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DRAMATIC END TO BARNEY MURDER TRIAL

SOCIETY WOMAN ACQUITTED

COUNSEL COMPLIMENTED BY JUDGE

JURY DELIBERATE FOR TWO HOURS

AF

London, July 7.

FTER nearly two hours' deliberation by the jury, Mrs. Elvira Dolores Barney was acquitted at Old Bailey on charges of murder and manslaughter, the de- cision bringing to a close one of the briefest "celebrity" cases in history.

Extraordinary scenes marked the closing stages, thousands of curious on- lookers blocking traffic in the vicinity of Old Bailey, waiting hours for the result.

A poignant feature of the defence was the evi- dence given by the accused, and later a wonderful and dramatic speech was made by Sir Patrick Hastings, which Mr. Justice Humphreys described as one of the finest forensic efforts he had ever

heard.

Sir Patrick Hastings.

GRIM STRUGGLE FOR REVOLVER

Mrs. Barney, who was changed were struggling together-- with the murder by shooting of wanted to take it away and I Thomas William Scott Stephen af, wanted to get it bark--it went off. Knightsbridge that on May 1, Our hands were together; his hand was a pathetic figure throughout in mine for a few minutes. i did the three days' trial.

LOVE QUARREL,

not think anyliring had happened.

He seemed quite all right, and

Entering the witness box to give vidence, she testified to her affee-half tion for Stephen and her de ing to marry him.

She was, howevne, nuable to see car a divorce in England wing to the fact that her husband was!

an American national.

and

NEW FLEET OF AIR LINERS BRITAIN LEADING THE WAY IN CIVIL AVIATION

ENGLAND-CAPE IN NINE DAYS

CHOLERA IN SHANGHAI

314 CASES IN ONE WEEK

FREE WATER FOR THE POOR

(Telegraph Special.)

London, July 6. Part of the Beet of eight large for the monoplanes Intended African routes of the Imperial Airways is now undergoing final

Shanghai, July 7. tests at the Coventry works of the

Dr. Wu Lien-teh, the famous Armstrong, Whitworth Company. The whole fleet will be completed head of the National Quarantine within a few weeks.

Service, has issued a report stat- Kach machine, fully loaded, willing that 314 chofera cases were weigh 8% tons and has span of ninety feet. The liners notified last week, bringing the

doubled total for the season up to 1,020, are powered with four

air- Dr. Mongoose 340 horse-power,

Wu strongly urges cooled radinl motors, and are adoption of further preventive designed to meet the difficult flying measures. conditions characteristic of the The China Press advocates free|

African airways.

a wing

Several of the aerodromes tween Cairo and Capetown situated more than 5,000

the

water for the poor, the caption of be-its article on the subject being- ares.M.C. Gives Excellent Advice, foot But Poor Not Able to Apply It. above the sea level, and the now There have been only seventeen ners are designed to operate foreign cases in Shanghai so far, normally at a height of 9,000 feet, five of which have proved fatal. even with one of four motors idle.

Altogether, there were twenty The craft will be among the deaths last week.-Benter. fastest eivil aeroplanes of com- parable size yet built, and they will shorten the air journey

be-

tween Croydon and the Cape from DAIKEN CUSTOMS

Leleven to nine days.-British Wire-

Lens,

CAMBRIDGE

WITH THEIR

TAILS DOWN

RECOVERY

did not think anything serious, OXFORD'S BRILLIANT He

went into the bedroom

shut the door: He said. Fetch a doctor. I asked 'Do you, really mean it did not have the revolver then. I think it had fallen to the ground.

not

"Stephen said. Why does

the soy for cone" i want to tell

On the night of the tragedy him what has happened,

It was!

a quarrel developed because she at your fault. By reprated that was unresponsive when Stephen over and over again. made love to her.

He rose from the bed, and she! threatened suicide. A struggle

Mr.. BARNEY.

{ tried to. eut his tie off. I put a pillow Upon his chest and got towels, B w he was dead and just waited." JUDGE COMPLIMENTS COUNSEL.

VARSITY CRICKET LEFT DRAWN

London, July 7. Oxford not only made a gal lant recovery against Cambridge in the Varsity cricket match at

SEIZURE

OUT TO BEAT POST AND GATTY

Speeding Round World

Mattern and Griffin Still in Hurry After Setting New Trans-Atlantic Record

Berlin, July 7.

If Jimmy Mattern and Bennett Griffin, who arrived in Berlin to-day after setting up a new trans-Atlantic flight record, main- CHINA'S tain their early speeds, they are going to make the time taken by Gatty and Post for their round-the-world trip, appear rather insignificant.

