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TUESDAY, “AUGUST 16, 1927.
THE BOY SCOUT'S MILE.
THE MYSTERIOUS MRS. MARITCH.
BLOOD RELATION'S MARRIAGE.
CODE OF AN INTERNATIONAL GETS A YEAR'S HARD LABOUR. | JMPORTANT JUDGMENT IN A ·
JAMBOREE.
IMPRESSIONS FROM SWEDEN,
Captain E. MIntyre, secretary of the Scottish Headquarters of the Boy Scout Association. who accompanied the Scottish Scoute to the International jamboree which was held in Sweden, sends the following communication to a Home Journal:
"
London, July 15. Mrs. Dorothea Müritch, agèd 33, of Herne Bay, was sentenced at London Sensions yesterday to twelve months' hard labour. Mr. Wilberforce, the deputy Chairman, described her as an extremely undesirable" person.
Mrs. Maritch, an exceptionally tall and well-built woman-she is said to weigh 26 stone-broke down
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WILL CASE,
VOID PROVISIONS.
A. man's objection to the mar age of blood relations led to an important judgment by Mr. Jus- tice Russell in the Chancery-Divi- sion recently.
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NYANZA
MALWA KASHMIR MACEDONIA "Calls at Port Sudan.
It was delivered in the matters MOREA of the will of the late James Lan- *DEVANHA yon and the freehold estate of The KHYBER Saltajobaden, July 14.
Mount Braughing, Hertfordshire. Last week she was convicted of Mr. Lanyon, said his lordship, Two great days of the jamboree having obained. during three left his residency estate to his son are over, the Chief Scout's visit to months, jewellery worth $1,300 for life for division among the the camp and the parade in the from, West End firms on the pre-son's children after him.
This city of Stockholm. The camp it-tence that a boarding house at bequest, however, was provided self is situated on Beatelund. Herne Bay was her property. which is reached by motor boat
he does not marry a relation by The police alleged that Mariteh blood, as I wish to mark my great or by one of the little pleasure in 1925 got to know a Mrs. Rebecca objection to marriage of blood re- steamers from the little railway Pohl, who had been certified terminus at Satsjobaden. leve insane, and that since November
aslations." one sees the Scottish Scouts min 1925 Mrs. Pohl's estate had teen fing with the French on the one depleted to the extent of £20.000 side or the other nationalities on the other. Although neither of
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through Mrs Maritch, assisted by a said the judge, "is anxious to have *Calle at Rangoon, the nations can speak the lane woman of title, two solicitors, and his position clearly defined, and
deported from South Africa follow-know:
he not unnaturally wishes to
age of the other, they manage to make themselves understood by signs. Presently a few visitas arrive from the Sweden, Danish, Norwegian, and other tontingents until at one time no fewer than ten nations are represented in thit little corner occupied by the Rritish.
a man who was stated to have been
+
iar a conviction for forgery.
Her real name was believed to be Wether, if he, knowingly or un- Amour, but she would mit sive me knowingly, marries a blood rela- information about her early life, tion, he loses his life interest. which was "something of a mys will in regard to his marrying a Whether the provisions of the tery." She WIN the wife of an ex-cfleer in the Russian Naval blood relation are void, Reserve.
Whether his future choice of a And everyone is wearing the
It was stated that Mrs. Maritch the subsequent discovery that bride is to be, fettered by reason Scout smile and happy and chamwhile in prison had refused to give he and his wife had a common ar- my with everyone else. On the
any information about the jewellerycester who (any) landed in Peven- slightest provocation it seems as except on the condition that she if pandemonium were let nose was bound over.
sey Bay with William the Con- Scout "yell" is suddenly sent up if one camp, to be followed by other more blood-curdling soun:ls from those adjacent, followed by howls of happy laughter.
Each morning a short parale is held while the Sweden national flag is slowly hoisted. It is an impressive ceremony-morë In pressive perhaps because of the riot of colour occasioned by the presence of many national and trooj flags. Then follows the morning prayer by the camp padre; just a few homely words, and the contingents return for breakfast.
"The Chief."
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"If you wish to give any informa- tion you may do
so now, but remember I am not going to be trifled with.
This is your last op- portunity," said Mr. Wilberforce to the woman.
Detective-Sergeant Sands said
queror.
His Lordship declared, in an- swer to the first question, that marriage to blood relation would only appear to affect the children and not the plaintiff at all.
"The definition of blood rela- he had traced to a reputable firm of West End pawnbrokers diamondtion appears clear enough," he earings and rings, some of which continued, referring to the second had been sold outright.
There was question. still nearly £500 worth of jewellery anaccounted, for,
"There are three rings missing," replied Mrs. Maritch. The Hon. Mrs Hugo Stonor has one and with regard to the other two I don't want to mention the names in court."
This afternoon there is obvious-
A detective stated that he had ly something exciting happening. been unable to see the Hon. Mrs. One can see faces peeping
Hugo Stoner. from among the trees and the glint of colour of flags. Then suddenly the magic words "The Chief" are uttered and almost at once there, is a tremendous rush, and yelling their weird call. 4.000 boys dash to their allotted places.
