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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1987.

Ex-Soldier, 19 Years In Hospital, Begins New Life, Cured

OUTLIVED ALL HIS FAMILY: SEEKS JOB WILLIAM THEAR INGLIS was coming out of the

-line at Bethune in October 1918 when shrapnel hit | him in the back. Only this week has he come out of hos- pital, where he had been ever since.

Now

He was sent back from France "incurable." he is forty-two-but injections and massage have cured him after years spent lying on his back and in an invalid chair:

He has to begin life again, but does not quite know how. "It is all so queer and unreal,” he said. "I walked right across London to-day, just for the fun of being able to do it.

"All my people are dead now, and I am wondering whether I shall be able to find any of my friends still in Edinburgh. I shall have to get a job, but it won't be easy after all these years.

"1 was in the mercantile marshe before I served in the Liverpool Scottish and the Highland Light In- fantry. I am used to clerical work. Look, I can still write a

good 851.

And William Inglis sat down und wrote these words:-"My lot till now has fallen among sad but heroic men whose courage ià undimmed.

Then, straightening his shoulders. he walked out Into the rain-swept sirects.

SEARCH LAW

IN NAVY Concession Announced MEN in the Navy who have become leading-seamen and are on the way to becoming petty officers will no longer be subject to search by the ship's police when they return from leave.

be

King's Regulations are to omended to permit the change,

Men in the lower ratings will all be subject to search. The object is to prevent alcohol being taken on board or into barracks.

The system

LAST

POEM TO "Candlelight Sweetheart"

THE

New York, Mar. 20 HE address "Kingsley

IIotel, Bloomsbury," and a scribbled poem are the only clues to the iden- tity of a young man who was found dead in a desert- ed Chicago loft to-day.

He was well dressed nut in his pockets was a paper with the lefters head "Kingsley Hotel, Bloomsbury." On the paper was scribbled:-

Candlelight sweetheart, out of the

night

You come in rufles, old lace; A glance at your chair, You, scated there,

In your old accustomed place.

years we

through the wondered,

Down come Into, force be- cause in the "bad old days" there was much smuggling of drink on board. For some yeurs now the search has been largely formal.

Other

concessions to the men announced recently Include:-

You in my arms entwined; Yet with the down You've always gone Candlelight sweetheart of mine.

the deserted loft.

Foreign service leave increased to on the body, but the police are There were no marks of violence eleven days for ebels onthe puzzled as to how the man reached abroad.

Men may land in sporting kit (white

shorts and stockings) at the discretion of the commander-in- chlef at sparsely populated points on foreign stations.

Lepers Followed

Test Cricket

A hundred lepers, doomed to a living death on an island off the coast of Darwin, Australia, still keep alive their interest in

cricket.

Territory Mounted Police they owed To the kindliness of the Northern the fact that they were not forgot- ten when all the world was listening for the Test Match scores,

These unhappy people have prac- tically no contact with the outside world. There is no telephone to their Island, no radio, and no news- paper: but each evening at dusit throughout the Test Match season flashlight could be sec

seen signalling from the police station. verandab in Darwin, Fourteen miles away the pathetically enger outcasts apelt out. the results of the day's play. When It was over back came the grateful མ**ས་ acknowledgment.

On the night they learnt of Brad- man's 248 not out, the reply read:

"Gee, boys, that's splendid, I wish

BUT THE LADY TIRED

people who fight duels for the hand

of

Romantic knights are not the only |

the fair lady.

On the beach outside Darwin, Aus- tralia, a crowd of aborigines gathered to watch two rivals fight for the possession of dusky belle.

The opponents hurled epithels and spears at one another, but the aim

Of the different National dances in the world the Mexican dances are

colourful Mexican dresses which are worn by the dancers. This charin-

undoubtedly the most popular owing to their fieriness and the ing picture was taken at a performance at the Opera House in Berlin,

CONDEMNED TO DIE

IN

CHAIR FOR

BATHTUB MURDER

New York, March 20.

RADIO The BROADCAST Jockey Short

Children's Concert From

The Studio

DANCE MUSIĆ:

Broadenst by Z.B.W. on Wave- lengthis, of 355 metres (845 cc's) 31.40 metres (0.52 m.c's).

H.K.T.

12.30-2.15 pim. European gramme.

12.30 Light Orchestral Music.

Pro-

1 p.m. Time Signal and Weather Report.

1.03 A Recital by John McCormack (Tenor) and Yehud! Menuhin (Violin).

1.30 Reuter Press, Rugby Press:" Local: Weather Forecast, Time and Announcements.

1.40 A Variety Programme. 2.15 Close Down.

3-8 p.m. European Programme.

5 p.m. Relay of the Dance Orches tra from the Hongkong Hotel Roof- Garden.

