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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1936.

WROTE WILL ON WALL

DEATH AT

STRUGGLE NIGHT

GIRL TELLS DRAMATIC STORY

A

OF

SHOOTING

MAN wrote his will on they ""Suddenly, at about 11 o'clock, wall of a bungalow,"shot and he began to write on the wall with wounded a girl who was stayinka pen. I thought he was drunk. with him, and then shot himself Next thing he shot me through dead in a fleld.

the Anger and the jaw.

This was the story told recent- "Iruggled to get the revolver ly at the Woking Inqucet on from him, and after about 15 George Rowswell, A London minutes ran out Looking back widower of 46, whose body was I saw him reloading the revolver found near his bungalow, The I think he was drunk,

Hut, Portsmouth Road, Ripley, Apart from this," she added, Surrey, on Feb, 23.

he was a gentleman. I had known him a long time."

The mesango scrawled on the wall was as follows: ..

What I leave.

I give to Mr. Broughton. 27 Grosvenor Road," N.W.1. P.S. for what he has done for 12th heavy batt bgde.

G. R. Staff sergt. Major.

My first and last.

Feb. about 24th 30.

Anyway on Sat.

Put me with my wife.

ham Pk.

Mency in Bank,

How St:

Westminster Bank.

Rowawell's brother Leonardi Rowswell, of Havelock Road, Bromley, said he did not know the dead man's address. During the war his brother won the D.C.M.

The coroner said he was putting n tracing of the wall writing In the hands of the polico, and Mr. Broughton could have access to it if he wished.

Streat- Verdict: "Suicide, while of un-

Laurence Broughton, of Gros- venor Road, London. N., told the coroner he was Rowswell's section commander during tho war. Rowawell was a fine soldier and was devoted to his wife, who died, a year ago. "HE CLICKED THE REVOLVER"

The Inqueat had been adjourned pending, the recovery of the shot girl, Kathleen Forkin, aged 19, of Euston Crescent, London, N.W.

Yesterday the girl, telling her story, to the coroner, said that she and Rowswell-who is understood to have been a florist and fruiterer! in North London-loft London on the Friday night and went to the bungalow on the Saturday morn ing. Rowswell had bought two bottles of stout and a half bottle of whisky.

'sound mind."

Spinster

A

STAR DIVORCES

National String Instruments

TRADE

Mrs. Douglas MacLean, shown in n Los Angeles courtroom where sha secured a divorco from Doug- las MacLean, film star of the "silent" era.

Forms Club

For Lonely Wives

CROYDON spinster has started Britain's first club for lonely

wives.

Miss E. Howey is the founder of the Golden Circle, a club which aims to fill in the lonely, tedious hours when husbands are at business and the little women yawn in the drawing room,| wondering how soon it will be seven o'clock.

So for filling in includes:

Talkie shows,

Community singing,

Debates,

Physical culture,

FORETOLD EDEN'S FAME

Dressmaking, Organised games, Dancing.

But, Croydon's lonely wives are also getting ready to form a sports team, just to show those busy hus-

Mr. Anthony Eden's Oxford tutor, banis bow sporting battles are

In the bungalow, she said. alic Mr. Robert Dewhurst, is said to have won and lost. told Rowawell at nine o'clock that predicted that his young pupil would | After that they will tackle anj she must go, and continued: be Foreign Secretary before he was amateur film with an all-woman

"I kept arguing and he got bad-40.

cast. Formerly a judge in the United tempered. As he listened to the

Provinces, India, Mr. Dewhurst was wireless he got a revolver out and Lecturer in Urdu and Illndi nt began clicking it. He drank all Oxford. the liquor except half a glass of whisky.

His will, published recently, showa that he loft £5,000,

Death Sentence For

Pitiful Mother

COUNSEL BITTER AND TRAGIC:

London, Mar. 28.

Blen are barred from this club, but Miss Howey let a male cor- respondent in just to see how much

kas progress

becn made since Croydon's lonely wives first gathered there three) weeks ago.

"Our aim," said Miss Howey, "Is to look after the lonely wife and help her to find an interest during the long hours her husband is at business. Here are some of our members."

The lonely wives were not louk-i ing very lonely. They were dancing while à gramaphone played,,

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A drink got in dynamo charging. The rudimentary root with the political tang,

"When I formed the club," explained Miss Howey, "wives 10 This is certainly a musing.. from all parts of Croydon joined 11 In this school a bee, for

ample,

would be.

