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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

NOCTURNAL ADORATION

IN THE HOME

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 22, 1937.

SCHOOL PLEADS

FOR

SACKED HEAD

WANT HIM BAČK

2

Head boy of Scarborough College thas issued circular letter to parents, protesting against the dis- missal of the headmaster, Mr. A.

BOY ACCUSED OF KILLING FATHER

"Finest Thing. I. Have Ever Done"

STATEMENT AFTER

ATTACK

When a Hackney boy, aged 16,

R. Woolley, at the end of last term. was charged at Bow-street yester- There are 140 boys at this pri-day with the murder of his father, vately-owned school. The letter it was alleged that he told a neigh- reads:-

bour: "It is the finest thing I have

before the chief

"Representing the boys of this ever done in my life."! college, I am writing to put before The boy, who appeared you our views on the departure of Mr. R. E. Dummett in Mr. Woolley, our headmaster. No magistrate's private room, was com- doubt you have heard that he is mitted for: trial. He pleaded not not to be with us next term, and guilty and reserved his defence. we are anxious to be assured that Mr. Clayton, prosecuting, said he has received fair treatment at that the dead man had been em- at the hands of his employers.

ployed since 1934 as cellarman "We have absolute faith in his a public house, and lived away from guidance and we see no possible home except on Thursdays. reason whatever for the Governors The boy's mother, said to take the course they have. HeClayton, stated that her has our entire respect, honour and came home in a very drunken státe trust, and we feel that in the in- on April 23, and started “rowing" terests of a possible successor some with her and the boy. real and genuïne reason should be given for his leaving.

In Charge Four Years "Our views are that he should be reinstated immediately.”

Mr. husband

Later the man ran at his wife, The and was going to strike her. boy picked up a bottle of milk and struck his father a violent blow on the head, knocking him down.

Five Or Six Blows

Mr. Woolley has been in charge of the school for four years, suc- Mr. Clayton said that a neigh- ceeding-its first headmaster, Mr.bour who looked through a glass Percy Armstrong, who was head partition saw the boy bending over for about thirty-five years.

his father with a knife in his hand. Following the boy's letter, a num-]The boy said, "Which side is his ber of parents held a meeting, but heart? I know.”

'Before the neighbour could pull no statement has been issued.

The chairman of the Governor, the boy away he struck five or six |Mr. G. K. G. Pindar, said that the blows on the man's chest. Then he Governors were responsible for kicked his father in the face. running the school, and it was ri- The wife of the neighbour came diculous that the boys or their in, and said to the boy: "What have parents should try to act as judge you done?" and the boy replied, "Killed him, I hope. It is the fin- and jury.

A successor for Mr. Woolley had est deed I have ever done in my life or ever likely to. The swine not yet been found, he added, and next term Mr. H, W. Pegg, head of went for her and I went for him.” the preparatory school, would act as master in charge.

SAVIOUR OF THE R.A.F. IN

Tin discourse to be gi

THE discourse to be given by Fr. GREAT WAR

the 23rd

inst. at St. Mary's School Hall at Kowloon has been postponed.

H. DIXON.

Found Gassed In -Bedroom

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In a statement to a police officer, said Mr. Clayton, the boy said:

"I understand he started on mother, and I hit him with a milk bottle. That did not seem to have any effect, and I hit him with my fist. That did not have much effect, but he fell down in the passage.

“I ran back into the passage and picked up my sheath-knife and stabbed him three times, I think. -

"He was still gurgling, so I got ja poker from the kitchen, and struck [him on the head about half a dozen At a critical period of the war, times. To show

my respect for when the German aeroplanes were him, I kicked him. outpacing our own, a young rac-

Always Hated Him` ing motorist designed 2 high

"All the time I have lived I have permitted hated him.

He has been a brute. the employment of high-speed en-I remember standing up in bed as gines.

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The boy's mother, giving evid- initials.

ence, described her husband's con- The man who rendered this sig-duct at home as “quarrelling and nal service to his country was Mr using filthy language.” Kenelm Lee Guinness. He was found gassed in his bedroom at Kingston Hill, 'Kingston-on- Thames.

"It only goaded him if I answer- ed," she said. “He had threatened. to kill both me and my son.” - -

Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the patho- Mr. Guinness, who was forty-logist, state that

a past-mortem nine, was younger brother of Sir examination showed that there Woollen and Artificial Silk Piece Algernon Lee Guinness and heir-pre-were six stab wounds on the chest, Goods, Clothes, Elastic Braids, sumptive to the baronetcy. His mar- four of which had penetrated the Trimmings, Press Buttons, Pepper, riage to Miss Josephine Straugham heart. There were lacerated wounds Marine Delicacies, Sandal Wood, was dissolved last year, etc., etc.

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⠀⠀ Many consider that “K. L. G.” was poker. Part of the head was frac- the greatest race driver of all time. tured.

He taught Sir Henry Begrave, and Div. Det-Insp. Powell said that one of the boys in his early racing everybody spoke highly of the boy camp was Freddie Dixon.

at his place of work. He won a Twelve years ago he was severely London County Council scholarship injured in a crash at San Sebastian.

and attended a technical institute.

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Hong Kong, 20th. May, 1937,

Sam Smy, who has died, at Oxford, Suffolk, aged 31, had been Oxford's town crier for 71 years, and claimed to be the oldest crier in England.”