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Sir Evan Spicer issues a solemn warning to the curators of galleries! and museums on the danger which threatens old masters from wood- worms.
He states that out of 692 ple- tures in the Dulwich College Gallery 241 have at some time boen Infected by these worms.
The figures are not surprising. nelther are they so alarming they seem.
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All old wood, whether made inte furniture, frames, or panels
MAN THAT FOUGHT FOR HAUPTMANN
AMERICA'S CLEVEREST
CRIMINAL LAWYER
THE
Shock, did it
MOST DANGEROUS MAN
IN BROOKLYN”
(By Millon Mackays)
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TWENTY years ago the late placed the baby in Rosic's arma Supreme Court Justice Gar- and draped a scarf over her headg retson, of the United States, broke beside this tableau he placed the a Efetime record by swallowing bis picture. Then he told the photo. chewing tobacco.
grapher to go ahead. One journa}. gave a half-page to the ensemble.. For several days he had been At the trial Rosie wore her Isug which pictures are painted, la like-presiding, in criminal term, over a hair plaited, and sat with the child ly to be attacked by wood-worms. routine murder case in which con- in her arms
Fortunately it is a very simple viction was a foregone conclusion. The jury acquitted hor of mur matter to destroy the worms. As The jury filed in and the judge der. they burrow very slowly, the num was waked from a
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warm Judicial ber of masterpieces which they doze by an outlandish, verdict- Reilly has always considered a have damaged is négligible.
acquittal,
goldenhaired child the best of all Garretson jumped to his feet, possible exhibits in a murder case, and the gastric explosion engender and the long record of his acquit In all public galleries examina- ed by two ounces of fine-cut put tals is fairly pock marked with tion for the wood-worm is a matter him in a high state of civic indig-mournful little cheruba. of routine.
Reilly is now in his Any reputable dealer nation. He pointed his finger at a or collector would also be alive to rapidly vanishing defence counsel. fifties, tall, carefully shaved and the danger..
There," he bellowed," goes the massaged, and given, from choice, The worms do not eat paint but most dangerous man in Brooklyn, to cutaway coat, gardenia, striped attack the back of the picture.
If He turns murderers' out on the trousers, and spats, t they have been allowed to eat un-street."
He is at his best when the odda molested for a great many years
For The Love Of It
are against him; the drama of the they may so rot the wood that the Edward J. Reilly has always desperate chance brings his falents paint veneer is in danger of collap- been proud of that left-handed.com-He struts the floor with the sure-
into full bloom! sing.
pliment and happy to be known as Pictures of which the foundation a sinister figure. It means money
neas of the. barnstorming trouper, has virtually turned to dust after in his pocket, clients in the outer his broad, flat face is rosily con lying unnoticed in obscure attics office, and, best of all, publicity.
temptuous, his mind shoots "off" never been deterred by such ac-have been saved. cidents as
that to the Macon First the worms are killed with has been denounced generously by unforeseen break which will turn Over a quarter of a century, he sparks while he waits for the one from pursuing experiments that paraffin, then a. solution in injected judges, and calculates, with repre
defeat into victory. Often it is a Hong Kong, Monday, March 18, 1938. hold out promise of ultimate auc-into the panel. This sets into jhenaible
simple thing. cess, but nothing is less probable hard, impervious mass and forms a judicial disapproval is worth about light-heartedness, that
In one murder case, Reilly se than that the nations will con-jnew foundation.
ellent while the district attorney tinue to build at enormous cost delicate airships when every day is demonstrating that the future of travel through the air is Notwithstanding all the pro-assured to another type. gress made in the construction
The China Mail
Moral Of Airship Disasters
of big dirigibles, the limitations
AT LONDON BALL
Frightened By Flash Lamps
imposed on weight can leave ELEPHANT RUNS WILD little margin of strength against the force of a heavy wind acting on so large a surface. Already the prediction is made that the total loss of the 'Macon will dis- courage any further endeavour to employ these big airships as part of the fighting force of the United States Navy. The vessel haps, not of so serious a charac had experienced previous mis-
Domestic
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He knew He:
"There are an awful lot of girls who don't want to get married."
She: "How do you know?". He: "I've asked them."
The Tip
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a thousand dollars a word.
When it was announced that built an apparently airtight case, Your Daily Smile!
He waived cross-examination of Reilly had been retained as coun every witness until the medical ex sel for Bruno Hauptmano, cynical}
aminer presented his routine" re- becoming members of the bar decided at taller, we read. But this does not once, and unjustly, that a healthy knife wound, The wound, said the port on the nature of the fatal. necessarily mean that they will stay defence fund had been raised. The physician, was four inches deep longer.
truth of the matter is that the and one inch wide. Brooklyn attorney's pocketbook
Reilly roused from his dozes. stands to profit little or not at all."You are sure it was an inch Reilly takes no credit for his wide?" "It was not quite an inch willingness to serve without pay "You are sure?" "I am sure." It is not a matter of idealism,
The knife was introduced as evi-- "No lawyer in the world," said dence and the defendant admitted Batisfied Guest: "Well, waiter, that Reilly, "would step out of this case ownership. The prosecution reste was a tip-top dinner. You know what because he couldn't get a fee. It's ed. Reilly rose, picked up the that means, don't you?"
Coloured Walter: "Yes, sak. It's a criminal lawyer's dream of a case weapon, and produced a tape mea. one that you top off with a tip."
-the murder trial of the century." sure. "I submit," he said, "that
Master Of Effect
this knife, four inches from the Little Balty was anxiously watch
Reilly says that he has defended point, is two and one-quarter" ing the traffle light and tugging at 2,000 persons accused of homicide, inches wide." He sat down. the hand of her mother as they and of the total about 100 were], The judge directed an, acquittal, After finishing its turn as a bar waited on the curb for the red light to women. employment was a matter of ber's assistant in a circus ring halt the automobiles.
