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SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1928.
BEAUTY AS SOCIAL AID.
JUDGE AND CELEBRATED
PLAIN WOMEN.
“ONLY DEAD" ONES”,
THE LUSITANIA SWINDLE
MANY FRAUDS ON MEN AND WOMEN.
FALSE INVENTOR.
In a judgment in a case between
A sentence of five years' penal two beauty specialists, Mr. Justice servitude was passed at Lowes Humphreys (Sir Travers Hum Assizes on Alfred Taff Rutt, 47, phreys) discussed "the question an engineer, for obtaining money whether the advertising slogan by false pretences from "Beanty is not a luxury but a social necessity came within the Copy right Act as a trade mark.
One of the reasons why he thought the slogun original was be- ezuse it was so obviously untrue. There were many people who led useful and happy lives, but were not beautiful in face. It was, no doubt, an original and arresting phrase, and he had come to the conclusion that it came within the Copyright Act,
Misa
Lascelles, a lady's companion, in connexion with a plan to salve the Lusitania. Miss Lascelles parted with £500, but a second cheque for £1,000 was stopped.
career as n swindler was described After his conviction his long
a police superintendent.
Mr. Harold Victor Jones, charter- ed accountant, of Fareham, in evidence for the prosecution, said he drad lent Rult 2300 for his ex-
The plaint, Dr. Oreste penses with bis alvage vessel Sinunide, of Sloane-street, W., ask-Pembroke, He received back from ed for an injunction restraining La Rutt a cheque for £300, which was Maison Kosmeo, of South Molton-returned marked "R.D.," and £20 street, from causing to be printed in cash.
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or published any advertisement Addressing the jury from the containing the phrase or any sub-dock, Rutt declared that he had stantially similar phrase which I never described himself as a naval might infringe the plaintiff's copy for mercantile captain, but he had right in his advertisements.
a right to call himself captain of
Mr. St. John Field, for Dr. salvage operations, Sinanide, said he carried on the The published photograjih de business of electrotherapy, or ascribing him as descending to the beauty specialist. The defendant wreck of the Lusitania was, he ad- (Mr. Charlos Abbot Brown) had amitted, incorrect. A mistake had business in the same line, and de- been made and the wrong photo- scribed himself either as a plastic | graph published. surgeon or a cosmetic surgeon.
Mr. Justlee Humphreya--Ought we to have a jury of ladies to try this case? Do you think 1 am com- petent to do it? (Laughter.)
A Phrase of Kipling. Dr. Sinanide said that he invent ed the phrase, "Beauty is not a luxury, but n social necessity." He never heard of it before he in- troduced it in his advertisements.
Mr. Cartwright Sharp, in cross- examination-What is your com- plaint 7-I say, in the words of Mr. Field, that the defendant has taken the "essential gute" out of nly pipase.
Mr. Field explained that when he used that expression he was quoting a phrase of Kipling.
Mr. Abbot, Brown, in evidence said that during the war he was a major in the Royal Army Service Corps, and Inter he left that unit und did a great deal of work in counteracting the effect of wounds on the face.
He had been described in one of Mr. Robert Hichens's books. "December Love," which was pub lished about three years ago and was the book of the season,;
Mr. Justice Humpreys-How ware you mentioned?--As ♫ cosmetic surgeon of Greek origin practising in South Molton-street. I am the only cosmetic surgeon in South Molton-street.
"But why of Greek origin?" ask ed the Judge.
"Beempe use the Greek expres- sion Kismen," which means
| adorn,'" he replied,.
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Mr. Cartwright Sharp, referring
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The Judge, summing up, said the question whether Rutt's plant was valuable, or not had nothing to do! with the case.
"No doubt if you could pick up a wrecked vessel as easily as you could pick up a bit of sugar with]] a pair of sugar-tongs there, would he money in it, but this proposed company was never registered."
