THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1937.
Girl Of 17 Escapes Suitor's
Page boys bobs and other up- to-the-minute hair-dos that add to feminine beauty, these days were not considered when Mrs. Anna Kelter of Warsaw, Poland, shown above with her husband, visited Paris one fine morning recently, Mrs. Kelter wears her hair right down to her shoes. Parisians stared open-mouthed at her when they first saw her braided Iresses.
Freak Bolt Strikes
Colorado Springs, Col.
Plot To Kill Her
DRAMA ENDED
ENDED BY 1.30 a.m. SHOT
PLEA OF GUILTY
TO MURDER
Appeal By Judge Professor Takes To
at
Rejected
Trailer
Berkeley, Cal. The #lik Athenlan school of
London, Nov. 16. peripatette philosophers soon may be A young ex-policeman in-succeeded by the trailer school, Dean Guy 5. Mlfberry of the school of sisted, at the Devon Assizes, dentistry has been obliged to pur- Exter yesterday, upon chase a trailer to meet the constant pleading, guilty to murder demands made on him for lectures. despite an urgent appeal to him by Mr. Justice Hawke to
started when his wife ran away from reconsider his decision. him. He thought the world of her. Within a few minutes he was
The statement then described how sentenced to death. Hebe went to Exeter and met Miss showed no sign of emotion. Bennett, whom the previously knew. He is Ernest John Moss; 20, a taxi-They took lodgings at Ilfracombe, and cab driver, of Ilfracombe, and once then he rented a bungalow at Woo-
In this he said that the trouble
lacombe.
constable stationed at Brixham. He was accused of the murder of Kitty Judge: You should know that there Constance May Bennett, 18, of Myrtle- may be some doubt about your mentul rond, Exeler, at a bungalow at Woo-condition at the time. Do you not tacombe, North Devon, on Aug. 7 by think you had better plead not guilty striking her on the head with a gun. and let this trial proceed on such)
Moss, a married man, and the girl inquiry as arises in it?
I make that had been staying on holiday at Woo-appeal to you to do so because there lacombe. On Aug. 7 Moss asked a may be aspects of this matter which policeman in lfracombe to accom-will not arise if you persist in your pany him to a house in Highfield-plea. terrace as he wished to make a state- ment in the presence of his wife,
"I See Her Face
Everywhere..
DEEPLY in love with a seventeen-year-old girl, William Fuller, forty-five-year-old cafo manager and former ship's bo'sun, found his suit rejected. He planned to murder her. His plans went wrong.
A few hours later-at 1.30 a.m. one-day last month -he shot himself in a quiet street near the girl's home in Canning Town, E.
The sound of the revolver shot hand through the hole in the par- echoed through the street. Nonetillon. Something in the hand glis- of the neighbours opened a door, the glow of an electric torch nearly tened. Then, further away, he saw or pulled back a curtain to look. pen They thought it just another THERE'S AN ARMED-MAN HERE* fire-work.
March shouted to the girl on the But two police officers say stairs: "Go back, there's an armed the tragedy. They had chas-nup here." Then he ran upstairs ed Fuller from 'Rendel-road, and round to the back of the pre- mises. He found the warehouse 150 yards away, where for door bolted on the inside. He called hours he had lurked outside the police.
The first one she opened said:--
Dear Violet,-You are the lucki- est girl in England. To-day you have looked twics down the muzzle of a revolver. You have only the police thank for saving you by half an hour.
the home of Helen Violet) By the time the police had arrived the warehouse door was unlocked. Malden.
There was no une inside. A few minutes later some one? At 7 p.m., shurtly after Miss Maiden letters from called nut to Helen, "There's no need arrived home, three
Fuller were pushed through the front to worry any more."
Her frightened family, who had door.
the end of this watched all but drama
from the corners of un- lighted windows, then undid the lock Mass: 1 still wish to plead gulity.of the front door.
Within an hour Fuller had died. sentence, Passing
Mr. Justice
On the maiden voyage of the Blue Hawke said: "It may be you think There he said: "You had better that by taking the course you are Star liner, Australia Star, Willian arrest me for the murder of Kitty making some sort of expiation; that Fafter become friendly with James Bennett." At the police station he you may have in your mind some Williams, another member of the said he intended using a revolver on idea that what you have done will crew. Fuller, on his return, decided himself, but did not do so as it "took enable you to have mercy hereafter." to give up the sea. He went to stay
with Williams' mother. Thut "Thank you, my lord," said Moss. about two years ago. some doing."
