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TARZAN THE

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CHAPTER TWO

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

BONES MYSTERY CLEARED UP.

LIGHT ON THE MIDDLE AGES OF MAN.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1932.

WOMAN DRIVER

ARRESTED.

ON A CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.

PARSON POET WHO' WAS A FLIRT.

HIS SNUFF, OPIUM, AND WOMEN FRIENDS.

The mysterions onsuary at: Hythe, In Kent, has at last givon | Taverland, "Bagshot, Surrey, wasof Trowbridge, Wiltshire. ap its secret.

George Crabbe, the parson poek;

Indulged in snuff and opium, and Was a "terrible flirt,” but Married and lived happily ever

Mrs. Hunovia Treas Sheppard, of

arrested on the corner's warrant on the charge of manslaughter at close of an inquest at Kingston.

Mr. Sheppard was allowed balljaftor. in £50.

These revelations were made at

For generations past, archaee logist, doctors, and historians have been puzzled by an oxtra- ardinary collection of human

The jury's verdiet was that she. bones stacked in the ambulatory was guilty of criminal negligence Trowbridge Town Hall when Mr. at lythe Parish Church. The enl-n the driving of her motor car, John Masefield, the Port Laurente, lection consists of about 1200 which knocked down ann kiled Mrs. and Dean Inge took part in the skulls and 8,600 thigh bones,

Annie Hodson, aged 83, of King's-attended by a great-grandaughter centenary celebration, which was rond, Kingston, at the junction of

and

other descendants of the poet ichmond-road and King's rond.

Mr. Masefield est in the old arr?

Now the mystery of whom the belonged to and how they cane there has bern rienredl 434.

It was contended that the acei- lent was due to Mrs. Sheppard's chair In which Cranbe wrote hin Professor F. G. Parsons, Jer-attention being attracted by apoems, and Dean Inge preached turer in Anatomy at St. Thomas's trolley bas coming out of King's from the pulpit of Crabbie's Iti Hospital, London, has carried out rond and that she was at looking spire-tapering church.

rond in front:

Miss Amy Rean recited some of

An examination of these griezoq; at the Sheppardanid that some-Crabbe's poems, and as she spoke |

It

relles, and his findings are report. Mrk. ed In

a history

of the her h. thing Battered into the bonnet of the hum of the traile

ontskle which has been written te then her car "lke an apparitmy."* She Rev. HD Dale, a forines art did not know it was a boy, as shened to fade, and her listeners anw the old-work village street ot Bythe.

shack, She was not look and the nexton of a vanished dag bug at the traify bus, goud she did chiming the bells, and the lace

Mr. Hulsem at all.

scho "showed her virtue by her worn of view," and the parrot But, spoke words which tinged its |awnor'a cheeks.

Professor Parsons examined About GOO of the skulls, and

determine uble WAR the

of AUX Age

each skull, turether with many detadie

concerning the death, the disusun and the physique of the nan or Woman concerned.

One of the final facts rababli d f was that the bones had not, a has been apposted by sotme, Tire collected ran a battlefield. The Alulla of women and children wer about a humorous as Hose of ne. And il a hardly likely that the remains of combatant - would be indiscriminately mix

Pieces of Pottery,

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Solid-Precise,

"A THIRD SHOULD BE UNDER" solid. precise and rather

10."

"Crabbe," said - Mr. Masefielit,

tubborn, person with a powerful. Izolidly-made head and ni expren

At least a third of the members|sion of great gondoots and ind of the Cabinet should be wader; eas of heart the are of 40 instead of an aver

"I was

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a counteratların, age of 7, is today, urged Produs rious mp, abstemious in a Tessor J. B. S. Hakline in a broad-society fond of drisk and hayln. east speech on reisgee and civili only two indulgences mf, which vation.

The aned insoderately, and opioa

whielt he had, use !' without creasing his date.

In-

"Not only our quilles, but our industry is controlled by old men," he said. "The avrengre age of the

"There +1** directors of a number of repres

two remarkable resentative companies is 62. Nel poenas, evidently written under the

of other influence

upium He de capitalism

Httle seaport economic system can keep abreast brought

Some odd bits of pottery found with the bones ausgest that they belonged to people who ved fi or six hundred years age traces of earth and food fire some of the best showed that most of the badles had been bari ed in effins in an ordinary buri ground,

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of the times ander such guidance town in the midst of a drunken

"An electorate which thought in jand songsliur society: in a de terms of human biedgy would you solate landscape."

These farts have led to the br. !that of lost a third of the Cabine

Denn Inge referred to Crubbe as under forty and not more "Gear though he were an old lief that the boding were buried in Were

that than a third over to Hythe churchyard, and Some later date they were removed, "Measures should be taker, to friend, and revealed that "Cenry

transfer the control of industry to always liked women and children

and was "a terrible flirt,” unger men whether its own sire of that day said. "Damme, ship was public or private

to make room for fresh graves.

Professor Parsus researches have east some interesting light or life in the later Middle Ages.

An old

"You cannot export old men to the first time Crable dined at ray Few of the skull, it appction. The Universities of Cam-

deal with the present world sitna, bone he made love to my sister." Grablis himself wrote, "I have. hore traces of injuries received during life, and Professor Paron rate and Oxford are often sup though at considerable distances, posed to e barkward and re-Paix female friends unknown 10 suggests that such dents as are

actionary. but they have just

to be found have been caused by agreed to a rule by which Profomach other, but a very dear to

the clumstars of grave-digger, Some skulls bore trices of wounds or must retire at 65, not because which have healed, and some of their intellects have decayed, but !luenose with rate onreptions they the thigh bones have been broke annet heep pace with the raid and well set. These discoveries indicate that life in the MithSpeream of knowlestjes? Are was not so dangerous as it!. has been painted, and many rauss!

me."

The Denn commented: "There is fety, no daubt, in numbers,” and Inaghingly pointed out that the Lunet Cowper rot intu difficulti

Throath "having

femme Celende who livel ton glose In-

Come historians to revise their then an de A it has beea calrether." opinion of the skill of the medinjendated from the Usther main

val mingen.

At eighteen, Crabbe fell in love that the average height of the men with a girl as poor as himsel The size of the bees confien. Iwas 5ft. in, and of the womarried, and, unlike many great the belief generally held that our oft. 1. roughty treelinebea le ci perta, lived happily ever after. forefathers were a smaller rac than the modern average.

Five of his seven children died.

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