The Cardiff Times

La Milo Charged. PRISONERS AGAIN IN COURT. LOAN OF P,20,000 ASKED FOR. Pansy Eggena (" La Milo," the music hall artiste) again appeared at Bow-street on Tues- day morning with her husband. Ferdinand Eggena. and Percy Holland Easton, of the Motor House, Euston-road. The charge is c onspiracy to obtain jewels valued at over ig,000 by false pretences from Mr William Edward Wood, a jeweller, of Brook-street, H anover-square. Easton appeared on a summons. 1. La Milo was attired in black. Her fea- tures were almost concealed by a dark veil. The case for the prosecntion was that Eggena obtained the jewels from Mr Wood by falsely representing that he was the absolute owner of 25 motor cars, worth 1200,000, which were stored at the Motor House, of which Easton is a director. Eggena had given an order to the defendant Easton for the delivery of those cars to Mr Wood, and Easton signed a document agreeing to hold the cars at Mr Wood's disposal, and to hand them over to him if the jewels Were not paid for by January 10th. 0 Payment was not made on the agreed date, and when Mr Wood applied to Easton for the delivery of the cars, the latter stated that he had given them to Eggena on a pfoperly- sighed order. He further said that he had notified Mr Wood to this effect, but Mr Wood had never received any such notifica- tion. Applications were made to the two Eggenas for payment of the jewellery, and on February 4th they left their hotel. A Loan of X20,000 Asked. Mr Percy Norman NeaJe, manager to Mr F. W. Bravington, pawnbroker, of Penton- /ville-road, said that Egfjena brought to the shop a pear-shaped brilliant, weighing 42 carats, and asked for a loan of £ 8,000 upon it. It was an exceptional stone," added the witness. There are very few stones like it; I do not suppose there is another one in London like it of the same shape, cokrar, and size." The witness offered to lend £4,000 on the stone, but the amount was not sufficient, and Eggena took it away. Eggena again cAlled with a necklace of 49 pearls, weighing 776 grains. He asked for a loan of £ 20,000 on this, but the witness could only offer him OOO. and as this was not sufficient for Eggena's purpose no business was done. Mr Muir Did Eggena say to whom these articles belonged ?-No he said they belonged to a well-known lady, but as no business was done, he did not give me her name. Eggena, the witness added, brought his Wife to the shop to see a diamond tiaia, and they agreed to purchase it, and a diamond ting of the total value of zEI0,000, but the sale was not completed. Witness said that he remembered once lend- kfig Eggena £1,200 on some jewels, and Eggena then said that he was going to buy some copper "Shares for something under 10s each, which he stated would go to £ 3 or £ 4 within a month. Cross-examined by Mr Cecil Fitch, who ap- peared for the Eggenas, witness said that he «aw Eggena about 20 times altogether, and knew him all the way through as Mr Barr. He Was staying at the'Hotel Russell. Altogether ffitness lent him £ 1,650. Pawnbroker's Evidence. Frederick J ames Montford, assistant to Mr C. B. Vaughan, of the Strand, produced a diamond bar brooch with a diamond drop, which he said he received in pledge on Novem- ber 29th. It was pledged by Mr Eggena for Miss Montague. Other goods were pledged at the same time, and X440 was advanced altogether. The amount advanced in respect bf the brooch was 1140. Witness had had other transactions with Eggena. Mr Ituby Telfer, the prosecutor's manager, shown the brooch, and he identified it as lis employer'H property. Mr Montford-, in answer to Mr Fitcb, said that the other things pledged at the same time VI the brooch were a pair of brilliant bracelets fend a brilliant necklace. Mr Muir said he. would like Mr Telfer to see l pair of earrings which be understood were in the possession of the defendant Eggena, and Vere to be prbdneed. Mr Fitch said he wished to assist in every trav he could, and he handed over the earrings. Mr Telfer identified them as the property of Mr Wood, the prosecutor. The jewellery pro- duced by the witnesses Beale and Montford comprised all the jewellery- parted with to Eggena bv Mr Wood. The total value was ZU80. Mr Muir: That means that everything except the-earrings had been pawned ? Witness Yes. Witness said he first saw Eggena in March (aatyear at 18, Brook-street. Mr Wood had -given an expert opinion of some rough emeralds, and it was in qpnnection with that that Eagena first called. Subsequently wit- ness gave him the name of a gentleman connec- ted with oil properties, as he said he had pur- chased large properties and wished to pur- chase more. From what Eggena said, witness formed the opinion that he was a man of means. Some time afterwards he called and ikaked if they had any especially fine diamonds in. as he wished to show them to an aunt who had come over from the Continent. Mr Muir Not his uncle. (Laughter.) Witness, proceeding, said he procured some itoties and took them with Eggena in a motor- car to Thames Ditton. There Eggena entered house, but came out in a few minutes and I iMkid his aunt had gone to London. Witness Aben came \:>a with the jewels, and Eggena made an appointment for the jewels to be thown to his aunt at the Savoy Hotel. On in- quiry at the hotel, however, witness could find no trace of the aunt. Afterwards Eggena asked if they would let him have about M,000 Worth of jewels if he paid £5,000 down in cash and the rest in two or three months. Witness paid Mr Wood would probably agree, and later Bggena called and asked if they wonld accept a post-dated certificated cheque, and he was informed that they would not. Mr Muir; Where did you first see Pansy Eggena t Witness I had seen her in the car with him before this. He brought her to see the jewels Kmfch he had selected for his aunt. Mr Eggena's Cars." Afterwards did Eggena propose to give you Security in the shape of motor cars ?—Yes. Those motor cars which he said he had pur- chased from the Aerial Motor Co. ?—Yes. He produced a receipt to that effect. Witness said he inquired into Eggena's title if the cars and declined to accept them as jfecUrity. ón Nbvember 12th Eggena wrote iftymg that in regard to the cars as security against the purchase of the jewellery for Miss Montague he was sorry that owing to the dis- putes of these people," who were bankrupt, 06 cotlia do* nothing satisfactory, but he had Another lot of cars which were his own per- SBteial property. Two or three days afterwards Witness went with Eggena to Motor House, Euston-road. and was there introduced to Easton. Eggena asked Easton to show witness his C and he was shown a number. Witness asked Ka^ton, Are these Mr Eggena's cars ?" and Ewton replied, 11 Yes, absolutely," or some aitnilar words. Witness was so far satis- fied a# feo mention the matter to Mr Wood, who left Him to carry out the transaction. A document was prepared by Mr Wood's soöci- tor, and on November 16th witness showed this to Eggena and asked him to declare it before a solicitor. He did so. On the following day witness saw Mr Easton I and told him that Mr Eggena was giving them as security for the purchase of jewellery and that therefore he must have a clear receipt for them. Mr Easton then explained what he said was the difficulty. The cars, he stated, Were Mr Eggena's, but they had contracted to do certain repairs and works to themandwhen Mr Wood wished to take •them away there might be a lien upon them in respect of that work. He added that that could be obviated by Mr Eggena depositing a sum of money with him sufficient to cover the cost of the repairs. Witness told him that that was a matter he must settle with Mr Eggena himself, and that, Mr Wood would be content with nothing less than a full and complete receipt for the cars, free of all claims. Mr Muir: Was anything said as to how Eggena became possessed of the cars ? Witness Yes, I asked Easton and he said. In various ways. I purchased some for him in different parts of the country. In fact, I am looking out for more for him now." Mr Fitch said Mrs Eggena was a well-known lady and had very important engagements to fulfil. She was about to appear before a very important audience, and he thought it was only fair that thestatement should be made on her behalf that he was not accepting every- thing the prosecution put forward. Defendants were remanded on bail.

