THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1925.
CHEAPER JUSTICE:
LORD BIRKENHEAD ON FANCY PRICES,
ABLE LAWYERS FOR LOWER FEES.
The Eart of Birkenhead, a former Lord Otancellor, discusses in the
Sunday Pictorial" the heavy legat esta stated to lave been incurred by parties to recent litigation.
After dealing of length with the compative brevity of the old esses and the extruminary length of many modern precedings dad the causes of the change, he wrźdes --
A word or two my peadded up the pinchen question whether „elteni inging a mise in which he "believer need spend, in order to give that ense i emner, the very large sums which are undoubtedly paid today. In my opinion, he need t...
THORNE HANGED.
THE ELSIE CAMERON
MURDER
OVER'IN TEN SECONDS.
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WIFE CENSURED:
DRUNK WHILE HUSBAND WAS DYING.
DISGRACE TO YOUR SEX"
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John Norman Holmes Thorne "At the moment of your hus
band's death you were away from. was executed in Wandsworth at him; drank and singing, and you eight o'clock in the morning for left two grandchildren in the room the murder of his fiancée, Elstein which he was dying, to see him Emily Cameron, a Cambeltown die. If you had been no relation to him, your conduct would have girl, who latterly lived at Kensal been disgraceful, but as you were Rise, London.
his wife, your conduct proves you A. special representative of the to be a disgrace to your sex” Press who was present" at the These words were addressed by execution mys it was probably Mr. H. J. Webber, the coroner, at one of the most expeditious on Ampthill, Bedfordshire, to Mrs. record. From the tine that Desborough, of Palloxhill, a neigh- Thorne emerged from his cell (bouring village, at the inquest on door unit the moment he passed her husband, Thomas William into. eternity only ten seconds | Desborough,, who died from acute elapsed, Thorae had no sooner gastritis. a stepped on to the scaffold than the lever was released and he had disappeared from view,
The ordinary client scents to në to make the nastiks stat he does not take advantage of the very grend entpetition that exists hobin
He was wearing his navy blue among solicitors and haurristers. He suit, and when he came from the may, of course, if he chooses, go to condemned cell his face for a Lagu "extremely fashionkle ned mic-}brief moment showed that cessful firm of solicitors tag this Į“përullar flicker of a smile'that was - caso le jurys, naid nighth mys, for was observed on the occasion of the 'reputation of the fem; for the his many, appearances in the rent of is offices, and for the salaries police, court at Crowborough and skut uns paid to many experienced in the dock at the Assize Court
at Lewes...
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He, seemed to be in the best of health, and from his personal appearance one could not detect any trace of the dread ordeal that he had gone through or concern as to the terrible experience that was awaiting hint.
But there are countless Brms of Solicitors, quite honest and quite efficient, who are neither fashion nhle us to command very high fes nor so busily occupied as to refuse work for which a reasonable re muneration is offered. Perhaps in schens the partner will attendi to the utter instead of the mung, the scaffold Thorne was preceded As he passed from the cell to ing clerk. Perhaps, uile, in such cuss the glitrit will not be a loser by Rev. Edward Finch. He gave
The same remark is at least ceud-esting glance to one side as he ly tone of the Bar Therr always walked, but did not, betray the exist. twa three fashionable leaders at the Bar who voimat very surprising fres, and do-sot always fiat is convenient even.to make an appearance in court in or der to earn them.
the substituti€.
OF
COMPETENT AND INDUSTRIOUS,
Few members of the Har world gods and men if they became in- volved in litigation themselves For the plain truth is that there are always at least twenty or thirty members of the Bar whit could set as adventes in any case from
Nisi Prins to the House of Lords with the most complete efficiency, and whose business engagements emble them to give sustained and continus adfention to theus which they are employed.
Personally, if I became involved in litigation, the consequences of which were grave to me: I would infinitely rather be represented by A. B competent and industris lawyer, who I knew would not leaves the cout from the moment my case begun until the moment it ended. than by B. who would. at ten times, the fee, saunter into court to cross-examine a witness whose examination-in-chief le tad noi her, or to reply to a speelr which had unfortunately been delivered in his absence.
