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TOBACCO KING'S ESTATE
G.$60,000,000
LEAVES BULK OF HIS FORTUNE TO DAUGHTER
$1,000,000 FOR CHARITY'
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New York, Yesterday.
INFACTUATED MAN ITALY AND THE
£6,000 BONDS AND A VILLA
DISPUTED SIGNATURE
VATICAN
VEXED QUESTION
AUTHORITY
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EXTRATERRITORIAL RIGHTS
The story of a middle-aged man's SOLUTION AS TO TEMPORAL infactuation was told to Mr. Justice Ayory and a special jury in the King's Bench Division, Londen, re- cently, when Mrs. Ella Wingfield, of Conduit-street, Weped Mr. Edwin
It is stated on "good authority Porty, Harvey, of Oulmore' Croft, Whitley, Surrey, for £150 upon a that an agreement has been reach- bond to secure the payment by him ed as to a solution of the question her of £600 per annum in quar-dealing with the temporal authority of the Vatican, which has long vex- terly. Instalments.
Mr. Benjamin Duke has left his daughter the bulk of his estate, which is valued at $60,000,000, and has bequeathed $1,000,000 to char-to ity-Reuter's American Service.
[Mr. Duke, whose death was an nounced on the 8th inst.. was known as the "Tobacco King."]
BOER MONUMENT
SIR A. CONAN DOYLE'S APOLOGY
A MISUNDERSTANDING.
Cape Town.-Sir Conan Doyle's outburst to an interviewer in the Bloemfontein Nationalist on the subject of the monument to the women and children who died in the concentration camps during the Anglo-Boer war, has a stormy įpequel..
The "Volksblad" has published many angry letters of protest. The Mayer Incontinently withdrew his promise to preside at Sir Conan Doyle's lecture on spiritualism. A number of young men, headed by a barrister, demonstrated outside Sir Conan's hotel, and in his absence listened to a speech of protest be fore dispersing. Sir Conan Doyle has since apologised and retracted
In a letter to the "Volksblad."
|
Rome, Yesterday.
The Agreement extends the Vati
territory on the south-
Mrs. Wingfield, who was described Italian politicians and the
Church. | ed as Mr. Harvey's former mistress, said that he had settled £600 a year on her for life by means of this can bond, but Mr. Harvey denied that he cast of the Vatican gardens for executed the bond. Alternatively, everal hundred acres. This will enjoy extraterritorial rights and he said that his signature was ob- form a small State somewhat on the tained by fraud, the alleged fraud lines of San Marino. being that his signature was ob
The Italian Government will also tained to a blank piece of paper, abrogate the Law of Guarantees of which was afterwards filled with the, 1871, which the Papacy never ac- wording of the bond.
knowledged, and will grant the
It was stated in the course of the Pope an indemnity, estimated at case that at various times Mr. 1,000,000 gold lire towards losses Harvey had given Mrs. Wingfield sustained through Its fail of tem- £6,000 in bearer bonds and a villajporal power. Router. in the South of France.
Sergeant Sullivan KC., opening the plaintiffs case said that Mrs. Wingfield was married in 1911, but her husband left her, and
she adopted a certain means of livelihood. She met Mr. Harvey in 1922 at a house of resort, which she had established in East-Chapel- street.
"Utterly Infatuated"
JAPAN'S VIEW
YANG YU-TING'S DEATH IN MANCHURIA
Tokyo, Yesterday. Although no new facts appear to have emerged regarding Yang in Manchuria, "Mr. Harvey, who was a married Yu-ting's death man separated from his wife, ap- official circles are less reticent than parently became utterly infatuated at first in voicing their opinions. with
her," said. Sorgeant Future developments are being Sullivan. "He became half watched closely and it is frankly crazy about her, but this admitted that his death is regard- No one (he says) has written sordid romance was interrupted ed as a blow to Japanese inter- more sympathetically of the Boers for some months when the police cats, as Yang Yu-ting had of late than myself, and I paid my due res-raided the establishment and she been friendly disposed to Japan, pects, hat in hand, at De Wet's was sent to gaol." grave. When, however, I examined the monument my ignorance of Dutch led me astray, and decipher- ing words which seemed to me to attribute the death of these poor women and children to their treat, ment by the British, I used rather a warm expression with regard, not to the monument to them, but to al statement which would naturally pain any Briton.
and "showed an understanding of When she came out of prison the their position."