Her Brother." CARDIFF MAN AND HIS WIFE. Maintenance Order Discharged. TELL-TALE STORY OF A SNORE. Extraordinary allegations were made at Car- diff Police Court on Wednesday, before Messrs T. H. Stephens and J. Howard, when Sylvester William Soff applied for a maintenance order obtained by his wife. Esther Soff, to be dis- charged, alleging adultery as the ground of his application. Mr Harold Lloyd appeared for the applicant and Mr Sydney Jenkins for the defence. Mr Lloyd said the parties had been married 22 years, and there were five children. On January 16th. 1907, a separation order was made whereby Soff was to pay his wife 12s a week. In May, 1909, Mrs Soff went to lodge with a Mr McGinn, and soon after she told Mr McGinn she was a widow. Shortly after a gentleman, whom she introduced as her brother," Alf Stark, cailed at the house, and he subsequently visited her from time to time. He called her by her Christian name, and they appeared to be on the most familiar terms, and on two or three occasions it was found that the door of her sitting-room was locked. Cer- tain information came to the ears of Mr McGinn, and at the beginning of June he asked her to find lodgings elsewhere. Became Her Uncle. Mrs Soff then went to lodge with a Mr Gil- lard, who knew Mr Stark as a pro- minent member of the Salvation Army at Cardiff. Mr Gillard was told that he was her uncle. Stark was often alone in her room there, and she left Mr Gillard's in August, 1909, and went to live at Barry, where she went to the house of a Mr Kiddy, and she stayed there from August to December, but she had not been there long before Mr Stark again appeared, and he used to stay with her for several hours in the evening. This house was one where there w'as a slot gas meter, and on one occasion when Mr Kiddy. went to put a penny in the slot he found a chair against the door, and the window blind pinned together. An explanation was asked for and one was given. Between June and December Mr Stark, was often at the house. The Snore. About the middle of December a man by the name of John Willey appeared on the scene, and he was introduced as her brother. Once when she was unwell and in bed the man was in her bedroom in the ing in his shirtj sleeves, and on the following mornihg when someone Went to ask how she Was. John Wil- lev was found in the bedroom still in his shitt sleeves. When asked how she had slept, she said she had had a good sleep, except that John Willey had snored rather loudly and dis- turbed her. John McGinn, of Mansfield-street, Cardiff, Walter Gillard, and James E. Kiddy gave evidence in support of Mr Lloyd's statement. Mrs Annie Morris spoke as to the time the man Willey stayed all night. She said she sug- gested she should look after Mrs Soff, but Mrs Soff said, Oh, uncle, don't leave your dear Hettie." Witness did not bother because she thought she was a widow. Mr Jenkirs said he was in a tnost unfortu- nate predicament. He expected his client to be present, and tried to get witnesses, but they were not there. He was bound to leave the matter entirely in their worships' hands. The magistrates decided to discharge the order.

