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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,

AUGUST

9,

1937.

Ex-Pastor Gaoled For Bigamy, RADIO

Forgiven By Wife' No. 3

2 OTHERS SAY:

"WE'RE RUINED'

By A Special Reporter

London, July 14.

THREE "wives" watched Reginald Thomas Collyer, fifty-seven-year-old piano tuner and ex-pastor -one-time chorister at the Chapel Royal, Windsor- grope his way from the Old Bailey dock yesterday to serve two years' hard labour for double bigamy.

Baronet's Wife Is Sentenced

FALSE PRETENCES

His real wife, Mrs. Ruth Ellen Collyer, whom he married at Eastbourne twenty-nine years ago, and Miss Noral Kathleen Walshe, who bore him two children after their "mar- riage" in Belfast in 1919, hurried from the court together, said their lives were ruined. shook hands, wished one another happiness in the future,

of

The third-widowed Mrs. Harriet Lady (Esther Lillan) Makgill (32). of Winchester

Cadogan-terrace, Court, Kensington, Ross Jones, Landon, described as the wife of a South Hackney, whom Collyer "mor- Greenwich In 1936-went baronet, was sentenced to six months ried" at imprisonment at the Old Balle, down to the cells to console him, London, recently, when she was suid: 'He was always a dine, good

I hold no malice," found guilty on seven counts charg man to me. ing her with obtaining markay by

Collyer, who is almost blind, was fulse pretences with intent to defraud, known in 1932 as Pastor H. Collyer

B.A. He Lady Makg appeared Lewildered Thomas,

wore clerical but walked at once out of the dock clothes and collar and founded a to the cells.

church known as the Blyth Christians Church, in Northumberland.

It was alleged that Lady Magill, who pleaded not guilty, went to a number of London West End beauty parlours and paid for goods and treat-

CHURCH CLOSED

The church," sald Detective: Ser-

ment with cheques when she did not geant Burney at the Old Balley have sufficient money in the banki yesterday, "elosed down owing to ad- to meet them.

WAN

When she was arrested, it

went round and stated, someone settled all the cheques,

Inspector Griffey said that Makgil had one child, aged 11, who was at a boarding school.

MENTAL PUNISHMENT

verse comment in the newspapers when Collyer was summoned by his wife for maintenance."

Collyer offered marriage to an-

other woman in Blyth, but was pre- vented from marrying her by the court proceedings.

Sergeant Burney said that Collyer had also been concerned with thei organisation of the Paracletian Church, Seven Sisters-road, N. which was ran on funds provided by the public.

Mr. Lawton, defending, said that Lady Makgill was married to a man with whom she shared an ancient name and who was well known in

Collyer told the Recorder that his understood this country. He

that

first bigamous marriage was "must Lady Makgili herself came from unsatisfactory,"

rood family.

The Judge might well think her greatest punishment would not be so much the physical punishment nc could inflict upon her but the mental punishment she must suffer, knowing that in her position she had disgraced her own family and her husband's Passing sentence, the Recorder (Slr Holman Gregory, K.C.) said "The fact that your husband is a person

family.

r lived a life of hell for sixteen years," he said. When he met Mrs. Jones she was very kind and con-

siderate to him.

When Collyer had gone to serve

his sentences of twelve months' hard labour on each of the two bigamy charges the three women who had His rest loved him talked to me. marriage and the two bigamous ones were all "church weddings."

ISSACHAR

ASSEH

GAD

PHRAIM RENJAHI

JUDAH

REUBEN

SIMEON

With the suggested sharing of Palestine, it may be of interest to note how the country was formerly divided between the twelve tribes of Israel. The names given were those of the Patriarch Jacob's twelve sons. with

exception of Levi, whose family decided to undertake pastor- age, and would therefore be spread throughout the country and Joseph. who in return was represented by his two sons, whose country was divided in two by the River Jordan. The seretched portion of the map indicates the proposed allotment to the Jews.

Children Gifted in Telepathy

THE widespread

belief

that blind people are peculiarly endowed with n compensatory "sixth sense" has just been subjected to rigorous investigation by the staff of Duke Univer- nity, U.S.A.

A special "parapsychology" laboratory has been set up there pathy and clairvoyance. to probe the problem of tele-

DR. ON NERVOUS ILLNESS

Men Suffer Less Than Women

Men suffer less than women from nervous breakdowns because they ean discharge their energy by violent language, according to Dr. Letitia Fairfield.

