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Clara Phillips, alleged "lámmer murderess" brought back from Honduras to stand trial for the slaying of Alberta Meadows, "has sacrificed her, freedom for her honour, she declared. "I know people won't believe it," she subbed, "but I am returning.to life in a grim prison because I thought more of my honour than of my freedom." high Honduran official, she added, had cffered her freedom and safety if she would content to become the mistress of his palatial mansion.
She told him that she would rather be in a prison cell in America,
The "tiger woman" is confident of proving her innocence,
THE CHINA MAIL.
Captain Roald Amundsen, foremost of polar explorers, is almost ready to "off" from Nomkee Alaska, from the steamship "Mad" (showa hemmed in by ice), in his attempt to churt by aeroplane the regions between man's "farthest North" and the North Pole. If his plane falls he and nis nilot, undoubt edly will perish. Captain Donald J. MacMillan, who led an expedition into the Frozza North some time ago to investigate terrestrial magnetism, is now completing plants for his latest veatura firing forth in the schooner Bowdoin," into the Arctic in an effort to determine whether a tother glaciera îa éoming,
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Police J. S. Waters, has proved that he isn't so hardboiled, after all. Between him and little Leslie Paffrath, motor car accident victim, there has been established a tie of friendship, which seems certain to ondure. Waters visits the youngster at Flower Hospital as soon as he reports off duty each day. and Leslie looks forward to his coming. With the buccour urging him to be brave, the lad submitted to hav
g his head stitched and his broken leg reset without the use of an aesthetic, after Waters hd picked him up and taken him to the hospital.
THURSDAY JULY 19, 1913.
Mis Eva Baltuck
Mrs. Eva, S. Baltuck has bared the details of an alleged plot by which Jerpine A. Jacobs, attoracy, is said to have er deavoured to ' man- ufacture" divorce evidence ja hér hehalf. Jacobs and Edward J. May, a private detective, have Been charged with conspiracy in the case, Mrs. Blatuck who is separated, from her husband, Samvel Baltack, and wanted a divorce, said Jacobs "guaranteed” „results in three weeks after the receipt of a $500 fec. A "stock co-respondent," said to be Frances Gilbert, former showgirl, was provided, after Baltuck had agreed to the "act, and a raid was staged. Justice Seeger became suspicious, however, and threw out the case, the conspiracy charges following.
Mile Andree Peyra
Mile. Audree Peyre, pretty French aviatrix, has created a new world's altitude record for women fliers. She piloted her plane to a height of 15,000 feet before of- ficials of the Aero Clüb of Souther Califorála, at- Los Angeles, and- came also within 5,000 feet of the world's record for height attained by fliers of either sex. She used 6-cylinder, 70-horsepower baby sport plane and was in the air an hour and ten minutes, the sealed
- Big Chief Two Guns White Calf, of the Blackfeet tribe of Montana, while enroute to the Sbriners
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Miss Florence Wilkinson, has been selected as the most beautiful girl in the University of Tinnesota by Coles Phillips, celebrated illus”, trator. Miss Wilkinson was chosen from a photograph, by Phillips,
baragraph on her machine testifying she had reached an altitude of convention, in Washington, expressed strongly his dislike of the big city, but was profuse in his praise of after the staff of the university's Year Book had conducted a beauty
15,000 feet.
its women. Miss Lois Highly (left) and Miss Jane Montgomery helped to make his stay a pleasant one. contest.
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