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RECTOR CASE. Wouldn't you be if a gentleman

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Mr. Oliver What was the latest hour you have seen girls arrive They arrived at eleven clock at night and once I was called" : to the telephone by one of his visitors at 12:30.

owed you that money f

When tenants do nos pay their ront I think then it is time for me to put them out and Mrs. Os borze on one occasion as ten minutes to twelve bel went into the bathroom to get a bath, and I had to get through the bathroom window to get him out, Parke andre

A ripple of laughter went through frown on her face, said This is the court. and Mrs. Osborne, with

not a laughter mattan."

Enter, Mira, Osborne said: "1 got him out just as he was taking of into the bathroom window and put B coat and Fast I got hold of him, and my husband had to come and separate us. I don't mind' tell-

at five minutes to twelve the week" previously It is hard to say ther things about a reverend gentleman, but I'm afraid I have to do so

Did he bring ons woman more than any other Yes Mrs. Malone He introduard her as Mrs. Malone and said that she was his secretary I have seen her early and late.

Mr. Oliver Do you recollecting you I had given him notico anything, concerning Mr. Davidson changing his clothes-On one coon “sion, ha came`in) with Mra. Malone about sloven o'clook në:night. About An hour afterwards, at twelve woolook, he went out in evaning dress with Mr. Malone. When he came in an hour before I think he was wearing alorieni dress...

Was it in the bed-äitting room No..

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"Do you know of any other place where she could have been?-She could have sat in the backyard, but it would have been very uncomfort- able for har

Mr. Levy You, are a little in- am all right with people if they clined to be quarrelame? No. I

pay me my bill.

Mr. Levy: You hat other steps available to get him outf-Yo, then The will summon you. You can siap undesirable tenants across the face and put them out but what does. it mean to you?

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In further answer to Mr. Levy. won introduced his wife, daughters, Ms. Osborne aaid that Mr. David and son to bor.

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Mr. Lovy: Did you tell them he wds," a huisance in the house -It Did that happen once or more Mrs. Davidson. She told me more was not necessary for me to "tell than once-One ocasion that than could tell her. know for myself I had heard about it before and! I set myself to

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Mr. Oliver We can't have what anyone said-You have got to listen to your own maidi If you can't that is very unfortunate,

Mr. Oliver: Did that incident of changing his clothes happen with any other girlt

Mrs. Osborne It is all very well for you. I have said what I heard frome my maid and you have told me to be quiet about that Ten-

· not say anything about the other occasion because I only know what my maids have told me. If I like to say all I have ever heard I con gp on talking to you from now until twelve months time,

Witness, agreed that, there was no thought. of concealment, about the girls he used to bring. Mrs. David son didn't mind, and his children know of it

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Questioned about one girl, Churatantial advances were recorded. chill, whom Mr. Davidson brought to work at her house, Mrs. Dahorne. said that she did not know that the girl was now in adunatic neylum. She did not remember turning the girl out nor Ma: Davidson Exter. ceding with her not to do su

only remember," she added,. that she could not do sufficient work in a boarding bouay to suit mo, so she was given notice: The.j next thing I remember was someone coming to pale about a character, writton by the Rev. Harold David-

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Replying to another question Mrs. Osborne said, I gave Mr. David

Mr. Levy: Retain your spite if | son notice six times. On the seventh you can time I put him out. One reason:

Mrs. Osborne (sharply): It is was that he sever paid his bill not spite, it is the truth had a large room with sudouble bodi

Mr Lovy You wore in a raging. on the ground floor for 30s. a week,mper when this girl went. Is not

I have had six summons out against that so I don't remember,

"Him for rent. "On one occasion tho

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Question of Drink,

jadre made an order for £1 a work. bat. Mr. Davidson said that he could Mr. Levy Did you from time, not pay and he never has.'

to time have the most violentquar- Mrs. Osborne said that Mr.rels with your husband --No more Davidson now owed her over £30.than any other woman in business Another reason why she told him with her husband:

to go was because she chjeeled to the girls coming to her house. She told him so frequently.

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TANK.

THE NAVY'S. LATEST, SHELL.

ENORMOUS RISE IN CS. EXPENDITURE,

Richmond (Virginia), April 27- An urgent quil fan economy in state. and local expenditure wasmade to day by Fresident, Hoovers H

Spaaking at a conference of stndo The power and officiangy of mo- total expenditures of the United governors, ho pointed out that, tho dorn british weapons of war are Statos Rad risen from 93,000,000,000 revealed in articles, published bein 1913 to $13,980,000,000 in 1930 low, by the Daily Telegraph Naval and pf this last total state and loual and Military Oorgsspondants,

In the first particulars are given to 89,300,000,000. In the same government expenditures amounted of the latest type of shell for the period the total cost of government" British Navy, which can go through had ison from 3 to 20 per cent of nay armour plate:

outstanding dobo had risen from the national income and the total $4,800,000,000 to 820,600,000,000.

in the second it is disclosed that our new tanks are protected by an armour plate which can stop the German super-bullst

A development in the aphore of | Dailisties, in its way no lost re markable than Harr Gerlich's ** winged ballot," is represented by the latent type of shell produced for the British Navy, Frich Elector C. Bywater

The President declared We can not restore economic stability by continuing to syphon so litugs & part

private effort into the collars of the government. This nbatruction from the people abifios productivity, consumption and the recovery of employment.

