1936-03-16 — Page 12

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1936.

Man Hanged

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Wait till you soe her now "BROWNETTE" hair. It's gorgeous!

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TELLS HOW IT FEELS TO "DIE” New York, Mar. 8. A SHORT squat man who helped decide a state election after he was hanged 42 years ago, came out of the bayous of Mississippi to describe how it feels to "die."

William Isaac Purvis, of Purvis, Mississippi, Was hanged on February 7, 1894. because they said he shot and killed Will Buck- ley. They led him up. the steps of the yellow pic gallows, strapped tight his arms and legs and wrap- ped a thick silk bandage around his | eyes.

FRIDAY THE KITTEN

Friday, the diten, has ex pensive tastes — swallowed the engagement ring of - Miss. Ivy Wesley, its mistresa. X-ray photograph revealed position of the ring, an operation was per- formed, and here is Friday, little. the worse, in Miss Wesley's arms at their Lambeth home.

Senorita de

"Have you_angthing to say?" Alvarez A

they naked Purvis choked back |

the tears, because he was 19 and

had much to live for, and answered: Bride

"Before God 1 ата innocent."

KNOT SLIPPED

They cut the rope which sprang the trap door and Purvis plunged down to what should have been his death. But the knot slipped or untied-no one remembers now-and Purvis crashed eight feet to the ground. The touch hemp rope seared his neck, tearing the flesh, and Purvis collapsed, unconselous.

A deputy scratched "Executed Feb. 7, 1894" after Purvis' name but the 62 year old bayou farmer lives to-day as the world's only executed pri- soner who can discuss his own "leath."

SECRET WEDDING

TO COUNT

Paris, Mar. 8. MESSAGE received here to- day from St. Moritz re- vealed that Senorita Lili de Alvarez, the 30-years-old Spanish tennis star, has been secretly married.

She is now the bride of Comte Jean de Guillard de la Valdene, a member of а very old French

family and a flying "ace" during

the war.

"We were married. quietly in Madrid seven weeks ago.

"Four years ago I went to Mad- Will Buckley was killed from rid as special correspondent for ambush June 22, 1893, while riding the London Daily Mail during the back from Columbia, Miss., with revolution," the Comtesse de- his brother Jim, where they toldclared, "and I met the Comte there. a grand jury how the Ku Klux Klan had beaten a negno to death.

Purvis was found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to die Sept. 6, but an appeal was car- ried to the State Supreme Court and the execution was delayed. Then the court affirmed the ver dict, the execution was set for Feb. 7, 1894, and the 19-year-old youth prepared to die.

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'CAVE UP HOPE

"I had given up all hope," Purvis sald here. "I really didn't see the crowil. They were just a blur of faces. Maybe I was

"Now that I am a Fronch sub- iect, I shall take an interest in the French tennis tournaments."

The champion of the divided skirt and considered the most brilliant stroke-producer among the women. Senorita de Alverez reached the Wimbledon final three years in secession in 1928, 1927, and 1928.

She scratched from the early stages of the singles championship Inst year during what she d hoped was to prove a triumphant return to kavn tennis. sobbing I For two years before this she don't know. You see, I was so hnd heen out of the game owing young then. But they didn't have to illness.

to carry me up the steps like they did some. I went myself.

"You can't explain the feeling_w": man has, when he's about to die for a crime he didn't do. I can't describe it. I just suddenly fell and everything went black."

C. C. McDavid, friend of Purvis, took up the story: "When the crowd saw. the rope slip, some of

Delay In Air Mail To Australia

IN the past three months,

of

eight of the 14 air mail, despatches from London have been upwards of one day late in arriving in Australia. Delays since the operation the Singapore-Brisbane link commenced by the Australian- controlled service have, with only two exceptions, occurred on the Im- perial Airways section of the Foute, on the other side of Singapore.

WHA

The two delays, each of one day, on the Australian section were oc- casioned by exceptionally bad weather.

The air mall record during the past three months is as follows:-

Left London-

Oct. 26.

1986

Nov. 2 Nov, D Nov. 16 Nov. 23

Nav. 30

Dec. 7

Dec. 14 Dec. 21

Arrived

Coolam'dra

Nov. 11 (r'erd Sydney Hame day)

Nov. 15 Nev, 21 Dec, 2 Firc. B Dec 20 Dec. 12

Dec. 27

Jan. 2, 1936 Jan. 10 Jan. 16

Dec. 28

Jan. 4

Jan. 11 Jan. 18 Jan. 25

Jan. 24.

Jan. 30

Delivered

2 days Inte

1 day late

On time

4 days late

On time

On time

1 day Inte

I day late

On time

1 day late

On time

1 day late

On, time

2 days late

at Singapore

Minister's Tribute'

"The fact that in the past three months there have been only two delays of 24 hours or more on the Singapore-Brisbane section of the air mail route justifies my paying a tribute to the capacity of Aus- tralians to run a difficult service on schedule," said the Australian Minister for Defence (Mr. Park- hill).

