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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1938.

Neighbours Gossip Leads To Gruesome Discovery

Discovery In Utah

MARRIED FORMER HUSBAND'S SLAYER $1 TIFFINS

Divorced From Man Who Was Murdered

St. George, Utah, Jan. 1. Mrs. Charles Bosshard recently learned the truth about her two husbands: her first husband was slain and buried in an abandoned well near her home and for two years she has been married to the man who killed him.

She thought Spencer Malan deserted her nearly three years ago, leaving her on their sheep ranch with a 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 Schaeffer, knew all the time what happened to Malan. He helped Bosshard carry the body to the well. Both Bosshard and Schaeffer have now admitted the slaying and were recently arraigned on # charge of murder.

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it happened on the night of March 17, 1935, after a dance and drinking party that ended at the Malan ranch house. There was a fight, the kind

a Bght

that might start anywhere when men are drinking. Seherffer said in his confession. The fact that it happened out on on isolated ranch nabled them to dispose of Malan's body and keep his death a secret for so long.

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

"GUESS I KILLED HIM"

READY FOR BORDER REFUGEES

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

it arise.

KINGSFORD-SMITH LEFT

EPIC TALE OF FLIGHTS

Air Adventures

Across World

WASHINGTON, JAN. 1.

AROUND OUR EMPIRE

at

Jimmy's

Also A la

Royal Titles May Disappear

China Bldg., Hongkong.

*

THERE MAY BE A

"MR. WINDSOR"

FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

members

of the

Cental junior Royal Family within a generation or two will have no ties, but, under the present rules relating to royal titles, will be called Mr, or Miss *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 Duke.

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

sur.

CHANGES IN PRECEDENCE

More changes in the order of pre- ecdence took place in the lust two yeurs than ever before in so short R time. In the 17 months from January, 1036, to May, 1037, there were two accessions, an abdication 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) Eillion of Burke's Peerage, Barone- is the tage and Kaightage. Tuls first completely revised cdllion to death of be published since the King George V., and the table of relative rank, and precedence has had to be drastically changed.

SIR CHARLES KINGSFORD-SMITH, LOST IN THE BENGAL SEA, LEFT TO POSTERITY AN EPIC STORY OF THE MAGNIFI- CENT AIR ADVENTURES IN THE PACIFIC. ATLANTIC, AND TASMAN SEA WHICH IN HIS LIFE-TIME BROUGHT UNI- INDIA AND THE FAR Duke of Windsor now takes prece VERSAL ACCLAIM.

"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.

minute.

EAST

Calcutta.

Savarkar, the veteran Nationalist.

Mr. Savarkar appealed to Indians to devote more time to international politics. He saw in the threatend capture of Nanking an ominous sign liat night affect the destiny of India

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

dence as a member of the Royal family, the Duchess of Windsor ranks as the last of 29th Duchess in order of creation.

The possible repercussions of the FIRST AND LAST HOLDERS

In 1937 seven peerages became situation in the Far East on India are

warning to his extinct. Six-those of Viscount the subject of a fellow-countrymen by Mr. $. V. Snowden, Lord Kylant, Lord Ernle, Lord Glenravel, Lord Islington and Lord Rutherford-were new cren- tions, and so these peers were the first and last holders of their titles, of Lord baron. The seventh was the peerage o Castletown, the

-Among the curiosities-In-1 "Burke" is that, of the three ways in which a peerage 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.

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- eally become an earl of high preee- dence in the ometal roll of peers.

Japan had cast a shadow over India. If the present pace of the aggressor were continued, he would not be surprised if there were one day a setting up of Japanese power in India,

Kingsford-Smith, after his successful trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic flights in the "Southern Cross" was often hailed as "the world's greatest airman." In the papers now published The deprecated the phrase, saying that he regarded himself "He said Malan had attacked him"purely as a long-distance fier." He pointed out that in these while he was golting his horse. days aviation is a highly specialised profession with many guess I've killed him, I don't know branches of activity. he told me.

I said we ought to tell the authorities, but we didn't. We "In each and every field there plan, and to make one's destination loaded the body in my cur and put it jare men-and women-who at the appointed hour or rather, in n well."

