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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1935.

TWICE SENTENCED TO DEATH:

Tremendous interest was shown in Shanghal in the wedding of Misa Butterfly Wu, famous Chinese movie star, and Mr. Eugene Penn, at Holy Trinity Cathedral. The above photograph taken just after the ceremony, shows bride and bridegroom with some of their atten- dants, among whom were several well-known cinema personalities,

Vienna Holds Trio In Girl Torture Case

JEALOUS WIFE KEY FIGURE IN VICTIM'S CHARGE OF ORGIES

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The British government and all the Dominion governments will now be represented at the South Australian Centenary Exhibition at Adelaide from March to May, next year.

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A special Centennial Hall occups ing two and a half neres, is being erected, says Austral News. There Are a central ball, seating more

thun Vienna, Dec. 1.

A middle-aged wife and two men await, trial in one of Austria's most sensational criminal cases.

The defendants, Mary Gruberth, 36, Adolf Olle, 23, locksmith, and

5,000 people and dvd large Kanexes. It will be the Inrgest Empire exhibition ever held out- side Britain.

Johann Schlorgibauer, 26, itinerant U. S. READY.

worker, are accused of kidnapping

and torturing pretty 18-year-old TO COMBAT

Ernestine Podlipnik. Detalls of

the

crime with which they are

charged would rival the imagin- GERM

tion of Edgar Wallace or n Pon.

Polico belleve that Olle planned the crime. They, suspect that be also contemplated poisoning Mary Gruberth and her husbanil; John. to obtain possession of their..villa near Moedling.

WARFACE

New York, Nov. 28. Would disease germs dropped from hostile war planes cause epidemics?

Married Life Unhappy

The possibility is denied by The Gruberths, parents of two some medical authorities; but children, did not lead A happy married life. In recent months the United States Government Gruberth rarely entered his home, is determined to risk no such which he previously had turned, danger.

over to his wife. Mrs. Grubert! Afrendy it is announced by fear. allegedly consoled herself by close Admiral P. S. Rossiter, Surgeon friendship with Olle, who lived at General of the U.S. Navy, that he the house. Police say she signet has begun to establish what he des over the house to Olle even if her cribes as a chain of "fortresses relations with him should cense against disease," in pursuance of a before her death.

plan to recruit America's best selentifle brains in time of war or Gruberth, while planning. to any other national emergency,

ON TRIAL AGAIN.

COLOUR QUESTION IN ALABAMA CASES

Growing Sentiment Noted in Favour of Nol-Prossing If Necessary to Rid State of Heavy Cost

And Notoriety

Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 1.

A growing sentiment in favour of nol-prossing the Scottsboro assault cases is evident in Alabama.

Some citizens advocate execution of the defendants, others declare they do not care what disposition is made of the case, but all agree they want to rid the state of the notorious trial as quickly as possible.

Sentiment for dropping the cases has grown steadily since the United States Supreme Court ordered Alabama

counties to add the names of Negroes to jury lists.

It is feared that further prose- cution of the charges that nine Negroes attacked two white girl "hoboes" aboard a freight train in Jackson County on March 31, 1931, will result in a ruling even more objectionable to Alaba-

mans.

There are other reasons for the feeling of repugnance toward the cases. First is publicity that is felt to be unfavourable

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AIR DEFENCES REPLACE ROMAN FORTS IN PARIS

to the state. Citizens are out. Excavators Find Reminders of Invasions,

spoken in their resentment of the entry of "Northern law- yers."

Second there is the high cost of the trials. A bill asking the state to appropriate and give to Jack- son and Morgan counties $50,000 to repay the expenses of the trials this year. It passed, but the ap- was introduced in the legislature

propriation was cut to $35,000. PROSECUTION GOES FORWARD Meanwhile the state is going forward with its plans to bring the Negroes to trial. A special ses- sion of the Jackson County grand Jury will be called within the next week or ten days, it is believed.

That body will be selected from a probability that any Negro will be of Negroes, but there is only a

jury list which contains the names

chosen.

Aon

The Negro population of Jack-

(Scottsborg) County is less

than any in the state, and the num- ber of Negroes drawn for jury

Sieges and Revolutions on Seine

Island, Site of Notre Dame

Paris, Dec. 4.

