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TWILIGHT SLEEP
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CAVENDISH.
LINK WITH THE DAYS OF WHIST
THE CHINA MAIL.
What memories are recalled by the announcement of the death, in her ninety-fifth year, of the widow of the great Cavendish"! Per haps we should rather say the once
SMUGGLED ··· DRUGS."
HONGKONG COCAINE HAUL
PROSECUTION IN LONDON.
An amazing story of a secret algantic drug organisation in Basinghall-street, E. C., came to
SIKI LOSES.
MCTIGUE WINS DUBLIN *FIGHT.
The fight between Battling Ski and Mike McTigue at the Scala Theatre, Dublin, was a wonderful display (writes the Sports Editor of the Dally Mirror).
McTiguo won with his left hand, clever elusiveness, and his superb defence when by sheer strength Siki forced his way to close
quarters.
Siki was often at a loss what' to
great Cavendish" for the genera-light in mail week at the Guildhall | which was always acorlag, bis; tion which knew "Cavendish" by when H.M.F. Humphrey, a director heart, and gladly obeyed his rules, of the firm bearing his name, was is rapidly passing away, and another has come in to which he is fined £200 and sent to prison for already the shadow of a name, says
six months in the second division. the Daily Telegraph, "Cavendish's other name was Henry Jones, and he was a London doctor by profes slon, but fume never found him for aught that he did in the practice of medicine or in the art of surgery, and his unique title to fame is that he codified the laws of Whist, The game, it is under stood, still survives, but far north of Piccadilly and far south of St. James'-street, and though of late it has enjoyed a blaze of democratle popularity in "Whist drives" "anding of letters was described. ly in the early stages that it seemed tournaments, which are the ex- hilaration of certain suburban cir cles, and one of the last recent the game is now stone-dead in the rooms once consecrated to its ritual. The odd thing is that, in its earllest days, Whist was not a fashionable game, like Ombre and Spadille. It was rather the game of the servants hall, fit at the best
"Behind the screen of a do with his silppery opponent.
legitimate hardware business,"
There is no question of the com said the prosecuting counsel, rectness of Mr Jack Smith's verdict. this man controls a powerful Sitting outside the ring I should secret and wealthy organisa- | have given the same verdict at the tion for dealing in drugs. end of seventeen rounds, and Mc-| "He has employed the facilities Tigue won the last three casier than
afforded to husiness men to any of the others, make huge profits by traffick ing in cocaine and morphine."
in sofas and chairs in a ship at The dramatic discovery of drugs Hongkong as well as the intercept-
for
A lath of a man, it looked as if he must be overwhelmed by his
ing opponent. splendidly built and athletic look-
The negro attacked so strenuous. as if the frailer man would be bat- tered to the floor, but boring is a game of skill, and there is no
great
Mr. H. D. Roome appeared for the Director of Public Prosecutions and Sir Henry Curtis Bennett,
as a boxer.
MCTIGUE'S STRATEGY. appeared for Humphrey.
The extent of this man's activi- tjes," said Mr. Roome, may best There was, however, a be gauged by his own account of diversity of opinion as to the himself under his own hand. He verdict. At the close MeTigue said: "I won easily, and I would- have stopped him in the thirteenth beat him to the punch two to one." round only my right thumb went.
says
I
MATERNITY, HOME DEATH, The death of a woman in a maternity home while under the influence of "twilight sleep" was Details of the astonishing elec-inquired into by the Kent County tion campaign of George Augustus Jennings, who stood as Liberal coronor, Mr. E. C. Harris, who devices for brightening village life, KC., and Mr. Travers Humphreys question that Siki was outpointed; candidate for North Paddington at commented on the fact that the anesthetic was administered before the general election and
medical examination, ;- sentenced
at the Old Bailey It would be very much boiler," to four years' penal servitude
he said, "that the responsibility for for fraud, were given the London Evening News in an the administration of twilight article from which the following sleep at a maternity home should
the diversion of hunt- be taken by a medical mon than by ing men and country squires, extracts are taken:→
The day Jennings arrived before the head nurse."
but not of ladies of quality and The dead woman the Liberal Association in the
was Mr. gentlemen of the first fashion. The North Paddington division, Oct- Rosina Bourke, thirty-six, of Gd, Crown Coffee House, in Bedford ober 30 last, le possessed, in ad- Carllon-avenue, Gillingham, and it row, long since gone with its fel- dition to the silver tongue, the was in the Farkfield Maternity lows to limbo, was the first place, gold-rimmed eyeglass, and the Home that the trigic affuir occur according to the Hon. Daines Bar- Rolls-Royce (hired and paid for red.
rington, where Whist was played with a "dud" cheque), the.follow-
-Mr. James Bourke, an assistant
on scientific principles, and where ing:
in the Physics Department of Birk-the three cardinal rules were first bock College, husband of the dead-graven on the young player's woman, said that she has entered ths Larkfield Home with his ap proval. He understood that doctor was associated with the one, and flat he looked after all o patients. By the time witnear that his wife was admitted to tie home she was dead.
