1938-01-14 — Page 27

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1938.

Neighbours Gossip Leads To Gruesome Discovery

In Utah

MARRIED FORMER HUSBAND'S SLAYER $1 TIFFINS

Divorced From Man Who Was Murdered

St. George, Utah, Jan. 1.

Bosshard Mrs. Charles recently fearned the truth about her two husbands: her first husband was slain and buried in an abandoned well near her home and for twó years she has been married to the man who killed him.

Spencer

She thought Malan deserted her nearly three years ago, leaving her on their sheep ranch with al son, 8 years old. Malan often had threatened to go away when he was angry. So it was with bitterness in her heart that she had a court give her a divorce from a man who was dead. Soon after she married Bosshard, who was very kind to her and the boy after Malan disappeared.

ADMIT SLAYING

Her brother, George Schueffer, knew all the time what happened to Malon. Ile helped Bosshard Both carry the body to the well.

Bosshard and Schaeffer have| now admitted the slaying and

were recently arraigned on

charge of murder.

#

11 happened on the night of March

17, 1935, after a dance arid drinking!

READY FOR BORDER REFUGEES

BARBED-WIRE ENTANGLEMENTS at Shataukak, on the Hongkong-Kwangtung frontier. Barricades have been cracted at frontier outposts to deal with the refugee problem should

it arise.

KINGSFORD-SMITH LEFT-

EPIC TALE OF

OF FLIGHTS

Air Adventures

Across World

WASHINGTON, JAN. 1.

SIR CHARLES KINGSFORD-SMITH, LOST IN THE BENGAL

party that ended at the Malan ranch SEA, LEFT TO POSTERITY AN EPIC STORY OF THE MAGNIFI- house. There was a fight, the kind of a fight that might start anywhere CENT AIR ADVENTURES IN THE PACIFIC, ATLANTIC, AND

when men are drinking. Schneller said TASMAN SEA WHICH IN HIS LIFE-TIME BROUGHT UNI- ín kis confention. The fact that it| VERSAL ACCLAIM. happened out on an isolated ranch enabled them to dispose of Malan's body and keep his death

for so long

• 6 secret

This was Schaeffer's story: "When we got home after the dance. Penny. (Malan), Eva (Mrs. Malan) and I went inside und Boss- hard went to get his horse so he could ride out to his sheep camp. Penny went out and pretty soon Bosshard|

asked me to come out.

"My Flying Life" the story of his adventures is described as "an authentic biography prepared under the personal super- vision of and from the diaries and papers of the late Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith." It will take immediate rank with Lind- bergh's “We," Byrd's "Skyward” and Amelia Earhart's "Last Flight" among the great personal narratives of the heroic period in trans-oceanic air travel.

Kingsford-Smith, after his successful trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic flights in the "Southern Cross" was often halled as "the world's greatest airman." In the papers now published "GUESS I KILLED HIM" he deprecated the phrase, saying that he regarded himself lle-sald-Malan-had-attacked-him-purely-as-a-long-distance-flier-He-pointed-out-that in these

We

AROUND

OUR EMPIRE

Royal Titles May Disappear

THERE MAY BE A "MR. WINDSOR"

FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

Centain junior members of the Royal Family within a generation or two will hove no titles, but, under the present rules relating to royal titles, will be called Mr. or Miss 1 Windsor.

This fact has emerged from a study of King George V.'s ruling in 1917 on Royal titles, which confined the title "Royal Highness" thenceforth to children and grandchildren of the Sovereign,

The Duke of Kent's son, Prince Edward, will succeed eventually to his father's Dukedom and his son in turn will bear, the ordinary designa- tions of the sons of a Duke.

But if the Duke of Kent has a second son who in turn has children, these great-grandchildren of King George V. will be Mr. or Mls Wind-

"CHANGES IN PRECEDENCE

sor.

More changes in the order of pre- cedence took place in the lust two years than ever before in to short a time. In the 17 months from January, 1936, to May, 1837, there were two necessions, an abdlcntion and a Coronation, the latter accom- panied by the bestowal of a large number of honours.

All these changes are summoned up in the 1938 (Coronation Honours) Edition of Burke's Peerage, Barone- tnge and Knightage. This is the edition to first completely revised be published since the death of King George V., and the table of relative rank, and precedence had to be drastically changed.

Among the alterations affecting precedence in the Royal family "Burke" points out that, while the

has

INDIA AND THE FAR Dulte of Windsor now takes prece

EAST

Calcutta.

dence a member of the Royal family. the Duchess of Windsor ranks as the Inst of 20th Duchess in order of creation.

FIRST AND LAST HOLDERS

In 1937 seven peerages became extinct. Six-those

Viscount of

The possible repercussions of the situation in the Far East on India are the subject of a warning lo his fellow-countrymen by Mr. S. V. Snowden, Lord Kylsani, Lord Ele, Lord Glenravel, Lord Islington and Savarkar, the veteran Nationalist.

