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JUDGE AND AN HONOURABLE AND DECENT. WOMANAL
MOTHER LOSES SUIT AGAINST SON,
TEN YEARS SENTENCE ON A BISHOP.
SOVIET “JUSTICE.“
CHRISTIAN TEACHING
CRIME.
Moscow.
MAINTENANCE AFTER SIXTEEN.
Judgment for the son was deliver
ed by Mr. Justice Rowlatt, in the King's Bench Division on February 8th, in the action brought by a mother against her son for £00 for nccessaries and necessary service pall by her for him.
The plaintiff was Mrs. Lily E. Her bert, of Hans-mansions, Hans-road, SW, and the defendant Arnald Cuthbert Herbert, of Meads-road, Edgware.
to become a missionary.
Mr. Justice Rawlatt described the case 18 a very difficult one, although it arose under almost ludicrously simple circumstances. The mother was under no legal obligation to support her son, and she struck him as being an honourable and decent woman who desired to do what she vertine could for the man. lived up to her responsibility. There was a document in the case which bad caused the trouble, and in which the son promised to refund to his mother the money she spent on him after he was sixteen, until he was self-supporting.
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WIGS DO NOT MAKE JUDGES BALD
AIDS TO DIGNITY
After a three days' secret. trial The suggestion, a at Moscow, My Ulrich, the Presi- time to time, that dent of the Soviet Supreme Mah. Apa
advanced from and robes
of our law bèrents and
Alexander
tary Court, ejecting the charge of enhance the spying, sentenced Bishop Skalick, courts has had als leader of the Polish Catholic its opponents through more than Minority in the Russian Ukraine, to ten years impessonment and five a hundred years years deprivation of his rights as Hamilton was among the latters at Soviet citizen, on the Counter legat so far as wigs were concerned. Revolution charge alone. Fossibly it is to him more then to
This was the full penalty de- Armenian Katoyan, or both counts place in the legal millinery of the manded by the State Attorney, the any other that wigs do not and
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revolution-the maximum vártualBeat Western Republic It was stated that the son wasty possible under the Amnesty Tro is, however, an additional at present in a mission college, and Decree promulgated on the tenth digh.ty about the robe worn by an it was understood that he was going anniversary of the October Revolu-American judge from the fact that
tion theoretically abolishing capi--
pen court who he is the only person in o Waile indignantly "denying any wears one. Robeless counsel, even tal punishment. connection with the Follth Intel in the bighest courte, impart a higence Department Bishop Skalski proudly admitted that he had curious free-and-easy atmosphere worked to maintain unimpaired the to the scene; and to behold a lead- Poko-Catholic culture of his flock, keeping in touch with the Catholic 3 American advocate on a very Hierarchy of Poland, ending hot day addressing the court in his HOMEWARDS FOR BRINDISI, VENICE AND TRIESTE. youths to be educated at Polish shirt-slerves and caressing his
organising secret braces 11 8 Church schools (to resist the seminaries,
si here is wout Atheistic teaching of the Soviet to clutch the folds of tis State), and this was considered a voluminous gown leaves an impres- grive orime." Counter-revolusion which time can never eradi tion" under the, draconian Soviet laws was aggravated In this case rate. by the fact that it was committed in the Ukraine, to whose cultural movements the Soviet Government have always been excessively sene tive
The point is whether this was a legal contract or whether it was a domestic promise. The defendant is a young man of high principles and high character, and is embark ing on a very high calling. His first duty is to do what he can to make good to his mother the money and self-sacrifice which she has made on his behalf. W
I do not think I can regard this document as a real legal contract, and I can only regard it es & domes tic promise. Therefore the plaintify fails in her action, and there must be judgment for the defendant.
**I still say," added the Judge, that whatever happens, this young man, if he wants to be self-respect ing, will do what he can and refund the money to his mother and help her in her struggles
Mr. Justice Rowlatt added that Mra. Herbert had carried on against difficulties which entitled her to the Her future respect of everyone. happiness rested upon the good feel- lug and the hope that her son would respond,
Judgment was entered in favour of the sea, and no order was made as to costs.
Bishop Skalski's trial was long postpened, and then held in mera at the request of the Polish Legation, Moscow, some of its em- planes having bean charged in the indictment with co-operating with Bishop Skalski in the alleged cepionage
No further reaction on the Polish aide is reported or seems to be ex- pected here at present, although discreet stop may be taken later to obtain a reduction of the harsh sentence on the Bishops
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In hot weather wig may be come something of an encumbrance; and not a few judges set the Bar an example of occasionally discard- ing it, at least in the dog daya Thirty years ago convention in this regard was stronger, though I have seen the majestic Lord Chief Jus tice Coleridge himself remove his
a few feeling seconds in CONSIGNEE NOTICES. CONSIGNEE NOTICES. order to mop his head
From that occation one might have argued that the habitual wear-
HIS BED AND WHITE CHECK
SHIRT IN RANCH DIORAMA.ing of makes, a man very baldu. Actually it is asserted, and LONDON, Feb. 6th with some substance, that wigs have The Prince of Wales yesterday nothing to do with baldness. One, finally approved of a dicams very distinguished occupant of the design of his Canadian aneh. Bench, many years ago, wore two The picture will be exhibited et wigs is court, He had lost all his the British Inkinstales Fairwinch hair zs the rest of fearlette opens at the White City, Staphice d's-
Mrs. Herbert, conducting her own case asked the Judge if she could get further advice in the matter.Buah, W
Mr. Justice Rowlatt I cannot say Yes or No. This is a free country, and you can get what ad vice you like. Let me recommend you to be a little tactful about it. Suppose you get judgment against your son, you have no way of getting the money. However, I will not say Any more.