PROMINENT RUSSIAN RABBI. c. At the Stepney Coroner's Court on Tuesday Mr Wynne Baxter held an inquest on the body of Lazarus Gordon (70), a Rabbi, Of Kels, Russia, who died at Spital-square, Spitalfields. It was stated that the deceased, his Wife, and another Rabbi, named Abraham Bolkon, arrived from Russia on the 6th instant. Their passage was a rough one, and the deceased, who had not been in good health for some years, was upset by it. He was taken ill oil Saturday and died whilst being medically attended. I Dr. Kennafd said that death was dtle to heart, failure, following asthma and bronchitis. The Coroner said that the deceased was a well-known Rabbi, and the founder of a college in Russia, which was destroyed by Are about a year ago. The object of his visit to London was to see some friends and seek for monetary assistance to rebuild the institution, and to continue the educational work connected with it. No doubt the strain of the voyage affected him in his delicate health. A verdict in accordance with the medical evidence was returned.

CHILD NEGLECT, At Coleford (Dean Forest) on Tuesday Louisa Niblett, single woman, and housekeeper to John Howells, collier, Joyford, was charged with cruelty to her seven months old illegi- timate child, Kate Anne. This case came before the magistrates a forthight ago, when the prosecuting solicitor (Mr B. S. Corke, of Gloucester), on learning that the child had died that morning, applied for an adjournment. Mr Corke now stated that the inquest on the child had been held, and the post-mortem examination revealed that the primary catlse of death was pneumonia. That being the case he had decided not to proceed on a charge of manslaughter. The child, it was stated in evidence, was found in a very filthy state; and it Was coveredwith sores and abscesses, whilst it had also suffered from itch. The Bench found that the child had been neglected by defendant, whom they sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment.

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I BY ORDER OF THE HOME SECRETARY." 1 HOME SECRETARY CHURCHILL (in new uniform, to grotip of peers) Move on, there We can't hart this obstruction. (Published by aitangfelttent with the Manchester Evening News.") i'ii IJ j J_.1!l ¡. ■■ .n■ i

