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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1932.

Could this be the relations rescuer and rescuòd?" asked Mr. Olivor:

Counsel said he come to the last chapter of the long story when, on Mr. Oliver mentioned other nd November 27 last, Ellis was intar dresses as "which he alleged Ellis viewed, and three days later a state had been, and and that at one homont was taken frons her? - told the landlady that, Ellia was hia! Mr. Davidson get to know about. ward and had been staying at Stiff it, how they did not know, buce key, but it was impossible, with his very quickly The Arst rumblinga wife and she could not stay there of the storm were heard as far as any longer.

bo was concerned,

Mr. Olivor aid that Sylvia dis- she was a waitress at Lyons in boen ons obrock for it, and that simon, but they could only prove used that dat at all hours, ag laba likod Mr. Davidson very much, and Walbrook She was eighteen and such conduct in detestable.??

as two o'clock in the morning and obviously disappruvad of his reviry pretty. On Mr Davidson's Mr. Oliver, coming to the case of In 1993 Davidson had a room in finally was caught staying all night lations, whatever they were, with first visit to the restaurant he took Ross Ellis, said that this woman, Euston Street and he was, constant har aister..

hold of her hand,' said she was love-who was now about thirty, had bean fly visited there by Ellis. He used Aftor Barbarn had lost her job]ly, and that he must come again."

of immoral character for overal to stay in his "oom with her for at the dentist's,” said. Mr. Oliver, Was that rescue work, or what, years. She had known Davidson hours as a time and sometimes at

shu had to go back to the mom asked Mr. Oliver "getting hold for ten years.

Macfarlane Road, and there she of a young girl's hand in a place They did not propose to call her, on the night with David-like, that, and saying what he did for the reason that. It would be The next Jay lo sume, and the idle-to-astach the slightest relimice On November 12 Davidson was in next and every day. with Barbara, and was seen by a

upon her word but they wore go- a Chinese restaurant in Bloomsbury

"He pestored this unfortunate ing to ask the Court to infer waitress kissing her and putting his come twice a day. He would show out her evidence, was truði.

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to death. Sometimes he would nevertheless, that the charge, with

arm"around her and cuddling her.

hor photographs of actresses and "That," commented Mr. Oliver, say, They coine to me to confessMr. Davidson had described"Ellis. does not seem to play a very ob- rious part in the rôle of rescuer."

as "half-witted and a bit mentally He used to us about bundlesdefectivo." He said that Barbara continually of £1 notes in front of her, this description to give to a girl against

It was a very valuasia; He said he had not got any, but tried to avoid Davidson, but she was bankrupt who could not pay hiswhom there might be complaints would sund it. He did not and it in effect generally driven back to tradesmen's bills, and he gave her thint he had been taking liberties and you will Judge of the situation. On October 8, while they were a card with his name and rotophone with her. of these two girls when they actual being watched, she was sen to bonumber on, and said, Ring me ly went to Wells-on-Sen. station tu

trying to shake him off and got up if you ever feel lonely, Come wait for the Rector to return int

away from him in an Underground out, and we will go and have a good order to get money.

stating. She twice ran away from him.

in London.

When he came down Barbara asked him for money to pay, their fares back to Loulou because they

could not stand it.

They stayed at the station two days" and two nights, sleeping pus in dhe "holds waiting for him come back. *

When he did come back then two girls one just 17 years old to work to walk to: London, a die taner of about 110 miles, and they got to a place called Fakenham.

Absolutely destitute, without a penny, that was the situation that faced thess young women, who were to be rescued.

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On Novembor of last year Bar- bara actually book rooms for herself ia Robert Street for a week. It was difficult to acu why she should do that unless she was really trying to get away from him."

December arrived, and with it another job for the girl which, in justice to Mr. Davidson, he must any he got for her,

"One could not avoid, however, the | reasonableness of the suggestions thus.

"They had been left to sleep unif he wore going to keep this girl der hayricks at night or out in fields, and to trump along roads to for himself it was necessary to bave dertain amount of money for her t back to London.

and she would be definitely less

They got as far as Fakenham,pensive in a job than out of one. and there found a garage where Rose Ellis knew the proprietor.

