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HOW BROWNE WAS

CAPTURED.

CONFESSION OF AN

EX-CONVICT,

"AFTER WHAT WE DID TO GUTTERIDGE."

SHEFFIELD.

"I told the police where they could and Browne. I told then they would have to be quick or he would be gone. -

"He was going to Dartmoor to meet a friend. Scotland Yard men went to the garage. They were too late. But, they were waiting for

Browne when he came back,”

sen-

DESCENDANTS OF QUEEN VICTORIA.

PROBLEM OF ECCENTRIC WILL.

TRUST THAT MAY LAST

100 YEARS."

A summons by the Public Trustee in the matter of the £00,000 estate of the late Mr. W. James Villar, of" Tautfield House, Taunton, Somerset, raised the question in the Chancery Division before Mr. Justice Astbary of the validity, in view of the effect of the war and the Russian revolution, of a clause employed in many wills providing that trusts are to continue during the lives of the descendants of Queen Victoria living at the time of the death of the testator, in this case the year 1998.

In these words a Sheffield man who gave vital information to the police is connection with the mur der of P.C. Gutteridge rear Staple-

It was suggested that this pro ford Abbots, Essex, for which

vision was Browne and Kennedy were

now void for uncer tenced to death at the Old Bailey.ainty; it applied to a trust for the distribution of the income of told me the inner history of one of residue after provision of £1,200 the most dramatic incidents in the annuity for the widow. case, writes a Daily Mail corres nondept.

"There was a day," this man told me, when Brown came to the door of my house. He had over his head

Mr. J. H. Stamp appeared for the Public Trustee; Sir Thomas Hughes, K.C, for a married daughter and ber children; Mr. Tophant, KC, for the grand a mask inade of a soldier's cap-children; and Mr. F. Baden Fuller comforter with holes cut for eyes, for the widow. nose, and, mouth, In each hand he held a fully loaded revolver. My of the Queen included members of Mr. Stamp said the descendants wife was terrified Atter that the Russian Royal Family whose ordered him to keep away from the

"

honge.

I made the acquaintance of Browne in. Dartmore Convict Prison, where I was serving a sentence, I got very friendly with him. Most of the convicts there thought he had atile off. I thought he had in- telligence above the ordinary.

"I Reasoned With Him."

"I kept him clear of trouble by reasoning with him. I was head man in our working party and the officer in charge of us recognised that I could keep Browne from doing

things which caused trouble.

"Browne always said he would never do another day's imprison- ment and that he intended to do every day of the four years he was serving so that he would not have to report as a ticket-of-leave man.

"He was released after a long four years of what was hell to him. I think it was the latter end of March last year, but anyway, it was two or three days after his release that I had a letter from him saying that he had a motor car that would just suit me

Bought Car From Browne, "I went to London and saw the ear and bought it. Browne deliver- ed it to me at Sheffield. I intended to turn it into a taxicab. Browne said he would take it to picces and bring me a new one

My wife told me to have nothing to do with this, but Browne took the car to picces and I sold the spare parts.

fate could not now definitely be ascertained, and members of the German Royal Family who might not eventually be traceable for feasons of comparative obscurity,

Married A Waiter.

Mr. Justice Astbury: And there was the lady who married Russian waiter. (Laughter.) I should think the German Royal Family would be rather astonished if you were to tell them they were not well known.

desecadants of Queen Victoria at Sir Thomas Hughes said the the time of Mr. Villar's death in cluded the children of Princess Mary and of the Duke of York, and is the trust was to continuo for 20 years after the death of the last survivor, that might defer the expectation of those who looked to (Laughter.) The trouble and ex- residue to about the year 2028. onse of finding who were living and dead, and proving it strictly, would be almost incalculable.

THE INEQUALITIES OF MARRIAGE...

"PENALISING" WOMEN.

MRS. PETHICK-LAWRENCE'S PROPOSALS.

Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence, in her presidential address to the gist an nual conference of the Women's Freedom League at Caxton Hall, Westminster, said that now women were to have the vote on the same terms as aten the first and immedi ate effect must be the enforcement of obedience to the letter and spirit of the Sex Disqualification (Re- moval) Act. If necessary, an amending bill must be brought for- ward, making a public of private employer who dismissed a woman purely on ground of marriage liable to be called upon to defend his action in a court of law.

fession (she continued) either for Although marriage is not a pro-

man or woman, it is a partnership which has financial obligations as between the two partners concern- ed. There should be legal provi Sions for financially safeguarding these partners, comparable to those provisions which legally safeguard

many financial disabilities against partners in any other co-operative enterprise. At the present time which there is no legal redress are indicted on the wife. Not only is she dismissed from her work for no other reason than marriage: 12 she has a small income she is not allowed as other citizens are a re- bate of her, income tax, and if her husband dies and wills the whole of his property away from her, she has no legal redress. -

Though, in general, affection sad generosity are operative without legal compulsion to make provision for the wife, cases where the wife No publicity is given to these hard- is left penniless are not infrequent. ships because they are known to be incapable of redress: I came across a case recently. The husband died extremely rich, there were no chil- dren, the wife had been married to him from her youth, he had willed away many thousands of pounds and had left her a beggar through no fault of hers, but because in his old age he had taken a whim ties of marriage must be adjusted for another woman. The inequali Mr. Stamp: At some date in the before marriage can be regarded as future many descendants will have

an honourable and voluntary deed acquired foreign nationality, and of partnership, and not a penalis there will be a few morganaticing condition for the fulfilment of marriages thrown in.

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│· Effect Of Revolution.

Mr Justice Astbury: If this sum-ed union. mons had been taken out in 1913, before the war, it would have been hardly arguable, but the Russian Revolution and the establishment of a Republic in Germany are both events which may have an enorTM mous effect in the next 60 or, 80

years.

Browne went back to London, Sir Thomas said that one of the but after that he came to Sheffield sons of the late German Emperor several times. On one occasion was morganstically married and when he was going back to London had children, and an Austrian by road I asked if he was not Archduke who disappeared from afraid of the police stopping him. view in great mystery was known "He replied,. The police are not as Johan Orth, be believed, and so fond of pulling men up in the became the master of a ship. If night after what we did to Gut- the last survivor was to be traced, teridge.* I knew his game with the trust would go on for ever. cars, and from the time when I Mr. Justice Astbury said that in read of the Gutteridge murder I 1922, when they were last ascertain- began to be suspicious. My aused, the 120 lineal descendants of picions were stronger because he Queen Victoria were to be sought had said that he would shoot the in Germany, Russia, Spain, Den- first policeman who pulled him up mark, Norway, Sweden, Greece, Jugo-Slavia, and outside the Con wrong car.

tinent of Europe. If he could hold that this tying-up was invalid he "He also said on one occasion should gladly do so; but he could that if the police came to his garage not, and he must say that the gift to get him he would let them inside was good and hope that someone and then he would shoot them and would take the case higher, where get in a fast car and give them a his judgment might be reversed, in run for it.

view of the general interest which "The police asked me about the attached to the continued use of car I had bought from Browne, this form. They said there was another car running about the streets of London with the same registration.

with a

Shoot And Rua.

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"Browns asked me to go down and look at his garage. I thought! it was, a good chance to clear up the matter of the car, so I went. When I went into the garage, Ken- nedy was there. In the office two revolvers were hanging.

"I said, My word, you didn't' shoot the policeman ?

"Browne said, "No, and if they come here we can show that we were letting motor-lorries out at six o'clock in the morning."

Suspicions Despened. "This made me more suspicious than ever, for I knew they did not open the garago until about nine.

CHASE UP THE EIFFEL TOWER.

GERMANS. SCALE GIRDERS.

TO HOIST THEIR FLAG.

