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NINETY-FIRST YEAR OF PUBLICATION
HONG KONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1935
TRUTH SERUM” TEST
ON DRIVER
"Almost Unbelievable” Story
BUT VERACITY UPHELD
New York:
25 CENTS TIP Mrs. Roosevelt's Gift To Student
RESULT OF ARTICLE
Chapel Hill Otis Marlowe,
William graduating senior at the university
FALSE PRETENCES CHARGE
Man With M.C. In Trouble
BOUND OVER
A man who was awarded the A car drive detailed on sus of North Carolina wrote an M.C. in the Great War for bring picion of complicity in an armed article in a weekly news magazine ing down enemy planes. Robert hold-up in a Woonsocket (Rhode entitled "Confessions of a College Walker 41. a traveller, of Hol- Island) restaurant was released Waiter." about his four years as land-road. West Kensington. by the police there after he had a waiter in the dining hall at the stood in the dock at Clerkenwell
Police Court recently. stuck to what the chief of police university. (Commissioner J. W. Marceau) termed his "almost unbelievable story while under the effects of
*
In the article Marlowe told of. He was charged with obtain- the fun and hardships involved ing money by false pretences, in working his way through col and it was alleged that he drew truth serum.”
lege and mentioned that he had commission from his employer After he had been seized by the never received a single tip during on fictitious orders for electric lamps and sold the goods and police the motorist toid his story the whole period.
He said that if Mrs. Franklin used the money. They were sceptical He offered
Bound Over to submit to
D. Roosevelt gave him a tip when the truth serum"
Walker, a native of Donegal. she came to Chapel Hill to ad- test.
Under the influence of the dress the graduating class, said he was paid by post-dated seram he avowed once more that would be the first he ever re cheques and this got him into while driving through Providence ceived. Tipping was against the difficulty. He had been without RI) be was stopped by an arm students principles and even the food and means.
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In view of an offer by a friend HERO
ed man who made him drive to old boys who attended reunion In view of an offer by a friend to find Walker work, the magis Connecticut at the point of his dinners gave no gratuities.
trate bound him over. pistol, Two other gunmen were picked up.
From The White House
He was then ordered to return A few days after the publica- to Woonsocket and while the ban-tion of the article. Marlowe re
SOLVED
Dead Man's Clothes Identified
dits entered the restaurant where ceived the following letter dated RAILWAY MYSTERY
out he from the White House: the hold-up was carried was left lying blind-folded in the "My dear Mr. Marlowe.--Mrs Roosevelt asked me to tell you back of the car.
very much amused When the desperadoes came out that she was they drove back to Providence, by your article. However, if it is where they thanked him for his not the custom to tip and even if "help" and left him.
ADULTERY CHARGE
Five Witnesses To Give Evidence
to
Alleged
have committed adultery at the Wo Ping Boarding House at Yaumati, Kowloon, a 32-year-old Chinese. doctor, Chan Siu-hung, and Fok Mo-kit. the
she goes to dinner she would not feel that she could do so. In lien of that she asked me to congratu- late you on your article and to sent you 25 cents.
An identity problem which has puzzled the police for nearly four months has at last been solved.
A pile of clothing lying in the Sharnbrook (Beds) police station has been recognised by the “Very sincerely yours, “Malvina *T. Scheider (Secre- widow of Lawrence McArdle, aged 26, of Orchard-street, Mar- tary to Mr. Roosevelt)." The President's wife did not atket Harborough, as the property
of her husband. itend the dinner.
The clothing, belonged to a man who was found dead and terribly mutilated on the LMS. railway
23-year-old kit fat wife of a Chin- WOMAN DROWNED at Souldrop (Beds).
ese dentist named-Shum Kun-hung, of No. 9, Sha Fo Road, were both remanded to 230 pm on Friday! Inext by Mr. E. I. Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy this mor ning.
IN HARBOUR
Fruitless Search By Launches
Wong To, engineer on board the
Hong
Inspector K W. Andrew, who is appearing for the prosecution, stated that, including the hotel Hong Kong Taumati Ferry Man boy, complainant and complainant's Shan, reports that while the ves brother, there will be five wit sel was under way from nesses for the prosecution. Both Kong to Mongkok and when about!: defendants pleaded not guilty.half way across the harbour, late last night, he heard shouts of Bail was fixed at $500 each.
"woman overboard" He there-i on stopped the vessel and with No. 6 Police Launch Instituted an immediate search;
BRITISH THREATS UNAVAILING
(Continued from Page 1)
HOPE STILL ENTERTAINED
the man in the
Buried As Unknown After two inquests was buried as unknown Souldrop churchyard.
The young couple had only been married three months when the husband lost his job as a groom and went off in search of employ-
ment never to return.
1. After cruising round for about
15 minutes the two vessels gave up! the fruitless search Wong To was
A
BOY LIFE SAVER DROWNED
Cause Of Accident Unknown
thirteen-year-old boy who
a member of his school's
A message from Paris states was later informed that the woman life-saving class, was drowned in that on the eve of the opening of was aged about 20.
the tripartite conference the hope
lis expressed in British quarters!
that the gap between Signor Mns-
solini and the Emperor of Ethio- MAN'S METAL FACE
Amazing Surgery Accomplishment
the Aldershot bathing pool re cently.
The boy, Arthur Wisdom, of Western-road, Aldershot, had just returned from his holiday. At the bathing pool he was suddenly missed by his companions.
One of them. George Gemson, dived into the six-foot end of the pool and saw Wisdom on the bot
pia can be bridged with goodwill, and a peaceful solution remain within the bounds of possibility. It is emphasised that Britain and France have no secrets from
A 65-year-old man has been tom He immediately gave the teach other, and it is believed that
Ethiopia is prepared to make very cured by radium of facial cancer alarm and 2 Camberley visitor. constructive concessions in fav-in Pembury Hospital, Kent, and Mr. Johnson, our of Italy. A busy day of in-shortly he will reappear with brought the boy to the surface. formal conferences concluded partly new face made of painted with Baron Aloisi visiting Mr. aluminium.
5
Eden, and each delegate is now A medical man interested in
dived on and
Artificial respiration was tried for two hours without, success,
Wisdom was a strong swimmer
in possession of the other's the case said that no flesh or skin- and the cause of the accident is standpoints.
grafting was done, or would be unknown. M.Laval will have an hour's done, on the patient Conversation with M. Politis, the "The metal face is being made Greek Minister at Paris, who has by London experts, who will fit been designated the fifth member it into position, and paint it to of the Conciliation Committee match the face." Mr. Eden and M. Laval will meet later some
CHILD OF SIX DIES PADDLING
The Abyssinian Minister, Mr Tecle Hawariate, also saw both While paddling in the Welsh the British and French chief de- Harp, at Hendon during the legates yesterday.
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