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£50,000 TO A MUSEUM,

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THE CHINA MAIL,

DEAD WIFE'S LOVER.

ORDERED TO PAY WIDOWER £1,000 DAMAGES.

DIVORCE SECRECY.

A claim for damages by Mr. James Edward Crabtree, a blanket manufacturer,

of Weatcliff,

The Head of Mustard." While Mr. Andersen commenc- ed work in Mustard & Co., Mr. OF Duke opened negotiations with the famous Bristol firm of Willa, and these ultimately led to the formation of the British-Ameri- can Tobacco Co., with its subse- quent numerous subsidiaries.

It On Sunday (15th inst.) there is understood that the firm uc passed away one of the most required Mustard & Co., who from markable residents of Shanghai being their agents in China, be in the person of Mr. Claus Laurits came A branch organisation. Oxford-road, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, Andersen, a Dane who had attain. This, however, did not take place against Mr. Percy William Mar. ed the age of 78. In the history for some time, and within a very shall, a bookmaker, on the ground of the Settlement it will perhaps short period of Mr. Andersen's of adultery with Mrs. Nellie Crab- be impossible to find a carcer of joining the firm, Mr. Mustard, tree, now dead, was heard before such intense interest as his and and his partner, Mr. C. C. Bennett, Lord Merrivale and a special jary there is the fact that details are died. This left Mr. Andersen not in the Divorce Court recently. Mrs. well authenticated by contempor. only head of Mustard & Co., but Crabtree died last year after her!

husband started a divorce suit.

Mr. Marshall dented the alleged adultery.

aries. The amazing point about of the tobacco interests which his career is that he acquired were then rapidly developing, enormous wealth, and that it was and shares in the new companies actually thrust upon him, were acquired by him at prices while he was 90 poor when which would make investors in he went to Shanghai that these concerns weep to-day. many a time and oft he is believed to have slept on the Bund. Yet he was able to make the princely gift of £50,000 only a year or two ago to the national museum of his country.

His

In the U.S. Navy.

The husband donled allegations of cruelty and adultery made by hla wife in a petition after she left him in November 1926.

His old acquaintances state that often at that time Mr. Andersen did not have the money to take Mr. Crabtree gave evidence. He up these shares, but he went on called as his witnesses to support the principle that he had follow his allegations Mrs. Beatrice} ed all through his life that he Strickland,, of Buckingham-road, would work until he had the neces- Ryde, Isle of Wight, who was in the A Marine Engineer's Career. sary cash. He had been utterly service of Mr. Marshall at a bun- But for the fact that friends of reckless in money matters during galow, Talybout, Gurnard, Isle of the late Mr. Andersen are still his hard-up days; he would lose Wight, between November 1926 alive and remember his early $100 at poker in a night and then and March 1927; days well, it would be almost im- would work desperately hard until Dibbens, a dairyman, of Monkton- Mr. Harold possible to credit the career of this sum was paid off, and so it street, Ryde; Mr. Frederick John the deceased as now related. Born was with his newly acquired Bartram, Well-street, Ryde, an em- in Denmark, he decided to be shares. What a magnificent in ployee of Mr. Dibbens; Mr. Lionel come a marine engineer and was yestment these were is well- trained in Scotland-in the known, and it is extremely inter-Cleveley, a London hotel porter; famous yard of Messrs. Denny, it esting to note that when the tide and Mrs. Beatrice Marshall, of Rose. is believed. He made his first of his fortune had turned he Bank. Gurnard, Isle of Wight, wife voyage to the East in a very small showed himself a careful man in of Mr. Percy William Marshall. steamer, which he left at Singa- regard to money matters as well Mr. Willoughby Jardine, K.C. pore. Then he drifted to China, as being an extremely shrewd (for Mr. Marshall), did not call his

client or any witnesses. and probably only a man of such business man. a hardy constitution as he had

The Wife's Petition. could have. stood what It is understood that the de-

Lord Merrivale, in summing up, he went through.

ceased kept a diary which is now first night's lodging is in the hands of his executors, and pointed out that irrespective of any said to have been in the Bund gar- if it covers his early days in suit for divorce, a man who alleged. dens, or whatever the foreshore Shanghai It should prove of the that another man had

committed was like about 1870 when he land- rarest interest. He had done so adultery with his wife might, in a ed there, and it was not by any many things, had so. many jobs petition for divorce or damages means one night that he spent in and been so often out of a job, only, claim damages from thatĮ this manner. It was said that that it could not fail to be won-person on the ground of the alleg there were days when he went derful reading. For instance it is ed adultery.

