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December 19, 1938.
WOMAN OF 70 STRUGGLED
WITH ARMED BURGLAR
'He Was a Good Boy'
Verdict on Man Her Son Shot
"She is an old lady of 70, but it was a test many of us would not like to be put to," commented the coroner at Birmingham inquest recently referring to "the very brave act" of a woman who struggled with an intruder and sat on him while her son went for help.
"Justifiable homicide" was the verdict on William George Hart (36), of Eminch Lane, Barton-under-Needwood, near Burton- on-Trent, who died from tetanus after being remanded on a charge of house-breaking
He was shot in the leg during a struggle, when surprised by Mrs. Harriet Winmill and her son Jack at their house at Croxall.
They had heard footsteps upstairs on returning home, nad found a bedroom ransacked. Mr. Jack Winmill fetched a gun he had bought the night before; Mrs. Winmill armed herself with n torchlight and walkhig stick.
"We did not know how many were เอา there," Mrs. Winmll told the coroner. There might have been one, two, three or four,,
door
"MOVE AND I SHOOT
then entered the "My of my root. I could see a man crouching in the far corner in front ot a chest of drawers. He had a eyele lump.
"My son said, "Move and I wil shoot, she added. "The min turned
rutind and my sen said, "Why, it's U Hart. What are you doing here? He mumbled some thing and then crouched down with his back towards is,
"I thought he was going to pick up a Arcuri and advanced towards him with my stick. I thought if he were going to fire I would
either knock it out of his hand or take the bullet myself. Instead he put the light out and picked up a poker."
Hart, she mid, struck her three or four times on the top of her head an shoulder, und she broke her walk- ing stick on him.
"HE'LL DO US BOTH IN" He caught her by the threat al: threw her on the bed, and she say her son being struck with the poker,
"There was blood streaming down i my son's fire, und 1 shouted, "Shoot, Jack, or he'll do us both in,"
Then I heard the shot. When I not myself together I found the still struggling at the top of the Stairs, and he still held the poker and
downstairs.
"Lung" Was On Way to Dying Girl
WAS
While 31 "Iron lung" being rushed from Birmingham Children's Hospital in answer to a midnight broadcast 8 0 8, the medical staff at Liverpool Rayal Infirmary made an unsuccessful fight for the life of a 20-year-old girl with Infantlle paralysis.
The patient. Diana Jones, of Aigburth Road, Liverpool, died at one o'clock in the morning.
Efforts to keep her allve with oxygen and artificial respiration until the "tung" arrived proved unavalling.
Clue In Dead
Girl Riddle
CRICCIETH.
A young farm servant who
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Asbestos Man At Fair
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background of metal flames, at the building's entrance.
LIVED IN ONE ROOM Hermit
ON 30s., LEFT
Must Quit
£113,000 TO STATE His Camp
Bristol.
FOR months grey-bearded, 86-year-old Mr. Albert On By-Pass
Grave lived on 30s. a week in a bed-sitting-room at Clarence Road, New Cut, refusing to have a fire in the coldest weather, living on the simplest of food and wear ing old clothes.
When he fell down in the, street, injuring his nose, he was taken to hospital, but insisted on being sent home. To a doc- tor who thought he should take a taxi he said: "I have no money for taxis."
A young man assisted him to walk home. At the suggestion
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heard shouts for help from he lived, he produced a shilling! girl in a car with three mens reward. has opened a new line of inquiry into the death of an, unknown
of Mrs. Nicholls, in whose house In Private
Next morning he died from was trying to push Jack backwards girl whose body was found in haemorrhage. That was in Sep-
"1 went to help, and between us the sea off Black Rock here re-tember. we pushed Hart down on the land-cently.
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Mrs. Winunili said that her con Actually, additional informa
three sources.
went for help and she set on Hart tion has been received from on one of the stairs. "He took hand "and said, 'Mrs. Winmill. I am sorry. Don' semi for the police. Keep it quiet. It whi
upset my mother."
Mrs Enid Williams, the farm ser- vant, is reporter! to have stated that at 10 pan, on Mundy, while walking "I told him, "You naughty lad-you with a girl friend in the country. didn't study your mother or me when four miles from the point where the you came here. Then I saw how body was discovered, she noticed a badly he was bleeding, and made a small saloon car parked at the side tablecloth into a tourniquet, which ar the road. fied above the wound,"
AIMED LOW
Recently his will was published,
£150,000 was the total entate:
£37,772 goes in Estate Duty: £5,000 to charity: £200 in four personal gifts, £113,000, the residue to Chancellor of the Exchequer redution of the National Debt.
of hiz
and
the
for
ROOM OF MEMORIES Mrs. Nicholls said that a year ago Mr. Grave---who called himself Gray
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Wimbledon's
picturesque
"man of mystery," who five years ago made his home in a clump of bushes on the Kingston) by-pass, must leave the town.
Since the day he arrived with his belongings tied up in old sacks and pitched camp beside the road at the entrance of a factory, residents have wondered as to his identity.
Everyone in the town knew him as Sir Rolani Walters. Children called him "the begey man.”
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In Wimbledon police court recently he stood in the dock under the name of Walter Avery, aged 40, charged The contrast modern housing of the troops
between
with persistently the
wandering
and the old-fashioned barracks, possession when arrested.
and lodging in the open air.
