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HUSBAND'S “DREAM "MR. METHUSELAH
IN ONE ACT."
IRONIC RETORT TO WIFE.
SOUTHPORT COURT APPLICATION.
SETS OUT.
*HIS "NEVER DIE" TEAM.
Park Haroon, aged sixty-seven, retired millionaire paint manu- facturer, of St. Louis, Missouri,
A husband's ironie version, in.S.. left Paris for home recent-. playlet form, of police court pro-iy accompanied by a young Russian ceedings in which his wife sought couple who have offered themselves a separation order was read ab for an extraordinary biological ex- Southport recently, when the bus periment that may enable the band, Edwin Ross, lodging in
Flawes-side Street, was again sum-human race, and Mr. Harron in moned by his wife, Ruby K. Ross, particular, to live for at least a who asked for a separation order couple of centuries. on the ground that he had failed to maintain her.
Mr. R. W. Brighouse, who ap- peared for Mrs. Ross, said she was the daughter, of Inspector Holmes, of the .S.P.C.C., and was married at Bury in 1925. They were unable to live happily together. He was in the Lancashire Constabulary, but resigned in 1999, and in March of that year she asked for. "a separa- tion order at Southport, and this was granted. Her husband" was late in coming to Court, and after a talk with him (Mr. Brighouse) outside he agreed to an order for 238. a week. He never had the slightest latention of paying under the order, said Mr. Brighouse, and went across to, an hotel and wrote a letter to his wife which showed he could not earn money by anything else he might possibly succeed as a humourist.
Mr. Brighouse read the letter, which was as follows:
that
THE WOMAN SCORNED."
A Drama in One Act. Music by Mr. Brighouse.
In return for this unusual ser- vico Mr. Harron has agreed to bequeath them his fortune, which, of course, by the very fact of the experiment, may be a long-delayed reward
- 500- Applicants, The lucky couple, selected from more than 500 applicants, including
descendant of Peter the Great, are Dr. and Mrs. Lozinsky, yi Moudon, a, suburb of Paris.
The announcement of the experi ment, showed that the St. Louis millionaire believes that the human race dies off comparatively young because it live, in the wrong wav, After many secret experimente in a remote spot in Hawaii Mr. Har- no conceived the system of living which he is convinced will not only permit mankind to live two or three hundred years, but actually to ap- proximate immortality.
He then came to Paris, with his Chinese valet, and inserted an ad- Cast of characters (in order of
vertisement in the qewspaper their appearance)The Wora Dernieres Nouvelles Russes for a Mrs. Ross; the Fool, Mr. Holmes suitable couple willing to submit the Cook, Mrs. Holmes; the Finp-themselves to an experiment. per, Miss G. Holmes; the Shadow, N.S.P.C.C. Inspector from Ashton under-Lyne; the Villain, ex-P.C.
The play opens with a police. court scene, the villain being the defendant. All are seated breath- less, waiting for the villain to ap pear. He arrives twenty minutes late. Loud laughter from the other
actors.
The Fool I have got him now. The Villain, sitting in the wit- ness-box, makes an appeal to the mazistrates, which is accepted. The Fool and others laugh. The Villain: Good-bys for ever. Fall of curtain..
Arrasted.
"Mr. Methuselab," as he is now
known, believes that, owing to their recont catastrophic experi would be more open to new ideas ence the minds of Russian "émigrét
would collaborate more enthusias that they and impressions, and tically in his scheme,
"Death Unnatural.”
The purpose of the plan is to achieve a perfect balance of action and inaction, consumption and de- composition in the body," Mr. Har- non explained to-day in his luxuİ- ous Oriental Hat
"Once that is achieved there is no reason why the body should not live for ever.
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Mr. Brighouse, proceeding, said the husband disappeared, and they could not trace him. Nothing was heard of him until he was arrested in September, 1929, at Blackpool, "In the biological experiment for stealing a car and driving with that is now about to begin the first out a licence There were cases of rule forbid, the wearing of any housebreaking, which was also-pre-clothing, as clothing acts as an in- ferred against him, and he was sent aulation for the poisons of the for trial
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He returned to his wife, and they lived in lodgings in Southport, She got a situation at a kinema, but he stayed in the house smoking, and would not look for work. His wife refused to sign a paperisaying she wanted him to go, and he dis- appeared. In February his wife re- ceived an anonymous letter saying he was living in Cornholme, Tod morden. This proved correct. He bad contributed small amounts for some time.. He was at present selling periodicals in Southport
Ross said it was a case of being down and out and not being able to keep his wife in the position he cure the point, but it is understood, QUAE's BOAD CENTRAL [8824 Free used to. His wife would not live that his ideal plan demands, walk- with him because he had not got ing on all fours during the twelve good clothes. He resigned from intervals in order to relieve the the police force through his un-strain on the internal organa, but bappy life with his wife. If he the couple chosen objected to this. corrected her she went straight to and so swimming was substituted,
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In reply to Mr. Brighouse, he said the letter which had been read was a lot of silliness, but his wife had got him in a temper. As re- gards being arrested at Blackpool, he said he pleaded guilty to shield- three men. He knew he would get off on account of his previous char acter. He had done nothing radio ally wrong; it was all a fool's trick
The Bench made an interim order for three months for 10s. a'week.
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That he had lost heavily in ex- change transactions, and that he stole 812,500 to pay his creditors was the reason given by a young Chinese, when charged with the theft of that sum from a money changer at 158, Connaught Road
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