IN NAME OF LIBERTY Rosebery Declarations. HIS L0RMHIP ON PARTY TYRANNY. TESTIMONIAL TO THE PEERS. A bafiqUetwftfe MVM On Tuesday atfchfe Pftb- masons' TaveTtt, LOfldon, under the MI8{tš of the British CotiSfcitVitloH Association, tb Mf Harold Cos, lfl_reet>ft&lfeion of his |fPPftt vices ih th6 late PttfliftfflMlt to the efttfSe of personal liberty Arid pefsGHftt fegpOtaii&lMfaf." Lord Rosebefy, Who fWSir^ed, pPOpOgeii m health of Mr êtHi, ftfltl l'eft d a lettft from Mt Henry Chaplin rpgfptiihg that he eftld Aot attencl owing to indiSJlOcfitiOtti Ijofd flds^bePy said that vast apsefribly of mofa Of tLI1 parties and all sections of part ies hfttl ftOffie to do honour to Mr Cb* and- to ft s&6F§d frame which was ofteh talked ftbbttt but seidbfft ft^ally wof- shipped—the name of Libfcfty. WS had ih this COUtiiry ft. tWOa|»M'ty sfSi tem Which Wtts ea&ily eipAbded feO four or five päftléé ftt hPMi ito counted three parties lii trelttnd, thf £ 6 ifi l9B§* land, and three itt SCbtlAfid but hfe think there Was tfiiieh VftFlety ih (Laughter.) Party ttl-litig, ftdffllfftbte AS it Was in mafly ways, and which tftuSt be fetJOgtii8ed as a necessity of but political eyBtèftl. llftd the effect, worked as it 1tJ!i with iftcF^aaiiig hfttfch- ness aftd increasing intolerance—(fte&Pj hfcfe#)— of crushing out &11 iftdetie&defi^tJ Ih polities from Parliament, (ChMM.) Lords for Independent Truth. It had crushed out almost all independence in the House of Commons, but there Was another instibltioll. which he hardly ventured to name at this titne—(laughter)—but Which was recognised by the Constitution as an in- tegral part of Parliament—(cheers)—which at any rate had this advantage, that it was the only political assembly with which he was ac- quainted in this country where it Was possible to utter with perfect freedom and perfect unpalatable truths. (Cheers.) He asked them i-to remember that when they. had got rid of tbeir Second Chamber they had got rid, as far as he knew, of the only political assembly in which independent truths could be freely spoken. (Cheers.) Some thought that party embodied all that an ihfallible church embodied to its devotees. He supposed the honest truth Was that the party principle was founded on this, that they be- lieved in the men they were acting with, and believed that in the long run and in the gross their collective wisdom was likely to be greater than their individual wisdom, and that was as much as to say that while every man had a conscience, or was presumed to have a con- science, a party pooled its conscience—(laugh- ter)—and if they found in their political system an individual who was not prepared to pool his conscience-(laughter)-he became anatliema and had to be expelled. For that Moloch they sacrificed at the last, election Mr Lambton —(cheers)—Lord Robert Cecil—(cheete)—and Mr Harold Cox. (Cheers.) Of all the ttnen off the Front Benches they were the three who could fill the House the soonest when it was known they were up and speaking. What Sealed His Doom. But there was one excellent and admirable reason why their friend Mr Harold Co1c wsa excelled. He criticised the Budget. (Laagftteh) Othe rs criticised the Budget. (Laughter.) j But the great distinction and personal dis- advantage attaching to Mr Hafold Cox's criticisms of the Budget was that they Were unanswerable and unanswered. (Cneers.) From that-moment Mr Cox 8 dooni Was sealed. (Laughter.) The Sitent Vote. It was the silent vote which turned elec- tions, and it did not belong regularly to either of the great oar ties. He was undfefr the im- pression that Mr C'óx represented the sileitt vote as much as any member represented any constituency in the United Kingdom. (Cheers.) The great mass of apathetic, but thinking, reasoning, and judging people in this country sWayed the destinies in General Elections, but were not sufficiently organised to return a single representative. He-did not know whether those who, like Mr Cox, were for freedom as against bureaucracy, for freedom as against democratic tyranny, for freedom as against class legislation of the bitterest kind, and last, but not least, were for freedom as against Socialism, were content to be unrepresented. This did seem a moment when peopife of reason and common sense might combine in common sense interests to do something for the welfare of the country instead of recording an iniolent and silent vote at the General Election. Great and Critical Issues. They had perhaps greater issues now before them under more critical circumstances than had occurred since the great Reform Bill of 1832. lie did not noW speak of the Budget, which he presumed was an accomplished fact -(Ne !)-or not an accomplished fact- (laughter)—dependent upon the wishes of England, Scotland, or Wales, but on the direction of the Irish vote. It was Irish and not British finance that would be carried. A question of vital importance, that of a Secbnd Chamber, was hanging in the scales between the two parties, with various skirmishers on their flanks. The question was whether We were to continue to have a bi-chamber system or sink to a single chamber, one which would be infinitely worse and infinitely more dangerous-a single Chamber with another of shadowy Eunuchs by its side, a mere phantom of authority, with the appearance of responsi- bility and ho reality. He was convinced that any appeal by referendum or otherwise as to a Second Chamber would meet With an over- Whelming majority in favotrr of a strong, real strong, and efficient Second Chamber. (Cheers.) If they were to be told that what was called the Veto of the House of lords-which was in the Veto of the House of Lords—Which was in reality o^xiy the concurrent right of a Second Chamber to deal with legislation —^was to be abolished without any attempt at reform,without any attempt to remove what he ventured to think were the vices of the here- ditary principle ih the Legislature of England, without any attempt to remodel or reform that Chamber they were going to practically disestablish, these proposals of the Government were doomed, not perhaps now, but in the immediate future, to absolute and irretrievable disaster at the hands of the country. (Hear, heat.) Free Trade or Tariffs He would take a more delicate point upon which the country had given no certain voice, the question between Free Trade and tariff Reform, on which the country had given no clear voice and which had been disappointing to both parries. Was thereno possibility of refer- ring that great issuelo a Royal Commission,who would, at any rate, give the country a truce from the assertions of both parties, and who would give a verdict which the country would respect, with regard to a question which was not wisely or well dealt with amid the ordinary hazards of a General Election ? (Hear. hear.) These were points on which the silent vote of the country might very easily be < concen- trated. Mr Harold Cox, in reply, said our present party system was purely arbitrary, and cor- responded with nothing whatever in the human mind or human nature. As long as the bi-party system was maintained the fighting instinct was uppermost. Parties looked to their extreme men, with the result that the extremists called the tune and moderate men j were crushed out. Consequently, the system was not a system of self-government, but a ByeteBi alternating 1 Vranhv, and the pro- pePtf of the natioh Was being put up to j aTOtieft by rival politicians. (Cheers.) TfeelftFl of Cromer, in proposing The Asso- ( ciatlon," said. he believed the country did not Want Single Chamber government, but a thorough reform which Will bring the House of Lords mate into tottfh with the people. I (CheerS.) The reeomfneadMions fit tmfd Rose- bery's Comffitif>e§ did fitlt Bieet the Some- thing more 4fftstic was heeded. (Cheers.) He hapwl the leader of the trtuanist f>«ftv would take up this qaestien in na timorous Way.