There is a sharppause and tense silence and then at the eall of the Chief to come nearer there is a frantic
oatburst of theering from the boys as they surge in one fast wave towards the platform on which the Chief
standa.
A FUNNY FILM.
SYD CHAPLIN AT THE
QUEEN'S.
Among the pictures accorded a high place in the recent voting for revivial nights
at the Queen's Theatre was "The Man on the
It cannot here refer to the sta- totory next-of-kin. In my opinion. it describes the relationship exist ing between two or more persons who stand in lawful descent from a common ancestor.
The chain of descent may be broken by illegitinancy, but, with that qualification, persons, des- cended from common ancestors, however remote, are blood rela- tions.
Plea of Uncertainty.
His Lordship pointed out that the son pleaded that he could never be certain that the person whom he married was not a blood relation, and upon that ground urged the Court to declare that provision of the will void on the ground of uncertainty.
He (his lordship) had come to the conclusion that the son could Box," Syd Chaplin's delightfully never be certain that he was not amusing comedy. Cinema-goers that a provision which led to such marrying a blood relation, and will be pleased to learn, therefore, And in the midst of this spon that "The Man on the Box" is to which led to a probable prohibi- a provision an uncertainty was taneous outburst' of youthful en-
be the feature attraction at the tion of marriage. thusiasm there is an element of humour as the battery of cinema Queen's Theatre to-day and to-
It was, therefore, void of ef- men wait just a fraction too long morraw. Those who have already fect and the gift over, whereby and are swept along with the tide. en "The Man on the Rox" need the estate would go elsewhere no reminder of the many comic than to the children in the event Only the presence of a small ditch
incidents with which
the film of the son marrying a blood re- prevents disaster to the cameras.
It is many minutes before the bounds-Syd Chaplin's plight lation, was void altogether. noise of welcome dies down and when he is flung into the street in the clear strong voice of the Chief the middle of the night clad only sounds out like a clarion call over in his pyjamas, his adventures as the field. First he thanks the a cabman, his disguise as a house- boys of many nations, for their maid and the other diverting welcome and then, he appeals episodes which make "The Man on to them to mix and be firm friends the Box". an exceptionally funny long beyond the time of the jam- berec, to help bind the nations' together and prevent war in the future. And his appeal is greeted with wild but sincere cheering,· as it is translated into Swedish. Then the Scouts of the world march past the platform to the admiration of the Chief.
picture."
CAPTAIN BRINING
FREED.
MURDER CHARGE DISMISSED.
London; July 14.
A CREMATION SEQUEL"
VICAR SUMMONED ON PERJURY CHARGE.
The Rev. David Jenkyn Evans, of Clevedon, Somerset, and for- Pem- merly vicar of 'Pontfaen, brokeshire, was summoned at Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, last month by Mr. C: H. Saville Bar- ham, a Civil Servant, of Kingsley- So ended the great function in
West Ealing, W., for avenue, camp, but there followed a visit
It was stated by the Leyland alleged perjury. by the Chief to the camps. In the Line at Liverpool yesterday that a Mr. H. E. Kingdom, prosecuting, evening a camp fire was held close enble had been received that the said Mr. Evans was exccutor to the edge of the water. Five judgment of the Venezuelan urt under the will of the late Capt. thousand boys and friends crowd-had been in favour of Capt. P. R.F. L. Barham, of Treewm. The ed into the natural, amphitheatre Brining, master of the Leyland charge against Mr. Evana was that and listened enthusiastically to the liner Ninian, who was arrested last December, for the purpose of efforts of the various nations. at Puerto Cabello on April 7 on a an application for cremation, he In the gloaming the sound of the charge of murder.
fatacly signed the statutory de bagpipes and the "hooching" of
The charge arose out of an acci-claration that the relatives had Lord Willingdon, Governor- the Scottish Scouts as they danced dent in which one of the occupants been informed of the proposed General of Canada, and Lady Wil- the eightsome reel,, provided an of a mooring boat was struck by cremation, whereas the only nesr lingdon flew. from Ottawa to Mon-eeriness to the scene.
died from his injuries. Capt. plane. They flew back the same when we entered the city and Brining was in prison for
marched down the main thorough-months before his trial.
Mr. Barham said he did not know fare past the Chief Scout.
The Leyland Line agents have of the cremation until after it had We must not forget to mention. been instructed to pay his passage taken place. The undue haste of the extremely kind way we were home to England in the first boat the cremation and burial · had treated on our arrival in Copenha-Jeaving Puerto Cabello, Capt. created suspicion.
Our Danish brother. Scouts Brining's home is at Blundell- met us and looked after us for sands, near Liverpool. whole day with a warmth which could not be excelled.
treal in a Canadian Air Force uero- It was a gala day in Stockholm the propeller of the Ninian and relatives had not been told.
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