1939-01-31 — Page 2

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 31, 1939.

Man In Car Shot "By Accident"

a minute of firing "After about the two shots the man enine out of

give it to me. When he got within

AN alleged statement by a poultry farmer that he thought a man and a girl in a car were poultry thieves, and that his gun went off-accidentally, killing the man, was read at Brentwood, Essex, recently. The farmer, forty-four- year-old John Darwood, ofthe car. He came for me with a Meadowside, Little Warley,rch in his hand, saying he would was accused of the murder about ten yards of me he held the of twenty-five-year-old John torch in the air as though to strike Graham Ritchie, commercial traveller, of Rosemary Cottage, Lighthorne, near Warwick.

After two retirements, the Bench to man- the charge reduced slaughter, and Darwoed was com- mitted for trial, bull being allowed, not guilty and reserved 15c pleaded hls defence.

At the time of his death Rik hie Upminster-road. Judging

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months Hornchurch, Essex. Five ago he married the daughter of Mr. Thomas Baxter, chairman of the Milk Marketing Board.

Mr, E. G. Robey, prosecuting, said that on December 28, Ritchie and a young woman friend of hits, named Juan Crockett, went in Ritchie's ear!

After to a cinema at Upminster, they came out of the cinema, Just

before eleven, they decided to go for

rile before returning home.

TORCH WAS SHONE

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"I was backing away, prelerding to fire my gun. I fred towards the ground between the man and myself, but the cartridge did not go off.

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"By that time the man was right and actually got on top of me, the torch held up to strike me, was bokting up the gun to protect accidentally myself. The went off, and he fell on the greens- ward.

the "When

walked towards I

heard what I chicken house I thought was a number of men talk- m and I thought they were after my chickens."

Mr. Robey said that it was true to had made complaints regarding say, in fairness to Darwood, that he chicken thieves.

A foir summary of the statement was that Darwood's gun went off accidentally, and, most unfortunate- when he never y, klied Ritchie intended it to go off,

Jona Ethel Crockett, an attractive brunette, who described herself as knew factory worker, of Lambourne-gar- dens, Hornchurch, said she Ritchie as Mr. Graluum.

ON BACK OF CAR Shortly after eleven o'clock the near Dar- car turned into a lane wood's farm and stopped. Ritchie got out his pipe and was about to have a smoke. Mr. Robey added:

"They had scarcely been there a minute or two when there was the j sound of two explosions. You will appointment, and went to a cinema

two lai Upminster. They little doubt they were shots Bred by Darwood from his drove in the car to Hall-Inne. When the they heard the shot Ritchie got out shol-un. Mies Crockett w light of a torch being stone on the of the ear. She added:- back of the car,

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"Ititchie got out of the car and walked towards the back with his torch switched on. Mis Crockett heard some one speak down

goad.

On December 20 she met him by

afterwards

"ile come running back to me.

I opened the door of the car on my shle. He was saying, Joan, Call for the Joan, he has shot me. the

police,, "

Mi

Crockett brakes

down and

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It was undoubtedly Darwood.

GAGS" introduced without per- "Miss Crockett heard un explo-

mission of the Censor resulted in sion, and then itchle returned to wept as she left the witness-box,

atten- Philip Ridgeway, the producer and Ravage Thomas Gearing. the ear, where he collapsed. He

Miss Crockett, dat, mid that Darwood came to the actor, being fined a total of £30 at ald he was shot. ram to the arterial romi for help. garage, saying, "I want the police. North London recently following the Get the performance of "Parade of 1938" at and a motor-cyclist took her to the Phone the police at once.

Collins's Music Hall, Islington, N. ambulance. I have shot a man." police station.

Detective Inspector Dring said

Three summonses against Ridge- that when charged Darwood replied:

only I could have my time over way. owner of the show, alleged in-

him regulations, da. I didn't intend to kill him.fringement of the Lord Chamberlain's

"When she returned to the lane the car was half a mile down, and

in a ditch.

merely

"At about 11.10 a Mr. Gearing, employed at a garage, heard Dar-away." wood shouting, I have shot a man. Let me phone the police. 1 want the ambulance. He was very agitated. and had a shotgun in his hand.

found The

meni ambulance Ritchle lying on Lh greenwaard some distance in front of the ear. He was taken to Brentwood Hospi- tal, where he died at 12.20 am.

wanted to frighten

Smoked Pipe As Cure

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distressed, and kept reiterating. It! TOLD 60 years ago by a

"When Darwood was seen by the: pollee his home he was very wha an accident--a dent.

FIRED TWO SHOTS

pure

amel-

TO WARN MY WIFE'

Mr. Robey read a statement al- leged to have been made by Dar- wood, in which he said that during

doctor to smoke a pipe as a cure for illness, Mrs. Sarah Hayes. Trebamog,

of covered and recently brated her 100th birthday.

re- cele-

Mrs. Hayes is still a confirmed

the last two years he had continu-pipe smoker. ously lost chickens from his farm. making it necessary for him to watch day and night.

"I was critically ill when the for brought me a clay pipe some strong tobacco," she said.

doc- and

"Now my pipe is more important

He had recently kept watch with a double-barrelled 12-bore gun. On December 28 he took his gun with to me than food. bim, and saw the ear arrive in the

alleged statement tune. The

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went

Arthur Stott, comedian, lately of Collins's Music Hall, was fined a total of £20 for acting a portion of a slage play before it had been allowed by the Lord Chamberlain and for acting Ja portion of a stage play which had, been disallowed by the Lord Chum- berlin.

Edward Walter Rice, owner of the theatre, and his manaster. Bruce Lon-! don, who each pleaded guilty to causing a certain portion of a stage play to be presented which had been the Lord Chamberlain, disallowed by and causing to be played a portion of a stage play before it had been Chamberlain, allowed by the Lord

were each fined £15.

BOY, BICYCLE AND TRAIN

Mr. C. J. M. Gwatkin, for the Director of Public Prosecutions, sald he was not pressing for the suspen- stan of the licence. The "Ridgeway Parade" was licensed in September, 1930, and the passages complained of had not been submitted to the Lord Chamberlain for his licence. Hnd they been submitted, a licence, would nat have heen granted in that form.

"My advice to the modern glri Is to start smoking a pipe in-

He was referring to an unlicensed stead of so many elgarettes."

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week and a bicycle and a railway train, when, the magistrate (Mr. Basil Watson)

"I heard some one say, 'Is every- thing all right?" fired two shots In pound of tobacco each

:1

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to get the car out, so that I could Her mother dropped dead in the sick "I don't think we need go into

follow the other car.

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M. Gwatkin said that in the second portion there was a story which referred to a woman's legs. The third related to the old-time intsic-hall.

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Mr. A. K. Kisch, on behalf of Ridge- way, said that he was sincerely sorry for what hat happened and under- took that nothing like it would hap- pen again. He came as a first often- der and in that capacity asked for Indulgence.

Mr. John Maude, for Rice, said he was the lessee of the music-hall and had been lessee and proprietor of various theatres for upwards of 40 years,

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Mr. Eile Myers, for Stott, said it was not a case of wiifat breach, but of genuine misapprehension. The perfonnunce took place before an exceptional audience, which pre- ferred its humour to be "direct rather

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