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MISSING JEWELRY FLIGHTS

Harry

WAS IN MAID'S CARE OVER THE Tate was

was ac-

AFTER SHE had explained how her "missing" jewels were found to be safe Lady Margaret Drummond-Hay quitted at Tisbury, Wiltshire, of causing a public mischief.

Lady Margaret, daughter of the Dake and Duchess of Hamilton, was accused of falsely stating that jewellery valued at £190 had been stolen from her hope, Dennis Farm House, Tisbury.

She said that as she could not find the Jewels after her groom, Harry Hart, had absconded, she thought they were missing and told the police

Afterwards she found they were safe at her mother's London house,

KISSED BY HUSBAND

As soon as the magistrates' decision was announced Lieutenant J. R. Drummond-liay, of the Coldstream Guards, waited across the court and kissed his wife.

Mother and daughter embraced outside the police station.

"It is all due to an extraordinary coincidence," said Lieutenant Drummond-Hay,

Opening the case, Mr. W. Ireland) said that on May lust Lady Mar- garel reported that her groom was; missing, and three days Inter that a quantity of jewellery was also miss-{ ing.

She said she thought the jewellery was valued at £25.

Later she said she found that there was a considerably

greater quantity of Jewellery missing.

Through her maid, Miss Brenda Fitchett, the police learned that when Lady Margaret returned from London on June 25 she brought a number of jewel cases in which were almost the whole of the missing

articles.

Lady Mar-

MISSING GROOM When the police saw garet she at first denied that any of the Jewellery had been found.

Liter she produced a number of jewel cases ani said: "It is most extraordinary.

"Here are a lot of the things 1: thought were stolen. The stuff must have been left in our London house." Police Constable lies, in evidence, uld Lady Margaret told him that her room, Harry Hart, was missing.

She alleged that he had obtained excess-of-n-livery she bod goods in excess-t

uthorised him to get.

Answering Mr. H. G. Garland, defending, he said that he showed Lady Margaret a photograph of Hart- in the "Police Gazelle,"

Mr. Garland: He is a man with a bad crunlul record and he was wanted for another offence at that tire, so that any effort you or any other police officer made to catch him was not exactly wasted?—Not exactly.

Miss Brenda Fitchett, Lady Mar- garet's maid, described how she un- packed some dressing cases on June 25 and found some of the jewellery. She said that Hart once asked her where the jewellery was kept, but

she did not tell him.

OTHER CLAIMS

Mr. F. B. Prieg, of a London Hirin of assessors, said a claim eatered for Jewellery totalled 21222 17s.

It was not paid, and the elalin was withdrawn. on June 20.

The letter withdrawing the claim 'said: "Lady Margaret Drummond- Hay is very pleased to report that some of her missing jewellery has now been found."

Mr. Ireland: Have you received any other claims from Lady Margaret under this policy. In respect of lost jewellery? We have,

Have you replaced it in kind or paid in cash?-Both,

Mr. Garland said the Jewels, an known to Lady Margaret, were ind sate place in her mother's London

house r

When the groom absconded, Lady Margaret's maid toll her that he had been inquiring about the jewels, and when she coud not find them at her country house she thought they were missing and informed the police.

"POLICE WRONG"

evidence

Lady Margaret sald in that the police were wrong when they stated that she said the missing jewellery was worth £25.

The £25 referred to the value of clothing obtained by Hart. She valued the jewellery at £100 Bs.

Mr. Ireland: DI

claim £1,222 from the Insurance company In res

respect of the same jewellery?

you

Lady Margarel: Yes. It was in- sured at the price, but it was only nctually worth about £100.

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BEAT NAZIS ---Better than the anything Germans Gwn are these longs, range Vickers- Wellington bombers. These planes fly re- gularly over Ger- many and Aus- tela.

Nazi bomber

victim

REICH

Two crews perish in bad-luck ship

THE superstructure of the British steamer Royal Crown after

it had been bombed and machine-gunned off the east coast of England.Domci.

PAID THREEPENNY DEBT

18 YEARS AFTER

CHARLES KAY had a shave at Barber Harrison's, of Hen- Miss Ciara Waters, mald at the shaw Street, Oldham, and found he had only paper money. Mr. Duchess of Hamilton's London house, said that when Lady Margaret leri Harrison could not change it. of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, "It will do next time," he said, and walked into Mr. Harrison's shop and to go to Wiltshire in March the jewellery was left in a drawer, so Charles Kay went away owing three-paid his debt of 3d-for the shave he

had 18 years ago. she took it to her own bedroom for pence, Anfety.

