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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH,

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER

8, 1938.

GUNMAN CHASES GIRL: SHOOTS INSPECTOR

Hunted by Armed Police, He Kills

Himself in

in Field

From A Special Correspondent

Kirton (near Ipswich).

Fifty policemen; many armed with shot-guns lent them by farmers, an aeroplane and scores of civilians engaged in a three-hour man hunt in and around this tiny Suffolk villago recently.

When they rounded up their quarry he had already twice shot at a girl and then severely wounded a police inspector. As they closed in on him he shot himself through the heart.

The principals in the drama were a young couple both residing in the village, Arthur Smy (24), a gardener, and Miss Violet Cone (21). They had been walking out for some weeks, but according to the man's relatives had quarrelled a few days ago.

First indication of trouble was the sound of smashing glass and a gunshot. Smy, appearing at the back of Miss Cone's house, had broken a window with the butt of his gun and fired through the hole at her as she was washing in the scullery.

He missed, but ornaments on the mantelpiece were shuttered, and the girl rushed screaming

fram the house. She ran down the street and into the local co-operative store, with Smy close behind. Apparently he had not yet reloaded his single- barrelled gun.

Misa Cone, süll shrieking for help, clashed through the shop Into a small room behind. Smy was so close that he saw her enter and shot at her through a window, again missing.

DRAMA IN THE SHOP

"I was in my shop," Mr. Perkins, the manager, said, "when a girl dushed through screaming. She was Immediately followed by almost Smy, who fired.

"I don't know how he missed her. Then he pulled a cartridge from his pocket and reloaded, pointing the gun I thought it was all up. I was trapped behind the counter, for it had all happened in a flush,

at me.

"But I said as forcefully as I could, 'Get out of here. He looked at me queerly, mumbled, turned and ran out of the shop. I locked the door and telephoned the Ipswich police.

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Posed As

Grandee To Girl

-Court Allegation

Passionate letters said to have been written to a girl of 15 by a married man who, i was alleged. posed as a Spanish grandée, were read at Leeds recently.

Henry Alfred Lupton (32), de- scribed as a plasterer, was sent for trial charged with an offence against the girl. Ball was refused.

Mr. Desmond Heap, for the pro- secution, sald the girl was a domestle

hotel servant at a private

where Lupton stayed. Lupton posed to her as single and called himself "Don Juanne Torreze, Compte Cordova."

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The girl believed that he was n Spanish national who spoke English with a Spanish accent.

WINDOW LEAP

A goodly share of the pulchritude for which the south is famous was jam-packed together at the Memphis Cotton Carnival as 1000 soft-voiced lovelies vied for the title of Miss Dixie. And when all the pleking was done it was the dark beauty of Miss Atherton Tubb of Clarksdale, Miss., that had gained the appreciative eyes of the judges, Miss Tubb is pictured above, against a background of other southern belles who also wanted to be Miss Dixie.

NO BOYS, SO GRANDFATHERS

DO THEIR JOBS

"Grandfathers." i.e., men over 70, are doing the work

RADIO BROADCAST

Brahms Symphony No. 4

In E Minor

CHILDREN'S HOUR

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.. on a Frequency of 845 ke's. and on Short Wave from 1-2.13 p.m. and 8-11 p.m. on 0.52 in.c's. per second,

6 Studio The Children's Hour. 7 Closing Local Stock Quotations. 7.02 Light Varlety (Vocal and Instrumental),

Moorish March-Pasodoble (Mohr); Valentina Car

Carioca Fox-Trot (Wright -Dunn).....Emil Roosz und I Orchestra; When The Moon Bongs High (Flo Rio-Bullock-Wenrich); Did I Remember (from "Suzy").... Dick Powell with Victor his Orchestra;

Vaiso C'est

and Murette (from "Paris qui brille"); Sous Les Ponts (from "Paris qui brille")....Mistinguett with Chorus, Accordeon and Orchestra; Ninette

E. Mel'herson (Playing on the Organ of New Empire Cinema; Trailing Around In A Trailer ("The Holiday Song")....George Formby and

His Ukulele with Orchestra; La Java Du Hataka-Glava Mazutka (Van Herck); Serenata Mediovale Solo by (Silvestri)....Mandoline

A Japanese Sunset (Deppen)

