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JAPANESE AT LAW.

SALE OF A WANCHAI BARBER SHOP.

YOUNG WIDOW'S CLAIM FROM MASTERFUL WOMAN.

A young Japanese widow was the plaintif in a Summary action be fore the Puiane Judge, Mr. Justice J. R. Wood, yesterday, and the defendants were husband and wife, also Japanese..

The plaintiff, Mrs, Matako Haya, shida," through her solicitor Mr.

R. Andrewes, claimed from the defendants $500 being the balance due under an agreement for the sale by her to the defendants of a business known as the Hayashida Barber Shop, of 19 Prays East, Wanchai

NEW CHAMBER OF HORRORS.

MORE TERRIFYING THAN THE OLD.

A LEGEND STARTED BY A JOKE,

SOCIETY TIRES OF BUSINESS.

RUSH TO TAKE SHOPS. ENDING.

A FEW SUCCESSES.

The rush of amateurs from society Legend dies hard, and the legend | into "luxury" businesses that be that a reward would be offered to gan after the war has ceased. A anyone spending a night alone in few of the first enthusiasts are now the Chamber of Horrors at Madame | successful; many have retired. Thb Tussaud's is more than usually per- refining processes of experience, have produced the inevitable re- sults

sistent

Lady Victor Faget has been suc- cessful. She started her dressmak- ing business three years ago, and, now," Lady Victor Paget, Ltd.," of Grafton-street, employs fifty. work girls all the year round.

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Yesterday, writes a correspondent to the London Morning Post, I set out to truck this legend to its source. The Manager of the new building in the Marylebone-road knew of no such reward, though he said he had received many letters, from people offering to spend, the She goes to Park once a month night in the new Chamber of in search of models to supplement. The defendants were Mr. and Horrors. These came chiefly from those which she designs herselt. Mr. Shinjiro Nazzawn. The hus-ex-Service men, who feared nothing she chooses and buys herself every band was trading as the Yokohama after the horrors of the battlefields.

thing that appears for sale in her Barber Shop and the wife ran the Mr. Bernard Tussaud," the repre-shop-Parisian imitation jewellery, Chidori Eating House. They were sentative of the sixth generation of silk flowers, trimmings, belts, buc represented by Mr. M. K. Lo. the family to become one of the kles, and handbags.

At the outset of the proceedings, | firm's famous modellers, stated that Mr. Andrewes told the Court that no reward bad ever been offered by he had received a letter from Mr. then.. What gave rise to the Lo indicating the defence which | Legend,” he said, " was a joko made was that the shop was bought by many years ago by Mn George R. the husband and not the wife.

Where The Pursa Is. His Honour asked if that meant that if judgment were entered it would have to be made against the

the husband. Mr. Lo replied that

Sims in Mustard and Cress' Not long before the fire occurred in 1923 and made an attempt to spend the a girl hid herself in the building night in the Chamber of Horrors."

She had to be revived with brandy," he remarked, adding

Ghostly Light.

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it would not matter one way or theas some time before she recovered." other as the only person who seemi-

The new Chamber is likely to be ed to have any money was the much more terrifying than the old wife, and if judgment was entered one. It is an underground cham- against the husband, the wifeber, with massive looking stone

piliara and arched recesses, would pay,

modern developments in lighting are to be used to throw weird faces in this gallery or departed shadows or ghostly light on baleful scoundrels. And that ghostly light will twinkle on the shining original blade of the guillotine that account-

Defendant's Alleged Methods. Outlining the case, Mr. Andrews said that the plaintiff and her husband acquired the barber shop

anc

in 1024. They did not have enoughed for several hundred heads in a money for the purpose and plain single day during the French Re- till borrowed $700 from the winan rolution--a gruesome relicto st defendant, which amount had since the imagination of others besides

the timorous. teen repaid, but the note which she had given for the money had not been returned to her by the woman defendant. Evidence would be called to show that the woman defendant was

for all practical purposes a money lender and that it had always been her habit to retain a note after a loan had been discharged, and to say that she had lost it.

Continuing, Mr. Andrewes said that plaintiff's husband died in 1996 and on May 18th, last year, plaintiff sold her business to both the defendants for $2,800. Plain- tig received only $100 from the husband and. 81,000 from the wife, making $1,100 in all. The plaintiff

In the old days the figures, apart Horrors, were grouped from the on the one foor. In the new build. ing there will be four floors, served by lifts, tenanted by different groups. There will be a Hall of Kings, showing the Kings of Eng. land from William the Conqueror to King George and Queen Mary. The throne will be a replica of the one in Buckingham Palace.

Tur Expert.

