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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER

13,

Girl Of 17 Escapes Suitor's

Plot To Kill Her

Page boys bobs and other up- to-the-minute hair-dos that add to feminine beauty these days were not considered when Mrs. Anna Kelter of Warsaw, Poland, shown above with her husband, visited Paris one fine morning recently. Mrs. Kelter wears her hair right down to her shoes. Parisluna stared open-mouthed

at her when they first saw her braided tresses.

Freak Bolt Strikes

Colorado Springs, Col. A freak lightning storm on the sum- mit of Pikes Peak ripped off Arthur scorched Vandenberg's Jackel and paper on which Rex Edwards, a tele- grapher, was writing. Neither was Injured by the bolt,

DRAMA ENDED BY

PLEA OF GUILTY TO MURDER

Appeal By Judge

Rejected

London, Nov. 16.

Profossor Takes To Trailor

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Berkeley, Cal. Athenian school of peripatetic philosophers soon may be A young ex-policeman in-succeeded by the trailer school. Dean sisted, at the Devon Assizes, dentistry has been obliged to pur

Guy S. Millberry of the "schnol of

at Exter yesterday, upon chase a trailer to meet the constant pleading, guilty to murder demands made on him for lectures. despite an urgent appeal to him by Mr. Justice Hawke to

started when his wife ran away from reconsider his decision.

him. He thought the world of her. Within a few minutes he was

The statement then described how sentenced to death. He he went to Exeter and met Miss showed no sign of emotion. Bennett, whom he previously knew. He is Ernest Jolin Moss, 20, a taxi-They took lodgings at Ilfracombe, and cab driver, of Ilfracombe, and once then he rented a bungalow at Woo- a constable stationed at Brixham. He lacombe,

In this he said that the trouble

was accused of the murder of Kitty Judge: You should know that there Constance May Bennett, 18, of Myrtle- | may be some doubt about your mental road, Exeter, at a bungalow at Woo-condition at the time. Do you not lacombe, North Devon, on Aug. 7 by think you had better pliad not guilty striking her on the head with a gun. and let this trial proceed on such |

Moss, a married man, and the girl inquiry as arises in it? I make that had been staying on holiday at Woo-appeal to you to do so because there lacombe. On Aug. 7 Moss asked amay be aspects of this matter which policeman in Ilfracombe to accom- will not arise if you persist in your pany him to a house In Highfield-pica. terrace as he wished to make a state- ment in the presence of his wife.

There he said: "You had better arrest me for the murder of Kitty Bennett." At the police station he said he intended using a revolver on himself, but did not do so as "took some dolny."

STATEMENT READ IN COURT

Mess: I still wish to plead guilty. Passing sentence, Mr. Justice Hawke said: "It may be you think that by taking the course you are making some sort of expiation; that you may have in your mind some idea that what you have done wil enable you to have merey hereafter." "Thank you, my lord," said Moss. Until comparatively recent years a Judge rarely accepted a plea of guilty The usual a to a charge of murder.

practice was to enter a plea of not gullty and proceed with the trial.

When Moss appeared before magistrate at Barnstaple a statement made by him was read,

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DEEPLY in love with a seventeen-year-old girl, William Fuller, forty-five-year-old cafe manager and former ship's bo'sun, found his suit rejected. He planned to murder her. His plans went wrong.

A few hours later-at 1.30 a.m. one-day last month --he shot himself in a quiet street near the girl's home in Canning Town, E.

The sound of the revolver shot hand through the hole in the par- echoed through the street. None tition. Something in the hand gils- of the neighbours opened a door, the glow of an electric torch nearly itened. Then, further away, he saw or pulled back a curtain to look. spent. They thought it just another THERE'S AN ARMED MAN HERE' fire-work.

March shouted to the girl on the

But two police officers saw stairs: "Go back, there's an armed the tragedy. They had chas-man here." Then he ran upstairs ed Fuller from Kendel-road, and round to the back of the pre- mises. He Tound the warehouse 150 yards away, where for door bolted on the inside. He called hours he had lurked outside the police. the home of Helen Violet Maiden.

A few minutes later some one culled out to Helen, "There's no aced to worry any more."

Her frightened family, who had the end of this drama from

corners of un- lighted windows, then undid the lock) of the front door.

watched all but

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Within an hour Fuller had died.

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By the time the police had arrived the warehouse door was unlocked. There was no one inside.