"The secret of success in this de- How had they been able to keep excel, and to my mind such a

the perfection of one's secret? Sheriff Antone B. Prince phrase as the 'world's greatest pends on

Viceroy's Tour.The Marquess of asked.

airman' is too comprehensive a plans, the capacity for monotonous

and the "The reason I kept it, a secret was term to apply to any one in endurance, and first-hand knowledge Linlithgow, the

of the ferritories over

Marchioness of Linlithgow, left New which one that I helped out the body away and dividunl," he said,

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

Despite this modest disclaimer.ditions is of paramount importance,, will remain until Jan. 6. They are since," Schaeffer replied.

Pore then going to Madras and Ityderabad, He said he had not even told either Kingsford-Smith's unvarnished nar- and I feel, after trips

returning to New Delhi at the end of January. his two former wives nr his presentative of his twenty or more long-England-Australia route, wife about it, "because the nearest of distance Bights left for his readers my success depends on this know→ them lived so far away, and they had on impression of tremendous accom- ledge." heard the talk about Malan threaten- plishment, of high courage, and of ing to run away, and assumed he had

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heard

WIFE CONVINCED

confession.

with

In

much of

SOUTH AFRICA

Viceroy,

KENYA RIOT INQUIRY FINDINGS

owner of

DARING SURGERY

IN MINE MAKES

DOCTOR A HERO

Bulawayo, Rhodesin, Jan. 1.

An operation performed at great peril in the depths of a won Dr. Rhodesian mine has Robert Saunders the. Edward Medal for gallantry.

LOVE FOR 'OLD BUS' generous personal character A fond attachment developed be-

tween Kingsford-Smith

and the worthy of any lile.

plane-the three engined Fokker ANTI-CLIMAX There was some strange undertow "old bus"-which brought his great-

Cape Town. So Bosshard and the brother-in-law} convinced

her in Kingsford-Smith's career, which est triumphs.

It is learned from Nairobi, Kenya, Mrs. Malan that

"My thoughts turned to the old of

he said as his that a magistrate's inquiry has found husband had deserted her, and all repeatedly led him to the heights

strain how three of them spread that word fame and acclulin, to be followed by Southern Cross"

career neared un end. "She had that native guards were justified in among the neighbours, Schaeffer said, anti-climaxes of financial

mis- been flown 30,000 miles and, firing during the rioting at the camp The question remained as to who public reaction, and passing

Even after he was like me, she was getting old. That of Italian Eritrean deserters at Isiolo finally did

dki reveal the truth. Sheriff adventure.

knighted by the King of England. last grillo experience (between on Nov. 13. The rioting broke out at footbell match between the Prince would only say that he had

Australia and New Zealand) in there

were intervals when he had to

their guards. Nine anet that he

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

natives were killed, quumours,"

I felt and questioned Bosshard

got

people for first air-rides in order to to land on two engines, was,

Which Howard Sheasby, 22, was the last service I could expect of

The magistrate stated that by the felt that she had become a Schaeffer said he "didn't talk, and meet his financial obligations,

Perhaps for this reason, Kingsford her.

action of the guards heavier loss of trapped by the wrist by the fall of It Smith's

historic relle; that she epitomised, life and damage to property would like to know who did."

was rock in the depths of the Homeslake narrative is interspersed s wasn't Dosshard, he was certain, and m nobody else was supposed to know, gratitude for favours rendered, some way, the alory of Australian avoided. It is pointed ous, however, mine, near Selukwo, Southern Rhode- uviation in its earlier days, and that that as the camp commandant was sia, early this year, Dr. Saunders not the least being the timely

the about it.

absent, and the officer in charge, an descended with a party which went "The only solution seemed to be ell aid of Captain G. Allen Hancock she should be preserved and

nation." The Southern Cross, ac- African

not to the rescue, sergeant-major, at the time when the trip of the

to Hawaii-Fi-cordingly, was sold to the Australian arrive till after the Bring began, "Southern Cross"

