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GOLD COAST TRAGEDY.

DOCTOR ACCUSED OF

WIFE MURDER.

......A FORMER POPULAR MUSIC

HALL COMEDIENNE.

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VICTIM'S DYING DECLARA- TION.

KUMASI (Ashanti, West

Africa), Nov. 13th. This small outpost of the British Empire on the Gold Coast of West Africa has been stirred to ita depths.by an astonishing shooting tragedy.

Dr. Benjamin Knowles, M.C., & Government official,"who', was ong of the senior medical officers in the Colonial service here, is under are rest, accused of the murder of his wife, Harriet Knowles, in the bungalow where they lived together at Bekwai, a village settlement twenty-five miles from Kumasi.

Mrs. Knowles, 'before her, mar- riage, was Miss Madge Clifton, a popular music-ball comedienne at home, and a principal boy in many pantomimes in provincial cities.

She died in Kumasi hospital from the effects of a revolver bul- let wound.

An Accident.

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A dying statement was taken from Mrs. Knowles in the hospital. Her husband was present, under arrest, by her bedside. She assert- ed to the police, before the medical superintendent of the hospital, that the shooting had been an accident. The revolver, declared Mra Knowles, went off in her own band. Then she lapsed into semi-con- sciousness, and anng, a few minutes before she died, snatches of war- zime songs and scraps of the choruses which were popular favourites in her pantomime"daya in England and Ireland.

Colony Excited..

People at home will with dif- culty realise the commotion caused on the Gold Coast by the tragedy. There is the woman who is dead, respected by everybody, and one of the social leaders in our little vir cle of civilisation. There is her husband, a member of the Govern ment staff, one of our best doctors, accused of her murder.

A verdict of "Murder" was re- turned against Dr. Knowles at the coroner's inquest. His formal trial opened to-day in Kumasi, before Judge McDowell, who, according to the laws of the colony, is sitting without a jury.

Many witnesses have to be call ed, including four residenta in, Bekwai, who were frienda of Dr. and Mrs. Knowles, and were lunch. ing at their home on the day the shooting occurred, and also the native steward boy employed by Dr. Knowles, who heard the shot fired.

The trial will last for a number of days.

It was stated at the inquest that Mrs. Knowles was shot on the after- noon of Saturday, October 20th. She gave a small luncheon party that day to neighbours in Bekwai.. The party passed off without in- cident:

According to the statement of servants, Dr. Knowles went to his bedroom and afterwards there was the report of a revolver shot. A servant rashed into the bedroom and found Dr. Knowles lying on bis bed. Mrs. Knowles was crouch- ing on the floor, outside the mos- quito netting of the bed, wounded.

A bullet was discovered later in the wall of the room, and there was a. revolver holster under the doc 'tor's pillow.

Shortly after this shooting, a district commissioner calfed at the bangalow and was met by the doc tor, who was only partially dress ed Dr. Knowles said to the dis trict official that everything was quite right

There was evidence that, the doc tor had been by the bedside of bis wife, tending her wound.

Mr. Knowles was taken by motor-ear ta the hospital, at Kumasi, and there received every passible attention from the medical

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DIARY OF EVENTS.

To-day.

(December 11th.) Sanitary Board Meeting, 4.23

Opening of Peninsular Hotel by- H.E. the Officer Administering the Government, 4.30 pm.

Hockey:Y.M.C.A. Club Seconds, King's Park, 5 p.m..

"The King of Queen's Theatre: King's

World Theatre:"The Road to Romance,

Star Theatre "Rough House Rasio,"

Tes Dance: H.K. Hotel, 430 p.m. Dinner Dances: St. Franc Hotel, and King Edward Hotel, 5 Principal Mails:Outward. Europe via San Francisco and Europe vid Siberia.......... (Siberia Maru), 10.30 am. Europe, vit Marseilles (Diomed), 2.30 p.m.