I reach, therefore, the conclusion that in cases where rokw?' 1074 are spent upon litigation, the fault is as often as not chargeable upon the clients themselves. You can apend as much as you choose upon surgeons, commsel, dentists, and tailors, but it by no means follows that he who pays net is best
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Ai he approached the threshold of the execution shed there was a sudden bracing of the nerves. But for the one fleeting glance aside Thome looked straight in front of him, and carried himself with his head slightly rai-ed.
Brodie In the execution shed the work of
the executioner assistant was 'exceedingly quick. and his Atmost in one moment the white cap was drawn over Thorne's head, his legs pintoned, the lever was pulled, and in an instant Thome had expiated his crime and had passed into the unknown, The executioner was Pierpont, who was assisted by Phillips and the officials present at the execution were the Lovernor of the prison, the prison surgeon, and the Under-Sheriff, Mr. Chapman.
Walter C.S.
WHEN QUININE FÀILS There Is Still Hope for Malaria Sufferers.
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Every sufferer from Malaria, knows the value of quinino. It has boon the recognized remedy for salarial attacks for close upon a century.
Mr. Pimlott's father, who is an artist, has had several pictures hung," his first being at the ago of twenty-four.
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DEAD COUNT PUZZLE.
ALLEGED POISONING BY AN UNKNOWN.
"My son was poisoned," is all that the Countess de Beuret, the mother of the young Count Girard curative effecia are only temporary and fatal illness that overcame him But despite the efficacy of quinine its de Montiflore can say about the its helpfulness cans by continuous use. suddenly when motoring In Paris Bo that relaps from time to time are
most certain aalogs by building up with his fiancér, Mlle. Yvonne the blood and restoring to it the red Doux. The court was a young corpuscles which have been destroyed, millionaire.sportsman and owner of the malaria parasite are of the Castle of Dompierre in the the sporca of completely endicated from the system Aube Department.
It is because Dr. Williams Pink Falls rapidly increase the red corpuscles in the blood and at the same time build up the perves, increase the appetite and
they are im St. Mark's Church, in New restore strength, that York's tenement district, providedencely popular in all countries where
BISHOP DEFIED.
RECTOR AND BANNED PREACHER..
The countess and her husband, the stepfather of the young man, have laid a formal charge with the police of murder against some person unknown
prevails. The pero, rich. a stage recently for a dramatic disease-expellitg blood which
The post-mortem examination they climax over religious principles create has brought new life and
showed no traces of organic per and the authority of episcopal waters bealth to many vistims of disease, but a chemical examination bishops.
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B
bishop" the Rev. William Mont- gomery Brown, of Arkansas, spoke in St. Mark's, that act emphasised a direct challenge by Dr. William Guthrie, a rector to the authority of Bishop William Manning, of the diocese of New York. Bishop' Manning, in a letter to Dr. Guthrie, forbade him to allow Bishop Brown to officiate or speak in St. Mark's, and Dr. 'Guthrie's decision to contínue his determination to have Bishop Brown in St. Mark's really brings to an end, a long battle waged between Bishop Manning and St.
Mr.L. G: De Alwis Mark'
malaria "azit agus, one of whóm, *r; Bishop Brown was found guilty. G. De Aris, MD electrodes of of heresy last autumn at an Bailey street, Coloraba, has reorded his ecclesiastical trial at Cleveland, experiences a follows:- Ohio, but has not been deposed system. Periodpally the favor inimesed. "I could not get malaria cat of my, Dr. Guthrie defended Bishop an abouty work?I used to be alred Brown's appearance in St. Mark's by abivering fa and had to take bo bed on the ground that the sanctuary Ofcourse I hid Legungsquiano injoo of the church had been veiled, tons; these brought reef, but though I that the Church virtually became persevered with than they did not an 'auditorium," and in that sense a mesting or symposium was but it was postil
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SEEING MESSAGES.
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Messages can now be flashed through the air which are visible only to those with glasses tinted in a special way to receive them, said Dr. Robert Wood to the American Chemical Conference at Baltimore.EE
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