BROADCAST

Relay of Hongkong Hotel Orchestra

LONDON RELAYS

Radio Programme Broadcast by ZBW on Wavelengths of 335 metres (845 lc.c's), 31.49 metres (0.52 m.c's).

12.30-2,16 D.ITI. European Pro- gramme.

12.35 New Mayfair Orchestra. "Bow Bells"-Selection (Sullivan); Intro: Mona Liza, Bullder of Dreams, All roads lead to Bow Bella. Watch- ing the hours pasa by, Love keeps out the rain, Break down and weep. Love Tales (Arr. H.,

Hall);

Intro: Drink to me only with thine eyes, God send you back to me, Love will find a way, Whisper and I shall hear, If you were the only girl in the world. Love, here in my heart, Speak to me of love. A bachelor gay, 1 love thee, Frasquita Serenade, If Winter comes. Britelodia (Selection of British Melodies) (Humphries).

12.50 Renee Chemet (Violin Introduction Et Rondo Capriccioso (Saint-Saens).

1,00 Local:

Time signal and Weather

report.

1.03 Variety.

Speaking in London before the section of Psychiatry of the Royal Society of Medleine on the difference in the incidence of nervous breakdown as between the sexes, Dr. Fairfield You....The Dixie Devils; Take Care Poor Butterfly: Sweet Sue, Just said that both male and female in a certain occupation were

or You For Me.... subjected

Valaida

(Queen to very much the

of the same emotional

Trumpet); America Calling. strain, but breakdowns among the

ns among the Intro: Dear old Southland, Bam bam women of this

class were

were very inuch Bunny shore, Charleston back to

Charleston, more common.

St It was suggested that

Lauls Blues, All the

reason was

that the

the men when Orange Grove in California, Broad- annoyed could discharge their nervous Ohio, Avalon, On the Mississippi.

way melody. Chicago, Beautiful energy by violent language or set. The Carlyle Cousins (Vocal

Trlo). whereas convention forbade such a Sleepytime Down South; Life Is Just recourre in the case of the women.

.Carroll

more

HEART FLUCTUATIONS

An Interesting story illustrating the fluctuations of the size of the heart under emotion was told by Dr. Erich Wittkower, of Berlin, in a paper on "The Influence of Emotions on Bodily Functions."

A Bowl Of Cherries.

Gibbons (Piano) & His Boy Friends; Nobody Could Love You More (Lehar & Herbert); Love Never Comes Too Late......Evelyn Laye (Soprano) Richard Tauber (Tenor).

1.30 Reuter Press; Rugby Press; Local: Weather report and Announce- ments. 1.40

Turner Layton,

Sing Before Breakfast (Freed & Brown); A Lovely Lady In Blue (Lewis & Cools); Alone, (Freed &

He stated that his experimental re- searches, carried out mainly under hypnosis, had been directed to fluctua- tions in the size of the heart as seen Brown). by X-rays.

The heart in common speech was supposed to

be the

sent of the emotions. Persons were sald to be soft-hearted, and cases of "broken 1 hear!" were recorded.

2.00 Dance Music,

Slow Fox Trol-Heart or Gold; Fox Trot-My Girl's A Rhythm Fan Harry Roy & His Orchestra; Fax Troi-Evry Single Little Tingle Of My Heart; Fox Trot-Weather Man The wife of one of his, collegues

Jack Rylton & His Orchestra: suffered from heart attacks during.

Trot-A Couple Of April matrimonial arguments, and on one Maurice Winnick & His Orchestra.

Fools; Fox Trol-Moonburn.... of these occasions her husband took

found, y picture of her heart und Tango-Marilou:

normal.

Waltz-Give

it distinctly smaller than Your Hand......The B.B.C. Dance

Discussing the effect of other emotions. Dr. Wilkower sald that he

had an impression that the bile produced during joyous emotion was specially light in colour.

Psychological factors might perhaps assist the onset of jaundice, and even of gallstones.

HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE

Tests were given to 60 blind per- sons with sets of cards oh which Nearly half the subjects forecast the

symbols special

were inscribed.

deal of the cards with an accuracy which quite ruled out any element of chance. This is much higher pro-

bigh pressure was seldom found. Snid Miss Walshe, who lives in portion of persons with the gift of clairvoyance than has so far been found among normal subjects,

of title and that your husband is Handforth-roud, Brixton, S.W.: "t member of a well-known family, if anything, adds, in my view, to the married him in Belfast, eighteent seriousness of the crimes you have years been found guilty of.

"I have not the slightest doubt that

you, knowing that you could not obtain money from your bank, dell berately set out to obtain money by deceiving the tradesmen whose name are contained in the indletment in this case."

