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MRS. PACE'S FOUR bottle had been there, and I do not

HOURS' EVIDENCE.

DRAMATIC INQUEST

SCENES.

"I DID NOT GIVE MY HUSBAND POISON."

I do not know how long the

remember having ever seen it," Mrs. Pace said

Do you know what potassium per- manganate is ?—No,

Mr. Wellintgua paused and then said: Mira. Pace, I have only one 'other question. Have you ever nt any time given your husband poi Han?

"There was tense, silence in the Pour Mrs. Pace looked squarely in her solicitor's face and her lips WOMEN SQUABBLE IN COURT. quivered slightly when she replied in

an almost paneless voice: No, did not.

POLICE ESCORT THEM OUT.

COLEFORD, Gloucestershire. After hours of intense drama in the Forest of Dean coroner's court, the 14th day of the inquest into the death of Mr. Harry Pace, the Fetter Hill sheep farmer, was followed by a women's squabble so vicious and unseemly that the police had to intervene.

For four hours Mrs. Paer, the widow, had given evidence so con- fidently and calmly that she could described only in the lawyer's phrase," a model witness,"

Dusk had descended before her examination was concluded, and when the coroner adjourned the in- quity for a week the public dis- persed from a court which was in semi-darkness.

But two parties of women, all in mourning, stayed on until everyone else in the gallery bad gone. Sud, denly a storm broke,

"Gesticulating women hissed com ments freely that a brawl in the area of the court scened imminent They did not mince words: passions and vituperative'tongues were loose.

Then Detective-Sergeant Campion, of Scotland Yard, who was studying his documents at the far end of the court, looked up. He gave a sharp command to a local constable. The policeman, with arms outstretched, went among the women and separat ed escorted el them, but some whom he the deer and excitedly barangued a group of officers who tried to persuade them ta leave peaceably,

She paused for a fraction of second and then repeated: No, I

did abt."

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 14th, 1928.

MOTHERHOOD'S SCOURGE.

MINISTER OF HEALTH

Mr.

DECLARES WAR,

EMOTIONAL SPEECH.

bern money in the house --No. My of a recruit to a noble cause.

'GOLDEN AGE FOR £8,000 FOR M.P.'S SEAT.

WOMEN."

£250,000 BUSINESS BUILT UP BY ONE OF THEM.

IN THREE YEARS,

HER ADVICE TO THE

MODERN GIRL.

ALLEGATIONS IN AUSTRALIA.

MR. BRUCE'S - INQUIRY,

Melnorase, May 18th.

Mr. Bruce, the Australian Prime Minister, has created a sensation in the House of Representatives by announcing that the Cabinet has appointed Sir Adrian Knox, the Chlef Justice, as Royal Commis sioner to investigate the allegation' made on May 7th by Mr. William Henry Lambert, M.P. for West Sydney and a former Lord Mayor of Sydney, that he was offered £5,000 to vacate his seat in favour of Mr. Theodore, formerly Labour Premier of Queensland, when the latter was seeking a Federal con- stituency:

.

Neville Chamberlain, the Minister of Health, declarded war in the House of Commons on May 15th on one of the cruellest scourges

Mrs. Willson, the president of the of the race the permanent injury Women's Engineering Society, wha and frequently the death of women in three years has done house build Mr. Carter: Why did your hus-in childbirth. It was not a mere de ing and decorating work to the value band want to make his will I don't claration of war that the House of of £230,000, maintains that this is know that 1 can give any reason

Commons heard. They saw

the the "golden age" for women. Ia except that be had a lot of sheep.

Did you ever discuss with the Minister, as it were, taking the oath a talk on the newer professions for

The Commissioner will also in- detor your husband taking his of service before them with the women Mrs. Willson said:-

quire into statements regarding will?-Yrs.

