LEGAL
FRIDAY JUNE 6, 1924
REMINISCENCES.
SEVENTY-TWO
YEARS AT THE BRITISH BAR
"Seventy-two years at the Bar"
PRINCE'S COAT.
AN OLD BOOK SHOP,
PASSING OF TREACHER'S AT BRIGHTON.
THE CHINA MAIL.
OFF TO CANADA.
PART OF ROYAL UNIPORM BAGER GIRLS FROM THE
LEFT BEHIND,
HIGHLANDS, -
"
ELEPHANT CLIMBERS. FLOWERS FOR CENOTAPH. BOY SCOUT WITH £100 IN
TRACKS 10,000 FEET UP
MOUNTAIN SIDE.
SENT BY POST TO POLICE.
MAN ON DUTY,
The police constable on duty at the Cenomph, in Whitehall, the other morning was surprised by a addressed to "The Policeman at
HIS POCKET.,
MOTHER WITH £2,800
RIED OVER HE
comprises, in an unusual form, the old-established, old-fashioned, and the visit to Harwich of Prince the ages of 20 and 35 years-made the Wachagga tribe, who dwell on postman handing him a packp11, was romping with, his friends -
reminiscences of Sir Harry Poland, who for more than 20 years of his long and distinguished career was Counsel to the Crown at the Central Criminal Court, and known to popular fame as Sleath-Hound of the Treasury
The
It is always deplorable when an well known bookshop closes its doors, for there are too few real book-shops. This Easter, says The Observer, the famous Brighton hook-shop of H. and C. Treacher has quietly closed down. The become a part of Hannington's drapery stores, and the sole proprietor. Mr. Thomas Treacher retires after a busy life.
An amusing contretemps marked
George the King's youngest son.
The special train which: had brought the young Prince, who was undertaking his first public act, and a number of officials from Liver
Young people mainly between
the emigrant up the bulk of contingent which left Glasgow the on board the other afternoon Anchor-Donaldson liner "Athenia" of emigrants for Canada are made up lagely of family groups headed by men of 40 or 45. There were, however, comparatively few of those on board the "Athenia," and most of the children who sailed with her were infants in arms.
Kilimanja, in East Africa, is the highest mountain in the British Empire. But apart from its slopes, the world only heard of its existence as recently as 1848, when Rebmann, the German mis. sionary, returnedi with a story of a snow-capped mountain, near the cared to belir ve.
A Boy Scout named Doyle, aged
the Cenotaph, Whitehall, London." for a whale evening with £100 in He opened it and found it con-notes in his pocket. tained a little bunch of wild They were in an envelope which flowers which had been packed his mother, Mrs. Isabel Doyle,
freshness.
Leigh on-Sea, had asked him to give to his sister when she return cd from her work in London.
Sir Harry is nearly 95, and his premises have been sold, and will pool-street for the opening of the for Canada As a rule contingents Equator, which very few people with great care to maintain their aged 41, a widow, of Pall Mall,
memoirs of a crowded life or recorded through the medium o
friend, Mr. his
E. Bowen- Rowlands, to whom he supplied Treacher's, from Its position at a the information. The result of point that looks out, beyond Castle this novel collaboration is an
square to the Steine Gardens, enthralling volume packed with and leftward to the Gate of Re- thrilling stories, pungent character-membrance at the entrance to the .sketches, and witty observations
In one capacity or another, Sir Harry Poland figured in nearly all the great criminal trials of the Victorian period.
CHARLES PEACE
Of all the miscreants of those times, he brands Charles Peace, robber, murderer, coward, and hypocrite," as the worst. But Sir
Harry extracts humour from even this sordid story.
At the time of his trial à justice
Pavilion Gardens-one of the great business sites of Brighton-has perhaps always been the most pro minent in the eyes of visiters of the few Brighton book-shops. The business was established about 1850, and was at first carried on in one of three shops, all of It which were later absorbed, belonged at one time to Mr. H. S. King, later Sir Henry Seymour King, and head of the famous Indian banki firm. In the hands
new train ferry service between Harwich abil Zeebrugge drew up in the station to the minute
On the platform were the muni- cipal officials, in their robes, and county dignitaries, ready to wel come Prince George to the port."
But the Prince failed to step from the couch on which all eyou wore turned.
"
There was a wait of a few minutes, and then the whispered explanation went rund.
