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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,

NOVEMBER, - 9,

1937.

WANTED TO REPAY Spanish Girls

HE

WIDOW'S LOAN, SO HE FORGED

EDWIN

SHAW, dapper and be-

', spectacled Post Office sorter, is an cloquent mun of fifty-six. His eloquence induced his widowed land-

An eloquent man, and mighty in the Serip- tures. Acta

Judy to land him £260-her life sav-18, 24. inge.

Edwin Shaw knows his Bible by heart, he read it every day-this also impressed his widowed landlady, elderly Mrs. Bevis, of St. Albans-crescent, Wood Green, N., where Shaw has lodged for eighteen years. She had not a word to say against him.

Until recently she did not know) that her life savings had gone, that | Shaw Intercepted bank books and forged withdrawal forms so that he could pay back that £280 he had borrowed from her.

She did not know when he Jeft her home in the morning that he was going to the Old-Balley, that hel was going into the dock.

She did not know until several hours later that he had been sen- tenced to twelve months' imprison- ment, that he had explained ini Court:

In 1926

SPILSBURY.

CRITICISES

NURSING HOME

Sir Bernard Spilsbury, giving evidence at a Burton-on-Trent in- was worth £3,000. I quest recently on a young mother decided to invest on the Stock Ex-whose body had been exhumed, change, did well for a few years, expressed the view that insuffi then lost everything. This year cient precautions were taken at became obsessed with the wish to the nursing home where she went pay back money I had borrowed."

to have her baby.

REGARDED AS SON

The woman. Mrs. Gladys May.

And even now Mrs. Bevis will noll ghepherd, aged thirty, gave birth tol

say a hard word against Edwin Shaw. She said recently:

In-

In baby in the Burton Nursing

stitution on May 11; on May 15 she

"I looked upon him as my own! was removed to the isolation has- son. If I had lost twice as much pitai as a scarlet fever mispect; the would bear him no grudge. Ilia

place here will be waiting for him died on May 21.

During a motoring through the renowned Yellowstone National Park, President Roosevelt and his wife were attended by one of the bears in the park who greeted the distinguish- ed couple as the picture shows. course, he got many sweets.

'Sterilised'

Heiress Marries

New York.

Of

Anne Cooper Hewilt, the young heltens who accused her mother of having deprived her of the right to motherhood, is married. In a sensational elopement from San Francisco, Miss Hewill went to Grant's Pans, Oregon, and was mor- ried to Ronald Gay, Kurige fore-

man.

She gave her age as 23, and the bridegroom gave his as 32.

when he ln able to come back.

I am

Sir Bernard Spilsbury said his sure he is an honest man. He is a examination showed that Mrs. Shep-| teetotaler. He read his Bible every hard died from puerperal fever. day. It was almost his only read-

The marriage begins a new chapter ing.

her The coroner (Mr. J. H. Bishop): Is in the lite of a girl known for it your view that every precaution misiertues.

"He hud few friends, went for was taken or not taken in the nursing solltury walks.

I did not know the home to prevent her becoming in- trouble he was in, otherwise fected? might have been abis to help him. would never have worried him about

i

Str Bernard: I think the fact that

my money, he was welcome to that, she developed it is the answer.

Now he has gone to prison. terrible."

It fa

Show

Another friend aald that earned £4.10.0 week and been working at the London Office for thirty-seven years.

"He was of a saving nature a bachelor. I understand that lost £1,000 in one investment."

Village Full Of "Williams"

had Post

The coroner: Every precaution not taken?-That is so,

QUESTION TO MATRON

"I cannot help feeling," Sir Ber- nard said, "that it was a mistake that a nurse who had recently been and attending a patient already suffering he from a replic condition, or who, at nny rate, bad a high temperature which might have meant that, should have been an attendant in the case of another woman."

Bay Bulls, Nfld.

Almost one-third of the 1,200 residents of this thriving Ashing een tre are named Williams, nithough few are related. They explain that ji "Just limppened" that many

Miss Ethel Green, malron of the institution, was asked by the coroner: "Why were gloves not issued nurses?"

