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EXECUTION SCENES.

MURDERER DECORATES CELL WITH PICTURES,

"He was the gameet man I over The doctor who has been saw going to the raffold," said eno denouncing heavy breakfasts as a who witnessed the execution at crime might point to Emerson as a Belfast of Simon McGeows, who had victim of moh criminal tendencies been found guilty of murdering a (observes the Daily Chronicle,) "It nine-year-old girl named Maggie Ful- was pie at breakfast," wrote H. J.lerton in a plantation on the outskirts Warner, in a letter to his wife, that of the city.

broke down Emerson prematurely. No The murder was of such a brutal human being can livo long and keep description that little hope was enter bis mind unclouded on pie at break-tained at the prisoner securing fast. Emerson loat bis mind-or his roprieve..

memory-at a much earlier period It was proved that McGeown entic then he would have been likely to loaned the little girl on to the Cave Hill, it, owing to the vicious habit of ealing pla at breakfast."

The Colour question,

GENERAL ITEMS.

Russian orders. for ·8,000,000 | baga for use in the transport of grain have been placed in Dundee.

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It is stated that the Soviet Govern- nent intends shortly to appoint a military attaché in Berlin.

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Pig-iron was sold at Birmingham, Alabama, io mail week for £b a ton, the highest price since the war.

Archdeacon of Singapore 1902 6, the Rev. W. H. C. Dunkerley, reator of Laybourne. Kent, has died, aged

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Half a million of herrings, the big- and after having ssvagoly outraged gest catch of the season ware landest | her, killed her by fracturing ber skull. at Scarborough on Saturday in mail Three days later a gamekeeper's dog week. discovered her body, which partially hidden by a quantity of leaves and rubbish.

WAS

line persons have been killed and 17 injured by an exploriou in the Diana do Castale pyrotechnic factory, Li bon.

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Married in 1862, Mr. and Mrs. W.

half. On the evening before bis Farrow, of Surbiton Hill, Surrey. execution it was officially announced have just celebrated their diamond that the law must take its course, wedding.

There seems to be an increasing fondness for light-coloured clothes amorg matrons of middle-age (eays o

McGeown received the death cen Star writer.) Once it would have In the first volume of Count. Mole's been considered infra dig for a woman tance without a tremor, and despite It is rather curious to notice, Memoirs, just published in Paris by over forty to wear anything more the overwhelming evidence against abserves the Journal of Commerce the Marquis de Noailles under the rivolous than grey or brown, whereas him a petition was signed on bis ba that about the only tonnage which title of Le Comt: M16" (Champion, yesterday I met a charming woman the United States Shipping Board 10s. 6d.), there are many interesting of fifty-two in a white voile walki fade itself able to dispose of with and touching aneototes of the great dress, and at a dance I saw one of Napoleon. Mole was one of his over sixty attired in rose-piak taffeta. comparatively little difficulty is that Ministers, picked out by bim at the Each of these matrons looked the built in Japan, under the war time age of 25, and was a dev ted adherent quintessence of chic. Girls, on the agreement by which the Orientale and a counselor to whom he often other hand, seem more and more to favour seberer colours, such as navy, A certain opened his mind.

This was Male's impression of mole, and gray. The generations are number of ships if the Napoleon after his firat interview: "velling up."

undertook to deliver

PICTURES ON THE WALL.

At Schlebusch, a Rhineland village, MoGeown, while awaiting bis ex- ention, proved to be one of the most thiores unearthed a well-buried cablo cheerful prisoners who has evr and made off with a length valued at cupied a call in the B last gaol. Ho 60,000 marks. was supplied with magazines, and pictures which caught his fancy he tcra out and stuck up in the con damaed cell. The walls were gaily decorated with them as he stepped

the Japanese felt their lack of steel zo bad aver imagined. His heal was to the international chers contest from the cell to his doom.

One of the most pathetic incidents

Leaving a widow of 60, whom he married four years ago, Mr. George W. Nutbrown, retired former, of Driffield. Yorkshire, died aged 84.

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United States would spare them" Napoleon's figure acen so closely as How old is Choss?

There is one question which visitors a quantity of ship steel. Never have I saw it was far more imposing than nagtificent and like none that I had seen before. I recognised in his may ask in vain, observes a Daily Chronicle writer. No one know by features all the qualitics which raise whem or when the great game as men above their kind and give them invented. Probably, like Topsy, it the power of dominating, but none of just grow, but as far back as we en the earlier ships were rejected and re the virtues which make them loved or go through the agra we find it in exoccupied the cell bis oppetito.was placed by their builders, so that the esteemed in the conditions of daily steage. John de Vigney assigned remarkably good and he slept soundly, accepted an invitation to take part in!

the inviation to the Babylonian When the Uider-Sheriff entered to New York in 1921 in the third cer

much as in the days of the shipping boo, when they needed tonnage as much as anybody, and had not the materiale to construct it. Several of

Jap-built ships became something of a by-word and the U.S. administra tion was frequently blamed for ever having entered into the contact.

life."

