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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1938.
£8,214 Judgment for Surgeon QUEENS & ALHAMBRA
And His Blind
JUDGE ON
SPIRO
Wife
STOP PRESS
A 71-year-old surgeon and his blind wife, who alleged BODIES
that they had been financially crippled and cheated of over
£5,000 by sharepushing, were told by Mr. Justice RIDDLED
Macnaghten in the King's Bench Division recently that they were entitled to recover a total of £8,214.
Mr. and Mrs. George Wilkinson, of Glossop Road, Sheffield,| were the plaintiffs in an action for damages.
Mr. Justice Maenaghten, giving judgment, sald they were entitled to
recover:
£5,483 52. 3d, and certain interest from Stanley Grove Spiro, now bankrupt, of Suffolk Street, W., and William Robert Elphinstone (both of whom were stated to have been sentenced for fraud);} £2,731 99, 10d, and interest from William Hunter, of Raslin, Mid- Jothian, and William
VISITED BY SPIRO
Henderson "appeared to the writ in the name of John William Robert Elphinstone."]
WITH BULLETS
Macao, Aug: 26.
plicity of Purves in the alleged fraud C.N.A.C. disaster to-day, ap- I visited the scene of the It was stated that the alleged com- and conspiracy was the only sub-proaching through ricefields and stantial issue. He was secretary of by sampan across creeks. Brucefield Collieries, Limited.
The British gunboat Cicala, commanded by Licut.-Comman- der Pack-Beresford, of Keelung cam-fame, arrived at the scene at 7 Alexander; p.m. Utilities Cor-
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SPIRO'S "OBJECT" Mr. Justice Macnughten said therej George was not sufficient evidence of Purves, an Edinburgh solicitor. Stay of execution was granted to and the Scottish Gas
plictly against George Purves pending notice of appeal.poration. Hunter was refused a stay-"to mark
Chinese under General Cheung TO - MORROW the difference between
Spiro, in the name
Wai-cheung htm
of "Royston"salvage the wrecked plane during the attempting tu and undoubtedly went to Sheffield with night but the current was too strong Purves" said
Mr. Justice Mac-
Warner Bros. the naghen,
object of robbing Mr. and Mrs. and the cable parted, the pinne Wilkinson of their securities.'
"I don't think Hunter was a witness the channel.
slipping into the deepest portion of The full list of defendants included Spiro would have practised any deceit of truth and, while is certain that Maclean & Henderson, a firm of New that might have suited his purpose, 1 Broad Street, E.C., Brucefeld lleries Lid, of
Col-think Umt flanter would have done Kirkcaldy, -Alexander and Scollish Gas Utilities
George the same," he added. Corporation Lid, of Suffolk Street. gross deception" that Spiro pracused Purves was not a party to "the W.
When the case was opened on but he did assist in the conspiracy by on the plaintiffs and other persons, June 20, Mr. Walter Raeburn, for knowingly issuing documents which plaintiffs, atated that Maclean and were false and fraudulent.
COURT TESTS FOR ENGINEER WHO SAYS HE CANNOT READ
Alleged to have failed to disclose material information in! filling up an insurance proposal form for a car, which was in- volved in a collision that led to £1,500 damages being awarded to a London bus conductor, a young Brighton man told Mr. Justice Humphreys and a special jury at the Sussex Assizes at Lewes recently that he could neither read nor write.
an
He was Walter Ronald Pullen, went into the witness box-I have engineer, of College Rond, Laken the oath so many times that Kemp Town, Brighton, who was know it by heart.
of
Brandon Adelaide
sued with Cottrell Boughton-Leigh, Crescent, Ilove, by the Army, Navy and General Assurance Association, Ltd., of Pall Mall, S.W.
The insurance company, claimed a declaration that they were entitled)
Handing a letter to Pallen, Mr. Beresford asked: What is crossed out
on the top of that letter?
"London Rond
probably be raised this morning.
