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EXORCISM STILL PRACTISED.
DUCHESS OF LEINSTER.
EXPELLING THE EVIL EYE IN REMANDED IN CUSTODY FOR A
· RURAL ENGLAND.
CLOVES OF GARLICA
The ancient exorcist rites of the gypsies are still practised on the commons and in the villages of Britain. The ritual is obscure in its origin, but the alm is always to exorcise the evil eye.
MEDICAL REPORT.
CHEF'S ADMISSION,
The Duchess of Leinster, former y Miss May Etheridge, the actress, who is 38, was convicted at Lam- beth Police Court of attempting to commit suicide. She was remand ed in custody for a report from the
prison doctur.
Stanley Williams, a chef, was re- called for cross-examination. He said he had been living with the duchess for about six months.
The duchess was found uncon- The procedure generally used Inscious near a gas stove in a flat Britain was described to a repre- in Benedict-road. Briston, S.W., on
April 1, sentative of the "Morning Post" by Mr. Alexander Keiller, a mom ber of the Gypay-Lore Society:
Water is gathered from a stream and is boiled in an open pot in the the afflicted person. The gypsy adds to It seven hot coals, seven handfuls of meal, and seven cloves of garlic, at the same time muttering. an Incantation..' which is supposed to exorcise the you have been with her? No. offending spirit.
presence of
"Evil eyes now look on thee. May they soon extinguish thee."
More elaborate cures," how ever, are sometimes made the oc casion of heavy charges, and some of them, Mr. Keiller stated, have been described by Mr. Engelbert Wittich in the Journal of the Gypsy-Lore Society.
Indian Holy Tree. One method is to give the patient
Mr. H. C. Dickens (instructed by Mr. W. Marshall), defending: She was fond of you, wasn't she?-So she said,
She is still fand of you, isn't she? I don't know.
You call yourself a chef?-You. Have you done any work since
Living on her money all the time? That la right.
Williams said the trouble start- ed about 11 pm., when he smashed the wireless set. Three hours later he found the duchess on the floor with the gas turned on.
Mr. Dickens
Were you
not frightened when the woman you were living with was trying to gas herself?-Not at all. That is her own outlook, not mine.
ti
Williams said he waited an hour Be- before going for the police.
THE CHINA
CHINESE DEFAULTER
Sentenced to Prison for One Year.
Ipoh, May 1.
Yee Hood Peng, a clerk employed by the Ipoh Club, who was arrested five years ago on a charge of crim- inal breach of trust in respect of to the Club, and 8592 belonging absconded, was re-arrested on April 16 and tried in the magistrate's court yesterday.
He was sentenced to one year's rigorous imprisonment. On account of his absconding, his bail bond of $1,000 was estreated.
Accused is at preset" wanted at Malacca where a charge of criminal breach of trust of a large sum belonging to a firm of rubber deal- ors is pending.
The accused had revisited Ipoh for the purpose of seeing his wife,
WİLL HE FIND IT?
To Look for Alexander the Great's Tomb.
London. April 19.
Mr. Howard Carter, the discoverer of Tutankhamen's tomb, Is embark. ing on a more ambitious exploration when the present operations are cleared up, namely, to locate the
tomb of Alexander the Great in the region of Alexandria. Interviewed, Mr. Carter said he anticipated that the queat would be long, difficult and expensive.
According to Plutarch., Alexander,
who died B.C. 323 was buried in Alexandria in a golden coffin. Al
little guide to the locality, Mr reveal the position. This he hopes will begin after the completion of the remaining work on Tutank- hamen's tomb In the autumn.
Carter thinks extensive search will
MAIL.
HUMAN SACRIFICE
Terror in Chinese Homes.
WILD RUMOURS.
RELIGION OF EARLY GREEKS.
SIR A. EVANS ON LIFE AFTER DEATH.
MINOAN SIGNET RINGS.
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children kidnapping
from the of the mother and child in Minoan 5, Wyndham St. and offering them streets
as religion," said that a large part of human sacrifices in connection this new evidence was due to the with the construction of a bridge, discovery of gold signot rings of a Chinese in the Settlement, also remarkable class which bore repre- alarmed servants mak-sentations of scenes of a religious became ing inquiry of their employers nature.