He once heard Napoleon disputing philosopher, Xerxes; Leacurattribut with a group of French scientists the ed its origin to Chile theSpartan, sur veracity of Genesis:

of the Sevru Sages of Greece; Gibbon "The Emperor recalled with mar opined that the Indians invented the and the slightest hollow in the valley Persia; but we find it represented, at where was the rock of Hebron, from

An office for the despatch of goode connected with the case was his par.- by aeroplane, with special Customs ing with his young wife. Medeowa facilities, will shortly be opened in was an ex-soldier who fought in the London by the French CM.A. air line, Great War, and during the time he

King Albert of the Belgians has

see that everything was in arder, Ale teown stod to attention, and did not show a slighteet trace of nervous At the same time he fully

nzas.

tenary celebration of the founding of that city.

It is not unitereating to remember vellous precision the smallest rock gaine, and that it was perfected in realised that he was going to his bridge gunr-lians that men receiving

that when many of them were delivered in the Pacific ports it was diecovered that they had been built which Moses made water flow for the gest, in the painting of the ancient)

an earlier date than any of these sug.

with bunke which were comfortable Israelites by striking it wit.. his abil. Egyptians, and described in the Chining, said he had ce recollection ulj

"Just remember,' he said "that 1 went over this valley with Gnesis in my bands, and that I was astonished to observe the perfect exactitude of the Hebrew Scriptures."

In 1813, Juring his dienstrous Russian campaign, those about him

Complaints were made by Cam

unemployed relist, were spending the great r part of it in tinued fruita, tobacco and luxuries.

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The condemned man, who had been a victim to methylated spirit drink ave Books of Wisdom.

Owing to the failure of the brakes, murdering the little girl, but be admitted that he must have been a motor car packed with pilgrims; Pity the Poor Crook.

Hitherto it has been the practice in guilty, and therefore deserved the bear Lurdes, dashed dowabill jump. New York for bank messengers to punishment. -

jug-2öft. on to a lower road. Five. Ou the morning of the execution Passengers were injured. we r no distinctive dress,. the idea

Found hanging from a strap in the being that is is expedient to avoid McGeown partook at a good break-

that the sleep. The hanging was carried out Frederick Carpenter, fried fish dealer. bern found, however, identification of their victims is one of by Ellis, assisted by Willis. the least of the problems to be solved by intending thieves. Accordingly,

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who were on the sot supervising the noticed that his physical condition making them conspicuous. It has fast, which followed a sound night's kitchen the 12-years old son

enough for a little Jap, but which took a few inches of each end of a hefty-American-sailocman Getting this feature put right cos very consider able sums, but it was not to the credit of the U.S. Shipping Board officials, whe passed the plans, or the inspectors cirection of the ships. Now it was no longer good and that he be proves that in spite of the bouquets trayed depression at times. He told that were thrown at the standard ehing built in the United States yards and the mad that was slung at ibe Orientals, the Yankes shipownera themselves have no doubt as to their preference. It is also rather interest.

tract that made the Japs more that

Mole:

"I AM A KINDLY MAN,"

In that terrible retreat the King houses have now decided that of Naples Murat was plunged into their representatives shall wear bright the depths of dejection. He never red coats, which it is thought, will Wrote to his children without watting attract attention and assistance from

refused to take it.

of

While being pinioned, bis atten- of Portsmouth, is believed to have tion was called to the fact that killed himself while at play. there was a stimulant for him if he

A formhouse at Coato, near desired it. McGeown, however, Swindon, Wiltshire, where Richard He was then hurried to the ecaffold, was born in 1818, with 12 acres of eries, the naturalist and author,

ing to note that it was this steel con, his paper with huge tears is impres. Passera-by in the event of an attempt and said a hasty Good by" to the pasture land, was sold for £2,000.