This projectile is believed by ax parts who have knowledge of its per- formance to be the most effective in needs several men to handle it; size existence. It is made in two varie makes it difficult to move; it may tic armour-piercing and high-sxnet by available at the moment and plosive, in calibres of in, in, place needed its post discounts its fin, and 18 in. ...

Benofit. The prosent Constructed from steel of super-machine-gun costs nearly as much anti-tank quality-the formula of which is to produce as the light tank itself confidential-it combines toughness And the light tank, in comparison, and hardness" "in a phenomenal has three inestimable advantages degree,

easier, and its crew are ahielded be- it can move much quicker and dodge hind

course:

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Another secret feature is the shape of the shell, which reduces air resistance to the minimum and

It may well happen that the do ensures exceptional accuracy of flight oven at very long ranges, atvelopment of projectiles on the which the ordinary projectile tends Gerlich principle will prove a coun- to wobble and become erratic in its ter to slow tanks as used in assault

ing positions in the French and High Explosive Pattern.

other Continental armies. But with the modern British "high faced armour of the best quality truly, is a means by which mov With the new shell it has been velocity bank, armour is only a found practicable to perforate hard-supplement to mobility. The tank. and over one foot in thickness, in-ing, protoctod fire-power" clined 30 deg. as a velocity equi applied to the onemy's soft spots valent to a range of no less than the -concentration: 15,000 yards (about ten milea) The against weakness. time occupied in perforating the armour-plato is about 1-900th of a. Becondi

No armour-plate, however, hard and tough, can resist the attack of the shell at homal fighting ranges. And having passed through the farmour it is detonated well inside the target-ship by a time-fuse, which functions with uncanny precision. Owing to the large internal dapacity of the shell, which enables it to be loaded with a very heavy charge of high-explosive, it detonates with ex- treme violence, breaking up into, a myriad splinters, with sondlike dis persion, which destroy everything" in their path.

Evan a battleship heavily armour. fed and otherwise protected on the latest principles would be unable Mrs. Osborne: Quite right. to witheband more than a few well- Mr. Levy: He is always getting aimed salvos of these deadly shells. his finger into the pie?—Yes, but The high-explosive pattern, inten would pester you to death-three-ded for the attack of cruisers and pennyworth of good and a shilting's other unarmoured or lightly pro Mr. Lavy. (sternly); Answer 197

worth of harn

tooted ships, is fitted both with per question. "Did you have the mont

The Chancellor: Mr. Davidsoncussion and delay-action fünce. It violent quarrel would not enllaces to have done many kind is so sensitive that it will burst on them violent.

things..

touching funnel guys or wire rigg ing, and the half of splinters is devastating

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The introduction of these shells. has greatly increased the destruc she was taken ill with appendicitis. tive power of the British Navy'a Mr. Levy: Did not Mr. Pavid-ordnanes, and re-established the son help and bring an ambulance! supremacy of the gun among

There are two things Mr. David weapons of sea warfare.

has done in my life, and thap

8.30 in the morning still in his is one. I found Mr. Davidson at.

evening drays. I naked him to go

Mr. Oliver: What sort of girls ware they Young girls-girls he I am not going to mines matters. Mr. Levy: It is a fact that told me was duine roteus work for. Did you sometimes drink heavily muid named Lizzie was taken ill? On three occasions I engaged three and become outrageously ruoka. Osborne (interjecting): Oh, of them although I told him I did Not outrageously drunk. (Laugh. that has come. My Cod. Yes, not think much of them, but I gave tor). I knew Davidson had a lot them a 'brial

of things against me. Mr. Oliver: What was the finale, Levy: You had way heavy thing when you turned him out drinking bouts-No, I did not. It is hard to any was always on When I want a drink I take it the warpath with him. I wanted It is nobody e business, and I have my rent and did not want thosit in my room. girls coming: I was mistress in my I suggest that you drink so own house. He was a continual heavily that you become in a furiinto his clerical clothes and go for nuisance.

ous, tomper and quarrel with your Car Journey With Actress.

husband and everybody, elae-My husband happened to he in hospital, Mrs. Osborne said that on ora

I know that. I am going to salt occasion she and her husband drove you about, that You even assault Mr. Davidson in their cur to Nor-od Dr. Seymour ongo -You. folk. He sat in the back with an. you know what it was fort actress between 22 and 27. yours of

I suggest it was for assault. Did age On the return journey she you ask Mr. Davidson to intercede (Mrs. Osborne) turned round to

fon you--Certainly not. point out the brauties of the sconery.

The Chancellor What begame, of and saw that Mr. Davidson had his the action-The summons was call arm around his girl.

ed off.

Me Levy, cross-examining, asked Mrs. Osborne whether she had a photograph of the girl. Mrs. Da borne said she had, and it was peas.

ved to the Chancellor,

The Chancellor naked who else was. in the photograph, and Mrs. Os bornu replied herself and Mrs. Davidson.

