THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1938.
ACQUITTED WIFE GOES TO CONVENT
"Playing With Gun, Shot Man I Loved"
Hawkshead, Lancashire, Jan. 7.
Following her acquittal here to-day, beautiful 29- year-old Mrs. Mary Evelyn Dillon, wife of an army officer, who unwittingly shot dead her lover in a Windermere boathouse-bungalow on Christmas day, is, I learn to- night, staying in a convent, says a correspondent.
There she intends to stay for the next few days until .she can decide on her future.
As she walked to her seat behind
Her husband, Major T. A. slowly in. She wore a simple blue Dillon, of the Duke of Wel-hot pulled well down on one side lington's Regiment who, just of her pale face, and a smart swagger back from Malta, stood surety camel-fair coat over her blue dress. for her when she was first her counsel, Mr. W. G. Morris, she
·charged—is remaining in Bolton, took a quick glance at the table He was not in court to-day containing the "exhibits." She shud- when the Hawkshead magised her eyes away,
dered almost imperceptibly and turn- trates took three minutes to find As the case went on she closed her her Not Guilty of feloniously eyes and hung her head. Then her killing her companion in the lunce strayed buck the table with
which it was stated she had been his grim reminders of the party at
'so happy."
boat-house, John Smith, aged 26, of Culcheth, Warrington, brother-in-law of the late Sir There was a book on motor-boat George Holden, the cotton meing by Sir Malcolm Campbell- magnate.
Smith was keen on the sport-a bottle of wine, a syphon of soda, an
"I MUST HAVE TIME "
"It should be made clear," said Mr. H. J. Parham, for the Director of Public Prosecutions, "that not only are the prosecu tion unable to disprove the story that Mrs. Dillon has told, but also the circumstantial evidence completely confirms it.” Mrs. Dillon heard the decision with a trembling smile, and then hurried from the court to private room.
"I am very relieved it is all over," she told me. "Or my future plans I can nothing; I must have time to think.
say
"All I can say now is that am very grateful for all kindness and consideration have received since tragedy."
lamp, which it the picturesque old bout-house. Propped against the table was n double-barrelled. gun which belonged to Smith.
ASKED HER TO FIRE
Mr. Parhom said that Smith was joint-tenant of the boathouse bunga-: law, and Mrs. Dillon and Smith were there alone.
At 1.38 .m. Mrs. Dillon ran to the house of a caretaker and said Smith was dend. She made a number of
statements, telling how Smith asked a her to fire his gun at the ceiling.
She did so, and he pointed the end of the gun towards himself and asked her to fire
Not knowing it was loaded, Mrs. Dillon did so and Smith fell back shot.
Running shoeless, to neighbours, I she erled: "I loved him so, I loved him so.
the
the
While Mrs. Dillon rested crowds waited outside to see her leave. A woman was escorted from the court, "smuggled" into a car and driven away. covered by a rug
But it was not Mrs. Dillon. drove away an hour later.
She
Her father, who lives at Holme Slack, Preston. told me to-night:
"I knew that everything would be cleared up. I have profound faith in her. My wife is away with her on is trying to help her to forget this terrible business.
"They are not coming back to Preston. All I care about is the fact that her name is cleared."
Although 100 people were packed in the tiny village court, there was not a sound as Mrs. Dillon walked
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EX-COLONEL'S WIFE
IN JAIL BLUNDER
Wrong Man's Record Sent To Her
London, Jan. 19.
THE governor of Pentonville will be asked by the wife of an imprisoned man for an explanation of one of the strangest jail blunders of recent times,
Hosts To Society Caravan
The most luxurious big- game hunting tour ever planned will be undertaken by a party of 20 sportsmen who left Britain for India recently.
Fourteen rajahs and malha- rajahs will entertain the big- game hunters in the course of their, tour.
.
Rosita Forbes, explorer and author, will be social hostess to the party.
The guests will have to pay only travelling expenses-llner to India, ¡special trains, ueroplanes, fleets of motor-cars. And the travelling ex- penses will cost each of the parly 750 guineas.
In the party will be Sir Keith and Lady Fraser, Slr Orme and Lady Clarke, Lord Sempli, Sir Herbert and Lady Chyzer, and Mr. Richard Falrey. There will also be one or two Frenchmen.