Someone bad blundered and the uniform of a sub-lieutenant, into which the Prince was to have changed in the train, had been sent with him minus the 'frock coat.
The situation was further com-
RED-CHEEKED AND STRONG.
"Kilimanjaro andits People" is the title of a book by the Hon. Charles Dundas which tells us much of interest.
He
A WOMAN'S WORK.
It is true that the MAN'S. VIEW OF "SCRUB.
BING AND SO ON."
odd man at an hotel.
With the flowers was a note asking the policeman to place them on the Cenotaph as the writer was unable to travel so far to do Mr. Dundas's chapter on Kili- so herself." manjaro is welcome for the fact The constable complied with the It was as a whole a young that comparatively few des-request, which was ก mother's ship." Much of this youthfulness criptions of the great mountain tribute to her dead son. was due to the fact that there are have appeared in English. on board no less than 120 young describes the climate at between women and girls who are going to six and seven thousand feet (one- way up) as being City of them were travelling in a rather like that of the Highlands Canada to eater domestic service third of the party organised and conducted by of Scotland. the Salvation Ariny,
heather grows to forty feet high, but it gets shorter as we climb up. One does not think of elephants
Miss Susan Lawrence, M.P., at a as export inountaineers, writes.a The remainder, who come mainly reviewer, but Mr. Dundas found Socialist demonstration in South from various Highland counties their tracks at an altitude of London, said she let the other day and from the Islands, are red nearly ten thousand feet. What a man who knew all about women. checked, strong girls, whose seris more, he saw how they did it. He was a skilled engineer, and Canada, particularly in the Wes path where some gaint rammed tem districts. To most of them his tusks into the soil to steady his the departure, for Canada
descent, or the bark of a tree is clearly a great adventure, upon polished by the trunk that grasped which they embarked in it to haul up the huge, bulk on the
spirits, with antici-
¿limb.". change which is taking place in height, but the lions and croco of her scarlet robe, gold chain and their lives. There was little sign diles that make life a misery for he said. "Which is Peare."
of depression among them as they the natives in the crowded plains Palmer, the prisoner, is a similar]
cocked hat.
But a compromise was ronde by clustered in excited groups on the below are entirely unknown. Yet ly incidental figure in another
only the Wachagga live here. It story quoted by Sir Harry as ilust-vishors have been innumerable the deputy-sheriff for the county deck. rating the readiness of Lord Sir W. Robertson Nicoll knew it mounting the stops of the coach and The men, who, like the girls, is a tribute to their intelligence,
and wrote of it; Mr. John Lane, welcoming the Prince to Harwich. hail mostly from the agricultural The Wachagga peoplo have, a In the meantime an urgent mes districts, showed less excitement, story of the Flood which is sur After Palmer's execution, the in- the publisher, has taken in many 'habitants ""of Rugeley-where well-known authors on his many
Paimer had lived-sent a deputa visits to Brighton. But what is age had been telephoned to Shot-but did not appear any less con- prisingly like the Biblical narra them. Farm workers and men of resembles the description of the tion to Lord Palmerston, then not generally known, except perley Naval Barracks, and a lieuten-fident of the prospect in front of tive; and another which closely the labouring class, predominated Plagues of Egypt. Another folk Shortly Prime Minister, to ask for perhaps in Brighton, is the fact that ant's frock-cont was secured,
afterwards Prince.
among them, but there was also a story bears a distinct resemblance mission to change the name of the Mr. E. V. Lucas-who is the son
of a Hove architect at one tinie Georgo stepped gravely from his number of artisans and tradesmen to our "Jack and the Beanstalk." Perhaps it was at saloon, the woman Mayor said her of various industries. Most of The wide range of these traditions worked there. Treacher's that he first conceived few words of welcome, and the them, however, whether from the is one of the mysteries that an the idea of making a name corentony was resumed at the country or the towns, are going to thropologists have never been able bookman, by way of his ever point at which it had been broken Canada with the intention of going to explain, green and ever delightful High-off,
on the land. ways and Byways in Sussex,
of the peace, who' was a member of a later owner it was not success-plicated by the fact that the Mayor vices will be in great demand in There were "deep holes by the being out of a job he got one as of the censing Bench before ful, and Mr. C. Treacher was of Harwich at the present time is
a woman-Mrs. Tacy M. Hill which I had just appeared, was appointed to manage it on behalf obsessed by Peace and his crimes.of the creditors. With his brother,
The Prince, apparently, did not He came up to me, and showed Mr. H. Treacher, he purchased it,
and it has been carried on under feel that he ought to receive in a me a newspaper, in which were
mixture of multi and uniform abest of two illustrations--one of Lord Bea- the familiar name over since... consfield, the other of Lord Salis.