He had more than a pound in his wag described as astonishing by air. F. S. Mallett, presiding magis Major-Gen. J. H. Beith (lantrale, interrupted the constable who Hay), War Office Director of was giving
ving evidence with:
"I know Marina House, 10., Queen's Road C. better
ter than Public Relations, recently.
you do, constable, and he knows me." Major-Gen, Beith was inspecting He told Avery:
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an open-air the Designs Branch of the Director-life, I know, but you are an educated ate of Fortifications, housed just off man and you must put a stop to it." the Strand, which is concerned with
released on promising Avery was the housing of the troops.
to leave the tow
town. During the inspection, twa in- A police official said: "Every stances were mentioned of the man-morning
him
he
gone to a nearby
water
for
his
ner in which endeavour is made to shop and fetched hot meet the wishes of the soldier.
It washing and his breakfast." was stated that:
he has bought
In it were -three ines and a girl-knocked at her duor and asked it Parade grounds to-day are screened cunt y
As she paned, the driver pulled his
he could have a bed-sitting room.
"He told me that over 20 years ago
The son said that he "held the cap over his eyes and turned up his he had lived in this house, and he felt un low to hit his legs it possible. ens collar. She heard the nose of he would like to come and live in a It was the
one way of stoppingja struggle, and the girl called for room which had memories for him," Sitting by the are in her home
hism.
Mis. Winmill said: "Poor Hurt.
i
help:
Miss
He
Williams
she added,
abel she
Was
was good boy and a clever frightened and ran away. mechanic” who could have earned his living anywhere, und poor Mrs. Hart, his mother. What a dreadful thing it must be for her.
RAZOR BLADES IN CAR From another source the police am very strong for ny age tands near Black Rock at 6.45 a.m. learn that a our was seen on the she went on. "muinly because I have worked hard all my life, and I have on Monday and had the appearance
A third report is of a girl answer-
were he
"What those memories never said,
"When he came in, I asked if he could afford to pay 27, a week for is board and laundry. He said, 'Of course,'
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for a walk.
of having been there overnight.)
"Mr. Grave spoke to no one, and lived in the country. I was horn at Razor blades were seen in the dish-only occasionally left his room to go Kenilworth, and I shall never go and board pocket of the car. live in a town. People say to me, 'I suppose you will leave that
"Even on the coldest days he re- now: but I say, "What is the good?" in the description of the unknown fused to pay a few coppera extra for
There have been eight burglaries rocks alone on Saturday afternoon,
ries dead girl, sec walking on deserted a fire in his room. His meals were simple, and for ten he would have recently in Alrewas, nearby, and the
The funeral of man has never been caught. One of
unidentiaed only bread and butter, and some- the burglaries was in broad daylight, ri, on whom an open verdiet was times Jom. His clothes were old, so I am as safe here as anywhere, returned postponed in the hope that and he never bought anything new." The railway hos given me this house there may yet be evidence of iden-known him receive was from Mr. as long as I want it, and only having | fification,
'an old-age pension and my son's. earnings, I can't afford to move, ony- way,"
Kick Kicks Back
the
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BEOWARE, Nev,
The only letter Mrs. Nicholls, had
Alfred John Loughton, of Market | Place, Southwell, Nottinghamshire, to whom he left £50.
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of shop and his fond and then from the public gaze whenever has sat on his bundles watching the
so that the raw recru** possible,
raffle go by, or pured up and down will not have to drill under the the road smoking his clay pipe, deep critical eye of his girl friend.
in thought.
At Aberdeen the troops asked that a wall should be built rou.nl the parade ground, so that the public could not watch them. Major Gen. Beth, in his speech,
suid:
"Forty years ago I was n private In one of the old volunteer corps, the Cambridge University Rifle Volun- teers, and we did our annual training in barracks at Aldershot, doubled up with a line battalion.
"Quite apart from the general dis comfort and squalor, there was n so nothing as hot water, and you had to go out of doors for everything.
"Now everything is under one roof, which makes an enormous difference
to the comfort of the soldier."
WOMAN IN CAR
"Never has he given any clue to where he came from, why he lived such a strange life, or who kept him supplied with money.
"A big saloon car drives up to him two or three times every week. He shamblea to the door, han brief conversation with. D fashionably- dressed woman inside, is handed nla 'allowance, and then returns to his ramp."
A few days before the police took
him before, the Wimbledon bench
when Mr. Mollett asked why he had Ile undertook to leave the town, but not gone, he said simply that
could not leave.
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telephone generally should be encouraged to apparatus was made by the substitute for rod-and-chain steering
n system At the Union Church last night the assessors at the Board of Trade all vessels,
along the street, took a healthy kickered the trailer on fire.
of music and solos from the "The the loss Unable to Messiah." G. E. Longyear was at the at a cardboard box in his way. Hos- unhook it, their only alternative to organ, and the following artists gave with 17 men off the Gower the bridge alone, but should be dis- steamer Sallars' and Firemen's Union, had ex- Glanrhyd, which went down pressed the view during the hearing i that the boy keep the dames from spreading to their services. Eva Turner, Helen
that lifebells should not be kept on wrenched his left leg and dislocated the autoniobile was by fast driving, Lockhart, L. T. Ride, G. d'Aquino Coast last January.
to outrun the flames. This they did. Prue Lewis, E. Pellegatti.
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Quinton Jessee, 14, walking lily and traller to new "diggings,"
and prefer to tre dita nilamobile service took the form of a recital inquiry at Cardiff recently into Captain James Griffiths, for the
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