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ENGLAND'S BEST BATSMEN :
ALL OUT.
BACKS TO THE WALL.
London, July 26,
A draw appeara-likely in the fourth Test match at Manchester following slow scoring by both Australia and England during the first two days of the match. The Australian's took their Arat inning's total to 345 on Saturday and England started to bat at
12.55 p.m. Hobbs and Sutcliffe were nine and sixteen respectively when the lunch interval was taken.
"DR. X. CASE ENDS SUDDENLY,
GRAND JURY THROW OUT
BILL". AGAINST NURSE.
The Grand Jury at Nottingham Assizes threw out the Bill against Ella Gordon, 's 34-year-old nurse, alleging that on February 20 at Nottingham she demanded money with menace from Dr. Cyril Ernest Rennie Stephenson.
It was known as the "Dr. x." case, as the name of Dr. Stephen- son had not been mentioned pub- ficly in the police court,
"This is one of the most serious offences in the criminal law," said Mr. Justice Acton in delivering his charge to the grand jury. "It is an offence which may be met with Hobbs was unusually slow but the heaviest sentence the law per Sutcliffe was confident. A amartly mits short of the sentence of run singls sent up the century, mak-death."" ing their eleventh century opening hundred took exactly an hour and 40 partnership against Australia The minutes. Wall, however, coming on with the score at 103, had an inspired spell, dismissing Hobbs, Sutcliffe and Haramond for ten runs.
In attempting a cut, Hobbs was caught by Oldfield, with the score at 108, the partnership lasting for two bours, Sutcliffe was next to go, be ing Caught Bradman on the bound- ary in hooking a long hop. Soren runs had been added when the second wicket fell The Yorkshireanan scored his 74 runs principally by drives and pulls and was at the wickets for two hours and 50 minutes. He played a chanceless innings and scored one sixer and ten foura.
England's Back Against Wall. Hammond, first wicket down, play ed on with the score at 119, but Duleepsinhji and Leyland took the score to 192 before the former was
caught by Hornibrook, off McCabe, after he had made 54 by beautiful leg strokes, cutting and pulling. He was out to a tame cut straight to short slip,
He hit seven boundaries. At tea time the score was 136 runs for three
wickets.
DIVORCES WIFE OF 27.
SHOOTING PARTY EPISODE WITH OFFICER.
CHARGE DENIED.
ALLEGED SMUGGLING OF 1,841 WATCHES.
HUGE HAUL MADE DURING BAGGAGE SEARCHL
AVELS
THE PRINCE IN
LAW SUIT.
INTRICATE QUESTIONS OF
COPYHOLD
LAND.
£13,000 INVOLVED.
"A professional smuggler of watches caught red-handed" the suggestion of the prosecution at Westminster when Louis Marder, An elderly man's marriage with aged 44, of Cheetham Hill, Man- a young woman of 20 was the sub-chester, was charged with attempt Prince of Wales was the plaintif ject of proceedings in the Divorce ing to evade Customs duties on 1,841 in an action in the Chancery
watches at Victoria Station, on Division which raised Court.
questiona respecting June 8.
Mr. Chaa, James Muller, Grent Elm, Frome, Somerset, asked for a decree on the ground of mis conduct between his wife, Enid Keswick Muller, and Daphne
Capt. Edward B. Compton, retired naval office, of Lymington..
Mr. Muller was 61 when in 1923 he married, and there was one child. Last September Mr. and Mrs. Maller joined a shooting party at larbottle, Northumber land, where they met Capt. Comp ton, a married man. Mr. Muller alleged that on Sept. 10 Mrs. Muller went to Capt. Compton's The defence was that Mrs.
It was a matter to be approached with some care, he said, for it was an exceptional case. What con- stituted the alleged offence was TOOM. uttering a letter demanding money in the first place with menaces and in the second place without rea- sonable or probable cause...
Muller, a neurotic woman, went to the room uninvited, but no misconduct took place.