The two fiers, who set off from

Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, on

Tuesday morning and sped across |to Ireland in 11 hours 30 minutos, į passing over Ross Penna, Donegal, at 10.30 nm. reached Berlin dur CAPT. EDEN CREATESing Wednesday evening, and, im-

mediately after refuelling. started their journey with Moscow as their next destination.

SURPRISE

rer!

They left Berlin at 8.45 p.m. their huge machine making a per fect ascent.

Shanghai, July 7. The statement in the House of Commons on Tuesday by Captain

WHAT THEY HAVE TO BEAT. Anthony Eden. Under Secretary;

The last ariators to circle the that the Dairen Customs Station globe were Wiley Post and Harold! for Foreign Affairs, to the effect has not been seized by the Man Gally, who accomplished the ad-: chakan authorities, has bewildered | venturous trip in & days, 15 hours the Chinese newspapers, which and 1 minutes. Starting from comment on the news under such Now York, they totched Harbour

the Atlantic captions as "Eden's Surprising Grace, across Remarks."

Sealand, thence to Berlin, Moscow, Novo-Sibirsk, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, A The Chinese 1111 that the Manchukan and Japanese Alaska. Edmonton, Cleveland and authorities have been working finally New York-Renter. hand in glove for the seizure of the Manchurian Customs. Hence

Coutead

Lord's which ended to-day in they regard as insatisfactory the All the

a drawn state, durt hud, by the explanation that the Dairen Sta- time stumps were drawn, gotten as not been seized by the fairly on top of the Cantals, Manchinelo dismissing nine of their batsmen handed over by in the second innings for 103 staff ---Reuter

runs.

Sir Patrick Hastings, R.C.,| Counsel for the defence, in the course of his final speech which Mr. Justice Humphreys describ This meant that when play ed later I

one uf the stopped Catbridge to only 226 | Jinest forensie efforts

berms ahead with one wicket had over heard. emphasised standing. that the evidence against Mrs. Oxford's reply to

not sufficient to frightening Camlaridge total of 134

was

Barney hang a cat,

the rather

Government, but The Japanese

World's A

Telephone

Being

Wonderful Chain of Communication

Established

DOMINIONS TO BE LINKED UP

Brilliant photography, remarkably 15. t-vivid acting, and a new technique. features the German film "4 Infantry- men" which is the current attraction at the Queen's Theatre. Though the| dialogue is in German, the super-i was to put 868 on the board imposition of English titles, and the, really magnificent cifuri, followian expressive work of the actors and director male the story easy to follow,

numbers of the scenes B. W. Bour carried off the bat- whilst ting hours of the match, carry merely episodes which present war during the ing his overnight score of 64 in jand its effects, with dynamic force.

te dwelt at length on the un- varying consistency of her story for the tragedy, pointing out that! both her statement to the police

and

evidence trial were consistent.

"HYSTERICAL INTIMACY":

Humphreys, Justice

up,

Mr. summing

the

alluded

to

as it did an indifferent start.

167 before usmissal.. It was an in-¦ nings which, under the circum- stances, compared favourably with

in the record-breaking achievement of the the Nawab of Pataudi in 1991 when

e of passion and devotion and he scored 238 not out.

sort of hysterical intimacy

Furney was the most successful

between Mrs. Barney and Stephen, Cambridge bowler, capturing half and strongly suggested that a the wickets for 98 runs.--Reuter,

struggle had acutally occurred,

during which the accused pulled

the revolver trigger, either inten- HONGKONG'S NEW tionally or unintentionally.

fis Lordship expressed the

ensued for the revolver which opinion that Mrs. Barney's story accidentally went off.

was not insistent with the known facts.

STATEMENT TO POLICE,

two

When arrested by the police, The jury, which included Mrs. Barney made the following women, deliberated nearly two statement:

hours before returning a verdict: "We had a quarrel about of not guilty of murder or 1132423- woman that he was fond of. Islaughter.

have had a revolver in the house.

I have had it for some years.

SOCIETY LEADER. Mrs. Barney is the daughter of was kept in various places. Sir John and Lady Mullens, and

don't know where it came from.

It

CINEMA

HUGE CROWDS · AT OPENING

over

Reclama-

Hongkong's new open-air cinema, the Garden Theatre, met with in- stant success' at the opening per- formances last night, when

people enjoyed four thousand Maurice Chevalier's excellent Alra Last night it was ander a cushion was one of the leading members "The Smiling Lieutenant."

Mr. Stephen, Situated on the new on a chair in the bedroom near of London society. the bed. I used to hide it from who was 24 years of age at the tion at Wanchai, the Garden Thea- time to time, but he knew where It time of his death, was the son offre is exceedingly well appointed, was last night.

