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APPEA TO THE KING TO FORGIVE
AN "OLD MAN”
Coventry, Sept. 20. THIRTY-THREE letters written by Admiral Lord Nelson and believed to be hitherto unpublished have been brought to light.
The late General Ngai Bong-ping one-Lime Commissioner of the Canton
They were written between 1799 and 1803 to the then Prime Police force who died this week. Minister of Naples, Sir John aged 62.
The Grecian Spiridion Louis, who Acton, and were on view to the
made his name immortal in Olymple British public recently in con- War Drama
An
history by winning the Marathon run nection with the production of during the first Olymple Games in
a new play by Edgar Middle- olive Athens in 1896, will take an branch to the Olympiad in Berlin ton, "England Expects?" next year as a symbol of the pence- undress uniform and other Nel- ful mission of the Games.
son relics were also exhibited. The letters are part of a group of 38 (5 of which have been published), valued for purposes of sale at £300. A condition of
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WIDOW'S EFFORT TO GET IN TOUCH" FAILS
presented to the National Mari- time Museum.
HOW a Chancellor of the Ex- chequer aided by a high The letters do not touch on im- portant matters of policy, but deal Treasury official actually pro- for the most part, with details of duced forged Treasury Notes the blockade of Malta. They do, during the war is one of the however; throw interesting side-
very many interesting dis- lights on the character of Nelson closures made by Sir Basil himself.
The writing in the earlier letters Thompson in "The Story of Hollywood, Sent, 5. The ghost of Harry Houdini ia extremely difficult to read, being Scotland Yard" published in
was Sir Basil
head of the may have walked, but it did not written only two years after he London recently.
Depart- had lost his right arm. By 1803,
Investigation talk.
Clustered in the ceric silence however, he had managed to cul- Criminal of a dimly lighted room, 12 of tivate quite a legible hand. Un-ment at Scotland Yard for eight Houdini's former friends and his like the writing of most left-handed years, including the war period, tiny, white haired widow, Mrs. people, it does not slope backwards, and so has chapter and verse for
The majority of the lotters are all his statements.
The Chancellor concerned was Beatrice Houdini, made the signed "Ever your faithful ser supreme effort to "contact" the vint. Bronte Nelson," or merely Mr. Reginald McKenna and the however, in aTreasury official who aided and. ghost of the dead magician-- "Nelson." One, who did not believe in ghosts--moment of pardonable exultation abetted him was Sir John (now The episode was very early in but failed to raise anything he has sigued "Bronte Nelson of Lord) Bradbury,
the Nils. noisier than a clock-tick,
Only one mentions Lady the War. The country was being Hamilton, and that in a post-coded with false "Bradburys," as script: "P.S. Sir William is the original treasury notes were absent on a fishing party, called, but at last Scotland Yard Lady Hamilton desires her ran the forgery gang to earth. kind regards to you and Lady Acton,
The meeting was called as a climax to a nine-year vigil,} during which Mrs. Houdini has sought, through mediums, my- stics and other experts on ghostly phenomena, to "reach" the spirit of her husband, carrying out the terms of a "compact" they made before Houdini died.
Turning The Handlo Detectives found the place, a stable in North London, where the notes were printed.
Sir Basil says:
The place w008 crammed with machinery Notes still damp were lying on the press. You had only to-turn-the-handle to forge_notes
until
your arms tired. When I took the Chancellor of the Bradbury
Habit Of Disobeying Nelson's habit of disobeying the "It probably will be my last orders of superior officers when he effort," the widow announced just saw fit, which so often brought on before the seance started, shortly him rebukes, flashes out in the re- after midnight in her Laurel mark. "I do not do all that Lord St. Vt. desires, but he will approve Canyon home.
Before opening the seance, Mrs. my conduct I am confident."
Nelson's high-minded character
to the stable next Houdini explained she had chosen
Sir John fet in the paper Mr. Me- "old friends" of her husbands shown in the following parange-
Kenna turned the handic. written after the King of Naples always refers to በጆ
had indicated a desire to reward! "Houdini”—because- she. bad
of £60,000 abandoned hope of contracting his services. A sum him through professional mystics having been given to the hospital
at Palermo, he writes:
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1 Nag on at frolic (nnsg.).
