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THE CHINA MAHL, MONDAY, JULY 20, 1936
STRUCK BY PLANE
PROPELLOR
Apprentice Who Lost Forearm
CLAIM FOR ALLÈGED NEGLIGENCE
WOMANS BREACH
CLAIM FAILS "Hot Tempered And Jealous"
BACHELOR JUDGE'S COMMENTS
Mr. Justice Charles, who is a bachelor judge, azid, in summing
up a beach of promise case at
SHOT GIRL DIES IN MOTHER'S ARMS
Inquest On Young Lovers
MURDER AND SUICIDE VERDICTS
The shooting of a giri in her
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An 15-year-old spprentice, whose right fore-arm was -{
Newcastle Assizes last month, home by a young man who after VIA SHANGHAI JAPAN & HONOLULU patated after being hit by an aero- that the law did not expect a man wards shot himself was described plane propellor, claimed damages to crawl back to a woman who had at an inquest in a dance hall be- before Mr. Justice Greaves-Lord, told him to "get to hell out of it hind a cafe at Hoddesdon, Herts,
last month. in the King's Bench Division, last)
and-stay out." month.
The case was one in which Miss James Stuart Benedict Olsen, of Florence Engenia Telford, aged: Radnor-road, Harrow, alleged that,
2, of Monkseaton, Northumber to negli- the accident was due
land, sued Mr. Christopher Jame (gence by William Heath Corry, of
son Barnfather, aged 33, an insur- Yeldham Maner, Kemsing, Kent,ance clerk and chapel secretary, of and Gravesend Aviation Ltd Konkseaton. The parties had been ¡Gravesend,
friends since their school days.
The dead couple were:
Elsie Abbott, 22, cinema at- tendant, of Old Highway, Rye! Park, Hoddesdon, and
William James Richardson, 24, a plasterer, of Burleigh- road, Waltham Cress.
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Miss Abbott was, the youngest Both defendants denied negli-
Mr. Justice Charles said every-of the four daughters of Mr. and gence, and pleaded, alternatively, one would agree that it was a dis- Mrs. Herbert Abbott. Mr. Abbott contributory negligence by Olsen pensation of Providence that these is a council roadman.
Mrs. Julia Abbott said that on Mr. W. H. Cartwright Sharp, parties did not enter into holy ma-
the day in question her daughter. K.C. for Olsen, said that he' was trimony. apprenticed to the company as a The whole history of their Elsie, was with her at her house. Steamer ground engineer, with a view to courtship goes to show that the Richardson, whom her daughter E/Canada Jan. 26 Jan. 28 becoming a pilot
lady was hot-tempered, suspicious, had known since her school days, E/Passia E/Japan Accident Described
jealous, willing to wound and yet came there in the morning. They pa On May 18, 1935, Olsen was or afraid to strike, suggesting things had been walling out together, but B/Canada Mar. 19 Mar. 21 dered to start up an aeroplane by about a younger man's lady friend, things were brokeh off about six E/Russia. Apr. 2 Apr. 4 Apr. which were weeks 280. swinging the propellor. Corry was suggesting things
"Oh, Mum" in the seat as pilot. As Olsen was nasty about his own mother, and doing this, the propellor suddenly expecting him to take it like Her daughter went out with aj started at a great speed, and lamb and not resent it.”
Little boy to buy some, sweets, and, on her return, said: "Someone struck his right arm with tremen- dous force, throwing him to the
If ever there had been a money-wants to speak to you" Mrs. Ab-
bott continued: ground.
making case this was one. The cause of the accident, de-
"I saw Richardson, and he ask Mr. Norman Harper, counsel for clared Mr. Sharp, was that the Miss Telford, said that Barafather ed if he could speak to me ignition-switch had beez put on used a quarrel as an excuse for "I went into the front room, and I told by Corry, a thing which never saying that the engagement had my daughter followed. ought to be done until the clear been broken and to demand the re-Eichardson that I would have to warning "contact" had ben given turn of the ring.
speak to him later, as I had dinner Olsen, cross-examined by Mr. T.
get. He asked if he could
"Money-Making Case"
2
Barnfather in evidence declared to
Carthew, K. C. (for Mr. Corry), that during a quarrel in Miss Tel-speak to Elsie, and I said 'Yes.' agreed that he had been taught ford's house she told him, “Get to "I went into the kitchen. There that the man at the propellor was hell out of this and-stay ont," was a sound. I had no idea what solely responsible for the correct and he left.
it was until my daughter shouted, procedure being carried out. As the door closed something "Oh, Mum, he has got me!"
Mr. Carthew: Is the man at the hard struck it
"My other daughter rushed in propellor responsible-if be al He regarded the words as mean- and caught her sister in her arms. 2nd Aug. lows the procedure to go on?-No. ing that the engagement was at an She laid her in my arms. She died
Responsibility Of Pilot
in my arms.*** end You say that the order you gave
The Coroner: Did you hear any Sun., 23rd Aug. Mr. Corry was "Switches of denied that he was tiring of the sound of quarrelling?—No.
throttle closed, sucking-in." And girl and was seeking some excuse Alice Julia Ivy Bloomfield, The contented himself with nod-to shuffe out of the engagement married sister of Miss Abbott, ding his head and waving his Questioned about his visits to a said she heard three shots. After married woman friend, Barnfather her sister had run out of the room Was it not very negligent on said that he had taken Miss Tel-she went there and saw Richard- your part not to have your orders ford with him sometimes but not son point a revolver at his chest. repeated? No. I do not admit always.
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John Richardson, father of the dead man, said when he last saw
Mr. William E. P. Johnson, a Mr. Harper: When a couple are him alive on the previous evening former RAF. officer and a fiying engaged, it is usual to invite both he seemed normal.
Revolver Produced instructor, stated that the pilot took of them?
complete responsibility for the Mr. Justice Charles; Surely not. Have you ever known him to safety of everybody concerned in Cannot you invite one of them? If have anything to do with a re- starting and flying an aeroplane. what you say is true many of us volver? In 1932 he had one, and It was his duty not to put thejare guilty of a misdemeanour.
I told him to get rid of it or he switches to "contact" until the
Mr. Justice Charles in summing would have an accident.
The Coroner held up a revolver, mechanic had given a sigral to up used the words quoted above Shunko Maru
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and added: The girl had put in aland Mr. Richardson said that it Mr. Carthew said that lot of household goods which she was not the one his son had in Corry's evidence would be that the said she had bought in readiness 1932. He did not know where he machine, having been flown short for their coming marriage. Some obtained it.
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Did that seem to upset him very much?—He seemed upset.
The jury returned a verdict that Richardson murdered Miss Abbott and then killed himself.
TRAIN MYSTERY
The sport films have done the trick. In pretty Miss Yeung Sau- A man, carrying no
means of king, China has a swimming cham-identification, found in a train at piou who will take some beating East Grinstead, Sussex, last month: at the next Olympic Games. To with throat injuries, was taken to see her clad only in a Hollywood hospital, where an operation was bathing costume, posing on a dív-ļimmediately performed, and his ing-board, is to realise the charm condition was later reported to be of the type of woman she repre- satisfactory. sents. After a thousand years the white man's curiosity ia satised. Chinese girls are really beautiful.
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