1939-01-16 — Page 19

KILLS

Monday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 16, 1939.

ERRING WIFE,

ADOPTS HER BABY

Sister Who Told

Says: I Did Right'

BRIGHTON.

FIRST thought of George Alexander Badham after

he had been sentenced at Lewes Assizes recently was for 18-months-old George Alexander junior, of whom, he said during his trial, he was not the father.

Badham, described as a mild, inoffensive man of 22, killed his 25-years-old wife Aline in their Brighton flat after she had confessed that she was unfaithful.

He was acquitted of murder! and sentenced to 12 months' im-

prisonment for manslaughter. Archduke Otto:

In the celt Badham told his mother: "I want you to take the boy, now being cared for in a farm cottage

near Lewes, is to be given

a home with one of Bad-

ham's relatives.

It is hoped that Badham's old job electrical assembler will be open to him after he leaves prison. THEY TOASTed him

In Brighton worked with him

men who had ut the loent en- gineering firm of Allen West toasted his sequiital on the murder charge.

They had raised more than £100

New Fight For Crown

RCHDUKE

OTTO of

HABSBURG, former Pre- tender to the Austrian throne. recently left Paris after super- vising the establishment of a new organisation, which has been set up to carry on the fight for Habsburg interests in Europe.

An office has been opened ing

for his defence, which was conducted Paris and a former Austrian |

by Mr. Norman Birkett, K.C. Mendiplomat has been entrusted al the Southern Railway's Brighton works contributed their shillings and with the representation of Otto pennies too. Another £100 was in France.

a man and woman.

It was after he had been told by his sister, Mrs. Ivy Elliott. of this wife's confession, that Badhum killed her.

rent anonymously from Ditchling by The Arcbduke has made contact with Royalist and Right Wing quar- hos asked for ters in Paris, and support for his netivities.

This

has been made pos- contact sible by an interview which he previously had with the French Pre- tender, who also lives in Belgium, the Duc de Guise.

"I still think I did right in telling him the truth about Aline," Mrs. Elliott said. "I didn't imagine that it would turn out so tragically, but my con- selence is still clear.

Badham met his wife when they played in local amateur theatricals. Both had good voices and she was known as "Little Llanet." "RIGHT TO LOVE"

Mr. Justice Atkinson, in his sum- ming-up at the trial, described Bad- ham as an extremely mild man who had committed

an act of terrible savagery which was wholly allen to his nature.

"If ever man had the right to expect love, devotion, and sympathy in a woman, he had," he went on.

now

Otto's finances have been severely wenkened by the Nazi absorption of Austria; his endeavours are directed towards Baving Hungary from the Nazi

grip. Hungarian Monarchists are alone in providing for thesupkeep of the miniature court of Steenocker- } zeel, in Belgium, where Otto, his i nother, the former Empress Zito, and ber other children live.

Among

Austrian personalities, Olto-staying whom

under the eudonym of his "Due de Bar," has Labr, former Vice-Mayor of Vienna, seen during his Paris stay was Major who was appointed Mayor when the Schuschnigg Government was over- turned.

you were trying to realise

of description trying to get you to the scene in that flat, it woul realise what happened," take a Conrad to paint the pic- The jury returned its verdlet af. ture.

ter an hour and 20 minutes, and Mr. "It must always be borne in mind Justice Alkinson sald that here is a man of limited gifts thoroughly agreed with it.

Britain Wants The Windsors To Live In England

that

"Would you like the Duke and Duchess of Windsor to make their home in England?"

he

THE British Institute of Public Opinion, put this ques- tion to a representative cross-section of the British public.

And this is the answer:

61 per cent.

16 per cent.

23 per cent.

said

said

YES.

.NO.

said .NO OPINION.

It is over two years since that chill morning in December that the destroyer Fury slipped out of Portsmouth harbour tak ing the Duke of Windsor into his self-imposed exile.

per cent, voting against and 30 per cent. expressing no opinion.

VOTE OF THE WEALTHY All the different groups of the -population questioned returned the and Conservative classes, fear that

I may be that the wealthy, re- presenting in the main the governing

Announcement was recently made in Rome of the engagement of Princess Maria, above, young- est daughter of King Victor Emmanuel, to Prince Louis of Bourbon-Parma. The Princess formerly was engaged to Arch- duke Olto of Austria.

EMPIRE NEWS

EUROPEANS JOIN OPPOSITON

UYS

Youthful members of the Czech Labour Corns, organised along the lines of the Nazi Labour Battalions, building one of the new motor roads in Sudetenland, to connect Czech industrial towns and to replace railways. Much of the work is being financed with Brillsh

The picture was taken at Zdibi, near Prague,

loans.

Slander Suit Judge Told Child Is 56

A SOLDIER and a singer who mailed me for money over the action

rooms since 1920,"

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entertained troops at Bulford for slander and Carter and Bell, Camp, Wiltshire, during the wor solicitors, are waiting for. Meyer to were parties in a slander suit re- come out of prison." cently.

Eugene Meyer, her soliciter, had, They were Mrs. Florence Garrard, said Mr. Blanco White, been guilty of Russell-mansions, Southampton-of fraud and had gone to prison.

