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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;

MONDAY,

OCTOBER 31, 1938.

SCOUTMASTER'S ALLEGED MERCY MURDER PLEA

Story Of Drive With Nurses After Mother's Death

A 29-year-old Scoutmaster who was alleged to have said that his mother asked him to end her sufferings faced a charge of murder at Torquay recently.

It was stated that the man, Norman John Walter Smith, walked into the police station on August 28 and said he had killed his mother, Mrs. Alice Maud Smith, at their home at Hill Park Road, Torquay.

Mr. G. R. Paling, prosecuting, said Mrs. Smith lived apart from her husband. Smith lived with her and supported her with the salary he received as a solicitor's clerk.

On Friday, August 20, bria en- ployment ended and on the Sunday, he called at the police station and said to Sergeant Taylor: "Sergeant.

have killed my mother. Don't look alarmed. I hit her with a rolling- pin." He added that she had suffered from internal trouble.

The officer went with Smith to the house and in a bedroom he saw the mother's body.

"PUT HER TO Smith said: "I have

BED"

washed her

and done her hair, and then put ner to bed as you see."

Smith further said: "| promised mother on Friday I would take two

ride on Sunday morn nurses for ing, no took them out before ! came here,"

To Det-Sergeant Roper, Mr. Pal- ing continued, Smith said, "I have no regrets, officer. She is better off than she has been for 12 years."

Mr. Paling read a statement nileg. 1

to have been made by Smith.

"I then went downstairs to get the supper, I was taking the frying-

off the hook and I had to take the rolling-pin off first,

"That my

Angers through the string when I heard a bump and a shriek from upstairs. I rushed up- stairs She sold:

and found my inother kncelling

For God's sake.

down.

Norman, finish me quiet.'

lifted the

"Without hesitation, 1 rulling-pin and hit her two or thre quick blows on

on the head."

If that statement was proved, Mr. Paling said, Smith killed his mother on the Saturday evening.

He remained in the house that night and the next morning, took two women for a ride in his motor-

eur.

"DARLING MOTHER"

It

Mr. Paling said that when Suth was searched a document purporting to be his will was found on him. contained the clause; " deslie my body to

to be cremated with that of my darling mother, and the ashes to c thrown in the sen."

Mr. Paling said: "That document was dated August 26, the day he left his employment. I suggest that he formed on the Friday the intention to commit this offene; ond pussthly sume other offence,

Police Sergeant Tayler sold Smith

12 HOURS GOLF NON-STOP

A

12-hours non-stop golf match was played for a 2s. 6d. wager on Burnham Beeches club course recently.

The players, 19-year-old K. Bous- held and 24-year-old J. Kripe, twe of Archie Compston's assistants at Coombe Hill, holed out on the last green at seven

one night, having completed six rounds and walked 23 miles.

Bousfeld was Dię winner with n total of 437 strokes, an average of 72.8 a round, against Knipe's 449, an average OF 74.8. The standard scratch score is 72.

The Anal round (88 minutes) was the fastest of the six,

MONOCLED MAN'S FIVE YEARS FOR £2,500 ROBBERY

Prison gates have closed once again on."The Mono- cled Man." This time he goes to five years' penal ser- vitude, the sentence passed on him at Stoke-on-Trent Quarter Sessions recently for stealing diamond rings worth £2,500.

His real name is John Simpson Mitchell, but he assumed others.

He faced his trial as "John Baring Gould, aged. 35, of Ordnance Hill, St. John's Wood, London."

He had called himself, at various, five years' penal servitude at the Old tines Sinclair Lewis (the Ameri-Balley and was now a ticket-of-leave can novelist, the Hon. John Stewart man with 15 months of that sentence Rarktfcher McCormack (son of anfill to run.

American millionaire), and Captain He chose Hanley for his latest ex- Victor Orin! MeDonald, of the Polish ploit. Army.

"PICCADILLY ALCY"

Entering the

jewellers' shop

o!

to see soINE

motor

Sor was "The Munucled Man" his Henry Gidduck and Sons, Limited, un

July only nickname.

lust, he asked rings, snatched the pad from Chr counter, and jumped into a car which flushed away.

He was arrested in London. Conducting his

own defenen: pleaded not guilty.

le was known na "Priceadly Aley" and "Lord Neville."

A this, and mort, was disclosed at his triad after he had been found nuilty.

The Chief Constable (Mr. F. L. Bunn) said that Mitchell had been in and out of prison continually since the war for fraud and larceny.

Illegitimate son of a Scotswoman und a coloured man, he was brought! up by his grandmother,

At-12

years of age, he stole a spool) of cinema film,

TO SHIELD HIM

Je

When he knew that his plea had failed he made a long speech from the dock, in which he denounced the Lcket-of-leave system.

SHE WAITED

A woman had given evidence for him,

He told the court of his love for the woman,

"She passed the held test of wait- His grandmother, to shield him. ing for me all the years I was it

threw the flm on the fire.

