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FINE FOLLOWS

ROAD CRASH

Safety First Chief As Witness

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Mr. Gordon Stewart, presă-}-

£7,000 JEWELS MISSING

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dent of the National Safety The disappearance somewhere THE WHOLE WORLD WILL WANT TO HUG HER! Naking, To-day-First Association, was a wit-between London and Paris Arrangements have been

ness at the police-court here re-jewellery valued at £7,000, belong- pleted for the inauguration cere-cently, wher Philip Gregson. ing to Princess Colleredo-Hanns- mony of the radiophone service marine engineer, of Debden, field, bas

been reported between China and Japan, the date West Byfleet, was fined £10 for French and English police. of which is scheduled as Friday driving in a manner dangerous The Princess left her home in

to the public.

Hertford Court, Mayfair, for

next.

to the

Next Friday morning the Mid- A charge of driving without Paris, where she also has a house. isters or Vice-Ministers of the due care and attention was! On arrival there she found the Communications of both Govern dismissed.

jewellery missing trum her lug Frederick Collier, of Send gage Enquiries were made at| ments will communicate over the

came to her London house, in case it had phone, and brief speeches will be Barn-lane, Send, who

court an crutches, said Mr. beer left behind, but without exchanged by them fromm the i

Government radio administrations Gregson travelled along Send SUCCESS.

in Shanghai and Tokyo.

Marsh-road very fast. When

was

There is so far no clue as to Others to take part in the approaching a corner Mr. Greg where the jewellery vanished. to his wrong One theory is that it may have ceremony will be the Chinese and son crossed over Japanese Foreign Ministers; the side and collided with witness's been stolen by a gang of inter

Witness China motor-cycle. Japanese Ambassador to with the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs or Directors of tained a fracture of the right definite evidence of a robbery. the Far East Bureau of Japan: leg and other injuries.

Collision Witnessed

the Chinese Ambassador to Japan

thrown into a ditch and SES

with the Chinese Vice-Minister of Mr. Stewart said that when Foreign Affairs; and industrial looking out of a window at his leaders and press representatives house he saw the collision. of both countries. Central News ¡Agency.

BEAUTY PARLOUR

MYSTERY

Police Enquiries Proceeding

Bridlington.

con-

Police 'enquiries were tinued last month into the death

national crooks, but it is under- stood that at present there is no

Reward Offered

The jewels include a necklace containing 51 pearls, a ruby and diamond ring and a pearl bag sei

with rubies.. A reward of $700 "I ran out of the house," con is offered for their recovery. tinued Mr. Stewart, "and among Prince de Conleredo-Marínsfield other things I said to Mr is the head of an old Bohemian Gregson was. It was the most family and a descendant of Mai flagrant piece of driving that I

sbal Jerome de Colleredo have seen for a very long time. Mannsfeld, who fought agains: "I asked him if he had ever Napoleon at the Battle of Leipzig. heard of such a thing as the Highway Code."

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Casting Suspicion On|ESTARE

Innocent People

"It was a mean and dirty trick cast suspicion on innocent people," said Mr. Roland Burrows, K. C., at the West Sussex Quarter.

of Miss Alys Lumb, aged 36. who was found dead in her! beauty parlour when police broke in The woman's teeth! were found in her overall poc- An arrest outside a dentist's Sessions recently, to Jack Samp ket. It was at first thought premises was mentioned at a son, aged 20, a plasterer, and his that she had swallowed them court-martial at Woolwich last wife, Kathleen Ida Sampson, aged and so been choked to death. month on Gunner Arthur W1-19

It was later thought that she liam Wood, aged 19, of the 17th The couple pleaded guilty to died from asphyxia caused when Field Brigade. RA, who plead stealing 43 17s. from their lodger eating chocolate Chocolates ed not guilty to a charge of at Sompting, and to "effecting a and wrappers which were found desertion and guilty to being public mischief."

in the room with her and a deficient of a greatcoat and It was alleged that when her bottle of wine were, taken by waist belt, valued together £1. husband and the lodger had gone police for analysis. together with a bottle of poison which she used in her business.