The Attorney-General to the
There was an alternative charge and. of harbouring the watches, which had a treble value and duty of £6,206.
intricate copyhold
Mr. Octavius Bradshaw, a ten- ant on the Prince's Kennington A third charge was of harbour estate, died in 1928 and the action ing 499 watches at Manchester on was against his grandson, Mr. June 9, of the treble value and duty Hercules Montagu Edwin Brad- of 5769; and a fourth charge was shaw, the executor. The point for of attempting to bribe a Customs decision was whether a fine was officer at Folkestone.
Mr. B. L. Fisk, prosecuting, said payable on Mr. Octavius Brad-
shaw's death. that Marder had a suitcase with a false bottom which contained over Mr. Geoffrey Lawrence, K.C. 1,000 watches, and cloth containers said the new Law of Property Act round his neck and concealed under provided for the extinguishment of his clothing one holding 361 and certain manorial incidents by an the other 365 watches.
agreement between the Lord of Observation had been kept on his the Manor and the tenant. Mr. movements for six months, said Mr. Hercules Bradshaw entered into Fisk, and on June 8 a special innegotiations for their extinguish- quiry officer saw him arrive at Victoria with a large suitcase and ment but the matter had been held an attache case. He was accom-up for the question to be decided whether any fine was payable on panied by Mr. Hodgson, the man-Mr. Octavius Bradshaw's death.
Clasped Hands Under the Table.
Lord Marivale, summing up, said although the wife had been in court she had not gone into the witness box. But that should ager of his London office. They and
not tell against Capt. Compton, and the matter had to be very carefully considered.
It was particularly noticeable, he said, that the "reasonable or probable" cause had a relation to the demand for the money, not to the menaces by which it was alleged that demand was ac- companled. Therefore the ques- tion was whether there had been a demand made for money without any reasonable or probable cause and also with menaces..
It was in this connexion that he drew their attention to the excep tional circumstances with which the charge against the young woman took place.
not misunderstand
"Pray do It was now England's turn to fight me," urged Mr. Justice Acton. with their backs against the wall. am not for one moment sugges
prosecution Chapman did not stay long and was ing that this is a caught for the addition of nine runs, which, it may be, ought not to Grimmett, at cover point, dismissing have been instituted or that there the English captain. Tate opened may not have been very good rea-
nibbling at Wall's fast bowl- ing.
'shakyland, who was most steady, Sons for it.
therefore, tried to keep the bowling. At the close of play England had lost five wickets for 221 ruhs: Leyland was not out with 35 to his credit and
Tate 5 not out.
The full scores of the first two days' play are appended,
Australla-1st Inaings.
W. M. Woodfull, e Duckworth, b
Tate
W. H. Ponsford, b Hammond
54
"If I were you, 1 should look at the case with something rather more than the usual consideration and a very considerable degree of anxiety," he added, "to see that within the limits of your authority justice is done."
The Grand Jury threw out the 83 Bill, and the, nurse was discharg-
ed.
D.
G. Bradman, e Duleepsinhji, b Peebles
14
A. F. Kippar, c Chapman, b
Nichols
51
S. J. McCabe, 1.b.w., Peebles
V. Y. Richardson, b Hazamond
G. Fairfax, l.b.w., Goddard
A. G.
| W. A. Oldfield, b Nichols
C. V. Grimmett, e Sutcliffe, b
Peebles
P. M. Hornibrook, e Duleepsinhji,
b Goddard
T. M. Wali, not out
Extras
Total
49
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50
345
Fall of wickets: 1 (Woodfull) for 106: 2 (Bradman) for 1388 (Fons ford) for 184; 4 (McCabe)-for, 189; 5 (Richardson) for 100; 6 (Kippax) for 239; 7 (Oldfield) for 243; 8 (Grim- mett) for 330; 9 (Fairfax) for 333; 10 (Hornibrook) for 345.
Bowling Analysis.
