Tuesday,
HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH
January 31, 1939.
FOR "NAGGED
NO DIVORCE AGAIN
AGAIN FOR HUSBAND OF
A
Re-married Wife After
.,
First Decree
HUSBAND divorced from his wife 18 years ago and
later reconciled and remarried to her, was refused
a divorce by Mr. Justice Langton in the Divorce Court, and the wife was refused judicial separation.
Mr. Wilfrid Lawson Spence, of Leamington Spa, sought a decree on the ground that his wife, Mrs. Yvonne Marie Spence, deserted him.
Mrs. Spence, who'defended the case and denied her husband's allegation, âsked the court to grant her a decree of judicial separa- tion because of her husband's cruelty.
Mr. Justice Langlon, giving con sidered judgment, said that Mr. and Mrs. Spence married for the int time in July', 1913. The husband was in Englishman and now over 70 years of age, and his; wife, who was 20 years his junior.) was French by origin. In 1913 she was under 21.
Hunting The
Giant Panda
In November, 1920, Mus. Spence
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES divorced her husband in Scotland on the ground of his adultery with a Sir--In view of the interest arous woman whom Mr. Spence afterwardised by the import into this country
nured.
recently of five live giant pandas by the American naturalist Mr. Floyd
THEIR SECOND MARRIAGE
in 1926 Mr. Spence divorced the Tangler Smith I would like to quote woman who had come between him the following remarks from an arti- and his first wife, und In June, 1927, ele in the China Journal by my friend Mr. and Mrs. Spence were married Mr. A. de C. Sowerby, of Shanghai: a second time.
During the first marriage two
born.
Mr. Spence was U man character was not difficult to read,) and he impressed his lordship as
them.
children, a con and a daughter, were -"We would like to suggest that this business of capturing live giant The judge added that Mrs. Spence pondus for export to zoos in foreign was now content to answer her hus-lands is trendy seriously threatening,
tlie species with extermination. Re- band's petition on the grounds that she was forced by his cruelty to ports have reached us that through leave him and that her husband a pandas the native hunters are scour- out the whole area inhabited by giant quiesced in her action in leaving the ing the country in search of these matrimonial home.
whose as well as setting traps for Already, according to Mrs. Harkness, who was in that aren last spring, two big valleys in
In the Wassu country, which formerly contained HALE AND HEARTY AT 70
many pandus, have been completely denuded of these animals. Other re- At the age of 70 he presented a ports indicate that many pandas, old hale, and hearty appearance and his and young, brought alive to Chenglu mid was art actie. he was, by native hunters have died there however, a man, or suen high temper before they could be shipped out of! and suca intensity of conviction that the country, while many more skins ( it was almost imposs.bre for hum tal of dead ones have been offered for stale any Cate alpassionately or sale in this city, showing that an in-
perfectly honest man.
fairly,
He was obviously a 2322364 most vivient ponucal views.
tensive hunting of giant pandas is going on. A rare and not too pienti-
of the ful animal at best, the giant panda Jeannot long survive such persecution,
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Just A Guilty Look-And Science Can Prove It
Eye-Prints Are New Trap
For Criminals
BLACKPOOL.
THAT "guilty look" in your eyes when you've been
found out is no figure of speech.
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Only with the greatest difficulty and we strongly
Your eyes really do give you away-to expert opticians like urge the Chinese those meeting here recently at a regional conference of Lanca- said the judge, and he succeed in pre-authorities to take measures to pro-shire, Cheshire and North Wales optical practitioners. venting m. spalee unchang upon teet this and other specles of rare- a diatr.pe agan a disungusuca ex-laninals and birds in China against
And because eyes reveal secrets the police are taking a close Cabinet Munster who had pontical what can only be described as whole interest in the subject as an aid to crime detection. connections Wid Leamangon
sale commercial exploitation. The Mr. Spence descrived ms wife as collecting and exporting of so many
It was stressed that the C.I.D., poses was awakened after it was having a “genus for nagging and the of these rare animals from China can men of the future will look into revealed that a Lancaster optician worst sense of humour in the world," hardly be
justified
was able to assist In the solving of and he was obviously ready to be-grounds, especially when it is taken female, and "eye-prints," which the full shape of Mrs. Ruxton's head selentine the eyes of the prisoner, male or the Ruxton murder by calculating lleve that i meanness, avarice and into consideration the number that ingratitude was without a rival have already died since being cap-are photographs of the retina of from the remains found. and beyond compare.
