THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1938.
TWO MEN IN
IN DANCE GIRL'S LIFE
Story of Scenes
And Threats:
·
"
Driving
Me Mad"
A Story of a new infatuation and a farewell inter- view with one of her two men friends was told at the inquest at Westminster recently on the dance hostess, Mrs. Violet Doris Wood (31), who was found dead from gas-poisoning at her flat in Brake House, Dolphin Square, S.W.
It was stated that she was the widow of Mr. Hubert Wood, a shipping agent.
James Chapman, of Chiltern Court, Baker Street, said that he had known Mrs. Wood for the past four months.
"BEST TO PART”
"She told me recently," he said, "that she thought it best that we should part."
He said that he was very attached
to Mrs. Wood, but there was no talk of getting married. He
married.
WOA UN-
The Coroner (Mr. Ingleby Oddle): Why did she suddenly tell you he would not see you again?-She said things were dimeult. She did not Five any explanation. I could not understand it at all.
She had cried a little was at the fat.
while he
Later that night she came to see bim and his father, and told him she Intended to go to Parks and had come to say goodbye.
Coroner: Was there any quarrel? --None at all.
THREATS ALLEGATION Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, of EMngham Street. Pimlico. a daily maid who had been employed by Mr. Wood, said that six weeks before her death Mrs. Wood went "all to pieces."
EMPIRE NEWS
CAPE TOWN
Capetown.
A resolution urging that the civilian population of Cape Town should be registered and organised for air raid precautions, and that the coastal defences of the Cape Penin- sula should be modernised, was passed at a meeting of the Empire Group.
The resolution followed an address by Col. B, C. Judd, in which he said that while Cape Town-as Mr. Pirow, the Defence Minister, had pointed out-need never fear large-scale gas or air attack, a single raiding warship equipped with aeroplanes could do enormous damage to the city.
Prince Bernhard, husband of Princess Juliana, Crown Princess of The Nelberlands, 1 kes ta do daring deeds. This time he went out in a lifeboat, in exceedingly rough water at Terschelling, and enjoyed it, so he sale. He is in centre of the picture, stridleyg ashore while the crew of the "Nicolas Marius" stand by. Hla stiftude Indicates he wasn't troubled by sea-sickness.
He Was Offered £60 HALF-TON
To Marry Woman
Of 66
Mr. Patrick McGowan, of Cedarne-road, Ful- ham, S.W., a married man with four children, recent- ly told of agents in Britain working to arrange marriages between German refugee women and British subjects.
Coroner: In what way?-She had As a result of this meeting a move- He himself has been approached to take part in a marriage that Mr. Wood there and she got ment has started in Cape Town for Infatuated with Another young the institution of what is termed "a of convenience and offered £60 to become a "bridegroom." fellow and between them she did not modified A.R.P. scheme."
The disclosures follow the conviction of Albert William Ford- want Mr. Wood there any more. He
Johannesburg Town Plan The ham, 54-years-old tunneller, who at the Old Bailey recently was kept on threatening her with felters, Johannesburg City Council has ap- which upset her. I have heard proved in principle of a £900,000 sentenced to four months' im- nothing further to do with the wo- dreadful scenos in the flat.
scheme for the development and imprisonment
bigamously nun," Mrs. Wood found a message from provement of the western areas of
a penniless and without Mr. Wood and she said, "I cannot the city. The scheme envisages the marrying Mrs. Emma Meyer, a
country, Mrs. Meyer is considering put up with it much longer. I can conversion of Claremont into an German Jewess.
applying to the Government for per- not
intssion to remain in Britain. on with the two of them. Indian township, with sports grounds- Ko They will drive me mad,” and and other facilities. Of the expendi Humped out of her bedroom.
Fordham,
for
mall a married
Now
OF FISH
AT CHURCH
Half a (оп of fah piled beneath a few nets made, the porch of St. Mary-at-Hill, Bil- lingsgate's Parish Church, re- semble a fish shop recently.
The occasion Was the fsh harvest festival, and big mer- chants sent their crates, fish porters their bunches of herrings or nets of fish.
Altogether 37 varieties of Ash were shown on the "slab" set up by church workers.
170LB. HALIBUT
A giant halibut, which weighed 1701b. when it came out of the water, was the prize exhibit, and around it were everything from lobsters and John Dory to smelts, dried haddock and red mullet.
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of the Mr. Bill Cupit, "father" A woman friend said "Mrs. Meyer, market and organiser of the collec- ture, land purchase will account for with eight children, was intro- who has been a widow for many Mr. Smith said that the men had £377,000 and housing for £500,000. duced to Mrs. Meyer on October years, is now living on the hospitall-tion, toki of the origin of the festival been demanding money from Mrs. | AUSTRALIA
was compelled just after the war. 12, and two days later wenty of friends, She
"There's never been a year when Wood for about six weeks, and she.
Detail
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We stock five styles of dress collars, all in quarter sizes, with dress ties to fit every size,-saveral styles of dress shirts with two sleeves lengths to every size neckband-white waistcoats with two depths of front in the principal styles and sizes, and a varied assortment of evening jewellery for every occasion.
