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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1956.

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COUPLE FAINTED AT THE ALTAR

By Raymond Brown

"I CAN'T do it," a young

Loid his

bride-to-be as she entered the church just before their wedding. After this drama- tic announcement the dis- traught bridegroom 121 from the church. He just could not face up to the strain of A marriage Her- vjeç.

Hla erperience is not unique Clergymen hnve witnessevi many strange happenings of The alter when the 14 Ve ut av bride or bridegroom haes faltest

Al a wediting

Samlerford, Norway, the bridegroom fainted before the altar He was revived with water, but it like hard he recovered an the bride Bwooner. She was also revived and the ceremony went ou

Ran From Church When attractive Olwen Rowley was asked, "Will you take this ពាមក

percomed will

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not," and run from the church. Equally sensational was the reply of a bridegroom

the question, "Wilt thou hove thiu WOMAN

"No," rv shouted. With that he returned home and locked himself in cupboard.

is

What must be the fear and direod of every woman hap pened to a young South Amer- can brite. During the MILLT- ringe service the skirt of her two-piece costume, which she hact forgotten JUTU

ped to the flu The einbaren sig situation caused the broadle- groom to faint

Bumister

hurriedly leaked elsewhere, uni in the confuston only the best man had the presence of raind to remove his coat and drajv

11 rounut the biashingt brkica pontics.

At Manchester werdig.

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beautiful young bride was left

writing at the altar when the

bridegroom disappeared

He

returnech two days later Just the ceremony Ja hark mounted his bicycle and

before

in search of a suitable Dower

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Then his buttonhole

1: Ior Gems, the Mrath

griting married had ibi effect. For two The chiro

Pount! lie cycled countryside da a mental black- ULIT.

POLICE

"You might like to know that while you've boon up at Claridges kooping an eye on Bulganin

somoone nipped in here and pinched your bike."

London Express florváce

One Of The World's Strangest Stories-It stands as one of the

grimmest documents ever penned by a

woman

the confession

of

the

Marquise de Brinvilliers, the

PERSISTENT POISONER

By ELIZABETH MacEWAN

but police officer in the Linge con- vent cell in March, 1876.

TRGENTLY

Thoroughly the hand

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in young man the long black robes of an abbe searched through the Astonishing Sequel | piles of female clothing in

Probably the most usinishing sequel to a wedding was that al the marriage of an Malan, 14- year-old Gügileino Pendenti, tu pretty Laura Hapollo, 21 years hus Junior Everything was sendy for the marriage WITCH Jug- lielmo discovered that fits fukure mother-in-law Wils lus child. hood sweetheart, now widowed, melled the He immediately wedding und Hurried his bride's mother.

In

At a Tennessee weddilug bride arrived at church to find best nur standing in the pince

of the ndegrum A

12

the

Just

monyuk the bride groom's nerve hand fulles can't go through with this

1." stund in for you

he

whispered to the best meat be

fore changing places.

(COPYRIGHT)

NOT

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room.

the little convent Desgrez, France's top delre tive, seized a small, locked casket and forced it open. Inside he found a sheet of pivpor

"I accuse myself of having ruled myself with

man al- ready married and having given money. him much

this nevuse myself that whom my 241

father irra. prisoner, was the father of two of my children

*

my

"I accuse myself that have poisoned my father

"I had

I wo

brothers polsoned

"I wanted to poison my sister ile glanced at the closely who was angry with me for the

horrible if he written

of my life. words on

"I decuse

myself of having com- knew his search was

Hive poison five or six times plote.

to my husband. Then I regretted it and treated him until he was cured.

manner

the Marquise de 'Brinvilliers, most beautiful and most light- hearted poisoner in French his- lory, died at the age of 46.

Marie Marguerite started life with a golden spoon in her mouth. She was the daughter of Dreux d'Aubray, the rich, influential Civil Lieutenant of

Paris.

The Marquise de Brinvilliers at the time of her execution.

His strategy was successful, The Marquise never troubled to conceal her intrigue with Sainte- Croix.

La Chaussee therefore joined the household of the elder Antoine d'Aubray, and in June, 1070, he died. "A malignant humour," said the doctors.

Immediately her father; Dreux d'Aubray,

The stepped in.

