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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPI, MONDAY, AUGUST

1938.

ESCAPED

BORSTALBOY

WANDERS ABOUT NUDE

He Tried To Swim Solent

WILLIAM LEWIS, the 18-

years-old Darlington boy who escaped from the Borstal Camp at Medham, near Cowen, Isle of Wight. was captured recently after he tried to swim to the mainland, lost his clothes, and wandered about naked. At Cowes police station he told n vivid story of his adven-i tures.

He said that when he escaped he wan dressed only in a shirt, tri- Gers, shoes and socks.

He discorded

his shirt on the railway line near the field where good conduct Borstal boys are under canvas,

CURRENTS TOO STRONG Then he fled through the fekia un- til he eventually reached Gurnned and decked tax swim to the main- Jund. He took all the rest of his clothing, bin when half a male from the shore found the currents too sirong, and returned

In the darkness he was unable to find his clothes and then wan- dered naked into the village of Gurnard, where he knocked at a ocilage and asked for a towel.

A woman threw him one out of the window, and he reel this 1920 44 loincloth. Unmen, he mnde his way back to Cowes, where he boarded the Marquis of Camden's 357-19 yacht Yarta."

FOUND BY SKIPPER

Despite the fact that wonkurorts were busy The bout the whole j day, he remained undienvered, whim; he was found by the skipper of the Yacht.

After clothes for been found for him he was brought to Cowes police station and given a meal

He was later handed over to Like Borstal authorities.

SPELLING BEANO IN COMMONS

AN injustice was done to

The Rev. T. D. Serution, the vicar of All Saints, King-

stem, son of the inte Lord Justice Serution, shakes

hands with Mr. Jusßer Humphreys after the service field before the opening of Surrey Assizes at Kingstou.

Jane Withers, the 11-year-old film actress, was badly burned when a kanch of nguibe exploded in her hand during celebrations in Hollywood, She is seen here with her mother.

CURE CLAIMED FOR INSANE WIFE

Husband Sought Divorce A

HUSBAND who regarded his wife as a hope- lessly incurable mental case and contemplated divorce proceedings under the new Matrimonial Causes Act has now been told that his wife is show- ing every sign of making a good recovery.

The case is reported in the British Medical Journal_

the Lords in the Commons The woman, aged 34, was admitted to a mental hospital in recently. They were charged April 1931, suffering from "split mind." She had suicidal ten- with not being able to spell. Idencies.

The matter arose when

Captain Crookshank (Secre-! Seven years later. in March tary for Mines) moved the this year, she was reported to be acceptance of A Lord's emaciated and portraying little amendment to the Coal Bill evidence of mind."

providing that the present coal owners should "refrain from any dealing culated to give a factitious or artificial value to a holding" between the passing of the

Act and the valuation day.

In April she had a spontaneous epileptic seizure, and during the next two days showed great mental improvement. She talkra ruttonally, and Sat up in bed Kottling.

But in a few days she lapsed into ber former sinte,

It was then decided to produer by Injections further The drug used

"We have no objection to the amendment," said the “hum. ori) learned" Str Stafford Cripps, for- artifelally

Solicitor-General. epileptic seizures

was the new discovery "pentamethy

mer

Labour

Origin Of

The American Indians

San Diego, Calif Bellef Beat the American Indian riginated in the western Hemisphere uci die nat emigrate from Ash was she 32nd annual conventions of the voired by Dr. Anthony S. Zallio at

American Association for the vancement of Science.

Dr.

AC-

"provided it is spelt correctly. presume factitious is meant to be lenetetrazol."

flctitious. This should be put Immediate mental improvement right. Apparently the Lords can was shown, The treatment has been

continued and the patient show not spell." (Opposition cheres.)

Another hon. and learned men marked mental and physical in- j ber, Mr. W. P. Spens (Con, provement, "being scarcely recogni contention on recent discoveries in Ashford) observed that he had sable as the same person." the curiosity at lunch time to consult the Oxford dictionary and The report continues: "She asks to found

be allowed to assist in the ward, con- that the two words meaat; exactly the same-artificial.

verses brightly and rationally, and Captain Crookshank also ad-writes sensible letters to her rela-

ilons, mitted that he

hnel

booked up the words in

in the dictionary. "The "She shows every promise of mak- word used by the Lards," he said, a good recovery, and her physical "is correct. The dictionary gives improvement 15 almost equally the meaning as designedly got up marked. She now takes pride in her

not natural,"

But Sir Stafford returned to the attack. If factitious meant artificial why have "factitious or

personal appearance,

HAD NINE SEIZURES

"So far she has had nine thera-

artifcial" in the amendment when peutte seizures, and treatment is still "artificial" by itself was enough? being continued.

