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HOME THREATENED BY. AN EPISODE.
GIRL IN A CAFE.
Richard Strauss, composer of a score of famous operas, has based: his latest opera, "The Inter; mezzo," produced at Vienna, on a curious episode in his own life that almost wrecked his domestic happiness. This is probably the first time that a composer has written an opera un an incident in which he was personally in volved.
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STRANGE MYSTERY OF MURDERED WOMAN.
LONELY BEACH TRAGEDY,
Scotland Yard delectives are faced with another strange crime. Portions of a woman's body have been found at Eastbourne, and a man has been arrested.
NAPOLEON'S CHAPLAIN.
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Britain's drink bill, during 1923 totalled £307,500,000, against £330,000,000 in 1922, states the annual report of the United King-
dom Alliance.
The expenditure per head of the population was about £7 25., against Although the expenditure on £7135. in the preceding year. alcoholic beverages decreased by seven per cent, the quantity of liquor consumed increased by three
per cent. This was owing to a re-
Although Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach is taking back to New York over £60,000 worth of books (packable in four small trunks) purchased Three priests Inking a walk with A fashionably-dressed young by him in the recent Britwell sale, three college boys on the outskirts woman who attended race meet he is especially proud of having of Tetuan, Morocco, were mings and dined at Eastbourne been successful in acquiring the histed, and three of the boys and hotels disappeared, about three famous collection of authentic
weeks. ago.
relics of Napoleon, originally be two of the priests are anissing, Aman has been detained on longing to the Emperor's chaplain suspicion of having killed, alat St. Helena, the Abbé Ange woman and dismembered her Paul Vignall. Not long ago the body," is the official announce French Government added some ment made by Scotland Yard Malmaison relics to the national duction in the price of beer result following a two-days' watch by collection, but falled to annex the ing in an increased demand.
The total consumption of abso- detectives at the cloak-room at Vignalt souvenirs, and, Waterloo Station for the claimant Napoleonic cult is very ardent lute alcohol was approximate- ly €1,000,000 gallons,' against Mr. Harry Scoteliner Gotelee of a bulky portmanteau containin America, Dr. Rosenbach's has been appointed Official Re-Ang blood stained female under purchases will be keenly ex-49500,000 gallons in 1922 and the amined when he takes them over approximate consumption per head ceiver for the bankruptcy districts wear.". of Ipswich, Bury St. Edmunds, covered portions of a woman's Elizabethan literature
The police had previously dis-along with the Britwell trophies of was, for Great Britain, 1.18 gallons; for England and Wales, 1.25 gallons; and for Scotland, 075 and Colchester in succession to Mr. body in an empty cottage at Most of the relics belong literally Thomas W. J. Britten.
to the last phase of Napoleon's gallons. Weekly Dispatch states career. In the Hotel des Invalides, that the portmanteau contained where remains of the conqueror human remains and a,, biond-now repose, is also the original stained butcher's knife, to which matrix of the death mask moulded members of the entourage. When from the face of the dead by Vignali returned to Corsica he built strands of hair were adhering
There is a possibility.it is stated, Minoleon's doctor, Antonmarchi. the house at Bisinchi out of as that the remains found at East-Bus at the time the doctor gave to much money as he could wring |bourne, which were partially Vignali, who had administered the from Napoleon's executors, and:
burned, may prove to comprise 1st Sacrament to Napoleon, a after a stormy retirement portions of the bodies of two mould of this mask, and although killed in a vender a in 1878. His women.
others were made later this early sister inherited the house and the
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Eastbourne.
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Socialist protests were toude in the Belgian Chamber against the sentioned of 'death passed ut Kief on four Russian professors for alleged treaso
The efforts of Holl [rsit importers have resulted in the Fuel Government withdrawing the export tax of 25 per cent. on The cottage where the dig. replica has much interest. A more relics, which ultimately passed to 'fruit and reducing the export txcovery was made is one of macabre relfe in this Vignali collec-only son. Charles Gianettini, who on vegetables from 25 tolă per cent, a row of old coastguard houses, tinn is a mummified tendon taken is still alive at 96 years of age. within 300 yards of The from Napóleon's_body_during the The relics were documented by a post-nure, and St. Denis in his notary eight years ago, and it is Memoir" distinctly states that he agreed that they are the original and Vignali took away small pieces Vignali inheritance. of Napoleon's corpse during the autopsy.
