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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

MONDAY, AUGUST »8* 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 Cowes, 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 hej told a vivid story of his adven-1 tores.

He said that when he escaped he was dressed only in a shirt, trous sers, shoes and socks. He discarded 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 helds un- til he eventually renched Gurnard and decided to swim to the main- land, lle took at the rest of his clothing, but when half a rule from the shore found the currents 100

strong, 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 i voltage and asked for a towel.

A woman threw him one out of the window, and he used this as an Jolneleth. Unseen, he made his way back to Cowes, where far boarded! the Marquis of Camden's 357-tons yacht "Yarta."

FOUND BY SKIPPER Despite the fact that workinen were busy on the bout the whole day, he remained undiscovered, when he was found by the skippen of the yacht.

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

He was later handed over to the Borstal nuthorities.

SPELLING BEANO IN COMMONS

N injustice was done to

AN

the Lords in the Commons

The Rev. T. 3. Serutten, the vicar of All Saluts, King-

ston, son of the late Lord Justine Scrutton, shakes hands with Mr. Justice Humphreys after the service held before the opening of Surrey Assizes at Kingston.

Jane Withers, the 11-year-old film actress, was badly burned when a bunch of equibs 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 t' t his wife is show- ing every sign of making a good recovery.

The case is reported in the British Medical Journal, The woman, aged 34, was admitted to a mental hospital in She had suicidal ten-

recently. They were charged April 1931, suffering from "aplit mind." with not being able to spell.

The matter arose when

dencies.

Captain Crookshank (Secre- Seven years later, in March

tary for Mines) moved the this year, she was reported to be acceptance

of

起

Lord'a emaciated and "portraying little

amendment to the Coal Bill evidence of mind."

providing that the present

cal-

coal owners should "refrain from any dealing culated to give a factitious or artificial value to a holding" botween the passing of the Act and the valuation day.

ber,

In April she had a spontaneous epileptic seizure, and during the next two days showed Freal mental improvement. She liked rationally, and sat u in brd Knitting.

But in a few days she lapsed into her former state.

It was then decided io produce

by injections further

-

"We have no objection to the amendment." said the "hon. and. learned" Sir Stafford Cripps. for- artificially mer Labour Solicitor-General, epileptic seizures. The drug used "provided it is spelt correctly. was the new discovery "pentamethy- presume factitious is meant to bej lenetetrazol." Betitious. This should be put Immediate mental unprovenwat right. Apparently the Lords can was shown. The treatment has been not spell."

cheers.) (Opposition

continued and the patient shows Another hon, and learned reem- marked mental and physical

Mr. W. P.

Spens (Con provement "being scarcely recogni- 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 that the two words meant be allowed to assist in the ward, con- exactly the same--artificial.

į verses brightly and rationally, and Captain Crookshank also ad- Writes smsible letters to her rela- mitted that he had looked up the words in the dictionary. The She shows every promise of mak- word used by the Lords," he said, ing a good recovery, and her physien "is correct. The dictionary gives improvement Is almost equally the meaning as

'designedly got up marked. She now takes pride in her -not natural.

personal appearance. But Sir Stafford returned to attack. If factitious meant

the

tions.

HAD NINE SEIZURES

artificial why have "fuclitious or "So far she has had nine thera-

Origin Of

The American Indians

San Diego, Calif. Hellef that the American Indian netginated in the western Hemisphere and del not entigrate from Asta was valced by Dr. Anthony S. Zallio at the 22nd annual convention of the American Association for the Ati- vancement of Selence,

Dr.

Zallio, Anthropologist from Sacramento Junior College, based his contention on recent discoveries in California and the southwest which he said Indicated it would have been impossible for the Indian to have crossed the Bering sea and gradually worked his way down the Pacific const as many theories claim.

The idea has been implanted that the American Indian is a descendant of Mongolian races," Dr. Zallio said. "It has been taken for granted and no particular effort has ever been made to prove it, or disprove IL. Ice formations were of such formidable

12,000 years ago would have been impossible for

size

artificial In the amendment whicul peutle seizures, and treatment is still human to have passed them," "artificial" by itself was enough? being continued.

I was fantastic that words "Her husband, regarding her ¡S should be put into Acts of Parlin-1 ment of which nobody knew the hopeless, contemplated divorce pro- meaning til it had been looked ecedings under the new Matrimonial

in a dictionary. They were Causes Act.

up

making fools of themselves If they "Within the short period of one

did that.

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 son before finally adjudging an House from making a fool of Happarently hopeless case as incur- .scit.

able." The Speaker rose in all his dignity of long black coat, knee breeches, and wig. "There are "that so many ways," he said,

I really cannot enumerate them." (Laughter.)

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

to the Lords for the unwarranted charge that they could not spell.

WHAT A STEEL CORSET DID

Cleveland, Ohio, June.

A woman visitor walked between wo large conecated magnets which

it

"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 # punishment.

"11 means I shall have to go to prison for three months, so I shall not be able to take charge of the boy." he told a correspondent,

The One was imposed on June 2, and he was given a month in which to y "LOST MY JOB"

me.'

"I have lost my job in the R.A.F., and I haven't Kot another mided ex-Aircraftman Parrack. don't know what other work I can do. I have been told that I can apply for unemployment beneßt, but 1 tlon't

wont that sort of money. have seen the inside of labour ex- changes before.

"I do not intend to change my name, It may be a barrier to setting a Job at present, but 1 am not ashamed of .

One day hal vindicate character...nt

my and it will be in the name of Parrack, and not Smith or some other assumed name.

"Ot

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

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

grand-

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

of

He was quite happy with me." she said, "If I can't have himn i would like the boy to stay where he If the Warren Farm School, be- cause I have been able to visit him every fortnight there."

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

Is thought likely he will be taken

enre of by the Wolfs and Strays Soclety,

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 broke, for a brief stay in London, her dosh from Hollywood, she explained that she flew to New York from Cali- fornia within 12 hours of com- pleting her latest film, and then caught the first boat to South- ampton, Sonja aald 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 the county jail escape-prent.

The

months, swimming, tennis, frout narrow green light over the magnets fishing. No skating or hardly any. widened to a red glow, indicating the presence of iron or steel. The woman had told Chief Jailer Michael Klibane Mahoney City, Pa.

constable, that she had no metal on her person. Harry

Schatzlein, 0

Kibone asked her to walk by wvonra a badge more than 100 years old-made from the back of a üllver again! The red light flashed watch case. Only one word--Con-more. "Well I do have on a steel-

supported corset," she said. stablo-is on the shield.

Police Badge 100. Years Old

once

LEGS INSURED

£000.000, and ono polley brings her Her legs and feet are inmired for 1,000 a week if she cannot skale. Hollywood gossips have SUE- gested that Sonja and Tyrone. Power are likely to marry. There are whispers, too, linking her

name romantically with that of 22-years-old Englishman Richard Greens, her leading man in “My Lucky Star,"

But Mrs. Selma Henle, Sonja'a mother, and Sonia herself ridiculed these rumours, said she had no love affairs.

Big Trout Costs Plunge

Now Haven, Vt. While fishing here, Mrs. Albert Proctor, of Burlington, had to plunge Into the river to land her cateli, Büt she emerged triumphantly clutching 21-inch trout wolghting threo pounds,

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