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DEAD STEWARD: WIFE FREE, MAN FOR TRIAL
Police Found 257
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Bottles in Flat Poison Search
Mrs. Elsie Rose Newlands (39), of Temple Chambers, E.C., wife of Frank Newlands, the poisoned City steward, was found not guilty of his murder and discharged at the Mansion House recently,
Horace Budd (29), engineer, of Hacton Drive, Horn- church, Essex, also charged with the murder, was com- mitted for trial at the Central Criminal Court.
Before the Court rose, Mrs. Newlands, accompanied by a friend, went down to the cells and later left the Mansion House with friends.
It was stated that the police, searching for poison in the New- lands flat, found 257 bottles of various drinks. They did not find any poison.
Newlands, who was stewart of a happened that Frank had at some block of offices and flats at Temple time or another entered the kitchen, Chambers, died in St. Bartholomew's seen the battle on the floor, thought Hospital on August 21.
It was whisky, and took it into the bedroom and drank it or poured it into a partly consumed bottle of whialty.
not appear
and
Dr. A. Jurdan, house physician at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, said that Mrs. Newlands visited the hospital
TOLD TO GET OUT several times on the Sunday offered to give a blood transfusion for
George A. Ring. fruiterer and her husband. The transfusion did
help him very much florist, of Thornhill Square, Barns- He telephoned to Mrs. Newlandsbury, said he delivered goods at the Inter and told her that her husband Newlands' fat on August 19 and 20. was in a grave condition. She came On Saturday, August 20), he called in to the hospital again and sat at her the afternoon about 2 o'clock and was husband's bedside. She was a little invited with his sister to go into the worried.
siting room and have a drink.
G. B. McClure (who appeared asked:
WHEN NEWLANDS DIED
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Over 400 per cent Profit
Made on
Crisis Sandbags
The Home Office A.R.P. Department is to deal not only with the problem of the disposal of the large quanti- ties of sandbags, timber and corrugated iron bought by!
allegations of profiteering.
NOVEMBER 17, 1938.
EMPIRE NEWS
PROHIBITION POLL IN AUSTRALIA
MELBOURNE.
After a bitter campaign on the question whether liquor licences should be abolished, Victoria went to the polls recenlly. The abolitionists sustained a crushing defeat.
The number of votes cast in favour of abolition was 343,138.1 Those against numbered 604,270.
A 00 per cent, majority, or at least n vote representing 30 per cent, of the registered electorate is necessary for abolition to become low. The results show that only about 34 per cent, of those voting were in favour of i At the polling In 1030 the percentage was 43.
Victoria's two "dry" arens this time polled against abolition, and in all areas, especially in industrial centres, the anti-abolition vote was Increased.
Observers claim that the experience of the United States was largely used to Away the voters. The pro- abolition party maintain that voters were persuaded incorrectly that the Issue was prohiblilon, rather than obolition of licences.
If eences had been abollshed, the sale, supply, barter or disposal of liquor within the State would have been prohibited. Manufacture would still have been permitted.
The liquor interest has throughout the campaign argued that this would amount to virtual prohibition. The temperance parties, however, denied this, maintaining that liquor quolas for each citizen could be established by law.
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Tasman Sea Conditions.--An official the Australian Meteorological Bureau has been appointed to travel
to and fro across the Tasman Sea, between Australia and New Zealand, to observe the behaviour of balloons. They will be released as part of o
scheme for the study of weather benefit of the Sydney-Auckland flying-bout service. SOUTH AFRICA
Mr. H. A. K. Morgan (prosecuting | Newlands?" mood was Mr local authorities during Crisis Week, but also with conditions for the in the absence of Mr. G. B. McClure): the happy side yet agitated at times.
"-le seemed rather DAI Ring added that is the sitting room
Did she remain there until the end?
No, after about 20 minutes she told he saw Buck. "Mr. Newlands asked me that it distressed her too much to him to get out," he continued. "Ite see him in that condition and she asked him a second time: Go un
get out."
went outside the ward.
Dr. Jordan sald that when Mrs. Newlands was
told that her husband
was dend she started to cry.
Cross-examined by Mr. Maurice Healy, K.C. (for Mrs. Newlands).
and
WAH
hot
Two hundred
fifty-seven bottles, including gin, whisky, beer and ginger-beer bottles were found HAPPY MARRIED LIFE
lie
Mr. McClure: What did Budd do? Did he go out? Yes, slowly, went into the half or passage.
MRS. NEWLANDS LEAVES Mr. McClure asked the Lord Mayor
The
Inquiries have already been made into the sharp rise in the price of timber. Some local authorities express alarm at the hills
they will have to face.
It is probable that a conference will be arranged with the Iron and Steel Federation with a view to solving the problem of disposal of surplus stocks, and that cases of alleged profiteering will be dealt with by negotiation with individual trades.
