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FOUR DEAD IN BURNING PLANE.

TRAPPED GIRLS' SCREAMS.

CRASH NEAR LONDON.

LONDON, July 14th. Two men and two girl typists were burned to death and two other men were injured when an Imperial Airwaye penger aero plane crashed near Purley, Surrey, during a test flight.

When the machine tell the occu pants were only injured, but before help could reach them it burst into flames and they were trapped. As the fuselage was being consumed by the fire the girls could be heard screaming. The pilot, despite his injuries, staggered into the flames and made gallant efforts at rescue until he collapsed unconscious.

The dead are;

Miss Phyllis Smith, a typist, of Ferndale Road, West Croydon, Surrey.

Miss Emily Joan Benjafield," a typist, of Winterbourne Stoke, Salisbury.

Mr. A. Hall, of Rosemount Avenue, North Finchley, of the

TUESDAY

SHY, HEIRESS TO BIG FORTUNE.

MISS YULE'S SIMPLE LIFE! ON FARM

AUGUST 7th, 1928.

MRS. CAPEL-SMITH NOT "ENTICED.”

JURY STOP CASE.

UP EARLY SEEING TO

VERDICT FOR MAJOR DYER.

HORSES.

The jury stopped the case while Misa Gladys Yule, the 24-years- Mrs. Capel-Smith, the wife of old heiress to the estate of Sir Major Richard Capel Langstoffe of Rosary-gardens, David Yule-the Indian merchant Capel-Smith, prines who died last month-must Kensington, W., was denying his be the most modest and retiring allegations in his action against young woman who ever came into Major Bernard Dyer, R.A.S.C., of The Moorings, Farnham, near big fortune.

Aldershot, that he had enticed her away.

WHY I DON'T RETIRE.

SORRY FOR THE IDLE RICH.

[BY ROBERT DOLLAR.]

Mr. Robert Dollar, the 84- yearsold American millionaire, lumber king, and shipowner, bas had a career that is one of the romances of commerce. Born of Falkirk, Scotland, he began to work in the Canadian tumber camps at 14. He is now the head of half dozen huge hig ping and timber companies, anti is one of the biggest shipowners in the world. Mr. Dollar is of course, very well known in Hong Kong.]

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Bring

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an atmosphere

of music

I have great sympathy for what Like her father and mother, she

I call the dnfortunate idle rich. 1 has never entered society. Mast of

Major Capel-Smith claimed dam-claim that we were all put in this her time is spent at her home,

sult--and by results the results Hamstead House, near St. Albans,ages against Major Dyer, who world to work and to produce re- Hertfordshire," where she interests denied the allegations. herself in the breeding of thorough- bred borss.

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The jury intimated that they did not consider that there was a case She prefers such retirement, and against Major Dyer and Mr, though she is popular among the Justice Swift said it was unneces people of the village of Bricketary for him to say that he entirely Wood, sear her home, they know agreed. very little about her.

"Miss Yule is a pretty girl with a kindiy, nature. It is said that if she had chosen to enter society, she would have been very popular.

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Judgment was given for Major Dyer.

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that

counts, not just the accumulating of money, but doing things that will enable us to say before we die that we left the world a little bet- ter than we found it. If we can conscientiously say that then 'our

life has been a success.

But I clairn that this cannot be accomplished except by continuous, persistent hard work. This I have done, as I have earned my. OWN living since I was 14 years of age... I can write from the experience that comes of so- called hard knocks, and I claim

Aircraft Inspection Department. But animals and the green feldsember 1828 and October 1997 She that this hard experience made a

Croydon.

William Edward Halstead. The Broadway, West Hendon, XW., a motor-driver at Croydon Aero- drome-

Captain John Spafford, the pilat, of the Chace, Stafford Road, Wall ington, Surrey, and Albert Graham Tucker, a storeman, of Mitcham

Road, West Croydon, were taken

to hospital injured.

GIRLS' SCREAMS. PILOT FALLS UNCONSCIOUS NEAR BURNING MACHINE.

The aeroplane had risen only 500 feet when something went wrong, and the pilot tried to land.

that

wher Eye-witnesses 835 within 100 feet of the ground the engine, stopped and the machine nose-dived into a field of oats. Three minutes later it buret into flames while two rescuers were only 100 yards away running desperate- ly.