There was this to be said about without food, and that the jobs he known that he was at one time în

the the husband, that when his wife got were few and far between, the American Navy when Once he was lucky and was able to U.S. Asiatic Fleet went to Korea, left him she made no claim upon make a trip to the Philippines as having the position of an engin-him, and her first communication engineer aboard a steamer, but eer, and his experience on this was in respect of a petition she apparently his sources of income and other occasions must have filed against him for divorce at this stage were of the most been of an exceptional nature, grounds which he said were precarious nature. Ultimately he But his whole life was exception- founded. He said that his wife went to the north, and either al, and it was somewhat more was jealous and suspicious about built or was manager for what than surprising to the Danish Na- was then known as Li Hung- tional Museum a year or two ago chan's naval dockyard at Taku. to receive the munificent gift of This kept him going for some £50,000 from him. time, but when he went back to Shanghai, and his arrival there coincided with the growth of the great tobacco industry in China. Cigarette Making in Nanking-rd.

A LOST FORTUNE.

CHESS CHAMPION'S

TROUBLES.

It is understood that the only relative of the deceased was a nephew who was at one time in Shanghai, Mr. Andersen had not been in good health for some time, Mr. Mustard-the head of although one of his old friends Mustard & Co. was agent for the had seen him as late as Saturday American Tobacco Co., and con-

afternoon. sidered that he did a good busi- ness if he sold 1,000 cases of cigarettes a month. Then another American arrived and offered to sell a cigarette-making machine to Mr. Mustard, and it was agreed to take up this new business. Appearing on remand at Bow- Among those who paid for the street Police-court, Aaron Sayers, machine are probably two men 53, described as of no fixed abode, still in Shanghai. It was oper-pleaded guilty to fraudulently in- ated in a building next to Messrs.curring credit at one of Messrs. Lane, Crawford & Co.'s establish- J. Lyons and Co.'s depots. ment in Nanking-road, and is still At a previous hearing it had in existence. Mr. Andersen was been stated that the prisoner put on as engineer of this plant, was in the habit of playing chess and it had a curious utility. The all day at different shops belong- people who were running it knew ing to the prosecutor's. He would nothing about the curing of be served with three or four tobacco or the flavouring of it, meals, and upon leaving, it was and while they could turn out alleged, he paid either one bill for. thousands of cigarettes a day by a small amount or nothing at all. this machine they had no idea as Mr. Laurence Vine, defending

to how to keep them in condition, counsel, said Sayers, a Russian by If they were sold on the day they birth, had been a naturalised were made, well and good, but British subject for twenty-five within a week they were mouldy, years, and until a few months ago and it was not a profitable under- he lived in Ireland, where he was taking. At this time a represen- known as a champion chess play- Co., believed to be Mr. Duke, owned property to the value of tative of the American Tobacco er, and where, at one time, he found himself in Shanghai. He £20,000. During the Sinn Fein complained to Messrs. Mustard troubles he lost all he possessed, that by manufacturing them and since coming to London he his company. selves they were competing with had been practically destitute. The matter was, He was well connected, and some Tobacco Co., taking over the ma. Iports of the case, were prepared then adjusted by the American of his relatives, who had seen re- chine, but the question imme- to help him. diately came up as to what was to Det-sergeant Ambrose men- done with Mr. Andersen. tioned that after his arrest Sayers Ultimately, it was agreed that he said he would rather take his should be given a position in the punishment than let his people firm of Mustard & Co., and this know he was in trouble. proved to be the event which led to his fortune.

be

оп

un-

a visit he paid to Blackpool. For

again

a long time afterwards it was for- gotten, but it cropped up during the time when he said she was associating with Marshall, and he said he had complained of her excessive intimacy with a York- shireman whom they both knew.

It was said that the stigma of the charge made against Mr. Crab- tree would rest upon him unless he was exonorated. It was quite true that proceedings in divorce were private till they came to trial, and there was a great deal of secrecy even about what took place upor trial.

Things got out and this woman died with a petition on the file of the court, alleging that her hus band treated her cruelly and com- mitted adultery. He said it was quite untrue.

non-appearance in the witness-box, With regard to Mr. Marshall's Lord Merrivale enid:

It would have been to his and her credit if he had gone into the witness box and said there had been no adultery between them. It would, at any rate, have tend-. ed to absolve her memory from guilt if he had gone into the wit- ness box to deny the charge. The jury found there had been adultery, and nasessed damages at £1,000.

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