THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1958.
A Weekly China Mail Feature
PEOPLE
in the news
APPEALS FOR
FLAMES SHE
CANNOT HAVE
London.
A Southfields tenener, Mrs M. Wilson. of Wimbledon Park Head, tuld allic inquiry. # Wandsworth "i want to mk lay my coal fire. I ang appeading vi behalf of old people who cannot
'm A Great Judge
Of Port
By RICHARD BERRY
enjuy themselves except by Lord Goddard is judged by many legal experts to
nitting by the fire reading.”
Mrs Wilson was One of ve bjectors who spoke at the iquity Wandsworth Coun- ! cil's first muke control order for! un 122 neve area of the borough.
She desenbed the order "unwarramlable
will private lives."
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interference
he the greatest Lord Chief Justice of the contury.
The son of a solicitor, he has dedicated his life to
law. He has been a judge for more than 25 years and Lord Chief Justice of England for 12.
Appanted to that high oder sympathy tis well as ecisare, in 1948, he has gained 22 11- And behind that stern Chenin
is a HUM wi1
rumbustion's me of hua1770a4a1".
Mr D. C. Kerr, for the Chunrivallst reputation as a stern ell, it that at least 125,000
and vigoWAR Warrior against gatex now beteang coal would
erime. He was determined to have tri be replaced before the
erus the post-war Lorough could be declared smoke free--Prople Sperial,
SHE DIED FROM FLAMES. SHE COULD NOT SEE.
wave
of
erine in Britálu and repeatedly ogitated for more severe punish- tments for erloues of violence.
Approves of black
cap
wan
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blunt, forthright and brillant
man was about to retire,
But solt
toxing this octogenarian is Lord Chief Justice, un uctive ant as sharp-witted as ever.
NO FORTUNE
CAN MAKE UP FOR WHAT HE
HAS LOST
Lord Goddard-Lord Chief Justice of England.
Il Geleiard was bara {LL 1977 and went to Starborough and Tranty College, Oxford. A a new boy at Marlborough he aeroding 10 requested, custom, tu sing or recte on his hest right the dormitory.
singing the story goes
He chuckled over those words, --was not satufuctory. So
told to reelte. And the
For as Lord Chief Justice of WOR He has spoken strongly in ute Lend Chief Ashine
"I can still da pretty good England he gets £10,000 a year, favour of capital punishhaust, størled his Joung updiener Dy
day's work," he says, "I really If, as now expected, he retires [ approves the use of the colemnly siting You will he de aut see why I should burden in September, als pension will black cap by jutges pronouncing taken from here to a plaus of the country by ging ou pen- be a lump sum of £6,000 and the denth sentence, and has said execution and hanged by the sion." thed previstive detention under neek until you are dead, Aml *** eight yea" duration is futile, may the 1and have mercy En Dorai, Northern France.
Sotir soul." But he is probably remember- Madame Pierte Leon, bed best of all as the man who 18-month-old has campaigned for the restura- Zauthier chit, dies in hospital hevetlon of the birch. In recent years after she saved her baby from he has been the greatest cham- being burned in death,
pion of dogging!
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Hespital oflinds raid that the With this record, Lord God blind woman way bathing her darit may come to occupy a dark baby beside slove when she corner la history-as a rather upset bolt of fulment, sinister figure who wished to which ignited, Within secondo employ methods more nailed to the flames were licking at the the nineteenth century than the hem of her dress; She groped twentieth. for the elült! nid pushed him
from the TOOM.
NO
as
ane
:
Oxford Blue
AL Oxfarth,
Godifi: Lord
Husbands May Accuse
Wives
inate his mark as an athlete. Their
He won his Blue as
sprinter i
in 1898 at the inter-university ( watch at White City, when he ran 100 yards in 11.5 sec.
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Fifty-nine years later Lord Goddard was again invited take a part in the Oxford and Cambridge Sports-as the official in charge of the track and field judges,
He was called to the Bar in
London.
A husband's right to speak his mind freely in the home
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upheld by three judges in the Court of Appeal here.
They ruled that a man who
But this would be an injuri
made an accusation against he wife-and honestly believed - pleture. For Lord Goddard as
was not cruel, though the Her husband arrived mat displayed qualities which mark
accusation was untrue. of the
greates! managed to another the flames, hini
The judges sel aside a decreo burning himself badly in de Agures in the history of English 1899, at the age of 22, and be
tween 1017 and 1932 he was, in granted to his wife Patricia (31) Both were taken to hospi- law
tuin,
Recorder of Poole, Bath, and allowed an appeal by 33- tal, where Madame Lecoq died, Fearless and impartial, he can and Plymouth. He then became year-old Mr Kenneth Collings
eloquently --People Special,
! words
divorce commissioner's Judge of the King's Beach Divi-gainst sium, and in 1838 Lord Chief ruling that he had been cruel, Justice of Appeal.
The decision was given by Lord Justice Hodson (aged 63 Lord Goddard is a widower. He married in 1908 and his wife,
and married 40 year) Lori (aged Gi and vho died
1028.
Kave Justice Sellers
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three daughters. Today, he married 27 year) and Lord
lives Blone
Chelsea und An spends most of his tame rooding
Itis only vice-if it can be so
1
Morris,
a 61-year-old Justice bachelor.