"I shall be guide, philosopher, and friend to the party, Miss Forbes (Mrs. Arthur McGrath) told the Sunday Chronicle.
TIGER HUNT THRILL
All the glamour of India will be Inid at their fect.
But there will be adventure and danger as well as luxury.
One of the highlights of the tour will be shooting tigers with 60 royal elephants in Cooch Behur.
The party will also go tiger shoot- in the forbidden innd of Nepal,
ing Delective Chief Inspector James
Early in the week the thirty-four-months later. There is no similarity where few people are allowed to go. Duncan, a finger-print expert from year-old wife of ex-Colonel James in the names,
One of the unforgettable spec- Preston, said that linger-prints on the Christie, who is serving a sentence
Mrs. Christie Ilves in a large tacles for the party will be a "lied- un proved that Smith was holding of twelve months for fraud, wrote prisoner's record shows that at the in Mysore.
house in Hampstead; the other daha round-up of wild elephants the barrel towards him.
Through most of the bearing Mrs.to the governor for information time he was convicted he had no Dillon had stared straight before her. about his release.
At this stage she turned away and
looked through the court windows. Mrs. Dillon was employed in Pres- ton when she met her husband about
ye years ago.
ten
They were married at St. Gregory's Roman Catholic Church, Preston. Mrs. Dillon went with her husband
CX-
Instead of the reply she pected Mrs. Christie was sent the criminal record and full particu- lars of another prisoner, serving six months' hard labour for steal ing.
was
On trips into the jungle, members fixed abode and that he
an of the party will live in shooting Army reservist.
camps representing a city of can- Mrs. Christle is going to see the vas. Each camp contains a bedroom, governor to-day. She is distressed sitting-room, bathroom, that the information, she asked about and a miniature garden. her husband may have been sent to somebody else.
HAS SEEN HIM ONCE
Preston and took a poultry business. ated in to India. Later she returned to
Ex-Colonel Christie will be ber- She has seen him only once since few weeks. The date he was convicted in April. That She and Major Dillon have one given on the document for the other was while he was in the hospital child, a son.
prisoner's release is about three ward. He asked, her no to meet him while he was serving his sen- tence, to spare her the ordeal of rne- ing him in prison clothes.
Gondoliers In
Venice
Need Skates To-day
Rome.
The canals und lagoons of Venice are freezing hard as the cold spell continues throughout Italy.
branches were strong enough to stop the fall of the car and hold it and its passengers about 3011.
from the ground
verandah,
Babies Lose
Their Names
In The Wash
When ex-Colonel Christie is set at berty he will accompany his wife; to the south of France Mrs Christie Intends to open a beauty parlour in St. James's. S.W.. with the help of woman friend.
While her husband has been
Nine babies may be growing Ave visits Pentonville be has bad from Chinese offlelats. He
up to be somebody else, accord- fold 21 fellow-prisoner who was released a ing to the Rev. J. W. Wilkinson,
in
Committee.
.
few days ago that he intended to one of Erith's representatives on For two hours the passengers re-arrange for a consigument of arms the Dartford Public Assistance nuined in the car not daring to move at present held up in Hamburg to A tug had to act as lee-breaker for fear that they would crash to the reach China. last night to rescue two barge hands ground.
He hopes then to go to China him- He told a Belvedere audience that who were trapped on board their. Finally, farmers arrived with ropes self-he wan formerly vessel when it was jammed in the and ladders and succeeded in bring-general-to take
Chinese these nine bables were brought to with the the Poor Law institution from an ing them to the ground in safety. Government forces.
Institution in another part of the county."
Ice.
Snow has fallen heavily in Steily, and lies on the slopes of Mount Etna for the first time for many years.
In Northern Italy, near Berga- Dont's masco, the Bremba current has
frozen, forming a column of lee over
120ft. high.
Near Novara, four motorists had
an astonishing escape from death.
For Doctors
And Their
Their car skidded on a bead or WHEN you go to a doctor:-
arms
Patients
Tied to the leg of each one was u label with the name and other parti- culars of identification.
On arrival the babies were crying lustily. They were fed and put into clean clothing.