Throughout the night the rescue for three thousand there was no proper person in centrul squads removed stone in an effort the government in was weighing

pounds.

of the guards.

to free the wrist. Dr. Saunders re- A MODEST MAN

him. At last, it was decided that it R.IN, in a moving foreword to."My | deserters "saw red,” and Flying Life," sald of the famous ments that the fact that the men were was too dangerous to remove further

rubble. pilot:

penned in camp for a long period "Kingsford-Smith looked like and without an adequate outlet for their Then Dr. Saunders decided to such amputate. Using a local anesthetic, irinan. There was something bird-energies was likely to

he performed an operation to free like about his dapper, short figure, disturbances,

clean-cut feature, his quick movements, his alert alt

Sheasby's arm. The operation was carried out against time and with ful and Sheasby, who was conscious over-present. danger. It was succeSI-

throughtout the ordeal, was saved.

that the neighbours' gossip had been spread around until it developed into a suspicion, and that the sheriff had nothing more than that to work on. Bosshard took the sheriff to the well where they

had thrown the body, but it had enved in and the body wasn't found.

Australia bakince.

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our

suddenly asked us how much толку

Rolve needed to dilemma," the story satd. "We told him- £3,200,

There was silence for a moment,

he spoke: I buy the machine from you, he said. 'I'll see my solicitors and decide the best way to do it.

Then

Bosshard said that he married Mrs. Molan because he felt a serise of responsibility for her and the child. He is 25 and she is several years his boys, senior-United Press.

2,170 DIED

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,

his

did

Commander Geoffrey Rawson, The magistrate says that the mained beside Sheasby to sustain

wns

he

CAUSE

com-

JILTED MAN SILENT

FOR 50 YEARS

It was revealed at the inquiry that "WE WERE OVERJOYED"

"He spoke rapidly, shartly, tersely. rounds were fired from a Lewis gun, The magistrate finda no Individual "We were overjoyed! The great; "His face was lined by the many Bight was at once brought closer to anxious hours he had spent in the guilty of any offence. —** us. It was no longer an impossible air, but

this rather fine-drawn, care- Pubila School Defended-Defend- dream, and all our labours had not worn appearance offset by aing Public Schools _agulnat_criticism been in vain."

bright and sparkling manner.

in recent years, the Rev. S. H. Clarke, To a wondering world Kings-

"He was

a very modest man, hundenger Jen's College, ford-Smith's swift and hazardous though he was alive to his merits as Johannesburg, sald yesterday: "When flights were a mailer of headlines, an expericuced long-distance airman, all criticisms have been made, it still suspense, and drama, but in bls There was a calm confidence about remains true that the English Public

New York. own mind there was a more order-him, born of a sure and certain falth Schools have succeeded in producing

"Silent Bill" Perry, aged 70 yents, ly formula which explained, his | in filmselt, and in his ability to men with unswerving loyalty success up to that day when fato curry out the enterprise in hand. ideals and dogged insistence on the of Audubon (Iowa), observed to-day without a word the 50th anniversary struck him down.

This knowledge and competency execution of their duty,"

based a half minutes with a death every

of the day his flancea jilted him for on an extraordinary "My conception of a record flight was

A Unique Collection-Efforts are another man, three hours, statisticians reported. Is of a programme properly prepared capacity for taking pains, Ife took Accidents numbered 60,181 in which beforehand, which is accomplished his job very seriously. Ife went being made to acquire for the nation

When Perry was left at the altar 79,202 persons were injured.

by schedule and without Incident," Into every detall himself. He was a the Elliatt collection of 5,000 irre

whole in 1887 he vowed that he would The accident and death total showed he wrote. "The perfection of the skilled, indeed a natural, mechanic, placeable negativer of the an incrosse of 324 deaths, 4,300 long-distance airman's art and craft and everything about an aero engine period of South African history. The never utter a word until the girl him. He still hopes for accidents and 0,318 injuries over the-lles in the ability to reel off groat was absolutely familiar to tim. movement la being monsored by the returned

Historical Mondments Commission. reconciliation. same period of 1986 United Press. diances day after day according to United-Praze.

An accident occurred every six and

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