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COUNTESS'S LOVE STORY. + molts REVELATIONS AT VENICE. « VBN1CB5, Tuesday. fcj11 the hearing of the K&marowfr^i trial 0^8 resumed here this morning the prisoner, Taranowska, continued the story of o&reer leading up to the murder of the oount. By order oi the president Jadies were admitted to reserved places. prisoner, taking up the thread of her Native from last Saturday. said that when W?*W8ki died she separated from her y. *>&n<i, and -went back to Kieff. During W Summer she •was advised to apply to the h«ryfr Priiukoff to settle ber reflations with husband. Priiukoff went to Kieff and ine hor legal advice, afterwards return- Moscow. Meanwhile, her husband s «*&Ter and Stahl, a friend of the family, **a°k from the Avar. Stahl wae in a •W, ,bad state of health, and oommitted tHj? €- not on her account, but becauee his had broken off relations with him. *ilH5W husband's trial in connection with "taiw ^r8^'Ski she wont to the country. she received news of her mother's ^Inv "s''enft back to Kieff, and sent for to h« f<) advise her regarding succession ^h n?°,'ier 8 property. She then proceeded btH-^TilU'koff and her maid Petrier to Riga, a returned to Keiff, where she engaged °r for her son, remarking that the tutor ho-^c ugly that she ccruld never understand liG Priiukoff could ever have imagined that *ojj], as her lover. In June, 1906, she was tP °rut f°r abroad, when news came Priiukoff had attempted to commit toj^ She went to Moscow to see him. and Vjy. him that she wanted to travel abroad it0 him. Meanwhile, eh« was living in at her own expense, though Priiukoff 'he t4ken rooms below her. The charge that ad urged the lawyer to abandou hie U)e false, ae she had itiven him just COntrary advice. conuTKAVEL8 WITH PKILUKOFP. ^a-t i uin& her statement, the oount ess said w.11 ^°tober, 1906, on advice of her doctor, H*j(lae,lt to Vienna, and Priiukoff said he %t wh See hor there. At that time ahe did that Priiukoff had stolen his client*' f\* rom Vienna she wotLt to Berlin, T^tteilles, and Algiers. Priiukoff fol- „ Slfer, When they came back from to Marseilles Priiukoff left her, but v again. They went together to ,%y.' Jjyori«, and Neuchatel. Later on, rjJ**16 travelled to Dijon, where she ii^btvo ultoff tender iritereoarse with tv y!eper of the hotel he was staying at. time she was keeping up corrv- v*Ht with Kamarowski, and !lx Wm to Orel, Kieff, and St. V' At, Orel, on May 20. "S2S In stage irt n Kamarowski, S**<* fr £ ?b*r husband. About thajt time >!l}^»ived » letter from T.luse Pctner tUflt Tvanmoff was in ]ovo with! J^&ren-poTi teIo?rapbc<l to Naumoff! -lading" to which ho responded k.rling love." She had always had for the prisoner Istuimoff, as ami^€ person, and ended by him. Bhe narrated some lJ'Wr with Kuumoff. One day him c^mete^y at Kieff %ear that he would never S}¡{J II ^tih* LOVEiRS. ifjj ( she had carried on relations c,lt tie Sa°^< Priiukoff, and Kamarowaki 0rj 'or a time, because she was looking 8b' o ^^tant-i al man sihe oould depend Kamaroweki proposing u^a-rriagb rith She then left .Russia for abroad ^&rlot>gki• ^he met Priiukoff at h Kairia -owski wanted to gt.er' an<i Priiukoff showed no objeo- she had tried to persuade >l ea_ ^°, inmire his life in her favour and rich suicide, adding that her father M 8h_' s^le had no need of money, and ?M given him baok the money he ei1 her. From Berlin the went to fr^ukfvW two day« with » ^tQ«^"etl she went on to Venioe with \W- Priiukoff. who was Jealoiw, >Urn. her thither, subeequently, however, V) 'n8 to Munich. She denied having said tli ■ cloar Kamarowaki off the face At that moment Naumoff in Vienna. In the meantime ^T^wski had managed to insure himself, made his will. Thereupon Priiukoff i?(^9o<ner t'hat Kamarowski had better bo Uaa J<1 of. She was disturbed by the suggee- sot off for Kieff with Naumoff. then sent- Naumoff a forged signed Kamarowski, insulting the v t^W?6 aTlc^ herself. At Kieff she received frotQ Kamarowaki saying that K^en ki^^d himself. ,s oaime to this point the prisoner « <Wn» bursting into sobe, while the 1?^ j8,11 down her faoe. ns was a(ii0UT'ned for the day, t^e afternoon sitting the Duke of sSr>ftf I"Jl?zzi was in the reserved places.—Press ati<m Boraign Special.

