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Wednesday

HONGKONG, TEL EGRAPH.

January 18, 1939.

JURY HEAR STORY OF LIFE "AT BREAKING POINT"

Man in Verandah Murder Charge 'Had 4d. in Bank'

OPENING the case at the Old Bailey recently against

Sidney George Paul (46), salesman, of Rosebery Vale, Ruislip, Middlesex, charged with the murder of his 38-year-old wife, Claire Paul, in the verandah of their home, Mr. G. B. McClure said that it might strike the jury as a sad story.

"It is a story which you may have read the like of," he con- tinued, "a kind of story where a breaking point is renched in someone's existence-everything is pressing and things are too hard-and it sometimes ends in murder and suicide, or the suicide of two people."

Paul pleaded not guilty.

Mr. McClure stated that Paul apparently had lived on the best! of terms with his wife, a Bel- gian.

He had said all along that some) stranger entered his house on the day

his wife was killed-a man he de-

Queen Maud's

Horses

Hunstanton1.

In response to the wishes of the

scribed as tall, wearing; dark clothes late Queen Maud of Norway. her and having a scar on his check.

"HARD PRESSED"

There was little doubt that Pad had been hard pressed for money, There was only 4d, or an overdraft of 40., in his banking account.

There was a county court claim against him and he had promised to pay on October 18.

Mr. McClure sald that about 8 a.m.)

four favourite horses on which she rode regularly in the woodland round her Sandrinhom house, have been destroyed.

They lie buried in the Sandringham paddocks.

the

Queen Maud was so fond of the herse

could not bear the thought of their passing into other launds.

They were very valuable animals.

on October 18 a Mr. Cooper, who' and ured to be shipped to Norway lived next door, leuked out of the for her use there,

hack window on to the verandah of | Paul's house.

was

enused by such a thing as a razor "There," said Mr. McClure, he blade. That kind of injury saw what was perhaps actually the utterly inconsistent with the descrip- tion Pal gave of the attack made murder, although he could not see upon him. enough to know what was happen-) ing.

It was right to say that there was no insurance on his wife from which Paul could have benefited.

"Paul was facing him in a stoop- ing position and moved forward and

Archibald Trow, a neighbour, said! appeared to pick up something. He then took a half right turn and in reply to Mr. Eastwood (defend- appeared to be making some striking) that Mr. and Mrs. Pant appear- int movements. What he had In led to be a very devoted couple. hand Mr. Cooper could not see,"

"I never heard anything or saw

Two minutes later Mr. Cooper

heard Paul call for help.

He saw Paul In the garden with; his face covered with blood, and running to the verandah found Mrs, Paul lying there, terribly injured. *UTTERLY INCONSISTENT"

head which might have been caused by an axe.

Helen Vinson of the stage and screen recently fled suit in a Los Angeles court for divorce from Fred Perry, former world's umaleur tennis champton who turned professional. She charges mental cruelty on the part of the British net star. This picture was taken shortly after their marriage, Sept. 12, 1935.

English

Wife

To Prison Isle

Smuggled Money From Italy

ROME.

Explosive Bombs Tests

CUR JOHN ANDERSON, Lord Privy Seal, stated in the Commons re- recently that the Government made cxtensive experiments as to the cifrets of high explosive bombs | and the protect'on likely to be at- forded by shelters.

The tests were being carried out under conditions approximating os closely as possible to those of actual

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RADIUM PRICE DENIAL

Mr. Walter Elliot, Maister ui Health, replying to Mr. David Adams (Lab, Consett), denied that he had bought 11 grammes of radium

10,000 a #ramme for the campaign or that the announcement

at

cancer

of his plans had resulted in foreing up the price of radium from £5,000

gramine.

The option, he said, was bought at 1 the world price.

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She Doesn't Want Disney To Use Husband's Music

Objections to the musical score of

new Walt Disney Alm, "The velo! Sorcerer's Apprentice," are

ruised by the widow of Patt) Dukas, the French composer. She deckires that she is taking advice with a view to preventing Disney from using her late husband's music, "Apprenti Sarcier."