"There never was a time when similar offers made to two other Was it because there may have white face and restrained passion the women of England had the open-members, Mr. Percy Edward Cole

ings for business enterprise auch man, and Mr. Frank Anstey, the husband's people always thought wear. Charsberlain was transfigured, as they have to-day. Mrs. Willson Labour member for Bourke, Vic were well off, but there was no His usually chill and flat. tones believes, however, that this "golden toria. money there. I know,

Mrs. Pace said that, when her throbbed with emotion. A Minister age for women has been brought husband was ill in bed between July who reins his feeling hard for once about by the zeal and enthusiasm 3th and August 19th he cumplained slackened the bit, and the House of the elder generation, to whom of pains in the stomach, but not in which murmured its approval could

the modern girl owes a debt. the throst. He suffered for some

We are proud of the educational days from those pains and then lost not forget his recent declaration achievements of our modern girls." the use of his hands.

that his own mother died in child-she said.""but we must not forget that education must be towards Mr. Carter: Did, you purchase birth.

He made communiqués op

definite end, and in the any sheep dip before these dates 1-

the some the fronts of cancer, majority of cases the definite end Yes, on July 22nd I bought two fighting on packets of sheep dip. I placed them rheumatism, and sleepy sickness. His must of necessity be the earning in a table at home and my husband conclusion on the nine years war of one's daily bread. The winning put them in the sheep bax..) fare during which the Ministry of of a degree is not enough in itself."

Mr. Pace added that she helped | Health has existed was to chronicle her husband to do the dipping, of a reduction in the general death dolly rate from 14 per thousand to 19.3 the lambs, They used a

for the purposes.

per thousand, and in the infant mortality rate from 89 per thousand to 70 per thousand.

tub

"I Swear I....”

tub was only lip. wide and asked Mr. Carter pointed out that the

Mrs. Pace persisted that that!

was the one used.

Yes, I swear it." she replies. Mr. Phee said that the breakfast her husband took to work on the morning he was taken ill in July consisted of bread and butter and cake and text which she prepared herself. When he returned home he complained of pains in the stomach and head was very ill.

Mrs. Pace, when she went volun- tarily into the witness-box, was very

When Mrs. Pace had been in the wan and, with the culmination of x for nearly two and a half hours her 18 weeks' ordeal, her features Me. Carter suggested that she lost all colour. Her voice was tre should have a cup of ten, and the malous at first,

With machine-gun rapidits, ques-court was adjourned for half an tions about the circumstances of her husband's illness. were fired at her,

hour.

During the whole of his illness, both before and after his admission to the infrinry, she prepared all his food.

A Terrible Thing." "One figure," he added, shows no improvement, although it con. earns a vital subject-the figure of maternal mortality. It seems to me terrible thing that to-day out of 250 mothers one dies in child-birth. and equally terrible that this rate has Tersisted unchanged for the last twenty years.

· Business And Marriage. "A degree (particularly science degrees) should be regarded from a commercial point of view.

In the educational world there is a strong desire to close the door to women on marriage, while in the business world this does not apply. In fact, I think the opposite hap pens, and that discretion is supposed to come with marriage,

It is a source of wonder to me that more women of ability have pot seriously thought of business as

a career.

Mrs. Willson said that she step. ped into the house building and decorating branch of industry with out experience three or four years ago, and that in three years she had done work to the value of a quarter of a million pounds.

And that is not really the whole measure of the injury that is being done. One must not only remember what happens when the mother is taken away and the child cannot have the care which the mother alone can show. We must think also of the mothers who emerge

You will realise," she said, from confinement permanently in that here was a market waiting jured in health, their nervous system for people. The only credit due to shattered, unable really to full theme was that I saw this need and full duties of motherhood."

that I had enough self-reliance to He paused and added with tense tackle the job.".. deliberation:-

"I had rather hoped that the day had gone for ever when the ess, but we have lately experienced

With the utmost self-possession she returned shot for shot, and not once, 'during the four hours' examiantion,

I did everything for him," she did she falter or hesitate in her

stid. responses; though she was in tears

Mr. Carter: At any time were "I think the time has come when at the end,

Almost every time a reference you at all concerned about his a great new effort should be made was made to her husband by name mental condition 1-Yes I was, about to bring down these figures of question of sex entered into bust throughout the interrogations, Mrs. A week ar a fortnight before Christmaternal mortality and preserve the Pace's hand moved upwards to the mas

Why He cried nearly all the marabout fur which encircled her neck. With each of these move-afternoon and said he would never ments she clutched a gold heart be any good to me or the children shaped locket containing a miniature any more. He went to the window

to throw himself out, photograph of her husband,

POISON QUESTIONS. WIDOW'S DENIALS.

