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A Secret Worth Knowing.
The chief secret of keeping cheer- ful and "fit" no matter how high the temperaturo climbs is to take The remarkable number of petty due care of the liver, and intestinal An audrelsus escapade on the thefts and burglaries. which have tract. Used when needed, Pink- part of an unknown, and unin-occurred during the past year or cool, prevent liverlishness, banish etles keep the system clean and viled, woman "at
the Mansion in Beauchamp place. Brompton headaches and billous attacks, aid House dinner presided over by the rond, London, and the adjoining the appetite and digestion. Ob- Prince of Wales on Monday even-streets has enured the district totuluble from chemists everywhere, ing, was revealed yesterday. be regarded by the inhabitants and at 60 cents per vial.
shopkeepers as a veritable “burg- lars' Paradise," says A London correspondent.
This "gate-crasher":
Gave an English title and was announced;
Was presented to the Pilnec of Wales:
Shook hands with Sir Abe and Lady Balley:
Took the seat of the Lord Privy Seal
The raids have been enrried ou at. fairly close intervals, some ths daytime, sosne in the early evening, aru some during the The dinner was given in honour traditional "all hours--but all of Sir Abe and Lady Bailey, ander ihre very noses of the police was attended by many distingaleh- at the Walton-street sintion which ed guesta,
is near.
1}sgraceful,"
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of
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entry.
Beauchamp-place is a little strect Pning south free Brompton-rand, The same melancholy story was Sir Abok comment on the woand consisting for the most part of tell to me at a milliner's shop man's conduct...
small shops dealing in antiques, opposite one of the first establish- "It was disgraceful behaviour millinery and other commodities.ment in the fated street fo People who break into other peo
receive attention from the ralders. ple's houses sent to gaol; he long-suffering owner
are similar punishment ought to be antique shop at the southein ex meted out in cages like this."
tremity of the street woman's It was the
extraor-that recently he and had his dinary velf-composure which en-stbird and most serious raid and abled her to escape detection na an [ was golditz acenstrued to them. impostor for some time.
After having been presented to
Few of the guests have any de- duite impression of her, but she is described as well-dressed, about 30 years of age, and with a foreign
They go away with about £2003' snidwaith of goods, which were catied ff in a motor-ear which had horn lelt standing at the corner," said the manageress, "This particular raid took place at about. 9.30 ht "On the first two ceasings," height, and none of the property has
been recovered"
That the inhabitants of Benu
clamp place are exceedingly timid is proved by the fact that at another. milliners shop at which I called. the girl who unlocked the door in response to my sing carefully locked it again while she went to fetch the
the Prince and to Sir Abe and Lady said, "the thieves took a portman- Bailey, she moved about among the fetaining much valuable pro ather guests in the reception champerty from a matorcar outside the ber, quite at case and apparently shop, and removed some furniture From the premises. These thefis were carries out in daylight, and no trace has been found of the thieves or the proporty. Again, on July 16, a thief or thieves walked
Another shop, tint of the Officers' Families Industrien Association- calmly upstairs into the first feral among the first to be raided- showroom while the staff were on lost £300 worth of goods, and he the ground floor and got away with recovered none. A dressmaker's, a some valuable jewellery, and some few doors away, was also burgled silver and gold ornaments."
recently and valuable property Atalen
accent.
Suspicions Aroused. When dinner was announced, and the guests begun to make their way to their seats, however, sus picions were aroused.
There were, besides Indy Bailey
The shop next door has had its and Lady Studd (the Lady Muy second visit from burglars, who oress), only two other women munaged on their first visit to guests present, and the "gate-abstract a handbag containing £30, crasher," in selecting a seat, hap and on the Fecond to stenl pened to choose that reserved it the Prince's table for Mr. J. H. Thomas, Lord Privy Seal.
Inquiries were made; It was
found that the woman was not an invited guest, and she quested to withdraw.
ru-
quantity of jewellery. None of the property hn, been recovered, and the thieves have not been brought
to book.
•
A charwoman employed at one of the few private Pata in the street
It is stated that later Mr.stated that her employers' flat, hnd Thomas found that notes of his been entered twice nad jewellery speech which he had left at his place at the table were missing.
stolen. On each occasion the door of the Ant was oponed with a koy, So far the identity of the woman there being no signs of a forced has not been discovered.
| InnbaktereOKR.
The district is infested, I was toll, by a class of men known komily na "ruanore," who are either
leis in a very small way calling xt Bee antique shops under pretener fering some valueless object to, ell, or nicen professing to be at the lisposal of shopkeepers nu mergon-
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