1936-01-28 — Page 18

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANJARI 29, 1936

HIMALAYAN PEAK CLIMBED

BY

ENGLISHMAN

A

Never Before Conquered

Calentia: Maght Kabru, peak in the Eastern Himalayas, the summit of which has never before been reached, has been

* divisional conquered by

Government of gineer in the India Posts and Telegraphs De- partment

ea-

Be

The engineer, Mr. C. R. Cooke, left Calcutta last October on a mountaineering expedition. has now reported his success in reaching

the the summit of hitherto conquered peak.

CALLOUS KILLER

EXECUTED FOR

MURDER OF HER

THIRD HUSBAND Englishwoman Hanged

In Canada -

"PENNY BLACK”

WORLD'S FIRST POSTAGE STAMP

Proof To Be Sold In London This Month

OWNED BY DESCENDANT

OF THE DESIGNER

The proof of the world's first] postage stamp, the "Penny Black", is to be sold at Harmer Roske's Strand. W.C., this month.

For years the proof has been' in the country home of Captain Cor- bould, of Andover, Hants, whose ancestor Henry Carbould, was de- İsigner of the stamp.

Three men were concers-Wyon, rich with ideas: Corbould, who furnished the drawing; and Heath, itie-engraver.

Nearly 100 years ago the Tres- invited "artists. men science, and the public in gen-

15 S

era to submit proposals in com

petition for prizes.

They were to consider possible

The Ontario Court of Appeal MEMBER OF JEWISH dismissed Mrs. Tikord's appeal

Intimates of Mary Pickford will be surprised if she marries

divorce froes Buddy Rogers in Florida during January, Mary's Douglas Fairbanks became final on January 10, and Buddy and his band were Bunga Florida engagement at that time.

BRIBERY CHARGE. NOT PROVED

Sanitary Inspector Discharged

CONFLICTING EVIDENCE

The trial concinded at the Criminal Sessions yesterday, be fore Mr. Justice E. Lindsell, Acting Chief Justice of Thomas Storey Clark, Second Class Sani- tary Inspector, who was charged with having accepted a bribe with (a view to influencing his conduct as a public servant. He was found not guilty and discharged.

The jury was composed of Messrs. A H. Carroll (foreman), S. Jer, H. Nish, L_M. V. Ribeiro. Teang Han-chuen, M. V. Xavier and J. S. Laso.

Mr. E. H. Williams Assistant Attorney-General," instructed by Mr. J. B. Prentis, Assistant Crown

WHOLE NATION IN

NATION IN Solicitor, appeared for the Crown, MOURNING

(Continued from Page 2)

and

and

jand Mr. F. G. Jenkin, KC, repre- įsented the sceused on the instruc- tions of Mr. Geo. K. Hall Brutton. forgery, distinguishing marks and

The case for the prosecution expense of production and circüla- tion. The penny black won the

having been concluded the pre- vious day, yesterday's proceedings SECOND HUSBAND'S BODY competition, and thus became the.

detachments of troops from the pel. The air in its vicinity as were confined to the defence and EXHUMED

mother of postage stamps.

Fee Of 12 Guineas

Dominions and Colonies and drenched in the perfume of the

final addresses by counsel for both parties A fifty-year-old Durham wo- Corbould received a fee of 12 from 28 regiments. Regular and dowers which had been sent from

sorrowing subjects and the engraver 50 Territorial, of whicd the King his man. Mrs. Elizabeth Tilford, cineas

The case against Mr. Clark was Honorary Colonel, repre-foreisz rulers and peoples and

that between May 1 has been hanged at Woodstock, guineas.

June The printers were Perkins and senting all branches of the Bri-were massed all round the inner was

28 while he was Ontario, for the murder of her

charge of the Lockhart third husband, Tyrrell Tilford. Bacon of Fleet-street, and by atish Army. This section of the and outer walls of the cloisters.

When the cortege halted at the fin Mrs. Tilford was seen to col-coincidence the printing office was procession was closed by repre-

occupied by lapse when the officers entered later

Harmer sentative detachments of the west door the listeners heard the Road Market he perseented the

notes Royal Marines and the Royal shrill

of bosuns' pipes stallholders by ordering them to her cell at midnight and the pri-Rooke's.

which, in accordance with Naval cleanse their places during the son matrons worked furiously to On May 1, 1840. Rowland Hill Navy.

the rush hours. In order to induce ORDER IN PROCESSION ceremonial appropriate to revive her. Nearly one hour later reported: "Great bustle at the

of foreign Xavies, funeral of an Admiral, had piped him to stop the persecution, esch she was led into the bleak prison stamp office. Two thousand five Officers yard, through the snow. to the hundred pounds' worth were sold Armies and Air Forces, including the coffin aboard a gun carriage of the stallholders subscribed $3, Naval, Military and Air Attaches, at the station and nowpiped it making in all, and gave the on the first day.”

money to accused as a present] gallows.