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M. Paul Lon. French Director of Fine Arts, his just inspected, in Paris, the indef of the new elnurch to be erected on the site of the old church Sainte Anne de Beaupré, ai Queher, which was burnt down a year ago.
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Mr. James Stewart. Under Crumbles, a des late stretch Secretary of Health for Scotland. of beach, "where the body of a who is the proprietor of hairdress-murdered typist was discovered in
British collectors are no longer ing shops in Glasgow will mer be 1920."
so ardent as formerly, but, as v A man of between 30 and 40 haintressing slots at the Wan
years of age, well dressed and It should be explained that stated, there is a very lively Inter- bley Exhibition.
well supplied with money, recent Vignali went to St. Helena from est in America in any souvenirs ly rented the cottage, where two Corsica at the command of Cardinal of Napoleon, so that such relics "as women also were seen-one tall, Fesch, Napoleon's uncle, to his knife, fork,and spoon in silver, fair and middle-aged, and the establish a chapel at Longwood, of with the Imperial cost of arms, other young, with dark bobbed course by the assent of the British, and forming part of the great Government. In Napoleon's wil dinner, service; his silver cup hair, and fashionably dressed.
It is believed that the latter was the chaplain was blessed with from his travelling dressing-case; an author, but her name has not 100,000f, to be used for building a his white breeches and piqué house in his native Corsican village,waistcoat; a ciphered shirt and been disclosed.
The man frequently hired motor | Bisinchi,near Porto Neuva: Vignali handkerchief; even a packet of take to Napoleon's hair from the head, cars, and attended race meetings, was also deputed to
Duke Described as a pastor, at village and dined at Eastbourne hotels Napoleon's son, the
of beard, and chest will arouse churches. Arthur Harwood Field with the women separately. He Reichstadr, in Vienna, a number emotion in New York:
Vestments and chalice cloths from was sentenced to six months' bard seemed to be on the most affec- of sacred vessels and altar-cloths labour at Hastings for obtaining tionate terms with the younger which had been in Longwood Longwood-even the chapel regis- £30 from local tradestuen by fuse one; who disappeared three weeks Chapel. This mission, was not ter-are naturally to be found, and allowed at the time, and it may be among the documents is a copy of prefences in 'connection with adver- ago." tisements in rhurch calendars. When the police entered the recalled that these objects, through Napoleon's will in Vignali's hand, cottage at Pevensey (near East- the dishonesty cé a Corsican law- There are, too, papers dealing When John William Tomlinson,bourne they found in the sitting-yer. were eventually deposited in a with the failure to hand
porter, was bound over tom grate sawn pieces of human Paris pawnbroking office. After Napoleon's relics to his son, and bene, from which the fesh had long litigation; the Duke of Padua the volume of the memoirs by the Marlborough-street for stealing a been roughly backed In the was able to purchase them, and enthusiastic Las Cases has the diamond broor valued
kitchen were two large metal these particular relics are now in author's autograph. More probably which he found in a street three stewpans, in which were human the possession of Prince Victor will be heard of Vignali's diary, which is accompanied by his weeks ago, it was stated that no, remains. A big portmanteau Napoleon's family. one had yet claimed it.
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On a charge of murdering his father-in-law, Hyuan rin, 62,
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found in a bedroom contained a The Vignali relics comprise the diploma of theology and as doctor biscuit tin and four large parcels abbe's share of those personal of medicine, Rome. University, wrapped in brown paper, with an objects associated with Napoleon and by his passport with the
er wrapping of a woman's skirt which were not expressly willed to British vish.
