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HOW THE ABBEY MURDER OF WOMAN

WAS SAVED.

DANGER OF SINKING WHEN FIRST BUILT. The fact that part of Westmins

CYCLIST.

S.W.B. MAN IN TEARS AFTER

DEATH SENTENCE..

SECRETS OF THE TOMBS.

CIVILISATION IN BRONZE AGE. Thomas Pople, aged 22, of Brecon, the Bronze Age, which were dia

Examination of the Tombs of

Sentence of death was passed ni Gloucenter Assizes on George

Battalion

The

The number of interments is so great as to suggest that they were

in Westminster Abbey," delivered been evidence, Puple wild that used as family vaults for a num~

"We came upon the foundations while digging a trench pipe," said Mr. Tanner, "and we traced them practically all the way to where the present Abbey atops at the west end.

attacked Giving

ber of generations.

ter Abbey sank and was in danger

the 2nd

show that the of collapse soon after it was built private in

the covered recently, South Wales Borderers, for

Jericho, like other by Edward the Confessor has been murder of Mrs. Mabel Elizabell people of revealed by recent excavations.

Matthews, aged 66, near Burford, Canaanite and Amorite communi- The discovery of the original

in the Cotswolds, on December 19. ties of the Bronze Age, burled their foundations during the work of

Mrs. Matthews, who lived at dond in subterranean grotto-vaults, Installing a new heating pipe was Windrush Mill, near Burford, was which were entered by a smallish described by Mr. Lawrence Tanner,

105} found with Secretary of the Royal Almenry, the Oxford-Cheltenham road.

severe head injuries on opening at the bottom of a hewn out shaft. in a lecture on "Recent Discoverico prosecution alleged that she had

by Pople. at Westminster School In aid of King Edward's Hospital Fund for his lamp became defective, and he London.

In une tomb, now under investi- made up his mind to get another. the bicycle came from behind him, gation, even the funerary offerings, and he made a grob for the lamp, which are to be counted by hun- His trousers caught in the pedal dreds, are found filled with human of his bicycle, and he fell against bones. the other machine on the ground. In all cases certain rites seem to Mrs. Maithows, who was riding have been observed and certain of- "We also found, however, that at ench side of the foundations of the other machine, fell against aferings made with each Interment. A dish for bread, a water-jug, pillars, strengthening walls had telegraph post and rolled down a

of the road. He and small jug probably for oil, been bullt. It became evident that dip at the side

unconscious, constituted the dementary those responsible had been ex-found that she was

More things vision for the dead, for whose use tremely anxious for the safets of and he picked up the space between the pillars had which fell from her icket and took or protection a lighted lamp was her lamp and put it on his bicycle. been filled in to shore them up.

left burning in the tomb. Sir Reginald Coventry (pro- There must have been a settlement

One tomb, a chieftain's, contain- secuting)-You robbed this uncon-ed 00 that frightened the builders."

TAMA. And such cases! seats woman?---Put it that was Plekst specimens, doubtless, some. old and time- Pople stood to attention while maybe already the Judge passed sentence of death, honoured, but for the most part still but tears streamed from his eve perfect or nearly-80. an he left the dock.

The word Westminster, he said, was first written in the Offa charf you like. ter of A.D. T85, and refers to the church "on the terrible island of which 19 called West-

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The draw for the Davis Cup took place at the Elysee this afternoon. The Ambassadors ur Ministers of 30 nations taking part in the com- petition were present, and Prest-i "We are not tapping the read throughout England. The "doppy" dent Doumur himself made the first depths it nature," he said, "but style of soft hat is expreially t draw.

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The campaign began last month- when halters everywhere display. ed hadgear reminiscent of the 'sixties.

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Prospective buyers of new bow- They had lost origluntity in theirters or soft, hats will be advised

they are search for novelty, continued Mr.that at present Noyes. Great art was never really heavy or "over-hatted" and that to-day should inve a invented.

It was a discovery of their hat something that had always been mall brim and a small crown.

It is hoped that by springtime The top of the list, whereafter there. I would be the business of Hungary plays Finland, Germany the arts in the future not to invent practically every men will wear a plays India, Austria plays Czecho- | paper flowers; not to go about smaller hat than he does to-day.

Too "Floppy" Ta-day. slovakia, Monaco plays Norway merely being clever and saying in

A big London hatter said: Belgium playa Switzerland. แก a subtle way that horses have five

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"declared Mr. Nayes, that way," Ireland plays the winner of the "Mr. Bernard Shaw has been dolag Hungary-Finland game, Spain plays the winner of Italy-Egypt int all his life. The new originality and can be worn at a rakish angle. is going to transfigure English life. They will be lighter and more the second round.

North

are per comfortable. American zone: First to discover that there

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United States-background in front of which all ival early in this century, hats Canada game and Australia plays our silly fashions appear and have gradually degenerated to the

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