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LONELY LIFE.

WHY LADY HOUSTON FORSAKES THE WORLD.

REST AT LAST.

Roces, Jan. 8th Loneliness and rest have been raptured at last by Lady Houston, England's woad thiest woman, widow of the great shipowner, Sir

YOUNG WIFE'S DEATH.

MEDICAL- ELECTRICAN SENT,

FOR TRIAL

EX-NAVAL OFFICER'S

EVIDENCE.

Marlborough-threet Police Court, Charles Jackson Palmer, fifty-nine, medicat alectrician, of Upper Brook-street, Mayfair, was charged with the murder af Mrs. Elsie Alice Goldsmith, the twenty one-year-old wife of Valentine H. She is living now for the sime Goldsmith, wireless expert, of being in ber splendid yacht | Gordon-square, W.C. Liberty, lying at moorings in a Dr. Henry Weir, who made the wide reach of the Seine, some dis tance from the tiny village of Fal De La Hay, between Rouen and

Robert Houston

the se

The anchorage has been well, chosen for complete remoleness, There is no habitation in sight; nothing but the wind-swept river and the wintry hills. The crew find their greatest excitement in watch

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death was due to syncope and post-mortem examination, said shock. Mrs Goldsmith was expect ing to become a mother.

Mr. Norman Birkett, K.C., who appoured for Palmer, suggested Prit denth from electrocution might be described as from shock,

Dr. Weir said he believed that in electrocution death was due to respiratory failure.

that death was due to shock follow. Sir Bernard Spilsbury agreed ing a passing oil-tanker or Wolshing an injection of some soapy collier. The only link with the rest of the world is the occasional trip of the Liberty's motor launch to Rouen for supplies.

Lady Houston came here just after Christmas, crossing the Chan- pol in the wildest storm of the year, when even the Dover Packet boats auspended their service, and she remains 'bers until she moves! to a quiet country retreat she has secured elsewhere in France.

She has no personal friends with hor, only her young woman secre tary-and her servants, and, in the background, as part of berealm, the sixty officers and men of the Liberty-the sixteen hundred-ton pleasure ship which costs approxi- mately £700 a week to maintain in commission.

Sale Of Securities.. When I visited the Liberty, journeying by a villainous motor road out of Rouen, I learned the reasons which prompted, Lady Houston to seek this luxurious state of solitude away from Eng-

land.

For some time past she has her self beet directing the whole of the negotiations for the sale of securities valued at £1,500,000, which, when realised, will go to the settlement of her cheque for that amount which she passed to Mr. Churchill at the Treasury

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There is a una in LondoT" "WHO": has not had a cold for fifteen years. He is Mr. Mark Clement, of the Physiology Department in the Middlesex Hospital, London, W., and he attributes his "well-nigh Olympian immunity" to the fact that he wears no underclothing.

Mr. Clement has made desperate efforts to catch cold during past years, for the sake of science, but all his efforts to do so have failed. "The fact that my own im- munity from colds has been so re- markably consistent has led me to speculate why normal, healthy people are so prone to catch them,” he writes in the current issue of the "Lancet."

In my opinion it is often be- cause their clothes are gressly in solution. In his opinion the effect excess of their actual needs, and would be immediate, and death I think that the subjecs of over- would result in a minute or two. -

Cross-examined by Mr. Birkeft,olothing demande our serious con- Sir Bernard said death from elec sideration. trocution

Sometimes death from shock and sometimes from the injuries cauad. If there were no marks of injury, death was due to shock.

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Electrocution.

"The modern Briton as soon as

he is born is promptly wrapped up in yaris of woolens and though it| is, of course, true that the beat- regulating mechanism DI the Mr. Birkett: "Is that the stop-ed for some time, this is no reasoT human infant remains ill-develop- page of the heart's action-Sir for continuing the wrapping-up pends upon the strength of the come acclimatised to its surround. BernardSometimes, yes. It do process when the oragnism has be current, the nature of the current.

ings.. And the course through the body:

which it takes

Sir Bernard, agreed that there were some known cases where death was occasioned from a small elec- trical current. He thought that in this case death was due to shock from an injection rather than from electrocution. He thought that shock and death falowed im- mediately upon an injection.

Thioughout Childhood.