Wedusaday: - (December 19th.)

2.30 p.m.

Fanling Hunt: Meet Kennels,

1,400 Tons Of Water, Fourteen bundred tons of water, released under strong pressure. Annual Exhibition Hong Kong provided the Deluge. The food Art Club, Pedder Building, 10.30 tore through the studio and carriam, to 7 p.m.

p.m.

Cricket: Royal Engineers R.A.S.C. (F).

ed everything before it, including Diocesan. Girls' School Bazaar, 3 A huge idol of Baal, one hundred fret high and weighing fifteen tons,

The zoological institutions of America contributed the animals who marched into the Ark, and the photographers, in many instances, were fortunate enough to film them -going is two by two."

Among the animals thus caught are tigers, giraffea,

camela, elephants, zebras, bears, monkeys, sheep, and geese. Many rare animals, such as the okapi, are in cluded in the great procession.

The production is estimated to have cost £3,000 an hour.

She died on the following night and was buried at Kumasi the next day. The whole of the white colony attended the funeral at the new European cemetery in the capital. She is the only white woman who has ever died in Kumasi.

Football: Mid-week League: Police r. Lam Long Wan, Chinese Athletic 1). South China. Ewo Chinese v. Hung Kui School.

Queen's Theatre: "The King of King's."

World Theatre: "The Road to Romance."

Star Theatre: "Rough House Rosie.".

Tea Dances: HK. Hotel, 4.36 p.m.; King Edward Hotel, 5 p.r.

Dinner Dance: St. Francis Hotel,

9 p.m.

Principal European Mail:-Out- ward: Europe via Siberia (Tun-

nan), 1.30 p.m.

Thursday

(December 13th.) Concert: Helena May Institute :- "Music of Childhood" arranged by Mrs. Davenport Browne.

Her husband, during his trial, is under strict guard in the hospital

Annual Exhibition Hong Kong ward of the local prison, His Art Club, Pedder Building, 10.30 mental condition will be the sub-am. to 7 p.m. ject of a medical report.

AN IDEAL PRINCIPAL, BOY.

WAR-TIME IDOL OF THE.

"MUSIC HALL.

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St Peter's Y.M. Club, Dance, Lane, Crawford's, 8 p.m. to mid night.

Hockey: Y.M.C.A. XI. Uni- versity 2nd XI. King's Park, 5 p.m.

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Queen's Theatre: "Barbed Wire." World Theatre: The Prince of Pilsen."

Star Theatre: "The Escape." Dinner Dance: St. Francis Hotel, 8 p.m.

Principal European Mail:-Out- ward: Europe vié Victoria, B.0. (Tyndareus), 10.30 ..

Miss Madge Clifton favourite with the music-hall au- diences of England before and dur- ing the war period. She was.an Irish girl, and the audiences of the Dublin theatres worshipped her. She sang songs after the style of Miss Florrie Ford, with choruses and patter.

She was a woman of

great per-

Friday. sonal sharma and beauty," said Mr. Douglas Stuart, of the Music Hall

̈(December 14th.) Artiste Railway Association, to a Daily Express representative Christian Fellowship Meeting, She was an ideal principal boy, Helena May Institute, 10.30 am.

Annual Dinner Dance HE and was a great favourite in the provinces. Most of her time was Automobile Association Peninsular devoted to variety and pantomims Hotel, 8 pm. work. The last time. I saw her was HK about fifteen years ago at Birming-Tom Jones," Theatre Royal, 9. ham where she was appearing inp.

Philharmonic Society

one of the pantomimes as the lead." Queen's Theatre: "Barbed Wire"

A friend of the dead woman

World Theatre: The Prince of said: "I knew her well in the Pilsen.". heyday of her music hall success, and also when she went to West Africa, about two years ago. Often topped the bill

Star Theatre The Escape." Tea-Dances: HE Hotel p.m.; King Edward Hotel, 6 p.rá.

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