They met someone who worked there, and the garage people very kindly took pity on them and drove then up to. Tonden for nothing.

Thug was the und of that adven-

ture...

All the time," said Mr. Oliver, one is wondering where the ros jene part of that comes in."

Pestering Her,"

Mr. Oliver said that, Barbara got two days! work, bab after losing, it went back to the room in Macfar lane Road. Last September Mr Davidson got her a job the first job he gut her after a year-as a re- ceptionist for a dentist who used to practise" if Euston Square,

their sins."

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"When you get married I will perform the ceremony, and you will have eight children.

that sort of behaviour, in our sub- That sort of conversation and

mission can mean only one thing. Your wee sex running through the ladies who, if she had been willing to go away, would have been olig of the women who "frequented' his bedsitting room.

Of course, she did not. She did

and as a result there was an in- not like it at all. She complained,

tarview with an official of Lyons,"

Mr. Davidson was asked to trans- for his custom elsewhern, und he Isaid, "Curtainly, but suppose the He took her to an address in PryBishon asks me to come and have vidence Place, which was the house a cup of coffee?" The reply wILS? of a Mr. and Ms. Lake, who would be witnesses.

He would be served, but, you I would not?"

"Persecution."

Keep Away From this Cafe!!"

Mrs. Lake was, withous question, Mr. Oliver said that the fifth

a woman of a mest charitable discharge concerned the pestering of position. He brought this girl to Mrs. Lake about 9-30 in the even ing, told her he was her legal guar dian, and undertook to pay the rent of 10s, a week.

The girl was installed in a bed- sitting room in the front on the ground floor, the window of which

could be reached from the street.

Every day Mr. Davidson called, nad: when she lost her job he called many times a day at all hours, and even at two o'clock in the morning, The arrangement was that she | should sleep at Euston Square, but ¦ At all times he was trying to get as she could not sleep there at the into the bed-sitting room where this week-ends she slept at the room in Macfarlane Road

girl lived.

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perfectly respectable women who needed no resouing and certainly not Mr. Davidson's society. His referred to three women employed is waitresses in an, A. B. Qveals in Oxford Street,

These waitresses were treated to such overtures as these: "Come to the theatre," or "Come to the cinema," "Meet me this evening. at the tube," You are a nice girl."

was asked to go.

There were complaints and he

ABC. that he had been an actor He said to An offeink of the

who was known as the musical ar

"H. Ward."* -

*Flat Taken for Girl."" He took her to Paris, a struge place to take a rescued woman.

What he did was to take prompt stops to get the girl to retract svory- thing she said in the statement.

Before closing his speech, Mr.

which seemed to happen everywhere, she was being looked after, led, and Oliver intimated that Barbarn. Har He fell into arrears with ranty. and then he took a fat at Comp-clothed until she had given avi ris huck been sand to a hostal, where

| ton Street at 22.10% a wook — a He had described her at various striking sum to pay for a girl in bios his secretary and his ward whom his only interest was charity. The girl had certainly been taken He said that she was a ward who to the rectory ches, possibly inany I was shortly "exposting £8,000. He

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During the day-time, added Mrs Lake would not allow him i Mr, Oliver, he could not leave her in the house, guardian or no gant ! alone, always calling round at her dian, and he had to stop ontside: Heep away from the cafo employer's place in Euston Square and trying to see her, pestering her She remained with Mrs. Lake until police would be informed. and ringing her up. There is out- quite recently, and Mrs. Lake kept side, corroboration of that."

Mr. Oliver next referred to a girl named Nellie Churchill, for whom,

At the end of October the dentist her at her own expenses because he he said, in October, 1929, Mr. failed in business, and the girl was was so much upset by the perseen-Davidson took a room in Wharton fout of work again.

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"I must now introduce. anothen,o. of this young girl by Mr Road,, W.C., and made himself res-.

