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DOCTOR'S WILLS.
CLAIMS BY BROTHER AND ·
BON.
LIVED LIKE A MISER.
A series of wills said to have been made by a doctor, who was described as parsimonious and "something of a miser;" and who lived for a time in one room at 278. 6d. a week, although his estate was valued at £17,000, was mentioned In a sult in the Probate Court, London, on Nov. 30. The testator was Dr. Richard Herbert Barkwell, formerly of Lavender-hill, Clapham, who died on Oct. 26, 1926, at the age of 73.
The plaintiff was a Brother, Mr. William Samuel Bryers Barkwell, of Lavender-hill, Clapham, and as executor he propounded a will dated July 16, 1891, and claimed that the grant of letters of adminis- tration to the estate obtained by the defendant on Dec. 2, 1926, should be revoked and probate of the will granted to him.
The defendant was Mr. Herbert Bryers Wood Barkwell, a son of the doctor, of Palace-chambers, Hast- inga. He asserted that the will of 1891 was not duly executed, and he contended that it had been revoked
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STUDENT'S NOVEL “CURE” FOR RHEUMATISM.
FALSE PRETENCES.
An ex-medical student's protend- ad cure for rheumatism, and his plan for starting, on a big scale in London to cure millionaires, was described in a City police court when Harry Pavion was sentenced to four months in the second division on a charge of obtaining £276 by means of false pretences.
GIRLS' STOCKINGS.
INDIGNATION AT JUDGE'S COMMENT.
COST OF DRESS.
Judge Crawford has been attack- ed on all sides for his statement that he was shocked to find a work- ing girl paying 8s. 11d. a pair for silk stockings, 4s. 1144d, for gloves, $1 for shoes, 13s, Ild. for 'a hat,] and £5 5s, for a coat.
There was the attitude of a giri on earth has it got to do with the clerk who said indignantly: “What
judge what a working girl pays for
her clothes? guar
Mr. J. T. Hamilton, in giving evt dence, stated that Pavion anteed his wife that she would so benefit by his treatment by means of a drug costing £20 a pound, which Pavion said the Germans were try ing to corner, that in three months she would chase him around the garden.
pay for them she is entitled to As long as she does spend as much as she can afford on them. If Judge Crawford disliked sixpenny cigars I don't think he would think any the worse of him self for buying better ones, and Hamilton gave him altogether £500 and paid his expenses to Lon-else in order to be able to afford perhaps going without something don to secure the drug. Ultimately them. he received a bag which an analyst proved contained Epsom salts, with a little sodium salicylate,
"LA DELIVRANCE.”
EXTRAORDINARY CONFESSION
IN NANTES.
of
by further wills made by his father in 1901, 1908, 1910, and 1925. With regard to the will of 1925 the son contended that this also had been
On Nov, 11 the population revoked by his father, and he Nantes found that the replica of alleged that he was entitled to suc-
the magnificent statue of "La ceed to the estate of the intestacy.
Sir Patrick Hastings, K.C., who Delivrance," executed by the sculp- appeared for the son, said a pecu-tor Guillaume, the original of which was recently unveiled at Finchley, had been torn down from ita pedestal and mutilated. Police inquiry failed to reveal the authors of this act of vandalism. It is now, however, stated that, a letter has been received by the Examining Magistrate - from former Deputy Mayor of Nantes, a
liar feature of the case was that
A
"I dislike one-and-elevenpenny stockings. They look course, they wear out quickly, and they wrinkle at the knees. I find it cheaper in the long run to buy artificial silk stockings in a good make at 35. 11d. "I pay 48. Ild., er sometimes 68.11d., for my gloves, because it decent- is impossible to obtain a looking, hard-wearing pair of kid cr suede for less, and I would not cotton ones. I have never been able to afford more than 16a, 11d. for shoes and £2 158. for coat. I only wish I could and I'd love to pay 88. 11d. for stockings, and have them silk all the way up.
wear
a
The manager of a Wood Green stores said: "A girl is able to buy smart nappa gloves for 2s. 11%d. and artificial silk stockings of quite A good quality for 18. 114d. AB for hats, the fashionable pull on hat in felt costs anything from 3s. 11d. up to 8s. 11d, A working girl seldom gives £1, for her, shoes, She
fashion and of quite good quality for 7s. 6d. a pair."
at the time of the doctor's death there was not in existence any one of the wills made between 1896 and 1925. As no will had been found the son applied for and obtained letters of administration of his father's estate. Then, for the first time, the brother appeared on the Chevalier of the Legion of Honour can obtain shoes in the height of scene, having returned from Canada, where he had been living.
The will of 1891 was made before the Roo was born, and he had to prove that that document was re- voked. For some reason which the son could not explain, although he thought it was due to religious mat- ters, his father and mother did not live happily. The father used to order a little alcohol for himself as a doctor, but he had a horror of His seeing anyone else drink it. gon was not a teetotaller, and his
a
Patriotes, who, it is alleged, as- and president of the Jeunnesses sumes responsibility for the net.
Ho. He arranged for a nephew to come over from Canada and stay with him as an adopted son, but the nephew found his uncle too severe and returned to Canada.
Mr. Herbert -Barkwell evidence that his father said he
gave
MATCHES IN PERU.
LAW THERE IS NO LIGHT MATTER
AMERICAN'S PLIGHT,
That ignorance of the law in
father had in his mind, the idea that was going to leave everything to Peru may be dangerous has been
him.
to
go
he drank too much. The son never
Cross-examined by Mr. Cotes-demonstrated by the fate of a had the opportunity to ask his father who put it into his head that Preedy, K.C., for the plaintiff, Mr. young American, he was going on "the downward Barkwell said there was no founda- He was stopped in the street at path." The father seemed to take tion for his father saying that he Calloa by a stranger, who request- the view that his son had turned mixed with bad company. out a "prodigal," and he wrote in Evidence was given by witnesses ed a match. The American courte a letter that he would not have his that the doctor made wills subse-ously handed over his matchbox,! and was very surprised when he money spent in riotous living. quent to the document of 1891.
Mr. Cotes-Preedy, for Counsel added that the doctor
Mr. was asked
to the police he was informed lived for a time at Bournemouth, William Barkwell, submitted that station, where where his life was of a parsi-as no will existed subsequent to that he would be locked up there monious sort. In fact, he was
that of 1891 he had no case to for 45 days, that being the number something of a miser. He lived answer.
of matches in his box. in one room at 278. 6d. a week. Sir Patrick Hastings contended Throughout the latter years of his that he had proved that wills had life the man, who was then
been made after the one of 1891, widower, was making pathetic and consequently that that docu- efforts to get someone to live with ment was revoked. him, and in 1924 and 1925 it was obvious that he was holding out financial inducements to any of his nephews or nieces who would do
After legal argument on this issue, Lord Merrivale said he would consider the matter, and give his decision at a later date.
The American Embassy quickly secured his release, and it was then explained to the youth that only
one sort of foreign matches were allowed in Peru, Persona found in possession of matches of any other make could be imprisoned a day for each match found.
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