THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH,
FRIDAY, MAY
27, 1938.
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Student Had Split Mind BADCO
Says Doctor
"MURDER FANTASY"
Pamphlet on Sex Revealed
In Old Bailey Trial
"When I saw Phillips in prison, I asked him how he had been spending his time. To my astonishment he told me that up to the previous week he had been thinking how the crime might be done again in a more satisfactory fashion."
This is a passage from the sensational evidence given at the Old Bailey recently by Dr. Henry Yellowtees, the Harley-street mental specialist, at the trial of 21-years-old John Stanley Phillips.
A student at Wycliffe Hal Theological College, Oxford, Phillips Harold Matthews, a 16-years-old is charged with the murder of
After evidence for the prosecution had been pantry boy at the Hall. given and Mr. Norman Birkett, K.C. (for Phillips), had put forward the plen of "Guilty, but insane," Dr.
Yellowlees said that Phillips
was suffering from Schizophrenin-a split and crumbling mind.
Did he speak to you about thi He said that he would certify him
The crime?-Certainly. He expressed his insane. without besilation as
disease was marked by emotional in-¡ readiness to answer any question I difference.
His attendance at Communion and at a church service the day after the crime was typical of this disease, and
nly a sufferer from it could have! peted in that way
ENJOYABLE DRIVE"
The
Mr. Bickell real letters written by T'hilips while in Broxton Prison Irst to his parents read:
put to him about it, and be did 21 fact answer my questions without the slightest hesitation or any appearance of evasion.
Dr Yellowlees continued:
RIGHT AND WRONG "During the week before I hnd seen him he was beginning to feel that these proceedings might be an- noying and unpleasant, and the pos- Isible outcome was causing him some I asked him more about disturbance. "The drive from Oxfurd to Brix- I do not ton was quite enjoyable.
the crime, and he gave me a story like this place much yet compared which was simply a dream story in 1 am in hospital particular of what he proposed to do with Oxford.
It is all so was there, here us
"He hud proposed to get somebody different from Oxford prison. Much love to you all from John. PS.--1--the identity of the victim was of hope the dog proves satisfactory." no importance. He walked about the streets of Oxford in the hope of And- Dr. Yellowleen said that he thought a velim, I asked him if he
accosted anybody for the the letter was euinpletely conclusive, and that only a sufferer from this and he saht No. I asked him how disease could have written
he expected to flad anybody, and he was unable to give me any reply.
The letter to Mr. Food, his fellow student, contalaed this passage:
"I did not like Brixton Prison on first acquaintance. I like it better I went to the chapel service now.
<mly They have
one as here. against two at Oxford. The service did not rise to great belghts, the singing was not good, the preaching You are for us far as it wenL allowed to write one or two letters a day at the Government's expense. It is only in prison one realises where the tax-payers' money goes." Dr. Yellowlees said that this letter showed in an amazing degree the loss of power of feeling. It sometimes
purpose
"When he got the victim he ma gined, or played with the idea, of dismembering by taking off his arms and lege I at once suggested that even if it were possible, that would involve the death the victim. said No.
Не
"It never occured to him at the moment. Even now he thought, and for all I know still thinles, it could be done without death to the victim, He would then keep it in the trunk and play with it. If he left college. for a long time he would take it with him in a trunk."
During this interview, Phillips was
FINANCE MAGNATE GOES TO GAOL
Richard Whitney, former president of the New York Stock few Exchange, shown as he left the train at Ossining. N.Y., a minutes before Sing Sing prison's gote clunged shut behind him. mapacled to Allen Cain, a disbarred inwyer sentenced to one to three years for extortion, who hides behind an overcoat,
Whitney's term is five to ten years.
He
TWO BRITONS OFF ON
TREASURE QUEST
DECENTLY discovered caves in the wild Libyan mountains, which may hold the secret of lost diamond and emerald mines, are the destination of Mr. H. E. completely casual, offhand and slight-Symons and Mr. Haynes, who set out with their car for Indulgences of fantasy of Folkestone last month from Mr. Symons's home in to go to any depths where feelings this kind without the slightest con-
ceivable relation to reality were Leatherhead, Surrey. In the letter to another student, characterisile of this disease, Mr. Jack Marshall. Phillips wrote:
Mr. Brikett:
seemed intentional Bippancy or mere bravado, but it was simply inabiltyy bored.
were concerned.
