1938-07-06 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY

REPRIEVED MAN DIES AN HOUR AFTER RELEASE

General Genoveno Rivas Guillen, left, Mexican army comman- der-in-chief, confers with General Manuel Aviin Camacho, Secretary of War, at Valles, San Luis Potos I, on movements of rebel Cedil- Hista bands in the hills.

Oregon Sterilizes 1,218 reports. The board said ane reason

Salem, Ore.

During the past 21 years Oregon has sterilized 1,218 lusane and feeble- minded persons, the state health board

Oregon adopted a cupenies law was because the familles that contribute children to the state home for feeble-

minded are multiplying about twice as rapidly as the rest of the popula-

tion.

Father, In Hospital, Asks 'Is My Boy Coming?'

"Is my boy coming to-day?" Eagerly a man lying ill in a hospital at Bow, E., repeated his question each day, only to be disappointed.

In a Fulham hospital, ten miles away, Thomas Albert Clay (28), who was sentenced to death in 1936 and re- prieved, lay dying of tuberculosis. An hour after ad- mission he was dead.

That was the day father and son were to have met in the hospital at Bow.

Thomas Clay had just left Parkhurst Prison. The fact that he had been released only

became known when he ተናገረ። taken to the hospital.

SUICIDE PACT Clay, who 11ved 111 Dagenham, Essex, was sentenced to death at the Old Bailey in September, 1936, for the murder in Epping Forest of his

sweetheart. Phyllis Brace, a 24-year- old nurse, of Papworth Everard, Cam- bridgeshire.

His trint disclosed a story of a suicide pact because of the couple's allicted dread of having children with tuberculosis,

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Clay's condition was mentioned and, after being strongly recommend- prleved a week later, the sentence being commuted.

to mercy by the jury, he was re-

His release from prison followed representations by Mr. George Lans- and several East End bury, M.P.. reliitious workers.

YEARS OF SUFFERING Clay had suffered from tuberculosis for 10 years before his trial and had not been able to work.

At 18 he was a patient at the Pap-

worth Village Settlement, and there met 15-year-old Phyllis Brace, who worked in the printing department.

"I was very much in love with her," he said nt the trial, "and she fre quently told me she was in love with me.

We discussed the question of marriage, but agreed it was impos sible owing to my condition. The fear of having children who might be afflicted was too great."

Then Miss Brace took up nursing. limping that in this way she might be able to help him. Hut gradually his disease became worse. They decided to end their lives. Clay survived.

"HE FOUGHT BRAVELY "

Mr. J. D. Cassels, K.C., who de- fended, rend a note left at her home: by the girl, part of which stated;

"We are sorry to leave like this, but it is not Tom's fault. He has fought bravely for ten years. net fel him bear any more

1 cannot five without him.”

I will pain, and

The end of his fight, came when he was being taken to the hospital where his fother lay.A

With one of the prison doctors he

was taken by motor ambulance to Cowes. The ambulance went on the Southampton siċamor and Clay was then driven to London,

On the way he became critically

, and it was decided to take him to Fulham Hospital.

BABY THROWN FROM TRAIN?

London, June 1. Detectives last night were search-

ing for a man or woman believed to have thrown three-month-eld baby boy from a railway carriage between Barnes and Putney.

The baby's body was found on the S.R. line near Barnes Station carly yesterday morning, after a driver had had reported seeing what "looked like a dol near the rails.

According to a post-morteni held last night by Sir Bernard Spilsbury the child died from a fractured skull cnused when it crashed on to the permanent way.

Clad only in a short woollen vest, and with no distinguishing marks, the boy was healthy and

well- nourished.

Indications point, to the child hav- ing been alive when dung from the train.

As far as is known no child of three months is missing locally.

Efforts were being made last night

to trace any woman who had given birth to a child between two and three months ago and had since dis- appeared.

Bottle Drifts

4,000 Miles

London. While Reginald G. Reynolds, Įspeedway enthusiast, was working his pasenge as a steward on board the Nurkunda on which the English speedway team was going to Austra“, tle in November, he threw overboard a bottle containing a message asking the finder to communicate with his English address..

Reynolds, while

the watching racing at Leabridge, Reard loud speakers announce that the identical bottle had been' picked up at South- port. Beach, Queensland. It travelted 4,000 miles PS V

Nejmolds says the chances against

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