Prot. Giuseppe Gargano with Piano; Bacio (The Kiss)-(Featured in The Three Smart Giris"); Someone To Cure For Me (from "The Three Smart

Girls).....Deanna Durbin with Orchestral Accomp.: Raisin' The Reny (from "The Cotton Club Review)....Paul Whiteman presents Roy Bargy and Ramona; Happy As The Day is Long (from "The Cotton Club Review")....Paul Whiteman presents Ramona and her Grand Piano; Bluebeard Bed-Time Story (Wynne)....Wish

(ComeTM dienne): The Happy Mountaineers (Tyrolean Medley-Basil); Memories Or The Alps ("Tyrolean Medley- Basil)....Rae Jenkins Cosmopoli-

of boys in a Midland tube factory because of the juvenile

"Then 1 locked my assistants, young boy, and Miss Cone, in the warehouse and waited for the pollee. Inspector Rumsey and Pallee-Con- stable Arbon arrived by car from alleged offence, added Mr. Heap, but labour shortage. Ipswich and I let the men through the shop door,

"It seemed certain that Smy had made off. There was no sign of him. The inspector talked to Miss Cone in the warehouse and then he and the constable opened the ware- house door into the yard.

"Smy suddenly appeared before them and fired point-blank at the inspector who collapsed in the pas- sage. Smy made of and I 'phoned Ipswich for more police."

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RESIDENTS ARM POLICE headquarters SOS Ipswich quickly brought 50 pollee by car and motor-cycle. Local farmers and other residents lent them ali the shot guns in the district, and the. hunt began.

Civilians joined them, and Mr. T. A. N. Forsyth, a pilot from Ipswich airport, flew low over the area. For nearly three hours the search was in vain, but the possibilities had been narrowed down to a gorse-covered Aeld.

The police were sent for after the

Lupton escaped by jumping from his Yet in the chain-making trade there is no worker

bedroom window on the Arst floor)

into the street. He was arrested at over 40. Hall Green, Waleneid,

Part of an alleged letter from Lup- Dearth of skilled men, necessitating the employment of in- experienced workers, in factories generally throughout the ton to the girl read:

"My Darling-You see it is all country, is blamed in part for the 9 per cent, increase in accidents so gloriously Urilling being in love last year. with you, dear, that I feel my beart absolutely bursting over

- with exquite Joy.

of

. Of the 192,539 accidents in 1937, 1,003 were fatal. there were 920 fatal accidents in a total of 176,330.

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incats.

Wynne

Time, Weather and Announce-

6.02 London Relay-World Affairs.'

MACKINTOSH'S

have received their new stocks of suitings for Autumn and Winter.

As all suit lengths are exclusive to Mackintosh's it is suggested that there are advantages to be gained by making an early choice.

Here's Luck!

EWO

BEER

A talk by A. P. Newton, Ithodes HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION

Professor of Imperial History in the University of London,

8.15 Viola Bolos,

(from

Prelude (d'Hervelois).....Sylvia Grummer (Viola da gamba with Plano accomp. by Prof. Hinze-Rein- holly; Venetian Gondola Song No. 1 (from "Songs

without Words")--- Mendelssohn-arr. G. Walter); Duette

"Songs without Words"

G. Walter). Lionel Terlis (Viola Solo) with Or chestra Accompaniment; Minuet With Two Variallons from Sonata (K. Simitz).... Eero Selin (Viola d'amour)

Drwenskl and - Walter (Cembalo); Minuet and Finale from Eero Divertimento (J. Haydn),

Selin (Viola d'amore), Grete Eweler (Violin) and Gregory Pecker (Cello)

8.30 Studio--A Concert by Z.Bw.

In 1936, Orchestra.

Suite From the South-(Ni- code); (a) A Legend from La Pro-

A

Noon (Vaughan Williams) ...Stunet

On

"It is all rather strange, beauti- These facts are given in the annual tory near their colliery and rented vence; (b) Moorish Dance-Song: (e) fully strange, that 1, Compte de report of the Chief Inspector of it to a firm of warp knitters to pro- In the Tavern....Z.B.W. Orchestra; la Cordova, should be so madly Factories and Workshops, Sir Dun- vide work for the women and girls 2. Myself When Young ("In

In the families they hope to attract Persian Garden"-Lehmann); Silent and passionately in love, I, who can R. Wilson.

to the neighbourhood.