She and another

burned to death,

woman

were

In 1934 Mitchell was sentenced to

told him he had appropriated some of the firm's money.

Smith was comin:ited for trial at the next Devon Assizes.

prisen," he declared,

He spoke in vain. The shadow of the cell became clearer.

Sir Reginald Coventry, K.C. (the Recorder) pronounced sentence.

"The Monocled Man" passed out to sight.

Sir Reginald police.

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Poison Charge Drama of Missing Bottle

In a robe heavy with fur, and wearing his jewelled chain of office, the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Harry Twyford, listened recently to the first murder charge heard at the Mansion House for many years-a case which, according to the prosecution, resolved itself into the mystery of a missing bottle.

Exchanging no glance, no word, with each other, 39- years-old Mrs. Elsie Newlands, and Horace Budd, aged 29, who are accused of poisoning her husband, Francis New- lands, 40-years-old steward, during a party at Temple- chambers, E.C., heard the prosecution's case against them

·unfolded with such accusations as:

In his whisky there must have been added; between 1.10 p.m. and 3.20 p.m., when it was drunk by Mr. Newlands, spirits of salts. That is the kernel of the

case..

The bottle (containing spirits of salts) and its dis- appearance is almost the central piece of evidence.

Mrs. Newlands and Budd were in the kitchen. Those two persons had the opportunity of entering the dead man's bricoon-in fact, Budd was seen moving in the direction of the bedroom in the course of the after- noon."

"Mr. Newlands went into the bed- room. He had only been there i moment when he shouted Cyri referring to a friend named Riley,

"TASTED SALT"

"Riky went into the bedroom and saw Newlands with a handkerchief over his mouth. There was some

whisky in glass. That WHS the time he drank the polion. Riley tasted the whisky and he will foll you it tasted suit." tox

THE CITY SWORD Throughout the 2 hours she was in court, Mrs. Newlands, darkly plains and mouse-Ble in her

und

fur, mourning clothes neither looked up nor moved in the dock.

Budt, his thicks, dark hair ruffled, looked up at the gilded City Sword over the Lord Mayor's corven chair, exchanged nods with his counsel, and greeted friends at the back of the court.

Both he and Mrs. Newlands were provided with paper and pencils, Budd made frequent notes. Mrs, Newlands drew aimless figures. Only once did she raise her head, when Mr. G. B. McClure, prosecuting, said: "The prosecution's case, as it stands, is not nearly so strong against her as against Budd."

"Budd came into the bedroom and casually poured some of the contents on to the back of his hand, Budd says he tasted it. but all those who were present will say he did not.

room.

"Mrs. Newlands then entered the She looked very 1, inade no comment, asked no question, but at once lay on the bed. The fact that she asked no question may be be cause she knew something was going to happen to the whisky.

"That was about two minutes past three and various members of the party left shortly afterwards, but no doctur reached the Aat until 2 o'clock the following morning.

"Budd went downstairs to a place died, that was never used, Witnesses will

Opening the case, Mr. MrClure said that Newinnds; who was resident steward at Temple-chambers,

on August 21 in hospital from some tell of seeing an attache ense in a Irritant polson, and the prosecution parcel on a lower door submitted that he took spirits salts in whisky on the afternoon of August 20,

of "It is suggested that in the attache case was the bottle. On this lower floor there is a sink. That sink was found to have marks on it as if some acid had been poured over 11."

on

Budd was a friend of the family When he arrived at the flat August 20 at about 1 p.m. there were other

there.

went Ho persons straight to the kitchen, where Mrs. Newlands was preparing a meal.

They remalced in the kitchen most of the time while the others were having luncheon. He apparently be- gan to mend one of two urns that was leaking.

no

The importance of the case against Budd, sold Mr. McClure, was in a statement he made to the police on August 21, in which he made mention of a bottle. Ite apid he went down to the scullery on lower floor to turn off a water top, but denied that he either had used a black bottic or saw one.

Next day Budd called at Snow-hill Police Station to make a further statement and said:"

It of

As a matter of fact, I did have a bottle at Temple-chambers. I used some of the contents. was spirits of salt, some which I spilled on the table when I was doing the urn. I placed the bottle on the floor,

When I was going I went into the kitchen to collect my parcel. I looked for the bottle and it was gone.

As soon as he arrived he produced

soldering from an ultuche case .4 Iron, a stick of solder, and a bottle

There is no doubt," said Mr. McClure, "that that bottle con- tained spirits of salts. It is in- teresting to note that Budd has never done any soldering in his life. He made a rotten job of It, and, moreover, it was the wrong urn he worked on. This soldering business, the prosecu- tion say, wor design to get the spirits of salts into the dat "From the time the work WAS

"Is It conceivable," naked Mr. finished the bottle has never been McClure, "that when' Budd learned seen by anybody.

that the whisky was poisoned he "While. Newlands and the others) should not have rushed and asked were lunching in the dining-room what had become of the bottle?"

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