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December 22,
Starving Man Who Pushed Wife in Pram 20 Miles To Hospital
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"We Ate Stale Bread and Slept on Straw" GIRL OF 13, THEIR LITTLE MOTHER, SHARED ORDEAL
AN
N ALMOST incredible story of starvation and hardship was brought to light when Edward Burrows, a 42-year- old unemployed labourer, former seaman and ex-Inniskilling Fusilier, staggered up to Queen Mary's Hospital, Strat- ford, E., with a perambulator in which he had pushed his sick wife 20 miles from Crockenhill, near Swanley, in Kent.
Mr. Burrows, his wife, Ethel, and their 13-year-old daughter Kitty have been homeless and starving for months. They are Londoners, but, faced with starvation in London, decided to make for the country.
They have been sleeping in huts and barns and in the open fields, living on serups of bread and mar- garine, an odd potato or so, and water from streams,
Mrs. Burrows Injured herself some weeks ago working in the potato fields. Such was her faith in Queen Mary's Hospi- ial that she asked her husband to take her there.
Soven-Hour Trek Through Fog
The emaciated little family left their bed of straw in an unfurnished caravan which let in the water and the cold. Mrs. Burrows was put into a child's perambulator, covered with blankets and propped up with old sacks.
Mr. Burrows, of short stature and starved until he weighs only Bat., set off to push her the 20 miles across London. For seven hours he trundled the perambulator through the thick to the fog and crowded streets, and then handed her over Bympathetic folk at the hospital.
was in dire need of medical They soon realised that she
Mr. Burrows saw his wife in a clean, white bed, his attention. daughter Kitty sent to friends-then he collapsed. He, ton, spent the night at the hospital.
Here is the story, by Mr. Burrows himself:
have been married 17 years and
1 had a good job, bu fost it through
bad no
no fault of my own. We were in in two rooms in Hackney. dole and ho income.
I'LL FIND WORK...
"I could not pay the 11s, weekly rent, so I said to my wife: 'We'll go into the country and I'll find work somehow. We left the furniture.to pay the rent, took the blankets and
the
and utensils in
pram started. We had a loaf and about 65. or 79.
SOUTH
Cyclist In Pond Was Drowned
A post-mortem recently by Sir Bernard Spilsbury con- firmed the police in their belief that the cyclist found dead in the pond at Putney some time ago was drowned, and hnd not been knocked down by and thrown in when dend,
During the week-end the man was identified as Robert Charles Stacey, aged 20, a butcher's assistant, of Kidoran Road, Brixton, S.W. He had been missing from home for nurly four weeks,
car
His mother said: "My son had 10 iceth out in the summer, and the day before he disappeared had com- plained of violent toothache.
George Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago reviews a company of Faselst militiamen drawn up to hongur him ca la arrival in Naples. The Cardinal was en route to Rome to report to the Pope on the Eucharistie Congress in which he participated in high offices in New Orleans. He attended the beatl deation ceremonies of the American nun, Mother Cabrini.
CHECK-UP
RAID
IN £10,000 INQUIRY
Scotland Yard detectives aided Vine Street police
officials recently in a widespread check-up of missing and
« got a job, fruit and potato pick-abandoned cars for a clue to the thieves who stole £10,000 ing near Swanley at 10s. a week.worth of jewels from the safe of the West End firm of That was last June. My wife war Andre Downes and Co., Ltd., in one of the most daring was also potato-picking, hurt herself
at the work in the second week In raids of recent years. July, and fually I had to seek work elsewhere,
"We walked about 40 miles to a
place called Marden. Then we went
At every farm I ask
un to Yalding. ed for work.
"We were living where we could
at nights--somethines in old huts, sometimes in barns.
"I bought stale bread and mar-
garine, and we drank water from
the streams.
"We cooked with at fire of twigs when there was anything to cook. WIFE ILL IN HUT
"My wife was lying ill in u hut nearly all the time. Then she had to
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Still confined to his home in Scarborough Road, Stroud Green, his head swathed in bandages, was Mr. Leslie Coote, chief clerk to the firm, whose midnight phone call to the Yard first raised the alarm.
He told of
an attack by four men who held him prisoner, bound, gagged and blindfold, for two hours while his keys were used to enter the office and rifle the safe.
Mr. Coote was said to be too upset to see the shaken and Press, but his brother, Mr. G. Coote, said.
"I understand he was hit on the go to, hospital for 10 days for head by a heavy blunt instrument.
To work operation. I went back near Swanley to be near her,
"We slept in a hut in a field. My wife came out of hospital and joined us. My work ended, and when I got another job loading beet I fell in the
was to start.
day
With the new job, we had gone to live in the caravan, which was terribly cold and let the water in
"We slept on a bed made of straw and my wife was very
n sub from the boss and
my wife a
brown loaf. some butter and some brandy to keep her alive. Kitty and I had stale bread and margarine.. "The only Are we had was what we could make with the twigs we collected.
