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break off the acquaintance with the prisoner she began to maleat him, and he had to call in the help of the polico. She was bound over to keep the pesce towards him. He denied the allegations she made against him, and said that he had kopt to his vow to lead an honest life and make good.
Angered because à man-au ex-
Coates, In the witness-box, when convict striving to make good-asked where she was living replied spurned her advances and refused smiling: "Well, I've been ving in to associate with her, a young. Strangeways Gaol for the last atractive woman gave herself up to
fortnight." a wild campaign of revenge.
Firth
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The following letter was re- ceived from Mr. H. E. Morriss, Shanghai, on his way Home via Siberia...
Wo are due in Moscow-to-
She had lived with Firth as his She tried hard to drag him back wife, and, alleging that he had morrow, Monday, April 16, at 0.10 to the depths from which he had knocked her about, said: "I never m, but we do not change trains until the following morning, when rison by revealing to those who went to the police. I used to bear
One. therefore honoured him AS A hard-working It all because I loved him."
we reach Stolbay. has the same coupe all the way oitizen, the past he was trying to forget, and spread abroad a ecur
from Manchouli, which we left on rilous tissue of falsehood calculated
the night of Monday, the 9th, until to bring ruin and despair, in its
Stolbzy, where we are due at 8.45
wako.
At last, secure in his conscience, the man sought the protection of the police, and faced his accuser In a public court of Justice.
Contrasts.
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It was a drama of life that was staged in the sombre surroundings of Leeds Assize Court, The two leading actors summed up the best and worst of human nature.
had never given her a penny. Asked if she had ever met Firth with old convicts, the prisoner said: "Yes, He used to say: "That man is from Parkhurat, or That one is an old crook I have hidden crooks for him."
Referring to the allegation that Firth had made an impression of the lock of the shop door where he was employed, the prisoner.alleged that she was with him when he did it, and that she held an umbrella over him.
Accusing Letter,
.
of the 17th instant. This and other little improvements have made travelling conditions plea satter than on my previous trip in 1926. Everything is plain sailing to Harbin, and Shanghai, and here, with the 11th hour changes and alterations in traveller's places, there may be a certain amount of anxiety in connection with getting the precise accommodation one ex- pected. The Grand Hotel manage- ment in Harbin fixea up ons's train accommodation and also attends to one's Polish and Russian visas, (the Chinese and Japanese visas having been secured in Shanghai), and it is just as well that Shang- She alleged that Firth had plan hai travellers should know that ned to break into other places, and the Grand Hotel in Harbin is own- added: "I always knew when he wased by the Railway authorities. going to break in anywhere."
On the one side, a man struggling He threatened that if she told to redeem years of sin, anxious anyone he would bring. her into it. that his every action should be She told him she would write to the moulded by the good within him; Chief Constable, but she wrote to on the other side, a woman, obsess the firm instead. "Harry Firth ed with the passion for revenge, is a dangerous burglar even to this caring nothing for vows of honesty day," she said. and repentance, giving herself to the pangs of jealousy that consumed her soul, so that a fellow human being could say of her, "She is vile and wicked. She is a pest generally."
Harry Firth now knows that he did two wise things in the course of many unwise ancs. The first was when he vowed to go straight; the second, when he went to the police- for he found that the men who were once his enemies, when he himself was an enemy of society, were now his friends, eager to stretch out a helping hand to a respectable citizen.
Laughed at Sentence. This remarkable drama opened when Jessie Coates (31) stepped into the dock to face a charge of publishing a defamatory libel con- cerning Firth.
Not until she was found "Guilty" was her own unsavoury past re- vealed, and then Mr. Justice Finlay sentenced her to six months' im- prisonment.
"Thank you, my lord," she cried, as she burst out laughing, and, shouted "Splendid !”
She added, "He was always burglar and always will be.”
Mr. H. E. Arnholz, for the defence, said that the real issue to be decided was whether Coates or Firth were speaking the truth.
The booking beyond Stolbzy is also done in Harbin, and it should be noted that unless one stipulates for London via Warsaw, Berlin and Paris, one is booked via Warsaw, Berlin, Liege and Ostende, and ao, far as time, la concerned, there fs no difference between
the two
Each should land us on routes. If that this occasion in London (Victoria that Station) at 4.80 p.m. on Thursday, April 19, this trip therefors will have taken 10 days from Shanghai, of which four were spent in Har- bin.
Firth said he had reformed, added counsel, but the prisoner said he was still a housebreaker and a leader of crime in Leeds. was so it was a good thing these facts should come out.
Mr. C. J. Frankland said it was clear that it was the desire of Coates to hurt and push back to crime a man who was trying to escape from it.
...
The Judge said it was quite an exceptional case, and it was a case of some importance.
Woman's Own Past,
Coates was then found "Gu lty," and Detective-Inspector Kettring- ham said she was a native of Peter- borough.
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As a child, said the detective, she developed immoral habits, and
Obliging and Courteous,
As the oficials were most oblig- ing and courteous in arranging all the details in connection with the Journey and as the conductors and did the attendants on the train everything they could for the com- fort and convenience of the pas- Lengers, this trip has certainly been a most pleasant and enjoy- able one..
at 14 years of age was sent to the "Herewith time table from Mos-
After-cow to London:
In tones' vibrant with indignation, prosecuting counsel, Mr. C. J. House of Mercy at Chester. Frankland, said that in the past wards she went to the House of Re- Harry Firth had lived a life of fuge at Stockport, thence to a home crime and had served terms of im- in Nottingham and afterwards to prisonment totalling fifteen years. Kesterton, from which place she When he was last released from was discharged owing to her bad prison, however, he vowed to go behaviour. straight, and it was to his undying credit that since April, 1926, he had led an honest life and followed re- gular employment.
