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ALLEGED ATTACK ON L.C.C. A CHESS VETERAN OF 80

RENT COLLECTOR.

TWO-MEN COMMITTED FOR

TRIAL

Walter Alfred Kurtz, 19, a wood machiniiss, of Kingsland-road Shoreditch, and Albert Jones, 30, and George Johnson, 39, both described as labourers, of no fixed abode, were charged on remand at Old-street Police. Court, with as saulting Francis Horsman," a rent collector, employed by the-L.C.C. with Intent to rob him, at Horner Houses, Shoreditch.

When the case was previously be. fore the Court it was stated that the correct name of Jones was Al bert Bloomfield, and that of John son, Charles William Shepherd.

Mt. Horsman said, that when he had almost completed his collection of the renta, he felt a heavy blow at the back of his neck. He reeled and saw two men whom he could not recognize. He fell and was immediately attacked from behind.

Statement Was "a Lie."

HONOUR FOR NOTED OITY

PLAYER. :

A large gathering of members of the City of London Chess Club as- sembled at the club's headquarters in Wardrobe Court, Doctor's Com mons" recently, to honour the octogenarias hon. secretary of the club, Mr. J. Walter Russell.

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Mr. Russell, who has been the club's secretary since 1895, celebrat- January In appreciation of his ed his eightieth birthday devoted service to the club, he was presented with a bankers' draft for 13 178. Sd, together with an illuminated addrees seventy-two members of the club.

signed. by

RAID ON A FLAT.

FOLICE FIND WOMAN PRE- SIDING AT GAMING. TABLE.

PART-TIME CLERGY.

SUPPORT FOR A NEW

PROJECT..

." RUSSIA MUST BE RECOGNISED.”

TRADE DELEGATION'S VIEW.

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A resolution was carried unani-

A final meeting of nearly the en mously at a meeting held in London Description of a raid by the recently, under the Bishop of Mid-tire British trade delegation at police on a flat in Maida Vale dur dieton, that "A motion in support present in Russia has accepted the Economic Committee's resolution a game of chemin de fer was of the project of voluntary clergy that extensive trade with Russia given at Marylebone, when Phillip be brought forward for discussion is impossible without diplomatic Hayes. 49 of Portadown-rond, and at the earliest convenient per recognition. his wife, Eve, 38 were charged with tunity in the Convocations of running a gambling house,

Canterbury and York, and in due A number of delegates protested stated that, with a search warract,

against the resolution on the ground Mr. E. B. Knight, prosecuting, course in the Church Assembly." Supt. Best and other officers raided clergy should be ordained to the the delegation ever intended to The project is that "voluntary that they had failed to realise that

found Mrs. Hayes seated at a baisements, and to serve under licence. the top flat of the premises. They ministry of the Word and Sacra, commit itself to any such declara- covered table with five other women of the Bishop without payment, but

Others took occasion to censure and a mas.

with permission to continue their certain delegates for establishing A game of chemin de fer was in secular avocations as a means of relations with British concession- progress.

earning their livelihood. :

aires in Moscow, Wider Conception. G. F. Hamilton Russell, who preprised when the police entered that the project should not be con- 1

The party seemed very much our The Bishop of Middleton said sided; Mr. C.D. Morton, president There was money on the table, and sidered merely as hon, secretary of the testimonial; in her hand, was acting as croupier, Might there not be a providential of the club; Mr. E. Macdonald. Mrs. Hayes, who had a gaming shoe the present abortage of clergy a palliative to M. Gezs Maroczy (Hungarian In the "kitty champion); on behalf of the Inter meant the person running the might well be that the Church was was 13a, which purpose in the present position? It P. Rees, on behalf of the British gene through the bank. national Mater; and by Mr. L

game took is. in the E-that £13 had being led to a new and wider cons Chess Federation.

ception of the priesthood to meet changing conditions

Speeches were made by the Hon.

Mr. Bussell's chess activities have not been confined to his labours as club secretary.

He was president In his coat, which he felt being Union in 1900, and president of the of the Southern Counties Chess pulled, was about £130 which he London Chess League, 1903, 1904, had collected. He resisted his stand 1905. tackers and tried to rise, but was

the head.

He

Surprise for Party,

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It must have been a pretty fast they bad been playing only ten that the resolution should be car- game," continued Mr. Knight, "for A committee was elected to ensure

couple took the premises at a rental minutes, they said."

ried into effect, and it was hoped

of three guineas a wek, paid in' year.

It seemed, he added, that the that the matter would be considered at the Lambeth Conference next advance, for the purpose of gamb It is of interest to note that the South African Church has already! authorised the ordination of a few, such "voluntary priests."

struck a heavy blow on the nose, the London International Chessling, upon which they lived.

He was joint hom. secretary of his spectacles being broken. cuptinued big resistance and re Congress in 1803, when the competi ceived a heavy blow on the side of tors included Dr. Lasker, Steinitz, Pillsbury, Schlechter, Janowaki, Mroczy, Tehigorin, Blackburne, Showatter and other celebrities, and where the present American title of "Master" by winning the champion, F. J. Marshall, won his first prize in an important minor

He shouted and the men, alarm ed by the screams of a number of women, went off. He had about £30 in silver in one pocket. This fell out in the struggle and at afterwards found that 258. missing..

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tournament.

