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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1936.

WROTE WILL ON WALL

DEATH AT

GIRL TELLS

A

OF

STRUGGLE NIGHT

DRAMATIC STORY SHOOTING

MAN wrote his will on the "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 staying a pen. I thought he was drunk. with him, and then shot himself Next thing he shot me through dead in a field.

the finger and the jaw. This was the story told · recent- "I struggled to get the revolver ly at the Woking inquest on from him, and after about 16 George Howdwell, 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. Hot, Portsmouth Rond, Ripley, Surrey, on Feb. 23.

The message 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 bgdc.

G. R. Staff sergt. Major.

My first and last.

Feb. about 24th 36.

Anyway on Sat.

Put me with my wife.

hom Pk.

Money In Bank.

How St.

Westminster Bank.

Streat-

Laurence Broughton, of Gros- venor Road, London, N., told thei eoroner he was Rowswell's section commander during the war. Rowswell was a fine soldier and was devoted to his wife, who died a year ago.

“HE CLICKED THE REVOLVER" The inquest had been adjourned pending the recovery of the shot girl, Kathleen Forkin, aged 19, of Kunton 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-left London on the Friday night and went to the bungalow on the Saturday mura ing. Rowswell had bought two battles of stout and a half bottle of whisky.

"Apart from this," she added, he was a gentlemann. I had known him a long time."

Leonard Rowswell's brother Rowawell, of Havolock 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 a tracing of the wall writing in the hands of the police, and Mr.: Broughton could have access to it if he wished.

Verdict: "Suicide while of un- sound mind.""

STAR DIVORCES

Kira. Douglas MacLean, shown in Los Angeles courtroom where nho secured a divorce from Dong-. las MacLean, film star of tho "silent" era.

Spinster Forms Club

For Lonely Wives

ACROYDON. 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:

Talkle shows,

Community singing.

Debates,

Physical culture,

FORETOLD EDEN'S FAME

Dressmaking. Organised games, Dancing.

But, Croydon's lonely wives are niso getting ready to form a sports team, just to show those busy hus how sporting battles are

Mr. Anthony Eden's Oxford tutor, bands

In the bungalow, she said, she Mr. Robert Dewhurst, is said to have won and lost. told Howewell nt nine o'clock that predicted that his young pupil would she must go, and continued:

After that they will tackle an be Foreign Secretary before he was amateur Alm with an all-woman

cast.

"I kept arguing and he got bad-40.

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 Hindi at began clicking it. He drank all Oxford.

the quor except half a glass of His wil, published recently, shows' whisky.

that he left £5,930.

Death Sentence For

Pitiful Mother

COUNSEL BITTER AND TRAGIC:

London, Mar. 28. "One of the bitterest and most terrible tragédies ever heard in that court of tragedies, the Old Barley"--so her defending counsel prefaced-his--story-of-32-year-old. Carmen Martha Alice Swan, sentenced to death for the murder of her eight-year-old daughter. Mrs. Swan, widow of a bank, husband found an inmate hang- clerk, pleaded guilty.

ng. That gave him a terrible shock, I don't and he became very ili again. In "I must accept the plea. see that I have any alternative," January, 1931; with £200 which aid Mr. Justice Hawke, "It wouk 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, had to be removed from his houss by force.

Mrs. Swan pleaded guilty, also, to attempted suicide.

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

has been progrese 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 ur members."

The lonely wives were not look- ing very lonely. They were dancing! while a gramophone played.

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1 In this Eastern city James' lure

is obvious,

5 A drink got in dynamo charging. 8 The rudimentary root with the "When I formed the club,"i

political tang. wives 10 This is certainly a musing. explained Mias Howey. from all paris of Croydon joined 11 In this school a bee, for

ample, would be. P: rich, poor, old and young, long married and not-so-long married, 12 This is not the flower that made

Marcschale Niel, but Soult. wives with eight or 10 children and

13 Draw. wives with no children at all."

SCIENCE

PROBE

TO

pay rent. Bears.

7 Apenixix.

0 Call out, it's all right, mother's.

about.

14 A minor prophet, more sparkling

when abridged.

Ex-

16

10 It should be cold and impersonal lee, in fact, and nothing more.

1 One must back these measures

for suburban property.

18 Drake's micssage,"

20 Fireside noizes?

22 nd hen for long? as the Cock-

ney might say.

plucked" as

the

23 These

birds are PLANT LOVE

pigeons. casily as 24 The boat for Moscow, Science is to attempt to dis- 28 First, though twenty-eighth. cover the secrets of an ancient 20 Taken in by women in

country. love potion of Ceylon.

Bulbs of the Naga Maru Ale, a 30 He lay in this Cornish seaport.

31 Cloaks. Mr. St. John Hutchinson, K.C.. Twice he tried to kill her. On plant which, according to tradition, for the defence, said, "From the the child's birthday ho hangod has the magical powers of making one vory day she married, fato seemed himself. Mra,, Swan had to cut person fall in love with another, to be against her." Her father the body down.

have been sent to London for ex- was a Rumanian, and her mother

amination by chemists.

a French subject. She met Swan

Then Mrs. Swan learned she was

The plant is a small species of -11 years hor senfor in 1927. In the advanced state of tubercu yam, with a flower like a ly, with She wondered whether five or six spreading purplish-blue He had a good position in a bank. losis. They married and went to live Valerie would develop tuberculosis petals.

Centuries ago, the story is told, a in a house where his brother was. on her side or Insanity on her

husband's side. 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 for some lime to savour nut sho epileptic fit, and this had a terrible she had £12 in the world.

He drove his sword into effect on her. Later, when she was about to become a mother, she

was

DOWN

1 They may be physical or spas-

modic.

2 Primitive sources, truly, from

which to get a side-car.

3 Wine which might be loot, but

certainly would away in this.

not be taken

4 The planet which invests an

ancient city with clemency.

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

Mr. & Mrs. Y. Mori MASSAGE

Provides good material, for the

19.

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

18 In this property the quay is

lighted inside.

10

sat mcule "Ned Jurk"? (anag).

20 Be vulgar--more than low

21 Flowers or children?

25 Takes time in payment.

20 Similar to mild love.

27 Scottish island (rev.).

Yesterday's Bolution

POLISH;

FAR THING

LARDER STRANGE B YILPHINING R GAMED RECOND IT.E AERIOR_D_T MARIA PASTRYWHE YK FRo, JD

FELLOW UKASE 8EINGPIN

WIMBLEDON HEAVE E PERUG NA A MENABLE TAVERN B'D N & HE 18 WEETIES ATTEND

She gave her child a sleeping the 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 home.

It failed. She tried again. violently in love with him.. He look кан. The Her husband's health 'broke baby died, and then the ed to the ground and saw that his Acupuncture Maxcala and Bone Betting) 64 dawn completely in June, 1927, mother took what she thought was sword had passed through a small Holder of Japanese and Housing Govern Mrs. Swan was in despair,

poison.

yam, the juice of which had stained Write Recommended for many years by the blade.

This juice, he was convince:l, had worked this magic in his sister.

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

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