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WOMAN OF 70 STRUGGLED

WITH ARMED BURGLAR

'He Was a Good Boy'

Verdict on Man Her Son Shot

"She is an old lady of 70, but it was a test many of tis would not like to be put to,” commented the coroner at a Birmingham inquest recently referring to "the very braye act" of a woman who struggled with an intruder and sat on him, while her son went for help. ·

"Justifiable homicide" was the verdict on William George Hart (36), of Effinch Lane, Barton-under-Needwood, near Burton- on-Trent, who died from tetanus after being remanded on 'a charge of house-breaking.

He was shot in the leg during a struggle, when surprised by Mrs. Harriet Winmill and her son Jack at their house at Croxall.

They had heard footsteps upstairs on returning home, and found a bedroom ransacked, Mr. Jack Winmili fetched a gun be had bought the night before; Mrs. Winmill umed herself with a torchlight and walking stick.

"We did not kitow how many were up ther," Mes. Winmill told the coroner. "There might have been one, two, three or four.

"MOVE AND I SHOOT "My son then entered the door of my room. I could see a man crouching in the far corner in front of a chest of drawers. He and a cyclo lump.

"My son said, 'Move and I, wit shoot, she tilded. "The man

turned round and my son suki, "Why, It's BR Hart. What are you doing here? Ho mumbled some- thing and then crouched down with his back towards us.

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"I thought he was going to plek up rearm and advanced towards him with my stick. I thought if he were going to fire would elther knock it out of his hand or take the bullet myself. Instead he But the light out and picked up a

ker."

t, she said, struck her three or times on the top of her head and alder, and she broke her walk- stick on him.

"HELL DO US BOTH IN" He caught her by the throat sid threw her on the bed, und she su her son being struck with the poker. There was blood streaming down my son's face, and I shouter, Shoot,

Jack, or he'll lo us both in."

"Lung" Was On Way to Dying Girl

White

"Iron lung" WAB being rushed from Birmingham Children's Ilospital in answer to a midnight broadcast 5 0 5, the medical staff at Liverpool Royal Infimary made an unsuccessful fight for the life of a 20-year-old girl with Infantile paralysis,

The patient, Diana Jones, of Algburth Road, Liverpool, died at one o'clock in the morning.

Efforts to keep her alive with oxygen and artificial respiration until the "lung" arrived proved unavailing.

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Asbestos Man At Fair

An a-bestos-clad man, which will serve as the theme statue of the Johns-Manville build- ing at the New York World's Fair, was unveiled in eeremonies, åk above. Grover Whalen, Fair président, and Lewis 11. Brown, president of Johns-Manville, are at right. . The huge figure is against a background of metal inmes, at the building's entrance.

LIVED IN ONE ROOM Hermit

ON 30s., LEFT

Must Quit

£113,000 TO STATE His Camp

Bristol.

On

By-Pass

FOR months grey-bearded, 86-year-old Mr. Albert Grave lived on 30s. a week in a bed-sitting-room af

Wimbledon's picturesque Clarence Road, New Cut, refusing to have a fire in the "man" of mystery," who live coldest weather, living on the simplest of food and wear-years ago made his home in a ing old clothes.

When he fell down in the street, injuring his nose, he was

Clue In Dead taken to hospital, but insisted

Girl Riddle

CRICCIETH.

on being sent home. To a doc- tor who thought he should take

a taxi he said: "I have no Imoney for taxis,"

A young man assisted him to

walk home. At the suggestion

A young farm servant who of Mrs, Nicholls, in whose house

then I heard the shot. When heard shouts for help from a he lived, he produced a shilling got myself together I found them girl in a car with three men as reward.

All struggling at the top of the has opened a new line of inquiry

They Like To Drill

In Private

The contrast

between

clump of bushes on the Kingston by-pass, must leave the town.

Since the day he arrived with his belongings tied up in old sacks and pitched camp beside the road, at the entrance, of a factory, resident's have wondered as to his identity.

Everyone in the town knew him us | Sir Holand Walley. Children exiled him "the bogey man,"

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I Get A Kick out of You. In Wimbledon palier court recently he stood in the dock under the name F179-Yes Suh! Q.8. For Walter Avery, aged 40, charged

Wabash Blues, F.T. and F193-lol Lips. F.T. with persistently wandering the lodging in the open air.

He had more than

stairs, and he still bell the poker und into the death of an unknown Next morning he died from modern housing of the troops

was trying to push Jack backwardswirl whose body was found in haemorrhage. That was in Sep-and the old-fashioned barracks, possession when or pound in his FG23-Swinging to Those Lies.

downstaire.

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"I went to help, and between the sea off Black Rock here re-tember.

we pushed Hart down on the land-cently,

ing.'

Mrs. Winni sold that

her son Actually, additional informa

went for help and she sat on Hart tion has been received from

on one of the stairs. "le took my three sources.

hand and said, 'Mrs. Winmill, I am sorry. Don't send for the police. Keep it quiet. It will upset my mother.'

Miss Euid Walliane, the farin ser- vant, is reported to have stated that nt 10 p.m. on Monday, while wolking; with a girl friend in the country, four miles from the point where the body was discovered, she noticed, a all saloon car parked at the sic

"I told him, "You naughty tad-you didn't study your mother or me when you come here. Then I saw how badly he was bleeding, and made ublecloth into a tourniquet, which Fr the read. tied above the wound."