At 7 p.m., shortly after Miss Maiden from arrived home, three letters Fuller were pushed through the front door.

The first one she opened said:—

Dear Violet,--You are the lacki- est girl in England. To-day you finve looked twice down the mozzle of a revolver. You have only the police to thank for saving you by

Star liner, Australla Star, William Fuller became friendly with James half an hour.

W Williams, another member of the Fuller, on his return, decided crew.

He went to stay

was with Williams mother. That to give up the ten,

about two years ago.

for I was going to wait

five o'clock when you went down the basement to get your clothes 1 was going to shoot you through the opening, then shoof myself.

He obtained employment at a cafe, and quickly became the manager,

In the second leiter he told how about eighteen months ago he took he had tried to shoot her through Helen Malden on to the staff.

Helen August this year, In Malden's meetheart was killed in

hls motor collision between cycle and a lorry.

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Fuller went home, collected an armful of flowers: from the garden

the floor.

The third contained ten pages, in which he told of his love, his "hope- Jess passion."

The girl and her mother and

in rive to Helen for the funeral, father, frightened by the contents of the letters, decided to call the

A few days later he confessed to police. They looked through the Mrs. Williams: "I love that girl with front window, saw the figure of a all my soul."

man lurking. near. It was Fuller.

Motherly Mrs. Williams told him. "Don't be foolish, man. You're old enough to be her father."

After a time he come Inla the open, paraded up and down outside the the house. The girl and her parents Fuller was told practically same thing a few weeks later by Mrs.dared not venture out. Annie Muiden, Helen's mother.

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Eventually, while Fuller was

away. "I CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT HER" | standing only four doors

small boy left the house to telephone

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When Fuller saw the police he ran

In the meantime, Fuller had lost for help. his work through drink. He said he took it in desperation because of the jaway. The policemen were only two hopelessness of his love.

Then, by sending a false message, Fuller managed to meet Mrs. Malden na street not. far from her home. He was agitated, trembling. Tears streamed down his face,

"I cannot live without the kid," he sald. "My brain is throbbing.

yards from him when he shot him- self through the head.

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"Everywhere I go I see her face. It mocks me always.

Five hundred girls employed al a "Sometimes I sleep. I dream Mansfeld radio factory must not am back on the ship. But when arrive at their workbenches with Eo to the hold there is her face powder or rouge On their faces. looking up at me, laughing. It Their employer, A. II. Whiteley, ex- breaks my dream.

plaining the ban, said that it was im- posed not for puritanical reasons, but for technical ones.

"I get up and go in the garden and dig, trying to forget her, There, under my spade, 1 see her face-laughing, laughing."

He went on: "Why can't I have;

her? Love is on my side, but I can't Striker Stays Up Tree

get her to understand that."

"It's unreasonable," said Mrs. Threatening to shoot anyone who Malden, "Remember your years."

"It shouldn't be impossible," said approached him, a "stay-up" striker, armed with a shotgun, defled for Fuller, "I'm only forty."

Mrs. Maiden relented, invited him 24 hours all attempts to dislodge him to Sunday tea.. After the meal ticien from a 110-foot forestry observation nonr Mornington, Western played the plane. Fuller sat silent, lower

Australia, watching her.

The Invitation was not repeated. Fuller lost hope.

On Sunday he decided to mur- der the girl.

With a key he let himself into the back of a small warehouse that ad- joins the cute.

"Bulldog" Attacking

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James Emmett of Greybull, attack- Climbing on to a high-shelf heed by an antelope he had wounded, used rodeo technique to "bulldog" bored two holes in the floor of the the antelope much as a cowboy does cafe. One was near the place where a atcer. He subdued the animal, Helen Maiden would stand to pour killed it and brought the head home out tea. The other was near where:

as a trophy. the would stand to use the till.

In the wooden partition between the storeroom and the basement of the cafe, where Helen always hangs her coat, he cut a hole as big as a

saucer.

On Monday afternoon be re- turned to the warehouse. In sat on the shelf in the dark, waiting. revolver in hand. He peeped up through the little hole over his head, saw the girl, and put the barrel of his service revolver up to the boards.

At that moment Helen Maiden moved her foot, and stumbled. Then she saw the hole in the floor. Helen called the other attendent, Mr. Frederick March, showed him the hole, and also told him that she had been something move, "near: the partition downstairs, andNA PARME

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