She returned to Peterborough, where she led an Immoral life, and from October, 1912, till July, 1913, was in the Kesterton Asylum.
Firth, said counsel, obtained work. In August, 1916, she married a and as a joiner, and a few weeks later man named Frank Coates, told the directors of the firm all the came to live at Leeds, where she facts, and they decided to give him continued her evil habita. a chance and reposed trust in him, which had been justified. He was now a foreman with them.
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In June, 1926, Firth met Jessie Coates, and had relations with her. After a few weeks he tried to break off the relationship, and Coates then began a campaign of vilification and abuse, doing her best to drag him down to the depths from which he had risen.
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MONDAY, MAY 28, 1928.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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puzzle.)
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There is a true story of an ardent and eccentric pearl-lover who, after frequenting Christie's for many years, contrived to collect and pay for a £100,000 rope of graduated pearls which he always wore himself "underneath a singlet," дв he used to express it to his intimates. On his death three fine necklaces were strung from
rope, and became
the
Since May, 1923, the Chief Con- stable. of Leeds had received from her 110 letters, the Deputy Chief 12 letters, one superintendent 15, another superintendent 25, and other officers of police 25-a total of SHANGHAI'S PARKS. bought for about £5,000. Such an 187-making serious allegations (all of them unjustified) against the moral character of police officers. She had also accused the police of having given imformation to ex- convicts, and particularly Harry Firth, calculated to shield them. There was no essence of truth in any of her allegations.
Since she was balled out on the
COMMENT ON THEIR CLOSURE AT SUNSET.
The following letter was last week sent to the Editor of the
SATURDAY'S SOLUTION.
AMUSE
AS
famous as £50,000 pearl necklaces., that when the two were offered at auction in 1892 the combined As every judge of gems knows, there are varieties of values, and a prices (which failed to exceed the very good pearl necklace may be reserves) came to only 410gs.
Each is of small size, 291⁄2in, by example appeared at Christie's in 24ina., and the man, John Gawler, a £30,000 jewel anle, and was in- K.C., is depicted in his hunting- cluded in the property of the late, coat leaning on a table and hold. Mrs. Kathleen Rickards. For this ing a quill as if prepared to write. sound necklace of 59 graduated This realised 1,250gs, given by pearls Mr. S. H. Harria, gave Mesers. Anew, who also bought the In 1892 the first was withdrawn at 110gs, collar of brillianta. 5,350; having paid £720 for a lady's portrait for 760gs.
The big sum of £1,850 was given and the latter at 800ge. Yet a by Mr. Ben Simon for a clover-leaf little calculation in compound in- brooch of four large drop brilliants, terest will prove that the realisa-
In May last year she sont a letter to his employers, in which she de- scribed Firth
dangerous,
"N. C. Daily Newa”---- deceitful, and plausible man, and
Sir,-Through the "Revised Re- also alleged that he had been living
her Immoral earnings. The present charge, she had repeatedly gulations" published in the Muni letter, said counsel, was a tissue of written letters on lines embodied in cipal Gazette the Public Garden and in Mrs. Rickards's casket was tion approximates to 410ga. with falsehoods.
the present charge. Firth, since will be in future exclusively
rea ring of a single brilliant, £1,440 Interest added since 1892. Coatea then visited Firth'a em 1926, had been working hard to served for babies, unemployed and (Janesich). Sent by a foreign The years 1892 will always be CO.ployers, but the man had previously retrieve his past, and this woman loafers-every hard-working man nobleman, an emerald and brilliant remembered in sale annals for the disclosed his past to them, and she had done all she could to force him who cannot go out before sunset necklace of a key-pattern brought great Dudley dispersal which was ordered away. Eventually the back into a life of crime...
being automatically locked out £4,600, and a two-row pearl neck brought close upon £100,000 on police had to be called in.
from the parks, thanks to the wis-lace of 169 pearls, £1,860 (Drum- June 25-a collection comparable dom of the Council.
mond). Later, Coates sent a letter to a i
with the Holford. But 36 years "THE CHINA MAIL," General frm at whoso premises Firth was į
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Firth, in evidence, said he was released from Dartmoor in April, 1926, after serving three years' penal servitude. When he tried to
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I sincerely hope that your news- A pair of portraits by Sir Joshua ago the maximum for a picture Mr. Henry Waterman, of the paper in defence of the interests of Reynolds, P.R.A., of a sporting was only £11,180, given for U.S. Consular Service, and Mrs. the citizens will use all the in attorney and of his good lady Raphael's "Crucifixion," now form- Waterman, who have been trans-fluence to convince the authorities (obviously the mistress in her ing part of the munificant Ludwig ferred from Shanghai to Saigon, in queation that the Public Garden house), for which the president Mond bequest to the nation. The leave by the U.S.8. "Chaumont" and the parks must be kept apan in was paid 70gs in 1776, brought highest price for any Reynolds in for North China on a brief holiday summer to midnight as before. 2,012. ga. at Puttick and Simpson's 1892 was 4,100gs., for his Lady and will return to Shanghai a few days before June 16, on which lat ter date they will sail for their new! home.
I am,. etc.,
A. V. I. S. Shanghal, May 19, 1928.
BRINGING 'UP FATHER
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