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Rich Girl Gaoled For 8 Months On Manslaughter Charge
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By A Special Correspondent
Gloucester, Nov. 4.. BETTY HERMIONE DURANCE- CART- WRIGHT, wealthy joint Master of a Gloucester- shire pack of beagles, limped on her crutches from the dock at Gloucestershire Assizes this evening to face eight months' imprisonment in the 'second division. She is twenty-five.
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A jury acquitted her of the manslaughter of James Leslie Perry, motor- cyclist, and his mother, Mrs. Lilian Rachel Perry, pas- senger in his sidecar.
They found her guilty of dangerous driving, and of driving while under the In- fluence of liquor.
Mr. Justice Finlay passed sentence. He also suspended her driving licence for five years.
Crowds of women who had follow- ed the car in which earlier she whя' driven at a snail'e pace through Gloucester's harrow streets melted away from the prison gates.
MOTHER'S EVIDENCE Meanwhile another car drove nway from the Shire Hall to Greystones, Rodborough Common. Miss Carl-
Tootsie Gorcja a recent winner in
· 1937.
wright's home, fourleen miles away, the Telegraph" Children's Competi-
It contained elderly Mrs. Marie tion. (Photogem Studio).
Louisa Cublit, the girl's distraught by the verdich
mother.
Mra. Cubitt, earlier in the after- noon, had told the judge and jury that her daughter smoked far too much and began to smoke too soon, but she had never seen her under the influence of drink.
While the jury were out consider- ing their verdlet-it took them forty minutes the dock, which Miss Cart- wright continued to occupy, sembled a box at an opera house.
The buzz of hundreds of people chattering and speculating on the re- sults of the case, both in the public gallery and the well of the court, was
deafening.
Miss Cartwright herself joined in the chatter, while the two women prison officers sat silent behind her,
Mrs. Cubitt opened the wooden door of the dock and sat with her daughter for a few minutes. She produced a vanity case, powdered her nose, then returned to her seat near by,
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Girl Writes
To Hitler
'Please Free Mummy'
A postcard from Warsaw addressed in a childish scrawl to "Mr. Hitler. Germany," which bears the words, "Please set my mummy free Dzidzła Countess Wielopolsen," has arrived at the Reich Chancellery, but it is unlikely to have reached Herr
Hitler's' desk..
It was written by the six-year-old daughter of 28-year-old Countess Octavle Boregia Wieloplaca, arrested by Gestapo secret police in the Warsaw-Paris express two months
ogo.
Every
Then Mr. Geoffrey Saunders, tall, black-moustached friend of Miss
German lawyer asked to Cartwright, who had said that he defend her refuses at once on hearing of that it is a "foreign spy case," with- was the purchaser of a bottle whisky and, a bottle of ginger wine out even waiting to be given names found in her car after the accident, and details. leaned on the dock rails, talking to
the girl.
Other women friends spoke to her.
The jury returned.
Mias Cartwright, pale, tight lipped,
WIDOW SAVED
stood on her crutches, supported by FROM SUTTEE
the two women prison ofileers.
OPERATION PLEA
She listened expressionless as the foreman reiterated the word "Guilly."
on
Intervention By Two Europeans
Then her counsel pleaded for M postponement of the sentence while Miss Cartwright underwent
Prompt Intervention by two operation for her broken leg. (The British officials saved the life of an accident occurred while she was play-Indian woman who was about to ing golf in Ireland.)
commit suttee at Tatie, There was a pause. The judge held Cawnpore (United Province).
a long whispered consultation with the governor of Gloucester Gaol.
Then he turned to the girl in the dock, Again Miss staggered to her crutches.
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Overwhelmed with grief at the death of her husband she was about to mount the funeral pyre on which Cartwright his body lay when Mr. L. Owen, fect on her Collector, Cawnpore, and Mr. G. A. Pearce, superintendent of police,
The judge addressed her: "Now, arrived. Betty Cartwright. This, you musti Despite her tearful protests, the know yourself and you are quite widow was persuaded to leave the Intelligent enough to know -is pyre, and the interrupted funeral a most serious thing.
rites were resumed without further "You have been found guilty by incident.
the verdict of n Gloucestershire jury not
only of driving your, car to the danger
of the public, but also of driving under the influence of drink. This is a mest grave thing for
a young girl brought up in your
conditions, with your education and
your background."
Human Hair Goes Into Rugs
Berlin.
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He spoke of the pica that sheit is, cut clipped or shaven from a should be operated on before sho Nazi head during the next year, will went to prison. Then he went on:- go into the manufacture of carpets, "I propose to sentence you in spite felt, and roofing material. This is of that.
Germany's latest plan for conservitig "It would indeed be wrong if the raw materials. sentenco I am about to pass in any
way jeopardised your well being.
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"In cases of this sort the Secre-debarred from driving motor-car tary of State will either sive direc-] for 3ve years. The licence of this tion that a prisoner may be sent year will be endorsed in
a proper out to a hospital for the purposes manner,"
nā.
of the operation, or in the mirable hospitals of Ills Majesty's Miss Cartwright was stated to have prisons an operation may be per- drunk three cocktails and a gin and formed."
French between 6 and 7, half a glass. Mr. Justice Finlay's final words of hock cup during dinner, and two were an afterthought. "You will be liqueur brandies after dinner,
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