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EYE KNOCKED OUT BY GOLF BALL

13TH HOLE PISODE,

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HAIR DYE SECRETS.

WOMAN TELLS JUDGE HOW TO" USE HENNA.

DEATH SENTENCE ON A YOUTH

LADY WHITE MURDER.

THE CHINA MAIL.`

The jury at the Old Bailey found Henry Jacoby, 18, pantry boy at the Spencer Hotel, Portman-street, W. Galty of the murder of Lady White, widow of a former chairman of the London County Council, at the hotel early on March 14. In view of his youth and the fact that they did not believe he went into her bedroom in- tanding to kill, they strongly recom mended him to marcy.

NIGHT CLUB SCENES..

PICCADILLY MYSTERY.

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POLICE DESCRIPTION OF DANCE MANAGERESS OF "BLUE BIRD *

FOUND DEAD.. EPISODE.

Mystery surrounds the death of Allegations of indecent behaviour Miss Kathleen Narman, an attractive on the part of frequenters of a West woman of 33, whose fully clothed End might club were made at body was found in the kitchen of the Marlborough street Police Court when Blue Bird Tra-rooms, 9, Albany Ernest Bosworth Barron, described as Courtyard, Piccadilly, W., of, which the occupier of Brett's Dancing Hall, she was managare. Charing Cross-road, WC, was sum moned for allowing unlicensed public danging.

Two bottles, one a stout bottle, and a tumbler were found by her side on a bench in the kitchen. The bottles "These premises,” said, Mr. Dimes and the glass have been removed by (for the prosecution), "are frequented the police for examination. Miss Mr. Justice McCardie, who said helby women of loose character, and Norman was wearing a black fur coat agreed with the verdict, passed there are scenes of drunkenness and and a small brown hat. She had been sentence of death, and said he would disorder in the premises, and some employed as manageress of the tea- send the jury's recommendation to the evidence that they are used by drug rooms for nearly a year. Two months Home Secretary at once.

takere. There will be evidence of at ago she went into a West End hos- Mr, Lucien Fior (for the defence), least one incident of indecency which |pital for an abdominal operation, and asking for the exclusion from the one would have thought incredible in then went to Brighton to recuperate, evidence of statements made by any public or private dancing hall at after which the resumed her duties. The Blae Bird Tes-rooms are Jacoby to the police, said that the the present day." fact that Jacoby was surrounded wità Police Constabla Hanks said that owned by Captain Richard Frederick Mrs. Marguerite Nora

Eileen police par ping him" on the sub-he attended the hall. On one occa-Laco Lambert, D.5.0., who lives with Macrozie, of Granville-piace, Portman-ject for several hours was enough to sion quite a number of women present his sunt st 30, Milnes-street, Cadogan

were known to him as immoral. He square, Chelses, &W, square, W., sued Mr. Walter Boothby "I submit." said Mr. Fior, "it was had seen women in a drugged con- Captain Tambart first met Miss Smith, hairdresser, of Maddox-street, a true example of what is known in dition. Each time he went he took Norman in America, where she had W. She said she had received per the United States as the thin tickets for himself and his woman achieved some success sa a soprazo

friend st the ticket office. On one singer, more than a year ago. sonal injuries from an application of degree.""

vis t he counted 30 men drunk. There On her return from Brighton was some disorder, but no attempt she took rooms at 33, Stanley-

Hi, ards, Notting

.. was made to restore order.

hair dye at Mr. Smith's premises of July 13. 1921.

It was claimed that the hairdresser

An action of interest to golfers was -brought against the St. Augustine's Links, Ltd., Eldafleet, Kent, and Mr. Marcus James Chapman, lately a clerk in the South-Easter and Chatham Railway at Bichborough, by Mr. George Thomas Castle, a taxicab driver, King's Arms, King-street, Ramsgate.

A goli hall played by Mr. knew that Mrs. Macrorie suffered from Chapman, it was stated, struck psoriasis (a chronic inflammatory the windscreen of the taxicab disease) and that the application driven by Mr. Castle along the produced dermatitis (inflammation of Sandwich road, with the result that a piece of the glass struck Mr. Castle in the skin), making her head, said Mr. the face and so injured one of his eyes Giveen, her counsel, one vast blister. that it had to be removed. He For 11 years, said counsel, Mr claimed damages for personal injuries Macrorie had been Mr. Smith's and loss of earnings.

Sir E. Marshall Hall. K. C. for 3. customer, and at various times he In Castle, said he was informed that Mbad dyed her hair with henna.

exclude the matter.