Nichols Tate
Goddard
Peebles Leyland
Hammond
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VANISHES. AFTER A CAR TRAGEDY,
WOODS SEARCHED FOR MISSING MOTORIST.
Motor search parties, round Horsham, and also in the neigh bourhood of Richmond Park and Oxshott Woods, tried in vain to find Mr. George Frederick Walker, a missing school teacher,
He was involved in a motoring accident in which Mr. Fre- derick Life, of Carisfort-road, Crouch End, was killed. Mr. Walker disappeared and was up- able to give evidence at the in- quest on the dead man, which was
O. M. R. W 21 5 23 2 30 11 39 1 32.1 14 49
55 9 150 3 adjourned.
8 2 17 21 6 24 2
- England.-1st Innings. B. Hobbs, e Oldfield, b Wall, HoSurgette, e Bradman, b Wall WH Hammond, b Wall
K. S.-Dulcepsinbji, e Hornibrook,
b McCabe
M. Leyland, not out
A. P. F. Chapman,
b Hornibrook
M. W. Tate, not out
Extras
e Grimmett,
Scotland Yard issued a descrip tion of Mr. Walker and a wireless a1 appeal was broadcast,
74 8
Sister's Story.
Mr. Muller had said that he the saw clasping hands under table and so on, between his wife and the captain. On Sept. 10 the parties went to bed. Be tween two and three o'clock in the morning the wife got up and, taking an electric torch, left the
room.
Later the husband got up and waited in the passage,
He heard a voice in Capt. Compton's room saying. "Oh, don't leave me yet, Daphne," Next day Afr. and Mrs. Muller separated.
The Defence. After the filing of the petition Capt. Compton's solicitors wrote a letter which said:
Captain Compton went to bed about 11 c'clock and fell asleep, but was awakened, as far as he can recollect, about two hours later by Mrs. Muller, whom he found standing over his bed, and he informs us that before he was properly awake she, to his utmost surprise, get into his bed. Cap. tain Compton at once remon- strated and told her that she must leave his mom and he got rid of her as soon as possible.
That was the first admission that the wife. was in his room, although they had both denied it for months Capt. Compton said that he denied it to save her re- putation, but it was for the jury to decide whose evidence they be- Heved..
proved, and a decree nisi was The jury found misconduct granted with costs.
£6,000 AS VALUE OF A WIFE.
DIVORCE AWARD TO A HUSBAND.
were
Six thousand pounds damages awarded in the Divorce Court in the petition of Mr. Charles John Woodrow Crichton, of Park Barn Farm, Guildford, who asked for the dissolution of his marriage on the ground of A reporter Baw Miss Walker, adultery. between his wife, Mrs. 54 the missing man's sister, and Mrs. Mona Isabel Crichton (a niece of 35 Jakeman, at whose house
in the late Lord Dewar), and Mr. Crown-road, Twickenham, Mr. Sidney Field. The case was con- Walker has lodged for the past tested only on the question of
18 nine years.
921
Total (for 5 wkts.) Fall of wickets: 1 (Hobbs) for 108; 2 (Sutcliffe) for 115; 3 (Hammond for 119; 4 (Duleepsinhji) for 182; 5 (Chapman) for 199.
FANLING GOLF.
A TIE REGISTERED IN BOGEY POOL.
There were thirty entries for the Bogey Pool at Fanling, played during the week-end. C. H. Brad- ley (12) and M. G. Mills (12) tied with one up, and divide the prize. Other scores were F. Groves (12), one down; D.. Forbes (9), three down.
BIG FRENCH ·TEXTILE STRIKE.
METAL WORKERS FOLLOW WITH DEMANDS.
Lille, July 26. Fifteen thousand employem in the textile industry,
damages.
