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ECHOES & MEMORIES.
THE POLICE MUSEUM.
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DECADE.
LARGE INCREASE.
While - smallpox has increased
BENCH.
SPOKE TO THE JURY.
[By Edgar Wallace.]
During the hearing in the Berlin-If you think in drama in Great Britain during the last King's Bench Division of a claim you see druma in all the common ten years, there has been a re-for damages for injuries receiv- place things of life, because markable decrease in other Euro.ed by reason of a defective cab drama is of the commonplace.
door the jury, by direction of Mr. There was a shablily dressed pean countries, according to a re-Justice Humphreys, inspected the woman in the Pullman going down port issued by the Health Organ-cab. On their return into Court isation of the League of Nations. his Lordship inquired who was to Dover who had a little square It is stated that in 1927 there the person who blue card which she kept in her
accompanied hand. Pinned to it was a large were 14,931 cases in Great Bri- them, atates the "Morning. Post." brooch at which she glanced contain, as compared with only 6,841 Counsel sald that Inspector tinuously. She was rather cases in the rest of Europe. No Docwra, of the Carriage Licens pretty. She had been crying. Icases at all were reported from ing Department did so.
while Bulgaria, Addressing the Inspector, Mr. saw her at Calais she was on the Switzerland, Nord Express. She was sitting Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark, Hun-Justice Humphreys said: Were in a corner of a sleeper, smoking gary, Lithuania and Roumania you present in Court when I gave a cigarette, and was reading, with have been free from the disease instructions that persons accom every evidence of amusement, in the early part of this year. In panying the jury must not speak letter which obviously she had Russia the number of cases drop-to the jury at all? opened on the train. At Brussels Ped from 186,755 in 1919 she left us. Looking down from 16,547 in 1926.
In many countries the system my window at the Adlon, which
Did you get into this cab with commands a view of Unter den of notification is not so efficient as three members of the jury and Linden, I saw her driving in a that in Great Britain and this, to discuss the question of the cab Rolls, magnificently attired. She certain extent, may account for or the mechanism of the lock 7
to
1
Inspector Docwra-I had no in Lord.
was with another woman, appar the small, number of cases re- Yea, I explained the mechanism ently a maid or some sort of ser- ported. It is noteworthy, how-of the lock to them.
ever, that vaccination is compul-
vant.
:: Uneasiness.
་
"Why did you disobey my ex- What did it mean the brooch sory in almost every country in press orders?" asked the Judge. the tears, the change of attire? Europe.
Inspector Docwra-I had no in- To me, drama. To somebody
tention of doing so. I did so for elec, a very deep sex story.
-In England, where the inci- the sole reason of assisting the One of the Berlin newspapers dence of the disease has mounted jury in arriving at an explanation asked me if I would be photo- steadily since 1917, when only as to how the door could be on full graphed in the streets with a seven cases were reported, the lock or part lock. Berlin policeman. I hate that sort situation is causing considerable Mr. Justice Humphreys - In of publicity, but I was obliging, uneasiness. The Ministry of other words, you were trying to The policeman was a fine speciHealth official told a "Morning assist the jury to arrive at a men of a man. An ex-sergeant-Post" representative that the verdict on a statement not made major. Most of the police in Ber-mild form of the disease that has in open court. Don't you know, lin are ex-N.C.O.'s-that is why been prevalent. recently has as an inspector of police, that the they are the smartest and most brought a falling-off in the prac-jury have to decide questions efficient uniformed police in tice of vaccination. At the pre-upon statements on oath and not Europe.
sent time, he said, only 40 per upon things said to them pri- You never see an old policeman, cent,, of the babies born are be-vately? because they only serve ten ing vaccinated.
Inspector Docwra later gave years, when they retire with a A novel feature of recent evidence for the defence, and at gratuity of £250 and new N.C.O.'s epidemics, too, has been the the conclusion of his summing up take their place.
heavy incidence in casual wards Mr. Justice Humphreys said to
My policeman and I had a little a fact that may have played no him: chat through an interpreter. He little part in the spreading of the "I know something of your re- guided my hand to a big hole in disease.
cord in the police force. I believe his shoulder and another in his It is possible that some re- that it was entirely an act of arm. He was
on the French inforcement to the present com- stupidity on your part when you front, Shrapnel. In his leg a few pulsory powers of vaccination in discussed this matter with the. machine-gun bullets. There are Britain will be recommended by jury, and that you did not intend scores of London policemen siml-the Department Committee set to disobey any orders or to in- larly marked. Ade
up by the Ministry of Health influence the jury in any way im-
A detachment of Berlin police 1926 to consider this subject.
is coming to London to study
traffic problems if my policeman
is one of these I'm going to get
properly.
"Extremely Unwise.”.
"Having said this I do not pro- pose to take any action in the
him acquainted with a fellow BETS TAX EVASION. matter, but I hope that for the
sufferer. But to me he is drama
there is a story in him and a play in him.
ECHOES AND MEMORIES.