"The ritual of mummifying babies is continued throughout childhood and adolescence, so that the skin ramaly comes into direct contact with air and light, its natural stimuli.

"A sudden change of temp ra- ture may suffice to cause a bolu in people whose heat-regulating unphysiological nursing. mechanism has been vitiated by

Mr. Valentine Harry Goldsmith, retired Paymaster Commander of the Royal Navy, said he was mar-

"As a matter of routine, there red in Sepuanber, the honeymoon

fore, the whole body should be ex- being spent on the Riviera His and winter, for a certain time and posed to the light daily, summer wife became nervous about herself, and stayed indoors during the normal, healthy individuals. The no underclothing zeed be worn by evening instead of wanting to adoption of this somewhat Spartan out to dances or the theatre. Wit ness described their first visit to of the organism and vivity every regine will raise the general tone the defendant's datablishment. His wife asked him if the wanted to stay

bodily function. during the consultation, and when be replied he did not mind what he did, his wife replied, "Run along then. I wiff do the talking."

Replying to Mr. Birkett, witness said: "My wife was Now,

ALF this busined has naturally been in trying task. Lady Houston laims that she is the only woman In the world who has ever taken over such financial dealings entire- ly on her own initiative. when the transactions are "all bui complete, she desires to rest.

Jag extra-

ordinary mixture of a very bril innt httle girl and дл extreme kant in many ways. She was very child. She wrote and she was bril independent and self-confident."

Highly Sensitive. "Did your wife appear to be. rather highly strung?"." Yes.”

And sensitive amount money matters.-Yes, vary

She looks back on her interviews aith Mr. Churchill and Sir Doug lus Hogg, the chief law officer of the Government, with some niea- sure of pride and Entisfaction. She feels proud that she, a woman acting without advice and on her own initiative, het and tackled those two members of the Mr. Percival Clarke (re-examin- Cabinet, as she did. Particularly ing): What do you mean by "sen- so as at the first interview Mr.sitive about money matters "1 Churchill

sought to obtain £2,000,000 from her, and at the end he was glad accept a million pounds less than that figure, as an art of grace on her part.

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Witness: Well, let me give an instance. A fortnight before her death she told me she had taken a course of vibro-massage for her head. I thought, perhaps, she had been talked over by a alêver barber, and mentioned it to her. She far- ed up for a moment, and I realised that one must handle these things gently."

Mr. Birkett submitted that there was no case for committal on the charge of murder. It had been laid down that in cases of alleged illegal acts it must be proved by

Begging Lotters. Another of the reasons why Lady Houston came away from London and into loneliness was to escape the enormous number of begging; letters which reach her. A Dum her of the most pathetic of these appeals she had investigated, only to receive a report that in every case the writer was a fraud of the prosecution that the act was professional beggar.

oze which any reasonable man Consequently she has turned her might reasonably expect to cause back on all this correspondence, death, Sir Bernard Spilsbury had and has escaped it in her yacht.

said that in this case the possibility ol death was remote.

It is now nearly two years ago that Sdr. Robert Houston, her hus Mr. Mend, the magistrate, said he After Mr. Clarke had replied, band, died in Jersey, leaving a did not think he was at liberty to fortune of £7,000,000, Lady Houston still believes firmly that manslaughter. That would have to reduce the charge from murder to there was something sinister in the death of, her husband. She states

be settled in a higher Court. ber argument for this with em was committed for trial at the Old Palmer, who reserved his defence, phants. It was beenuse of her ficel-Bailey. ing in this matter that she had on- graved on her husband's tombstone the words, "who

died most mysteriously."

The greater part of her time in the Liberty is spent in the large fone cabin, which is her bedroom. All the windows on one side of the cabin, giving on to the promenade deck, are kept fully opon, and through them she watches the river steamer traffic passing.

CONDEMNED CELL BABY

MOTHER SINGS TO HER.

PARIE.

observed for the past fifteen years, 14 This is a rule I have strictly during which my immunity from colds has been well-high Olympian. utmost to catch cold by visiting the I must add that I have done my

mast virulent cases, but so far all my wilful attempts to infect my. sell have dismally failed.

still continue to eschew underclothing throughout the year, and I never feel the need for it in any weather,"

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