When Mis. Pace entered the wit ness-box the coroner, Mr. M. Carter, said:

יי

It becomes my duty to say that before a coroner and his jury no person is deemed an accused per

It is for you entirely to choose whether you wish to make any state. ment on oath to the jury. If you do it is my duty to caution you. You understand if you do give evidence it is of your own free will."

Mrs. Pace (in stendy tones): I would rather.

Mr Trevor Wellington (Mr Pace's solicitor): You desire to give evidence and have insisted on doing sol-Yes.

What did you do I caught hold

health of these mothers, The Ministry is taking up this question most seriously." -

Tribute To A Woman,

a few shocks.

To my mind, there is much power in women unused, lying dor- mant. It should be seeking new channels. 1915 showed the whole

world what our women were capable of. Previously we had been told that little girls were made of sugar grow fairy tales.

He paid a graceful tribute to Dame Janet Campbell-"a very of him and got him back on to the distinguished officer of my depart bed and told him that he would ment congratulated her on the and spice, but we all know we out- soon be better. He said he knew public attention which she had he would never walk again, and directed to the told him I would buy him a chair and wheel him out.

Were there any other times when you thought he would harm him. self? Yes, there were several oc-

casions,

With this knowledge did you re- move anything with which he might do himself harm 1-I really did not think he meant it, for he threaten- edit so many times.

You know now that sheep dip con tains arsenic 1-Yes.

+

You know that 9 grains of arsenic were found in your husband's body?

I have heard it.

"I Cannot Tell You"

"I want to give you the opportu nity to tell the jury, if you can, how On January 30th you made a state- your husband got 0 grains in his ment to Police Sergeant Hamblin 1-body," said Mr. Carter.

Yes.

Is that statement true 7-Yes. On February 15th you were cau- tioned by Inspector Bent and made e statement voluntarily. Is that statement correct and do you want to adopt it as evidence 1-Yes.

On February 11th you made.a voluntary statement to Inspector Cornish and Sergeant Campion. It that statement trus and do you wish

Yes..

Mrs. Pace replied without falter ing, I cannot tell you, I cannot tell you."

Can you suggest any way in which your husband could have taken this, arsenie -No, I cannot.

Concerning the state of mind of her husband, Mrs. Pace said that one of the reasons she brought him from Gloucester Infirmary was be- cause he had threatened to throw

she brought him home..

Motherhood."

"Protection of

Great Inheritance.

An inquiry is to be instituted into "I am fond of the modern girl, the causes of mother mortality. but I want her to understand that When I was in roy General practitioners as well as she has suddenly come into a great local authorities are to be enlisted inheritance.

and the British Medical Associa- 'teens women lived different lives tion have promised to use all their from to-day. Sport was but little influence in assisting the campaign. known for women. I can well re- Every case of maternal mortality member the first woman of my ac- throughout the country will in quaintance who rode a bicycle. I future be the immediate subject of do not think I have ever seen any. inquiry by the local medical officer thing nicer." of health. To secure concerted re-

Politics were almost unknown for sults a committee similar to the women at that time, except in the cancer committee is to be, establish- Labour Party. Parents, and parti ed at the Ministry to lay down the cularly mothers, ruled with an iron lines on which these officers will pre-band pare their reports. These reports will come up each quarter for re- view before another special com mittee established at the Ministry who will have the various causes of death classified and will examine them exhaustively in order to draw conclusions.

