1939-06-10 — Page 3

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 10,- 1939,

Marquess's Son, Twice Gaoled, Dies at 78

HIS WIFE NEVER Shanghai

LOST FAITH

A LOVE STORY OF 50 YEARS' DEVOTION BY THE

DAUGHTER OF A SPANISH MARQUIS FOR THE MAN SHE MARRIED BUT WHOM SOCIETY SHUNNED WHEN HE TWICE WENT TO GAOL ON SENSATIONAL FRAUD CHARGES, ENDED RECENTLY IN THE DEATH 'OF LORD WILLIAM NEVILL AT THE AGE OF 78.

He was the son of the first Marquess of Abergavenny. It was in 1898 that London's Clubland was startled with the famous "hidden signature" case in which Lord William received five years' penal servitude for obtaining £11,000 from the late Col. H. Spender-Clay, M.P., who was then a subaltern in the Guards.

Municipal

Council

The Japanese demand for an al- teration in the constitution of the Shangbai Municipal Counell was re- ferred to In a Parliamentary ques- tin recently:-

Lord William obtained the signature while at a house party at Ascot with his wife. He was in debt, and persuaded the young lieutenant to sign a document, most of which was constitution of the Shanghai Municipal conled.

deed

He pretended that the concealed document was I necessary for a pending divorce by his own alater. The document was a moneylender's promissory note for £11,000

At his trial at the Old Bailey, which his wife attended, an- other case was mentioned, where a young man's parents had paid Lord William £40,000.

His total transactions with! one moneylender was put by the Lord Chief Justice at £80,000.

When he came out of gool Lord William wrote a book on his ex- periences in Parkhurst under his initials, "W. B, N."

His wife was waiting for him on his release, and they went to live in Belgrave-square.

In 1007 Lord William was charged ngain in a second sensational fraud case, known as "The Black Diamonds case."

COAL FOR JEWELS

tricking n dealer of £4,000 of

containing coal for a similar box in which were the jewels.

Antece said:

"Lady William was devoted to him. She had to put up with all sorts of Indignities, but never once had she a bad word to say for her husband."

Lady Nevil, who is 75, was too ill to see anyone, She sat alone in her room. Walsh, the dead peer's butler, showed callers his master's room.

"GOOD WORKS"

Burma-China Road

London.

Sir John Wardlaw-Milne usled the Prime Minister whether he has re- celved, a report from His Majesty's Ambassador in Tokyo on the de- mands made by the Japanese Gov- ernment for an alteration in the con- !

Council; whether these demands have been simultaneously presented to all the other Treaty Powers; und whether he will make it plain to the Japanese Government that no modi- Reallon of the Shanghai Municipal Council or of the land regulations can be entertained without a joint conference of all the Treaty Powers and of China?

Mr. Morcing asked the Prime Minister whether he will represent

Crown Prince Frederick and Crown Princess Ingrid of Denmark, register at Perylon Hall, New York Fair, before opening the Danish Pavilion.

Boy Raja And Wife

Of His Headmaster

Raja Mohamed, nephew and he was coming home on April 18: to the Japanese Government that His Majesty's Government decline to adopted son of the former Sultan of In fact, he returned on April 17.

The evidence of that day repré consider any change in the constitu- Perak, was cited as co-respondent by llon of the Shanghal

Mr. Bernard Preedy, formerly hend- sented the climax in the case.

Municipal

Mrs.

Counci so long as the Japanese master of a school at Kuala Kang-Freedy had stated that the co-respon

"TOLD TO GO HOME"

She said

Mr. Preedy looked round and saw the co-respondent crouching near d dressing table.

A further quesion was asked in the military authorities are in occupation Sur, Perak, who was granted a decree dent came to the houre that night be- cause she was frightened to be alone. House of Commons recently regard- of the Hongkew and Yangtzepoo dis-nist in the Divorce Court recently. Ing the Burn-China road, as fol- triets and British subjects are de

Mr. Preedy, now an officer in the It was hardly an adequate explana-

tion; she cou

could barred from the lawful enjoyment of Education Department of the Feder the house of some friends.

