1938-10-28 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1938.

RECTOR'S 'HIDDEN' BRIDE

GIVES A PARTY

Mr. and Mrs. G. P. de Mariin arriving at St. Mary's School, How- loon, on Wednesday afternoon, for the annual prize-giving. - Staff Photographer.

Green Scarf Examined By Accused Man

Several witnesses called for the defence in the green scarf murder trial at the Old Bailey recently said that they saw the victim, Phyllis May Spiers, after May 23, the date on which the prosecution suggested she was killed.

Take Cakes,

Villagers Take

Wine in Perambulator

MARKET HARBOROUGH.

THE Rev. Algernon Mills, forty-eight - year - old rector of Oxenden, pretty little Northants border village four miles from Market Harborough, walked through the village street recently with his twenty- eight-year-old bride, former corset factory office worker, whom he married in secret a fortnight before.

Fear that the villagers would stare at her caused Mrs. Mills to stay away from the village at first. She has lived ever since her wedding in the village of Alwalton, near Peterborough, where the wedding took place. Her husband takes services at the church in this village.

Some of the villagers in Oxenden.,

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a hamlet of not more than people, seemed hurt that the rector

had not married in his own 300-year Vicar Bans Gipsy

old church where he has officiated for the past six years,

Members of the boys' club had planed to "obduct" the rector's! bride and bring her home to Oxen- den during the week-end.

But they were forestalled by Mrs. Thit, the rector's house- keeper, and her husband, who! drove out to Alwalton in the rector's car and brought the bride home to the rectory about eleven o'clock. The rector was awakened from his sleep by the barking of his dogs.

Mrs. Mills, who before her mar- riage was Miss Isabel Grubb, went lo the two services at the parish church which her husband held last Sun- day, walked openly through the vil- lage without any one staring at her. Said the rector: "I married at Alwalton because I did not want any fuss or publicity over my wife wedding, and when my thought that the people would stare at her we both considered it best for her to stay in Alwalton

is

Wedding Dress

Nancy Scales, twenty-one- year-old gipsy violinkt in 41 tpsy band playing at Mine- wanted a gipay

head recently when the was

to

weddingt married

Arthur Smith. baritone singer and playboy of the band.

The vicar of Minehead would not allow the band to wear their gipsy costumes in the parish Arthur church, so Nancy and were married In ordinary clothes.

Later gipsy wedding was held on Minehead #ca Irant, bride and bridegroom and all the members of the band wore stipsy costumes-and Nancy went through the usual gipsy ceremonies, including jumping

the broomstick.

with a relative for a time. That STUDENTS STUDY

was my only object."

CITY PLANNING FROM THE AIR

CHICAGO.

Mr. Mills and his bride had known each other about a year before the William Whiting, the 38-year-old Folkestone

wedding. Mrs. Mills was a prom!- labourer who is charged with her murder, said that he beat member of a young people's club which used to visit the rectory She had never been to the thicket where the body was disoccasionally during the week.

girl, dark-com - Chicago as a "flying classroom." an athletic covered.

is now letting grow because some of western University, is the mentor of plexioned, with blick hair which she Professor W. L. Bailey, of North the villagers criticised her Elon erop a class of city planning which went

"I am quite happy here now." said Mrs. Mills, "und I must say all aboard a commercial air liner for a the villagers I have met have been view of sections of this city. must kind to me."

Mrs. Spiers was found on May 26 with a green scarf around

her neck.

The trial was adjourned when the judge will sum up.

paper. Phyllis wearing a green scurt,

In evidence, Whiting had denied i greaseproof

that he mudered Mrs. Spiers,

He had given her a green scarf on May 20, he said, but she was not wearing it when he went for a walk with her on May 23.

She left him and that was the last he saw of her. He returned to the

box for tross-examination.

AL the

NOT FRAYED

.

was

Mr. Oliver: Have you imagined the green scarf?-No.

