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GOLD COAST
· TRAGEDY.
STAGE STAR'S DOUBLE LIFE.
TWO HUSBANDS."
HOMES IN AFRICA AND ENGLAND.
New and dramatic disclosures were made to the Colonial Office in London in relation to the charge of murder against Dr. Benjamin Knowles, MO a medical man in the service of the Government of, the Gold Coast" Colony, West Africa
Dr. Knowles is under trial, ac- cused of shooting his wife, Mrs, Harriet Knowles, in their bungalow at Bekwai, a native town twenty. five miles from Kumasi, the capital of Ashanti. Mrs. Knowles in ber earlier life was Miss Madge Clifton, a prominent English music-hall and pantomime actress.
Accepted As Whe.
She had been living in West Africa with intervals for holidays at home-fer the past two years,
CHINA MERCHANTS' SHAREHOLDERS.
ON THE VERGE OF BANKRUPTCY.
GOVERNMENT CONTROL CONTRARY TO LAW AND
PROSPERITY.
A SHAREHOLDERS' MEETING MUST
BE HELD."
That the shareholders in the China Merchants S.N. Co. are growing more and more restive ander Government control has been shown in two or three ways Intely, says the North China Daily News Now they have formed an association and a peti- tion has been sent to the Government urging that a shareholders'. meeting may be called-one vas promised last June but it never met--and that the Company may be put back on its old footing. The petition, drawn up by Messrs. Tsiang Tsun Kuí, Tung“ K'ahg and Wang You Ling has been published in the Chinese Press and the following is a translation. "The China Merchants Stain Ltd., is the Navigation Co., greatest Chinese steamship com- pany of private ownership. When the Government appointed officers at the beginning, to supervise the management of the Company, it was with an intention to protect its right of navigation as well as
such companies is limited to super vision Strictly speaking, the wity
in
which the Government deals with the China Merchants Steam. | Navigation Company has gone too far away from their own declara- tions and their authority.
Kinleeyuan Wharf Scandal. "The assets of the Company are
and was known and accepted as the interests of the Company scatimated to be worth more than
the wife of Dr. Knowles.
shareholders and without any
In view of the
A statement made to the Colonial sire to deprive the shareholders of forty million taels and the Com- Office established the fact that the their private ownership. It has pany's navigating lines extend in
unfortunately happened, however, all directions supposed Mrs. Knowles Was
that the board of directors was dis-successful unification of the conn- really Mrs. Harriet Street; the wife of Mr. George Alfred Street, solved by the Government and the try, the Company's business has a shareholders' meeting indefinitely promising future. Bus the present formerly a successful actor-mana-
postponed. With its business de-authorities do not seem to avail ger and now the proprietor of aclining and debts increasing the themselves of the opportunity. The Theatre and fancy dress store in a provincial town.
Mr. George Street, when he visited the Colchial Office, was asked to make a full report in writ ing concerning his dead wife. He was told officially that Mrs. Ben. jamin Knowles otherwise. Misa Madge Clifton, the actress was dead, and that Dr. Knowles was charged with her murder.
**Music-Hall Tour.**
Company is on the verge of bank. ruptcy. In order to protect their own interests, the shareholders have no alternative out to struggle for the restoration of the Company to their own control.
A Puraly Private Concern. "From the beginning the Com- pany was registered as a company entirely owned and managed by Chinese merchants and in this respect does not differ from the All the time that Miss Madge | Chin Kee S.N. Co. in the north Clifton was living in West Africa and the San Peh S.N. Co. in the with Dr. Knowles her husband and south, which are up to the present! her relatives, who live in London, free
governmental inter- thought that she was on music ference. hall tour in South Africa, Austra- la, and China. They had not the slightest idea that she was on the Gold Coast.
She wrote frequently to her hua baud, friendly, affectionate com munications-always, however, with the trace of a complaint that she was having hard times and wanted to be back home.
There was a strange thing about these letters. They were not post ed abroad. They were posted in London. They had been sent from Miss Madge Clifton, the music hall artist on tour, enclosed in an en- velope, to some unknown" second party in London, and pested on to the husband at his country or town address.
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navigation of the southern line was suspended until public complaints compeiled its restoration. The dis- charge of the Manager of Tientsin. Office brought about the strike of workmen and the interruption of traffic, causing great loss to the Company, And the most startling news is that the houses of the Kinleeyuan Wharf which are the most valuable property of the Com- pany, have been leased to the Kiu Chong Company for a long term of 30 years as a very low rental.
On the application of the Shareholders Union which WOS based on the declaration that the Company would be handed back to It has been repeatedly declared the shareholders, the Ministry of by the Government authorities Communications sanctioned the themselves that the shareholders share registration and the share- are the masters of the Company; holders' meeting to be convened on that the shareholders' meeting has June 15th.last. But this has not the highest power; that the share been carried out, for the time al- holders are expected not to relin-lowed for registration of shares quish their own rights, the Govern was extended and the shareholders'
ment being only to supervise, and net to manage the Company; that the governmental supervision may be aholished as soon as the board of directors. is organized; and that the government will protect the private interests of the, people, strictly forbidding the rumour of confiscation.
