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THE HONGKONG- TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, APRIL 28,1936..

Widow Of 81 Said To Have Been "Prisoner" In A Basement

'EDEN' BEAUTY

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Marcella Meyers went back to the Garden of Eden to secure a motif for her costume entry in the spring bathing beauty content at the California Pacific International-Exposition, San Diego,

Queen Mary And Little

Shop Woman Share Secret

MRS. ARTHUR KEEP-

ING has.

FOUND ILL IN BED BY

POLICE OFFICER

Story

of Man She Met in

Kensington

Gardens

LLEGATIONS that an 81-year dishes and a few broken biscuits

on a table.

Mrs. Fletcher could not reach room the electric light and the was in darkness.

old widow had been kept) "virtually a prisoner" In a Ken sington basement, were made dur ing the hearing of a case al the West London Police Court.

On March 21 Halliday wits Albert Halliday, aged 65, de-arrested. When charged he said scribed as a merchant, of Queen's that Mrs. Fletcher had ordered gate, Kensington, appeared on a the goods and would say so warrant before Mr. Paul Bennett en four charges of obtaining goods to the value of £20 by false pre- tences from Slaters. Ltd., nah-

poulterers, and mongera

of Gloucester-rend, Kensington.

Mr. C. M. Melville (prosecuting for the police) said the allegation against Hallday was that he pre- tended that the goods had been ordered by a Mrs. Hamilton Flet cher, who lived at the same ad dress.

Mrs Fletcher, who was 81, and possessed some means, first met Halliday 15 years ago. She re- newed the acquaintance last August when they met in Kensing ton Gardens.

A FLYING CLUB

At that time Mrs. Fletcher was living in a flat nt Castleton-road, West Kensingston. Hallday persuaded her to move to his ad dress at Queen's Gate.

writing.

in

Halliday told the omeer that there were two letters which Mrs. Fletcher had written.

Mr. Melville rend two lettera. The first was addressed to Mrs. Bird and ran:

" 1

"Dear Mrs. Bird-I am leaving my room on Monday, March B, and wish to thank you for all you am very have done for me. I grateful and I will make you present of my moleskin cont. agreed to pay you six guineas a week. I have been 28 weeks and the amount is £176 8s. I owe £0 for taxicabs and £14 for laundry bills and cleaning.

"I will give the furs. I have paid you on Recount £160. ... I shall be coming to see you, when you can make some nice summer dresses for me. I will pay Slater's and the other tradesmen later on." "WRITTEN AT DICTATION"

are

There she was at first put in a The other letter, Mr. Melville bedsitting-room on the ground sald, was addressed to Halliday, floor. Afterwards aho was moved and dated March 8. It read: into a room in the basement and "Dear Mr. Halliday,I have to finally she was placed in a little thank you for assisting me in tak dark room at the back of the base-Ing me for a run to Bedford and ment. There she remained until other places. All accounts March 9, when her son-in-law settled. I would like you to run took her away.

mo down to Brighton when it is "During that time," said Mr. little warmer weather. Come Melville, "Mra, Fletcher will tell over some time and see me." you she was a virtual prisoner; "Mrs. Fletcher will tell you that her money was taken from that she wrote these letters in the her; that she never had her cor- weak state in which she was In, respondence, and that everything at this man's dictation. My sub WAB taken out of her hands.

mission is that these letters reck with duress, and that It is a POLICE OFFICER'S CALL

deliberate attempt on the part of "She never ordered anything the man to bully this old lady to and gave no authority to anyone make it appear he had got her to order goods. Just before authority."

small ä

confectionery shop in Bat-Christmas, Halliday ordered in Halliday was remanded for a tersea-and a large secret. her name two turkeys, leg of week on bail of £56.

pork, a sirloin of beef, sweet- Only one person shares breads, eggs, and other things, Mrs Keeping's secret-that the auggestion being that this 81- is Queen Mary.

Mrs. Keeping's husband does

not know the secret, although he

year-old woman was entertain- Ing."

Mr. Melville said that none of

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the goods was paid for, and the PIONEER “ARMY" CHIEF OLAST 4 TIMES TO DAY❤

knows about it. This is the matter was reported to the pollee.

AL Detective-sergeant Welsby went

story of it. that he told to London press representataive:

"Five years ago my wife asked me to go-and-post a teller which she had written And to ask no questions about it.

EASTER ECCS

"I said 'right. But I glanced at the envelope. It was addressed to her Majesty Queen Mary:

"A few days later I found my wife in the back room of our shop with a regular mountain of Easter Leggs.

"She packed them carefully and then sent them off to the Queen.

"Ench Easter since then Mrs. Keeping has had an order for Easter eggs from the Queen. "As it is my wife's secret L unver ask her about it, but I often wonder what she wrote In that first letter and why Queen Mary should place a fifth order at little shop like ours.

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"My wife has never once seen. the Queen-not even tho

screen.'

Secret Knowledge

Do you know all the meanings

of the word "secret"?

It has three.

1. The one everybody knows.

2. A "secret" is a form of skull-

cap.

3. One of the prayers in tho

Mass is known as the "Socrot."

YOU MAY WED

YOUR AUNT OR YOUR WIFE'S AUNT

marry his

A man may now mother's brother's widow or dunt by marriage.

He may marry his decensed wife's father's, nistgi-h113 late wife's aunt.

He may marry his brother's son's widow, his nephew widow.

The Stationery Office, in Issuing these new instructions to "author- laed persons," adds that fathor and son may now marry" mother and daughter, Formerly the poal-. tion was legal if the young PROPIO married first, but not if the parents had already coutrnet- ed marriage.

IS RETIRING Coinmissioner J. Allister Smith, a

to the house on several occasions pioneer of the Salvation Army, is re-

of

to make inquiries, but he was never able to get an answer. On tiring at the end of the month.

A member of the Army-for-half-a one occasion the door was slam-century, he has been governor med in his face. Finally; on fodleigh Farm Colony, near South- February 21, he was admitted to end, for the last

years the house by another occupier. Talliday was not there. In the basement the officer found Mrs. Fletcher.

"DOOR HIDDEN"

When the Government, in 1801, gave General William Booth ten acres Allistes of land in Zululand, it was Smith who was chosen to establish the Army's first headquarters in that country.

"For the next 30 years," he said travelled every corner of that wild Waland, mostly on horseback.

The door of her roem was cover hidden from view by a cupboard. ed by a heavy curtain and

The room Wog

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"When my successor came along, I Althy handed over 10,000 Zulu converts, in condition and Mrs. Fleteuer was addition to well-established walfare in bed very ill. There were dirty centres."

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