War Strain
Husband Says "No" To Jury's £1,600 Award
A HUSBAND, said to have
been "robbed of a rare typo of wife," refused damages of £1,600 assessed against respondent in the Divorce Court recently.
Co-
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
August 3, 1939.
Baronet's Daughter "Lent"
£30,000 to
Pinch of war is becoming evident In Tokyo, as this ancient donkey cart appears on streets of Japanese capital. Gasoline is so important that a drop of it is now compared to a drop of blood,
Daughter For Peer Aged 67
Adaughter WRA
UFS
Her Chauffeur
German Motorists Not To Smoke
Berlin.
GEN. Daluege, chlef of the
Death Drama Of Man With 100 Poses
MAIDENHEAD.
WILLIAM GEORGE BUTLER, 36-years-old man of a hundred poses, claimed "when I die, my death will be as dramatic as my life."
Two of his acquaintances recently searched for him in a gas-filled room here. They were injured when the gas exploded and blew the roof off the building.
Butler, alias Duncan (he had cards printed styling himself Sir William Duncan), was tho son of an Eastbourne grave- digger. In the last ten years he hud posed as:
A tim magnate,
Scotland Yard detective assigned to guard the Dulce of Windsor.
A close friend of Hitler.
A war-time Secret Service agent. Millionaire property owner.
J. P. Shuns Woman He Loved
Pontefract, Yorkshire. SEVENTY-THREE-YEARS-
OLD Mr. John Hutchinson, This 5ft 3in. short-sighted tubby magistrate and twice Mayor of
little fake was twice Inurried. In between times he spent the £30,000 Pontefract, stood outside the fortune of a baronet's daughter. Assize Court here recently With that money he bought cars while the woman who had de- hunters, racehorses, ran night clubs,ceived him was sent to prison threw £100-n-night parties,
for bigamy. gave himself a title..
LEFT CLUB IN ANGER
and
He married" Dalsy Corum, aged 42, an hotel worker in the town, in His second wife is bere ill. She April. She told him she was a child- was Misa Phyllis Dutile, of Stock-less widow. He altered his will in ton-on-Tees, whom he married last her favour. December. Soon she expects to be born at Udny
Castle, near Aberdeen, recently to Lady Belhaven und Stenton, 22- year-old wife of Lord Belhaven and Stenton, 67-years-old, politician and
German uniformed police, has issued ሰካ order that motorists in Germany may not in future smoke while driv- ing.
come a muther.
weeks after the Less than three "marriage" Mrs. Coram's real hus- The flat he shared with her here band called on Mr. Hutchinson and was over a club. One night the told him the truth-that he and his two disagreed. Butter, angry, left wife hand separated and he had the his wife in the club, went to his flat, custody of their four children, aged and cut a gaspipe in his bedroom.
from four lo 13. Hours later the club se "etary, Mr. Terry Newns, and Mrs. Frank Kee- vi, went to the flat at Mrs. Butler's
Mrs. Coram admitted she had de- ceived him and Mr. Hutchinson or- They lit a candle, forced the bed-dered her out of the house.
His counsel said he did not want
The number of accidents in more than £1,000, and. Mr. Justice
soldier.
"Both Lady Belhaven and her Germany, it is stated, is so high Langton, granting him a decree nisi, entered judgment for that sum with
daughter are very well," It was that every effort must be made costs against the co-respondent.
Mr. David Henry Milward, of Cal-stated at the castle,
Lord Belhaven and Stenton mar-to improve the standard of A driver needs both low. Farm, Hereford, assistant sur- veyor and engineer to Herefordshire ried for the second time in March driving. County Counell, charged his wife, last year, a month after he had met hands on the wheel and cannot request.
Beryl Eileen, with misconduct with Miss Sheila Pearson, of Knoll Farm, spare one of them to knock of room door. The gas in the room ex-
Mr. Frederick Thornton, whose ac- they quaintance they made when went to the Argentine under colonising scheme.
Mr. Justice Langton told the jury cultivator on a that Thornton, a larger seale than Mr. Milward, had
Aldington, Kent, in Mentone.
his ash.
In addition there is always danger robbed him of a rare type of wife in of drivers becoming partially blinded a woman peculiarly suited to the sd-by particles of ash flying into their venturous ite on which she and her husband had embarked.
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"VERY, VERY SORRY"
ploded. News and Keevil were She pleaded Guilty to bigainy and
tu Maidenhead was sent to prison for a month. burned and sent hospital.
Mrs. Coram made a long statement Some months before Butler took the Maldenhead dat he had been from the dock in which she said she Rving at an hotel in Henley. There had been unhappy with her husband Breastmber of have here and from the strain of moving their 1 tank labs in different which you may see. He was the towns. smartest talker 1 have ever met. "Having to one to turn to i did His Imagination left one simply this," she said, "I am very, very gasping.
Sorry Jodced for Mr. Hutchinson." "ile was first married at East- But Mr. Justice Tucker told her: bourne in January, 1824, to a girl of "Having a hard time with your first 10. He was then a lorry driver. He husband cunnot be regarded as an ex- was later divorced,
cuse for committing blgamy and de- "As a youth he served for a few (ceiving an old gentleman as you did." months in the last whr. Afterwards The had all sorts of jobs, but seemed principally to have lived by duping
women.
"He got a Job es chauffeur with a titled man at Surbiton. His cm- ployer died and ho assumed control of the family affairs. There was
Mr. Hutchinson did not make ap- pileation to see her.
"All that is over and forgotten. I shall not see her," he told me.
daughter and he became friendly The Quins Getting
with her.
"From that souree, I now that he laid his hands on £30,000. He used
to come to this hotel in a different
Fear every week. And they were all
Slimmer
Callander, Ontario.
expensive cars. He bought huntersTHE Dionne quintuplets, who and for a number of years be ved were put on a. diet by Dr. in life of luxury."
To the woman from whom he got Dafoe because they were getting "pudgy," are now noticeably the £30,000 ke toidu story of having
a £7,500,000 estate in Germany. He more slender after a month's
mode constant promises to her that dieting. the money she "lent" blm would be
All have lost weight since May 28, returned at enormous rates of in-when they were last weighed. terest. He had no catale in Ger-
never T The money was many. turned.
Recently he had been raising
But only one of them has grown- hnd money on the claim that he £17,000 worth of shares in a big Annette. She has put on a quarter
lof an inch, group.
Annette has lost 14b., Cecile 14b., Yvonne 11b, Emilie ib., and Morio ib.
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