They were both in the party of married his wife in 1920, both Mr. Crichton, a ship builder, five people who motored to the day's pienle.
being about 24 years of age. They had two children. Thile at "When we were near Horsham," Neston they made the acquain- said Miss Walker, "my brother, tance of M. Field, a splicitor la who was driving his car, sounded Liverpool, and, his wife. They all the horn and pulled out to get in became friendly and, petitioner front of a car which was moving alleged, Mr. Field also acted for rather slowly in front of us. As him and his wife professionally. he pulled out, the car skidded and Lord Merrivale in summing up Mr. Life, who was on a walking said the facts might tend to move tour with his wife, was knocked the jury even to anger with regard
down.
"The injured man was taken to took Horsham Hospital, and we Mrs. Life back to her hotel, then went on to Reigate.
..
"When we got back home my brother made telephone inquiries about the accident, and was terri- bly ahocked to hear that Mr. Life was dead."!.
Knock at the Door.
Mrs. Jakeman said: "Shortly
to a man who had been the prime mover in spite of his responsibill- ties' and knowledge.
Husband and Citizen. Uncontradicted evidence show. ed that the husband devoted him-f self to his wife as a father, a husband and a man and a citizen. The co-respondent as a solicitor had obligations which exceeded the ordinary obligations applicable to a man roaming from one place
to another.
after I had gone to bed I heard a knock at my door. I went down $2,000 a year of her own. She Mrs. Crichton had an income of stairs and found that Mr. Walker had gone out the back why. He was still one of the reversionaries has not been seen since. He did to a great estate. Mr. Crichton was left to do his best to bring
not take his car.
"I thi he is suffering from loss of memory due to shock at the as well as accident."
60 per cent, of the metalworkers, are on strike here, following the refusal of employers to increase, wages, so as to cover the men's
Insurance Act contributions
Reuter.
Birmingham, July 20. In the Women's Athletics England beat the German representatives by 51 points to 40-Reuter.
up these two boys without a mother. The jury had to consider only what material damage he had suffered in respect of his home, his pocket, le fatherhood and the future of his boys.
A decree is with costs against both respondent and co-respon dent was pronounced..
Mr. Wilfrid Greene, K.C., for were followed to Manchester.
Watches in Suitcases. Mr. Bradshaw, submitted that un- Marder, he said, had a business der the new Act the enfranchis- address as a wholesale watch dealer [ed copyhold was vested in the in Hatton Garden, London.
and it was executors,
not until Next day his home was searched they assented to a devise of the and two suitcases "containing 199 land or to the heir taking posses- gold, silver and metal watches were sion that a fine was payable. If found. Marder said that they be the plaintiff was right, one fine longed to men named Frankel and was payable on the death of the Wilkins.
Referring to the fourth charge Mr. Fisk said that on December 11, Marder approached a junior Cus- toms officer at Folkestone, and said,
tenant and another on the assent of the executors.
Judge's Decision.
Mr. Justice Farwell said the
a question of con--
He held that the Act did not in-
1 had anyone I could depend upon among the staff at Felkestone case raised to get the stuff through I'could siderable difficulty under the new make it easy for them to earn good Law of Property Act, which con- verted copyholds into freeholds money, as much as £50,"
A special inquiry officer, John but saved certain of the fines and McGrath, gave evidence and, in other rights of the lord of the reply to Mr. Harry Myers (for the manor. defence), agreed that there was evidence that Marder did not bring the large suitcase into the country, tend to deprive the Lord of the Mr. Myers: And. it was clear Manor of the fines, to which he when he arrived that he was not would have been entitled under wearing this harness containing the old lay on the death of the watches He was wearing a tight tenant, and that the exccptor in fitting suit. It would be more cor- this case was exactly in the same rect to say that he was not carrying position as the heir or devisee be- these things when he passed the fore the passing of the new Act,
The executor could avoid the pay. Customs.
His luggage was specially ex-ment of a second fine by giving amined at Folkestone, and there was notice to extinguish the manorial a Customs' yellow chalk mark on rights on the payment of compen-
sation. the large suitcase?--Yes.
Marder was remanded, his bail being increased to £2,000, and one surely in £2,000.
that the It is understood amount involved is about £13,000.
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