Its associations with well-known
A COMPROMISE.
was
the
His duties, she said, consisted of sweeping up, washing up, scrub. bing, and so on. But eventually, in his own words, he was "fired," Sympathising with him, she asked "Hard." he answered, "it was cruel! It was a woman's work." (Laughter.)
bury. Fearful types, aren't they? men are nutrerous. All the famous woman dignitary in all the glory patory cagerness, over the great Elephants are common at this him if the work were hard.
Palmerston
town.
Palmerston was sympathetic; he agreed that it was desirable to change the name, and name the gested that they might name town after himself!
JUDGE ON ROMEO.
Brightm passons from F. W. Robertson to R. J. Campell have and its famous frequented it,
DO YOU CHEAT?
as
BRIDGE PLAYERS' UNFAIR
'SIGNALS:
CHURCH BREEZE."
BARRISTER'S PASSAGE WITH VICAR.
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There was a lively interlude between si Jarrister and the vicar at n church neeting at St.. Bumabas, Tunbridge.
MORE HEBRIDEANS SAIL. Another large party of emigrants left the Clyde on the Canadian Pacific liner "Marloch," which em- barked 450 passengers at Glasgow, and which took up 300 Hebridean emigrants at Stornoway. hundred of these are going out under the auspices of the Ontario Government.
Two
DEATH SENTENCE.
HUSBAND POISONED BY
HOME BREW,"
Sentence of death has been passed on Mrs Katherine Tratch, at Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, for the murder of her husband.
"What a comfort that man must have been to his wife," added Miss Lawrence, amid laughter.
With the money was a note. stating that there was £2,800 in War Loan to Mrs. Doyle's credit
When the daughter returned from work she found her mother dead, whith her head in a gas oven.
At the inquest it was stated that Mrs. Doyle worried because she thought that her money would not last out.
Verdict: Suicide during 'tem- porary insanity,
WOMAN IN FLAMES.
REFUSED TO GO TO HOSPITAL.
M
Finding some cloths which she had put in front of the fire allght, Eliza Emily Matthews, 53, a domestic servant, employed at Halliford-street, Islington, tried to extinguish the flames, with the result that her own clothing caught fire.
Although she was severely burned, she changed her dress and waited until her mistress came home. In great pain, she opened the door and remarked: "I'am so unlucky; I've had such an accident."
It was only after much per TRUSTING A GERMAN suasion that she went to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where she died.
MARKS INSTEAD OF
DOLLARS...
Four British seamen who arrived at Grimsby penniless from Ham- burg, complained of the duplicity of a German shipmaster. They state the signed on the ship at
A verdict of accidental, death was recorded by the City coroner.
REBUFF FOR THE RED FLAG.
UNION JACK.
Norfolk, Virginia, on the captain's WORKLESS UPHOLD THE written undertaking that they would be paid in American dollars at the end of the voyage. At Hamburg the shipmaster paid them off in marks.
them
They complained to the police, who took their marks from them, hooked Grimsby, and sent them out of the country.
יי
a passage fo
employed at Toronto, mostly new. Several hundred organised un-
comers of last year, who still decline to accept work offered-on- farms, have split into two camps over a question of flags.
One group, under the leadership of a British war veteran, insists on the Union Jack being carried in marades, while the other group, of Bolshevist tendencies, refuse to march behind the Union Jack.
In recalling the famous case of Governor Eyre and the Jamaica riots, Sir Harry Poland, paying tribute to the judges concerned as "all able, first-class men," says:- Baron Martin was one of the He was distinguished by his knowledge of the law, and it was said, read nothing else. Once. when he was going circuit with
Auction Bridge, is the easiest Mr. Justice Talfourd, he remarked
The Glasgow passengers ranged
It was stated that she was per- to young Taifourd-the "Marshal" game at which to choa1, and
in age from 77 years to 5 weeks, to his father-"your father's a great deal of unfair play goes on
and there were four persons of suaded by the man she loved to The offenders, says Mr. E
Sentence of death was passed at great literary light; be's always.
