THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 195
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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SATURDAY "MAIL" FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH NEWS DESK
Ghost 'Kicked Out' Of Haunt
Caesarean Operation Makes History
Firm friends-and 91⁄2-month-old Charlotte Ball offers to share hor food with the
Cacssroan-bom puppies.
Born After
Puppies Born
Their Mother Dies
London.
FOURTEEN puppies have been born by Caesarean opera-
tion after the mother died, it was revealed last week. Two of the puppies are still alive.
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THE PERFECT
BUTLER WASN'T
SO PERFECT!
A
London,
MAN recently deported from the United States
Had Not Paid
Her Bill
For 300 Years
Usk, Wales.
THE sad saga of beautiful, unhappy ghost came to an end here last week when a spiritualist claimed he had kicked her out of the inn she had haunted for 300 years.
Some ten persons, including newsmen, listened while spiritu- alist Llewellyn Williams told the
beautiful bollo or the 17th UNWANTED
century that the was finally being toased out of room three of the 800-year-old Cross Keys Ian in Wales,
Roland Hoffman host of the Inn, enid the beautiful ghost had to o because she kept opersing and shutting her bedroom door in the dead of night and had not paid the bill for hundred years,
three
The Father
According to spiritualist WII- hunts, the beautiful ghost's father locked her up in the room be- cause he disapproved of her choice of husband
He said the lady who became the ghcat could not stand the solitude and put an end to it all with a dose of herbal polson1.
But according to Williams, her end was just the beginning 300 years as resident ghest 41 the Cross Koya
of
а
For habit of opening the bed- room door anytime anyone pass- ed scared the staff
and guests of the ancient hostelry.
Williams had to go into trance to get rid of her. During the hour he was under the trance Williams claimed he was under the control of "Doctor Phillip Hammond." His recipe for removing the beautiful ghost was very simple.
'Go Back'
*Go from here," he said, "why annoy these people by opening and closing the doors all the time? Go back to your own people and leave this place alone."
Thon Williams snopped out of his trance to announ the This La probably the Art beautiful ghost hud taken the time puppies borza three days hint and left. balora they were duo have been; Envod and roared, said their Owner, Mrs Sheila Ball, of London Road, Leicester.
of
'The mother, Heloise Liablenc, a Pyrenean mountain dog, died three days before she was due to whelp.
Mrs Balt, who QAYS 6lx Pyreneans and silne cata, told me of the fight for the pupp=c3"
lives.
Food problem
"The vet performed the opera- 9000 AR Heloise-we on a used to call her 'Wheezy'-died and we found Our cives
with
$5.00 in gaol last wock for a rubbed them with rough towels
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was sentenced to seven years 14 upples," she said. *WC while he and managed to get some life into two of them. Then come
robbery staged
posed as the perfect butter. the problem of feeding
Bernard Mason, 30, allos
Derek Steadman and also known "Altogether four foster as "The Mad Drunner of Broad-others--a dachshund, moor" was hired two years ago aleation, and two beagles-had as a butler by Col. W. G. to be called on to eve the Horton,
puppies, now three months old.
"I have done for some of the
"Thoro will be Ro Toro trouble here. If the doctor has sent her back to her own people she will not come back again," ho claimed.
Later that night the door of room three was still closed and there was no sign of the re- turn of the Cross Key's beauti- ful but non-paying guest.— U.PI.
Wife Had
A Preview
best families," he told Horton ***The first foster mother, A
Of Her
Death
Swindon.. SHAKEN British rail- ways machinist told a when he applied for the job. Maria, à dachshund, was hur-
HE LEFT
ried from a breeder friend. Mrs coroner'a inquest that his Eleven days later he left the Wyand, of Thrushington, 14 Wife had dreamed a pro- Colonel with 28,800 or Hor- miles away, et one o'clock in view of her death, which ton's cash and jewels. He went the morning. For a few hours then came horribly true. to the United States, where he Maria was stand-in mother.
married. He was arrested
| month ago.
His record includes
a
rape,
Was
alsation
"Next mother Chloe from the same kennela wounding, robbery with again a temporary measure
Beagle takes over
icace, and fraud, for a total of more than 100 crimes, He also twice occaped from Brond- moor, a prison for the crimin. aily insane..
Then
Alfred R. Strange said his wile, 38-year-old Beryl
Jean Strange, loved walking, and was in the habit of walking with their three children to a certain stretch of railway line near here..
She
anco had a horrible beagle, Sherry, dream about being caught on
It was there, as drummer belonging to Mra Herricit, or, that line and it shook her up," with the inmates band, he Harby, 30 miles away, took over. Strange said. earned his nickname "The Mad she fed the pups for a week. Drummer."U. P. I.
Indulgence
Eastbourne.
Fourth and not mother was. Cheerful, another beagle belong- ing to Mrs. Herriak,"
DECAPITATED
Not long afterward, she was found decapitated along
that Mmy, Harper Trois-Fontaines, samo stretch of zaliway lino, of Hyde Heath, Amersham, "Her dream is what made mo 115 cily mediest officer said Buckinghamshire,
of Maink, please God, that sho the only ORIJ of food Britain's leading dog breeders, | might have donait in her poisoning here last year Involved who Brat brought the Pyinmean loop," Strange said. a party or health officials. mountain dog to Britain, said Coroner Harold Dale returned They "Indulged in oysters westerday: "In 25 years' ex-a verclet of "muleide while her found to be af doubtful origin," perience. I have never heard mind was unhinged by Full- | Ko cald.--U.P.I.
of anything like this."
health". U.P.I.
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London,
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Now York. VERY year at this time, 100 Now York
EVERY
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record just cached
fr nguro, with 863 abandoned uñetalmed stolen cars crowding Department's three the Police garages und 100 more Jumming The streets,
Police Commissioner James
made Kennedy hus
a speciul plen to motorists to turn their
over unwanted cors
lo scrap
dealers.
Many motorists choose season to abandon their cars, sold Kennedy, because they are reluctant to pay the high price old of winter maintenance on modals.
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