IKE A NIGHTMARE.”
STORY OF THE LAKE
MICHIGAN TRAGEDY.
early 40-persons, nceurding to latest estimate, most of them en and little children out for at 'ride to escape from the
WOMAN CASHIER
ACQUITTED.
STORY OF EMPLOYER'S
LOVE-MAKING.
Found Not Guilty by the jury at Leeds Assizes recently of em- bezzlement and conspiracy, Mrs. Flora Marwood, aged 33, a cashier,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,"
FAR EAST GAMES.
PHILIPPINES BEAT, JAPAN AT BASKETBALL.
Shanghal, Aug. 20. Yesterday at basketball, the Philip- pines beat Japan by 30 to 27-Reuter.
Shanghai, Aug. 29.
In Baseball China beat the Philip- pines 4-3. In volleyball China beat the Philippines 21-12 and 21-19.
;י
In football Japan bent the Philip-
The track and field events were con- records cluded to-day with more smashed. Japan gained 106% points, the Philippines 68 and China 0.
In the witness-box Mrs. Mag-rines 2-1. wood stated that her maiden name was Flora Bairatow. She was married, last December and her husband was standing by her in her trouble. She had been cashier to Messrs. Heymann and Alexander (Yarns) Bradford, Ltd., the prosecutors.
a sweltering hont, were drown-and Arthur Stanley Rhodes; 27, hen the Favourite, a small accountant's clerk, both of Brad- rslon boat, capsized in Lake ford, were discharged. igan, about a mile off the e, during 'a squall (snys a er message from Chicago.) rrified by the storm which up in fifteen minutes and ed in a few seconds, the 76 to one 0 passengers rashed of the boat, and, as it listed, peded to the other side. In batant they were plunged into
She was engaged in 1915 as con- water, where rough breakers tract clerk by Mr. Edward A. ed them helplessly about.
Lassen, th head of the firm. At e noise of a negro band that time her people were away ng out a jazz tune a little and she was lonely, and Mr. Las suddenly trans-scú used to take her out to dinner.
An Attractive Man
became
ed into the choking yells of
ning persons struggling in "Mr. Lassen," she added, "was water and clutching at any a very attractive and very popular As a result of his atten- ing object available. The man.
turned over until only
tions and his taking me out I be- r deck remained partly came very fond of him." be water.
the
out
10.30 27 hodies had been re- red, and the Favourite, which while had been raised by gers, was being searched for
er víctime
Captain Arrested.
e captain of the steamer, who been arrested together with rew, said that the passengers ed the boat to capsize when became terror-stricken at torm.
tle tots who had never been e water before fought for lives alongside their mo
and a few men, while the rose with each gust of and swept over the decks
ed her.
Hitherto Japan has won in baseball and field and track and China in vol. leyball.
In basketball. the Philippines beat China 42-24.-Router.
GOLF
THE HAPPY VALLEY COMPETITIONS.
There were twenty-three competi- turs in the championship of the Valley, which
was won by R. M. Smith with a score of 162. Details appeared in yesterday's S. M .C. Post.
Medal Round. There were thirteen entries for the Mr. Lassen told her he was not Medal Round, which was won by S. T. Butlin, with a score of 87--1374, happy with his wife.
Mr. Paley Scott (for the de- fence): You know, I suppose, that he was married?-Yes.
"He came to see my people."Other scores were: D. G. Bruce, she continued, "and told them he 87-978: F. E. Booker, 95-10-86.
Bogey Competition.
wanted to marry me. My mother For the bogey competition, there told him I was not suitable for the were 31 entries, and the best carda position he had put me in. He were returned by R. M. Smith (4), 2 said. That is all right. I will up; K. S. Robertson (9), 1 up; A. E. marry her in a year.""
Lissnman (10), all square; R. K. Valentine (8), ali square; J. S. Mac- Laren (11), 1 down,
Mr. Lassen gave her presenta and she used to stay with him. For these visits he provided her with a wedding ring.
Mr. Scott: Did you really think he was going to marry you?--I did at one time.
that.
firm'a
TUESDAY.
AUGUST 30, 1927.
ROULETTE WHEELS
8 inch $15.00 9 inch $19.50
WITH CLOTH
Poker Chips $1.75, $1.00,
Lane, Crawford,
SPORTS, DEPARTMENT.
CHILD HUMBUGS.
NOT AS INNOCENT AS
THOUGHT.
"The Age of Innocence" is the Is it true Mr. Lassen did not title of Sir Joshua Reynold's pic know you were paying your acture depicting a little girl of some counts with the firm's cheques? eight summers., The first valuable present was-It is not, because he had bought |
The idea is very pretty, but I e listing boat and partly sub-ring worth £200, but she had me things. himself, and told me to an inclined to doubt whether ny passengers we taken off y presents more costly than pay for them from the
money. Nearly always when i children of that age are really as otor boats which rushed to
guileless as the artist would have After the divorce proceedings have been with him I have paid us believe, writes the editress of cene of the tragedy from all Mr. Lassen asked his wife to take the bills. tions. One small motor him back. "She was a long time She said that Rhodes had no a Children's newspaper. in a
also capsized, but the crew deciding. He asked me to release part "in
I have dis any irregularities. He London journal. themselves by swimming to him, and I did. It cost me a good duly did what she told him.