1 Manning Faster, the bridge ex- The Vicar, the Rev. W. J. Tor-children travelling independently might live together on the neigh Glasgow on John Gallacher for
70 or over. There were several polson her husband so that the two talking about Shakespeare.
bour's farm near Fish Crook,
cutting his wife's throat at Pais- Tratch died 15 haven't read a line of him; what'snert, are honourable people who
A discussion on the matter the thing he wrote that your father would be amazed and highly in Thee, was asked to make a stato to join relatives.
dignant if they were accused often the proposed war memorial-As usual there were men and Saskatchewan,
May 20 at Greenock prison.
marched off to groups likes hest?"
ding anything unfair. Yet they had and third altar. He de women of many callings, includ- minutes after drinking a glass of, and the execution is fixed for
different parks to hold separate undoubtedly do convey informa dined to do so, as the inatter wasing 45 domestic servants, 32 farm home brew.
During the trial the "woman's workers, 30 engineers, 14 labourers,
The girl who arrived at Nor-meetings. One group, numbering tion in an improper way by the sub judice.
Their voices, of
their It was known that correspon-13 joiners, and 11 shop assistants. children gave evidence that their
mother had told her parents she wich suffering from loss of about 200, bare the Union Jack. tones
had given poison to their father memory, was identified as Miss manners and deportment, and dence had passed between him and the Bishop regarding rumours that
and had been impelled to do the Gladys Hall, of Willowdene-villas, their gestures.
his lordship" bad approved the
deed by another man. She made Avenue-road, Old Southgate, N.. a confession of the same import to plans.
a police interpreter.
Last year two women in Alberta at present for parcels, will 'be very pinfal Every inovoment as were sentenced to be hanged, one inaugurated from Belfast to gravstes the disease. Go to bed, keep for killing her husband and the Liverpool. The special air fee julet ad apply Chenabar'ain's Pain other for shooting dead a Mounted will be ad. per 2oz, în addition to land a quick recovery may bɔ ox-
preted. Bold every where.. Police officer who was on a liquor the ordinary postage rates.
The Marshal answered, "Romeo
and, ift."
A day or two after, Buzon Marlin came to him, and said: "I've read your father's favourite bit of Shake speare, and I find it is just
a tissue of improbabilities from beginning to end."
1'
The only remedy suggested is to refrain from playing with those guilty of such practices. But so
Of Mr. Justice Muld, "th the
Mr. E R. Earle, barrister, who greatest of all judicial humorists, numerguts are they that if one ceas is a parishioner, created a sensa Sir Harry relates the following s ed to play with all the offenders
the proprieties of the tion by declaring that the Bishop "ning off Maule's personaligainst excily":
game often one would be hard | had written to him and had given him permission to quote his. letter Hwis questioning a child as to put to it to get a mobber at all
in the event of the vieur failing to her fitness to be sworn as a witness and lie asked her: What will be
clear up the nisunderstanding. done to you if you tell untruths?
She answered, "I shill go to hell, sir."
Whereupos Maule said to the clerk of the court: "Swear the giri; she knows more than I do." STORY OF A FIRE,
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Maule was very fund of part, and thus humorously exhibited his liking on one occasion:-
Take the case of the man who hesitates unduly over his bidding He examines his cards one by one sever times, gazes at the ceiling, breathes heavily, sighs deeply, and at last enounces "No bid." He might just as well say:
Partner, I have a fairly good hand, but I don't know what to hid on it."
GROCER'S PICTURE.
ARTIST WHO HAD NO LESSONS.
araid. Both se tences were com- muted by the Government to life, imprisonment.
a
After working twelve hours Mr. Earle also referred to a day in his shop, Mr. H. Rollett, interview with the Bishop, but the Grimsby grocer, found sufficient" to the study of art to such purpose Vicar contended that any state-time and energy to devote himself ments should be in writing.
"Jamsider that a direct cul-that he has had a landscape in oils lenge to my honour," retorted Mr. Earle, who thon read a letter, in which the bishop denied having given consent for the work to be done without a faculty.'
Later, Mr. Earle walked out of the building, and a vote of con- Sdence in the vicar was carried.