five-was carried out in a most expeditious ions were so much stronger than his at robbers. The messenger moreover chaplain as he passed. The execution character that instead of dominating will carry his valuables in a

pound portable safe chained to bis and humane manurz, McGrown Seeing that her child was in danger deposits in China, and has led to alte, he was led with consternation: waist and padlocked on the inside. passing from life to death in little from a motor car, Mrs Ellen Hunt, I needed all my own long acquired The kay and the combination will be over a minute after he had walked 48. of Pontyprid, Glamorgan, rusted babit of sell control not myself to show emotion. On the eve of the kept in the offices concerned, and to firmly and ussided from his cell into the traffic. She was knocked retreat I was the conqueror of the gain access to the contents of the cafe Death was instantaneous, world, commanding the largest and it will be acessary for the robber to most magnificent army in modern carry out buth safe and messenger to times. In it I lost everything. Yet place where there will be time and

ever anxious to get control of rich ore

sorts of trouble;

"CAFDSHARPER KING,"

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outside

ANGRY WOMEN,

down and killed. The child was naved.

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The coal output from the mines in Great Britain for the week ended August 12 was 3,633,200 tons, previous werk and 4 636,0 0 tons in the corresponding week last year.

I believe I showed an nufailing calm opportunity for the box to be broken women waiting impatiently for news compared with 5,121,600 tons in the

and caiety. Don't suppose, however, that I have not as tender a l'eart as asy man. I am a kindly man.

open.

Anthisto's Livalikoɔd.

But Herbert Woolwich, actor, philoso

phur nad one time holder of the walde all-round athletic champion ship, is now earning his living us lightning artist in the London streets.

A to Ardisson, the King of Card-Irom youth up I have discipliud my. supera" who after having made self so that this chord in my mind tire: ortunes no the car tables, hay emits no round."" committed suicide at Toulon because

Napoleon himself fl the burden of

There were extraordinary ecenes the pison, hundrede of

that McGeown was dead. They were loud in the denunciation of the murderer.

The more indignant ones angrily Bu gested that McGeown should be te cased and handed over to them for punishment. The father and other of the murder.d girl ware amongst those at

To 1913, when he was 41, draws 700 sketches a day Mr. he sell into poverty owing to unfor- Fere.

Woolnich claims relationship to tuante Stock Exchange operations, iMule uys of him:

of While walking to and fro and the literary family John the prison gates, and displayed to maid by the French police to have oved much of his success to his skill talking to me, he showed signs of Strange Wiater" Jame. He began sympathisera photgraphs of the fatigue. Ho stopped and leant against life as a professional athlete, and re- little victim, a sight which inflamed the billiards table; rolled the billiards presente England in 1909 in a six the crowd the more.

in disguising bioecif.

He was well known to the anti gam-balls with his hand: and seemed days' gn-sa-you please race at Madi ready invrluntarily to fall asleep. He son Square, New York. He won the maticed that I marked this, and said: world's championship for walking, It is singular how a man's constitu- running, and cycling at Paddington ion is affected, as his age advancos Recreation Ground five years later. without his vigour diminishing or bis He then forecok the field for the foot- health giving way. But, believe me, lights and later feil on evil day. "I after 30 one begins to be less it to bad to find a way out somehow," said | Mr. Woolwich to a Daily Express re presentative. "I cara about £1

bling detectives and to the private detectives of the big Casinos, but though as Andie Ardisson he was re. fused admittance to say club or casino, be always succeeded by his skil iu moking himself up in going to gamble wherever be wished,

On? duy an eldny moan aristocratic appearance was wheeled

abie watering place.

dizeet war."

Molé's judgment of him was that be which he was sometimes charged, but that he was selish.

The more rflen I saw him the more catufully I studied him, and the wore firmly I was convinced that be

pa sed.

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St. Pancras Guardians N.W., by Dine votes to seven decided to give a woman inmate, aged 30, a ect of arti Gcial tre h at a cost of £5, que mem- ber saying that teeth were just as ac- cassury as wooden legs or glass eyes.

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At an inquest at Nelberton. Wor- ccaterebire, on Sarah Jane Wakemin, who drowned herself, it was stated that she was only released from cas- tody the week before as recovered, having four years ago been convicted of drawing her two children when

insane,

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When John Martin Collion was centenced to nine months' imprison-

A German scientist, Herr Reimann, ment at Brampton, Cumberland, for is reported to have discovered a

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in a chair to the Casino at a Cashion was inoipable of the brutality with week as a street artist. If I wind up process by means of which it will be obtaining money by worthless i with a skotch of Mr. Lloyd George I possible to change the natural colour cheques. the police stated that he was His came was quickly whispered

au sure of a shower of coppers." of a growing tres into blue, red or wanted all over the country for

similar offence. world Tonnage. round as that of a wealthy French

purple at will. nobleman who had a country house

Herr Reimann's process consistația

"Il all wives ran away from their The new edition of Lloyd's Register injecting a solution of aniline dyo isto in the azighbourhood.

