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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1997.

Drugged Minister Found In Vestry

DOCTOR-FIANCEE QUESTIONED

BY CORONER

DR.

·ELINOR MARY GELLING was questioned at a Liverpool inquest recently about the possibility of her minister-fiance having obtained morphine from her

- surgery.

Dr. Gelling found her flance, the Rev. David Douglas, aged thirly, of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church,; Rodney-street, Liverpool, unconscious) In his church vestry on June 23. He had apparently been there all night; and died in hospital without regainiui consciousness,

"Sulcide, with insufficient evidence to show his state of mind," was The verdict.

Dr. Gelling sald she had treated! Mr. Douglas for middle-rar trouble und tensilitis. He was depressed at times.

·

When she found him in his vestry | there was a smell of gas.

The coroner (Mr. G. C. Mort): We have been at considerable pulus toļ know how he came by this druni Can you help us in the matter?-No, sir.

JURY SEE DIARY Dr. Gelling WIS shown Mr. Douglas's diary, and asked by the coroner to scan an entry in March. The entry was shown to the fore- man of the jury, but was not read out.

The coroner: le refers to mor- phine in his diary. He was under your medient care, but I don't sup- pose you ever prescribed morphine? -No.

Husband

Freed on Attack Charge

Leeds, July 15. ACQUITTED at the Assize

Court here to-day on a charge of wounding with intent to murder a man he alleged to be his wife's lover, Albert Hall, aged 28. a steel worker, of Percy- street, Sheffield, left the court building arm in arm with his wife, who had waited outside throughout the ease. "Everything is all right with the, wife, a slight.

ROYALTY AT A GARDEN PARTE-Through lines of applauding guests, King George and Queen Elizabeth move in the first garden party, held at Buckingham Palace, London, during the new king's reign. The sovereigns are followed by their two daughters, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Mar garet Rose, the last partly hidden by her grandmother, Queen Mother Mary.

GERMANY'S FOOD PROBLEM

Breaking "Hunger Blockade"

RATIONING, ECONOMY

50 Years Married

CHOSE DEATH TO

SOLITUDE

Stanley, Co. Durham,

July 15.

ONLY

a few weeks ago the "Darby and Joun" of this town, Mr. James Walker Ed- Doctors keep Diese drugs for us now;

munds, aged 73, and his 66- emergencies. Is it possible that he dark haired woman, told me. "We could have obtained morphine

years-old wife, Emily, celebrated from your surgery without your have our own little home and

their golden wedding-to-lay knowledge?-He could have 201 we have forgotten the troubles; morphine tablets.

of

Munich, July 12. the past. We have been

they were lying dead. They

He

been ha

under certain married years and have two

Tourists in Germany, im- The teacher asks who has brought house in Theresa-street here in found together in the specialist treatment in addition to

pressed by the healthy and well- anything. I stand up and he praises which they had planned to spend what you yourself had done for him? children, aged ten and two."

Hall smiled happily at his wife nourished appearance of their

their last happy years. "We have had our ups and downs hosts and by the confusion of

Prices are kept stable and no pre- "This in in life." he said.

worst thing that ever happened to dishes on the ordinary restaur-ference to customers is permitted. A A mon has the right to protectant menus, are probably un-shopper In Munich wished to pur-

chose a pound of cutlets.

-Yes

As far as you know he was not given treatment by drugs even small doses of morphine?--No, sir.

DREGS IN CUP

US.

IN WIFE'S ROOM

A policeman said that in a cupshow that 1 could do it." board he found a cup> which fried fuld dregs as the bottom which smelt of wine. He took this to the infirmary with him.

Was the

of paper. Then I go to the play- Kround and throw them in the box. Were

us

The

Awakened in the night, Mrs. Ed- munds found her husband had laken his life. Unable to face the loneliness without him, she im mediately took polson.

is home and wife, and I had 10 aware of the tremendous efforts butcher's wife refused to sell him any. being made by the Nazis to She was therefore arrested and lined ensure the Reich's food supply. 150 Marks (about £12).

Mrs. J. E. Hogarth, a niece, of Mr. The distribution of grain is care.] Edmunds, discovered the tragedy. fully controlled, and only limited! She found her uncle in a front room grades of four are permitted for with throat wounds and her sunt baking purposes.

returned home

Hall was charged with wounding William Henry Peaker, aged 25, of} Although foreigners may complaini Century-street, Sheffield. It was that they cannot obtain all the things The coroner: I xm concerned

stated that Peaker had lodged with| with the possibilities of this man's the Halle, and in July last year Hall they are accustomed to have at home, life having been saved, and I am wondering what happened to that found Peaker

unexpectedly and they see no signs of the "hunger. in his wife's bed-blockade," which Germany claims is appears Lo have dis- Cup. XL

being waged against her by the world appeared into thin air. One sus- pects that if there had been mor- "There is no doubt," said Mr. H. at large, and which she uses as an phine in that cap it might have ft. Bramley, prosecuting, "that Hall excuse to enforce discipline at the been found within a shari Lime believed Penker hd betrayed him." dinner tables of her citizens. and due precautions taken?~~~That!

Laler Hall went to Peaker's new was the reason I took the cup to: the infirmary.

home and stabbed him with a knife,

You know nothing of where that; cup went? No, sir.

Professor W. H. Roberts, Liverpool city annlyst; sold that Mr. Douglas lived thirty hours after taking the morphine: If effective treatment? had taken place within an hour of

is being found his life might have! been saved,

rooni.

The problem of nourishing 65,000,- 000 Germans has, at least, given the Reich's administrators plenty of food

in the next room, a cup that had contained carbolic neid by her side.

