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THY A VICTIM.]

THE POISONER. PALMER "STUDY" BY ONE WHO KNEW HIM.

A HYPNOTIST:

TEA AND TOURNAMENT.

A NEW USE FOR A HISTORIC

GROUND..

Begging is not a trade or a profession, | The Life ash Cavern or D. WILLIAM

Nor must Begging be con-f it in no art

PALMER BY ticorge Pletcher, M.D The old silt-yard at Hampton Court

to be made into For whereas the fosed with 1dling.

(7. Fisher Unwin, 124. tick}

a tea garden, so a Idler merely arouses envy of his happy

This account, just published, of the paternal Department has decreed for one

we shall be j state, the object of the accomplished most tamons of poisoners is of special able to make decently merry over pr

comfort. In a little while beggar is to excite material sympathy; interest because L. Fletcher, as a byens one of the very towers from which saje a writer in the Morning Post

lived at Rugeley, where Palmer per

the fair ladies of Henry VIII's Court tidy and Ireland are the acknowledged | petrated most of his crimes, and he re

loyally applauded the form their Sover

The cent of these two arts. Nobody can members sering Cook, for whose murder,

eign was showing in the lists. ide so elegantly as an Italian "inute," in, 1835 Palmer was trial and executed.

inetory of the jorund exploits of that or beg so courteously as an Irish tinker. He has collected, here a great mass of

first Defender of the Faith” may'enfiven But even London has its beggars ton. information about the criminal and the

our modest activities, ile loved Hamp How muvay fa Kensington there is a resident crimes.

prople Palmer colony of these gentlemen for Kensingroisoned is not known; among his victims to Court-as soon as he said good-bye te his first wife it was there he went to enjoy toninus, though dull. have fat purses and were his wife, his brother, foar of his himself and he put splendid figure in kind hearts, And of all Kensington, legitimate and two of his illegitimate the tilt-yard as long as he could find a Gloucester-rond is the Beggar's Paradise. children, his mother-in-law, and probab horse to carry him. He entered the Fruri Sussex-place, to Palace gate, they three or four other prople.

heavy brigale rather early in life.. He line the road on either side, heggars

Yet Peimer was nog 32 when he was had hardly got beyond his first wife when l'executed. The attention which his murthe Venetian Ambassador reported that: of every degree.

A he never hunted without tiring eight or Starting at the Brompton rund end. Jers attractual was extraordinary. thor is. Heat of Sill, the old man who sells perial Act of Parliament was passed ten horses, which he caused to be station A dear old man, this, with to enable him to be tried at the Caned beforehand along the line of country soft brown eyes and grey curly hair. Criminal Court in London, and the meant to take The stag, it appears, His method is simple. It merely whishis trin three judges sat on the bench.choso his line to suit the King's cor

with two members of the Royal Famitsvenience. It WILD marvellously loyal pers: "God bless you, Sir," "God bless beside them. you, kind lady and peunies pour into

'But Henry WHM great sportsIDA his plump palm. I have never seen him sell a shoe-lace yet.

land, and bar Venetian found it the pret- they are all tied to his first finger. But lesey's estates, and Palmer hitself in

tiest thing in the world to see him play everybody likes a free blessing, and the fits youth was thus desenhed by ante, në

This schoolfellows: shoelaces are just an insignia of, the

tennis, his fair skin glowing through a shirt of finest texture," which is not ex- Brotherhood!

actly how we are apt to imagine him te hacked his play, too. In one year his debts of honour cost him £1.500: hut some of that was lost at the delirious games of backgammon and shovel-heard. the first half of his life, however, sport of the tilt-yard was his favourite. On any occasion and none he would hold A tournament. By his century, of course, a tournament had come to mean not a more or less real fight, like the gentle and joycus pasasge of arms in Ivanhoe,

shoelaces.

Palmer's father made a "ecnsiderabi

age.

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In fact, 1 think fortune by robbing the Marquis of They say he drew the best bow in Eng-

He was a thoroughly bad boy and

did not mind how he cheated."

He

was very cruel to animals and sneak ing in every detail. He used to rob his sisters pockets and his mothers purse and steal any cash lying about.

For the

A few yards further on, comes the Erst of the Pavement Artists-a hefty-look- ing fellow with bleary, blue eyes, and "Necessity.net Choice" chalked in large letters before his pictures, I do not

HYPNOTIC POWER. know how other people feel. bus those

One of the extraordinary facts about words Necessity not Chaice," by their very, triteness, immediately shrivet at him was that he seemed to exercise a Probably sort of hypnotic power over his victims. springs of pity in my breast. the poor Pavement Artist is far more Thus his mother-in-law told friends that deserving than the early-headed old felt she knew she would not live long if she low with the shoe-laces, but he has gonwent to live with him; and yet he in-hut a combination of a race meeting and about it in the wrong, wag, he has not studied the psychology of his public, and sd I, for one, pass by with empty palm Then comes the robust young man with medal ribbons. "Buy a hunch o' vilets, idy-av'nt ad a-cup of teater-dy," and I'm nagry, lidy, I'm ''wayry-five small children at 'ome-the wife's in orspital and I'm 'ungry, lidey, l'in 'angry The monotonous plaint dies away in the distance. The ungry gentle man has been invited home for a meal, and details of his domestic dihealties have been sent to the Charity Orgnis, Lion Society, but, needs to say, he has never appeared at either place.