Jury Selection He is the master of the silk- A prestige as well as of experi-erected in the ballroom the animal"It's getting hot now."
"All right now, mummy," she said stockinged leg exposed to the Really in action over a period of Attorneys who have watched ment. When in 1930 Britain's took fright at the flash lamps of largest airship, the R 101, crash- photographers.
jurora view, the widow's weeds years say that they have hardly and the black trimmed kerchief, ever seen him taken, by surprise, the weeping on the witness stand, and that he has no superior in the and the baby-and-mother ensemble. business of jury selection. He is An example of the perfect Reilly devious and cunning and possessed.
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this type of machine, and the On arriving there, however, it Lady Southorn will present the client was a certain Olivia Stone, an almost psychic ability to spot works at Cardington were closed-eluded the keepers and charged Colony Tennis League prizes at the who followed a solid Cincinnati a potentially dangerous juror. American experience has been around the balcony at full speed, Chinese Recreation Club. "At citizen to New York some 'years disastrous as our own. Since dispersing guests and knocking over Home" next Saturday.
The trial of Joseph McDermott. 1925 she has lost the Shenan-tables,
ago and shot him in front of the jis something of a classic. courthouse in which she later went Luckily the balcony was not
(Continued on Page 11) The R.M.S. Empress of
Russia on trial. and the Macon. Germany has crowded at the time and guests is due at Vancouver next Monday, persevered with the airship, and were warned of its approach.
Olivia was She will leave for Hong Kong, via actress Reporters covering the
talented emotional MAGPIE'S PECULIAR the Graf Zeppelin has the record
Mr. Bertram Mills, the famous ports, on April 6.
trial were amazed at her timing of having crossed the Atlantic circus owner, who was present at eighty times without serious the ball, tried to calm the elephant,
and technique, her ability to coun- trouble, but it may be doubted but with little success.
The R.M.S. Empress of Canada teract telling bits of testimony Made Of Bicycle Spokes arrived at Vancouver yesterday and with quick Niagaras of tears. Then whether even Germany would
Eventually the animal made for is due to leave for Hong Kong next they discovered the secret of her
And Wire expect her dirigibles to play a the men's cloakroom.
Saturday, arriving here on April 12. legal intuition. Every time Reilly part in serious naval or military operations, where they would be also, and it came to a stop at an Sentence of two months impri- around his kneecap, the tear ducts strips, small springs, electric con
Efforts to secure. it here: failed.
cupped an unobtrusive right hand including bicycle spokes, copper An amazing collection of wire, subject to the attacks of aero-exist. planes moving far more swiftly
sonment was imposed on Cheung opened automatically and the duft, telegraph and fencing wire- Mr. Bertram Mills, this time with Lan-kiu, a 52-year-old unemployed, saline rivers ran, and more capable for every pura large tray of sugar, tried to en-who appeared before Mr. A. W. G.
weighting eight pounds in all pose of offence or defence.
trice it out of the premises.
A Notable Example H. Grantham at the Kowloon Magis-
been sent by a resident of Burwood, tracy this morning on a charge of tion was perhaps most graphically Museum.
Reilly's talent for stage direcNew South Wales, to the Australian having 23 counterfeit 10-cent pieces evident in the trial of Rosie It is the nest of a black-backed In his possession in Wuchow Street, Caruso
magpie, lined at the top with pieces
UNIQUE STAMPS OF 1856
Most Valuable In The World
Certain experts continue to belleve, in spite of all the mis- haps, that the lighter-than-air machine has a future as a car- rier. To the mind that is not expert it must appear that we are drawing to the end of, a chapter in the story of the con- quest of the air.The dirigible has left its mark on history. Its [development has borne testimony
A small scrap of dull-red paper to human ingenuity, courage and engineering skin. But from It had a price probably in excess of
$50,000.. birth it has been engaged in a contest with the heavier than The treasured bit is said to be
CONSCRIPTION IN
KWANGSI
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Rosie was a beautiful young of stick and fiber, and is 3ft. 6 in Sicilian with long black hair, In circumference: which she parted in the middle, In the apartment where she lived with her parenta, an artist was busy at his easel He
Second Campaign To asked Rosie to pose for a pleture
Be Launched
of Madonna and Child, and she came secretly to his studio,
Eventually her father discovered According to news from the them and drove her from home. the After a week of sleeping on park
air machine. In the later stages the world's most valued posinge South to the "Shunpao,"
of this the aeroplane has drawn stamp, ore-cent Magenta Issued Kwangs! military leaders lave de benches, Rosle returned to the far ahead. Even in carrying by British Gulana in 1866, and the cided to, conduct a second conscrip-artist and demanded that he marrý capacity the largest of Zeppeling The tiny etching of a palling that 16,000 men will be enlisted in ment by picking up the picture and enly one of its kind. mation plan under which it is hoped her. The artist displayed tempera will probably be excelled in R
few years by air-liners already Vessel will be put up for sale next the provincial army. evolving in the minds of design-month by Mrs. P Costa Scala, of era, Apart from the ability to Utica, N-Y., widow of Arthur Hind, carry_weight_ and numbers the philatelist, most of whose $1,000,000 aeroplane already has every ad- collection she has already disposed vantage over its rival Succes of
ive disasters to great dirigibles The stamp was purchased have shaken their claim as re Hind In Paris in 1922 for $82, gards safety Mankind has it will be sold in London.
throwing it at her.
Rosie plucked a stiletto from her stocking and placed it in his right ventricle, Reilly defended the girl. He obtained: various motions unti), sever later, Rosie's child was bor ho called
this wenaTY