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AMERICA'S JAKE PARALYTICS."
15,000 VICTIMS OF
'JAMAICA GINGER.'
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SEQUEL TO MATRIMONIAL ADVERTISEMENT.
An action arising out of an ad-
STUNTING AMONG U.S. CHILDREN.
CRAZE THAT DISGUSTS AMERICANS.
The United States is again wit nessing an outbreak of endurance contests among children. In many parts of the country boys and girls William James Caldwell (39), a
are aitting in trees or riding builder, living at Cressida Road, bicycles or rocking in patent rock- Highgate, appeared ramanding chairs hour after hour, day in charged with obtaining £se by day out, in order to break the re- false pretences from May Joyce. cord and achieve brief fame until
| by Government officials has reveal-vertisement in a matrimonial paper ed the fact that 15,000 persona in was heard at Highgate, London, the United States have been paraly last month. aed during the past few months by drinking Jamaica ginger" bought from bootleggera. Thus far medical science has been unable to hold out any hope for these victims. The
paralysis is only partial, but the hands and feet are affected, so that the sufferers are unable to perform useful labour, and can walk only with great difficulty by using cruf ches..
It was thought at first that re distilled poisonous alcohol had been added to Jamaica ginger, but it is now considered that the so-called ginger roots,
which came from
Santo Domingo, were not genuine but another and poisonous variety of the plant. The victims are most numerous in the south and south west, and are almost entirely con- fined to the poorer classes. Weal thier people who buy whisky and gin from bootleggers by cases are unharmed. The liquid ginger is bought from a chemist at two shil- lings for a small bottle, and by being mixed with other beverages at a soda fountain is made pot able.
Working Class Victims,
!!
The victims, who are locally nick camed jake-paralytics," are chief- ly clerks, typists, and working. men and most of them are rendered
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Jones, 25-year-old typist, living with her mother at Camden Road. The false pretense alleged was that the defendant posed as a single man, when in fact he was a mar- ried man and the father of children.
-Legacy of £1,000.
Evidence was given at the pre-
vious hearing that following ad vertisements in a matrimonial paper Miss Jones, who inherited £1,000 ander her father's will, was intro duced to Caldwell and they became engaged. Caldwell made it a con- dition of their engagement that she gave him £800. Miss Jones said that out of the sum of £950 she gave him he paid £ 10s. for an engagement ring
The marriage
was fixed to take place on August Bank Holiday, but when the time arrived she found Caldwell was married man living apart from his wife.
Robert Charlesworth, & director of the matrimonial paper, said that Caldwell first described himself as a widower, but later said he was not B widower, but had beer divorced and could marry at any time. He described the age of the. destitute by the illness. In many communities the pauper homes are ,womin he wanted and asked that He told overcrowded and have long waiting she should have £200. lists. Wichita, Kansas, a town of Caldwell, as he told all the men 100,000 persons, has 500 of these who wanted money, that the money paralytics. There are 1,000 cases in she had must be for her own use. Kentucky, 1.000, in Louisiana, 8,000 Later the two, came to pay his in Mississippi, and others scattere charges. M. Charlesworth added through many other States... An in- that on an engagement the woman vestigator for Collier's Weebly paid £20 and the man £5. who has just travelled through the The Magistrate, referring to the country reports that Jake paralyfact that each on joining the paper tics are a familiar sight in all the paid two guineas, said that normal- streets. Their feet Lang loosely, ly a woman paid £25. to get with toes pointed down, and strike husband and the man paid £7 2s." the ground in two motions, produc ing a "click-tap-click," which is unmistakable and quickly becomes
familiar.
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embassies and States offices abroad. The order forbids payment from Government funds hire chargea, for liquors, printing, and club fees.
car.
Mr. Charlesworth said that Miss Jones was put into touch with twenty to thirty men.
Miss Jones, recalled, said that when she called on the paper she told the editor she had £700, and he told her that on no necount was
someone else breaks it again. In New Jersey several teams of two or three boys have ridden a bicycle turn and ture about day and night for almost four weeks. A number of youthful imitators of Saint Simeon Stylites have remained, in trees or on flagpoles for a week or
more.
Id most cases the parents of these children are aiding and
abetting their ridiculous perform-
ancies.
In some cases, however, the oungsters acem to be victims of spontaneous exhibitionism, and in- sist on going ahead despite all
opposition.
In some cases the motives of both children and parents are, directly Gnancial. They solicit aims from passers-by or sell autographed photographs of themselves. Some. of them, doubtless," hope for en- gagements at music halls, but these expectations will probably remain unrealised. Even America, which is ao tolerant of absurd public spectacles, seems disgusted with word is said for them. In half a these youngsters, and not a kind dozen cities the authorities have ordered the police to halt the bicycles and rocking-chairs and pull the children down from the trees.
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But Mr. Wheeler really wasn't going. He clambered on the rail on the way to the liner, and took a header for the shores of Eng- land. A small boat rescued him and got him aboard the tender again!
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This question by a correspondent was investigated by a Press repre. sentative with rather unlooked-for results.
Recent enactments have put the claims of other: Lord Mayors on a proper legal footing, but it appears that the Lord Mayor of London holde bis title without any definite prescription except tradition.
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It has been alleged that Edward III. granted the prefix "Lord " in 1354, when, by the Charter of Maces, the Chief Magistrate was granted the honour of having macea carried before him by the sergeants Sir William Soulsby, so long associated with the Lord Mayors of London, admitted that he could not give "any details of claims to the title.
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