GAOLED MAYFAIR MAN'S FATHER
FOUND DEAD
W
7ITHIN a few hours of learning that his son, one of the four young Mayfair men who raided a country house, had been sent to prison for 18 months, John Wirth Miller (58) was recently found dead in a gas-filled room at his Folkestone home.
Police made the discovery when they were called to the house! in Bouverie Road West, following a smell of gas.
The night before Mr. Miller and his wife heard that their 25-year-old son, William John Miller, had been sentenced at Derby Assizes that day for his part with three others in breaking Into a house at Chinley and stealing articles worth £300.
The son, formerly a solicitor's clerk in Folkestone, was then living] al Archer Street, W.
"They felt the disgrace keenly," salda friend of the faintly, "and for nome days before the trial Mr. Miller had been depressed,
"Father and son were estranged. When the son lived at home they did not speak to one another. I think the faller felt that his son's mode of living would bring about his down- fall sooner or later,"
Mr. Miller, a German by birth, was a naturalised Englishman. He had been interned during the war at Alexandra Park.
He took out naturalisation papers after the war and for many yearA had lived at Folkestone, where he helped his wife to run a boarding- house.
DEADLY ARRIVALS
AT THE ZOO
"The Return
Of The Duke"
The Duke of Windsor has seerpied a march entitled "The Return of
Duke and Duchess of Windsor." composed and sent to him by Mr. Johnny Colnen and Miss H. Williamson. af Worthing, Sussex,
A letter of acceptance was the received recently from Duke's secretary.
Johnny Colnen wrote the music for the Edgar Wallace
play. "The Crimson Circle. He is a violinist and Mins Wil- Hamson is his accompanist.
mtunċes).
Twelve Palack widows" frenom- jous spiders).
A number of deadly moccasin snakes and other nenomous reptiles, The above have arrived in pack ing cases) from Philadelphia Zoo under an exchange scheme.
The Zoo had éxpected about a score
Friday
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December 23, 1938.
Mrs. C. I. Shand's puplis photographed at their recent annual pianoforte recital-Ming Yuen,
Girl Conscious
Again
After 100 Days
AFTER being unconscious for more than 100 days, Miss Jenny
Aitken has recovered consciousness and has been moved from! hospital at Leven (Fife) to a nursing home, ·
Saves Babies
The difculty of carrying out blood transfusions on very young children has been solved.
Her condition, however, 1* $1 Í serious,
The girl, on Anstruther bus con- ductress, fell from a bus as it was being driven through Leven, and re- reived severe head injuries.
PARENTS' VIGIL
Her father and mother and other An apparatus has been designed by ja member of the medical sinif at the members of the family visited thei Royal Waterlog Hospital, and install-hospital dally and kept vigil at the ed there, which makes it possible to irl's bedside. give transfusions to babies only a few hours old.
The importance of the discovery is emphasised by the fact that there has recently been considerable mortality among London children from what THE Zoo has just received one af tilesnakes. The 180 that have has been called "summer sickness." of its most dangerous con-arflved all alive and wriggling are though the complaint is not confined signments.
more than Regent's Park bargained to any one season.
for but it means that the Zoo now Where blood transfusion could be One hundred rattlesnakes fa bite has a number of rattlesnakes for ex-carried out the baby's life was almost from one cal cause death in 20 change with other British 2008, linvariably saved.
Kill Kidney
Her 28th birthday was celebrated while she lay unconscious.
School's Air Defence Squadron
LATYMER Upper School. Hammersmith, in the first school In the country to form an Alr Defence Cadet Squadron.
The Air League of the British Empire aims to raise such cadet units in every town of 40,000 or more inhabitants, and cadeis receive spare time training in aviation subjects.
Mr. F. Wilkinson, the head- master, salil. "The unit will be melt-supporting and it will have the backing of the whole school,"
"Henometer" Stamps Eggs
bo
Last year a London woman Was
SYDNEY, Australia. unconscious for 135 days after falling
Hens in Australia will soon from the root of an Oxford Street punching time clocks just like office store.
and factory workers. A "Heno- meter" has been invented, which will The new apparatus, is so simple automatically stamp each egg with that it can be got into action in three the breed of the hen and the date of minutes, and all the parts that need the egg. The device is intended to sterilising could be packed in a half- prevent the sale of preserved eggs for pint mug.
fresh ones.
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