Mr. Justice McCardie: What do a that meant As I understand it, it means that before the person is chaned he is subjected to a severe

cross-examination almost amounting to torture to extract a confession from him.

He said that one man who tras} -- re all her personal luggage is at drunk pulled down the shoulder present straps of his woman companion's The discovery of the body was evening dress and left her exposed, made by Miss Jessie Porter, a waitress. Mr. Justice McCardie said he would Other of the woman's clothing was Shortly before 9 o'clock, Mise Porter, exclude that part of the statement taken off. The woman did not stem who usually opens the tea-rooma, let referring to a confession of an earlier embarrassed. She just laughed and herself into the place with her key I and went upstairs to prepare for the crime, and also the part in which readjusted her clothing. Jacoby was telling untruths in respect

Crom examined by Sir Henry | day's work. of his earlier bistory and which had Curtis Bennett, K.C.(for the defence), On opening the kitchen door she no bearing on the case.

he said he did not know the club was saw two legs protruding from beneath Inspector Cornish was cross-exa-in the hands of a receiver, appointed the table. She rashed into Piccadilly mined by Mr. Fior in regard to the by the Chancery Court. He had never and caled a constable, who im- He had seen medistel notified a police surgeon. December 1919 she said she wanted taking of the statement from Jacoby. filled up any form. her hair darker than henna would He denied that he told Jacoby that it some of the women roliciting inside Death had apparently taken place at make it and Mr. Smith said he would would be better for him to make Brett's Club, and the women were least 12 hours before the body was use a dye which was in some degree statement. statements were there for that purpose. He could found.

The body was subsequently re- Poisonous He applied it again in taken in the ordinary way, and if not give the names and addresses of

moved to the mortuary, where a post- the early part of 1920, and she had it anything was not clear Jacoby was

mortem was be held. again treated in October, November, asked questions in order to make it and December. While abroad in clear.

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the women.

WOMAN'S TWITCHING JAWS.

Chapman was now in Australia. This golf ball accident was the irony of fate. Mr. Castle was chauffeur to General Flumer all through the war and encountered every sort of danger from shells and bombs, but had never been scratched. He bought a motor cab in Jane 1919, by which he hoped to earn a living at Ramsgate.

On August 18, 1919, when Mo the bead. Mr. Smith, on her admit the statement made on March Where was she ?-Sitting down. Castle met with the accident, Mr. returu, said it would be safe to apply Chapman was playing a hole on there, and he would apply only a small golf course parallel with the road. It quantity to begin with. was the thirteenth hole.

Mr. Disturnal, KC (for the club): The unlucky number.

1921 she had a bad attack of psoriasia. Mr. Justice McCardie said he would

19, and it was read. In this Jacoby described how he went to Lady White's zoom to steal the money. She woke up, gave a shriek, and he struck her two blows with a workman's hammer which be had taken.

JACOBY'S STORY.

Sir Henry (questioning him regard- ing & women he said be say drugged)

Did she dance ?—I don't know.

Miss Norman. it is stated, was very

despondent the whole of Thursday. She

a well-buit woman, of medium height with dark hair and large, dark

How long were you watching her?es

-About five minutes.

What became of her?--I don't know.

In the witness box Mrs. Macrorie stated that when she tried to brush her hair water streamed down from

How did you know `she was the blisters; they called it weeping. She had to wear her hair in off and

drugged 1-She showed some of the when she went out wore a rubber cap on March 13 he felt quser all day Sometimes she went off into a dazed Jacoby was called, and said that symptome. Her jaws were twitching under her hat. The trouble went along. He had been afraid of the dark condition. Proceeding, counsel said that the over her body, beginning with her since he was very young. He got up |

Sit. E. Marshall Hall said that the 13th hole was a 140 yards' shot. It was really an iron or mashie shot

wooden club was not necessary. --

All in five minutes 1-Yea

ears, and some of her finger-nails at 1.20 am. He heard the marmar Constable Hanks said that on one playing of this hole had been more or turned black and came off. fess a nuisance. Balls constantly got Mr. W. Shakespeare, cross-examin. of voices like two men speaking to visit there were more than 90 at the into the road. Under a recent regula-ing for Mr. Smith: You won't think gether. He told the night porter, hall, and when the hall was thus fall tion, which really affected London, no me rude, but your hair has changed could find nothing. Returning to his took place. The couple were dancing and they seached the basement. They the act of indecency he mentioned licence to drive cabs was granted to colour several times? First it was at. men who had lost a lich er an eye. ashy blonde, then it went golden, room, be thought he heard the voices but stopped. The county police could also adopt then it became anban?--It has again. He decided to have another this regulation, and at Ramsgate Mr. always been auburn Now it is a Castle was unable to get a licence and mixture of colours. "I let it alone his livelihood as a driver was gone now. (Laughter). He used his cab by paying a driver Mr. Justice Bolaft: Is it its 35s. a week and a percentage of the natural colour now?-Parts of it.ing Lady White ---No. takings.