And then comes a really remarkable individual, a type that is rapidly dis appearing a real Gentleman of the Streets. The Public is his sport and the Pavements of London his Kingdoin. A tattered felt hat sits rakishly on his. raven locks, and even about his rigs" a tattered legnüce seems to cling.

The Brst time we met he was leaning against a public-house, enjoying a dis pute between a taximan and his far!'. He caught my eye, and smiled.

a fancy dress ball, with a good deal of duced her to do so:

In the last few days of her life she dining thrown in. Jousting bad long was always drowsy and did not know been a popular spectacle, the profession those around her except once, what football of the period, and first-class Palmer, in the soothing voice he could jousters went from place to place, and so well assume, tried to rouse ber to even on foreign tours, matching them- drink some medicine, She gave h selves against the local sportsmen. The shrick and said. "Take that awful notion that exhibition games and the thevik away." She died the next day taste for looking on at them, are the pro- degeneracy is mere He was always self-possessed and ducts of modern cleaginous-indeed, he exuded affability, ignorance. but there were times when he gave him self away. After he bad poisoned Cook.

he:

Harried out to the undertaker and ordered a strong oak coffin and shell, adding the remark, Screw him down

uick."

This conduct it was that anally brought suspicion upon him. When an inquest was held on Cook:

He sent the coroner n large bumper of game which he never paid for, and then the day before the final adjourn-f ment at the inquest a letter with a £10 nota

GEORGE HERRING.

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The careless haphazard methods of that time are brought out with singular clear. "Bin at it close on ten minutes now," ness by Dr. Fletcher. At the post-mortem remarked my friend, and all foron Cook practically anybody in Rugeley matter of sixpence and then he sighed who wanted to be present was allowed in the room, and Palmer himself inter- suddenly as if at some painful memory,

fered with the operators.

Another curious fact which appears

I suppose, Sir, ye don't 'appen to What I mean is, Sir.. 'ave 5s, about? in a manner of speakin,' a loan. Sir, a little loan between gentlemen! You're a gent. I see that, and you can trust The audacity of the request me, Sin

He got his five shil was its success. lings. We have met in Gloucester-road since. But, like "gentlemen," we have forgotten the affair:

Perhaps the most pathetic of all the beggars is the old man who stands scrap- ing a fiddle by the bus stop at Clovers- ter-rond Station Newsboys and flower sellers shriek on either side of him Sometimes, he is nearly knocked over by crowds jumping off the bus. Nobody Probably he has ven forgot hears him. ten the tune he is playing. ghost, he is as unreal in the soundless air he is scraping.

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killed, but the accident was singular, it hot auspicious, and his Majesty King Henry VIII was not more imperilled in the tilt-yard than the players in a Cup tie.

We are assured that he was a horse- man of the first order, and often hurled his adversaries from their horses. The latter statement no reasonable man will doubt, but it is not a complete proof of the former: Henry was seen, says the admiring contemporary," in supernatural is that the bookmaker, Herring, who was feats, changing his horses and making employed by Palmer to collret the bets them Ry rather than feap, to the delight due to Cook (which Palmer stole) was and ecstasy of everybody." A spectator the George Herring who died in 1900, of King Henry VITI, would be very ente a millionaire, leaving large sums to her ful to feel like that. A tournament of his was quite as much a pageant as a pitals and charities.

joust. When he came to the tilt-yard at Hampton Court, its five towers (whereof but one remains for our tea) were hung with tapestries and embroideries. The HOW THEY SPREAD THE NEWS. marshal of the lists dressed in cloth of gold, rode at the head of a procession nf That bees which discover an exceptional footinen and dramers and trumpeters. source of honey tell the news to others all mighty fine, of old knights and fords, knights of the same hive by performing a rapid granal as their rank, and of young. dance lasting from 30 to 60 seconds is in white and cloth of silver riding horses revealed in a paper by Dr. Karl von loaded with silver chain work and silver: gold, half purple.. Then the actual jousters Frisch, a German professor of zoology, bells, followed by their pages in conts hall quoted in Future:

By using a glass-fronted observation made their appearance. And then at last, hive and marking the bees with combi- imagine the loyal enthusiasm, his Majesty sations of coloured spots, Professor King Henry VII: "armed cap-pie with Frisch "found that a ber just returned a surcoat of silver bawdnkin. from an exceptional source of supply They took him twice round the lists be passed on the news in the manner defore he began his, "supernatural feats.

It is upon ground this hallowed that we The danes might be repeated in one are now to be permitted to drink ten. +1 от Агле or more plaers in the hive and was Nay, the "beckoning eve Terrible admissions as to the state of Russia under Bolshevist rule are made by observed that the surrounding insects Boleyn, or some of the other hackoning stroked the abdomen of the dancing bee eyes, ney have looked reverently upon Lunacharsky, the Commissar for Educa

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