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"EASY COME
EASY GO"
Follow Dix! He's a number for trouble but he has that optimistic twist that turns to sun shine. He manages to crawl out of the tight places with a great deal more than he had when he crawled in. Richard Dix in a new minster-piece of sym- and a rollicking pathetic, human humour
romance too.
AT
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MAJESTIC
NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON.
HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN.
"I hear you got a big raise from the fur company you're working fot."
"Yes, I invented five new names for rabbit."
Little Boy Blue, come blow up your horn, You're nearing cross roads, and the brakelining's worn. But Little Boy Blue didn't let out a sound.
Now he's under an elegant six- feet-long mound:
"I sent you a four-act play over A year ago," said the author ang-
"Have you anything to say, pris- oner, before I pass sentence Pask ed the judge.
"No, Your Honour-except that it takes very little to please me.".
At a country race meeting one of the amateur jockeys was thrown and sat down" heavily: His mo- ther went to his assistance.
"You plucky boy," she said. "You showed no sign of pain.
"No," said the rider, "I felt it beneath me."
you think this is a terrible end
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,
SNAPSHOTS OF A MAN READING IN BED
CLIMBS INTO BED WITH GOOD DETECTIVE STORY. MAKES PILLOW COMFORT- ABLE.
BOOK HAS MEANWHILE DISAPPEARED, FINDS IT AT LAST BETWEEN SHEET AND BLANKET.....
ALL GOES WELL UNTIL JUST AS A MURDER IS BEING COMMITTED IN BOOK, SHADE FALLS OFF WITH LOUD CLATTER.
YOUNG MAN DUPES WOMEN.
£95,000 IN A FAKED PASS- BOOK.
REMARKABLE CAREER.
SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1930.
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
GETS ALL SETTLED AND REALIZES HE HAS LEFT HIS GLASSES ON THE BUREAU.
4 BEGINS READING BUT.
HAS TO KEEP MOVING OVER TO GET BETTER LIGHT.
RESTORES SHADE TO LAMP BOOK MEANWHILE VANISHING AGAIN. FINDS IT HAS SLID TO FLOOR. (Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicats, foc.)
WIVES
MUST MAKE THEIR WILLS.
WARNING BY A JUDGE.
Jr. Justice Bateson: Some one ought to walk about in front of the Law Courts with a board pointing this out.
GETS UP TO GET GLASSES. AND CLIMBS BACK INTO B60.
TIPS SHADE ON LAMP. FINDS THAT A BIG IM- PROVEMENT.
TURNS OUT LIGHT. AND GOES TO SLEEP
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• QUYAS WILLIAMS
AMAZING LETTER TO A WIFE.
APPEAL TO START COURTING AGAIN.
A remarkable letter, said to have The Judge made this remark in been written by a man to his wife, the London Probate Court, last month, when counsel suggested that was rend during the hearing of thousands of wives go on in the mis- en action before Mr. Justice Hum taken belief that if they die with-phreys and a common jury in the goes to their bushands.
King's Bench Division,
Messrs. H. S. Wright and Webb,
The astonishing career of a young man who had victimised middle- aged women WAS disclosed at Marylebone Police Court last "But, my good woman," remark-month when Henry Irving Eustis, rily. "Are you going to produceed the magistrate mildly, "don't Terifig Eustace, aged twenty-three, out anaking a will all the property
alias Henry Anderson Conroy to your New Year festivities? Tell of Staffordshire House, Walton-on- me, why did you strike your hus-Thames, appeared before the magis band with a kitchen chair ?" Bustis and Euphemin Simon
Because I couldn't lift the gas- Sherriff, aged forty-five, a house stove, sir," replied the loving crea-keeper, of Bridge Bungalow, Shep perton, were accused of obtaining 429 and £19 5s, by fraud.from ar hotelkeeper at Cleveland-gardens Bayswater, W., and motor-car dealer at Atherstone-mews:
it "
"Sure!" replied the great Ameri- can impresario. Then he turned to a very dirty little office boy. "Hi, son, go to the manuscript cup- board, and produce this gentle man's four-act.play."
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Mr. Laurence Vine, defending the woman, said that she had been the innocent dupe of Eustis. She was discharged.
Mr. Bingley, the magistrate, sen- tenced Eustis to nine months' im- prisonment with hard labour. * Detective Sergeant Duncan, deal- ing with, the second charge, said that Eustis now had nothing to his credit in the bank, but his prss book had been cleverly faked, and showed payments in of $20,000, £15,000 £2,000, £10,000, and other sums of a total amount of £95,442,
Inspiring Confidence,
It was stated that Mrs. Evelyn
tore up her will after the death of'
Clara Greenstreet, of Birminghai, solicitors, of Bloomsbury-square, her mother and sister, to whom she W.C., claimed against Mr. Arthur had left something, saying: It James Annandale, of Nevern-square, does not matter whether I make an Earl's Court, for E100 alleged to be other will as Arthur (her husband) due for professional services render- will have everything." M
A solicitor was able to produce aed to Mr. Annandale's wife, Eileen draft of the torn-up will, and the Dora, and money expended on her judge pronounced in favour of it.
behalf.
