THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1938.
Dr. Maberley SCOUTMASTER'S ALLEGED
says:
Radio is converting us into
a nailon of listeners, and in some measure making us less sociable.
"There is far too much listening nowadays, and while there is much to be said for a good listener, it is far
more advantageous, both! from a personal and social point of view, that people should take some part in the life and Interests them.
"Before the
around
advent
MERCY MURDER PLEA
Story Of Drive
With Nurses After Mothers' Death
of A 29-year-old Scoutmaster who was alleged to have
radio people used to call on
another and find fresh said that his mother asked him to end her sufferings
one
interests in discussions and faced a charge of murder at Torquay recently.
neighbours.
conversations with thelri · It was stated that the man, Norman John Walter "But to-day they sit at Smith, walked into the police station on August 28 and home listening to lectures and said he had killed his mother, Mrs. Alice Maud Smith, at speeches, and find little op their home at Hill Park Road, Torquay. portunity to express their own views on these subjects."
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Mr. G. R. Paling, prosecuting, said Mrs. Smith lived apart from her husband, Smith lived with her and supported her with
the salary he received us a solicitor's clerk.
Mr. Paling said that when Smith was searched a document purporting
On Friday, August 26, his, two women for a ride in his motor- employment ended and on the car. Sunday, he called at the police station and said to Sergeant to be his will was found on him. I Taylor: "Sergeant, I have killed contained the clause: "I desire my my mother. Don't look alarmed. body to be cremated with that of I hit her with a rolling-pin." He my darling mother, and the ashes to jadded that she had suffered be thrown in the sea."
from internal trouble.
The officer went with Smith to the house and in a bedroom he saw the mother's boxly.
"PUT HER TO BED" Smith said: "I have washed her and done her hair, and then put her to bed, as you see."
Smith further said: "I promised mother on Friday 1 would take two nurses for a ride on Sunday morn- ing, so I took them out before I came here."
Mr. Paling said: "That document was dated August 26, the day he left his employment. I suggest that he formed on the Friday the intention to commit this offence and possibly some other offence.
Police-Sergeant Taylor sald Smith of the firm's appropriated money.
some
Smith was committed for trial at the next Devon Asizes.
DISGUSTING
"It is disgusting to see a girl of To Det-Sergeant Roper, Ms. Paling
said, "I have no 15 with her face made up like that. continued, Smith
She Is, better off Take her home now and see that she regrets, officer.
washes her face and bring her back than she has been for 12 years."
later
At
Asserting they vastly enjoyed their 26-day visit in the United States, members of the Swedish royal family leave New York for home. left, Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf waves farewell, on the gangplank of the
With him are Crown Princess Louise Swedish liner Gripsholm. Prince Bertil. Bertil smiled happily over gift of two automobiles.
and
ROTHSCHILD RANSOM:
HALF A BUSINESS
TURNING down £120,000 offered as "ransom" for Baron Louis Rothschild, imprisoned in Vienna, Germany's Nazis are now demanding not merely money but a foothold in Czechoslovakia.
They want control of the Wittkowitz works, the Czechs' big- Mr. Paling read a statement
The West London magistrate, Mr. alleged to have been made by Smith. Paul Bennet, acid this to the father gest industrial concern, 51 per cent. of whose shares are held by
"I then went dowstuirs to get the of a girl accused of insulting be- the Austrian Rothschilds. supper. I was taking the frying-pan haviour, off the hook and I had to take the rouged and powdered. reiling-pin off Arst.
She
who appeared heavily
mans,
It was announced at the time that
which bought them from To this end they have sent al bank, returned without moke-up lawyer, Dr. Erich Fuehrer, to another Austrian family, the Gutt-
Paris to negotiate with the "I had my fingers through the and the case was adjourned.
French branch of the Rotha- string when 1 heard a bump and at shrick from upstairs. I rushed up-
Baron Louis brother, Baron Alphonse Rothschild,
Warren, Mosa
the
stairs and found my mother kneel Drivers "Steam-Bound" child family, as well as with Ing down, She said: 'For God's sitke. Norman, finish me quick.
I lifted the Motorists complained of being "Without hesitation, rolling-pin and hit her two or three "steam-bound" during an electrical the temperature storm in which quick blows on the head."
If that statement was proved, Mr.tumbled 30 degrees in 15 minutes. ald that because of the Paling said, Smith killed his mother Drivers
rapid drop in temperature, steum on the Saturday evening.
that rising from the highways was co He remained in the House night and the next morning, took dense cut off their vision-
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Baron Louls, imprisoned by Gestapo soon after Hitler seized
fortnight ago. Austrin, should have been freed a
The Austrian Rothschilds offered £120,000 for his release while the French family also declared itself willing to make a considerable con- tribution.
Up to now the Rothschilds have always firmly declared that if they ever sold out it would be to a Czech the price paid, was £6,000,000,
concern.
Wife Collects Buttons
Charlotte, Mich.
I buttons are missing on W. R. Broit's shirts here, it is not because his wife has run short of them. Mrs. Broll. whose hobby. is collecting them, has more than 1,500 buttons. But this is not enough for the One is from a Civil War uniform. Nazis.
They see in the possession of the Wittkowitz shares an economic foot-
bold-and
Important fin
Czechoslovakia.
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The other 40 per cent. of the shares are held by Zivno, the big Czech
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