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Lighting a, Cigarette with his Finger; Setting Fire to Handkerchiefs, Ac. Electric Submarine Explo- sion, introducing the Greatest Scientific Dis- play of Electric Wonders the World has ewer seen. Important Notice.—Dr. Bodie will give advice Free of Charge daily from 1 to 2 a.t "the Theatre to the Hopeless and Paralysed. Children specially invited. Dr. Bodne has eared over 900 cases discharged from all the leading London Hospitals. One of our lead- imte judges Mr. Justice Grantham, said at the Leeds Anises: We have evidence of oases which other Doctors have failed to cure and ■which, have been cured by the result of Dr. Bodie's treatment, and there Ls no doubt he has diome a. great deøJ. of good, and many poor have consulted him with success."— Vide "Yorkshire Poet" and "Aberdeen Ex- press," August 3rd. 1906. HARRY LAWSON. Comedian, '^Pretty LILY TISO. a. neofc Singer and Tricky Dancer. The DAUGHTER, a. magni- '"ncenrt Picture Story im 16 Tableaux, alao ^weather permitting) the Great Rugby Matoh, WALES V. SOUTH AFRICA, played at Swan- ;R3. OlD. December 1st, Reproduced by THE .AMERICAN BIOSCOPE. A. G. SPRY. The Quaint Comedian. ^LBT RTL g 4 MILLAR, one of those quick, bright. and snappy acts that everyone likes, HARRY OOATES, the Sdngmg Navvy. WOg^SRT TRIO. Spring-board Acrobats. HERR FRITZ, IBuakaiaat, presenting a. Budget of Magical Surprises. L SYDNEY JAMES* STROLLING PLAYERS, in a. Pastoral Entertainment of Singing, Dancing, and Ventriloquism. Bicycles stared free of charge. Two Performances Nightly, at 7 and 9. Box Office open daily. LI8863 "To amuse and entertain is good, To do both, and instruct is better." ^TOLL'S pAJTOPTIOOH, I HILHAS^OT^ALL. at. Varr-st.. Cardiff TO-NIG.H.T. at 715- TO-NIGHT. ir —Wednesday and Saturday at 2.. '?E AMERICAN BIOSCOPE COMPY.  ? °?? entertaining programme, tTMtwhn? a. 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GREYNESS COME. I Wales in the Shadow OUTCLASSED BY AFRIKANDERS. [By FORWARD.]* I Not for eleven years prior to Satur- day had Wales been beaten at Swansea, and not for twenty-three years has the margin of points exceeded that by which South Africa won. It is a long stretch of time that can only be spanned by twenty-three years, and there are com- paratively few people who can remember England piling up two goals and four tries at St. Helen's without allowing Wales to score a point. That defeat was more decisive than that inflicted by the Springboks on Saturday, but things are not as they were in the eighties, and it may be regarded as one of the sensa- tions of modern Rugby for Wales to be beaten by eleven points. One would not have believed it possible before the match, but now we know that it has actually happened and that Wales made a poorer show against the Afrikanders than either Scotland or Ireland. Our national pride has been chastened. and, as good sportsmen. we have to acknow- I ledge the superiority of the Springboks over the Welsh team of this season, and to congratulate them upon a brilliant j victory, thoroughly merited and well won. It is difficult to know exactly what to say about the play of the Welsh- men, and still more difficult to explain their extraordinary inertia and complete lack of that spirit and resolution which have been the bright characteristics of their play in other years. Such dead- ness or indifference I have nevor seen in the play of a Welsh national team, and, without detracting from the honour due to the South Africans, it must be said that they have not seen Welsh football at its best. Far from it. Not for ten years at least have Welsh players given a tamer or more lifeless exhibition, and their form on Saturday will not win them a single game in the interna- tional tourney this season. As a result of Saturday's match radical changes may be expected in the constitution of the Welsh team. Some of the forwards have outlived their period of real use- fulness as international players, and there is sad need of leavening the pack with youth. This need must be met, or the prestige of Wales in the football world will be shattered, and that is an event which we must all hope will never come to pass. Quite apart from the slothful spirit which took possession of the players, there was a peculiar stillness brooding over the whole crowd, and the occasion was so different to all other interna- tional days in Wales. The crowd was as big, if not bigger than I have ever seen at St. Helen's, but it was notably quiet and unenthusiastic and tame. There was no singing worthy of the name, and no jaunty jollity and fun. It was per- fectly funereal. There did not seem to be any of that intensity of feeling which was experienced in the New Zealand match, for instance, but, of course, we can only expect an occasion of that kind once in a lifetime. That there was not more demonstrativeness was, no doubt, largely due to the fact being so obvious that the Springboks were masters of the situation, and ono can imagine how different would have been the scene if Wales had scored the first try of the match. This may be said without casting any reflection upon the sports- manship of the crowd, because it is only human nature, after all, that a great concourse of Welshmen should desire to see their own compatriots win. People cannot be expected to wax enthusiastic in the hour of defeat. All the enthu- siasm was on the other side, and the Cymry did not begrudge the South Africans their transports of joy in having achieved their highest ambition. No prize is more precious in Rugby football than a victory over Wales, but that prize, as I have already hinted, will lose its value if the Welsh standard of play is not improved very considerably. Let me not be misunderstood, in saying this, to harbour any wish of minimising the merit of the South African triumph, because a triumph it was in the best sense of the word. It was not a game in which a victory was snatched at the last moment, but a downright decisive win. Our men were beaten everywhere except at full back, where Dyke was a distinct success. He was not called upon to do a very great deal of wot,k, but when he did get the ball he put in some very fine kicking, and generally found touch. In all other departments the Welshmen were fairly and squarely beaten. The forwards, especially, met their masters, and failed to muse themselves aad to show that fire and devil to which we have become so accustomed during a number of years. The South African forwards controlled nearly every scrum, and fairly beat our men in heeling out the ball. They were also more vigorous and dashing in the open and more skilful in the line-out. Their play in all its aspects was superior to that of the I Cymric forwards, some of whom will have to make way for younger men. We must have honest scrimmagers, and