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Before the Lord Chief Justice Lord Howart) and a Special Jury. Mr. Frederick Albert Brosy, March 12th. Hesines, the explorer and lecturer, Mitchell The problem which the hit of The Bridge House, Sandbanks, Ministry were trying to solve was Backstone, Dorset, brought a Hiel the vital problem of quicker Im-action against the London Express perial communications, or how to give the Empire a physical unity that it had never before possessed said Sir Sampe are, in in- troducing in the House of Com mone the Air Estimates for the com- ing financial year, j
The Secretary for Air first dealt with the question of airships and commercial air services, and said that during the sumer and winter of this year both new airships should be completed and doing their flying testa This was a note worthy event in the history of British flying and we a bold and remarkable experiment.
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Quicker Imperial communication was the great aim of the Air Minia- try. Shipping, at least for many years to come, would not appear to be capable of solving the problems Shipping authorities had told him that for the longer distances, it
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Rejected:For Army. Replying to further questions, Mr.Hedges admitted he was made bankrupt in 1919. His assets were warth practically nothing.
Coming to the outbreak of the war, Mr. Jowith naked what he did, Mr. Hedges: I was one of the first rolunteers. My records are in court.
Splendid! When did you go to tary of the RAO, and immediate France I went to see the secre- dy volunteered to drive a car in France, so dire
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woman, of Westbourne Park crescent, Paddington
Kentish pleaded guilty to steal- other articles, vahid OVER £95, ing Jewellery, clothing, books, and from Mesars, William Whiteley, worth £1 from an addrem in Har Bayswater and other property
Newspapers, Ltd. med. The papers are there (point-row-road, whore she had been em What happened-Tatally reject
the Daily Express on January 21st Do you know a Mrs. Champion
He complained of two articles in ing to the solicitors' table) and end, 1997, alleging that he-But don't you want to ask me had been defamed by the publica anything more about the wart tion of words which meant that he was a liar and had conspired with certain person to defyde sad hoax the police and pubke in connection with a bogus highway robbery.
months hard labour on each of three charges, a total of 12 months. ployed She was intenced to four
Mr. Freke Palmer said that Ken Jowitz replied, and Mr. Hedges charge of stealing stockings worth I am coming to that, Mr., tiar was originally uzreeted an a stated that Mrs Champion was the 9 d., and she turned upon a wife of his manager women detective, struck her to the Mr. Mitchell Hedges further said in 1918 after the Lusitania was
Mr. Jowitt Did you see her face, and struggled violently. Her that the defendants implied that he sunk, and did you say this war was quantity of property was found. Tooma were searched, and a large had done this with a view to ad- no concern of yours and you were There were articles of jewellery: vertise the device known Agoing to take no part in it 1-Look 2010s in a jewel case, 19 pairs Monomark and with a view to gaining fraudulent motoriety and
at my record.
of silk stockings, 57 bandkerchiefa, 34 packets of lower seeds, 16 rem free advertisement for himself and British Monemarks, Ltd.
santa of silk, vand many other: things, a proportion of which had leyn, lessrs. Barkers, and Mesare been identified by Messrs. White Harrods,
For the defence it was pleaded that certain of the statements com plained of wore true, and that as regarded the other words they did not refer to Mr. Hedges or bear the meaning on them or, were
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After the war, anid Mr. Hedges, be travelled for a firm of diamond merchants in Now York. I was down and out," added Mr. Hedges, **and tried to make good." In 1890 he went to Honduras and into the interior, and in 1991 he went to Panama and discovered & now Lady (Richmond) Brow
The aeroplane would be Sir. Patrick Hastings, K.C., Frace of men. His companion was really ought to go to penal survi-
nile, he said, for shorter journeys, but its range and is small size must for some time to come serious ly handicap it in dealing with distances involving non stop flights of thousands of miles
opening the case for Mr. Hedges, said his client had led a very ad- venturous life since bo was 18. He had explored many parts of the world and he (Sir Patrick) imagin ed he was recognised as being one of the great modern explorers.
