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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 11th, 1928.

A TRAGIC WIDOW.

THE SUSPENSE OF MRS. PACE.

HUSBAND'S DEATH MYSTERY,

£50,000 NECKLACE THIEF.

POSTAL SORTER CON- FESSES.

After seven weeks of investiga- GOING BLIND WITH WORRY. tion by Scotland Yard and the Ficach police the mystery of the £30,000 pearl necklace, which vanished in postal transit between Parts and London on February 23rd inst, has beca solved.

FETTER HILL, Forest of Dean. Mrs. Harry Paco is the tragic widow of Gloucestershire, and her caso as she related it deserves atten tive consideration, writes a Daily Mail correspondent..

On January 10th her husband died, and, following representations made by his own relatives, the funeral was stopped and a coroner's inquest opened Three months have elapsed since then, but the inquiry stlit goes on and Mrs Pace is still in suspense.

There was, she pointed out, one' adjournment of the inquest for an examination of the dead man's re- mains. The pathologist's report was eventually received by the police early in March.

Scotland Yard detectives then conducted investigations, stayed hore for 10 days, and returned to town. The coroner sat again and adjourned the inquest over Easter.

He resumed the inquiry, when further evidence of the dead man's relatives was taken a campaign of insinuation, Mrs. Pace's lawyer called it. Mrs. Pace fainted in court under the ordeal Then thore was another adjournment.

Farish Relief,

The French police have arrested in Paris a postal sorter who con- fessed to the theft, and the neck lace, composed of 57 rose-cream pearls of perfect orient, was found in an old coat which the man had sent to his mother at Toulouse, in southern France,

The necklace was despatched on February 2d by Mesars Cartier, the Paris jewellers, to their branch in Bond Street, W. It never reach- ed there, and inquiries were at once

A reward of £10,000 was offered begun on both sides of the Channel.

through Messrs. Tyler, assessors, of London, for its recovery.

Package No. 264.

to

The package was registered and bore the number 204. A package bearing this number was sent from Dieppe to Newhaven and on Victoria, where it was checked as having been received. It was from this point that Chief Inspector Cooper, of Scotland Yard, and

I found Mrs. Pace in the private detectives began their inves three-roomed cottage in the hills | tigations. where her husband died. It is on the outskirts of a mining village at Victoria every package was pur When the mail-bags were sorted three miles from Coleford, where into its area bag te be delivered the inquest is being held. Slag heaps scar the surrounding forest, from the local post office. It was and a muddy path leads to the possible at that time to ascertain lonely but.

the address or destination of pack ago No. 264.

Mrs. Pace has existed on relief from the guardians and the little belp her friends give her. She is

According the General Post Office circularised every post office in the 30 years of age, is still good-look-country asking for information of ing, and has had 10 children, of the checking of this particular pack whom five, three boys and two age and the address to which the girls, are still alive. They are all postman delivered it. living with their mother and depend-Last month it was ascertained that ent on her.

the packago No. 284 was delivered

KNIGHTS OF MUSIC.

DINNER TO SIR E GERMAN.

DEET TO TWO DISREPUTABLE KINOS,

The dinner at the May Fair conferred on Edward German was Hotel to celebrate the knighthood a very lightly affair. In addition to the guest of the evening there Tere such musicians as Sir Edward Elgar (who made a speech-a_rare event, for few have heard Elgar save in the musical sense), Bir Alar man of eighty, Sir Hugh Allen, Sir ander Mackenzie, a vigorous chair- Landon Ronald, recovered from a very serious illness, Sir Richard Terry and Sir Hamilton Harty. Sir Thomas Beocham put in a brici appearance, but left before the soup arrived.

Sir Alexander.drew attention to the fact that Edward German owed his first prominence to two par ticularly disreputable monarchs, Richard III. and Henry VIII. It cidental music to these plays when was by German's overtures and in- produced at the old Lyceum that England realised that a new com-

the Buckingham of the famous pro- Poser of importanes had arisen.

Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, duction of Henry VIII.," replied for the Drama, and his phrases of gracefully-turned optimism made the "crook plays of today seem. very far distant.

:

Elgar Condemns Folk-song. Sir Edward Elgar made, I think, nouncements when he declared that one of the most momentous pro-

Folk-songs are all very well for those who cannot invent their own elaboration seems to be the chief tunes," for folk-song and its

concern of the modern British com poser, who delights in its shackles.

of the anti-Elgariaus

await with interest the onslaught

Some of Sir Edward German's part-sanga and less important com- positions were performed during dinner. They are a proof of how excellent good light musis can be. From Mr. Arthur Wimperia, the dramatist, who was in a group with Mr. E. V. Lucas and that composer 21 admirable light music, Mr. Herman Finck, they drew the re- to good English music one can be mark that When one is listening

Mrs. Paco was nursing the to a firm of book-sellers in Oxford Pretty sure that it is German."

youngest, a baby a few months old suffering from water on the brain.

