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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,"

SATURDAY MAY 14, 1938.

MRS. CASSERLEY: HOME OFFICE RADIO

ORDERS A FULL INQUIRY

Allegations About Her Treatment

In Gaol

·MMEDIATE inquiries are being carried out by the Home Office înto statements made at Wimbledon Police Court, S.W., regarding the prison treatment of Mrs. Georgina Casserley, says a Correspondent.

Full details are to be obtained of her treatment in Holloway Prison, where she is being kept while on re- mand on a charge of being as accessory after the fact to the murder of her husband, Percy Casserley, the 59- years-old shot Wimbledon company director.

The Home Office will then con- and a wardress bent over her, and this moment Chaplin stepped sider, it is understood, whether t to make comments on the state. smartly from the box and disappeared ments.

Mrs. Casserley appeared in court with Edward Royal Chaplin, 35-years-old builder's foreman accused of the murder. "ONE BATH"

Into an anteroom.

The police'

and matron

the wardress assisted Mrs. Cassurley from the chair, and, half-supported by them, and with her eyes closed, shu walked with tottering step out of the court.

In an unsuccessful application Chaplin was smiling and smoking for ball, Mr. John Maude told a cigarette as the police car drove the Wimbledon magistrates that rapidly away.

Mrs. Casserley, who is expecting

Mrs. Casserley was allowed to see

to become a mother in three her maid-servant, who brought her

months and is in the prison hos- pital.

Was scrubblog floors, although sho had agreed to do it

Heard other prisoners discussing her case;

It was not possible to get food

In from outside, though prison fare was not suitable for her condition.

On the previous night had her first bath since she was admitted to prisen on March 30.

After

slating that he had nothing to say against the governor et Hollo-

way Prison or the doctors, who had

some clothes.

JEWELLER CITES VISCOUNT

GAINS DECREE

shown every consideration, Mr. Viscount Scarsdale was cited as co- Maude said: "That sort of agony is a respondent in a case heard by Mr. frightful ordeal, particularly to a Justice Langton in the Divorce Court woman who is an expectant mother," recently.

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WHAT RULES SAY

A decree nisi was granted to Mr. Anron James Harris, Jeweller and Court,

The Home Office has opened the silversmith, of Bryanston Inquiries as the authorities are an- Upper George Street, W., because of xious to be assured that the strin- the adultery of his wife, Ottilie Mar- gent regulations for the treatment of garlie Julle (nce Pretzlik) with Vis-1 prisoners under remand are being count Scarsdale. carried out.

were

These regulations, which issued by the Home Secretary 1933 under the Prisons Act of 190 Include the following:

Mr.

The sult was not defended. in Harris asked the Court to exercise discretion in respect of his own

Prisoners awaiting trial shall be kept

from apurt

convicted prisoners as far as possible,

They shall not be required to be employed in the services or dustries.of the prison, but

in-

may de

ndultery.

Mr. and Mrs. Harris were married

two

A KING GOES WALKING

Man at right might be any "man in the street". In fact, However, he's King, Leopold of Belgium, crossing a street in Stockholm, Sweden, with his mother-in-law, Princess Ingeborg, on a visit there. The King's wi fe, Princess Astrid, niece of King Gustav of Sweden, was killed In

an nutomobile accident in 1085.

EH NAC

NAC LLEPS YNA

DROW UOY

MR

ESOOHC EKIL SIHT

R. "Z. Y. X," a City accountant and old Mill Hill schoolboy, challenges any who have taken part in B.B.C. spelling bees to a backwards spelling contest.

I discovered my friend's remarkable capacity after the recent

News Chronicle reporter.

at the Central Synagogue, Maryic-"over 40 and under 20 match," which was broadcast, writes a bone, in June, 1925, and have children.

The case for Mr. Harris was that Viscount Scarsdale and Mrs. Harris

Bryanston Court.

so with their own consent, when became friendly and he visited her at Adultery was alleged at a Bolton

they

will be paid for their work.

They may be supplied with food Abbey Yorkshire) Betel last pr

and

drink

at their own expense, and August. subject to certain restrictions.