The lightning caller who, In During the retirement of the warning tones, passes, before the jury in charge of the bailiff, who others at the table have looked at was sworn to keep them without their cards, proclaims just as fod, fire or drink. the bailiff came plainly that he has a trickless And who has not seen the into court, and said that one of the hand. jury was ill, and would like a glass anguished gestures of the player of water; might he give it to him? whose part her will go on bidding
Maule said: "Let me see; water when it does not suit him? You FOLKESTONE'S
do not need to be a psychologist isn't fire, it is not food, and it
rior a thought-roader to realise certainly is not drink; yes he may have it."
Here is another story in which the predilection for liquid refresh- ment other than water is slyly hinted at
Thirty cases of sleepy sickness, of them fatal, have occurred in Belfast during the past few weeks. accepted for exhibition at the Royal Expressing resentment at the Academy--and his achievement is tone of Mr. Lloyd George's retent the more wonderful because he has never had a drawing on painting speeches, the North Wales Labour Federation Executive has decided lesson.
For thirty years Mr. Rollett has to contest at the next election every constituency in North It was decided three been an enthusiastic painter.
"I find my subjects in the near Wales. neighbourhood of Grimsby," he months ago to contest Mr. Lloyd explained. "There ara some George's scat, wonderful sky effects in this loca-Boroughs.
SUNDAY. [lity. When I first started to paint
I told myself that some day I would have a picture hung in the
he is beseeching his partner not | NOTICE TO REVOKE BAN ON Royal Academy, and now my
to continue bidding,
I have heard, says the writer, a player say "Double" in tones that suggested. "I have got a good It is said that Maule one night thing here partner. If you take me went home to bed at Paper-build-out of it I will murder you"
But while the bidding offers the ings, in the Temple, and before going to sleep, for some reason or greatest opportunities for cheating other, put the lighted candle under there is often unfairness in the the bed. The consequence was play of the cards. The player who that the entire block was burned hesitates when Declarer is about down, and in their stead arose the to take a finesse, thereby suggest present fine set of chambers ing wrongly that he has the card Perhaps, after all, Maule's which the Declarer is going to esse against, is guilty of intent fondness for port'hed its uses.
Recalling old customs on circult, to deceive. Sir Harry saysTM
We used to toast at Bar mess
Wine and women." One circuit
the judges who came were Lushi
and Sceo. 1 fancy someone sug.
WEEK-END GAMES.
ambition is attained.
"I have had many pictures shown at provincial galleries, but Was last Notice of revocation of a resolu- my first big success
year, when I had one accepted tion prohibiting Sunday games at by the Paris Salon. I paint for Folkestone, which was passed a the sheer love of it, and when I hours of business, worries I find year ago, will be moved at a racetam, tired after twelve or fourleen ing of the Town Council.
This notice follows quickly on rest and relaxation in taking ifp. the special article published in my brushes.
"I have been greatly encouraged The Sunday News in which
Armesby Brown, the celebrated Sir Francis Towie criticised and stimulated by my friend Mr. Folkestone's attitude towards Sun-artist, who has urged me day dancing and tennis.
persevere,"
to
Everybody in Folkestone lins Mr. Rollett does not intend to been talking about tho-article, and give up his grocery business-to- strong sides are taken in the con- become a professional artist. troversy, some contending that the "I shall continue to be an ho sald, "Have I my lord "Ribton town must wake up to its oppor- enthusiastic anateur,'
tunities as a holiday resort, and smiling.
gested an appropriate alteration of answered. the words of the toast.
"Yes, but it is such a long time thors contending thint the pques
considered first.
I heard Mr. Justice Wightman ago that I pardon you for forgetting and rest of locul citizens must be say a clever thing at those assizcs." Ribton, who used to defend the "My lord," Ribton expostulated, prisoners, had the habit of makingIn defending a prisoner whose. long speeches to the jury, Qae day he was exceptionally boring, and, Wightman tried to pull him
Brighton is planning to, have a very life is in jeopardy I am surely tip-top orchestra for the summer. entitled to some latitude."
For the first two thonths there are "Yes," Bald Wightman wearily, ¦ to be 30 porformers, who are to be you are. I am not complaining paid more than the trido, nion
but of the He said, Mr. Ribton, you have of the latitude,
rate, and, the number will be * Tf that before Mark Alamosatuake Forzinde
Lup.
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