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HOW CHEVALIER ROSE

TO FAME.

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Crazed and Uncrowned Kings.

wondered what the foreman of the do factor, the owner of the,

THE BLACKHEATH MURDER MYSTERY.

DEAD GIRL'S PHOTOGRAPH SHOWN AT CINÉMAS.

Home papers continue to give paint shop, the teacher of name-every available scrap of informa the and others of the hickless line tion about the Blackheath murde who tried to make a hundrum mystory. According to the ea citizen out of Maurice, Chevalier Chronicle for the first time in the would have thought if they had history of crime this country been with us during this talk in the the cinema was, used by the polies drawing-room of his Mediterranean

villa.

It was a big, lofty room, benut

fully furnished.

Facing me was a vast open fire. ples, at either side of which a bright hire woollen monkey was poised as if scrambling towards the mantelpiece.

Two photgraphs, both signed with an inscription to Maurice caught my eye.

One was of the King of Spain, The other seemed at once strange and familiar. A boyish sensitive face looked out wistfully from the frame. It was Chanes Chaplin's hey, minus the "property " mous- trehe.

Maurice, comfortable in an arm- ebnir, wore 1 blue sweater and Banels. I had liked him instantly. Stars of the screen and stage are not always easy to like, Neither, As a rule; is their conversation in- teresting. But Chevalier, as he laked modestly and frankly of the days when nobody, least of ail him. self, dreamed that he would be- cone the best-loved living French- wan, gripped me more than a dozen

novele.

Outside, beyond the fields, the Mediterranena sparkled in warm sunlight, yet our thoughts were in the little home at Menilniortant,

iroideast a photograph.

This new development in crimin-

News.

investigation followed upon a suggestion made in the Chronicle tant

n. reconstructed full-length photograph of Miss Louisa Steric, the 18-year-old victim of the Blackheath murder, for news of her movements on should be broadcast with a request

the night of theherine.

Scotland Yard made a 'number of hatern slides showing the re- constructed, photograph.

cinemas in the Blackheath and

These slides were issued to all

Greenwich-district, and wero shown on the screens with a request that any person who had information of Mix Steele's movements should some forward.

Loitering Man.

In connection with the search a fresh appeal was issued by Scut- Jand Yard. It ran:

Between 6.30 p.m. and 7.45 p.m.

On January 22 (the night of the crime) two females were attacked in Manor Park, Lee S. E., and Granville Park, Lewisham Win any person who was in either, road or witnessed either attack, or who sw any suspicious person laiter-

where a poor widow battled to feeding there, kindly communicate at

and clothe her children.

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The Call of the Style..

Do not think that 1 enjoyed Jusing jobs as a boy," Maurice went በዛ. I wanted more than any thing to settle down, but I had kiens of my own about the kind of work to which was suited.

"A desire to go on the stage had stendily grown in me. At that time uty ambition was to be an aembat, and I pat in a lot of practice in the backyard.

"Mother was sympathetic when I mentioned, as I often did, the subject of the stage. She was al- waya wonderful to me: she could never any No to any wish of mine,

But the elder of my tantivo- thers, who was in a banking house, |_ thought-differently Stage work, The used to say, was a job for lazy men. Why couldn't I be sensible and go into business as he had done 1

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Maurice knew himself better than that. In odd moments le continued to sing, with appropriate expres- sion and gesture, the songs of his idols, the artists at the Palis do Travail.

And when each day's nail-making was done he accompanied his bro ther Paul to a gymnasium, where he devoted himself very earnestly to the higher aerobatics, perform miracles on the trapeze and the fying rings.

One evening, while practising on the flying rings, Maurice fell Te was carried home with a broken ankle and a badly damaged face. For once his mother speke severe. ly. No more nerobatics for you. tay son, she announced.

Maurice obeyed,

deserted the gymnasium, He was far from beaten, though, Acrobats do no: mononoline the music-halls. Why not be singer? So Cavalier, till a child of thirteen years, de- voted himself rigorously to learn. ing comic songs and the art of "putting them over."

once with the nearest police sta- tion1

"The police are also anxious to interview any person who sais, a man loitering upon the comnion? near any of; thazomnibus routes ncross Blackbeath Common between

last. 7.45 p.m. and 'pm, on Thursday

Therefore will any person who can assist the police communiente with us at once?".

were

The Big Taree. Dramatic developments foreshadowed by the presence at Blackheath of three of the Big Superintendent Cooper, Superin Five of Scotland Yard, They were tendent Brown and Superintend erit Savage, n

This is the first time I have known three of the Big Five to engaged together in a cass in Yes-Chronicle

outlying suburb, writes the specia! Corres- pondent.

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The police have taken, 200 state. miles, but there is still no clue as mants and have travelled many

sailant. to the identity of Miss Steele's na

The police have description of mid wearing heavy boots, who a man of powerful build, about i believed to have molested wo men on the heath. They are 'an- the twisted lip," who was seen on xique to interview "the man with Blackheath accompanied by a cry ing girl.

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Whistle for Women.

The suggestion, that women and girl walking alone should carry whistles was made by Miss L Wilkie, head of the Y.W.C.A., Club on Blacklicat.

A suggestion that there should wonen police patrols on Black- heath was made by Mrs. Ivy Cam- Women Citizens' Association. eron, a member of the Lewisham

Riddle of the Ponda.

Does one of the five ponds with- in a few minutes walk of where Miss Steele's body was found hold the key to the mystery writes coun-

WOMAN CHINESE SCHOLAR. Try Criminolgiat."

LONDON UNIVERSITY

HONOUR.

The suggestion that the murderer may have discarded, his weapon (if any) or the mining undergarmenta of the dead girl by flinging them For the first time, in history anland Yard Officers are Ebnsidering into a. pod visimade, and Scot- English University has ccnferred the matter. upon a woman the degree of Doctor

A theory which I understand is

of Literature (D.Litt.) in Orientaleing considered is that the man Languages (Chinese).

responsible may possibly have com milted suicide perhaps

It has been announced that, the University of London fins conferred the degree on, Miss Evangeline D. Edwards.

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one of the ponds, If the ponds" should yield body the mystery might be solved.

HOW TO GET RID OF INDIGESTION.

Miss. Edwards, who for the past. ten years has breti a tenchor at the School of Oriental Studies, Lon- don, was previously for six years u tencher in China,

"I learned Chinese in Man- churin," she told a reporter. Easy to Learn to Speak. An old Chinese sat on one side of a table and I sat on the other, The Chinese could understand no English and I knew no Chinose, hat somehow we made each other understand, and in a few months I foll This instantly neutralises the acid that causes all the trouble,

could speak the language.".

These who suffer from indiges- tion, gastritis, acidity, latulenco, dyspepsin, heartburn, etc., will be glad to learn that instant relief can be obtained by taking a little 'Bisurated Magneela immediately after eating or whenever pain is

- Any average person could learn stops the fermentation, heals and

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speak Chinese in six months. soothes the fermentation, Ivals and but it is much harder to read, or

soothes the infamed stomach fin- write, because There are 40,000 ing, and restores painless, normal. characters.",

digestion: Get pelage of Bisarated Magneain powder or tablets of your chemist to-day: use, telling your friends how you got. rid of indigestion.

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