CAPE TOWN'S NEW POWER STATION
CAPE TOWN. Work on armaments in Britain has delayed the completion of the new power station here. Under the original programme it should have been in operation by now, but the plant cannot be running until the end of the year at the earliest.
the HOUR AT CHURCH the world.
Miss Iris Liddington, aged twenty-two, walled for an hour at Croydon Parish Church for a bridegroom who did not appear. The wedding was then post-
Dr. Jordan suid that a phit of blood to consider the question of committ- Mr. P. S. Cathro, Dundee secre- was taken from Mrs. Newlands,
Detective Inspector W. Francis saiding Budd and Mr. Newlands for trial.tary of the Association of Jute Spin-
Lord Maylor: I am satisfiedners and Manufacturers, told the BRIDE WAITS AN
News Chronicle tha The price of that he searched the Newlands' fat
ng jury would convict Mrs.
¡Jute sandbags us supplied to for any bottle containing poison. He that
Newlands and she is discharged. Government was fixed by agreement searched every conceivable hiding
Mrs. Newlands, who throughout the and there was no increase during the
the dock place, including the roof, the lift-
had sat in day's hearin shaft and gutters.
clusely foll
following
the evidence, imme- jurists.
It remained at approximately 24d.! successful.
diately rose and left the dock.
cachi, She sat among friends just behind
WILL NOT PAY the dock while Mr. Daybell made a
A manufacturer explained that the submission that there was no prina mills had
poned. What not profiteered.
Mies Liddington, of Crowley- facie case against Budd.
had happened, he said, was that
crescent. Waddon, Surrey, said These two persons," said Mr. Day-speculators bought up stocks of im- that she was to have married Mr. Inspector Francis produced a state-bell, "were arrested Jointly upon a por
ported Indian fute cloth and got it Robert Henderson, who had been ment which he said Mrs. Newlands charge of murder. Why, I do not sewn together any old way" into Jodging in Davidson-road, Addis- made on August 21.
know. If I may respectfully say so, adits.
bags. The demand became tre-
combe. In this alleged statement Mrs. I think you have done the right thing mendous and these Inferior bags!
met him at a Croydon described what happened
then
sold
dy She lit extravagant
dance two years ago, and had prices.
given up her work to marry. He mentioned a case in which a She hoped to hear from him. Inquiries had shown he was no Indian jute cloth" and mode Jouger al Jals Addiscombe him shout, "Ceell, heard
come and There was some time when the prose-a profit of £200 in one night, taste this. The statement concluded, ention probably thought that they Glasgow Corporation will discuss "We have enjoyed happiness during might be able to suggest or prove allegations of pronteering. It Is the whole 61 our married life."
something like a pact between Mrs. stated that thousands of sandbags told them to A.R.P. committees at Inspector Francis said that Mrs. Newlands and Budd for the purpose normally priced at about 2d. were inflated charges.
further statement of supplying & motive. There was no sold for 10d. Newlands made
Glasgow Corporation will refuse to after being cautioned on August 21. love pact-that you have found be Middlemen are alleged to have pay with a Government inquiry into In this, which was also quoted by cause you have held that if any bought sacks at a low price and then profiteering has been heid." counsel when the case was opened, ottence was committed she was not Mrs. Newlands, it was alleged, ex-
party to it. plained in greater detail the events of August 20.
in discharging Mrs. Newlands. Newlands
at the flat on the morning of August
20 and how she cooked lunch for her
husband
and ils friends. Her
NO LOVE PACT
"Having done that, where docs it
were
husband had u drink of whisky, and leave this joint charge of murder secured a supply of im-
sho
That lunves only Dudd. What motive was there for him to kill his best friend? No motive is attempled to be shown here."
BUDD'S ALLEGED DENIALS Mr. Morgan next read a statemen! alleged to have been made by Budd on August 21, in which he wild that his attache-case did not contain a bottle of any kind, neither did he use Budd, who formally pleaded not
The Lord Mayor said he was satis- fled that there was sufficient evi- dence for a prima facie case, and that Budd should stand his trial.
address.
Footing the A.R.P. Bill: Westminster £64,275
A.R.P. measures carried out during the emergency in one on the job of mending the utn. guilty and reserved his defence, was the City of Westminster cost (estimate) £64,275. He did not see a black bottle with a committed for trin) at the Central | white label in the kitchen or in the Criminal Court. bedroom.
Inspettor Francis sald that on and when asked by the Clerk what August 22 Budd again called at Snow were his means, replied, "I have Hill and said: "I have been thinking nothing at all." Lugat aid was over the matter, and I realise I have granted.
not told you all I know.
"Y wat worried about it, and a
solleitor advised me to inform the !
police of the whole, of the facts.
"SPILT ON THE TABLE"
"As a matter of fact I did have n bottle at Temple Chambers and I
He made application for legal aid,
BONFIRE NIGHT
used the contents, or some of them,BLACK-OUT”
on the job when cleaning the metol before I tuned it.
"There was some spirits of salt in the bottle, some of which I spilt on the table and on the side of the bottle. I wiped this off and put the bottle down on the flour."