there were a few men in the pack on Saturday who had no claim to that title. It was per- fectly evident that they were not all doing their share of the liard graft in the scrum, while in the open they were slow and lethargic. I As a result of their inferiority. Owen, I at half, did not have an equal number of chances with his opponent-Dobbin; I but the little Swansea man was far from being at his best. Many of his passes to Bush were much too slowly given, with the result that the South African backs were able, by playing in a line with the scrum, to pounce upon the Cardiff captain the moment he received the ball, and thus nip the attack in the bud. There is no getting away from the fact that Owen and Bush cannot hit it off together, and in future matches it will be a wise policy to play David with Bush. or Trew with Owen. Not a single real advantage was gained for Wales by the half-back play on Saturday, and it was far below international class. Dobbin and Jackson gave an effective display of clever, resourceful football, and two of the tries were due to their initiation. In the three-quarter line our men were beaten by the greater speed and fearless dash of the Springboks, who combined beautifully, and played the passing game to perfection once they were fairly under weigh. I am more convinced than ever that a mistake was made in placing Teddy Morgan on the right wing, and thus separating him from Gabe, with whom he has always played on the left wing. As a consequence, onr fastest and best scoring three-quarter was practically Wasted, especially as nearly all the play gravitated to the left wing. J. L. Williams played well in that. position, and quite justified his selection, but, then, he is not a man of Morgan's calibre. The effect of this changing about was the disorganisation of the whole three-quarter line. It is too late to remedy the fault now, but it is a lesson to avoid the repetition of the change in the three other matches. Nicholls played a good, sound game, but he and Gabe were not served at all as they should have been by the half-backs. and I do not see how either could be expected to do- much more than he did under the adverse circumstances. Nicholls, however, has reached the age when he cannot stand as many hard knocks as he could in his younger days. He was once kicked very badly on the ground by one of the South African for- wards, and that was the only sorry incident in a good sporting game, played in excellent temper. He did not altogether recover from the effects of that kick right through the game. There was less three-quarter play on the Welsh side than I have seen in any match for some years, and the machinery will never work smoothly until the half-back problem has been satisfactorily solved. Well. the first of December will be remembered as one of the dark days of Welsh football. We cannot always be on the winning side, and we are not sc devoid of chivalrous generosity as not to be the heartiest; in our congratulations to a magnificent combination of football players. That they are a fine team has been proved to the hilt, and it would seem as if they were destined to return .to their homeland with only one defeat to regret, and that defeat was quite as decisive as that of Wales on Saturday. Some optimistic souls in Cardiff are buoyed up with the hope that Cardiff will beat the Springboks on New Years Day. It looks like a tall order, but Cardiff can safely be predicted to make a better show than the Welsh team did on Satur- day. There is no accounting for their state of torpor, and I am not going to attempt it. They took their defeat like men, and one of the prettiest and most pleasing incidents of a rather dull day was the presentation of a big leek to Marsburg as he was being carried shoulder high to the pavilion. It will help the great custodian, as long as it lasts, to cherish the recollection of a memorable victory. *Mr. Lloyd Meyrick is in the grip of influenza, and, therefore, unable to contribute his usual column to-day.- Ed. E. E."
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Cardiff Secondary School i MR. LEWIS MORGAN'S REPLY. Mr. Lewis Morgan's reply to Mr. bloyd Meyrick's criticisms of the treatment of children at this school will appear in the "Evening Express to-morrow.
P.O. Clerk's Escape. i
P.O. Clerk's Escape. FIRED AT BY TRAMWAY MAN The Newcastle police last night arrested William Feaver, a. tramway employe, on a I charge of attempted nrurder. Feaver met a post-office clerk, named Joseph Watson, with whom he had formerly lodged, and it is stated they quarrelled. He then, it is alleged, drew a revolver and fired point-blank several times at Watson, who had a remarkable escape, his cloth-es being pierced in various places and one of the bullets grazing his body. Passers-by now came up, and Feaver was taken into custody.
CONDEMNED MAN'S VERSE I
CONDEMNED MAN'S VERSE In a letter to his sister and brother-in-law, David Hooker, w'ho is under sentence of death for tlhe murder of his wife at Watford, writes the following" vørsc," of whaoh he asks them to take "great notice":— FOR YOUR ENEMIES. Look down, most meroiful Lord On adl my enemies, all who have done Me any wrong, or spoken evil against me, Especially 1. Turn their hearts and Ha.ve mercy upon t'hem; for Jesixs' k;ake.Ame-n. A pathetic scene took pl.we art St. Albans Gael when Hooker had an interview with Iii.,3 surter, his brother-in-daw, and his two children, Dolly, aared six, and Willie, aged fourteen. When Hooker was allowed to kiss hitS ohildren they broke down utterly, and tears rolled down the condemned man's cheeks.
INVASION NOT IMPOSSIBLE I
INVASION NOT IMPOSSIBLE In opening a miniature rifle range at Fact, bourne Publio Library on Saturday, Mr. Freeman Thomas, M.P. for the Bodmin Divi- sion of Cornwall, expressed dissent from thoee who declared that the invasion of the country was impossible. He thought that it might be possible under certain circumstances for an enemy to land 10,000 men at different points Very uncomfortable for the enemy it would prove to be, but, for the time being, it might alao be extremely uncomfortable for Great Britain.
WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH I
WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH I Mary Hutofrley (44) was indicted at Notting- ham Assizes on Saturday for the murder of Frederick Guest (65), manager of a local lace manufacturing company. Since the death of MTS. Guest, sixteen years a.gtO. the parties had lived together. The prisoner had given way to drink, amd aiter an altercation on the afternoon of September 8 She stabbed him in the abdomen with a oarrir-g knife, subaequently exclaim- ing, I'have done him one this time for what he has done for me." llutchley was found guilty of murder, with a strong recommendation to mercy. She was sentenced to death.