Surely lows

have gone to Str A. Wilson asked the Under- their property in those districts? nted Malay Stales. petitioned for

When Mr. Preedy returned home divorce from Mrs. Lilian Josephine Secretary of the State for Burma whether he will state on what dates

Mr. Buller: My Noble Friend has Preedy, on the ground of her adultery with a friend, a Mr. Walker, they the Burma legislature agreed to ex- not yet received the full text of the with Rafa Mohamed, who was form went to the bedrooms and conaldet penditure on the road linking Chinn statement expressing the Japanese He was sent to gaol for a year for and Burma; which Shan Chiefs were desire for constitutional and adminieerly a pupil at Mr. Preedy's school,able force was used to open the dour When they got in Mrs. Preedy was Frequent nets of adultery between

not

In the betiroom. She was in an consulted; and in what terms they trative changes in the International the wife and co-respondent, and

in- Jewellery by substituting a sealed box unientions were addressed to, or clude changes in the constitution of 1937. nt

their assent; and what com- Settlement at Shanghai which

on April 15, 10 and 17, Inner room, called the "mosquito specifically

the School House were room," and was asked if there was received by, the hill tribes through the Municipal Council. I understand alleged. Mrs. Preedy contested the anyone else in the room. whose Innds the, roud passes?

that a similar communication has petition, denying her husband's there was not. Licut-Colonel Muirhead;

The been made to the United States Am-alterations. Raja Mohamed did not question of expenditure on improve a Municipal Council. in Tokyo and to bassador in

and to the Shang- appear to defend.

In the ments of the Lashto-Kyulkole road hai

that The marriage was at Torpolat, Burma meantime I sho explain the has not come before the

BEDROOM DOOR FORCED Legislature sluce the general re- constitution of Shanghat Muni- Cornwall, in August, 1927, when the

The co-respondent's slippers were venues of Burma have not been con- cipal Council is 4xed by the land husband was 32 and the wife 21.

outside the door, and, on seeing that cerned. I understand that the ex-regulations, which are in effect an the agreement between the Chinese Gov- punditure invalved would, in

he was discovered, he said, "Sorry, Mr. Justice Hodson, giving judg-sir," and bolted as fast as he could, nature of the

не to discus ernment and the interested foreign sion by the Federal Council of Shan Powers. No changes in the lurid re-ment, said that in 1937 the husband knocking over something in the hall. Mrs. Preedy had sald that the co- "Lady William was always telling Chiefs in the course of consideration gulations are legally valid without was suffering from neurasthenia.

the

assent of the Chinese Govern- me about the good works he had of proposed expenditure from the

In 1932 Mrs. Prendy left her hus-respondent's visit that night was ab- nor would Is done," he said. "In the

Majesty's he Federal Fund; but I am secting fur-ment,

band in Malayn and came home. Mr. solutely innocent and that what hap пу such Preedy said that she did so declaring pened was that he had promised to organised a club at Victoria. Station ther information in regard to the re-Government concur In

without full consultation that she intended to leave him for take her to the opera, but arrived connection with the Catholic levant proceedings. The hill tribes changes

dishevelled and late owing to a cricket Women's League for Australian through whose land the road runs with all the other parties concerned.good.

bath. He went soldiers."

are entirely in the Shun Stote of

She did not admit that, and stated match, and desired Sir J. Wardlaw-Milne: May I take that she went home because she was into the bathroom, while she was out- The der

dead peer's study told of hap-North Hisenwi, the Sawbwn of which pler times.

Was pointed with is a member of the Federal Council. It from the reply of my right honil, intending to return to her husband side all the time.

Friend them, if the Japanese should intending corresponded with him pride to an invitation to Lord and!

press-for-changes-In the Municipala time. Lady Nevill to attend the marriage of GAS FIELD IN SUBURB Council at Shanghal which will in

She said that in October that year the Duke of York and Princess Mary

fact bring it partly under the do she set out to rejoin him, and only of Teck, Inter King George V. und

mination of the Japanese Gavern- Queen Mary.

A new gas field, airendy producing: "Dame Nellie Melba was a friend of Lord William's," he said. development in suburban Highland proposal?

great gas enough for 38,000 homes, is under men, the British Government will turned back because he told her to go assist the Council to resist such a "believe that the separation was "Here Bre some pletures she

brought about by Mrs. Preedy's wish sent Heights. Ten producing wells have

been brought in within the past few Mr. Butler: Yes, Siri Is to leave him. and that she told him "Lord and Lady William received months almost unnoticed by the Majesty's Government would not afterwards that she wanted a 'divorce Dame eltizens, most of whom are unaware agree to any changes without full and said that there was material on Nomacy

that gas is produced at all in the consultation with all the other Fow- which she could be divorced." Mr.

ers concerned.

