1939-08-03 — Page 2

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 3, 1939.

Baronet's Daughter "Lent"

War Strain

£30,000

to Her

Chauffeur

Pinch of war is becoming evident

in Tokyo, nis this ancient donkey

UFS

Husband Says "No"! cart appears on streets of Japanese German Motorists

To Jury's £1,600

Award

A HUSBAND, said to have been "robbed of a rare type of wife," refused damages of £1,600 assessed against a co- respondent in the Divorce Court recently,

His counsel said he did not want more than £1,000, and Mr. Justice Langton, granting him a decree nist, entered Judgment for that sum with costs against the co-respondent.

capital. Gasoline is so important that a drop of li is now compared to a drop of blood.

Daughter For Peer Aged 67

A daughter was born at Udny Castle, near Aberdeen, recently to Lady Bellaven and Stenton, 22- years-old wite of Lord Belhaven and Stenton, 07-years-old politician and soldier.

Not To Smoke

Berlin.

GEN. Duluege, chief of the

Death Drama Of Man With 100 Poses

MAIDENHEAD.

WIL

FILLIAM GEORGE BUTLER, 36-years-old man of a hundred poses, claimed "when I die, my death will be as dramatic as my life.".

Two of his acquaintances recently searched for him in a gas-filled room here. They were injured when the gas exploded and blew the roof off the building.

Butler, alias Duncan (he had j

cards printed styling himself

Sir William Duncan), was the J. P. Shuns

son of an Eastbourne grave-

digger, In the last ten years

ho had posed as:

A film magnale.

Scotland Yard detective assigned to guard the Duke of Windsor.

A close friend of Hitler.

Woman He Loved

Pontefract, Yorkshire.

A war-time Secret Service agent. SEVENTY-THREE-YEARS-

property owner.

OLD Mr. John Hutchinson, This 5ft. 3in., short-sighted tubby magistrate and twice Mayor of little fake was twice married. In between times he spent the £30,000 Pontefract, stood outside the Assize Court here recently fortune of a baronet's daughter.

With that money he bought curs, while the woman who had de hunters, racehorses, ran night clubs,ceived him was sent to prison threw £100-a-night parties, and for bigamy.

gave himself a title.

LEFT CLUB IN ANGER

He married" Daisy Coram, aged 42, un hotel worker in the town, In His second wife is here ill. She April. She told him she was a child- German uniformed police,

was Miss Phyllis Duthie, of Stock-less widow. He altered his' will in has issued order that ton-on-Tees, whon be married last her favour. motorists in Germany may not December. Soon she expects to be- in future smoke while driy-come a mother. ing.

The number of accidents in "Both Lady Belhaven and her Germany, it is stated, is so high daughter are very well,"

was that every effort must be made standard of Lord Belhaven and Sicnton mar-to improve the

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Mr. David Henry Milward, of Cal-stated at the castle, low Farm, Hereford, assistant sur- veyor and engineer to Herefordshire ried for the second time in March driving. A driver needs both month after he had met hands on the wheel and cannot County Council, charged his wife, last year, Beryl Eileen, with misconduct with Miss Shella Pehrson, of Knoll Farm, spare one of them to knock off

his ash. Mr. Frederick Thornton, whose ne- Aldington, Kent, in Mentone.

they quaintance they made when went to the Argentine under colonising scheme.

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In addition there is always danger robbed him of a rare type of wife in Mr. Justice Langton told the jury a woman peculiarly suited to the ad- of drivers becoming partially blinded that Thornton, a cultivator on a venturous life on which she and her by particles of ash flying into their larger scale than Mr. Milward, had husband had embarked.

eyes.

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Less than three weeks after the "marriage" Mrs. Coram's real hus- The dat he shared with her here band called on Mr. Hutchinson and was over a chib One night the told him the truth-that he and his two disagreed. Butler, angry, left wife had separated and he had the and cut a gaspipe in his bedroom, his wife in the club, went to his flat, custody of their four children, aged

from four to 13.

Hours later the club secretary, Mr.

"VERY, VERY SORRY" Terry Newns, and Mrs. Frank Kec-

Mrs. Corom admitted she had de- ceived him and Mr. Hutchinson or- vil, went to the flat at Mrs. Butler's request.

They lit a candle, forced the bed-dered her out of the house. room door. The gas in the room ex- ploded. Newus and Keevil were She pleaded Guilly to bigamy and burned and sent to Maidenhead was sent to prison for a month.

Mrs. Coram made a long statement Some months before Buller look hospital. the Maidenhead flat he had been from the dock in which she said she living at an hotel In Henley, There had been unhappy with her husband! Mr. T. Downs said. "I have here aand from the strain of moving their great number of 1.0.Us from him home when he took jobs in different which you may see. He smartest talker I have

His imagination left gasping.

the towns.

Was ever mel.