GIRL "MOTHER"
"My brother told me that he was attacked as he was about to enter Scarborough Road from Upper Tol- lington Park, Islington, about 9.20 on Friday night. He was on his way home from Finsbury Park
Station.
"BUNDLED INTO CAR"- "The impression he got was that there were four men in the gang.
the office early on Saturday he found the safe was empty, the missing gems
raw stones. including a £4,000 bracelet and some
Mr. J. Yerrell, who lives near the Coates, sald that several times re- cently he and his son have seen two strange men waiting in Scarborough Road.
'No Snobs Here,?
Says Countess
HARK!
1938.
A RUSTLING
PASADENA, Cal.
Ask him what he'd like from
Mackintosh's
If you happen' to 'phone him when he's half
dressed, don't be sur-
prised if he demands a
luxurious brocade
dressing gown from
$19.50).
GEM
Nere's Luck!
EWO
A New
BEER
Piano for Christmas
Police officials were especially grateful to a woman who tele- phoned them that she could hear rustling in the bushes in her
would yard and asked if they Investigate. Two motorcycle off- cials responded, crept cautiously Into the bushes and that night they had possum for their midnight, meal.
SCHOOL PRIZE-DAY
Ellis Kadoorie Boys Like Gymnastics
That the boys have beurßted (rum ED mentally physically and minutes a week of physical training, was reported by the Headmaster, Mr. C. Mycock, at the annual prize giving of the Ellis Kadourie School, yester- day.
Mrs. Lawrence Kadoorie distributed the prizes, after which she congra- tulated the boys on their hard work and donated a Challenge Cup for any purpose the Headmaster thought request, the of Carlisle, hon. fit. At Mrs. Kadoori
y, to-day. The Counters
commandant of the Women's boys were given a ho Auxiliary Territorial Service in Cum- Mr. Mycock sold at Part: The berland, recently refuted allegations | daily average attendance from a or snobbery in women's movements. | maximum enrolment of 470 was 421, She said that she "resents" state- an increase of 25 compared with last
M.P.
year.
The average attendance is unusual- The countess, who is helping toy low, 80.71 per cent. It cannot be in many organise branches and officers in the explained by sickness. county, said: "None of the officers se, however, attendance has been adversely affected by, war conditions are being chasen on the ground of
in the adjncent territories. Remit- social position."
tances for fees have been delayed or withheld, und boys have had unusual difteulties to face on return from holidays.
"After he had been struck he was bundled into a car, where he was tied with rope and gagged. Some material was then put over his head so that he could not see where he was going.
"The car stopped after being driven some distance and my brother believes it slood for about two hours in a building, probably a garage.ments made by Miss Ellen Wilkinson, There he was guarded by two men while the others went away.
"When the others returned the car "Kitty was a good little soul. She was mother. I would wrap my wife drove off again and then it slowed The ropes were taken off my in annet, and Kitty would stay and down. look after her and keep us all clean brother and he was pushed out into by doing what we called a family the gutter.
don't know where we "By the time he had regulned his
feet the car had gone too far for him would have been without her..
The Women's Instllute movement "We stayed on in the caravan, but to identify it.
was active in villages throughout A friend of "Stacey, Miss Evelyn my wife was so ill that she had lo
Cumberland, but it worked without Daniels, of North Street, Clapham, come to hospital. She wanted to
"It was then about 11.30 and he
any class distinction. The same was S.W., said: "Robert and I had known
come to Queen Mary's because they
found himself in St. Paul's Road,true of the women's political organi each other for two years and were had been so good to her mother, thinking of becoming engaged ut "I had a shilling and I had to buy Canonbury. After he phoned police sations and other movements.
officers took him to Islington police Christmas. He was in excellent brandy, which left me with 3d, until station, where he spent the night. "There are at least three titled spirits when I last saw him, the somente gave me 4d. when we got to
"Yesterday the police called here women in this county who are most night before he disappeared, and Peplar. we parted the best of friends."
"Kitty walked all the way. We and took my brother to Vine Street active in useful public work."
police station and he spent several got to the hospital at half-past seven. hours with the C.I.D. there."
"My wife is very ill, they told me "It was almost film-like." the kid- at the hospital, but I have seen her." napped clerk told his brother in dla
Kitty s now staying with rela- cussing the affair when he got home. was called to
"As far as we know he had no troubles of any kind."
BERGNER'S
£100,000
FILM
LAW SUIT
£100,000
An action concerning a contract for the services in two
in pending in the High Court.
wash.'
Lives.
VISITS STATION
When Mr. Downes
DIVER SEES
SEES DEAD
PILOT IN
IN COCKPIT
NO CLASS DISTINCTION
Lady Carlisle pointed out that wo- were doing public men of leisure work for which business women did not have the time.
"EXCLUSIVE SET"
In Class 4, uitogether 57 boys yield- ed 35 passes of 41 per cent, and gained seven Government Scholar- ships.
