THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1936.
GRESFORD COLLIERY MANAGER DEFENDED
ACTED AS A FOOL
BUT NOT A KNAVE
--COUNSEL
N allegation by counsel for the mineowners that Mr. AN
Joo Hall, of the Miners' Federation, had been "Parading the Gresford district in a tin hat" was made at the resumed inquiry in London into the Gresford Colliery disaster.
Mr. Hartley Shawcross, K.C., for the owners, accused Mr. Hall of performing "mock heroics," and asserted that Mr. Hall had been parading in a tin hat offering to go down the pit, knowing that those in authority would not allow anyone to take such dangerous and foolhardy risks.
Mr. Hall was quickly upon his feet, retorting that "when he condemna us he condemns the Commissioner who said he thought our anxiety to go down was right and proper and that he could not understand the company's attitude in not allowing us to go into the district."
Mr. Shawcross replied that those who had seen photographs of Mr. Hinil in his tin hat could draw their own conclusions.
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Mr. Hall: I have never used tin hat. You might have seen Mr. Smith.
Earlier in the day Mr. H. P. Harris, of the National Association of Col- llery Manngers, referred to the attack mado previously by Mr. Hull on Mr. Bonsell, the manager of the calliéry.
He read a statement which showed that ut a meeting of Gresford miners on June 21 resolution was unani- mously carried in which it was stated that the men "resented Mr. Ball's uttack on Mr. Bonsell
... and that
Mr. Bonsell had behaved well to the men and had treated them properly."
The disaster, in which 285
lives
were lost, occurred on September 22, 1934.
. "FALSE FIGURES" Alluding to the "faked figure the episode," in which Mr. Cuffia, assistant surveyor, had been involved, at a previous hearing, Mr. Shawcruss remarked that the question of false figures in the ventilation system was undoubtedly a sensational matter. but he pointed out that it was one which might easily be exaggerated.
Recalling the evidence, Mr. Shaw- cross sald that Mr. Cufin, shortly after the disaster, recollected that, the statistics for July and August had not been entered. Mr. Bonsell then said, under the stress and strain of that moment-it was within literally a few hours of the terrible catastrophe -"Well, put them in (meaning the figures), put anything in," and Cumin did so.
"under-
Explaining how it was standable" for Mr. Bonnell to use words of this kind, Mr. Shawcross
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Line sprung a big sur- Bonseli had acted as a fool, but it was prise on the shipping world to-night by announcing its
Mr. Shawcross said that Mr.
very difficult to think of him as knave.
!
ejaculation, "Send the papers to the
Alluding to Sir Stafford Cripps decision to build more Director of Public Prosecutions!" Mr. luxury liners in addition to Shawcross said, "If this inquiry had been presided over by a judge, my the sistership to the Queen learned friend would not have dared Mary.
to attempt to influence the course to be taken by the Tribunal. It is an casy thing to kick a man when he is i
down. It is not always useful; it is not always necessary."
The Inquiry was adjourned.
THIS AGE OF HORROR
Though the actual number ains not yet been decided, it is understood that four such ships are expected to be ordered to be built in the next three years, costing They nearly £1,500,000 each. would be about 30,000 tons each and have a speed of 25 knots.
First Steps Soon
The Tragedy
On the afternoon of August 3, 1934, a taxicab was passing St. James's Pa-
The lace. Its lone passenger was Major Charles William St. John Rowlandson.
"Just make a major thrust his head out of the window, called to his taxi-driver: note of the exact time by the palace clock, will you?" The driver obeyed. It was three minutes to three. Then there was a shot. The major collapsed in the taxicab
-dead.
pired.
In three minutes' time policica insuring his life for £42,469 would have ex-
Shot Major's Niece Awarded
£45,769, She Will Take £75 Her Uncle's Life In Sultan's Palace MR. JUSTICE SWIFT, in the King's Bench Division recently deliver- ed a judgment which technically makes a woman 'the richer by £45,769-insurance money, plus interest, due to her on the death of her uncle, Major Charles William St. John Rowlandson. In fact, she will receive not more than £75.
The niece was Mrs. Agnes Emily de la Poer Beres- ford. She was also administratrix of her uncle's estate.
The award was made against ect, and invited the major to return! the Royal Insurance Company, with him us his personal secretary.
Major Rowlandson agreed. The Ltd. For their defence they had sntary was not large, but the roman- relied on the coroner's verdict the side of the life appealed to him. that Major Rowlandson "Telo- niously killed himself," and that Trusted Confidant
to pay. out in this case would be against public policy.
