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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH July 24, 1939.
Mother of Gassed Twins Freed Parade Before
Judge Says "You Have Been Punished Enough
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WHEN 27-YEAR-OLD Mrs. Doris Perkins, of Nottingham, appeared at Nottinghamshire Assizes recently charged with murdering her three-month-old twins by gassing them while they were in a perambulator, a plea of guilty to infanticide was accepted.
Mr. Justice Oliver said to her: "I cannot think of you as a criminal but only as an exceedingly unfortunate young woman. I am not going to send you to prison.
"I shall not even bind you over with so excellent a character. This dreadful thing is before you and you]. have been punished enough. The sentence will be one day's imprisonment, which means your iminediate free- dom."
Took Car To End His Life
For the defence it was sold that Mrs. Perkins was unprepared for twins and it was a shock when they were born, But, in a letter to her inusband written a day or two after their birth, she wrote: "I would not part with either of them, they are so aweet."
THE story of a Cambridge under- graduate who, because he had folled in his examination, took away and were slow in feeding and were professor's car and tried to gas him self with exhaust fumes was told at Cambridge recently,
Hugh Mure Gennill (19),' a Brst year undergraduate of Emmanuel College, whose home address was: given as Wondbourne Road, Edgins- 1qn, Birmingham, was charged with taking away the ear of Professor R. without be- 5. Hutton and driving ing Insured.
P. C. Brookbank, of Hemingford Grey, Hunts, said he saw Gennil! about midnight with the car while he Identified as the one reported stolen.)
Gernil said to him. "Tell me where the nearest police station is, I have stolen this car and have tried to commit suicide."
They had to have artificial food always crying. She became phys- cnlly and mentally wealt by the efforts she was making on their be- half. No preparation was made for the crime; neither windows nor doors were seated.
Dr. J. Humphrey, of Birmingham Prison, said that if Mr. Perkins had felt as well then as now the crime would not have been committed,
Queen's Cousin In Car Crash
MISS MARGARET ANNE BOWES-
LYON, of Westerham, Kent, a cousin of the Queen, gave evidence in a case at Reading recently.
The Bench, after consultation with the father and a doctor, found the charges proved, bound Gennill over in £50 and his father in a similer amount for two years, the condition
Oswald William Tebbil, being that during that period he should live where his father decided was summoned for falling and submit to treatment and not form to a traffic sign. drive a car for 12 months.
Reading, to con-
Miss Bowes-Lyon said she was driving a car from her home to New- hury, and when going over cross
near Reading another ear "nashed across." She braked and swerved but said was impossible to Pliot-Officer Norman McPherson avoid a collision. Pooler (21), of the RAF., stationed She suffered from concussion and at Hornchurch Aerodrome (Essex),} shock and could not remember cleur- was recently found dead In the ly what had happened, but she was garden surrounding the officers' mess convinced that she crossed at the aerodrome with a bullet wound green lights. In his head. A service revolver was in his hand.
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Pooler, whose father lives at Corn- wall Gardens, Kensington, joined the K.A.F. in February, 1037,
on The
Tebbit said the lights were in his favour.
The chairman sold that, as there was conflicting evidence, It had been decided to dismiss the case,
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MR. CYRIL BAILEY, public orator at Oxford University, By a judgment delivered in the hopes that the Oxford custom of using Latin when introducing House of Lords recently. It was graduands for honorary degrees will never die out. established that club members who He cunnot Imagine, he says, how anyone can do the job in ring up a book-maker by the club English although he admits that the Scottish and the newer pubite telephone and make bets are English universities manage to use this impossible tongue.. not acting unlawfully.
Mr. Balley, who retires from Orator had been one of his An appeal against a judgment of Oxford University at the end of this pleasant duties at Oxford. the Court of Criminal Appeal, ces-month after a conncetion of 49 years, firming convictions at the Central for 37 of which he has been a Fellow Criminal Court, was allowed.
of Balliol, said that being Pubile
most
SOME LEG-PULLING There is the tendition at Oxford, he
said, that the Public Orator should make his introductions in Latin as
amusing as possible and indulge in
There is an exception to the use of Latin, he explained, That is in the case of roynity. Then the introduc- tion or the address is In English.
Mrs. Florence Milne, of the Byculla Club, Bartholomew Close, E.C., had been fined £50 for keeping drafting and a generation of judges a little ler-pulling. abetting house. Howard. Boundford, had been puzzled by it.. her stepbrother, £25 for assisting: and John Charles Leonard, of Amer- sham Vale, New Cross, S.E., £25 for conspiring to keep the betting house. Two co-telephones in the club, it was stated, were used by members to make bets. One bookmaker installed clerk in a room above the club, who settled with the members. the belting being on a credit basis.