s '4 In LAWRENCE JENKINS MENTIONED. I r ——— Hi^Wre'Tlce the Chief Justice of V^sf of Calcutta, is mentioned ae a C»% taj?r IJortl Minto, the Indian Viceroy. vWtf,0 tlle fo^owin? from the "Ama.n," of 'liti V^icf 1>r>'J^icaJ tipsters are hand at it tfky Lord Minto's suooessor. Lord v1". 'Jy. Crowe, Lord M'Donnell, and ^ton Churchill have all in turn come betting list, but there is yet ^dn Viceroy tipped, but a non-political iiot 8 Lawrence Jenkins! And i% ,v Why hunt round amongst others have a 'winner' on the spot? Sir i00 Jenkins, both by reason of his Mw a-U learning and his English and no low than by reason of Jiil Q"1 term of service he put in at the IKV Ce' a marl who is equipped at V bi^j^ ^n,t for suoh an appointment. There ^hly no ma.n in England or India Vj 11(5 has a more profound knowledge w.%in affa»irs, or who is better qualified 'ulch .it-h the terribly difficult situation before any pilot who may be ,JP into the saddle.' U?''0ys.the of both races in ^hitc and the brown, and no more LaapI>ointm<mt °°u^ he made." ^i^ii?1T,renc€' Jenkins is a native of %sM^stllre- in which county he still has nce at Ciliau Aeron.

^°LICEMANS STRANGE w DISCOVERT. }% poiiceman was cycling over Peter- Pn> Surrey, on Monday he saw a g a'aiuet a tree. Dismounting, %LnJ? cP°t' and found the J1101416 hOT mouth was a XrtJV d^ the mortuary it was found ?»th ar^n? f*1 a,,iK>til0 of POiacm in a »oi«one k,f was 8oaked hT^. and woman waa poorly *oma- t,f> b« about 60. 4 Ikv^' of K^,„t been identified as Miss ^keetS 11 19 »be iras WT Tta^?S THROAT. THEN *]!ter, )4arkot HIMSELP- LUt MslnaiJ- Monday an Gharl«, Walters, bt 7?* .;L1Kl afterwards oo-m- ^ei5g" dieoovered "^rioue. Te* but her condition is

MENACES TO CHIEF OFFICIAL. + TAFF YALE ENGINE-DRIVER SENTENCED. I James Ross (40), engine-driver, was ibdicted a.t the Glamorgan Assizee on Monday for demanding certain money by menaces from Mr. T. Hurry Eiohee, for 57 years ohief loco- motive engineer to the Taff Va-le Railway Company. Mr. H. O. C. Beaeley (instructed by Mr. T. R. Tbompeon, Messrs Ingledew and Sons), oondnoted the prosecution. Prisoner conducted his own defence, end road from blue and wihdte ooloured documents, of which he bad a pocketful. Mr. Beasley, in his opening statement, said the charge against prisoner was that he caused to be sent to Mr. Hurry Riches a postcard demanding £327 18a. by means of menaces. In the year 1900 prisoner entered the service of the Taff Vale Railway Company as an engine-driver, and was employed at Cardiff. In 1S04 he was ordered to Abercynon to work as an engine-driver. He refused for some reason, and was suspended. Soon after- wards he consented to work, and on the day he returned to his duties at Abercynon the engine which he was driving came into collision with some trucks. The accident was slight, and having worked for two days prisoner went home and reported himaeli una-bic to work owing to shock. He set up a claim against the railway company, and in 1905 started proceedings in the Cardiff County-court undar the Compensation Act. The company offered him £ 5 7s. 3d., which he declined. The momev was paid into court, and the judge gave judg- ment for the amount so pa.id. Counsel went on to refer to the Taff Vale Railway Employes' Fund. which is contri- buted to voluntarily and controlled by a committee elected by the railway servants. Prisoner was a member of the club. Mr. Riches was an honorary member of the com- mittee, but he had no vote in the society and no comtrol over its funds, and he had never reoeived any money from this souroe on behalf of tho prisoner. In 1905. eoon after leaving the company, he set up a claim, which was investigated and disallowed. Then came & eeTiee of letters a.nd postcards addressed by the prisoner from Derby to Mr Riches. In the first postcard, of the date of February 3. 1907, he wrote:— Sir,—Pleaae forward me the accident pay which you reoeived from the fund or further proceedings will be taken. On May 5 he intimated:— Please forward the accident pay or re- fund the money deducted from my wages, or else I ghall take the matter freely. On November 24 be sent the postcard which was the baeis of those VkroceWina-o, threatent- ing that unless the £327 18s. WM not imme- diately paid he should come to Cardiff And have Mr. Riches arrested an a warrant. Evidence was ifiven by Mr. Rxmea and othere. including Mr. D. W. BMwards. secre- tarv of the fund, who said the committee were not satisfied that prisoner had met with an aocident, and this was the reason why his olaim had not been aooeded to. Detective-eergeant Little deposed that on being arrested at Derby accused suid he did not know he had oommitted himself in any shape or form. After a short consultation, the jury found prisoner guilty, the Foreman adding-. "We desire to say we have very grave doubts as to his mental condition." IIii Lordship fi;.J.Eer1 sentence of sh months in the seoond division.