PARIS,

Two young German students were arrested as they were trying to climb the Eiffel Tower to hoist the German Imperial fög over Paris. They took the lift to the first platform and were trying to clam ber up the iron trellis work to the summit, 1,000 feet high, when they were seen by the guards.

An exciting chase ensued at a dizzy" height among the steel Then 1. heard plans for a bur- girders, but the Germans were over- glary discussed. Browne said, "We taken and compelled to come down won't give Kennedy a shooter. We Each had a German Imperial fag don't want any more shooting out in his pocket. of eyes.'

*

At the police station they gave Once Brown came to Sheffield their names as Johannes Mayer with a motor-car. He was short of aged 20, and August Back, aged petrol and I went to show him where 29.

he could get some.

"At Hillfoot Bridge a policeman pulled us up and saked Browne wanted for motoring offences, they where he had been, as a vaaman had said, reported the car for forcing him to drive into a wall. Browne said the vanman had plenty of room to pass,

the women's instinct for love and motherBood, enforced upon her as a lesser evil than that of unlegalis.

Looking back, we see the enor mous change that has taken place in the position of women during the past ten. years. The vast majority of people recognise that this change has not only been of inestimable benefit to women, but to men as well, and to children pre eminently, add to the whole social. community. It is as nothing com- pared to the charge ahead.

QUIZZICAL PUGS.

PETS: RIVALRY FOR WOMEN'S FAVOUR.

•

Pugs from far and wide.com. peted in the Pug Dog Club's open show at the Crystal Palace last month.

When the judging was over a crowd of women surrounded Cham pion Taker Bell, adjudged to be the best pug in the show.

Mra. E. . Knapp, the show secretary and manager, told a re- porter that there were signs that pugs would very soon regain the popularity which they enjoyed lang before Pomeranians or Pekingese were ever seen in Britain."

More and more women, she esid, are beginning to show a preference for the pug's peculiar type of ugliness. It is the quizzical look in a pug's face that is so attractive to women," she explained, and de- clared that there was no more affec tionate animal in the world than & pug.

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LONDON, May, let Although many of the vegetable crops in various parts of the coun- try have been adversely affected by the severe winter, the prospects for the forthcoming fruit season are good.

BERLIN, April 10th. « -Prince Otto von Bismarck, grand son of the Iron Chancellor, and his Swedish bride, Miss Annemarie Tengbom, were married in the Pro- testant cathedral here this morning. A report issued by the Ministry Not since the war has there been of Agriculture and Fisheries stated such a brilliant wedding in Berlin, that severe damage caused to fruit and thousands of people assembled blossoms by the frosts in the middle to see the guests come and go. : of the month appeared to have. President von Hindenburg, whose been etrictly localised. It was un present was a beautiful piece of likely that crop prospects generally Berlin procelain, came with his son with the possible exception of and had a great ovation from the Victorin plums-would have "boen crowd.

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Superintendent Plant, of the Walkley Division of the Sheffield The cathedral was packed and police, was the man who caused the people even stood on the state to Apples and pears are showing. "Dud "* Driving Licence.

arrest of these two men. I had a get a glimpse of the bride and plenty of blossom, despite some shop near his police station and he bridegroom, who stood before an frost damage, and most of the soft "Browne produced his driving used to meet me and talk to me alter parkling with lighted tapers fruits were reported to be " bloɛ-1 lionce a dud, of course. The At Inst my wife persuaded me beneath a canopy of almond bios soming well k

Early strawberry 10 paliceman took particulars. When to tell all I knew. It was about soms.

blossond was affected by the cold. the police could not trace Browne January 14th that I went to Super- The crowd was fascinated by the Autumn-sown vegetables have through these particulars they intendent Plant. Word was sent to bride's beauty and cheered her en generally been det back owing to asked me who he was He was Scotland Yard and they acted, onthusiastically when we left the cold and wet, aki are making flow? | (Continued al foot of next column.) | it.

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