·said,

cannol

"SO PROUD AND HAPPY"

for thought. By marshalling every of their long married life,"

"They were so happy and proud Mrs. calory and regimenting the markets, Hogarth

think The Four Year Plan, agricultural they have also succeeded in obtaining what made my uncle take his life, but exhibitions, "Fight Waste" campaigns, enough food for their subjects, Peaker, in evidence. sutd that food laws and marketing decrecy are when found in Mrs. Hall's bedroom some of the measures used by the Hall "gave him a good hiding and Government to make ends meet under turned him out."

the present restrictions on imported

"I feel I deserved all I got," he foodstuffs and insufficient home pro- said. "I am a bigger man than duction. The National Socialist creed Hall but may conselence made me is "The Community, before the In- dividual," and groceries are oppor- tioned accordingly.

afraid."

Hall, in evidence.

said his wife Dr. Frank Harwood, house was living with him when he went physician at the Liverpool Royal to Peaker's house and was still living Infirmary, said that Mr. Douglas was, with him. "I was not happy until not regarded at first as a morphine I had given him a good hiding as a

ittle man should."

case.

DOWNCAST ENVOYS--With downcast epos, here are Joachim von Ribbentrop, left, German Ambassador to London, and Count Dino Grandi, Italları Ambassador, abown in London. They re- cently objected, at a: Non-interyiation Committee meeting, to the plan for Britain and Prines to patrol Spanish consts,

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BUTTER AND GUNS

Now that every soldier has got his gun, every citizen is to have his butter | -bu only a certain amount; for housewives must register the number of mouths they have to feed at their local grocer's, and may only pur chase rationed amounts of butter and fals at this shop alone. If they get real cream they are exceedingly for- tunate, for after olive oil this is the) rarest liquid in the country.

Radishes, rhubarb, asparagus, fish and

LOST EYE

م م

AT 24 I'M OLD'

""

Heywood, Lancashire,

July 15.

"I'M only 24 but I'm like

an old woman, I've lost the desire to do all the things that any ordinary girl dogs. I don't want to dance. I don't want to go to the films. Why I even don't want to read."

I am sure my aunt decided she could not live without him.

"They were always together and Mrs. Edmunds would not even go shopping unless her husband went too."

A note in Mrs. Edmunds's writing, left in the house; leaves a pathetic

record of her devotion-"Jim cut his throat so I have killed myself."

MUSEUM MAY BUY £250,000

LIBRARY

Valued by one collector ut £260,000, the Ashley Library-

ac-

Newspapers Inform shoppers daily,

Miss Kathleen Gibson, aged which comprises some of the what food to buy and how to prepare 24, of Healey-avenue, Heywood, greatest treasures in rare books it most economicaly and, tastefully made this statement to and manuscripts-may be

night after hearing Judge Cron- cheese have occupled the preferred thwaite at Bury County Courtquired by the British Museum. list so far this year.

order that her compensation of The library is probably the Anest Radio and film propagandu con- 19s. a week for the loss of an eye private collection in existence and stantly remind their audiences that while at work should be reduced to belonged to the late Mr. T. J. Wise. too much fat is "unhealthy," that it) 4s. 7d, a week.

the bibliographer, of Hampstead,

Is a duty to the Fatherland to eat fish, The Unity Ring Mi, Heywood, N.W. anve scraps and cat vegetables instead) hnd asked for the termination of the of meat. The new "selence" off compensation paid to Miss Gibson. nutrition may cuslly be understood belt struck the girl in the eye while It was stated that a broken driving If one knows, for example, that the she was having her luncheon. city of Munich with 750,000 Inhabi- tants slaughtered only 05 head of beef on one day.

Another illustration of the economy drive is the latest campaign in Nurem berg. where housewives are being urged by the Nazis to purchase special refuse cans, at from 7 to 12 shillings per can, and put their food scraps into them. The contents of the cans are collected and given to pigs. Nazis hope to feed 4,000 extra pigs yearly In Nuremberg by this method.

PRICES STABLE,

In

Children

The Bavarian

schools are

It is learned that, in accordance with his will, the executors are negoilating with the museum for the library by the museum trustees at a price lower than the collector's estimate of £250,000.

It is possible that the raising of the

"I consider Miss Gibson has suffered a terrible Injury and a most grievous loss." nald Judge Croathwalte. "But she has got to make the best of it. I beg of her purchase money may be the subject lo realise that I think there is of a statement by the trustees with- lot of work she could do."

"HE IS VERY PATIENT”

"I am ready to go back to work,

In the next few weeks.

MUST REMAIN INTACT

In stipulating that the British

to do everything I can, but you must Muscum should have the first offer alise it is very dimcult," Miss at the low valuation he named, Mr. Gibson and to-night. No one knows what I have gone through as Wise Insisted that the library should n result of that accident. It has remain intact-whatever the form of taken a lot of the Joy out of life ... ita disposal.

I just don't feel like gaiety any

given, more,"

written tasks on the Four Year Plan.

The catalogue of the collection,

compiled by Mr. Wise, runs into 11 I asked Miss Teachers' Journal

Gibson about her volumes. Among the possessions of published one such theme, written by sweetheart's attitude. "Well, he just the library are a first edition of on oight-year-old pupil last week. does not go to the plctures now and

ho does not go to dances," she said. Gray's "Elegy," "wrote in a church- "Now we collect bones in school. At | “He knows how I feel about it and yard," and one of the two copies of home I look for all the bones I can he isn't keen anyhow. He is very Shelley's Grst edition, of "Queen | And. My mother puts them in a pleco | patient."

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