"COTTON KING "MOBBED f r EXCITING ADVENTURE OF MR. J. A. PATTEN. Mr. J. A. Patten, the Amerioan cotton and wheat speculator, visited Manchester Cotton Exchange on Friday at the time of high 'Change, and was the object of a remarkably hostile demonstration. Mr. Patten's intention to visit the Exchange became known early in the day, and his friends were warned that a hostile reception a,wa,it,ed him. On his arrival he was jeered at and hooted by members. No aotual assault was oommitted, but he was josjtled and elbowed out of the building and along the street. An angry crowd followed him, and he was forced to seek refuge in some offices in the vicinity. The crowd surrounded the building for a.n hour, the police meantime guarding it. Mr. Patten eventually passed through a, fire door into adjoining offices a.nd got away uninjured. He entered a cab and drove to Viotoria it.atiom. It is stated that Mr. Patten's association with a rise in the price of cotton was the cause of the demonstration. Mr. P&tten returned to Liverpool in time to visit the Corn Exchange juøt before five o'clock. At that time there was a large assembly of members. In a few words Mr. Pa.tt&n referred to his treatment at Man- chester, and, as a mark of their sympathy, the members took off their hats and ohemed lustily.

DEATH CAUSED BY FRIGHT. 4 STRANGE STORY OF A GLASS OF POISON. The hearing was concluded at Birmingham Asaizes on Wednesday of the oa?e, adjourned from the Warwick Assizes, in which John White (50), of Coventry, was charged with the wilful murder of his mother. The evidence for the prosecution showed that the prisoner had purchased cyanide of potassium for the purpose, as he alleged, of hardening tools, but when on January 9 the old woman was found dead in her house a solution of the poison was found in a glass beside her. A post-mortem, however, did not reveal any sign of cya.nide of potassium in the body, and the medical evidence indicated that the streriigtlh of the solution was insufficient to cause dea-tih. It was stated that on a previous occasion the prisoner had given his mother some laudanum; that he frequently spoke of his mother's serious condition when there was no reason to suppose she was ill, and that he borrowed money on the strength of expectations on her death. Evidence was given that the prisoner was aharged ait Warwick Assizes with attomrpune to murder his wife, but was acquitted. He had since lived with a young woman, by whom he ha.d two children. On one oooasion he threatened her with a revolver. Mr. Justice Darling stated 1,ha;t he should tell the jury that on the evidence they must not find the prisoner guilty of murder. What he left to them was whether he was guilty or not of attempted murder. There being no witnesses for the defence counsel addressed the jury on behalf of the pirosecuition lie eaid the medical evidence amounted to this, that the woman proba-bly died from fright or shock, and not in conse- Quence of any state of body which she was in prior to her death. Counsel said the deceased, althougih receiv- ing an old-age pension, had £100 in Consols and money in the Post Office Savings Bank. She allowed the prisoner Its. weekly for a. time, and later 10s. weekly. The only con- clusion the jury could arrive at was that the prisoner, who was in financial distress, attempted to murder his mother. For the defence, counsel commented on the fact that the prosecution had withdrawn the charge of murder, and said the case rested entirely on suspicion. Summing up, the Judge said if the jury believed the prisoner put the poison where he knew it would be found and with the inten- tion of someone taking it. and if they believed the mother died from that, they had the elements necessary to coavict on a charge of attempted murder. His Lordship TO- ferred to the glass of cyanide of potas- sium similar to that supposed to have been taken by deceased which the jury had tasted and smelt, and said if the jury ayreed with him that it was most offensive, anybody intending to take it would receive a The suggestion of the prosecution was that when the deceased put cyanide of potassium to her niouth she reoeived such a shock that it led to synoone The prisoner was found guilty of attempted murder, and sentenced to penal servitudo for life.

EX-lilANAGER'S P-ENSION. ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO EXTORT MONEY FROM A BANK. At the London Guildhall on Wednesday Henry Joseph Bain-bridge TIardvicke, of Streatham, was oomm.n.ted for trial, bail being allowed, charged with having unlaw- fully threatened to publish or to a.bstain from publishing certain matters touching the London Oity and Midland Bank (Limited), with intent to extort money. Mr. Mair, for the prosecution, said in 1899 the defendant beceume the mana- ger of the Loughborough Junction branch of the bank. Last November he informed the ba,nk he was overwhelmed with debt, owing customers, money lenders, ahd Others £ 1,700. His position was chiefly due to the fact that for thirty years he ha.d been in the hands of money-lenders. He wae sus- pended from the position of manager. His liabilities, to the extent ef £ 1,054, were dis- charged by the bank, and he resigned. He then commenoed a series of appeals to the bank for monetary assistance, receiving two gxante, totalling JB200. He followed this up by appealing for his pension, which he had forfeited, and as this wae not grafted he wrote in Februa.ry saying he was preparing I pamphlets for publication exposing certain matters concerning1 the bank's business, but that he was open to confer to see if terms could not be arranged. The defence was reserved. MR. W. P. JAMES, J.P. (Abersychan), Chairman of Monmouthshire County Council.

