1937-11-09 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1937.

HE WANTED TO REPAY Spanish Girls

WIDOW'S LOAN, SO HE FORGED

EDWIN SHAW, dapper and be

spectacled Post Office sorter, is an

eloquent man

of

fifty-six. His

eloquence induced his widowed land- lady to land him £260-her life say- ings.

An eloquent

man, [ 23 (3 mighty Iti

the Scrip-

tures. Acts

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-erescent, 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 ist her fe pavings had gone, that Shaw intercepted bank booke and forged withdrawal forms so that he could pay back that £260 he had borrowed from her.

She did not know when be

her home in the morning that he was going to the Old Bailey, that he was going into the dock.

She did not know until several

hours hater 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 Jevidence at a Burton-on-Trent in-

In 1826 I was worth £3,000. quest recently on a young mother decited to invest on the Stock Ex-whose body had been exhumed, change, did well for a few years, expressed the view that insufh- sparcient precautions were taken at became obsessed will the wish to the nursing home where she went

to have her baby.

then lost everything.

This

pay back money I had borrowed,"

REGARDED AS SON

The woman,

Mus Gladys May.

And even now Mrs. Bevis will not Shephert, aged thirty, gave birth to saya hard word against Edwin

a baby in the Burton Nursing In- Show. She said recently;

stitution on May 11: on May, 16 she

1 looked upon him, as my own was removed to the Eulation ho: sh. If I had lost twier as much 1pital as a scarlet fever suspert; she

grudge

died on May 21.

1

would bear him pace here will be waiting for him

ico he is able to come back. 12 Su Bernard Spilsbury said his sure he is an honest man. He is examination showed that Mrs. Shep-| Letotaler. He read his Bible every heed died frous puerperal fever, Jay. 11 was almost his only real-

ng

"He had few

|

During a sutoring through the renowned Yellowston National Park, President Ranevelt and by wife were attended by one of the bears In the park who greeted the distingulab- ed couple as the picture shows. Of course, be gui mahy sweets.

"Sterilised'

Heiress Marries

New York.

Anne Cooper Hewitt, the young heiress who accused her mother of having deprived her of the right to motherhood, is married.

In a sensational elopement fennta San Francisco, Mls: Hewift went to Grant's Pass, Oregon, and was mar- ried to Ronald Gay, a garage fore- man

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

list

The marriage begins a new chapter for her The coroner (Mr. 4. 1. Bishopy: Ispin the site of a par koown your view that every precaution misfortunes, friends. went for was taken or not Inken is the nursing | politary walks. I did not know the home to parent her becoming in

otherwise I freted"

trouble he

might have been able to help him. ¿would never have worried him about Sir Bermurd, I think the fact that'

my money, he was welcome to that, ibe devi toped it as the answer. Now he has gone to prison. It Is terrible."

:

Another friend said that Shaw earned £4.16.0 a week and had been working at the London Pust

Omce for thirty-seven years.

He was of a saving nature

a bachelor. I understand that

last £1.000 in one Investment,"

Village Full Of "Williams"

The coroner: Every preentitions i fast laken?-erant is 80,

QUESTION TO MATRON

Her father, the late Peter Cooper Hewitt, the buentor, left ties a tur-

tune.

Last year his daughter deelar- ed before a San Francisco grand Jury that her mother had tricked her into a operatioss nade Ber

dres

having

Charges against the mother and

"I cannot help feeling." Sir Ber-two San Frutesco doctors were fled, nord sald, "that it was mistake but the doctors were acquitted. that a nurse who had recently_been

and attending a patient already suffering The charges against the mother

is still

lar from a septie condition, or who, aff were dropped, but the 4100,000 sult

otky rate, had a high temperature for damages against her which might have menal that, before the courts,

Bay Bulls, Nfld.

1,200

Almost one-third of the residents of this thriving fishing cen-

H

tre are named Williams, although few

should have been on attendant in The daughter alleged that the the care of another woman."

sterilisation was performed to per- mit the mother to inherit her fortune.

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

"Why were gloves not issued

Bases?"

"They use them now." reply.

to Mice In Rainbow Hues

Was the

London.

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

hospital.

I

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(By Melanio Faum) United Press Stag Correspondent.

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Senorita Chiarilo Leonis, favourite of Latin motion picture fans, said recently that the forbidding duenna -constant diaperon of unmarried. Spanish girls for centuries has been bankhed the Civil War.

"I go out on dutes alone, and so do my friends," Charito sald. proudly. "My mother threatens 10 throw me out of the house, un my Inther says he la ashamed to have me for a daughter-but everyone's parents are saying the same thing.

"We don't have to wear montifias any more, und we don't have to be followed around by ducana,

At the dress show given by the

If Charlto has asserted her newritish Institute of Dress Designers freedom, most of the young girls of th London, students from various Spain will soon be doing it, for she parts of the world displayed clothes sets many of Spain's styles.

The United Press correspondent which it is forecast will be used in found the muvie actress in a cafe 070. The plcture shows how a man with a young man. There wasn't and woman may dress in 25 years chaperors in sight. Always before she time. had been accompanied by he: 75- your-aki szrandimóther, or 80-yrar-old |

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

with me any more,” she mid.

It is very exciting to have dates

£1,000

alone with a boy, especially now Shrank To

when the streets fire all dark at night because of the air raids and here's only the moon.

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

Churito, a lonce, hind her gentest film success in the movie "Vebena de.ta Paloma" (Pair of the Dove).

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A husband's maintenance amounting to £1,906 were redused to 425 recently at Marylebone

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"RUMPED INTO HIM

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She is typical of the generation Police Court-within ten minutes, Spain's young girls, whose ideas and customs have been changed by the} 14-mouths-old civil war.

"Marriage," she said, "sn't the solemn affair it userl to be. "Many of my friends brides. Some of ther married hurriedly just a few days before their husbands went off to the front, Aurt, some of them are widows already,

ate Wor

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Lady Godiva will ride through the streets of Coventry again......prəbably in a plain van-if Hampstead, N.W.. Council refuse to accept the

fer of an oil painting of her made by the late Thomas Hancock Nunn, London's Poor Law reformer,

Mr. Nura bequeathed the painting to Hampstead Council in his will published frecently, Coventry Coun- cil have second offer.

" think the council would like

to see it before accepting sald Councillor B. S. Tounroe, of Hamp- stead.

But Alderman O. M. Fan, of Coventry, asked, "What's the matter with 17 It isn't naughty, is it? think we should take it."

Campaign to Stop "Unfits" Marrying

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Medical tests before marriage are proposed. Chiet abject of the moment is to get the campaign linked up officlilly with the new fit- ness drive.

Support for marriage ess tess has grown greatly in the last few years, especially in lew of the falling birth-rate.

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

day

or

weaklings are preserval in large numbers and, supported partly wholly by the community, inary and produce bad strains and do dinage to the next generation. Our policy must be to rear fit children."

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

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Cozens denied that he owed all that money, He had been a good position as a builder, but the depres- sion had taken everything from him.

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