Lord Rutherford--were new crea- tions, and so these peers were the first and last holders of their titles. The seventh was the peerage of Lord Castletown, the second baron.

Mr. Savarkar appealed to Indians to devote more line to internationi polities. He saw in the threatend might affect the destiny of Indis. capture of Nanking an ominous sign while he was getting his horse. I days aviation is a highly specialised profession with many guess I've killed him, I don't know branches of activity.

Japan had cast a sindow

over he told me. I said we ought to tell

India. If the present pace of the "In each and every field there plan.' and to make one's destination agressor were continued, he would the authorities, but we dchen't. loaded the body in my ear and put it jure men-and women-whoat the appointed hour or, rather, not be surprised if there were one day in a well."

minute.

setting up of Japanese power excel, and to my mind such a

it How had they been able to keep it

"The secret of success in this de- India. a secret? Sheriff Antone 11. Prince phrase as the world's greatest

073 pends the perfection of one's

Viceroy's Tour-The Marquess of jairman is too comprehensive plans, the capacity for monotonous "The reason I kept it a secret was torm to apply to any

und the one in- endurance, and first-hand knowledge Linlithgow, the

of the territories over which one Marchioness of Llulithgow, left New that I helped put the body away and dividual," he said.

passes. Familiarity with local con-Delhi to-day for Calcutta, where they that has been troubling me ever

Despite this

modest disclaimer.ditions is of parsinuunt importance, will remain until Jan. 5. They are since," Schaeffer replied,

feel, after trips on the then going to Madras and flyderabad, He said he had not even told either Kingsford-Smith's unvarnished nar- of his two former wives or his present stutters lights left for his readers may success depends on this know- January.

rative of his twenly or more long- England-Australia route, much of returning to New Delhi at the end of wife about it, "because the nearest of them lived so far away, and they had an impression of tremendous accom-ledge." neard the talk about Balan threaten- plishnient, of high courage, and of Renerous personal character worthy of any tille.

asked.

to run away, and assumed he had. ink done so."

WIFE CONVINCED

and

and

ints like

LOVE FOR 'OLD BUS'

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י

Viceroy.

SOUTH AFRICA

KENYA RIOT INQUIRY FINDINGS

"Among the historical curiosities in "Burke" Is that, of the three ways in which a peerige can be held--by tenure, writ or letters patent-only one still survives by right of tenure. This is the Earldom of Arundel, held by the Duke of Norfolk as owner of Arundel Castle.

owner of

By Act of Parliament passed in the reign of Charles I., this title belongs by right to the Arundel. If the historic castle were ever sold. Its buyer would automati- cally become an earl of high prere- dence in the official roll of peers.

DARING SURGERY A fond attachment developed be- tween Kingsford-Smith and the

IN MINE MAKES ANTI-CLIMAX

three engined Fokker plane-the So Bosshard and the brother-in-law in Kingsford-Smith's career, which est triumphs.

There was some strange undertow "old bus" which brought his great-

Cape Town. DOCTOR A HERO convinced Mrs. Mulan that her

"My thoughts turned to the old It is learned from Nairobi, Kenya, husband had deserted her, and all repeatedly led him to the brights of

'Southern Cross' " be said as his that a magistrate's inquiry has found

Bulawayo, Rhodesia, Jan. 1. three of them sprend that word fate and acclaim, to be followed by

"She had that native guards were justified in end. anti-climaxes of inancial strain, career neared

An operation performed at among the neighbours, Schaeffer suld.

miles and, firing during the rioting at the camp now been down 30,000 reaction, The question remained as to who public

passing adventure. Even after be was!

123

shat was getting old. That of Italian Eritrean deserters at Isiolo great peril in the depths of a finally

did revent the truth. Sheriff knighted by the King of England, Jast grilling experience (between on Nov. 13. The rioting broke out at Rhodesian mine has won Dr. Prince would only say that he had there were intervals when he had to Australia and New Zealand) infa football inatch between the

Robert Saunders the Edward heard "rumours," und that he

their guards. Nine

Medal for gallantry. Bosshard

cruise about the country, taking up which she had just scrambled buck Eritreans and questioned

and gol д confession.

people for first air-rides in order to tu land on two engines, was, I felt, salves were killed.

the last service 1 could expect of meet its Ananelal obligations.

The magistrate stated that by the When Howard Shensby, 22, was Schaefer said he "didn't talk, and would like to know who did."

felt that she had become action of the guards heavier loss of irapped by the wrist by the fall of It Perhaps for this reason, Kingsford her.

