1938-11-01 — Page 3

THE

TELEGRAPH, HONGKONG

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER

HOW TWO DETERMINED Naval Officer WOMEN GOT THEIR WAY Hongkong

One by Sitting In a Hole.

Trowbridge.

Was ever woman in such a hole as Mrs. C. Parkins,

of Rutland Crescent, recently? Here is her story:

"We are purchasing this house, and the huge tele- graph poles they are putting up in Rutland Crescent are unsightly and ugly.

Commander Hugh V.

King, R.N., and his bride,

the former Miss Brenda G. Billings, who were married

at St. John's Cathedral

last Friday afternoon.

My husband and I both refused permission to a representa- | King's Studio, tive of the G.P.O. telephone department for a pole to be erected

on the pavement outside our house.

"But while we were having break- fast G.P.O. teicplione men started digging there, My husband, a rail- way guard, had to go to work, but I determined to stop that pole going

THEY GAVE IT UP

"I took my husband's garden spate

ONE BY SAVING FOR HER SON

There was just one, and and shavelled the earth and clay Determined to gel her only son, fruin haine. back into the hole as fost us enck from Austraila, a widow saved it contained a ticket to London from workmen could throw it out. I kept every penny she could, fellow vil-a steamship company. pace with

them, and at last they lagers helped by whist drives, dances downed tools and decided to send an and sales and recently the man SOS to the Trowbridge Postmaster. reached Tilbury.

"I had no idea who sent It," he anid. "My mother and I had dreamed about that ticket for years, but we were both without funds."

"When they left the pit 1 jumped in and remained on guard for nearly three hours. The Postmaster arrived and got out when he guaranteed that no man would dig while I was out,

A pleasant, bronzed man of 27, Mr. Charlton emigrated to Aus "We went into the house and the on board the Orient liner Orama, in tralla when 16, but bad luck dogged with Postmaster promised that my objec-which he had travelled from Sydney, him. He was injured while riding

operations, that it was "the greatest and had Seven tion should be dealt with by the pro-puzzle in the world" how he had got months in hospital. per tribunal."

Home, mother and a job Mr. Charl- Round one to Mra, Parkin.

HE WAS ILL AND "BROKE" ton considers the best things in a Now he has the first Later high Post Office official In- One day recently he had come in man's life.

And he hopes soon to find the spected the hole and ordered it to be 11, homesick and "broke" from the two.

bush to see if there were any letters ffled in at once,

In the village of Hedley Hill, Dun- His mother will tell him how for hom, young George Charlton will years she saved every penny, until learn all about her struggle from his she had got £5 together; and then widowed mother, Mrs. Mary Charl-how the village people did the rest

£61 in all was raised. ton.

be sald

here.

Blood Offer

City Poison

third.

Story In

Case

DYING MAN'S WIFE FIRST TO HELP

His offer of a blood transfusion for a dying friend, only to find that the man's wife had already volunteered, was described by a motor-driver witness in the City flat murder charge at the Mansion House recently.

ted a little of the fluid on the back of his hand.

Weds In

German "did miracle" for British soldier

Operation Saved His Life-and Killed Him

A "Miracle" operation by a

Ipswich.

1938.

German surgeon twenty-two

death.

years ago saved the life of William Snowden, a captured British

soldier; now it has resulted in his Snowden, who lived at Bromes-

He said, "It is turning brown and Well, Suffolk, was shot through the It burns a bit." Budd did not taste bead in France in 1916, when he was twenty-four. German soldiers found the whisky.

About four minutes later Mrs. him in no-man's-land. Newlands entered the bedroom.

The German surgeon to whom he She was wearing a green overall was taken removed part of Snow- den's skull, and grafted on a piece and she lay down on the bed.

the rather of his own skin to complete She looked worried and pule. He remarked, "Surely you operation.

She replied. have not been drinking this, have

Mrs. Newlands?"

you,

TVO.

When Snowden came home after the armistice, English dcctors were

No."

He asked Newlands if he would amazed at the operation and its like to see a doctor, but he said: "1 Success will be all right" kome "frothy stuff" of Newlands" coat. TURNED BACK

Budd brushed

Horace Budd (29), single, described as an engineer, of Hacton Drive, Hornchurch (Essex), and Elsie Rose Newlands (39), whose address was given as Temple Chambers. E.C., are charged with murdering the wo-car, but he turned back as Newlands man's 40-year-old husband, Francis Cyril Newlands, by the administration of poison on August 20.

Newlands the steward of a block of offices and flats known as Temple Chambers, died in hospital on August 21.

The Lord Mayor (Sir Harry bottle of whisky containing about an inch of liquid. Counsel for the de- Twoford) adjourned the hear-fence smelled the liquid. ing.

CAR SKIDDED

able to Snowden was

Luke up work as a jobbing gardener.. Be

car. Newlands then let with him in his was able to drive a

Two days ago his car skidded on appeared to be ill.

On the Sunday morning he went wet road. He got a bump on the

his head-Just where to St. Bartholomew's Hospital to top of offer a blood transfusion.

piece of bone was removed twenty- Mrs. Newlands. was at her husiwa years ago band's bedside. She said, "I don't think he will last much longer."

Mr. McClure: Was she in great! distress? No.

Mr. Healy: As a matter of fact you did not have to give the blood Mr. Riley said he decided to taste transfusion because Mrs. Newlands had already given one for her hus- band?- did not know that then,

I know it now.

It has been stated by the prosecu- the whisky. "It tasted lon that Budd was a friend of the

very sulty," he said. Newlands, and had gone to the flat and I spat it out on the floor as

August 20 taking with on articles for soldering an urn, includ-soon as it touched the back of my

ing spirits of salt.