EARTHQUAKE IN SICILY____I
EARTHQUAKE IN SICILY I News has been received in Rome that a serious eaithquako occurred in Sicily at 5.25 on Sunday morning. In the seaport town of Milazzo, where the shock was severely felt, the inhabitants ran terror-stricken from their houees, amd many of the buildings were badly damaged. It has been found impossible to communi- cate with the interior of the island on account of the telegraph wires having been destroyed.—Central News.
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KOEPENICK COMEDYI Cobbler Gets Four Years for His Masquerade PERSECUTED BY POLICE The trial of Wilhelm Voigt, the captain of Koepenick, began at 9.30 on Saturday morning, before the Second Provincial Court, but long before that hour the places reserved for the public were densely packed. The genial character of the proceedings was fore- shadowed by the roars of laughter which greeted the appearance of the nine Grena- j diers. In full marching order, they filed intocourt and too.k up their seats in the place allotted to witnesses, where Herr langerhans, the burgomaster of Koepenick, the town accountant of Koepeniok, a number of muni- cipal officials, the head of the police force, and other actors in the historical comedy were already assembled. Prisoner's counsel protested against the validity of the court as a criminal court to try the case, as there was a question of the forgery of documents, but the Bench deter- mined to withhold its decision until it had been officially notified of this question being raised. A Pale Old Man..1 Voigt. a pale old man with hollow eyes and a shin.ing bald head, was then heard. He was neatly attired, and appeared quite self- possessed. Iteplying to the president, he declared that. he had never been a soldier. His uncle, however, lived in Tilsit, opposite the barracks, and Voigt as a boy spent all his free time with the soldiers. "Certainly," he declared, "I may say that I know the details of the cavalry service as well as a Prussian dragoon." (Laughter.) Voight admitted various long terms of imprisonment. He said he first got into trouble in Berlin, whenr "for curiosity and through youthful inexperience," he forged a money order, and was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude and to a fine of 1,500 thalers. Voight declared that a sentence of fifteen yers passed on him for breaking into the court-house at Wongewitz wae a barbarous one. No witnesses, he said, were heard, and no chance of appeal was given. The President admitted that the sentenoe was certainly open to appeal. Describes His Career, I voight, in well-chosen words, described his career. He urged that he had never. been left alone by the police. When he was released from his last term of imprisonment prior to the Koepenick coup he had 200 marks, and wanted to go abroad to work as a shoemaker. The police, however, refused to give him a pass. The President asked Voigt whether he still maintained that he only carried out the Koepenick coup to obtain the pacs-fornis.- Voigt: Certainly. The President reminded the prisoner that a frank confession would benefit him when sentence came to be passed. Voigt, in a confident manner and with considerable humour, which proved most effective, described the execution of his raid. He said he spoke calmly, but firmly, to the burgo- master and the municipal accountant, "as the situation demanded." (Laughter.) The prisoner's description of how the, chief of police of Koepenick asked permiss-ion to go and have a batch aroused renewed merri- ment. The first witnegs for the prosecution was a convict named Kallenberg, who served fifteen years in Ra-witsoh Gaol with Voigt. He declared tha-t Voigt said to him one day that if one could get a few soldiers one oould do good b-u-sinew. Prisoner admitted that he might have said something like that. Behaved Like a Real Officer Corporal Barlopp, the sturdy leader of the Grenader detachment commandeered by Voigt near the Ploetzemsee swimming balli, then gave his evidence with considerable naivete, his remark that Voigt drank cognac costing 25 pfennigs a ghiss at the Euemmelsburg Staition and that he beha;ved like a. real officer, causing much amusement. After the evidence of some of the soldiens had been taken Herr Langerhans, the burgo- master of Koepenick, entered the witness- box amid inrtenee interest. Herr Langer- bans, who looked pale and seemed nervous, declared tfhat he took Voigt for a lunatic, and expressed the belief that the newspaper report that the Koepenick municipality intended to buy a new safe for the town funds, amounting to two millions, as the old safe was no longer trustworthy, had led Voigt to visit Koepenick. i Blindly Obeyed the .f Captain." Herr Bahn, counsel for the defence, asked I witness why in that case he had not tried to bring this man whom he held to be a madman to his senses by questioning him. Herr Langerhans replied that he was afraid of making a fool of himself before the soldiers, who blindly obeyed the "Captain," and only followed his, and not the burgo- master's, instructions. The prison chaplain of Eawitsoh gave Voigt an excellent character, and declared that he was an industrious and polite mam and in no way a hypocrite. Indeed, he was unable to do anything with him in religious matters. Before being let out of prison Voigt expressed his determination of going to Austria, but when the prisoner abandoned this intention the Prisoners' Aid Society obtained for him a place at Wismar with a shoemaker, who afterwards wrote thanking the society for sending hims-uch a quiet and clever assistant. Judgment and Sentence The evidence closed at four o'clock, and the Public Prosecutor began his speech. He demanded a sentence of five years' penal servitude and the loss of civil rights for the same period for fraud. Speeches by the two counsel for the defence having been heard, the judges with- drew for consultation at a quarter-past five. Judgment was delivered at 6.23. The prisoner was found guilty of aggravated forgery of documents, depriving persons of their liberty, fraud, and illegally wearing a uniform, and was sentenced to four years' imprisonment and to paL v the costs of the ease.—Eeuter. .n
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SCOTCHMEN AS SOLDIERS Mr. Carnegie will find himeelf In trouble with his brother Scots. At the St. Andrew's Society's dinner at New York, he said that never in her history had Scotland occupied i so proud and happy a position as to- day. She was highly prosperous. Her people were fully employed, and the population was increasing. The masses had money in the bank and were well fed and well housed. The Scots were to-day better employed and better off than, ever, and Scot- land had ceased to be a recruiting ground for tlhe British. Army. The young men realised that they were fitted for something better than to be food for powder. Less than a thousand Scots had enlisted in the British Army last year. &ir Mortimer Durand, the retiring Briti&h Ambassador, begged to differ IftrLo'rria ng British negie, and he thanked God that there were at home Soota who did not consider themselves too good to be British soldiers. He thought j that the Soottish soldier was one of the noblest works of God. He cited an example of the prowess of Scots soldiers which he had bimeof witnessed in India; and in oon-elu- eibn said he regretted that he was not a Soot, and was proud to have had a Scottish mother.—Renter.
