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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1948.

STRAIGHT TALK WITH

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"SOMEHOW I CAN'T IMAGINE ERNIE ARRIVING ON AN UMBRELLA”

Copyright in All Count

DRAMAS OF THE LAW COURTS

of

the

The mystery

poisoned wine

Greenwood in court

NOTHER of Marshall Hall's triumphs WAS The equittal of Unreld Greenwood, the Kidwelly solici- tor, charged with murdering his wife.

Was Greenwood's wife murdered?

by

A. E. BOWKER confidential clerk to SIR EDWARD

MARSHALL HALL, KỌC.

"Just the very thing." Greenwood's reply. quite agreeable,'

The body was exhumed April 16-ten

American columu

See that wet-

see that dry

By NEWELL ROGERS

NEW YORK.

YOUNG . scientist who never finished secondary school is working to full this prophecy-within three years cities like London should be able to divert rain or snow storms.

Prophet is Nobel prizewinner Irving Lang-

Vincent Schaefer, Langmuir'a research laboratory assistant, found the secret of man- made ruinatorms after studying snow crystals on winter rambles.

muir.

Langmuir thinks Schaefer developed dry icing of clouds because his head is not stuffed with too much book learning. He tried the theoretically impossible.

"Instead of complicated, theorising," says Langmuir, "Vince just starts at a problem's beginning and goes through to the end."

SAM KRASILOVSKY, who ran the pound he

brought to America in 1900 into a million pounds with a lorry business, still signs cheques with an X.

MAURICE CHEVALIER opened at Miami's Copacabana Club early this month at £820 a night.

17-year-old typist named Irene Munro at Eastbourne.

The

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One twenty-thousandth of on ounce of radio-active enarbon atoms is a popular purchase at £12 105.

JOLLYWOOD bays the Loretta How other and the London newspapers' Interest in Mickey Hooney's salary have scared several of its stars into declining Brilish

show offers.

It was a brutal crime.

INABLE TO GET a Soviet visa girl had been rendered Insensi- to return to his Moscow post, ble by a blow on the jaw, and | New York Times correspondent then, as she lay helpless on the Drew Middleton now writes shingle, her head had been battered in by either dropping or smashing a heavy iron-stone brick upon it.

series

Russia will not be able in wage

on inside Russia. First conclusion-- aggressive war for ten years.

FOR

TIME OR THE. FIRST

since Dame Ethel Smyth's The While Field and Gray awaited Wood." in 1003, New York's Metro- trial in Maidstone Prison, Gray sent an opera by an English com- politan Opera this month will pre- was particularly foolish, having poser-Benjamin Britten's "Peter asked one prisoner to say that Grimes." he was with him an the day of the tragedy.

was "I do not want to quarrel am with the honesty of the evidence

given by the experts." he he clared, "but I do challenge the on accuracy of their calculations, months after and I ask you to say it is not death--the coroner's inquest right that a man should be sent that he was with the girl up to was held, and largely upon the to the gallows from deductions findling of one quarter of a grain made from observations 90 of arsenic in the body, Harold minute as I have endeavoured Greenwood arrested and to explain to you." brought to trial at Carmarthen Assizes.

Was

In his closing speech for the Harold Greenwood lived with defence Marshall Hall riddled

He had told another prisoner

Almost the hour it happened."

M

Damning talks

WE CASE for revaluing sterling is rapidly becoming stronger, in the opinion of New York's Journal of Commerce, because "revaluation. and abatement of controls will spur business expansion in Britain." DOLICE REPORT that Washington is being "nooded" with vulgar Eramophone records. They arrested two men charged with selling some of them. and broadenst a warning that anyone owning vulgar records

MARSHALL Hall was briefed From time to time he had for the defence of Gray, various brushes with the judge. Field's defence being in the can go to jail for a year or be fined

Mr. J. 1). £250.

his wife and family, including the ease for the prosecution at sick man at this time, and Cassels, now Mr Justice Cussels.

