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FORTUNE WASTED IN

TWO YEARS.

Wealthy Young Man Fleeced by Crooks.

INHERITOR DEAD.

Behind the tragic death of the twenty-five-year-old Briton, Godfrey Basil Mundy, in an hotel at Royan, near Bordeaux, recently, there lies an astounding story of plundering and swindling.

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possible consequences of suddenly inheriting a large fortune It will at least prove of some consolation.

in the case of Godfrey I was powerless. For most of the years he was at school he knew that when he came of age he would inherit a fortune ander his grandfather's will. This money was accumulating all the time.

I did my best for him and ad- vised him on the necessity of wise investments and care, but it was of no avail. There is no doubt that much money which he thought he was investing got into wrong hands.

I feel strongly that it should not be possible for a young man to have unrestricted access to a very large sum. At present, if the will is in order, there is no kind of protec- tion against a young person's in- "I do not think," he concluded, "that any young man should have absolute control of such money until he is 25,""

Mundy took his own life after having squandered in a little over two years a fortune of £250,000

Young Mundy bought Persian which he inherited under his grand- rugs and carpets, alleged antique father's will on his twenty-first furniture, objets d'art, and "old birthday, and became a bankrupt. mastera" for which he paid appro-; discretions.

A statement of affairs showed his | ximately £50,000. liabilities to be £26,348, and his} How much of his money went in assets were estimated at £33,684, pictures will never be known; but apart from various interests of un-it cannot have been far short of certain value.

£30,000. Some of his friends who

His household and personal ox-used to visit his dat contracted tho penditure since April 1925 up to the profitable habit of taking the pic- time of his bankruptcy had amount-tures off the walls and walking out ed to £51,679.

the front door with them while the owner's attention was being dia- tracted in another room!

Mundy was married a few years ago, but at the time of his death he was divorced from hls wife. There was one child.

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Mundy became an habitue of all the London houses where chemin de-fer and baccarat were played, Some time ago he obtained a He knew nothing about either of situation as a chauffeur, but after these games when he started, but a few weeks he gave up his employ-by the time he had finished his knowledge was fairly considerable, ment and went abroad.

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"NEVER LOOK BACK."

What Massolini Said to Vanderbilt.

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Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, junior, is considering filing a civil suit against General Smedley Butler, according to an article published in the San Diego Sun, as an after- math of the Butler-Mossolini in- cident which caused the United States' apology to Italy.

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EVEN IF IT IS MURDER!

especially if, as often is the case, he happens to be innocent. It is un- fair to the judges, who are ridicul- unfair to ously underpaid. It le the attorneys, who are in propor- M. Faralicq,, who was until re-tion grossly overpaid (but receive cently the chief Inspector of the far from the enormous fees pocket. Police Judiciaire - the ed by their colleagues at the Paris Criminal Investigation Department British bar). It is almost invari

able unfair to the memory of the of Paris-is writing his memoira

I remember M. Faralica in the dead, and to the heirs of that silent Landru case-a tall, thin, scholarly accusing witness of whom almost man with rimless glasses, a pale every actor in a great murder trial face, and a slight stoop, writes a in the French courte appears to be special correspondent of the Even-oblivious. ing Standard. He looked more like

But in this orgy of inequality the a literary critic than a detective, prisoner is sometimes overlooked. and I was not greatly astonished He is not, as in other countries, the man against whom all men's hands when he confessed to me that he

are turned. And on the whole had carried off the poetry prize at his lycee and still rblished osca fewer innocent men are condemned mional little books of rather wistful than guilty men go free. Can any high a other country claim balance of justice?

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M. Faralica is not a great poet, but he was a brilliant detective. That is the reason, perhape, why And the percentage of unsolved as many arrested men in France crime mysteries has perceptibly confess their

guilt. They risen since his departure from the do not wish, at their sub- grim grey building on the Seine.

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The Last Cigarette.

"MY VISIT TO MRS. WISE."

Home Secretary's Wife At Prison.

Among visitors to Mrs. Olive Wise, who is still in Holloway prison hospital after the birth of It is already falling into disuse. her twins, was Mrs. J. R. Clynes, For every hundred murders com-wife of the Home Secretary. The

For if Spring, as one ingenious They prefer to abandon themselves can forces, within our own life. theorist claims, is the season most to the inherent mercy which juries time, a day when the guillotine will crimes of passion, reveal, in the face of an unhappy stand idle and forgotten in the Winter appears to be that criminal caught in the meshes of great French prizona, its sinister propitious to chosen for murders for pro- the vast net of the police, rather knife rusted and unused, its chariot Mr. Vanderbilt is quoted as

worst vengeance of wheels broken in the dust. He was seen again in London, as well it might be, for the price he declaring that he would sue

The very Winter atmos- than risk the the fit.

of the town, upon society by challenging its Justice to and although his father had arrang-paid at least £40,000,

General unless "certain things are phore ed to give him a weekly allowance,

Never Won. and bad deposited a sum in a bank He backed horses to the tune of retracted and others cleared up." which the leaden sky has settled discover the criminal and award

Mr. Vanderbilt is reported to down like a pall, recalls that of responsibility for the crime. on which he could draw, the money many thousands of pounds. Apart feel that, while the Butler cours Edgar Allan Poe's 'Murders in the The majority of the daily maur-mitted in France hardly one con- twins were born when Mrs. Wise had been untouched during the past from a few regular transactions, he martial is abandoned, he is still in Rue Morque, and recently these few weeks.

involved himself with other so-call an uncomfortable position regard- half-forgotten literary crimes have ders of Paris are crimes committed demned man ta awakened at dawn in was under sentence of death for Recently Scotland Yard was naked bookmakers," whom he never the sort of signor Mussolini sprung from their vague early 19th by women. Yet a jury of males a cold call to receive the embar the murder of her first child.

