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GOLF NOTES.

By R.HH).

number Rather a surprising travelled out to Fanling at Iset and in consequence in was hotter out there than it has been for weeks. At least this gave one a chance to appreciate the admirable discretion which wout to the build. ing of the Halfway House. Any breeze that there is on the course seems to visit that Biesful few feet d shade, while to the really thirsty Han it is surprisingly accessible.

LAWN TENNIS.

HONG DOUBLES,

The positions of the surviving pairs in the Hong Doubles Tourna ment of the Hong Kong Cricket Club are follows:-

"

But in spite the heat and the anasuśl Isak af rain; the curse' is showing no sign of becoming dry. which is a good sign in view of the hard times it has to stand during the winter season. Both greens. :-

(1) Lt. Col. Wyatt and Rev. F. F. “W, Alexander owe 15/3, 20 (9) W. D. Fiddes Wilson and R. “Gordon" (Jardine," "Matheson)

SCI.

(3) T. D. E. Pendered and E.-D. Lawrence (A.P.C.) Towe 3/6 t. G. W. Sewell and H-Owen Hughes owe 15/2

(4). A. D. Humphreys and R.

Valentine (Dodwell & Co.) owe 15.

WATER POLO LEAGUE.

DELAYED. „

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 14th, 1928.

£1,250,000 LOSS OF REVENUE.

MR. CHURCHILL " CUTS

HIS BETS TAX.

EVASION

RÅTE ON THE COURSE HALVED.

The betting tax will be reduced on October 1st from 2 per cent, to 1 per cent on racecourses, and from 34 per cent. to 9 per cent. on credit beta. Revenue amount ing to £1,950,000 will be lost by this sweeping reduction, which fol lows Mr. Churchill's recent admis sion that there has been widespread evasion of the tax.

LADY BONN'S PETITION DISMISSED.

JUDGE'S NARRATIVE OF THE CASE.

WOMEN HE HOPES NEVER TO SEE AGAIN.

The divorce petition of Lady (Hilda Beatrice) Bonn against har second husband, Sir Max Boan, the London financier, was, dismissed by Lord Merrivale, the president.of the Divorce Division. The jury found that Sir Max was guilty of none of the charges. made against him......

It was the fourteenth day of the hearing, which, it is estimated, has coat at least £25,000. Sir Max also secki, à divorce, and hij counter-charges will be heard in October.

It is anticipated that this part of the suit will last even ladget and cost more.

For the first time the veil of secrecy wii lifted when Lord Merrivale sutied up.

He spoke of the passionate affection between Sit Mix and Lady Bean, ending after five years in a familùng quärrel and bitter letters.

and fairways Eave a thick covering YESTERDAY'S OPENING "GAME

Mr. Churchill did not say in so of very healthy looking grass on

Referring a two women who gave evidence, Lord Merrivale many words that the bets tax hai them, while the rough in most

The Court has been relieved of their presence for several places terrifying. Even if one

The commencement of the Water been a complete failure when he

daya, and I sincerely hope they may never appear here again." does manage to find the ball which Polo League, which was fixed for rose in the House of Commons on

Lord Merrivale in his summing July 19th to make this unheralded has strayed into it, it is often a yesterday, was delayed owing to statement of surrender. He wrap-up aid that Sir Max Boun was a super-Human task to get it out insuficicat water in the Victoria again from that clinging cushion of Recreation Club camber. Both the ped up his announcement in ex traneous matter which made no im deep grass. It may seem cowardly, V.R.C "A" and the E.0.S.B.pression on any one, says the Par but it is generally the best thing teams who were fixed to play turn both for one's temper and osc'sed up, but were disappointed. temperature, to tell the caddie to pick the thing up straight away.

Quite a number of swimming. enthusiasts had also come along to

the Club.

SHANGHAI BASEBALLERS

liamentary representative of the Daily Express,

The House hardly had time to appreciate that a tax originally 6 per cent. had shrunk to 1 per cent before it passed on to the discus sion of the Racecourse Betting Bill

A matter of interest to everyone

The next match is fixed for to who plays at Fanling-be he rabbit

morrow between the Queen's Royal or tiger, it will affect him sooner Regiment and the Victoria Recreathe Totaliitor Bill-in the last orlater is that the very station Club "B"

stages of its obstructed career, „ hill at the 10th is being turled

Graded Licencek. -Of82.