For banking accouats, dormant
and overdrawn.
Eight cheque books,
Ten county court summonses, Five convictions for fraud. 35. d. in cash.
Against him on that very day judginent had been given in the
memory: "Lead from the strong suit; study your partner's hand attend to the score"-ules which re still the first steps to wisdom in the education of the Compleat Gamester of to-day. But while we
"I have a perfect organisation; Customs, etc., and I understand I have many friends amongst the business very thoroughly. In fact, I do not believe that there is anyone who has a better control.
"On October It last year the steamship "Mishima Maru" was hoarded off Hongkong by Revenue Japanese named officers, and Tiew was arrested. His belongings included four cases of furniture.
"There were two sofas and four armchairs, and they contained be tween them, hidden in the uphol siery, 2,400 ounces of morphine and 2500 ounces of cocaine. In Tiew's possession were found documents through which the authorities
Humphrey."
That is also my opinion. On the other hand, there can be no question that, Siki-forced the fighting. He did not connect, however, with three out of four of his leads, and always ran into a light straight left. It was not alway's a closed glove, it' must be confessed, and McTigue was told about it by Mr. Smith, but still that left hand was always. there.
Then when they got lato clinches Siki almost invariably tucked his left hand away under the Irishman's ara, and as his opponent was the real offender in that respect Me-
clever holding in counter.
county court for his landlady's bill go back from London on the day recall the memory of "Cavendish," | were enabled to lay hands on Ligue was perhaps justified in
NURSE'S STORY.
it would not do to forget the names of the even greater men who begat
Another document found on him. There is the veteran Edmond Tiew was an envelope, on the back Hoyle, the Nyren of the cardroom, of which, in Humphrey's hand who lived to be ninety-seven-such
writing, were 'the following ire the elixir properties of the game and produced his
of £47.
In his address he spoke with deep feeling of the work of the
Emma J. B. Hullal, certified League of Nations-deep feeling because of his own "terrible suffer- midwife and head, nurse at the ings in battle" and of the sights he, Hetre, described it as a private had witnessed. Five times had he venture of which Miss M. A. Crofts,
Short Treaties in 1742, been wounded-he said.
's qualified nurse, was principal. De. when he was in his seventieth year. Of the career of Corpora) Jen- Kass was attached to the bone. His laws ruled the Whist table for nings, some time of the West Mrs. Bourke's cenfinement was im more than a century, till they were Yorkshire Regiment, with service minent half an hour after her ad-superseded in 1860 by the code wholly in Yorkshire and Nolting-rosion, hamshire, he spoke not at all.
At 12.30 witness administered
tion was given.
,away.
..
drawn up by the Arlington and Portland Clubs. Hoyle con- solidated the game. He taught successive generations of players to calculate the chances and first
directions
One sofa, contains 50lb (and then an abbreviation relating to the drugs). quantities of crystals.
Another sofa.contains given
It really seemed as if the traing point of the fight had been reached in the eleventh round, when Siki opened a gash over the Irishnan's eye with a right book, about the best punch the negro delivered in the fight..
That handicap only brought out the real strategy of MeTigue. Only twice more during the next aine quanti-rounds did Siki really land on the
damaged eyʊ,
One chair contains ten ties of cubes.
Another chair contains cry- stals, and
Another chair crystals. Altogether 151lb.
INTERCEPTED LETTERS.
McTigue's defence was really so wonderful that he always seemed to be giving the negro a half- opening somewhere else, and the 1 closing it up when the attack came. It mystified the spectators at the ringside just as much as it did the Senegalese.
With some reluctance Jeanings first injection of "twilight sleep," was urged to tell the association and ten minutes later the patient more of his qualifications, and they was asleep. At 2.45 she became came fast and furious:--
He was a Doctor of Divinity of resilews, and at 3.30 a.further injec-stated cases to show "what might At 8:25 witness be effected by a very good player. Durham University.
in critical parts of the game." He A contract signed by Humphrey He had served in the South noticed the woman's lips go bluck.
