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SERVANT GIRL'S
DEATH.
MYSTERIOUS ILLNESS AFTER CUP OF TEA.
The inquert was resumed at Winchester last month on Elsie Island Duckett, a 17-year-old domes. tic servant, of Monk Sherborne, near Basingstoke (Hants).
VANISHING LONDON,
£750,000 INVOLVED IN BIG SALE.
SHOPS WHERE FAMOUS HOUSES STAND.
The houses to be sold have great historic interest, for they form part of the original Berkeley-square. In their hey-day they were occupied by very prominent men and women, for there was a time when Berkeley aquare was the most exclusive quar- ter of London,
At least £750,000 will be involved in the sale, of seven houses in Berkeley-square, W., and six houses At the previous hearing the girl's on the south side of Braton-street. The sale will be by auction, in the mother had said that on July 6, she received a telephone message
autumn, unless they are previously from Mr. Budd, the girl's employ-disposed of by private treaty. er, stating that Elsie "was ill. She saw her daughter and inquired what was the matter. The girl ro- plied, "I know I am ill, but I don't know what is the matter," And then explained that after tak ing the breakfast into the break- fast-room, she took a cup from a | cupboard, put milk and sugar into it, and poured out some tex. AI she drank she noticed that it was very bitter, and she threw the rest into the sink. After removal to hospital, Mrs. Duckett added, the girl could only say, "It was that cup."
Continuing her evidence yester. day, Mrs. Duckett said that her daughter saw her on the Wednes day before the illness began, but on that occasion she said nothing about her health.
When asked if she had received any letters from Mr. Budd address od to her daughter, Mrs. Duckett replied: "They put some into her washing, and I handed them to the superintendent, except a few which I have brought to you to see.”
The Coroner said that these wore of a perfectly innocent description, and there was nothing in them which assisted the inquiry in the slightest.
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Altogether nearly 200 yards of the old street fronts of Berkeley. square and Bruton-street are to disappear, and on the site of the cxisting houses will arise a huge apartment building with the ground floor occupied by luxury shops.
This is another indication of the gradual trend of London's shopping quarter to the West.
A 99 Years Lesse.
BABY'S ECZEMA ITCHED TERRIBLY
In Pimples. Was Terrible to Look At Cuticura Healed.
"My baby was two months old when esema appeared on his forehead in pimples. It spread all over his head, neck, arms and limbs. He could not sleep as it itched terribly, and I had to keep gloves on his hands night and day. His hair fell out and he was terrible to look at. I did not want sayong to see
read an advertisement for Cuticurs Soap and Ointaient, and sent for a. free: sample. I purchased more, and in alx weeks he was completely healed." (Signed). Mrs. Lillian Rolfe," "Home Farm” - Furleigh, N. Basingstoke, Hapts, Eng.
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ARE BRITISH SHIPYARDS LOSING GROUND?
FOREIGN COMPETITORS'
LEAD.
The shipbuilding figures given in Lloyd's Register of Shipbuilding returns for the quarter ended Juno 30 show that while there is a de crease of 222,930 tons in the work
In the next few years the whole aspect of one side, of Berkeley. square will have changed, and one will be able to shop in a spacious in hand in the yards of Great Bri- thoroughfare instead of the contain and Ireland as compared with gested streets further cast.
the first three months of the year, construction abroad is 19,738 tons. greater, and is the highest since 1921.
For some time the auctioneers, Messrs. Knight, Frank and Rutley, have been securing these properties and the whole area will be offered. with vacant possession on a 30 yehrs building lease,
The freehold of the land belongs, of course, to Lord Bearsted, although for many generations it was the property of the Lords Berkeley, who gave their name to the historic square.
Compared nation for nation Great Britain still leads the world ter the total tonnage in hand was in shipbuilding. During the quar.
tons for the rest of the world, but 1,392,089 tons, against 1,665,672 it is disclosed that while the aver age percentage of shipping under construction in British yards in the last twelve months before the war wag 57.2 and 42.8. abroad "the percentages are now 45.5 and 54.3 respectively.
Employer's Evidence, Reginald Barton Budd, a young
In the days that are gone the farmer, of Monk Sherborne, who peculiar characteristic of London was represented by Mr. S. L. Bulas city was its collection of squares. lock said that on Saturday, July The London squares were just an E, about 5 30 in the morning, the excuse to put a garden among girl brought him a pot of tea with houses a compromise with the three cups and saucers. Mrs. Budd Englishman's ideo of and a nurse wore also in the house. There was no room for a garden for again shown in the tanker. tonnage
privacy.
