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FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1938.
SHOT "L" RIDER'S LONE TRIPS
BY NIGHT REVEALED
Friend Tells Of
Strange Request
With an Army revolver, an air pistol, and a dagger in a sheath beside him, John Hamilton Owen, 20-years-old bank clerk, of Cardigan-street, Bow, was found shot dead on the Hog's Back, Surrey, recently. He was in a sitting position under an oak tree, the revolver between his legs. Behind this tragedy of lonely death in a beauty apot Res the history of weeks of nervous strak and anxiety.
In his efforts to escape from whnt- ever worried his last anxious days John Hamilton Owen used to ride tar into the night in his unhappiness.
reporter In an interview with Mr. D. G. Minnis, of Castelnau, Barnes. S.W., said: "1 can hardly be lieve it possible that my friend is dend. He was niways so happy and jolly. He could not have been in money trouble as he certainly did nut live extravagantly,
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"I now undersignd a strange request he made a week ago. It was that I should go for a fast ride with him in the middle of the night.
WENT ALONE
"fle suggested we should start at m. This was too early for me, so i sub I did not think I could go. He went alone,
"Next morning he rang me up and gaid he could not join in a run had fixed up as he was dog-lived.
been riding alone home through the night and go after 3.11.
"He had
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1 first mi im at school. went to the City of London School.
He was a track shot and could use af
rifle.
Following a telephoned 808. Inspector Russell, of the Surrey County Palice, molored to the scene and took charge of Investl- gallons.
The first impression that a murder and been committed was discounted when he found the revolver between the legs of the dead man.
"L" PLATE
Death Wis apparently instan- having passed faneous, the bullet through the temple and out at the back of the skull into the tree.
wear
A factory in Hertfordshirce, is Papers indicated that the motor-producing a new type of parachute
which passengers can
quile evelist came from Bow, and relatives comfortably while seated in the air Journeyed to Guildford to Identify
The picture shows the new him. His motor-cycle bore an iner.
parachute being demonstrated. plate, and had been parked carefully at the side of the road,
.
Owen was educated at the City of London Schoul, and was a derk at the Commercial Bank of the East, at Bishopsgate.
Near
"He went out on Wednesday evening after a big meal, his widowed mother, Mrs. 8. Owen, former school teacher, said in a Sunday Dispatch reporter, "and I have not seen him since.
1 informed "On Thursday police, and on Friday evening I went bolly to Whipps Cross to
here was my sun's. It was not, but it gave me a terrible shock." CHIEF PUZZLED
see if a
the
Mr. H. N. Athridge, joint manager "He had shot at Haley, but I only of the Commercial Bank of the Near remember his taking part in revolver) East, said at his Richmond. Surrey, home that he was puzzled over the shooting on one occasion."
tragedy,
'PHONE SOS
Mr. W. D.! Owen was found by
whoi London motorist, Rattigan, a noticed an unattended motor-bicycle. Investigating, he found the dead inun and informed an A.A. scout and passing police officer,
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"There is absolutely no sUKERS- Hon that the lad was in any kind of trouble at the bank." he said. "He was a good worker, and a very promising tud. I about it."
Tell me,
doctor.
very
Dummy
Bomb Falls
Near Mother And Child
Death missed the wife of a naval fleer and her little daughter by inches at Gosport recently when
I.A.F. bomb dummy
from aeroplane fell into some public gar- right inches dens and penetrated into a path.
EMPIRE
NEWS
JAMAICA'S SUGAR QUOTA
Kingston.
The statement in Parliament re- cently by the Secretary for the Co- lonies, Mir. Malcolm MacDonald, that there was no likelihood of Jamales obtaining an increased sugar quota this year has been received with deep concern.
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Mr. MacDonald's slatement taken to mean that next year there will be a large number of Inbourers estates unemployed during the gathering of the crop. This will add to the economic dimculties of o
present undergoin population at
employ- hardship through luck of ment.
Kingston's Transport System- Owing to the early abandonment of the tramway system in Kingston and Its suburbs, the Jamaica Govern- ment is asking the Crown Agents to secure an expert from the London Passenger Transport Board to come to the island to report on the best system to take its place.
The
Workmen's Compensation. Workmen's Compensation Law. passed last year by the Legislative Council, came into force on July 25. AUSTRALIA
£16,500,000 DROP IN WOOL INCOME
Sydney.