Robertson (Baritone) thought I was so secure from it,

with Plano; 3. but oh, my queen, the ecstasy

The accidents Increase was most

commenting manager it is like a searing flame that murked in those areas in which

4. Bocchierin!) Serenade (Mar- situated or juvenile accidents is reported us stat-Minuet (from the Quintette Op. 23- industries are passes through my blood when I heavy

quardt); Allegretto (Wolsten- hear your voice.

where there has been great indus-ing that the threat of suspension or

dismissal, once the mainstay of dis-holme): 0. A Forest Melody (Mon- trint expansion, says the report..

cipline, had le effect to-day, be tague Phillips)... ... ... ...

Z.8.W. Orchestra: cause most of the boys prefer to be 7. My Lovely Celia (arr. Lane WII- son); Pastorale (arr. Lane Wilson) Elizabeth Schumann (Soprano) with Piano Accompaniment by

"My own dear princess, won't you try to understand that I love you with all my heart and soul....

"LURED" TO WORK

The shortage of labour, It is re-out of work than in it,

I want you always to remember

"Such an attitude in many cases N that no matter what happens or corded, caused a firm in Suffolk to wherever we may be, my heart. provide free transport for workers could be traced to the lack of ather George Reeves; 0. Three Dances

them, and to which the boys were "In the in your keeping, so help me, God." to offer a bonus to anyone introduc-suited." adds the report.

six area in question there was little em a friend remaining for Itig

ployment for bays except in the brick-yards."

A movement was noticed in one of the bushes; slowly the hunters closed

In reply to the Stipendiary (Mr. months. in, taking all the cover they could, Marshall), the girl denied that a note for Smy still had his gun,

They got to within 20 yards when which Lupton said she had written he was seen to kneel, put the gun to to him was in her handwriting. his heart and fire. He was dead when the first policeman got to him.

LEFT TWO NOTES

Smy's elder brother, Mr. Percy Smy, told me he had lent him the 28. with which he bought the cur tridges. He understood his brother! wanted the money to have his cycle repaired

I know-he had had a quarrel with Violet on Saturday after they had been to a cinema, at Ipswich gether," he added.

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"He left two notes for me, which I found on the mantelpiece this morning. In one he said that he had made up his mind to end it all and was going to shoot the girl and theu himself."

The two brothers lived together and between them helped to keep their widowed mother, who is nearly blind.

"A QUIET MAN".

The villagers spoke to me of Siny As a quiet man who kept to himself. "The Inst sort of person we would think capable of such a thing," one sald.

The Cones house stands in a quiet hedged lane at the side of the Co- operative shop. Behind the house is the field where Smy killed himself.

Inspector Rumsey was taken to

then Felixstowe Hospital and Guy's, London.

Gold Miners Strike It Rich

Perth, Australia.

10

W. H. Wisby and E. T. Horton, two miners working near Coolgardle. have succeeded in extracting. $13,- 000 worth of gold in eight months They treated 41-tons of arak...

in the East A colliery company Midlands, needing men, built a fac-

“VICTIM” OF LUSITANIA BACK

IN ENGLAND

Woman's Reunion After Being Given Up For Dead

Greeting a sister they believed hud been lost with the Lusitania in 1915, relatives on the U.S. Junding stage at Liverpool saw Mrs. Margaret O'Connell for the first time for 40 years-und found her a grandmother, twice widowed, with a family of five of her own,

ago

Forty-five years

Margaret Spillane and her mother-now a bed ridden woman of 84-moved to Tem- plemore, Whitecote, Bramley, Leeds, from Templemore, Tipperary.

"SWEATED" LABOUR

The report"refers to the usual crop of glaring cases of illegal en ployment, though these, of course, are exceptions."

(o) Country Dance; (b) Pastorni Dance; (c) Merrymakers' Dance.... z... Orchestra,

9.30* London Relay The News. 9.50 Irene Scharrer at the Plane. Etude No. 1 In F Minor (Trola Nouvelles Etudes) (Chopin); Etude No. 3 In D Flat Major (Trols Nouvel- les Etudes); Etude In A

Milnor (Winter Wind-Chopin, Op. 25, No. in

One firm, in the week preceding the Coronation, employed women and young persons from Ga.m. 10 Worsley by B. L. Jacot. midnight on each day.

10 London Relay Short Story. The Great Stompede at Chipping

In another case a girl of 15 was working 75 hours a week, ex- clusive of meal times.

