1937-11-02 — Page 27

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY,

NOVEMBER

1937.

DOCTOR WITH SABRE IN

HOTEL

STORY OF "I WILL KILL YOU" THREAT

Carried From Court By. Four Policemen

Dorchester, Oct. 3.

AFTER a midnight struggle on a lonely country

road, a middle-aged doctor, with a sword, a knife, and a gun in his car, visited an hotel and slashed with a sabre at a 23-years-old waiter.

This was stated at Blandford (Dorset) to-day, when Dr. Charles Carrick Brewis, of Mappowder, near Dorchester, was found guilty of assaulting Edgar Ken- neth Geale, and remanded in custody for a fortnight.

The chairman said Brewis

would be under observation while BODIES STILL

in prison.

To this Brewis replied; "But I have

gol to go to the British Medles) As-

sociation to-night."

SWORD IN COURT

During the hearing Brewbs asked

If the magistrate would like to see the sabre,

Taking it out of a brown paper parcel, he unsheathed 1.

FOUND ON BATTLEFIELDS

London, Oct. 1.

A very interesting account of the

SCENE

IN CHINESE

COFFIN

BOATS

This funereal procession on the river at Shangfal shows co Mn-laden boats bearing away bodles of bombing and shell Ing victims in the ancient city. Small coming on boat at left in- dicate some of the victims we re children. Bodles of uncounted other victims were merely tossed into the river or burned, while disease ravaged the area.

Civil Servant Major Denies "Subversive" Work Among Soldiers

work and policy of the imperial War MAJOR WILFRED FOULSTON VERNON, a civil

Graves Commission has just been published. It is written by Sir

servant with a position in the Air Ministry, was

MAN WAGES

A

PRIVATE

WAR'

Mr. Lawton: Have a look at s

letter from a friend is "Dear Wilfred,

"It is a Japanese ser Fabian Ware, who has been vice-questioned at Surrey Quarter Sessions, Kingston-on-letter. The opening sentence of die

been hanging on my wall four years," he said.

Geale's solicitor, Mr. Chieveley Wil- liams, said that on August 15 Brewis) dined at a Blandford hotel.

Later, at 11.30, Geale saw Brewis at the wheel of his car, using bad language.

As Brewis was apparently unfit to drive, Geule eventually put his bicycle in the back of the car and drove Brewis towards his home.

KNIFE THREAT

"

Chairman of the Commission siner its foundation.

He gives a detailed account of the subversive Communist activities in the Army. work of the Commission durint twenty years, 1917 to 1937.

Thames, recently, about his alleged association

It is revealed that bodies found on the battlefields are still being buried. Slace 1921 no general

allegations were emphatically denied.

£17 15s, from

MET VERNON IN BOOTSHOP

with if you have turned into a very The Bond voting Red, I take it, then, you will be satisfied that the hook left behind at Green Hill has fulfilled the purpose." Do you still say you

ROYAL WEDDING.

'CURIOSITY'

Four men were bound over for a wards the car near Major Vernon's are not a Communist? Yes. search has year for stealing books, documents bungalow.. Leen undertaken, but 30,000 more bodles have been found and are still and articles worth con coming to light at the rate of twenty Major Vernon. They were found not to thirty a week. These are found guilty of breaking and entering his by farmers, metal-searchers, and home at Old Park Farm, Farnham, others. it is still possible to identify After five miles Brewis took out from 10 to 15 per cent. of the bodies Surrey, and of being in possession of an imitatlon firearm when arrested. discovered, He told Geald he had been "carving human bodles 25 years

D'Arcy James Maun, twenty-five, labourer, of Glenoch-road, Belsize Park, NW;

pocket knife.

and was now carving up dogs with Dog Dead: Son Goes On

this knife."

Brewis demanded that Geale should stop the car. They exchanged seats, and after 50 yards Brewis drove into the bank.

Turning to free the ear, Geale was bending down when he heard Brewis say he was "going to kill film."