MELBOURNE TRAGEDT. POLAR EXPLORER DIES FROM REVOLVER SHOT. MELBOURNE. Sunday. Mr. Bertram Armytage, who was a BMonbOT of Sir Ernest Shackleton's South "PolzLr expedition, has been found dead from a. revolver shot. Mr. Armytage Was bom in 1869, and was educated a.t Melbourne Grammar School and at Jesus College, Cambridge- He served for several yea-rs in the Victorian Militia, and for one year in the Victorian Permanent Artillery, whence he received a commission in the 6th Dragoon Guards (Carbiniers), with whom he served in the South African war. Mr. Armytage joined Sir Ernest Shackle- ton's expedition in Australia. Renter.

"GERMAN BARONS CAREER. —■ EXTRAORDINARY STORY IN FRAUD CHARGE. pj!hoe^SS!nL?t0Ty wa« told in the HnU when a "teacher of iharaed with ohT^ Von WeBterfoagen, was ten<2r obta-'«ing money by false Pi^ „»e«' M*» Mr. Da,vsoli, tal nSJroi*to,S™i,PMeouUns against prisoner ^hing frauds alleged was to advert^ s method, it was stated, describing hrniseU ln {^taienta! papes *,mrtn £ r liree as "a German baron, from women, in tS and living on th2^ caB*3 and ihen d1SaW>^ while 11 la*t<Hi ladv^ ir^^Westt>h ^r" was that of a jj and f whom he married in f^nonev whom he obtained large il W this was exhausted he deserted her, her in a of poverty with two childi^n_ Th.is unrortimat3 woman had now h<*Q brought toI^ndon. Prisoner P ued similar conduct with regard to r *oman he had married at Fulha.m, 'whe e w-jfi going under the name o? t)T. As Practising as a doctor at £ pber?H% Cl*Pham. From 0rtUTiate woman he obtained all her a;i<l jewellery, and even sold her clotncs. ^ndlidheievera?^o;^ Middlesbrough and v.al^n^oh-i'r ^olKio11. added the solicitor, ? J'ent mt*ii S° of a matrimonial agency, he was ~lne company, and a registry o)lri r with the white slave had to employ ^7 ditl tbat he rvrt,, a mamagcr while he was on 1 S l0okinS for fresh victims. known as Baron Vanwert, aliases. Sach, and had several other tford, and Hammersmith ^Z" j± »««•• an<1 ,at. lady at Prankf^^ for a •him «>.iri <ort to come to Hull and marry "m™ 4ST1 %*«"* "rt-v prosectrtion anj }^ent ^arge, the mumcated pr'so,ner liad cSaa~ manv ° Mr. John fichaan, m Ger- th<> 1T!^ that he had a school in one ^n^iml squares in the city, and Ji#> rthta;»JLreafc way of business. By fraud S? a Sum of franc, from with Tvrto to England and stayed -rtUr* >,I0ner 0,11 Premises in Jarrattstroet. nnnortmnn- ln eecn^ty, having no jrfd#i owmmunic&tion with the out- arid hardly getting sttffioient to hidfnr^WSoa declared that Westerhagen imreitv. a iwofessor in an English und- doctor of (medicine, a teacher of xm Of music. He had no qualifl- ■in fant hat«ver for these positions; he was, A a German waiter. A maamd was ordered.

AN ERRING WIFE'S LETTER. ^—— I CO-RESPONDENT TO PAY X2,000 DAMAGES. In the Divorce OMnt on Tuesday Yr. Frederick George Johns, a factory manager, living a.t Enfield, pptdtioned for a divorce on the ground of the misconduct of his wife, Emily Louisa Johns, with Mr. Edward Donald Morton, an export merchant, of Croydon. According to counsel, the parties were friends. Early in 1908 Mrs. Johns and the wife of the co-respondent went to Ceylon, and on the way home Mrs. Morton died. Subsequently the respondent and the oo- respondent were continually together, a,nd the husband remonstrated, but Mrs, Johns assured him there was nothing- wronsr. Later I the respondent admitted she had mis- conducted herself with the co-respondent, and t-h;1t ho was the father of tlp child which she had registered in his name. From Bournemouth Mxi. Johns wrote her husband a Jetter in which she thanked him for hie kind and considerate treatment of her through alb the terrible business. She asked the petitioner not to blame Ted 'the co-respondent) for leaving her. She made him go. but it was ghastly to think ho was so far away. She supposed time would iieal her wound, but the temptation to do away with herself had been very strong. She promised, however, not to do anything so ( wicked. Respondent concluded: I If it is possible to suffer the pangs of hell I' on earth, then I am doing so now. A decree nisi was granted, the damages I. against the co-respondent being assessed at £ 2,C00.