(Laughter.)

As to the liability of the St. Augustine's Lizz, Ltd, Sir Edward said they had allowed a hole to be made parallel with a very much used highway. They bad taken no serious precautions to avoid accident. There was no warning of any sort in the club or its precincts and no warning on the public highway,

A simple remedy should have been taken, said Bir Edward, and that was to erect a fence 6ft or 8ft, high,

Mr. Castle, giving evidence, said that since the accident he had suffer-

Mrs. Macrorie said she had no hair dressing treatment in Guatemala in 1921.

look round.

then of stealing any money or doing Mr. Fior: Had you any intention

anyone any harm?—No.

Had you any intention of murder-

Sir Henry: Do you really tell the magistrate that in the middle of this man with the dancing going on?---- hall this woman was disrobed by the

Yes, sir.

Did the dancing stop —No. Constable Hanks added that the man was druck

The Blue Bird Tes-rooma ocopy- an upper floor of 48, Piccadilly, but

the entrance to the tea-rooms is in Albany Court-yard.

Arranged around the walls are little alcoves containing two chaits and a the alcoves at will. table. Curtains can be drawn scross

The whole place is decorated in deep bins, and has been open as tea- rooms for nearly three years.

GIRL AND COCAINE.

"IF. MY DADDIE COULD SEE ME NOW."

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The story of an alleged girl victim of cocaine who was arrested when miffing white powder and who laughed hysterically, was told st "I anned myself with a hammer,”

Marlborough-street Police Court, W., he said "and went upstairs where the Sir Henry: But is it not difficult when Molly Gibbons, 21, domestic voices seemed to come. Lady White's with some of the modern dancing to servant, York-road, S.EL, was charged door was partly open, and I thought know whether the man is drunk or with being in unauthorised possession Mr. Justice Bowlatt: Don't they the sound came from inside. I rushed not?-Not in this case.

,of cocaine. dye hair in Central America?

in, saw a form and hit out. I thought Re-examined on the question of Mrs. Macrorie said there were neit was the person I had heard the woman who he said was drugged, hair-dressers them.

he said that she said to her friend, Mr. Justice Rowlatt: How do you

murmaring."

"Do get me some heroin, it is so apply benna?

good for me."

Mrs. Macrorie: It comes up in a double saucepan, with boiling water beneath, and is applied hot with a

spoon.

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GERMAN SHIPPING AND AUSTRALIA.

"I am innocent of this charge," she said with passionate emphasis, and she bowed her head and sobbed when a policeman repeated the girl's words to him amid tesz when he

Mr. Fior: Did you strike with the intention of killing anybody!-No. he flashed his torch-lamp and sew a that he visited the hall. The dancing me now it would break his heart."

Jacoby added that after bitting out Police constable Hawkyard said) arrested her, "If my daddie could see woman in the bed. Terrified, he ran was of a suggestive character. On Police-Constab... William' Penzsa

tioned him next day he was downstairs. When the police ques- one occasion he noticed a man and a said he saw Gibbons and a woman frightened that he started saying all in an unseemly manner. One even-p.m. on Sunday. "Something passed 80 woman sitting on a settee behaving meet in Girard-street, W., about 11:

sorts of things.

ing be saw a man pick up a chair between them," he said, "but I could Mr. Fior: Were you so borrified with a girl in it and try to dance not see whether Gibbons was giving that you didn't know what to do?-round in that fashion."

or receiving it." Later, when Gibbons Yes.

was in a doorway at the corner of Lean-street and Shaftesbury-avenue, w., the officer saw her glancing at a small white opened packet in her left hand. "In her right hand," he said, was some white powder, which she suified sad them laughed.”

CHINA AS SHIPBUILDER.

Cross-examined by Sir Henry, he agreed that all people did not always dance in the same style.

The Magistrate: There is more scope for individuality in modern dances than in Sir Henry's days.