- Ohaufisar Tied Up." On the night of January 14th, 1997, he began a journey by road with Mr Celin Edgell from the National Liberal Club to bis hause at Sandbank
The airship, or the other hand, if it could be proved safe and de- pendable, could fy by night and day in comfort. It would carry air maila in considerable quantity and could use the trades and other favourable winds, and, with a range of 2,000 or 3,000 miles, need On the outskirts of Ripley, Sur never make use of foreign terri-rey, the car was stopped by a per- torics in its journeys from one part son who stated that a man was ill of the Empire to another,
and asked for assistance.
“ Many Dificulties."* There were many difficulties, bitt, with so much to gain, it was not only worth making the experiment,
This was a trap, for directly Mr. Hedges and Mr. Edgell left the
Mr. Jowat; Her husband is living Yee
He is a very wealthy man'i- Perfectly true
So she has very large sums of money at her disposal-No, you are wrong. He (Mr. Hedges) char- fered at Panama a email yacht. Lady (Richmond) Brown was left in hospital at Panama, N
your adventures at Colon, and 10 Mr. Toxitt: You recounted. thrilling were they that you want because you had heard of an un- ed to start out with her at once known race of men-True.
there in this new race of men 1-
Lord Howart How many wore Some 2,000 or 2,000
car a skirmish took place and theYou saw them all at once- attackers ran away after tying u have seen them, my lord. the chauffeur with a rope. Mr. Mr. Jowitt, quoting from Lady
but it was incumbent upon any pro-Hedges's attache case, on the con(Richmond) Brown's book “Un gressive Government to make it.
value, was stolen
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Mr Hedges said he could not repeat what he then maid after four
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Such effort they had for the last tents of which he placed great known fribes; Uncharted Sear, three years been attempting, and
Not long afterwards the news read an account of a meeting with Prague they could elaim that for the first time in the history of airships they paper commented on the fracas. Hedges addressed them and savi
the heads of the race in which Mr ind made a concentrated attackery the Ripley good True what he then
The article was headed
ed him to eat in Chucunaque upon all sides of the problem. story of the great midnight hold I suppose continued Sirup. A pure fake Mir Mitchell Samuel Hoare," we could probably Hedges and Dick Turpin Gray. have binlt both airships in little The article read more than a year. But so anxious have we been to eliminate any avoidable risk, that we have spent the best part of three years upon research and experiment and upon an effort to harmonise the calcula- tions of theory with the lessons of experience and experiment.
A How Airships,
Meteorological Department has con centrated attention upon the prob- Jems of weather warnings and the charting of the air for the main airship routes
My Indian's Language.
Readers will be ab to join in Mr. Jowitt They mid to you, the enjoyment of the priceless Prove to us that you are not. Joke of the real story of Mr. F. mortai dwellers, for no mortal A. Mitchell Hedges' great adven-man or woman has ever left our ture of the Bipley-road and the territory alive. It was father. police search for his misting at hard, after inviting you to call ticho care containing documents (Laughter.) So, pa k of incalculable value. The truth
Lord Hewart: This little pis- ng about mortal dwellers Was it spoken in English! This is very interesting-hitherto unknown race
fear was carried off in a sack and am attache cass of mine con- taining documents so valuable that the insurance money runs into millions was stolen
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Mr. Jowitt read passages in the Chucunaque language from the Eart Ada Bank book and naked Mr. Hedges if heaton Insuranc could transite them. What is North China Insa, 143 cm.