While Strauss was absent in England several operati
aturalised Jussian, of Clova-royd, Forest Cale. E., Bolonjon Lehrët, met in a Berlin café, Among them was Mr. Josef Stransky, con- 28, a Rumunian, will be brought ductor of the New York Sym-up at West Ham Police Court. phony Orchestra. The conversa-
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Each parcel contained portions
of human remains, some of which; had obviously been sawn off. The biscuit tin contained several organs, including the heart and
tion was carried on in German. Charged with puding certain lungs. Some para were missing: Mr. Edgar Strakosch, managersons in medicine her paber including the head, for which the of a famous tenor then playing in Berlin, was also present. He spoke was taking for influenza. Beatrice police are digging in the cottage German imperfectly, and, mistake May Newgai, 16, at Portsmouth grounds. ing Stransky's name, called him was bound over for two years, u Mr. Conductor Straussky
Solvation Army officer reepting responsibility for her.
Doctors
believe, that
death occurred about to days before and that the body had been dismem- bered within two days of death.
Investigations have failed to dis- close definitely where the dismem- berment was carried out, but it is suggested that the murder and dismemberment occurredelse- where, and that the body was' conveyed to the cottage a part at a time.
spite of his in different German he entered into conversation with Fräulein Meize Mucke, a young Subject to the approval of the. German girl who asked him to me it is proposed to refer to the obtain her a ticket for the opera. industrial Court for arbitration the He introduced her to Stransky, ad-demand of the employees of the dressing him as Mr. Conductor Metropolitan Water Board for Straussky.
Stransky made himself charming general increase of wages and in to the girl, and promised to send proved working conditions,
The police have discovered that her a ticket. Like many artists.) however, his memory was short, Several leading actors and Miss Kaye, who formerly lived in and he forgot. The girl at last. Betresses are rehearsing in the Guildford-street, London, is miss decided to write to him. She hard-room of the St George's ing The bloodstained clothes looked up Straussky in the tele-lospital, Hyde Park Corner, S. found in the portmanteau corre- spond. to some worn by Miss phone book, but was unable to find two plays which will be given at a Kaye. the name. She, however, did find matinée at Daly's Theatre in aid the name Richard Strauss, Con-of the hospital." ductor."
This, she thought, must be her
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The Eastbourne discovery recalls the finding a fortnight ago of # severed leg of a woman on Wim- bledon Common, outside London an affair which mystified the explained,
Miss Irene Munro, a typist, was murdered at Eastbourne in 1920. Two young men, Gray and Hill, were hanged for the crime.
kind friend. She wrote him a letter, reminding him of his kind Tyne Commissioners have accepted ness and their place of meeting, the tender of the Palmer's Ship-police and which has not yet been The letter was open to miscon building Co., of Jarrow, for two unfortunately stam barges at a cost of £1,500) Strauss was away from home. His although the Dutch lenders were
£8,000 lower than any British. wife opened the letter.
"It is evident that he has been stantial security required For stack unfaithful to me," she declared at An open verdict was returned at "After all I have done for the inquest at Brighton on William him and the atmosphere I have Harold Eric Roberts, 18, of lingle created for his genius, be has taken w-roud, Balham, S.W., whose up with some minx
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She refused to answer her husbody was washed up by the sea. band's letters. Finally he tele- His father, a surveyor, said his son graphed, and, receiving no reply, was cheerful and had never spoken wrote to a friend. The friend, on of suicide. hearing the reason from Mrs.
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WOMEN'S WRONGS.
What A Great Burgeon Baid. One of the greatest surgeons said that never went to bed without feeling thankful for not having been horn a Worst. A Woman's health bandicaps her, almost alwayn. She has rips atid disabilities which do not afflict, men. Nature does not give her a fair chauos Her blood ls morn often thin and poor than a mass and shoeften neglects the
fat beginnings of ill-healib.
Many of the fair ex who seemned
Strauss, sought out Maize Mucke, American lawyers are presenting and the mistake was cleared up. to London & life-size figure i destined to a life of frequent suffering In the opera the musical conduc-ze of William Blackstone, have been freed entirely from their for wilfully impersonates a famous born in Cheapside in 1723, whose ailments, through the wonderful hood. making qualities of Dr. Williams' Pink composer in order to gain the affections of a girl. A letter write codification of the English Com-Pill. Women maks too light of their ten by the deluded girl falls into mon Law entitles bim to be re-troubles. Many a horsewife toile the hands of the composer's wife, garded as the unifier of the legal des with a pain in her back and side, a who actually takes divorce systems in English-speaking com-burning hdachu, and a sense of having
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