Mrs. Wright, recalled, said she bought some le paper on May 33 and Miss Miller served her. Phyllis Spiers was with her.

In the East End

Professor Balley's class recently completed a series of 40-minute study sights. Mr. Mills is thinking of leaving. "It really is impossible to observe. Oxenden. He wants a slum parish.so extensive a metropolitan region in

of any other way," he says. preferably Londen.

The professor has become noted as ""My wedding has nothing what-an advocate of the study of cities ever to do with my decision to leave from the air.

"Chicago pioneered the extensive Oxenden," he said. "I had made up

city Folke my mind long ago to shift as soon and horizontial

modern sultable parish.

imes," he says, "It has since been excelled by Los Angeles, which is a

ON THE PILLION Lucy Georgina Godden, it of Mr. Roland stone waitress, said she suw Phyllis as request Oliver. K.C., prosecuting, Whiting ex Spiers on May 25 on the pillion of a aruined the green scarf closely, and.

motor-cycle. She was wearing said it was not frayed when he gave green scarf. it to Mrs, Spiers (m May 20.

Fol

"I know I am forty-eight, but

Replying to Mr. Justice Wrottesley, Mrs. Spiers was not wearing the she said it was not the green scarf scarf on May 23. He did not notice produced in the case that she had whether the was wearing a searf or seen Phyllis wearing, but a searf of a not. He had never been to the thie-lighter colour. ket where the body was found.

me scope." After an adjournment, Mr. Justice

In

"Eye" Baby Ill

of

1 don't feel it. I am a strong. dozen times more spacious. active man and really there is not | "The very high proportion enough work for me in this vil-Chicago's areas in atreels and vacant Inge, Besides, I have an urge to yards, greater than in any city in work among young people and I the world, is noticeable from the air. believe a slum parish would give it marks Chicago as ultraspacious if

not orderly." Whiting denied that he said to a Wrottesley said he had received Ingers turned up at the rectory 10 Between twenty and thirty vil- Mrs. Thompson: "If you don't keep note from the jury, your mouth shut, I'll put you on the "If I thought it possible to do celebrate the rector's wedding and; home his bride amongi with welcome

this them. They brought with them a

New York. Helaine Colanthe Chicago baby the Judge said, "I would tea service, a breakfast service, a biscuit barrel, a cake stand, and

whose left eye was removed In May They trundled a perambulator to save her from death--is once more through the village to the rectory seriously ill. Alled with sandwiches, cakes and] An emergency operation has been performed on her at a Chicago home-made wine for the party. Some of the villagers made hospital for an abdominal complaint, speeches welcoming the bride home, and doctors are hopeful that she wili most of them had known her for a

Helaine who is now six months old, year or mure. They also sang songs.

cancerous suffered from loma, a

spet" or that he had said to the what is asked in accordance landlord

ord of a publle house, "I'll serve, the administration of justice

I served Blondie."

you as

country Asked about his statement to the do so, but it is quite impossible, and other things as wedding gifts. police, he said the police wrote down that being so I can only any no.” things which he did not say.

The contents of the note were not made public.

A number of witnesses called for the defence said they saw Mrs. Splers after May 23, the day the prosecution suggested she was murdered.

Henry Allen, a Folkestone labourer, sald he saw her at 9.30 p.m. In Mor- garet Street, Folkestone, on May 24, She was smoking a cigarette,

Mr. St. John Hutchinson, K.C., addressing the jury for the defence, submitted that if they did not think that the prosecution had proved that Mrs. Splers was killed on May 23, they could not coavict Whiting. -

Mr. Oliver.. replying, suggested

recover.

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Hilda Miller, assistant at a Folke- thut the witnesses for the defence As bride and bridegroom, with growth of the eyes, and I threatened stone shop, said Phyllis Spiera came who said they saw Mrs. Spiera after their two dogs, strolled through the to spread to her brain, paralysing

After njury with a woman to the shop on May May 23 were genuinely mistaken us village, they met Mrs. Reynolds, and killing her

doctors and clergymen had decided 25, and the woman bought some to the date.

fContinued on Next Column.)

that an operation should be per- formed, her left eye was removed in May and her right eye was saved.

