Wednesday HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January 18, 1939.
JURY HEAR STORY OF LIFE "AT BREAKING POINT"
Man in Verandah Murder Charge 'Had 4d. in Bank'
OPENING the case at the Old Bailey recently against
Sidney George Paul (46), salesman, of Rosebery Vale, Ruislip, Middlesex, charged with the murder of his 38-year-old wife, Claire Paul, in the verandah of their home, Mr. G. B. McClure said that it might strike the jury as a sad story.
"It is a story which you may have read the like of," he con- tinued, "a kind of story where a breaking point is reached in someone's existence-everything is pressing and things are too hard-and it sometimes ends in murder and suicide, or the suicide of two people."
Paul pleaded not guilty.
Mr. McClure stated that Paul apparently had lived on the best of terms with his wife, a Bel- gian.
He had said all along that rome stranger entered his house on the day his wife was killed--a nun he de- scribed us tall, wearing dark clothes and having a sear on his check.
"HARD PRESSED"
Queen Maud's
Horses
Hunstanton.
In response to the wishes of the of Norway, her late Queen Maud Your favourite horses on which she 10de regularly in the woodland round There was little doubt that Paul her Sandringham house, have been had been hard pressed for money. destroyed. There was only 4d., or on overdraft
of 4d., in his banking secount.
They He buried in the Sandringham paddocks,
the
Queen Maud was so fond of the There was a county court claimi against him and he had promised tourses, she could not bear
thought of their passing into other hands. pay on October 18.
Mr. McClure said that about 8 a.m.)
They were very valuable animals,
on October 16 a Mr. Cooper, who' and used to be shipped to Norway lived next door, looked out of the for her use there, back window on to the verandah of Paul's house.
razor caused by such a thing as o
of injury was "There," said Mr. McClure, "he blade. That kind
utterly inconsistent with the descrip- upon him.
nw what was perhaps actually the lion Paul gave of the attack made murder, although he could not see) enough to know what was happen- ing.
It was right to say that there was
no insurance on his wife from which Paul could have benefited.
"Paul was facing him in a stoop ing position and moved forward and
Archibald Trow, a neighbour, said appeared to pick up something. He then took a half right turn and in reply to Mr. Eastwood (defend-
appeared to be using some in his cu to be a very devoted couple.
ing movements. What he had ed hand Mr. Cooper could not see."
Two minutes later Mr. Cooper
heard Paul call for help.
his. Ince ervered with blood, and
"I never heard anything or saw
Helen Vinson of the stage and screen recently filed suit in Los Angeles court for divorce from Fred Perry, former world's amateur tennis champion who turned professional. She charges mental cruelty on the part of the British net stor. This picture was taken shortly after their marriage, Sept. 12, 1935.
English
Wife
To Prison Isle
Smuggled Money From Italy
ROME.
Explosive Bombs Tests
CIR JOHN ANDERSON, Lord Privy Seal, stated in the Commons re- recently that the Government had as lo made extensive experiments the effects of high explosive bombs to be af- and the protection likely forded by shelters.
The tests were being carried out
utler conditions approximating as
closely us possible to those of actual
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RADIUM PRICE DENIAL Mr. Walter Elliot, Minister Health, replying to Mr. David Adams (Lab, Consett), denied that he had bought 11 grammes of radium
cancer £18,000 a gramme for the campaign or that the announcement
of his pinns had resulted in forcing up the prler of radium Irom £5,000
nramme.
The option, he said, was bought at the world price.
She Doesn't Want Disney To Use Husband's Music
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Objections to. the musical score of
new Walt Disney film, Sorcerer's Apprentice," are raised by the widow of Paul Dukas, the French composer. She declares that she is taking advice with a view to preventing Disney from using her Jate husband's music, "L'Apprenti
Sorcier,"
Mnie. Dukan stresses that she is a great admirer of the creator of Mickey Mouse, but is certain that her husband would never have agreed to the use of his name for the lin.
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The arrests caused sensation | 9355—Says My Heart. among Rome's society, for the ac- cused were friends of royalty,
The Marchesa's confiscated money Is to be deducted from the fine.
