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Serious erisis has been reached id the life of many of the famous London clubs.

CAPTURE OF DUSSEL-HUNGHOM ASSAULT CASE.

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GIRL'S MISDIRECTED LETTER.

DEFENDANT DISCHARGED.

le a cast of assault brought by an Indian watchman againshi a Chints yesterday before Mr. Whyte-Smith, it appeared that there was some doubt as to who was the actual man who had stek the Indian. The Magistrate point- ed out that if the defendant lourd prove that he was not the man responsible for the assault, he

After months of search, in which the cleverest detectives in Germany have taken part, the arrest has been Committees and secretaries of made in Dusseldorf of the man, clubs, the names of which are known tho was responsible for, the murder | could have the complainant sent to the world over, are looking for fof ten persons, including four little prison for wrongful arrest. ward to the coming season with a great deal of perturbation. These girls. ! clubs, "which are on the border line,

will, unless they do well during the summer, have most uncomfortable | -balance-sheets to face at the end of

the year.

Half the clubs in London are doing badly; their revente does not meet their outgoings Expenses have risen during the past two years by about 20 per cent. Mem- bership has declined and there is no waiting list of prospective new

members.

Some of the Service clubs have suffered the most, and 'some of the political clubs almcat as badly There is one great political club which to-day has a smaller mem- hership than at any time since the war," and the roll of members ià still shrinking.

U.S. LAW ENFORCEMENT

SQUABBLE.

"SUPER-GOVERNMENT OF WEALTHY MEN."

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"Washington, June 9-Speaking from the door et the House of Re- presentatives to-day, Congressman | Fiorello La Guardia of New York declared that President Hoover would. violate the law if he follow- ed out his plan cutlined yesterday for soliciting private financial sup- port for the Kickersham Law Eb- forcement Commission.

The President said that he would Giving evidence, the complariant adopt this course as a result of the said that the defendant walked in- Senate's paring down of the His capture was due to a letter,side the Green Island Cement Com-commission's written by a servant girl. which pany's premises in Hunghom on G.880,000, with a proviso that the" appropriation to was wrongly addressed and fell into Thursday night. On being stopped whole of this sum must be expend- the hands of the police.

by the watchman, the defened upon prohibition enforcement 'dant

threw a wooden pillow inquiry rather than the more gen- at the complainant causing pral investigation provided by Mr. an injury to his leg. The man was Hoover's instructions.

The final scene in this terrible drama was marked by scenes of great excitement in the city.

Building Surrounded.."

A large force of armed police sur. rounded a tenement building and the rumour spread like wildfire that at long last the “Terror" had been tracked down.

When the officers emerged, with their captive they were followed by Members of Parliament of the a great crowd, who waited for hours Conservative and Liberal Parties outside the police headquarters for are all finding that their expenses an official, announcement. will not permit of their belonging to a number of clubs, and the ma jority of them are restricting their membership to one or two clubs

only.

Mr. Lloyd George, for example, has just resigned from two clubs, and other M.P.'s are following his example.

"We are all feeling the pinch," said the secretary of one political club. We are doing better than many others, but we have little to spare at the end of the year. Our membership has increased lately, but the money spent in the club is less per member than ever it was

One of the best criterions of expenditure is the wine account. remember when it was quite com mon for 160 bottles of champagne to be ordered at dinner during week. Now the average number in 4 week would be less than twenty Members drink beer or "barley

water.

The arrested man, Peter Küertin, is reported to have made a full.com- fession of his many crimes. He is years had been living in a tenement an out-of-work mason, and for three in the beast of the city,

Respectable Citizen."

By his neighbours he was regard ed as a respectable citizen-save for occasional quarrels with his wife, who left him a fortnight ago, owing to his conduct.

The clue which enabled the arrest to be made was provided by a girl, who ten days ago had a startling adventure. She had had an alter cation with a young man on the outskirts of the city, when Kuertin intervened to protect her.

She told him that she was with- out a situation and was homeless. night in his rooms with him and Kuertin told her, she could pass the Those two B's are the trouble his wife. She accepted the offer, of club management."

but when she discovered that Mrs. Two classes of clubs only reuertin wasmot in the flat she doing well in London to-day," said changed her mind, and said sho another club secretary. They are would seek out a girl friend, the purely business, or professional club which cater for one restricted grade of members-and the club which has some kind of sporting ac tivity attached to its other ameni

ties.