HE WAS TOO GOODI
HE WAS TOO GOOD "Will you do me the kindness of sending me to an inebriates' home?" pleaded Charles Jarvis when, he appeared before the Mnryle- bone magistrate on Saturday to answer a charge of being drunk and disorderly. I am sorry, sir," interpoeed Assistants Gaoler Masters, firmly, "but he is not eligible for a h<)me, as there are not three convic- tions against him within twelve months." Mr. Plowden (to the priodner): Ob, you arc too good! Prisoner: "It wouid do me good, and ortihers, too, to send me away." Mr. Plowden: "It is like a man wishing to be banged when he has only picked a. pocket. You are too good a.t present. If you have the courage to wish to go to a home I should think you have Fuftioifmt will power to cure yourself witht going to a. home. You must pay So."
SUNK IN THE NORTH SEAI
SUNK IN THE NORTH SEA The steam trawler Celtic was sunk in the North Sea. on Saturday by the Copenhagen j steamer Jaeeburg. The steward was drowned. Three others were saved by the Jaesburg, and the remaining six were rescued by the steam trawler Catania, which landed them at Grimsby. The Celtic was prepa.ring to tow the Jaesburg, which had hoisted distress signals, when they collided.
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Kicked by a Cow P
Kicked by a Cow P OLD MAN "TERRIBLY SHATTERED" An inquest was held at A givey. County Darry, on Saturday on the body of John O'Neill, an old mam, who died under strange circumstances. O'Neill was in the market on Wednesday, took some drink, and left for home in a cart with another man. He stopped at a public- house owned by Mrs. Hunter, but was refused drink, and was told he must go home. He left the public-house about four o'clock. Some four hours Later, when. one of the Hunter family was going into the byre to feed the cows, he heard a voice calling, Don't kill me." Accompanied by hie brother, he went in, and found O'Neill lying in the byre partly on the cow's stand and the ajnimal kicking him. One of the cow's hind feet was on his chest. They got him out, and had him taken to William Deanipaey's farm. The Dempseys stated that they made a bed for O'Neill on the floor of the room and covered him up. He moaned and talked during the night, but they attributed this to the fact that he was drunk. In the morning, at five o'clock, one of the Dempseys found him dying. Two doctors gave evidence showing that the old man was terribly shattered about the chest, and had abrasions on various porta of the body. Death was probably due to shock from injuries, but they could not abso- lutely certify without the post-mortem. An adjournment and a poet-mortean exami- nation. were asked for. The Coroner asked the jury to decide. They found a verdict of DeotIL from shock by ,injuries to the chest," and by a majority wadded a rider to the effect that how inflicted they had no means of proving.
Baby in a Parcel I
Baby in a Parcel POLICE CHASE AFTER SERVANTS j Police officers told a remarkable story a.t Marlborough-street, London, on Saturday, giving evidence against Edith Hibberd, 22, a housemaid, of Kensington, who was charged with concealing the birth of her child and unlawfully disposing of it in the Serpentine. Mary, her sister, living in. Kniightsbridge, was charged with "aiding and abetting." Inspector Brain said the mother of the child was too ill to attend the court. The employer of Mary Hibberd was willing to keep her in his service. Police-constable Cowie sta,ted how he saw Edith, lean over the railings and drop parcel into the wa,t-er at ten o'clock on Friday night. He took the parcel from the water, and found it to contain the body of a baby, and ran after the girls. Mr. Denham said there was really no evidence t-hat the prisoner Mary took any part in the offence, and ordered her dis- charge.
Patti's Farewell I
Patti's Farewell I TEARS AND CHEERS AT ALBERT HALL I After an undisputed reign of nearly half a century as the Queen of Song," Madame Adelina Patti sang her last melody at the Royal Albert-hall, London, on Saturday after- noon to an audience many of whom had waited for hours in a biting wind for the doors to open. It is possible that the diva may be heard again in the causo.of charity, but her professional career—unexampled in the history of music—has ended so far as London is concerned. The great hall at Kensington has been filled scores of times before by the magic of Patti's name, but the [ pathos of parting made Saturday's huge gathering something more than a, mere concert. Her offerings on Saturday were what they have been for many years past at her concerts—Mozart's "Voi che eapete," Tosti's "La Serenata," and Arditi's "11 Bacio" ("The Kiss"), together with the usual encores. The latter formed the last item down to the diva in the programme, and it had a certain valedictory appropriateness, but peace was not restored until the familiar first phrase of "Home, Sweet Home," fell upon the ears. The singing of this induced many a surrepti- tious tear in the audience, sung, as it was, with incomparable feeling. Insistent applause and handkerchief-waving eventually brought the diva back again, and, with a gaiety that was obviously only concealing tears, she sang "Comin' thro' the rye," the last note of which was accompanied by a kiss of the; hand. Mr. Percy Harrison subsequently led her back manyt times, but it was not until the organist bdgan to play We won't go home till morning" that the audience ceased the farewell demonstration, which must have lasted nearly twenty minutes. In a short speech, conveying Madame Patti's grateful thanks, Mr. Harrison said that she would gladly have sung again, but that she was overcome by emotion. Among the tributes was a great floral star, studded with electric lights, from Madame Ada Crossley and two others." Senor Sarasate, Mr. Ben Davies, Mr. H. L. Balfour, Miss Elsie Horne, Madame Ada Croeeley, Mr. W. C. Tonking, and Mr. Wilhelm Ganz were the other artistes. A farewell tour of the English provinces has been arranged for next autumn. Voice as Good as Ever An Evening News representative was privileged bo an interview with the famctis prima donna. Madame Patti looks as well as over she did, and her voice is as good, if not better than it was some thirty yeaja ago. She was asked the following questionJ "Is uhds afternoon's concert positively the; last concert in whkfti y01.1 will participate in Jxmdon ? Or is it the first of a series of farewell London concerts?" | The reply was given smilingly. Yes, this is absolutely the last time I ahall sing in Ixwudon as a professional singer. I will not sing again. for money in London. My voioe is no longer for sale, but I am always ready, to do my best to sing for charity. I have never refused to help the poor, and never sbwH, and if by singing I can raise funds for them I will gladly do so, but never again will I sing in London ae a professional. Yon ask me what my favourite part is. Well, I think I like best of all tha-t of 'Violetta' in 'Traviata.' Then I like Zer- ina,' Rosina,' Lucie,' Aida.' I have always," said Madame Patti, in conclusion, been of the opinion that a. beautiful voice is the gift of God, ajid I have never throughout my life forggtten it."
