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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, MARCH 27th, 1928.
THATCHED COTTAGE ADVICE TO GENE TUNNEY,
MYSTERY.
FATE OF A RECLUSE.
"SCOTLAND YARD CALLED IN.
NEEDS A FIGHT A MONTH,
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NEW YORK, March 4th. MARHANCHURCH, near Bade. A sensible solution to the dif As a Mediterranean ransét of rose culty of finding a logical opponent and gold” was tinguing this remote for Gene Tunney would be to have Cornish hamlet with a warm glow, į the champion fight each of the con- on Feb. 20th, two Scotland Yard tenders, writes Mr. Frank Getty of detectives who had been travelling] all day from London, arrived on the scene of a murder so mysterious that the local constabulary had at once summoned the aid of the cleverest crime investigators in the country. When their motor-car halted aut side the last thatched cottage of the villago, they were met by the chief constable of Cornwall and a uni- formed police superintendent and inspector and at once stepped into the little cottage, draped at one end with a green cover of ivy.
They turned into the living room immediately on the left and looked down at the body of an old man, white-haired, lying stretched on the
beneath the little window.
He was fully dressed, and his long white hair was stained with blood from a deep wound in the crown of his head.
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floor, with a blanket 'wrapped round his face and shoulder, dying from the wound in his head, and how be passed away without regaining consciousness."
There is nothing silly about the suggestion. In the old days, Tun- thing, or he wouldn't have been re ney would have had to do that very cognized
1.8 champion. Any fighter who could get the necessary backing could challenge for the either title, and the champion fought or was branded as afraid. when he is sccused of being afraid. Nowadays, a champion laughs
He knows the public will overlook his running away from dangerous opponents if he provides the glamor of a title fight with a *set-up.”
Evades Godfrey.
Take Gene Tunney's ease. Would be. fght Godfrey, for example! Certainly not. Moreover, he would have no shame in evading a match with the negro. And he would go somewhere and fight Jack Dempsey,
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There are six prominent contend- ers for Tunney's title: Godfrey, Uzeudan, Jack Sharkey, Tom Heeney, and Johnny Risko.
They were also told of a wallet, containing eight £1 notes which was found on a chair- near him in the
Instead of trying to figure which room. Then they were taken up the of the lot can help him carn narrow stairs to his bedroom on the $1,000,000 for 30 minutes' work, first floor. Here was a scene of the what could be more reasonable than most extraordinary confusión. for Gene himself to decide which Against the window of the room of the challengers he would like to was piled a mass of blankets, bed-fight first, and proceed to do so coverlets, paper shavings, and other Then, if still champion, he could articles, presumably placed there by take on the next one, and so on, the murderer so that the light which down the line, until the name of he used to search the room could Tunney became a by-word for the not be seen by passers-by.
heavyweight boxing champion of the world, and not for that, of a rather bored student of Shakes
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The room itself bore vivid evt. -dence of a wild search, presumably
made by the murderer. Articles of difference between a champion of There is, of course, an essential all kinds" were strewn over the floor; portmanteaux had been ripperito-day and yesterday. In by-gone open with a knife, and the whole
days, a man was heavyweight cham- pion of the world because he liked room was in a state of chaos.
to be, because he was a fighter, and chose to storm and swagger through the speak loudlies of his period:
The detectives glanced at a lumber room, also on the first floor. and then at a room on the ground floor, which was filled with a f strange assortment of articles.
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THE “FAILURE” OF MARRIAGE.
AMERICAN JUDGE ON WEDDED BONDAGE.
DIVORCE INCREASE.
What He Could De. Tunney would knock Godfrey's As the detectives used the stairs.head off within a few rounds, and they had to avoid knocking over Licperville would join Harlem in piles of old books and bottles set the limbo of discarded haunts of there by Mr. Roadley, who had used black menace. Gene, would beat
"Marriage, as we have it now, the staircase as a series of shelves. Delaney with an ease which would is plain bell for most persons who
While they examined the cottage distress the admirers of the get into it. That's far the detectives were given a rough Bridgeport boxer. The champion outline of the dead man's life. could whip Risko in the same. So writes Judge Ben B. Lindsey,
They learnt how, despite the fact
of the Juvenile and Family Court that he lived. alone in the untidy What then of Sharkey and Pao- of Denver, Colorado, in a book, little cottage, he was believed to be lino! In a long fight, the latter entitled "The Revolt of Modern a wealthy man with considerable would give the titleholder plenty Youth," written in collaboration money in the bank and with pro of trouble. In a short fight, limit-with Mr. Wainwright Evans perty in Lincolnshire. They hearded to six rounds, or so, Sharkey that he was supposed at one time would do the same. By chesing his to have had in his possession a distance carefully, Tunney could quantity of old silver, even jewel- make Sharkey quit and outpoint lery
Paolino.