Mr. J. H. Stephen of Penshurst, and the liberal use of large plants "IIe took it, saying, 'I am going Kent and London manager of the and palms creates a most pleasing to take it away for fear you kill North of Scotland Bank,

atmosphere. There is comfortable yourself. He went into the room! Sir Patrick Hastings, one of the seating accommodation for some on the loft. I ran after him and leading figures of the English Bar, two thousand people, and, being tried to get it back. There was was Attorney General in the easily reached, this theatre should

no struggle in the bedroom. It Labour Government of 1024 pravd a most popular addition to was outside the doorway. As wo Reuter.

the Colony's places of amusement.

TRAGEDY

VICTIM

are

Dhe late Mr. T. W. 8. Stephèn, THE

the victim in the tragedy which resulted in Mrs. Barney being tried

for murder

London, July 7. Throughout the Ottawa Confer

FOND HOPES DASHED

ANOTHER HITCH AT LAUSANNE

SETTLEMENT A LONG WAY OFF

Lausanne, July 6.

The fond hopes entertained this afternoon of an im minent settlement of the re- parations problem have again been shattered.

HUGE

ARREARS

BIG SUMS DUE TO BRITAIN

GOVT. PRESSURE

London, July 6. Arrears of interest due from the Chinese Government up to June

30th totalled Tuels 4,210,000, stated Captain Anthony Eden, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in reply to a question in the House of Commons to-day, while arrears in respect of amorti sation totalled $5,866,000 (Chinese |currency},

These Agures, it was explained. covered a number of long on

After the disappointment felt by which default began at differont the hardening of the French at-times since 1924. titude yesterday, a spirit of op timism was engendered by deve lopments which foreshadowed the possibility of a settlement,

Captain Eden said he was un- able to state precisely what pro- portion of the arrears, was due la British subjects, but it was certainly high.

in had

It was stated that the German political demands had been largely met by a formula devised by juris Majesty's Government

China, said Captain Eden, Idical experts, and that the only stumbling block was the question constantly brought pressure on its obligations, and these efforts ment in lieu of reparations, or the amount of Germany's, pay- the Chinese Government to meet

were being continued.

FUTILE MEETING.

Replying further, the Govern- Representatives of the six Powers ment spokesman said he was un- met in an endeavour to bridge the aware that railway earnings had gup. but it was announced later been diverted from British: bond- of the that the meeting abjourned late holders to the building at night without any agreement Ministry of Railways in Nunking, being reached,'

but he hoped shortly to have an

The French and

German de-opportunity of discussing the ence representatives of Great Bri-legates are adamant in standing by matter of railways generally with tain and the Dominions will be their claims, and are most pes-Sir Miles Lampson-Reuter. able to communicate by Lelephonesimistic of any solution bolog with their own countries at any reachcal.

hour of the day or night.

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, who

A chain of Imperial telephone has been exerting tremendous en- communications has been a declines, however, to admit defeat. most completed by a new direct

--- Render, 24-hours telephone service he- tween London and Canada. The service will open carly next! week at a charge of £2 for a single: call from London.

EARLIER HOPES.

London, July 6.

The Standing Orders Committee It is hoped to establish a further of the Lausanne Conference met service to India in the autumn and to-day for the purpose of complet- when this is done 95 per cent. ofing the co-ordination of the Brl the world's telephone subscriberstish and French drafts of accord will be in direct communication renched by the creditor nations. with the Dominions.-Reuter's Special Service,

SILVER SLIGHTLY

DECLINES

It was later stated that full agreement had practically been renched, and the Committee re- ported to a meeting which was held this evening in Mr. Ramsay | MacDonald's room at the Beauri- vage Hotel. Those pregent In-

Mr. Silver down-1/16th, spot and cluded

MacDonald, Mr. forwarde London. China hought Neville Chamberlain, M. Herriot, and sold yesterday, while the Herr von Papen, Signor Moscont Continent sold. The market was (Italy) M. Renken (Belgium) and autot. After the official fixing, Mr. Yoshida (Japanan). the market ruled, inactive,

Lausanne press reports stato .New York reports silver prices that the draft provides that the unaltered, while the cross-rato in agreement to be reached at Lau- now 3.55%.

aanno will only be final when rati- Locally, the dollar is unchanged by the Parliamenta concerned,

GERMAN LEADER

on with netically nothing doing, and that such ratification will not A NEW STUDY of Herr von Papen, The undertone is again alightly be made until the United States

easier.

(Continued on Page 7.).

the German Chancellor, whò kia figured prominently in the Lausannes,

deliberationa. .