"IN LOVING MEMORY" I I
"IN LOVING MEMORY" At a special court at Derby on Saturday John Henry Ghittleborongh, of Findern, was committed for triad on a charge of bigamy. Prisoner's mother stated that she was pre- sent at his mai-riage with Margaret Savage at Derby on May 23, 1896, and his wife was still alive and in the precincts of the court. EHaa'beMi Carter deposed that the P?Z-,er came to lodge at her aunt's house at Findern last January, and soon afterwards they walked out together. He proposed to her, and she accepted him. He told her he wae a widower, and produced a card which stated: In loving memory of Maggie I Chittleborough; interred in Aberdeen Ceme- tery. Believing his statement, she married him at Findern on June 5 last, and three months ago found his wife was still alive. &he added that the prisoner had treated her shamefully. The prisoner stated that he was told the day before the second marriage that his wife was dead.
SHAH MAY LIVE A YEAR j
SHAH MAY LIVE A YEAR j Dr. Lindsay, the English physician, eon- cure in the view that the life of the Shah of Persia is likely to be prolonged for a eihort time, even for a year, if great care is taken | (slays the New York Herald"). Dr. Damsohe's diagnosis showed nephritis and dropsy, but sound lungs a.nd heart.
ALLEGED OUTRAGE at YSTRADGYNLAI3!
ALLEGED OUTRAGE at YSTRADGYNLAI3! Evan Jonee, collier. College-row, Ystrad-I gynlais. was charged on Saturday with? committing a criminal assault on a siugle woman named Mary, Henry, Llwynypia, at Yatrad^ynlaLs, on Thursday, and David Davies, labourer, Penybont-row. Ystradgyn- lais, was charged with aiding and abetting. Defendants were committed to the assizes, bail being allowed.
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IBABY CREMATION.
BABY CREMATION. BITS OF CHARRED BONE FOUND Professor Pepper's Important Statement A servant employed by Mrs. Bayer, living in Victoria-road, Edmonton, called at the police-station and produced some fragments of charred bone. In consequence of her state- ment the police visited the woman's house and found four children there alive and one dead. Mrs. Bayer was arrested, and admitted having burned the body of a child. An inquest was held on Saturday on the body, which was that of Mary Balcombe, aged eight months. Mrs. Bayer, who is ;11 in Holloway Prison, was not present. Ellen Balcombe, the mother of the deceased child, who described herself as a single woman and a tailoress, living in How- land-street, Tottenham Court-road, said that when the child was four weeks old she wished to put it out to nurse, and noticing an advertisement over the signature F." in a North London newspaper she communi- cated with the advertiser. She received a reply from Mrs. Bayer, who asked for a lump sum of 115. Not being able to afford so much, witness agreed to pay 6s. a week. Witness periodically visited hM- baby, and noticed that it began to look thin. At Mrs. Bayer's request she paid for two bottles of special food. Last Tuesday witness received a letter from Mrs. Bayer saying:- Mary had a convulsive fit, and has just passed away in my arms. It is just heart- rending. The little one at the last moment tried to love my face. I cannot write any more. I am too miserable. Professor A. J. Pepper, the Home Office pathologist, said that the child weighed 91b. 3oz., whereas an eight months old child should weigh 23jlb. The organs of the body showed no signs of disease. On the right side of the head there was a large bruise and a fracture of the skull 4in. long. The frac- ture was caused during life, and within 24 hours of death. The fracture was caused by a blow on the head against some broad sur- face or from a fall from a height on to the head. The injuries could not have been caused by the child striking its head against its cot during a fit of convulsions. Mildred Bayer, the fourteen-year-old daughter of Mrs. Bayer, said that the deceased and four other children, herself, and her mother all slept in one room. During her illness of about a week deceased had lived in a bassinette. She had never heard anything about an accident. The case was adjourned.
LONGER CAMPS.I
LONGER CAMPS. Mr Haldane's Promise to the Volunteers In a speech to the 2nd London Rifles on Saturday Mr. Haldane said that without a. fifteen days' camp he believed they could not get an efficient Volunteer force. But there were practical reasons which would make it more difficult for him if, the ground and foundation bring gone for this year, which must necessarily be a transition year, the old system were kept up any longer. They must not for a, moment imagine that he tlhouigthrt. an eight days' camp was satisfac- tory or even tolerable. The work the Volun- teers had done was splendid, but a work with- out foundation. The Army and the Volun- teer force must form part of a single organised force with a single pattern of organisation. The problem must be sur- veyed from the point of view of the whole. If we lost our 27 field army brigades or fifteen days' camp this year, 60 far as he was con- cerned it would only be that we migoht re- gain them as part of a larger whole-as part of a force which he believed was destined to be the base and the support of the great strikinig force of the British nation, which could only be Efficient if it rested in the nation, and rested through the Volunteer soldiers the nation was willing to pour forth. (Obeers.)
