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"BARON AND RICH WIDOW

EARLY PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE REVEALED

IN COURT

£3,500 False Pretence

Charge

Hans Philipp Korf. äged 34, who was alleged to have called himself an Austrian baron, of Abbey Road St. John's Wood. was charged at West London Police Court on November 13 with obtaining £3.500 by false pretences from Mrs. Lily

FLAMINGO NESTS FOUND

Indian Breeding Grounds Traced In Kutch State

A search for the Indian breed- ing grounds of the flamingo has been rewarded after a sixteen hours' ride on horseback across the hot and salt-encrusted Great Rann Desert, in Kutch State.

DECEMBER 18, 1935.

LADY AMPTHILL

DIVORCED

WHEN SHE SUGGESTED

A RECONCILIATION

Suit Undefended;

Custody Of Child

To Mother

Mr. S. H. Prater, Curator of the Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay,

London. Nov, 26. reported that the nests-which are Lady Ampthill, Pembroke-square, mounds built up in the salt mud-W. was in the Divorce Court exist in inaccessible corners which yesterday granted a decree nis!, are rarely, if ever, approached by with costs, against her husband, man,

"Lord. Ampthill, on the ground of

his adultery.

Wooding, of Tudor Lodge, Verulam The discovery was made by Capt. Avenue, Purley

V O. Steer-Webster. Technical Mr. Harold Simmana, prosecut-Adviser to the Maharaj of Kutch ing, said that Mrs. Wooding rat who undertook to survey a route met Kort about the middle of April for an expedition to find the at an botel

flamingoes. After crossing bun- I think that you will find be- | dreds of miles of the desert-which fore this investigation is conclud- has an area of 9,000 square miles, ed." he said, "that some other and is one of the few unexplored name is really his. Shortly afterparts, of maia-Capt Steer-Webs- they met he proposed marriage tater found a nesting ground in a her. He appears to have discover- remote part of the desert late in ed that she was a widow possessed | September."

The suit was not defended Mr. Justice Buckniil gave Lady Amp-

the marriage, thill the custody of the child of

The petition was originally en-

tered as "the Hon. C. H. Russell

v. the Hon. J. H. Russell," but

since the case was set down the respondent, Mr. Russell, succeeded to the title on the death of his father last July.

I

of substantial means. Her hus- As the birds were already sitting The marriage was in October, band left a large fortune on which | on their eggs there was no time to 1918. at St. Jude'a, Kensington, she is entitled to interest for fr be wasted if the naturalists were and there is one child, the Hon. If she remarries the interest is re- to make their observations this Geoffrey Russell, porn in October, duced to half, but she also had season. He hurried back," riding | 1921. In November, 1921, Mr. under her control approximately | continuously for sixteen hours, and | Russell petitioned for divorce. In £7,000.

then travelling another fifty miles | July, 1922, after a nine days' hear- by car before being able to tele- graph the news to Bombay."

CHEQUE GIVEN

"Korf told her of a company with which he was associated. An- slo-European Properties, Ltd., and

LAND WITHOUT SHADE Immediately, a cameraman,

器

ing before Lord Merrivale,' two of the co-respondents were dismissed

from the suit and the jury dis- agreed in regard to another man. NOTHING COULD BE DONE

that the capital was £20,000,000, | modeller and an artist were dis- As a matter of fact. I don't think | patched from Bombay, and within

Ha three days were in the desert for Mr. Justice Hill and a special There was another hearing be- they have ever had £1,000. mentioned that the company was where they spent eight days work- formed for the purpose, among other things, of electrifying Liver #pool Street Station.”

ing under great difficulties. They jury, and a decree. nisi was then had to make their base camp ff-granted to Mr. Russell An appeal teen miles away from the nesting

to the Court of Appeal falled, but the House of Lords rescinded the Korf told Mrs. Wooding that he site. Starting at two every morn- was to be a director at £130 ang they had to ride by camel decree. In Juy, 1928, Mr. Justice

Swift made 8 to receive through salt slush to get at the

declaration of month, that he was

the boy £7,500 commission, and £5,000 as nests. At sunrise about 6 am legitimacy in regard to his share of the profité. He ex-

they began, work, but were com- Geoffrey. In October, 1933, Mrs. plained that to become a director pelled to return three hours later Russell petitioned for restitution It was necessary to invest £3,500 in

because of the heat. The Rann of of conjugal rights. The petition the company, and said that If she Kutch is entirely without shade was dismissed by consent in March, would let him have the money at

and the temperature reaches 120 1934, and a deed of separation was The Ught is too bright for effective entered into. photography, and the air too dry for modelling

once he would "secure her.” She

handed him a cheque for £3,500 on May 30, He said, it would be returned on September 1 with

$250 interest

WOMAN'S EVIDENCE ›

Mrs. Wooding said that her hus- band died two years ago, Kort told her that he was divorced. He Invited her to dinner, and a week

·later proposed marriage, Subse- quently she accepted him.