-An Admiral Joins Expeditionary

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for £3 15s. a Week

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grandmother. Mrs. Reynolds shook hands with the rector's bride, called her "dear," said heartily, "Wasn't it n lovely party Inst night, my dear." Mrs. Moore, wife of the village milk roundsman, was another vil- bride affectionately.

Recently men worked to preparo į belug tuken by motor-coach to round wolats that have expanded lager who greeted the rector and his Olympia for the 1,200 British Legion Lambeth-road to collect the police considerably since they were last en volunteers, who are now entering greateonts and peaked caps which active service.

"I think she's a very nice girl one end of the hall us elvillans and complete their uniform.

A number

indeed," said Mrs. Moore alluding from One man, Mr. G. Green,

of them can speak leaving at the other equipped ጎማ

and

few Czechos- to Mra. Mills, "and I can't under- police for the plebiselle areas of Nuneaton, said: "I caught an early German

stand anybody who would object Czecho-Slovakia.

train to-day to London, My wife Slovakian. They speak English with

to her as the rector's wife. She They will be billeted at Olympia and I were up late last night getting to Cockney, Lancashire to Highland, every sort of accent, from Cornishi

is such a jolly sort of girl." ready. I am very grateful to her They are shouldering their paillasses

Mrs. Moore described the rector At the entrance the men are given for letting me go."

on their armlets, tuck-s" grand type of man." their identification cards and pass Nothing more would he say about leing down the tables nicking up dark blue himself, except that he is 40 and he their arms, and they are ready to the rector persisted in his decision ing their stout ash slicks under Some of the villagers said that if kit bags, water bottles, khaki haver-joined up in 1915, sacks, strong feather belts, blue and They are all like that. "Just put Ko-Britain's strangest expeditionary to leave Oxenden they would petition Hold British Legion ties and armlets, me down its an ex-Serviceman," they force ever. knives and folks, towels and atoul sny. "It doesn't matter about the

until they leave for duty.

nsh walking sileks.

| naine."

MINERS AND BARRISTERS They have come from every sort of Job-miners, barristers, professional men, labourers.

Then they collect their uniforms- dark blue serge civillan suits and pale blue shirts.

One corner of the hall is filled with straw which is being stuffed into the One who is going out to serve ng regulation palllasses which

thean ordinary policeman is an admiral, yolunteers are carrying to the floors but nothing will induce him to give above. Piles of

await his name. Some have come from no them there and notice boards indicate jobs at all, and the civilian aults where the contingents from the they are discarding for their uniforms various parts of the country will are shabby and carefully mended. sleep on the Door..

blankets

After they have been fully. Rited out here at Olympia the men are

They will all get £3 155. a.week. They are joking ruefully as they buckle the largest-alze lonther bells

the bishop to keep him in the village,

NAZIS PUT GAG ON. SOLDIERS

WHO VISITED ENGLAND

The eight hundred German ex-Servicemen who visited England recently are reported to have been placed under detention on their return to Germany to avoid the spreading of reports regarding Britain's war préparations.

During their visit the men were given a Government reception at Westminster Hall and made several sightseeing, tours around London,

RADIO BROADCAST

Plano Recital by Nura Kanis from Studio

BIZET SYMPHONY

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z. B. W. on a Frequency of 845 ke's, and on Short Wave from 6-11 p.m. on 9.52 m.c's. per second.

0.00 Relay of the Danto Orchestra from the Roof Garden of the Hong- kong Hotel.

(n) Loving you!; (b) Sensation; (e) I hit a new high; (d) Swingtime In the Rockies.

0.14 Record: Moonbeams Dance (Gibbons): Bubbling Over (Gibbons) ....Carroll Gibbons (Piano).

6,21 (a) A gypsy lold me; (b) Sweethearts forever; (e) This time it's real; (d) Lallaby In Rhythm.