I TOO YOUNG TO WED. ¡ 4 3.000 MARKIAGES DECLARED I INVALID. NEW YORK. Saturday. A remarkable and distinctly embarrassing ¡ situation for a number of young: couples has I been croated by a decision given yesterday in the Appellate Court, which will render about, 3,000 marriagos illegal providing the decision j is not up-et in the higiier courts. The ruling r is based upon the marriage of minors being invalid even with the consent of the parents. I —Central Newe. I

MR. THOMAB PAKBY. JJ». (Newport), Vice-chairman of Monanocth shire Oonnty Council. I Vioe-cha.irma.n pptootoo. A. and 6. Taylor. i A, &nd. G. Ta.ylor. I

BLAZE AT WHITELEY'S. FIREMEN OVERCOME BY THE FUMES. A eerioua fire broke out on Monday in the hug,o "world-providing" stores of Messrs. Whiteley, Bayswater. The cause is supposed to have been the fusing of an eiectrio wire, and the fire, which started in the linen departs jnent, occasioned the greatest excitement and alarm. A brigade call was circulated, and more than forty engines quickly attended, but the work of the firemon proved exceed- ingly diffloult and dangerous, inasmuch as the flames spread to the blanket stores, and volumes of thick, choking smoke began to pour out of the building. For some time it gtecmed as though the whole emporium might be involved, and the assistants in the Queen's-rond section were removed, but. after more than two hours' strenuous work, during which a dozen firemen were overcome by the fumes and had to be removed to the hospital, the fire wae got under. The damage done by the fire, according to the official estimate, does not exceed £ 1,000. Fortunately, the fire was entirely confined to the blanket and linen warehouse. The ens- tomers in the shops above were conducted out without any oonfuaion, and the g-mat army of assistants, numbering1 5,600 to 4,000, .atoo- le £ t the bttildi»g without any daneer. i 4

THE CEFN MYSTERY DEEPENS. + OPEN VERDICT RETURNID BY CORONER'S JURY. Dr. Jones, one ot the coroners for Brecon- shire, held an adjourned inquest on Tuesday at the Aberjlais Inn, Pontearn. on the body of a man who was found drowned on Sunday. February 27, in the Taff Fechan River, about 600 yarde on the Gefn side of the Blue Pool. At the first, sitting a fortnight ago Mrs. Rees, wife of the landlord of the Adam and Eve Inn, Pondsidc. Merthyr, who was called as a witness, expressed a. belief, judging by certain articles of clothing, that the body was that of Henry Williams, formerly a hay and corn merchant of Treherbert, and late of Cardiff, but since then it has been dis- covered that Henry Williams is still alive. The Coroner explained that the inquest had been adjourned for a post-mortem examina- tion and to enable the police to make further inquiries, inasmuch as there was some suspicion that the deceased might possibly have been connected with the Cefn cemetery outrage, which occurred on the 19th of February. SCOTLAND YARD INQUIRIES. Polioe-sergeant Davies explained that since the last inquest several persons had viewed the body and had failed to identify it, and he stated that after Henry Williams had called at the newspaper offices in Cardiff be had been interviewed by Mr. Drew, late chiet inspector of the Criminal Investigation Department, New Scotland Yard, accom- panied by an inspector of the Cardiff Borough Police, to whom the man was well known. The serge-ant now produced a letter from Mrs. Evans, 20, Cotirtland-ternaoe, Cathaye, Cardiff, dated the 3rd of March, in which she pointed out that Henry Williams had false teeth and had a big scar on one cf his legs, wh-ich could be plainly seen, but the jury were informed that the deceased had good natural teeth, and there was no soarTieibte. Mrs. Bees was re-called, and she said that a-fter what she had seen in the papers she was bound to change her mind. Dr. Webster, who mode a poet-mortem examination on the 2nd of Maroh, gave it as his opinion that death was due to drown- ilig, ami that the body had been in the water for a period of ten days or 6c prior to ita being taken ûut. CORONER NOT SATISFIED. In reply to Superintendent Hands, deputy, chief-constable of Breconshife, who again watched the inquiry on behalf of the police, the doctor said the deceased did not appear to have beeo. «, man of drunken habits, and there was nothing which would enable him to MIiY whether or not he WM a man whose mind was deranged. The Coroner, who was not at all satisfied of the present existence of Henry Williams, eaid that if he were really still alive he ought to have oome to the inquest to show htensetf. The jury returned an cpeJl verdict of Pound drowned," and found that the body was that of a person unknown.

MARRIED 43 TIMES. ■ — 4 WEDDED IN EVERY STAT. OF AMERICA. NEW YORK, Saturday. lJudMil Lewisohn, a German professor and writer, who wae born in Berlin thirty year* ago, yesterday got a licence to nmrry in New Jereey, explaining that his wife, wh&te maiden name is Mary Arnold Crocker, had been married in forty-three States. New Jersey would make the forty-fourth, and after they had gone through the ceremony in New York they would have achieved the trnique distinction of having been wedded in every State in the Union.