"I never know whether it will live from day to day," she said, rocking herself to and fro. I was a strong woman once. I was strong when Harry died, but I can hardly see you now. My eyes are failing through worry and I am nearly blind. I cannot sleep. I cannot work while this case drags on.

They have not even heard my side of it in court yet. I could have given evidence at first, but I do not know whether I have the strength now.

Widow's Pension. "I want to leave this house, where my troubles have come to me, but I must not even do that, until it is all over. I am to be allowed to draw a widow's pension for the first time next week, but they won't pay me the arrears from the date of Harry's death until the coroner bas finished.

That is what I am relying on to pay for my..delence. Up to now I have borrowed a little from my brother, who is a poor man, but the lawyers' fees are very heavy.

Happiness As A Servant,

"I was & general servant at Hampstead once and happy. Then I came back to my home near here, but Harry courted me for one day and I married him, . I have worked. ever since. I never wanted to go to the pictures. I knitted and sewed for the children, but I cannot work now.

"When the detectives from Scot land Yard questioned me they kept me at the police station all day."

"Do you think it will all be over this week

Oh, I hope so. They tell me. may, but I cannot believe' it. don't believe in anything now."!

I left her rocking the crying baby by the fire, still waiting, waiting..

SHOT CONSTABLE.

AVORY.

Street, W.

It was obvious that somebody had taken the little box containing the pearla en route, had torn off the to another packet registration number and affixed it

Thief Terrified By Value Of The Necklace.

PARIS, April 15th.* The French detective service has kept a close watch on the sorters and post office officials at the Rue Cambon post office and at the sort ing office No. 9, Rue St. Rock,

Last night they arrested Felix Seberac, a sorter, aged 32, and charged him with the theft. After affirming his innocence for some hours, Seberae broke down and con- fessed. Ho said:

ADMIRAL SIR SYDNEY FREMANTLE.

SON OF "FATHER ON NAVY" RETIRES.

It was announced on April 13th that Admiral Fremantle has been placed on the

Sir Sydney R retired list at his own request, to date April 5th, and in consequence Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick L.. Field has been promoted admiral.

Sir Sydney Fremantle, who is 80, comes of one of Britain's hereditary naval families. His great-grand- father commanded Neptune, the third ship in the line at Trafalgar, the Navy; his father, Admiral Hon. three of his great-uncles served in Sir Edmund R. Fremantle, aged $1, is still alive as the father of the

I was dealing with a rather heavy post when I came across a small box which had been crushed between two bags. I could see the pearls through a cut in the Navy" and his son is now on side of the box, and I suddenly China as a lieutenant of Hollyhock. bis way home after two years in decided to take them. I do not know why,

"

I took off the registration num ber and stuck it on an unregister ed package. The box containing the pearls I put in my pocket

I did not know what to do with them afterwards, and I was ter- rified when a week or so later heard they were worth £30,000. hid them away and tried to think

I

During the war, as Rear Admiral, be planned and carried out the evacuation of Helles, Gallipoli, ons whole of the arrangements for the of the most brilliant tactical opera tons of the war.

He was in command of the First Battle Squadron which constituted the guard of the German fleet in- ice was for the guard to go to terned at Scaps Flow. The pric

out a plan for restoring them to their owners. I first thought that occasionally for gunnery sad I would go to see a priest and torpedo practices, and it was on an cccasion of this kind that the ask him to send them back, but was frightened of discovery and did nothing.

LAND OF STRIKES.

3,061 DISPUTES IN & MONTHS

IN RUSSIA,

GENEVA, The extent to which Soviet Rus sia has been suffering, from indus TRIAL BEFORE ME. JUSTICE statistics published by the Interns trial troubles is revealed by further tions! Labour Office here.

