THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1933.^
STOEFFEN AND
AN OLD TRICK
REPLAYED
$5 Roll of Lead.
CHEAT GETS 6 WEEKS' HARD LABOUR
THE CHINA MAIL.
SPAIN'S
"TRILBY"
MURDERED
LOTT WIN U.S.
DOUBLES TITLE Titanic Struggle Goes To 65 Games. CRAWFORD'S CHALLENGE ON A round piece of lead, wrapped in, A BRILLIANT SCHOLAR AND
AUTHOR AT 14
SATURDAY
paper, figuring as a $5 roll of ten- cent pieces, was used by Chan Sam
Strange Drama In Madrid.
Ir
To-Day's Short Story.
The Collaborator
again?
excuses for him.
By M. Armitage.
TAVEN in his seminary days without another word of exhorta- Father Bartolommeo, of the non. He was annoyed with him- ¡Church of San S., in Rome, had self. His little fish had wriggled out of the net. What did the youngį Madrid. longed to become a composer. Brookline, To-day.
an unemployed Chinese, who was
Trilby is dead with four bullets As the lengthy crocodile man's words mean? Could be be a George M. Lott and L J. Stoef- charged at the Central Police Court in her heart. All Madrid is mourn wound its tortuous way down the pot? A composer? Would he come Witnout realning it, the young fen won the American National, this morning with obtaining $5 by ing her and discussing the extra-crowded streets he put jingling
ordinary drama that lies behind her tunes to the passing feet. When man occupied a good deal of his Doubles Championship yesterday means of a trick.
Iragic end.
the crocodile disintegrated in the He was sentenced to six weeks" when they beat Frank X. Shields!
She is alleged to have been shot Borghese Gardens and scattered thoughts, and he began to make hard labour and ordered to pay the by her mother as she slept. like a flock of jackdawa (under "There were extenuating circum- and Frank Parker. another Ameri-complamant, Tsang Yaro, of Her real name was Hildegart and strict clerical supervision) he had
stances. Those brown eyes with their long silken lashes would play can combination. by 11-13, 9-7 Jardine's Bazaar, $2.20 which he she was beloved by the workers of visions of writing grand opera.
Spain for her compassionate heart He came of a musical family. His havoc with the fair ser. Young 9-7, 6-3.-Reuter.
aropped when he was chased by the
and her fight for the underdog. grandfather had been a composer of blood is hot. A Neapolitan uses his Thousands attended her funeral Having made a clean sweep in police.
real merit. He had been left an knife on the smallest provocation." Much stranger than fiction is the
!orphan at an early age, and for Ugo Vanni came again to San S. the Women's Singles, the Mixed Detective Inspector Nolloth said
family reasons the Church had and waited about to make sure that Doubles Championships, in which that the accused purchased a tin of astonishing story of a. mother who
possessed the powers of a Svengali claimed him. He had no vocation F. Bartolommeo was in the confes- all the finalists were home play milk from the complainant's shop and set to work to fashion a Trilby, for the Church; the nasal singing sional.
cents. He tendered a $10
All Spain is asking: Did Aurora
"Is that you, Father?" of the choir and the mediocre organ ers, America will be severely for 64
Inote and received $9.36 in charge.
Rodriguez possess Bupernatural
The voice which answered him tortured his sensitive car. Sacred challenged for the Men's Singles He then walked to the front of the
And was Hildegart just a powers?
music made no appeal. He repress-was familiar. He pushed a thin roll Championship, which commences shop and returned saying that the
puppet in ner hands?
ed his longing to write secular of paper through the grille with a milk was too costly.
The story is that Aurora
music, and as the years went on he shamefaced Laugh. Accused handed back the
Rodriguez discovered she had became a conscientious priest. and the money, substituting what
peculiar powers while training a purported to be a $5 note of 10 cent young boy, Pepito Arriola, to become pieces for $i genuine mency, and re- a musician. ceived his $10 note in exchange.
at Forest Hills on Saturday.
Jack Crawford, holder of the Wimbledon, French, and Australian titles, Fred Perry. Britain's leading player, and Jiro Satoh, the Japanese ace, are all expected to compete,
milk
[
"I have dotted down an air. Tell me what you think of it when next I come as a penitent.”
Through the cheap paper F. Bartolommeo caught sight of five) rules lines mad the treble and bass clefs. He looked up, but the young "My son, do you, too, want to con-man had turned away and was leav-
ing the church.
! She made a brilliant player of him One day be noticed a young man He was about to leave the shop but immediately the child was lingering
near the confessionals, when the complainant discovered the
rick and chased him. During the separated from her by his parents unable to make the plunge.
ne became a mediocrity. He lost Crawford, the 25-year-old Chase the defendant dropped part of his touch.
Australian Davis Cup captain, is attempting to establish a new re- cord in the annals of lawn tennis by winning the four major titles' in the world.
HELEN WILLS NOT RETIRING
To Compete For 1934 U.S. Title.
DOES NOT REGRET HER DEFAULT
the money and only $8.10 was re- covered.