The Chancellor. Does she always go about like that-She refused to be taken, and put those leaves over her face

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Mr. Lovy Was it not a fact that Mr. Davidson at your express re quest got Dr. Seymour to call it off-No, I arrived at the court to answer it. I have had three sum menses for assault in my life, and each one has been dismissed.

an ambulance, and I had to give him five abillings to take a taxi. Tha only two things he has done in my life were to get something for my nerves and to get an ambulance for Lázzie.

He even remembers that What a charming 'man l

Questioned about the visit which Rossie Ellis paid to Mr. Davidson at her houso, Mrs. Osborne saída she was not aware that the girl was sent out while Mr. Davidson. was changing his clothes..

▲ Landlady's Objections. Mrs. Jordan, of Euston-street said she left a single bedroom to Mr. Davidson from November, 1991, to June, 1998, he had a number of visitors-girls of 18 to 20 and one

Answer to Buper-Bullet. In the new super-velocity bullet, Halgor German-invented Ultra,& deadly menaco to the tank?

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Ind (writes the Daily Telegraph military correspondent) that tank experts are the least concerised at this prospect. And their sang-froid seama to have a firm foundation. For I hear reports. of recent testa which suggest that an answer to the danger is already at hand.

The inventor, Herr Gerlich, in his Berlin lesta, pierced armour-plate 12mm (half an inch) thickness. Ho used a rifle of ".280′ eslibre. Since then, with a .303 rifle, the present British enlibre, armour-plate of 15- mm. thickness has been penetrated.

he produced a new armour-plata which provider something like 40 per cent greater resistance for the

But British, armament research

in particular, Mr. Malone, who, same thickness. A-12 mra, plate of ho said,, was his secretary, Mrs such armour would suffice to stop Treatment for Nerves,

Jordan said that she objected to the Halger-Ultra bullet-even at The Chancellor: But that is a Mra. Osborne said that the treat girls being in Mr. Davidson's room,point-blank range. boy No. sir, it is the Rev. Haroldment which Mr. Davidson obtain and told him so every time be Davidson's wife.

od for her was for her nerves. brought them. Ultimately the tanks now being delivered, in time It so happens that our new light It is a fact that your husband neighbours talked about the girls for this summer's training, Bra as the result of one of these quan visiting him and the neked him to covered with the new armour-plate.. hels threatened to go abroad -Hego. has threatened a hundred and one

And their plating is of a thickness. Mr. Lovy: You took tea up to that not only fulfils the need stated Witness and she did not know times. We are still together:" his room when girls were there, that the lady was the daughter of a Mrs. Osborne added that her hus and you never found the door lock above, but provides 's comfortable clergyman, that she was then the band had to go to a hospital for edi-No.

margin of sequrity. Thus the dan- loading actress at the Regent Thea three months, but she denied that tro and that Mr. Davidson had she asked Mr. Davidson to go and she lived in a basement of a flat ports are curiously cheerful! *,

Mrs. Florence Cragg stated that or is forestalled before it has real- ly developed. No wonder tank ex- taken her down for the express pur.visit him. Mr. Davidson made The top flat in the building was ppose that she should see the Bishop himself a nuisance with the nurses occupied by Mra Betty Beach. Ján Unwieldy, Weapon/" of Norwich, because be wanted to there," she said. ....

Witness had seen Mrs Davidson at It is true that Herr Gerlich's in- discourage her from joining the

the house, and presumed that hevention might be used in firearms of Roman Catholic Church.

called to see Mrs Bench She saw larger libra, and that the pro- him come to the house once with jectile from these might penetrate two respectably-dressed girls about Tank armour. But once the calibre 16 or 17 years of age. Ono sho saw is larger than the 303 zilu stan- a note pinned to the door, saying, dard, the danger shrinks For the The Chancellors Is it accesary Dear Padre, get a key cut":" real danger to tanks of Gorlich'r to go quite so elaborately into all Reply to Mr. Levy, Mrs. Cragg invention was that it might place! this. I think it is quito, obvious said she thought the moaning of in the hands of the ordinary that this woman does not like Mr..the note was to save Mrs. Besch fietryman a waspoɑ capable of Davidson.

the trouble of coming down-four piercing the tank a armour awe flights of stairs everytime Mr Alarge anti-tank waspon neces- Davidson called, mal de la ghalsarily becomes a special weapon:

The Court adjourned.

(Continued on next Columns)

Mir, Levy Do you know, in fact, that this lady did join the Catholic Church and is now a nun 1-1 bavo. never heard soother word about -berare

Are, you suggesting there was any impropriety between this lady and the Rector-No, certainly not, I only know what I sam and beard She oadise him Harolds

The Chancallon: There was noth ing wrong about thatod ng

Mr. Lovy: Didn't you have a dis- nute with the matron 1-Can you have disputes with matrons and nurses there?..."

Mr. Levy: I should think that you 'could...

Mr Levy: Another point I want to make is that Mr. Davidson is the (Continued on nese column.)

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