From October 1928 to March 1927, In legal circles the trial at the it is stated, 3,581 disputes were the Old Bailey of Frederick Guy subject of adjudication, 2,667 of Browne and William Henry Ken- them relating to State under- nedy, who are charged with the takings,

murder of Constable Gutteridge st During the following six months Stapleford Abbott, Essex on the number increased by 25 per September 27th, is regarded as cent. Na ka likely to be one of the most im The total number of workers in portant that has taken place involved exceeded 2,600,000, of whom recent years says a copy to hand 2,500,000 were in State employment of a Home paper, so we a

Disputes arising from the en- The trial is expected to be held forcement of Soviet legislation before Mr. Justice Avory, and it during the six months from Octo may last five or six days, in ber 1929 exceeded 12,000, involving It is understood that leading 383,000 workem, and the report counsel for the prosecution will be that there has since been Sir F. Boyd Merriman, KC, the continuous increase in this type of newly appointed Solicitor-General, He will be assisted by Mr. H. D. dispute, and in the number of em

ployees affected. Roome, who conducted the case at South-Western Police Court, and

Courts And Unions

&

by Mr. G. B. MeOluro, bisedores The arbitration courts gave deci- Kennedy is to be defended by sicus favouring trades imions in Mr. Frank Powell, the barrister more than 50 per cent, of the cases, who at the trial at Guildford of awards in favour of the employers the Frenchman Vaquier, convicted being only 15 per cent, and the of the murder of Mt. A P. Jones, remaining disputes,being settled by landlord of a Byfleet botol, Tapie-compromise. ·In 1925 there were aented the widow, Mrs, Jonas. 25) 200 štrikes.

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HOW BOXERS TRAIN, HEENEY'S TWO MEALS A DAY. APPRECIATION OF AMERICA

Active and hard training, whether

sink their shipa: Germany book the opportunity to a fight is in prospect or not, and two meals a day are among the The fleet returned at full speed

chief requisites for boxing success.

This is the view taken by Tom and saved the Baden hattleship, three cruisers, and some 20. des. Heeney, the New Zealand heavy. troyers, including the flagship of weight, who has now been matched Admiral von Beater, who was taken against Gene Tunney for the sham- as a prisoner in Admiral Freman- pionship of the world, Speaking to tie's flagship, Revenge, to Inver-reporter, he said gordon,

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James George Aldridge, age 50, of At an inquest at Camberwell on Childebert-road, Tooting, B. W., who shot himself at his home, Albert Lawson, his servant for 35 years, said that his mater had no in toreale except betting and drinking. He had tried to keep his master from his excessive drinking, but had not succeeded.

A letter written by Aldridge and

addressed to My faithful friend

am having

short spell in Lawson," concluded, "I am mad. England now, as I have had nine Aldridge left all his furniture to hard fights in nine months. But Lawson after the payment of debte when I go back to New York I shall wounting to d take up strict training again. In A niece stated that "Aldridge in- winter in New York I get up about herited family property, on the 7.30 and do road work before break-proceeds of which he had lived fast; then a shower bath and almost all his life. Recently he had

borrowed money down rub dekat always have his rent and had not paid grapefruit and other fruit, as well Mr. Cowburn, the coroner, in re as chops, and egge or something of cording a verdict of Suicide while the kind

of Unsound Mind, esid apparently Then a stroll about till one Aldridge had come to the end of PARIS o'clock when I begin two hours is money through betting. striking condemnation of Com gymnasium work. Skipping, punch- munist propaganda da France has ball, ground exercises, and boxing been made by Cardinal Dubois, are included in this. A sparring Archbishop of Paris, in a letter partner for two minute rounde

Speaking of his prospects against published recently. Despite his 2- costs 23 dolars a day, so it Tunney, Heeney said it luctance to interfere in political rather expensive

very much appreciate Ton affaira, he says he cannot, refrain 165.30 I have dinner, my ney's action in selecting me as his from pointing out the dangers of second and last meal of the day. Opponent, although 1 am a foreign Communism. He adds Two meals a day enough for and not in his opinion the

the formal neither Clod dor simply habit. Plenty of salade and my mind, Tunney

Communism does not only mean anybody and the three menis weakest of the three he had to Master, but it is also the zegt fruit are included in my diet tion of family life, of private in the evening I usually go to red per cent better fighter than property, and of the Mother a cinema or the Ent part of a show, brains more than some of my pro he is given credit for. He uses hid Country. It is an appeal to or take a short meter drive. I gbvious opponentes porque nous sensusi selfishness and to brute to bed at 10 every night. force, of which the first victima

choose from..

Still I don't think I will die would be those very persons who Appreciation of Tunney grace, New Zealand" preach its doctrine.

great place to be Mr. Bernard Mortimer sald, that Communism is not a political train in, and a like the people, he was still trying to see if it were opinion. It is a revolution in For young people, however, 1 rst possible, to stage the fight in. Eng. tha making, and a permanent commend my own, country -Now land, but he was not optimatid menace to justice, good order, and Zealand.

www owing to the huge parse, which society at large.

would bare to be paid to Tunney,

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