In the process the labels became
an ice-covered mountain road. DON'T tell him what Dr. So-and-So said about you, detached and, in consequent, no one went over the edge of a precipice, especially if he was foreign.
and fell 60ft, right slic up Into the top of x tall tree whose
Norma Shearer Happy Again
Hollywood. Norma Shearer, who said when her husband, Irving Thalberg, the film producer, died in September last year that she (could never work again, goen be- fore the cameras next week to star in "Marie Antoinette."
11.
And she is exelted and happy about
"It scems," she sald, "that
DON'T show him all your old X-ray negatives.
knew which baby was which,
Endeavours were made ta them, said Mr. Wilkinson, and he
DON'T expect him to be interested in all your former hoped they had succeeded.
reports.
>
This advice is given by one of the King's physicians, Sir Maurice Cussi- dy, in The Lancet.
He says that three out of every ten patients brought to him in con- sultation suffer purely from "nerves." But they do not now get as angry as they used to when told this.
HITLER PLANS
NEW PLEBISCITE
sort
"The babies were being brought; from Chathum," the Dartford re- Having oflcer said. "When they
arrived at Dartford their clothing; was changed.
"Some of the labels attached to their ankles fell off and their Men- tities were mixed up.
"We had to send for somebody from Chatham to identify the
Hitler is to hold a plebiscite carly) this spring to try to prove to
children, the
A few kill think it something to world Germany's need for the return be ashamed of,
It is fashionable to-day to con-
foreign doctors.
suit
of her former colonies.
In previous plebiscites Hitler has;
'The babies were between four years and five months."
News
Mr. Wilkinson assured the
asked Germany to answer only one Chronicle that "the tangle was sorted o Bir Maurico belleves this to be a question: "Do you agree or not?" out satisfactorily in the end-that is,
At the next plebiscite he will ask as far as anyone can tell."
survival of witchcraft.
He also has
word to sny lo
I had to walk a long road before doctors.
ich I have missed them.
make
'I felt I could work again in pictures, They will not succeed, he says, un- but now I have started I realise how til they can
every patient very much
Jonve them looking ten years "I believe, I am doing the thing I younger. wishes me something
shouki
for support on five question:-
Reclaiming of colonies;
The Four Year Plan;
Further armament;
Religious controversies.
As the Nazi Government is certain
EMPIRE AIR SERVICE
Sydney,
of
Mr. H. V, C. Thorby, Minister for of an almost unanimous "yes" on all Dele ice, stung by allegations il-questions, a strong drive for colonies given a definite assurance that tcm- Governmental procrastination, has
may
to being prepared.
that everyone They should have themselves at
least one acute and one chronic me to do. "Playing the role of Marle An-ness, as well as major operation. toinette ja something I have often dis-
porary bases will be ready In April cussed, because it is a role I have
THEY CAN'T TAKE IT
USING THE RESULTS for the Empire' flying-boat service | always coveted. I feel I am keeping Here are some more "don'ts": Immediately after the plebiscite between Britain and Australia. tryst with my old self and that it "Never go into a patient's room colonial exhibitions, meetings and Capt. J. W. Burgess, chief pilot of will reunite us and submerge us in with your overcoat on. However lectures will be held to make the the ying-boat Centaurus, on arri the work we loved so well."
overworked and pressed
German people You
val at Port Darwin, Northern Ter- be, don't let him sense it."
"colony-conscious." The rezulla of the plebiscite will ritory, said that the available tem "Never sit on a patient's bed." be used by the Government to prove porary bases between there An "For heaven's sake, don't idly to Britain and France the immense Singapore were satisfactory enough. turn the pages of his newspaper public desire for 'colonies.
for an immediate extension of the while he pours out his tale of woe."
It is also expected that the "do-or-service to Port Darwin, The Ca- Sir Maurice agrees that doctors die" men of the secret anti-Hiller binet hos still not faced the problem make the most difficult patients.
party will try to mobilize a large of coming into line with Britain by -But they suffer more because they number of people to spoil the pro- carving the air mali to London át folways suspect the worst,
ordinary posinge rates,
Tyrone Power is playing the part of Count Axel de Fersen, the roman- the lead; it is the biggest of his career. Sidney Franklin is the director and Hunt Stromberg the producer. The Cast includes Robert, Morley
(as Louis XVI), Peter Bull, Maureen O'Sullivan, Cord Witherspoon, and Henry Stephenson.
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