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THE ACCUSED RECTOR.

PRAYERS ASKED · FOR BISHOP.

ACTING RATHER IN

THE DARK.”

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1932.

A SISTER'S HONOUR UR EXCAVATORS ALL IS NOT DARK AT

5,000 CHEER ACQUITTED

BROTHER.

GIRL. HISSED IN THE STREETS.

Wild, scones of public rejoicing The Rev. Harold F. Davidson, followed the acquittal by a jury nt Roctor of Stiffkey, who has been Norristown, Pennsylvania, of E3-

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summoned to appear before a Norward Allon, the young steeple wich Consistory Court on charges chase rider. concerning his moral conduct, re- plied from the pulpit of his four teenth-century "church to charge made against him.

PUZZLED

FIRST TRACE OF A 2800

B.C. DYNASTY.

"The finding of 18 bodies richly apparelled and jewelled in a com- mon grave"in which they had lain for more than 4,700 years has completely puzzled the excavators at Ur of the Chaidees.

DARTMOOR.

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innate told me with some feeling of wounded pride from what a good, aristocratic, wealthy family he had cams.. I listened sympathetically, and swolling with pride he proceed- od: "You know, Fadre, apart from my house in Town, I have two large

country residences-ono in Devon- shire and the other in Hampshire.”

À message from Mr. Leonard Allen, who is prominent in Phila-Woolley, of the Joint Expedition of delphia society, was charged with the British Museum and the Uni-It was all too trug-they were his murdering Francis Donaldson,' his versity of Pennsylvania, states:

sister's wealthy suitor.

At the morning service he pleadi The C300, which was popularly ed with his congregation for their described as "honour slaying," pro-

prayers.

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souted features of unusual human In your prayers,” he said, “1 interest involving the moral code also gk you to include all those of the younger generation, while connected with the base, as well its leading actors in court showed as the Bishop of Norwich, who themselves under a strain of dívíð- throughout all my time here has ed loyallies to those they loveds always been quite a good friend Wide discussion was aroused by to me, and who I fool at the pie the attitude of Rose Allon, the 18- sont dis has been acting rather year-old sister, of the accused man, in the dark, prompted by some in whe before the trial began denoune Auence which one is not yet able ed her father and brother:as reapon- hible for her sweetheart's death, saying they had prevented him from marrying her.

to trace."

***Misunderstood."

In a dramatic sermon he declar ed: "I have been greatly misun- dorstood in my work-work which I have not specially bought."

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The little flint-built church which' normally booth 300, was packed with a congregation of 000, who overflowed even into the belfry,

Rose also drew a rebuke from the judge during the trial for issuing 1 stalement that she intended to

be & neutral witness in relation to her brother, but that she still loved the murdered mant

The girl'a apparent indifference A large contingent of the Blake to her father, who, ruined in for rey branch of the British Legion tune and shattered in health, pre- were present, Three charabanca sented a pathetic spectacle in court, brought, parties from Well.

Four hundred

also provoked the hostility of the

The tomb proved to be anique in character. In date it belonged to the period of the unknown Second Dynasty of kings. of Ur, circa. 2800 B.C.; in type it was a multiple burial in a bodies, for the most part richly common shaft, the

adorned with head ornaments and

in matting or in road coffins. necklaces of goli, being laid either

Who Were They?

"Over the sarth in which the burials lay there was spread n clay

food offered, thon, higher up in the foor on,, which Bros had been lit and

shaft, a brick por with an altar, another floor and altar, and finally packed mass of broken mud and brick which stopped thin shaft.

The grave, though it throwa light on a period 'scarcely repre sented before, is a complete puzzle, who these 18 people buried together at one time were, and why so long drawn a

ritual celebrated their burial there is nothing to explain.**

Imprint on Soli

One of the coffins had left in the soil so clear an impression that a

tie reeds and the stringa lacing

Majesty's prisons at Dartmoor and Winchester.

THE PRISON BAND.

The men love music, and the band nt Dartmoor is extremely popular. It was my privilege to play the euphonium. A slight cold one day

kept me out of the band room, and it was not long afterwards that I was amazed to hear that I was suf foring from hydrophobia! That was "the nearest to "euphonium " some illiterate, gumiper had been able to manage.