6 p.m.

From the Studio, Children's Concert.

6.30 p.m. The Band of II.M. Coldstream Guards.

"Martha"-Selection (Flotow); Semper Fidelis March (Sousa); The Bells of St. Malo (Rimmer);""Les Cloches de Corneville" (Planquette); Colonel Bogey-March (Alford);

Youth and Vigour (Lautenschlag.

7 p.m. Concerto No. 2 Minor, Op. 22 (Wieniawski), play. ed by Heifetz (Violin) and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Conducted by John Barbirolll.

7.17 Cinema Organ Music.

In a Clock Store (Orth,, In a Bird Store (Lake)....Terence Casey; Cap- rice Viennois (Kreisler): Serenade (Toselli)....Sydney Gustard.

7.30 Closing.local Stock Quota- Hongkong Exchange

tions

and Market Iteport.

7.35 p.m. The Music of Haydn Wood.

May Day Overture....Light Sym- phony Orchestra; Roses of Picardy ...Alfred Plecaver (Tenor); Hom- March; Concert Waltz Joyous- Ress".... Light Symphony Orchestra; A Brown Bird Singleg........Mury Kay (Contralto); Longing....

Pal-

ago

ladium Orchestra, it is only a linx- garden....Danny Malone, (Tenor).

8 p.m. Local: Time Signal, Wea- ther Report and Announcements.

8.03 From the Studio.

A Chinese Concert.

11 p.m. Close Down.

8.05-11.10 p.m. European Pro- a fre- gramme from ZEK. on quency of 640 kiloeycles. Hits.

8.05 p.m. Old Musical Comedy

.

Just one month after he choked and beat pretty young Mrs. Mary Harriet Case and left her to die in the bathtub of her own apartment, Major Green, 33-year old

That was on February 11. One week-later-he-was-sen-ey CB Cochran (Compero) -- negro porter, was found guilty of first degree murder. tenced--in the same courthouse in which the notorious Snyder-Gray murderers heard their doom-to be elec- trocuted at Sing Sing prison.

In New York; executions are always set for a date

between four and eight weeks from the day of sentence.

The Vagabond King"-Vocal Gems ....Light Opera Company; Gems from "No, No, Nanette",

.... Light Company; C. B. Cochran Med- Cooper and Ray Noble and His assisted by Janet Joye, Edward orchestra.

8.22 p.m. Pianoforte Ducts by Rawicz and Landauer.

Schubert Time; Viennese Waltz Medley; Parade of the tin suidlers. (Jessel); Nola (Arndt).

8.35 p.m. Mantovani and His

But the normal course of appealing to the State's highest court, clemency hearings by the Governor, and possible Tipica Orchestra. sanity investigations usually defer execution for several months or even a year.

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in a Vienna Beer Garden; Love's Serenade; Moonspun dreams; Round

and mine.

Police wove around Green the tightest net of cir. psy Camp fire; Raindrops; Your

cumstantial evidence within memory here.

Green's blood-stained trousers | found, figured prominently in the and shoes were found in a base case, as the prosecution attempted to establish robbery as the motive of

was very faulty and the duct went on for a long time without much harm ment Incinerator of the apart- being done to the combatants.

By the time the police arrived the ment house, together with

h

duel had degenerated into a more jewel-box from the Case apart leurling of abuse. The police stopped the contest and the duelitats lookedment, and shirt studs belonging

to Case, and the hammer.

lady.

All

A

around for the adhere to be seen. these articles were bloody,

Alas alte พดด

A third suitor had taken advantage suit of clothes stolen from the

of the hubbub to press his attentions

uie murder. Detective Roberts sald

Green had told him the ring was in the incinerator beneath the grate, where Police later found it.

and the two had already departed on Case apartment was sent by save hi

a bush honeymoon together.

Australian Coronation Coinage

Green's attorneys, who were ap- pointed the court to defend him

by the never questioned that he had killed the bride of a year.

ar. They tried to save him from the chair by asserting that the murder Green to the tailor for alteration ou

resulted from a quarrel over the window-washing, the next day. Police searched hence was not premeditated, Green long for the dead woman's did not take the witness stand. Once wedding ring, and finally found he rose and screamed a denial that it after Green was trapped into But the Jury, after revealing its whereabouts. dellberation, Aled back into the

court-room and announced,

"We find the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree,"

Additional evidence against Green was his alleged confession as related by John Roberts, negro detective,

a cell udjoining Green's, posing as a fugitive killer. He said Green's story was as follows:

The Commonwealth cont-of-arms who had spent twenty-four hours in is to be deleted from the new Aus- tralian coins which will make their first appearance on Coronation Day.

A design which will give the

I could have been there to see him." coins real artistic value is being!

