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Aimee

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2 1936.

Hypnotises a City Week-end Supplies

to See the 10-stone Gospeller

2,500 in Queue to See

DEATH PIT

TO STAY

SEALED

ANOTHER GRESFORD.

INSPECTION

Wrexham, Mar. 1. Representatives of the owners of the Gresford Colliery to-day again refused to allow the miners' representatives to enter the Den- nis section of the mine contain- ing the bodies of 255 men who lost their lives in the disaster of September, 1934.

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This declafon followed FL longed inspection of the condition of the gases at the stoppings which separate the Dennis seetion from the rest of the mine, and long conference, during which miners* representatives fought strenuously but vainly to overcome the opinion of an expert that the section was still too dangerous to reopen.

Aimee McPherson

BUSY AS A NIGHT CLUB HOSTESS

By H. W. SEAMAN

MY fingers still tingled from the touch

of Sister Aimee McPherson's hand, and in my ears still rang the wordą from the voice that was hoarse from thrilling millions.

I was only one of more than 4,000 who had seen and listened to Almes McPherson, the former woman evangelist and hot gospeller, in the Angelus Templa that night; one of 2,500 who had filed through her drawing-room to see a close-up and exchange a word with her.

Mother Called Third Time To Hear Verdict Is Condemned To Die

I was wondering whether she could count on this sort of recep- tion in Britain, whither, 1 under atand, she is going soon.

Choir Of 200

Angelus Temple, in California, is like only a quarter-section of i the Albert Hall," The audience--| or congregation if she likes-is fan-shaped, facing a raised stage. A 60-picco brass band in front of the stage strikes up a Sousa during which lantern

Throughout the day, about 30 widows and other relatives of the lost miners waited in the bitter cold owners' at the pithead for the decision, and demanded either that the men's bodies should be recover- ed or the mine closed entirely. At one time an unpleasant demonstra-

MOTHER was sentenced to death at the Old Bailey March, A tion appeared likely, but after the

last month for the murder of a child she idolised-ajalides exhort the faithful to do women had been addresed by the miners representatives; they discrime she declared she could not remember! persed quietly.

It was the second time Mrs. EXPERT INVESTIGATION Julia Wood-Murray, aged thirty. two, described on the calendar Representatives of the owners "housewife." had stood the and the miners descended the pit ordeal of trial for her life-the soon after 10 o'clock this morning.third time she had been led into led by Sir Henry Walker, Chief,

in-the same wooden-walled dock to Inspector of Mines, They eluded Mr. D. R. Grenfell, M.P., Mr. hear her fate.

W. J. Charlton, Divisional Inspec- In January a jury, on which tar of Mines, Mr. S. Gill, director three women sat, twice failed to of the colliery, Mr. Ted Jones, ngree on a yerdict. North Wales Miners' Federation

murder trials have been staged, have so visibly affected judge, jury, and ordinary onlookers.

business with the tradesmen who advertise In "The Crusader" and

"The Bridal Call," Almeo's news- papers.

Mr. Justice Atkinson's voice-go always soft and gentle-was char- ged with emotion: his eyes had n Jook of distress as the clerk placed the black cap on his bewigged bend.

Then the lights go up, mon ushers in orango and purple capes swiftly up and down the aisles. A choir of 200 men and girls In Puritan costumes make their way along runways to the space in front of the stage, while the band plays another march.

The Bercon rises, disclosing a tinsel stage setting of the Holy City, which Aimer has lately visited. A spotlight reaches out and pleks

herself, up Aimee frames her in its beam,

Her Satin Dress

The Jurymen and women turned their faces from the dock, the bar rlaters bowed their heads-a This time the unanimous decision solemn stillness fell over the crowd agent, Mr. Herbert Smith, ex of a new jury, which included foured court. The chaplain's "Amen

sealed her guilt. President of the Miners Federn-women,

The relieved the high tension of the lust tion, Mr. Harry Lloyd, chairman of wann, frail-looking, pale-faced. scene. the Gresford Colllery Lodge, Mr. heard the words of doom spoken

The Crown, through Mr. L. A T. S. Charlton, colliery agent, Mr.slowly by the red-robed judge. | Bryne, presented their case without: The tragic mother seemed, de any legal embellishment-facts Joseph Ifall, of the Yorkshire Miners' Federation, and, Dr. Gra-tached from the drama. The dread wore stated coldly, dispassionately. ham, of the Birmingham Univer-words of the legal formula which The woman was seen by a police. She, too, is in Paritan dress, for condemned her to the scaffold did woman wheeling her dend child, this is Mayflower Night, and she ally mines research department.