Inheritance Law As It Is.
Very few people arc aware of the Mr. Croom-Johnson, KC, for great change in the law of intestacy Messrs. Wright and Webb, said that effected by the legislation of 1923.
dying without making a will-Mr. Wright, the senior partner to
SECRET OF MARRIED QUEEN'S
HAPPINESS.
DIAMOND WEDDING OF
REAL DARBY ÄND JOAN.”
With love in one's life, the longest life must rem short, and to me sixty years of married life is not a day, too long.
"Thero must, with business and family responsibilities, be stormy days as well as sunny days in mar- red life, but it is my experience that love cam triumph over alf difficulties."
This was the message given me by a striking woman of eighty-one years, who celebrated her diamond wedding at Hassocks, near: Brigh- ton, writes a Press representative
Mr. and Mrs. Edward George. Holdon, of Chichester-villa, Woods- tand-road, Hassocks, avere married at the old church of St. Nicholas; Brighton, sixty years ago."
Royal Greetings.
Their diamond wedding celebra tions opened with the receipt of a message of congratulations from the King and Quan, wishing then good health and happiness There was no question about either the good health or the happiness of the Jong-Wedded pair.
Mrs Holden bad for the occasion a new gown, on which she wore a sprig of anowdrops. Mr. Holden, who, at eighty-three years of age. still follows his occupation as a builder and house decorator in | Brighton, had a new suit and a
amart blue silk shirt.
He has more bair on his head than many men half his age, and he was boasting that a few days ago he was working on a tirenty-two- foot ladder. Mrs. Holden WAS almost equally exuberant, and stout. ly declined to wear a hat when "she went out of the house to be photo. graphed.
Mr. and Mrs. Holden have had ten children of their own and have
adopted three other children. They have twelve grandchildren.
One
son served in the South Afriend wer and five in the great war..
Bridesmaid Present:
Mr. Holden has made the paint spare-time hobbies, and he can still ing of landscape pictures one of his read without glasses.
Most of the members of the family were present at the party held at. cluded Mrs. Alfred Wynyard, Mrs. Hassocka to-day, and the guests in-
Holden's sister, who was a brides- maid at the wedding.
The youngest grandson present was busy most of the morning tak- ing to his grandparents messages of congratulations which kept pouring ing One cablegram came from a son, his wife, and two children in Demerara
A married woman had long before the firm, was consulted in February acquired the right to make a will, last year by Mrs. Annandale, who but if she died without making alleged that her husband had been will, her husband took the whole of guilty of cruelty towards her, and The cake for the tea was one of her property, whether or not there had locked her out of their Bat. the meat remarkable over made in were children of the marriage!
dale, on tac instructions of Mrs. of St. Nicholas Church and their. Mr, Wright wrote to Mr. Annan-Brighton. It bore representations Annandale on February 19, 1995, home at Hassocks, as well as other asking if he were prepared to enter novel features. into a formal deed. of separation. failing which proceedings would probably be taken to get a judicial separation.
If the husband died without mak ing a will the wife's position was very different from that of a sur viving husband.
If there were children of the marriage the wife took one-third of the state and the children two
Mr. Vine submitted that Eustis had associated himself with Miss Sherriff to inspire confidence in the carrying out of his fraudulent | thirds." schemes.
:
"If there were no children the wife. Detective Sergeant Duncan told | took 8500 under the Poor Intestates the following story of Eustis' care
...
Eustis, who was born in Corn- wall, left home and stola, £20 worth of jewellery from a woman. He was bound over for this.
He then became waiter at sea- side resorts in Devonshire until 1825, when he had a serious motor-car accident, He was treated at Sidmouth Hospital, where he met three "benevolent, elderly women..
His amazing plausiblity elicited their sympathy, and one woman took him to her house and treated "him as one of the family.
Eustis succeeded in obtaining £10,000 from her in twelve months He also obtained £1,200 worth of jewellery from an Exeter jeweller by representing that he was one of the family:
at
He met another woman Teignmouth and obtained £1,500 from her. He bought a motor business at Walton-on-Thames, and ran a luxurious.car, attended. by a chauffeur and a valet,
Estate Act, but of the remainder. one-half went to the wife and the other half to her husband's next of kin
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Equal In Law,. This law of intestacy has been changed by the Administration of Estates Act, 1925.
Under the now existing law, hus- bands and wives are treated in exactly the same way.
If either dies without making a will the survivor, whether husband or wife, takes the personal chattels absolutely (these include furniture, linen; pictures, jewellery, musical instruments, wines, horses, and cars, but not chattels used in busi- neas) together with £1,000 free of "death" duties.
