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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1938.

HANKOW AFTER JAPANESE AIR

AIR RAID

With terror stricken faces, these roolles rush for cover during a Japanese air raid on Hankow.

Tils remarkable picture was taken in Hankow re- cently, when Japanese bombs threatened the International Seillement there.

BRAIN

TO DEATH

GUILTY:

Heard His Fate

Unmoved

George Brain, 27-yearold van-driver, of St. James's- cottages, Richmond, Surrey, was at the Old Bailey recently found guilty of the murder of Mrs. Rose Muriel Atkins in a lovers' lane at Wimbledon,

Mr. Justice Wrottesley sentenced ; him to death.

When asked if he had any- thing to say before the sentence, he replied "No" in a scarcely audible voice.

He showed no emotion when he heard his fate.

AFTER TWO DAYS' TRIAL Brain's trial has lasted two days. | He had stated that the wuman had tried to blackmail him and that he wat first struck her with his band and he saw red and remembered nothing more unt!! he felt the body beside him in the van.

A statement to this effect, which he was said to have made after his arrest at Sheerness, when he hud been eight days without food was rend in court.

The proceedings opened with the cross-examination of Brain by Mr. G. B. McClure, for the prosecution. QUESTIONS ABOUT STATEMENT "You say that all you have sald in your statement is true?" was Mr. McClure's first question. Yes.

Except that you qualided it by say- Ing that you assume you hit her with the starting-handic?Yes.

Do you want the Jury to under- stand that you did not touch her [Mrs. Atkins] except with your hand, or do you want understand that you

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"You have acen the Injuries. Look

at the second photograph." A photograph was then passed up to Brain, who looked steadily at it for kome nismenis.

"Is that how you left her?” asked McClure, To which Brain Mr. answered quietly: "I could not say.” "MORE FIERY RED THAN BLANK"

Asked why he left her on the road, when he did not know if she were alive or dead, Brain replied: "Panic, probably

went

He could not say if there was a struggle, and when asked, "Have you read murder cases and read of people blank?" saying everything Brain replied, "No; everything seem- ed to go more fiery red than blank." Brain sad he could not throw any the light on how the woman terrible slab-wound in the neek.

fot

When Mr. McClure suggested to Brain that after the tragedy he went into hiding, Brain retorted:

While was In Sheerness I was among people all day.”

"You were hiding," said Mr. Mc- Clure: 141 was sleeping out," snid Brain. "I could hardly coll 是 hiding."

MIXED

MIXED WITH PEOPLE IN CAMP When asked "Were you running them to away?" Drain replied: "I was down have in Sheerness and mixed with people may done so but don't remember it? In the holiday camp on the beach."

I may have but I do not remember doing so.

Nobody else came into that van when you were with her?—No,

You were alone in a dark road?

Yes,

"WHEN I CAME TO"

Did you ever tell them what your namo was?—I spoke to nobody while. I was down there.

The cross-examination lasted only 25 minules and Brain was the only witness for the defence.

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The jury at the auggestion of Mr. You said in your statement, and Justice Wrottesley then spent ten repeated yesterday, "When I came minutes inspecting the van, and when to i was in the driver's seat of the they returned, Mr. McClure address- van. I put my left hand down and ed the jury. felt the body."

When do you mean by tha17-I just put my hand down and felt the body at the side of me.

SENTENCED

Appointment

Most Rev. Stephen J. Donahue, Auxiliary Bishop of New York, unanimously elected by the seven urchdiocesan consultors to

be administrator of the archdiocese of the late Patrick Cardinal Hayes. He will serve until a new Archbishop is appointed by the Holy See,

"It is just by such thin threads of He pointed out that the jury circumstance that the fate of a man were faced with what, in his sub-can hang. The thin thread, of cir- mission, amounted to a confession cumstance which called this man to of murder, if they applied com- nect that woman,

"I think you will have no hesitation mansense to the rap In Brain's statement.

in forming the view that when he was driving alone Parkside, Wimble don, he was, as he has said, Just'j driving round with no thought crime in his mind."

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HOW THEY ARE TREATED

WITH a German army surpassing W

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Carroll Gibbons and the I could inflict on another there fast, army bread, cocoa or coffee, 125 Savoy lintel Orphicans with

vocal Mr. Frederick Halls, defending, was nothing rarer than a bite. He began his address by stating, “I nak | suggested thint because of that it had ms of jam or porridge; for lunch, chorus. Tangos-Song Of The Sea; Bubbles Jose M. you to say the crime of which Brain a must devastating effect on Brain's 150 to 100 grams of meat, up to 1,500 Champagne

Krams of potatoes, 200 to 300 grams Let You Care What Anyone Lucchesi & His Orchestra. Quick- has been guilty is the crime of man-mind.

of vegetables, and ten 10 Afteen slaughter and not murder,

rams of

What do you mean by the body?-- I now know that the person was dead.

It might well be that when 131e What do you mean "I now know"?

woman screamed Brain started You have told us that all you re- member, if you are telling the truth, panic, and, realising what type she is that you hit at this girl suddenly was, he may have thought, No one with the back of your hand and she will worry much about her. Aty fell backwards. That does not make only safe plan is to finish her." her a body?-No.

"DID SOMETHING MORE HAPPEN?"

That makes her a woman lying

beside you in the motor van?--It is

a body Just the same isn't.it?

I am going to suggest that some

thing more happened than you have told us? I just referred to it as the body.

*MANSLAUGHTER Defence Says "That Is Brain's 'Crime"

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"I don't nuk you to say he

WAS

Do you any you do not remember not connected with the deaths of this using the starting handle at all-woman. It has ever been suggested certainly da.

by Brain from the beginning when Have you ever fainted in your life?ho Orst made his statement to the --Never to my knowledge.

police. He then made a frank and Were you angry with this girl?-full confession of his connection with Naturally.

that woman's death." the idea of

Why?-1 did not like

being blackmailed.

WAS GOING TO GIVE HER MONEY

Brain admitted that he was going

JUDGE SUMS UP "Murder is Killing And

Meaning to Kill ... ....

of According to the German

Gazette the soldier of

Mr. Justice Wrollesley, summing up, sald there was no suggestion that Brain had a discared mind, which impaired his reason, and defining Mr. Hallis pointed out that no murder said it was killing another motive had been suggested for the and meaning to kill. killing.

When

a person killed another, not meaning to kill, it was in many cases not murder but manslaughter.

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