Mareschale, Niel, but Soult. 13 Draw-

up: rich, poor, old and young, long "One of the bitterest and most terrible tragedies ever heard married and not-so-long married, 12 This is not the flower that made in that court of tragedies, the Old Barley”—so her defending counsel wives with eight or 10 children and prefaced his story of 32-year-old Carmen Martha Alice Swan, wives with no children at all." sentenced to death for the murder of her eight-year-old daughter. Mrs. Swan, widow of a bank,husband found an inmate hang- ng. That gave him a terrible shock,

clark, pleaded guilty.

"I mast accept the plea. I don't and he became very ill again. In ace that I have any alternative," January, 1931, with £200 which old Mr. Justice Hawke. "It would Mrs. Swan had saved, he started be for others to decide what her selling cars. He lost all and In future would be,” he added.

October after a violent breakdown, Mrs. Swan pleaded guilty, also, had to be removed from his house to attempted suicide.

by force.

SCIENCE TO, PROBE

LOVE PLANT

16 It should be cold and impersonal -ice, in fact, and nothing more. 17 One must back these measures

for suburban property.. 18 Drake' message.

20 Fireside noises?

22 Had hen for long? as the Cock-

noy might say?___

casily as pigeons.

23 These birds are plucked as 2: The boat for Moscow. Science is to attempt to dis-28 First, though twenty-eighth. cover the secrets of an ancient 29 Taken in by women in the

country. love potion of Ceylon,

Bulbs of the Naga Maru Ale, a 30 He lay in this Cornish seaport. Mr. St. John Hutchinson, K.C., Twice he tried to kill her. plant which, according to tradition, 31 Cloaks, for the defence, said, "From the the child's birthday he hunged hna the magical powers of making one very day she married, fate seemed himself. Mrs. Swan had to cut person fall in love with another, to be against her." Her father the body down. was a Rumanian, and her mother

have been sent to London for ex- amination by chemista. Then Mrs. Swan learned she was a. French subject: She met Swan

The plant is a small species of -11 years hor senior-in 1927, in the advanced state of tubercu-yam, with a flower like a lily, withi He had a good position in a bank. losis. She wondered whether five or six spreading purplish-blue They married and went to livo Valerie would develop tuberculosis petals. In a house where his brother was on her side or insanity on her Centuries ago, the story is told, a husband's aide. When she was prince was walking with his sister She saw the brother have an to have one of her lungs removed in the jungle when she asked him opileptic fit, and this had a terrible she had £12 in the world,

for como lime, to savour a nut sho effect on her. Later, when she was about to become a mother, she

She gave her child a sleeping the ending. He drove his sword inte ground and handed her some on learned that her mother-in-draught, saw that she was sleeping the tip of it, for by strict tribal law law was a lunatic in a mental calmly and then turned on the no man could touch his sister.

On eating it she immediately fell gan. It failed. She tried again, violently in love with him. He look- Her husband's health broke The baby died, and then the ed to the ground and say that his down completely in June, 1927, mother took what she thought was sword had passed through a small

polson, Mra, Swan was in despair.

yam, the juice of which had stained the blade.

home.

In January 1928, the baby was Mrs, Swan was granted a re- born. "While in hospital, her prieve 24 hours after her trial.

SALESMAN SAM

FER GOSH SAKES, SAM, DURIN ALL THE CHRISTMAS RUSH, TRYIN' TA MAKE OTHERS HAPPY, DO YOU RE- ALIZE YOU COMPLETELY FERGOT ABOUT YERSELF?

WOA

This Juice, he was convinced, had| worked this magle in his sister.

The Horn Of Plenty Fun

IGENERALLY HAVE A LI'L ||SAMMY, I CHRISTMAS TREE UP IN MY GOTTA HAND. ROOM, BUT THIS YEAR I'M IT TO YAJ

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They may be physical or spa- modic.

2 Primitive sources, truly, from

which to get a side-car.

3 Wine which might be leat, but certainly would not be taken away in this.

4. The planet which invests an

ancient city with clemency,

Dan Leno used to contend that to do this was cheaper than to

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14 A minor prophet, more sparkling·

when abridged.

15 Provides good material for the

army.

10

Two

items of invalid diet com- bined in hardly edible form.

18 In this property the quay is

well-lighted inside

10 What made "Ned Jurk"? (anag).

20 Be vulgar-more than low.

21 Flowers or children?

25 Takes timo in payment.

20 Similar to mild love.

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