MR. A. HENDERSON
NOMINATED
Labour Candidate For Clay Cross Division.
white.
London
So the woman decided to have a child of her own and to make it a' inasterpiece, a genius.
fcss?**
The voice was sympathetic. Ugo Vanni moved towards the unseen
She actually went to the lengths speaker and gave a picturesque ac- of publishing the fact that she bad count of an ugly crime.
sought out a Scandinavian of fine F. Bartolommeo urged him to tell
physique to be the father of her the
authorities.
Some innocent to suffer. Ugo! enild. She refused to let him see person was bound Hildegart when the baby was born. 'shrugged his shoulders. The crime was over and done with. What did it matter?
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "The String Of Glass," by Ruth Alexander.
manner.
*
•
Abnormal Knowledge. Hildegart, proving brilliantly
He seemed to be well educated, was clever from her early days, wha
F. Bartolomeo tucked the roll into 'nurtured with the greatest care and remarkably good-looking, his laugh!
was free and easy, and he was not his acutane with a pleasurable sen- by special methods. Her mother
Bartolommeosation. The maker of melody can Mr. Arthur Henderson, the Bri- deliberately overfed her and would without charm. F.
been established with a soul strug- fish Labour statesman and Pre- give her 12 raw egge after a hearty reasoned with him, admonished him, never be wholly had, and contact had
meal. At 11 years of age the girl coaxed him, all to no purpose. sident to the Disarmament Con- looked like 15.
"It is you and men like you who sing to express itself in the noblest ference, has been nominated Par, Her capacity for absorbing know- make the divine harmony a hideous liamentary Labour candidate for ledge developed on a corresponding discord, who change a cheerful|
The air had decided possibilities, the Clay Cross Division of Derby, scale. At 14 years she became an melody (for happiness is song) into and there were four empty staves San Francisco, To-day.
Advocate. Her mother obtained scream of pain, and pizzicato_nf Helen Wills-Moody, who suffered The vacancy is due to the death be known simply as "Hildegart."
letters patent authorised the girl to laughter becomes the death rattle crying out to be filled.
The lure of those empty lines Is life then of no account?"
proved too great a temptation. F. her first setback in seven years of Mr. C. Duncan, the Labour men' Two years later she had taken a Ugo's face softened; is lost its Bartolomeo ruled another set on a
degree as a Doctor in Science and flippant sneer.
sheet of paper, nad crotchets and when she was forced to leave theber, who defeated Mr. J. Weinbers'
(National Liberal) in the last Gen- Letters, She might have won her "You make me almost in love with quavers fell over each other in haste. court owing to an injured leg in the eral Election by 21.103 votes to medical degree, only she threw up life, Father.. I must make a new Not for years had he enjoyed him- Final Round of the American Na-11,011.
her studies in disgust, declaring song of my life and bring it to yourself so much. When at length he was Mr. Henderson W3B Foreign that "Spanish medical faculties to harmonise."
satisfied he took Ugo's sheet, set! tional Championship against Helen Secretary in the Labour Govern could teach her nothing."
F. Bartolommeo' was 10 taken down the air, naked as a five-finger] Jacobs at Forest Hills, has no in- ment formed in June, 1929, but later
At the age of 14 Hildegart took a aback that he let the young man go exercise, and then amplified it and resigned, owing to disagreement'
prominent part as a lecturer and
Imade of it a thing of beauty. tention of giving up tennis.
with Mr. Ramsay MacDonald over) Mrs. Moody hopes to compete the question of unemployment bene. Campaigner against the White Slave in the National Singles Cham-fits, and for a time led the Opposi public came, every kiosk exhibited
pionship in-1934.
Mrs. Moody said that she did not regret her action of defaulting when 3-0 down in the final set against Helen Jacobs, and said that she would have expected her op- ponent to have done likewise had the position been versed.
re-
The former champion is to rest
CAT BURGLAR. IN WANCHAL
Cool Retort When Challenged.
ition in the House of Commons.
In the last General Election, how ever, he was defeated by Rear-Ad- miral G. Campbell, the National can- didate, at Burnley and has been out of Parliament, ever since.-Reuter.
BIRMINGHAM DROP POINTS - AT ST. ANDREW'S
Continued from Page 1.)
Traffic in Spain. When the Re-
on birth control. and her books kindred subjects.
Sensualiam and bull fights, she maintained, were the two things in' Spain that most needed suppress ing. To thousand Hildegart was a "torch" with a world-wide mission, I A sort of Joan of Arc.
Trained Like A Puppet
DOCKYARD THIEF CAUGHT
Nine Years' Service
Thrown Away.
FINED. $75
Mak Lan, a store-boy employed All this time Hildegart had been at the Royal Naval Yard, was fined overshadowed by Aurora Rodriguez, $75, in default six weeks' hard la-
And so it came about that, to save a soul, F. Bartolommeo began to study music again, and priest and sinner exchanged melodies. The core of an opera was taking shape.
The best part of the night was spent in writing and rewriting the libretto Francesco, the hero, s headstrong youth cast out by his family for having mortally wound- ed his sister's wealthy suitor, attaches himself to a wandering musician, a blind herpist. Fran-
singing cesco'a
attracts
Bianca.