a daughter frene, at Rumsey every point. House, Kidwelly,

I can tell you that he was a capable hands of

under normal circumstances. -

Of course, the evidence of and in anything but a capital these prison talks was damning He started with an all-out charge, would not have been in the extreme, and it would To the outside world-general- "challerige. There was not a court:

have been futile for Marshall ly they amoured to be a happy little, not a shadow of evidence family, although there is little that the poison was administer- Hence he was rather testy. Hall to have called Gray into doubt. Prst Greenwood was very ed by Greenwood," he told the and flared up more than once the witness-box. popular with women.

jary, and then "Where in the when the judge interpolated Field had gone in and had a very Mrs Gevenwood was an ailing name of Providence is the mo- some remark during his closing bad time, and an old campaigner woman for many months be- tive here?" he demanded. fores died.

Her death, the prosecution.

"It took more than 12 months

speech.

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like Marshall Hall was not slow to make capital out of this when the As, for example, when Mr time came. Justice Shearnan objected to

The only possible defence was, he drinking wine from a special and Kidwelly.

idiosynasy" in connection chances were slender he ndroitiy bottle which she herself had

evidence of a Dr "There is no tittle of evidence with gooseberry tart eaten by played on the bought, but which. it With

had given evidence at the inquest. alleged, had been tampered with against Miss Jones or the ac- Mrs Greenwood on the Sunday. Carman, the police surgeon

cused of any relationship that

"The evidence is that Mrs by Greenwood.

It was to the effect that in lis herself told the The fact that Irene Green- was capable of immoral inter- Greenwood

opinion the earliest the girl could doctor that she had eaten have died was at eleven o'clock the wood also had wine from the pretation." same bottle at the same time

declared, was brought about by to search the whole of Llanelly the use of the words "special realised, an alibi, and although the

as her mother was one of the

strong points for the defence.

On the Saturday before her dleath Mrs Greenwood was fairly well.

He had weed-killer

COMING to the possession of

who

upset her," retorted counsel:

cherry tart, which always night before her body was found.

I remember Marshall Hall going "it is the evidence for the down to Eastbourne on the Sunday before the trial opened on the prosecution, and therefore I am weed-killer, he said: "As entitled to quote it."

Monday, and, spending hours going over the actual scene of the crime regards the weed-killer, the

And then a few seconds yard by yard, foot by foot. On the Sunday at teatime she accused had in his possession

I will was still well, but soon after- between 1916 and 1919 enough later: "I hope, my Lord.

poison the whole not he interrupted on another wards she suffered from vomit arsenic to

point." ing and diarrhoen, which con- town of Carmarthen." tinued up to her death at three o'clock on the Monday morning. Murder verdict

IT was on June 16, 1919, that Mr Greenwood died. It was exactly a year to the day

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there were 40 in Britain last month. The first to open in February is a one-man show by Eduardo Paolozzi, who draws like this t

Would you pay £15 15s. for this?

Was it a very popular place for;

by JOHN DEANE POTTER lovers on a Saturday and Sunday?

Were there many people about on

LONDON. a Saturday afternoon?

WARTBY Eduardo Paolozzi, 24- Again: "Do you believe it

year-old Halian artial, born in there He discovered that

were, Finburgh, credible that Greenwood would

shooting bought his have put a bottle of poisoned

and thus armed came to the trial to gallery to Brook-street, London, W.1. came his remarkable put before the jury that this was no wine on the table for his wife THEN

on February 2-and is selling it at peroration at the end of daytime murder, when there might

15 guineas a

Biece. with two of the children sitting which he declaimed: "Gentle. be scores of people in the vicinity. Dressed in a tarton shirt and tweed at the meal?"