LLANON TRAGEDY. I SUICIDE OF CARDIGANSHIRE ASSISTANT OVERSEER. At inquest was held on Saturday at Llanon, near Aberystwyth, touching the death of Thomas Da vies, PaEtyrodin Farm. [ Deceased, who was 29 yeews of age and an I assistant overseer, had been suffering from influenza. On Thursday, while his wife and mother-in-law were attending to farm duties, he got out of bed, and, loading a gun, shot himself through the abdomen. He was found immediately a.fterward-s lifeless. The jury returned a verdict cf Suicide during tem- ¡ porary inaamty.

DISASTER AT SMA. BODIES OF ENGLISH SAILORS WASHED ASHORE. PA&IS, Mnnday A telegram to the "Journal" from Brest announces that the wreckage of a ship which id believed to have gone to pieces in the storm yesterday has been washed ashore, and three bodies, apparently those of y.nCii»>i tailors, ha.ve been fauNl on the ooaet between Guiloinee and Lceoonil, Fini&terr^.—ReiQter.

TOURISTS IN JE K U SAL KM. AMERICAN LADIES WOUNDED BY A FANATIC. CONSTANTINOPLE, Monday. In oonsequenoe cf an attack on some American tourists in Jefuetttem by an Afghani fanatic on Wednesday, when two American ladies were wounded, the local authorities have ptaoed all Afghanis under observation, and have expressed to the American Ocmsul and to the wounded ladies their profound rwgret. The aggressor W88 immediat,sly arrested end will be severely pv«rii»hed.—Bertttier.

NEW YORK TRAGEDY. PRESIDENT TAFTS BROTHER-IN- LAW COMMITS SUICIDE. NEW YORK. Saturday. A verdict of Suicide by shooting" waa returned to-day by the coroner's oourt at the inquest ofi Mr. M claughlin, Mr. Tafts brother-in-I&W. Hie death was first attributed to heart disease.—Esohange Telegraph Oompany.

ESCAPADE BY GIRLS. ROBBED BY YOUTHS WHO SHIP TO AMERICA. At the Birmingham Assises on Satur- day girl, named Doris Brett, was charged with obtaining £ 100 by false pretences from her mother. It was stated the young woman acted under the influence of a young man, who took her to Liverpool, and, having obtained her money, went to America. lie is wanted on the charge of shooting his sweetheart, and his recognisances and those of his sureties were estrwttec. The young man is Bernard Barker, and Brett. in her statement, said she amrf a girl named Watts met Barker and another youth by arrangement in Manchester. They visited skating rinks in that city, Liverpool, and New Brighton, until Barker robbed her of most of her money, lea vims the girls sum- cient to return to Birmingham. The young men had revolvers, a.nd wore oowboy slouch, hats. Superintendent Daniel said Barker and hAs friend had paid £ 54 for berths on a. ship for I America. The girl Watts was still in a critical oondition. The gifi Brett, who wept in Che dock, wm htStwl iWW. The gifi Brett, who wept in Che dock, wm htStwl iWW.

CHIE ENGINEER'S SUICIDE AT CARDIFF. "Suicide whilst suffering from acute mania" was the verdict returned at a Cardiff inquest on Wednesday on the body of William Thos. Roekelly, chief engineer of the steamship Berwick Oaistle, who jumped overboard and was drowned on Monday wight- In deceased's room was found the folloving bloodstained post-oa.rd Oardiff. Tuesday morning, March 15. Dear Bmily,—Amved safely. Had it smooth a-ii the way. Feeling stronger to- day. Had a hard ard anxious time since Saturday a.nd Sunday. Love to all. Hope you vro well.—Willie. 10.15 p.m. (in different handwriting):- Going mad God forgive me. Lower down, in lead, were the words: — Done my work. Now running to death. Dr. Walker said death was due to drowning, and Captain. Dyer a.sked leave to express his appreciation of the prompt assistance reudered by the police. Deceased WM 54 £ eaJ*s of age. DEPRESSED SEAMAN'S PLEA AT BARRY. Thomas Johnson, a seaman, was charged before the Penarth magistrates on Wed- nesday with attempted suicide at Barry Dock on Monday. Ja.ne Dockerty, the daughter of a aeamen's lodging-house keeper. 13, Sydenham-street, Barry Dock, sta,t,ed that she heard defenda.nt calling for water from his bedroom. She took some up to him. and saw blood on the bed and about defendant's head. He had signed on a ship on Saturday, bat on that day he watt drinking and lost the vessel, which had all his things aboard. Usually he was of steady habits. PoLioe-sergeant Phillips said he went to the house, and found defendant cut about the neck and just below the DOSIe. He had a razor in his hand, and was semi- conscious. When charged he said, "I was npsct. at losing my ship, and I could not see any other way of getting out of it." Medical evidence WM given by Dr. E. J. H. Budge, and defendant, who said that he was very sorry It had happened and would like the bench to put him under restraint until he "pulled himself together," was remanded till Monday at Barry.

