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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER 18,

1937.

Girl Of 17

Page boys bobs and other up- 10-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 ne morning recently. Mrs. Kelter wears her hair right down to her shoes, Parisians stored open-mouthed at her when they first saw her braided tresses.

Freak Bolt Strikes

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

Plot

Escapes Suitor's To Kill Her

DRAMA ENDED BY 1.30 a.m. SHOT

PLEA OF GUILTY

TO MURDER

Appeal By Judge

Rejected

London, Nov. 16.

Professor Takes To Trailer

Berkeley, Cal.

The aid! Athenian .school of peripatetic philosophers soon may be A young ex-policeman in-succeeded by the troller school. Dean Guy S. Millberry of the school of

In this be said that the trouble

sisted, at the Devon Assizes, dentistry has been obliged to pur- 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 John Moss, 26, a taxi-They took lodgings at Ilfracombe, and cab driver, of Ulfracombe, and once then he rented a bungalow at Woo-

lacombe. a constable stationed at Brixham. He

was accused of the murder of Kitty Judge: You should know that there Constance May Bennett, 18, of Myrtle-many be some doubt about your mental rond, Exeter, at a bungalow at Woo- condition at the time. Do you not lacombe, North Devon, on Aug. 7 bythlok you had better plead not guilty striking her on the head with a gun. and let this trial proceed on such I make that Moss, a married man, and the girl inquiry as arises in it? had been staying on holiday at Woo- appeal to you to do so because there lacombe. On Aug. 7 Moss asked may 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-plea. terrace as he wished to make a stale- 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 it "Hook some doing."

:

Moss: 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 explation; that you may have in your mind come idea that what you have done will enable you to have mercy hereafter." "Thank you, my lord," said Moss. Until comparatively recent years a Judge rarely accepted a plea of guilty ato a charge of murder. The usual When Moas appeared before magistrate at Barnstaple a statement practice was to enter a plea of not made by him was read,

guilty and proceed with the trial.

до

STATEMENT READ IN COURT

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Face

"| See Her

Everywhere..

DEEPLY in love with a seventeen-year-old

girl, William Fuller, forty-five-year-old cafo manager and formor ship's bo'sun, found his suit rojocted. He planned to murdor 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 thand through the hole in the par- echoed through the street. None tition. Something in the hand glis- of the neighbours opened a door,tened. 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.

the glow of an electrie torch nearly

March shouted to the girl on the But two police officers saw stairs: "Go buck, there's an armed the tragedy. They had chus-man here." Then he ran upstairs ed Fuller from Rendel-road, and round to the back of the pre- mises. He found the warehouse 150 yards away, where for door botted on the inside. He called hours he had lurked outside the police. the home of Helen Violet the warehouse door was unlocked. By the time the pollee had arrived Maiden.

There was no one inside.

A few minutes later soune one! At 7 p.m., shortly after Miss Maiden called out to Helen, "There's no need arrived home, three letters from Fuller were pushed through the front to worry any more."

Her frightened family, who had door.

drama from the watched all but the end of this corners of un- Ighted windows, then undid the lock of the front door.

Within an hour Fuller had died.

On the maiden voyage of the Blue Star liner, Australia Star, William Fuller became friendly with James Williams, another member of the crew. Fuller, on his return, decided to give up the sea, with Williams" mother. That was) about two years ago.

He went to stay

He obtained employment at a cafe,; quickly became the manager, and about eighteen months ago he look Helen Maiden on to the staff.

The first one she opened sald:-

Dear Violet,-You are the lucki- est girl in England. To-day you have locked twien down the muzzle of a revolver. You have only the police to thank for saving you by half an hour.

I was going to wall for five o'clock when you went down the

1 basement to get your clothes. was going to shoot you through the opening, then shoot myself.

In the second letter he told how he had tried to shoot her through the floor.

In August this year, Helen

The third contained ten pages, in Malden's sweetheart was killed in

collision between his motor-which he told of his love, his "hope- 1

less passion." cycle and

Jorry,

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

.

The girl and her mother and

to give to Ielen for the funeral, father, frightened by the contents of the letters, decided to call the notice. They looked through the front window, saw the figure of a man lurking near. It was Fuller.

A few days later he confessed to Mrs. Williams: "I love that girl with all my soul."

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

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

Eventually, while Fuller Was

"I"CANNOT LIVE-WITHOUT-HER" landing-only-four-doors-away-a-

small boy left the house to telephone

In the meantime, Fuller had lost for help. his work through drink. He said hel

When Fuller saw the police he ron

took it in desperation because of the away. The polleemen were only two aupelessness 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.

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

"I cannot live without the kid," he Girls Must Not Powder

said. "My brain is throbbing.

"Everywhere I go I see her face.

It mocks me always.

Noses

Five hundred girls employed nt a "Sometimes I sleep. I dream I Mansfield radio factory must not am back on the ship. But when I arrive at their workbenches with Ko to the held there is her face powder or rouge on their faces. looking up at me, laughing. It Their employer, A. H. Whiteley, ex- plaining the ban, said that it was im- posed not for puritanical reasons, but for technical ones,

breaks my dream.

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

Mrs.

"It's unreasonable," sald Malden. "Remember your years."

"It shouldn't be impossible," sald Fuller, "I'm only forty."

Mrs, Malden relented, invited him to Sunday ten. After the ment Helen played the piano. Fuller snt silent, watching her.

The invitation was aui reprated, Fuller tost hope.

On Sunday he decided to mur- der the girl.

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

Threatening to shoot anyone who

approached him, a "stay-up" striker, armed with a shotgun, defied for 24 hours all attempts to dislodge him from a 110-foot forestry observation hear Mornington, Western tower

Australia.

"Bulldog" Attacking Antelope

James Emmett of Greybull, attack-

ed by an antelope he had wounded, Climbing on to a high shelf he used rodeo technique to "bulldog" bored two holes in the floor of the the antelope much as a cowboy docs cafe. One was near the place where a steer. He subdued the animal, Helen Malden would stand to pour killed it and brought the head home out tea. The other was near where

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

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

saucer.

On Monday afternoon he rt- turned to the warehouse. He sat on the shelf in the dark, waliing, revolver in land. He peeped up through the little hole over his head, saw the girl, and put the barrel of his servico revolver up to the boards,

At that moment Helen Malden moved her foot, and stumbled. Then she saw the hole in the floor,

Hélén called the other attendant, Mr. Frederick March, showed him the hole, and Asd told him that sho had been something move near the partition downstairs, da

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