French Concession authorities derided 10 continue curfew indefinitely. Their reasons were the great numbers of refugees within the foreign areas, coupled with the danger of tooling and crime if Individuals were per mitted to wander about the streets of the darkened city unmolested.
Although many of Shanghai's party-minded playboys and brighter butterflies hud protested bitterly against curfew during the dangerous months of late summer and early autumn, when the Sino-Japanese hostilities were at their height in the Shanghai area, there was sur- prisingly little pretest at the decision of the authorities.
For Shanghai had not only become reconelled to its curfew, but just a Hitle proud of it. Parties had 'im- proved greatly, for there was no longer the feeling that the success of a celebration depended upon the length of its duration. No longer was it necessary to say boastfully the next morning, "We didn't get home until dawn!"
8.30
In all seriousness, the three inventors
After one of the adversaries had declared that after careful study of
the opponent A canine catering shop, supplying the problem, they believe the most intensely bombarded cellophane-wrapped meals for dogs, important point in any conflict was with these missiles. the front gramme might or might not include has been established here. For con wenlence, coupon books have been to render the enemy incapable of could go over to the enemy camp Therefore they with trucks, pick up the sleeping prepared for the payment for the doing any harm. service..
had invented a shell filed with warriors, and make them prisoners.
GORDON'S
SUGGEST
After each side had captured enough of their adversarica, the war WILS bound to end for lack combatants....
of
or
Festivities have been concentrated, with the usual evening out starting with an eight o'clock dinner-even earlier if you want to make the final p.m. motion picture. The pro- a visit to a second night-club cabaret-it usually doesn't for cele- brants are reluctant to spend pre- cloas pre-curfew moments en route. NO EXCUSE ACCEPTED Policemen have proved themselves surprisingly indifferent to alibis once midnight struck, They are lenient _enough,for_the_half-hour_between the offeral curfew and midnight, Then, both sides could exchange but after that, it is every late-goer prisoners, and start all over again. for himself. Curfew posses are de-
It is to be hoped that this suggestion and every trip home requires their manded at nearly every intersection
will receive full consideration.
display a half-dozen times or more.
Another reason for conscientious home-going is the fact that trans- portation
ta almost impossible
No rick- secure after 11.30 shus are available, for pullers not only don't have curfew passes but do have strong objections to being gacled and running the risk of losing their licences. Taxi-service is ir- regular, for fów chauffeurs have passes. And
Icarned one quickly that curfew pnss for one meant Just that, with no extras thrown in.
Night-club and cabaret proprietors co-operate with the police. Guests After four and a half years the are politely and firmly, but definite.
and decidedly persona
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DROP IN
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Member of Parliament for Backney, grata at 11.30 pm. or even earlier. No matter how jovial their mood, Journalist and financier, are in anbow generous their tips, the night- undertaker's chapel of rest in Mary-clubs is closed. Walters noisily stack the chairs, lights are turned low, Iebane, N.W-unelaimed.
neither the bar nor the kitchen is They are in an oakken um, in the open, the orchestra departs prompt- custody of Mr. E. Tarbuck, of Messrs.ly, and the would-be stay-up-laters
are on their way home.
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E. Tarbuck and Sun, funeral directors, Cleveland-street, W.
Mr. Tarbucks said.
to
"It was planned, I bellevc, scatter the ashes over
and give us the names
and addresses of those you wish to please WE WILL DO
THE REST.
to
Going to bed at midnight proved
to have its advantages. 1t meant plenty of time to sleep and plenty was required during the months of war hysterin. At first sleep was in- Bottomley's terrupted by bombing and chelling, lestato ut Upper Dicker, Sussex, und but even the lightest sleepers soon Became Inured to the loudest bom.
a woman friend said she would coll bardments. The splatter of shrapnel: and collect them.
and machine-gun bullets against nearby buildings began to resemble "But she has never called. They the patter of raindrops on the roof. are still in the chapel, grill, will res
Shanghai will soon be itself, ag nain there. It is not true to say with its brilliant neon-lighted [they may be thrown away..
Is
line, the lanterned Junks floating on
"I do not know where the woman the Whangpeo, its pleasure-pursuers
I have not seen her since the day abroad the "Paris of the Orien!" of the funeral. About two years ago merry-go-round, but there will be she telephoned saying ale would many who recall with nostalgin the come along as soon as she could to months when Shanghal was in the
the China Incident That was the krip of
take the us 25 away.
Jast I heard of her."
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