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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1930.

A BROKEN HEARTED HUSBAND.

SHOT ACTRESS LETTERS' DISCLOSURES,

HAMPSTEAD AFFAIR.

SAN FRANCISCO CAFES.

INTERESTING STATISTICS

COMPILED.

THE AVERAGE CHIT.

At the inquest at Hampstead Entering the average restaurant on Mrs. Marjorie Cotterill, an in San Francised, the averago man nctress, aged 22, and Mr. Eardley finds seats for 76 persons, has Cotterill (daughter and son-in- 10.3 persons working for his ser- law of Mr. Gerald Lawrence, the Vice, 72 per cent, of whom are men, actor), who were found shot at and pays 38.4 cents for the meal Mr. Lawrence's Hampstead home, he pats. These facts are deduced at Oruan-road, Haverstock Hill, by the Department of Commerce extracts from a diary kept by Mr. from a survey it made of eating Cotterill and letters written by houses In the California city in him and his wife were read. co-operation with the San Francis- The couple were married last|co Restaurant Association and the July, and the husband had return-San Francisco Chamber of Comm ed from the Continent only two merce. ***

hours before the tragedy. Mr. The survey, those who conduct Cotterill's work took him abroad, ed it believe, will be of direct and he had to go to Albania, value in working toward a stabili- where his wife could not accom-zation of the industry all over the pany him.

The jury returned a verdict that Mrs. Cotterill was murdered by her husband, and that he commi:- ted suicide while of unsound mind.

country. In the final report de tailed figures will be presented on failures in the restaurant business and their causes and the general influence of restaurant failures on other lines of business.

The coroner said that some San Francisco ranks high among dates in Mr. Cotterill's diary con- cities of its size in the volume of tained the initials "N.L" The restaurant trade. There is one initials occurred 28- times. An-seat in an eating house for about other entry was "Letter," and De- every seven persons in the city. A tective-Inspector. Frederick Ben- farge part of the population lives nett said it appeared that "N.L." in hotels and apartment houses meant "no letter." Other entries and is dependent on restaurantą and hotels for a considerable part of its food requirements. The city also has a large commuter July 1-M.'s birthday, Heart-trade and a good-sized tourist breaking, and so tired. Wish I trade at certain, seasons. The was with her."

July 3.-"Any time after to-day -finish."

were:

June 25,-"Packing and feeling utterly miserable."

"Evidently," said the Coroner, before reading letters by Mr. and Mrs. Cotterill, "there had been something going on which was distressing to him."

"Pull Yourself Together.” Extracts from letters written by husband and wife were read as follows by the coroner:

Husband to wife."To you who,

Government survey covered 1184 hotel dining rooms, cafes, cafe- terias, coffee shops, dairy Junches, sandwich shops, bakeries, tea rooms, clubs and drug stores hav-. ing lunch counters with a sub- stantial volume of business. Ap- proximately 97 per cent. of sales of food-serving establishments of) the city are covered in the report. The average volume of business. for all reporting firms is $39,589. wide There was found to be a

in spite of everything I love bet-variation in the average volume of ter than anything on earth, I am business between the various writing this. I have suddenly types of establishments. Hotel realised that there is no one else but you. I have a funny feeling that one has no resting place to go to."

"I just can't bear to read it. (A letter from Mrs. Cotterill.) It gives me an awful pain in my heart, I can now only repay what you have done to me. I am like apoor little lonely sparrow out

dining rooms, for instance, which account for 2.2 per cent of the number of reporting firms had 11.5 | per cent of the total volume of

business,

An average of $1,102.55. W&B; found to be paid to employees an- nually, although this figure does not include tips or food furnished gratuitously by the employing to tablishment, which is reported to Wife to husband-"Alas, my sometimes amount to as much as dear, you are always a bad loser, 30 per cent. of the wage payment. but I don't want to hurt you or Wide variations are also found in reproach you too much. We live the relation of pay roll to sales in in darkness, but to lead you such the various types of eating estu a dance isn't fair. .. Now, Davy, please pull yourself to-est with 12.1 per cent, while clubs blishments. Drug stores are low- gether, and let there be no more talk of killing. It makes me sick. "If I thought it was the real you who said some of those things on the 'phone about killing me and killing yourself to kill me, how dare you talk like that!

"Life or Death." Husband to wife (dated May. 31, and written at 4 o'clock in the morning): "I cannot sleep. My pillow is wet with tears. For two hours my heart has been crying, and the only thing I can do is to write to you.

stand highest with 47.5 per cent.

included in. the present survey While the 26 hotel dining rooma employ an average of 76.3 persons per establishment, restaurants and cafes have an average of only 7.8 persons, and the drug stores have an average of only 3.4 persons.

The average size of customers' checks in San Francisco eating houses ranges from 18 cents at drug store lunch counters to $1.16 in hotel dining rooms, with an average of 38.4 cents for all classes of establishments. Wo- men who patronize department

"Yesterday I bought a pistol be- cause. in Albania we carry our store tea lives in our hands. But I will use it upon nobody but myself. Dear, send me that telegram that all is hot finished. It means life or death to me. If you won't come

bills than do patrons of regular tea rooms run up smaller rooms, thus putting the average tes room check down to 47.7 cents. In restaurants and cafes the aver

to me then I have finished. I age bild is 42 cents; in cafeterias;

can't live without you...

37 cents; in coffee shops, 32 cents; "I have the means to kill myself, in dairy lunches, 25 cents; in and my courage is such that I sandwich shops, 28 cents; in shall not hesitate to do go, and you bakeries, 25 cents, and in clubs, shall see me die if that is your

$1.02. wish; but you won't, my darling. We will go and find life together.

"I do not want to talk here ing him that he was returning to about suffering from my heart. I London. "I think," he replied, shall not live long in any case, It "that he must have been so wor fe a strange feeling that there is ried over his wife that he Was not so long for me to stay on this thinking more of that than his earth. My soul cries out to be mother and father.". Baved,"

Mr. Gerald Leslie Lawrence, father of the dead girl, said the couple met when his daughter was 17, and she fell in love with him: Fat once.

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Mr. Cotterill. added that his son had been making wonderful pro- gress with his work.

Before the jury retired Mr. Gerald Lawrence, addressing the coroner, said: "I would like to Mr. Lawrence went on, to say state that since my daughter came that he knew what Mr. and Mrs. back she has been with me or her Cotterill were talking about in the mother sitting-room.....

"They found after marriage," he said, "that their temperaments were quite unsuitable"

The Coroner. 1 am to under- stand that the circumstances of the conversation that morning were that there was to be no in- tention of her living with him ? 45

Mr. Lawrence: 'That is so. Sub-Divisional Inspector Tay- lor, of, Hampstead, said that there was no sign of a struggle in the room,

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"It was rather striking," he said, "to see the composed, happy, look on the face of the dead girl.

Sir Bernard Spilsbury said there were four bullet wounds in the |body of Mrs. Cotterill.

It was stated that a Browning. automatic pistol was found at Cotterill's feet.

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Mr. Reginald B. Cotterill, father of the dend was asked by the coroner if he could account for his son not tell,

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