Pure Waste of time" should be the comment of every self-respecting" golfer' when he sees it, but the time will come a the same when he is grateful for it. There are probably not very many players on the Old Catirse who do not carry some club with the scars

The Shanghai Chinese, haseball of that rocky hillside on its sole. No longer now, when one's oppon- team, which is to play a series of exhibition games here under the

ent has mishit ts tee shot, will

ARRIVE.

TO PLAY ALL-HONG KONG TO-MORROW.

financier, and had been engaged in financial business all his life. He was the son of a merchant banker and was a partner in a well-known firm in the City of London.

Bli Mar's "Jealousy." Turning to what he said was the ultimate breach between Sir Max and Lady Bonn, Lord Merrivale said she came back on September 15th and gave an account of what happened.

Sir Max's birthday had been in September. He had been a jealous man fbx suppressed fashion, the said, and there had not been en this occasion the warm exchange that were expected.

You have heard of his history," went on Lord Merrivale. He was married in September 1920 to the petitioner, when he had known well for some years and whom he had helped to set Herself up in business.

"As between him and her it is Lady Bonn said when she arrived common ground that there was bot in London her husband did not 4 rift in the late down to 3928, or meet her as he had always done. at any rate late in 1925. There was When she arrived at their home in at any rate five years, and the Brook-street she was rather sur affection was not ruptured for prised not to see him in the hall. nearly two years more.

She went into the study and saw They lived together as a well-him there seated in an armcha'r to-do-business man of London and reading. He looked up and said, Why are you so istef and she his wife live.

replied, I am just off the train; it was a bad crossing. I am sorry to bear you have such a had cold."

Thep, she said, her son and her friend. Mis Stevens, came in, and thes had a cold reception. Sir Max said to her, "Is that all you have and walked out of the house. ::

Mr. Churchill, before stating the reduction of tax, made a point of announcing, that bookmakers' licences would be doubled. A mo- ment later be admitted that this cannot be done this year, and in

In conversations which preceded this terrible conflict," said Lord another moment that it will pro- there are inquiries us bably never be done since à system to whether £3,000 a year would on of graded licences may be adopted. an adequate separation allowance.

Even on the present basis, the

his drive bave any rhance of leap auspices of the Solith Chinn Athletic vetting tax revenue is below Mr. | Association, arrived, by the 6.& President Pierce on Monday after-Churchill' estimate.

On arrival, the team was noon.

ing prodigiously forward from some On the other kindly rock face.

hand, no longer will there be the same chance of damage to clubs or of lost baila

to say to me t

!

Lady, Boun's Lotters. “In 1925 there was brouble about correspondence between Lady Boot and another man, which Lady

"Max Has Been Naughty." : Mr. Churchill's statement, was Bonn's friend, Miss Stevens, re-

That, decording to Lady Bonn, The parties; however, came to Was the meeting of these two people the conclusion that there was noth-who had been passionate lovers down to the time of the breach.

covered. It gave rise to bitterness.

met by a committee of the Associa-made in reply to Mr. Smedley tion, including Mr. Richard Shim, Mr. K. F. June, Mr. Thomas Chin, Crooke, who asked him whether, an and Mr. Ein Wang, hon: secretary revenue was dwindling and evasioning in it, and Sir Max Bonn said of the Hong Kong Baseball Asac-was increasing, he would amend

The team is being entertained at the Finance Bill in order to the Chinese YMCA during its stay in Hong Kong, while its social headquartere are at the club room of the Association in China Build- ing.

It is to be hoped that the gras on this hillside will strike an exciation. tremely judicious mean. Il during the wet weather it should assume the terrifying proportions of most of the rough at Fanling at present, it would earn more curses than ever fe'l to the lot of the bill in its earlier state. On the other

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place the ad valorem, tax by scheme of graded licence charges. Mr. Churchill replied:"It is not practicable to substitute a scheme of graded licences in the

I won't look at the letters-br The jury and had the account given During 1927 two holidays abroad by Mr. Philip Vos, a barrister and were taken by Lady Bonn. During a friend of the parties, who was her second absence there was that enlisted to try to bring about perce resentment and anger which had between them. conft. That was in being from beeh illustrated so abundantly in 1927, when Lady Bonn came back from Biarritz.