If there are no children the hus- band or wife receives the incomie of the whole estate for life, and on death the estate goes absolutely in equal sharos, to the parents of the intestate, or, if there be only one parent, to that parent absolutely.
Poor Little Betty." Mrs. Annandale brought to Mr. Wright on February 21 a. letter. which her husband had written to her.
The letter, contained the following passages:-
My dearest, poor little Betty, Now I know for certain that you have done wrong with other men, and not many, as I thought, and that you are only a baby, I am terribly sorry for you..
You, darling, have sworn be fore God to me that I was the only man. How little you have understood me.
The thirteen children were repre seated in the design, which also in- cluded Mrs. Holden's favourite text "Little children love one another."
SHOTS FROM A MOTOR- CAR
NORTH WALES MYSTERY...
A mysterious affair was recently reported to the Ffynnongroew (North Wales) police.
Mr. Benjamin Parry, of Glany don, Mestyn, was walking along the main road with his wife near Mostyn Quay when they saw a large brown saloon car approaching them at a very fast speed. As the car. passed them there was a report of. a shot. Thinking one of the two men in the car had fired a toy re
If you had only come and told me each time, and said you were solver, they told nobody about the
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sorry, and that I must take more incident, until a similar incident JOHN GILBERT
trouble to keep your affections I was reported from Talacre, about would have forgiven and, more three miles nearer Prestatyn. important: forgotten.
A youth named William Roberts, Darling I have fitted with of the Brown Cow, Gwespyr, was other girls, but I haven't done walking toward Prestatyn when a anything more.
I still love brown car passed and a shot was yen more than any one in the fired. Mr. Alfred Williams, of world..
Holmkeld, Tan Lan, Ffynnongroes, I shall be outside Barclays who saw the incident, said: "I was Bank at one o'clock to-day to going along the road to meet give you money and, darling, to Roberts when I saw a large brown get your consent to have a talk car come round the bend travelling together.
very fast. When it came into full 'Can't" we leave "Earl's Court view. I was amazed to see the cor altogether and take two rooms swerve toward Roberts. A man Homewhere and start all over with a scarf over his nose and mouth again, first courting each other and a trilby hat pulled well over until we can awake the old love his eyes was leaning out of the rear and confidence, and finally get window with a silver-plated re married all over again if we arevolver in his hand. When the car was passing Roberts the man ap-
Failing issue and surviving par- ent, the estate, on the death of the Eustis, in November, 1927, stay widower or widow, goes in order ed at a London hotel, where he first to the brothers and sisters of met another woman, to whom he the whole blood of the intestate; represented himself to be Eus failing them, to the brothers and tace Count of Boulogne," with an sisters of the half blood, then ancient castle in Cornwall, and grandparents and then ancles and in three weeks she, parted with aunts. Failing any of these to take £10,500,
Postagem Bola | as successor to the surviving spouse, The woman brought a High the surviving spouse, then and only Court action against him, and ob then, takes an absolute interest in tained judgment for £3,000. the estate.
Be induced another woman in
For the Ohlidren. London to exchange four signed If there are children of the mar blank cheques, and drew one for riage the surviving spouse takes the £8,000 to satisfy the judgment. income only of one-half of the Ho bought a new car with another estate, the other half being held chèque for £844. *.
upon trust for the children or other He made out the other two issue.
Mrs. Annandale's petition for a who had fired look out of the back window. He had pulled the scarf cheques for small amounts. These As in the half held on trust for judicial separation on the ground of off his face and was laughing at me.. were the only chequra met. Ha the surviving spouse, this goes on truelty was presented on April 3, The car was going too fast, for me was sentenced for this at the Old his or her death also to the issue, and on May 17 the husband filed a to get the number Bailey te twenty-two months. He who. ultimately take the whole cross-petition for divorce, alleging
I ran along the road to Roberta was released last month, met If the children or issue die before misconduct with four hamed men, and asked him whether he had been Mine Sherriff, and committed the the surviving spouse there is a The charges against two of the men hit. He replied: No, but I heard offences with, which he was now provision for the income going to were struck out by order of the the whistle of the bullet as it passed charged
the parent, and in that case, the Court. Mr. Bingley remarked
close to my head."," that capital is disposed of, as in cases Mr. Annandale was ultimately The police are investigating the Eustis, was a danger to the comwhere there are no children of the granted a decree nisi with costs car, which is said to have Manches munity.
marriage.
against one of the co-respondents. ter index letzerá.
I am terrified for your future peared deliberately to point the if you have no protector, and I revolver toward Roberts and fire. I am afraid that few men can be distinctly heard the bullet strike the that better than I can, because I hedge at the side of the road. · As the car flashed by I saw the man now understand. y.
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