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Everybody is interested in crime; three-quarters of the even- ing paper placards are concerned,
as a rule, with the Tatest crime,? said Mr. Alexander Paterson, Com missioner of Prisons, speaking on "Prison reform" at the Working Men's College, St. Pancras Very arly three-quarters of the books for sale on the railway bookstalls are concerned with crime. There s no subject so interesting to human nature as crime. Interest in cume is universal but, after all," it is sordid and unprofitable one."
What they wanted people to take an interest in was not cricus bat the criminal. There would always
Llife
The picture shows the Prince, osed on the wig worn for daily accompanied by Professor W L Carlyle, his manager, riding Mid night, one of his favourite horses A VICTIM OF THE TURK. He is dressed in typical ranch clothes, with open dirt and riding breeches.A TORTONA
The moment he saw the diorama be recognised Midnight and whis pered, Good old boy,”
"Now, what about the colour, sir he was asked.
Oh, give me red and white
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The remarkable death of an ex- goldier named Herbert Ernest Burne, 85, of Risborough Lane. Cheriton Folkestors, was inquired into by Dr. F. J. Waldo, the City
check shirt with red and blue rib Coroner av bonthe Guards colours-round Mrs. Burn said her husband, a myat,' promptly replied the lorry driver'e mate, joined the | Prince
Army at the age of 17, and while Let me see,” he added with a serving in the Royal West Kent smile Carly had a dirty grey Regiment under General Town shirt, but he looked jolly well shend in Kut, was taken prisoner. in it. Let him ref that." He told her that a Turk out his
"The
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a
"CANCER IS NOT HEREDI.
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On January 23rd, while in High 30 HOURS ORDEAL IN A Street Cheriton, he had a fit of coughing, which caused the tube to break. He was operated on at the Victoria Hospital Folkestone, and SHIP on February let was tranferred to a St. Bartholomew's Hospital If you think that you have any of the symptoms described in these articles you should be examined by your doctor or at a hospital at
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Dr. Keginald H. Bettington, house surgeon at St. Bartholo mew's, said part of the broken tube was found in the left branchus The left Jung was completely col laped An operation was per "[BY A··PHYSICIAN.] formed and several attempts made: Westerly Channel galà:"on", the
Bora mother
be some membéry of a community who at times would break its ralen, At one time the criminal was per- Neither a father sor manently banished, then it was for on pass cancer on to the child mited period. What was the The investigation into thousands of purpose of prison. Is was to pro- human, family histories and er fect society. Without a prison mous number of animal experie system naither life nor property ments prove life that cancer is not transmitted from parent to would be sale for an hour,
They could offer two sorts of pro-child. Ve tection to society against its It appears from theme zemearcher criminals, but it was better to pro that a tendency towards the com vide permanent rather than tem- plaint can be, and often is, porary protection. If prisons were mitted, but that is the only senke so run that men were changed and in which cancer can be regarded as turned into honest citizens then hereditary There is no signa at the system would have performed taching to candens used to be its proper functions
held
Cancer se o misfortune feat
Wo kar of no the immediate éx113 agidance of
There had been two ways of try ing to turn thieves into honest men. Que was by the policy of deterrence based on fear and the other thas 61 reform-based on hope. The policy of deterras based on fear y had fanded
In this country, it was now re-ević cognised that the way to protecti rocistyagaader the criminaliwa to make tim into an honest worked; and to accomplish this, not by ing to frighten him but to take him as he was and train him
a good citizen. Prins abould al ways be training centros of human- character. For the purpose sentence must often be longer and the prison inge different from what
to remove the obstruction, but could be dislodged.
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RAMSGATE, Feb 8th. The crew of the Ramsgate motor lifeboat Frudential, after being more than thirty hours to sea, posed to the fury of a fierce south treacherous Goodwine, struggled once
to Ramsgate this afternoon has been given,
They had succeeded in Kaying,
Claims will be adh Mr. R. Wade, hon visiting samsthelist said although the with her crew, the Trench steam Goods have left the Oodoras, and 23
trawler
Oyelone, which stranded Goods remaining redelive patient was not fit for an opera or the northern part of the Good 14th March, tion, it was his only chance.
Wins on Friday nighti
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San Bernard Spilebury, who made a post-mortem examination, raid he found fatty, discase of the heart muscle
Thank God we are home again. We thought it was all up with us, said one of the heroic lifeboatos
a cather beaten, : dog-b anked to the skin their boat.
Jove
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Replying to the Coroner, he said the strain of war ervice and the
Rush To The Rescue fact that the man's that was cut
lone, with & wow probably weakened his heart. When the
under Captain Sir Bernard added tast the man had been living with only one lung
eground, both the by the Vaders boats, with the Deat Rodit was rather walk The tube Ram
boat Lady Beatty, and hich appeared to have been made motor
alumnium, had sharp points the steam tugs Lady Brusscy sid when it broke and had worked its
through the whole bronchne gerous type of metal.
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form
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in the and two of the crew of the Dea
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