Davidson.

personality upon the scale," went on Mr. Oliver. That is Barbara's She made up her mind to tail him sister. She had a sister in London that the girl had gone away from elled Sylvia, na far as we know the house.

perfectly respectable young domes tic servant.

Sylvie had a young man, but I don't know whether she was oc- tually enggned."

Mr. Oliver said Mr. Davidson sought out Sylvia and said he want- ad to bring her and her sister to- gether, again

A very laudable ambition, com- mented Mr. Oliver.

ponsible for the rent.

He told the landlady that the girl was an artist's model, from which they could imagine she was

His strenuous efforts to gen this girl might have had another ex- planation, because in December it pretty, and worked three days a had come to his knowledge that he week for him. What work it was was being watched and that Eosshe did not say. He still owed that Ellis had made a statement.

"I now come to what I suggest landlady 23 in rent. is one of the most significant things in this case," said Mr. Oliver, Kand it is this: that he wont to Mira. Laics and asked if a man named Searle, one of the inquiry agents, bad made any inquiries about him.

He used to visit the girl fro quently, and one evening he was found alone with her in the dark at eleven o'clock. The landlady re- monstrated, and Davidson said that

They all met together at the room in Macfarlane Food--Sylvia, Barbara, and Sylvia's young man.

He said, 'I want to see Barbara "On another occasion. Sylvia was because she may have said some-the gar would not light. That was. The nominations for election at Euston Square seeing her sister thing about me. He said he was in quite untrue. There was, nothing

during the day when Davidson serious trouble. It might mean him wrong with the gas. the Sanitary Board cloned yester rang up. Sylvia will tell you that getting six months if Miss Barris Mf. Oliver said that a Ming day with but two nominees on the when Davidson was speaking, and

Barbara, pulled her to the telephone had said anything about it." Lowe, a waitress at the Chinese I don't know what six months Restaurant, who had seen Mr. this.was what she overheard: menn unless he mana that he had Davidson embracing Barbara Har: 'Davidson addressed her sister under-estimated her ago because she ris, was herself subjected to attack. They were Mr. F. Mow. Fung, as darling and called, her queen was only sixteen, but if it does not i If he could afford to spend

of his heart." She said What mean, that, what can it mean f proposed by the Rev. W. Walton about the others? What about Mrs. Lake told him quite un Mr. Oilvor, if he felt the call money on the little lost one," "mid

Rögers, and seconded by. Mr. E. Betty and he replied, Darling, truly that Barbara had gone away," to help her was a shriller call than even the call of his own starving home, how can you understand why ho should spend money on the per-. Dealing with the cans of Betty fectly respectable women, why he Bench, Mr. Oliver said that she should spend money on amusements was on the stage and occupied a-money that he had not got, fat in Melcombe Place.

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by Sir Shou. Son Chow and seconded by Sir Henry Pollock.

I have given them all up.

Cock, and Dr. Li Shu Fan, proposed If this is a respectable young woman it is difficult to see ang but one explanation."

Some iden of the point of view The election will take place on of this clergyman to this side of Tuesday, May 10.

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*** Terrible Charges.”

Mr. Oliver mentioned two ather instances, one of two women in a train to whom he alleged Mr. Davidson gave his address, and the other of a girl he spoke to at the Elephant and Castle station--- "This was the greeting from be- There was ono sceho 'which Bar- hind the bar Hello, you old thief bara-Harris had described when they are true, continued Mr. "These are terrible charges it Do you want some more money?he was embracing Betty Beach when Oliver. There can be nothing You are all girls:!

sha was in her night clothes, worse in my submission than for a Tho remaining CASGE under man to pursue perfectly respectable charge four were airply general women, to flutter £t notes in front legations that he took young wo of them, for some of them do not men to various addresses.

And life too easy and are not tool The first girl concerned was Misswell paid. Dorothy Burn. In August, 1929, "I submit there could only have

If Mr. Davidson had been a serious rescuer of young girls ha might have said, I wish you would not make jokes about that sort of thing. But he laughed. Eo thought. it was an excellent joke."

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