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£1,500-A-Year Man Stole Three
1938.
£7,000 Hidden In
Eggs Bale of Cotton
"IRREPARABLE RUIN" Latest Picture Of Royal Family!
FOR DIRECTOR, SAYS HIS COUNSEL
A £1,500-year director who took three eggs, value 72d., from a small grocer's shop off the Strand brought “irreparable ruin" on himself by so doing.
This was stated by his counsel at Bow Street recent- ly, when the man, William John Barnett (68), engineer,| of Whitehall Court, S.W., pleaded guilty to the theft. The case was dismissed under the Probation of Offenders Act on payment of £1 costs to Mr. J. K. Garvey, owner of the eggs.
Hannan
· Detective-Sergeant said he saw Barnett, when the proprietor's back was turned, put in his pocket an egg which had been marked on police in- structions.
When stopped 150 yards from the shop Barnett replied, "Yes. it's very silly of me. mean ruin ?**
Will it
He also said: "Can this be kept quiet?" Told he had been seen to take two eggs the night previously, Barnett replied: "I am very sorry to say it's true."
DOCTOR'S ADVICE
Mr. St. John Hutchinson, K.C., de fending, said Burnett was a man of the highest character, a well-known engineer both in Spain and in South America, and now a director several companies.
of
What he did on this occasion was to pay 614d. for a bottle of beer, and took an egg.
Barnett, added counsel, had fre- quently been advised by his doctor and by friends to go away for a rest. He was suffering from neurasthenia. The rest This man is to be titled. of his life will be spent in a different pecuniary position. I hope you will treat him in such a manner that he en go away and forget this appall- Int tragedy."
BUSINESS STRAIN
Sir Herbert Lidlard, solleitor, sald he had known Barnett for 30 years. He had found him a man of the higliest and most punctious charac- ter. Sir Herbert added: "Lately, I have noticed that he has been red. and that he did not seem to grasp things very well."
naval captain retired similar evidence.
Dr. Hopewell Ash, Harley Street nerve specialist, sald Barnett told him he began this year to feel the effect of revere strain in business affairs.
gave
His capacity for concentration was suffering from a congested state of,
the brain.
Vicar Wants
Nudism
in Parish
"Take up nudism for the good of your health," is the advlee the Rev. T. Harre, vicar of Kenley, Surrey, and Hon. Chaplain to the Forces, gives to his parishioners in a recent Issue of the church magazine.
One half of his parishioners aprove his suggestion, but the others think he has gone a bit 100 far.
Mr. Harre, who is a widower, and In his own words "nearer 70 than │---- 30," writes:
"Through ignorance and laziness; we Ignore the laws of Nature, and through false modesty we do not sufficiently let the light and air tet to our bodies.
"It is not enough for the head, arms and legs to be exposed. It ought surely to be possible in the open air and under suitable condi- tions of privacy for the body to have light and air and the breezes to play upon it.
"SENSIBLE OUTLOOK"
"Fortunately, the movement for the fuller use of light and air on the whole body, resulting in health and a more sensible outlook on sex, la growing in England, but its growth
a very slow.
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This Interesting pleture of the royal family shows King George and Queen Elizabeth with their daughters aboard the royal yacht Victoria and Albert, during a recent cruise along the British coast, Princess Elizabeth is at left and Princess Mar-
may some day Karet Rose is at right Princess Elizabeth
bo
queen.
Girl Burglars Use Golf Club Jemmies
Paris.
Two girls, found recently trying to force a bed- room door in a smart hotel here with jemmies dis- guised as golf clubs, were alleged by the police to be responsible for a series of robberies in London and many European countries. Because the girls' statements' may lead to the capture of gangs
Mr. Hurre sald: "I have had en-faking and selling British pass. couragement from many friends, ports in London and on the Con- but I expect some of my parishion- tinent, a full report is being sent ers raised their eyebrows and looked down their noses when they read to Scotland Yard. my article.
HARWICH.
How a middle-aged German smurried his whole fortune of between 27,000 and £10,000 into Britain in a bale of cotton was revealed at Harwich re- cently.
Ho
He watched the bale swung ashore at Parkeston Quay yesterday, then said to Customs men:
"Thave "öruggled this out of Germany to escape the currency restrictions. I can start a new life now."
