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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 16, 1941.

TWO GIRLS KILLED BY SAME

METHOD

A GIRL OF SEVENTEEN, found strangled in

a yard in the centre of Bolton, Lancs., at mid-night, PEERESS

is the second girl within a fortnight to have been

murdered in this way, and in each case a soldier of DIES

about twenty-five and of medium build, is wanted by the police.

The Bolton girl was Minnie (Peggy) Stott, a grocery shop manageress, of Clarence Street, Bol- ton: the other girl was Mary Hogan, fifteen, of Wa- terloo, Liverpool, who was found strangled at the entrance to a blockhouse near her home.

Both girls were killed on Saturday night,

Mary Hogan had left home to buy a newspaper. After an absence of five hours she was found, just before midnight,

Minnie Stott had told her mother that she was going to a cinema. Fou- hours later also at midnight, she was found strangled in a yard off Bradshawgate, a main street in Bolton,

Mary Hogan's throat was bruis- ed and her head bore the marks of heavy blows. Her clothes were muddy und disarranged.

Bought Her A Drink

IT WAS

GOERING'S

FASTEST

IN RAID

learned It was

that Evelyn, Viscountess Charlemont, had been She killed in a recent air raid.

of Vis- was formerly the wife count Charlemont, ex-Minister of Education in Northern Ireland.

The Viscoun: was granted 17 decree nisi against his wife in the Northern Ireland High Court in January on the ground of her adultery with Frederick Ryan, formerly in Lord Charlemont's employ as a chauffeur.

Lord and Lady Charlemont were married at St. George's, Hanover Square, London, in No- vember, 1914. She was Miss Evelyn Hull. daughter of Mr. E. C. P. Hull, of Earlswood Mount, Surrey.

STOLE 15 BICYCLES

Lilian Faith Longland, 23, was

(By A Correspondent) I saw the world's fastest aeroplane recently. It was one of Goering's yellow- Minnie Stott was found by 31 policeman as she lay face down-nosed Messerschmidt word on the grind Her clothes 109s, but I doubt if he

imprisonmen' on two would be at all proud of it

charges of stealing bicycles, the could he see it now.

sentences to run consecutively. When I first saw it was running | She pleaded guilty to sealing 15 away from a Spitfire across open bicycles. country in S.E. England at about! 15,000 feet.

were disarranged and she had ap- parently been outraged.

A post-mortem showed that the girl had been killed pro- bably by the use of a cord or thin scarf. It is believed that she was murdered at about 10 o'clock.

Her death took place at the time when people were leaving cinema near the yard.

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The man whom the police are anxious to and joined Miss Stott and a girl friend in a fish and chip bar beside the local palas de danse at 9.30 p.m.

The man said he was a soldier on leave and that he was due to

The Spitfire drew still closer, its Brownings stuttered. A man leaped from the Messerschmidt, and

he fell his parachute opened and gleamed like giant muehroom in the sun.

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'Plane Leaped At Us

And then it happened.

а

A man-made meteor Lore

report back to his unit by next | through the air earthwards, day. He invited the girls to straight at me and photographer have a drink with him and they | Walter Efner, standing on a had a glass of sherry at the local hedgebank. public-house, after which he re- turned with them to the palais de danse.

The man who is wanted in connection with the murder of Mary Hogan told a woman, whom he saw just before midnight that he came from either Bury or Burnley, and mentioned the name of a regiment. He added that he had been confined to barracks for some time for having been absent.

STORM HURLS 'UP INVASION JUNK

A LARGE QUANTITY OF WRECKAGE WASHED ASHORE AT SEVERAL POINTS OF THE

All we saw was a circle in the centre of a straight line, a nose-on view of a Messersch- midt, charging at us under the power of its 1,050 h.p. engines full out, plus the forco of gravity.

There flashed through my mind. the familiar cinema picture of an express train that seemed to leap straight off the screen at the audi-

ence.

There was ↑ whu-u-umph, a blinding sheet of flame and we ducked instinctively as earth and stones and chunks of Messersch- midt whizzed about us.

"Only A Firework”

A baby in a baker's van across the road screamed. A. woman got out of the van and told the child not to be afraid. "It's only a big firework," she told it, The soft earth, as the 'plane's nose bored into it, absorbed the blast of the exploding petrol tanks, and saved the woman and child.

High in the sky the Messer-

As

S. E. COAST IS BELIEVED TO❘ schmid: pilot still dangled from HAVE BELONGED TO THE his parachute slowly falling. NAZIS? INVASION EQUIPMENT | he sailed down to earth he must WHICH WAS SHATTERED BY have seen the end of his 'plane. F. A. F. ATTACKS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CHAN- NEL.

The wreckage was found after

a flerce storm had swept the streets of Dover."

sony.

STAYING THE 'COURSE!

Sir Francis Joseph, president of British Gas Industries, in a letter Among It is a large wooden

10 Mr. Waller C. Beckjord, pre- raft or pontoon. Underneath are sident of the American Gas As- two air cylinders, and the consociation, sums up Britain's posi struction would be capable of

tion thus: holding a good number of per. "We are all right for food; the.

nation is splendidly fed. We are all right for courage; it has never been greater. Best of all, we are all right for s'aying the course, because we are certain we can last longer than our enemy?

PARSONS ADVISED NOT TO WEAR WHITE Archdeacon E. Gowing,

A small raft

made of rubber and of unusual design was also washed up. Other large pieces of timber probably belonged to ratts and boats which were broken up during R. A. F. bombing raids.

The wreckage is being closely examined by the authorities,

CONVICT'S 10/- FOR

PLANE

Ten shillings from a convict at Southend, has advised the clergy Parkhurst prison is among gifts of his diocese, to remove their towards planes acknowledged by white surplices when conducting the Minister of Aircraft. Pro- funerals. He believes they pra vide a target for enemy aircraft. duction::

sentenced at West London to six months'

The magistrate, Mr. Paul Ben- neti, inquired: “Does she steal bi- cycles because it's easy or is it be- cause they have some fatal fas- cination

for her?" Det.-Sgt. Young replied that it was because it was an easy way to get money,

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