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DEATH IN SHANGHAI
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A correspondent writes to the "N. C. Daily News of Thursday last:
“CRYSTAL-GAZER”
THIEF IN LEAGUE WITH A FORTUNE TELLER
WOMAN TRICKED
“MADAME X”
MYSTERY WOMAN EVEN TO HER HUSBAND
SECRET FEARS OF HER PAST
Mra. Kate Jackson-known also as "Madame X". died in Swanses Hospital recently from head injuries inflicted by an unknown assailant outride her bungalow at the Mumbles. Formerly Mrs. Jack- son lived for a time near Frimley, Surrey, and she had been a mytery woman for many years.
A Chinese woman who lost a watch consulted a fortune-teller and enlisted, his help to trace the It was with deep emotion that missing article. It so happened the many friends of the re that the man who stole the time ligiouses Auxiliatrices learned keeper was in league with the yesterday morning of the death fortune-teller, and between them of the Reverend Mother of St. they hatched a plot. Francois, The Reverend Mother The woman was asked to part de St. Francois arrived in Shang-with $3 before the fortune-teller hai in 1886. Since then, save for could invoke his "god" to tell him several months during which the where the watch was hidden. The state of her health forbade it, she woman did so, and the real thief cr. has never ceased to exercise the went, to her house and "secreted brightest zeal, indefatigable the watch in a corner. charity, in the most different cir- cumstances.
The fortune-teller then directed the woman where to locate the missing article. She certainly found the watch, but it later dawned on her that she had been tricked.
The Institution of St. Joseph, through which pass thousands of children who should carry into later life filial memories of her who had loved and known them The "crystal-gazer" was brought there, was the nursery whence before Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith at came all that in Shanghai might the Kowloon Magistracy yester exercise a Christian and charit- day afternoon and sentenced to able influence. Up to the last six weeks' imprisonment. minute her ear was turned to- wards those and they are numerous to whom she might be a help.
There were few circumstances in which under the call of want, she did not rise to the occasion. For abandoned babes there was the Creche St. Monique, for all little ones the Institution de St. Joseph des Champs, for young girls whom the necessities of life had forced to work a protection, and for the old poor a house of retreat
We do not doubt that the old chapel in Rue Montauban where she has for more than 40 years done her good works will be filled with friends when Requiem mass is said on Tuesday next, April 2, at 7.30 a.m. We offer our pro- found and respectful sympathy to the Reverend Mother Superior and to the Mothers who have shared the labours of the Rever- end Mother de St. Francois.
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"Certainly she has been so in my eyes since I married her," her husband remarked to an interview-
Aa "Madame X.” Two years ago she figured as a public mystery when she was giver the name of "Madame X" at the Old Bailey, in a case where she acknowledged having received some thousands of pounds from 'n man ́ who was sentenced for fraud. She was a good-looking woman, a year or so older than her husband, who is a man of about 35, a fishmonger who has a big outdoor round in Swansea. He was wounded in thej war, and became acquainted with his wife in a Strand restaurant.
A high police official made this cryptic remark:"If she had died sooner the mystery of her death might have been easier to solve." A week before, an assailant in E lonely road, who has not yet.. bean traced, clubbed her in the darkness and vanished. It was only 裁 minute after she had parted from a woman friend, Mrs. Dimmock, after the pair had been to the | pictures together.
Mr. Jackson explained that he had already given the police enough. information for them to write a book.
"I told them the whole of our life, every word," he said. "Over and over again."
He was questioned about the secret fears his wife had had.
"They belong to her past," he I said, "when she mixed with society and had plenty of money. Many & time I have tried to solve it all, bat, no, she would not tell me.”
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The suggestion that Mrs. Jackson Ralph Connor, the well known was someone far more than the Canadian novelist, collected recent daughter of a labourer has, the ly from-a-half-breed voyageur in police state, now been definitely ex- the Canadian Northweat a highly cluded. They have established the Washington, March 26. interesting folksong which was I fact to their complete satisfaction, President Hoover to-day an- sang at the Vancouver Sea Music, by means of a deformed thumb-nall; nounced the appointment of Mr. Festival in January by Ulysse that she was Kate Atkinson, đaugh- Edgar French Strother, a Demo-Baquin, of Montreal.
ter of a farm labourer, who lived in crat and former writer for the This song is half French, kalfWray, Lancashire. New York "World," leading English, the first part being the Democratic organ, as a research, story of a habitant Colin while the
Mr. M. Andal, the late Band- expert on the presidential staff to chorus is an English sea charty, master of the Perak State Band, assemble data on technical ques-"Blow ye winds of morning." This who early this year retired tions.
bi-lingual song appears to have pension after serving the Govern Mr. Strother has a wide reputa-been popular many years ago at a ment for 33 years, has come to tion as an editorial and research time when white pine was exportSingapore from Ipoh en route for expert. He was long associated ed in large quantities on the old the Philipine Islands. with the magazine "World's sailing ships from Quebec which Work," being associate editor carried overseas the logs rafted from 1923 to 1926. He was down the St. Lawrence from the editor of the "California Weekly" Ottawa River. The word 'chanty in San Francisco during 1909-10 is considered by some authorities and is a director of the Graden as connected with the 'shanties' of City, N.Y." Bank.
He was born in Marshall, Mis-quently were
the Quebec lumberjacks who fre Sailora as well as souri, in 1883.-United Press.
woodsmen and always sang at their work. According to Ralph Connor,
from
Major J.-C. G. Spooner, the new Engineer for Ways and Works, who succeeded Mr. R. W. Hiam, who has recently retired Government Service, is inspecting all the railway bridges lying be- tween Kuala Lumpur. and Ipoh...
Mr. Jack Melford and Mias
SEAPLANE BURNED the half-breed or metis from whom Dorothy Irene Mallory-Corbett,
he recorded this song was a hand-who are appearing, in "Mr. Cin- some chap with beautiful voice and ders" at the Adelphi Theatre, were was 2 firat-class married at Paddington Register Office recently.
Manila, March 27. Fire late last night destroyed gamers and the United States Navy seaplane canoeman, U-01, which burst into flames while it was being tuned up pre- paratory for night flight aerial
manœuvres.
The pilot D. W. Derry and the radio officer E. W. Kempsey, who were in the seaplane when the lames burst forth, leaped to safety and were rescued by the ife-boat "Heron."
Officials said the U-01 prob- ably is a total loss.---United Press.
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