Lady Victor's husband, Lord Vic- tor Paget, is one of two partnera who conduct the flourishing fur business of Paget and Christy in Bond-street. Ho is an expert on furs, from first-hand knowledge gained as a trapper in Canada. He customers, and works aine hours a designs, coats and wraps," advises day in the white overall coat of efficient salesmanship.

Mrs. Gordon Leith started her dressmaking business of." Syldag,' in George-street, nine years ago. She moved it, as it increased, into her own house, and her chief show 'Toom now is what used to be her

drawing-room.

The Hon Lady Bingham owns the business of Rose Berlin" in Davies-street. She began as a mil- afterwards. She, too, goes to Paris liner and embarked on dressmaking personally for her models and novelties.

Two other shopkeepers who came from the amateur class have, how- ever, just retired: from Davies- street, Lord Lathom's house de corating business, Fearnley, Ltd., is closed, and, 4 hundred yards sway, Aubrey "owned by Mrs. Dudley Coats-is having a clear-

ance sale. It is not announced whether the business of perfumes and fancy goods will be continued or by whom, but Mrs. Coats herself has retired from competition.

SAIGON RICE MARKET.

There will be a statesmen's group, aporta group, a religious group, and many now figures will appear SLIGHTLY FIRMER TENDENCY, with the old friends, including Lindbergh, Rudolph Valentino, Dempsey, Suzanne Lenglen, Musso- lini, Thomas Hardy, Sir Oliver Lodge, and many others,

FARMER'S DEATH

MYSTERY

was in her turn indebted to the 12 HOURS' QUESTIONING OF woman defendant at the time

amounting to 8900, moneys which

WIDOW,

COLLFORD (Gloucestershire),

March 12th.

The Compagnie de Commerce & de Navigation d'Extrême-Orient in their report, dated Saigon, April 5th, state: Our market has been quiet during the last fortnight. However, the tendency seems to be elightly firmer in sympathy with the Hong Kong market."

There is a good demand from Europa for brokens and the prices have advanceď.

The total amount of rice export- ed from January 1st to March 16th, 1928, is 338,356,621 tons against 301,399.579 tons in 1997.

she had borrowed during her hus The Scotland Yard detectives in band's illness. It was "then sug-vestigating the mysterious circums: gested that this amount should betances of the death of Mr. Harry

Pace, a sheep farmer, of Fetter rice No. 1 25 per cent. brokens We quote to-day White Saigon set of against the balance of pur-Hill, Forest of Dean, regarded the round grain: Hong Kong $8.48 per chase money due her. The pro- necessity for eliciting the full facts picul of 334 lbs. fo.b. Saigon; 11s. possi was accepted and thus a as being so urgent that they could

not permit the rigour with which id. per ewt. fo.b. Saigon; Yen 6.80 balance of $800 was due to the Sunday in observed in the Forest to per pical of 134 lbs. fo.b. Saigon. plaintiff. A proinissory note, bear-interrupt their inquiries.

White Saigon rice No. 2 sifted While Chief Inspector Cornish Japan quality: Hong Kong $5.05 ing the signatures of both husband and Detective Sergesat Campion, per pical of 134 lbs. 1.0.b. Saigon; and wife, was made" out and hand the Scotland Yard officers, waited ios. d per ewt. £o.b. Saigon; ed to the plaintiff, who in her turn at Coleford Police Station this Yes 6.25 per picul of 134 lbs. Lo.b.- gave them the sales note.

morning, Inspector Beat, of the Saigon. county police, went at 8.30 am." to

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writing out the sales note, Mr. Andrewen added, the plaintiff did ee at the dictation of the woman

The two children were Doris, .defendant, and she was asked to state in the document that the aged 11,, and Leslie, aged a They were questioned by Chief Inspector business was sold to the husband Cornish until lunch time, when' only. Mr. Andrewe added that they were taken back to their home. Leslie Pace is the boy who, his woman defendant

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VON TIRPITZ AND LUDEN- den growth, and ended as abruptly

DORFF.

na it was begun. It was not merely Irie failure on the Western from in 1918 that discredited him, it was

to Sweden, where he sat composing his memoirs and bargaining about them with English publishers, while, Hindenburg was leading the armies back into Germany,

that was owing to herself. Y Dorothy Pace, the 17-years-old This came to the knowledge of daughter. She, her mother has the woman defendant, who told stated, found a poison bottle in the plaintiff that she did not like the grate of her father's bedroom inst way the promissory note was being relapse began. A

Christmas Day, when Mr Pace's handed round. The woman. défen-

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Mr. Pace for four months last. evidence to support, his client's autumn was treated at Gloucester claim.

Infirmary for the effects of arseni- Evidence from the plaintiff was cal poisoning he came in contact then taken and the case was then with arsenic when using sheep dip. adjourned until Monday April Alter a subsequent 17-days' illness

he died on January 10th.

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