lured. We therefore appeal to the the eye, will become secundary Mr. Spence described his son as a Chinese Government to intervene, to to finger-prints for purposes of "Jout who was too idle and spoilt save the glant panda from exter-identification. ever to be capable of usetut work," nination before it is too late,"
which de
ont
lecture by Mr.
the
"An eye-print," Mr. Barker said, "is the pattern of blood vessels In the retina. No two persons have the same pattern, and it changes little from birth to old age.
"And, unlike fingerprints, the re-
and his
With whom ne
The Chief Constable of Blackpool, could recan unry one serious unter-i,
Although the existence of the giant Mr. E. H. Holmes, and several police ence of opinion when she used an panda has been known for 70 years, lamcers attended insulting expression-for
und during this period it has been W. B. Barker, 50-years-old Munchiestinal pattern cannot be altered. That had prompoy and, as it seemed to his noted by many enturalists and ex-ter optician and lecturer
plorers, only three have actually been lordship, wita justincavon, boxed killed by white men. The skin of Manchester School of Technology. her ears-fared scareefy belter at the giant panda was considered of SOLVED A MURDER his hangs.
ittle value as compared to that of Mr. Barker sak his interest the takin, 'consequently there was no retinal photography for crime inducement for local hunters to make
"FIRE IRONS" CHARGE Mrs. Spence was a woman of spiritjany special effort to secure it. Skins and-euage, and was boin able andjean be seen occasionally in the huts determineu to stand up ter herseII, of wood-cutters, but these, lave She was
woman of exceptional generally been killed in traps set for abstinacy and outermutation.
takin.
a
Mr. Spence had stated that he had!
When, however, a market is crent- or bird, or
had wounos, imfleted by a wireed for a living animal through thu measum of Arc Irons, some part of it which entails the tak
complained
"
dressed by a doctor,
of
Buffalo Quick Kicker
nervous
would mean biludness. I cannot be- Heve that the worst criminal would sheriflee his eyesight to escape deter- in tion.
pur-THAT GUILTY LOOK
"Another way we can help the police is by Identifying spectacled suspects from their glasses. By a better system of keeping records of prescriptions for glasses we could quickly identify particular lenses, tell the pollee where those glasses were bought."
HEALDSBURG, Col William Walker, 17, probably ing of life, whether It be the giant knows more about the
Mr. Holmes pointed out to Mr. Mrs. Spence
a panda, the horn of the rhinoceros, actions of buffalo than
rc-Barker that before retinal pictures series of acts which she had sought the gland of the musk deer, or the
the average could be used a simple method of to elevate 10 the height of legal feathers of the egret, it undoubtedly Francisco zoo, he was so attracted by have to be devised.
American. On a visit to the San Leodification of characteristics would cruelty, but which did not amount becomes the thin end of the wedge the to anything more than her natural of extermination. portion of the damage likely to accrue from a rough and tumblej with a small, much older, but very determined husband,
Yours, &c..
Warden,
the seven bison there that he could A last word about the "guilty not resist the temptation to stretch look."" out his hand and put one. Before he
"It is in the eye-print, not in the H. C. BROCKLEHURST, Captain could say "Jack Robinson." the
"The eyes gye." suld Mr. Barker. (late Gaine
Sudan buffalo had whirled around and klek-themselves need not betray any per- Government).
ed him twice on the nose.
ceptible emotions. But the eyelids and the face muscles give you away."
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