One of the mea, Harold Harris, who had been hoeing in a field 300 yards away said to a Daily Mail

reporter:

We could hear the girls cream ing as the flames consumed the fuselage. The pilot staggered to one of the windowe of the machine, and tried to drag cut another man who was struggling to get out. He had no strength and soon collapsed.

When we reached the machine it was like a furnace but I was able to drag out the man at the window

The screams they did not last long. I rushed into the Bames and managed to look into the covered cabin where I could just glimpse the outlines of the four people.

were awful, but

Then we had to stand by help- leesly, Capt. Spafford was bleed- ing all over when he staggered up to the machine, and I think he would have tried to get in had he not collapsed. "Oh, my God," he cried, "those poor girls." I was able to save the pilet, who would have been burn-

The first witness called when the hearing was resumed Wis Misa Violet Hoare, a servant at Mrs. Capel-Smith's house, between Dec spoke of the evening when Major Capel-Smith, with Capt. Montague and Capt. Furber, came to the house while Mr. Capel-Smith was with friends at Wimbledon. Major Like her mother, she is a fiue Capel-Smith said that if his wife rider, and until recent years mother did not return by midnight he and daughter hunted together would remove all the Persian great deal.

are Miss Tule's life interests. She has done much to check cruelty to

animals.

Many horses and dogs are bred on Miss Yule is also keenly interested in a menagerie of foreign animals which her mother has collected on hunting trips abroad..

the 350-acres estate near St. Albans,

Miss Yule has accompanied her mother on adventurous hunting trips to Alaska and the Yukon, where it was sometimes so cold that their hair froze while they slept. They did not go with a party, but went alone, accompanied only by guides.

Miss Yule's retiring life is due entirely to her dislike of catcata tion. In this respect she is like her father, to whom she was devoted.

Her life is simplicity itself. To see her early in the morning attend ing to the horses in her stables no one would think she was the heiress

to great wealth. And now, having spent her life avoiding the lime light of public attention, she has sprung into prominence in a day as the girl who will inherit one of the greatest fortunes in the country.

rug up

some people who had pulled me clear.

They dragged me over to the other side of the hedge, as they feared that the petrol tank would

burst..

man of me.

Why don't I retire? Because of sheer determination to succeed and do things. I claim it would have been nothing short of a crime for ime to have retired when I reached

the age of 60, because I have se- carpets and silver articles. After complished far more during the midnight, with the aid of a

chauffeur and a gardener, they took

up carpets, and emptied the fowers and water from the vases and the ink from the inkstand. He went off with those things about 2 a.m.

Mrs. Mildred Mary Pursehouse Capel-Smith, the wife of Major Capel-Smith, then gave evidence and was examined by Mr. Malcolm Hilbery, K.C., for Major Dyer.

Mr. Hilbery. Hos Major Dyer, so far as you are concerned, done anything to persuade or entice you to leave your husband - He has got in any way whatever; absolutely

never.

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I shall give only one illustration of the good of persistently continu ing to work. I was 80 years old the prac- when I thought out ticability of starting passenger steamshin line of eight steamers to run around the world, in one direc tion. It has been in operation now four and a half years and has suo ceeded. We have celebrated our 100 trips around the world," the vessels sailing at the 24 ports of

"The Boy Friend" comes to the call on the minute every 14 days, and at the ports of four different World "to-day. The heroine, a nations. The reason I mention this is that every shipowner told young village girt, longs for the me it could not be done. Was it thrill of city life, and insists on not better to have kept on werking leaving home to go to New York. hard and to have accomplished this than to bave been sitting at home All other means having failed to in slovenly idleness? So, for all diesuade her, "the boy friend" those reasons I hope to continue and her parents get together, and working till I have my last day on with the aid of a book on etiquette. earth, and to wake up next morn-gire a party in her bonour, hoping ing in the other world.-Daily to prove to her that small town

Has the fact that you are now not living, with your husband got anything to do with any enticing b Major Dyer?-None whatever."