In September the younger situation had gone too far. He brother died. "Disorder of the beer lover for the sake of the surgeons.

Marie Marguerite to give internal

Bald the organs." ip her honour of her family. She snapped her fingers in his face.

She

By the

When she married wealthy Marquis de Brinvillers at the age of 17 she was known is one of the loveliest, most amusing members of the smart set," for whom all doors were open.

In Love

But not even daughters can snap their angers at Civil Lieu tenants. D'Aubray had Sajate- dlung into the Bastille, Croix Ho was released within three months, but the Marquise awore she would be revenged,

the

a this time surprising number of people knew Marquise's secret. Apart from Sainte-Croix and La Chausser, she entrusted her secret to her children's tutor, her mald and

Нет two servants.

husband knew enough to drink pints of milk alt day just in case sho In the Bastille Sainte-Croix might grow impatient with him, 'made the acquaintance of too.

This undoubtedly saved CHORTLY after this marriage Europe's most proficient profes- his life. Yet no one told the

of convenience her husband, sional poisoner, Exili, who police. Antoine, introduced her to his taught Sainte-Croix confession

how to Madary de Brinvillives

friend, Gaudin de Sainte-Croix, make his most effective polson, Four months later the woman

handsome young officer from His recipe was as follows: written in her own Arm muscu-

Rond HIS line handwriting. It stands as who wrote this document had Gascony, He expected them to

injected with arsenic, is left one of the grimme documents been tried, convicted, tortured fall in love; indeed, he hoped for a few days after death; it ever written by a woman,

and behended.

After poloning they would, since it would leave

is then rendered down and Here are a few of the stark

2007 30 people during a period him free to pursue his own crushed into a powder, sentences read by the disguised of ten years, Marie Marguerite, amours.

Stark Sentences

Wus the

of

"I accuse

myself of having taken polson, und also of giving some to one of my children

A

THE TEDDY BOYS OF HONGKONG

ALL OUR

FEI TSAI

ARE HARMLESS

NGLAND has her

Teddy Boys, America

its razor gangs, Hol

By ALBERT STEWART

land its CC. Fiends and and they are not all teenagers, the favourite wear.

Exhaust Pigeons.

Ilong- the

kong has its "Fei Tsai".

manning

"smart

The typical

in Tsai ore very

trying to copy the ways of their counterparts Europe and the U.S.

Hore in Hongkong, the Fei Tsai ranks are composed of different types, each 18 different from one another. as night and day.

WAVY HAIR

ment.

HRVO

题

polsoning.

Glass Mask

nwo years, passed by, and the TWO

Marquise began to toy with the idea of getting rid of her one surviving sister, a nun,

room

Before tackling her more im- portant prospective victims, the

Then the glass mask which Marquise decided she had better Sainte-Croix wore as he pre-

ittle practice in pared

yet another poisonous brew broke. He inhaled the She became a frequent visitor fumes and died instantly. at the Hotet Dieu, Párls's Sainte-Croix's largest public hospita). Like a found to be full of poisons,

contained ministering angel she glided casket of poisons down the

of patients, letter paying it belonged to the tenderly, holding sweets, wine Marquise de Brinvilliers. and biscuits to their grateful

Prudently, the Marquise teft- for England. La Chaussee con. mouths.

ressed, but would not incriminate

rows

wis

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0

Flends of Holland. These youths Some died within the hour, the Marquise and was broken on He was executed in all possess their own

motor-others took weeks and months; the wheel. cycles. On weekends they gather But since the sick in the seven- 1073, a year after his master's together very much like Marlon teenth century stood jittle chance

death. Brando's troop in The Wild of recovery their deaths-caused For three years the Marquise One," and spent out to the New by the poison-aroused no aus“ lived in exile, supplied with Territories for some fun.

The pleions.. dum in summer-either

swim

In winter it is hunting in the pre- dawn twilight of the Territories.

Agning or long joy-rides.

BOY VICTIMS

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HER

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In winter, their leather jackets are inevitable. majority being In

The latest dress cruze, how twenties, Their meeting pinces

roney by the sister she had is the one-colour shirt

thought to polson. Then, In Fol Tsai, a Cantonese are mostly bars and donce halls, ever,

rech they usually pink, bright r Harmless by themselvps.