It was intimated that the con- would appeal, and the case pany
carried to the House of may be
serious Lords on the ground that a question of in had been raised.
He Killed Himself
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He had apartments in the Sulton's palace. He neled as intermediary between the Sulton and his subjects. He was the ruler's trusted confidant, and large sums of money passed through his bands.
It was probably the lavishness of his life in Zanzibar that developed
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In Major Rowlandson a disregard To Pay His Debts
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of the value of money. He was a commentary on the third Test Match Major Rowlandson shot himself
generous spender, and while the n suicide's so that he could leave
money lasted lie lived on a grand by Howard Marshall, from the Oval,
London. scale. bequest to his creditors, to whom, he
The II.B.C. Symphony owed £68,000...
In reality the case was fought in! the interests of the major's creditors. He died hopelessly insolvent.
Some time before he killed himself his niece had lent him £100. It was the second time she had advanced him money to stop him ending his Ilfe.
He had a house at Babbacombe, where he kept a gardener, under- gardener and staff of servunts.
He took a deep and sympathetic interest in political problems, especi ully any matters connected with the working classes. He often went to inbour meetings, and if he found people sufficiently interesting, he would invite them to his house to get his gratitude. He died before he first-hand information about their
dificulties.
On the first occasion her uncle returned the loan, and added small bonus as an expression of
could repay the second loan,
So the woman who became virtu- ally entitled, as the victor in the lawsuit, to the full amount
£42,409, plus interest amounting COLONY'S MAIN
to anot
another £3,300-will receive only the ereditors' dividend of 158, in the pound. The rest
1s to be shared creditors. the other among
During the four days the lawsuit. Poer had been fought Mrs. de la Beresford, middle-aged, cultured, had wat behind counsel listening to the case.
When the judge pronounced in her favour a fellow creditor shook her hand. Then she walked quickly away from the court, declining to comment on a case which she had stated beforehand was too painful for her to discuss.
CABLE CUT
MEN RESPONSIBLE. SENT TO GAOL
sentences
"vere
the
Heavy prison imposed by Mr. W. Schofield, at the Central Magistracy this morning, two unemployed men, Ip Piu, 24, and Li Ching, 52, who appeared on remand on two charges of having damaged the Colony's main cable at Island Road, and Boa Vista H theft of twenty feet of cable, property of the PW.D., on August 11. The defendants were sentenced to three months' hard labour each en the first charge, and six months' second hard labour each on the charge, the sentences to run consc- hecutively. Mr. R. Everest,
P.W.D., was the complainant.
Inspector O'Connor said that at about 6.30 am. on August 12 the defendants were seen by two Indian constables
Terrace, near Cornhill
re-
About fifty creditors will share In the award. The smallest is a man who advanced a sum of £5 to the shot major, the largest presents a loan of about 220,000. made to help the dead man in steel-hardening process which claimed was going to revolutionise the steel Industry.
His Bitterest
of the
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7.15
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Overture "The Merry Wives
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p.m. Local: Time Signal, Wea- ther Report and unnauncements.
8,03 p.m. From the Studio. Popular numbers by "The Thren Blind Mice."
Programme.
1. Is it true what they say about Dixie?" 2. Lita: 3. (a) Ain't Mis behavin'; (b) Between the devil and the deep blue sca; (e) Dinah; 4. Between two fires; 5. (a) I'm in a sentimental mood; (b) it's a sin to tell a lle: (c) Robins and Roses; fi Melody in the Sicy ("The Trail of the Lonesome Pine"): 7., Moon Tusc.
8.25 p.m.
From the Studio. I. Abbit on "The Fourth Test Match."
8.35 p.m. The London Pallo- dium Orchestra.
Bells across the Meadow (Ketel- bey): The Phantom Melody (Ketel- bey); I hear you calling me (arr. Haydn Wood); Bird of love Divine (Haydn Wood); March Review Med-
(arr. Woltschach).
pm News and Announcements from London.
9.20 p.m. Beatrice Harrison (Cello) and Peter Dawson (Bass- Baritone),
believed he would make a fortune, and second defendant was carrying agihcci") (Leoncavallo). (a) A
his life.