It was fantastic that words

should be put into Acts of Parila- "Her husband, regarding her ment of which nobody knew the hopeless, contemplated divorce pro- meaning till it had been looked ceedings under the new Matrimonial up In * dictionary. They were Causes Act.

did that.

making fools of themselves if they "Within the short period of one month the complexion of this case Turning to the Speaker, he has totally altered, and it affords an asked solemnly whether there instance of the need for extreme cau- were no way of preventing the tion before Onally adjudging an House from making a fool of it apparently hopeless case us incur- self.

able."

The Speaker rose in all hla dignity of long black cont, knee breeches, and wig. "There are] SO many ways," he said, "that I really cannot enumerate them." (Laugliter.)

The amendment was then op- proved. No apology was made

to the Lords for the unwarranted

WHAT A STEEL CORSET DID

Cleveland, Ohio, June.

A woman visitor walked between

charge that they could not spell.wo large concealed magnets which

Police Badge 100 Years Old

a

Sacramento Junior College, based his Zallio, Anthropologist from

California and the southwest which bauld indiented it would have been impossible for the

Inthan to have crossed the Bering son and gradually worked his way down the Pacific coast as many theories rtam,

The iden has been implanted that the American Indian is a descendant of Mongolian races," Dr.

Dr. Zallio said. "It has been taken Cor granted and no particular effort has ever been made to prove it, or disprove it. Ice Cormations were of such formidable aize

12,000 years ago

IL would have been impossible for a human to have passed them."

"

'Gaol For Me"

Says Cruel Father

MR. STANLEY

Brighton. PARRACK

was recently refused an ex- tension of time in which to pay the £25 fine for burning his son's hands with live coals--as 2 punishment.

"It means I shall have to go to prison for three months, so I shall hot be able to take charge of the boy," he told a correspondent.

The fine was imposed on June 2, and he was given à month in which to pay. "LOST MY JOB"

"I have lost my job in the R.A.F. and

I haven't got another added ex-Aireraftman Parrack. "'1 don't know what other work I cun do. I have been told that I can apply for unemployment benefit, but don't wint that sort of money. I have seen the Inside of labour" ex- Phunges before.

"I do not intend to change my nane, It may be a barrier lo getting Job at present, bul I am not ashamed of it. One day I shall vindicate my character- and it will be in the name of Parrack, and not Smith or some other assumed name.

"Of course, I want the boy back, but I have no hope for him now. im in London, and my wife is with relatives in Hove. We have written regiarly to each other.

"Perlips they will let me have my boy back later on, when all this is and I am once more in o post- tion to look after him."

Over

Mrt. Gibbs, the boy's grand. mother, told me that she still Intends to try to have the boy returned to her. "HE WAS HAPPY"

"He was quite happy with me." she mach. I can't have him I would like the boy to stay where he is at the Warren Farin School, be- chuse

have been able to visit him every fortnight here.

The fair-beaded centre of this drama was at the school on top of the downs, on the outskirts of the town. was celebrating his eighth

It is thought likely he will be taken Cure of by the Walls and Stray Sariety.

birthday.

Sonja Henie "Too Busy

For Love"

SONJA HENIE, the world's greatest ice skating star and tenth

star of the films in international Box-office ranking, is hurry- ing home to Norway-without her skates. Sonja wants to rest.

When she brokte, for a brief stay in Londen, her dash from Hollywood, she explained that she flew to New York from Call- fornia within 12 hours of com- pleting her latest film, and then caught the first boat to South- ampton. Sonja sald how much she is longing Sheriff Martin O'Donnell installed for the quiet of the Oslo countryside, recently as a "gun detector" to make where she is to spend the next two jalt escape-proof. The months, swimming, tennis, trout he county narrow green light over the magacla fahing. No skating or hardly any. widened to a red glow, Indienting the

LEGS INSURED presence of iron or steel. The woman

འམ་་ Her legs and feet are Insured for and told Chief Juller Michael Kilbane £600,000, and one polley brings her that she had no metal on her person. £1,000 a week if she cannot slinte,

Kilbone asked her to walk by again. The red light flashed onto "Well I do have on a nicel- supported corset," she said.

'Mahanoy City, Pa. Harry Schatzlein, constable, wears a badge more than 100 years) old-made from the back of a silver watch case. Only one word-Cou- more. stable-la on the shield.

Hollywood gossips have Aug- gested that Bonja and Tyrono Power are likely to marry. There are whispers, too, Inking“ her

KAMO romantically

that willi of 22-years-old Englishman Nichard Greene, her leading man in "My Lucky Star," But Mrs. Selma Henle, Sonja's mother, and Sonja herself ridiculed these rumours, said she had no love affairs.

Big Trout Costs Plunge

New Haven, Vt. While Ashing here, Mrs. Albert Proctor, of Burlington, had to plungo into the river to land her cateli. "But sho emerged triumphantly clutching

21-Inch trout

threo weighing pounds.

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