The Jury, without leaving the box, found Rutt guilly,
Previous Convictions. Superintendent Alce said Ratt was born the Kennington, and at one time was a coachman. He was a married man with four children. Since 1901 he had been posing as an enginçer and inventor. He was 'madę bankrupt in 1912 with llabill- lies of £1,025, and assets nil. "In 1915 he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the second division at Westminster for unlaw- fully wearing Naval uniform,
At the beginning of the war he Imade out that he had a torpedo in- yention of great importance, and he induced a man to finance him to the extent of £1,250. He arranged a site at Gravesend to construct the torpedo, but vacated it without dis- charging his liabilities, or paying the wages of his workmen.
Oh, his release from a sentence of 20 months' hard labour for fraud he went to Bournemouth and Poole in November, 1919, and obtained the couidence of several gentlemen in the formation of a campany khawn as the Rutt Salvage Com-
pany, Limited, Rutt was manag- |ing director of the company, which
went into liquidation in 1920,
Although a married man, he be-
to the words, "Beauty is rot canic engaged to a woman at the luxury, but a social necessity," said
huse where he lodged, and he ob-
that many women had reached posi-tained sums of money from a num-] tions of prominence and high ber of persons in the district for eminence on account of possessing shares in the company, including | a pretty face.
M. Justice Humphreys-A great Biny women who are not beautiful have become celebrated. Of course, I am only speaking of those who are deal,
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About March, 1920, as managing director of the salvage company, he engaged in an attempt to salve the wreck of the Princess Juliana aff Felixstowe, Hp chartered for the purpose an old Admiralty vessel known as the embroke, which had: since been bren up. He engaged divers and others, but the attempt was unsuccessful.
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Giving judgment for the plaintiff, Mr. Justice Humphreys said that Mr. Abbot Brown was a perfect ly respectable gentleman, and there was no suggestion that he had not acted honestly. Perhaps uncon-
He still owed one of his divers sciously, he had taken the words £200. Four men who formed the from an advertisement of the plain-syndicate lost over £4,000. In 1921 tiffs.
he was sentenced to three years' penal servitude at Peterborough for fraud,
Mr. Field asked for nominal damages, and the Judge awarded him one shilling
He represented himself as a cap- tain engaged in salvage operations off Newhaven, and obtained sums of money from various people. In
APPEAL TO ALL THE January, 1926, he was sentenced
SMITHS.
CLAN TO 'RESTORE ITS
ANCIENT CHAPEL.
to eighteen months' hard labour for false pretences at the East Sussex- Sessions.
Rutt, from the dock, protested that the officer was leaving out many details which would tell in his fayour. For over twenty years, Smitha there are in profusion.he said, he had been practising as They take up several columns in an engineer and had brought out of tho-London Directory, and 12 whole over forty inventions. Some
these were successful and воде pages of the London Telephone Directory omitting the Smyths, were sold abroad. the Smythes, and the Smith-
Mr. Justice Shearman, without Hyphens,
comment, passed sentence of five years' penal servitude."
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Probably for the first time on record, an appeal is made to the Rutt said he wished to give notice far-flung Smith clan, or, to be dis of appeal, tinctly English, "to the acions of the 'House of Smith." The Smiths have a glorious chance of with ugly benches and a cleaners' proving their family patriotism:
cupboard filled with mops and pails. They are asked to restore "ye
The Bishop and the cathedral ancient Smith Chapel in Coventry authorities have approved a pehome, Cathedral," and Canon E. Gordon and the counelt of the Church of Savile, in a communication to the England Men's Society, with their Press, very prophetically says: sanction, addresses its appeal to "We feel sure that many of your those who are the descendants of readers will be members. of the the original members of the wide widespread 'louse of Smiths," and spread Guild of Smitha. that some will even hail from War-
There is much to be found an wickshire."
To-day all traces of the ancient and furnishings, reredos, minute oak screen, chairs, hassocks, altar glories of the Smiths' Chapel have book, carpet and platform, and departed. The aisle is now filled' other incidentals.
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