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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 30th, 1928.

MRS: PACE'S

ACQUITTAL,

ASTONISHING SCENES.

LONDON, July 7th: One of the most astonishing judicial dramas of recent years, says 'the Daily Express, ended at Gloucester when at the close of the Cale for the prosecu- tion, Mr. Justice Horridge direct ed the jury to return a verdict of "not guilty" in favour of Mrs. Beatrice Annio Pace, thirty-six years of age; who was accused of the murder of her husband by ar- senical polsoning.

SHANGHAI WEDDING,

JUDGE KING AND MISS WAUGH.

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ATTACK ON EUROPEAN CHILDREN.

TERRIBLE STORY" FROM KULING.

CHINESE MAGISTRATE'S

INDIGNATION.

A very quiet wedding took place CHEERS FOR PRISONER AND last Tuesday morning in Holy

HER COUNSEL.

Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, when Judge GW. King, O.B.E., Ausis-

A terrible story of the assualt tant Judge of H.M. Supreme made by a Chinese policeman on Court, son of the late Me. Alfred

two European childwa, the daugh- ters of a Missionary at Kuling, up- King, J.P.V.D., was married to Miss Annie Muriel Waugh. Miss pears in the Hankou Herald of the Waugh is the daughter of Mr. Perth July. So far ao confirmation eival Waugh of Edinburgh, and,

has been obtainable. According to after ten years' service, has just this account two small foreign girls, left the Colonial Service in Penang, daughters of a missionary spending where she was principal of the Gov. the summer at Kuling, were attack- ernment School for Girls. Missed by a Chinese policeman on Sun Waugh accompanied by her sister day morning in the West Valley of in-law, Mrs. Waugh, of Ipoh, ar- Kuling. One girl, aged 10, is said rived in Shanghai on Sunday by to be in a serious condition.

The two were playing near their the P. & O. as. Rajputana, and since her arrival has been staying home when the policeman ap- I am of the opinion that it with Mr. and Mrs. A G. Mossop.proached, and spoke to them is would not be safe to ask the juryThe civil ceremony took place in Chinese, which they understand. to find a verdict of guilty on the H.M. Consulate, Shanghai, at 10.30 According to the children, the evidence,” said the judge.

.m. before Mr. C. F. Garstin, and policeman enticed them into a field was followed immediately by the near by, telling them that pretty There were amazing scenes of en- thusiasm outside the Shire Hall in service at Holy Trinity Cathedral, flowers were to be seen, as well as Gloucester, where the trial was at which the Very Rev. Denn" A.

a number of mushrooms growing, held, when the result was known.

C. S. Trivett oficiated. The bride, who looked very charming in a Cheering crowds awaited the wo- man who was arrested on May costume of beige lace, with hat to match, and carrying a bouquet of pink roses, was given away by Judge. Sir Peter Grain. matron of honour was Mrs. Waugh, attired in a becoming costume in blue and white, and the duties of best man were undertaken by Mr. R. E. S. Gregson.,

2nd after a coroner's jury had re tarned a verdict that her husband died on January 10th from arseni- cal poisoning administered by his wile.

The conduct of the coroner who held the inquest, Mr. Maurice F. Carter, and the methods of the police who investigated the affair are to be discussed in the House of Commons.

The inquest was adjourned on fourteen occasions. Yesterday was the fourth day of the trial.

The Homöward Joumey.

COLEFORD.

Mrs. Beatrice Pace is back in her home town to-night after her triumphant acquittal at the Gloji- cester Assizes of the charge of mur- dering her husband

She is with her family staying at a little hotel kept by friends in the Market-square

of Coleford. Outside the house there has been for several hours a constant and persistent demonstration by crowda of local people, all of whorn know her and are her neighbours. They keep cheering and cheering again, calling out her name and messages of good luck.

Kisses To The Crowd.

Every now and again Mrs. Face shows herself at an upper window, her face flushed with excitement and with smiles that are so near tears. She waves back to the people, kisses her hand to them, and calls down, "Thank you. Thank you so much. I am so glad to be home with my babies."