Taken Over By Govszament, "In spite of these declarations, however, the Company has been at
meeting has been indefinitely_post poned.
Deprived of Law's Protection.
The above are some of the most serious sufferings of the Company and the indefinite postponement of the shareholders' meeting is the greatest obstacle to its recovery. If private interests should be plac ed at the mere mercy of the Gov- ernment and thus deprived, of the résult
All these letters prove ene thing first supervised, then reorganized, Protection, of law, the
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that Miss Madge Clifton determined that her real husband and then taken over and managed the Government. Recently and her mother should not know of! by
conies into existence a queer inven- her association with Dr. Knowice. The writer of the letters intendedtion called Governmental manage- ment of private institution and to give the impression that she was
the proposal of joint administra having a rather difficult theatrical
tion by the Government and the time, and that she was longing for
merchants has been adopted. Ac the moment when she could return cording to the organization rules
of the Ministry of Communica The whole affair is
motions, private ownership of naviga- astonishing example of a married tion companies is permissible and woman's double life.
the power of the Government over
home.
It is difficult to give any real idea of the distress of the husband, Mr. George Street. He declares it is his intention to go immediately to the Gold Coast to ascertain the whole circumstances of Madge CH- ton's adventures there.
tour in Africa and Australia, and advised her to go if she wanted
to, and she went from me.
"Then towards the end of last
me
Think what it means to me," said Mr. Street to a representative year she came back to me, and told of the Daily Exprra. I believed my wife was on tour. The last letter I had from her was in August, when she wrote that she was having a bell of a time, and that she would be hack with me at Christmas.
"Wife Of A Doctor." "After that, the next I know is when I see the Daily Expreas with an account of Miss Madge Clifton, my wife, being shot, coupled with the information that she was the wife of Dr. Benjamin Knowles, a
doctor, in the West African Govern
ment service.
Madge Clifton and I were mari ried at the Brixton Register Office many years ago, when together in the profession.
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were
She
would discourage all industries and the sacrifice of one company would mean the numerous business enterprises.
sacrifice of
"The petitioners, representing more than eight thousand shares, conclude with the prayer that the Ministry of Communications be instructed immediately to convene the shareholders' meeting, which. has been long sanctioned, for the purpose of solving the complicated problem.2.
GOLD COAST TRIAL.
KUMISI (West Africa),
Nov. 18th...
One of the most important wit storica of her experiences abroad. We lived together until nesses at the trial of Dr. Benjamin the early part of this year, She Knowles, on a charge of murdering stayed at our home, with occasional his wife, formerly Miss Mudge visits to London.
Clifton, the popular music-hall comedienne, will be the commis- sicner of police, who went Bekwai to arrest Dr. Knowles, and who was the first person to enter
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"Another contract came her way then, so she told me, for a tour in Australia and China, and she left me again, sailing from Liverpool
In Ignorance.
to
the bungalow after the shot was
"I had not the slightest idea of her association with Dr. Knowles, So far as I know I have never met fired. He is expected to be in the him I learn now that she must box to-morrow. she was supposed to be touring intenst concerned person in the whole have been to West Africa when
Dr. Knowles appears to be the 1926, and when she came home court, and as the cate slowly pro- was the time when Dr. Knowles ceeds it is quite evident that he is missing none of the evidence. He sits at a small table facing the judge, is surrounded by papers, and takes notes of the whole pro- ceedings.
was on leave, -
"How she met him I do not was a widow then her first bus know. It may have been when she bend was named. O'Neill, Her had a pantomime engagement in maiden name was Taylor, and she Scotland when he was at home Was born in Manchester. Her there.
"So Bohemian, "
mother stil lives at Brixton she Every one of the many letters is more than eighty years of age—have received from her since she and her brothers and sisters live has been away has come to me in London.
from some one else. They have "Whatever may have happened the London post marks on them, in West Africa I do not know. I with her writing on the envelope. am not casting blame on my wife, and they must have been sent to She was one of the best women in some other party and then re- the world. She and I were the posted to me. truest of pais. We had good times together when we made a great
"I wondered at the letters.com. deal of money-1 with my theatrical companies and she with her music-ing to me like that, but I did not hall engagements and we have had worry. I knew Madge so well; she bard times, but we have always was so bohemian and so casual, and been pals.
she had so many women friends in In the early part of 1920 we the profession to whom she might decided together as things were write and enclose a letter for me, bad for engagements to open a
"Now this terrible affair has theatrical shop in a provincial town. happened, and I am all lost at the The business was registered in her thought she will never come back to me. I think that T will shut up "Soon after that she came to me my business and sell it, and start and told me she had been offered off right-away for the Gold Coast a good contract for ingle act to and out all the facts of the
Continued on nest Column).
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name,"
case."
t He is keen and alert, and when asked by the judge if he had any questions to put to a witness, he quickly jumped up and surprised those in court by the preciseness of his cross examination.
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She is young girl with a sense.f humour which she keeps despite many worries. She starts out to achieve fame and fortune for herself and succeeds after a series of ́nd- ventures and misadventures...
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