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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, unid 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 26. his em- ployment ended and on the Sunday, he called at the police station" and sald to Sergeant Taylor: "Sergeant. I have killed my mother. Don't look aformed. 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 BED" Smith said: "I have washed her and done her hair, not then put ner- to bed as you sex"

Smith further said: "I promised molber on Friday I would take two nurses for a ride on Sunday morn ing, so I took them out before I came here

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

Mr. Paling read o statement allesp f

to have been made by Smith.

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" hard my Angers through string when I heard a bump at a shriek from, upstairs. I rushed t stairs and found my mother kneeling down. She said: For God's sake, Norman, Inish me quick,"

"Without hesitation, I lifted the rolling-pin and hit her two or three quick blows on

on the

head."

If that statement was proved, Mr. Palbut said, Smith k‡ed his mot}/*T on the Saturday evening.

He remained in the house htt night and the next morning, toolt two women for a ride in his motor- car.

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Mr. Paling said that when Smith was searched a document purporting to be his will was found on him. contained the clause: "I desire. my body to be cremated with that of my darling mother, and the ashes thrown in the sea."

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Mr. Paling mold: "That document was dated August 26, the day he left employment. I suggest that

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formed on the Friday the intention lo commit this offence and possibly some other offence.

Police-Sergeant Taylor sul 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. Bouis- held and 24-year-okt*J. Knipe, twe of Archie Compaton's assistants at Coombe 1, holed, out on the last green at seven one night, häving completed six rounds and walked 29 miles.

Boushield was the winner, with a total of 437 strokes, an average of 72.8 round, against Knupe's 449, an Average

74.0, The standard scratch score is 72.

The Anal round (80 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 varicus, five years' penul servitude at the Old times Sinclair Lewis (the - Ameri- | Balley and was now a flekel-of-leave ra novelist), the Hou, John Stewart man with 15 months of that sentence Rork, felier MeCormack (son of un still to run.

American millionaire), and Captain) He chose Hanley for his latest ex-

Viele Oriolf McDonald, of the Pollstering the

Army.

jewellers shop "f

Nor was "The Manneled Man" his Henry Gidduck and Sons, Limited, on only nickname.

July 6 Ihat, he naked to see some rings, snatcher the pad from counter, and jumped into a

"PICCADILLY ALGY" He was

known as "Priccadilly Algy" and "Lored Neville."

All this, and mers, was diseinued atļ his trial after he had been found) quality,

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

Illegitimate son of a Scotswoman and a coloured man, the was brought dp by his grandmother,

At 12 years of age, he stalo u spool. of cinema nim.

TO SHIELD HIM

His grandmother, to shield threw the film on the fire.

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which flashed away.

the motor

Η ε was arrested in London. Conducting his own defence he pleaded not guilty,

When he knew that his plen bad failed he made a long-speech from the dock, in which he denounced the iticket-of-lenve system.

SHE WAITED A woman had given evidencz for bim.

He told the court of his love for the woman

"She passed the acid test of wait. him, ing for me all the years I was; in

prison," he, declared,

She and mother woman burned to denth.

were

In 1934 Mitchell was sentence

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

Smith was committed for trial ati the next Devon Assiz:8,

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

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

"The Monocled Man" passed on to sight,

the

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Rich and colourful costumes of ancient China will be worn by the players in the production "Romance of the Western Chamber" which will be shown shortly. The play is being presented by the Ilongkong Chinese Women's Club. Above are shown two characters in the play, Chong Kung and Ying Ying-King's Studio.

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 chargé 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, spirita of salts. That is the kernel of the case..

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

THE CITY SWORD Throughout the 2% hours she was in court, Mrs. Newlands, darkly plain and mouse-like in her clothes and fox fur, mourning neither looked up nor moved in the dock.

Budd, his thick, dark hair ruffled. looked up at the gilded City Sword over the Lord Mayor's carven chair, exchanged nods with hit 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 onec did she raise her head, when Mr. G. B. McClure, prosecuting, suld; "The prosecution's case, as it stands, is not nearly so strong against her as against Budd."

Mra, Newinnds and Budd were in the kitchen. Those two persons had the 1 opportunity of entering the dead

man's bedroom-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 a moment when he shouted 'Cyril-' referring to a friend named Riley,

"TASTED SALT"

"Riley went into the bedroom and saw Newlands, with a handkerchief over his mouth. There was some! whisky in a' gloss. That Was the time he drank the poison. Riley tasted the whisky and he will tell you it tasted salt.

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"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 présent will say he did not.

"Mrs. Newlands then entered the rodin. She looked very ill, made 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 floctor reached the flat until 2 o'clock the following morning.

"Budd went downstairs to a place that was never used.

Witnesses will

Opening the case. Mr. MrClure sald that Newlands, who was resident steward at Temple-chambers, died on August 21 in hospital from some tell of seeing an attache ease in irritant polson, and the prosecution parcel on a lower floor submitted that he took spirits salts in whisky on the afternoon of case was the bottle. On this lower floor there is a sink. That sink was August 20.

found to have marks on it us if some acid had been poured over it."

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

weni there, He straight to the kitchen, where Mrs. Newlands was preparing a meal,

They remained 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.

"It is suggested that in the attache

The importance of the case against Budd, said Mr. McClure, was in a statement he made to the police or August 21. in which he made no mention of a bottle. He said he went down to the scullery on lower floor to turn off a water tap, but denied that he either had used a black bottic or saw one.

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

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As soon as he arrived he produced from an attache CABC 箱 soldering iron, a stick of solder, and a bottle.

There is no doubt," said Mr.

As a matter of fact, I did have McClure, "that that bottle con-

a bottle at Temple-chambers, tained spirits of salts. It in ins- used some of the contents. teresting to note that Budd has Was spirits of wait, some never done any soldering in his

which I spllied on the life. He made a rotten job of

when I was doing the urn. it, and, moreover, it was the

placed the botila on the floor. wrong urn he worked on. This

When I was going I went into soldering business, the prosecu-

the kitchen to collect my parcel. tion say, was a design to get the

I looked for the bottle and It spirits of salis into the fint.

Was gone. "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 be While Newlands and the others should not have rushed and asked were lunching in the dining-room| what had become of the boitie?”

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