Another wag approached me with the suggestion that as we had a band, we should also have a regular

swan

Bong or regimental ode: Readily I agreed and daked for his suggestion.Well, mister, you couldn't do better than The Little Grey Home in the West," he said, with a mischievous grin at my ex-

pense.

The most favoured instrument at Dartmoor is the violin. It is use. less for a second-rate player to go there.. Many celebrated violinista

other people, crowds who followed the eptét room photograph showed the texture of have played in Dartmoor-as. vini-

crowded out, waited in the church yard.

"I came how to call the righteous, but sinners to repentence" (Mark

B., 17), was the Rector's, text, --

Work in the West End,

drama, and she was hissed in the stred's last night.

Rose, a pale, slight, composed.

delphia's most exclusive families,

them together.

Already one stries, of building

reached..

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girl, whose friends belong to Phila-dating to about 3,900 B.C., and a proved a most damaging witness for massive complex of walls and the prosecution, giving evidence chambers which may well go back nearly 1,000 years earlier, have been that her brother had threatened to He showed how Christ had been i condertined for consorting with pub- blow Donaldson's bend off after he licans and sinners even na he, clergyman in 1932, was being con- deinned because he had tried to help Horace Allen, the father, who is a class of unfortunates in the West widower, also met criticism in some End of London.

quarters for impeaching his daugh "Remetober,'

," he said, "that God ter's honour to provide a defence does not sit all day in church for his son threatened with the waiting to minister to a few Baved death penalty.

souls-thew icobergs of untempted ; chastity who are so ready to criticise their fellow creatures.

The Uhurch Attacked,

tors, of course. On one occasion à noted orchestra was playing, and I overheard this discussion; "This is a. —— good bond, and that's a emart chap on the fiddle, and it's a good" fiddle, too. His mate agreed, and hazardod, "It looks like a Rom- branda" The first speaker patron- isingly replied: "Yes, it is; you're right for once in your life."

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Under the foundations of a tem had refused to discontinue his aple wall of about 1,050 B.C., bavo sociation with ber

We had a good choir, too. Its bern found boxes containing four ability to renter certain items de- large inscribed copper cylinders which Mr. Woolley states should and goings of the man.

pended, of course, on the comîn ga

It wie: far towards making record com-

groat to hear them wing Martyra plete.

of the Arena," or the Gloria from Mozart's Twelfth Mass,”

Family Duty,

WAITING THEIR TURN FOR

***BRIXTON

PRISON TOO FULL TO HOLD ALL RATE DEFAULTERS.

Side by side will, the trial in court proceeded an animated puh. lic debate on the questions of fami I have always felt that the ly duty involved, some publiciais Phariseeism and superficiality' openly attacking Rose for deserting. which characterises the English re- her brother at the moment his life.

Queues of people, including ligious respectability, the timidity, was at stake, others consuring the tradesmen, professional men and of the Church in striking at pub- Allens for making public the girl's wives, waited outside the court at lic vices, the inability of legislators scorist to save the boy's life. Willesden, N.W., when 1800 people to state the real facts, have creat Donaldson, who, like Alle bewere summoned for non-payment of ed and allowed to exist in London longed to a prominent family, was their rates.

ple came before the magistrates in

́a class of persons numbering over shot one night last November when For nearly three hours the peo-

80,000 compelled to exist in condi- he called at Allen's appartment to tions of degrading slavery. They discuss his relations with Rose. haunt the streets like painted vam-

pires pleading and cursing."

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A Quarrel,

Frightened to live, dreading to According to the father, his die;

daughter's" character had complete- Belling the soul to all who will lý changed as a result of Donald- buy.

ton's friendship.

a constant stream.

In an attempt to reduce the núm her it was announced that those who could guarantee payment by the end of this month would have the summons stamped accordingly.

This disposed of many defendants,

A perplexed man inquired one day," Chaplain every Sunday the B.C.s parade in one place, the Wesleyans in another, and the C of E. in another. I suppose they're all making for the one phoe and hope to get there?" I cautiously ventured, "It is quite possible."

"Well, tall me this," he per- siatod. "What's going to happen to the bunch of us who get excused chapel !"