8 Tap it differently. 9 Moral.
11 Tender proposa). 12 Scottish shire.
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(three words, 4, 2, 6). 10 Not a
10
curt plan for dealing with counter-point,
13 Not like the establishment, but
close enough to be funny.
17 Man, il's A. the other way.
though unreasonable.
19 Concerning the point in dispute, no doubt, it will all come out ngain.
20 love
river flows into Solway Firth, carrying the girl with it. Stination,
of which affair makes the most. 18 Belonging to the side, though
behind time in starting.
16
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21 Company or clock may be (two
words), 22 The duenna omits to hide her.
mount, 24. Biblical Ivertised egg-holder. 27 Mue
"I therefore most respectfully "All other methods have failed," she said. "If Houdini does not suggest that his Majesty should does not allow this sum to be laid out in respond now if he
This book really is the story England in the purchase of an 'break through shall be unable estate to be called Bronte. Should of Scotland Yard, tracing the his- to believe he ever can."
thia plan not meet with approval. tory of the Metropolitan Police "We Are Waiting, Houdini !"
which I most solemnly declare Force frm Its earliest days until the- Dr. Edward Sesrad, bald, blue hold as honourable and proper present time. Sir Basil comments eyed "mystic" and life long friend both for his Majesty and myself, on, and describes much of the or- of the magician, ordered the I beg to propose that his Majesty,ganisation. lights switched off-all save the his heirs and successors, shall hold Referring to the Flying Squad "eternal light that Mrs. Houdini Bronte of me, paying me, my heirs which has captured the public kept burning for nine and successors, £3,000 every year imagination, he explains how it
30 These Poles took an over her dead husband's in London, but I declare that I do came into being, but urges the photograph. Thon tugging his not consider this plan either 80 public not to expect too much from well-waxed van dyke beard, Dr. honourable Sesrad began in a sepulchral voice first." to address his message to the unknown.
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"We are waiting, Houdini" he said, "Why don't you Nothing came-no sound.
or 80 proper
us the
it.
Our Hearts Bleed
of age, blind and who has lived 50 Another aspect of his character, years in Palermo, and let him here como?".
"the quality of mercy, is revealed indie, in peace. This favour is re- Itquested of his Sicilian Majesty by a letter dated March 8, 1799. Dr. Sesrnd sighed and tried reads:
your most faithful servant, Nel- again: "Please say something, "My Dear Sir, I send you a son." Houdthi. Break through-touch memorial which made our hearts The lettera came into the hands one of us," Nothing was heard in this house bleed with sorrow, of Messrs. Spink and Son, anti- but the ticking of a clock.
so doubtless will your Excellency's. I quaries to the Government, from Mrs. Houdini announced after For God's sake and for the sake an anonymous owner a few days Research on the part of the seance that it
just of our virtuous King and Queen, ago. WH8 about her last effort to raise stop this cruel process. Send this firm indicates that all but five Houdini. "I have given up hope," away M-G-& P- (illegible) but of the 38 letters have never before she said.-United Press.
forgive a poor Old Man, 75 years been made public.
28 Leaves out, and becomes moist
if needed. 29 Guinen town.
Italian name at the Jubilee procession (two words 8, 5). Down
2 of the square root of 100, fre-
quently.
a Express, popularly, yet some-
times taken on 'Change. No money was paid, by per-
mission.
6 Many a man's entire property is through this shelter, under putting money in the ring.
6 There's a girl you all want:
this one. 7 Lock I found in the Scottish
hills.
8 Sounds like a Middlesex vintage,
but
only coloured water
Displaying the Siren's wisdom, as is only natural.
21 Subject of the King of the Bel-
glans, probably.
23 The weight of this girl, I sup-
pose, is one stone.
25 Portuguese city in Braganza. 20 When it's night in Scotland,.
it's not in Germany.
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