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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,

NOVEMBER 9, 1937.

HE WANTED TO REPAY Spanish Girls

WIDOW'S LOAN, SO HE FORGED

EDWIN SHAW, dapper and be-

An eloquent and

mighty In the Scrip- tures Acts

spectacled Post Office sorter, is an an eloquent man of fifty-six. His cloquence induced his widowed land- lady to land him £260-her life sav- ings.

18, 24.

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 fe anvings had gone, that Shaw intercepted bank books and forged withdrawal forma so that he could pay back that C260 he had) borrowed from her."

teft

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

She did not know umál several hours later that he had been sen~} tenced to twelve months' imprison- ment, that he had explained in court:-

SPILSBURY

CRITICISES

NURSING

HOME

Sir Bernard Spilsbury, giving evidence at a Burton-on-Trent in-

In 1920 1 was worth £3,000. I quest recently on a young mother decided to invest ant the Stock Ex-whose body had been exhumed, change, did well for a

years, expressed the view that insuffi-

few

then lost everything. This year cient precautions were taken at became obsessed with the wish to the nursing home where she went |

to have her baby.

pay back money had barrowed,"

REGARDED AS SON

hard word

ainst Edwin

The

woman, Mrs. Gladys May

Aud even now Mrs. Bevis will at Shepherd, Aged thirty, gave birth to fa baby in the Burton Nursing In- stitution on May 11; on May 15 she

#iy Shaw. She said recently:

"I looked upon him as my own was removed to the isolation hos son. If I had lost twice as much pital as a scarlet fever suspect; she would bear him no grudge. Its

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

During moloring through the renowned Yellowstone Nutional Park, President

wile Roosevelt and his were attended by one of the bearu in the park who greeted the distinguish- ed couple as the picture shown. Of course, he got many sweets.

"Sterilised' Heiress Marries

New York. Anne Cooper Hewitt, the young helress who accused her mother of having deprived her of the right to motherhood, is married. Insensational elopement

from

San Francisco. Miss Hewitt went in Grants Pass, Oregon, and was mar- ried to Ronald Gay, a garage fore-

121:115.

She gave her age as 23, and the

when he is able la corne buck. I am Sir Bernard Spilsbury said. his, sure he is an honest man. He is examination showed that Mrs. Shep-i brategroom gave hus as 32. teetotaler. He read his Bible every herd died from puerperal fever. day. It was almost his only read- Ing.

The cormer (Mr. J. H. Bishop): Is It your view that every previation "He had few friends, went for was taken or not taken in the nursing soiltary walks. I did not know the home to prevent her becoming in- trouble

he

otherwise was in,

fected? might have been able to help him. 1 would never have warried him about!· Sir Bernard: my money, he was welcome to that, she developed it is the answer. Now he has gone to prison. It is! terrible."

Another friend said that Shaw earted £4,16 week and had been working at the London Posi 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"

think the fact that?

The eeroner Every precaution inot taken?-That is so,

QUESTION TO MATRON

"I ennnot help feeling." Sir Ber- nard said, "that

a mistake it was that a nurse who had recently been andjattending patient already suffering he from aseptic conditon, or who, at any rate, hnd high temperature which might have mcant that, (should have been an attendant in

the case of another woman."

Miss Ethel Green, matron of the institution, was usked by the coroner:

The narringe begins a new chapter in the lie of a gr known Sur mistortunes,

Her father, the late Peter Cooper lewat, the inventor, left her a for-

tune.

Last year his daughter declar- ed before a ban Francisco grau Jury that her mother hat tricke her into BUE operation which made her incapable of having children.

Charges against the mother and wo San Francisco ductors were fited, but the doctors were acquitted.

The churges against the mother were dropped, but the £100,000 suit for damages against her before the courts,

좋았다 sull

The daughter alleged that the sterilisation was performed to per- mil the mother to inherit her tortune,

"Why were loves not issued to Mice In Rainbow Hues

nurses?"

Bay Bulls, Nfld. one-third of the -residents of this thriving fishing-cen- | reply.

Almost

1,200)

They use them now." was the

London.

Even those who have had occasional - visions of pink mice might well ex-

tre are named Williams, although few| The coron. sald he could see claim at the array of coloured mice are related. They explain that It

nothing that called for comment or exhibited at Market Hall. Not only "Just happened" that many of the censure, and the jury, returning were there pink mice, white mice, and carly settlers, coming froin all parts verdict of "Misadventure." decided mouse-coloured mice, but blue mlee.

of the country, were named Williams that no blame attached to the due-silver mice, black mice, red mice, gold They have devised a system of "nick-tors, the institution, or the isolationlee, chocolate mice and names" to avoid confusion.

hospital.

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SMOKERS' REQUISITES

Have Changed Since The Civil War

(By Melanie Pilaum) United Press Staff Correspondent.

Madrid.

sald

Senorita Charito Leonis, favourite of Latin motion picture fans, recently that the forbidding duenae -constant chaperon of unmarried Spanists girls for centuries-has been banished by the Civil War.

"I out on dates alone, and co do all my friends," Charito sald proudly, "My mother threatens to throw me out of the house, and my Inther says he is ashamed to have me for a daughter-but everyone's parents are saying the same thing.

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

At the dress show given by the It Charito has asserted her new British Institute of Dress Designera freedom, most of the young girls of

In London, students from varlous Spain will soon be doing i, for she

parts of the world displayed clothes sels many of Spain's styles.

which it is forcenst will be used in 1970. The plcture shows how a man and woman may dress in 25 years'

The United Press correspondent cafe fund the movie actress in a with a young man. There wasn't choperon in sight. Always before, she time.

75- had been accompanied by her year-old grandmother, or 10-year-old aunt.

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

with me any more, she.sold,

"It is very exciting to have dales alone with a boy. especially when the streets are all dark at night; because of the air raids and there's: only the moon.

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

Charito, a blonde, had her greatest film success In the movie "Verbena de la Paloma" (Pair of the Dove).

The

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

"Marriage," she suld, isn't solemn affair It used to be.

friends "Many of my brides. Some of them married hurriedly just a few days before their husbands went off to the front. some of them are widows already.

are Wir

And

LADY GODIVA MAY RIDE AGAIN

(IN A PLAIN VAN)

Lady Godiva will ride through the strecta of Coventry again--probably in a plain van-if Hampstead, N.W., Connell refuse to accept the offer of an of painting pf her made by the late Thomas Hancock Nunn, London's Poor Law reformer,

Mr. Nunn bequeathed the painting

In Hampstead Council in his will published recently. Coventry Coun-

have second offer.

eil

"I think the council would like

to see it before accepting” said

Councillor B.S: Townroc, of Hamp- stead.

But Alderman O.

M. Flinn, of

Coventry, usked, "What's the matter with it? It isn't naughty, is it? think we should take it,”

Campaign to Stop "Unfits" Marrying

Backed by many of the greatest experts in the land, a campaign is being prepared to prevent marriage among people physically or mentally unft.

Medical tests before marriage are

Chief proposed.

object ut the moment is to get the campaign linked up ofeinlly with the new fit- ness drive.

Support for marriage fitness tests has grown greatly in the Inst few years, especially in view of the falling birth-rate.

Viscount Dawson of Penn, writing in the Lancet, recently stated: "To-

or

day weaklings are preserved in large numbers and, supported partly wholly by the community, marry and produce bad strains and do damage to the next generation. Our polley must be to rear at children."

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A husband's maintenance amounting to £1,008 were reduced to £25 recently at Marylebone Police Court-within ten minutes.

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"BUMPED INTO" HIM.

It was stated that he left his wife in England when he went to Canada about 15 years ago.

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