DEATH REVEALS
"DARBY
AND
Two Women "Married"
For Forty Years:
Three
"Daughters"
Paris, Apr. 21.
VEN more remarkable than the "Col. Barker" sloty In England is one
EVEN
babmitted to the Ministry of Junelands
This brings to light the extraordinary life of two women, who for 40 years had Hved together as husband and wife near Juan-les-Pins.
They were regarded by neighbours as the local "Darby and Joan."
"Darby" was for all the world.
Monsieur Camille Bertin, a Frenchman of independent means. He came to the Riviera in 1897, accompanied by a young woman, Miss Hilda Mary Joan Scott, a native of Cambuslang, Glasgow.
Miss Scott was presented as "M. Berlin's" foncee, and, after the usual notice at the local Mairie, they were married.
With a period of six years after the marriage there arrived at the house of the young couple, at intervals, three baby daughters, who were recognised as chlidren of the union.
IN the 40 years of their married life his death and the inquiries ordered
the couple en orained mushy, but by the pollens
The original birth certificate. of it was noted, as something peculiar that their guests were always women. Camille Berlin has been found in the Never was a man received at their archives of a Mairie of the Alller De- table. Furthermore, the three daugh- partment, and thus it will be possible ters were brought up, to avold the for the local authorities to issue a opposite sex.
burial certificate for Camille Bertin under her real sex,
Less than a year ago the "wife" died, and Camille Bertin survived by only a little over 11 months.
Bul that will not prevent the tomb- stone recording that the body buried is that of "Monsieur Camille Bertin,'
Because of the suddenness of the death there was a judicial inquiry, beloved husband" of the woman who conducted with unusual secrecy, and lles beside him in the name of Mme,;
as the result the amazing discovery Camille Bertin. was made that Camille Berlin, the model husband, was
woman.
It was not difficult to carry out the deception at the Mairie, where the marriage took place, because Camille is a nome common to both sexes in
France, and a
a simple alteration of the entry under "sex in the birth certi- ficate presented by the smartly- groomed "bridegroom" disarmed sus- picion on the part of the official whose duty it was to make the necessary arrangements for the wedding.
R s
revealed,
the strength of a scaled letter the dead" husband" deposited with the family lawyer, that the pair bad met in London. Both had had an their unfortunato love affair in teens, and had decided to console
each other.
now
оп
In all the 40 years of their married life no one suspected the truth and even their three daughters" were in ignorance, and are still mystified about thele own origin.
Neither the lawyer nor the police can throw any light on this mystery,
Chinese
Trained
Fleas Executed
Honolulu, Apr. 15. THE Customs authorities seized and Kassed to death ten trained Reas belonging Tong Shong-chang,
10 when he arrived here from long- kong aboard the President Hoover,
An official remarked, "If he wants' to run a flea elreus he will have to use American fleas."
Tong is very sad, as he conducts
for, if there was adoption, the records: fica set in Cantonese and he is have not been kept.
CONDITION IN WILL
The French ław recognises the marriage and the birth registration as perfectly legal, because, for purposes of legalisation, the only things that carry weight in France are the papers presented by the persons wishing to marry or lo register births.
Therefore, in law here there is no- thing to show that Camille Berlin was not a man, and that the three children were not born of his union with Miss Scott.
three
fearful that American fleas will not understand him.
38th Child
For Man
Aged 91
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1937.
SECRET OF
JOAN"
COUPLE
EGYPT'S KING IN SWISS ICE AND SNOW
Young King Farouk of Egypt, and his two sisters, the Princesses Faiza and Fauza, enjoying the win ter sports in the Alps..
Brighton Wife as Dice Stake
HER HUSBAND'S FRIEND
WON
From A Correspondent
Paris, Apr. 10 MARRIED TO A FRENCHMAN, CHANGED HANDS HERE AFTER HER HUSBAND AND ANOTHER MAN HAD THROWN DICE FOR HER. THIS DISCLOSURE IS MADE IN THE PLEAD- INGS PUT FORWARD IN A MATRIMONAL SUIT SHORTLY TO BE HEARD IN THE PARIS COURTS.
AN ENGLISHWOMAN, LEGALLY
The woman is Mme. Henri Foy, against two nces and six (counting native of Brighton. Sho married 260) by his rival. Henri Foy in 1032, after a romantic -meeting-on-the Brighton front..
adopted thirty-two-year-old
When the result of the gamble was explained to Mme-Foy, she agreed to abide by it, and went to live with Ross,
The will of Camille Bertin
She lived happily with her hus- leaves all the estate to the "daughters," subject to the condi-X-SLAVE Ambrose Hilliard band, it is stated, until a year ago, Douglas, ninety-one-year-old when she made the acquaintance of
Recently, Foy repented of the tion that they do not marion, bul Negro, of Brookaville, Florida, has one of his friends, Robert Ross, the have assented to the condition,
When she refused; he com- It is not binding on them, because become father of his thirty-eight French-born son of English parents. gamble and asked his wife to return
ife had twenty-five by his Ross made violent love to her, but to him. One menced there are well-known decisions of child.
the proceedings that have the French law courts laying down first wife, Julic, the rest by Minute, she repulsed all his advances.
night the two men were playing dice now brought the gamble to light. that clauses of a will restricting ker
in a Paris cafe close to the Madc- marriage and
of daughter. the possibility
leinc. bringing children into the world are against public policy and therefore illegal. An amazing thing is that, though Camille Berlin was frequently ill in the years immediately preceding his death, the doctors called in had no suspicion of his true sex.
Said Ambrose: Ay's had so many chilluns Al's run out ob names. Al thought Ah'd heb start numberin" wid dis one. But Minnie she says, 'We's named one child filinols and anoder Louisiana. Git along, deals old man, we ain't run out of States hab we?"
So No. 38-a girl-has been named
He had made careful arrangements to avoid the possibility of the secret Georgia, and, adds Ambrose, "De coming out after death, but his plans longer Ah libs de noah chilluns Ah's were defeated by the suddenness of gwintuh hab."
"She was nervous,
- YOUNG IN YEARS, yet she missed all the joy of youth. Always tired, Aerous, fun-down, frequent headaches.
HUSBAND REPENTED Foy had lost a big sum, and wanted to get out of the liability. Ross agreed to a final throw, in which the against "quits."
woman
The woman is realsting his de- mand for the restitution of conjugal rights, cipiming that she is happier with the man who won the gamble than ever she was with her husband.
In the pleadings the husband admits the dice "flutter," but pleads was staked that he was drunk at the time, and that next morning he regretted what When the husband accepted, the he had done, but neither his wife dice were thrown for the last time. nor Ross were willing to call off the Ross threw three aces, counting 300,1 gamble.
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