THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 17, 1940.
News Snack Bar
"My great, big, wonderful new. assistant to the manager in the Outgoing Mail Department."
-"Colliers," Springfield.
Dead Baby Acquittal
Mrs. Ann Izett Paton Tucker, mid- dle-aged school teacher, was found not guilty at the High Court, Edin-
SCHOOLBOY LOVER SHOT GIRL AT HOMEWORK
New York, April 27.
A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD schoolgirl was shot dead by her schoolboy lover while doing her homework in the lounge of her home at Abington, Pennsylvania. The bullet was fired through a window after night had fallen.
Police later stated that Robert Heinman, aged sixteen, had confessed to the crime. To-day detectives examined nearly 100 love letters found in the girl's scented handbag.
Wife May Keep Her Job
A recommendation to discontinue to employ a woman teacher if she mar- ries a soldier, was not accepted by the Morecambe and Heysham Town Coun- cil by a large majority.
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burgh, on a charge of murdering her Smiling Killer Hanged daughter's newly-born illegitimate child.
She declared that the child was stillborn.
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Queen Mary To
Stand Treat
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Queen Mary has offered to pay the
threepence admission fee for all sold- iers attending troop concerts in that part of the West Country where she has been staying since the outbreak .of war.
Ernest Edmund Hamerton, twenty-
five, kitchen porter, who smiled when he was sentenced to death for the murder of his sweetheart and again when his appeal was dismissed, was executed at Wandsworth Prison.
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At 31 She Is A
Grandmother
A mother at fourteen and a grand- mother at thirty-one is the record of She has told E.N.SA. she would like Mrs. Ella Chaffee, of Providence, future concerts to be held in the man- Rhode Island. sion where she is living.
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She Wanted To Live
A woman who poured paraffin over herself and set fire to it changed her mind-too late.
By the time she was eighteen she was the mother of five children.
Her oldest child, aged seventeen, has just given birth to a daughter.
When she was taken to hospital she Gale Ends 71-Mile Swim
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"Canard Enchalne"
Paris. GERMAN PRISONER: “It feels Just like being back in Germany,'
Chestnut-haired Edith Synder, voted the most popular girl at Abington High School, was studying history in Greatcoats For the lounge of her home when, raising her eyes, she saw a shadow at the window.
PIERCED HER HEART
W.A.A.F.S.
"Look," she cried to her seventeen- Captain H. H. Balfour, Under Sc- year-old brother, Edwin, lounging on cretary for Air, has given the a sofa. Then a bullet came through W.A.A.F.'s an assurance that they will the window and pierced Edith's heart. be issued with greatcoats before next
Sample pieces are being prepared
With a sigh she felt dead in Edwin's autumn.
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arms.
A next door neighbour, Mr. William of two materials of a lighter weight McBride, rushing to a window when than the cloth used for airmen's great- he heard the shot, saw a tall figure coats. hurry across the lawn and jump into a car, which vanished into the dark-
ness.
detectives toured the neighbourhood
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Called by Edith's weeping mother, Luminous Legs rousing high school girls and boys from For Nazis their beds in an attempt to solve the mystery.
Many boys, the detectives tearn- ed, were in love with Edith. In her bedroom they found a scented hand bag crammed with love notes, some tied with ribbon,
Later came the news that Heinman had confessed.
Last Quad Dies
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Baby Harry Morgan, the one-and-a-
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The luminous stocking is the latest German invention. It is on show at the Leipzig Fair and is claimed to be "perfect for, hard wear and wash- ing."
Advertisements carry a little poem telling women that at last something has been found which attracts men to them in the black-out.
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half pound survivor of the Glamorgan Throat Cut By
quads, has died in the Glamorgan General Hospital, Aberdare.
Ever since he was born, on March Dead Man
A fifty-five-mile-an-hour gale has 7, the baby has been, fed with milk
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told the doctor, "I have changed my mind-I want to live." But she died
defeated Paul Chotteau, French long- from a fountain-pen filler. Lying in A barber in Bodenburg, near Han- from burns eleven hours later.
The story was told at the inquest on distance swimmer, in his attempt to a heated bag, he was surrounded by over, Germany, had a heart attack and wrapped in and dropped dead while he was shay- Alice Wright, aged swim the seventy-one miles across hot-water bottles Miss Elizabeth
to cotton wool.
ing a customer, says Reuter. thirty-four, of Portobello-street, Hull. Florida Strait from the Bahamas
His mother, Mrs. Margaret Morgan, As he fell, his razor cut the custom- Verdict was that she died by her own. West Palm Beach.
aged 34, who is, in hospital, is "as er's throat and he, too, died before hand when the balance of her mind
well as can be expected."
help arrived. The story is reported was disturbed by ill-health.
by the official German news agency.
He covered forty-six miles in four teen hours, twelve minutes...:
that I am compelled to hand in my
R.A.F. Battle Dress
Battle dress is being tried out in the R.A.F. in France. There has been an experimental issue of sixteen bat- tle suits to airmen and N.C.O.'s, who have been asked to report on their suitability.
First impressions are unfavourable, Some men say they prefer overalls.
One grievance is that the suits do not bear the wings normally worn on the sleeves of R.A.F. afrmen's uni- forms.
Dying Woman
Clears Him
Before she died from injuries re- ceived through being knocked down by a car in Trinity-road, Wandsworth, London, SW, Mrs. Elizabeth Sabina Fairbank, sixty-eight,, of Holderness- road, Tooting, S.W., told her husband that she did not blame the driver.
She said the driver did all in his. to help her after the accident, and he had gone on she would have been run over by a bus that was approach- ing.
verdict of Accidental death was. recorded at the Southwark Inquest.
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