MOTOR ACCIDENT SEQUEL I
MOTOR ACCIDENT SEQUEL I Charge of ManslaughterDismissed I Lieutenant George Alexander L. Paton, of the Northumberland Fusiliers, stationed at Aldershot, was on Saturday discharged at the Berkshire Petty-seseions at Windsor upon the charge of the manslaughter of a cyolist, Osborne Paul Hart, by running him down with a motor-car on October 23. Lielmtenant Pa.t<m overtook and went over the deceased as the latter turned from a side street into the main road, and Hart died the game night from a fractured spine and other injuries. Witnesses stated that the car was travelling very fast, and that the scene of the accident was very dangerous. Without hearing the case for the defence the magistrates said there was not sufficient evidence to send it for tpial, and recommended the erection of a. danger signal at the spot where the accident took place.
SHORT WAY WITH A TRUSTI
SHORT WAY WITH A TRUSTI Masked Men Set Fire to Factories 1 Three hundred masked men marcihed into Princeton (Kentucky) ea,rly on Saturday morning, seized the polioe-station and the waterworks, in order to prevent interference, and then applied a torch to two big tobacco stemmeries. When the fire was beyond oon- trol the men marched off, discharging guns and revolvers. The plants of the stem- iricries were destroyed, and many cottages in the vicinity were damaged. This remarkable raid is believed to be in furtherance of the tobacco raisers' agitation against the so-called Tobacco Truet.-Reuter.
DARING MAIL VAN ROBBERYI
DARING MAIL VAN ROBBERY "While a mail-van driver was collecting mails from a post-office in the Rue Bayard at Toulouse, leaving his van outside nn- attended, some unknown men closed the door of the office with an iron bar enveloped in paper, and drove off with the van, which oonta,ined a number of bag?!. The thieves displayed great daring, as the post-office is situated next dcor to a cafe, and the street was crowded at the time. At midnight the van was found by the police in a yard in the Rue des Chalets. The bags had been cut open, and bank notes and valuables to the estimated amount of. between 300,000 amd 600,000 francs abstracted. There is no trace of the robbers.-Peiite-r.
MUMBLES LIBEL CHARGE I
MUMBLES LIBEL CHARGE Lillie Clayton, 31, Larccrm-street1, Walworth, London, was summoned at Swansea on Satur- day by Mrs. Caroline French, landlady of the Beaufort Arms, Mumbles, for mali- ciously publishing a defamatory libel." Defendant did not appear, but had sent a letter to the magistrates. Mr. R. T. Ley son, who is for the prosecu- tion, agreed to allow the case to Otand over for a week.
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE ON CRIME…
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE ON CRIME The Lord Chief Justice in opening the York Assizes on Saturday said the results of education and the cultivation of moral prin- ciples had effected a diminution of crime in the country. Commending the movement for the physical and mental improvement of the working classes, he said that, speaking after many years' experience, he knew of no cause, II apart from drink, that led more to crime than young people idling about the streets.
CARDIFF NEW PUBLIC OFFICES
CARDIFF NEW PUBLIC OFFICES On and after to-day (Monday) all com- mittees of the Cardiff Corporation will meet at the New City-hall, except the finance and public works, which will be held at the finance office and city engineer's office as heretofore until further notice, and excluding the free libraries and museum, which Will meet at the library and at the museum as heretofore. «»
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"Try Their Luck." ——-0-
"Try Their Luck." —— -0 Schoolgirls'Visits to the West End STORY OF AN IMPROPER LIFE Miriam Warton, aged 45, a lodging-house- keeper, of 23, Dancer-road, Fulhaan, was again brought before Mr. Lane at West Landon Police-court on Saturday on the I charge of procuring Maud Hilt, aged sixteen, for immoral purposes. It was alleged that while the girl was sup- posed to be attending- a school of shorthand at London, she and another girl named Sadie were really daily visiting the prisoner's ,h,oug,e-a place of iil-Iame—and were sent onlt by the prisoner to the West End to lead immoral lives.-M-r. Bodkin (instructed by MT. Sefton Cohen) prosecuted for the Treasury; Dr. J. E. Cooney defended; and tthe interests of persons connected with the case were represented by Mr. Orwald Han- son, Mr. Leslie Smith, and others. The girl Hilt was further cross-examined, amd handed up a list containing the names of six men with whom, so she stated, she bad had relations. Dr. Cooney: Is the n'ame of someone from the Primrose Club there?- Willtn.ess Yes. How often have you slept out at night from home ?-Never. Isn't it the fact that the prisoner only went out with you twice?