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The chief question was whether {this was "use of the premises for betting with persons resorting there- to."
Lord Maugham, the Lord Chan- cellor, said in his judgment that the Betting Act was not a model of goodi
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If the owner or person using the place received a commission on bets,
"As Public Orator I have had to permitted the bookmaker to instal and use a private telephone, or compose addresses to King George V. allowed him to stand outside an open on the ocension of his Jubilee, King window and call out the odds, they Edward Vill, on his accession and might conclude that the offence had King George VI, on his accession," been committed.
Explaining his aversion to English In this case members were doing honorary degrees, he explained: "In for the presentation of graduands for nothing unlawful by making bets en English you cannot do it without the telephone. "Resorting"
flattery. imply a physical presence at or close to the place.
must
Lord Atkin, Lord Wright and Lord Porter gave similar judgments, and Lord Macmillan formally concurred. The appeal was accordingly allow- ed with costs, ..............
"So far as Oxford is concerned, I hope the custom of using Latin will never end, as it adds a delightful touch to the formalities."
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Hocus Pocus Secrets Through 400 Years
CONJURORS of nearly four centuries are represented in a Hocus Pocus exhibition opened at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, recently,
The shelves of the library have been searched for the earliest examples of conjurors' works.
One book exhibited is dated 1684.. It is Reginald Scot's "Discoverie of Witchcraft," and describes in detail conjuring tricks with balls, cards and coins.
Peer's Son Fined £20
Found guilty at Perth sheriff' court recently of driving a car while under the influence of drink, so as to be unable to have proper control, Lord Rhidian Crichton-Stewart, aged
The author was apparently in suine distress of mind, however, lest the disclosures of the secrets should be to the hindrance of such poore men as live thereby."
He also refused to give detalls of certain card tricks "since these are used by sharpers." To publish de- tails he wrote, might "minister some offence to the well disposed, to the simple, to the hurt and loses, and to the wicked action of evil dooing."
A woodcut shows how showmen in
22, son of the Marquis of Bute, was the days of Queen Elizabeth cut off fined £20 and disqualified from a man's head and put it on a platter. Visitors to the exhibition may try driving for three months,
for themselves another of the olden
Dr. F. Main, who examined Lord tricks. It shows how a book may be Thidinn at the police office, said the made to appear black, blue, red, yel- tests made him conclude that he was low or green at will under the Influence of drink. He would not alter his opinion if he knew Lord Rhidian was taking tablets for asthma.
ARITHMETIC TESTS
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One of the greatest authorities on the subject during the seventeenth century was John White, who changed the title of his book from "Rich Cabinet with a Variety of Inventions Unlock'd" (1051) to Hocus Pocus," Dr. R. Ritchle, of Perth, spoke of or "Rich Cabinet of Legerdemain arithmetic tests in which Lord Curiosities." Rhidion failed to multiply ve figures
Another work, "The Whole Art of j by 79. In multiplying five figures by Legerdemain," or "Focus In Perfec- seven he had only two figures correct. tion," by Henry Dean, appeared in Asked "If you learn ho is no good one edition or another from soon after al arithmetic would that account for 1700 until 1718, and seueral coples his inability to do the sums?" the are on view.
doctor replied "Yea."
Second-Lieutenant Alastair Philip
Henderson, a fellow officer in the
Black Watch, giving an address in FORGED
Russell Square, London, said that he
and Lord Rhidian sport the day at
CERTIFICATE
point-to-point races and tho Inter Shopkeeper Heavily Fined
had four large whiskies at long in For Cholera Rules Breach
tervals and half a glass of port after) dinner.
ASTHMA AT
Wu Kau 28, shopkeeper, was charged before Mr, T. J, Houston asi the Central Magistracy on Saturday with producing a forged immunisation certificate on July 21.
Lord Rhidian told him he was not feeling very well because of asthma and took some tablets with his fourth whiskey an hour and a half before Sergeant J. Forrest said thất Wuj the police Intervened. He had no was about to board a Macao atearner doubt of his ability to drive.
when, ho was asked if he had a certi-j constable, of whom Lord Rhidiani cate. He produced the forged asked the way to a car park, said ho certificate. Wu had been inoculated appronched him very unstendily and that day but had to wait for a fur- spoke thickly. He bumped against ther six days before he would receive), his passenger 'on' re-entering the carị bắt certificate. and struck the kerb as he drove off. Wu was fined $100.
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