"They use them now," was reply.

The

coroner

the

Her father, the late Peter Cooper Hewall, the inventur, left her a for-

Lune.

Last year his daughter declar- ed beloro a San Francisco grand

·Jury that her mother had tricked which her into an operation made her incapable of Juving children.

Charges against the mother and

two San Francisco doctors were filed, but the doctors were acquitted.

The charges against the mother were dropped, but the £100,000 sult for damages against her is sti}} before the courts.

.

The daughter alleged that the sterilisation was performed to per- mit the mother to inherit her fortune.

Have Changed Since The

Civil War

(By Melanie Pflaum) United Press Stag Correspondent.

Madrid,

Senerila Charito Leonis, favourite of Lain motion picture fans, said recently that the forbidding duenna -constant chaperon of unmarried Spanish girls for centuries-has been banished by the Civil War.

"I go out on dates alone, and so do all my friends," Chorlto cald proudly. "My mother threatens to throw me out of the house, and my father says he is ashamed to have me for a daughter-but everyone's parente ure saying the same thing.

"We don't have to wear montillon any more, and we don't have to be followed around by n, duenna."

If Charlto has asserted her new freedom, most of the young girls of Spain will soon be doing it, for she sets many of Spain's styles.

At the dress show given by the British Institute of Dress Designers in London, students from various parts of the world displayed clothes

The United Press correspondent which it is forecast will be used in found the movie aetross in a cafe 1970. The picture shows how a man with a young man. There wasn't aand women may dress in 25 years' chaperon in sight. Always before she time.

had been accompanied, by her. 75- year-old grandmother, or 60-year-old nutt.

"Oh no, I won't let them go about Wife's £1,000

with me any more," she said.

"It is very exciting to have dates

alone with a boy, especially now

when the streets are all dark at night Shrank To

because of the air raids and there's only the moon.

"Besides, you never know when o shell might picks you out and then it would be all over anyway, 50 Wo might just as well enjoy life while we can and try not to miss too much of the fun if it ends soon.

£25-In

10 Minutes

A husband's maintenance

arrears

Charito, a blonde, had her greatest | amounting to £1,008 were reduced Alm success in the movie "Verbena de in Paloma" (Polr of the Dove).

£25 recently at Marylebone Police Court-within ten minutes.

The husband is Horace Cozens, of Eltham, Kent.

"BUMPED INTO" HIM

Russell

She is typical of the generation of Spain's young girls, whose ideas and customs have been changed by the 14-months-old civil war.

"Marringe," she said, "isn't the solemn affair It used to be.

"Many of my

It was stated that he left his wife brides. Some of them married in England when he went to Canada hurriedly just a few days before their | about 15 years ago. husbands went off to the front. And some of them are widows already.

friends

are war

LADY GODIVA

MAY RIDE AGAIN

(IN A PLAIN VAN)

Lady Codica will ride through the streets of Coventry again-probably in a plain van-if Hampstead, N.W., Council refuse to accept the offer of an oil painting of her made by the lale Thomas Hancock Nunn, London's Poor Law reformer.

Mr. Nunn bequeathed the painting to Hampstead Council in his will

cil have second offer.

Mice In Rainbow Hues published recently. Coventry Coun

London. Even those who have had occasional visions of "pink" mice"might"well ex- said he could see claim at the array of coloured mice nothing that called for comment or exhibited at Market Hall. Not only of the censure, and the fury, returning awere there pink mice, white mice, and early settlers, coming from all parts verdict of "Misadventure." decided mouse-coloured mice, but blue mice. of the country, were named Williams that no blame attached to the doc-silver mice, black mice, red mice, gold They have devised a system of "nick-tors, the institution, or the isolation mice, names" to avoid confusion.

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Support for marriage ẞtness lesis has grown greatly in the last few years, especially in view of the falling birth-rate. Viscount Dawson of Penn, writing In the Lancet, recently stated: "To-

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