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GROWING INSTINCT, FOR GAMBLING.
THE GODDESS LADY LUCK."
GIRL'S NIGHT OF FEAR.
throat Honeybourne, when charg. ed the following day, said, I quita [ànderstand.^* There was a slight ALLEGED SUICIDE THREAT OF mark about three inches long on
his neck.
A MARRIED LOVER.
Bala* Herer: "Wounded."A
.
Mr. Paling said it had been a TAKE ME TOO."
cartained that Honeyborne was never wounded. After serving in Sensational allegations of a girl's Mesopotamin for twelve months he ordeal were made at Woking Police was discharged suffering from a
disease of the heart.
His story of wounds and gass Court when Thomas Henry Honey bourne, aged twenty-five, of Wood-ing was a tissue of lice," said Mr. Paling He proposed marriage, street, Ash Vale, near Aldershot, and took advantage of the girl when as accused of attempting to she was in a hopeless state of ex- murder Miss Louisa Mabel Edney,haustion.
aged twenty-two a children's nurse, He left her in that exhausted condition for forty-eight hours, and employed by Professor and Mrs, then went back to his wife and Turnbull, of Woking.
Moscow (U.P.):-Lady Luck is one of the deities whom the new Russia, in its spirited offensive again assorted supersitions, seem to have spared. From time in memorial a favourite in the Russian heart, she has lost none of her allure with the outlawry of capitalism She owes her survival to the fact that she is useful to the new government. She has been spared account of the theory that her powers could be used to strengthen the revolutionary regime.
The wilful and fickle lady has,children indeed, been taken under the warm wing of the Bolshevik Government, which makes use of her ancient temptations to part the sovereign citizen from his roubles for the common good.
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family."
Misa Edney, who had to be assist Mr. G. R. Paling... prosecuting, said that Honeybourne, who was sed into court, looked pale, and was carpenter, met Miss Edney when his evidently distressed. She told the work took him to the house where court that Honeybourne had taken she was engaged Their acquaint her out a number of times and had anca developed, he proposed to her, told her that he was an unmarried She had agreed to marry and was accepted, although he was, man. in fact, a married man with two him.
Miss Edney at that time believed him to be unmarried. He called at the house where she worked on the evening of December 15th and, Mr. Paling alleged, they went to a shed which was used by Girl Guides aa a meeting place, and where work- men sometimes sheltered Honey- bourne told' Miss Edney that he was fed up with things in general,
Raising Soviet Loans. Lotteries are a standard feature He told her that he was suffering of internal loans in the Soviet trom wounds in the chest which, he Union Sometimes there is no ia-said, he received in the war. He
had with him a shot-gun. terest upon loans at all-the chance of winning a lottery prize is the
only inducement to the masses of Russians to part with their savings Usually the loans have both interest and lottery features, but never is a loan issued purely on an interest bearing basis a miserly 10 or 19 per cent. per annum is not cun- sidered "bait enough for the
investor.
"
The same gambling instinct finds expression in a thousand other ways. The foreign visitor is amazed by the thousands of crude home made roulette wheels at theatre and cinema buffes, at 10 kopeki a throw, with anything from -- an apple to a doll as the prite. Newspapers are constantly offering prizes to lucky numbers to boost their circulation.
At the city bazars and country fairs, raffles do a thriving business Everyone is urged to "take a chance"-usually the proceeds go ing to some worthy cause, such as the redemption of homeless children o: the stocking of a new library, and the prizes range from a pair of skis to an imported Ford:
"Casinoa devoted to roulette and chemin de fer, run by the government, until recently existed a all the larger centres Their gradual abolition-in Moscow and Leningrad the lust of them were eosed recently-is the one setback suffered by Lady Luck; who is other wise still triumphant.
Rough on Holy" Man. Practitioners in other domains of superstition, however, are freding lile increasingly thoray in Russia. The ancient trade of Messiah," to cite an instance, is being forced to the wall by vigorous police methods. Bogus holy men" have for gez erations been a scourge upon the remoter and more primitive Russian villages. After collecting whatever money and portable goods they can front too credulous peasants, these trands retire to some heaven out of reach of mundane police.
Becently, the hand of the law did reach into such a haven, disrupting aprofitable trade on the part of two Russians who had been accept ed as the "Messiah" and one of his right-hand sainta" in several villages of the Kiev district in the Ukardine.
Tickets for Heaven.
Long Argument, "Naturally," said Mr. Paling,
Miss Edney removed her hat at this stage, and, telling the clerk that her head ached, she fainted, and was carried out of court by a police-
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The magistrates remanded Honey bourne for one week.