Until comparatively recent years a judge rarely accepted a plea of guilty alto a charge of murder, The usual practice was to enter a plea of not guilty and proceed with the trial.
A freak lightning storm on the sum mit of Pikes Peak ripped off Arthur STATEMENT READ IN COURT Vandenberg's jucket and scorched
When Moss appeared before paper on which Rex Edwards, a tele- grapher, was writing. Neither was magistrate at Barnstaple a statement
Imade by him was read, injured by the bolt.
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He obtained employment at a cafe, quickly became the manager, and about eighteen months ago he took Helen Maiden on to the staff.
for I was going to wait
five o'clock when you went down the basement to get your clothes. I was going to shoot you through the opening. then shoot myself.
In the second letter he told how he had tried to shoot her through the floor.
In
August this
Helen year,
The third contained ten pages, in Maiden's sweetheart was killed in
collision between his motor-which he told of his love, his "hope-
less passion." cycle and a lorry.
ס
Fuller went home, collected an armful of flowers from the garden to give to Helen for the funeral. A few days later he confessed to Mrs. Williams: "I love that girl with nil my soul."
Motherly Mrs. Williams told him. "Don't be foolish, man. You're old enough to be her father."
Fuller was told practically the same thing a few weeks later by Mrs. Annie Muiden, Helen's mother. """CANNOT LIVE-WITHOUT-HER
In the meantime, Fulier had lost his work through drink. He said he Look it in desperation because of the hopelessness of his love.
Then, by sending a false message, Fuller managed to meet Mrs. Malden na street not far from her home. He was agitated, trembling. Tears streamed down his face.
"I cannot live without the kid," he aid. "My brain is throbbing.
"Everywhere I go 1 see her face.
I mucks me always.
"Sometimes I sleep. I dream am back on the ship. But when I go to the hold there is her face looking up at me, laughing. I breaks my dream.
“I get up and go in the garden and die. trying to forget her. There, under my spade, I see her face laughing, laughing."
He went on: "Why can't I have
The girl and her mother and
the contents father, frightened by
of the letters, decided to call the the police. They locked through front window, saw the figure of a man lurking near. It was Fuller.
After a time he came Into the Jopen, paraded up and down outside the house. The girl and her purents dared not venture out.
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Eventually, while Fuller શાક standing only four doors away. small bay left the house to telephone for help.
When Fuller saw the police he ran away. The policemen were only two yards from him when he shot him- self through the hend,
Girls Must Not Powder
Noses
Five hundred girls employed nt a not Mansfield radio factory must
with arrive at their workbenches powder or rouge on their faces. Their employer, A. H. Whiteley, ex- plaining the ban, sald that was im posed not for puritanical reasons, but for technical ones.
her? Love is on my side, but I can't Striker Stays Up Tree
get her to understand that."
"It's
Mrs. unreasonable," said Maiden. "Remember your years."
"It shouldn't be impossible," said Fuller, "I'm only forty."
Mrs. Maiden relented, invited him to Sunday ten. After the meal Helen played the plano. Fuller sat silent, watching her.
The invllation was not repeated. Fuller lost hope,”
On Sunday he decided to mur- der the girl.
With a key he let himself into the 'back of a small warehouse that ad-
joins the cafe.
Threatening to shoot anyone who approached him, a "stay-up" striker, armed with a shotgun, defied for 24 hours attempts to dislodge him from a 110-foot forestry observation tower
near Mornington, Western Austraila,
“Bulldog" Attacking
Antelope
James Emmett of Greybuli, attack- ed by an antelope he had wounded, shelf he
used rodeo technique to "bulldog" the antelope much as a cowboy does a steer. He subdued the animal, killed it and brought the head home as a trophy.
Climbing on to a high bored two holes in the floor of the cafe. One was near the place where Helen Maiden would stund to pour out tea. The other was near where she would stand to use the till.
In the wooden partition between the storeroom and the basement of the cafe, where Helen always hangs ber coat, he cut a hole as bigt ne a saucer.
On Monday afternoon ho ге farried to the warehouse. lfe sat on the shelf in the dark, walling, revolver la band, He peeped up through the little hole over his head, saw the girl, and put the barrel of his service revolver up to the boards. ・・・
At that moment Helen Malden moved her foot, and stumbled. Then the saw the hole in the floor.
Helen called the other altendant, Mr. Frederick March, showed him the hole, and also told him that she had seen something, move near the partition downstairs.
·March" went down, switched on the light. For as second he saw t'man's -
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