Cuvered that two-thirds are hore.
deal of suffering because peuple Addressing the jury, Sir Patrick inveterate little fibbers.. cording to the Daily Expressere talking about me. They Hastings, K.G., for Mrs. Marwood, Recently I set a competition for York correspondent, M" thought I was responsible for his said, "There is scarcely an -un-original poems by children, care- am Hofmaner, owner of the divorce action, and I was not.". pleasant thing he (Mr. Edward fully explaining the meaning of
yacht Doris, which rescued
"Could Not Forget Me.". Lassen) could have said about this the word "originäl." The results the Favourite's passengers, Mr. Scott: Did the breaking woman that he did not say. He were somewhat startling.
who Was off of your engagement with Mr. Seemed to be a man terrific aquall like a eyelone Lassen end your relations-While rather looking contemptuously at 1 about 8. I thought we
he was on his second honeymoon the woman whose life he had gone. The wind was RU g that, it pushed our vessel wrote me a letter saying he wrecked. He seemed to be rather ward, although it is capable could not forget me and that we enjoying himself. avelling t 17 knots When would have secrets and store them
in our minds. ind abated suddenly we saw,
Mrs. Marwood said that gh a thin veil of rain and engagement with Mr. Lassen
women and children strug-. in the water. Their screams
Pos:wedi..
terrible. It was like a night-Eventually it was
ptain Carlson, of my vessel,
again.
broker
Mr. Scott: I believe he
"If she is allowed to go on for years drawing cheques, why her should Mr. Lassen, now he has was got tired of her, come here and Isay she has robbed him? This affwoman was almost in the position. of his wife all these years."
The jury returned verdict
Was
bed the wheel, and we pulled again divorced by his wife?--Yes. as stated.
side the
Favourite, which
submerged to her top deck..
Frantic Men.
jumped aboard and yelled le women and children, who hysterical. Ten men who aboard the Favourite were than the women and chit- but we calmed, them finally, e Favourite remained motion- with her superstructure the water, while we spent inutes lowering passengers were still aboard to the
3. We also picked up a nam-
of persons who were swim
or clinging to wreckage.
le child died on the way to hore. One mother who was Je to enter a lifeboat launch- yanother vessel threw her
into the ont, but it is be a that the mother was drown-
orge Holmes, aged 16., saved ather by throwing him a life-
He was unable to find his er, whose body was recovered"
from the wreckage.
Wright, the Superintendent arks, describes the squall as a tornado. It blew the roof
a building on the municipal
A BIG CLAIM.
CTION AGAINST INTER-
IONAL BANKING CORPN.
le Supreme Court at Manlia ed the petition of George C. Id to re-open his case against ternational Banking Cor- tion in which was involved ction of more than P.100,000. e lower court gave judgment avour of Mr. Arnold against bank for the collection of 2,064.87 with interest from 1 6, 1923: However, eme Court reversed the lower t's decision and absolved the dant from the claim of Mr. old. From the unfavourable lon of the high tribunal, Mr. ld recently filed a motion for hearing.
J
the
Arnold was formerly the ager of Willits and Patterson, Because of the indebtednees he company to the bank,' anting to more than P.1,000,- the management of the firm then transferred to the bank,
GIRL WHO'
WING HER DEGREE AS
"MASTER OF ARTS"-
SALLES FORTH
-TO
APPLY
THAT
GAD KNOWS
П
-AND DEMONSTRATE –
STUFF!
01827 BY HEA SERVICE MYS
"I am ill in bed with mumps," wrote one would-be poetess from Leicester, "but while I have been lying here i have composed the It took me a long following poem. time to do, so I hope you will take it."
Then followed:
"Little lamb, who made thee?
who made Dost thou know
thee?" etc., etc. The complete poem by William Blake!
The next, from Worthing, was little better.
"I love writing poetry," ran the small boy's, letter, "and I am send- ing you a poem of my very own. I know it is not very good, but I
I am only, nine."
On an attached grubby sheet of paper was written:
Come, dear children, let
away:
Down and away below.
US
Now my brothers call from the
bay"
and the rest of the first verse of Matthew Arnold's "The Forsaken Merman."
Some were a little better, in that while plagiarising somebody they had at least attempted to use their own imaginations. This is from a six-years-old living at Nuneaton:
one
"O Mary go and call the kitten
· home,
And call the kittén home,
And call him home to tea. The eastern wind was wild and
wet with foam,.
And all alone she want: The creeping tide crept up
the sand,
As far as I could see,
7
The mist came down and hid up.
all the land,
And never home came she!"
Of course this is an obrious crib from Charles Kingsley's "The Sands of Dee."
Ltd.
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Subscribed Capital such as these, and I am puzzled Paid Capital to know what to make of it all. Rontre Fand
clever Are these small children enough to realise that the poems are so good that they will win prizes if upscrupulously given as their own? Are they promoted by elders who should know better? Or do they learn the verges thoroughly at school that in time they believe they have created them?
POLAR CAKE
IT'S QUALITY THAT COUNTS
80
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