THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH. ⠀ MONDAY, ¡JANUARY 3, 1938.
"Death-Ray" Inventor Who Suicided Called Her "Little Princess"
WOMAN ENDED 6-WEEKS FRIENDSHIP
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"I'm Not Fooling,' Desperate Threat
By A Correspondent
Clacton.
BEAUTIFUL, twenty-six-
year-old Mrs. Rachel Kureen gave evidence at the inquest here to-night on Charles Sidney Way, "death- ray" inventor, who shot himself in a seafront shelter recently. He had called her "Little Princess," had left A note: "Good-bye, little princess, I have kept my promise."
Mrs. Edith Grant, of Crans- tonroad, Forest Hill, London. Way's sister, gave evidence,
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When, sobbing, she asked Mrs. Kureen If she accompanied Way Mediterranean cruise, Mrs. Kureen #pve an emphatic denial. "You did, you did, he showed us a photograph just after he got back." shouted Mrs. Grant.
Mrs. Kureen, of Vicarage-gardens, Clacton, proprietress of the Majestic Hotel, Clacton, told how she broke off six-week friendship with Way when she found he was married, had children.
A few minutes before Way shot himself in the seafront sheller he called to her, "I am not fooling:! I am serious this time.”
She told the coroner: "I was go- ing into the hotel where I
was
staying... . He told me to go in- side. I was nervous, jumped into my car and drove to my home at the I knew he had a gun, but did town. not hear a shot fired."
CUMBERLAND'S SAILORS AT HAPPY FUNCTION
SWASTIKA-BRANDED JEW IN
VARSITY "RAGS"
U. S. Scholar Vows Vengeance
New York.
RAGGING of freshmen at Delaware. University
was banned for ever recently by the student coun-
cil, shocked at the branding of a swastika sign on the face of a Jewish undergraduate, Joseph Holz-
man.
University officials pushed their inquiry, into the branding | as Holzman, his face swathed in bandages, swore vengeance from a hospital bed.
Mrs. Grant said of her brother: "He, had no permanent address. He used to travel about. Ite was nl- ways unsettled. He was married and had a nine-year-old daughter, but was living apart from his wife.
"For years he had been living Doctors, said they toured he would with
Mabel Barker, and had be marked for Ile Miss two children by her, one of them swastika. being born in a nursing home at Clacton three months ago. Five weeks ago he came home from a cruise in the Mediterranean."
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Ilay Hecht, another freshman. who was marked on the face with silver nitrate, but not in the form of a swastika, returned to hospital to-day for treatment,
'DRASTIC ACTION'
I WAS SHOCKED' The coroner said Mrs. Way had j telegraphed _thut_she_would reach i
The student council, frightened-by- Clacton Inter in the evening, but he
Dean George Dutton's threat to lid not intend to adjourn for her. He recorded a verdict of Suicide hound the branders out of the uni- while the balance of the mind was versity, disturbed."
After the inquest, Mrs. Kureen, parted from her husband and using her maiden name, said to me: "Way came to my hotel at the end of He stayed there
voted to abolish all "rat rules," under which freshmen -arc of fire tu inillated by a baptism secret clubs and fraternities.
Dean Dutton, who in charge of
sald investigation. faculty
Madhouse For 23 Years, Says Bishop
-THE WORLD
London, Nov. 22. According to the Bishop of for two weeks, he had discovered the names of the Chelmsford, Dr. Henry Wilson, tried to pay me so much attention undergraduates who engineered the the world has been mad for the that I told him to leave. Afterwards brandings, and promised. drasle
July the
he was 'phoning me continually, and action within a few days. still came to the hotel for his meals,
"Our friendship lasted for six The Jewish Club at the university weeks. Then I learned that he was held a long meeting this morning.
married
und had children.
I was and voted action on their own shocked. I wanted to have nothing count. more to do with him. He had toki me of his 'death-ray' and of his dis- appointment with "
to me: "MY PARENTS SUE DOCTOR SON .
He
Mrs. Grant said brother told me that he was desper ately in love with Mrs. Kureen, that he could not live without her. spent all his time in Clacton, forgot his wife and Miss everything but Mrs.
forgot
At the nursing home opposite the police station, where Way's baby son was born three months ago, the matron said: "Way told me of his
Seek Return Of Education Costs
death ras, that he had two yachts, WE INVESTED £1,603
that he flew to the Continent twice a week. Once he showed me a bunch of noles, sald: There's £300 here."