African war (he would then She telephoned immediately to instructed his pupils, in fact, by agreed to purchase not less than
Siki could neverunderstand why ¡several doctors, and Dr. Ross arriv.skilful ratiocination to see through 1,000 pounds of drugs during each have been nine years old).
that tantalising left hand was He was a wealthy man with large just as Mrs. Bourke passed the backs of their adversaries year.
cards, and read the pictures and There was another document always in one eye or the other, or interests in Russia.
The Coroner: Is it the practice pips on the other side, and in his relating to a second ship with 2,500 on his lips, and why his opponent, He had been on G.H.Q. staff for
earliest editions he offered for a ounces of cocaine at 185,, equal to having apparently made an open- to give these does on your own a long time.
guinea to disclose the steret. of £2,250; 500 ounces of heroin at ing for his own right, did not take; He was the director of five com-responsibility without the patient his artificial memory, which does 205., equal to £500; 49 pounds of it and join issue in a fight. Fight- panies and chairman of a sixth. first being examined by a doctor?-not take your attention off the cocaine, at 148., equal to £548 16s.; ing however, was not part of Me- He assured them there was no Yes, sir.
game." How cheap such a guiara's total, £3,298,
Tigue's game. need for them to put up any money. You used your own judgment and worth would be for those who are Letters between a Chinese firm, [ He apparently realised early on for election expenses. He would thought it would be all right?—Yes. doomed to play at some of the chat which desired to import drugs into that he had an infinitesimal chance pay them all.
And not being a 1 had no doubt about it. Shetering Bridge-tables of to-day !' England and Humphrey had been of knocking out "the magnificent; wealthy association, the Liberais assured me there was nothing the
intercepted.
specimen of manhood before him, were glad of the opportunity and natter with her. Witness went on
One letter gave the basis of a and so he did pot try, but just to did not actually contribute to the to say that Mrs. Bourke had had
suggested joint shipment which keep his opponent alive to the fact
Roome four children and a miscarriago, but
Mr.
reroarked cost of the election.
was that he also had a big punch in his the husband contradicted her about
equivalent to eighty-seven and a right hand, he slipped it every now the miscarriage.
half million doses of cocaine. and then.
Alderman Sir William Pryke For instance, in the sixth round said he thought it was a very serious he made the negro wince with a At that case, and added that there was no real thump to the body. doubt in his mind that Humphrey point it was far and away the most had been trading, directly, with effective blow landed during the
FLOOD OF CHEQUES.
Everybody in the Liberal Association set to work. Priating was puf in hand on a large scale, sub-committee rooms were hired
|
So much for Hoyle, the only man on earth whom Sarah Battle would have acknowledged to be her master, and the Solun and Solomon combined.
By whose enlightened efforts whist
became A sober, serious, scientific game; To whose unwearied pains, while The great, the important privilege
here below,
That random strokes disgrace our
But
we owe,
play no more, skill presides where all was chance before.
The "Long Whist" of Hoyle's own day was superseded by "Short Whist" to gratify the bustling spirit
|
regard to drugs in a very large and fight, and Siki reeled back to the
wholesale manner.
ropes.
He inflicted the maximum Descamps exclaimed, "Oh, Ta, penalty of £200 and six months' | la!" when McTigue landed a tre- imprisonment in the second divi-mendous punch with the right in sion, and a further three months in the tenth. It was a bit high, as it default of payment of the fine.
might easily have finished the fight, but it left its, mark in the negro's left eye.
In the next round, Siki, apparent- ly tantalised, cut out a rare pace and opened himself up a lot. Mc- Tigue hit him at will with the left and hit him at least once with the right, and was then forced on the orchestra side of the stage.
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WHAT THE DOCTOR FOUND. Dr. Ross said that as a result of a post-mortem (though not paid for), and the found that Mrs. Bourke had been examination he division was soon spread with Jen-suffering from valvular diseno and nings literature.