Though the official figures, showing a huge Federal surplus and smaller wel- surpluses in most States, are comed, there is concern that the year's wool Income has dropped by 16,500,000 as compared with last
effect year. The
on Australia's balance in London is also viewed with anxiety.
The overseas trade of the Com monwealth showed that the year's favourable balance was only about
Mrs. Euman, wife of Lieutenant T. Euman, of the Submarine Peput, Fort Blockhouse, who lives at St. Mary's Avenue. Gosport, was walk-212,500,000, is compared with £36,- ing with her daughter in Foster Gardens, Alverstoke.
"We had just risen from a scat," sorry; she said, "when I heard an aeroplane
overhead.
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"Suddenly there was a swish and the bomb dropped on the path im- mediately in front of me. I was frightened and pulled my little girl back."
The explanation given at the R.A.F. station, Gosport, was that the bomb was released by a mechanical defect, the development of which was extreme chance.
Danced With
Knee Out Of Joint
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Irina Baronovia, the Brat ballerina of the Russion Ballet company at Covent Garden, put her knee out of Cent of "Les Joint near the end Baisers," the first ballet last month and had to be carried off the stage by David Lichine.
of what
The audience, unaware had happened, believed it was part of the ballet.
She next had" to dance in a first- night
revival of "Firebird," fun exacting part of the greatest technical difficulty which she had never danced In this country, before.
who
As there was no one
else eould all the role she had to through with it. She gave a rather blurred performance, and although her leg was visibly swollen, still to danced with enough brilliance hide the accident from the audience.
As she was being carried out from the stage door to be driven to a specialist she told me how she survived the second ballet, says a Correspondent,
"We pressed the bone Into joint," she anld, "but after Firebird' it came out again."
** Iring Baronova is 10 years old and one of the few blg nomes that the present Covent Garden company possesses,
Unwanted
Babies Report
The committee set up a year ago by the Ministry of Health to "Inquire into the prevalence of abortion" and to consider what legislative changes, if any, are necessary, hus now com- pleted hearing evidence and is about to draft its report.
This is likely to be completed in the autumn.
Chairman of the committee is Mr. Norman Birkett, K.C.
000,000 st year, which means that the London balance must be drawn ou to the extent of £10,000,000 to meet debt charges in London.
The Federal Government neverthe- less insists that there, is no Cause for anxiety in view of the accumul- ations built up in the past two or three years.
Fears of the effect of the growing use of wool substitutes on the world demand for wool are increasing here,
SOUTH AFRICA
WELFARE OF NATIVE POPULATION
Cape Town.
The first National Convention of Organisations interested in the wel- fare of the coloured people of the Union, who number more than 750,- 000, ended recently,
A resoluton was passed condem- ning the polley of segregating Eur- opeans
from coloured people in 'the residential aren: und calling on provincial comeillors to vote against the draft ordinance which is to be introduced in Parliament with this objeet.
Senator Re-elected.---Mr. W. E. Thrash was re-elected to the Senate from which he resigned at the last election to fight the lovu sent in the Assembly for the United party. Mr. Thrash was first elected Senator in 1920.
CANADA
CONSERVATIVES AND DEFENCE
Ottawa,
The National Conservative Con- (vention has passed a resolution declaring that the defence of Canada could best be promuted by consult- atlon and co-operation between all members of the British Common- wealth of Nations,
The Convention also unanimously approved the changing of the name of the party from "Liberal Con- servative" to "National Con- servative." INDIA
PROHIBITION IN BIHAR
Calcutta.
It is claimed that the three months' experiment In Prohibition in the Saran district of Bihar has been successful. The district covers an area of 2,800 square miles, inhabited by 2,500,000 people.
that
It is admitted, however, thousands of persons living on the borders of the territory have obtain ed alcoholle liquor outside the pho- hibition area.
Emigration to Malaya-The Indian Government has stopped assisted emigration to Malaya, According to the last official figures published, the number of Indians resident in Malaya was 009,377. In 1938 the Gavern- ment deputed Mr. Srinivasa Sastri to review conditions in the country. His report was satisfactory.
Rubber Restriction-Restrielina of rubber production has been increased under the powers of the Indian Rubber Control Amendment Act of 11030.
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