—Certainly not—several times. Dr. Cooney was about to question the wit- ness respecting two of her sisters whose names he mentioned, when Mr. Bodkin pro- tested. against dragging in the names of resipectable young women. The Magistrate observed th at the question seemed irrelevant, ,and he ruled that the witness need not amswer Dr. Cooney. I Names and Addresses In re-examination the witness said the names and addresses she had written down were those she heard. She oould not say of her own knowledge tiiat they were correct. Mrs. Annie Milman, living at 22, Dancer- road, Fulham, said she knew the prisoner by sight. She lived opposite. Witness had noticed strange men and women entering the priBoner's house. Some of the women were showily dressed. Cabs sometimes drove up to the house, usually early in the morning. During a. few weeks in September and Octo- ber she saw Maud Hilt there. She had seen her go out with the prisoner. I Mrs. Goad, of 28, Dancer-road, gave similar evidence respecting the character of the prisoner's house. She bad seen Maud HiLt go into the house. la cross-examination she said she believed theatrical people did lodge at the prisoner's house, and it was possible chauffeurs lived there too. Frederick Goode, salesman to a, firm of shoemakers, of Shaftesibury-avenue, spoke as to selling two pairs of 18s. 6d. boots to the prisoner for the girls Maud Hilt and Sadie Hudson. He was positive that the prisoner paid for the second pair of boots. Evidence was given as to the purchase by the prisoner, who was accompanied by Maud Hilt, of some bedroom furniture at a shop in Wandsworth (alleged by the prosecution to ha-ve been intended for a bedroom for the girl in the prisoner's house). Dr. Horace Walker, of Hammersmith-road, stated that he had examined the girls, Maud Hilt and Sadie Hudson, and his examination confirmed the story of the prosecution. I "Sadie Hudson's" Story. Sarah M'Dougal, a pretty fair-haired girl of sixteen, who has been known throughout the case as Sadie Hudson, stated that she first made the prisoner's acquaintance three years ago. She used to run errands for her, and Maud Hilt sometimes went with her. Prisoner then lived at Colehill-lane, Fulham. Prisoner used to talk wrong things to her On leaving school in July, 1904, she went into domestic service. The witness described how she and Maud went to the prisoner's house, where the prisoner questioned her as to her occupa- tion. Witness told her she was then doing dressmaking, ajid the prisoner said "That's no good." She suggested that they should go to the Burlington Arcade and Piccadilly, and "try their luck." We didn't say anything in particular, but we went in the end-the prisoner persuaded us to go. The witness proceeded to give details as to the life she and Maud led in their visits to the West End. While she (witness) was at Tamworth-street she always handed to the prisoner the money she received. It araoxuated in all to L16. Accused was further remanded.
TROUBLE IN ABYSSINIA
TROUBLE IN ABYSSINIA t Emperor Menelik's Illness The situation in Abyssinia created by the serious illness of the Emperor Menelik and the possible contingency of a struggle for the succession in the event of his demise tenders more difficult the acceptance and enforcement of the Anglo-Franco-Italian Con- vention, the ratiftcation of which Menelik hajs always postponed. Anxiety is felt for the safety of the European representatives a.t Addis Abeba in case there is a general outbreak in con- nection with the succession. Signor Martini, the Governor of Erythrea, wiho is now in Borne, stated in an interview that the Heir to the Throne is a boy of ten years called Jasu, eon of Menelik's daughter who married Rae Michael. Jasu will be sup- ported 'by his father, but opposed by other Bases, including Degioc Sc?ium, aged twenty, who is a son of the recently deceased Ras Mangascia.—Eeuter.
I DAGGER IN A BOUQUET I
I DAGGER IN A BOUQUET I I Attempt on Grand Duke Vladimir An unknown man presented himself at the Hotel Continental in Paris two days ago, and requested an interview with the GraJnd Duke Vladimir, stating that he had an important communication to make to him, and that he also wished to present a large bouquet of flowers to him as a. token of his respect and admiration. The man was elegantly dressed, but, in accordance with an order given by the Grand Duke that tho utmost caution is to be observed in introducing persons to his presence, he was asked to hand over the bouquet of flowers which he carried to an attendant. On examina on it was discovered that a fonud&b? dagfte was concealed in the centre of the boUQU?et. w?u concealed in immediately arrested- Oentral News.
MR CHAMBERLAIN I
MR CHAMBERLAIN Return to Public LifeVeryUnlikely In reference to the various reports about Mt. chamberlain's health, the "Observer" states that he has not hod any paralytic seizure nor is he suffering from cancer. The gout, however, has affected his heart ajnd his eyes, and it is very unlikely that he wild ever return to political life.
I FUNERALOFSIREDWARDREED
FUNERALOFSIREDWARDREED I The funeral of the late Sir Edward Rood I ?U t,k, IIL t,mortow (Tuesday), and will be attended only by members of the fa?Hy I in ao?-dan_ with his expressed wish tha.t it ghoulcl be of the simplest kind. The first part of the service will be held at noon at II git. Mary s, Wimbledon, all friends being welcome.
IABERCARN MAN'S SUICIDE j…
I ABERCARN MAN'S SUICIDE r A main named Rosser Davies, aged about 52, and lodging at 38, Ranks, Abercarn, 's alleged to have oonnmitted suicide by hanging himself in a,n outhouse. The body was cut down by a fellow-lodger, named Richard I Goulding. Police-constable Creek used artifi- cial respiration for about twenty minutes, but without success. Dr. Smith pronounced life extinct.
ICAT RAISES FIRE ALARM-
I CAT RAISES FIRE ALARM A cat's unusual cries aroused a. family named Wilgress at Yarmouth, and it was found that there was an outbreak of arc from a baam blazing up in the chimney. The fire brigade was summoned, and the danger removed. I ■■ ■ ii in
I MOTOR'BUS TAKES FIRE
I MOTOR'BUS TAKES FIRE A motor omnibus proceeding along Kings. gate-road, Kilburn, on Saturday took fire, and the fire brigade was called out. The driver and conductor were badly burned about the face and hands.