Next came, the Cha-Jalongside the Chapel entrance. She was the eighth woman to Some people found fault with followed.

which he was alleged to have ac] LAMENT BY PIPERS

cepted. be hanged in Canada since the the design one asking why they plains of the forces, followed by

A lament by pipers followed as

The defence YELS * complete setting up of the Confederation should make Queen Victoria "an high officers of the Royal Air

as Force, and after them General the body of the late King, headed In the body of her husband old woman without teeth.

denial of these allegations, al- Officers Commanding -in-Chief by the Kings-at-Arms with pur though it admitted that two of the traces of arsenic were discovered jam

Field Marshals, Officers of the suivants and beralds in their when it was exhumed last May, a

Headquarters Staff and Members picturesque miforms in attend-stallholders did tender the bribe. month after burial.

ance, was received by the clergy. of the Army Council.

Representatives of the Mer-headed by the Archbishops of chant Navy and Royal Naval Re-Canterbury and Fork Immediate ple poured into London by car, of ly behind was King Edward with coach and train from every part serve preceded the Admirals the Fleet, Admirals and Vice-Ad-Queen Mary and other members mirals, and following them were of the Royal Family. The Prinf the British Isles, and by day- break the pavements along the the Aides-de-Camp to King George cess Elizabeth joined the proces-

were already crowded, { Evidence was given during BURIAL AT HAPPY VALLEY

from these services.

Jaion inside the Chapel where she

Beneath the sparing but effective the trial by the dead man's gis

and behind ter, who declared that her The death occurred after a The Earl Marshal, the Duke or had been awaiting its arrival

The service in the Chapel was mourning draperies

the lines of police and troops, brother, just before his death, said short illness at the Matilda Hos- Norfolk, headed the central see- to his wife: “Lizzie, you have kill-pital yesterday morning of Mration of the procession, which in-broadcast and reports already the public, who had come to pay ed-me. You're killed three, but Katie Gubbay, a respected mem- cluded great officers of State and ceived indicate that it was dearly its last homage to King George, massed itself in close pressed you will kill no more.”

ber of the Jewish community, a officers of the King's Household beard in distant parts of the Another witness, chemist, the age of 58 years.

2

Close to the gun-carriage were Empire, in many of which it was

As the commital ranks as the hour of the proces

Stil the nu stated that on one occasion. Mrs. The late Mrs. Guboay was pre-six of King George's Equerries, re-broadcast. Tford ordered two ounces of deceased by her husband a few Behind the King's coffin the Royal words were spoken by the Archsion drew near. arsenic by telephone.

leaves a son, Standard was

Police borne, and after bishop of Canterbury and the bers grew and at many places the and soldiers had to Mrs. Tilford went to Canada in Harry, and five daughters, Sophie, the standard walked King Ed-cotin sank below the Chapel floor,

the sound could be heard of the struggle to keep back the crowds. 1928 with her second husband Rosie, Nellie, and two who are ward

earth brought from the Royal As the gun-cariage, followed William Walker, an official of the married and at present in Cal-

ROYAL LADIES Salvation Army, whom she mareetta and England respectively. Queen Mary, accompanied by burial ground at. Frogmore being by the Royal mourners, appeared. Tied in 1911 and 'who died in 1929. The funeral took place in the the Queen of Norway, the Prin- sprinkled upon it by King Edward & great stillness fell upon the waiting miltitude, and as it pass- During the investigations into afternoon at the Jewish Cemetery,cess Royal and the Duchess of

ed, bated beads and tear-stained "Tilford's death Walker's body was Happy Valley,, where the service York travelled in a glass coach.

faces were bowed. The balconies exhumed, but no traces of any was conducted by Rabbi Elazer and was followed by the visiting:

and windows along the route were heads of foreign The chief mourners were the Kings and

filled with mourners, nearly as poison were found Mrs. Tilford married her first husband as the son (Harry) and the three daugh- States. Behind on foot were Am Not until after four o'clock yes closely packed as the pavements result of a bet when she was 15. ters (Sophie, Rosie, and Nellie).bassadors, Ministers and Fighterday morning did the procession below.