He and his wife each had tea, and
each mansion, and so each tenant the third cup was filled by the girl was given a key to an iron its and taken to the nurse. While he which gave him access to a little was dressing about ten ranates patch of green grass, relieved by later the girl ran into the bedroom, sycamores or plants. The rest of and said that she felt very ill. He the world was permitted the privi- and Mrs. Budd went downstairs,lege of looking over, the iron rail- and the girl was then sitting on ings to the garden beyond. a chair in the kitchen, and vomit. ing. The following day she was worse, and Dr. Daly was sent for.. The doctor, after he had made an examination, said that he thought that the girl had taken a strong irritant poison, and that the symptoms indicated arsenical poisoning.
The Coronor: Did he ask whether you had any poison on the premi see 7-Yes. I told him there was some disinfectant in the nurse's bedroom and some weedkiller in the engine-shed.
With the doctor and the nurse, the witness continued, he went to the bedroom. The disinfectant wag intact. He went to the shed where the tin of liquid weedkiller was. He had bought it at Bashingstoke in June, and had used some about eight days before the girl's illness to kill weeds on the gravel drive, using a watering-can for the pur- pose and pouring the weedkiller into the can with a glass jar.
The Coroner: Have you ever used A cup for that purpose 3-No never
The witness went on to say that the glass jar was still in the shed. The tin of weedkiller was not us he had left it. The door of the shed was kept locked, with the key in the lock. No one but he himself had any right there, He sent a specimen of the girl's vomit to the county analyst, and on the follow that there was no trace of any ing day was told on the telephone
poison.
Dr. Daly, of Little London, North Basingstoke, gave evidence that the girl was obviously very ill' when he saw her. "I asked her what was the cause of it so far as she knew, and she said she had had some tea which tasted bitter. She said that Mr. and Mrs. Budd had had some of the tea and that the only thing that was different in here was the milk
The Steel Vision.
London squares were an essential part of the London which is fast disappearing, Whether they were surrounded by rows of houses in dull red brick or mansions in Victorian stucco they had their dis- tinctive characteristics. Progress had ordained that the new London should consist of enormous apart- ment houses.
These tall piles in the new style dwarf the gardens of the squares and make them insignificant. In time probably all the famous squares of the town-Berkeley, Grosvenor, Portman, Belgrave, Dorset, Bedford, Enton, Bryanston, Hanover will lose their former charm. London will become an. agglomeration of steel and concrete, with tiny patches of pale green grass here and there
But Berkeley-square! The words have a curious London ring. They connote an idea of the detached life of London when it was a leisurely city. It was a most fortunate square, for it was built in a period of taste, and its sides were flanked with houses that were delight to the eye.
Not much more than 200 years ago sportsmen walked down the slopes of Hay Hill in search of spipe and teal on the low-lying land of the marshes of the Manor of to what is now Berkeley-square, Ebury. London had not stretched although the nobility were contem plating putting up mansions in the fields of Mayfair.
The total tonnage under con- struction in the world amounts to 3,057,735 tons. A large increase is under construction, the present figures being 145 vessela of 1,110,056 tone, of which 84 vessels of 633,577 tons are being built in British yards and 16 vessels of 142,845 tons in Germany. Of the 148 tankere under construction 131 are motor ships
The steamer tonnage actually under construction throughout the world under the inspection of Lloyd's Register reaches 1,077,828 : tona, of which: 1.176,030 tona are being built in Great Britain and' Ireland.
INHERITED £200,000.
BANKRUPT OFFICER SAID TO BE EXTRAVAGANT,
Subject to a suspension of twelve months, an order of discharge in bankruptcy was granted at the London Bankruptcy Court to Cap- tain Philip Henry Ashworth, of Great Cumberland-place, W.
The Official Receiver said that Captain Ashworth, on attaining his majority in 1908, inherited in- vestments worth about £200,000, yielding an income of £6000 a year. He served in the army from August, 1814, until June, 1019 Since demobilisation he had no pe- eupation, but lived on the income from his investments, on part of his capital, and for a long time before his failure on the income. reserved to himself on £82,000 of his capital settled on trustees when be married in 1909.
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