THOUGHT ACcount was opEN

For Lady Makgill it was stated that in March

her this year bank manager told her he was about to close her account.

Lady Makgill told counsel she was expecting some money from a friend, which would be paid into the account,

DXO. I have two children. They know the truth-but his name

is never mentioned in our house.

"MODEL HUSBAND"

"While there was money about or there was anything to make money with he was content to be the model husband. But, when there was no- thing left he turned his attentions to other fields."

Said Mrs. Collyer, the real wife. who had been listening to afis Walsho: "Yes. You have put it

in a nutshell. When we had no- thing it didn't matter to him if his victims auffered or not."

and she asked that it might be kept | And while Mrs. Collyer and Miss open, but if the manager decided to Walshe were shaking hands on the clase it she would like to have berj wish of future happiness, Mrs. Jones pass-book to indiente the fact.

said: "Nothing but bad has been

As she did not receive the pass- said of him to-day. I knew him as book, she assumed everything was in a good man. He was always good order, and

and thought her friend had to me, and I hold nothing against paid in the money as promised. There him, and will say nothing against was never any difficulty in Lady him. Makgill getting money.

Lady

"I heard him preach. He did dy Makgili, in the witness-box, referring recently to an application in good work-visiting the sick and dis poor. The world may say, 'Hypo-

the Chancery Division to vary her crisy! but I do not care what the marriage settlement, said she had

think or say. He was reason for her

application to have the world may settlement varied.

always good to me. I forgive him everything."

The

Recorder (Sir Holman Gregory, K.C.) To

raise

capital? Yes, to pay After that

that application, she raid, she

off some debts.

lost

sho

the settlement, which was only TRUE ONE ABOUT THE

a small one. Since July last year

had been receiving money from her husband. She did not have a regular allowance. She became naso- clated with a company, and in the course of her business lent cheques to various people on the under- standing that they would pay the

cash into her account.

ABSENT-MINDED

PROFESSOR

Belgrade, July, Professor Milan Vukichevitch of

One man to whom she lent a cheque this city may apply for the champion- had disappeared, and others' had not ship of professorial absent-minded- kept their promises.

NCBS.

" HAVE BEEN FOOLISH" . He published the following adver-│* "I went about this matter In an tisement in the local press: kliotle way," she added, "and that is "I am appealing to the landlord the reason why I am in this trouble," of the furnished room for which I The Recorder-Why did you lend paid one Found rent in advance after these cheques when you know you engaging it, a few days ago. I retain had no money in the bank?—I thought the keys, but have completely for- my account was still open. I must gotten the street and number." admit I have been foolish,

It was not until the professor had When she found cheques. were hired a taxi to take his. belonging being returned sho visited her from his old quarters, that he realized, solicitors and then went to the bank he had forgotten the location of his to ask why her pass book had not new lodgings, been returned to her. She was told

During March he gavo her £23 and, various other amounts.

It was thought that she was going to call for it.

Cross-examined, Lady Mekgül sald her husband gave her mongy, every

Mr. Maude-You were actually week and she earned some

living together in March and April? He gave her. £10 on Monday. We were when he was in town.

ASTOUNDING FEATS

Trials made with children of sub- normal Intelligence by other in- vestigators showed that the faculty of sixth sense

not u function of Intelligence. Twenty-two retarded children showed as much success as those of normal standard.

A famous Instance of this is a little Kirl, Ilga, who, though feeble-minded, performed astounding Latvian

feats of lelepathy.

Children in general, even when as young as three years, appear to have the gift very much more than adults.

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4.10 p.m. Close down. 5-8 p.m. European Programme, 8-11 p.m.

Chinese Programme. 5.00 Relay of the Hongkong Hotel Dance Orchestra from the Roof Garden of the Hongkong Hotel,

1. Embassy Stomp; 2. Malihin! Mele: 3. Lonesome Gullar; 4. Clarinet Marmalade.

recorded

5.15-0.20 Interval of music from ZBW.

5.20 5. Whispering: 0. Top of the Honeysuckle Rose. Town;

7. Nobody's Sweetheart; 8.

Dr. T. A. Ross, who presided, said that many patients were sent to the paychiatrist and stated to be suffering from high blood pressure, but such 5,35-5.40 Interval of recorded

music from ZBW. The truth was that the doctor

5.40 0. Goodnight my Love; 10. Go undertaking the first examination had to Town; 11. Blues in "E" Flat; 12. upset the patient, leaving him in Tain't Good........ state of doubt about certain things, and in that condition had taken ils blood pressure and inwardly thanked

0.00 13. Your Eyes. have told me God that at last he had found a so; 14. The Champagne Waltz; 15. A physical sign.