He told them that he hid the money in one bale of a con- algnment, sent it off, and fol- lowed it with his passport and visa granted by the German autherllles on ike grounds of buslacas Affairs In England. Ife is leaving, for Kenya almost at once.
'»* Money muggling is a capital offence in Germany; there are по restrictions on Importing
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ARRESTED
Calcutta.
Seventeen students at St. Xavier's College here, were arrested recently for obstructing traffle. They were lying in the road and picketing the buildings.
The arrests followed a strike by the students because of the refusal of the college authorities to allow the delivery by a student of an uncen- sored address on prize-giving day.
The authorities held that the address, which WAN
British Imperialism, contained reflections on Great Britain. It was to have been read by Kalyan Bose, nephew of the President of Congress, Mr. Subhas
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Typhoid In Bimla-Typhoid fever has broken out in epidemie form More among Europeans in Simta. thun 200 cases have occurred in the past month.
Army Army Headgear.--Indian headquarters are contemplating the ssue of a fell hat to all Indian troops, except Sikhs, in place of the pug- garce turban, which is regarded as unsuitable for modern warfare.
Mushroom Poison Deaths-Wild mushrooms have caused the deaths of 20 persons in Lucknow.
Protection for Textiles The period
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As they ran they dropped some golf clubs, and close ex- amination later revealed
that several of these were really jem-
Industry of India ends on mies and other burglars' tools. March 31, The question whether the The girls describe themselves as industry should continue to enjoy Mortante Mariachiqua, a Czech, and **** Marle Hagen, a native of Holland. protection, and, if so, for what period and at what level, will be determined Matiachoun, A Mriking platinum blonde, has jude-blue eyes, and by a Tariff Board shortly to be
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The girls, clad in black tights, "I cannot see anything that is not were seen by an hotel porier at in keeping with the conduct of a good Chrisilan in sitting, in some 2 a.m. crouching outside a door.
spot with a book. and He shouted for another porter,smile. secluded
before letting the sun and air get to the and the girls were caught whole body."
they could reach their own room.
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20 PASSPORTS They told the pollee that they arrived from London some time ago
Sydney. and took one of the best rooms atj Al a meeting of leading Sydney the hotel. They showed particular business men called to re-establish the concern about their bag of golt Citizens of Sydney Organising Com- clubs.
mittee, which co-operated with the State Government in the 150th annil- celebrations, the Prime
versary Minister of New South Wales, Mr. Stevens, said that Australia, must
advertise she were to receive her
In their aulicases were found dozens of expensive dresses and 20 passports, each with a differ- ent name, but the same photo- graph, in addition to those they presented at the hotel. When a police officer held up an the traveller. English passport, one of the girls! smiled and said:
that one. 1 bought it in Londo
share of revenue from the tourist and The State Government has already
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towards the of establishment the committee. "These young women ran with the Among the projects which the com- cleverest International burglars,"
sald
a police official, who added that miltce has in mind are the promo- Inquiries about their
llon of interest in big game, fishing activities in London hotels will be made by the and the organisation of an Empire English authorities.
Asked why they were using golf clubs to try to break into a room,
one
Week.
Dutch Immigration-Two Dutch banking officials have arrived here
said: "We couldn't sleep. to report on the projected settlement suppose we were playing about, but everyone has the right to walk about the corridors."
of Dutch Immigrants. They will visit New South Wales, Queensland,
Victoria and Tasmania to And out When the girls were confronted what land is available for settlement with dozens of keys belonging to and how conditions in Australia com- famous hotels. in England and on the pare with, those in Holland. Continent, they said, "They are just SOUTH AFRICA
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The girls are detained at Paris STARVING CHILDREN
Wooden Nickels Are
Taken
Cincinnati, O The old warning, "Don't take any wooden nickels," is disregarded here these days, Wooden nickels are being sold for 3 cents as souvenirs to help finance the Cincin nali Sesquicentennial celebration.
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IN NAMAQUALAND
Cape Town.
The Administrator of the Cape, Mr. J. H. Conradle, has started a fund for the relief of starving children in Namaqualand. The territory has been suffering from a devastating drought which has lasted nearly three years. The inhabitants are threaten- ed with starvation. The children in the areas especially badly affected number about 2,000.
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