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THE CHINA MAILE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1954.

Nathaniel Gubbins

Plerre:

papa.

Marie,

'I'cannot strike my

wook the identity of Dr du Pont's Little Pigeon" wilt be revealed. Those who have been thinking the worst of Mme. Lutu Frou-Frou, Dr and Mme. (Dr du Pant exlia. They hear du Pont, Marie, their daughter, the surgery door slam.)

Mme, le Brun, and even her cat Mine, du Pont:

"Now The 'la · Lo Capitalne, will feel ashamed

of themselves. alone wiz 'er

N the last Instalment of Mme. du Pont: the French version of Pierre, stop im Mrs Dale's 'Diary Dr du Pont answered a mysterious

His telephone call;

out- raged family heard him say "But of course, my little pigeon. In a few minutes I will be with you, my little pigeon."

Was his "little pigon" Mine, Frou-Frou, the married Lulu lady contortionist who concealed her passion for Dr du Pont by pretending to be in love with his son Pierre, or somebody

else?

Plerre: It is an outrage, Marie; My poor mama. (The telephone rings. answers it.)

Pierre, into tolophone:

Pierre

YOS

Mmo. Frou-Frou is lighted. course. We shall be delighted.

Pierre, to the others: It is Lulu's cosband who is a strong man. In zo circus. He is com ing 'ere. Now somebody will strike my papa for me.

New Look Card

A graduate who wrote the UNIVERSITY under- following rhyme for the now- look Christmas card:

A

1

"Away with togs, away with

snow, "Give me Marilyn Monroe," and suggested photograph instead of of the Alm star (The telephone rings again. drawings of Santa Claus, robins, snub- Marie answers it.)

and yule logs, has been bed

Christmas card by the manufacturers.

As pioneers

WOITY. needn't snubbed he When his idea has broken down of conservative the resistance minds we shall have much more interesting Christmas cards with and suitable photographe

Was Mme. Frou-Frou bluffing

Mme. du Pont: I will not 'ave when she threatened to tell all

shall strike OUT about Mme, du Font's "loveurt. Nobody at the wine shop unless Dr du apa but me. Pont visited her Immediately? Wae she lying when she said the elderly Frenchman who offered 10 buy the hat shop

Maric, into telephone: But of belonging to

du Pont's course. Dr

Tomorrow evening at old seven in ze park. was an daughter Marie

Mme. du Pont: It is "loveur" of Mme. la Brun, Dr du Font's mother-in-law? What loveur. has happened to Le Capitaine,

Marie: He is not my loveur, the tiresome cat belonging He want to buy my 'at shop. Mme. le Brun, who was last

Mme. du Pont: Only loveurs up a tree "wiz onuzzer bug 'at shops in ze park. cat1

AL the beginning of this broadcast the du Pont family are at dinner,

to

Dr du Pont, raising his glass: To the 'eath of my 'appy united family. Zis wine is superb.

And so cheap,

Mine, du Pont: i am insoolted, In- Dr du Pont: You are soolted because I say ze wine is superb?

Mme. du Pont: You say i in cheap because you zink ze man at ze wine shop is my loveur.

Dr du Pont: If he is your loveur am I not entitled to Bome good cheap compensation?

wine

Mme. du Pont: You would keli

your own wolfe for good, cheap wine? You pre a mon- sicur.

(The front door helt rings. A mald enters simpering.)

Mald: Is Mme. Lulu Frou. Frou to see ze docteur. I 6 urgent.

Mme. du Pont: You shall not Mme. Frou-

ace er.

Pont: Dr du Frou is my patient,

Mme. du Pont: She is your loreur.

Marie, weeping: Papa is monsieur.

Pierre: Papa is a traiteur,

Dr du Pont: Let me pass.

£

your

They hear the surgery door open and De du Pont's voice)

ma

le

Dr du Pont: Don't cry, petite. I will Be my

geon tomorrow morning. pigeon

Mme. du Pont, weeping: He wait until ze cannot even crening.

Marie, weeping: I disown my wicked papa.

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Plerre, looking out of the window: Our wicked papa will now love what is coming im. Ze strong man ave arrived. Mme, du Pont: He must not touch your papa.

Pierre, from the window: But he does not strike papa.

Ho Im by ze 'and. He em- shake brace Lulu. Lulu embrace im

And Lulu embrace papa,

Mme. du Pont: No, no. cannot bear it.

Pierre: And Рара embrace

look,

mama. Lulu yoạ and now papa embrace ze Yes, he embrace strong man. ze strong man.

Mme. du Pont: Your рара embrace se strong man?

Mon

Dieu zis is too much,

(Mme, le Brun enters.)