Soon afterwards he sailed for The jewels were in her custody Canada; settled in Montreal, from Murch to June.,

The other day Private Churles Kay,

"You said it would do next Ume" he, explained, "and this is it,"

But then Charles Kay is rather

RESCUED

THEN MINED

THREE men were found float- Ing on a raft in the English Channel They had lived on the raft for two days without food

or water,

air raid victim

RONALD MacDONALD HUT- CHISON, the man who saw a name on a sugar box, adopted it and becane Harry Tale, the comedian, died in a nursing home at Sutton (Surrey), victim of a German air raid.

He was appearing at Dundee last November and, during one of the first air raids, went into the street to see what was happening,

A small dying particle of a shell) entered one eye. Then heart trouble started and he became seriously it. He was sixty-seven when he died.

The public did not know of the tragedy of that accident. A few weeks after happened Harry Tate was due to appear with Beatrice Lillie in West End revue, "All Clear.". The show is running now.

It was a chance he hadn't had for years. It might have put him back where he belonged. But the hombers Bew over: Tate-adven- turnus always-ran out, and the opportunity was gone for ever.

"Motoring"

Morte-hall wudiences will remer- ber Harry Tate for his "Motoring," !“Gardening," "Fishing." "Flying." "Golfine" and "Billiards" sketches, Motoring was the most famous. For she affected a cop pulled hack ai that it looked as though it was in- outrageously Bated with al; an coloured cheek suit; boots and leg- gings and a esat old enough to fall

of.

But his chief stock-in-trade was his moustache. It was of the handle- bar type, and, like his coat, always inoked as though it was slipping øll,

Harry Tate, a Scotsman, began his working life as a clerk in a sugar warehouse, But to use his own word, he was too "lucky" for u busi- ners career. He used to mimic his superiors behind their bucks, and 11 was as mimic that he first appeared on the stage.

Somebody spotted him at a con- cert, told Marie Lloyd, and with her influence he got his first big stage job-at the old Oxford music- hail in 1895.

Provincial engagements and money

A youth of eighteen was found clinging to an overturned boat.

He and the three men were the in the bank followed. A year or two only survivors of sixty-eight men later Harry Tate bought his first ear. who put to sea in two bad-luck ships dimculties he had with its intricate

The First Ship was the steamer Thurston, from West Hartlepool mechanism that gave him the idea

She for the "Motoring" sketeli.

She was not always unlucky.

made many trips to Spain during the eivil war, dodged bombs many times, and was hit only once.

But on this voyage things went wrong.

Her captain, the second male, und nine of the crew fell it. She put them ashore at Lisbon, and the cop-

tain died the same day.

Their Luck Changed

It was that motor-car and all the

Hauptmann,

aged 6

(LINDBERGH

The other men recovered. The KIDNAPPER'S SON)

Thurston sailed agatn, Then entered-

The Second Ship, the French colller S.N.A.1, of 2,070 tons.

The two boats collided. The French boat sunk as her crew of 30 scrambled aboard the Thurston

Next day, off the West Coast of England, the ill-starred Thurston struck a mine. Down she went.

Most of the men saved from the French bad-luck-ship were below. They went down with lier.

awarded £5,000

New York. NIX - YEAR-OLD Manfried Hauptmann, son of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, who went to the electrlo chale on April 3, 1936, for, the kidnap murder of the Lindbergh baby, was award- ed £5,000 damages by a New York Jury to-day.

Two bonts and a raft got away, One boat held three men. It van- ished. The second held two men. ItHe claimed for injuries suffered turned over.

when a motor-car knocked him down i on May 4, 1038,

One of the men was lost. The other the youth of 18 who was from the French ship-inanaged to hold on.

The men on the raft were three Indian firemen from the Thurston's

crew.

He is subject to a form of epilepsy: as a result of the neeldent, and has a permanent leg Injury.

Justice William Love told the Jury: "I caution you, don't be in- But tuck changed for them, and fuenced in your finding by the name for the French youth. Ships sighted; this boy carries." them, and took them safe to port.

early.

meticulous about promises. When he paid his barbering debt he was a little embarked for Canada his little niece. was in tears.

"Don't cry, dear," he said. "I'll be back for your welding day."

When he came back to Oldham and

Two days later his niece, Miss Mar- wood, became Mrs. Greenhalgh, and Charles Kay gave the bride away,

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