In Classes 5, 6, 7 and 8, a total of 403 boys were examined, and 328 or 81 per cent. passed.
These results show a marked im- provement in purely English subjects. In Chinese throughout the school only 27 boys failed.
Where There Are Children There Should Be A Piano.
Choose Your Piano To-day
at
ANDERSON'S
Ice House St.
retirement as
It was possible throughout the year for euch class to have the required Miss Ellen Wilkinson, M.P., speak-o minutes per week for Physical and happy ing at Jarrow about the Auxillary Training. That the boys have bene- reward to their Inbours. Territorial Service, said it did not fitted physically and mentally is be partieularly matter that a few score
yond question. Not only do they titled women had been appointed as enter into work with evident enjoy- commandants, but it was a symptom
ment, but the adoption of class of the whole attitude of the Govern colours has given them a pride in their personal appearance not pre- ment towards the rest of them.
viously shown, Millions of women were asked to
were given the positions of comman-
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anting Guruna wild the offerings amounted
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
Prizes Distributed By Mr. LJ Yau-chuen
to $8,500, and the deficit $9,000 for the year.
reached
Fr. Guarona thanked Mr. A. W. Hughes, Mr. Eu Tong-sen, Mr. J. H. Taggart,
Mr. Tse Kn-pe, the Hong-
kong Telephone Company, the Fo Loung
Kule, the Hongkong Football
Hongkong
The third graduation ceremony Association, the Ministering League The various Leagues provide valu-and distribution of prizes of the St. to Children, and the films of Elizabeth Bergner and her Descending 40 feet into the sea off Amble, Northum-join up. but a small exclusive set
able training for the boys. Not so Louis Industrial School, West Point, Benevolent Society, for their support. producer husband, Dr. Paul Czinner, berland, recently, a diver located an R.A.F. plane which ants, Probably, as a resuit of the long ago indifferent playing success took place in the school playground A display of Hymnastics was given was suffelent to kill Interest in any yesterday. Mr. Li Yau-chuon gave and a number of songs rendered by be paid for their services in each Curl (25), of Feltham, Middlesex, sitting dead in the the head they would get snobbery all unobtainable, and playing against School, said the school roll showed
It is pleaded that 200,000 was to crashed there a week ago, and saw Pilot-Sergeant W. A. fuss, other women would get in, but
the 'boys. game. In practice the leagues givenway the awards. if they had 60 of the upper class at
the boys social contacts otherwisc flim and they are the plaintiffs, to- gether with
the way down. company, cockpit. # private
stronger and older opponents, they Dramatic and Cinematograph Assó-
learn to accept defeat in a proper being eintion, Lid,, in a claim against Tra- falgar Film Productions, Ltd.
Liability for £2,470 has been ud- mitted by Trafalgar Film Produc- tions, who are counter-claiming for £20,000 paid in respect of the second fim and for damages for alleged
breach of contract.
The first film, "Dreaming Lips," was produced, but the second was not made and the question is rained
as to whose fault this was.
hearing The case, act down for before a King's Bench judge sitting without a jury, la expected to last seven days.
The body of his companion, Aircraftman Joseph Millican (20), of Haydon Bridge, Northumberland, was under the ma- chine.
Millican was brought by a rope to the surface, but when the plane was salvaged a little later Curl's body had vanished from the cockpit. It was not recovered.
manner,
Fr. J. Guarona, Director of the
Inn attendance of 580 boys, zeventy boarders. This was an in- eroase of 100 over last year; while My Proposal that the annexe on 200 applicants had been refused nd- mission because of lack of accom- gymnualum has been approved by modation... Government, and work is to begin The work done inchided print- soon. It is hoped Government willing and bookbinding in the Industrial also approve provision of facilities School. The attendance touched nf for swimming at Kennedy Benchtoverage of 08 per cent. next year.
All the classes had splendid suc- I wish to offer Mr. de Romo and cesses in the examinations, while Headmaster our school competitions in Chinese, Eng- and writing proved of great put on, as amusement for themselver, and nine influence on the school, and interest and value as a stimulus.
our warmest good wishes for a long Regarding the School budget, Fr.
Night Club Owners Hospital Hond be converted into a
Clubby
Following a conference an Alnmouth fisherman, Jolm Stewart, one of the first to arrive after the accident, necompanied R.A.F. officers to the place where he saw oll babbling to the surface from the submerged plane | the world's greatest fans of night and marked the spot with a buoy.
Dengging operations were redoubled and about midday the diver went down and located the plane.
A salvage bont returned to Amble harbour with the wrecked plane
on board.
SAN FRANCISCO. Night club owners apparently are
clubs. When the Night Club Owners
Association of this city held its frst sincere thanks for their past work lish
Mr. Kay-former
anual convention and round-up, it
a floor show.
CONTINENTAL
STURDY and
STRONG
CARLOWITZ
4, Queen's pe