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Man Who Fell Off Quay In Fog

Wood, in his defence, said to work, Mrs. Sampson ransacked that because of several stop-the lodger's room. The husband pages he was receiving only is. told the police that the house had a week from the Army. An been robbed.. Several police of- jorder was made against him by ficers were engaged in the matter the Highgate magistrates to and a number of persons came 'un- pay is 6d a week to a young der suspicion

woman. He was dropping be Sampson was sentenced to six hind in his payments, and was months' imprisonment with hard afraid of again being brought labour, and his wife was put on before the court.

probation for 12 months.

The Bristol coroner's jury He obtained a job at Norwich

Job At Norwich criticised "the inadequate pro-in some gravel pits at £2 15s. tection" of the open quay walla week, and began to pay of round the floating harbour at some of his arrears. A tooth the inquest last month on a was paining him, and he return- young bus conductor, J. B.ed to Woolwich to have it out Morris, who walked into the As he left the dentist a police harbour and was drowned dur-man saw him and arrested him ling a dense fog.

Wood said he always intended

“In view of what has happen- to return to his unit, and also ed in the fog, we think that it to give himself up

that morn-

is time that some protectioning..

was placed around the quay |

wall was the rider added to a INQUEST ON DEAD verdict of accidental death.

A bus driver said that he heard a splash in the fog but could not see his conductor în the water A river policeman said that there were no fares or barriers. Since the tragedy

at the spot when it was foggy.

FARMER

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CHILD PLAYED WITH MATCHES

Family Killed In

Helping Girl

Oudtshoorn (Cape Province).] An entire family of five have! been wiped out here as a result of a 13-year-old girl's game with a box of matches.

After

several striking Įmatches "for fun" she lit a candle in the kitchen. Then her parents, in the next room, heard loud cries.

Father, mother with a baby Death from natural causes aged seven rushed into the kit|

in her arms, and another girl a policeman had been on duty was the verdict at the Bolton, chen, to find the child with her

Lancs, inquest last month on clothes on fire. Thomas Hamer, who, living

In attempting to save her all alone in a lodging house, were severely burned, and the possessed $3,000 in bank de-whole family have now died posits and shares. He used to from their injuries. dress in tattered clothing and wornout shoes.

LOW DOWN AND UN-ENGLISH

Police Methods Criticised

The post mortem examination showed that death was due to heart failure and chronic bron-1 chitis.

William Hamer, of Totting- Mr. W. H. Golding, solicitor, deton, said that 10 years ago his fending a publican and 14 other brother was a fxomer, but! men who were fined for gaming since then he had seen little of offences at Leigh (Lanes) recent- him.

by, cziticised the methods used

by the police in obtaining evi- DANGEROUS CAR

dence

It was stated that gambling on the game of "house" went on in a public-house. A policeman from janother district went there and watched the game. One man aak- ed him if he were a bobby," and he said he was not

DRIVING

Young Airman Fined £5

OCTOPUS ON HYTHE BEACH

Rare Find Made By Schoolboys

Hythe An octopus. was found by two schoolboys on the beach here recently. The boys, John Harold and Peter Warner, were about to climb across the large stone groyne when they saw the creature struggling on the ledge below, where it had evidently been carried by the re- cent heavy seas,

Harold ran and fetched a Charges against Reserve Flying heavy stone and dropped it on Officer John Anthony Crosby the octopus, killing it It was Warren, aged, 24, RAF, Filton, found to be 14in across the Mr. Golding, cross-examining alleging the driving of a motor body, and its longest tentacle the policeman, asked Hare you car while under the infinence of was aft. It is extremely rare to heard of an agent provocateur, drink, and dangerous driving: find an octopus on this part of and of the case of Mrs Meyrick, were re-heard at Bristol recently the coast.

the London night club queen, in before a new bench. "At the pre which the Lord Chief Justice midivious hearin

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