Ili!UHr 1 11 Empire Pageant EARL OF PLYMOUTH ON THE PROJECT. Same at the wwd fimpire," re- kekm the Bafl Plymouth at ft Feception SiVen in JjOiidofl oh Tuefedfty by the Mayor of Marylebofie Ih coftiieetiOfl with the coming Festival of F1tilpife' at; the crystal Palace this suttanef. His Lordship, Whtl is chairman of the Council making the arrangement^} gave an explana- tion of-the ggfigPftl scheme of the hStiVal. In- ¥!tft&6&§ woald be given to the Colonies to take part, would be an Art Exhibi- tion ib the Palace by Colonial artists and Cblbftlftis §tttdy1hg in Europe* Theti Concerts Wefe to be organised, in whieh Sofoftifti singers I IMld choral societies would take part, All our dependencies would be brought in, The Gover- norS-Gefieral of all our Colonies Were interested, Mid had become vice-presidents, while the 0616nial Secretary was also taking a great in- tefest in It, Some people shied at the word Smpire. They thought it had a touch of some- thifig bo tS Me tic. Nothing however, was further from the minds of the Council than to Wish to give a bombastic display. What it was desired to do was to make a Centre in London for a peaceful representation of historical events, which affected not only the British Isles, but the whole of the King's Dominions. They had received a great deal of encouragement, not j only from those he had mentioned, but from i laOrtt Roberts and many ottio-ft desirous of ) assisting the movement. He hoped this en-j deavour would have the result of drawing together the various units in our widely scat- tered Colonies. (Applause.)

Imported Meat Trade. SWANSEA AS DISTRIBUTING CENTRE. Considerable interest has been atoased by reports as to Swansea becoming an imported meat distributing centre as a result of a visit to that port by a representative of the well- khoWn firm of Messrs Armour. On Tuesday our London representative inber- viewed one of Messns Armour's managers, who said There is evidently some misappre- hension about this matter. It is perfectly-ttue one of our representatives has been down to Swansea with a view to developing the import of South American meat, to which this evi- dently applies, but I do not know there has been any idea of making it a great centre of distribution. You must remember that CasTdifE is already one of the biggest ports for imported meat in the country, and although Swansea can be of great assistance, and no doubt will be, thqte is evidently some mistake as to the idea of making great developments for the project. The fact is there is an ever-increasing quan- tity of frozen meat and chilled mefct coming into the country, and it is probably with refer- ence to the frozen meat Which can be stored that the recent statements, havelbeen made. There is nothing whatever in them, and since the 4 subject has been made public I have received all sorts of letters offering sites and so forth. Swansea will no doubt be another port to which large quantities of imported meat from South America will be sent, but further than that there is nothing to be said."