London, Oct. 3. Swansea Jack the seven-your-old | black retriever, who has saved the lives of twenty-nine people and two dogs from downing and other perils. has died through rat poison which he plcked up. He won innumerable cups, He found Brewis grasping starting handle, which he swung at medals and other mementoes of his heruism. But his Son Swansea Bob, Geale's head. "Geale closed with Brewis to save now old enough to carry on the owner himself, overpowered him, und being family traditions, says

of Trobooth. frightened, left him there," said Mr.Mr. William Thomas,

Swansen. Williams.

Next day Brewis arrived at the hotel, saying to Geale, "You are the

nearly killed little-who

me

last

night. Now I am going to kill you," He produced a pocket-knite ond

then в sabre.

He alashed at Geale, who side. stepped, and the sabre was em- bedded in a pillar of the porch, Brewis struck the post again before the heat walter told him to stop.

"CARRY ME"

Denying the accusation and pro- ducing a bloodstained shirt, Brewis declared: "I am going to charge Geale with altempted murder."

After several exchanges with the magistrates, during which he de- clared: "You must hear my case. I will keep you here to seven o'clock," Brewis was remanded.

Saying "You must carry me," he

taken from court policemen

Wan

The chairman hud told him:

a most serious charge."

the

The men were:-

Jolin Charles Preen, twenty-six, labourer; of Westbourne-grove, W.; Reginald Alexander Dawson eighteen, labourer, of Carlingford- road, Hampstead, N.W.; and

There is a document I want to put Mr. McClure referred to a state to you. You can identify it, and ment which Ford made to the police. tell me if you have seen it before. In this statement, which was read Is this a document which a loyal sub- in court later, Ford said he joined jeet would have in his possession "The the Royal Army Medical. Corps in one moment? It is headed January 1034 at Colchester. He had Royal Wedding. The Greeks had a previously been a member of the fie-word for it. Gold-digging ex-rayal publican Army in Ireland, and, hav-tles get a break." It is a curiosity. ing resigned, he thought he would Mr. Lawton later handed a bundle Join the British Army to propagate of letters to Major Vernon. Major Communism.

Vernon sald that the addresses on them were addresses of people he met in Russia.

When in Ireland he had informa- Lion about calling at a bootmakers' shop in Aldershot. It was there that he met Vernon.

Thomas Jonathan Ford, twenty- They met later at Vernon's but

und Vernon spoke of the various ac six, agent, of Sinclair-road, W. Mr. G. B. McClure, prosecuting, tivities which could be carried out in said that the four men were arrested the forces. Vernon suggested that In a car after they had been seen he should get the names of soldiers carrying a bundle and a suit case to-who might be useful for the cause.

"The arst time I met Vernon he gave me ten shillings to assist me. knowing the Army pay was very little," added the statement. "Sub sequently he gave me more, on one occasion £2."

Young Wife Dies With

Husband In Crash

"Safe Pilot" Killed After Friend's Accident Dream

by four A TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD pilot and his two pas- sengers, a young married couple, were killed when

"It is

Vernon gave him Communistic literature to distribute among the soldiers, and ho dropped it about the camp.

The statement went on:" It worried me, as I liked my comrades, and I de- elded to desert. Vernon gave me ten shillings. I ceased my activities as Communist worker, went to Ireland and returned to England in May 1935, and gave myself up."

Mr. Lawton: And these are Com- munistle songs of yours?-Yes.

Major Vernon sald that he had met Ford before inadvertently. He agreed that he met him in Aldershot ĝin a bootmaker's shop.

He did not know that Ford a! some time was a prominent Com- munist worker in this country. Ford did not talk Communism with him. Mr. Lawton: Why did you instruct counsel to hold a watching brie! for you? Did you not feel something like this would be brought out?- Like what?

Mr. Lawton: That you were dia- loyal.

Major Vernon did not reply.

Mr. Lawton also asked weather Ford's statement was true, and Major Vernon replied that some sentences were true, but not many, Police Constable Tanner, who arrested the four men, agreed that "acemed happy and pleased they with themselves."

