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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1938.
Girl Gets Damages From Fiance Who Wouldn't Leave His Sister
HE WANTED BOTH IN SAME HOME
A WHIRLWIND WOOING OF A PRETTY AMATEUR ACTRESS ON HOLIDAY.. A PRO- POSAL IN A STATION WAITINGROOM AN EXCHANGE OF 200 LOVE LETTERS RIFT BECAUSE THE LOVER “PUT HIS SISTER FIRST" BREACH SUIT.
Recently when the girl in the case, Miss Eleanor Joyce Featonby, of The Oaks, Appleby, Scunthorpe, went into the witness box at Newcastle Assizeя to state her case against Thomas Welch, an insurance clerk, of Cherryburn-gardens, Fenham, Newcastle she declared "I loved Tom very much."
Passages from one of her letters, written in reply to a suggestion that the sister should live with them and read in court, ran: "I want to be all alone with you, darling, for a long Lime.
"Some time we will have a benuti- ful baby. Don't you think he will be tovely...
y
Alter hearing the evidence. Mr. Singleton said that when {1 Mari was engaged to a man it was to
mairy him and not his family.
"It was the normal thing for them to set up house by them- selves.
Dealing with the enuses of the breaking off of the wedding plans rounsel for Mire Featorby said that Welch had no ients but shared a Ime in Newcastle with an elder sister and he seemed to have been somewhat concerned about her fu-
ture.
"ON HIGH HORSE"
knew that Mr. "Miss Featonby Wetch had deulties at times and quarrels with his sister, but I don't want to go into detalis beyond say- ng he had cause to complain of bis inter's axcoriation aided counsel.
with a man,"
When they were discussing where live Welch suggested they should that his sister should share their new home.
Miss Featonby denmurred but later he wrote and said that the only con- sideration upon which he would take a house would be that his sister went in with them as "alte loathed the p idea of digs.
Miss Featonby reminded him f quarrels he had had with his sister and she did not intend to have such seenes in their home.
Died Stopping
Engine Crash
Unable to open his crossing gales near Ludlow beenuse a car had collided with the machinery, and with a light englue approach- Ing. 63-years-old Arthur Edward Lloyd, who was suffering from acute heart trouble: Telephoned station;
the nearest
Picked up a flag and run duwn the line; ond.
Having lifted a telephone to make another call, fell
lead with it to his hand,
At the recent Inquest a doctor said his heart was in such a con- dition that vigorous action would cause it to stop, and the verdlet was in accordance with medical evidence,
As usually bojaucas in de tom prig, only "amall fry" were apprehended, on trial in the save e held recently in New York City. Hence, United Stale. Attorney Famag Hardy produced evidence that he hoped would be a lerun to he nation, showing how America proffets his defeners. Above, Senta de Wanger and Otto Voss, two of the four defendants.
STARTLED WIFE
POLICE DOPED
OFFERED CIGARETTE
Hotel Arrest Drama WON
Paris.
France's anti-drug squad discovered recently that Pierre Ciolan, one of three alleged drug traffickers arrest- ed at Cherbourg, was former Rumanian consul in Paris, and that he had kept his diplomatic passport and the con- sular visa stamps and dies.
Arrested with Ciolan were his young French wife, Marie Barbu, and Joachim Diamandoglou, a Greek.
Diamandoglou is described as a banker. Police say he lives in Rumania and has a personal fortune of £500,000,
When the drug squad and Cus- toms agents burst into their rooms in a Cherbourg hotel packages
of
rugs were scattered over the table. A search of their baggage brotight to light 140lbs. of heroin, worth £6,000
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Mystery Of Arm Found On Beach
RACE BY "MOONLIGHT."
IN NIGHTDRESS
Major Algernon Burnaby, winner and last survivor of the famous Melton midnight steeplechase held in 1890, died at his home, Baggrave Hall, Leicestershire, recently, aged 70,
He was a 22-year-old officer of the Blues and was in Leicester- shire for the hunting season when Lady Augusta Fane suggested a moonlight steeplechase.
She invited the competitors to dine at her house. They arrived in hunting rig and were supplied with nightdresses which they wore over their pink coats.
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London. No attempt and been made to
Chief-Inspector Hatherill and Det-;
about their camouflage the drugs and un in-
e a powerful sermon sald that the spector
three Bergt. Spooner, of Scotland Yard have: Just before midnight their horses conduct, taking as his text: "Have no were so taken by surprise that the begun their investigations into ther were brought the Goor. But there fellowship with the unfruitful works Wonkan offered him u cigarette
riddle of the arm Cound in
the, was no moon, and the station master of darkness. drugged with hushish. Hashish
FRIEND OF ROYALTY was found in
sands at the Cornish resort of Per-provided lamps to light the course,
Friend handbal
which was about a mile out of Mel- her
and kings
princes. The three tall the that they ranporth. Hitherto at has been beton Mowbray, over four or five fields. Major Burnaby was for many years
to Cherbourg from Poris and lieved that the went to
arm was that of a with double that number of fences joint master of the Quorn, with which ||-|||-|-|-|-|-|-| "This seemed to put this young Intended to sail for New York in woman but it is now suggested that to jump.
the Duke of Windser, then Prince of man on his high hope," went on the German liner Europh.
Among the starters was Me. Harry Wales, frequently hunted. counsel.
To-day police searched the Paris mastrements which have been taken!