This reception of the Coleford widow is the climax of a day of extraordinary sensations and fran tic scenes, first in Gloucester, then on the road through the Forest of Dean, and finally at Coleford.

The end of the trial came with dramatic suddenness.

The case for the promcution was finished by the luncheon adjourn ment, and immediately on the re- sumption Mr. Norman Birkett, K.C., rose in a hushed court and submitted to Mr. Justice Horridge his legal argument, that there was no case to go to the jury.

Mr. Birkett pointed out first that there was no evidence of any ad- ministration of poisos to Harry Pace, the dead, man, and, secondly, that there was no evidence of possession by Mrs. Pace of poison. Quickly the judge intimated that he was against the point that there no evidence for the jury. Thereupca Mr. Norman Birkett submitted that there was not suff- cient evidence; that the whole of the Crown case was based on guess work and suspicion.

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The smaller girl ran off into the hillside, while the policeman led the elder in another direction. The younger came back minutes, wondering where the other had got to: The poiceman then grabbed her, but the elder sister ran to her father's tome.

Father Seizes Ässallant, The parents rushed to the aid of A reception was held after the the child, and caught the assailant. service at the home of Mr. and Mrs. He started to lead him to the It A. G. Mossop, A, Route Pottier, ling Estate office, and had taken when a number of friends were pre-him shout a half a mile when the sent to congratulate Judge and captire suddenly wriggled loose, Mrs King. The health of the bride | leaving his coat in the father's and bridegroom was proposed by hands Judge Sir Peter Grain, and that of the matron of honour by Mr. Gregson.

It would have been impossible to take her through the hysterical people who were storming the dock. She was taken from the cells to the grand jury room, and there held a little reception.

Mr. Norman Birkett came to her and Mr. Purcell, M.P., who had raised the fund for her defence. She told them both now grateful she was, and then she turned away

and

said, May 1 Bea my

children

Dorothy, the eldest girl, who had been waiting in the vestibule to the court with Doris, the younger daughter, went to her mother, and there was a happy reunion of tears and smiles.

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Double Police Cordon.

It was more than an hour before Mrs. "Pace" "could" be safely taken Mounted from the Shire Hall. police rode and cleared a space for her motor-car before the entrance double cordon of police on foot forced the crowd back, and, with her children and her friends, the acquitted widow was driven away with a trotting escort of mounted police.

Many people were knocked down and some slightly injured in the hurly-burly press to try to see her. The whole of the main street in front of the Shire Hall was im- passable to traffic.

One of the most extraordinary scenes was when Mr. Birkett left the court. The crowd made a way for him and cheered him with the utmost enthusiasm. He was almost flabbergasted at his reception, and all he could do was to walk along through this human avenue raising his hat and bowing.

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The case was immediately report- ed to the police, but it was im- pastible to find out the name of the assailant, the magistrate asserting that he did not know it. The police of Kuling are not numbered, as Police are almost everywhere else in the world, and despite the fact that Persistent requests that they be numbered have been made.

"Why didn't you kill the man?" the Chinese magistrate is said to have asked of the lather when the latter explained the escape of the

assailzati

The magistrate promised thas if caught, the poliseman would be im- mediately executed However, it was some time before a posse. was

sent out after him.

A mission doctor, it is said, who

resides with the family, axamined the two children and verified that they had been attacked.

A few days before this, a police- man had knocked at the door of the Chinese Inland Mission bungalow, lot 19, and demanded $100. He threatened to arrest the occupants of the house if the money was not forthcoming. However, the money was not forthcoming and a com plaint was forvarded to the Magistrate.

BUFFALO, AND PANTHER.

FATAL ATTEMPT TO MAKE

CINEMA FILM.