OOCTORNEVEH SAW SUCH ECZEMA And Labored in Vain to Cure It- Broke Out Like a Rash on Baby Only Two Weeks Old Soon Covered Head, Face and Body- Relieved in Two Days and CURED AT SLIGHT COST BY CUTICURA REMEDIES "When our baby girl was two weeks did 6he had a fine rash on her legs. 1 tried two or three kinds of ointment ft! but thjw- did no %• good. Then it came £ 1 all over her head and face and her /■ v eyelids, ears and lips would bleed. I took s her to the doctor. He said it wad ec- zema and gave me a, lotion and medi- \cine but they did < not do much good. *5? <6 In two weeks' time —* it was aJI over her body. Her head became covered with thick scales that came off, taking the hair with them. It would form again and be as bad as ever. We went to the doctor for over a month and then another doctor saw her and gave me ointment but it did very little good, and eo I stopped taking her. Then I tried Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment and In two days we could de a difference. The scales came off and did not come back. Again I used two oakes CUticura Soap and one bot Cuticura Ointment. Baby is now cured and the skin is clear and the hair ie growing wonderfully. People about here know how bad my baby was. When I used to take her to the doctors 1 used to always keep her face covered up as she waA not fit to be seen. I used to show her to anyone that asked to See her and they never saw a baby with it worse than she had it. The doc- tor used to say. —' Poor baby, I never saw anything like it before.' I thought the would never get better. Mrs. W. E. Coles, 1, Jubilee Terrace, Adelaide Orove, East Cowes, Isle of Wight, Feb. I 24 and Mar. 8, 1909." Cutleora Remedies are sold whereverlthe BMtlgti Flag float*. A single set often Cuies. Depots: London. 27, Charjtethouse Sq.; Par la. 10, Rue de la Chaussee d'Antln; Australia, R. Towns & Co., Syd- 9«y: Ipdta. B. K. Paul. Calcutta;So. Africa, LeaKm, Ltd., Cap6 Town, etc.; U.S.A.. Potter Drag & Cbem. Corp., Sole Props., Boston. WPoit-frea, 32-page Cuticura Beok, aft Author- ity on tfca Care and Treatment e( Skin and Hair.