Mr. Clarke Hall discharged In 1000 Mr. Russell conducted an Kart. remarking:

invitation Tournament" promot duty as a good citizen to give any ed by the City of London Cheas information you can to the police Club, in which six Masters parti as to what happened."

sipated, and five years later a Kurtz was called as a witness by National Tournament, with a large Jones, and stated that he did not entry, including the Anglo-Ameri- know anything of what happened can Master W. Napier and the late on the day in question. He was R. Teichmann. and the statement he made to the side of the Atlantic in six matches not with the two prisoners then, He was the moving spirit on this by cable between England and Jones and Johnson, who pleaded America for the trophy given by "Not Guilty and reserved their the late Sir George Newnes, which deferee, were committed to the for several years has been in posses Central Criminal Court. They sion of the City of London Chesa were further committed on charges Club."

police was a lie. ·

of being suspected persons loitering

with intent to commit à felony and

with being subject to the PrevenJURY SOLVE BEE MYSTERY. tion of Crimes Act. They pleaded

"Not Guilty" to these charges BANK BANDITS IN THE HIVE,

also.

FATE INTERVENED.

WOULD-BE BIGAMIST: CON.

FRONTED BY WIFE.

A jury in the Superior Court at Chicago has been asked to solve a bee mystery that might have puzzled Solomon.

The court buzzed for a week with the baffling bee business, learned counsel arguing and expert wit- nesses testifying on both sides.

Confronted by his wife, after arranging to marry another girl, Percy George Williams, profes sional footballer, of Yeovil and Pet ters United, and late of Bristol that

Messre. Ezra Ross and J. W. Cunnen sued the Rock Island Rail- way for £10,000 damages, claiming hives of bces-some

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City, and who lives at Talbot-street, hundreds of thousands of them Yecvil, appeared before the local had died on their rat railway magistrates on a charge of making journey owing to the company's a false declaration of marriage. neglect

For the Public Prosecutor, Mr. The company did not dispute the B. G. Saywell, stated that defendant demise, but there was much dis was married at Bristol in March, agreement with regard to the cause.

1921. Later, he was separated from The two bee-keepera alleged that his wife by an order of the justices. holes in the roof of the luggage- About May last he commenced to van in the train allowed the rain. keep company with a girl, named to come in and that the bees were Kathleen Lena Miles, of Yeovil, either drowned outright or died and as a result of their friendship slow deaths from exposure. she was now in a certain condition. Williams went to the Yeovil regis ter office, and, in giving notice of marriage to Miss Miles, described himself as a bachelor.

He later attested the certificate, but fate intervened, and before the ceremony could take place informa tion which reached the girl's par ents led them to confront Williams He pleaded guilty, and was fined

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The railway company, on the other hand, produced a bevy of bee experts who told of the strange go- ings-on in a bee hive. Bees, said the experts, were not the indus- trious, peace-loving creatures generally supposed, but often were like hoodluma or bank bandits.

One expert declared that bees were cannibals and consumed their young. Another testified they were too temperamental to travel trains. Counsel for the company even advanced the theory that the bees had been killed by a swarm of wild bees, or, alternatively, had developed cannibal tendencies and eaten one another, or bad buzzed about with excitement until they FOUR TIMES BAULKED OF dropped dend

MARRIAGE.

ENGLAND'S. SADDEST

WOMAN.

Birmingham.--Death has four times thwarted Miss Madge Gun- per, a governess in this city, of becoming a married woman. After

the death of her fourth fiance, just

The jury brought in a verdict of £1,200 for the hee-keepers.

BLIND VIOLINIST DEAD.

two days before the wedding day, STREET CONCERTS FOR THE Misa Gunner forever renounced the

ides of marrying.

This succession of love tragedies

LOVE OF ART.

started during the war when Miss A blind violinist, who had made Gunner became engaged to a young himself known to thousands by officer. On the night he was to playing, for the sheer love of it, have left the front line trenches to in the streets of Kensington, died come home to her, he was killed by in London recently. He was Signor arile grenade..

Alfredo Nardi...

My next fiane," Miss Gunner Nardi, who was blinded in his said in an interview, "was an air-south by being struck by a stope, man. He was killed in a crash on was a member of the Italian Royal the Saturday before the Monday on Orchestra, and came to England in which we were to have been marri 1007. He gave recitals in the lead- ed. Four years later I became en- ing concert halls of London, Rome, gaged to an engineer. Two days and other cities. before our wedding we had lunch together. He left me at the end of the meal to inspect a building under construction. He was killed by a crane."

Additional sorrows have come in to Miss Gunner's life during the past year. Her father and mother, both in Australia, died without her having seen them for years. Her only brother was recently drowned

at sea.

The joy of music was so great to him that he often gave alfresco concerts in Kensington-gardens, Members of his street-corner audiences frequently invited him to go home with them and play in their houses.

Latterly he had been living in re- duced circumstances at his Baron's Court home, and had been glad of the coppers which appreciative papers-byshowered on him.

CALIFORNIA CHANGES

TRAFFIC LAWS. -

Insp. Smith gave evidence that he watched the premises after hearing Conversations in public-houses in by people, some of whom arrived Maida Vale. Describing visits paid in taxicabs, he explained that they

Mr Hayes admitted that she was tion of county traffic officers in rang the top bell. ruzning the game, and asked, favour of a central State controlled Supt. Best told the Cours that San Francisco, Calif.-Eliazina-

"Why do you come and do a small bureau with full jurisdiction will school like this! I am doing this be placed in effect in California) to live." When Mr. Hases entered shortly. he stated that it was not unlawful Other proposed changes call for gaming. It was a private game prohibition of stickers on wind- cording to the superintendent, had for parents in accidents in which among friends.

The couple, ac shields, broaden the responsibility been doing very well at chemin de their children Egure, imposses fer, and making a lot of money out height load, and length limit on kett, fined Mr. Hayes 220, with 5 side of a highway, and requires of cards.

vehicles, makes it mandatory for The magistrate. "Mr. Hay Halpedestrians to walk on the left-hand guineas costs, and Mrs. Hayes motorists to stop before passing and ordered the instruments of buses "loading or unloading chif gaming to be destroyed.

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