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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)

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WOMAN'S THREATS

THE CHINA

"I WILL BREAK YOU SOCIALLY AND POLITICALLY”

"WRONG MAN" PLEA

Bertha St. Clair Mason, aged 48, Winchendon-road, accountant, of

Fulham, S.W., pleaded not guilty at the Old Bailey to uttering a letter demanding money with menaces from Mr. Philip Snowden, M.P., Chancellor of the Exchequer in the last Socialist Government.

Mr. Roome, prosecuting said that the offence was known in popu- lar language as blackmall. In some cases there was some founds- tion for a blackmailing claim, but there was no vestige of foundation for the charges Mason had made against Mr. Snowden.

"She admitted that she has made a complete mistake in the identity of Mr. Snowden and that she has written these blackmailing letters to him thinking he was whom she accused of having seduced her twenty years ago,”.

a man

In her first letter to Mr. Snowden she wrote:

You will remember our brief acquaintance of many years ago and that I have never encroached upon the fact.

MAIL,

If you don't write or come to see me about the business part of my letters I shall duly ac- Snowden with the quaint Mrs. full facts of the case and ask her help, and moreover, if you now goad me too far, I shall see that: all the principal members of tho House. namely, the Prime Minister, the Speaker, the Chan- cellor, the Home Secretary and Lady Astor-for a very special reason shall be informed why. I' don't consider you are a fit mem- ber to hold office under his Majesty's Government.

However long it takes I will! break you polistetily and socially. In а subsequent letter dated February 17, Mason wrote:

I cannot starve and see my children starve without a fight, and you might be able to raise a subscription for me among your} friends once you grasp and! glimpse the tragedy.

Home Secretary Told Mr. Roome said that Mr. Snow-1 den showed the letter to the Home Secretary, and it was sent to Scot, land Yard.

Detective Inspector Askew visited Mason, and she then said that there was no mistake, as there was only vne Showder in the Ilouse and only

DON'T WASTE

WATER!

Health permitting, you have still to realise the full kudos of your pubile career. I fancy tay brilliant lady friend would prove quite an asset to you could you have the handling of her great unemployment scheme before it reaches the Prime Minister— ¦ one lame Snowden. great triumph for Labour.

Request for £100

Mr. Snowden fnored the letter, and Mrs. Mason then wrote:

Dear Phil--How very gallant you are at keeping your promises out of the past. I fancy if you will ask your lawyer to drop me a line, he will be willing to arrange a £100 loan for me, which I need for a business partnership. You for the can have 15

per cent. accommodation.

"Mr. Snowden

is in fact lame, and has lo use crutches, and it would appear cleac that he was the person she intended to write to," said Mr. Rooms.

Mr. Snowden's Denial Mr. Snowden, giving evidence, said he had not seen Mason before, her appearance at the police court. Her first letter was an innocuous one, and as he was away at the time his wife answered it.

When he

lotter got the

of February 9 he thought things were getting rather warm, so he took it to the Home Secretary.

Mason, who did not give evidence. case of mistaker identity. She could only offer to Mr. Snowden her sincere apologies.

Mr. Justice Hawke, summing up referred to the effect such letters

have on might

prominent politician happily married. "I am sure," he said, "Mr. Snowden Is happily married, because we have heard that Mrs. Snowden opens his letters freely." (Laughter.)

The next letter read:

Are you afraid that you have struck an enemy out of the past? If so, you are greatly mistaken..said It is really to your advantage to come and see me, since I have a very shrewd idea that your brain is capable of evolving big things in a certain direction that would place thousands of pounds to your credit by some alight colla- boration on my part, instead of hundreds all told your journalis- tic pen now brings you in. Threat to Tell Mrs. Snowden

I am too essentially a good business wontan to countenace anything that savours of black- mail, so there is no ocasion for any undue anxiety on your part. The letter which was the subject of the charge stated:

Your attitude of silence in re- gard to my letters is neither clever nor becoming, but merely convinces me you have a cowardly conscience.

it was a

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Mason was found Guilty.

Another Comaint Inspector Askew said Mason was also known by the name of Mat thew. She had been in a business at. Torquay which failed, and she had also posed as the owner of property

Mr. Justice Hawke, in sentencing“ Mason to 18 months' imprisonment in the second division, said:

No one knows whether anyone. masqueraded as Mr. Snowden, ori whether it was a pure invention If on your part to get money. I were satisfied that the latter was the truth, I should deal with you a great deal more severely.

I accept the plea that at some time somebody took the oppor- tunity of getting on terms. of intimacy with you by pretending, contrary to the truth, that he was a person then aproaching political eminence. It is a happy thing! that Mr. Suowden had the courage and public spirit to come forward as he has done and hand these documents to the Home Secretary. It is not everybody who would have that courage, but he is a man who had no fear of scandal.

SHERIDAN'S HOME

BOUGHT BY ONE OF HIS DESCENDANTS

No. 14, Savile-row, W., the last of Richard Brinsley home Sheridan. has just passed into the hands of one of his descendants,

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The house has been bought by: a daughter of Lord Grantley, the Hon. Katherine Norton, a great- great-granddaughter of the drama- tist. She is to carry on business there. The agents who negotiat- ed the sale are Messrs. Phillips, Phillips, and Co. (Oxford-street).

A memorial table marks Savile-row, where Sheridan died in 1816, £5,000 in debt. The house, a fine old property of 17th century architecture, retains many features of the period. including much beautiful panelling and staircase dome.

which is lighted by a

There still exists the spy-hole through which Sheridan used to watch his creditors who came hop- ing to collect the money owing to them.

Almost up to his last nours his debts troubled him, and he had a narrow escape from be- ing carried off in his blankets to He a sponging house near by. was only saved by his doctor's statement to the bailiffs that theirs would be the responsibility if Sheridan died on the way.

The "North China Star". says that one of the outstanding social fanctions of the season was held in Country Club when Englishmen of Tientain celebrated St. George's day (April 23) by entertaining their friends in the annual St. George's Ball, Nenrly 500 guests attended the ball, and were received by a com mittee which included the President and Vice-President of the society. The entrance to the club was de- corated with lanterns, and above of St. was bril-

Cross

in London. She was the door was the

The ball-room without a penny at the time of George. her arrest. There was one other liantly illuminated by two large complaint respecting the writing of chandeliers, while the supper room a letter, but that was not proceeded was neatly arranged. Among with.

those invited was the ex-Emperor,

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