"The attention of Imperial Air- ways has been drawn to the cir cumstances," Mr. Parkhill said, "and they have replied that the area on the Empire Service which they control is subject to severe storm conditions and other weather features which occasion deinys."

The rated operating, speeds of planes on the various stages of the route are :--- Imperial Airways London-Paris, 100 m.p.h. Paris- Brindis (by train); Brindisi- Alexandria, 100 m.p.h. Alexandria- Karachi, 100 m.p.h.: Karachi- Singapore, 125 m.p.h. -

From Singapore where the Aus- tralian-controlled associate company Quantàs-Empire Airways, takes over, the operating "speed is 140- 145 m.p.h. to Brisbane.

CRUISE TO SYDNEY?

The Queen Mary Invited

Sydney, Mar. 10.

the women fainted." McDavid and SYDNEY, at the suggestion of the Premier of New

"A strange hush fell over the 4,000 people. Then a minister leaped forward and screamed:

"This is an act of God. It is a sign of Providence that this man Is Innocent. Shall we let him die?)

"They all shouted: 'No,' and took Purvis away from the sheriff. Later he was returned because arsther appeal had been made to the State Supreme Court."

RE-SENTENCED

The court, however, refused to admit that Purvis was legally executed, asserting that he "did"

South Wales (Mr. Stevens) has invited the new Cunard-White Star liner "Queen Mary" to visit the port during the city's sesqui-centenary celebrations which are being planned on a big scale for 1936.

The Line, Austral News understands, considers the request "a very nice gesture," and is considering whether it would be possible to transfer the "Queen Mary" from the Atlantic service, during the winter, to a world cruise,

Invitations to the governments of Great Britain, the United States, Japan, France, Holland, and possibly Spain and Portugal to send warships will also be issued.·

not hang by the neck until PENANG-HONGKONG

'dend." Purvia'. Beçond execu-

tion was set for Dec. 12, 1895, but a few weeks before the date, friends stormed into the jal and rescued him. A new governor was elected, commuted the second death sentence, and after Parvis served 22 months

on convict farms, he

granted a full pardon.

Was

AIR SERVICE

STARTING NEXT-

WEEK

London, Mur. 15, The first Imporia Airways liner

In 1920, Joe Beard, living in leaves Penang on March 23, thus Columbia, Miss. confessed that he inaugurating a regular mail and pas planned to Kill both Buckleyer service to Hongkong, from which place it will return on March brothers, but that Louis Thornhill 27. From henceforth there will be a did the actual shooting. Two once a week service each way. Thus months later Beard died, and the four and half years of negotiations Mississippi legislature wave Purvis are happlly concluded and Hongkong $6,000 for services rendered to is brought within ten days of London. the state" during his prison days. Aeroplanes of the DII-80 type have A few years Inter Thornhill con- accomodation for eight passengers, fassed that he shot Will Buckley certain owing to the large load of but the number to be carried is un- United Press.

petrol necessary for the journey vis Salgon and Tourane, which is 1,750 miles. The sea crossings of 250 and 000 miles occupy about one day and a half,

TIBET EXPEDITION

RETURNING

Honolulu, Mar. 10.

Passengers will sleep at Saigon and Tourane according to which way they The Dolan scientific expedition are Aging. Only through passengers into Tibet is returning to the the French are to be taken, because it according to the arrangement with United States with more than 150 forbids the taking of passengers into mammals found in Tibet, skins of and from Indo-Chips. black bears, blus sheep, wild asses Continuation of the air service to nino apocles of deer and six of Shanghai is at present not being con antelope. The specimens aro templated owing to the difficulty of destined for the Philadelphia ; making arrangements with the Chi Academy of Scienco.-United Press: nese Government-Router.

THE LOOP-LINE

STRONGLY FAVOURED

BY NANKING ·

Canton, March 16.

It is reported that Mr. Cheng Kung-

Iuan, Minister for Railways, who ar rived hero a few days ago, has urged the Canton Government to approve .the scheme for connecting Canton- Hankow Railway with the Canton- Kowloon line..

Mr. Cheng pointed out to the Government Authorities that although Canton might be adversely affected by the scheme for a while, it was bound to help in the futuro. ME. Chong has advised the Cantor loaders to adopt the long-sighted policy and to approve the Loop-Line scheme, which the Contral Government siders to be very important for the futuro development of China.

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Mr. Chong is going to pay a visit to Whampoa harbour to-day. He is accompanied by Mr. Lo Won-kan, Director of the Whampoa deep-water harbour scheme-Wa Kiu Yat Po.

The Hongkong Society for Protec- tion of Children acknowledge with thanks a donation of $10 to the

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