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January 5, 1939.
G.M.C. HEAR AMAZING TALE OF DOCTOR AND MARRIED WOMEN
"Guilty” But Not Struck Off
AN amazing story of a married doctor and a
married woman, in which allegations of blackmail were made, was told in London recently to the General Medical Council.
Dr. John Christopher Jones, of Glebe, South Yardley, Birmingham, was found guilty of "infamous conduct in a professional respect" by committing adultery with the woman, Mrs. Hesba Woodman, usually known as Mrs. H. M. B. Jones, of Washwood Heath-road, Birmingham, on March 6, 1934, while he was her medical adviser,
The council, however, decided not to crase his name from the medical register.
Mr. A. S. Pereira said the "No, they have nol," replied Mr. complainant in the case was Mr. Jones.
Edward Jones, no relative to anyone in the case, but a lifelong friend of Mrs. Woodman and her family.
Mr. Pereira said that in 1922 or 1023 Dr. Jones was medical adviser at Portloc, near Truro, to Mrs. Blamey and her two daughters, Mrs. Puckey and Mrs. Woodman.
Mrs. Woodman, however, was then known an Miss Blamey-she had kept her marrloge secret from every- one, even her mollier,
In 1028 Dr. Jones was asked by the husband to attend Mrs. Woodman at her second confinement.
After this, according to Dr. Jones, she began to pester him.
Dr. Jones moved to Chatham and
"SAVED"
Mr. Pereira said he had been Instructed by Mr. Jones that if the evidence of Mrs. Woodman, which would be of a painfal nature, could not be given in camera, and unless she could bo referred to as Mrs. Jones, and not as Men, Woodman, he would not allow her to be called.
The council refused the applien- tion, and so the case for the com- plainant closed.
In evidence Dr. Jones said Mrs. Woodman was always saying that she had saved him-meaning that she could have reported him to the coun- cll.
Mr. Roberts: Is there any truth
Pauline Neubronner and Cynthia and Rosalind, daughters of Mr. D. O. Silver, as they appeared in the Y.M.C.A. Pantomime, "Cinderella".-King's Studio.
G.M.C. Hear Widow's Divided Plea For Doctor Who Time
Killed Her Husband Between
Two Homes
the Blameys followed him. Later he whitely on allegation of rape? BROUGHT from prison to appeal went to Australia for 2 years, re--Absolutely none.
with his brother in Birmingham.
A CRY
Edward Mrs.
months' to
"Surely these prople would not turning in 1931 to go into partnership March 6, 1934, Dr. Jones, speaking recently. Dr. David Davidson Wat- some grudge against me, but they Asked to tell what happened on General Medical Council in London entirely to blame. They would have for his future career before the write to me it they thought I was
with great emotion, said:
r received telephone calls that son, of Wakefield, serving a 20 don't."" Jones said that at Chatham in his commodman had gone away
The widow wrote: "I thought I for manslaughter, read letters from the mother and must write you again to say baby and
sentence widow of the man be killed.
myself are both well. I have met the bottom of my heart you will be and appreciate your services."
The widow said:
I hope from several people lately who knew you able to continue your good work among the sick."
Giving evidence, Mr.
presence Dr. Jones tried to induce
suicide. These cails came repeatedly dur- Mrs. Woodman to go to Australia Ing the day and finally there came with him, saying he was willing to all late in the evening, asking leave his own family.
me to go there. I went, I believed He had been paying Mrs, Wood- when I went that it was true. man £1 a
£1 a week.
In September 1932 he moved to Station-road, Birmingham.
.bim
"Mrs, Puckey (Mrs. Woodman's sister) told me Mr. Jones had found her rushing about like a wild thing on the railway slation and had but he pleaded in vain. brought her back,"
be
Crased.
The doctor pleaded that to be struck off the register "can only be equalled by imprisonment for life,"
'MOTHER'S SYMPATHY The mother'a letter said: "I hope you are keeping very well. It must all be very trying to you, and offer you my sympathy. I am sure that, given an opportunity of begin ning again, you will make good."
Watson said that he
had no
pri-
-Bigamy case Allegation
Sold to have spent half the week with his wife and the other half with a woman he is clleged to have mar- ried bigamously, Henry de la Ber- tauche (50), caterer, Crescent, Potters Bar, was recently of Allandale at Clerkenwell committed for trial on a charge of bigamy,
Describing the scene on March 6, 1034, he said at lunch time he was in
The Council ordered his name to the kitchen and the children in the
ᏘᏣ ᏗᏓ drawing room.