Mr. Lawton: They thought they one something very great. done hud

In evidence Ford said that the facts, as set out in his statement,were true. His purpose in going to Farnham was "to secure seditious and Bol- Major Vernon gave evidence and shevist literature" which was in Mr. told of identifying articles which had Vernon's house and take it to the been taken from his bungalow. He Secret Service department in White- Naval Air Force and held a fairly re- Ford said that he had joined the

He was sentenced to three months in the "Glasshouse" (the military de- tention establishment at Aldershot), and was finally discharged from the Army.

only a mercy of Gat you are not on the airplane in which they were flying to Donington Park sald he was a major is the Royal holl.

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The victims were:--

Mr. Derrick Clive HoweH. of Countess Cross House, Colne Engnine, Essex, the pilut,

Mr. F. H. Lawton (defending): incident, but did not collect his You were acquainted with the con- friends from the headquarters of the dition of the Civil Service that its Fascist Party in London. He was ton, the home of Mr. J. C. Shields. members should not participate in not acting on anybody's instructions.

in whose field the 'plane felt.

One of the first people on the scene was the pilot of a plune front London, who hard landed at Doning- Mr. John Wally, aged twenty-four,} und his wife, Jessie, of the Fairway, ton a few minutes previously. Upminster, Essex.

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So completely did the plane burn out that only a small pile of wreck- age remained.

active political work? I know the regulations.

You get paid by his Majesty's Government, don't you? Are you loyal to the Government?—Yes. Would you say there are some pro- Villagers who rushed to the rescue

ple who might think you were dis- were unable to reach the machine, Among the relics was found a loyal to his Majesty's Government? which burst into flames as it struck plate bearing the inscription: J. POh, there are some suspicious people. the ground, and burned so fiercely Wakefield, Esq. Sedgwick House,

that the bodies of the victims when Kendal, Westmorland, and the let- Mr. Lawton said: "Let us see some, afterwords found were unrecognisters GAAEER.

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Asked what right he had to organise a raid on anybody's house, Ford Bald;,

He called for a sull-care, which

his

They were taken to Melbourne It is understood that Mr. Wake- found their suspicions." railway station, which is nowadays fleld, who sold the machino a short was opened and contained a number he could do to expose Major Vernon,

used only for mineral traffic.

While the bodies were being removed, after the flames hind died down, the roar of the racing cars, sweeping round the wide circuit of Donington Park, could be plainly

heard.

The machine, a blue B.A. Eagle three-seater cabin monoplane, was seen circling round for some time. apparently in dificulties.

It appeared as if the plot searching for a landing place.

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"It was about five hundred feet up," said Mr. Tom Burlon, a farm Band, when suddenly its Upped.

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Then it fell like a stone. "When it hit the ground, it burst into amoke and flames,"

As soon

the crash was seen Police Constable Clarke, of Breedon, iwas rushed to the scene In a car from the Manor House, Haley Wal-

"It may not be justified by the Jaw.

CANCE but in some

things which cannot be justified by the law can be Justified by a good molive. I am waging, more or less, private war on Bolshevism." Preen said that he thought it was duty na a loyal citizen to see what The Imitation firearm found in the Mann said that he associated him- You are quite certain that you do car belonged to his small boy, not indulge in active political work? self with the evidence of his code- Mr. Howell was a member of the I am a member of the Labour fendants. Dawson sald he did what Southend Flying Club, and was Party. regarded as one of the clovereal Merely a member who pays his sub-any other patriotic Englishman would and safest as well as one of the scriptions?-And attends the meet-have done.

time ago, is now in Italy.

The plane had been kept latterly at Southend.

most enthusiastic of pilots.

He was training for n D Heence, and intended to become an instruc-| tor.

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After binding the men over the chairman said: "You won't go and' make these ralds again?" They replied in clarus, "No." Mr. B. A. C. Duncan, for Mr. Mr. Wally was

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sive character: His wife was also learning to fly. His Majesty's Army?--No.

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