Justice Hodson added, "Nothing, how ever

and the partie lived was done upart until 1930."

During the separation Mr. Preedy voluntarily paid his wife an allowance which was not ungenerous.

in

him.

♫

of £1,000 under will"

war

From Lady Nevill upstairs came the vicinity. message that she was to show the silver Inkstand inscribed by Aus- trallon soldiers ns an appreciation of Lord William's fellowship during the war.

"NOT WHOLLY BAD" Walsh said: "Lady Willar

Was

always saying. There is good in every man. Lord William was not wholly bad.""

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He saw her on one or two occasions in 1935, when he was home on leave, and she rejoined him in Malaya in 1030.

The judge suld he was unable to

Mrs. Preedy had Mrs. Preedy had-also-sald-that-the-t co-respondent did not-run-out when. her husband arrived.

In regard to Mrs. Preedy's conduct, not, at the ume, attempt to give her Mr. Justice Hodson said that she did husband the explanation she had now given. She acted as if she had been caught in the act.

LETTER ABOUT POISON

She first of all declared her love for the co-respundent and her intention of marrying him, and also referred to: her husband's conduct as being some justification for her action,

She also did that again in a letter she wrote that night to Mr. Walker saying she would do anything she could to right the wrong she had done the boy." and not trying to excuse her conduct.

On May 10, when going to England, Mrs. Preedy wrote:

"The chlef reason I took the polson was because I thought that, if I died, the Raja would be able to keep his job.... I didn't want to be responsible for the ruin of his career."

"I feel satisfied beyond doubt that adultery has been committed," -re- marked Mr. Justice Hodson, who added that it was a case in which the husband could ask for the exercise of the court's discretion.

Sir John Weir sald at a luncheon them each in his own plug in accept the wife's statement that, hav- In 1934 Lord William was bound which preceded the opening of the own job. By testing drugs on over at West London Police Court for new Homeopathic Clinic in Man-healthy human beings i elicited the ing invited her to come back, her publishing u defamatory libel

chester recently that homeopathy fact that every drug produced its husband at once turned against her offered the Government n potential peculiar symptom-complex, which with hatred, and made it plain that cerning a former servant.

other he wanted no more to do with her. saving of tens of millions of pounds differed from that of every Lord William's funeral followed

They lived together, not in great a service at Brompton Oratory. He year, in addition to the saving of drug. And it taught us to choose for harmony, in 1936 and the early part

of lives. "Speaking

every ease of sickness the drug whose was buried at St. Mary's Church, thousands

generally," lie said, "there is nn Mortlake,

an symptoms most closely resembled the of 1037. During this time the wife's estimated from work among sympton of the disense we wished to association with Raja Mohamed br-

absence the insured population of Great cure,

gun. Britain equivalent to one year's work In the lifetime of Hahnemann, the "NICE-MANNERED BOY" of some 000,000 persons, and the physician who laid down the princi-

Raja Mohamed has been a pupil at money value of the work lost an-ples of homeopathy In the eighteenthi

the school while Mrs. Preedy was in nually by employees, for which century, the prevailing idea of disease England. He began to take the wife national health Insurance sickness was

ness was that it Inhabited the

body as benefit is paid, cannot be

"During his wife's absence in Eng- out riding, and Mr. Preedy's suspicions be less than something that must be drained out were aroused in March, 1937.

land he did commit adultery with New Scientific Remedy endorsed

£ 100.000.000 a year-without taking by repeated bleedings, cuppings,

pur

On March 31 the husband consulted native women on occasions, but he into consideration the dislocation in ings, sweatings; that it must be given his solicitors. Acting on their advice, disclosed this to his wife on her re- by Doctors, Nurses and Public industry." These figures had been an exit somehow. Later the Idea the following day he asked Mrs turn, and he has disclosed it to the published by Dr. Donald Stewart, obtained that the body was a mere Preedy if she had misconducted her court." The judgo sald, "I see no in 95% of cases FATNESS 'metical officer of health to Imperial passive battle-ground between disensself with Raio Mohamed. She replied, reason why there, should be any re-

fusal of divorce and some remedy that must be strong that she rad not, and, that he was a

on that account." Mr. Justice Hodson, who exercised

dy, granted him cosis against the co- respondent."