1. Licbestraum; 2. Smoke gets
Disappointment King's Road. First defendant was 1. Cello Solos-Caprico (Dellus), Elegie (Delius); 2. Song-Prologue The fallure of that project, out of carrying a sack containing
allow me! (b) A Song of which Major Rowlandson conildently pieces of cable, twenty feet in length,
'Cello Solos it scraper, a sack and a chopper. tender Mem'ries; 3.
"Hossan") (Delius), was the bitterest disappointment of They dropped the articles and tried Serenade
4. On Melody (Dawes); Song-Love, but were arrested. On his to escape METHODIST ON ROAR
He spoke of this scheme to friends, among whom was the late being questioned, they admitted could only tell thee (Capel). 9.45 p.m. From the Studio. OF ARMS FACTORIES
Interpretations at the Plano by French Premier, M. Briand. He paid they had stolen the cable. They The company's decision was an-
midnight, and dug up the Helen O'Brien. ground with the scraper to a depth
Programme. Comparing the days when men nouneed in the following statement. constant visits to M. Briand in Paris, said they had gene to Choi Wan at
The directors of the Cunard-when he realised that the project had about
of 1% feet, and stolen the cable. were hanged for petty theft with
White Star Lid., at a meeting in failed, that he was a ruined man.
It was the chance discovery of a the horrors of modern warfare,
Liverpool yesterday decided to counterfoil of an old cheque book They had taken two or three hours enter C. Ensor Walters,
into
negotiations the Rev.
Inspector O'Connor added that it presiding at the Pastoral Session various ship-builders for the con-that enabled the details of the in doing the job.
struction of lonnnge to meet the major's colourful career to be pieced I was the main cable of the Colony, of the Methodist Conference at
requirements, of the company's, Months after ne had killed him- and when cut held up communica- The intermediate services Newcastle recently asked: "Is our
on self, Mr. Henry Harris, managing tion with the outside world. Liverpool and London.
clerk to a firm of snilcitors, was lock- damage done was about $500, and age more enlightened ?"
the value of the cable. $100: "These inquiries will be dising through the dead man's paper
Mr. Schofield, Imposing sentence patched as soon as the necessary In his Hampstead hume. He had date has been prepared."
searched through enough documents on defendunts, remarked that it was Not even the best-informed people to fil an average-sized suburban an extremely serious matter as it in shipping circles, either in Great drawing-room. Britain or abroad, had suspected that the Cunard-White Star intended to bulid more ships.
"We are faced by grim realitles, with horrorS undreamt of by n former generation. I have heard the crash of banibs in London streets and the shricks of dying children, ami have seen the flow of blood," he con- tinued.
tramp
of
“After all, is pur age more en- lightened? Cannot you hear the
of armies and the roar. armament factories? Do we realise that, while we are here assembled in the name of the Prince of Peace, men
based
with
But now it is understood that the
Company intends first to get the main Southampton-New York express ser- vice running with
with the Queen Mary and I her sister ship, and then to build as many new luxury ships as arc necessary to speed up. tho
services.
together.
After midnight he was glancing through the pages of a dust-laden book. The counterfoil of a cheque- book fell on the carpet. The en- tries gave a clue to the riddle of the shot man's llc.
meant that communication-between The Colony and the rest of the world was practically destroyed.
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London, Aug. 16.
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10 p.m. Big Ben from London. Daventry: England v. All-indio: A commentary on the third Test Match by Howard Marshall, from the Oval, London.
10.15 p.m. Dance Music.".
11 p.m. Close Down,
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The following quotations have been received by Swan, Culbertson and Fritz from their Munila ofre after the close of this morning's
Cheques had been drawn in favour The Ministry of Labour's cost of session: of four doctors who had attended living index on August 1 was approx”
are manufacturing poisoning London and Liverpool secondary the major from time to time. Fol-imately 40 per cent, above the lovel
"I suppose we shall soon
will be
Fas macke for a few pence and builders Wombproof shelters.
underground, constructing
"We shudder at the brutalitics of formor ages, What of the slaughter on the roads to-day? There is a strangely quiet acceptance of the ap palling lots of the numbers of deaths and ensualties on the read Voices of protest are very indistinct.
The speed of 25 knofa
lowing up these slender clues with of July, 1914, and the same as the contemt the thoroughness of a detective, the month eariler. The corresponding plated, which only the finest and rolicitor's clerk found that the major percentage a year ago was 43..- most expensive liners could reach had once before attempted to end his British Wireless.
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sought. would be more helpful.".
of
He had taken An overdoso veronal when he went to bed about
midnight. He was found the next montag la a coma.
For three years Major Rowlandson
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