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HOW THE ABBEY MURDER OF WOMAN
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DANGER OF SINKING WHEN FIRST BUILT. The fact that part of Westmins
CYCLIST.
S.W.B. MAN IN TEARS AFTER
DEATH SENTENCE..
SECRETS OF THE TOMBS.
CIVILISATION IN BRONZE AGE. Thomas Pople, aged 22, of Brecon, the Bronze Age, which were dia
Examination of the Tombs of
Sentence of death was passed ni Gloucenter Assizes on George
Battalion
The
The number of interments is so great as to suggest that they were
in Westminster Abbey," delivered been evidence, Puple wild that used as family vaults for a num~
"We came upon the foundations while digging a trench pipe," said Mr. Tanner, "and we traced them practically all the way to where the present Abbey atops at the west end.
attacked Giving
ber of generations.
ter Abbey sank and was in danger
the 2nd
show that the of collapse soon after it was built private in
the covered recently, South Wales Borderers, for
Jericho, like other by Edward the Confessor has been murder of Mrs. Mabel Elizabell people of revealed by recent excavations.
Matthews, aged 66, near Burford, Canaanite and Amorite communi- The discovery of the original
in the Cotswolds, on December 19. ties of the Bronze Age, burled their foundations during the work of
Mrs. Matthews, who lived at dond in subterranean grotto-vaults, Installing a new heating pipe was Windrush Mill, near Burford, was which were entered by a smallish described by Mr. Lawrence Tanner,
105} found with Secretary of the Royal Almenry, the Oxford-Cheltenham road.
severe head injuries on opening at the bottom of a hewn out shaft. in a lecture on "Recent Discoverico prosecution alleged that she had
by Pople. at Westminster School In aid of King Edward's Hospital Fund for his lamp became defective, and he London.
In une tomb, now under investi- made up his mind to get another. the bicycle came from behind him, gation, even the funerary offerings, and he made a grob for the lamp, which are to be counted by hun- His trousers caught in the pedal dreds, are found filled with human of his bicycle, and he fell against bones. the other machine on the ground. In all cases certain rites seem to Mrs. Maithows, who was riding have been observed and certain of- "We also found, however, that at ench side of the foundations of the other machine, fell against aferings made with each Interment. A dish for bread, a water-jug, pillars, strengthening walls had telegraph post and rolled down a
of the road. He and small jug probably for oil, been bullt. It became evident that dip at the side
unconscious, constituted the dementary those responsible had been ex-found that she was
More things vision for the dead, for whose use tremely anxious for the safets of and he picked up the space between the pillars had which fell from her icket and took or protection a lighted lamp was her lamp and put it on his bicycle. been filled in to shore them up.
left burning in the tomb. Sir Reginald Coventry (pro- There must have been a settlement
One tomb, a chieftain's, contain- secuting)-You robbed this uncon-ed 00 that frightened the builders."
TAMA. And such cases! seats woman?---Put it that was Plekst specimens, doubtless, some. old and time- Pople stood to attention while maybe already the Judge passed sentence of death, honoured, but for the most part still but tears streamed from his eve perfect or nearly-80. an he left the dock.
The word Westminster, he said, was first written in the Offa charf you like. ter of A.D. T85, and refers to the church "on the terrible island of which 19 called West-
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LOST ORIGINALITY, SR. ALFRED NOYES ON THE
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pro-
The height of loent civilisation in t Bronze Age had not besea gauged or even guessed,
SMALLER HATS FOR MEN.
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The tendency to accept novelty i as originality was commented on by Mr. Alfred Noyes while speaking i on “Originality in Literature" st the 15th of the literary luncheons: "hat consejona"
by Mesam, Foyle at maller unte, of smarter appear- arranged
nice, is to he undertaken by appear- Grosvenor House, London.
A converted effort to make mor by providingr
The draw for the Davis Cup took place at the Elysee this afternoon. The Ambassadors ur Ministers of 30 nations taking part in the com- petition were present, and Prest-i "We are not tapping the read throughout England. The "doppy" dent Doumur himself made the first depths it nature," he said, "but style of soft hat is expreially t draw.
rather concocting artificial dowers be altucked. Before the ceremony, M. Daumert of paper and attaching them reveived Mr. Dwight Davis, the to bits of stick, putting them into founder of the tournament, who in the ground and pointing them out. on a visit to Paris, and decorated But they do not resemble him with the Order of Communter hitherto-known lower." of the Legion of Honour.
The following is the draw: European zone: First round Great Britain, Rumania, Poland, Holland, and Ireland draw byes at
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The campaign began last month- when halters everywhere display. ed hadgear reminiscent of the 'sixties.
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Prospective buyers of new bow- They had lost origluntity in theirters or soft, hats will be advised
they are search for novelty, continued Mr.that at present Noyes. Great art was never really heavy or "over-hatted" and that to-day should inve a invented.
It was a discovery of their hat something that had always been mall brim and a small crown.
It is hoped that by springtime The top of the list, whereafter there. I would be the business of Hungary plays Finland, Germany the arts in the future not to invent practically every men will wear a plays India, Austria plays Czecho- | paper flowers; not to go about smaller hat than he does to-day.
Too "Floppy" Ta-day. slovakia, Monaco plays Norway merely being clever and saying in
A big London hatter said: Belgium playa Switzerland. แก a subtle way that horses have five
"Some of the new hats will seem Italy plays Екуре.
legs because everyone else thought|revolutionary with a brim three- Spain. Denark Yugoslavia.they had four.
quarters of an inch smaller and Japan, "and Greere draw byes at "It is easy to get your originality the crown half an inch smaller.
"The new hats. will not Het blown off so easily on a windy day
the bottom of the list.
"declared Mr. Nayes, that way," Ireland plays the winner of the "Mr. Bernard Shaw has been dolag Hungary-Finland game, Spain plays the winner of Italy-Egypt int all his life. The new originality and can be worn at a rakish angle. is going to transfigure English life. They will be lighter and more the second round.
North
are per comfortable. American zone: First to discover that there
are worth "Men wore such hats 70 years round, United States play Canada. manent things which Second round.--Mexico plays the while unveiling in the unchanginggo, but, apart from a short re winner at the
United States-background in front of which all ival early in this century, hats Canada game and Australia plays our silly fashions appear and have gradually degenerated to the
appear."
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