In the previous August Jennings fatty degeneration of the heart, con- had swindled a clergyman living gestion of the hinges, and bronchitis. The Coroner: Was the patient in in the North out of his life's savings, some £680, but this trifling nest condition to receive a dose of egg had been used up long before twilight-1 would not say the refuge of North Paddington"No" about the disease of the was reached. With only his 3s.heart, and the fatty degeneration 8d. in hand, Jennings began to of the heart is very difficult to detect cast cheques out on the broad in life.
of the age and to make a quicker waters of the electorate and raised Supposing you had found the
game, and the old query, "Partner, perfection of Whist that led to its money on bogus cheques from woman suffering from valvular dis
can you one?" is probably never undoing. To sit down at a Whist every bank he could,
Ready use of the heart, would you have uttored now from one year to table with a player of repute had be- money he obtained by inducing aff allowed her to have the "twilight?" another. Short Whist (five up in- come an ordeal. Shattering were his supporters to cash his cheques. Yes. My experience is that a stead of ten) ruled the green cloth the comments, withering the scorn, Even after his repudiation Jen-patient is tinch less exhausted after throughout the nineteenth century, overwhelming the confusion which nings was always cool and com-ja "twilight" labour, than after an and though other games came crushed the bungling player. McTigue was barked on the posed. At one meeting in the ordinary one. The ninesthetic could in for a season and found their Whist to many was not so much a right eye, and was instantly delug- Paddington Town Hall the captain not account for the death of the eager votaries, the Whist tables game or an accomplishment as aed with blood. How they plugged was talking about the meat cibar-
patient.
never went empty and the game discipline, an ingenious form of the deep hole in the minute's rest. go, when, appropriately enough, a
"NOT ALTOGETHER DESIRABLE." was played more and finished, in-torture, salutary for the soul I do not know, but there was little local butcher, who held three re-
Summing up, the conner said capable, it was said of further per maybe, but with little real fun blood from that cy for the remain- turned cheques, exchanged for: cash, mounted the platform and did not appear to be the practice fection. The greatest name in the therein for the ordinary mortal, der of the bout, and so up to the history of the short game is James less he played with kindred seventeenth round McTigue re- read out the cheques which he in all cases for tic duct to Clay, friend and fellow traveller irreverent spirits. Whist bas be-mained elusive, dancing or duck-
patients before they were given held in his hand.
"Candidate!" said the butcher, one of twilight." It was a point of Disraeli in his early days, to come such a tyranny that there ing out of the way of blows or whose memory "Cavendish" de- were many fully ripe for revolt at taking them with his elbowsor back. "You aro no candidate-you are a which struck in, na s layman, as thief and a scoundrel!" waving the one not altogether desirable. The dicated the tenth elition of his the end of last century, when Solo In the seventeenth MeTigue "Laws and Principles of Whist." Whist came in and broke down its started to fight with both hands cheques in the air. "The town hall facts would be reported to the Mid-Clay represented Brighton in the outer defences; and still more himself and so, with Siki trying is not the place for you, but the wives' Board, and if they hid any House of Commons for many when Bridge arrived and stormed desperately, the end came, and dock, sir."
observations to make they would be years, but his real eminence was its innost citadel. Where Bridge points on a game of skill un Jennings, with perfect sang-made to the proper quarter.
in the card-roont, and he enjoyed came from let others decidedoubtedly went to the cleverer man- froid, looked at his interrupter,and: A verdict of death from natural unchallenged the most enviable if they can; the Portland Club and Siki lost not only his world's said in icy tones: You shall have causes, was returned).
distinction of being the drew up its first code of laws in light-heavy-weight title, but also a writ in due course, sir," and
Ainist Whist player in the 1895, soon to become obsolescent his European heavy-weight chain- proceeded with his speech.
land. "To govern men," Dis before the irresistible advance of pionship.N
you must Auction Bridge, the brisker, live-He did not like the verdict. He raoli once wrote, either excel them in their acier, more exacting game, which at said: "I protest. I won the fight. complishments or despise them the moment shows no sign of I won at least seventeen of the Clay does the one, I do the other and losing its extraordinary popularity twenty rounds we are both equally popular." Then as the occupation of the idle and It was perhaps the natural feeling "Cavendish took over the torch, the relaxation of the busy-of both of the man who had tried to win and, besides being the great code sexes and of all ages. The Whist by fighting, but while the mics of fier of the laws of Whist, he was players of the old days may "know the National Sporting Club cover the first in his exhaustive treatise to the change and feel it, but if they championship contests this side of give a selection of illustrated hands need comfort they may find it in the Atlantic, Mike McTigue was a the red suits, printed in red ink Auction Bridge are themselves in thought the bulk of the crowd AGENTS: Wakefield & Co., 60, Kiengue Road, Shanghai, played. completely through, with the thought that börn Bridge and good and clever winner, and so Perhaps it was the very acme and the true succession of Waist,
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