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Fez (Morocco), Nov. 17.
Moulay Hessen, a Moroccan cabaret dancer and night club owner, accused of murder and of torturing girls, to-day walked into the dock of a Fez court on the second day of her trial dressed in white.
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Her heavy gold "ear-rings and bracelets and a necklace of pearls sparkled in the November sunshine. A white muslin veil flowed from her head.
Moulay Hessen and Mohammed Ben Ali are accused of murdering Chirifa, a dancer. A cord, an axe and a stone mortar, alleged to have been used in the murder, lay on a table in the court.
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Torquay, November 18. Most joyful girl in Devon to-charges. She said she had merely night is dark-haired Elsie Hamil- rented the top floor of the house to ton, of Budleigh-Salterton. Devon Ben Ali. The girls were her ten- tennis fans know Elsie well, with ants. She saw them only once her clear-cut features and her in-week when they paid their rent. variable modesty over her achieve-
ments in local tournaments.
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Ben Ali, she alleged, had killed Chirifa, who was his friend.
Asked to explain the discovery
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To-day Elsie went in the cover- ed courts here to see who should enter the semi-final of the annual of a boy and four girls in a walled- tournament, she or Gem Hoahing. up recess, she said:
Her friends knew what a young thing about it. terror. Gem is-how she brought done in my absence.” down the great French champion, Madame Mathieu, last spring, how the L.T.A. had just placed her in the coveted ranking list.
"I SET ABOUT HER” But forty minutes after entering court it was Elsie, not Gem, who became a semi-finalist.
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Mohammed Ben Ali denied Mou- lay Hessen's allegations, said he was only an unwilling accomplice forced to murder Chirifa under a threat that Moulay Hessen would shoot him.,
Asked if the girls or any one else knew of the crime, he replied, "No one but Allah saw us.”
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M. Goulin, for the prosecution, just loop up the ball to Gem,” said
said the girls were natives of Elsie, "lobs you know, to the base tribe from the Atlas Mountains line and that would do the trick. But I simply didn't do anything of the sort. I set about her as hard as I could and it paid.”
They were engaged as domestic servants by Moulay Hessen, but, he said, were forced into her night club.
He added: "They could not run away-they had nowhere to run.
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Miss Hamilton won 6-2, 6-2. She pasted the ball with precision into the corners, and Gem seemed They were so cowed by torture and unable to make an effective reply. ill-treatment they were more Yesterday Mrs. Lucas, Devon animals than human beings." County captain, had put out Kay Stammers. The mighty were fall- ing.
ESCAPES SCAFFOLD Sentence of 15 years' hard La- bour was passed by the court, early But the victory of Elsie was tem-to-day on "Moulay the Nightin- pered by the defeat of Mrs. Lucas gale," once beautiful dancer and to-day when she met Mrs. S. H. spy, for the murder of a pretty Hammersley, better known as Miss young dancing girl.
Freda James, an ex-Wimbledon The "Nightingale" received her doubles champion, Mrs. Lucas sentence calmly.
went down by exactly Elsie's score In a violent speech demanding reversed, 2-6, 2—6.
the death sentence for the ex-dan- The men semi-finalists are Ron-cer, the Public Prosecutor had| ald Shayes, Kho Sin Kie, Murray Deloford and Don Butler.
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New York, November 17.
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Until late in the night colourful procession of witnesses filed into (Continued at foot of Next Column)
Another sensational case is re- New York was startled to-day by ported to-day from Chicago, where the news that District Attorney 84 big firms and 63 Individuals, in- Dewey has obtained an indictment cluding Chicago Board of Health which charges Charles A. Harnett, and one of the State Attorney's New York State Motor Vehicles chief investigatora, are variously Commissioner and a leading. De-accused of violating anti-trust laws the bo mocrat, with bribery and extortion. regarding the sale of milk and÷ice Jewels,
servants Harnett is alleged to have been cream. paid £200 a month over a long per- for by a local taxicab campany in return for favours.
He is accused of having taken more than £13,000 in bribes.
The t A further allegation is that they restrained the sale of apparatus nesses: 1 which would have enabled retail- local ad ers, hospitals, schools and so on to and a make their own ice cream.