hand, the near side of that hill is Shanghai are A B. Lou, manager present Finance Bill, but I am "I am not going to read the with him at his house in the pre-

no fit place for a man to put a drive, and if he should be guilty of this, it is only right that he should have a certain amount of

The members of the team from W. Y. Char, captain, and F. N. Troy, pitcher; C. K. Chen, third baseman; L S. Ang, fielder; Alex,

baseman; K, C. Lo, fielder; J. B. Lee, fielder; Dr L., Wu, fielder; and

Here great domestic unhappi ness has arisen because the husband complains of what be considers the preference of his wife for others and because the wife complains of what she considers is the harshness and injustice of her husband."

Woman'a Photograph. Turning again to the two women, Benoist and Carossa, Lord Morri vale anid that it was alleged that 'from the summer of 1923 till March 1923 Sir¬llax was resorting at re a notorious gular intervala to house

the company of notorious woman.

to

Heis entitled to ask you to He consider his past character. haa told you himself that before the war for six or eight years he had had under his protection he had been keeping-a woman whose photographs are here."

Lord Merrivale took up a big bundle of photographs and said: "A young woman, not unattrac tive. You can see what kind of person it is."

He showed one photograph to the

Jury:

Sir Max says before that there had been в young woman for several years to whom he said he had been profoundly attached,” said Lord Merrivale. "He says, Ze is quite true I kept her; she had been my mistress.""

To say the woman had been his

saying he was a frequenter of mistress was a different thing from brothela with notorious French prostitutes, said Lord Merrivale.

The jury would consider whether if he was a man with this uncon trolled appetite, Lady Bonn would not have known-whether this could have happened without a wife

knowing.

They must not totally disregard if he was charged with adultery. a man's record in civil life, even

He had been actively engaged in philanthropic undertaking And honoured with a knighthood in

1996.

Lady Bonn's Letter. Had someone said: "I knew this house and lie used to go there during six years" if the jury had had that kind of evidence that would have been a different mat ter, but they were dealing with hired watchers and prostitutes. There was this letter from Lady Bonn to Bir Max to consider, writ ten in September 1924, the day be fore the anniversary of their wed ding, a year and a quarter after this course of conduct was said to have been in active operation:

Darling, It will be four years, to-morrow, since the happy year, but it will be four times happier to-morrow. All my love and thoughts will be with you, and may we live to add a nought to the four, happy in each other's love. Nothing else matters.-- HILDA

! You rizst ask yourselves what view, you take as to the probability of the married lover to whom that sorting fortnightly or thereabouts letter was addressed by his wife re to a French harlot

"

Lord Merrivale said that Cecile Benoist had been represented as di unhappy woman to whom Injustice had been done. The ury saw ber demeanour in the

NINTH OLYMPIAD CLOSES.

OLYMPIC FLAG HAULED DOWN.

PRIZE DISTRIBUTION.

[MAÑÓUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

AMSTERDAM August 12th. The ninth Olympiad closed to- day after Her Majesty the Queen of Holland bad distributed the first prizes to each winning coun try, the Prince Consort hadding out the second prizes and Count Baillet Latour (President of the International Olympic Committee) the third.

livored the epilogue closing the Count Baillet Latour thea de- Gates. He invited the youth of

every nation to assemble at the next Olympiad, to be held four years hence at Los Angeles, Cali- fornia.

The final anthem was sung and. amid a fanfare of trumpets and salvaes of artillery, the Olympic dag was finally hauled down and handed over to the Borgomaster of Amsterdam for safe keeping qutil

1932.

The Games were carried out with the minimum of regrettable in- cidents and the friendliest spirit.

WELSH RIP VAN WINKLE..

MOUNTAIN HERMIT WITH A

TWO-FOOT BEARD, -

DOLGARROG, July 18td. After much persuasion aman named Benjamin Hughes has been induced to leave his mountain shack, where he has lived for several years, for the Conway Union In frmary:

Hughes, who is eighty years old, was a picturesque figure with a beard two feet lang, which, he said, he had allowed to grow as some protection against winter cold. He had cobbled a structure out of the ruins of an old cottage on the steep slope above Dolgarrog in, the Conway Valley. This is Bodlon- deb, the home of content," he said in Welsh when the officials ap- proached him,

His shack was not fat from the" Eigiau stream, and pa the night of the Dolgarrog dam disaster in November, 1995, when a torrent awept down the hill-side, there was a rumour that the hermit, as he is known, had been carried away by the food As a matter of fact He had then left the district for some days because of the publicity which had been attracted to this part of North W Jes.