Mme. Dukas slresses that she is n

creator great admirer of the

of Mickey Mouse, but is certain that her husband would never have agreed to the use of his name for the fim.

May Go

Orta, was believed to have escaped | into France.

The arrests caused a sensation among Rome's society, for the ac- cused were friends of royalty.

The Marchesn's confiscated money is to be deducted from the fine.

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After her arrest police officers took | 9423 her back to Turin, where she was re-

leased after close interrogation, only Eng-days Inter.

FOUND Guilty of smuggling money from Italy, the Marchesa Godi di Godio, former Violet Kay, an

anything which led me to suspect lish woman, may be sent to an Italian penal island. that they were not happy," he added. She faced trial with her husband and an Italian Jew

P. C. Carlin said that Paul was broker named Renato Sacerdoti, and in addition to the almost delirious when he saw him in penal island recommendation the three were fined a total the dining-room.

Mr. Eastwood: Did he make some of £21,250. elfort to get up from his chair and one restrain him?--Yes,

A special commission will de-iwas alleged that italian banknotes to £11,000 were found! Mrs, Paul had 15 Injuries to her dash across the room, and did some ride whether or not they will be the value of

under the mattress of her sleeping sent to the penal island,

The Marchesa was arrested at Mo-jear bunk.

A woman accomplice, sald by the dane, near the French-Italian fron-| tier, on September 30 last, when it police to be the

Paul was suffering from a number of little cuts which might have been

If that was neling, it done? Yes.

was

well

The trial was adjourned.

to be shadowed, and re-arrested two

Since then she has spent most of her time in the big women's prison, the Regina Coeli.

There she shared the same cell as un Italian domestic servant, Dough

food from friends outside the prison.

Her detection and arrest led to the discovery of a finely organised gang of international currency smugglers. trial, was headed by Renato Sucerdoti. This gang, It was alleged at the

the Marchesa always received special

Countess Giovanni Valuable Lessons

For Officials

Hong Kong Lawyer's reputation endangered

by NIGHT STARVATION/

TOMORROW THE CASE WILL BE HEARD IN COURT AND I CAN'T GET

THE FACTS RIGHT. I'M SO TIRED, MY BRAIN

WON'T WORK.

THIS HORLICKS IS THE BEST

DRINK IN THE WORLD FOR PUTTING YOUR VITALITY BACK! DID YOU USE THE MIXER?

IN COURT

YOU ARE WASTING QUA TIME, MR. SIMPSON IT IS QUITE OBVIOUS YOU HAVEN'T PREPARED_THE_CASE,

(THINKS)

WHAT A HUMILIATION."

1 MUST WIN MY

REPUTATION BACK. I'EL SEE A DOCTOR ABOUT

MY HEALTH

| TWO MONTHS LATER :

I NEVER THOUGHT

YOU'D WIN THAT

CASE. HOW DID YOU

DO IT? YOUR NAME | WILL BE IN ALL

THE PAPERS,

AT THE DOCTOR'S

I GET

PLENTY

OF SLEEP

HORLICKS IS THE SECRET OF MY SUCCESS!

If you wake tired, if you suffer TAKE HORLICKS

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DOCTOR

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NIGHT BEFORE RETIRING YOU WILL SOON REGAIN YOUR VITALITY.

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Valuable lessons were learned by Home Ofice

and police officials recently when 100 air-raid warning sirens walled in unison over London in the biggest test ever made in Britain.

The most important discoveries

are:

There are a number of "dead" spots in the London area which the official police sirens cannot reach under bad weather ditions.

con-

There are a number of other places in Central London where The sirens cannot drown the roar of the traffic.

The "warbling" warning signal Is not so audible as the continuous "steady pitch" signal taeans "ralders

paisted.”

which

In an emergency the official signals would be taken up by hundreds of factory and workshop hooters which were not included in the test.

Reports of 8,000 palicemen, 800 représentatives of local authorities and of many private firms who were appointed DS listeners are being collected,

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No Round could be heard trom Snow Hill, there was not a murmur from Bow Street (where the siren frefused to work), but a faint walling enme from the direction of Scotland Yard.

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