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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4,

Rich Girl Gaoled For 8 Months On Manslaughter Charge

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By A Special Correspondent

Gloucester, Nov. 4. TISS BETTY HERMIONE DURANCE CART- WRIGHT, wealthy joint Master of Gloucester- shire pack of beagles, limped on her crutches from the dock at Gloucestershire Assizes this evening to face eight months' imprisonment in the second division. She is. twenty-five.

A jury acquitted her of| the manslaughter of James Leslie Perry, a motor- cyclist, and his mother, Mrs. Lilian Rachel Perry, pas- senger in his sidecar.

They found her guilty of dangerous driving, and of driving while under the in- fluence of ilquor.

Mr. Justice Finlay passed sentence. He also suspended her driving Heenco for five years.

Crowds of women who had follow- ed the car in which earlier she was driven at snail's pace through Gloucester's narrow streets melled away from the prison gates.

MOTHER'S EVIDENCE

Meanwhile another car drove away from the Shire Hall to Greystones, Rodborough Common, Miss Cart-

Tootsie Garcia a recent winner In

wright's home, fourteen miles away. the Telegraph" Children's Compell-

It contained elderly Mrs. Marletion. Louisa Cubitt, the girl's allstraught by the verdict.

moflier,

Mrs. Cubitt, earlier in the after- noon, had told the judge and jury that her daughter smoked far too much and began to smoke too soon, but she had never seen her under the influence of drink.

While the jury were out consider- ing their verdici-it took them forty i minutes-the dock, which Miss Cart! wright continued to occupy. sembled a box at an' opera house.

The buzz of hundreds of people chattering and speculating on the re- sults of the case, both in the public gallery and the well of the court, was deafening.

(Photogem Studio).

Girl Writes

To Hitler *Please Free

Mummy'

A postcard from Warsaw addressed in a childish scrawl to "Mr. Huer, Germany," which bears the words, "Please set my mummy free Dzidzia Miss Cartwright herself joined In Countess Wielopolsca," has arrived the chatter, while the two women at the Reich Chancellery, but it is prison officers sat silent behind her.unlikely to have reached Herr

Hitler's desk.

Mrs. Cubiit opened the wooden

door of the dock and sat with her It was written by the six-year-old. daughter for a few minutes. She daughter of 28-year-old Countess produced a vanity case, powdered Oclavie Boregia Wieloplaco, arrested her nose, then returned to her seal by Gestapo secret police in the near by.

Warsaw-Paris express two monthis

Then Mr. Geoffrey Saunders, tall, go. black-moustached friend of Miss Every German lawyer asked to Cartwright, who had said that he defend her refuses at once on hearing was the purchaser of a baltie of that it is a "foreign spy case," with- whisky and a bottle of ginger wine out even waiting to be given names found in her car after the accident, and details. leaned on the deck rails, talking to the girl.

Other women friends spoke to her. WIDOW_SAVED

The jury returned.

Miss Cartwright, pala, UghtTM Upped," stood on her crutdies, supported by the two women prison officers.

OPERATION PLEA

She listened expressionless as the foremun reiternied the word "Gulity."

Then her counsel pleaded for a postponement of the sentence while

FROM SUTTEE

Intervention By

Two Europeans

Miss Cartwright underwent an Prompt intervention +by two operation for her broken leg. (The British officloin saved the life of un accident occurred while she was play-Indian woman who was about to

commit ing golf in Ireland.)

sutico at Talle, near There was a pause. The judge held Cawnpore (United Province). a long whispered consultation with

Overwhelmed with grief at the the governor of Gloucester Gool.

Then he turned to the girl in the death of her husband she was about to mount the funeral pyre on which dock. Again, Miss Cartwright his body Iny when Mr. L. Owen, staggered to ber fect on her Collector, Cawnpore, and Mr. G. A. crutches.

Pearce, superintendent of police,

The Judge addressed her: "Now, arrived. Betty Cartwright, This, you must: Despite her tearful protests, the know yourself-and you are quite widow was persuaded to leave the intelligent enough to know li-is pyre, and the Interrupted funeral a most serious thing.

rites were resumed without further "You have been found guilty by incident. the verdlet of a Glou

a Gloucestershire jury not only of driving your car to the danger

also of

of the pubile, but under the influence of drink.

drivinghis is a most grave thing for

a young girl brought up in your conditions, with your education, and

your background.

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Berlin,

Every hair, no matter what length

He spoke of the plea that she it is, cut clipped or shaven from a should be operated on before she Nazi head during the next year, will went to prison. Then he went on go into the manufacture of carpets, "I propose to sentence you in spite felt and roofing material. This is of that.

| Germany's latest plan for conserving "It would indeed be wrong if the raw materials. sentence I am about to pass way Jeopardised your well being.

any

"In cases of this sort the Secre- debarred from driving a motor-car this tary of State will either give ilrec- } for dve years. The licence of

on that a prisoner may be sent year will be endorsed in a proper out to a hospital for the purposca (manner.”

of the operation, or in the ad-

Miss Cartwright was stated to have mirable hospitals of Hils' Majesty's | prisons an operation may be per- French between 6 and 7, half a glass drunk three cocktails and a gin and formed."

Mr. Justice Finlay'a final words of hock cup during dinner, and two were an afterthought. "You will boqueur brandies after dinner.

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