0.35 Record: Tony (Oakley); White Rose (Oakley)....Olly Oakley (Banjo) with Piano; The Dove (Yradler)....Horst Schimmelpfennig (Organ).

be

0.44 (a) Plense be kind; (b) Lady

Good-night

Sweet rood; (c) dreams; (d) East-side Kick.

7.00

tions.

Closing Local Stock Quola-

7.02 Negro Spirituals,

*****

Just Keepin' On (Phillips) Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone) with Orchestra; Little Wheel A-Turnin' In My Heart: Keep A-Inchin' Along (arr. Edna Thomas)....Edna Thomas Soprano) with Plano; I Stood On De Ribber: Peter, Go Ring Dem Bells: (arr. Burleigh); Go Down, Moses (Burleigh)....Paul Robeson (Days) with Plano

necomp. by Brown.

7.15 Variety

Frank

Frances

Bille

Lawrence

with

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Programme Stanley Holloway,

The Langford and

Crumit,

You,

Dance Orchestra:-Thank Mister Bach-Fox-Trot (from 'Four Studies In Dance Music'); Song Without Words--Fox-Trot (from Four Studies In Dance Musle').... The B. B. C. Dance Orchestra direct- ed by Henry Hall; Vocal-After All

These Years (Gic by

Master Alfred Cunn

Humorous

Vocal

Chas, Smart at the Organ; Hu

The Three Trees (McNaughton); No News....Frank

Crumit; and Instrumental-Yodelling Hobo (Ted and Ezra); The Sunset Trail (Kennedy and Carr)...The H

Own Novelty Billies with Their Accomp.: Vacal-Is It True What They Say About Dixie? (Caesar Lerner, Marks): Melody From The Sky (nim The trail of the Lonesome with Pine) Frances Langford Victor Young

and His Orchestra: Dance Orchestra-Responso Malevo

Tango; Re-Fa-Sl-Tango

Dios

Filberto Lion and Albert (Edgar)... Portena; Humorous

....Stanley Holloway with Wolseley Charles at the Piano; Vocal and Instrumental- Pop-Eyed Pele (Kennedy and Carr); Little Mountain Cabin (Kennedy and Carr)....The Hl Billes Novelty Accompaniment.

8.00 Time, Weather and Announce-

De

ments.

Plano.

Manol d

with

8.03 Blxc-Symphony No. 1 in C Major.

London Philharmonic Orchestro conducted by Walter Goehr.

8.35 Studio-Nura Kants at the 1. From Bach's "First Partita": (a) Prelude; (b) Allemande; (e) Courante; (d) Gigue; 2. Capriccio, a. Inter- Op. 76, No. 2 (Brahms); mezzo, Op. 117, No. 2 (Brahms).

9.00 London Relay "Food for Thought".

Three short talks on matters of topical interest.

0.20

Concert Waltzes,

Voices of Spring (Strauss) Czardas (Grossmann, arr. Kotelby)....Ferdy Kaufman and His Orchestra.

9.30 London Relay-The News. 9.50

Senes by Derek Oldham (Tenor).

You Will Remember Vienna (Ham- merstein and Romberg)...with Or- chestra; Under The Lilac Bough ('Lilac Time'-Ross-Clutsam)..with Orchestra and Male Chorus; One Day (Hans May)

(y). . . . . with Orchestra. 10.00 London Relay-Men Who Make Tho Shows'

Archio Pitt, who for many years had Gracie Fields as his leading lady in his productions, will be inter

Presented viewed by Dudley Glass. by F. H.C. Piffard.

10,20 Danco Music. Fox-Trots-Please Remember; On Linger Longer Island....Jack Harris and His Orchestra; Tangos-Carino Gaucho; Milongulta .....Orquesta Tipien Francisco Canaro with vocal (Continued on Page 4.)

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