THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY,
AUGUST
15, 1938.
GAVE LUXURY PARTIES
ON BANK'S
-KILLED HIS FAMILY
MONEY
OLYMPIC GAMES DEKLIN 1930
Marlone's Daughter
Perfect Control
William Rawson Cornall was a bank manager carning
£700 a year. And he lived like a millionaire.
If he had to travel the shortest! distance he took a taxl; if he heard
that a friend was in faancial trouble
amall
he sent him a large cheque; if Bervant or porter did him a service he would lip him £5.
He gave luxury parties that cast £200. He always carried hundreds) of pounds in his pockets.
BUT THE MONEY HE SPENT WAS NOT HIS. HE HAD TAKEN IT FROM THE BANK AND HAD HIDDEN THR SKILFULLY
THEFTS,
Discovery Was
imminent. Sol
William Cornall gave one last luxury!
Doctors
Must Tell
in Insanity Divorces
party, then took his wife and two "RREGULARITIES that may
children to their expensive home, {
amount to Eve figures, nt
Romiley and Bredbury
Guyswood House, Ronilley, Cheshire least, are being investigated at
HE DREW A REVOLVER. SHOT the THEM ALL, THEN TURNED THE branches of the Union Bank.”
HIINISELF AND WEAPON ON
This dramatic disclosure was made
DIED.
His wife, who was thirty-three, to the jury at the inquest on Mr. Cornall, 30-year- bank and his daughter. Ann Patricia, uged Willion Rawson
of the two manager boy, old died at once. four. Malcolm, aged five, died later in branches, who shot himself, his wife, and his two children-aged five und hospital.
four-at his luxurious home at Rom ley, Cheshire.
Cornall, it way stated at the in- was quest ut Romiley recently,
He old. thirty-six
years
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Mr. J. A. K. Ferns, East Cheshire manager of the Romiley branch of coroner, commented on the devotion the Union Bank of Manchester.
which Cornal had shown his wife. Sentence by sentence he investigated the character of the man who, only a few days ago, had the reputation only of a lavish spender, an un- falling benefaclor of the needy, and a loving father.
The money he took from the bank during the past seven months an official said., probably exceeded
£10,000.
INHERITED $10,000
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Cornall was known to have private income, and at the inquest it was disclosed that he had inherited £10,000. He had lent £20,000 to a Manchester, motor firm.
He and his family had planned to go on holiday, but one night he took them all to the death feast in a Man- chester hotel. Then they went home -to die.
The inquest verdict was that he had murdered his wife and children and had then cominitled felo de se.
"He was the most generous man I have ever met," one of Cornall's closest friends said to after the inquest.
reporter
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"Help to friends in need and tips cost him hundreds of pounds year.
"His wife and children had every
wish gratified. Money dripped Hike water through his fingers. "We all regarded him as a man of substantial means, and although we knew he was living far beyond his bank manager's salary we thought he had a large private income.
"He was a churchgoer and wan very liberal in his gifts to his old church at Lytham St. Annes,
"His parties in a Manchester hotel were on the most lavish scale. They seldom cost less than £200, fro- quently more."
HE NEVER WALKED
Cornall was known in the village as "the man who never walki He had taxis to call for him to lake' him to business, to go back again, and even to convey him to shops just 200 yards away.
A sister and a maidservant of the dead man were the only women in court, and only one or two people other than those directly concerned with the case were present.
CLIENTS NOT AFFECTED Most dramatic moment was when Mr. Ferns addressed the question to
assistant chief) Mt. R. Greenwood,
"Are the books in or- inspector: der""""
"No," replied Mr. Greenwood and spoke briefly of the "Irregularities." but stopped when the coroner Bug- gested that the jury had not to ari as accountants.
Mr. Greenwood said it would be impossible at the moment to state the exact amount of the deftelt in the bank nccounts.
Maria Sieber, daughter of the screen star Marlene Dietrich, is growing up. She has reached the age of 18. Maria is shown above at a hotel in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she has been at school for more than two years. She goes to school from the hotel every day, but is closely guarded on her way there in a car.
Patients
"Killed" Daily
For Ten Weeks To Be Cured
VICTIMS of the terrible disease known to laymen as the "split mind," and to doctors as schizophrenia, are being cured by being brought daily to the brink of death. By doses of insulin they arej shocked into a dangerous state! of coma,
Then they are left unconscious for about two hours. Sometimes their hearts stop beating, and they have to be revived by the use of injections.
As they return to conscious. ness, they have a period of mental normality, during which the mental doctors can talk to them and exercise healing in- fluence over them.
Mr. Ferns. Up to this happening the bank had always had every faith in his integrity?-Yes. The bulk of the irregularities seem to have hap-superintendent of the pened during the past six months. A solicitor for the bank sald that One of the customers would affected.
Dr. Edward Larkin, deputy medical West Ham Mental
"210,000 AT LEAST"
be
Summing up Mr. Ferns said that the whole of the defnications was at least five Agures, "and the lowest of Ave figures is £10,000.
"Cornali was going on holiday for at least three weeks or a month. I belleve it is the rule that managers are not allowed to be seen in the their vicinity of the bank during their Only recently they had £2,000 villa modernised at a cost of holidays. It several hundred pounds, and then, for checking up. soon afterwards it was completely redecorated.
During this time the whole
Modern Youth Is Audacious Says Lord Tweedsmuir
Hospital nt Goodmayes, Lord
the Guildhall, London.
Tweedsmuir,
Governor-
Essex, explained the whole system to General of Canada and Chancellor the Mental Hospitals Association at of Edinburgh University, made
note recently of how some of his He said that with the insulin treat-son's contemporaries ut Oxford were ment, two-thirds of the patients in Britain's mental hospitals had a new spending their long Vacation. chance of recovering their sunity;
An analysis of 493 cases cured in this way showed that the number of trawler in the White Sea;
working
relapses was only 65 per cent. com- pared with 47 per cent, in cases cured by another new method.
BY THE HAND Describing how a doctor dealt with gives un opportunity a patient recovering from the in- duced coma he said! "He takes him by the hand, and leads him buck along the road to sanity."
"If this is so, then the whole thing is plain. Cornwall was aware that
mistakes would be found out.
He found:
One was a deckhand in a Hull
at
in a
the
South
Another
Was Canadian larvest.
a purser Оле was American line::
Another was helping Welsh miners to cultivate the land; and
Another was engaged in trading old rifles in the Arctic for walrus
The treatment was given regular- ivory.
family lived like mililonaires in the While he was nway these books and ly for about 10 weeks.
ter.
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11 was announced at the meeting
He revealed this when, installed most expensive hotel in Manches-could not face the consequences."
that special facilities would be affords Chancellor at Edinburgh Univer Their house wos described us the The jury returned verdlets of felo-ed in future tu wives or husbandsity, he made defence of modern
youth. He said: height of luxury and efficiency.
{de-se and murder against Cornall.
who seek divorces on the grounds of insanity.
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Fritz Theis, farmer living two and mental deficiency.
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"There are still many physical frontiers in the world, border lines beyond which Bes the little known," went on Lord Tweedsmuir,
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