£18,000 WINDFALL FOR A WIDOW. A Cteckheaton correspondent telegraphs that Mrs. Ellen Mareden. aged 61, a widow, residing alone at Lowmoor, has reoeived intelligence that the sum of £18.000 has been left her by an uncle. John M'Dermott, who died reoently tn Virginia. Mrs. Marsden has heen in receipt of parish relief. About seven yearn ago an uncle wrote asking whether his sister was still alive, whereupon ahe told him his erister was dooil, &nd ahe WAS the only autvlviae child.

DEATH OF SIR E. PAYSON WILLS. The death occurred at Stoke Bishop, Bristol, on Sunday night of Sir Edward Payson Wills, Bart., a brother of the late Sir Frederick Wills and cousin of Lord Winter stoke. He had been in ill-health for some time. He was one cf the first directors of the Imperial Tobacoo Company. Sir rdwa-rd Wills was a generous contributor to local charities, his gifts including 120,000 to the convalescent home opened by Queen Victoria in 1899, and £ 15,000 to the Bishop of Bristol to clear off the debt on the palace a-nd for other diocesan purposes. Born in 1834, Sir Edward was created K.C.B. in 1899, and was made a ] baronet six years ago.

G.W.K. EXPHESS COACH ON FIRE. A fire was discoveredN-on Monday in one of the coaches of the South Wales 11.30 a.m. ex-Paddington express, which is due at Cardiff at 2.20 p.m. After passing Wootfcon Ba.ssett the passengers in the coach were alarmed by the smell of burning wood, which was found to emanate from the lavatory, where the woodwork had caught are-by what cause was not apparent. The attention of the guard was oalled, and wa-ter buckets being at band, the fire was immediately j extinguished. The coach was diaoonne<y«d at Cardiff and semt to the shop# for repairs, oon- aiderable damage having been done to the' interior of the compartment. YET ANOTHER TO THE LIST.

NIGHTLY ORGIES IN A CONVENT. + I I DEVELOPMENT OF FRENCH? SCANDALS. PABM, Stmdar. ^c^tnerroial agetnt named who m**5 'overly an aesistant of M. Imes, the nquMsutor of the Church estate funds, and house many docatnenits deaMng liquidation business have been fouJid, was arrestee last evening at Nwers. It is stated that M. Martin h&d a enite of in one of the deserted convents of i i,i T1*tir4ottBly furnished, and that n ightly orgies were there enacted until the of neighbours put a stop to them. It further api>ears that M. Martin kept up four or five separate establishments, all under ailierent names.. The police searched, his house in the Avenue d'Orleans to-day, and seized numerous papers relating to the liquidations. M. Martin was brought to Paris from Nevers ovorriicht, and interrogated this morning. On being informed tha-t he was changed with complicity in the Duex affair, he protested his innocence, but was con- signed to the Haute Prison.

AN EXTRAOlii I :\UY CHASE LUNATIC STRIPS OFF HIS CLOTHING IN LONDON. An extraordinary scene was witnessed on Sa4urday in Hammersmith-road, West Ken- sington. At about nine o'clock a number of people, who were waiting for omnibuses at Addiaon-road. observed a man commence to divest, himself of his clothing. After throw- ing off his coat, he took a watch and chain from his pocket, and several rings from his fingers, a.nd threw them into the roadway, i The man then homtily took off the rent of his clothing, and iu a nude oondition started running in the direction of Hlglh-street, Ken- sington. It wae evident that the unfortunate man was demented. A crowd took up the and something like a panic endued, ladies screaming and running for places of sheiter. The man pursued hie flight for a oonsider- able distance until a policeman at the oorueT of Bart's Court-road closed with the M", and strargled with him until assistance Was obtained. The man was then quickly covered with some clothing and conveyed on an ambulance to the Kensington Pol-ice- auUdnn, There he was seen by the divisional surgeon and pronounood insane.

FLOUR MILL GUTTEa A large flour mill at New Mills, on the banks of the Whitadder, and belonging to the Berwick Corporation, wn« gutted by Are on Saturday, and hundreds of tone of grain weffe destroyed. The cause of the fire ig unknown. The damage is estimated at many tiho'u««>nde of pounds.

A LIGHTHOUSE-KEEPER. WITH NOTHING TO EAT BUT DOG BISCUITS. I NTSW YORK, Saturday. A remarkable story of the privations endured by a lighthouse-keeper has just come to light. It appears that the keeper of the Norwalk Lighthouse in Long Island Sound, owing to the stormy weather, could not be provided with the usual supplies, while his assistant at the beginning o-f the month failed to put in an appearance. The keeper decided to do the work alone, but supplies ra.ii short, and when at last the lighthouse was visited yesterday, the unfor- tunate man wa3 found in a condition bor- dering upon starvation, his only food for several days having been dog biscuits. He is now in a state of oollapse, and an inquiry is being held by the lighthouse boards into the circumstances of the «(fair.—Central News.