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few experienced medical mon. Except for the wirelessly-controll-recent- Honeybourne Ho told her, added Bisurated Magnesis is sold bred target ship, the Navy has no Mr. Paling, that he was having all chemists in both powder and secret vessels now. When the air- six-roomed house buil, at Telworth, near Surbiton, and that if it was tablet forms. Get a package to craft carrier Argus was opened to
day. It is the one sure remedy the public at Portsmouth last year, not reads by the time they were married he could obtain rooms at that ends digestive ills where they the veil was lifted from the last
of the mystery ships. they would not be able to be mar Guildford Mrs. Eduby said that start quickly and completely. ried until she had spoken to the girl's father-
Miss Edney tried to dissuade him from violence, and they remained in the shed talking and arguing for twenty-four hours. Nothing of an improper nature took place during that time.3.
Mr. Paling added that neither of them had anything to eat or drink, and Professor and Mrs. Turnbull became worried at the girl's ab Scace. The professor went out and found them in the shed, and then communicated with "the girl's mother.
she wanted the marriage to take Miss Edney told her mother that place as soon as possible, because Honeybourne was uncomfortable and unhappy in his lodgings
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It was then arranged that the marriage should not take place until Mrs. Edney had spoken to her hus band.
Marriage Licence.
It was agreed later, between the parties, that the marriage should be on January 6th, but on December 19th-it was decided it should take place on Christmas Day. The girl went to the register office in Woking the following day, and ob tained the necessary licence. A letter was then received from Mr. Edney stating that he was not going to let his daughter marry a mad man..
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Honeybourne told Miss Edney that her father was going to catch "and would him on the hop" and he finish things.
"They went on his motor-cycle to Alton in Hainpshire," added. Mr. "After leaving the motor- Paling. rycle in a garage they walked down
the road about five miles to a copse, and there they remained until day break. The girl yielded to hit They went to a straw stack at day. break, and stayed there all the day. of December 22nd, and through the night
They returned by motor-cycle the following morning to Ash Yale, and arrived there about two p.m. They went into a shed which was used for lumber and stopped there until about 5.30 p.m., when Honey- bourne again threatened to commit suicide.
Tho girl for more than forty- eight hours had therefore been suffering from exposure to the wea ther, and had nothing to eat or drink. She was so word out that she told Honeybourne that he bad better take her too."
A tall lean man, with white robe, Howing beard, and a scattering of thorns in his matted hair, arrived in the village of Kojenks. With him came also a "saint" and the first snow fall for which the pea santa had been waiting anxiously, It was taken as his first “miracle."
The "Messiah" and the "Saint".
"Strangling Attempt." set up shop in a peasant's hut and from versts around came crowds to Honeybourne first attempted to L cleansed of sin and healed of strange her with his scarf, but anid sickness, paying well for the service. that he had not enough strength in For 25 roubles, in fact, the pair his wrists. He took a piece of rope sold entrance to the Kingdom of from his pocket and put one end Heaven," rubber stamping the cus-round her neck and the other round tomer's chest as a receipt.
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Kojenka, tried to arrest the two ahe fainted. The next thing ahe wer, the mob nearly lynched the knew was when she found herself Communist. An atheist with a lying in a corner of the shed and weak heart argued with the "zaint" Honeybourne telling her that his and died soon therealtor of heart rope had broken. He had cut Her failure. It was sat down as one down because he wanted to die with
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The sick and the sinners piled the hut with their gifts and with good Bolshevik currency. The end came when the Messiah while curing young girl got involved in an affair which, it is said, ended in "the girl's suicide.
"He told her that he was a married man with two children. went out of the shed and said that he would return with some cake and buns. He locked the door as he went
"At eleven p.m. the same night The pair of imposters then fed, after Mr. and Mrs. Turnbull had They were arrested in another communicated with the police, village.
Superintendent Boshier saw Honey- Their
miracles of healing, if bourne, who led the way to the was found, had been achieved by shed, where the girl was lying in a the use of cocaine and other, nar- corner, fully dressed and apparent cotics unknown to the unsophisticat-ly asleep. There was a red mark ed inhabitants of Kojenka T about six inches long around her
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life in the West and of London, and, the social Odyssey of s Chinese girl who starts life 31:5 cullery maid in Limehouse, where him plot-makers have found many dramas.
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The order, which makes or Weeks a permanent institution means that somewhere in July or August of avery year warships of all classes will be assembled at the three principal naval ports and throw open to public inspection, guides being provided to explain the
Anna May Wong fills the Chinese various features of the vessels. A rule, and her exotic performance small charge for admission will be will probably create much discus- made, and the amount thus raised sion, but the featured players of will go to naval charities. These the film are actually Gilda Gray. benefited to the extent of nearly the American dancer who invented and Jameson £11,000 by the Navy Week's held the shimmy,"
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