Beauliful Lady in Blue; 16. The Rose in Her Hair.

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from ZBW.

5.65-8 Interval of recorded music

6.20 17. Playboy

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of Parce; Eyed Susan Brown; 10. There's

He recalled that in "Sinbad the Sailor," when the ship was dashed 4.15-8.20 Interval of recorded to pieces, "the captain fell on the deck music from ZBW. and tore his beard and his hair, and his gall-bladder was swollen rage and with mortification."

Dr. Willian Hewetson suggested that the greater prevalence at Children's Overture (Quliter) New gastric ulcer at the present time was Light Symphony Orchestra; Now we due to excessive worry and excessive Arc Six (Fraser-Simson-Poems by

use of tobacco.

CRIME CHIEF Says:

U.S. Gangsters Quiet

Now, But

By A Correspondent

Southampton, July 15.

30 in the Air.

Children's Records.

A. A. Milne). Intro: The Emperor's

Furry Bear; Sneezles, The

Music.

0.49 Organ awford (Soprano). Traumebel (Schumann)...Edwin H. Lemare; Symphony No. 4-Adante Cantabile (Widor): La Nult (Elert) ....Harry Goss-C

Variety Pro

Programme.

Lionel Monckton Melodies. Intro: Soldiers in the Park, Chalk Farm to Camberwell Green, Fly

away Jack,

A simple little string. When I marry Amelia, Grandmammo,

Brighton: Moonstruck, Already ever young It's the Drum, Come to the Ball, A Country Girl...Al Bollington

Broken-Hearted

Clown (Nocl-Pelosi); INeed You (H.APA Botterell)........Lastic Hutchinson

(Piano): Was Anything But Senti-

"THERE has been a marked improvement in United

States crime figures, in the past few months,"mental; Birdie Out Of A Cage (Film:

- said burly, jovial Dr. Raymond F. C. Kich to me to-day

as he landed here from the liner Queen Mary from New York.

And there's not much about erime that Dr. Kieb does not know, for he has been for four years New York Commissioner of Correction and for 24 years superintendent of the Mattewan State Hospital, the Broadmoor of the United States.

He has come over to attend the second international Congress for Mental Hygiene in Paris and hopes to visit Broadmoor and Scotland Yard.

"Yes," he said, "as soon as IT CAN'T GO ON evidences of the depression dis-

Take my tip)....Cicely Courtneldge

Island Medicy. Intro: Huwallan Sun- shine, Hawallan Eyes; Howahaw, On the Lagoon, The Lela Song. .. The Twilight Serenaders. Favourite Favourites No. 2. Intro: Stumbling. Sleepy Time Girl, When the leaves

and Jack Huibert (Song); South Sca

come tumbling down....The Bally- hooligans.

7.30 Closing local Stock Quota- tions and Hongkong Exchange Market Report.

7.35 Latest dance records.

Fox

Fax Trot-Let's Put Our Heads Together; Fox Trot-With Plenty of Money and You.....Roy Fox & His Bolitary Confinement: As a deter-Orchestra: Waltz-Will You Remem- appeared, crime went down too. Trent to the criminal I am not in ber; Fox Trot-Swing High, Swing Levy & His Gaumont- I think the slump, was very

favour at it, although it might be Low Louis Lou

SymphWeather: largely to blame for our recent valuable in isolated

Trol Speak cases. The crop of wrongdoing."

chances are that it breaks down the ing Of The

Wall-My personality of the prisoner, and then Heart's In Old Killarney.....George Ellott & His Sweet Music Makers; Here are other things Dr: you have an abnormal individual to Tango Fox Trot-Don't Play With deal with someone who will be Fire; Fox Trot-My Little Buckaroo. Kieb had to say:

to society. Why then do Film: There are certain types of

which will make him o Alms which have an unfavourable menace? inBuence on the public, notably Gangsters: Everything la now fairly: gangster plots and wild west scenes. quiet on the gangster front in the (Chinese). The exploitation of aex crimes is an United States, but that can't go on exceedingly bad influence, for it indefinitely, We shall assuredly 11 p.m. Close down. encourages some types of people to have more trouble of the sonte sort from ZEK On a Frequency of G40 B-11 p.m. European Programme | imitate the escapades they have seen, sooner or later, for history invariably Kilogrcles.

If not excel them.

repeats itself.

(Continued on Page 4.)

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and Announcements. 03-11 p.m.

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