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A GIRL ARTIST'S CRIMES.
THEFTS FROM MEN WHOM SHE DRUGGED.
Berlin, Aug. 3.. A young artist with the pretty name of Antoinette and a pretty face to match appeared before a Berlin court to-day on two charges of stealing. Evidence was given to show that she was the daughter of an Easen manufacturer who had given her an excellent éduca- tion and let her go to Munich when she was 17 to study paint ing, for which she had displayed considerable talent.
SEPTEMBER 3, 1927.
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Nottingham, Aug, 2. What fascinated the 20,000 spectators at the air pageant at Hucknall Aerodrome, near Notting- ham, to-day was the tiny plans- the Tiger-Moth-which carries' one man and is the fastest vehicle, power for power, ever produced.
only 32, its speed already exceeds Although its nominal power is 180 miles an hour, or three miles a minute, and when it has been further tuned up it is expected to exceed 200 miles an hour.
Antoinette is now 20, and this spring. came to Berlin to continue her artistic studies. She quickly can carry the pilot from London to Its wing-span is 19ft., yet it found friends. She met a Ber-Paris in 75 minutes at a petrol cost lin manufacturer who
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charmed with her and let her have of less than 109.
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£35 a week. When he had to go A day's tour of the Continent is on a long tour with his wife he contemplated in, one of these new gave her a fat cheque.
'planes, in which 2,000 miles will be She took a suite of rooms in anflown and visits paid to most of the hotel and met a handsome but big cities of Europe. poor student and the money was quickly spent. In her need she wrote to another elderly friend at Bad Pyrmont and asked if she could go and stay. He was, of course, delighted, and she arrived with her student.
Life With Poor Student.
Six races were flown to-day, and some thrilling finishes were. seen. In the Ladies' Purse, Mrs. Elliott Lynn beat Lady Bailey by two yards, the machines rushing wing- tip to wing-tip past the finishing line at more than 80 miles an hour. An unofficial starter in this race, At supper she put something in-a deliberate clumsiness and evoked who handled a light aeroplane with te her host's wine which made him loud laughter, proved to be Flight- ro 'to sleep, and she stole his Lieut. S. M. Pope, masquerading | pocket-book, while the student took as a woman aviator. his fur coat. This they pawned in Berlin, whither they had gone to enjoy themselves again.
When the money was spent Antoinette remembered the exis tence of a third elderly friend at Ratenow, and went to stay with him. She came away with a dia- mond ring, worth £100, but un- fortunately in her hurry she left behind the little bottle which had contained the drug which she had put in her friend's wine. He happened to see her in the streets of Berlin and had her arrested.
aeroplane also won the principal Mrs. Elliot-Lynn in a Moth light event of the day-the Grosvenor Cup Race, the Master of Sempill and Mrs. Harold Brooklyn being second and third respectively.
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The Hucknall Stakes was won by A "Boreas" biplane, piloted by Squadron-Leader Jones at a speed of 148 miles an hour, and the Pel- ham Stakes was won a close finish by Capt. W. J. McDonough, Lady Bailey being second.
Mr. M. L. Eramson, crashed in A sympathetic judge told her it a hedge in his 3.E.5 "skywriting" was a good thing she was not aeroplane. The machine was charged with administering poi-wrecked, and the pilot escaped with Son and sentenced her to six cuts and bruises. months' imprisonment, three of which have passed in the prelimi naries of the case and the other three to be served if she behaves. budly again. So Antoinette left the court smiling, doubtless to join her student, whose name she resolutely refused to give."
ARE COLONELS CRUSTY?
A GENERAL'S VIEWS.
BYRON IN A “RAG."
RACY LETTERS SOLD FOR £350.
A letter written by Byron to Charles Gordon describing an Eton and Harrow match in which be played, and the pasning "rag,” realised £350 at Sotheby's, the other day.
It was bought at the instafice of Lieut-Gen. Sir George Maca number of old Harroviana, Munn, formerly Commander-in-who will present it to the school. Chief in Mesopotamia, writes to a Home paper:
Byron's letter, written on. Au-
There
gust 4, 1905, from Burgage Manor,, are certain erea- tions of the British mind that
Southwell, Nottinghamshire, gave do not change. A reference
a description of the match, and to them will always raise
added: a laugh. The War Office is always foolish, Later....to be sure we were mothers-in-law are always hostile, most of us rather drunk, and went and colonels are always red-faced, together to the Haymarket Thea- with bristling white moustaches, tre, where we kicked up a row, and break their golf clubs in temas you may suppose, when so
many Harrovians and Etonians; met at one place.
per.
But is it really so? The War Office is probably out and away the most business-like of our Govern- ment offices, a mother-in-law is often 1 man's best friend, and colonels, even if somo do grumble. formed the stuff which put Great Britain first in the estimation of the world.
Most of the real colonels, those wad do not lie with the lost legions at Mons and Le Cateau or on the shores of the Dardanelles und in the Ypres Salient, are mild enough men, quiet and kindly, nard-hitten. who live in old shooting suits in bungalows, ushing a little, playing golf, starving themselves to start their sons, owning perhaps, when the son is off their hands, a cheap two-seater.
It is said that they grumble. "He is a soldier and therefore short of cash." No, it is not that, for he is a simple soul and can stave with the best. He may at times grumble, because he and the post- captain of the Royal Navy have chosen a profession which turns them out on a small pension, with children still at school, when in other professions the lean years are over and ten years of fair in- come remain before them.
For be a man never so good in the Army, only one In a thousand, officers can attain general's rank. They sold their place in comfort for the glamour of the sword in the days when they thought not of the end. So let us not mock at then, the quiet, hard-bitten men in the old shooting suits.
Some kind correspondent has suggested that they bully and hector and live on curry and alco- bol. A colonel in his battalion and a post-captain on his quarterdeck are, it is true, men of power and dominion. Were it otherwise the country's work could not be done,
But you do not lead eight | hundred British Tars and Atkinges and twenty officers by bullying and hectoring, but by that quiet force ́of character which they will alone nccept. And as for curry and alcohol, the life of the British frontierman is not to be led on such.
I was one of seven in a single Hackney coach, four Eton and three Harrow fellows, we all got into the same box, the consequence was that such a devil of a noise arose that none of our neighbours could hear a word of the drama, at which not being highly delighted, t'ey began to quarrel with us and'
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