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credit of yourself and the force to which you belong, you will not do such an extremely unwise thing #gain."
She
Out on Wansee you pass the Fines ranging from £ and five It was claimed on behalf of the estate of Prince Leopold, a guineas costs to £152 and twenty plaintiff, a visitor to London, that brother of the ex-Emperor, guineas costs, and amounting in all when she had entered the cab one of the doors flew open, with the Leopold does not come to Gerto £974, with 216 gulceas costa, many. When the revolution came were imposed by the Leeds stipen-esult that she fell out and re-
ceived severe concussion. he hoisted the red flag. He de diary magistrate on thirty-four alleged that the driver-owner signed to play Philippe Egalite book-tzmkers, who were summoned was negligent in not seeing that though the fate of that copper for offences relating to the betting the door was securely shut. faced philanderer with revolution tax.
The jury returned a verdict in might well have been a lesson, to The proceedings arose out of her favour and awarded her him. The Grand Duke Cyril did visits paid by Customs and Excise £350. damages. They also award- the same sort of thing in the days officials to the Leeds Greyhound raced her husband £160 for special when Kerensky was sneaking into
ing track
Judgment was entered accord- ingly.
COMMON FIRES.
the shoes of Lvoy-affixing red Mr. Walter Hedley, KC, for the put through her illness.
expenses to which he had been bows to his bosom and volun tarily discarding his shoulder-Customs and Excise, said. "Netori straps. And here is the fine ous evasions of the tax have caused es ute of Leopold, with its byzan- grave anxiety at the Treasury." tine towers, but without Leopold, In Imposing the fines, the stipen- The drama in that is the asso. diary remarked, "You embarked ciation between the three princes upon a very systematic and deliber- who sought a cheap popularity ate scheme for defrauding the Re- with the nigb and had in exchange venue. You might have stood in the worst kind of "pant-kik.” another court on a much graver
And here's the Garrison charge than this which would have, During discussion on common Church at Potsdam, scaffold poles involved a lengthy term of imprison-fires at Churt by the Farmhamı about it and its pavements worn ment. I do not intend to disqualify Rural. Council, it was stated that by the feet of soldiers who will you, because I realise that the great the lord of the manor had tranh- march no more. Here on Sunday proportion of you depend upon bet-ferred his interest in the commen
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to... the Commons Preservation Society, and the Council passed a resolution that representations should be made to the society with a view to the appointment of a hands with the soldier of Police personally conducted me caretaker, who should collect fees Frederick the Great, whose through the museum.
from motorista parking on the medallioned head looks down upon An interesting place very common in order that a fund the tender anachronism. Pots melodramatic. The walls cover might be avaliable for guarding dam with its handful of soldiersed with the photographs of half.
is a desert of a place, and the wits on the psychology of which Carelessness on the part of great barracks ring hollowly to Lam something of an authority, visitors, which, in his opinton, The murderers by imitation amounted to criminal negligence, the tread.
In Berlin came very excellent were particularly interesting was stated by Mr. W. W. Balumper, comedy. There came to my sit- One felt that, in happler circum LC, to be responsible for the ting-room a smart young man stances and without their homi Aren. It was not true, he added, with many golden teeth. Under cidal urges, they might have been that the free were caused by his arm a portfolio. He had an copying a great critic and saying broken glass. During the week he air of importance he was, in that I could not write love scenes was driving past Frensham, and deed, a Freiherr von und Zu. Here is the wax mask of a man saw thres men light a fire on the At the time. I was expecting a taken after his head had been common by the roadside to boll a messenger from the Foreign struck from his body by the exe kettle. He had the firs put out, Office to conduct me to the open-cutioner's axe. He is smiling and used language to them that ing of the Reichstag.
at some quiet joke. He, too, may was unprintable We bowed-he effectively. As have recovered his sense of
The stats of the common Was for me, I wear rubber heels, humour at a moment when such which refuse to click
4 recovery was of the greatest readful, be continued. Visitors assistance. Criminals have that left not only litter but putrefying matter, and it was not poor peopla sense but rarely
My interesting cicerone was
who left champagne bottles about
We would ask you if you have Iseen our criminal museum," said
I said I had not. Had I been waiting for me at the end, or threw them into the pond. invited? He was annoyed andYes, I wanted you to see our The larger the motor car that pained. Such carelessness on the criminal museum-I am very brought people to the common, the part of the Police President proud of it as a citizen of Berlin, greater the amount of litter, Would I come with him? 6xed What am I? Oh, I am a criminalle an hour and we journeyed to have just done alx years. Police Headquarters, -as
THE POLICE MUSEUM.
He would not fake money from Mr. Jabez Wolffe, the swimmer, his staggered companion.
will Bay this for the police, was most charming: that, true to their trad resident received me they did not betray
good-looking gentle understand that when
minal tax and drove me ba
The chief of
who looked like
ards officer
The Commissionel
hatel two detectives see that I did
who'cunched Miss Hilda her Channel swim, French women who were in of drowning off Boulogners
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