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THE CHIKA MALL-SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17

GIRL IN TRUNK

MYSTERY

Coroner Adjouras. Inquest

FATHER'S DISTRESS IN COURT

-Rotherham.—An Inquest which was opened last month on Inne Hart, the 16-years-old domestic [servant," whose body was found in

SHE SANG AFTER-HER

feeSba że dancing mad, and wil not work,” said, the father Esida. Waller, aged 19, who was charged at. Fasthouse, recently

BABIES ARE NOT PEDESTRIANS

Case Collapses At

“HOLE. IN REGULATIONS

HallA Summons against

with stealing 45 from the hind-George Toung, a Corporation bas- | bag of a woman she met at

have given her hidings for

clared the father..

a tin trunk in her beme at Hart-staying out late at nigh de |ington-read, Rotherham, was ad- Įjourned sine die.

Only evidence of identification and the cause of death were taken. The coroner, Mr. W. H. Brad- ford, said that it appeared that the girl was last seen alive by her stepmother about 9.30 previous Saturday,

has had a hiding, she has gone upstairs, and comme down soon afterwards.. singing, “* The girl was placed on probation, for three years

the LOST SHIP WAS

Mrs. Hart left her home at that hour, and when she returned at: 11 o'clock the girl was missing. At 2pm. her body was found in the tin trunk with a piece of cord tied tightly round the neck.

Post Mortem Held

stated

Dr. F. C. Collinson, police sur- geon at Rotherham, who made a post mortems examination that death was due to asphyxia The mark on the throat pointed to this as the cause of death

The father of the dead girl was the first to arrive at the court. He was so distressed that after giving evidence the police surgex had to attend to him. He was al- lowed to give his evidence from a seat in the court without going When 2 into the witness box. paper was put before Mr. Hart, be signed it with a cross.

"PAYING DEBTS” PLEA

£10 In Relief While Earning $42

OVER-LOADED

Attorney-General's Assertion

"DISGUISED ATTEMPT TO BREAK THE LAW”

driver, for not allowing free pass"} ļage to pedestrians at "a" "beacon crossing was dismissed at the police-court here last month.

It was stated that the bus was | discharging passengers at a stop- ping-place.

Mrs. Mariel Morgan, who was wheeling her baby in a perambula- tor, stated that she pushed the perambulator on to the crossing

was about to follow when Young restarted the bus, and way- ed her back.

Cross-examined, she agreed that she herself was never on the cross- fing.

Defence Contentiou

The defence contended that baby in a perambulator, was

a

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ja pedestrian, and no offence had been committed.

Three questions were put by Sir

The prosecution replied that a Donald Somervell, KC, the At baby was a human being and en- torney-General, to the jury, at the titled to protection.

Old Bailey, considering charges Mr. J. R. Macdonald, the stip-1 arising out of the loss of the oil endiary magistrate, dismissed the summons, and remarked that there tanker La Crescenta.

They were:

Was the ship overloaded? Were the defendants parties to that overloading?

Was the overloading such that the lives of persons were likely to be endangered?

The men charged were Sydney Graham, aged 37, company direc

was a hole in the regulations. He was willing to state, a case. ·

LIONESS AND A TIGER

tor, and Ralph Henry Holland Become Firm Friends

aged 44, a ship's manager. - They [pleaded not guilty to

In Zoo

WES

Sending the ship to sea 00 Some weeks ago Bessie, a 12- ́three occasions in such an un-months-old Honess, born in the Lon- sexworthy condition that the don Zoo, and Sam, a tiger of the lives of persons were likely to be same age, born at Whipsnade. endangered.

were placed together in the same Conspiring together to incite leage: The friendship hoped for the master to load his ship in by the zoo did not, however, pro- contravention of the Merchant gress. Shipping (Safety and It was alleged at Liverpool last)

Load Bessie began by being-friendly month that Harold Preen, aged 29. Line Convention) Act, 1932: towards the tiger, but be of Frost-street, Liverpool, had La Crescenta was lost with all suspicions of her. By degrees," during six weeks last spring drawn hands in the Pacific in December, however, Sam decided that be £10 48. in poor relief for himself, 1934.

really did like Bessie, and he be wife and child, while earning in

came friendly. By this time the the same period over £42 as a wax

lioness felt offended, and she re- modeller at a store-

Sir Donald Somervell said: La fused to recognise him. Both sulk- When he again applied for relief Crescenta was owned by the Cres-ed for a period, but they gradually on becoming unemployed it was cent Navigation Co., Ltd, of which relented, and now the tiger and found that Preen owned a motor-Graham, was a director and Hol-the lioness are firm friends. icar.

the land the secretary. The managers Banee and Rajah, Freen, who pleaded guilty to two of the ship were another company have been sanering from summonses for making false state-called Harris and Dizon Ltd, of trouble. Last month they ments in order to obtain relief which Graham" was managing unable to eat meat, and were liv- from the Public Assistance Com-director and Holland the head of ing on a milk diet. mitter, was, fined £5 on one sum-the ship management department.

