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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 12, 1939.

Bailiffs And Police At "Selling

Up" Tea Party

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BUTLER IS SOLE BUYER

THE BUTLER of a wealthy Uxbridge widow, a thick | wad of banknotes in his hand, bid for his mistress's furniture when a sale under a distress warrant was held in her home recently.

GIRL OF 10 SUES FATHER

Mr. Thomas Brereton, of Roe-lane Kingsbury, N.W., was a lance-cor- pornl in the British Military Police

After the sale tea and cakes were handed round to in the Rhineland when he met a Get everyone, including bailiffs and policemen,

mun widow al Wiesbaden in 1926, A daughter was born on May 13,

1920.

Mrs. Clarice II. M. Davidson, of Including the balliffs. Everybody Over Frays, a large house in Hare-bad.

In the King's Bench Division. fleld-read, Uxbridge, was being Mold "I want you to know that my recently, Brereton was sued by the up" for £42 17., unpaid rates and object in reform," Mrs. Davidson | child, Ruth Elizabeth Auer, now 10, fines.

under an agreement which, it was Mrs. Davidson personally arranged; have been troubled by smoke alleged, he entered into to pay 105 the sate, rather than pay her rates, from a factory for years. The council Reichsmarks per quarter for her as a protest againal smoke nuisance will do nothing, so I made this effort maintenance. in the town, to which, she declares.ng the most peaceful means of im-

told them.

taction.”

the counell have refused to attend. pressing them with the need for

The fiffes, which were also subject|| of the distress warrant, were Inj

"I HAVE LOST 20 LBS. OF FAT" Woman's Joyful Letter

It was a enndid remarle by an nequaintance that started this woman thinking about her overweight. Read her letter:-

"I must write and tell you how pleased I am with Kruschen Salts. I have reduced from 10 slone to stone

8 lbs. I am 35 years old, and 6 feet in height. I really started taking

had been at a party, and a Kruseken through being angry. I lady zemarked dcross the table: 'My, you

are getting fat, and I determined I would show them. So I got a bottle of Kruschen and nitered my diet, but I do not starve myself. I started tho

Kruschen treatment four months ago, and I have lost 20 lbs, of fat."—(Mrs.) P.R.

Kruschen combats the cauco. of fat to by assisting the internal organs throw off each day those waste pro- ducts and poisons which, if allowed to accumulate, will be converted by the body's chemistry into falty tissue. Brereton said that his commanding Gently, but surely, Kruschen rids the officer refused to allow him to marry system-of-all-fat-forming food-refuso,»- the mother. He did not realize that of all harmful nolds and poisons a document he signed was an agree-which incidentally give rise to rheu- matism, digestive disorders, and many

respect of using armorial berius Prisoner Taxes Auto to pay maintenance.

without a licence,

Mrs. Davidson remained in her room during the sale. But before the first visitors arrived she went to her front gate and hung a wreath of roses round the autettyneer's poster.

IN DRAWING ROOM There were 16 articles, including bijou grand piano, in the sale, which was held in the drawing room Bailiffs, auctioneers, policemen, and 50 neighbours were there. But Mrs. Davidson's butler, Mr. W. Lester, bought all the articles which came under the hammer.

The auctioneer. Mr. H. P. Hancock, offered a silver salver.

Mr. Lester, producing his bundle of notes, said: "I will bid 420 for that" before anyone else spoke.

There was no other bid, se Mr. Lester handed over £20 and put the tray side for his mistress,

After Mr. Lester had bld C21 for a clock and £1 17s. for a warning pan Mr. Hancock announced that the warrant was covered. The rest of

the articles were withdrawn.

Mrs. Davidson appeared as every one was leaving.

And Jail

He returned to England, and the other illa. Įmother followed In April, 1930. They were to marry, but she could nut nettle and went back to Germany, taking the child.

Actress Broke Nose -Gets £450

MARYSVILLE, Cal. Police Chief Dorell La Fortune fairly trembled, first for his auto- mobile and then later for his ja, after her return.

He said he paid no maintenance Miss Barbara Dory, Hungarion when he was called tu Oroville to

the

netress who played the lead In

25 pounds. His fears were ground-under German law bring back a Negro, weighing over Mr. Justice Macnnten held that "Paprike" at His Majesty's Theatre agreement-last autumn, walked into the Lord less, however, as both the car and was not binding. He gave judgment, Chief Justice's court recently-and

nil remained intact.

with costs for Mr. Brereton.

Pavement Singer's 10s. A

EA

Day In West End

round it emply.

"My case, what has happened to my case?" she asked her solicitor.

It was expinined to her that a pre- vlous lawsuit had unexpectedly col- lapsed and her claim for damages. against a London taxleab had been settled. She would receive £450,

"It is a pity, a pity," she exclaimed outside the court. was only n little late. But perhaps it was as

ARNINGS of a street singer, David Thomas Williams (35), of well my counsel accepted the offer. for otherwise my claim might have Pember Road, Kensal Rise, N.W., were discussed at Willes- been struck out." den. Matrimonial Court recently.

Miss Bory broke ber nose when a taxlent in which she was a passenger

When his wife asked for a repara- "We sing Welsh songs, which we collided with a car. tion on the grounds of cruelty, it and have a strong appeal," he said. was stated that he often gave her "The job

"Luckily, I did not lose conscious- not easy, but at least it nes," she said. "I realised that,

more than £3 15. a week house-is an honest living. We generally keeping money. The case was dis-manuge to knock up about 10s. a day

each,

missed,

Williams, father of three young: children, that night told the News "The police often have us up for Chronicle of his 12-hour seven-day-obstruction, and in court we are "Have you all had enough to eat week job-with

as much as £1. a band of singers sometimes and drink?" she asker everybody.l on the pavements of the West End. I would sooner have a regular job."

fined

as an actress, my looks were my chief usset and that I must get the best treatment,

"An operation was performed by a famous plagtle surgeon. It was per- ect., No one can delect that my nose has been broken."

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