The remained below over four not appear to have any meaning for seventeen months old, up the steps is going to preach about the Pll- hours and took anmples of the gasher.

of St. George's Hospital. A scarf grim Fathers. But her. dress is Even the comforting words of had been tied around the child's satin, with frills, while the choir at the stoppinga. On returning to: the surface Immediately began athe judge that every possible weight neck. conference the fourth of its kind would be given to the strong re-

Can this ten-stone angel be the veteran since the stoppings were made commendation to mercy which the

of three romantic but at the colllery offices, and this last. Jury added to their verdict left her

A man and a woman west into disastrous marriages, who, when completely unmoved she went ed another three hours.

down the winding, sinirense to the the witness-box. The man was the tongues assailed her, walked into the the sea at Ocean Park, California, cells below without the slightest accused woman's husband;

afternoon, and trace of emation on her sphinx-like woman her mother. Both said the one

appeared same thing-she-worshipped her again,-as-if-by-a-miracle, months

later, in the Mexican desert? baby, lived only for it.

And when the time came for the] "Praise the Lord!" she cries, in woman herself to go into the wit-a husky voice that reminds me of nesa-bex she said all that she could Mae West. remember of her child was that

MINERS' OFFER

Afterwards Mr. Inil said that face. the minera representatives wanted Few death sentences passed in to go through the stoppings this this historic court, where many afternoon, but the owners refused

to allow the stoppings to be re-

opened owing to the danger.

"We were quité prepared to do so on our own responsibility," he Paid. "I am quite definite that the bodies in number 29 district. can be recovered." He explained that the proposed procedure for entering the Dennis section was to break down the return stopping and let out the gas and then let in fresh ald by slow pressure, leaving the noxious gas to clear within a day or two,

Sir Henry Walker stated that the minera" leaders expressed a destre

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he had fair hair and blue eyes! praise the Lord at her bidding. But the most human evidence of The choir bursts into the Temple all came from the Governor of Hol-anthem, "Smile, Brothers, Smile, loway Jail, Dr. J. M. Mathieson, an Sisters," and Aimee beats time DELICIOUS Argyllshire man. He said the with a tambourine.

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think it arose on account of the up a party. She swings her arms NO WASTE--NO RIND horror of what she had done, and and shouts, "Everybody shake

it took place after the event, and hands with his neighbour." was blotting out a very painful and

distressing incident."

HUSBAND'S CRIEF

Thoughts Dramatised

She speaks of the Pilgrims, and

In the great domed hall outside two bands of men and women In

to enter the affected section im-SUCCESS is promised a the court sat a man with his head costume-about 200 in all-line

mediately, but Dr. Graham, from

his analyses of the gases, held that

it was not safe to do so. Mr. Gill,

go on doing the work necessary to then on a man sixty-four make the pit safe.

newly discovered heart in his hands, waiting to hear the the decks of two painted ships re- first performed verdict the woman's husband. He presenting the Mayflower and the operation for the owners, said he intended to on racing greyhounds and sold as his old father broke the Good Ship Four Square.

news to him.

She speaks of Elijah, and a long- All he could marmur was "Myrobed figure crosses the stage; of poor little boy-I thought the Noah, and he and his large family world of him.". Ils father tried appear; of the menace of Com- to console him, his wife's mother munism, and two boys bearing a bravely stifling her own sorrow en- red banner march before her. deavoured to soothe him. They reminded him of the jury's merci. ful rider.

I understand that the owners, years of age. guided by the expert's reports, are Ten days after the operation, at prosent unwilling to take any safety or employment of the 800 the man is reported to be "still men now at work in the mine. going, strong."

A Harley-strect surgeon and a veterinary professor who discover. ed its possibilities are cautious.

"I shall be thankful if she does

Thon, supported by his father's arm, he walked, slowly, away,

WEEK END For the present they are content think he said earnestly, and still to say that it has "great promise." thinking of the fair-haired, blue- The object of the operation is ered boy, he sobbed, "Nothing can to provide new means of blood replace him in my life." supply for a heart where the vessels are getting “blocked.” Professor James McCunn, of the. Royal Veterinary College, shid that he and the surgeon became order to

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Not Experiments "But I want to emphasise," he added, "that they were definitely not experiments. They were done for the benefit of dogs with affect ed hearts, and also with the iden

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Every sentence, every thought, is dramatised.

"Next Sunday," she is aaying,

am preaching on Little Miss Muffet. Lille Jack Horner will be there, and all the dramatic ifa

of history."

I shall not be there. I think I'll go to church.

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their previous times. Of course, and "The Silent Passenger"-aro | This has been done by a trans- they will not race publicly again, producing "Calling the Tuno," a The operation on the man pleture which might be described lasted about twenty-five minutes. As a saga of the gramophone In- The same technique was used as dustry.

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