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had received message after message STATES AND DEFENCE/through a form of marriage to leave her lovely flot In Germany the show tailed." he declared. "None Every Sun. & Wod, from Lanchow to Kunming via Sian & Chengtu
from them,
Coroner: The young man, you mean? Yes; Mr. Chapman and Mr. Wood.
When she last saw Mr. Wood at her nat she was like someone mad-erying drinking and smoking, "I sald, You are, not going to do anything a you?' and she replied, 'No; 1 win promise you."
ANOTHER MAN
PLANS
Sydney.
Minister, stated in a broadcast that „Although Mr. Thorby, the Defence the recent
with her at Chelsea register oflice. After the ceremony they separated Immediately.
GERMAN PROPERTY Mr. Maxwell Turner, prosecuting
was a success, the Press and the of the case, "German subjects are Loan Council meeting counsel, remarked during the course
and she dare not return."
Mills Buy Marriage
Licence
Atchison, Kas. Clinton Madison, 20, and Miss Ger-
of the merchants ever makes ony bother about sending along a crate of fish or a few lobsters--and you see the result.
"That half ton of fish will be sent along to Guy's Hospital-the hospital all our porters go to-and it will last the whole hospital for a week.
Twenty or so of us merchants
State Premiers generally agree that able to get British protection and trude Jackson, 18, pald for their mar-with our families went along to the Its results were disappointing. British nationality in this way. Ariage licence with 1,750-sales tax service this morning; a lot more this Mr. A. A. Dunstan, Premier of woman is thus able to remove pro-tokens, each worth 2 mills. The evening. Fish merchants don't live Victorin, declares that the Common-perty which she had in Germany." cence cost $3.50, The couple told very close
Mrs. Meyer was born in Germany. Jude Frank P. Wertz they had been cut we still try to keep in touch with plucing before the conference con- 1694 married a German sub-saving the tokens for a year.
rete defence proposals.
wealth failed to give a tend by not coro-
Police Constable Nicholls, ner's oflcer, gave an account of an interview with a mun whom he named "Edward Carmona," who lived in Stratton Street, Piccadily. The man was between 45 and 60, and the officer said he stated that he was the man referred to by Mrs. Smith.
"Carmona" would nol disclose whether he was married, but said that he had known Mrs. Wood for
the con-
M. Forgan Smith, Premier of lect who died in 1910, ... Queensland, states that ference
emphasised the luck national leadership. Any
tional planning was
She Junded at Dover on September
an immature.
of 20 last, and came to Londun to visit Idea
of her brother 10 discuss her future half-baked owing to her treatment In Germany.
Mr. Thorby sald the States agreed to co-operate with the Common- wealth, and approved the allocation
some time and had taken her out thing possible was being
of £2,000,000 for defence, Every-
When Fordham was arrested he told a policeman, "I ain't done nothing wrong. I got 35 quid and a new suit for marrying her."
to amusements. She was "highly establish new industries and make wealthy German
strung and excitable.
done to Mrs. Meyer, who is sald to be a Jewess, left the court with two other women.
"EASY 16D"
Australian defence as complete as
"He officer "that when he got there on Tuesday he found her in bed dis-atlons now in progress at Canberra Dutch Farmer Settlers-Negoti- treased. He arranged for her to go between representatives of the Com- to Paris, where she had friends. She did not say what she was da turbed about and he ("Catmona") thought she was simply run down
NOTE LEFT
continued the police possible. guys,'
Mr. McGowan, who Afterwards, was a witness in the case, but wan Netherlands Government may result was working as a jorry driver for a monwealth Government and the not called, said, "On September last I
on arrangement whereby migrants rm of caterers. from Holland will be brought to Australia, It is expected that most work, a fellow driver sympathised
When I was out of
with me and remarked, 'I can
put
of the men will be skilled farmers. you in the way of getting £80.
"I asked him how, and he ex-
Albert Arthur Pavor, a porter ut the flots, said that towels were NEW ZEALAND wedged round the window. Gas
plained, 'It you will go through a
was pouring from five tops and the TASMAN AIR MAIL IN for
woman was lying on the floor
dressed in grey trousers and yellow blouse. A letter was on the table.
The coroner said that Mrs. Wood had left a note to
which she said quite
FEBRUARY
Auckland.
of marriage.' It seemed БО easy that I agreed.
"A week later I was taken to some offices in Holborn-for the life of I cannot explain just exactly
some Scotland
Mr. F. Jones, Postmaster-Genera), me her father in announces that the Tasman
the note service will start in an air mail where they were, but I have got to
+2
of the
Yard oflcers
"There I was introduced to a man who was obviously a Ger- man, I understood him to be a solicitor. He asked me if I was
prepared to go through with this, and I said I was.
was taking her life although the notesy w star wins tested in Eng- to-morrow. did not give any real explanation.
ton! In November. Major Gordon H. T. Macintosh, of Collingwood Gardens, Earl's Court,
The service across the Tasman Sea sald Unt his daughter left his home Australian air mail, which has been
will be
continuation some two years ago because he did flying from England since July. It. not approve of her friends,
"She made acquaintances and 11,200 miles of open sca
will involve the regular crossing of considered-he said brokenly as lie tried to overcome his emotion, SOUTH AFRICA
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Harry, Toffee Apple Prince,
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The costermonger stopped selling chrysanthemums and bananas In the Lambeth-walk, put his diamond ring on his little finger and took the Missus to a ball recently.