10.15 Brahms-Symphony No. 4 In E Minor, Op. 98.

Played by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Felix Wein- gariner.

Close Down.

Girls under 16 in a seaside laundry 11 worked during the summer from 81 a.m. to D.30 p.m., seven days a week.

New industries and factories meant CHINESE SILVER

a substantial addition to the number There are 189,277 factories and 71,100 workshops on the registers of the Department with

wrote usking me to come home when I lost my husband, but I had four of inspectors. young kiddles to consider and decided 10 stay.

"Finally I married again, but I have my second husband, too. I now have one family of five, the eldest of whom is 30. .'

"When I received no more letters from home I thought they were on returned, and I must confess I never pored, perhaps, because I had not wrote again until last Christmas to the old address, where we had

Five years Inter 12-year-old formerly lived. Margaret went to the United States, promising to return.

And it was not surprising that old Mrs. Spillane, ritting. propped up

"Only then I found that the family had belleved me all these years to be a victim of the Lusitania sinking. Sure, but it's all straightened Itseit

In bed in the drawing-room, falled out now."

to recognise her "long-lost" daughter, whose Irish brogue slipped into ກ

And Mrs. O'Connell, dark-haired,

total of 276,114 premises subject to Inspection.

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FOL. AMERICA

New York, Sept. 8.

It is learned that China has re-

An investigation into the incid-sumed extensive shipments of allver

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OF CHILDREN

Change of Address

All communications should be addressed to

OLD CITY HALL Or to

www

Hon. Director Mon. Gen. Secretary Hon. Troasuror

Mr. G. P. de Martin

Tal. 91-2025. Mrs. D. J. S. Crozier- Tel. 30689. Mr. A. McKellar Tol. 27721.

Music hath charms

Sunday Classical Concert

at Repulse Bay Hotel

Under leadership of

Geo, Pio-Ulski

Programme for Sunday, 11, Sept., 1938.

-1 p.m. -- 2.30 p.m.

PROGRAMME

1.

Oberon. Ouverture 2. Barcarole

....Weber. Gruenfeld..

Strauss.

3. Tales from the Vienna Woods, Waltz

4. Doina Voda. Fantasie ...De Maurizı,

0.

5. Andante. From Quartet. Tschaikowsky.

Sulle Ballet 7. Van Herwifen. March

For Reservationa

phone 27775.

REPULSE

BAY

HOTEL

...Popy. .Plo-Ulsk),

COPIES OF

ence of warts in fish workers on the coins to the United States to obtah. THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. East Coast reveals that warts are exchange.

It is unofficially estimated Out frequently present on the hands of

steamer American Trader via Lot- workers who handle white fish, such yesterday's Initial shipment by the But those who handle herring ap-don and consigned to the New York as cod, sole, catfish and haddock. pear to be immune.

Kill Kidney

branch of the Federal Reserve Bank, totuled 16,000,000 ounces-United Press.

BRITISH SHIP

Trouble Quick AFIRE AT SEA

true New York accent as he told jovial and buxom, put her head back her how, at the death of her "folet and roared with laughter. Now that husband, she decided not to return everything has been explained away to England in the Lusitania as she she says she is "tickled to death to Narvutignant, Htiffness, thaumatining Die 3,500-ton British

be home again." had planned.

"CHANGED MY MIND"

"I can still remember the district, although it has changed considerably. "Just changed my mind, II left Ireland when I was seven years reckon," Mrs. O'Connell explained to old to come here, and I was only 12 a News Chronicis reporter. "Mother when I sailed for New York in 1898,"

Landon, Sept. 8. Lloyds have reported that the steamer Italian

Thousands of sufferers from Xidner troubt and Bladder Weakness have stopped Getting Up Nights, Leg Pains, Circlna Under Fres, Swollen Ankles, miremo, Lainbago, Vorning, Itebing. Bojart Ins Ackiity and Loss of our by a Doce Prince has been abandoned alice 31 for new discovery called Cynter (miles south and 21 miles west of

and bale, or finest minuter Cape Finisterre, France.

yatex Marte purifying your blood, lirines Eleven pasengers and a crew of 34

And vitality hours, oranteed to and your trouble in 20ys have been rescued but one passenger or money back, dst Cyntes at all chenista la missing United Press,

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