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INNOCENT MAN SENTENCED.

REJECTED ALIBI PROVED

TRUE.

HOME OFFICE GRANT,

Mr. Ernest Lee, of Boothen Old Road, Stoke-on-Trent, has received a communication from the Home Office intimating that he is to

receive the King's free pardon and 100 compensation in respect of a wrongful sentence of imprisonment which he served last year.

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was sentenced at Tunstall Police Court last August to four months' imprisonment on a charge of obtaining £8 10. by fraud.

The communication which Mr. Lee has received reads as follows:-

Home Office, Whitehall.

WONDERS OF A NEW PLANT.

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PROSPECT OF WEALTH FOR FARMERS.

BRITISH SECRET.

A new plant, the cultivation of which may mean a revolution in British agriculture, ba been evolved by a British gardener.

PILOT DEAD BEFORE AN ARE THERE ANY LETTERS I

AIR CRASH.

CARBON MONOXIDE FUMES, THEORY.

BURST PIPE.

The theory that Flight Sergeant John William Pearce, aged twenty eight, of the R.A.F., was dead be fore" his airplane crashed near Godstone, Surrey, was put forward by experts at the resumed inquest on the pilot at Kenley Aerodrome.

The discovery has been kept a close secret, and though the plant, Broter by name, is now being Dr. Bronte, the pathologist, said. grown on a farm in the south-west that carbon monoxide could easily of England. its existence is known come from the exhaust of the en- to none but those connected with | gine. Therefore in this case the the scheme for its development. pilot might have been dead before

The Earl of Selborns. Lord the crash. Bledisloe, Sir Robert Horne, and Sir Austin Harris are acting as an advisory council to a company which has been formed to promote Sir George the use of Brotex. Courthope, M.P., who until recent- ly presided over the Agricultural

He was of opinion that death was from carbon monoxide poisoning and multiple injuries,

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THE OFFICIAL LIST FOR SATURDAY,

A General Post Office notification, issued on Saturday, gives the following particulars, with regard to unclaimed correspondence, etc.. waiting at the Post Office, and also unclaimed radio telegrams at the Radio Telegraph Ofice:-

Foste Restante dorrespondence. Mr. M. Amiot, J. J. H. Aarson, M. R. Artons, Batten & Co., E E Benham, A. H. Beetham, Capt. J. F. Bird, R. Couch, Madame Cler get, W. E. Carley, Mrs. C. J. Cald well, A. C. Cunnell Dr. R. E. Chambers, Madame H. de Coral "Mr. Deofont, Capt. A. E. Hodgins, Tatian Bank of China, Mr. E. Jenkins, Mrs. E. T. C. Jones, P. Ketchum, T. J. Evwas, R. Lydiatt, W. H. Lawtop, Luke Cum Madame Master-Bori Capt. E. Maples (5.3. Nam Yong), E. Mac: kie, Mr. and Mra R. G. Mather, MS. Magob, Mr. and Mrs C. Martin, H. E. McGowan, Mrs O R. McKenzie, J. N. Morris (West River), K. R. Macaskill, W. M. Peach, W, R. Pearce, A. V. Pinson, Mr. Prezelowski, Mrs A. E Rhoden, Mrs W. H. Smith, A. N. Seaton Dr. W. Wendt, H. Wor. ham, R. M. Wilson, C. D. Wardia

SIE-Ia reply to your letter of Committee of the House of Com- connection with aircraft, said that, mings & Co., F. Lapin, R. Light,

monk, is chairman of its board..

the 7th inst.. I am directed by the Secretary of State to say that be

A Hybrid Plant. has caused full inquiry to be made'

Brotex is a bybrid plant, evolved into the circumstances of your case, after years of experiment by Mr. and has decided to recommend to Leonard Browning. It grows from his Majesty to grant a free pardon seed, resembles a cabbage in its to you in respect of your conviction early stages, matures rapidly, with at Tunstall on August 14 last for in twelve to eighteen months at obtaining £9 108, by false pretences taining a height of eight to ten I am also to inform you that upon fect, and having a stem circum- the recommendation of the Secreference of eight to ten inches. tary of State the Lords Commis

If planted out in the spring and sioners of his Majesty's Treasury harvested at maturity-that is, in have decided as an act of grace, the late summer or early autumn and without admission of any of the following year-it produces liability, to grant you a sum of three raw materials of commercial £100 in respect of the sentence of value in universal demand-fibre four months' imprisonment served for textile purposes, wood cellulose by

to the from the core for papermaking, Treasury will communicate with and seed for the manufacture of you with a view to paying you the cattle food, above-mentioned aum.-I am, six,- Your obedient servant,

you.

The Solicitor

E. BLACKWELL

Chief Constable's Interest.

The allegation made against Mr Lee at the police court hearing was that he posed as a brewery agent, visited a public-house at Tunstall, and gave instructions to a local painter to decorate the premises He received £8 10% in the form of a cheque as commission on the order, and the cheque was eashed by the licensee of the house. Both the local painter and the licensee swore at the police court that Mr. Lee was the man who committed the offence.

