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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1936.
This FAMOUS AUTHOR
Eugene O'Neill, most noted of American playwrights, reaches the full flowering of his genius in "Ah Wilderness!" ...a drama of youth's first temptations that achieved sen- sational success throughout the nation.
This FAMOUS DIRECTOR
Claronco Brown, who made "Anna Karenina" and dozens of other outstanding 'pictures, scores the finest triumph of his career in bringing O'Neill's masterpiece to the screen... · pulsating with life, unforgettable
and now it reaches the screen with
THESE FAMOUS STARS
Wallace Boory as Uncle Sid, Lionel Barrymore as the un- derstanding father... in their grandest, most humanly lovableroles!
Ah
WILDERNESS
M-G-M oulbid all other companies...paid $125,000 for the picture rights alone! Every resource of the great studio that gave you "David- Copperfield," "Mutiny on the Bounty" and other picture triumphs was used to bring you a drama to challenge comparison with the finesti Starring
Metro-Goldwyn "Mayer norma!
Wallace BEERY Lionel BARRYMORE
Aline MacMahon - Erle Linden Cecilia Parker Spring Byington
Directed by
CLARENCE BROWN
AT THE
Here she is!
The dancing starlet of "Top Hat”.......breathlessly revealed as America's new sweetheart ...in a heart-throb romance from the pen of the author who gave you "It Happened One Night."
TO-MORROW
KING'S
MAJOR CLAIMED
DEAD STRANGER
AS HALF-SISTER
INCOME TAX PLOT STORY
Newcr tle, Mar. 6. ALLEGATIONS that a retired Army major falsely claimed the body of an unknown woman as that of his half-sister were made in Newcastle Police Court to- day.
Major Arthur Harry Nelson Taylor, aged sixty-two, of West Park-avenue, St. Heller, Jersey; his wife, Mrs. Kate Emily Taylor, of Trewhitt-avenue, Whitley Bay; and Patrick Joseph Kelly, of Dover-street, London, W., were accused of offences against the Inland Revenue.
There was it general charge}}
against them of conspiring together
to defraud the Crown. Major YOUNGEST
Taylor was charged with uttering forged documents and obtaining re-
payment of cheques from the Com- CHURCH
missioners of Inland Revenue by false pretences; perjury in certain | affidavits and having in his posses- sion certain official documents knowing them to have been stolen.
SEXTON
Against Major Taylor and Mrs. AT 13!
Taylor there were charges of hav- ing obtained income tax repay- ments by false pretences; against
Kells charges of stealing official BRITAINGEST
"HE YOUNGEST SEXTON IN
documents; and against Kelly and
Major Taylor a charge of conspir-YEARS OLD.. Ing together to steal them.
He
JUST 13
is Ronak Garrett, of Mrs. Taylor appeared in the dock Higher Chillington, Somerset. smartis dressed in a brown coat with a beaver collar and bat to match.
"OVER LONG PERIOD"
For a year he has carried out the duties of sexton for a neigh- bouring village. Cudworth, be- ing appointed to a position that his grandfather and great
Mr. W. Davies Moler. pro- secuting, said the complaint of the grandfather have held before Crown was that Major Taylor en-him. 'gineered the making of a series of fraudulent repayment claima over a long period in the names of per- sons who were either non-existent op were mis-represented.
It was said that Kelly, as a clerk in the Inland Revenue Office, stole certain papers which were after- wards destroyed.
BY AN ACCIDENT
Ronald got his queer job quite by accident. He went to Cudworth church one Sunday morning and found the Vicar, the Rev. E. A. Jones, ringing the bells.
The vicar asked Ronald to ring them until he got rendy for the After he had rung the Claims were made on the Inland service. Revenue in the names of Miss bells again on the following Sun- Helen Taylor, Miss Kate Emily day the vicar offered him the Taylor, Miss Louise Jackson, and post of sexton.
Miss Ethel North. The Crown al-[ Ronald's duties now include leged that they were all fraudulent, ringing the hell for all services, and were engineered by Taylor. and taking round the collection Kelly, at the Soho office of the plate if there is no churchwarden Inland Revenue, sent requisitions to to do it. the inspectors of taxes at New- castle, Penrith, and Oxford, calling] for the Taylor papers.
These papers, counsel alleged, disappeared almost immediately after arriving at Kelly's office.
"We know that Major Taylor had those papers," said Mr. Millor. "We know it and can prove it.
"We now come to a sensational uspect....... Major Taylor heard that an unidentified body of a woman had been found drowned in the River Lea on October 13, 1925.
"'WROTE AFFIDAVIT"
"Ho went to the coroner's office. He saw several bodies, and claimed
He gets the usual sexton's fees; and according to the vicar he is n great success at the job.
sister, will tell the court that Taylor told her that, having done this, he was now In a position to meet the Inland Revenue,
"He also wrote an affidavit that this dead woman was his half- nister, and was appointed sole. tid- ministrator of her estate. Hin whole intention was to have some kind of an answer about Kate Emily Taylor if they went on with the case.
"Evidence will be called to show that there was never such a person the woman's body, saying: That is as Kate Emily Taylor at the ad- my half-sister, Mias Kate Emily dress that were given, though Mrs. Taylor.'
Taylor herself was at the place in "Loule Jackson, Mrs. Taylor's | 1922.".
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