It was from a Cambridge man who sought to replace the old cont-of- is now one of the lepershe is an arms. The head of King George Vidows and she let him in. An argu- ex-cricket blue-Austral Newi.. will appear on the other side.

Spring Love Fills

New

Mary Astor Diary

New York, Mar. 153-

he had confessed.

two

hours'

That conviction carries a manda- tory death centence. So one week later Oreen was brought into court to hear Judge Charles S. Colden read the following silted sentence which dooms New York's condemned mur→ derers:.

STRUCK WITH HAMMER Mrs. Case's apartment to wash win- On January 11th Green went to

"TO DIE THIS WEEK "Major Green, the judgment of the ment followed, when Mrs. Case in court is that you, Major Green, for sisted that vinegar be put in the the murder of Mary Harriet Case, water used to wash the windows, 50 whereof you ore convicted, be and that the windows would not become you are hereby sentenced to the frosted. Green carried д large punishment of death; and it is. mechanic's hammer, wrapped In ordered that within ten days after towel, he said, with which he struck this day's session of the court the MFS. Case on the back of the neck, Sheriff of the County of Queens then choked her and dragged her to deliver you, together with the war- the bathroom, where he again struck runt of this court, to the warden of her with the hammer and threw her Sing Sing prison, at Ossining, N.Y., into the bathtub. He left the bath where you shall be kept. In solitary

water

MARY ASTOR is writing a new diary, but it is not like her room to clean himself, and, looking confinement until the week beginning searching, purple-inked diary that gave Hollywood's screen in, saw that she was sitting up in the Monday, the 22nd day of March, lovers the jitters last summer when it came to light in Miss Astor's tub. He went back, struck her a 1037, and upon some day in the week child custody suit against her former husband, Doctor Franklin number of blows, and turned the so appointed the said warden of the on in the lub, to destroy Sing Sing prison, at Ossining, NY... Thorpe.

fingerprints on Mrs. Case's body. is The now diary is the chronicle of a lonely bride, since her runaway Afterwards, he wiped everything he is commanded to do execution upon you, Major Green, in the mode and marriage with Manuel del Campo, Mexican actor, and. Socialite, early last remembered he had touched.

manner prescribed by the Thursday morning.

laws of the State of New York."

This is one of the last official statements Green will hear cont cerning his case because the final one, spoken by a physician in an ugly room of Sing Sing's death- house, will be merely:

"This man is dead."

Miss Astor has written in sombre black Ink overy action, ovary thought for her hubaund to read when he returns from his father's funeral in Mexico City

When her daughter, Marilyn Thorpe,sis put to bed, Mrs del Campo Indulges her favourite pastime of writing, but this time no great screen lover is worried, nearly every word describes how much she loves her third husband, Manuel del Campo,

Roberts continued that Green sald the hammer, the towel and his trousers were blood stained, and that he threw these into the incinerator in the apartment-to-be-burned.

GARAWEDDING RING

The wedding ring worn by M. Case, missing when her body was

8.55 pan. London, News and An-. nouncements.

9.15 P.m

A' Concert. Orchestra "Merry Wives of Wind-

Overture (Nicolai)....Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Song- Bampton No. 2 in F. Sharp Major, Op. 36 (Cho- Swans (Kramer)··o-Impromptu (Contralto); Piano

pin)....Alfred Cortot; Violin Solo Concerto in G Minor-Adagio (Mux Bruch)...Louis Zimmermann; Songs

could

I only tell thee land (Lambert).e

.Peter Dawson, (Basa- Baritone); Songs-When I bring to you colour'd

my light toys, Light, (From "Gitanjali") (Song-offerings) ..Rose Bampion (Contralto); Piano Solo-Impromptu No. 3 in

G Flat Major, Op. 51 (Chopin)...: Alfred Coriot;: Song-He heard the grent sea calling (Andrews). Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone). 10 p.m. London, Big Ben.

Love She is far rom the

Dance Music. Slow Fox-Trot--You're not the kind; Fox-Trot-Taks my heart; Fox-Troi-Crying my heart out for to-morrow; you; Fox-Trot-Unill Rumba-Two hearts in Cuba; Fox- Trot I'm building up to an awful let down; Slow Fox-Trot--These foolish things; Waltz It's a sin to tell allo; Fox-Trot-A rendezvous with a dream; Waltz-Lovely Lady.... 10.30 pm London-Duchy of Cornwall-On March 17, 1937, Edward the

Third

granted a Charter to the Black Prince, giving him Innds and manors throughout England, but principally in the West This estate, the Duchy of Cornwall, has been preserved almost. intact to the pre- sent day. This short programme is In commemoration of the Charter, and is a preliminary programme to the full Duchy of Cornwall · pro-: gramme. to be broadcast In May, (Electrical Recording).

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