The restaurant and dancing habits of modern London bave help-1 ied to kill the old-time club life."

GIRL SUES HER SWEETHEART.

SEQUEL TO A MOTOR CAR ACCIDENT.

An unusual case, in which a man was sued by his fiancee for injuries received while riding in a motor ear driven by him along the Victoria Embankment, was heard in the King's Bench Division last month.

After the hearing, the sweethearts had lunch together.

Attacked at Night.

Kuertin ofered to escort her there. He took her by a circuitous route, and in a lonely spot knocked her down and seized her by the throat. He left her unconscious.

According to Representative La Guardia in his speech to-day, the statutes forbid officials to "spend amounts in excess of those appro- printed.

chased into a teahouse and arrest- ed while sitting down at a table.

Inspector Stimson told his Wor- ship that in telling the story to the Police, the Indian had made no mention of the tenhouse at all, Representative Emmanuel Celler According to the defendant, the of New York characterized the Pre- man who had actually assaulted thesident's plan as "a step toward watchman did run into the teahouse erection of a super-Government of but he had escaped by the hackdoor, wealthy men."

The defendant was discharged.

Jeining in the attack, Represent- utivo James M. Mead of New York offered a bill.requiring the Law AMERICA'S ROLE IN WORLD Enforcement Commission to report

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Chicago, June 27.-Admiral Kerr of the British Navy, in addressing

donors and amounts of all funda received according to the Presid- ent's scheme.

Several Congressmen pointed out that if the President were to pro vide funds for such investigation, he would be empowered privately to finance various kinds of enforce- ment activity.

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Miss Martha Amelia Ashton, of Gertrude Schulter, the girl whom ford-street, Blackfriars, sued Mr. he attacked last August and stab John W. C.. Nash, a printer, of bed fifteen times. She immediately Ambleside-drive, Southend-on-Sea, recognised him as her assailant. to whom she is engaged, for damages for injurie, which led to the loss of an eye, cuts on the face. and permanent disfigurement.

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She was awarded. 21,375, and judgment was entered with costs.

Th accident occurred on April 4. 1929. Miss Ashton alleged that Mr. Nash drove the car, negligent- ly. Mr. Nash pleaded that on a "I would rather have a poison- count of the darkness ho did not

Qua germ factory than a Roman see the refuge post with which he Catholic cathedral on this piece of collided.

public land," said the Rev. H. D. Mr. Justice Charles, in summing Longbottom. pastor of the Liver- up. said that the jury must diste pool Protestant Reformist Church, gard the fact that Miss Ashton and at a protest meeting at Liverpool Mr. Nash were engaged and must against the proposed sale of the treat them as though they were un Brownlow Hill Poor Law Institu known to each other.

tion site to the Roman Catholic The lady," he said, "brings the authorities for the purpose of build- action quite rightly, and the younging a cathedral. man rightly and properly defends "Our own Protestant cathedral it. Thank goodness, they seem to in Liverpool, declared Mr. Long- he perfectly good friends still, and bottom, is developing more and You may think with me that mere into a peremonini showhouse. he would be unfortunate to lose I leave you to imagine what the the lady.

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"The Indy," he said, "is only 22 | to be.' years old, and she has now to go Mr. Longbottom declared that he through life with a glass eye, and was threatened with violence after she has scars on her face. Fort the last neeing of the West Derby. unately, they are not very serious Board of Guardians, of which he and the worst are apparently clear was a member, and at which an ing up under X-rays, and, if I may offer of £90.000 from the Roman say so without impertinence, she is Catholic authorities was rejected. still a very comely girl."

That threat was made after I had After the decision, Mr. Nash walked into a secret meeting of lunched with Mias Ashton at her Catholic members of all parties of mother's home.

the board," he said. "We are still engaged," Miss The Liverpool City Council is Ashton told a reporter. "I bata now responsible for the site, and pity, and it John did not really Mr. Longbottom stated that he had love me or if he wanted to break already secured 40,000 signatures. off our engagement I should not try to a petition for presentation to to prevent him."

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