It can be planted in the spring and harvested in the autumn of the same year for its fibre only. In this case the yield of the fibre is greater owing to the larger nymber of plants which can be grown per

sere.

Yields Per Acre.'

The following yields per acre are obtainable, according to expert. opinion, if the plant is grown to maturity:

Clean air-dry fibre Air-dry wood Seed

Tons.

1.87. 5.37 2.34

The values of the several pro- ducts from Brotex per acre, accord- ing to expert opinion, is £4-155.

The cost of growth, cultivation, harvesting, and treatment, they say, should not exceed £41 13a, od.

Mr. Lee protested his innocence, and gave an account of his move- ments on the day of the alleged offence, but the Court did not accept his alibi, and Mr. Lee served

The plant and its products have the full sentence of imprisonment. been examined by many firms of The Chief Constablh of Stoke-on-manufacturers and merchants, and Trent (Mr. R. J. Carter) interested in every case, the result has been himself in the matter, and, not be highly satisfactory, the view of ing satisfied with the evidence them all being that Brotex is against Lee, caused inquiries to be destined to occupy an important made into his story. It was ascer position in the textile, paper taimed that Lee was actually at making, and cattle food markets of Birmingham, as he had said, on the world the date of the alleged fraud.

Mr. Lee, when interviewed at bis home, was naturally pleased at the news that he was to receive a free pardon. He is not satisfied, how every with the sum of money offer- 4d to him.

SENSATIONAL MURDER

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TRIAL.

GYPSIES CHARGED WITH

CANNIBALISM."

"It is not only the fact that I have suffered four months of mental agony in prison,” be raid, "but | BOILED BONES AS EVIDENCE. kince I came out of gaol last

November I have been unable to Vienna-After two years, pre follow my occupation as a can-parations are complete for the trial vasser owing to the conviction at Kosice, in Slovakia, of 17 mes recorded against me. The police and two women, all Gypsies, charg- would not even grant me a pedlar's ed with murders and many rob- licence until my conviction was re- beries. moved. I think the least the Home Office could have done would have beer to grant me £230. I suppose I shall have to accept this money, the victims' limbs for cannibal but I shall press for my case to be reconsidered with a view to pro- per justice being done in the matter."

COLOURED TROOPS ON

RHINE.

CIVILIANS ASSAULTED..

They are said to have waylaid and killed at least 25 people." The women are alleged to have cooked

feasts. The indictment contains 1,000,000 words and the chief evidence is a quantity of boiled human bones.

Cannibalism, however, "is not an indictable crime according to the criminal code of Czechoslovakia. At the trial 19 legal advocates have been retained, while 100 gendarmes will be present to prevent lynching by relatives of the alleged victims.

MILLIONS WITHOUT

HOMES.

TACKLING THE SLUM PROBLEM.

"Each has a dwelling of sorts or shares part of a room with others," he said, "yet not one of them can actually claim to have a home. They are the alum-dwellers, and for them home can be nothing but a word that is bitterly empty of its true meaning."

Nearly every week cases are re- parted from the Palatinate of more or less serious offences by coloured members of the French Army of Occupation, although on paper there are now no coloured troops- on the Rbine. Recently, before a French court, martial at Landau, an Anamite soldier was charged Mr. Harold Bellman, chairman with having assaulted a French of the Metropolitan Building "gendarme, waitress, and Societies Association, speaking at

civilian.

a brotherhood meeting in Totten- Two of these coloured troops in ham Court Road, Baid that civilian clothes entered a café in 2,000,000 people in England were Landau, and after having drunk living without homes. two glasses of wine refused to pay for them, pretending that they did Dot understand the language. A civilian who attempted to inter pret for them was abused, and they left the café in spite of the protests of the waitress.....

A French gendarme who was pawing, stopped them. One of the "I am convinced," he added, mer ran away, but the other re- "that the co-operation of effort turned to the café. Here he struck which now loses force by being dis the gendarme repeatedly in the connected and spasmodic might face, and also the waitress. In the make us more hopeful of achieving end he was taken into custody by slom abolition in one generation. the German police at the instign. The plain fact, obtrudes itself: tion of the gendarme.

the slum problem is being bungled The French military court award instead of tackled. For too long ed him three months' imprisonment, there has been a peddling with The mildnew of this sentence ir palliatives. We must demand a thrown into sharp relief when.con- scientific survey of the housing. trasted with the terms of imprison needs of the poorer classes as L ment imposed upon

German long-needed preleminary to the civilians for comparatively minor systematic attack on the slum offences.

octopus."

Bahaust Gas. Major P. J. Carre-Cooper, Gov ernment inspector of accidents in the machine was fitted with an ap pliance for heating the cockpit with the warm air taken from and around a portion of the exhaust pipes.

He found during his examination of the wreckage in this case evidence which clearly proved that for some reason which was being fully investigated the exhaust pipe on the starboard side had

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burst inside the hot air muff. The result of this was that if the pilot turned on the shutter which allow- ed the warm air to enter the cock pit he would take in the exhaust

as straight from the engine.

A juror: Could not, the burst have been caused by the crash when the machine struck the ground?

Major Carre-Cooper: No. We have found conclusive evidence that it happened some considerable time before.

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