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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1938.

WED THREE BOY "ROMEO"

BROTHERS IN TURN

TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD

Slavitsa Kranchiich, ft peasant woman of the village of Mustue, near Chakonets, has been married c to three brothers in turn!

She lost her frat hunhan four years ago after they had been married a year.

A ucar later she married his brother, Styepan. He was killed not long afterwards, by a runaway horse. Now she has married the third brother, Anton Kranchitch.

Sisters' £20,000 For Merchant

"Not-Till-We-All-Die" Legacy

"NOT-TILL-WE-ALL-DIE" legacy of The Three Sisters. of Worthing is at last to be pald, The bequest of £20,000 in the will of Miss Eugenie Stewart, of West Worthing, to

Mr. George Gillan Young, a City merchant, is the re- and

counsellor who

HIS GIRL

"Blindness Or

Death" Boy Is Saved By Doctors

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Cheerfully sucklug an eurnet was a nine-year-old Hornsey boy who two months ago was offered the alternative of blindness or dentl By a spectacular brain operation, Colin Cherry, of {{orold Road,! Dorsey, has been restored to normai. Shortly after Christmas," he told Dally Herald reporter, "I had terrible headaches ont wanted to die."

Nothing could relieve then, und be was taken to Hornsey Hospital at the end of March, where the specialists that he was suffering discovered from lumour at the back of the brain.

Ho He was

taken to Westminster

tions. The second took Ave and o half hours.

wurd the Three Sisters had designed Hospital and underwent two opera- for the friend built up their fortune.

Elizabeth, Eugenie, and Florence Stewart had

had lived devotedly together at West Wor

Worthing since the death 50 years ago of their

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father, Mir. Charles Hoy Stewart, R City London merchant, who left them a comfortable Income.

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They lived simply, finding content in their sisterly companionship,

Within a year the Three Sisters Juve all died, each leaving a fortune larger than the one who died before hermd a bequest of £20,000 to Mr. George Gilfillan Young "pravid- ed that my sisters are already dead." Because of that condition the be- quest was cancelled in the case of the wills of Elizabeth, the eldest, who

I involved the dripping at ( circle of skull us large as the palm of the hand and the removal

of the tumour, which was pressing on the brain beneath,

Ha father said: "When they were preparing Colin for the operation he said: If you think you're going to make me cry, you're wrong.

"The doctors at flest told us that there were two possibilities, elther Colin would nut recover 01' he would be blind,"

Within

few weeks of the opera- tion the buy was sparring with the doctors and helping the nurses to wash up the dishes.

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died in

in March last year, aged 80, leaving £52,901, and, Florence, the youngest, who died, aged 60, on the day Elizabeth's will was published, in May last year, leaving £69,735.

Eugenie, who was over 70, diet is Hey will March, leaving £141,004, shows that she has left the greater part of her fortune, incorporating all stream rachig at 40 m.p.h. that is left of her sisters' estates, to tolte-on-Trent, police in punts and charity expect the £20,000 beqtienti un rafts found the body of a boy who'

few smatter, fell in two days beture, to Mr. Young, und a personal legacies.

"I knew the three Misses Stewart for the whole of the 42 years i have been in London." Mr. Young told "They had a Daily Mail reporter.

by been left a substantial

twir father, a merchant with a con siderable West Indies trade.

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"My partners and I looked after they lived their interests, and Us modestly their savings accumulated."

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Poignant Tragedy Of Adolescence

THEY PLANNED SUICIDE PACT,

HIS NERVE FAILED

New York. After five days of crowded drama, the Long Island Court hearing of a poignant tragedy of adolescence ended with the acquittal of a boy of 16, charged with the murder of his beautiful 18-year-old sweetheart, who was about to become a mother.

The final stages of what became known throughout the country as the "Romeo and Juliet" trial were characterised by amazing scenes, during which the judge threatened to clear the court and send "some of you fools home."

Parents In

In Court

way out."

Hundreds of people flocked to "I said there should be some other the Long Island city courthouse to hear, with mingled emotions the tragic story of

Donald Carroll, 16-year-old High School boy, and

Charlotte Matthiesen, 18, whose love idyll was shattered by the bullet which ended the girl's life.

Among those people sat, hand-in- fund, the parents of the boy and girl. Mr. Matthiesen, the dead girl's father, who had refused to give evi- dence against Carroll figured in an the cene towards (extraordinary

close.

in his final speech the public pro- secutor declared: "I have no faith in the story told by Charlotte's parents. They sold their souls. Why or how Iain nol at liberty to tell."

tragedy as told in his alleged

Donald repented the story of the

fession to the police.

con-

Mr. Sydney Rosenthal, defending. asked permission to show the entire Alm of "Mayerling" in court as part of his defence,

He asserted that the death scene in the film, which starred Charles

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Danielle sulcide Darrieux, Inspired the pact between Donald and Char- fatte. Is application was

fused, however.

The defence was that, Binding that hls sweetheart was to have a baby, Donald wished to be married.

Charlotte's father, however, would not countenance the marriage, as he! political ancl

Carroll were Mr. opponents, Mr. Matthiesen-of Ger- mun origin-being of Nazl

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three The jury were hours before they brought in a ver

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"He has insulted my wife. him I'd hind my hands on mincemeat out of him. He has uc- cused my wife and me of the biggest crime possible-selling our child." Throughout the five days

young Carroll. good-looking, raven-haired boy

slender physique, listened nervously AM the "tragedy of youth"-to quote the judge was retold.

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Public Prosecutor, who read a fession alleged to have made by Donald immediately after his arrest. "SHE WAS DESPERATE" "Charlotte was desperate be- cause of her condition," ran the alleged confession. "and was de- termined to die."

He had insisted that he must die with her, and he rebelled at this sacrifice. They lay down on his bad in his father's house, with his father's 45-calibre army automutic postol beneath their plow

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"She began to gasp and mean, and I started yelling at her, and she didn't hear me," continued the statement. "I couldn't see why she didn't. I kissed her a sho Just couple of times, and moaned some more, and then I began to yell my head off.··

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Donald then told how, overcome with angulsh and fear he became emotionally unbalanced and could not find the courage to take his own life, so he telephoned the police, whe arrested him.

In his opening address for the pro- accution, Mr. Loscalzo confessed that the task of prosecuting a 16-year-old- boy was distasteful to him, but the law required him to put the facis before the jury.

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For the defence, Donald went into the witness-box und gave evidence in support of his plea of "Not guilty" to wilful murder,

Ife declared that two weeks before the shooting he and the girl went to see the film "May- erling," in which a man. hope- lessly in love will ณ woman.

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