"MY GREATEST FRIEND”.

him

It was alleged that the poison which caused Newland's death was spirits of salt, and that it was placed in some whisky which he drank.

Mr. G. B. McClure prosecuted; Mr. Maurice Healy, K.C., appeared for Mrs. Newlands; and Mr. William Daybell represented Budd.

throat."

He fell a tinging in his mouth as an electric wire had been though placed there and went to the kitchen and rinsed his mouth.

Budd was there.

"I sak. "Who hos been messing about with Mr. Newlands' whisky? Budd said nothing.

"A POOR JOKE"

Mr. Cecil Albert Riley, motor dri

Gardens, Vic- "I sald to Budd, it is a very poor ver, of Desborough torin, said he had seen Budd at the joke, whoever did it,

a visitor Binco Riley. Newlands' fint as about three months ago.

And you know that she offered herself?--Yes,

Mr. Riley agreed that Newlands thought his wife was ill that after- noon.

FOOTBALL FAN'S FOLLY

Ercitement at the

match 21 Brentford

the

Aston

Willo

Vitla-

Park

Hel

"SHUT HIM UP" Cross-examined by Mr. Daybell, recently proved too much for Jack Riley saki that up to three months Francs, 40-year-old bricklayer-the

go he owned a pubile-house which spectator who ran on the field.

Francis pleaded guilty at Birming- ham Police Court to a 'charge of Mr. Newlands visited, and he was once Introduced to Budd there.

He spoke to Mr. Newlands about committing a disorderly act. Budd, and Mr. Newlands "shut him was bound over for eight months.

Villa Mr. G. A. Butler, for the up." saying that Budd was a friend. Lands at a bath just after 2 p.m. spectators at the ground

He knew that at the flat Mrs. New Club, said there were nearly 50,000 After she had the bath he heard that police offers on duly, bed-she had been sick.

"After about 35 minutes, Biddle- He did not know if Budd had a

the Villa goalkeeper, was stone, and bath after her.

called upon to save a shot, and be- fore he was able to clear he was approached by one of the Brenford forwards, who either charged him or obstructed him, with the result! that the referee blew his whistle and ordered n free kick to the Villn.

added Mr.

known

They both went back to the room with a Mr. Griffo.

Budd picked up the bottle

He gathered that Budd was

(Riley) had friend. He

Newlands for three years.

"VERY JOCULAR"

Mr. McClure: Are you able to say

a Budd was particular whether friend of Mr, or Mrs, Newlands?- Mrs. Newlands,

Mr. Riley zald thai Newlands

BROKE CANE ON CHILD

Smorthit was accused of ussoul!-

used to keep his whisky in his bed-ing his daughter Grace, aged 11that she had looked

room and when he wanted whisky years. he said: "Excuse me a moment," left the room and went there.

On August 20 he visited the flat about 1.30 p.m. and had a meni. Newlands was very jocular. Budd passed the dining-room door going towards the bedroom while he (Riley) was in the dining room.

Budd returned in two or three minutes,

Newlands was going with him to look for a Bat and after lunch went

into his bedroom.

"The next I heard was a shout

from

Mr. Henry William Wilson, on in- suld that spector of the N.S.C.C., when interviewed Smorthit "Who has told you this? been Mrs. Craig?"

"I TOLD NO LIES"

вл Hos it

Questioned by Smorthit she said after his five children. She had never told him to hit Gracle.

and

PLAYERS STOPPED HIM

45

"At la moment, defendant, who was in the crowd at the back of the Villa goal, climbed the railings and Smarthit handed a letter to the ran on the pitch, gesticulating wildly. magistrate, and Mrs. Craig agreed

"Whether his object was to attack that she had written it. In it sho complained that Gracle told iles, and a Brentford player or simply to make had eaten the other children's, a protest will not be known, for he was impeded by the Villa defendern

sweets.

He added: "Gracle tells lies 'I Henry Smnorthli, the accused man's and removed by police officers." have threatened and threatened her, eldest son, gave evidence, and was

"I do not know

Mr. Butler read a statement in It was in the hit her because she had been asked by Mr. Watson: "What sort of which Francis said:

excitement. I like to see clean foot- telling lles. I told Mrs. Craig Ichild is your sister Grace?" He re- what came over me. would hit her. I hit her about twice plied:

"Well, she in all right. The rea- ball and he kicked him when he

was down. with the cane and it broke."

son this happened was that the wo-

Mr. Newlands: 'Cecil, como The girl was present, said the in-man who was looking after her told "There was a great deal of pub- quick'," said Mr. Muley.

spector, and she said, "No, you hit "I went to the bedroom and found me more than that Rnet I had not me to tell my father to chastise her." licity attendant on this Incident." Replying to his father, he said Mr. Butler said, "because immediately Mr. Newlands sitting on the side of told flex, daddy." the bed with a handkerchief to his

that he had never seen him give her after defendent had been removed a Mrs. Ethel May Craig, of Leswin-n hiding. He was a good father, smail penknife was picked up by a mouth.

He was pointing to a bottle of road. Stoke Newington, said that she and had brought up the family since Brentford player, who handed it to

the referee. whisky on the chest of drawers and saw marks on the girl, and later their mother died.

Mr. Watson anki that Smorthit had "Inquiries make us belive that the anid: What is the matter with that spoke to Smorthil, who said, "This whisky!!"

Is through that. I will break her had a worrying life, and had looked presence of the knife is capable of

after the children woll

linnocent explanation." Mr. McClure produced a quarter back."

It killed him at once.

At the inquest at Kesgrave, near, Ipswich, it was explained that the operation weakened the skuli.

The verdict was "Death by misad- venture,"

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