Hughes was wearing three pairs of trousers when he was helped down the rocky slope of Dolgurrog.

difficulty over his second shot. As Seth, felder; K. 8. Chang, Srst As an interim measure of relief, bitter passages in his letters-re-meanness, about his refusal of They might have seen her laughing seem to remember the name Max,'

a matter of fact, unless the ground is being made smooth as well as being turled, the dips and hollows in the hill slope will be difficult enough for most people.

second baseman,

"

phoned to him the day after her He said that Lady Bonn icle return and she had a conversation letters between husband and wife," sedee of his wife. prepared to consider carefully the said Lord Merrivale.

She began by saying, “Phil, Max possibility of doing so next year. You can have the whole of them has been very naughty."

witness-box. "Sho is alleged to have laid, I if you want them, but there are Then she began to storm about his should the Racecourse Betting Billerences to one of the parties in the adequate allowances and the fe face and the gaiety with which she and then there were letters to Y. C. King, short-stop. Mr. Liu become law, I propose to modify cross-charges. They were the letters fusal of the measure of freedom dealt with these matters, which in Cecile Benoist and the interchange a certain sense were matters of life of confidences between Benoist and Carousa. Ons said to the other, I plays as catcher, and Mr. Char, the scheme of duty so fares to of an angry man and a bitter wife she was entitled to, and she said

he treated her like a bird in a cage. and death. Paris Week-end.

remember that, don't you! If our "Flaming Row."

Payments To Woman. double the present charge for cer tificates and reduce the existing

Leon Leoni; the chief of the Paris memories agree that will fix it.'

"You have to decide whether Sir Lord Merrivale warned the jury watchers, promised Cecile Benoist, Max committed adultery with rates from 2 per cent. to 1 per

that their minds should not be unYou gave Lady Bonn the evidence Cecile Benoist, went on. Lord cent. on the course and from 31 par On September 29th, while Philip daly influenced by angry

Vos was engaged in his laborious spoken in passion. cent. to 2 per cent. elsewhere.

They had heard the statement of efforts to bring these people back Legislation Plans

to their old relations, Lady Bonn Mr. Vos that on September 9th the "Amendments effecting the re-instructed her solicitors. That same wife was bitterly aggrieved and said she could stand it no longer South China "Dragons,"ductions in rates will be put down day they engaged paid watches.

From September 29th to October August 21st,

6th Bir Me pasrently had been Filipino Club, August 23rd.

watched in London. He was watch South China Dragons,"

ed again in November. August 25th.

The first game will be played to morrow afternoon, at 5 o'clock.

The full fixtures list is as fol low-

Shanghai Chinese .-

A Hong Kong, August 15th. U.S. Navy, August 17th. Hong Kong Baseball Club,

August 19th.

Occasional recent raine hate done Happy Valley a lot of good, though it is bone dry again now.. The turf is still short and lies are as near ideal as they are ever likely to be, but the raid bas brought up's new growth of grass and the turf is tot quite so sparse as it was before. In consequence drives do not run for quite such ridiculous distances after they pitch, which leaves a little more to be done on the second shot, Also there is a little more bite in the greens and one car at least make an attempt to stop the ball near the pin, rather than merely praying that the ball will stop of

aged T. Bloodsworth," its own accord. Still there is plenty of opportunity for further twenty-eight, a graduate of the rain, for parts of the fairways are University of Pennsylvania, made a hole in one on the golf course still rather badly browned..

Within reason, Happy Valley plays at Edgemont, New Jersey, and all the better for being wet, for the dropped dead from the excitement. He leaves a wife and infant greatest bugbear of that course is that generally one can hit a drive daughter. much too far. It is a "difficult.

distance,

HOLE-IN-ONE TRAGEDY.

Paul

LORD BURGHLEY.