Mme. du Pont: If Le Capi- faine is up a free again you and Hater cat can go to 'ell,

In the Anal instalment Mme, du Pont's Journal

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are always

rhymes for men of all ages.

For young men there will be pictures of contemporary glum- our girls; for older men pictures of faded stars they loved when they were young.

Here aro some suitablo rhymes, starting with the young

men.

A merry Christmas with

bon-bona

And happy dreams of Glynis

Johns.

A Christmas dance, an awful

pardner,

Not a bit like Ava Gardner, Round the Christmas board

they prin

With micry quip and fes-

tive heigh-ho,

While I drink quantities

gin

of

And brood about Virginia

Mayo.

Joy and peaco this Christ-

mas-tide

If love dots not assail ver, But there's no joy or peaco

for ma

* IS IT THAT THIS IS LE TRAFALGAR SQUARI

VINS

3/ A BOLME

SHERALD

- COVE LASTE

BEWARE TROES?

FORM HIS

FIFTH

Ges, I'll p

by pass $is dump

mist Góra!

熬!

"EXPRESE

CHANCELLOR OVER UP!

Y'S COLLECT

ANY TAKES

IN BRUN*

›WHEN -- BRITAIN BECOMES A FRENCH COLONY TO GIVE MR. FRANCE THAT SECURITY FEELING.

THE MAN THEY COULDN'T

A

bring you

Without Elizabeth Taylor.

May

Christmas every jou

on

T two minutes to

the.. eight

of morning February 28, 1885.

Without a single heartock,a sombre, procession formed Unless your heart it ocks like outside the condemned cell

mine

For Jean Simmons,

Gene

Nerney, Yvonne Carlo and Eva Bartok.

THE FOLLOWING IS FOR

OLDER MEN:

L

Keep your robins, keep your

holly...

Keep your frost and snow; Give me a Christmas warm

and folly

Under the mistletoe,

Helgh ho,

With jolly old Clam Bow. Heigh ho, heigh ho, and

merry merry-oli

With folly old Clara Boto,

FOR GRANDFATHERS: May Christmas

17016

in Exeter Gaol. Already Berry, the public hangman, Was inside, pinioning the arms of 19-year-old John

HANG

THE WORLD'S STRANGEST STORIES No. 2

By SAM JACKETT

The chief warder led way to the execution shed The Rev. John Pitkin, the Lee was placed upon the minutes-minutes that must

marder, and that Providence had intervened:

Unquestionably

he had from first to last protested his inno- CETICO of the killing of Miss Emma Ann Whitehead Koyse,

woman ·who a wealthy found murdered. In her home, The Gien, which overlooked Babbacombe's lovely bay.

was

The facts were that at this.

time Miss Keyse, who was found

dead on November 15, 1884, kept

London Express Service'

JOHN LEE Drawing from a contemporary print.

The scaffold was in a new upon the drop, and wrestled Lee, of Babbacombe, sen- shed erected in the prison with the lever under the tenced to be hanged for yard, and served the double shocked gaze of those who murder.

purpose of an execution had to witness the horrid a staff of four two sisters, Elza that he helped to carry out the

and Jane Neck, who had been in body of Miss Heyse." house and a prison-van shed. scene.

her service many years, Elizabeth One doctor called" was not. the It had never before been

used for a hanging.

Their efforts lasted six Harris, the cook, and John Lee, convinced that the hatchet way

footman

the weapon with which the fatal At three o'clock In the blows were struck, t have seemed like hours --

Elizabeth Harris, the cook, was ing with smoke. She celled the pregnant. Could her layer have before it was clear that morning the cook awoke, choke release the bolts that down the stairs John Lee night? Is it possible that he put operated the drop. Lee, who opened his pantry-room door the knife in the pantry drawer

to throw, suspicion on Lee? had remained erect, and and asked what was, the matter.

followed mur- chaplain,

drop, and the white cap was muring' the customary prayers. Behind him walked drawn over his head and

Lee between two warders, face. His legs were fastened nothing they could do would malds and they ran screaming been concealed in the house that

Then

hoose

came Berry, the together and the prison governor, the prison placed around his neck.

under-sherift,

bring many joys and all your surgeon, the Christmas wishes,

and some four or five prison

With thoughts of Mary Pick-warders.

ford and,

the Globes.

And you can't

maybe, both

marry

Beth

Within the next 16 or 20 As Greta Garbo's still alone, minutes these men were wit- nesses of the most harrow. ing scene of their lives,'

For John Lee was the man

nett, Joan, Or Theda Bara, or Mac West, Dear Grandpa, give the girls a rest-

Be happy with the mishes, they could not hang,

Three Attempts

The Rev. John Pitkin sald Grace. And Berry pulled the lever that was to end the young man's life.

