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The 510 train from Ramsgate to London struck a piece of scaffolding as it was passing through Rochester Tunnel" one night last month. The scaffolding was being used for repair work on the roof of the sunnci.
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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1936
DEAD MAN IN LIFT SHAFT
Coroner Records An-
Open Verdict
A
FOUL PLAY THEORY.
"FANTASTIC"
An opea verdict was recorded last month by the Paddington coroner, Mr. Ingleby Oddie, on William Leslie Malin, aged 42, a commercial traveller, of Chorley Wood. Herts.
Malin's body was well of a motor-car
found in the lift at a St.
WONDERFUL & John's Wood service garage on
BRAVE”
Last Tribute To Husband
NOTE LEFT BY WOMAN ·
May 5. He disappeared from home on January 9 and the body had apparently been several weeks in the lift shaft.
The inquest had been adjourn- led for further enquiries as to how jit got there.
On the former occasion it had been suggested that Malin WILS
A note paying a tribute to her earning about £1,000 a year. At husband was read at an inquest at the inquest it was pointed out that Hammersmith last month on Made-for the last five years his earnings: leine Enid Bailey, aged 45, wife of averaged £657 annually.
schoolmaster, of Ravenscroft School Yelverton, Devon.
Evidence was given that he was
ļa good salesman. He was seldom À verdict of suicide while of under the influence of drink. unsound mind was recorded.
Henry Frederick Bailey said
that his wife had been depressed,
and had been staying with her
Walk into "Dark Space"
Divisional Detective Inspector
The coroner referred to a bus
sister at Hammersmith. She had Drew stated that enquiries had seen a specialist for nerve trouble. yielded no further evidence as to "She had been feeling during the how Malin met his death. 17 last three or four years that she
had lost touch with everything." ticket found on the body and said added Mr. Bailey, "but she had no that one theory was that Malia found himself in the wrong 'bus, real troubles."
uncon-got into another, overshot Baker- empty street, and got out by St. John's 17 tabe which had contained medinal Wood-road. In a state of mental 20 tablets was in the room.
Mrs. Bailey was found 17scious by her sister. An
confusion he might have tried to
Dr. Charles Bowiand said that find St. John's Wood Station and Mrs. Bailey had probably taken 50 mistaken the entrance of the gar grains of medinal.
age for the station-quite a pos-1 sible thing for a man under the infiuence of drink.
In the note to her husband Mrs. Bailey wrote, "Forgive me: I
18 know my brain has gone funny. I know I am never going to be right Good-bye, darling, you have been
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so wonderful and brave. I know I am insane.”
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MAYFAIR CHASE
Stockbroker And His
Wife's Jewellery
gave
DIETING MADE HER
A WRECK
Then She Found A Better
Way To Reduce
This woman's first effort at reda ing did reduce her but not in the right way. She says it reduced her to a nervous wreck?” Then she tried aucther method. Read what she has to say about that:-
waive months ago I started rigid diet for reducing, zad in two months had reduced myself to * mervous wreck, with only slight loss of weight. I read about reducing without dieting, and decided to give Kraschen a trial. After the first eight months I sleep better than for years. I can eat anything, and feel! a different person altogether, besides slowly losing 15 lbs of excess weight] in that time. I take half-a-teaspoon- ful each morning, and it makes me feel life is worth living again." (Miss) D. S.
Gently, but surely, Kruschen rids the system of all fat-forming food refuse, of all poisons and harmful acids which give rise to rheumatism, digestive disorders, and many other illa Kruschen is a combination of
six salts which have a tonic influence upon every organ, gland, nerve and fibre of your Sody.
BOY'S BODY FOUND
Undiscovered For Seven Days
REPORTED MISSING TO POLICE
A father's search for his missing 18-years-old son, whose body was discovered after seven days in a lumber room, was described at a Camberwell inquest last month.
was
Edward Lewis, of St Mary's- road, Peckham, the father, said his son, Edwin Lloyd George Lewis, was unemployed. He last saw him at midnight on June 5, and reported to the police two days On the other hand Malin might a stockbroker, of Park-street, May-
Mr. Gerard Koch de Gooreynd, later that his son was missing. have wandered about
On June 11 the Iumber room for hours, fair, missed his last train and gone to borough-street last month against found. In the boy's mouth was a
evidence at Mari-was searched and the body the garage which he knew to try William Sullivan, aged 27, porter, gas tube. and get a car to take home. Malin of no fired address, who was com- Imight have given a push against mitted for trial. the doors of the lift, which opened Sullivan was charged with Cowburn, asked the father why he like exit doors, and he might have breaking
into the Park-street did not search the house before. walked into “a dark space" think-house, and with stealing jewellery Mr. Lewis replied that he looked! 17ing that the exit led into the land money to the value of £1,000. In the top room, which was fall of 17 street. That was probably the "Shortly after 10 p.m.” said Mr. furniture, but could not see his correct theory, but there was no de Gooreyad, "I heard a scream, son He thought he must have evidence to support it.
and saw a man opening the front got work and was living away The coroner described as fan-door. He carried two jewel cases from home. 17 tastic the theory that Malin had belonging to iny wife. I chased
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The coroner, Mr. A. Douglas
You
could
Coroner: You should have been run over by a car and placed him up Upper Grosvenor-street. A searched the room. in the bottom of the life well. "I commissionaire caught him and have saved the police the trouble! feel satisfied that there was Do we held him until
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Miss Rose Beckingsall said that she and Lewis were to have been.
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married next year. She had al- ways found him happy. Lewis was going to get work.
Medical evidence was given that death was due to coal-gas poison- ing. The coroner recorded a ver-i
Churchill has to Lord Davies, chairman of the dict of suicide, adding that there 17 agreed to become president of the society, Mr. Churchill said he re was no evidence to show the state 17 British Section of the New Com-igarded it as his duty to accept. Hejo1 Lewis's mind.
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