What are the years
On the walls of these caves draw [
of life m which a patient is attacked ings of chariots, elephants, and dan
if at alt by this disease?-It usually cing girls, and strange bieroglyphics
wall lustrations held the sok- tion to the mysary.
time we shall be "At the same
Lake Chad, the big-game hunter's
becomes manifest in the yours of of a vanished race have been found pinning out a new motor route to
by French scientists. adolescence roughly 17 to 23.
BACK IN A MONTH Mr. Symons told the Sunday Dis-
"It is dimcult to be treated if not regarded as a potential lunatic. Perhaps I shall be an actual onc before they have finished with me. 1 is a
Does the schizophrenic patient 1 am sa fond of mercy reading, as that is all I can do all know the difference between right a good Ibrary and wrong?-Right and wrong simply day. They have here, so I shall not be short of do not exist to the schizophrenie. He patch. reading matter.
"The scient Romans gaa diamonds In any case, does right in response to habit or have the 86 books of the Bible custom or immediate expendiency or from these mines which were worked and also a Greek New Testament, accident, but in his real life he lives by a pompile called the Garavantes, at I expect is not often that they in a world of his own with its own have prisoners to whom these rules ad he is annoyed when these
rules are broken in upon. Greek notes are of Interest." Describing the visit which he paid Dr. Grierson, medien officer of to Phillips at Brixton Prison, Dr. Brixton Prison, said that he had had Yellowlees said: "When Phillips en-Philips ander observation. He did tered the visiting room I went for- not consider him Insane, although he was certainly not a person of normal ward to him with my hand out and
the time of Herodotus.
"Thbrrace has disappeared, but It is aur hope that træ cave-
paradise.
"At present there are only two routes through to Nigeria across the Sahuru, and we shall be the first British people to explore this part- culur district by ear.
"Neither of us con spare much time away from business, so we hope to be back at the end of the month,"
MILLION VICTIMS OF RHEUMATISM said, 'How do you do? You have mind. He did not show any remorse Experts from 16 countries-two of them from as far got yourself into a pretty bad mess, for what he had done. He could not haven't your His response was a find that Phillips did not know what away as Poland and Rumania-met in Bath recently for
he
WOR
bland and rather humorous smile.
the international Conference on Rheumatic Diseases. doing wrong. said, "Why do you smile? and he Mr. G. B. McClure, prosecuting,
Lord Horder, in his presidential address, estimated that there replied. It is rather an unconven- sald that Matthews, the son of a milk
roundsman, was last seen at the were in Britain at least à million sufferers a year from some form tional opening, is it not?"
Wycliffe Hall about noon on February of rheumatic «lisease. 15. The butler missed him und する It was not unill
-LIKE A CHILD"
A man who was within a few days search was made.
the following morning that his un-
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of trial for his life and who could clothed body was found on the root DURBAN HAS MYSTERY | estimated that the British spas treat-Dujos Bela Dance Orchestra,
speak with such nonchalance to a
physician who might be the one It was evident it had been taken person to help him must obviously there after death.
be a man who was completely out of touch with the real facts of life, One of the popular theories about the discose, explaining the loss of power to feel, was attributed to the attitude to lic of the patient from childhood.
The patient was always looking for come easy way round a difficulty. He would go to a fight of fancy and solve the difficulty in fantasy rather
Inspector Quelch went to Philips's He room and found him writing. seemed quite unconcerned and suld "All right" when the officer told him that he was going to look round.
DISEASE
HOSTEL SCHEME
Both before and after the birth of her children, a mother needs plenty of simple, easily digested nourish- ment to meet the extra' demands made upon her system.
Of the poorer class of sufferer, he
ed some 5,000 cases annually.
