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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1931.
MARRIED 30 YEARS- MAJOR AND A GIRL.
LEET NOTHING.
ONCE IN GOOD, POSITION:
NOW LETTING ROOMS."
HE GAVE ALL TO CHILDREN OF HIS FIRST WIFE,
A pathetic dossier revealing the hardships of wives who have been disinherited by their husbands bas
"TAKING" CARE” OF £50.
NOTES IN WALLET.
MÁN SAID TO HAVE BEEN "BITTERLY DENOUNCED."
INDIANS WEEP AT VICTIM'S DOOR.
SLAIN, IN, A DARKENED
· BEDROOM.
DETECTIVE WHO TRACKED MAHON IN CHARGE.
As a sequel to a sceno at a'dance at a West End restaurant in which a retired major and a’girl figured,
Scotland Yard officers are investi- Percy John Richards, aged 33, and, galing the brutal murder of an lu- Vera Milicent Richards, or Verndian, named Idries Ali, whose bat- been collected by Miss Eleanor Brown, both described as foncing red body was found in a room Instructors, of Conway-mansions, in Victoria Dock-road, Canning
E. Town; Lisson-grove, Marylebourne, N.W.,
Superintendent Savage, one of wire committed. for trial at Bow- street Police Court on a charge of the Big Five," who was respon During the last month there have bren two examples of a wife being stealing and receiving a wallet,ible for the arrest of Patrick Mahon, the murderer of Emily. containing 101 in notes.
Rathbone, M.P., and those who are helping her with the Bill which. aims to make this kind of will impossible.
disinherited: A millionaire left his wife nothing; a. Streatham man.
Mr. E. B. Knight, prosecuting, Kaye, has taken charge of the in- raid that on February 23 Major Vestigations Ho is being assisted
who left £1600 bequeathed 1a, 1 famos Ernest. Summers, retired, of Chief Constablo Ashley.
to his wife.
Palace Gate, W., and Miss Muriel Lagett dined together at a Strand restaurant. After sono dispute, or
Ali, who was 41 years of age, was formerly a serang (chief seaman) on vessels plying between London and Calcutta Alqut eight months ago
The letters held by Miss Nath lone show that these cases, bre more coming than is baiered. They
me from women in all classes of difference of opinion, Miss Paget he rented a shop in Victoria Dock- society; but most of them are from middle-class women, unprotected by the marriage settlement which is the custom among the wealthy or the pensions which fall to the widows of insured workers. In a
cft and went alone to a ball at another West End restaurant, There she met the two Richards, at whoso address she was then living. During the dance Miss Pagett missed a wallet, which contained
read, and recently began a business in livo poultry. He had another native as partner in the business. Ali lived alone in a small room at the back of the shop.
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His body was discovered by a
great many cases the disinherited in bank notes. She question-native namad Gheddalla, who, with
cu both the Richards, but they his white wife, occupies a
wves and worked all their lives to Jap their husbands in business.
17 Years in India.
A newspaper representative wAB shown some of those letters. Here are stories they tell:
denied
all knowledge of ik Since then three £50 notes which were in the wallet had been traced as having been cashed Porey Richardsone in London
and two in Cardiff.
above.
room
but could get no response. Finding Ghedialla knocked on Ali's door,
the door was locked, and as no sign of Ali had been seen since the after noon, they went into the backyard. They found that Ali's window was shut but not fastened.
Weeping Indiana,
"I pulled down the window," amelt gas I climbed in on to Ali's Gheddalla said "and immediately bed. The room was in total dark-
"An Arranged Job."
When arrested Percy Richards was alleged to have said: "From what my sister has told me I was of the idea that the money I am him charged with stealing was an areas, and as I stepped off the bed, cameranged job, and that Miss Pagott way to the gas bracket and cut off I stood on his body. I fumbled my to had taken the money from Major the gas.