Commented Lord Justice chiefly law hoolts and Dickens. Sellers: "Free exchange of called appears to be great cpinion without malice or im- fondness for port. He once be-
proper motive may be the very essence of a proper understand. gan his speech at a Navel ban- quet by saying "The only thing ing in marriage and the court I know about ships in that PORT should be
deran,"
is red
He has also sud: "I'm just an ordinary anams who knows a little
reluctant to con-
Adtled Lord Justice Hodson:
Tho relationship between
bit of law, but I am an excel-husband and wife is so intimate
that one lent judge of part,"
spouse will refrain Lord Goddard has figured in from saying to the other wint really thinks, even many famous trials the Harold he or the
involve ex- Laski libel action, the Fuchs though that many trial. and Li Bentley-Craig pressing opinions about the co- murder trial winch sparked off duct of the other.
vigorous campaign for the "The courts should! be slow +1 abolition of capital punishment [ 1953.
For more than five years there have been reports that
this
to say that words, of that kind used honestly by one spouse to the other are cruel."People Special,
then £3,000 a year.
TERROR MAN WINS PRIZE
"People" Speciol
Nicosia. AX – TERRORIST Michael Andrea Ashlotis, who used to command 70 of Eoka's top gunmen in Cyprus, has started studying at an English uni- versity--on A Government grant.
Only 18 months ago the face of Ashlotls, with staring eyes and Yul Brynner haircut, looked down from "Wanted" notices all over the Island. Price:
£5,000 dead or alive.
Once he was captured-and
escaped. Then, unexpectedly. Ashlotis surrendered,
lie handed over a list prepared by terror leader Grivas of 200 people to be "executed:"
A few months
ngo, Achlulis vanished. Now he has written to friends in Cyprus telling of his new life of learning.
He is on a long course of sludy, clothes, with all his books. pocket incity, found
and lodgings
But one thing Ashlotis may not know. Grivas has altered nut "execution list,"
There is a new name of the top:
Michael Andrea Ashiolis.
FAMILY MAN JOHN
COMES HOME
FROM THE PALACE
out
People Reporter
DROVE
to up
In the air over the whole won the Air Force Cross for thing," he said,
bringing ✡ flaming Jol Guildford the We were in the sitting-room fighter back to base.
on-of his home other day to call
Above, Veronica, There was only one snag. On who is just six, Amanda, five, Monday the Prince's private Prince Philip's new and Christinu, two, wete colling secretary could not And
Severne's telephone number. equerry, 32-year-old out their inst goodnights.
And family-fan John, home "We have just moved inwe Squadron Leader John from the second day at the weren't in the book. So they
de Milt Severne, and I Palner, explained how it had all told me on Tuesday the job was
found him a delightful, ordinary young man- ordinary in the best sense of the word.
happened, "I didn't know the mine-and I went to work Duko at all until Monday. I yesterday, though so far I've was working, funnily enough in just been rushing round buying the Air Ministry Postinga Office, come new clothes," with two other squadron leaders, John Severne la_n_typically}
"What I didn't realise was modest let's-laugh-it-off type of that the other two were working young R.A.F. officer. He had hurried home from on me behind my buelt Then And whai docs fair-haired Buckingham Palace. I waited on Friday night they told me I Mes Severne think of
It's a three-your while he tucked his three had to see Prince Phillp for an "Wonderful,
appointment which means children Infa bed and then he interview on Monday." told me how he got his job with The interview at tho Poloce that after a life of trekking Prince Phillp.
went well for this Lonilon round, we'll be able to setlis
hero and
the "Candit, I haven't bounced doctor's sole was educated at down
ft?
on the ground yet.. I'm still way Winchester and Cambričao and children's schooling a chance."
AN
By "People" Reporter
N 18-year-old youth whose life has been wrecked by a level- crossing crash was awarded £20,000 damages after a judge had said: “All the reserves of the Bank of England couldn't make up to this boy for what has gone,"
David Doggett will never again play cricket or football or go for a ramble in the country. He can walk, unaided, no more than ten yards without falling.
All in vain
Yet three years ago he was beginning a career on a farm, with the anbition of going, to agricultural college and owning his own farmi,
In June 1955 came the accident that crushell his hopes. The lorry he was riding in was struck by a train on n farmland crossing.
The lorry driver was killed. David, of Rubery, Birmingham, was so severely injured that he has still to face another operation.
Recently when David claim-
ed damages at Birmingham As-
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DAVID BOGSETT: His career is wrecked
bury, Pershore, Worcestershire,
David was not in court to hear Stokes, of Fernhill Farm, Flad- pizes, Mr Justice Finnemore, the the judge speak of his "courage bachelor judge who has devoted and character." much time to young people's interests, said of him:
"It would be a hard-hearted person indeed who has listened to this case and seen this boy without coming almost to the brink of tears.
His spirit
His wall
and the Transport Commission.
The Judge dismissed Commission from the case awarded the damages
the
and
against
He went
ato court for just the other two defendants. David
further ten minutes to give evidence.
£ 2011. was awarded a Slowly he said: "I like to sit and his father £100, special in the gardens and, if it is easy, damages. do little light work. Sitting Last night David said at his down, I have built a wall of home in Newman-way, Rubery: broken bricks."
"I should still like to find some David sued the owner of the kind of a job. It would give me try and protect his future and lorry, Mr G. B. Kyle, of Cam- buck some of the independence make it possible for such umeni- bria-road Evesham, Worcester- 1 have missed fo the last three ties which are open to him to shire, his employers, J. M. years.” make life more bearable and more enjoyable."
"All this
court en de is to
There was a entch in his voice as he spoite of David, "at 16 just entering on the career on whieli he had set his heart, in the oper nir, a bright boy, a nice boy.
"With all the possibilikes of a happy life in front of him, his life is completely wrecked.
"He will never be able to earn his own living. He is an invalid
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to
that
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