It was not possible to calculate how mony of the well-to-do classes went to disease Durban's mystery following a brilliant piece of the many great hutels and hydros at analysis and medical team work,
the spa centres, but it could be taken has been proved due to coal lar
as_certale that the healing resources FOR THE NURSING MOTHER derivatives in cooking all used
of Bath and other British spas were Phillips made a long statement de-
In the preparation of food. scribing his movements. When asked Thirty-five Durban people and 27 not employed at anything like their They should be far he could throw any light on the of the crew of a French motorship full capacity. boy's death, he said, after a long were affected by contamination in- more extensively utilised. Pause. "I had better coufess. I am advertently added to soya beans suity. No one assisted me in it. It from which oil was rande ar from the
Lord Horder said that the medical] was not even premeditated."
drums in which they were shipped. Charles Richard Fox, Chick Con- Doctors recognised similarity to the profession should co-operate in com-
Doctors and nurses Dr. Yellowlees said that he had had stable of Oxford City Pollee, said that ginger poisonin goutbreak in Cincin-bating the idea, sill widely held people who bad committed murder. pamphlet entitled "Problem of Sex British Home Office to and experience of the disease in other in the sitting-room he found that and despite the fallure of the among well-to-do classes, that British Horlicks is an ideal food for both spas could not offer the same healing expectant and nursing mothers. Not In the last six months a young Control," which, he had ascerisineu, pounds of certain crescis, urged the advantages na Continental span. only is it extremely palatable and woman who was apparently well, had been given to Phillips by a Government Analyst to perservere. The problem of maiting spa treat- casy to take, but it promotes sound. against his advice, was given a post fellow student. It was published by an approach from a different anly ment anare widely avaliable to the sleep and prevents morning sickacss. on the staff of a home for children. a Christian society, and approached tical angle was
Duccessful and the
poorer class of sufferers was some- One day, apparently from the blue the question of sex from religious patients are slowly progressing.
what different. Obviously there was
Horlicks, moxcover, provides the sky, she took one of the inmates, point of view.
the possibility of a great extension extra nourishment nursing mothers of the number, and the British Medl-need. It is invaluable where the eni Association and the British Spas digestive powers are weak, and tends Federation had been considering how to prevent constipation. this could best be effected.
than in real life.
an infant, and killed him. The young
woman appeared at the Old Bailey,
but was found unfit to plend. He
RELIGIOUS FANATIC
com-
tremor or the betrayal of any emo had diagnosed that case as schizo- the defence, said:"
Mr. Birkett, opening the case for tion. That, as well as other things points unerringly to this mental dis- phrenia disease some months before,
"You will hear of this young man case," Mr. Birkett: How would you de
his son.
know that
In these difcult times of anxiety Chief suggestions at present being explored were the provision of hostels and worry, the task of carrying on of approved boarding houses, and doing work which must be done subjected to a certain degree of is a doubly difficult one which must tend to exhaust one's nervous energy. medical control, nt spa centres.
In both those avenues the Empire Horlicks builds up strength, vitality Rheumatism Council could usefully and prevents that latlesmess and help by educating the medical pro- fession and by impressing upon public tiredness caused by constant nervous spa treatment.
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scribe the attitude of the prisoner as a high-minded, religious-minded, The Rev. Stanley Phillips, vicar of throughout that first interview you fanatically-minded theologieni stud-St. Mary's Woking, sold that in his had with him? It occurred to me at ent. You are investigating to-day a ently conduct his son had never given the time, when
was horrible thing, and no one can think his parents I left him he was
a moment's anxiety. No exactly comparable to a child who that such a man as this, committing father could speak more highly of has been brought in from his solitary such a crime, can be sanc.
He went to Wycliffe Hall "You will hear how on Sunday at his own Intense desire to be play to listen to polito conversation In a drawing-room of grown-ups. He morning, the day after this dreadful trained as a missionary. was mildly bored. He was nlmply Communion with that body in that but narrow. He thought it wrong to health authorltics the value of British strain. H. M. Hodges, Kayamally
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