Donna
The overture, the scenes, the arias
Bus+
for six months after which it Is! The Hammers did well to hold She was watched day and night; bour, at the Central Magistracy (with two exceptions), and the finals the Argyle to a draw at Plymouth trained like a puppet by the puppet this morning for stealing 45 pounds were all the work of the priest. hoped her leg will be better. -j
and thus secured their third mistress.
of brass, the property of the Dock-The sinner, in virtue of having his Reuter.
point in the Second Division, Last' Then politics and a love affair yard.
name on the fly-leaf as composer, to be the prologue to a season they had an anxious per- proved
Mr. Horace Lo, counsel for the was ready with criticism of advice. iod at the foot of the table, but a tragedy.
'defendant, pleaded guilty and ask-He showed a pleasing: sense late recovery staved off relega Two Red leaders plotted to ed for leniency. He said that, the humility that only two of the airs tion,
separate mother and daughter. An defendant's case was a sad one. He contributed by him had been includ Notts Forest and Hull City, interview was arranged between was only 24 years of age and had ed in the opera. strong contenders for promotion, Hildegart and a good looking Don been employed in the dockyard for Įgained away triumphs.
Juan from Barcelona. With all the nine years, rising to the position of] Gone was the conscientious. priest. Northampton Town are taking passion of a first love affair, Hilde No. 2 Boy Lately he fell into fin. His brother-priesta became some time to settle down. Yester-gart fell violently in love with him ancial difficulties and, being press picious; they BAW his lips day they were held to a draw at When Aurora Rodriguez realised ed for money, took to stealing.
It move →→→ was
in prayer?! Aldershot after a home defeat at that she had lost control over her Detective Inspector Nolloth said. They BAW his eyes blaze the hands of Luton on Saturday.Trilby she is alleged to have put that the defendant was arrested on what cause was there f righteous They ara however, one of the four bullets into her as she slept leaving the dockyard gates, The anger? He threw back his head, strongest teams in the southern She is in custody now.
brass was found led around his his mouth opened, his lips twitched Tang Lani, an unemployed
section.
But Trilby is dead all Madrid waist in a girdie. In his position what was there to laugh about? Chinese, was sentenced to six
Crystal Palace, who are expectedĮmourns her-Reuter.
as. No. 2 Boy he is not usually Why so forgetful? Why late months' hard labour at the Cen-
searched," said the police officer for Mana? And who was the tral Magistracy this morning foro augment London's strength in the, Second Division next year, stealing two suits of clothing,
Mr. Schofield said that a serious young man seen loltering in thei
church, who spoke to F. Bartolom- -the property of Lau Kung-took both points from the Rovers
view must be taken of the case, as They have a ENID WILSON IN THIRD ROUND he had obviously taken advantage me in the streets, and on the cheung and Ma Yu-chun, at No. by a goal margin.
100 per cent record and have yet
of his position. 52, Johnston Road.
6 MONTHS HARD LABOUR.
Detective Inspector *Nolloth
to have a goal scored against them.
Swindon Town recorded their
stated that the defendant gained second success of the season when access to the hours by climbing they best Queen's Park Rangers by
ground.
(Continued from, Page 13
Contempt of Court.
Pincio7 In his parochial duties; there was no fault to find with their absent-minded brother. The poor turned to him in trouble; the chil As Mr. Lo was about to fas" dren dogged his footsteps, Helen Hicks, the holder, Vir- the Court's Chinêss in the back. The score an the libretto were the drain-pipe and entering a decisive margin on their own ginia Van Wie. and Maureen' seats was seen to be wearing his ready, but Ugo declared that it wa "through a window.
Orcutt, the
most favoured hat. He was promptly brought useless, to go to the publishers, He was seen on the roof by a Halifax provided the sensation American entrants, all recorded before the Magistrate for contempt Money had to be paid in advance, District Watchman who flashed in the northern section when they substantial wins againstyer / Courte The man One Xung T Bartokcomeou his torch at the man and asked boat, Chester by the only go more opponents:
turned out to be a relative of the Why this undden talk of money What he was doing there, to scored. They had previously been
'defendant.
Ugo thought and talked of nothing which the accused cooly retorted, beaten by Carliste. Chester are Miss Wilson is attempting to "Go away: I am stealing." perhaps the strongest side is the win the American title for the Mr. Lo tendered apology on his else. He seemed to have discover
He was arrested with the as- northern section...
first time in her distinguished behair and said that the man was ed how much had been extracted out sistance of a police constable, Walsall, who, eliminated the career on the links. She has al-about to leave the Court and so had of every known composer. The market value of a street ballad, or a The accused's record showed Arsenal in the F. A. Cup last year, ready signified her intention of placed his hat on his head. was of immense. Importance two previous convictions for failed against New Brighton, and retiring should she achieve her Mr. Schofield imposed a Ane of
31 to be paid into the Poor Box
(Continued on Paop 10)57: stealing.
have only one point to date, ambition.
SATURDAY
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