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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1925,7

CRIME QUEEN.

MARRIAGE OFFER IN THE DOCK.

DIAMOND BARH,"

as his bride!

GROSS LIBEL.

GLADSTONE'S HONOUR "ASSAILED.

A TUPOWER OF MUD.'

GIFTED NOVELIST,

SAU SECRET OF AN.

ASYLUM.S

CLEVER FICTION.

The secret of the author's identity is not revealed, and the reader will think that she is a highly talented young woman interested in many aspects of life and with more than touch of genius. Instead, she lives in an asylum. hopelessly insano, and a few minutes after writing clever articles she will turn her activities to scribbling libellous

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POSED AS RICH.

EX-STRIKE BREAKER

SENTENCED.

FRAUDS ON HOTELS.

Blated by the police to have bee sugse planter, a bootlegger, and a strike breaker, Bernard Addington Rivett, 22, whose address was given as the New Ship Hotel, Brighton, was sentenced at Marlborough Street Police Court to nine months hard labour for having obtained sama of 690 and £15 by falso pro- tancos,

A detective-inspector said that Rivett gave his barber in Dover Street, W., a cheque in exchange for cash for $20, which was die- honoured by the bank

A woman patient, la London An ugly disease is exemplified in A woman who has fasemated and ensaared "scores of men, who has revent attempt of a scurrilous antic asylum has written a number minor writer to danh the name of of brilliant short stories which are defied the efforts of judges, nungis Chadston with the most fantastical. Shortly to be published. Reading

the them, one is struck by their clever tratee, and social reformers to rely far-fetched diet, sys

Manchester Guardian." Everyone ness and human appeal. They are claim ber from a life of crime, is now

who knew adaton, at all new hot stories of morbid emotion on Languishing in a coll in Holloway that morally he was a man of quite horror, but clown, clever fiction of Gaol waiting for her lover to take her back to her unfite South Africa sero self-control, and also that high titemry quality.

no treated the women of his .W family, as well na others, with the This some is Chon Whiteleyicine deferener common in men who, at London Sessions, was volt of that character. No doubt the vietest of robbing a dealer of a wallet or charmcteristic was referred to, containing £108. The judge, Sir very brilliantly, hi the saying, Robert Willage, who has given the laserihod to Tera Me by the woman more than one clinice to recurrilous person, that Gladstone form, shook his head despairingly.

was governed by his wuglie," if and remarked to the jury, “I do not indeed the saying was ever uttered know what to do with this women at all. If it was. Lord Milner of letters to famens people whom she

she comes here again and again," A man who had listened to the use, used the word seraglio inloes not even know.

HER WILD LETTERS.” revelations of he astounding pants primary sense of the women's

At Southampton he had described thereupon walked into the witnessters of a house and meant that

Gladstone was guided too much by "I get the wildest letters imagin-himself a Bir. Claude Bernard box and calmly declared his love for the advice of his wife and daughters.able from her " the secretary of the Addington Rivett, posing as a man To a certain order of mind, however, Mental After Care Association told of great wealth. In Devon he had representative of the "Bunday represented himself to be a Secret Express." "It is hopeless to try Service officer, borrowing £28 on to do anything for her. When she the strength of that misrepresenta

her.

women

selected ng her companions women who make rich men their nightly

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At this bank the value of cheques drawn by Rivett and dishonoured was £356; and on a bank near! Hinckley, Leicestershire, where he opened an account with £10, dis honoured cheques were drawn by him for Bax1.

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I will marry her and take her phrase might seem everti back with me to South Africa," he ble into an imputation of loon said, and Biz Robert Wallace post behaviour. Gladstone and Milner poned sentence in order to find out

theing now dead and unable to is writing fiction she seems absolute- tion, and obtaining a further £50 by whether this would be a way of frestit the slander on them both, the ly sane, but the moment she turns the promise of a Secret Bervice ridding London of one of its worst sorriso seems to have read, or other things she becomes mad."appointment.

Such cases of lunatics who are affected in read, this innuendo into

He had lived at first-class hotels, Clara Whiteley, known in the underworld us the "Gipsy" and the alleged words and then to have geniuses in one direction are by no the inspector added, arid had obtain- | the Tirl with thus Diapnd Eyes the disgusting insinuation means uncommon. During a strike ed credit by fraud, amounting to "in a Jewess. Fler futh is reputedly inserted in a proof with-of officials at Donegal Mental £182 at Brown's Hotel, Dover out the kitowledge of the publishers Hospital recently the inmates ran to be a millionaire in Capetown, and has mute repeated efforts to spice to make a ball book more the institution, and one, su

saleable. There seems to be no gineer, proved himself an absolute induce the girl to return home, but legal punishment, criminal or civ. genius and sured the committee Clara has turned a denf ear to all his this art of base lerity. The more than £1.000 by his capability. entreaties. The underworld, where dead, it appears, cannot be libulled, In one of the largest of the she was nechime queen, hypnotino. her; she preferred a life of vice and legal sense, and if the offen- London asylums there is at present crime in London to one of ease and is content to sit down ander homicida maniac who, in his the censures of decent people, ex- periods of sanity, ie an extremely luxury in her native land, and presend in the terms most libellous ever artist. Many of his designs it law, his exposure cannot he made for Christmas and birthday cards exemplary. Even if could, we have been reproduced, and all his tear it might, in HORTY cases, work has a singular skit and beauty. welcomed as an advertisement. It

