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Evening Star, Issue 22461, 5 October 1936, Page 14

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JEAN BATTEN’S FLIGHT.' j LONDON. October 1.-ML.-Jean Baiton has arrived at L.\ uipne in readiness lor her lligut. She slid: “ T want to start in the morning, but the weather forecasP allows that the barometer is falling heavily in-Southern Europe. 1 ahull hai e another repo' L at o a.m. 1 intend to make the first stop Marseilles, where 1 shall take on ». full load pt petrol (155 gallons).- f Dope to halve my Australian reeord. I shall wear by lucky New Lea land, flag as a muffler, as I have done on all my flights. ATCKLAND TRAGEDY. “ At no time have 1 ever heard him exoress any intention of committing suicide." said Harold Seaborne Smith, the father of John Reginald Smith (61 ,V who was found with a gaping wound over the heart beside the Puiekobc road at fflSO a.m. yesterday. When gtviiic evidence at the inquest to-day the father said he had seen his con at 10 o'clock on Saturday morning, alien he was in his usual spirits.. As far as be knew, his sun’s financial affairs were sound. , He was a married man with three children, the eldest being eight years. ■Since 1 " early yosLcroyy morning 'detective* have been .actively investiguting the case. It has been karat that, after meeting a 10-vcar-uld girl about 11 on Saturday night. Smith calk'd at his own homo about midnight and collected a shotgun. He then drove with the girl almost 30 miles to Rimciman (where tbo tragedy occurred), calling at Otahuhu for benzine en route. The girl covered the body with Smith's overcoat and drove his car back to ’ Auckland, where ihc" reported at the Newmarket Police Station. ' In the meanwhile the body had’•been 'found'"V " a Runeimar fanner, Alexander Mac. phorson, who was returning from a. dance. He telephoned the police, and within an hour a police patrol car, with detectives and the girl, was on the scene.—Press Association. TALMARANTI races. October Hack Handicap. Gadget-'I. 1-1 Whirlmhit 2, 2-3 Bull of Scotch 3. Scratched; Poker Pace. President's Handicap.—6-6 Orac J. 1-1 Sinking Fund 2, 1-1 Bonny Gay -3. .Scratched: Lord Vnl, Tradesman, King Musk.