Another committee is being set up

"A freedom," continued Mrs. Willson, came when I married, and, fortunately, I had a husband who allowed me full scope for my activities. In my case, had I been debarred from business, because of marriage, it is quite certain that I should have lived and died without ever having had the great experi

to inquire into the status, training, ence of being able to earn my owa, and remuneration-Mr. Chamberlain living except, of course, in the fac stressed" remuneration of mid-tory before marriage," wives, with whom, he said, success

Mrs. Willson's advice to women

or failure in the new effort must who wish to embark on a career is: Don't any of you go into business largely rest.

If," be unid, "we are to secure thinking it can be a part-time job.

Such allegations, implying that seats can be bought and sold. strike at the very root of parliamentary dignity and the foundations of our democratic institutions. Mr. Theo- dore said that he welcomed the inquiry.

MARRIAGE CLUB.

WIDOW ACCEPTS MAN SHE

HAS NOT SEEN.

aid to bave deserted from the Albert Roberts, aged 23, who was

Army on the Rhine, was charged at Penge, S.E., with obtaining money by false pretences.

Mrs. Edith Mckean, of Oakfield. road, Penge, said she was a war widow, In February she got an introduction to Roberts through a club in London which was a medium for introducing men and women. They exchanged lettera and photo- graphs and Roberts offered her marriage. Without seeing him she consented.

She sent

He told her his discharge from the Army would cost £20 and as lend him the balance. he had only £10 he asked, her, to the money, and it was understood that they would be married and go to Canada. "He said he had no parents and was lonely, and my heart went out to him," she added. The Clerk And your money with it ?

Mrs. McLean said that Roberts subsequently visited her and the promise of marriage was renewed. The banns were put up and read

making arrangements for three times. Roberts told her he Assisted, passages to Canada, and wa he wanted to pay for them. She gave bim £5 and at a later date £. Then she became sus- picious and went to the police.

Roberts, who pleaded guilty, was fined £95, or three months hard

labour.

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to adopt it as part of your evidence himself from the verandab unless the class of women we want-educat It can't; and if you want an easy Prices: $4, $3 and $2.

When her husband became ill sheed, humane, sympathetic, earnest, comfortable time, keep out of busi-

Have you requested me. to say that these officers trented you with great kindness 1-YER.

Mr. Wellington then questioned Mrs. Pace about the insurance on her husband's life for £60,

In your statement of March 11th you said it was taken out at your husband's request and the premium paid out of your husband's earn. ings 7-Yes.

:

Was that the first policy taken out on his life -No, there was a previous policy in the same office. Was that policy lapsed --Yes. Did you tell Inspector Hent at the beginning about the other policy and that you would benefit by it- Yen.

Mr. Wellington then turned to the contents of the house in which Mr. Pacs died. He asked: Have you destroyed any of the contents of the "sheep box," or any package or bottle that was in the house at the time of your husband's "death or in the few weeks preceding it I bave not destroyed anything.

Have you concealed anything!- No, nothing.

Mr. Wellington then alluded to the bottle on the shelf in the kitchen

covered with dust, containing sheep dip and potassium permanganate.

enthusiastic-we

make must

theness altogether.

had more or less. to drag him to the doctor. When he came home conditions of the profession such as from the quarry in July, it was she to attract the right class."

Mr. Chamberlain commented on who went for the doctor.

the progress being made with other devastating troubles-

"If any of you take to business, look to the economic side of the job. This is the acid test... If a job is economically sound, it will stand for now and for the future, but, CANCER.Perhaps the largest whatever you do, keep sentiment out single cause of mortality. While we of business. Regulate your supply cannot even say we are in sight of of sympathy. It is a fine jewel,

Before your husband was dis. charged from Gloucester Infirmary, did you know he had been suffering from arsenical poisoning -Yes. Dr. Du Pre told me that the doctor at the infirmary had told him on the a cure our feet are, on the right but, like all jewels, must not be too

phone,

path, and one day, no one can say prominent except on suitable 'occa- "Did you husband steadily im-when, we may turn the corner, and sions." " prove from the time he left Glou find ourselves in sight of the goal cester Infirmary until Christmas we seek.

Day 1" Mr. Wellington asked, and Mrs. Pace replied, "Yes."

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SLEEPY SICEFLAS.-There have been frequently associated with local

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