TO LADY MARY SCOTT.

on the report stage of the Finance Bill to take effect from October 1st, but as any proposal to increase the charge for cortificates would in- volve the re-committal of the Bill I do not contemplate that the in- crease, from £10 to £20 should operate before next year, and it might then be that it would be new scheme of superseded by & graded licences.

"The reduction of rates will in- volve & surrender of revenue of £1,250,000 this year as compared with the Budget estimate but it is clear that that estimate will not be realised if the present rates are Commander Kenworthy asked, if he was going to lose £1,250,000 of revenue, how much be expected to secure from the totalisator.

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Sir Max went to Paris on Sept- ember 28th, and during the next three days the storm burst.

In that petition the charges were in two paragraphs," said Lord Merrivale.

The first was that Sr Max had committed adultery with women unknown. That was a gen. eral charge.

worda

she required and our friends in Merrivale,, I have dealt with London will see that you have this cutstanding feature of this satisfaction in this matter which esse for two reasons-first, becaus

interests you."

"The meaning of that is that of the mode in which the Maddox- she is to come back to live in Lon-were treated in the first instance street and Conduit street charges On the 10th there was a conversation don," said Lord Merrivale. She that ended in fury, on the 15th bag money for a trip to Paris and by the petition, an in urs colles there was a flaming tow," but to

all that not too much importance got a commuted sum for the ex-matters of suspicion in the solici pense of her journey to London, tors' letters; and secondly, because Fot his week-end visit to Paris a should be attached if they were to No one dared to ask her if she and Cecile Benoit was called in to give reality and substance to the case. been bribed. new detective agency was brought come to a just verdict."

"The petition into service that managed by Leon

Bir Mar's Witnesses. having been

"What was "Cecile Benoist's Leoni." By November 3rd the peti-launched in November, in the dearest wish 1. She had been de Lord Merrivale commented on tion had been framed and lodged, middle of December he was charged ported from this country as the the mannet in which the watchers' with adultery at Maddox-street and undesirable alien she is and she reports were made, some being Conduit-street. did the charges had been formu-

came back under the cloak of in- written on the backs of newspapers. "lated

Will you remember the nature fuential people to start again. To meet the charges of adultery of that visit to Paris? It was a You may come to the conclusion at Conduit-street and Maddox week-end visit. He goes there on that the promise of Leor Leoni had streat Sir Max had produced Friday afternoon, the 28th.

The Monday is said to have been operating in her mind from evidence that he was with friends

then down to the time that she at the time. been a Bank Holiday. The two

Discussing the evidence of the The second was a charge that business days-looking at business stood smiling in the witness-box."

The jury must consider the posi-private defectives in Patis, Lord on October 29th he committed from the point of view of the tion if they were face to face with Merrivale said the jury Had to be aduiary with a woman unknown in French metropolia-were the 39th a matter which affected their social satisfied that the truth of the thing to play a second shot up to FAMOUS BRITISH ATHLETE. maintained"

a particular street in Paris. That and 30th.

existence and somebody helping the evidence of the paid watchers was It is on the 19th, in the after other side said, "If you make it such sa to discount the testimony of was the beginning of this long- a very small green from a and stop it near the pin, but when

drawn-out case.

noon, that he is said to have gone worth my while I will tell you all eminent busiäèss med. They had second shots tend to become

to Bue Cambon and from there about it, and although there are been called by Sir Maż in cor- Judge's Anxiety, nothing more than chips from 20

This petition rests upon the to Rue Lavoisière, and he was statements which would convict, I roboration of his movements" while or 30 yards distance, the small

"That," replied Mr. Churchill, "is a very difficult question. No evidence of two sets of paid watch-charged in the following week with will give you statements which will if Paris, and rebutted blib evidence

having committed adultery in acquit you."

of the detectives. green is an advantage rather than

one can tell, but I should not have era and the hired keeper of Paris on that day

If the watcherä word to a hindrance, and helps to concen

Bought Documents.

be believ trate one's attention on the hole.

The engagement was announced got my full estimate this year on house. No judge of experience in

The agent of Benoist, a maned, one night when Bir Max was, these courts, in dealing with hired There are some courses where one of Lord Burghley, elderson and the present basis, and I shall cer

I shall have to call attention to named Mehrsam, asked for thou as he and his witnesses said, is needs all the help one can get to heir of the Marquess of Exeter, to tainly get less than the estimate on watchers, would listen to thei

evidence without anxiety,

the circumstances in which Cecile sands of pounds to buy the docu- Paris for a week-end on business, go round is anything approaching Lady Mary Montagu-Douglas Scott the few basis.