Costs were awarded against Lord payment of a small sum they Scarsdale. Mr. Harris was granted can be relieved from the duty of the custody of the children. cleaning their room or cell, and Viscountess Scarsdale, in a petition "from the performance of all such which followed, was granted a decree unaccustomed tasks or offices." nisl, with costs.

Mrs. Cassericy was placed in

"

a

"That's simple," he said, "but how about doing it backwards? That would be really good fun if the B.B.C. could get a team together. I should be glad to take part.".

I put him through stiff test, choosing some difficult words all of which were put to the over 40 and under 20 teams.

He spalt without the slightest Lord and Lady Scarsdale were hesitation and made only one mis- hospital ward when she was taken married at St. George's Register take when he spelt Iridescent with to Holloway Frison after arrest. Offee, Hanover Square, W., in April, two Rs.

Trained nurses are on duty in the 1923, and have four children. They hospital, and medical attention is lived at Kedleston, Derbyshire.

given

by the Governor, Dr. John Lady Scarsdale's case was that she through Matheson, and two women doctors. and her husband lived together very time.

A prison authority told me: "Re-happily until the end of 1935, when mand prisoners in hospital are very she learned of Lord Scarsdale's asso-Iridescent much in the position of patients in cintion with Mrs. Harris. the ward of an ordinary general hos- Custody of the children was granted pital.

to Lady Scarsdalo.

"It would be quite in order not to allow them to have food from out- side as the doctors would want them to have a special diet.

"In the same way, they mighti caslly hear other patients discussing their case, as in an ordinary hospital Ward,

Granary

'In a flash he said "No. I think there is ony one r in that "and went It again, faster than the first

Here are the words I

I put to him: Boycott Synonymous Descendant Ecclesiastical Putrefy Harangue

Inescapable Erudito

WIFE AND BABY OF SIR Queue

PHILIP GAME'S SON

BOTH DIE

Bath.

Statistician

· Efervescence Hereditary

,,

Hypocrisy

Magell

Omitting

Possession

Humorous

Damask

Tragedian

Practitioner

Treachery

Satiety Acquiesce

Ha spelt every one of these words

the

“As far as scrubbing floors Ix concerned, I am sure no remand prisoner. would be ordered to do It has been revealed that Mrs. backwards more rapidly than this. I

occurs to me as being Annie Muriel Isabella Game, twenty-B.B.C. teams spelt them forwards an unlikely toak even for a patient four-year-old daughter-in-law of with the 'exception of those with 'who was willing."

Sir Philip Game, Commissioner of more than 19 letters. Even with Home Office officials refused to the Metropolitan Police, died in a those there was only slight hesita- comment,

the statements Bath private hospital recently.

tion. were made in court during a

Her baby, born after her death, case still being heard. It is thought lived for two hours. Mrs. Game possible that a reply may be made was the wife of Mr. Philip Game, of by counsel for the Crown at a future! Chipstead, Surrey. hearing.

Sir Philip,

the at

inquest, When the appeal for bail was made beard Mr. D. A. Mitchell, an obste Mrs. Casserlay was sitting brunedi-tric surgeon, tell how Mrs. Game's I have his permission to give the an operation. B.B.C. his name and address in con- ately in front of the docic where heart stopped during Chaplin slood.

fidence if they want it. Massage, injections and oxgyen were given, but without success.

The action of stovain, an unacatho-

A SURPRISE

It had been expooled that the case to, caused donth, which was possibly would be proceeded with, but, Mr. accelerated by a quarter of a grain of

Clayton, for the Director of Public morphlomer returned a verdict in Prostculiona asking for a remand,

The coroner

said: "Certain reports "and inquiries accordance with the medical evi- are not yet complete, and I must dence, and added that the drugs were have them before me before I can properly administered.

Mr. John Maude, making "an

urgent and strong application for

ball asked for sympathetic con- Korean Girl Top Scholar Valderation and said hd· understood

."QUITE SIMPLE"

"I

Asked how he did it, he replied, don't know. I suppose I visualise the words. It's quite simple."

My friend wishes to remain anony- mous for professional reasons.

But

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