UGLY FAT GOES QUICK

1 caused by a disordered con- dition of the body whereby Chemical Industries, Limited. ""tuzte:poisons-sie-absorbed.

into the blood, thus setting

There was a great dent being dong enough to destroy without 100 Intro Hodson end that on his discretion in favour of Mr. Prév-

up torpid and morbild con- to avold fatigue, the bugbear of seriously damaging the unhappy host.mered

Mr. Justice Justice

ditions which result in the

body being weighed down modern life. But much more must!

with adipose tissue (uglyfm). be done, and much of it by the Ordinary

of these toxic acids, therefore blem of toentive"

they can never rettore the hom evertrædend trody to

of

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CURE WITHIN” OURSELVES April 91 went to Pe

Now we knew (what Hahnemann efcet & comping ilmination medical profession, because the pro-had taught more than a century ago)

was largely

medicine that could neither drain disease away. pointed out, had nor things were quite different; that gone back-or an-to

natural bock and welgevathy

Penang

nang for three days without her husband. She was dent, but there was no aliegation that there in the society of the co-respon they committed adultery-there-

On the day the wife returned from Penang her husband went into hospi-

Stage Stage Stage Lafely in equling rid of scientine discoveries in preventive had really

2nd 34 long many of the recent we poison it in our bodica, Medicine

wus & man who kept control of his uple in new 3-stage wytriple sction medicine; Investigators were begin- Hahnemann's teaching that what we al suffering from neurasthenis. He

wowanted flesh. BookCara iam liquid whichs, dissolves

tripletured restores and revíuitsen she body tissues,

so that the flesh is firm and healthy-no wrinkle ring to realico that the homeo-/had to do was to stimulate our own feelingt, and was no doubt sulferink;

Dr. Charles Mayo- Dead

Chirago,

NO_DRUGS — NO DIETING Palhs were ahead of them in detail/renclive forces, inherent in the body very considerable eved he was fanious American zurgeon; who withi

NO EXERCISES

-When taking Donkorn you eat what you like and as

much as you like. Beware drugs and exercises, both

of which are most harmful to your health.

and precision.

NOT A FAD

was 73.

of the

Charles Horace Maya. the. because only they could save us.

Justice Hodson Mr. Sir Arthur Haworth presided at the luncheon which preceded the opening; genuinely suffering from neurasthenia, his brother William devoted his life his place was later. taken by Alderman and not engaged, as the wife satd. in to the Mayo Clinic at Rochester. Sir John, who is a physician to theiw. Rostron Duckworth, who la M.P. laying a trap to ensnare her with the Minnesota, ́died 'hero' recently. Ho Reduces Fat Quickly King, senior physician to the London for Moss Side, the Parliamentary co-respondent or any other man. Bon Kora Sately-Buikis unleath Homeopathic Hospital, and a lending Division in which the new clinic is That night the co-respondent stayedha Mayo. Clunk is one

-homeopathie medicine, situntod.

in Mr. Preedy's bungalow. By that anest equipped in the world. It hus La staff at specialists who are ready subject at derman Duckworth presided ne time the cb respondent was in laxe operate on any organ of the body -klumkaen-buildevam pour ngaitka- makes yay 0-021

Preedy to hor knowledge. There are 120 doctors and n-staff, of Jalfolky meneryt ka shortness of brifin, ohne einen opening of the new clinic In herri honetara amar Oxford Road, Manchester, Homes the opening ceremony at the cliniet wille Mrs. Pr

NURSE LOSES 32 LBS. FAT pathy, he sald, was to roligion, no salf Sir Frederick West represented and she was, at any rate, fond of her more than 600: nurses, and the funda

Lørd the drd Mayor of Manchester at the They were in constarit association for exceed £2,000,000 Indy-no no

Some tunclicon

the next few days.

the clule received neither people thought it was

Mrs. Preedy visited her husband in pubile Subscriptions por legacies. a sort of A sum of £4,400 has still to be religion; something one "believed in." raised before the cost of the new hospital, but did not disclose the ex fuch pallents pay 10 per cent, of There was nothing of sect about it. bulding Bla, fully met, and the cliate teal of her association with the co their sworn Income and poor patients It was simply: the one scientific way is appealing for donations so that its respondent dr the fact that he had receive from treatment It Was of discovering exactly what druge now enterprise may alart free from stayed all night in the bungalow founded by Dr. Mayo's father. Dr. Sole Agents W. 8. Sherly & Co. were capable of doing, and then using debt,

Eventually, Mr. Preedy told his wife ww Mayo.

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