Sir Henry-They are not, sice

Do you mean you pour it on the ed from nervousness and headaches, head like a gravy --Oh, no, my lord; Previously be never had a day's ill-it is a paste; it is pasted on the head neas. Since the accident he had had with a spoon. only one job aud that was as an in-

The hearing was adjourned. structor of roller skating. In 1919. while driving his motor-cab be earned sbont, £ï a week in tips alone. There used to be plenty of money flying about at Richborough. "There were soldiers, clerks, and other Government officials," he added, "and they used -to-throw-the-money-away-like water... With the advent of German com- Six E. Marshall Hall: How many petition for Australia's overges people did you carry in your cab in carriage, it is almost certain that a that prosperous period I could not freight war will be waged. In ship Laverpool by the Canadian Pacific Sir Henry: But you are an expert 83y. They would go cut joy riding ping circles the position is giving rise liner Empress of Britain." In an You have been picked out from your all day long and not get back till two to considerable conjecture as to the interview he stated that British division. These modern day o'clock in the morning. They kept possibilities. While widely divergent working men should go out to China very fantastic are they not?—Yes, going into public-houses and on com-views are held on many points, and see the way the Chinese do a job, they are. ing out they would give me half a opinion is almost dnanimous that where there is a complete under- crown. As I am a teetotaller I never sentiment will carry little weight standing between capital and labour. #pent the hall-crowns. (Great în business, and that shippers "We have just bault the four laughter.}

will be largely influenced by largeet vessels ever built in a Chinese The hearing was adjourned.

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the Kiangnon Dock and Engineering quiet dances like waltzes and so ou? Works at Shanghai, arrived xtI don't know.

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When he told her who he was "and asked her what she was doing, the girl laughed hysterically and said, Here, take the lot. I'll go quietly."

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FILM MURDER.

THEORY OF REVENGE BY DRUG FIENDS,

says he was given £250 for the use of his car, and changed the banknote at a Los Angeles bank the rame right. Inquiries among the banks doing business at night confirmed the stateme ment.

After three weeks' investigation, Thomas Green, the Assistant Public A year ago Taylor went to Mr.

mystery has been obtained. Arrested should be taken to wipe out' a group definite clae to the kinems marder Prosecutor, and asked that action At the police station she said, "Iroat Detroit on a charge of forgery, of drug scllets who were corrupting

She put two packets into his hand.

not selling it."

Barry Field, known to the. Loe

The case was adjourned for a week. Was she under the influence of this Angeles under-world as "Hay the large numbers of kinems artists.

Mr. d'Eyncourt (the magistrate):

stuff ---1 think so, sit.

"He told me in particular of one Chink," told the police that Mr. Desmond Taylor, of Deans-Tanner, Woman," said Mr. Green," with whom Dr. Rose, divisional police surgeon, the film director, was murdered by a presumed he was in love. She had the inducements offered. It is shipbuilding yard, said Mr. Mancham. A WIRELESS MATCHBOX.said one of the packets contained Chinaman, the head of a group of become a confirmed drug taker He now common knowledge that the "They were of 14,750 tour displace- German Australia fine, better known meat, and built for the United States

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four grains of pure cocaine hydroch- Los Angeles drug sellers. iorate, and apparently the second Field says he drove the Chinsman of the drug fiends. Be told me she and two women to Taylor's house, was in the first rank of kinema so- the former, taking pead-handed tresses.” pistol from one of the women, enter. The drug gang, says Mr. Green, ed the house and shot Taylor. Field was broken up following on Taylor's murder might then drove the trio to an opium den intervention. The in Los Angeles and left them. He well, therefore, be an act of rere

packet also contained cocaine.

Gibbons (interposing): It does not belong to me. It was not found on me. I am innocent of this charge.

The girl wae remanded.

Conference that "the air was in a

as the "Black German," purpose Shipping Board, costing the United Wireless telegraphy amateurs' The health ratura for June 8 despatching ita first vassel from States. 195 guld dollars per dead- ingenuity proceeds apace. Two new shows eight cases of plague (two Hamburg about the middle of June, weight ton, and have been sold to inventions recorded in the United deaths) and two of small pox (one so as to allow of its arrival at an Mess. Bobt. Dollar and Co., of States

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Australian port in August by which Canada, at £6 10. per ton, making a you Can

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sa ring, using an ordinary umbrella Mr. Leo Longinotto appeared lifted. Germen ship owners. no doubt,

se the aerial; and a complete receiv before Magistrate Landsell this more will endeavour to regain their lost

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paznok #fford to be without it-il-zoo-are-j for a week a retrans. The Warsments" wil-ba"swhite, with""fided | subject to attacks of this kind. For ether in ther erthunt. i vari mezobandise in the United States.com. † of Chamberlafo's Tablata. Give them after-wandering on the Korkakis. granted.

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