Once, and once only, did I parado.

in a suit of plus fours "Pardon,

sir, has there beon a fire ?" one con-

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BUSHES SAVE MAN UNDER

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get the bloke what knocked 'em off: Chaplain, I like the smell of the Public Library in ---- (atole them). A third was more your breath; what's your baccy??no; I must not arouse fear in the cryptic. Nobody with a scrap of I told him that it was just an ordi- minds of those who reside in one of religion would wear a suit like

nary mixture.

"Try mine," he London's fashionable suburbs known that." It was my turn to wonder

offered. Aware of the limits of to the fraternity. st. Dartmoor as A few days before the shooting aer time in which to pay, were given prison rejected all my entreaties to "What do you smoke?" His twin- Moss of the rest, who wanted long what was behind that burst of logic.

One of the real veterans of the their indulgence, I was curious; "Paradiso" Dealing in shame for a morsel of brend,

quarrel started, when Donaldson until the middle or third week in come to the ones in which I taught king sys told me at once that I model suburb has had an epidemic minster, foll more than 100 Last over

The truth is that recently this Hating the living and fearing the brought the girl home late from a dead."

social function and on that occa

illiterates to read and write. "No,! A court official told me that it thank you"; he said, "the school. i had been might.'

Why, Four of house-breaking and burglaries the St. Vincent Rocks at Clition, sion Ross showed disrespect to her

was believed that many of them master is paid to think and spell Nuns-none nicer, none yesterday,

After the service the rector stood bareheaded in the lamp-lit church- yard and thook bands with every- one of his congregation as they left.

March.

A Bristol man, Mr. Herbert Miles, 30, of Doveton-street, Bed-

Hullo, Snuffy, what are you I met

but sacaped, with only a small head injury.:

father for the first time by slapping would be totally unable to pay for me, and his writing isn't too none to-day," and none to-morrow." doing here?" I asked, when

his face.

and would have to go to prison. On the day of the alleged murder One woman told the magistrates: Rose left her father fat for a Phila My husband is already at home delphia hotel and Donaldson visit waiting until there is a vacancy in UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS,ed the Allens later to talk over the Brixton. He has been committed situation. The defence of Allen, for a previous debt and he expects who is 23, was that he fired the to be called for at any time. thot to "frighten, but not to kill.

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He landed in a thick clump of bushes almost beneath the Clifto suspension bridge.

He was brought to the top, still

bad. I've lived a long while and Yos, it is a Chaplain's job to make him outside the Town Hall. "Just you some day-it will be with the anmo who apparently do not bene- managed pretty well. I may want life more bearable. There may be havin' u look around, guv'noe." »

fit; but I know of many a man who did not like the sound of it, ***Look here, "Snuffy, this place în has gone out with a changed out-

redshot; I'll wager you wo'll meet look. They do not all Istok favours, half a dozen husics (plain-clothes conscious

men) between here and the station you're taking a big risk." He was grateful.- "Righty Padre; I'll bost now freedom are the Litla He Man gogo lo a trica, down t

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Another who claimed to know but it is worth the doing to make The magistrales allowed ber fur-Dartmoor backwards decided that it them feel that there is another side His acquittal was cheered by a ther time in which to pay her debt was too late to make a change in his to their sombre lob. crowd of 6,000, which showed ex for rates.

mode of life. F asked him to re- htrems hostility to the State-wit-

The Yale En Willesden it now member the words of the post, tis. 6d, in the £. The assessments Blone walls do not a prison maka, Preachers have used the case as there have recently been revised, Nor iron bars à cage." He looked and it is contended by many peo- bewildered. “Tummer gav not, they ple that the rates of assessment are 'aven't 'arf yngotised me, then how they are faring in the struggle Paurel Those first few weeks of the now too high.

Just, ne I had finished my pipe to go

a text to denounce the free stand ards among the younger generation of good families,

– LOOKIN!"– ROUND 2.

I suppose. I shall always be rus-

parishes it is then that a hel ning aeroas my men of the moor, I shall always be looking for word and hand count most and will always be

Always be anxious to hear them. Once a Padre, always a

dead are most wanted. Such effort,