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OCCULT GAME,

Mrs. Wingfald went for

DEFENCE IN SETTLEMENT INCIDENT.

HUSBAND SUED..

advice

about the wording of the docu-

SERIOUS AFFAIR.

PLANTER. :

ment, was asked by Mr. Justice|| CHARGE AGAINST AN F.M.S. Swift: "Do you think that the document was typewritten round the signature?"

"I see nothing on the document A case in which the defendant which would cause me to suspect was described as the "amorous that the signature was put there husband of the French farce to fret and the document engrossed perfection" come before Mr. afterwards," replied Mr. Hunter. Justice Swift and a special jury Do you think it is possible that

Bettlement.

client

A SERVANT'S DEATH.

Kuala Lumpur, July 26. Sorious allegations were made against a plantor at an inquest hold on a Chinese tukan ayer at Telok Anton on Monday, and as a con-

in the King's Bench, Mrs. Ella it was done that way?--The signa-sequence he is to be prosecuted on Wingfield suing Mr. Edwin Porcy ture to all intents and purposes, a charge of causing death by a Harvey, of Culmore Croft, Witley, has been put there after the docu- rash act, Surrey, in respect of an alleged ment was engrossed.

The deceased was employed at Mr. Harvey, in evidence, said a bungalow on Jenderatah Estate, Sergeant Sullivan, K.C., for the he was married 21 years ago. Telok Anson, and at the inquest it plaintiff, said his

waa When he

was living with Mrs. was alleged "by a house boy em- married but quarrelled with her Wingfield in the South of France, ployed by Mr. Christensen, assist- husband, and later took to a dis- after having provided her with a ant manager of the estate, that on honourable mode of life. The de- villa and £6,000 in War Bonds, be May 31 Mr. Christansen came home fendant became acquainted with wrote to his wife asking her to after midnight and called out to the her, and after she had served a divorce him and telling her that servants, both of whom were aleep- term of imprisonment following a he was living with another woman, ing in the kitchen. He stated raid on.

Afterwards he that Mr. Christansen hit the de- her house, she became but dha rofused. his mistress. He bought for her wont home to his wife on the sug- ceased one blow, and that deceased a villa in the South of France, gestion of Mrs. Wingfield.

was subsequently taken ill and died. On September 5, 1923, being prab- ably advised that settlements are her bankers unwise, he paid to £0,000 to provide an independent source of money for her.

.

Mr. Justice Swift: Didn't you want to go?-I could not make up my mind whether to go or not.

Medical evidence, showed that

death was due to a ruptured spleen. The magistrate framed the OCCULTISM AND WHISKY.

charge stated above against Mr. Describing the incident when Christaneen, and the

case will Afterwards the defendant

he said that he signed. the blank re-

come up next week.-"Straits turned to his wife, but found that piece of paper, which he alleged Times." his distaste for her, had in no way was afterwards used for the docu- he to go ment, Mr. Harvey said that mitigated, and he wanted back to his mistress.. The asso-had been to the dentist's, and ciation between. Mr. Harvey and afterwards went to Mrs. Wingfield'a Mrs. Wingfield was resumed in house.

"She brought out some cards, a London, but it became clear that

and a bottle

it would have to come to an end. book en occultism, He was dreadfully afraid of scan- of whisky. She talked a lot about

gave me dal, and he wanted to prepare him- occultism, and

a good self and her for the inevitable deal of whisky, She said that by |porting."

doing certain things she could First he spoke about settling bring things to pass. I did not £650 a year on her by his will, but belleve a word of it. It was non- It was decided that she should sense. have £600 during his lifetime. A "She then produced some sheets document to this effect was sign- of paper and said. 'If you think el, and on the same day he gave her a cheque for £150 as the first quarterly instalment,

DOG PILLS.

TAKEN INSTEAD OF QUININE.

Simla, July 12. Pritam Singh, son of Lieuten- ant Lakha Singh, who was due to sail for England to join the Sand- hurst Military College, died in tragic circumstances while stay- ing as the guest of his cousin, an income tax officer, at Hoshiarpur. He and other members of the of everything you want to happen, family suffered from malaria and and I think of everything I want ordered quinine pills from the to happen, we will sign these District Medical Officer. papers, and I will put them under my plitow and they

will come true."

FORGERY ALLEGATION.. "The defendant saya that the document is a forgery," said Ser- geant Sullivan, in conclusion. Mr. Justice Swift: Under a pil- low. Not under a typewriter? (Laughter.)

Immediately after taking the pills all showed effects of poison- ing, and it was discovered that they had taken dog pills instead of quinine.

Pritam Singh succumbed. The others are improving..

"I thought it was foolish" add- ed Mr. Harvey, "but I thought I

Mr. He now would humour her, so I aigned my blank plece of paper and she sign-

"His story is that at some time and date unknown she asked him to play a game conslating of his writing his name on a blank sheet of paper to amuse her. says that the document was forg ed round that signature on the blank piece of paper."

Evidence was given by Mrs. Wingfield, who, describing how Mr. Harvey came to draw up the aettlement bond, said: "Mr. Harvey could never get his wife to divorce him and would never have the pluck to live with me openly, and so he made this settle- ment." The settlement was made for the term of her natural life," but after a time he ceased to pay her.

Cross-examining, Mr. Ronald Oliver, K.C., asked: Was the £600 a year settlement a provision for a mistress whom he was abandon. ing? It. was a provision for me when he should leave me.

Mr. Arthur Hunter, a solicitor, of Lincoln's Inn Fields, to whom

ed hers."

Amery, Secretary for the

Colonies (Birmingham, Spark- brook), replying to a question by Mr. Robinson (Elland, Lab.), said: The total estimated expense charge- able to Imperial Funds in respect of the Under-Secretary's recent tour in the Far East is £846, exclusive of the expenses (estimated at £387) of a member of the staff of the Empire Marketing Board who ac- companied • Mr. Ormsby-Gore. Apart from this latter sum, which will be defrayed from the Empire Marketing Fund, the total cost of Mr. Ormsby-Gore's visit chargeable to Imperial Funds will be borne on

Vote. of the the Colonial Office

No foreign country other than Java, which the Under-Secretary visited in the interests of agricultural re- search and development in Ceylon and British Malaya, was included in his Itinerary,

Rear-Admiral William Frederick Blunt, whose death is reported, was in China during the Boxer Rebelllon in command of H.M.S. "Eek," and received the China Medal. On the outbreak of the Great War he took the "Fearless" into action at the Eattle of the Heligoland Bight. In the same ship he also took part in the Christmas Day raid on Cux- haven in 1914. In command of the old battleship "Jupiter" he saw much service at Aden and in the Suez Canal. In command cruiser "Gloucester" in the Grand Fleet, he was present at the battle of Jutland. Later he commanded the cruisera "Achilles" and "Berwick," employed chiefly on the Atlantic Convoy Service.

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