New Rule Enquiries

mans and bound over on the other The two companies were allied.

on condition that he repaid $10 43, In February, 1932, Mr. Graham

tigers,

gastric

were

Continued from Page 1)

The defence was that while un-wrote to Lloyd's asking if any KING LEOPOLD'S STATEMENT employed Preen borrowed money alterations were required to bring and, after obtaining work, con- the ship into accord with suggest tinued to draw relief to repay his ed new freeboard rules. They re- creditors.

plied the day after the rules were The Paris Soir, in summing up that |issued assigning a special tanker the present situation, says. load line to the La Crescenta sub-all conjectures at this moment are Belgian ject to a number of modifications, inopportune, since the

Then Mr. Graham wrote saying | Government has not yet taken up that those would involve some the issue, and it is expected, that

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Early to Red

COMMENCING TO-MORROW PAUL ROBESON & LESLIE BANKS in ONE OF THE TEN BEST BRITISH PICTURES OF-1935!

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ORIENTALE

where between £400 and $450 and the measures will not be judged LAST 4 TIMES TO▪DAY"

ixto

that in the circumstances the com-until they are passed or rejected pany preferred to adhere to the In a few days, so the paper states, the Belgian Government will pro- Passing Motorist Gives original lead line.

Sir Donald said that according vide the interested Powers with an Alarm

to the prosecution La Crescenta explanation of how it proposes to was overloaded by 408 tons on one put the King's declaration A motorist who saw flames voyage from Batoum to Wadi-harmony with Belgium's treaty through the windows on the first vostok. On other voyages over-obligations, and even now it is as Bloor at the White Hart public loading amounting to 240 tons and serged that the neutrality policy house, High-street, Stoke Newing 260 tons was alleged. ton, Iast month, gave warning at the police station.

Mr. John Stanley, the licensee. his wife, and staff were aroused by policemen, and they came down. stairs

An outbreak of fire in the ma- ize- music hall was subdued by

Incitement Of Master

(will in no way condict with the obligations under the Loermo Pact and the League of Nations Comm

He submitted that letters to the ant. The Belgian Government is word master, Capt. Upstil, showed per- of the opinion that the sistent incitement of the master to neatrality" is misleading, and that the English words "no Joverload by Graham and Holland.

A passage from one letter read: entanglements" are more correct The Paris Soir concludes by say "We desire you to load as much cargo as you possibly can and we ing that in any case the two in- assume that you should be able to terested Powers, France and Eng- land, can make no move until the PREMIER IN FINAL CONTROL take at least 8,200 tons.”

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Sir Donald pointed out that as Belgian Government has consider- (Continued from: Page 1) the suggested amount of bunkers ad the measure and issued a com- was 1.500 tons, the total amount plete explanation, and thus judz GRAND VIZIER'S SUPPORT with the cargo would be 9,700 ment must be reserved until the Serville: Speaking in the name tons. That was more than 84 tons doctrine becomes of the Grand Vizier of Spanish over her tropical marks and 630 Ocean Service: Morocco, his Secretary thanked tons over what she was entitled to

the Spanish popalace of Seville carry ba

and Cordova in a radio, broadcast

fact---Trans-

The replied that if the letter was «; disguised ́

for the courtesy extended to the voyage was to be through the Suez to break the law.

suszrestión

Grand Vizier during the latter's Canal, it would be impossible to The jury would And In several visit to these cities. The Grand carry what was suggested, and of the letters what he might call Vizier, so the Secretary said, had pointed out that they were under declared that the Moroccans ware winter loading.

glad they were supporting the cause of the Nationalists from the

Much

The

beginning, and that after witness- and Dixon, in ing the existing conditions, he iwas willing to repast the offer of Efinancial suppo in the stengda in Sprin Trans-

Ocean

salifying words - Lor. Yuxtance, #70 look to you to load a mani- mum cargo with safety.” Messrs. Harris They might have to consider.

whether, those words were put in as a sort of cloak, to enable the writer to try to say

{to do nothing”

right in are going

Sir Donald S

that the

The bearing”

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