The Japanese spokesman szem. was met by Mr. Harvey, and she agreed to become his mistress. In ed to think that the "Nationalist September, 1923, he made a will to control of Manchurian affairs will be extended gradually, thereby in- secure for her £650 a year, and he creasing Japan's difficulties." gave her £6,000 worth of bearer honda. He took her to the Pyrenees and bought her a villa in the South of France, where they lived together
Reuter.
as Mr. and Mrs. Harvey. In Octo- London, Yesterday-The gold It has been shown to me that I ber of that year, however, he re-medal of, the Royal Astronomical mialaterpreted the real meaning of turned to his wife in England. Society has been awarded to Prof. the phrase, and this being so, I Then began a correspondence in Ejnar Hertzsprung of the Leiden cannot do less than express regret which he said that he did not know Observatory, Holland, for his de- and withdraw the remark.
how he was going to get on with his termination of the distance of Ma- The "Argus" hopes that this | wife.
gellanic clouds, and other pioneer- unpleasant incident will teach a
re-ing work in stellar astronomy.-- Icsson not merely to Sir Conan turned to London, and they met British Wireless Service. Doyle, but to some of his critics. occasionally. In August, 1926, Mr.
Afterwards Mrs. Wingfield
over-
It points out that there is a dis-Harvey discussed what provision he Chambery, Yesterday-Twelve position on the part of certain Na-ahould make for her future, and he French skiers on an excursion from tionalist papers, from time to time, proposed that instead of the £660 a Annecy to Montjovet were to repeat accusations against the year left in the will the should give whelmed by an avalanche and car British as though their truth was her a bond for £600 a year during ried eight hundred yarde. Eight one of the commonplaces of history. her life, payable in quarterly instad- managed to dig themselves out, Now that their own susceptibilities ments of £160. A document was though some were slightly injured, have been wounded, the authors of made out to this effect in which Mr, but three of the remaining ones these reckless imputations will per-
Harvey "was described as "of the were killed.-Reuter.
EARLY haps be better able to understand the feelings of their fellow English Junior Constitutional Club," Picca-
dilly." speaking. South Africans.
Four instalments had been paid) under the bond, and Mrs. Wingfield was now suing for the instalment due in September, 1927.
The Italian Chamber adopted the Téalo-Turkish nentiality and con-
Mrs. Wingfield gave evidence, and ciliation treaty of May, 1928, by 223 was asked by Mr. Roland Oliver, to 5 votes, Signor Mussolini re- KC, for the defence, whether the marking that Turkey knew I could depend on the absolute loyalty of the Fascist Government,
had ever liked Mr. Harvey.
"I did not dislike him before these proceedings, and I like him et," she said. “I was very fond of him
lunatics who don't change their minds. (Laughter.).
Mr. Oliver: Mr. Harvey is not a lunatic? No, but he is very change shie
-Defendant's Income,
When Mrs. Wingfield said she did not know what income Mr. Harvey possessed, Mr. Oliver, said: "But Barely you remember the figure Sir John, Chancellor, the new before these proceedings, and I am High Commissioner and Comman at the present time. But he is proved at the last hearing of the der-in-Chief in Palestine, arrived at man who changes his mind a great that this case has already been tried case. The jury have got to know Ternada and left for Jerusalem by dead." special train.
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"I Do Not Disapprove" The Duke of Newcastle, when Lady Doria came to the shown the report said United States In October, ac "My daughter is in New
10 companied by har brother but did not know that she had Mri Oliver waid that Mr. Harvey's and Miss Leonora Highet, and took any thoughts of going into a contention was that on the after a position at £5 'n work in a fashion- She: bas always, shown herself in- noon when he put his signature to able shop in Fifth avenue. She has clined to do something in bush
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