Rawlinson, afterwards General Lord! The Duke and his brothers were the hand is Judgment
he of banker Diamandoutku, and show that for Miss
extremely Rawlinson. The late Lord Minto was often entertained by Major Burnaby Featonby for £23 as awarded by the the Ciolans villa in the suburb of large compared with the arm And one of the spectators,
at Baggrave, and the King and that i might be that of a man. Sir To the cheers of a large crowd Queen, then Duke and Duchess of Evidence that the drugs had come Hernard Spilsbury is expected to visit į "Algy" Burnaby got home first. York, were his guests when they from Jugo-Slavia is alleged to hove Perranporiti in connection with the The competitors were soundly rated visited the Leicestershire Agricultural been found.
by the Reetor of Melton, who preach-Show eight years ago.
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Defending counsel asked for ensts, saying that E100 had bern paid into court.
The judge said that he would foror legal arguments, but added, "1 think you had befter put your heads to gether and adjust your dificulties."
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ROADS SAFER IN FIRST TEN MONTHS OF 1938
During the Brst ten months of this yer the roads of Great Britain have proved safer than in the first ten month of 1937, There were $299 accidents, a Drople killed in road
terrease of 140. The number of in- jured fell by 2235 10
"Mogether 2333 188,032.
CHSC,
THIS BRAVE WOMAN OF 82
Has 6 More Months To See
For nearly eighty-two years Mra, Madeleine Stewart has been looking at life, absorbing blue of sea, green of leaves, patterns of chimney-pots. The colours and designs are growing dimmer ... Six months from now she expecia she won't be able to see at all. Slowly. In her face-curtained room with 1865 in 1937, Pedal bicyclists Sinclair-gardens, Hollanti Park
or 00 fewer, were killed-1841 of them on road under a speed limit-compared
killed numbered 1126, o decrease of
43.
tell the autumn is here because I
can 500 the chimney-pots again Australian Doctor
through the branches,"
was a good sailer.
Secures First Nuffield ++++||{}
Dominion Award
Melbourne.
The first award under the Lord Nuffield Medical Benefaction for
DI
One of the news stories she has looked for every year was about the grain ship race from Australia. She remembers going to Australia In the sailing ship Juliet when she was a girl, and getting the job of matron among the emigrants because she Dominion graduates, has been given
(She has her own to a Melbourne doctor. He is W., she has been preparing for the remedy-Infallible, she says for sen- Wilfrid Talbot Agar, an officer of the new world of darkness.
sickness. A dose of cayenne pepper Australian Commonwealth serum lu- Of the injured 59,805 were pedes. trions, 55,375 pedal bicyclists, and 21,- Fixing bits of while al the nack of folded into a bit of bread.)
borntories. He has been selected for In her eighty-two years Mrs, ja research demonstratorship at Ox- 326 motor-bicyclists. The reduction her frocks-for she wants to look in the number of pedal bicyclists in-nice, even if she can't see herself: Stewart has assembled un album of ford University.
learning to feel her way to the mental pictures. Bravely she is be- Jured was 2404,
polished gas-slove in one corner of ginning to treasure there now. her room,
chest to the mahogany where she keeps her treasures--a photograph she took of her daughter in New Zealand, a drawing she made. a waler-colour by her father.
WORSE LAST MONTH October, 1938, however, road deaths ruse by 23, compared with October, 1937, to 641. The number of injured rose by 120 to 19,096.
October's total of deaths is still more unfavourable when compared with September, there being a rise of 87: but the number of Injured felt by 100.
Last month 317
pedestrians and 131 pedal bleyclists were killed, and
7032 pedestrians and 5837 bleyclists were injured,
She will have to look after her- self, and she wants to keep things always as neat as they are now.
Dr. Agar is a son of Professor W. E. Agar, of Melbourne University. His appointment is for three years at a salary of £400 a year and £150 a year for travelling expenses. Under the Nuffield Benefaction, he must then return to Melbourne and con- tinue his research for five years, Cleveland. Austral News.
Postal Worker Honoured
Howard G. Swanson, a Cleveland
Institute of Music graduate, and Kittens Play With Rat
Cambridge, O.
Next to her morning newspaper, postal worker, has been awarded a Mrs. Stewart will miss the sight of 51,500 scholarship for a year's study
the trees outside her window. "They In Paris by the Jullus Rosenwald Dusty and Goldie, kittens In Car! are the reason I've kept this room, fund to further the cultural and Roch's tyre shop, play with a young even though it is two Rights up. The sociological development of the rat. The rat seems to enjoy their There were 83 deaths in the City leaves have been beautiful this sum-American Negro. of London and Metropolitan Police [mer, so green and so thick. I can
arens during October, compared with
90 in October, 1037. The number
injured in these arens fell by 35 10 | GOLD BOOM IN AUSTRALIA
5002.
HAVE
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EMPLOYMENT INCREASED
FIVEFOLD
Canberra.
Five times as many persons ore now employed in the gold mining In- dustry In Australia as there were in 1920, according to the latest figures.
The great increase in the price of gold, due originally to sterling's 'abandonment of the gold standard, and the subsequent fixing of the sterling-Australian exchange of £1 for 25/-
are
responsible for the gold price in Australia which is now £8.15.0 per fine ounce. This, in turn, hus stimulated the investment of locul and British capital, an In crease in output from 40,593 ounces In 1930, to 1,387,777 ounces in 1937, and the Increase in perions employed from 6,108 10 33,113. Australia Is again one of the major gold-producers of the world.--Austral Newr.
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