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A story of fortune-telling, in which a dark-haired girl" figur-
Tru years ago Harold Greenwood, ed, was told at Middlesex Sheriffen solicitor, of Kidwelly, was nequit Court when Mrs. Annie Elizabetted of the charge of murdering his Bird, a widow, of Greenvilleroad, wife by administering arsenic to Hampstead, was awarded "£5,000 damages for breach of promise against Thomas Brooks, a wealthy man of Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.
Both the parties, said Mr. H. Pierron, for Mre, Bird, were natives of Lye, Worcestershire, and became friends many years ago.
Brooks married, and went to Amorica, Plaintiff also married, and her husband died in 1923.
They corresponded, and in 1927- le sent her a news eutting showing that his wife and died. He wrote Inter:-
Just before leaving England my wife and myself had our fortunes told when in Rhyl
GEN. SMUTS SUMS UP EMPIRE CONFERENCE
GREAT OPPORTUNITY THAT
WAS LOST.
Bloemfontein. - General Smute, opening the Union Congress of the South African Party, mid
"The Imperial Conference was n complete failure from an economic point of view. been the most brillinut and success- What might have ful and the greatest of all Imperial and disappointment for every part Conferences has ended in disillusion' of the Commonwealth of Nations,
years ago Greenwood died at a little known Herefordshire village where, dogged by poverty, notoriety and ill-health, he had lived under the name of Pilkington. "If, a final settlement of Dómi- Last month, for the first time, it n'on status had gone hand-in-hand wag publicly revealed that when with a great gesture, of friendship the jury returned their verdies of holding out and the grasping of and comradeship, and with the Not Guilty they added a rider helping hands all round in this com which was never read. This rider.mon hour of trial, what a landmark which was handed to, the judge, this Conference would have been in
the history of the Empire!.
1:18:
of this case that dangerous dose "We are satisfied on the eviden of arsenic was administered to Mabel Greenwood on Sunday, June 15, 1919, but we are not satisfied that this was the immediate enuse of death. The evidenco before us is insufficient and does not con clusively satisfy us as to how and fored."
should not leave a dangerous void. In severing the old bonds we Theze bonds should be replaced by helpta bess in our mutual relations. a new spirit of co-operation and
I am sure the spirit is there. but
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"You are the dark-haired girl shom. I was to hear from a year or two before my wife died." they whom the arsenic was administerence, and that a sense of sore- letter continued, “and it came out exactly as told.'
"The Fleasant Home,"
la another letter he wrote: "I an always thinking of you. My letters were formal for a long time, but 1 am glad the ice is broken. De you think you would like to come over here and miles your home!!! -
He arrived in England in June! Mrs. Bird said that on Brooks' arrival he brought her a platinum ring with 25 diamonds in it.
It proved too small, and he went to a jeweller's to have it enlarged and to have another diamond added to it. That was the last she saw of the ring.
Arrangements were made for the marringe to take place before
Brooks returned to Amerien.
She sold her own house and furniture, worth £1,000, for £200,
He promised her he would pur. chase a house for her in England. and they would have a pleasant
home in Detroit.
He also promised her a wedding gift of £3,500 in cash for her per sonal use, and said that, she would have a car and chauffeur for her
self.
Then one day he said he had to o up North for a few days, and ho never came back. Inquiries showed that he had returned to America.
QUESTION EINSTEIN
BARRED.
"NOTHING ABOUT
RELATIVITY."
"You may ask Professor Einstein two questions-ne more! "
The seen, was the Continental arrival platform at Victoria Station. Professor Albert Einstein, the dis enverer of relativity and the world's greatest mathematician, had just stepped from the boat train which had brought him to London to speak at a dinner at the Savoy Hotel on behalf of the Ort-Oze Society, which works for the welfare of the Jews in Eastern Europe. His speech and that of Mr. Bernard Shaw, who was his fellow gucat, were broadcast throughout the world.
What new scientific theory aro you working on at present 1"1 ask- cel (writes a News Chronicle re- porter).
Members of the Ort-Oze, who guarded the Professor as carefully as if he were a piece of old chinn, shuddered at the daring of the quen tion,
!' Thé Judge Refused,"
This revelation is made in the | latest of the Notable British Trials series (The Trial of Harold Green- wood, by Winifred Duke), The author adds:-
"Mr. Justice Sherman did not disclose the written verdiet, al- though it was manifestly the inten- tion of the jury that it should be made public. Its existence came to the knowledge of Counsel for the Crown and the following morning an application was made in private to the judge that this might be
one.
The judge declined to accede to the request, and the matter being subsequently brought to the notice of Sir Archibald Bodkin (then Director of Public Prosecutions), hr communicated with Mr. Justice Shearman with a view to the pub But the judge again refused his con- lication of this written verdict. sent. It is now made public for the first time in accordance with the original intention of the jury, and with the approval and permission of their foreman, of Sir Marley Samson, K.C., Counsel for the Crown, and Sir Archibald Bodkin."
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850,000 "The figures are at least aufk- ciently striking,” he added, "to instify the railway companies om- The Professor speaks no English, barking immediately upon a boki so it was translated for him. policy of purchasing sufficient units Under his brand nombrero the to obtain the necessary data to Professor's_face lit up in mysprove the exact extent of replace- terious smile, but he shook his ment desirable. King head..
"Professor Einstein will answer no scientific questions," explained Mr. Samuel Wallrock, So I tried again. "What is the object of the Pro- fessors' visit 1
Professor Einstein took my writ ing pad and in neat, small hand. writing wrote his answer, It read:
"My visit to London la modest contribution to the or ganisation the Ort-Oze to help im prove the position of the Jewish people especially in the countrica of Eastern Europe and to advance
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their health and economic. posi- ·Mias Beatrice Lillie (Lady Poel), tion, which is at prosent very the British revus actress, has failed bas,"
in the action which she brought "Your accond question 1" com- against Warner Brothers, the manded Mr. Wallcock ateruly.
motion-picture producing firm, for "What does Professor Einstein alleged damage to her professional think of Mr. Bernard Shaw 1"
reputation. Mia Lillie claimed ventured. Again the Professor £20,000. Her case was that she was wrote his answer, which read employed to star in a picture "I am no judge of art. I only produced by Warner Brothers, a know that I have to thank Mr.The Show of Shows." She alleg. burlesque of the talkie picture Shaw for many happy hours. Hised that, instead of a full-length humour has made people think picture, her work was shown At a fresh boundit te märke ville twahar
"trimental to her. Warner Brothers That was all, and the Professor contended that Miss Lillie had no was shepherded to a waiting 'car grounds for complaint and that her. and driven off to the home of Sir professional reputation could be Herbert Samuel, whose guest he is legally damaged only by slander, or until he leaves for Germany again libel. The court dismissed the I to-morow morning.
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