AIMED LOW

The sun sakt that

Recently his will was published,

£156,000 was the total of his

estate:

£37,772 goes in Estate Duty; £5.000 to charity: £200 in four personal gifts, and £113,000. the residue 10 the Chancellor of the Exchequer for reduction of the National Debt.

ROOM OF MEMORIES

Airs, Nicholls said that a year ago Mr. Grave-who called himself Gray In it were three men and a girl-knocked at her door and asked if

he could have a bed-silting room. As she passed, the driver pulled his

"Ife told me that over 20 years ago he held the cap over his eyes and turned up his he had lived in this house, and he felt gun low to hit his legs it possible cost collar. She heard the noise of he would like to come and live in a one way of Stopping struggle, and the girl called for room which had memories for him," It was the

help, him."

Sitting by the fire in her home Mrs. Winmill said: "Poor Hart. He clever good boy and mechanic who could have earned his living anywhere, and poor Mrs. Hart, his mother. What a dreadful thing it must be for her.

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she acted.

Miss Williams frightened and ran away.

RAZOR BLADES IN CAR

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were he

"What those memories never said.

"When he come in, I asked if he could afford to pay 275. a week for From another source the police his board and laundry. He said, 'Or learn that a car was seen on the course.'

BREAD AND JAM TEA

for wolk.

"I am very strong for my age." Sands near Black Rock at 0.43 a.m. she went on, mainly because I have on Monday and had the appearance worked hard all my life, and I have of having been there overnight. "Mr. Grave spoke to no one, and lived in the country. I was born at Razor blades were seen in the dash-only occasionally left his room to go Kenilworth, and I shall never go and bourd pocket of the car. live in a town. People say to me, 'I

"Even on the coldest days he re- A third report is of a girl answer- suppose you will leave that house now, but I say. What is the good?" in the description of the unknown fused to pay a few coppers extra for There have been eight burglaries dead girl, seen walking on deserted a fire in his room. His micals were tea he would have simple, and for recently in Alrewas, nearby, and the rocks alone on Sulurday afternoon.

butter, and some- The funeral of the unidentialed only bread and man has never been caught, One of the burglaries was in broad daylight, girl, on whom an open verdiet was times jam. His clothes were old, so I am as safe here as anywhere. returned postponed in the hope that and he never bought anything new." The only letter Mrs. Nicholls had The railway has given me this house there may yet on evidence of iden-known him

receive was from Mr. as long as I want it, and only having

Alfred John Loughton, of Market an old-nge pension and my son's

Southwell, Nottinghamshire, Place, carnings, I can't afford to move, any-

to whom he left £50. way,"

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Trailer Fire Outrun

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was described as astonishing by Mr. F. S. Mollett, presiding magis- Major-Gen. J. H. Beith (a was giving evidence with: "I know Marina House, 15, Queen's Road C. rate, interupted the constable who Hay), War Oflice Director of him better, than you do, constable, Public Relations, recently.

and he knows me." Major-Gen. Beith was Inspecting He told Avery: "Its an open-air the Designs Branch of the Director-life. I know, but you are an educated ate of Fortifications, housed just of man and you must put a stop to it" the Strand, which is concerned with Avery was released on promising the housing of the troops.

to leave the town.

During the inspection, two in- A police official said: "Every stances were mentioned of the man-morning he has gone to a nearby ner in which endeavour is made to shop and fetched hot water fur meet the wishes of the soldier. It washing and

his breakfast." was stated that:

bought "Every day he has Parade grounds to-day are screened cunce of shag and his food and then from the public gaze whenever has sat on his bundles watching the possible, so that the raw recruit traffle go by, or paced up and down will not have to drill under the the road smoking his clay pipe, sleep critical eye of his girl friend,

in thought.

WOMAN IN CAR

At Aberdeen the troops asked that a wall should be built round the parade ground, so that the public,

"Never has he giyen any clue to: could not watch them.

where he came from, why he lived Major Gen. Beith, in his speech,such a strange life, or who kept him said:

supplied with money, "Forty years ago I was a private) "A big saloon car drives up to him in one of the old volunteer corps, the two or three times every week. He Cambridge University Rifle Volun- shambles to the door, has a brief teers, and we did our annual trolaing conversation with 11 fashionably- in barracks at Aldershot, doubled up dressed weinon inside, is handed als with a line battalion.

allowance, and then returns to his "Quite apart from the general dis-

'camp. comfort and squalor, there was no such thing as hot water, and you had to go out of doors for everything

"Now everything is under one roof, which makes an enormous difference

to the comfort of the soldler."

Radio Phone Urged For Small Ships

A few days before the police took him before the Wimbledon bench. when Mr. Mollett asked why he had He undertook to leave the lown, but not gene, he said simply that he

could not leave.

Recommendation that small shore. coasting ships should be sup They recommended plied with radio telephone gencrally should be encouraged to BEOWARE, Nev.

apparatus was made by the substitute for rod-and-chain steering In system of direct-action steering on J. A. Harrison and Rev. Alexander, At the Union Church last night the assessors at the Board of Trade all vessels. prospectors, driving an automobile service took the form of a recital inquiry at Cardiff recently into Captain James Grimths, for the and trailer to new "diggings," discov- of music and solos from the "The the loas of the steamer Sailors' and Firemen's Union, had ex- along the street, took a healthy klek ered the trailer on Are. Unable to Messiah." G, E. Longyear was at the Glanrhyd, which went down pressed the view during the hearing

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