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+ DOCTOR AND WIFE POISON THEMSELVES. NEW TOOK. Saturday. Whale seated face to faoe at the breatta* table in a Philadelphia hotel yesterday Dr. Charies Coleman Benson, aged 73, and hia wife, Isabella, aged 63, swallowed poison and expired directly afterwards. The deceased gentleman is believed to have been in practice at Baltimore; and he is eaid to have been a candidate for the prize offered by the French Academy of Medicine for the discovery of a cure for tuberculosis. Dr. Benson, who was English hy birth, had resided in the United States for forty years, and married a lady belonging to a well-known family in Baltimore. A note which was found after the suicide stated that neither the doctor nor his wife desired to live any longer. They expressed a wish that their bodies should be cremated, that the ashes should be scattered to the winds, and that no religious eervioa should be arranged by those attending the final ceremony. In return for compliance with theee requests, those present, at the committing of the ashee a.re to divide the proceeds of the property left by the deceased, including whatever may be realised by the gale of two reodpes for patent medicinee which have been lodged with the American Pa-tent O&et.— "Observer."

JUGGLER'S SUICIDE. DRAMATIC SCENE IN NEW YORE HARBOUR. NEW YORK, Saturday. Just as the lines were cast from the Adriatic to-day and she was swinging out from the pier her commander, Captain Smith, megaphoned from the bridge to Captain Pen all. the dock superin- tendent, a-s follows:—"Have suicide aboard; will lower body over side." Then fol- lowed one of the most dramatic inci- dents steamship men have seen in the history of their business. The captain't. message was heard by hundreds of pa<seein- gers on the deck of the big liner and by hundreds of their friends on the pier, who were bidding them bon voyage." Men and women who were shouting piea^antiiee and waving flags and handkerchiefs a. seccmd before were instantly quiet a,, dearth. None knew whether the suicide was one dear to them or a. stranger. The Adriatic goes out from the pier how I first, and when &be reaches midstream turne to go down the river. Before the turn to-day there was a momentary paufe as Captain Smith megaphoned. The whistle had, how- ever, been blown for departure, and the lines were hauled in. The only chance left to traaafex the body was when another pause should come, and Superintendent Penall ordered a tug to follow the Adriatic. Then the hushed passengers and their friends aeihore saw a group of sailors lower a limp body, wrapped in a blanket, in a sling, while dangling from a rope was a sntt-caee. The Adriatic then continued her voyage, and the body waa brought ashore and taken to the -As soon as Fred Oinett, William Spink, and other actors who were on the pier paw the suit-case, they said it belonged to Alfred Burgees, of Cajnden, New Jersey, a. member of the vaudeville com- pany they belonged to. They went to the police-station to identify the body, and were surprised to find it wae not Burgess, but Ert-tridge Beppo, of 36, Orchard-(street, Dart- ford. England, who had been acting as. assistant juggler in vaudeville performances in this oountry for some months peust. The cause of the suicide is unknown, and it is etbid to be the first that has ever taken place on shipboard in New York Harbour.—"Weekly Dispatch."

VICTIMS OF A HOAX. + HEARSE ORDERED FOR SIR H. COTTON. Jlr. Churchill, the Home Secretary, is not the only politician who has been the victim of a hoax in London lately. Sir Henry Cotton (formerly M.P. for Nottingham) stated on Friday that a large number of coalmen were turned away from. hiB house last week. "I expect," he said, "that some weak- nunded Anglo-Indian is at work. and hopes to annoy me. A* a matter of fact Lady Cot- ton in the chief sufferer, att I only hear of these happenings in the evening. It is bad enough to have unwanted coal sent to you, but apparently (judging by a comparison of handwriting) the same man varies his pro- cedure. Someone wrote to Messrs. Richards. who are jobmasters in Victoria, and ordered in my name four carriages and a hearse. Luckily, the firm had the good sense to send someone to the house, and were thus sa.ved the trouble. In every case the hoaxer mentions the exact ti-me to a minute when the goods are to be delivered." A comparison of the handwriting on the cards purporting to beeT orders from Sir Henry and those bearing Mr. Churchill's name show identical characters. All bear tbe Fulham postmark. Sir Heary Cotton remarked that. they were becoming quite accustomed to anonymous letters. "Eighteen months ago," he said, "there was quite a piastre of abusive letters, and the ftaJe oM hoax of befooling trades- men. I have one or two regular anonymous correspondents who send me aiwasive and sometime* unquotable letters. When I failed to get in at the last election my 1 otter-box was full of them. I am mfraid I don't worry very much about them, and I am certainly not likely to lose my appetite."