Far below the ground on the island in the Seine from which rise the graceful towers of Notre Dame labourers hastily building protections against the next war are find- ing reminders of other wars, of long forgotten invasiona, harrowing sieges and bloody revolutions nearly two thou- sand years into the past.

In the courtyard of the sombre Republican Guard barracks on the Ile de la Cite labourers are excavating for the construction of a huge shelter against air bombardment. A few days ago archaeologists were called in when the workmen came upon ruins showing that this is not the first time Paris has been called on to protect itself.

preceeded their siege of 885. MONKS FEARED DEPREDATIONS

Walls and columna ofan tied up with the tragic series of service is certain to be correspond-ncient chapel and a church invasions by the Normans which ingly amall. NEGROES UNLIKELY TO SERVE were discovered. Searches re- In Morgan (Deentur) County, vealed ruins varying in date where the Negroes will be tried, from the fourth century to the the. Negro population Is larger, French revolution, and turned and three Negroes are now serving up human remains. on the grand jury. But Negroes have shown a marked disinclina- tion to serve on jurica in the state

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divorce his wife, met Miss Podlip- "We face very unusual problems will act on warrants sworn earl and the epoch when Clovis made I just in time, for in the siege of 13

nik in a Vienna moving picture house. He promised to marry her, Police Believe his intentions be came known to his wife, and Olle, and they charge that the latter suggested to Mrs, Gruberth a de- vilish scheme for revenge,

and responsibilities," he says, "Dis- enses that do not trouble the or dinary population may break out in a deadly epidemic form."

Mobile Unit

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As a start, a "mobile research Investigators learned that Olle specialists unit has been set up and Schloeglbauer bought men's at the University of California, clothing for Mrs, Gruberth as the under the direction of Lieut.-Com- first step in wrenking vengeance on mander A. P. Kreuger, of the the young girl. Late one night the Naval Reserve, the Professor of three drove to Ernestine's hume. Bacteriology, The two men, police. charge. knocked on the girl's window, and told her that her brother John, who was seriously ill, demanded Immediate attention.

Girl Enters Trap The girl unsuspectingly entered a motor car where she was searched

A similar unit is soon to be organised in nu Eastern medical centre.

The "fortresses' will function only during an emergency, Each will comprise a dozen trained re- search specialists.

by the two men and Mrs. Gruberth, Podlipnik, Ernestine's brother, It was charged that the woman came to the villa, but was refused brutally tore a diamond ring from admittance. He had found some the girl's finger. It was a present clue to her whereabouts. Finally to Ernestine from Gruberth, police suspicions were aroused when Then in reconstructing events Olle tried to obtain leper anthrax that occurred, investigators say the bacilli from a veterinarian inst- girl was driven to Mrs, Gruberth's tute. Investigators theorized that

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In the years immediately before the siege the monks of monastery of St.-German-des-Pres-felt--that their great establishment on the southern slopes leading to the Sbene-now in the very heart of no longer safe. and it is certain that no Negro Archaeologists are confident, Paris-was would wish to sit on a jury that further, that they will find another Especially they feared the Norse- will try the Scottsboro defendants. section of the original wall of the men would gain possession called they will excuse themselves thus piece together ruins recalling of St. Germain, founder of their It is expected that if any are ancient Gallle city of Lutetia and their most precious relic-the body and the state is expected to use the first attacks by barbarians monastery. some of its peremptory challenges, from the north and cast, the daya. So the monks brought the body if necessary, to remove any Negro when St. Genevieve saved the into town and buried It in the from that jury.

They were small mud-hut city from the Huns, chapel of St. John. The Jackson County grand jury

his capital. They already have months thelf monastery was raid- this summer by Mrs. Victoria

found structures dating to the 4th ed. On the spot where they burick IN Price, one of the alleged victims, century, to the siege by the Ner-St. Germain they felt a more Im- which charged nine Negroes with

was fitting, and mans in 885, to the 15th and 10th posing church criminal assault against her. Ruby centuries and finally, remains of therefore built St. Germain le Bates, the other purported victim,

French revolution. It underwent repudiated her testimony at the flats built during the French Re-Vieux, which lasted until the Decatur trial, and deposition tes-volution, when the state took over various changes in the 15th and timony from the third trial.

was used in her absence property of the church.