Smith's

interspersed historic relle; that she epitomised, ife and damage to narrative

property

rock in the depths of the Homeslaite Wasn't Bosshard, he was certa, now with gratitude for favours rendered, in stoe way the story of Austr than avoided. It is pointed out, however, mine, near Selukwo, Southern Rhode nobody else was supposed to know not the least being the timely finan-aviation in its earlier days, and that that as the comp commandant wasala, carly this year, Dr. Saunders the absent, and the officer in charge, un descended with a party which went cial' nid of Captain G. Allen Hancock she should be preserved to The only solution seemed to be

dld not, to the rescue. that the neighbours' gossip had been at the time when the trip of the nation. The Southern Cross, ac- African sergeant-major,

"Southern Cross" to Hawail-Fiji-cordingly, was sold to the Australian arrive til after the fring begon, Throughout the night the rescue spread around until it developed into

for three thousand there was no proper person in control squads removed stone in an effort suspicion, and that the sheriff had

of the guards. A MODEST MAN

to free the wrist. Dr. Saunders re- nothing more than that to work on.

"He suddenly asked us how much Bosshard took the sheriff to the

Commander Geoffrey Rawson, The magistrate says

Shearby to sustain the mained beside What we needed to solve our well

where they had thrown the money

R.IN., in n moving foreword to "My deserters "saw red," and he

him. · At last, it was deelded that it but it had caved in and the dilemma, the story said.

Flying Life," hald of the "We told him- £3,200,

famous ments that the fact that the men were was too dangerous to remove further body wasn't found.

pilot:

rubble. "There was silence for a moment.

penned Bosshard said that he married Mr Then he spoke:

camp for a long period "Kingsford-Smith looked like an without an adequate outlet for their Malan because he fell a sense of

Til buy the machine from you, airman. There was something bird-energies was likely to cnuso such responsibility for her and the child. He is 23 and she is several years his boys, he wild, I'll see my solicitorske about his dapper, short agure, disturbances.

about it

body,

senior-United Preis.

2,170 DIED

and

Albany, N. Y. The Motor Vehicle Bureau announced recently that 2,170 persons were killed in New York State in highway accidents from January 1 to September 30.

Australia balance.

weighing Was

and decide the best way to do it.

the government

pounds.

WAS

com-

Then Dr. Saunders decided 10 amputate. Using a local anesthetic, he performed an operation to free Sheasby's arm. The operation was It was revented at the inquiry that carried out against time and with rounds were fired from a Lewis gun. ever-present danger. It was success- The magistrate finds no individual ful and Sheasby, who was conscious guilty of any offence.

throughtout the ordeal, was saved.

JILTED MAN. SILENT

hla eleon-cut feature, his quick movements, his alert air. "WE WERE OVERJOYED"

"He spoke

rapidly, shortly, tersely. "We were overjoyed! The great; "Is face was lined by the many #light was at once brought closer to anxious hours he had spent in the un. 11 was no longer an impossible, air, but this rather fne-drawn, chro- Pablle School. Defended,-Defend- dream, and all our labours hnd not worn appearance was offset by 11 Ing Public Schools against criticism been in vain.”

bright and sparkling manner.

In recent years, the Rev. S. H. Clarke, To a wondering world Kings- "He Was very modest man, headmaster of St. John's College, ford-Smith's swift and hazardous though he was alive to his merits as Johannesburg, sald yesterday: "When fights were a matter of headlines, an experienced long-distance airman. all criticisms have been made, It still suspense, and drama, but in his There was a calm confidence about remains true that the English Public own mind there was a more order-him, born of a sure and certain faill Schools have succeeded in producing. ly formula which explained his in himself.

and in his ability to men with unswerving loyalty success un in that day when fate curry out the enterprise in hand, ideals and dogged insistence on the An accident occurred every six and struck him down,

This knowledge and competency execution of their duty." a half minutes with a death every

"My conception of a record flight, was based on

extraordinary three hours, statisticians reported. is of a programme properly prepared capacity for taking pains. lic tools A Unique Collection-Efforts are Accidents numbered 60,181 in which beforehand, which is accomplished his job very seriously. He went being made to nequice for the ration 79,282 persons were injured.

by schedule and without incident" into every detall himself. He was a the Elliott collection of 8,000 frre- When Perry was left at the altar The accident and death total showed he wrote. "The perfection of the skilled, indeed a natural, mechanic, placeable negatives of the whole in 1807 he vowed that, he would an increase of 324 deaths, 4,356 long-distance simon's art and craft and everything about an aero engine period of South African history. The never utter a word until the girl mecidents, and 6,818 injuries over the lies in the ability to reel off great was absolutely familiar to him movement in beina sponsored by the returned to him. He still hopes for samo period of 1038.-United Press, diatonces day after day according to United Press.

"B" || Historical Mondments Commission.' a réconciliation.

to

FOR 50 YEARS

Now York, "Silent Bill" Perry, nged 75 years, of Audubon (Iowa), observed to-day without a word the 50th anniversary of the day his fiancee Jilted him for another man,

at-

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