Mr. Capel-Smith said she was 18 years of age and had just left school when she met her husband. He proposed to her in about two or three weeks. Her engagement had not the approval of her parents. When Major Capel-Smith went to Mesopotamin in 1817 he made her promise not to go to any dances and that she should not see any men if she could possibly avoid it. Mail. On his return in 1920 he was anxious for a speedy marriage, and they were married by special licence the child away. The petition was within a fortnight.

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afterwards dismissed for want of

Mr. Hilbery: Your father did not attend the wedding or the prosecution. reception -He did not.

A second or eo after the machine was a roaring mass of fames. It was impossible owing to the terrific heat for anyone, to get anywhere near it or to try to rescue any of those inside,

I learned afterwards that the

Water Jag Emptied On Her. pilot had been rescued by some

Were you happy with him?-No. farm workers, who were able to drag him through the brokenAfter the first week I was married nose of the machine before the I was never happy with him. flames drove. them back.

Did he treat you kindly-He treated me very cruelly. I was absolutely in terror of my life all the time.

Her husband, Mrs. Capel-Smith aid, had a violent temper. He used to weep with rage and was absolutely out of control.

Mr. Tucker's Suspense, Mrs. Tucker, who for an hour re-

ed to death where he had fallen.mained in suepesse regarding ber

husband's fate, ssid: Schoolgirl Rescuer.

Miss Barbara Jameson, a 17-year- old schoolgirl, who was among the first to reach the burning sero plane, said:

I tried, with one or two others, to get the bodies out, but it was hopelees. The bodies were char red almost beyond recognition. As we pressed as near as we could someone shouted, "Get back! The petrol tank may ex- plode." And a minute later it did so ecattering red-hot wreek- age everywhere...

I did not know that my bur band, was going up in a machine. It was a shock for me when a policeman, called and told me that my husband was in Purley Hos- pital injured in an aeroplane

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"During the first week of the honeymoon," said Mrs. Capel Smith in reply to further questions, he told me of various women he bad lived with and of things that happened then.

I was as extremely innocent girl. Father had made a practice of reading all the books I read and Taking my daughter with me, these statements by my husband I set off at once. As we went

came as a most dreadful shock to along I heard the omnibus con- | me.” ductor tell someone that five Mr. Capel-Smith related that people had been burned to death one morning, when she was half- in un aeroplane emush. Imagine dressed, her husband picked up a my feelings!

water jug from the washstand and What a relief it was when I poured the contents aver her. It got to the hospital and a nurse was done in a temper. On another "SURVIVOR'S STORYtold me that my husband wae

crockery at her at breakfast. I crockery he threw a trayful" of honestly do not think he knew what he was doing," added Mrs Capel- Smith,

CRASH ON HIS FIRST FLIGHT

Mr. Albert Graham Tucker, the storekeeper, who escaped with only slight injuries, was able as he lay in bed in his home in Mit cham Road to give an account of the crash.

Mr. Tucker, a powerfully built 'man of 48, said:

This was the first time I have ever been up in an aeroplane. When I heard that a machine was going up on a test fight I neked if I might go with it. The request was granted.

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only slightly jojured and would

she able to come home with me.

Two of Tucker's fellow-workers, named Tuckey and Webber, were to have gone in the machine, but at the last moment were told that Webber no more could be "taken. @aid:

We were disappointed at the time and watched the machine fly off. Then, a little later, we saw amoke rising in the distance.

Mr. Hilbery: Did he send you, by the maids, offensive messages on pieces of paper Yes. I shall never forget one. It was, "Come up stairs and tie my tie you

The first night she danced with Majer Dyer was in her own draw

ing-room.

"I resolved then that I would rather be dead than live with him again, exclaimed Mra, Capel Smith.

She remembered when her hus. band telegraphed to her that the boy was ill. She thought the mes sage was a trap and that he would kidnap her;

In cross-examination by Mr. Singleton, K.C., Mrs. Capel-Smith said the affectionate letters abe wrote to her husband in India were mere subterfuge to postpone the time when their separation must come.

"When," said Mrs. Capel-Smith, "my husband cabled that it he did not get more affectionate letters he was coming home I wrote as many as I could, using all the affectionate terms I could and putting different I asked him dates on the lettera. to cable to me only to make certain that he was still in India.