Charlesworth Sensation. DOCTOR'S ENGAGEMENT TO VIOLET. At a special sitting of Derby Police Court on Tuesday before the Mavor(Dr. H. Arnold Beni- rose) and other magistrates the case was inves- tigated in whhch May, otherwise Violet Charles- worth, and her mother, Miriam Charleswortht are charged with having committed fraud. There are three separate charges against them. They are alleged to have unlawfully incurred a certain debt of liability to Martha Smith to the amount offAO1 7s by means of fraud other than false pretences to have obtained by false pretences in November. 1908, the same sum from Martha Smith with intent to defraud, and to have unlawfully, fraudulently, and de- ceitfully conspired to obtain from Martha Smith and Edward Hughes Jones certain large sums of money. The Charlesworths at one time lived next door to Mrs Smith in Jackson-street, Derby. Mr Jones is a medical man of Rhyl. Mr Pearc, in outlining the case, said the money which the accused were charged with having obtained was on the pretence that the younger prisoner was entitled to a very con- siderable fortune. The issue would be whether a fortune was coming to this girl, or whether on the other hand these two persons were im- posters. He believed the evidence would show that they came under the latter category, that in fact there was no fortune, and that the for- tune emanated entirely from their own brains. He explained that the accused became ac- quainted with Mrs Smith, who was a widow, when residing at Derby. Later, when Mrs Charlesworth was living at Wolverhampton, she made statements to Mrs Smith that in cer- tain eventualities her daughter Violet was entitled to a fortune. Those representations were followed by the requests for advances of money with the result that they bad over a series of years £40Q from Mrs Smith, the savings of her life. The family removed to Rhyl, where they became acquainted with Dr. Jones. Similar representations were made to him, but by this tl™c," observed Mr PeaTpe, "the athdhht of the fortune had apparently grown by the telling of the story. The upshot was that they obtained advances from Dr. Jones of total sums exceeding Z,000, dating from May, 1907, to the end of November, 1908." Miss Chartesworth, according to the statements, was to have come into the fortune when she was 21, which was in January, 1905 but, when that date arrived Mrs Smith, when asking for the return of her money, was informed tbat the fortune was being held by trustees till Violet was 25 years of age. To Dr. Jones the state- ment Was that Violet Was to inherit a fortune of E100.000 upon attaining the age of 25i The date when Violet was to come into her possessions, Mr Pearce continued, was in January, 1909, but she disappeared at about the time under circumstances which are noto- rious, and Which were intended to convey the idea that she had lost her life through a motor accident. She was traced by persons interested ift pursuing her. Under the pressure of credi- tors there was an investigation,, and it was' found in the course of that, investigation that there was absolutely not a tittle of evidence to show that the girl had been entitled to a for- tune. Mr Pearce further stated that, Mrs Charles- worth's story was that her daughter was en- gaged to an officer in the Army, who went out to the war and left her a fortune of £ 75,000. On the strength of this Mrs Charlesworth obtained the money from Mrs Smith on the plea that temporarily they were in need of money. Before the Official Receiver the statement made that she had met a Mrs Alexander Macdonald, who had decomc so enamoured of her that he placed itlM,000 in the hands of trustees for her benefit, but there Was no Corroboration of this statement. He submitted that the niother and daughter had acted in collusion. Mrs CouJsoh (formerly Miss Lilian Charles- worth, sister of Violet) occupied a se&t in court during the hearing. Dr. J«n6&'8 Engagement. Dr Edward Hughes Jones, medical practi- tioner at Rhyl. from *bctn it is alleged accused obtained about £ 5,000, then gave evidence. He said Violet gave him to understand that she Was heiress to a fortune of about £ 100,000, which she would receive when 25 years of age. He became engaged to her in 1907, and imme- diately began to advance her mofte-v, Witness admitted he let her have about £ 4,000. When the solicitor for the defence Was ques- tioning witness as to whether he tent, her the money because he loved he! Miss Chariefeworth burst into teats, and for some time sobbed con- vulsively. Dr. Jones said he let her have the money on a financial basis, and because he thought he would get it back. The case for the prosecution then closed. Mr Durnford, in defence, said he could not argue that there was not a case to be sent for trial in regard to Violet Charlesworth. With regard to her mother, however, he submitted that she only repeated what she had been told by her daughter. The magistrates committed both prisoners f6r trial at the Assizes.

SINGULAft DISPUTE. Barrister Fined for Assault -At Highgate Police Court on Wednesday E. Amphlett Whitehouse, a barrister-at-law, of Elm Court, Temple, E.C., was summoned for assaulting Ernest Jenner, of Quadrant-row, Canonburv, on the 30th ult. Complainant said he was walking along Bishops-avenue towards Hampstead Heath, and defendant was coming in the opposite direction. When defendant had passed him he turned round and struck him a blow on the back with a cane. He did not know defendant at all.. i Mr Whitehouse said that the complainant was walking on his wrong side of the path and refused to move, and was the first to strike a blow. The Bench retired to consider their decision, and after a long absence decided to convifct, imposing a fine of 5s and costs. The defendant then asked if he could make an application for a case of libel to be taken against the complainant Jenner, on a letter he had written. The Bench decided that the defendant would have to go into another court to make that application.

THE ANTI-POPERY CRUSADE. Kensit Protestor Fined. The secretary of the Kensit Memorial College, Finchley, Norman Chivers. a well-kpown Wv- clifl pfeacher. at West Ham Police Court, Lon- don, was fined 10s, including costs, or Seven days. for using insulting words, and be haviour whereby a breach of the peace might have been occasioned at Wanstead on Sunday afternoon, when a religious procession, con- ducted by the Mirfield monks, was taking place. As the procession left st. Columba's Church the prisoner pushed through the clergy with his hands raised above his head shouting. 1 protest against the rotten filthy Catholic confessional. 1 protest against Popery, the ruin of our homes and families." Mr Chivers, giving evidence, said there was no breach of the peace, and the affair passed off quietly. He added that the Mirfield monks were neither Roman Catholic nor Protestants, but .seven-eighths of the former. Chivers de- olared he would not pay the fine.