Mr. row, claiming damages from

Mrs. Garrard, in evidence, sald, Joseph Jepson, now a tes merchant. "Although we occupled the some flat, of Harp-lune, Great Tower-street, Mr. Jepson and I had separate bed- E.C

Mr. G. R. Blanco White, KC. (for Mr, Graham Brooks (for Mr. Mrs. Garrard), said she was married Jepson): Is it not a fact that you in 1911 and separuled four years regularly took his clothes, boots, and later. After the war she become a hut from his bedroom and put them professional singer. and fn 1927 she into your room? Ridiculous. and Mr. Jepson lived in the same He locked his room. I was not al- NEW DELHIT. house at Gidea Park, Romford, Es-lowed in it. He had a bolt put on. The European group joined the sex,

Lord Howart: This was a some- Opposition in the Central Assembly At the end of 1932 Mrs Garrard's what monotonous proceeding. How to-day in resistance to the key 17-year-old daughter Phyllis came old is this "child?"--56. clause of the Government bill to to their home and Mr. W. H. Hay- The hearing was adjourned. amend the income-tax law, for which ward, Mrs. Garrard's brother,

sald special session la being held. that not only was she living with The clouse seeks to change the Mr. Jenson, but that she was willing basis for the collection of tax from that her daughter should do also. foreign income with the object of so she began a slander action against Mr. Hayward would not apologise, catching those who are alleged to him and it was suggested that Mr. The escaping taxation by investments

abroad.

Jepson would have to give evidence

Sydney, Although this covers subjects of and would receive publicity.

Entreaty, the mother of Phar Lup, the Indian States, it is regarded by Garrard agreeing to cattle the action full sister of Nea Lap, who was sold Eventually in consideration of Mrs, Australia's crack racing horse, and the indian parties as discrimination Mr. Jepson paid her £6,500 and £3 in 1933 to American Breeders for In favour of Europeans. The Europeans decided therefore

a week and stayed with her until $7,000, was described by horse ex- oppose the clouse.

they parted Inst year.

perts here upon her arrival frem Among the statements complained New Zealand as being "just a plain of was: "She and Meyer have black-fold black mare."

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A compromise suggested by Sir James Grigg, Finance fember, was not secepted, and the House ad- journed to allow of the search for a formula.

Old Black Mare Famous

CHAMBER OF PRINCES Duchess Of Kent May Wear

BOMBAY.

The Princes' Conference continued

Proposals for reorganisation of the Its deliberations at Bombay recently.

and the

need for unity was

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But the suggestion has met with a hoslite recepilon from Sydney

Chamber of Princes were considered HE Duchess of Kent may | emphasised by speakers, Including be asked to set a fashion women. the Jam Sahlbs of Bikaner, Bilaspur, Mand and Suchin and the Ministers by wearing woollen stock- of Indore, Kushnir, Rumpur and ings in Australia.

Alwar

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Mr. Moors Cosarave, wife of Canada's Trade Commissioner, callret | It absurd, woollen stockings эго frumpy," she said, "I can't imagine

The conference appointed a sub- This would boost Australia's people going back to mid-Victorian committee of Princes and Ministers most important industry when times." to consider amendments proposed allocation of scots on the the Duchess goes out this year Another woman said that while reorganised standing committer. as the wife of the Governor-the idea might be good for Austro-

General,

lia's basic industry, she thought it was an insult to the Duchess,

samu majority vote of about $1 per the Duke's return would prove & sity of Southern California, which stockings in pallerns similar to notre United States have been wear- i

cent. in favour of the Duke's und Duchess' return--with the exception

FRATERNITY HAS

The suggestion was made and dis- A third said that the Duchess was cussed at a Sydney conference of the not coming to Australia to be treated DATE BUREAU Country Women's Association.

as an advertisement for Australian It was urged that in winter the wool. Los Angeles. women of Australia should avear Thousands of women and ciris in Sigma Nu fraternity at the Univer- wool instead of silk, and have the disturbing factor.

maintains a date bureau for its mem-stockings worn by men.

ing stockings made of very fine wool But, as wealth diminishes, thebers, has a regular card index system.

which can be mistaken for slik at a One official of the association said short distance, since the beginning of Duke's popularity increases from 80 Brothers who want a "date" merely it would be a nice gesture it the the anti-Japanese boycott campaign. For some reason only 40 per cent. per cent, in the case

consult the card index to ascertain association presented the of the above average income group average incomes, to as high as 65 number, her weight, height, colour- the royal crest embroidered in the undergraduates discarded their silk

of those of the name of the girl, her telephone with a pair of woollen stockings with were posted to

Duchess At some universities giri picketa voted in favour of their return, 34 per cent., in the ease of the pooresting and personality.

stockings.

of the wealthy section of the popula-

won.

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Spelling Bee

HOW many of these words are cor- rect and what is wrong with the others?

longetudonal

tocksin dleproveable

gudgeon pidgeon

rovocatary

English Oxford Dictionary spell- ings of these words will be found on page 2.

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