THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 19, 1939.
"UNCORKED" CHLOROFORM IN HER COFFIN
“MORE THAN 60 YEARS AGÓ a dainty, lovely French girl, daughter of a Paris merchant whose fortune vanished in the Franco-Prussian War, came to England and settled in London.
She was Marie Caroline Pauline Seguin. She was just 20 then and at an impressionable age had suffered anxiety and hardship.
The Prussians ravaged her country; her magnificent chateau home was razed to the ground; her two brothers lost their lives at Sedan; her father was ruined.
GERMANY "BUYS BRITISH"
Figures published in Hamburg show that during the first six months of 1939 German shipping firms bought six ships from Brl. tish lines with a total tonnage of 53,710 tons. During the samé period British owners sold 65 ships to foreign flags.
Germany also acquired, in ad- dition to the six British ships, 19 ships "second-hand” from for- eign owners. These vessels total 86,109 tons, so that the tonnage acquired from abroad by the Relch during the six months un- der review was 139,819 tons.
In Hamburg shipping circies it is stated that these purchases are made necessary by the total em- ployment of German shipyards, which are working overtime to produce war vessels and mer- chant ships for sale abroad.
POWER FROM AIR HIS CLAIM
An invention which, it la claim- ed, will convort atmospheric electricity into power to drive car and aeroplane 'engines: is to be demonstrated in London shortly. The basis of the invention is said to be a new radio-active mineral, which has been given the name of Stap Na- tural Power.
It is the discovery of a Belgian in- ventor, who is working in London in collaboration with Mr. G. W. Pearson, an engineer.
Mr. Pearson, declined to tell the press where the ore was found.
She died at her home in Marylebone In January 1938, at the age of 84, and her will, now proved after-legal-com- plications, showed that by years of thrift she was worth £18,101.
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In her will she said she was "a spinster, without near relations, of French nationality, a Roman Catholic, and earned my money through my own exertions as a teacher in London."
Only six people were at her burial and she had directed that one of her arterles Was to be severed and an uncorked bottle of chloroform placed in the coffin.
By her orders her flat was to be kept exactly as it was until her will was proved. This has been done for 18 months. The rent has been paid, and every week the flat has been dust- ed.
Soon, it will be re-let, and all trace of a lonely little old lady will have vanished.
CONTESTED
Written in her own hand-writing 20 'years ago, her will now reveals that her little fortune, after £2,097 estate duty had been paid, has been left al- most entirely to Roman Catholic charities, welfare and missionary or- ganisations.
The will was contested, but Mr. Justice Langton on May 9 last pro- nounced for its force and validity, and probate has now been granted to the Rev. W. J. Wood, who was Priest-in- Charge of the Church of Our Lady, Lissen-grove, N.W1, at the time of her death.
LIFE OF SACRIFICE
The story of her life of self-sacrifice was told yesterday to a reporter by her friend, Mrs. Elizabeth Neve-Light-. foot, who lives in the same block of flats in Scott Ellisgardens, St. John's Wood.
"For a time, after her arrival in London all those long years ago,” said Mrs. Lightfoot, "Mile. Seguin stayed with 'friends. Then she qualified as a teacher of French at Queen's College, where she worked for six months every year.
"The remaining six she spent in France with her widowed mother, and when the latter died she lived com- pletely alone in an ascetically furnish- ed two-roomed flat in St. John's Wood for more than 40 years, rarely ven- turing out." ;
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European country not Belgium- friendly to Britain," he said. “It is obtained from a mine."..
The claim is made that as a re- sult of the invention all forms of power can be produced without the aid of fuel of any kind.
"It will," declared Mr. Pearson, "give aeroplanes an unlimited range, with no danger of fire ma with extra space available where the fuel would. normally be stored."
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