But nothing happened. In vain the executioner and the warders stamped

BUSSACO CEREMONIAL

By GEORGE FORD

Bussaco, Portugal. work shining in flerce Ught, tunic,

apparently unmoved, Was Head battered taken off the scaffold.

* {

Horris was Lee's half-sister and she was one of the witnesses for the Crown, She It was who An engineer and, warders

The body of Miss Keyse was said that she had often beard chopped and chipped away found in the dining-room. Her Lee threaten to do injury to his And it is a curious fact at the woodwork, and ex. head had been battered, har mistress

clothing was scorched, oll-soaked

before a low days. that perimented with the lever paper blazed around her body fixed for his execution Les made efore the date and bolts until they were Her Injuries appeared to have

statement to the governor and chaplain of the prison asserting satisfied that the release been caused by a chopper. mechanism would now work Briefly the case against Lo his own innocence and insisting his half-sister could give satisfactorily.

can be summed up as folkyws: the murderer's name it sho

Shortly before the murder he liked. Kad ta had used threats against Miis Keyse,

Lee was placed upon the scaf told for the second time and once more Mr Pilkin repeated the words of the burial service. But again nothing happened.

Third try

T-COL, N. C. Fraser, Military ared again and again over the leggings and boots of Welling to be released, in spite of the

*

wero

Sum-up... this case for your selves, remembering that In He helped Jane Neck down those days there was no finger- print system, and no know- stairs after the alarm, and an edge of blood grouping as it la her nightdress where he had put mown today. Neither, as far his arm around her - were marks".

ng have been able to discover, of blood.

were there any C.I.D. officers Asked for a hatchet to sexist on the inquiry", Once more the bolts refused in cutting away burning timber,

Les produced one very quickly. Life in America executioner's frantle efforts to There was blood un B and a

bloodstained knife was found. In All kinds of reasons. complete his lethal duties.

Although more than one of 9 drawer in the pantry where advanced. as to why the drop them was on the verge of col- Loe slept.

would not not and Lee was not In a cupboard near his bed was hanged. Some believed the an empty ollcan which should weight on the scatold of selves for the third attempt,

“many witnesses" distorted” the Lee was taken to a basement have been nearly full timbers and prevented the res lapse the witnesses steeled them-

room in the prison with the Upon Lee's socks were found lease of the bills, who th chaplain while the executioner hairs that corresponded with Local feeling was indeed and warders

once more tested those of Miss Keyso. There divided, as Mr Henry, Hall, now the scanuld until they were con- were spota srof blood, on: his

agod 88; of First Avenue, Acton vinced it would operate.

trousers, and hia ng shirt was

well remembers. He was a milk, stained with bloodi In a few minutes Leo was sun-

boy In the neighbouring village. Since then, Napoleon's defeat moned again. The same terrible The pool of blood in the hall of 31 Makychinch at the time. has been Celebrated by the scene was repeated. The lever from where the dead women had. When news of people of Bumaco and the For-was piled again and again. At been dragged, was only a few tuguese Covernment each year, one instant there was a great feet from the door of file pantry; huge, he The uniforms, musketa, cannon

white facings, black ton's 1810 sharpshooters, GRA Attache to Her Majesty's countryside,

The Union Jack was slowly Embassy in Lisbon, in resplend

"For your superb marksman ent gold epaulettes and belt, hoisted, the 80 soldiers presented stood last week in the hot their 1810 muskets, and a crowd ship, I present to you this Portuguese smshine on the top of 1,800 Portuguese, including: medal," said Lt-Col. Fraser.

colonela andi of a 600-foot Portuguese hill at genendis, Busssco

144th anniversary of the defeat modern microphone. A few paces rutes of God Save the Queen of Napoleon's troops by Welling

Before him was bishops, stood to attention as the This brought to a close the away--50 soldiers attired in the rang out.

ton at the battle of Bussaco in Lt-Col uniforms of British regiments of

Traser commanded: the line of 1810.·

"Step forth, Sergeant Nelson, A he spoke, an 1810 field Oliveira." A blond giant cante ploce, its copper and bronze forward in the black shako, blue

gives your family. a good start in life-

MILK ve

NESPRAY

ensures th

Two

1910.

Nelson Oliveira was at that time decorated by Wellington for |his bravery, and courage, "

and flags are brought out from notes as if the drop had fallen:

the army museum in which they but when those who had averted His Wages had been were displayed after the battle their eyes turned to the scaffold from three skillings per week

there was the convlet standing to, two shillings

wrts: fought

the darty; troka

were: hard

erect and unmoved, as before.

No man there could be ex pected to stand, more," and Los was ordered by the under-sharift to be removed back to the don-- de armed call

A-9.a.m the principal officers of the prison decided to petition the Home Secretary for mulation of the sentence.

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and that the ends

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