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Marriage Experiment
Marriage Experiment PARTNERSHIP OF IDEAS & AMBITION I I I Compact and Its Sequel. A strange experiment in a new and im- proved form of matrimony ended in failure on Saturday, when the New York Supreme Court granted a decree of divorce to Mrs. G. L. Hunter, wife of the well-known New York literary man, sometime editor of the "Smart Set," and now resident in London. According to his wife's testimony (says the "Daily Mail") Hunter had devised a refinement of marriage when five years ago he wooed and won Martha Wisner, daughter of Professor Wisner. She was then nineteen, and had already achieved distinotion as a musician, with the promise of a, great oaxeer. The courtship was apparently on conventional lines, rince the wife stated that Hunter declared he could not live without her. But while the wedding peal was still ringing in her eara the hnsbond revealed views regarding mari- tal relations far removed from the common- place. Love was to be entirely eliminated as a blot on the ideal marriage. Theirs was to be a, partnership of ideas and ambition. They were, according to his ideas, to live together in A Perfect Comradeship closer than human affection. Each was to devote every energy to the development of the other's genius and ambitions. She, with his encouragement and help, was to awhievs a foremost place in the world of music and i art, while he, stimulated by her success, became the greatest and most powerful man in the world. Mrs. Hunter did not entirely sympathise with this view, but her husband, being fifteen years older, she accepted the situIDo tion. She made timid efforts from time to time to break through the barrier of reserve. but each time Hunter told her she wi-is young and romantic, and must learn better. She suggested diffidently after a time that perhaps the home would be happier if at baby's prattle was heard in it. He severely rebuked this Philistine notion, saying that motherhood would ruin her career and disturb the perfection of their relationship. Eventually Hunter went abroad to live, and since Marroh last failed to support her.
TELEPHONE AS AID TO FRAUD
TELEPHONE AS AID TO FRAUD An ingenious fraud by means of the tele- phone was disclosed before Mr. Justice Kennedy at Bristol Assises on Saturday, when John Pouter, a, middle-aged man, ? pleaded guilty to obtaining 10s. by false pretences. Mr. Alexander Grace, a local QuakeT, re- ceived a letter from the accused, asking for 5s. towards his fare for London, as he was dying from consumption, and was anxious to enter the Brompton Hospital. Shortly after receiving the letter Mr. Grace was rung up on the telephone, and the accused, impersonating a local clergyman,, stated that he knew Pouter's case to be a thoroughly deserving one. He followed this up with a personal call at Mr. Grace's office, and received 10s. Next day he tried the same ruse with another Quaker, giving Mr. Grace as reference. It was stated that Pouter had been twice convicted of similar fraud. He was sentenced to 'twelve months' hard Labour.
PIGS IN A RAILWAY SMASH
PIGS IN A RAILWAY SMASH A collision occurred between a Great Wes- tern passenger train and a goods train a.6 Helsby, near Oheeter, on Saturday, Tho passenger train, consisting of an engine and seven coadhes, had arrived from Hooton, on. the branch line, and its passengers had alighted. Tlhe train was being shunted just outside the station, when it ran foul of t.h- junction, and came into oolllision with ai goods tnadn travelling in tihe game direction on the down mevin line for Liverpool and Manchester. i The force of tihe impact derailed and over! turned the PassengeT train engine and first* coach. Fortunately, tlhe driver and fireman, seeing that the engine was about to over- turn, jumped and saved themselves. The guard had left the train at the station. In the goods train a. wagon, containing pig3 wae dtrailed, b-t the animals escaped injury.
"IN THE SAME PROFESSION"
"IN THE SAME PROFESSION" William Cooney, a middle-aged man, in Highlaud costume, who appeared at West- minster, on Saturday, to answer a charge of playing bagpipes after being requested to desist, was said to have paraded up and down Fernshaw-road, S.W., to the annoyance 08 Mr. R Roche, a professor of music. The Latter said he told Cooney he was inter- fering with his work. Your work! Whai about my work? said Cooney, who went Olf. playing. I did rot know the gentleman was in the profeseiom." pleaded Cooney, amid mucik laughter in court. He promised not to offend again, and waai bound over to be of good behaviour. i
FORTY SKELETONS FOUND
FORTY SKELETONS FOUND A discovery of antiquarian interest has bee .y m-ade at Reading. J Whilst some workmen were digging drainage trench in the Forbury Gardens, ne the ruins of Reading Abbey, they unearthi at the dept-h of about four feet below ti surface, portfong of about forty sketetor It is conjectured that the siIte of the diS covery was part of aa 03"lmt gave",Tq behxn?nig to St. œ's Church 'Drl" to ?! 1556, when Qa«m M:aJV gramt?d ground foT the present ob.orohyard in exchange foW another lying neit unto the late ohuroh of the 1a.te M'"
PRESIDENT CASTRO.
PRESIDENT CASTRO. The "New York Herald" is advised that the health of General Castro, the President ot Venezuela., is failing rapidly. He is said to be suffering from ganglionic tuberculosis; Frequent operations are necessary, as wall as powerful etimulants, whidh low- ttia 111 a worse condition. President Castro is in great seclusion in Caracas as he was recently at Antimano. His removal to Caracas Wae merely brought about to support the official statements t.hatj he had recover his health.
DEATH OF A WELSH J.P.
DEATH OF A WELSH J. P. Mr. MOrris, J.P., Barmouth, died this morning; aged 83. The deceased held impor taut offices in the North Wales district of the Wesleyan body. He was chairman of the Barmouth County School Governors from the commencement, a. member of the BarmotfLh Harbour Trust, and vice-president of the Bar. mouth and District Nursing Association.
CARDIFF POST-OFFICE CONCERT.
CARDIFF POST-OFFICE CONCERT. The tenth annual charity concert organised by tihe Cardiff postal a;nd telegraph staffS' wiill be ld in the Park-hall this evening. Amongst those Who have so kind-ly offered to assist in making the concert a. success are- The Welsh Plwtlti" (Madame Thomas, Iflaneily), soprano; 3Lr, Thomas BemccH (Penibre), tenor; Miss Morfydd Williams ((Xix- diff), contralto; and M'r. Llewellyn R. Bowesa (Swansea), baritone.
| TEN -HOMES -IN -FIVE YEARS
TEN HOMES IN FIVE YEARS A young couple Who had qnarreCeA brougrnt thedr case before the Bradford sti- pendia/ry. 'I??y had !iv?d in ten hc?ua? their ma,ma?c i? 1 Q01. &ad had bc*3 sold up tbree tunm.
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