Yet another patient is an extreme Tla woman's downfall is pribed was said of a notorium London ty clever musing who not only to un alappy marriage. Her wed-journalist that if you caned him lays but composes, and there are ding Capetown was one of the Charing Cross he would only many expert craftsmen who do mimitiant xxial events of the make spicy copy of in his next wonderful cabinet work and carving season and was attended by many isst, and the offender in this case celebrities. What happened there begins his reply to the protest of afterwards is known only to the girl | Gladstone's outraged sons with a herself. She arrived in England inert chuckle over the likelihood that 1916, a beautiful dark-haired woman will increase his profits. The fact with flashing eyes, and was quickly is that a person who has no heart to caught in the whirlpool of riotous be touched, nor honour to defend. living which swept nerose London nor sense of shume to be roused, during the war. She was much and who cunningly keeps just on split after by officers on leave the windy side of the law, is extra from the front, and almost every ordinarily free from any way of re- night the "Girl with the Diamond straint, and can probably make a Eye was to be seen dining and better thing is lowest sense dancing at restaurants and night clubs.

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Her first conviction was at Marlborough Streat in 1917, when abe was sentenced to three months' hard labour. She has made many appearances in the dock since ther and has erved terms of nine month and tfteen months, and he also been twin sentenced for soliciting She was als hound over on several Occasion,

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*ALL GENIUSES. MAD." “Genius is so akin to madness that it only needs one fmetion over the border line of sanity to make a Berips into a lunatic." said a mental specialist. I would, in fact, de- clare without reservation that all geniuses are mad, and the reverse is often equally true. Mathermtion! lunatics, for instance, are extremely common, and I have known many of turpitude committed in public insane people who were mathe than he could make of honoursblematicians of genins and could work out the most abstruse calculations labour,

without effort. One I knew could add up sums of thirty or more items after * second's glance, and he never made a mistake.'

GALLANT BURGLAR

CURIOUS COMPLIMENT TO

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ACTRESS,

Mme. Fuga e Duffos, of the Comédie Frimize, hes just had n She ought off her biggest conical compliment paid to her by in a sously-furnished flat hurglar Me Dulos and her Great Portland Street. Rege

проварив also one of the Park, to ich he feed a Taling, flihts of the National Garder diamond merchant. This haire, luy at Vanoise near the ma leo me worth £1,000 in 15-i Berry of Villara Cotterets, a beau

and the "Girl with titty-furnished villa, which they Diamo Pres" obtained them |

Ter report. On re locked de diaton? merchant in the, turning to this villa the other day, baslino addi ar ared S 1 along absence, M. Dulles

portal my winter charg

And a large port shortly afterwards, when she wema tean filled with most valuable identif }1! Ju*thn Gard n merele domaine? in potret from his art collection lying To pa prance. He soon The ato thaw pala mas ni festa discovered that the villa had been regard trompetie to be trus

ur lars, who had Thin of that "tha evidently made a careful selection of #valibles and racked them in the fro tant a 1or removal. Why E6 + 3n ng their work so thoroughly they had abandoned their booty of

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CAZUT AGAIN.

A few days ago a certain may| got a job at a colliery siding run- There was only a sleeper" at the ning wagons down an incline. bottom to stop the wagons, ro the boas told him to be careful and keen the brake on.

All went well for the first two

days, but on the third something went wrong. About four wagons went down at a terrific speel and jumped over the sleeper into the canal below.

The boss saw all that happened from his office window, and came rushing out with wrathful face.

The man forestalled the re- marks of the enraged employer:

""Tha' doesn't need to còma- grumbling at me," he announced. "Aa've left !"

the top was a mystery which was only dren when M. Duflo« »D

xamined the drawing room.

The found a letter addressed ito ima: Dufos, a missive written in

The hit et ori gds in this amazing (i ad pe el on the notepaper of the woman's wine me heren in Coventry house. In this the burglar said that Street. Conster Samare, where shia he and an sccomplice touring the metr ale meyhant and to a strat ma motor-ear had been Clar jumped into attracted to this villa on account of company their aber, and droze with the its loneliness and its rich appear- to Buce" Songre. She got on ano. They had th refore decided

The merchanto rob 1. and had actually packed it thearé né, "nཏྭཱ ཏྭཱ ཀཀ subscau Discovered that himos valmble cont nts ready for re- wallet en staining 105, had gone.moval when the writer saw from Herod, maman, who wachotographs in the drawing room Launā – kokulu a cul-de-sac must that he had plundered the residence ande.

of Mme. Dries. Fe wrote: "01.

with Della Sordigini “Fatton, of Anding myself confronted Gray "ud Police Stationphotographs of the woman whom I who was in chrge of the ease, said have mo i admired, both on the stage thom she had come out and on the cinema screen, I w of pri tal linan kalling elatl's stricken with sincere romorza, in the winter and ice-cream in the sincerely ask your pardo Madamo. and am leaving wenlod all the valu- Chiy daughter of a resule-objects which I so much pated Roti Mr'nan millionaire, the cor ted. My eccomplice, who beaut edes tumpan; who he cannot understand my scruples. farcitech mit het Phon "whore | and | will be paid by

sypelle for olling ice-cream in the streets!

his trouble. He says

theloto, think you very not a permit, mə. Matame to Carry, off

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