FRIEND OF MUSSOLINI
One of the best-known women in Rome society, a perconal friend of the Italian Royal Family end of Signor Mussolini's family, the Murchiesu's family came from Tunbridge Wells. Kent.
After her arrest police officers took her back to Turin, where she was re-
re-arrested two
FOUND Guilty of smuggling money from Italy, the to be shadow, interrogation, only
Marchesa Godi di Godio, former Violet Kay, an Eng-days later.
anything which led me to suspect lish woman, may be sent to an Italian penal island. that they were not happy," he added.
P. C. Carlin said that Paul was almost delirious when he saw him
He saw Phul in the garden withi running to the verandah found Mrs. the dining-room. Paul lying there, terribly injured.
"UTTERLY INCONSISTENT"
Mr. Eastwood: Did he make some effort to get up from his chair and
one restruin him?--Yes.
She faced trial with her husband and an Italian Jew broker named Renato Sacerdoti, and in addition to the penal island recommendation the three were fined a total of £21,250.
A special commission will de-j was alleged that Italian banknotes to found £11,000 were Mrs. Paul had is injuries to her dash across the room, and did some-cide whether or not they will be the value of
under the mattress of her sleeping sent to the penal island.
The Marchesa was arrested at Mo-car bunk, dune, near the French-Italian fron-
head which might have been caused by an axe.
Paul was suffering from a number] of little cuts which might have been
If that was acting. It done? Yes.
The trial was adjourned.
well
A woman accomplice, said by the
Since then she has spent most of her time in the blg women's prison. | the Regina Coelt.
There she shared the same cell as an Italian domestic servant, though
food from friends outside the prison.
Her detection and arrest led to the discovery of a finely organised gang of International currency smugglers.
This gang, it was alleged at the trial, was headed by Renato Sacerdoti.
the starchese always received special
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Hong Kong Lawyer's reputation endangered
NIGHT STARVATION
TOMORROW THE CASE"
WILL BE HEARD IN COURT AND I CAN'T GET
THE FACTS RIGHT. I'M SO TIRED, MY BRAIN WON'T WORK.
THIS HORLICKS IS THE BEST
DRINK IN THE WORLD FOR PUTTING YOUR VITALITY BACKİ DID YOU USE THE MIXER?
IN COURT
य
YOU ARE WASTING OUR TIKĖ) MR. SINDSON IT IS QUITE ¡OBVIOUS YOU HAVEN'T PREPARED THE CASE.
(THINKS)
WHAT A HUMILIATION.
I MUST WIN MY
REPUTATION BACK. I'LL
SEE A DOCTOR ABOUT İ
MY HEALTH.
TWO MONTHS LATER:
I NEVER THOUGHT
YOU'D WIN THAT
CASE,HOW DID YOU!
DO IT? YOUR NAML
WILL BE IN ALL
THE PAPERS,
if suffer
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For Officials
Valuable lessons were learned by Home Office and police officials recently when 100 air-raid warning sirens walled in unison over London in, the biggest test ever made in Britain.
The most important discoveries Jare:
There are a number of "dend" spola in the London area which the omcint police sirens cannot reach under bad weather con- ditions.
There are a number of other places in Central London where the sirens cannot drown the roar of the traffic.
The "warbling" warning signat is not so audible as the continuous
pitch" "steady
signal which means "ralders passed."
In an emergency the official signals would be taken up by hundreds of factory and workshop hooters which were not included in the test.
Reports of 8,000 policemen, 000 representatives of focal authorities und of many private firms who were appointed as listeners are being collected.
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Now It Can Be Told.
DIANA MILLER (PERSONALITY GIRL). 9429-Rex Show Wagon in Lambeth Walk.
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A reporter listened for the sirens from the roof of the News Chronicle offices. The nearest were Snow H (640 yards away as the siren wails); Dow, Street (1,100 yards away), and Scotland Yard (1,320 yards away),
No sound could be heard from Snow Hill, there was not a murmur from Bow Street (where the siren refused to work), bút a faint walling came from the direction of Scotland Yard.
This experiment stresses the need for internal warning Bystems factorles, workshops and large business offices into which the sound of external warnings do not ponet- jrate, or are liable to be drowned by
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