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Some of Czechoslovakia's women athletes who took part in the huge muss gymnastic contesta the 10th Sokol Congress at Prague, June 30 to July 6. Approximately 753,000 men, women ́ and children are members of the Sokol athletic organization and "about 50,000 of them were selected for mass demon-
strations in Masaryk stadium.
MAN CALLS AT YARD DEMANDS "ARREST ME
FOR HER MURDER
THOMAS FRANKLIN
VINCE, 6ft. 2in. ex-
chauffeur, disabled war veteran and ex-male nurse, rode to Scotland-yard on his motor-cycle recently, went inside, and invited the police to arrest him for murder. They asked him to come back later, when the matter would be considered.
ཉཉ
BURNED
IN CHAIR
Vince was the man of whom stop it. I want a chance to show Baby "Tied With
counsel in the Probate Court Inst month sale!: "He came near to committing constructive mur der."
that 1 had nothing to do with the death of the old lady. I want to be tried for murder. I mean it?"
Scarf"
18.
Inspector Tousley sald, "Steady. A STATEMENT by an my lnd. I can't do anything about years-old youth, in which It was alleged that while aboard this. I can't charge you or arrest he was alleged to have said that ship in the Red Sea with his elderly you, The whole thing about the he tied with a scarf to a chair employer, Mrs, Edith Pullen, be used will was a civil action. It's nothinus in front of a fire his brother's undue influence to get her signature to do with Scotland-yard."
to a win which she left him 43-
600.
That will was set aside.
To-day he is penniless. His cooked! ment shop in Brighton has collapsed through Jack of business-due, he says, to local gossip branding him who bumped off the As the ma
old lady at sea."
So reently 1 dreided to take drustic netion.
baby, who was later found burn- ed to death, and then robbed the was referred to at gas meter,
'VOID WILL' Liverpool recently.
GIRL TO SEE WORLD
Charged with having stolen 4s. 8d. from the gas peter at his home, Thomas Samuel Burrows, of Erith- street, Liverpool, was reminded in custody until the next Frida
Counsel said
that owing to pubilo vindictiveness it would not be safe to allow bail. It was be charged with the murder of Mrs. PRETTY Betty Sifton, rich
stated that Burrows, while Pullen, so that he will have a chanter Canadian heiress. now per-staying with his married brother was mitted to ignore the ban in her left in charge of the two children-
aged cleven inonths, On his second visit to Scotland-father's will, preventing here
Harold, aged three years, from leaving Canada, plans to see the world.
Vince wanted--and still wants-lu
to clear his name.
yard he went with a friend.
TALK AT TABLE
Both were shown up to a small,
Miss Sifton appealed to the Privy shabby vooni on the fourth floor, Council in London to revolte the told to take out at a big square judgment of Mr. Justice Middleton
table in the centre.
and
TIED TO CHAIR Burrows led Irene to a chair with a seart in front of the kitchen fire and then, it is said, rifled the gas- meter, and went to a cinema.
The room caught fire. Irene was
in Ontario that the clause in her burned to death in her chair. AL
A delective inspector who Intro-1 father's will must stand. duced aimself as Inspector Ernesti Tansley now them.
and
determined
Vince, serious thuned the table, said solemnly.
"Inspector. I I want you to charge me with murder. Arrest me. 1 want to stand my trial for the murder of Mrs. Edith Pullen,"
"It is my ambition to welie plays, that is why 1 appealed ngainst the will," she said to the Sunday Dispatch.
If I am to write playa success- fully, travel is essential, particularly to the great theatre centres of New
He continued with a rush: "This York, Paris, and London."
first the Bremen thought it was a doll.
Burrows, in on alleged statement, said that after leaving the cinema he spent the night in a lodging house. He Jid not know of the tragedy until he saw the morn. ing paper. police station..
Then he went to a
"I am deeply sorry for what has
CRAWLED UPSTAIRS LIKE A CRAB
Owing to Rheumatism
in Her Knees
It was not a very dignited way of going upstairs, but she had rheuma- Lism in her knees, and it was the best she could do, at the time, Since then, ship has been taking Kruschen. Salts, and now feels 20 years younger.. Read her letter:
"I had very painful gout in my big toe and could only get upstairs like a crub owing to rheumatism in my Inces. It is over three years ago since I commenced taking Kruschen Salts. I must say on damp days 1 still have a tile gout, but my knees are quite belter. I am over 00. years of age, have a complexion likę a girl's, and feel very fit. I am fully repaid for taking a bull teaspoonful of Salts each morning in a cup of hot water."(Mrs.) A.W.
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gosulp is driving me crazy. It's For the present Miss Sifton is happened," he said. "I thought Anw Fit Seng's Trading Co., Ltd..
ruined my business in Brighton. It's resting with a friend in a country there were no children in the world not going to ruin my life--if I can house at Blénheim, Ontario.
like my brother's."
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