1938-11-17 — Page 2

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1938.

DEAD STEWARD:

WIFE

FREE, MAN FOR TRIAL

Police Found 257 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 steward of a happened-that Frank had a seme block of offices and Huts at Temple time or another entered the kitchen, Chambers, died in St. Bartholomew's seen the bottle on the floor, thought Hospital on August 21.

It was whiskey, and took it into the Bottle of bedroom and drank it or poured it into a partly consumed whisky."

TOLD TO GET OUT

fruiterer und George A. Ring

Dr. A. Jordan, house physician at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, said that Mrs. Newlands visited the hospital: several times on the Sunday and offered to give a blood transfusion for her husband. The transfusion did not appear to help him very much. ftorist, of Thornhill Square, Barna- He telephoned to Mrs. Newlands bury, sald he delivered goods at the later and told her that her husband Newlands' flat on August 19 and 20. was in a grave condition. She came On Saturday, August 20, he called in husband's bedside. She was a little invited with his sister to go into the to the hospital again and sat at her the afternoon shout 2 o'clock and was

sliting room and have a drink.

Mr. G. B. McClure (who appeared worried.

asked: "In what mood was Mr. WHEN NEWLANDS DIED Mr. H. A. K. Morgan (prosecuting Newlands?lle seemed rather o in the absence of Mr. G. B. McClure): the happy side yet agitated at times Ring added that in the sliting room Did she remain there until the end? --No, after about 20 minutes she told he saw Budd. "Mr. Newlands asked me that it distressed her too much to him to get out," he continued. "He see him in that condition and she asked him a second time: Go on,

went outside the ward.

Ket out."

He

Mr. McClure: What did Budd do? I Dr. Jordan said that when Mrs. Newlands was told that her husband Did he go out?--Yes, slowly.

went into the hall or passage, was dead she started to cry.

Cross-examined by Mr. Maurice

that he searched the Newlands' flat

that

MRS. NEWLANDS LEAVES

The re-commencement of dances at the Repulse Bay Hotel has proved most popular as can be seen from the large crowd photo- graphed recently at the Hotel-Staf Photographer.

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 local authorities during Crisis Week, but also with allegations of profiteering.

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Inquiries have already been made into the sharp rise in the price of timber. Some local authorities express alarm at the bille they will have to face.

It is probable that a conference will be arranged with the Iron and Steci 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.

Mr. F. S. Cathro, Dundee secre- tary of the Association of Jule Spin-

of

EMPIRE NEWS

PROHIBITION POLL IN AUSTRALIA

MELBOURNE.

Aller a bitter campaign on the question whether liquor leences should be abolished, Victoria went to the polls recently. The abolitionists ruslained a crushing defeat,

The number of votes cast in favour of abolition WOR 343,130, Those against numbered 604,270.

A 60 per cent, majority, or at least a vote representing 30 per cent, of the registered electorale is necessary for abolition to become law. The results show that only about 34 per cent, of those voling, were in favour of it At the polling in 1830 the percentage was 43.

· Victoria's two ""dry"! arens this time polled against abolition, and in all areas, especially in Industrial centres, the antl-abolition vote was increased.

Observers claim that the experience of the United States was largely used to sway the voters. The pro- abolition party muintain that voters were persuaded incorrectly that the issue was prohibition, rather than abolition of licences.

If licences had been abolished, the sale, supply, barter or disposal of Hiquor 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 quotos for each citizen could be established by law.

Tasman Sea Conditions—An official of the Australian Meteorological Bureau has been appointed to travel to and fro across the Tasman Sea, between Australla and New Zealand, to observe the behaviour of balloons. scheme for the study of weather conditions for the benent of the Sydney-Auckland flying-boat service. SOUTH AFRICA

They will be released as part of a

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.

HOUR AT CHURCH in the world.

Healy, K.C. (for Mrs. Newlands), Mr. McClure asked the Lord Mayor Dr. Jordan said that a pint of blood

to consider the question of committ- was taken from Mrs. Newlands.

Detective Inspector W. Francis salding Budd and Mr. Newlands for trial.