Counsel was asked if it Sir Max toured the clubs and "I trust,"

"In contested evidence the evid Benoist-and Marie Carossa were menta reasonable figures, but Happy fourth daughter of the Duke of

"he "added grandilo

was a lawful thing to do, and said cabarets of Montmartre, and there Valley is essentially acquiescent at Buccleuch.

quently,

But is "that possibly there may ence of hired watchers in this court brought here," said Lord Mer all times, and it

Lard Burghley, who is 23, is be is always regarded with the most rivale. The court ic to see it becoming actively noted for us athletic prowess. He bly dome improvement and contritio trigy If a man it, paid lieved of their ure has been reittion whether

The following afternoon-a Bun to find out things or a set of men several days, and T sincerely hope Helpful even to one's bad shots. has specialised in hurdling and future"

achieved great success both in this Commander Kenworthy: Do you paid to find out adultery you must they may never appear here again.

day-Bir Max said he played golf From a purely golfing point of country and abroad, his victories anticipate an increase of betting consider their positions. If they have told the truth, this is

just outside Paris. This had been "If there is the slightest doubt the simplest case there ever ad

also spoken to by witnesses Bir Max view one cannot help but feel including the American Inter-Colas a result of the totalizatori.

Mr. Churchill (with great about the evidence of paid. But if Cecile Benoist bvidence

had called; and their evidence con

by the thankful that the Tattoo has been legiate Hurdle Championship in moved to Sookunpoo. When all is 1925 and several British champion- vigour): No, sir, I anticipate switcher the court always regards is of such a nature that bounsel Has

ficted with that given it with the utmost suspicion. The to say, You may jettison some of

watchers. said and done, the Happy Valley ships, he recently won the Olym- decrease in rascality..

Mr. J. H. Thomas, during the evidence of brotfiel-keepers and it, you must go back anxiously to turf is rather treasured posses pic 400 metres hurdle champion.

debate on the Racecourse Betting frequenters has been a byword for other parts of the case."

It was alleged that Bir Max once. geperations. Bion-there is nowhere else in the chip.

Owing to his youth his appoint Bill, said: Colony where one gets such Hes.

"The Chancellor of the Exché- Bit Max came here with almost stayed at the Rue Lavoisière for Whatever the weather, the turf ment last month as a magistrate at "would have been bound to suffer Peterborough led to questions being quer does not care twopence about a multitude of business associates an hour and 20 minutes

was the bookmaker or the Tote. All and friends. It is said with regard "It is a case in which it is al- from rehearsals and the three asked in Parliament. He strenuous nights when the show gazetted a second-lieutenant in the that he is concerned with is that to them and you must give atten- leged that a middle-aged man with wason, while under certain condiGrenadier Guards Anst year his hitting tax has been an tion to it that these were the in an uncontrolled dustion Rad resort tions it might have suffered very Lady Mary Boott, who has dark ignominous failure, and he is trytrate friends of Sir Max Bona, ed wo well-known house in badly, which would have been a shingled hair and deep blue eyes,ing to scrape out of his difficulty and it is said that they would be respect of which various people had

easily mistaken in his favour." been deported. the best way he can." tragedy..

is a keen sportswoman,

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Judge And Women.

Was

there was something immoral, dis honest, and corrupt in that connee tion. One of the parises bought everything they could from Cecile Benoist, but the duty of the jury was not whether they were going to blame solicitors or counsel, but whether they could trust Cociis Beroist

the evidence of the detectives turns!

It was said, that the watchers were men of excellent character. It had, even been suggested thers Was 4 conspiracy.

There

is one other matter about her," said Lord Merrivale. “That is the coming and going, so it was "You are not trying charges of alleged, of Bir Max to Conduit perjury or conspiracy," said Lord street and, the gradual growth of Merrivale. You are trying four the identification of Sir Max fol issues which are questions of fact. lowing the pisternant of Haydon to judge betwora the two Caross-Cecile Benoist's maid sets of witnesses and remember, that

Bir Max if the accused person..! (Continued on nesi Oolumn),