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about the battle on the Ripley The structure of the new air- road ds that it was planned as ships is auch stronger than the a pure publicity enterprise, strutture of any of their predeces
The article attributed the "joke" 60X The fact that they are bigger to Mr. Clifford Bagot Gray, and than the former airships has made it possible to use stronger and publicity was to be the recovery of added that the climax of the heavier girders. The engines are the attache case through the more powerful Every possible medium of its owner's monomark." Mr. Jowitt (reading); precaution has been taken against On January 2nd the paper com denly Midge (Mr. Hedges) pinched the danger of fire, end, in the case tained the following: Beach-me. He stretched out his hand Mr. Hodges (thoughtfully): Oh, of the Cardington airship, we hope comber in Midnight Hold Up, and in a voice of thunder, befors lear, I know it well enough What to have the new safeguard of and Sir Patrick read a paragraph which the Indians, blanched, said, heavy oif engine. The chips wire- describing an imaginary attack, "We, the Hemiers, will confer with less installation will be far more beginning tender eficient than in the earlier British
the Great Sports and make known Mr. Jowitt: You were among allen airships, whilst in new section of the was mentoring quietly to them what you have said, though those Indians how long About Langk
down a Kentish lane between we know not what the result will fortnightjet wat Dover and Goudhurst late last be
Mrowitt And yet you au might I was suddenly surprised, Lord Hewart. Did the blackthorised Who's Who to state gagged, and bound. My chauf people turi palet laughter you discovered a new tribe of In-Reube
tion of this speech in Chucunaque.
Mr. Jowitt naked for a reprodue dians-Perfectly true.NGER BLE
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Mr. Hedges Not in a crowded
Mr. Jowift the questioned Mr HK & W Ded court like this (Laughter.) Can called Battles with giant fish, Hark
Hedges on passages in the book Chim Providents man do in a crowded court what and asked Yon have done some New bac he does in the jungle ? remarkable fishing-Tex
Shanghai Mr. Jowita: But it was more Have you read what an expert, wo crowded then. In that hut were Mr. Tumer Turner, said about the hundreds gathered, and you might book in a Kingatan (Jamaica Kr. Hedgers Evidence. have been torm limb from amb paper 1-Year weakly mail service to India, bring Hedges sad his attache case con fog a mac-hall turn (Laughter.) on the Black River and know the
Describing the "bald-up,” Mr.
ble. Hedges: - Do you want me in so many words he calls you BK ing Delhi within seven days and
to say it now.7 My case, is becom-x liar f-Yes, and people who live Calcutta with mine days of tained document and four, Lord Howat: How uk you my thing wrobe back and told Mr. London: a duced heads,
ONE Turner Turner that he was a lar Lord Hewart Heade of what Mr. Hedges explained that it (Laughter.) Secondly, a subsidy to enable the Company to subsitute, regularly Mr. Hedges: Heads of human could largely be done with gesture Mr. Towite then turned his at- new for old type of machines; and beings (Laughter.) He obtained. There would be a wave of the hand tention to Mr. Hodges thirdly, the right of the Blate to them in his explorations,
and Mr.Hedges spread his hands big discovery of the share in any ultimate prosperity
Mr. Jowitt, K.Ü., eron-examin that the Company night obtaining Mr. Hedges, asked him: Are upon his chest and then pointed rain in the Mays.com
The details of the agreement, were
you an adventurer 7-Yes, in the
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When Mr Jowite and the court other people, doo Government at Indis and the Im- In the sense that
Laughed Mr. Hedges exdrimed, had not seen tho you experience perial Airways
real adventures and enjoy them, en de vot understand primitivo found them. Mr. you be an adventurer 1-Ye
peoples GAP that Dr. Gaon You
words, distance"BY You put yourself before the jury Tight Corner, as a real old type of explorer Mr. Jow: Were you and Lady Oh, no
Brown in tight pincs sanomag tote Indisans Yes, we were dir a reason-
Weekly Service To India. Sir Samuel Hoare said he hoped daring the year to make a begin ming with the biggest civil air route in the world-namely, a new agree ment with the Imperial Airways Company, based upon three main conditions, namely:
Fantly, the organisation of a
Fornia's Opposition." The Minister expressed, regret at the opposition of the Persian Gay ernment to the Perman section of
The result of the articles, added Sir Patrick, had been that Mr. Hedge find been seriously injured financially
Deeds of" derring do and all
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the route. He pointed out that the that don't talk about them if ally tigh project would have cost the Perazan -- that tia what you mean and Lord Hewart - What is reaso Government nothing and would be Mr. Jowitt referred to the ably tight
A real nanetto Pernia These ánitials F2.8 after Mr. Hedges's
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