Budd described how after the job he pa
packed his tools and put the bottle on the floor by the side of the table. Later he found that it had gone. He Rearched the fourth and fifth floors, but could not find it.
The Home OMee
A.R.P. Department decided recently to riage "Black-out" test ihrough- out the whole of Hertfordshire on November Guy Fawkes night!
The "black-out" ran from 11:45
be
p.m. to 2.30 am, and the Idea was that no Baht should visible from the air, Herts County Council put all the local A.R.F. organisations Into practice, including the warning signals.
TOOK MRS.. NEWLANDS OUT Inspector Francis said that C August 30 Budd made another state-Bonfires ment after being cautioned.
Mr. Morgan read this statement, which explained in detall the rein- tionship between Budd and the New- lands. Budd paid that was at Mr. Newlands Invitation that he at times took Mrs. Newlands out.
The statement continued, "When I looked for the bottle and could not find it I was surprised ... Someone had taken it,
"It struck me for the first time that Frank had drunk the spirits of anil. I reasoned out what had
and fireworks displays were not to be banned. "Bonfires were rather choouraged, I fancy. because they usefully represented the effect of Incendiary bombs and do not distinguish any par- ticular place," said Mr. Elton Longmore, Clerk to the Heri fordshire County Council.
The net amount payable by the Council is expected to be about £25,700, after allowing for a 60 per cent. Government grant.
The station will cost £3,000,000 and will be one of the most modern
Cretit Facilities. In a debate in the Cape Town City Council it was stated that the credit of the city was higher than in any other part of the Empire. Cape Town, It was claimed, could borrow money on terms 05 favourable as those
accorded 10 the Governments Canada and Australin.
Rand Aline Firc.-Fire 2,000ft underground has been raging in the City Deep Mine. The cause of the outbreak is unknown.
CANADA
"BABY RACE" PRIZE WINNER CHARGED
TORONTO.
A charge of arson has been made, against Mrs. Kenny, a recipient of a consolation prize from the estate of Mr. Vunce Miller the eccentric millionaire, who left £100,000 to the Toronto woman giving birth to the mest children in the 10 years follow-
ing his death:
She was arrested after a fire broke out at the house which she purchased with her winnings. She has been remanded for an examination of her mental condition.
In March Mr. Justice Middleton decided that the £100,000 should be divided among three women, cach of whom gave birth to nine children in
years.
11
Mra, Kenny, three of whose chil- dren were stillborn, was not one of these beneficiaries. It was stated, of a clum by her an agreement had However, that following the lodging been reached.
Prime Minister's Holiday. - Mr. Mackenzie King, the Prime Minister, for three or four weeks' holiday.
The Council's A.R.P. Committee in a report make no allega-left Ottawa recently tion of profiteering, but state that one of the lessons of the crisis is that steps should, be taken to prevent an undue rise in prices of materials.
Here are
outstanding items in district" late at night included:801b Westminster's bill of expenses:
Lof sugar.
£30,000-Trench digging, labour and transport
£22,000 Timber: £2,415-Sand and filing
chines.
ma-
BALLOONS "GOOD"
the "Satisfactory and useful" is comment of the Air Ministry on the results of the exercise held by the London balloon barrage recently. It In all, 90,658 were fitted with is stated that balloons in the main masks the highest daily total being were down from sites which were 25,443.
difeult from the operational polni Twelve hundred wardens
offered of view. their services, and altogether a staff of 1,000 was available for part-time Bervice.
Nearly four miles of trenches were dug by 3,500 mon.
Half a million sandbags were re- quisitioned from the Goverment.
The commlitee recommend regular tactieni exercises for all A.R.P workers.
"The
and inflation
letting-up," states the Ministry, "was carried out without a bitch,"
Four of the balloons broke loose because of a technical fault, which was easily rectified.
Bride Bombed
Madrid.
PROFITS AND HOARDS Detalled accounts of profiteering the Home are not yet available at
A young woman who was to have Ofice, but cases have already come been married was one of three wo- to light of materials jumping 200 men, two chlidren, and two men per cent in price.
killed in an air raid recently on A committee of Lelcerler City Ameria, Southern Spain. Seven Council
alleged that sandbags cost people were injured.
"We took all the possibilities of 125s. a hundred, whereas the price a Five Franco 'planes dropped about fow days before the crisis was 10s. 20 heavy bombs. Several houses In one case of hoarding mentioned were destroyed and it is feared that
Guy Fawkes night Into vonalder- ation, and the 'black-out' diâ not. love say of Ils vaize by being held then.**
it was stated that an order delivered there may be more dead among the to a home "not in a working-class debris.
JAMAICA
STRIKES
SPREADING
KINGSTON,
It is stated that 50 delegates of labour unions in various parts of the island met recently to discuss plans for calling strikes in sympathy with the strikers on the Tate and Lyle sugar properties in Clarendon parish. KENYA
DUKE OF GLOUCESTER AT THE RACES
NAIROBI.
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