VISIONS OF COURT
Watson was sentenced at Man-
Annie de la Bertauche. Allandale "Dr. Jonca and Mrs. Woodman Dr. Jones faltered and sat with his chester Assizes in July for man- vate means and no other calling age that prisoner, whom she married Crescent, said it was about two years were in the dining-room. I heard head in his hands for a minate before slaughter by killing a cyclist as he Ils friends had stood by him. A her. cry out and I went to the door.
continuing.
drove a car while under the influence doctor had offered him help.
at Islington in 1914, began spending "Dr. Jones was then about to come "bud visions she might have of drink.
He spoke of his 20 months' dis-only three days a week at home. out of the dining-room door with the committed suicide. She might throw
Mr. F. P.
When her husband was in hospital Winterbotham, acting comfort, "to be measured by the intention of leaving, but I stopped herself under a rallway train. She solicitor to the Council, suld that hour, by the day, by the week, and the other woman came to make in-
might do away with herself.
Watson was before, the Council in by the month.
quiries about him. "I asked him it "He said to me, 'is this what you
May, 1930, following a conviction "You are, in effect, being asked the other lady. He said 'Yos
it was true that he was married to wan!?' put his hands up
for being drunk in charge of a car.
to-day 10 sen
sentence me a second time tacked me.
Watson told the Counell that a for the some offence," he declared.
Esther Parker, a cleaner of Liver- The children came on the scene. against me.
ipoal Rond, Islington, was cyclist turned into his path from the
called. He produced a number of letters. Have you been living with anyone?" Mrs. Woodman was on the settee, cry-
One from the Mayor of Wigon she was asked. "When she came I was terribly re-wrong side of the road; he swerved ing.
"We had a Oght, during which the up to her, put my arms around her, cyclist. and as he was returning to ment was severe and that he sincere-reply, with a nod towards the dock. lieved to see her alive, and I went to his own wrong side to avoid this stated that Watson's present punish- "My husband, of course," was her sideboard capsized and some furni- feeling terribly grateful that she his proper side two other cyclists ly hoped that he might have the ture, was broken,
"The children screamed.
hadn't committed suicide, I held her rode in front of him. He hit the opportunity of assisting him. were very trightened, Eventually committed adultery.
They light, and she held on to me, and I back wheel of one of the machines.
He had had two escorted the doctor out of the door.
small whiskies
and
"I had visions of a coroner's in- ut- quest, identifying the body, and sort of opprobrium which might be hurjed
"When I saw him next I told him whatever in this story of rape at mid- that I was tired of that method of uy and her screaming and fighting treatment and it was time he put that, and upsetting the furniture? Just a GOTI of thing out of his head and let pack of lies. her live a decent life.
Mr. Roberts: is there any truth and a glass of beer.
"His reply," said Mr. Jonea, "was always the same: I love her and I
I
want her to go away with me. shall never be happy until she does.'
"IN PUBLIC INTEREST" Cross-examined by Mr. G. D. Io- berts, K.C., for the doctor, Mr. Jones agreed that he was charging Lt. Jones with rape four and a half years
rego, of which he knew at the
you
are
Mr. Roberts: You say bringing this charge for protection? In the interests of the general public.
I wargest to you this charge is brought because Dr. Jones has re- fused to pay you and Mrs. Wood- mun any more money?-No.
I suggest that in the middle of October of this year you sent a mess- age to Dr. Jorts saying that you would withdraw the charge the would resume payments?--This is the first word I have ever heard of such a thing.
gel
Have you constantly used the threat of the tribunal ns a lover to money out of hìm?-1 have
never
used that threat at all at any me.
Mr. Roberts: I have to
suggest
to you that you are a llar and ກ blackmaller.I am not a llar, and am certainly not a blackmailer.
Mr. Jones denied that before Dr. Jones went to Australia he (the doctor) sent Mrs. Woodman £100. Mr. Roberts: On the occasion this rope-March 0, 1934-was Mrs. Woodman screaming for you?—Yes.
of
Mr. Roberts produced two cheques from Dr. Janes made out in the name)
Dr. Jones enumerated the large number of payments he had made, including sums for rent and rates, and added. "There
was always
vays the surgestion behind these payments that they were saving me
the from
Generat Medical Council,"
Dr. Jones sald after the com- plaint had been made to the G.M.C. Mts. Puckey suggested li might be withdrawn if he re- sumed payments of 30s, a week.. ror): Were you the father of any of Mr. Douglas Bartley (legal asses- their children?-The only possibility
"THE IRONY OF IT"
"I have come from prison to-day, and to prizon I go back to-night," Watson said. "What my reactions will be in prison, to-night--whether different from what they have been before depends on you, gentlemen.
