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111 1 4 is I. Tuesday, April 13, 1965 6. No. 19,069 him snubs British envoy AI SAYS GOll cure a thief electric shocks YOUNG patient in 1 a mental hospital was given electric shocks and made to vomit in an attempt to cure him of carstealing. At the same time, he was shown pictures of fast cars, said Mr.

John Main, defending, at Devon Quarter Sessions yesterday. But the shock treatment depressed 19- year-old Paul John Lassen-D iessen so much that he broke store another car. Switched With another man, he got away from the hospital, in Surrey, and took an Aston- Martin from Guildford. They drove to Land's End, and switched to another car before being caught. Lassen Diessen a --accused of taking away the cars without the owners' consent, and stealing petrol.

Mr. Paul Chadd, prosecuting, said that after being caught, the youth said in a statement: "We were both depressed, as the treatent we were receiving had got on top of Borstal Mr. Main described the treatment and said: It was partly successful. as he found it less ...4.: to drive the Aston Martin than he had done to drive other cars before." Lassen-Diessen, who was said to have previous convictions for taking away cars, was sent to Borstal. The treatment of offenders by nauseating them with drugs, and showing them objects connected with their crimes at the same time, is now well established in British mental hospitals.

ON WALKE' NWELCOME' By MICHAEL KING, Mirror Foreign Editor RED China last night rebuffed the British Government's efforts to get peace talks going on Vietnam. In one of the rudest phrases known to diplomacy, the Peking Government said that Mr. Patrick Gordon Walker's proposed visit to China to discuss the Vietnamese crisis was unwelcome." The former Foreign Secretary is due to leave for South-East Asia tomorrow morning. Thant His mission: To see how negotiations on the Vietnamese crisis might be started. He had hoped to visit Hanoi, the North Vietnamese capital, as well as Peking.

Presumably, the North Vietnamese will follow the Chinese line that Mr. Gordon Walker is unwelcome." The Chinese made their statement less than twenty-four hours after they had refused a visit by Thant, the United Nations Secretary-General, Abusive The Peking statement can only be a disappointment to Premier Harold Wilson, who leaves today for talks in the United States with President Johnson. But it certainly can be no surprise. The Communist reaction to President Johnson's offer last week of unconditional talks on Vietnam coupled with massive economic aid was abusive. Consequently it could be expected that Mr.

Walker's trip would meet similar 'treatment. Diplomats in London pointed out last night 'that if the British Government had taken a more hostile attitude to U.S. policy, Mr. Gordon Walker might have been received in Peking. But he would then have received a frosty any at all Saigbn, the capital of non-Communist South Vietnam.

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1 1 i. I iii Mrs. Betty Broadhurst yesterday after a judge had called her evil." IS By MIRROR REPORTER AJUDGE yesterday described a murder victim's widow as "a thoroughly evil woman." Mr. Justice McNair said of the widow, Mrs. Betty Broadhurst: She came into the witness-box and admitted she was a murderess in intention if not in deed." The judge was summingup at Chester Assizes at the trial of Donald Neville, 33 year old unemployed farmworker, formerly of WIFE IS EVIL, TELLS JURY Stapeley, near Nantwich, Cheshire.

Earlier, it had been alleged that Neville hit Mrs. Broadhurst's 37-yearold husband, Henry, over the head, then pushed him into a sludge pit near the Broadhursts' in Windmill-lane, Buerton. Henry Broadhurst died, it was said, about ten minutes after his wife told Neville she planned to get rid of her husband. The judge told the jury that there was no evidence that Mrs. Broadhurst was an accomplice.

But I am directing that you should treat what she said as if she was an accomplice," he added, Never before have I heard the wife of a murdered man go into th JUDGE witness-box and say: I have tried to murder my husband three or four But in this case sh has told you she had planned to poison him or kill him in cther ways." The jury found Neville guilty and he was sentenced to life imprisonment. And the judge told him: This was a particularly terrible murder. This man had never shown you any and you say you had never shown any to him." Ini.MiU:i,.......,ii:.*.m.:ike::, ii 4 1.: i 9 33 v.f.;:k 4 i WY :55 ggi Miiii: 1M tff, 0... -44 1 110:: low 1 i 4 40 i The Beatles they've done it again. Ticket to top for the Beatles By DON SHORT JUST the ticket The Beatles are top of the pops once again.

And their latest disc, Ticket To Ride," has been on sale for just two days. Advance sales alone totalled more than 300,000. The Beatles' phenomenal success story now reads Eight No. 1 hits in a row, and 114.000,000 records sold a cool £30,000,000 in hard cash AFTER tax. Nervous We're really made up," said Ringo last night.

We're always a little nervous as to whether our next one will go straight to the top." It is fourteen weeks since the Beatles last topped the I Feel Fine." Why so long Said George: "We've been really tied up with our new film." They are now half-way through shooting the film. And Paul and John are busy writing the lead song. Cliff The film was to have been called Eight Arms To Hold You," but is no almost certain to be changed. Meanwhile, down to No. 2 in the hit parade goes Cliff Richard, with "The Minute You're Gone." And, for once; both chart experts New Musical Express and Melody on the top placings,.