Lincolnshire Family.
They learnt, too, that be hailed from Lincolnshire, and that a bro ther who lived near Gainsborough died recently, leaving a consider- able amount of money to charity
Mr. Roadley, who was a bachelor, came to Titson about. 50 years ago, and for some time owned a farm at the village.
Mr. Charles Hicks, the farmer who found Mr. Roadley on the floor of his sitting-room, said:"
About 6.p.m. my grandson took along to Mr. Roadley's cottage the copies of The Daily Mail tor. the week. At the end of the week my grandson took them all back and I believe he had hundreds of them in the house.
Light In The Window, on, Mr. Hoadley was then quito well, and an hour later a light was his sitting room window, suggesting that he was then still
Been
all right.
On Sunday about one o'clock, when I was about to have dinner,
evening,
Then there would be less derision in the voices of those who have oc- casion to refer to the heavyweight champion of the world
"A Great Reader.
Judge Lindmy is 'a happily mar ried man, whose wife is in the next room to him at the Juvmile Court in Denver, where he talks to thousands of youths and girls in the course of a year. His views of Companionate Marriage" have aroused attention.
I defy anybody," says Judge Lindsey, to watch the procession of wrecked lives, unhappy men and wonen, and miserable, homeless, neglected children who pass through my court, and come to any other conclusion.
Mr. Roadley, although a recluse, was popular in the village. He was very fond of children and "It is hell for the simple reason often gave them presents. He that it is despotic; that, constituted was well educated and spent a
as it is at present, it readily con- great deal of his time reading verts itself to a denial of freedom He had a quantity of chemicals to human beings, who cannot live in his cottage with which at one in bondage because the most sacred time he used to carry out experi-instincts in their nature forbid it. ments.
MAN DETAIN
DETAINED.
Religious Rite.
"I am perfectly willing to re- BUDE, Cornwall, Feb. 90th:
gard marriage as a religious rite, A later paper from Home states: A man has been detained at tract to pay for a suit of clothes just as I am ready to regard a con- Stratton Police Station since Satur- as a religious rite. If I am honest day evening while Scotland Yard 1 will pay if I can, and if I am detectives have been making in honourable I will be a good hus quiries regarding his movements on band to the limit of my ability. the night of Saturday, February In that sense all conduct is re- 18th, when Mr, Richard Boadley, igious.
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a little girl came and said that was attacked the blind of Mr. Roadley's cot-
The theological concept of mar riage as a thing registered · in tage was drawn. I went along, attcadance, the detained man ac heaven-where they don't have the will be discharged into Holts Wharff Fifteen days of the Vessel's."" arrival listened outside the door, and companied the detectives, to the institution themselves, by the way-
Kowloon, where it will lie at heard the sound of heavy breath police station from his home in the is something else again. We have tons of Storage at Holt Whad The Claims will be admitted after the
and subject to Terms and Condi- ing. I tried the handle of the Poundstock district, about two miles to rid ourselves of it with all speed. Cargo will be ready for Delivery from Goods have left the Godowns," add. front door and was surprised to
What I see constantly, both in Godown on and after 20th March. All Goods
remaining undelivered after find it was open. In the living from the scene of the murder.
my dealings with youth and also
will not be landed 28th March, 1928, will be subject room I found Mr. Roadley stretch. Ive Hours Digging ed on the floor. A heavy, dark After the detention, eight Cornish with older people, is evidence that here,
unless Notios has been gran pador grey blanket had been wrapped constables drove up in closed motor thers is growing up in this country to No Fire Insurance has been effecte
of. calf post of round his head as if to strille his cars to a farm. A sergeant entered a rapidly spreading conviction that port to port to the final
by groans. I removed it and saw the farm and obtained spades. The love without marriage may be a to which the option extende,
All broken, chsted and that he had received a terrible cats were then turned and were oral and charta thing, harmful
damaged Goods blow on the top of his head. driven to a house, in the kitchen neither to society nor to the two are to be left in the Godowne here they policemen Persons concerned; beneficial rather will be examined on any Tuesdays and ter-in-law and villager cycled began digging.
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TONG KONG HANSARD RE "I imagine Mr. Roadley must the group of officers, in extended simply as a fact admitting that it Bent have been attacked between 7 order, examined every foot of a is indeed full of dynamite.
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