M. Aime Grimault, inspector of 16th centuries but, as near as can Once the Negroes are indleted, archaeological excavations for the be learned from the present extent a special session of the Morgan Commission of Old Paris, who of the excavations, always kept its County circuit court is expected to carefully directing the work, ex walls which he has uncovered Among the be convened, and the defendants plained the finds to the United

Grimault has found some sections probably will go on trial late this Press.

curiously painted red. He revealed that the workmen month.

uncovered the floor of a chapel built in the 4th century, when

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FOURTH TRIAL FOR ONE

Roman character,

CHURCH PROPERTY TAKEN OVER With the overthrow of the Bour- It will be the fourth time Hay- Paris still was a few. mua houses | wood

Patterson has been tried, huddled on an island in the Seine bon monarchy, the revolutionists and the third for Clarence Norris. | in મૈં swampy, uninviting but took over church property, and, Patterson has had two death sen- strategie valley. This chapel was

much in the same way as the tence convictions reversed by the called St. John the Baptist, and its Sovieta have done in the past two United States Supreme Court, early history is lost in the decades, put some of it to other and one conviction was reversed by obscurity of the ancient Gallic uses. They wanted the site of St. an Alabama trial judge.

town,, which was first mentioned Germain for housing space, and The Indictments will be returned in

summarily tore down the church Caesar's Commentaries да

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in Jackson County, because the Lutotia. Supreme Court ruling held the

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There was one

indictments were invalid as they The walls around the island, present barrackn wena. built In villa near Moedling where propara- he planned to poison Mrs. Gruberth from which members of the de- two vestiges of which previously 1847. tions had been made for holding and her husband to gain possession

fortunabo.clr fendants' race were systematically have been found, served two pur- hor prisoner, Servants had been of the villa.

excluded. They

were granted poses in those days. One was to cumstance for the archaeologists. dismissed to eliminate unwanted Throughout prolonged examina- change of venue from Jackson to protect the city against the flood The level of the island was raised witnessca to the abduction, police tion Mrs. Graberth, Oile and Morgan County after the first trial, waters of the Soine; the other was slowly during its some two thou day.

Schlocglbauer insisted they were and it will be necessary to try them to protect it against the Normans, sand ooars of civilization, finst by The girl was kept prisoner in innocent. Later they were taken In the latter county.

who were making constant incur constant building and delbomto the vill. She charged that she to Vienna, where they are now

Two of the defendants have been Rions from the north. Grimault, embarkmont against floods, and was forced to take part in orgies: held in detention awaiting trial. remanded to the jurisdiction of who has been studying the subsoil finally by the construction of the that her picture was taken in com- Police are continuing their in- juvenile courts, and while they too of Parla for many years, knowe present quaya. promising positions, and that she vestigation of the bizarre case, for are expected to be Indicted, they where this wall ought to be, and.

Thus, when the church of St was forced to sond these with a at the present stage it seems far

will, not be tried with the others. its line, according to his calcula- Germain was built over that of letter to Gruberth saying she had from being cleared up. One puz- It has not yet been indicated tion, passos right through the ex- St. John, and when the city flats been untrue to him, and did not [zling thing is that Graberth, who

whether all will be tried or whether cavation now being made for the were built over both, the lower want to marry him..

KoVorancos will was expected to testify, did not

granted. bombardment sholter.

lovels always remained. Other Tortures Charged appear before the examining judge Severance "was granted after the Just above the chapel of St than that Grimault hopes that Ernestino charged other tortures, at a preliminary hearing. He later

first trin. As a result, all the de- John, and built around It. Grimault below, theo will be found burial She told police Mrs. Gruberth had was found to have left his Vienna Fondants except Norris and, Patter- made his most important, find--| vaults or treasury chambers which her stripped and then poured hot hotel. Police bellove ho may have. and cold water on her naked body, walled for the United States.— pending the outcome of the Supreme known as St. Germain le Viaux constructed by the finds a has,

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