When it was mentioned that Major Capel-Smith had kept a copy of a love-letter he had sent to his wife, Mr. Justice Swift remarked: "I have never heard, anything extraordinary.

Mra. Capel-Smith remarked that good friend, the she regarded Major Dyer as a very Mr. Bingleton: Are you anxious to marry Major, Dyer No.

two

house

folk can be just as interesting as New York people. Marceline Day and John Harron take the leading rôles, and the cast includes Ger- trude Astor, and George E. Arthur.

Pola, Queen Of "Ruritania," "Forbidden Paradise" with Pols perial," will be the chief attraction Negri, the star of Hotel Im- at the Star to-day and touOTTOW. Miss Negri ia reen as the Queen of a small. European country," in masterful and efficient sovereign who meets the intrigues and de- ceite of court life with an iron

hand. She also has a decided penchant for handsome young men, which adds spice to the story, Rod La Rocque plays a soldier of the Queen's army and Adolphe Menjou. the Queen's chancellor. A feature of the production is the appear, ance of several hundred horsemen who give exhibitions of daring riding.

GREAT NEW POLICE

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Police methods, both in London and in every part of the country, are to be the subject of the greatest inquiry ever set on foot in Eng-

dent of the Daily Express. It may, land, writes the Lobby correspon last a year.

Woman Member.

The whole police system will be. (Judge's Warning.

the subject of a comprehensive and Mrs. Capel-Smith next spoke of ruthless inquiry by a royal commis the night when her husband and hission of eminent people. The form. officer friends entered her terms, reference, and procedure of the commission are already being considered. Mr. Justice Swift The greatest outrage was committed when those three men entered that house. They The Home Secretary has promis- were lucky not to have been comed that he would announce the mitted to prison for burglary. It details before Parliament rises for is well that I had not the duty the recess. to deal with them or they would The Home Secretary is anxious that the Commission should be a have been sorry,

At this point the jury stoppednog political body, and it is certain the case and formally found to include one woman,

Generally the commission will sit The aeropland which crashed was husband had never remonstrated verdiet in favour of Major Dyer:

will cover police administration Vickers Vulcan, the only one of with her about such a thing. Judgment was entered accordingly in London, but as its work

Hr. Hilbery:

I went up to the scene of the Allegations Denied. accident in the ambulance, bat by the time we got there the machine had been destroyed.

THE FLYING. PIG."-

Mrs. Capel-Smith denied that she had sat with Major Dyer at 2 o'clock in the morning after a dance in her motor car in a garage with the lights turned of Her

to glide towards the earth. Sudgine had been ixed in it, and the Smith, "but I tried to defer my cause Mredence, making arrests, and preparing

The two girls were sitting în the front seate with the two men just behind them. I was at the back with the door just behind

its type in "extence. I wanMy mother and father have with costs, will your lordship throughout the country, there may Everything went all right for a known as the Flying Pig because known for years how unhappy I

All the methods of taking evid- Jaye she time, then the scroplane carted of its short let body. A new en- have been, continued Mr. Capel- issue some sort of a warning, be be sittings in the provinces

Mr. Justice Swift: There should prosecutions will be inquired into denly it swerved to one side and fatal fight was the routine test resolution to leave him as long as goes about in dived nose first.

fight which every machine under possible for the sake of my small

son." She denied that she had ever be no need to warn anybody, but So-called "third degree" methods The crash was terrific. As wo goes after an overhaul."

Most of those in the seroplane been in the bathroom with Major if anything is said or done to cause will be specially investigated. :: struck the ground the door be bind me burst open and I was were employees of the company. Dyer or in his bedroom, or that he the slightest fear to Mrs. Capel. At the beginning of the inquiry had taken her in his arms and kiss Smith the person responsible will the commission will invite the heads able to acramble through. My who had joined the staff recently, foot got entangled in the wreck. It was not used as a passengered her

be brought before me and will go to of the metropolitan and chief pro Her husband's divorce petition prison and stay there until he or vincial police forces to explain the age, but luckily I was able to machine now. It was employed.

taroe. wriggle it out of the shoe, and only for special fights and for was served by surprise. He took she has purged his or her contempt. system of administration now in

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