1936-12-05 — Page 9

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1936.

"Countess ༡༡ Found Him

A Bride For £25

PROMISED A DOWRY OF £1,000

Blonde Explains

Why I Vanished"

Paris, Nov. 30.

MLLE. ODETTE MAVET, midinette, stood in the dock in a Paris police court to-day. Golden curls peeped from under her chic black mortar-board hat-the newest Paris fashion. A black velvet costume fitted closely to her trim figure.

fled,

When the

MEDIUM LAYS

TUDOR

GHOST

A

A remarkable story of a ghost in Ash Manor, near Guildford, the house of Mr. Maurice Kelly, was told by Dr. Nandor Fodor, research officer of the International Institute for Psychical Re- search, in London recently..

According to Dr. Fodor, and a statement by Mr. and Mrs. Kelly, the house was haunted by the apparition of a tongueless man dressed in green Tudor costume with n big gush in his throat. The ghost was laid, it was stated, by the efforts of Dr. Fodor and a medium, Mrs. Eileen Gar relt.

Dr. Foxtor read statements by Mr. "countess" asked and Mrs. Kelly describing how

Going for brandy Mrs. Kelly saw at her husband's bedroom door o le man in an Elizabethan smock, booin covered with eluy or mud. So

Sometimes mademoiselle M. Nouroglou was more than satis- wept. Sometimes she gave him to pay £50--for commission on Nov. 18, 1934, there were three terri-vivid was the apparition that at first little trills of laughter.- -the-dowry-amb-to-buy-his-bride-ntle hangs on his bedroom door. The she was convinced it was real.

In the well of the court a swarthy Turk gazed at her with

angry, smouldering eyes M. Boghos Neuroglou. He was the prosecutor.

Mademoiselle, he alleged, in conspiracy with one Countess de Maupin, had defrauded him of! £50.

. The "countesa,” in real life plain. Mme. Antoinette Espinasse, should have been in the dock with Odette. She failed to appear.

M. Nouroglou's stery was that the countess ran a matrimuslot ogeneyi in Paris.

He, a foreigner, was lonely in this gay city. He sought a bride

to curo la luteliness, and so be, camo a client of the "counters,”

He paid the initial fee of £2 10s.. and

introduced to several "society girls," among them Odette.

was

RICH FATHER' She told him that she was Mile; del Longennier, that her father was wealthy champagne merchant, and that a dowry of £1,000 went with

her hand.

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"Then, he explained in halting and on the third night one bang. ring-he paid willingly.

next night there were two "bungs French, "Odette disappeared, I have On the night of Nov. 25. Mr. Kelly not seen her again uni to-day." decided to sit up instead of going to

Odette's turn to talk came next, bed, Tearfully she explained: "I was Twenty minutes after retiring Mrs. myarita victim of the countess. Kelly heard a scream, A moment

She struck at it, but her hand went through it. The little man still stood there.

TORTURE VICTIM

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I did not marry this Turk because Inter her husband burst into her such phenomenon, but he described SSEC:TS I was deceived. They told me he room and collapsed,

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"As for the ring. It. When I find it willingly."

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She turned appealingly to judge.

Please, plense," she cried," "by-" Beve me,

I really did want to get inorried.”

'WHY NOT"?

'Dear Madam. You Are

Dead

Capclown, Nov. 30,

A woman veter at Koples, Orange that ease, why did you set

Judge Gache answered: "Well, in Free State, has received the follow- the gentleman to whom you been engaged for the past yours?”

murrying notice from the electoral officer

Odette replied demurely: was and is my intention."

have in her constituency:- three "Madam.

Dr. Fodor himself experienced no how a medium, Mrs, Eileen Garrett, was possessed by the ghost on two -occasions.

Through her lips

and In

the language of medieval days he told how one Edward Charles Henley was imprisoned and tortured at Ash Maner for alleged implication in a rebellion.

Specimens of handwriting, which might have been in medieval char- acters, made by the medium under control were produced.

The ghost, through the medium's lips even gave the date of his mar- rlage-1530. He declared that the

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"I have to notify you that your spirit of his old gauler had confined "THERE'S AN HB. COMING OFF THE ICE IN A MINUTE !”

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"That name -appearing under Nona nim to the house.

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"Ah," said the Judge, " really wanted to marry two men.' Cort for the reason that you

Odette WAR sentenced to tour deceased,

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minths in full nud Aned E. The "If you consider that your name) "countess" was sentenced to fifteen should not have been months' imprisonment in her absence) indicated above, kindly advise me.

stating reasons.”—Renter.

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