1676, the Marquise took refuge berry

chocolate. can be menacing in groups and or

convent at Liego, boys," (not to be confused under the influence of alcohol, collars are button on to the

The power of the Church Tight At- bawdy, shirt for smartness.

her being arrested with the term for "fat They are boastful and

ting trousers are either charcoal

ER own maid never recover- prevented

while in the convent. It was ed after eating A House-

the detootive, boy") are local teenagers always fun-seeking.

Fel rey or fawn, held up by the

her by her then that Desgrez, to Hongkong

berry handca latest and narrowest leather similar to

mistress on the point of a knife, disguised himself as an abbe. the belts.

Ties are narrow and teenagers depleted in Hollywood match the shades of shirt and

À further type comprises In s

a few months the Marquise By maiding love to her he lured

to estimate and her out of the convent for a wal films such as The Blackboard ro

trousers. Cuff-links and tie young unemployed men well on was abie Jungle," "Trial," and without A Cause"

"Rebel plus are worn for added adorn their way to becoming criminals regulate the strength and action by the river.

They are the lenders and of the poison. originators · “of illegá?*** socielles. Three years after Sainte-Croix hind some trees immediately Favourile rendezvous of these Many arc locally enlisted had been released from the Fei Tri are billarda salone, motelbera discharged for mis" Bastille, ong of his most trusted where they are fond of the pin- demeanour. They prey on serventa, La Chausson, became

Last Ride ball

Apart from innocent schoolboya, forcing them Dreux machines,

d'Aubray's valet, At 1006, the Marquise The majority of this type playing snooker, billiards, or to join their socaties (for a fet) Whitsun, There is the Teddy Boy type.

cinemus, aro teenage schoolboys aping noing to the

they to gain protection.

visited her father on the family FAGERLY al Paris and most Their speech, dress and manner-

thelr own dancur Mooningless

By Septom of Europe followed her trial. rituals are statos in Picardy. isma are exactly those of British the dress and speech of teen arrange

When she was condemned-she cotick..." "pafurni thought up agers in America just to be up parties,

to intrigue the ber he

confessed Tekly Boys, Long, thick, wavy

but refused to in smart, Hairstyles hair borti

Musle at such partles usually schoolboys who are to be iniblat davong" mk the physicriminate anyone, with to-date and their heads,

After this Madame la runge from

Rpont prominent looks jutting over of these Fek

the coming of Friday, SOAPY WATER moro money Jazz of the "Shotgun Boogie ing to join are lured up to quiet quine foreheads and skielxirns stretch US. Marine crew cuts to long, prises the latest mambos or et into the woelety. Those reflés-

from wavy hair,

the and "Rock Around the Clock" rooftops or darks stairways and an ever. When Sainte-Croix July 17, 1070, drewed in the while robe of the penitent, the The dra

of the hend brand.

robbed of wrist watches, fountain became too engrossed in selling Marquise was neulated into a Crow

polsons to desperate men and like Glenn looking

"Man, dig that crazy mile," pens and pocket money. Dut black Ford's oa be

We appeared in

When a member has been in ambitious courtiers, so alle tumbril by her confessor, and Blackboond Jungle" and "Trio toomager told me. drain-pipe trousers are 'popu

For an hour she knelt before listening to "Rock Around the fight, the solely turns out in nately, raged at him and used executioner.

of fascination on the block while the executioner Iarly worn

and he proceeded to full force to buy the other her powers with brightly are most popular

Miria and Eurial and Portuguese boys weave the latest live for my put other rocket, heter 1810, when conserately laboriously and slowly prepared coloured or black

member of black, diringy : flex Suede shoes Wavy locks and expression on tenent. If you embos live or as no protection. To belavad torf: of money, Mario Bro The crowd with mepe, soles complete the the hoads of the local Chinese do the mambo of such parties to merelises kostire her zuerito remebered the hnd whistled and prayed the teenagers wanting to look like you are a #giare" or a "com required to use the members to advanced two others, clock struck eight o'clock the film tor Tony Curtia: real try bumpicând sun

executioner's 'axe fell,, Hongkong Fer Western style blue jeans and ADOK U DE Hongkong Fei bommarustly a body wasir yng

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