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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1931.

THE ONLY WOMAN HAIRPLANE USED IN PARISH POET SUED

EVER LOVED.

Shot Artist's Tribute to "My Lost Carlotta."

MARRIED FOUR TIMES,

Mr. Ralph Barton, one of America's most noted caricature artists, was found dead in his flat in New York recently, with a bullet wound in the head.

further details.

.He had beeri married four times. His fourth wife, Mile: Germaine Talliere, the French pianist and composer, obtained a divorce in Paris a month ago.

MAIL TRAIN ROBBERY.

Australian Gang Rounded Up.

BURIED BOOTY.

Melbourne police, have captured three members of Australia's first gang of airplane bandits.

The story reads like some of the bushranging romance. of the sixties,

FOR LIBEL.

Rhymes About the Milkman.

"SENSE OF HUMOUR.”.

A cade in which alleged libela in rhyme were displayed at a vil- lage shop was heard at Cambridge Police Court in mail week, when Alexander Philip Smith, a grocer, of Stapleford, Cambridge, was.com-

publishing defamatory libels con- cerning Mr. Edgar Peter Baynes, a milk vendor, of the same village, between April 24 and May 9.

prosecu-

Dr. S. Peters, for the tion, said that the principal libel was that contained in a poater on the door of the shop which can cluded:

Therefore I hold up this dirty swine (meaning Mr. Baynes), who tried to polson the village with his filthy milk, to the con- tempt of all. (Signed) A. P. Smith. Dated April 26.

Dr. Peters said that an example of the verses was

Mr. Barton was dramatic edi- Bank notes worth £10,000, be-mitted for trial on charges of tor of Life. He reported the longing to the Commonwealth War in pictures for Puck, an-Bank at Canberra, were stolen other American comic magazine, from a mail train. All efforts to says the New York correspon- trace the 'robbers failed. dent of the 'Daily Express giving The police had arrested two bandits, who had kidnapped and trussed up 2 Sydney jeweller while an accomplice stole his keys, raided his shop, and got away with jewellery worth £4,000. When the prisoners were search- Among Mr. Barton's papers ed the police found a key which was found his own obituary was traced to the safe deposit of notice written by himself. the Commonwealth Bank. In a Other papers reveal that a grow safe the police found two hundred ing fear of insanity had been notes, which had been stolen dur- preying on his mind for years:ing the train robbery. Promptly In one passage he states:- they charged the jewel thieves

"Every one who has known me` with this additional crime. * will have different hypotheses to

In the meantime "black trackers" offer why I have done this. had traced another member of the "All these hypotheses will be gang-who had been posing as a dramatic-and completely wrong. farmer in a disused farm at Pen- Any sane doctor knows that the rithto a lonely spot in the bush, reasons for suicide are invariably where it was evident that the psycho-pathological and that the ground had recently been dug over. true suicide type manufactures The "farmer" had gone when the. its own difficulties.

detectives arrived, but when they "I have had few real difficul-dug up the ground they found ties. On the contrary, I have £7,600 of the missing notes. They had an exceptionally glamorous also found certain clues which en- life as life goes and I have fabled them to arrest another mem had more than my share of ber of the gang in Sydney. affection and appreciation.

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Now Edgar was a milkman,

A malikiman of renown, There was none other like him-- No, not in all the town. You should have seen his moo

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Give such a startled jump,, When after he had milked them' He milked the blinking pump. was 150 yards from Smith's shop. Mr. Baynes said that his home He had a daughter and a who were referred to in the verse. father

One of the verses ended: Let's

hope it won't land me in gaol."

They also discovered that the lines in his window, and told him He asked Smith why he had those "The most charming, intelli- gang owned a Sopwith airplane gent and important people I have which had been used in connection that if he did not take them out he known have liked me, and the with the mail train robbery, and would give him a good thrashing. list of my enemies is very flatter- was in readiness for a fight to Smith said: "If you want to do ing to me. I have al-Western Australia after the booty anything, you can take legal action ways had excellent health, but had been collected in the jewel rob-

against: me." since early childhood I have suf- bery and the proceeds of the train. feréd exceedingly from melan- theft dug ap cholia, which, for the past five years, has begun to show signs of mania and depression leading

to insanity.

"This has prevented my get, ting anything like full value out of my

the work, and for past three years has made work torture."

R.A.F. PROMOTIONS.

New Air Vice Marshals Appointed.

Rugby, Yesterday.

"From Wife to Wife." • The Air Ministry to-day announc- con-ed promotions with effect from July Mr. Barton's last note cluded: "My malady has made it 1, of Air Commodores F. W. Bow impossible for me to enjoy those hill and C. S. Burnett to be Air simple pleasures of life that seem Vice-Marshals. British

Wireless to satisfy other people.

.Service.

I have run from wife to wife, from house to house, from coun- try to country, and by ridiculous efforts have tried to escape from myself..

What is needed for our Davis Cup team, of course, is a player with a Doeg or Tilden service, a Cochet forehand drive, and a Lacoate back-hand with the court- covering and Volleying abilities. of Cochet or Borotra, to say nothing of the Tilden drop and chop shots!

Allan Cave,

Smith, in the witness-box, said that Mr. Baynes had incited a boy to break his windows,

"I have made people laugh" he said, “andón Sunday last the

public-house did a great trade. Possibly my abnormal and mis- placed sense of humour had in- creased the consumption of milk. I have allowed my sense of humour to get the better of me, but these are only humorous little poema." take the notices from his window.

·Smith gave an undertaking to

He was allowed bail.

£1,400,000 CHARGE. Many British Persons Defrauded.

ARREST IN PHILADELPHIA.

A man was arrested in Philadel- ̈ phia recently by agents of the De partment of Justice on charge, of swindling a high British personage and other British subjects of a sum of £1,400,000....

The man was arrested as he was entering an apartment house, with his wife, who landed in New York on her arrival from England.

"In doing so I am very much afraid that I have brought a great deal of unhappiness to those who loved me. In particu- lar, my remorse is bitter that I have failed to appreciate my beautiful and lost angel, Carlotta Carlotta Monterey- the only woman I have ever some beautiful artificial interest, loved, and the woman whom I such as a new gal," who annoy respect and admire above all the ed me to the point where I forgot rest of the human race.WI my own troubles.

"Carlotta is the only woman "I present my remaina" with who could have saved me had my compliments to any medical I been savable. She did her best. school that fancies them, I No one could have had a more they don't want them, they can devoted or more understanding make soap with them. I have wife. I hope she understands not the slightest interest in my what my malady has been, and body, except that I wish it to will try to forgive me a little”. cause as little bother, as possible, *****I Was Fed Up." ~ Carlotta Monterey was Ralph Barton's note ends with the Barton's third wife. She divord words

WE HAVE ed him five years ago, and after "I did it because I was fed upwards married Eugene O'Neill, with inventing, devices for get="" the dramatist, ting through twenty-four hours Mr. Barton was best known in every day, and bridging over a Britain through his illustrations few months periodically with to "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Benuestr

It was stated by officials there that the arrest was due to Informa tion received from the British police to the effect that the woman would probably meet her husband: She was detained but not arrested. It was stated that the man ded from his home in Los Angeles a few minutes before the place was raided, and he also nar rowly escaped arrest in New Orleans..

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