"My visit was a private affair," od by Major Mundy to investigate saw, to the extent of a good man killing a child. He also stated, century remoteness into a grim invariably hesitates to send them to rassed visit of his attorney, the

If they absolution of an unshaven priest, Mrs. Clynes said, "but all who certain information which had more thousands. These "book

the guillotine. And even according to the paper, that he proximity. reached him in connection with | makers" were all part and parcel of had understood when he told the One feels that Paris is no longer are condemned to death their sen- and the last ritual cigarette and are interested in Mrs. Wise may like to know that she could not the rapid disposal of his son's for the gang.

story that his remarks were not to to-day the gay lighted, unreserved tence is invariably commuted by a glass of rum."

Capital punishment is already be better cared for. tune.

He rarely had a winning day. be repeated outside the walls of place that it was even yesterday. charitable President of a Republie

"Her babies, Jack and Jill, How did this boyfor he was The old racing trick of allowing him the room of the lecture organisa. It is a town full of secrets, and which shows its gallantry to women partially abolishe in France, in nothing else manage to dissipate to win a few hundreds at the begin- tion, adding that General Butler decretive men and women hurry by, in their last and most desperate the sense that the supreme penalty were tucked in a cot by the fire- is rarely imposed for the ultimate side and everything looked very euch a fortune in such a short time? ning through the medium of horses | violated this confidence.⠀

moving mysteriously like shadows need. Mundy was picked up in the, whose names he never knew was Mr. Vanderbilt is also reported in a grey world, their very attitude Even the executioner of the Be-crime. It may never be legally re- cheerful." West-end of London by a man who played on him,

to have accused General Butler, of one of concealment. It is the true public, M. Deibler, is a man with a moved from the French code but it Since the reprieve Mr. and specialises in the finding of rich It was well known in certain

Wise, complain that they have' "mugs." He is a man who has been circles that the boy was practically quoting him inaccurately. He de atmosphere of crime. And it is weak heart. He cannot climb the may before long become a dead Mrs. Chrisp, the parents of Mrs.

clared: “Butler credited me with the murders which occur in Paris ctairs of his own apartment house, letter. for years associated with gaming doped and frequently unable to real-saying Mussolini killed a child perhaps not merely coincidence that although an immutable sense of The truth is that most French been persecuted by anonymous dens, night clubs of the most diese what he was doing. It was even while motoring and then drove on daily have multiplied with the com- duty drives him, upon dreadful oc- minds consider the prevention worse letter writers. reputable description and "swell stated that threats were held, over with the remark, "What is one life Ing of darkness.

casions, to climb the steeper ateps than the crime. They belleve, with

a recollection of Voltairian philo crooks who have a regular modnakim to expose him to the police for in the affairs of State'1"

We can now boast of three mur to the scarfold. operand in dealing with "pige "offences, he was supposed to have

Mr. Vanderbilt, the paper states, ders a day.. It is perhaps not a But his stern official task has at sophy, that if to err is human, to who are worth' pluckingj

then gave his vercion of the story high average. But it contents us. last proved too much for him. He punish should only be Divízie. Need for New Law.

he told, saying, "I was riding with More would not be in harmony with is but a faltering successor of that "A gang of them--all of them well The introduction of legislation to Mussolini who was driving the car. the cool and logical mind of the terrible Samson family, father and dressed and well spoken-speedily prevent young men from coming A small child ran in front of the French, which permits passion, an son, and son's son who served the discovered in Godfrey Mundy a into unrestricted control of large machine and was hit. I looked occasional crime, and a penalty in guillotine for three generations, ng" of almost Incredible imp-dostunes was auggested by Majoz back to see if the child were hurt. just proportion, but which abhors like priests of an Arlee god hungry elty. The Brat thing to do was to B. G. Manly, father of Godfrey As I did: so Mussolini plused him the cold and calculated hornielder for the Bacrifice of blood.

certain his weaknesses.

Basil Mundy. Major Mundy said: hand on my knee saying. Never which are frequent among races, When M. Deibler abandons his He was motor-car mad. Bo they? If this trouble in the means of look hack Vanderbilt Always like the Anglo-Saxons of colder grim profession there will be few an increase of more than 820,000 boys were constantly here, and

blood but a fávërish mind.

to volunteer for the office. And I over the year before: promptly procured a car and sold it saving mother young men from the look: Ahead in life."

Motor Mal

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These letters, which have come from various parts of East London, allege that the doors of her old home were shut to Mrs. Wise before the tragic events which led to her trial and sen- tance,

Why must people bei so cruel?" said Mrs. Chrisp. "It is not true. My daughter was never forsaken by any of us. Her three "I we were glad to have them."