She said that he told her that Bir Philip Dawson was chairman of the company, that Count Armand had put $20,000 into it, and that Mr." Franselia and Mr. Dessud had also invested in it.

Mrs. Wooding gave evidence about Korf breaking off the eng- agement and offering her £100 a week. She had two sums of £100 and £50, Korf then vanished.

Mr. Christmas Humphreys (cross-examining)-You first met Korf outside the Cumberland Ho- tel?"

Mrs. Wooding-I spoke to him there, but I had seen him several times inside.

After dinner when you were tak-

To secure spadmeus the birds

had to be stalked at night in the

Lady Ampthill's case now was that in 1933 she wrote to her hus-". band suggesting a reconciliation, but it turned out that nothing Bitter Lake, a large salt depression could be done. On May 4, 1934, of many square miles made dan- he forwarded her a bit showing gerous by quicksands. Sir adult that he had stayed for three nights birds and twelve young ones were at a London hotel in November, shou, many of them perfect spect-1931, with the woman cited, whose mens.

name was given as Doris Jones.

FOOTBALL IN LONDON

Signs Of The Moment

ست

For Lady Ampthill: Mr. Normag day. Birkett, K.C., and Mr. Quintin Hogg (Theodore Goddard and Co.).

THE VICEROY'S FAREWELL TOUR

Confidence In Future Of India

Warm

London, Nov. 25. London Soccer signs of the moment are that Arsenal wil go nearer to their fourth successive championship than is popularly supposed; that Brentford are cot up to the class of the First Divi-

Delhi, Nov, 23. slon: and that Tottenham Hots-

The Viceroy, accompanied by pur are again in danger of deve-welcome at Lucknow to-day on his

Lady Willingdon, had A You went back and dined in the loping the delusion that they" can

arrival from Dholpur State. After hotel?--Yen.

race their way back there.

Tottenham Hotspur still need a Governor of the United Provinces, s reception by Sir Harry Haig, the Viceroy drove through streets. thronged with enthusiastic crowds to Government House, where the municipality presented an address paying a tribute to their Excel lencies work for India. In reply the Viceroy said that he welcomed

that the new Legislature must be I suggest you stayed in the fast been near to it once or twice. en a fair and fall trial ́in. 'a for a week or ten days?-It is lies. And that they again have the purit of cooperation between Gov- erument and people. He would "Korf jumped up in the dock and man under review. I hope they

watch the working of the reformus excialmed, "You cannot say 1715 walting too ong The Wat will not repeat the mistake' of it is

in the confident hope that "they will help you rapidly forward to the Hearts of Midlothian at your destined position in the. Mr. Humphreys-From the mid-

'Chelsea" this afternoon. Bodid

ing him in the car down to Pur-tactical dictator. There seems to ley did you suggest that rather be no payer among their young than take him to Purley he should men with the experience and per- take you back to his fat?-No, he sonality to urge them out of a suggested it,

crisa. They have skill and night Did you go back to his dat?-Noting qualities, 197

on that occasion."

Sooner or later they must buy

*but not before we were eng- OF And a half back or more the statement that they realized

aged." A

Hed

than one. I believe they have

die of April to the end of May did lot of other English footballity of the nations of the Em-

you spend nearly every, evening with Kort?-YOL.

Mrs. Wooding said that she was not suggesting that the company was not genuine. She added that her money was entrusted to Körf for a specifle purpose:

"When I handed him the cheque I understood that we were to be married and that he was to receive

6130 a month, of which I would receive a half," she said. It was not because the marriage was bro zen off that I was upset an

Mr. Humphreys asked if they had ever lived as man and wife,

Mrs. Wooding first said that they had cot, and then added: "I am wrong there. We have been away une or two week-ends, but not be fore we were engaged,"

Hort was remanded and allowed ball in one surety of £3,000 or two gureties of £1,500 each. He was în tears when he left the dock.

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representatives!

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At night there was brilliant dermans coming over here it wil Baradari, where the taluqdars With the Austrians and the scene at the historio Kaiserbagh, again be possible to study the landowners) of Oudh presented difference between modern and the Viceroy with an address cons mending his "statesmanlike hand- old-fashioned football. ".

We have been deceived into ing of the twofold task of intro thinking some of the Europeari ucing the Constitution and safe- teams play the third-back game

guarding India against subversiva movements because one of the ful backe The Viceroy saknowledged the does what the centre-bal-bark cooperation of the old landowning undertakes in most of our Boccer families and expressed the belief It is understood that Peter that the new Constitution would O'Dowd, the Chelsea and England be found to suit the conditions in bay-back, left English football India and to contain the seeds of because he deo ined to accept the natural development. While he idea that a centre ha f-back is a regretted, he said, that it did not point duty policeman. Here are fall to him to inaugurate the Con- an eminent French critic's restitution, he had seen the founda marks on O'Dowd, who now plays tions laid and the edifice complet

ad and had no fair for India's for the Valencianes team:

future 4 partner in the Empire. O'Dowd is too much of an artist for Engin football. that's why it lost him.

Which is probably quite right,

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