It is now solidly lashed and will
A portion of the wing of the plane was retrieved yesterday and showed bullet holes.
which
one of a child, wearing a Boy Scout Three bodies have been recovered.
stopped at 8.40 o'clock; the second uniform and a wrist watch of the Chinese steward of the plane and the third that of an unidentified
The Cicala's pinnace picked another body, and papers upon it In- dicate that it was Luk Yu. He had bullet wounds in the head and body. Other
corpses were also found, ridled with bullets.
Villagers speak of the terrible savagery of the Japanese planes, which wheeled above the sinking C.N.A.C. plane, constantly machine- gunning it and making rescue im- possible. Our Own Correspondent.
AIR MAILS DELAYED
due here. this afternoon, has been The Imperial Airways mail plane, delayed.
The mails will arrive carly to- morrow, it is expected.
Pullen: Because he had his name read that. stamped on the envelope.
Mr. Justice Humphreya: You could
replied Pullen after some hesitation. Council School," You seem to be able to read that all right; did you guess it? Yes, I stated to have been struck out for Pullen's defence to the action was guessed it.
When Pullen said he knew that a Master of the Supreme Court,
non-compliance with an order of at
and
voda polley of hsurance, and letter come from the insurance broker Mr. Beresford said he would have to
two cover notes issued by them, on
the grounds that they were obtained in the case, Mr. Justice Humphreys move for judgment against Pullen by the non-disclosure of material asked: "How did you know that? before a Muster in London.
facts;
tr by representations of facts which were false in some material
particular.
of
The
jury found that the policy was obtained
by non-disclosure material facts, or by representation of facts which were fulse, and the judge) Kranted the declaration against Boughton-Leigh with costs.
claimed ONLY HIS SIGNATURE Among other allegations in connec tion with the Alling up of
of the
posal
pro-
form, Mr. Tristram Beresford. for the company, said Pullen, Answered "No" to a question asking whether he had been convicted of any driving offence, although only eight days
ays before he had been fined! dangerous driving.
Pullen
fen also stated that
driver under the age of
drive the
for
no other
CRASHED IN PLANE HE
HAD DESIGNED
Noted Aircraft Builder Killed
Capt. Frank Sowter Barnwell, noted aircraft designer, was killed recently in a plane he designed himself.
A monoplane which he built for his private use crashed shortly after taking off from Bristol Airport, Whitchurch. He was 50
21 would designer of the aeroplane depart-almost instantaneously,
and had been chiered the plane. He had been killed the car, although Boughton-ment of the Bristol Aeroplane Com- Leigh, at the time of the accident, pany for 20 years. was under 21.
21.
Pullen, giving evidence, said he He had made the plane-a single- could neither read nor write part seater-in his spare time, and had from writing his signature. When be inade only a few short flights round effected the insurance he answered the airport. questions read out to him, and a woman clerk wrote down the answers on the proposal form.
Afterwards he signed the form, but could not read the answers.
JUDGE'S COMMENT
Mr. Beresford: Tell me how
you
On the fatal flight he had made a partial circuit of when, for some unknown reason, the the aerodrome machine appeared speed and dived into the ground.
to lose flying He was all in the cockpit when
were able to read the oath when you airport officials and mechanics reach
INGENOHL'S
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Captain Barnwell lived at Alvia-
ton House, Alveston, Gloucestershire. and educated at Fettes College, Exlin- He was born at Lewisham, S.E., burgh, and at Glasgow University.
With his elder brother, R. H. Barn- building and experimenting with well, he spent two years, 1908-1009, aeroplanes near Stirling.
In the early days of the Great War he served for a period with the
as chief designer to the company, technical skill necessitated his return RF.C., but in September, 1915, his
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AN INVENTION used in the days of the ancient Greeks ing.
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This is the rocket device which was the subject of a question in the House of Commons, and which is being experimented with by the scientists of Britain and other great Powers.
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Professor A. M. Low, the con- ready produced a glant, long-range sulting engineer and research rocket, for use in war.
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