husband when they had been He was carried by two foolmrs to was always influenced by the impreschews remarkable changes in present the tece. Recently he used a solution extravagant there would not be many the table, en before the night wassion of the moment and wished only to uras of tonnage as compared with of 200 quarts of water and a couple of left at home," remarked the Liverpool

What did you do PURE4% over to had won 25.000. It was only to magnify himself and aggrandies Pre-war figures The British sen-going, ounces of aziline dye to vaccinato stipendiary to a woman who raid that

Sammy, a 14-ton ateam ruller be-Jumped, you bet. From a pace Arlis on in one of his many disguises.imself without limit of rest. He merchant feet (now 19 053,000 tons, tree which breame blue all through because she had boon spending

Do quother occasion he played fur thought lens of leaving behind him a grasa) has only increased by 170,000 within 48 hours.

The tree was pulled down aud cut recklessly be dare sub face her longing to the Camberwell Borough of two mile an hour to twenty was a bit too hut. There were no prople in a work on the Riviera disguised as an dynasty than a nomu which had too whilst that of the United States.

Council, crashed into a bouse at the street. The steam roller comed Indian prince and, after first losing nover beco equalled in its magic and has, in the same period increased by open, and it was seen that not only husband, and therefore left home.

|10,060.000 tons! "In fact has jumped the wood of the trunk but also, the heavily went away with about £10,000 a glory which could never be sure from 4:3 per cent. to 22 per dent. of boughs and leaves were of a rich the aim of numerous horticulturists it seemed about to demolish the

A blue rose, which it bass heon Brotoar road, East Dulwich; and, as to have gone mad."

Sammy at the finish was a wreck, the world's een going tonnage. Whilst uniform blue coʻour.

The roller itself broke away from its to produce, has been cultivated by building, collapsed. Buch a development must have a

Mr. C. M. Arnot, a nurseryman, of Sammy was being driven bomo to driving portion, shattered the pave to himself, and it is said that nous of

Opera hors will soon be seen only great effect upon the carrying trado his colleagues in the art could have

a stock, he intends to put the now brakes on and a man walking by house. Sammy's front forks were of the little garden in front of the detected exactly how he cheated, in museums. The top bat, long threat of the world, the actual position is

Forfar, Scotland. When be bas raised its depot at two miles an hour with mant, and smashed the spiked railings This remedy has no fuperior as a curs

rose on the market under the name of Ardisson had reduced cheating to aeaed with extinction, has showa re not from a British point of view) ao fine a t, and it is raid that in his latermarkable powers of resistanco and, ecriada as the statistics would in: for colds, croup and whooping cough.

It be born a favourite with mothersof Arnote Blue Bambier. Mr. Arnot its side. Descending the steep broken in twain and the roller jaws

at Ivanbou-road Sammy kept in tooch with its hindquarters - years when he had almost gi ou ap instead of going under itsolf, has man- dicate. Much more than tho mero

first began experimenting in this hill young children for almost forty youra

Chamberlain's Cough Remedy can playing he would ofta be tempted to aged to displace all other hats for even possession of ships is required to make

weur, A few middle-aged a maritimu obution, and what is pro- always to depended upon and is direction three years ago, and the now became tired of its placid pace-jump strand almost as thin as a thread

rose in the riault of a cross betweon & the take a band if he heard that any weil 103 known American cardsharper was Londoners affect a q.ft black felt hatbably a more serious masaco is in pienannt to take.

It not only curça ro'ds and grip, but rambler and a Hiawatha rose. Themed on to the pavement, dented it bṣisteam roller was updamaged, Is the evening, but shiny toppers"dicated by the expansion of the Geraron's their resulting in pneumonia.

is already in existence the Feltham ly, spurted at twenty miles an hour, Nothing plaased him better than to aro the usual choice of the younger was nietesntile-marine from 652,000 hemberian's Cough Remedy contains alt down and play against his generation, which generally manage tone to 1,783,000 tons during the no spism or other narcotic and may be Blue Rose, but Nr. Arnot claims for and then-broke in two

confidently to a child as to an his production a more pronounced given bconscious rival and take from him to set thufaabion. They consider opera past twelve months, in spite of the adult. For tale by all Chemists and colouring and a larger bloom,

chipping depression,

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Most of his methods were peculiar

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It was a complete transformation of Sammy the Sure to Sammy the conduct stripa 1,

That night the children in Esad Dalwiol admired the fallen gaat, Sammy har certainly 1 st his good-