"Having no one to turn to I did опе simply this," she said, "I am very, very

sorry indeed for Mr. Hutchinson,"

But Mr. Justice Tucker told her; bourne in January, 1924, to a girl of "Having a hard time with your first 19. He was then a lorry driver. He husband cannot be regarded as an ex- was later divorced.

"ile was first married at

East-

"As a youth he served for a few Afterwards months in the last war. he had all sorts of jobs, but seemed principally to have lived by duping women.

"He got a job as chauffeur with a _titled____man at Surbiton. His em- ployer died and he assumed-control. of the family affairs. There was a daughter and he became friendly

with her.

"From that source, I know that he He used lald his hands on £30,000.

to come to this hotel in a different

1 car overy week. And they were all

cuse for committing bigamy and de- celving an old gentlemen as you did." Mr. Hutchinson did not make ap- plication to see her.

"All that is over and forgotten. I shall not see her," he told me.

The Quins Getting Slimmer

Callander, Ontario.

expensive cars. He bought hunters THE Dionne quintuplets, who were put on a diet by Dr. and for a number of years he Ived

a life of luxury,"

To the woman from whom he got Dafoe because they were getting the £30,000 he told a story of having "pudgy,"

are now noticeably

n £7,500,000 estute in Germany. He more slender after a month's made constant promises to her that dieting. the money she "lent" him would be

re-

All have lost weight since May 28, returned at enormous rates of in- when they were last weighed.

Cecile in Ger- estate terest. He had no

Annette has lost 14lb., never many. The money was

14lb., Yvonne 1lb., Emilie 441b., and turned.

Recently he had been raising Marlo 1b.

But only one of them has grown- Dint he had money on the claim £17,000 worth of shares in a blg Annette. She has put on a quarter

lot an inch. group.

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The

Hongkong Telegraph

NINTH ANNUAL

AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION

June-September, 1939 CASH

$250 $250

PRIZES

(Donated by "Hongkong Telegraph”)

TWO SILVER TROPHIES, VALUED $250 (Donated by ILFORD, Ltd., London)- SEND YOUR ENTRIES IN NOW CLOSING DATE & TIME:

29th SEPT. AT 5 P.M.

THE ILFORD TROPHIES WILL BE AWARDED TO THE BEST AND SECOND BEST ENTRIES IN THE COMPETITION, IRRESPECTIVE OF CLASS.

Prizes will be allotted as follows: SECTION ONE:

For Story-Telling Pictures, 1st. $39. 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10. SECTION TWO:

General Fictorial Section: Landscapes, Seascapes, Architectural, Street Scenes, etc.

Ist. $30, 2nd. $15, 3rd. $10.

SECTION THREE: Portraits, Informal Close-ups, Humax. Studies. 181, 330, 20na. $15. 3rð. $14 SECTION FOUR:

511 Life and Table-Top Studies. 1st. $30. 2nd $15. 3rd. $10. SECTION FIVE: Snapshots talren by children under fourteen years. 1st. $15. 2nd. $10. 3rd, $5,

RULES

The fullowing Rules will govern the Competition:

1-The Competition # confined ex- amateur photo- to clusively graphers

2-No Craployee or member of any firm in the photographie trado is permitted to competo.

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3-The prizes will be awarded to the competitors sending in what are adjudged to be the best photos graphs in each Becuon. Each entry must be accompanied by a form which will be pubilahed during the periat of the Corn-

which must petition, and pasted on back of entry. 4-The right to publish any or all of the entries is reserved to the Hongkong Telegraph.

entered must 8.-All photographs

have been taken in the Colony of liangkong. Photographs which have been already entered in ather Competitions are ineligible. 6. No responsibility will be accepted for non-delivery of, loss of, or damage to entries.

All entries to be either black, sepia, or toned pictures, and must

USE THIS FORM

AND PASTE IT

:.:ON THE

BACK OF EACH ENTRY

be mounted. Coloured photo- graphs are ineligible. 0-Piclurcs submitted in sopia tone

should be accompanied by a smaller print in black and white. -No picture, to entered in more

Ihan one Section, 10-Mounts to be only white or Craftt and, except in the Children's Section, must be of one of the following sizes:-X12, 10x20,

11-No correrpandence will be entered into in connection with the Com- petition.

11-Entries in the Children's Section must bear the entrant's name, aro and address on the entry Zorro, counter-med by a parent. 13,--Members of the Staffs of the Hongkong Belegraph and the South China Morning Post are not permitted to compete. 14-Tho_decisions of tho Judgés shall

be final, VIDE

At the conclusion of the Com- petition, entries will be returned to competitors on application at the Telegraph Quices within seven days.

PENTRY FORM'

SECTION NAME

ADDRESS

DATE

Please time block letters and peate this on back of each Entry. £f matured in Children's Bection, parent please corte tersign bërë,