"The irony of the thing is that the unfortunate person who was kill- ed was a patient of my own. Since going to prison I have had letters from his wife and from his mother,
Mrs. Robey's Divorce Court Plea
ap-
"On certain days he goes to work all night," she explained.
SCIENTISTS' NEW HOPES IN FIGHT WITH CANCER
traffle three young
IN a laboratory barely out of tities, and five years адо an in- carshot of the Oxford Street vestigation committee for Radlum
Deam Therapy was set up. research
A large unit of radium was lent workers have laboured for five by Belgium, and work began with years to study the effect of two five gramme "bomba" of rudium. massive quantities of radium on "bomb" was obtained.
A year later another five gramme
Attention was concentrated on the An important advance in the treatment of malignant conditions of the mouth, throat and upper afr
he third, and that seems to me to Mrs. Ethel Wade, wife of George | cancer. be extremely unlikely.
Robey, the comedian, recently Mr. Bartley: You are not the father plied to Mr. Justice Langton, in the of the first or second?-Definitely Divorce Court, to have a decree nisi campaign against cancer may passages, and the Medical Research not.
granted to her in April made abso-be announced in the report on Counelt have recorded from time to alet ofter a short retirement.
The council then gave their ver-lute.
"The marringe took place in 1890.
Colonial Administration School At Oxford
London.
THAT the University's next Summer School on Colonial Administration will be held in 1940 is an~. nounced by the Oxford Society in the winter number of their journal, “Oxford," published recently. It is generally thought, state the Society, that it would be a mistake to make the School an annual event. The second session of the School; commonwealth
of
peoples and
their first four years' work to time that the research was proceed- be published by the Medical in with encouraging results. Research Council in about a
fortnight's time,
EUROPEAN MISSING
This was hinted recently by Sir Chief Engineer of Ship At
William Bragg, president of the
| Royal Society, who declared that the
research had proceeded "with no little success."
Kowloon Dock
Charles Christian, aged about 40,
The three workers are Misa Con- of Aberdeen, chief engineer of tho stance A. P. Wood, radiotherapist, British ship Deslock, has been miss formerly research radiologist at
King's College Hospital; Dr. T. An- since he left the vessel at Kow- thony Green, assistant radiotherapist, loon Dock at 3 a.m. on Wednesday. who came to this country from Now the eastern jetty and has not beet Christian walked off the ship at Zealand, and Mr. L. G. Grimmett heard of inco. His clothes and physicist, who installed the original radfum plant at Westminster Hos- other belongings are in his cabin.
A search in the vicinity and In- pital.
They have worked in co-operation quiries by the police have been
ruitless. with Dr. Roy Ward, mertical director
of the Radium Institute.
Research has been with a method to scientists ad "beam
of Mrs. Jones. They were dated 27- held under the auspices of the Social nations," Mr. MacDonald assured the 3-34 and 28-3-34, and were for £2 Studies Research Committee at Lady Vice-Chancellor of the warm support known and £3.
Margaret Hall from June 27 to July accorded to the School by the Co- therapy," In which use is made of Mr. Roberts: In addition to your Inst, under the chairmanship of lonial Office
and the Coloninimassive irradiation from threats to Dr. Jones, did you begin Professor Coupland, with Miss Per-Governments.
a Iorga In 1938 also threatening his wife?
hum as vice-chairman. More than
quantity of rutilum. I have never spoken to her and would not know her if I saw her.
Did you telephone her and ask her
No.
160 Colonial officials home on leave an
The sequenro of lectures followed First experiments on these lines inaugural address by Lord were mnde just after the war with attended, including 21 from Malaya Lugard. The background of world 2% grammes of radium from the three of whom were Malays). politics and economics was sketchod stock held by the Government for if she was interested in divorce? Vice-Chancellor of the University H. D. Henderson, while Lord Lothian so discouraging that after 18 months The sesalon was opened by theby Sir Alfred Ernest Barker and Mr. military purposes. The results were Mr. Roberts' last question was, "I Colonies. In the course of a speech on Islam.
And the Secretary of State for the spoke on India and Professor Gibb the experiment ended and -suggest that none of your actions in in which he defined the goal of Bri-For comparison with British ad-pitals.
radium was distributed among hoa- this, matter has been actuated by tish Government na "the ultimate es- ministration in Africa and Malays, motives of public benefit; I suggest tablishment of the various colonial Mr. Hobart dealt with Indian and they all have been actuated by mo- communities as self-supporting and Monsieur Marzoret with Belgian Paria scientists indicated the need for tives of blackmall,"
self-reliant members of a great Administration.
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