The Lord Maylor: I um satisfiedners and Manufacturers, told the BRIDE WAITS AN

no jury would convict Mrs. News Chronicle that the price

jute sandbags as supplied to the for any bottle containing polson. He Newlands and she is discharged. searched every conceivable hiding

Mrs. Newlands, who throughout the Government was fixed by agreement the deck and there was no increase during the place, including the roof, the lift-

day's hearing had sat in

crisis. shaft and gutters, He Was not

clasoly

osoly following the evidence, imme- It remained at approximately 2. successful.

diately rose and left the dock. Two

She sat among friends just behind cact

hundred

HAPPY MARRIED LIFE

Inspector Francis produced a state- ment which he sald Mrs. Newlands made on August 21.

WILL NOT PAY

and afty-seven bottles, including gin, whisky, beer, the dock while Mr. Daybell made a A manufacturer explained that the! and ginger-beer bottles were found. submission that there was no prima mills hád not profiteered. What

facie case against Budd.

had buppened, he said, was that "These two persons," said Mr. Day-speculators bought up stocks of im- bell, "were arrested jointly upon a ported Indian jule cloth and got it charge of murder. Why, I do not "sewn together any old way into know. If I may respectfully say so, bags. The demand became tre-

these inferior I think you have done the right thingmendous and

bags then sold at extravagant

mentioned a case in which a "Having done that, where does it merchant secured a supply of im- Indian jute cloth and made leave this joint charge of

In

in discharging Mrs. Newlands.

NO LOVE PACT

were prices.

murder?ported at £200 in one night.

There was some time when the prose- cution probably thought

that they

Glasgow Corporation will discuss

this alleged statement Mrs. Newlands described what happened Bat on the morning of August at the 20 and how she cooked lunch for her husband

Her and his friends. husband had a drink of whisky, and

П come and she heard him shout, "Ceci taste this."

this." The statement concluded, "We have enjoyed happiness during the whole of our married life."

Inspector Franels said that Mrs. Newlands made a further statement after being cautioned on August 21. In this, which was also quoted by counsel when the case was opened, Mrs. Newlands, it was nileged, ex- plained in greater detail the events) of August 20,

might be able to suggest or prove allegations of pronteering. It is something like

BUDD'S ALLEGED DENIALS Mr. Morgan next read a statement alleged to have been made by Budd on August 21, in which he sold that his attache-case did not contain a bottle of any kind, neither did he use

Was

Miss Iria Liddington, aged twenty-two, walled for an hour at Croydon Parish Church for a bridegroom who dhl not appear. The wedding

then post- poned.

Miss Liddington, of Crowley- crescent, Waddon, Surrey, said that she was to have married Mr. Robert Henderson, who had been lodging in Davidson-road, Addis- combe.

She met him at a Croydon dance two years ago, and had given up her work to marry. She hoped-Lo hear from him. Inquiries had shown he was no longer at fils Addiscombe, address.

a pact between Mrs. stated that thousands of sandbags sold them to AR.P. committees at Newlands and Budd for the purpose normally priced at about 2d.. were inflated charges.

Glasgow Corporation will refuse to of supplying a motive. There was no sold for 103.

Middlemen are alleged to have pay until a Government Inquiry Inte love pact-that you have found be- cause you have held that if any bought sacks at a low price and then probleering has been held. offence was committed she was not a party to It.

That leaves only Budd. What motive was there for him to kill his best friend? No motive is attempted to be shown here."

The Lord Mayor said he was satis- fed that there was sufficient

cvi- dence for a prima facie case, and that Budd should stand his triol.

Budd, who formally pleaded not

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 urn. quilty and reserved his defence, was the City of Westminster cost (estimate) £64,275.

He did not see a block bottle with a committed for trial at the Central white label in the kitchen or in the Criminal Court. bedroom.

that

He made application for legal aid,

The net amount payable by the Council is expected

Inspector Francis sald on and when asked by the Clerk what to be about £25,700, after allowing for a 60 per cent. August 22 Budd again called at Snow were his means, replied, "I have Government grant.' Hill and said: "I have been thinking nothing at alt." Legal aid over the matter, and I realise have granted.

not told you all I know.

"I was worried about it, and a solicitor advised me to inform the police of the whole of the facts.

