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POLICE WERE GANGSTERS Egypt
TH
She had never seen him before.
Mr. Barton said that if he could
THE former Rector of Stiffkey, take the part of a doctor in the play.
Horold Francis Davidson, aged 05, described as a lecturer, of Brunswick-square, London, appeared on remand at Westminster recently, charged with wilfully trespassing on and refusing to quit railway pro- perty at Victoria Station on Decem- ber 8.
prove that Davidson was intending to travel on then he was not tres- passer. He could produce evidence that he was expected at South Ken- singlon.
the London Passenger Transport Board, outd that on December 7 Davidson purchased a bar of choco-
Mr. J. A, Morley, prosecuting for it. The magistrate said that it would
late cream from a refreshment kiosk, and entered into conversation with the girl in charge of the kiosk and another girl, both aged 10,
Carts
over
Milan, Jan. 1.
normal drawn ground and over deserts with the help of sails, were used by the Egyptians at least eighteen centuries before Christ.
Discovery of this means of
make the slightest difference in view
of the evidence of the two communication--also adopted by the Chinese, perhaps some cen- palice officers. he had been travelling on the Under-knowledge of the Egyptian. Mr. Davidson in evidence said that turies' Inter and without any round since 1005 or 1800.
to Mr. Davidson, "Would you mind a result of archaelogical excava- The magistrate interrupting, sald system-was recently made as' keeping your hands out of your tions by an Italian mission in pockets?"
mid-Egypt.
He told them What he was looking for a leading lady for the stage, and If they liked he could give them o trial; that they would get £5 a week, and that the play was to be produced at tho Metropolitan Theatre, station Edgware-road. Then it would go
abroad.
He showed them some photographs of a girl on the stage, and said it was his daughter. lle arranged to meet them the following night to
tall it over.
"MARVELLOUS" OFFER "These young glis were some- what taken at the time by this marvellous offer of being leading ladies at £5," said Mr. Mörley.
He added that about 9 pm. on
"GANGSTERS"
In the
The mission was headed by Pro- fessor Achille Vogliano, holder of the chair of Greek literature in the Uni- versity of Milan, and its activities have been supported financially by the Minisiry of Education, the Royal Academy of Italy and the City and Province of Milan. Professor Vogliano in
a recent lecture he held in this city reported on the mission's work, tlons, Vogliano's mission had brought of previous excava- the course
to light a considerable number of papyri, some of great importance. They contained, in fact, some un- known poems
ms by Callimacus and a complete accounting log belonging to a wealthy family of the place.
By deciphering one of these papyri, learn of Professor
of two Important one of the Ptolemaic and the
he sald. the
Mr. Davidson said that he had béen to Westminster, Hall and was travelling from St. James's Park to South Kensington. He came off the train at Victoria, as he had promised girl to let her have
copy of a play to read over. His only
reason for suggesting that they might leave the station to discuss the play was because one of the girls was employed at the station and she might not care to be seen
on speaking to passengers the station.
When he was stopped by the plain clothes police officers he was going to get Hicket for South Kensington
"It was only when on the way to the police station that I found that
"I began to wonder if
hands
of some gangsters." other of the Pharaoh period, loented Had he known they were railway at Maddinet Madl, on the south with him to a cafe, and said, "You police he would have asked to see western fringe of Lake Fayum, in
master station
and have had better go first because it does matter cleared up right away.
had the mid-Egypt. Maddinet Madi was the
site of the ancient town of Gla. not look well for an old man to be matter
Mr.
declared that some Owing to the difficulty of access to seen going out with two young girls,
of the
statements were the
Professor Vogliano asked and I will follow."
"I have for the aid of the Egyptian govern- The girls were frightened and heard that the police
untrue,"frame-up' [ment. The latter placed a number. ses. Now went to another platform. Davidson | cases.
1 I. Fortunately
know i
The of air planes at his disposal. was about to follow and was stopped they are not the Metropolitan Police photographs taken by the airmen re- vealed the existence of some roads by a railway policeman to whom he but only the rallway police." replied that he was not travelling
The magistrate said that from the there, and of a big stone protruding and had no business to do at the exhibition which Davidson had from the sand at the crossing of the main road. Vogliano detected in the slution.
given in court
surt of his temperament it was easy to understand what had slone the presence of a Pharaoh happened. He seemed an excitable temple, built 18 centuries BC. person, and when the officer told him to leave the station Davidson entire- ly lost his temper.
December 8 Davidson appeared at they were railway or if i had fallen i teme Vogliaro came to
Victorin Station, and when he saw into the girls he waved to them. He suggested that they should go out
the
delleen's
The mission soon alurted excavating
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Horley stated that when told he would have to leave the station Davidson said, "I won't leave the station. Talte me to the pollee station." This was done, and he asked, "Can't we come to some
He had no hesitation in fading arrangement so I won't be put on that Davidson was a trespasser when the charge-sheet?"
he refused to leave the station. Hea statue representing Isis. Then a
through high mountains of sand, and at a depth of 150 metres they found
Violet Olding, of Bessborough-imposed a fine of 40s. with five portal, with the typical Imes' of the rood, Westminster, gave evidence guineas costs, and allowed a week in Egyptian architecture, was brought
told her he was to which to pay. that Davidson
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to light. The portal was partly destroyed, not through age or decay. but at the bands of men, probably by carly Christians, with the obvious in- tention of
of effacing pagan vestiges, Digging further, Vogliano's mission found
tar and a und an
a pronaos. In front of the latter there were two monumental pillars
bearing identical Inscriptions in Greek. The inscrip- tions consisted in four long hymns by a Greek poet, Isidore, who lived in the early part of the 1st Century before Christ. The hymns were a sort of biography exniting King Amenemhet the Third as a founder of the temple, which was dedicated to goddess Torenutet, protectress of the wheat. The temple, in the words of the
poet, was "as large as to
as to be com- parable to Mount Olympus"
Amenemhet belonged to the 12th, -dynasty, or mid-empire, or the second period
of Egypt's history. Additional excavations followed which resulted in bringing to light the walls of the
the temple, They were decorated with Agures representing sacred performances and legends, and also bore Inscriptions, mostly in hieroglyphical form. Most of these hieroglyphs have already been de- ciphered by Professor Vogliano and ether Italian egyptologists.
A very interesting particular, in- Valuable from the point of the habits and customs of the 12th dynasty, is supplied by the suered cart, showing a low floor and small wheels. The cart was found in the pronaos.
in
A reference to this cart was found one of Isidore's poems. The port extolled it as an ingenious Innova-. tion of Amenemhet, That king, Isidore said, used to travel over the mountains and the desert "by wheels and by sall." The presence of the cart enabled the mission to explain these words, for it was thought that a sall was hoisted on it, so that the vehicle might proceed with the blow- ing of the wind. This hypothesis seemed to be strengthened by the fact that a hole was found in the centre of the floor, in which probably the sail was inserted.
Another important find was a head of Amenemhet, of excellent work- manship and striking expressiveness. Its
value is notable, archeological considering that, contrarily to what is found in other Egyptian sculptures, It gave a real portrait of the person,
The mission also found a well- preserved statue of Amenemhet, the Fourth, son of the other king, who, according to the poems of Isidore, completed the construction of the temple. A statue of goddess Merepthah was also unearthed.
Profesor Vogliano, who started the excavations last March and suspended them in the middle of July, will return on the spot at the end of December, to start the excavation of the Ptolemale temple. Much of the material found in the Pharaoh tem- ple is being transported to Milan.
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