Among the large gathering pre-Commissioners

of those who for four days came At Hyde Park Corner it was

The Governor-General in Council

·COMMUNITY

decided not to interfere with the Mrs. K. Gubbay Passes

sentence.

Dying Man's Accusation

SON'S STRUGGLE WITH MOTHER

Vain Attempt To Stop Her Suicide

John Frederick Tomkinson. aged 14, stated at the inquest at Wolverhampton last month on his mother, Gladys Tomkan- don, agent, of Wolverhampton

road, Heath Town, that she tried to drown him before drevning herself.

She

years

ago, and

Silent Homage At Westminster

sent were Messrs. J. E. Joseph. Seven other coaches carried from all over country to pay their]

it

Toute

noticed that the Frincess Mar- garet Rose, who did not go with her sister, the Princess Elizabeth,

E. M. Raymond, S. E. Joseph, E-other Royal ladies, including trine of sorrow before the coffr Joseph, J. S. Gubbay, A SQueen Victoria of Spain, the of their dead King cease Gubbay, E. Ezra, H. Jebsen, Duchess of Gloucester and the steady, silent and reverent pro- Reed, S. Reed, A. Silva, the Duchess of Kent. The suites of gress through Westminster Hall to the service at Windsor, was Misses Ellis, Mrs. D. S. Gubbay, the foreign Royalties and members past the catafalque with its mo- watching from the mauve-draped Mrs. Haugland and others.

of the foreign Governments were tionless and bowed sentries. The balcony of the Duke of York's No Bowers were sent by re-on foot behind them, followed by depth to which the feelings of the house. When the gun-carriage

the 3rd Division of the escort of public have been moved by the passed she curtsied.

passing of King George was de TWO MINUTES SILENCE L Royal Horse Guards.

quest.

DEATH OF YOUNG VOLUNTEER

Mr. Arthur C. Maycock

The death occurred yesterday

procession.

The fourth division, preceded monstrated in this pilgrimage of The two minutes' ailence,, tel by detachments of the Police and crowds which behaved throughout which millions of bis subjects London Fire Brigade, closed the with orderliness and decorum and who could not participate in yes-

wendazed long hours of waiting in

the cold and wet. An official estimate terday's ceremonies in London and at Windsor were able to pay their of the numbers of those who saw the lying-in-state is over 809,000 tribute to the Monarch whom they The public, which filed through respected and loved, was observed Westminster Hall midnight, throughout the United Kingdom saw a touching tribute to the dead at 130 p.m. It had been intend- King readered by his sons. King ed that the Silence should coin

Scenes At Windsor

sked him to go to a marl hole near their home, say ing she wanted to see the water. She suddenly pushed him to at the Victoria Hospital of Mr. UNSEEN MULTITUDE FOLLOWS

wards the water saying "Come on He fell on his side, and

Arthur Charles Maycock, son of

(Mr and Mrs. JH. Maycock

~* THE SERVICE-

his mother fell with him She The late Mr. Maycock, who was Another great gathering of the Edward, in the watan tecide with the end of the funeral tried to get into the water, but only 20 years of age, was educate nation's mourners awaited the ar-Welsh Guards, accompanied by the service at St George's Chapel, Duke of York in the uniform of but the slow progress of the he succeeded in dragging her ed at the Central, British School rival of the fanezal train back some distance. She refus and, up to the time of his final Windsor, and an unseen multi-the- Scots Guards, the Duke of funeral procession to Paddington ed to go home with him, saying,lness was employed at the Navy, tude throughout the British Ex-Gloucester in Hussars uniform Station took longer than had been “They will lock me up.” Army and Air Force Institute pare sad in many foreign coun- and the Duke of Kent in naval expected and the funeral train The verdict was suicide while Be was a keen member of the tries were able, through the uniform, mounted guard at the moved off over half an hour late. catsfaigne for 2 quarter of So it happened that while the

NOTIFIABLE DISEASES

"Twelve cases of diphtheria. seven deaths, eight cases of en teric fever, one case of mess. three cases with two deaths from cerabro-spinal fever, and one case and one death from puerpers? fever were reported to the Hearth authorities in the

Motor Machine gaan section of the broadenst, secount of it.

The funeral will take place to Windsor Station through the day at Happy Valley,

In the prRSS

tle grounds to St. George's Cha-the funeral route manyżs

fainted; and several were injured: Some 5,000 doctors, first-aid fand zurses were posted along route, and there were 43 easy

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