"SPILT ON THE TABLE" "As a matter of fact I did have a bottle at Temple Chambers and I used the contents, or some of them, on the job when cleaning the metal before I tinned 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 floor."

Budd described how after the job he pucked his tools and put the battle on the floor by the side of the table. Later he found that It had gone. He searched the fourth and fifth floore, but could not find it.

on

TOOK MRS. NEWLANDS OUT Inspector Francia sold that August 30 Budd made another state- ment after being" cautioned.

Mr. Morgan read this alatament, which explained in detail the rela- tionship between Budd and the New- lands. ́Budd said that it was at Mr. Nawlands Invitation that he at times took Mrs. Newlands out.

BONFIRE NIGHT "BLACK-OUT”

was

A.L.F.

Tho Home Office Department, decided recently to stage a "black-out” lest through- out the whole of Hertfordshire Jn November 5-Gay Fawkes night!

WAS

The "black-out" ron from 11:45 p.m. to 2.30 am, and the idea

That no Baht should be vizible from the air, Heria County Council put all the

local A.B.P. organisations into practice, including the warning signala.

Bondres and fireworks displays

·werd not to be banned. "Banfikes were rather encouraged, -1 fancy. because they usefully represented the effect of "Incendiary bombe and do not distinguish any par- ticular place," sald Mr. Kiton Longmore, Clark to the Hert- fordshire County Council.

took ง possibilities of Guy Fawkes night falo corider- atlon, and the Black-out did not

·lose any of its value by being hold thes."

The statement continued, "When I' looked for the bottle and could not find it I was surprised

Someone "We

had taken it.

"It struck me for the first time that Frank had drunk the spirits of wait.: I. reasoned

what had

The station will cost £3,600,000 and will be one of the most modern

Credli Facilities—In debale in the Cupe Town City Council it was slated 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 Da favourable as those accorded to the Governments of Canada and Australia.

Rand Mino Fire-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 Mra. Kenny, a recipient of a

Mr. Vance corcolation prize from the estate of the eccentric millionaire, who left £100,000 to the

Miller

Toronto woman giving birth to the most 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, each of whom gave biri to nine thildren in 10 years.

Mrs. Kenny, three of whose chil- dren were stillborn, was not one of these beneficiaries, It was stated, however, that following the lodging of a claim by her an agreement had been reached.

Prime Minister's Holiday. --- Mr. Mackenzie King, the Prime Minister,

four weeks' holiday,

The Council's A.R.F. Committee in a report make no allega-left Ottawa recently for three or 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 Inf district" late at night included Bott Westminster's bill of expenses:

of sugar.

£30,000-Trench digging, labour and transport:

£22,600-Timber:

JAMAICA

STRIKES SPREADING

KINGSTON.

It is stated that 30 delegates of BALLOONS "GOOD"

labour unions in various parts of the island met recently discuss plans "Satisfactory and useful" is the for calling strikes in sympathy with strikers on the Tale and Lyle £2,415-Sand and Bliing ma-comment of the Air Ministry on the fe

results of the exercise held by the sugar properties in Clarendon parish. London balloon barrage recently. It

chines.

DUKE OF GLOUCESTER AT THE RACES

In all. 09.058 were Atted with stated that balicons in the main❘ KENYA masks the highest daily total being were flown from sites which were 25,443.

dimcult from the operational point Twelve hundred wardens offered of view. their services, and altogether a staff

The infiction and letting-up," of 1,000 was available for part-time

states the Ministry, "was carried out service.

Nearly four miles of trenches were without a hitch." dug by 3,500 men.

Four of the balloons broke loose Half a millon sandbags were re-because of a technical fault, which quisitioned from the Government.

was easily rectified. The committee recommend regular tactical exercises for all AR.P. workers.

PROFITS AND. HOARDS

Detalled accounts of profiteering

Bride Bombed ·

Madrid.

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are not yet available at the Home A young woman who was to have Office, but cases have already come been married was one of three wo-

two to light of materials jumping 200 men, two children, and

killed in an air roid recently on price. i per cent

Seven A committee

Leicester City Almeria, Southern Spain. of Council alleged that sandbags com people were injured. 251.

a hundred, whereas the price

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The Duke and Duchess of Glou- cester, who spent a week-end al Government House here, attended Nairobi, races.

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