Summers without his consent, and had given at to my sister to hold for her, with instructions to got
A solicitor vouches for the story if a woman who was left a widow two years ago with six children. is business necessitated her hus band living in India during the whole of their married life. The wife lived there with for 17 years, and then koine to Lovote herself
education of her child. She had private means which she applied to the benefit of her family, trusting to her husband to make this good out of an amplo gratuity due to him with pension on retirement.
the
en.
Before he died on his way home to England, he drew up a will which, instead of showing gratitude to his wife and thought for his family, loft everything he possessed to a former mistress.
The solicitor adds, in fairness, to the solo legatee, that she insisted on giving the widow some of the
money.
A man and woman married with kss than £100 between them. The wife helped in the business, Thon he husband left her for another woman. He then had between 13000 and £8000.
"Had he romained with me," the yidaw writes that would now be $210,000. Four women were men- traded in my husband's will, but all he left to me was three houses in such a bad state of repair that the cost of reconditioning them left me penniless,"
"In Great Distress," Another woman writes:
"I am in great distress because my husband left every penny to a friend and his family. After be ng married for over 30 years, I have two daughters and a son. My husband acquired the whole of his money from my family and myself
he had nothing whatever, when I married him. After being in a good position. I now have to let rooms, and have not sufficient to live on."
A woman who married 'n widower 20 years older than herself was n devoted wife to him in his old age, and infirmity. He recently died, leaving the bulk of bis pro. party to his children by his first wife. All he left to his widow was £1a week. Even the home that he had made for the last 13 years, has been left to the children, all of ahom already have good homes and incomes. She said.. "To be unable. to carry on for lack of money is very humiliating."..
Locked Out.
A woman married a widower with four children, giving up a 1st carrying £5 a week and a pension. A child was born a few months before the husband died. When the will. was rend, the second wife and her daughter were not rcntioned.
"My husband's son has locked mis out of the house that had been my homo," she wrote, "My daughter and I are destituto."
Miss Rathbone's Bill seeks also to deal with cases where men are, treated in the same way.
There is a case of a young man unable to earn his living because, of arthritis. He and his young wife were trying to keep up -4 tamo on her earwings of 21 a week they live in one room. That man's father died worth 2100,000, but:
did not leave his son a penny.
.
"Ali was lying at the side of the bed, fully dressed, and partly hid den by bedclothes."
News of the death of "'The
the notes changed into £1 potes. Serang," as he was known to all cashed the notes.
"Out of the money I wired. Vera 10. All the money I have left in 225 on me. The other I have spent a drink. Pugett told my sister that Major Summers had given her the money, and that she was going to create a scene in order to get
some more out of him."
Indians in Canning Town, Boon spread, and when the police arrived many Indians were sitting in the hall entrance weeping.
Ali had been battered on the face and at the back of the head.' So far as has been necertained, no money was taken.
passage way and into the shop wer Both the doors leading from his
closed and the shop blinds were drawn, concealing the room from passers by.
the habit of entertaining parties of It is stated that Ali, had been in
Indians to card games.
Vera Richards, in a statement to snid that at the dance Miss Pagett the police, Mr. Knight continued, hitterly denounced Major Summers, and said that sho had taken the wallet from him to prevent his spending it all, and she wanted money for her baby. Miss Page asked her to take the money she had and hide it, and she (Richards) accordingly put the notes in the neek of her gown. Later Miss
Asked why al did not give the Inget naked her to get the notes
accused into custody when she first cashed and take from the moneyplied that Major Summers came on missed the notes, Miss Pagelt re- what she owed her.
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"To Look After."
It was not true, Mr. Knight said, that the accused couple wore bro ther and sister.
Major Summers, in evidence, said that the wallet belonged to him, and that he handed it to Miss Pagett to look after.
(Continued in next Volumn.)
Miss Pagett said that she had jen a paying guest of Miss Richards. She owed her £40,
the seene soon afterwardy and took overything in hand. He advised ber not to prosecute..
suggest that you gave this money Mr. A. Thomas (defending.)-I
to. Miss Richards,
Miss Pagett. No.
Both the accused, who pleaded not guilty and reserved, their de fence, were committed for trial.' Bail was rofused
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