Some of these, indeed, seem to in regard to the report.
have been specially designed not only for wearing during life-time, but for use after death, as securing the protection of the divinity. Of these by far the most remarkable was a large heavy 'gold signet ring found in a large tholos Tomb in "Nestor's Pylos," of which the lecturer was able to give enlarged representations.
The rumour started on Friday morning and as a result hundreds of children absented themselves from the schools, their worried parents paying heed to the report and being fearful of sending the youngsters upon the streets.
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Best styles, most complete stock of all sizes. Repairing a specialty. spread terror in hundreds of Chin-ed successive scenes in which a ese homes. Police were appealed young couple take part who are WONG SIU WOON to and made every effort to allay | finally Initiated in the Court of the
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tion of the life-giving power of the
Of special Interest was the indica-
Goddess by means of a pair of The Shanghai Labour Federa- chrysalises and butterflies. tion. at a special meeting Reference was made to the dis- the Public Safety Bureau to painted clay figure of the Minoan check the rumours and to arrest Goddess, resembling those found in
those responsible for them.
rumours.
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The Public Safety Bureau re- plied that it is doing all within ita power to prevent spread of the 4. number of instances, was reported, innocent etrang- who stopped to converse with small children, were set upon and beaten, being accused of be- ing kidnappers.
late Minoan shrines, but holding, a child on her knee. The association of the Goddess with a young male figure was also shown to occur on signet types like those to which re- forence was made..
three chestnuts, the fruit, so it is fore that the duchess tried for though historical evidence gives but in the Chinese city, called upon covery in a tomb at Knossos of n mit, or holy tree in India. They about 20 minutes to strangle her must be worn next the skin for self on the bed.
Mr. Dickens: Were you trying to three days and nights, after which they are examined by the gypsy. prevent her?--I did, only I got fed If any one of them-as may be up." expected-has a black stain in the! Why did you go to the police middle, a fatal outcome can only be station about three o'clock?--You prevented by substantial payments don't think I was going to put up for magic herbs and potions. with all that nonsense.
she continued, "that's What was the idea of going to thought,"
him come back, I will frighten hang, the straw, give the horses the police?-If anything had habit. So I turned off the gas over water," is used in stubborn cases, pened to her where would I have
the table and went into the other and if the signs are still unfavour been?
room, leaving the door between the able, the patient is adjured to bury! The duchess then gave evidence.
two rooms open. I put myself on a large sum of money in his gar- Mr. Dickens: Is it true that you
the floor and I turned on the gas. den, together with three hen's were fond of Williams, and had
I thought that if Williama 'did not eggs. After a decent interval the been living with him for
come in I would turn the gas off money is found to have disappear time?—Yes.
again."
Frightful Shock.
The Incantation "Bind the straw,
EL
some
Williams
ed, or, as the gypsies prefer to say, She said that after translated. In its place there smashed the wireless set she fetch-
Mr. Dickens: Did you get a grows curiously-shaped rost, ed Mrs. Phillips, the landlady, who
shock when you found there was a which must be carefully tended by tried to smooth matters over.
The duchess was denying Wil-police officer with Williams?—I the patient until prosperity re-
liams's evidence about finding her did, a frightful shock. turna.
lying by the gas stove when Wil iams shouted out, "You are a liar."
TREASURE - FINDING COUNTESS.
The duchess said that after the wireless set was smashed they were wrangling for some time. She wrote some postcards saying, "Good-bye all. I will be no trouble BURIED VALUABLES FOUND IN to you," to frighten. Williams.
HOLLAND.
RESULT OF DAILY TRANCE.
The Magistrate (Mr. McKenna): Were you unhappy?- have been unhappy for a long time.
Did you intend when you wrote The Hague, May 7.
the postcards to commit suicide? Dutch credulity was somewhat-Certainly not. When Williams strained to-day by sensational re- went out he said: "Well, good-bye, poria from Zaandam where trea- all I wish you is bad luck."
