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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 21, 1939.
HANDCUFFS STORY IN LAW SUIT Stomach Sufferers
Claim Against Police After
Show Tent Arrest
HANDCUFFING was mentioned at Buckingham- shire Assizes at Alyesbury recently when four police offi- cers were sued for alleged wrongful imprisonment. ·
The action followed the loss of £40 from the secre- tary's tent at Princes Risborough Agricultural Show last September.
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Two Nuneaton men, George Raymond Merriman,- presentative of the "Farmers' Weekly," and Charles William ffendy, salesman for the journal, claimed damages from Superin. tendent Frederick Gee, Inspector Edward Sturt, Sergeant Albert Howlett, and Constable Reginald Harris.
The officers denied the Imprison ment and alternatively sold that there was reasonable and probable)
cause,
Mr. Maurice Healy, K.C.,
for
Oxford Wants
Merriman and Heady, said they went Windsors Back!
to the Princes Risborough show for
the "Farmers' Weekly,"
Just as they were leaving. Sergeant Howlett suggested that they should go to the secretary's tent. Merriman agreed, saying the secretary would know him.
Mr.
On the way to the tent Sergeant Howlett fakt that an attache ease containing about £40, mostly in silver, had been stolen.
When they reached the tent the men were searched in the presence of witnesses and their car was also searched, but nothing to incriminate them was found.
"HUMILIATING" Superintendent Gee then instructed another offleer to part handcuffs on the men
"I suppose," saiti Air. Healy, "there is not a more humiliating reremony that we know of than that of publicly putting handcuffs upon one."
The handcuffs were put on one hand of Mr. Merriman and, just as they were fixing the other on Mr. Heady, the superintendent though better of it and the handcuff wa never fastened on him.
Risborough
XFORD wants the Windsors home,
That is the burden of a leading article recently in the "Ist," the Oxford undergraduates' journal.
"As King George and Queen Elizn- both have the whole of the country behind them to a man, there is no reason why we should not
speak
openly upon the subject of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and their return to England," states the writer,
"When the Duke left England be
did not cast away our love and loyalty with his crown.
"To H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess loyalty and affection.
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afirm
our
"We believe that if their present condition is of Interest to anyone, it is more so to us than to Amerl-j can secret societies, recking of sensationalism and sentiment.
"We want no English Pretender, But if it is indeed their wish to return to England we will give them such a welcome as they have
Wife Led Search For Shot General
Abingdon, Berkshire.
IN the dining-room of her home here recently, Lady Corkran told how, by the light of a torch, she found her husband, Major-General Sir Charles Corkran, lying dead by a stream in the grounds.
Sir Charles, who was 66, had been shot dead accidentally by a sporting gun. Crossing a rivulet in the 46-ueres grounds while pigeon-shooting, he slipped off a wet plank nine inches wide and his gun went off.
about datighter, Marjorie, and 7.15 p.m. we found him in the stream" ste zaid.
Atr. Bromley Challenar, the corn-t ner, sat at the head of the polished dining-room table. Mr. Charles Cork- ran, the son, who in 1932 was kid-
When Mr. Challenar asked her if napped by Chinese bandits with Mrs. he had been in his usual
on spirits, she said that he had been de- Muriel Pawley, and is home leave from Shanghai, sat on the armpited to be home for a while, to of a chair.
rest from his official duties, one of which was that of Serjeant-at-Armis in the House of Lords.
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Testimony that a major wor definitely threatens Europe this spring, to be set off by Musso- lin's ambitions to imitate Hitler in territorial gains, was given by Joseph P. Kennedy, Amhasandor to Great Britain, and William C. Bullitt, Ambassador to France, at 21 serrel joint meeting of the House
Senate Military und Affairs Committee. The envoys are shown above with the com- millee chairmen. Left to right: Representative Andrew J. May of Kentucky, Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, Mr. Bullitt and Mr. Kennedy,
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Girls Flee From Fire
All the pupils and models, number- cheerfuling more than 60, escaped unhurt through the dense amoke that filed staireases and rooms.
The men were arrested at 5 pm. and taken to Princes police station.
never seen before. Inquiries were put through to Nuneaton and their stories
Duchess in particular, "To the were verified.
whether as her Royal Highness or "DELIGHTED TO BE HOME" "At 7.50 pm." Mr. Healy said, just as the chosen wife of the man
Lady Corkran said that when her "They were
escorted to the poles who for so many years served this husband did not come into Fitz-1 sation door and told: You know nation as few have served it, we will harry's Manor from his shooting ex-"The verdict is that Sir Charles died where to go." Get out. They had to show that courtesy
is not wholly walk back to the showground.
"As a result, Healy was unable to facut among the middle and lower. Dediton by 5.30 p.m. she went out from gunshot wounds accidentally xe to come up from the shop below there
classes of the British people, and alone and searched the woodland, but that our loyalty to her husband was could not find hm,
get home to do his normal work, last h's job, and has been unemployed Binge,"
The hearing was adjourneci.
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not merely dependent on his pres- perity and kingly station."
"A little more than on later I went cut again with my
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Mr. Challenor did not sum up. He ended the inquest with the words:
ceived,"
career.
Damage was done to gowns and other property in the gown shop, the premises of Mr. Iver Hartnell,
school, said that when smoke began Mr. Alfred Morris, principal of the
were 50 pupils in the school, and 15 with models having their hair dressed.
Sir Charles and a distinguished He first saw service the Nile Expedition in 1894.
In 1910 he was commanding Grenadier Cuards.
Sneeze Is Death
Signal
the
NO TIME TO CHANGE "Some had henna dye on their hale, others shampon, and one had heuna paste," he said.
"When three policemen rushed in and ordered everyone to leave, the girls did not wait to change, but they jali left calmly. There was no con-
fusion and no one lost, her head.
"The sight of the girls in the street We have rather laughable.
district,
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Man, P. I. Fermic Advincula, $6-year-old resident of Manila's Tondo sneezed while riding in drawn "bus," fell unconscious, and other premises a few yards away. and were able to take them all there." died.
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THE HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
The Society asks for
$40,000
in 1939 to meet the increasing needs of sick and destitute children in Hong Kong. Hon. Treasurers:
Mr. A, McKELLAR, C.A.
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Mr. KWOK CHAN,
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