"It is a night-time crime, men of the jury, I demand 'at

rousers, he superintended the hang- Coming to the evidence of your hands the life and, liberty mitted under cover of the darkness," ng of his 30 paintings of a French he insisted, arguing that if that were shooting gallery. To the uninitiated, the fashionable June 16. 1920-that the doctors, who conducted the of Harold Greenwood.",

co. then the two men were nowhere the pictures have

lunatic Jouk. Harold Greenwood was arrest- postmortem he stressed the fact

A during demand, but Mars near the scene of the crime at that

Ench une, showing a different angle time.

of the shooting gallery, is painted in ed, a coroner's jury having that only a quarter grain of

simple dnubish blues and greys brought in a verdict of murder arsenic had been found in the shall Hall was very during when

viscera, and referred to the ac a life was at stake.

rather like a child's paint book. against him.

Burly Paolozzi explained in his The verdict was Not Guilty. Four months after his wife's cepted standard work always

Was other medical Scots accent the apparent kences. But there death Harold Greenwood had relied upon in muttera medical,

Some

afterwards-

besides

of Dr He sald: "The whole conception is Taylor's Medical Jurisprudence,

years married a Miss Gladys Jones.

"Unless eight, I think-came news of Cadman, and there was also a par- the box. I have taken the shooting ticularly cogent and obliterating sum-gallery, but a shop would have done This somewhat, hasty mar- and quoted from it:

I take it apart, put ringe, so soon after the death you find a grain or practically a Harold Greenwood's death in a ming-up on the part of Mr Justice just as well.

Avory, with tho result that both the bits together in a different way.

Then I draw the new bits.. of Mrs Greenwood, had oc- grain in the viscera, it is not little Herefordshire village.

Field and Gray were found Guilty.

"Sometimes I stick on pieces of casioned a certain amount of safe to say a person died of

coloured paper instead

of paint. gossip, although it was made arsenical poisoning."

They are part of a theme, each is a perfectly clear at the trial that

separate conception. It is what the French call the cuisine."

Eastbourne Murder

n different type entirely He added: "This is the first OF there had been no sort of in case where such a small quanti- was the fourth trial in timacy between them before ty of arsenic has been put for which we appeared during that

It was quite soon after Green- ward as consistent with a fatal fateful year 1920.

dose."

Found Guilty

evidence

that

"Our man is a thorough bad lot," Marshall Hall remarked to me as we walked down to the station to gether after the verdict. "Very few people will grieve if he is hanged. I'm sure I shall not."

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"Itma-ty fine," was Tommy | judicators' maxim for a good cock- tall-not too dry, not too sweet, and Handley's view of the winning with not too violent a basis of any concoction in the international thing. cocktail-muking championship at The Hima company, with Patriela London's hotel exhibition, sub- Roe as guest star, joined in the final testing. It first resulted in Mr mitted by 26-year-old Sidney Mitchell dead-beating for the title Mitchell, an apprentice at with J. Watt, of Saunton Sands Scott's Restaurant. Coventry Hotel, Devon. So they had to start

vipping all over again.

Street.

·

He said that he was not a sur- realist or any other "lat"--just an the tragedy.

artlet with a box fixation.

His pictures show clay pipes, Both mon perished on the scaffold.

This was a most welcome it rather Scarcely was Marshall Hall at Wandsworth Prison, this being just two round targets with wood's return from his honey-

this black lines and triangles.

heelie procedure, gallantly under- moon that he was visited by the He pointed out that neither through with the Greenwood the first double hanging in

"It gives a feeling of force,"

He defeated 300 burmen and their taken...."to shee whish concocshun prison for many years, akin, muscles nor bones had case than we had to hasten off

said. "Don't police and a statement taken.

2,000 new cocktails from all over the should you feel you want to

be presented with the Jones told been examined by the experts, to Lewes, where two men Jack

shoot at them?" Superintendent

world with his mixture, "Mighty prishe...." Fine," made up of one-third cachi Greenwood that tho police nor hnd any opportunity for Alfred Field (aged 19) and would apply for an exhumation examination by experts for the William Thomas Gray, were order.

defence been given.

charged with the murder of a

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I did not. Several other people obviously did, as he sold four of them while I talked to him, some for 15 guincas vach.

rye whiskey, Amer Pleon and orange And so it was that Mr Mitchell's squash and three dashes of orange "Mighty Fino" was hiccoughed Into bitters. It matched up to the ad- fame.