MAULED BY LION THAT KILLED EX-RECTOR Showman's Escape
• Manchester. Freddle, the lion, which In flicted fatal
wounds оп Mr. Stiffkey in July, has mauled Mir. T. Mann. 32, of Milnrow Road, Shaw. Lancashire.
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San Francisco. A curious suit brought by the parents of Dr. John Driscoll against their son for the repay- ment of sums they "Invested" in beeis his medical carcer Jas settled amicably. Mes. Driscoll told Judge Parker that when Dr. Driscoll reached the nge of 21 she and her husband elded to devote their savings to his medical education. They mortgaged their house and kept a detailed re- count of everything they spent him, including purchases of
clothing and other items of "tel" rent him at his university.
wn! £1,003.
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And
Dr.
Mr. Mann owns the "Wonderland" fun-fair in Oxford Road, All Saints, Manchester. Freddie and his mate The toinl Toto, owned by a Skegness man, Driscoll, who was now 30 and em- have been exhibited there for a ployed by San Francisco's emergency fortnight:
Hospital service, had displayed
suggested Mr. P. Mellin, of Grosvenor Road, enthusiasm when it was Skegness, organiser of the exhibition that the time had come for him 10 at "Wonderland," wald: "Mr. Mann repuy it.
went into the cage to try to win R
a
corner,
Tho jutro insisted that A compromise should be sought, saying: "Tko lle that binds a family is one of the most precious things in the world."
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bet. He was in it about 10 minutes, posed for a photographer and was just leaving when Freddle, who had been sitting quietly In sprang Him.
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lion caught Mr. Mann's art, After niuch discussion It WAB clawed it, and ripped the coal sleeve, ngrood that the son should give his Mr. Manajiped for the door, which parents a monthly allowance and pay X closed." He received bruises and off the mortgage by instalments. -shock, and was medically attended at The judge convinced mej” stated His homa, 1The exhibition=wan; not | Mrs. Driscoll, that blood is "thicker "goën to the pubile at the time.” This water
last 23 years.
In his Diocesan Magazine, he says: "The world has never recovered its sanity since the war broke out and
the madness is now at its height,
The new Viceroy of Ethiopia, the Duke of Aosta, is familiar with con- ditions in Africa, where he has spent many-years-The-above-photograph- was taken in Libya, another Italian possession in Africa,
DR. BARNES SAYS WE ́MAY BEAT
OLD AGE
"The most conspicuous evidence of this is the state of Europe and faslu, DR. BARNES, Bishop of Birming ham, recently talked to chemists but the moral upset is seen not only in Birminghurn about "modifying
in world politics, but also in almost the onset of time." He said:
every realm of thought,
"The
so-called 'New
"What would we not give to un- morality, derstand why it is that we grow old, most truly described as really "the why it is that the arteries harden uld immorality". is challenging the and the lungs lose their old resi-
Hence? Christian ideals of personal purity und marital sanctity."
"It is indeed a
a moral squint, which puts bad in the place of good. It is.
We are iseen in many forms of art.
Invited to admire a statuary which
portrays figures with the face oth
scen
"It seems to be something in the nature of things, and may-
combination be, by some
of chemistry, man will learn how to modify the onset of time.
"Your analysis is ultimately an gargoyle and the body of an ape with its timbs dislocated, It ly
in analysis of matter, but it is carried iterature. I believe that these works through by mind, and we are al- of art and iterature, which I often ways conscious of the intimate way think have been perpetrated within which our minds are bound up tongue in cheek are the products of with the working of our bodies, a debased standard of values and in-
Understand the latter and possi- dientive of a definite swing towards a bly we shall be a stage nearer to lew moral level."
| understanding how we think.
Tommy Farr Misses His
Sister's Wedding
Tommy Farr, the British champion, who is in London, lifted the telephone receiver recently to hear his 22-year-old sister, Sally, tell him she had just been married.
The wedding had taken place at Slough Register Office, and Tommy was the first person in the family to hear the news.
The bridegroom was Mr. Norman Mackenzie Black, aged 29, an orchid'specialist, of Middle Green, Wexham, near Slough,
The wedding was by special licence, and only two persons, apart from the bride and bridegroom, were present.
They were Mr. George Nennelt, proprietor of the training camp where Farr prepared for 15 honvy-weight fights, and his son, Mr. G. E. Bennett.
Tommy was delighted to hear the news, but told his sister hd. was sorry she had not informed him earlier, so that he could be present,
HMS. Cumberland's Christmas Party, held in the China Fleet, was Joyous affair, largely attended by friends of the crew.-Kwong Lum Photo.
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