It
Lambeth-walk Traders' Association was the annual dance of
Proof of the
success of the "wonder drug," sulphanilamide,
in the most dreaded of all lung Wolverhampton lobar pneumonia.
infections, has been obtained in and Walsall during an epidemic of the raro
Elght cases were. specially treated with sulphanilamide alone. All made rapid, complete recovery. Three of the cases at least would ordinarily have been regarded as hopeless.
| in Lambeth Baths, B.E., and if you
Lobur pneumonia, most deadly of think that Just because a man sells the four principal forms, killed 6,242 from a handcart he is no trader, you men and 3,094 women in 1936, the would have got your answer from last year for which complete figures
exist. Billy the Peanut Klog.
"Granted we don't doll up in a Dr. 5. C. Dyke, director of the dicky an' a pair o' swallows to sell pathological department of the Royal apporth of peanuts, lady, but Hospital, Wolverhampton, and his
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"When arrived home that night discussed the matter with my wife." we're ighly respected in the neigh- young Scots house surgeon, Dr. G. THE HONGKONG & CHINA GAS CO., LTD. Fordham overheard the conversation bourhood and paying members of C. K. Reld, give in a recent issue of
Coroner: You did not approve?~| ANTARCTIC PLANS OF and said he would go through with this 'ere association,
Majór Macintosh added that he was on good terms with his daughter and saw her from time to time. She
had no financial trouble, and so far
AS
there had been
ho knew threats of suicide.
LIVING ALONE.
Wood was not
SIR H. WILKINS
Cape Town,
il. That Is haw standing in the dock,
THREE MARRIAGES IN YEAR
he came to be
mine, a single
Billy could not bring his wife. She has had an accident, "fler zhoulder disconnected, lady." But
the Lancet their records of the right Casca.
RAPID RECOVERY Sir Hubert Wilkins, the explorer,
They say: "In every case exhibl- "know that the agent who in the others camo in pairs and betion of the drug was followed by no arrived here recently to take part in troduced me to this had married/ were in their working clothes.
Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth's forthcoming three times this year. A friend of Lambeth Walk, but the difference is pulse rate, and by general, improve- They had, of course, do the immediate fall of temperature and expedition to the Antarctic. The coroner said he was satisfied Sir Hubert will be in charge of the letters asking about his willingness music. They just walk It, and a
man, has received that these people did not need thement. it was a case of suicide and equally base ship, Wyatt Earp, while Mr. to enter into these marriages."
walta looks like the Walk when they was administered in fult and efficient "In all cases in which the drug satisfied that Mrs.
Lincoln Ellsworth, with another pilot,
"This solicitor' in Holborn do it. wholly responsible ut the time. She will undertake à 2,000-mile fight
had looked me over, and then
They gave it the fervour of a uneventful and recovery rapid."
dosage the subsequent yielded to some
course was sudden Impulse from Enderby Land to the Bay of
shaken his head, saying that I Walte in Vienna, a when worried and troubled..
Whoice.
Charleston tri was too young. I am over.5D, New York, a Tanro in Spain, and Clothing Factories' "She had been living alone,"
Four doctors have reported cases Pught.-Nine
and I gathered from that the
one over danced the Lambeth of sulphanliamide treniment added, "and had various men friends out of 10 clothing factories in Cape
woman I had to marry was Walk half as well as Harry, the pneumonia since, less than a year some apparently vood deal of dise It is said, to competition from Japan, Town are working short time, owing, fond of her
much older Mrs. Meyer is 60. Toffee Apple Prince, after his fourth ago, it was fried in England. and causing her a Rood
"Evidently she insisted upon the brown ale and a baby's head (mcal Wrieall and Wolverhampton results tress, so that it is not surprising that Central Europe and the United man she married having a new pudding). from being a self-respecting, healthy States.
black coat and striped
confirm recent experiments with more trousers. And they picked their Rogue Hippo Shat.-A rogue hippo When Fordham turned up for the queena sweet, young girl.of six- Hospital. young woman she became extreme-
beauty than 100 casas In Dudley-rond ly excitable and took to drink. (potamus which has been ralding drars rehearsal, the solicitor told teen, dark haired, with pink ebecka. Bartholomew's Hospital, London.
Diminsham. and SL. She was on perfectly good terms crops on the banks of the Pangola him to get a new shirt and collar They cheered her like mad--and with her father and merely left him | River for some months, has been and to clean his finger nails."
that no doubt was wise, because she Most of the Cases in which toʻlive, by horself because he did not shot. It was cut up by the natives Mr.
cach man had to sign a docu- daughter, "quite properly," seksk
pepolamus,
ment "agreeing that he would have "Now then, mowe'un
he
no
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