Mr. Guy, the well-known mana- ger of the Federal Dispensary, Kuala Lumpur, who shared with Mr G. Cullen the adventure of the Pulu Temple Affair in 1911, was continually in quest of new adven tures The idea occurred to him that it would be both interesting and profitable if he could stage a fight between a black panther and The counsel who had appeared buffalo and have the fight filmed for the Crown went from the cort by a cinematograph operator. Pro- by the back way, and escaped un-bably the idea came to him by hear- noticed. There was some booing ing that a fine black panther had when Elton Pace and his brother, been captured in Kelantan where who had been witnesses against his friend Mr. Cullen was then Mr. Justice Horridge turned to their sister-in-law, left the court, Chief Police Officer. the Solicitor-General, Sir Boyd but the police managed to get them Merriman,

appearing for the to a waiting motor-car without Crown, and asked if he thought much difficulty." that in a case with such serious issues the evidence warranted the Crown asking for a conviction:

Promptly the Solicitor-General saw the current of reasoning in the judge's remarks. He said quite openly that he was not prepared to

press the case.

"In my opinion," said the judge, aa be turned to the jury, "it would not be safe to ask any jury to find a verdid of guilty on the evidence you have heard. I shall advise you to return a verdict of not guilty" Mrs. Pace, sitting in the dock

wardreis between her

guards, scarcely seemed to realino what was happening. The jury rose, They were asked the ordinary question: Are you agreed on your verdict what is your verdict?

"Not guilty," said the foreman. Still the "woman sat motionless, and it was not until the doctor, who was the medical adviser for the defence, leant across, caught her hand and said, "You're free," that she rose.

"A quick message had taken the news to the crowds blocking every way to the Shire Hall. In the court we heard the big rear of cheers from outside. The judge bowed to the bar and withdrew in- to his curtained room, and then the whole decorum of the court went to pieces.

People stood on their seats, clap ping and shouting, Women waved their handkerchiefs to Mrs. Pace and began climbing over the benches to reach her. She was a free woman, but she had to escape from the dock by the way of a prisoner into the cells.

(Continued on next Column).

Triumphal Journey. On the way to Coleford the Mr Pace motor-car in which drove was greeted at every village Women and children and men as well came to their garden gates to cheer her passing. Her journey was a triumphal procession.

It is hard to realise it is all over," said Mrs Pace in an inter- view. I always knew I should be acquitted, but the strain naturally been tremendous,

has

"There was one incident at the beginning of the trial which lies in my memory. That is when the clerk of the court said to the jury in his charge that I had put myself on God and my country. I knew that I was all right from that moment.

"Terrible."

with

likely looking

As a preliminary he got in touch cinematograph operator willing to undertake the job and taking the apparatus and opera- tor with him proceeded to Kota Bahru. Here buffalo was obtained and arrange- meats made for the use of the diased jail yard. A platform was built for the machine and operator on top of the jail yard wall and when the preparations had been completed the buffalo and panther were introduced in turn into the

yard. To Mr. Guy's great disgust

they did not rush at each other st once and engage in a life and death struggle as be expected. Instead, the buffalo stood sullen but watchful in a corner while the panther slunk round the yard.

Suddenly the panther caught sight of the platform on which the cinema machine stood and instant- ly sprang for it. It was just with- in reach and elawing wildly the Of course, it has been terrible panther dragged himself up on the sitting in the court day after day platform and in a second was over "The panther and hearing all this evidence. I the wall and away. knew this morning from my solici- ran towards the town and was fol- tor that Mr. Birkett was to submit lowed at once by Mr. Guy, and the that there was no case, but I was cinema operator. Mr. Guy was the told that if this submission was first to come up with the beast net accepted by the judge I should which was puzzled at finding him- then go into the witness-box, and self in strange surroundings Mr. I had been steeling myself for that Guy fired at once at close range ordeal throughout the day.

and wounded the panther which im- mediately turned and sprang at him..

"This I can say, that since my arrest all the police and prison officials and every one with whom Mr. Guy fell with the panther I have come in contact have been on top of him tearing him with his exceptionally kind. The way the claws. Mr. Guy struggled ineffec people greeted me each day when tually to beat off the panther and I drove from the prison to the was still struggling when the court heartened me very much." eincqua operator came rushing to The first thing Mrs. Pacs naked the spot. The cinema operator for when she was back in Coleford red two shots in rapid, succession was for her baby, Jean, who is less and killed the panther but unfor than a year old.

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