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Dead Girl Played With Son Of Accused Salesman
Mother Faints When Shown Daughter's Beret
A small brown beret was held up in Hove Police Court recently, and at the sight of it the woman in the witness-box tottered in a faint and would have fallen had not a policewoman stepped quickly to her side and caught her arm.
The witness was Mrs. Violet Owens, mother of four- year-old Patricia Owens, whose body was found on an allotment at Frant Road, Hove, on November 23.
An unemployed ice-cream salesman, Joseph Dell, aged 40. stood in the dock, charged with the murder of the child.
Mr. G. R. Paling, prosecuting, said Dell lived will his wife arsel
un adopted three-year-old boy named Jimmie. The dead girl was the only i datulter, of her parents, who lived In Arthur Street, Hove.
"FRIENDLY CHILD"
"She was a friendly little girl." said Mr. Paling, and used to play with other children in the locality. Dell know Bat. She wred to play with his son Jimmie in the streets."
Abait 1 o'clock, on November 21, Patricia went to play in the street with a boy named Roy Thompson, who was just over four.
Shortly before 11.30 Mr. Thomp-
Man Arrested
In Women's Police Hostel
WOMAN police candidate Cora Tubb, left her cubicle at the Seo- tion House, Wandsworth, kaw a man standing in the dark in a cubicle nearby.
"Oh, you did give me a fright." she said, and the man made of down the corridor to the library. The Woman P.C. Richardson questioned him-and arrested
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South-Westera Police Court, Frederick Georg Bennett, aged 31, nccused of being on the premises for an unlawful purpose, said fint be mistook the Section House for a casual ward. Air. Claud Mullins, the magis- traie, said that Bennell's story might be true, and discharged Ilm.
Wife Refuses To Save Husband
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[IDDLE-AGED George
James Hunt; a de- corator, who pleaded guil-
Lord Rector
son, a butcher, saw his son and Patty to bigamy, recently sat Marries At 72
playing together. He also saw a man in his cell worried by
on a bicycle ride alongside the child-doubts and fears while ren and apparently speak to them.
Air. Thompson called his assistant awaiting sentence. aut of the shop and he recognised the man as Dell,
cro-bar.
SEEN, ON BICYCLE
After the girl had been reported missing. Dell was interviewed and he told the pollee he had not seen her.
January 24, 1939.
CAPTURE TRENCHES
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fnsurgent soldiers of General Francisco Franco's forces take over trenches captured from the Loyalisis, on the Ehro front in Spain. Insurgents, knowing of the drive General Franco was pre- paring, shouted at the Loyalists, "Wait till the oth; we'll show you!" The day passed without action and Loyalists tounted the Irt- surgents.
Sir Herbert Grierson, 72-years-old Diner's Dreams Crowd Hit By Open
Lord Rector of Edinburgh University, was "secretty" married recently to
He had heard the Recorder of Miss Margaret Storrs, 38-year-old About Beetle
London (Mr. G. Dodson, K.C.) Later, Dell was seen cycling to say at the Old Bailey to his wards come allotments one of which legal wife, Mrs. G. Hunt,
Afterwards, he was seen was his.
"If you can come here and tell gging along a path pushing his bley-
left the ele. A little girl was sitting on these elther that you have
man you are now living with or that he has left you, i may be able to help your husband."
Later, at the Old Bailey, his wife and his bigamous wife, Miss Evi Mary Duffield, sat in the court and heard the Recorder say to Mr. G. Neve, the probation officer:
THIS js not matrimonial Agency, but I don't know whether you have
been able to do any thinst."
Mr. Neve: The prisoner's wife refuses to give up the other man.
On November 23 Dell made stalginent, aller which police offers went to the allotment where, covered by some venetian blinds, they found Bi irl's body.
There was no indication whatso- ever of any interference.
Detective-Inspector Yales said that
a statement made by Dell ran to 17 pages of inanuscript.
Del was remanded,
SMILED IN DOCK
The Becorder: That is what I was Infraid of, but I am not going to
Prison Turkey Crop punish him because of that.
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Jefferson City, Mo, Missouri's prison forms this year produced 2,600 turkeys, or enough for at least five feusts at each of the state's five penal institutions.
The man in the dock smiled, his fears at an end. In spite of his wife's refusal.
Hunt stepped. from the dock bound over for three years. He left the court alone.
Afterwards he said: "I know now that my legal wife doesn't want
daughter of the president of the Los Angeles Railway Company.
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Door Of Train
London.
The chairman Mr. Francis William Journeaux,
of the Southend News of the wedding, which took accountant; of Ashbourne Grove, Bench, Mr. Joseph Francis, recently wife, Aned Jacob Knoblaugh, of Satanita place at an Edinburgh register office. East Dulwich, S.E., and was made public, when Sir Herbert Betty Frances, claimed damages in Road, Westcliff, the maximum of £2, and Lady Grierson were already on Kaur's Bench recently from Piccadil- with Sgns, costs for opening the Mr. their way to the United States in the ly Hotel, Ltd. alleging that Mrs. carriage door of a moving train. Queen Mary for a six-months honey-Journeaux had suffered food poison-R. B. Orange for the LM.S. Railway, said that Knoblaugh opened a door init. moon.
Sir Herbert, who is a widower, met stated, were attending a
Mr. and Mrs. Journeaux, it was of the front coach on a train drawing
Leight-on-Sea Station. Masonic into his bride while he was on a lecture "ladies night" dinner and dance at crowd of passengers were standing tour in the United States last winter, the hotel. The wife ate some sand- on the platform when the train drow They were drawn together by awiches during the dance, felt unwell up and on seeing the carriage doo mutual interest in literature.
open, those nearest the edge tried to The wedding
was held quietly for While she was away Mr. Journeaux get back, but there were
many private reasons one of Sir Herbert's, passed a plate of sandwiches to an-hind them that they failed to do daughters Enid, "but all the family other Kuest, a Mr. Edwards, and it 5. A number were knocked down are delighted about it. I have re- was allested that when he was about and injured, some seriously. When Fceived a note from him saying they to take a sandwich a beetle ran perose roughly handled and received a blow the train stopped, Knoblaugh was jare very happy.
the plate.
ride to settle down in the States."
"It is possible that father will de-
and left the room.
C.I.D. SURPRISES Mrs. Journeaux, fold about it when she returned, stated that while in me back, and I am also told that hospital she dreained about the beetle Mis Duffield doesn't want to have three times. anything more to do with me.
on the jaw. He explained to porter that people in his comparl- ment were smoking and made him feel. He did not appreciate that the train had so far to travel before stopping. The other guest, a C.LD. officer, someone shout, "Look what is run- If I can get my legal marriage usked if the beetle affected him, re-ning across the plate!" dissolved I will go to Miss Duffleld plied: "It did not affect me, we get again, this time really without ties, a good many surprises."
"I did not finish the sandwich," he and ask her again if she will forget
said, "but went to the bar to wash what has happened, and marry me." had eaten halt a sandwich he heard}
Another guest said that when he down what I had eaten."
The hearing was adjourned.
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