Mr. Dickens: Were you in an
sure hunters claimed to have dis-
buried excitable condition? I don't think
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covered a treasure trove centuries ago during the Spanish invasion of the Netherlands. The Williams Was the whisky talk- treasure is gaid to have been Ing?
Mr. McKenna told Williams that placed in vaults of a monastery, which had since been razed to the if he interrupted again he would ground, by the Dutch Captain, have to leave the court.
The duchess said she heard a Dewybenon.
Excavations have been going on knock on the door and thought it Williams returning. "I
in Zaandam for nearly two months way with the consent of the local au- thorities, who, it is understood, are to receive a percentage of what- ever valuables are unearthed. The excavations are directed by a Ger- man engineer by the name of Lang- wirt who is said to have received inspiration from a French, medium, styling herself Countess Sylvia, who in a trance described the treasure and the circumstances surrounding its burial although | her description of the locality was at first vague.
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Dutch Press Sceptical. Preliminary excavations, how.' ever, conarmed the medium's state- ment that centuries ago there had been a monastery on the spot in- dicated by her. Since then the Countess has fallen into & trance every day during which she in- dicated the course to be pursued by the excavators. until yesterday. when the diggers partly unearthed. a tarred barrel which is claimed to have contained treasure and is now being guarded by the police pend- Ing. its opening, ker
The treasure hunters, however, manifest no intention to reach the climax of their adventure but have, instead, sunk two shafts in other spots where, according to the Countess, both diamonds and gold will be found.
Meanwhile, publie opinion divided as to whether the under taking is being engineered by fools and knaves or whether the treasure hunters are really on the track of mediaeval bullion and jewellery. The Press advanced the view that 1) Langwirt and Countess Sylvia ous characters who
the gullible al
fraudulent Ocean
CDA-
'The duchess said she was sclous during the artificial respira- tion treatment.
Mr. Barker, prosecuting: Why did you write those postcards?, One was for my son.
You were perfectly all right so far as the gas was concerned?- Perfectly sane and sound. I mean that on my honour, let alone my oath,
Inspector Curzon says you show ed no movement for 15 minutes? I was acting..
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A number of these
A late Minoan aignet from a tomb at Thisbe, in' Bocotia, showed the Godiless, seated and holding up the divine Babe. She is approached by worshippers holding reeds, with men were shaped shields slung on their
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A DEADLY. SIN.
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Without Work.
"Wealth Without Work," was the subject of the fourth Lenten lecture by Canon Donaldson at Westminster Abbey.
sport.
"Greyhound racing and football are now orgles of betting and gambling.
What the rich do in big stakes in horse-rating, the poor do in these other spheres. Derby, Calcutta and Stock Ex- change sweeptakes are imitated in the humble homes of the work-
"The church of to-day is guilty because she either is silent or speaks so faintly her Master's teaching that men do not knowing class. that this striving for an ac- "This absorbing passion bida cumulation of riches is a deadly fair to pollute the whole of} sin-covetousness. St. Francis modern life. Nor is even the
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Dr. Thomas Gilbert Scott, as-Xavier said that men slatant medical officer at Lambeth fessed before him all sins he Hospital, sald when he received knew of and some he had never the duchess at the hospital at 4.30 | thought of; but none had ever, of am. he could find nothing wrong his own accord, confessed that he
was covetous,
with her.
"No Possible Doubt." Mr. McKenna said there was no possible doubt that the charge was made out, and the duchess would
of our cities is to raise money: for its funds by a 'sweep' on the Derby. One of the priests is acting as secretary and bas en- liated the young men of the parish as ticket sellers.
"The speculation in commerce, which brought about the terrific "What is the passion for wealth crash in the U.S.A., with the ruin without work but paganism nak- In that ed and unashamed-the bane of of thousands of homes be remanded in custody for a re-nation, and with repercussions all noble striving, and the pollu.
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The duchess amiled to friends in smash in Britain, is rooted in the life. We have discarded God for court as she left the dock.
same evil passion-wealth with- Mammon-the God of 'Gold."
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