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Wife Was Cut Off With A

December 17, 1938.

Shilling But Gets £1,000 PAIN and

HOSPITALS REFUSE

THE MONEY

When the will of Charles Deeks, an upholsterer, of Dorking, Surrey, was published recently it was revealed that he had left all his money to four hos- pitals. and only a shilling to his widow.

All the hospitals have refused| to accept their legacies on "compassionate grounds,"

Charles Decks left £1,106.| The hospitals to whom he be- queathed the

money were:

Westminster Hospital. St. George's, S.W., St. Peter' S.W., St. Peter's, W.C., and the Dorking District Hospital.

WIDOW GRATEFUL

An official of the Westminster Hospital said: "The matter was brought before the house com- mittee, and it was decided that

Caught Bending

He was found clinging to a Belisha

beacon watching the trafte go by. but at Bow-street yesterday he de- nied that he was drunk.

"I had got the bends,'" the de- fendant told the magistrate, Mr. Drummett, "through working In compressed air."

The case was dismissed under the

all claims to a share in the ea- Probation of Offenders Ad

tate should be relinquished."

A member of the firm of Firemen Enjoy Novelty

Messrs. Breeze Wyles and Rag-

Kott, of Ongar, Essex, Mrs.

EDMONTON, Ala.

Decks's solicitors said:-"Mra. Oh, for the Ble of a fireman, Here Decks has left the house in they bring the fire wagons to the Dorking. She is not well and fire, Beçends, for the second time has been worried over the will, in less than three months, a street She is extremely grateful to the car with roof ablaze, pulled up in hospitals for their action."

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Crowd Saw Man's 80ft. Castle Death Fall

From an 80ft. tower on his- toric Caernarvon Castle recent- ly, the grandson of a noteď Welsh preacher fell to his death at the feet of fainting women in the street below.

He was Mr., Hubert Stanley Stephen, 43-year-old grandson of Tan-y-Marian (the Rev. Ed- ward Stephen), poet, preacher (and composer of music.

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Mr. Stephen left his home Bethesda, near Bangor, and went to Caernarvon by bus.

Superintendent O.. J. Owen, who was then in the Square, sald

"He startled the few spectators by climbing the castellated wall and standing with one leg dangling over the sirle facing the rondway.

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