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Dangers of Spiritism. I LADY'S PERSONAL EXPERIENCE At the Waldorf Hotel, London, Miss O'Reilly delivered a. lecture warning her audience against the dangers of spiritism. She solemnly averred that the appearances seen at seances were never the spirits of the departed, and that those who attended in the pathetic hope of hearing of or from their beloved dead were most cruelly deceived. The lecturer holds the view that such appearances are constructed by evil spirits from the vital forces of those present, and pointed out that mediums were as a rule persons of robust physique. When Miss O'Reilly came to relate her own personal experiences she certainly enchained the attention of her audience. It is not every day that one can meet a lady who has had a personal encounter with the Devil and put him to flight; The Power of Evil was angry be- cause the lecturer was engaged in writing an article throwing doubt on his capability of reading the future. He was defied, and left like a beaten doe. after having received a sprinkling of holy water. Miss O'Reilly very justly pointed out that the study of spiritism did not lead to good. and gave many instances of seances at which she bad attended in which furniture was flung about and the sitters brutally assaulted. She believed that she owed her immunity to a, ring and medal of the Blessed Virgin which she wore, yet she acknowledged tha.t she had lost grace at the time, and mentioned that some of her fellow students had so deteriorated in morals that she could no longer continue their acquaintance.

Old Age Pensions Boon. MR C. BOOTH'S SERVICES. In recognition of his great services rendered in the promotion of old age pensions, the Right Hon. Chas. Booth was on Tuesday after- noon at the House of Commons presented with an illuminated address framed in oak. Mr George M. BariieS) M.P., chairman of the National Committee of Organised Labour, on behalf of the members and supporters of that organisation, handed over the testimonial in the presence of a number of Labour members of Parliament, including Mr Arthur Henderson, Mr J. Parker, Mr James King, Mr Bowesrman, Mr Wilkie, and Mr W. Jones. The Company also included Mr T. Herbert Stead. Apologies for absence were intimated from the Arch- bishop of Canterbury the Bishop of bgiKlon, the Right lloti. ThoHiaa Sttll;, M.P.,afitd<5thers. Mr Bames, in making the presentation, said he was sure he voiced the Sentiments of count- less thousands when hesaid that they all owed to Mr Booth A great debt of gratitude for his untiring advocacy of old age pensions, for it was by his ceaseless efforts that the scheme became a practical political issue. (dheesrtL.) He hoped Mr Booth would live to see all the petty disqualiifcations removed.( Hear, hear.) Mr A. Henderson associated himself in the iiaihv of his Parliamentary colleagues in ex- pressing his sense of thankfulness to Mr Booth. The subject of old age pensions, he said. Was one of the first things that the Labour party took ifl hand four years ago, and much as Mr Bobth had done to educate the public mind, it was in his r Henderson's) opinion a speech by Mr Barnes within four days of the opening of the last. Parliament, that brought the opinion of the House to realise that the sab- jest was immediately practicable. Mr Booth, in reply, said the credit paid to him was, he felt, more than he was entitled 00.. His had been the idea, the theory, but with- out the zeal and devotion of its advo- cates the scheme would never have been realised. He felt there was no special credit due to the party in power for old age pensions. The fact that they had been brought abbot- was the conseqUehce, in his opinion, of the combination that Was brought about between the Trade Unions and the Friendly Societies. Thsi was strong enough to rope in sufficient force to carry their poiht, and he felt no Governtnent could have withstood the strength of public opinion which was aroused.

I YOUNG BURGLARS In League with West End Thieves. At London Sessions on Wednesday Ed. Hicks (18), fitter, pleaded guilty to breaking into 165, Oxford-street, W., and stealing il 8s 8d, two pairs of boots and other articles belonging to Hale's Tours of the World, Limited. It was stated that the accused and another youth got into an empty shop in Poland-street and in that way obtained access to the Oxford- street premises. Forcing the back off a safe they secured a, small sum of money, but, dis- appointed with the amount, thfey smashed pictures on the walls and did other wanton damage by tearing off book covers. On the top Of the safe two notes were left, one ran :— Dear sir,—We have given your place a visit with the idea of getting £ 100, bufrwe were njistaken. Bad liirk this time, better luck next time.—Yours trujy,-N. O. Body. The other note stated — What do you think of our first attempt at opening the safe ? Get one of 's next time. They are the best." As the two left the premises Hicks was arrested, but his companion escaped. On him Was found a plan of the place which Detective- Sergeaht Protheroe said had been supplied by a man who was also a. prisoner at the Sessions and who had previously been convicted of breaking ihto the same premiess. Hicks, added the officer, was all associate of young Wtest End thieves. Mr Wallace, K.C., passed sentence of six months' imprisonment. John Wiyiams (22), porter, the man who was said to have supplied the planv was ordered nifie months' hard labour for stealing lead in ,MM-yie,bo-ne.

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SPILLERS v. G.W.R. Date of Judgment. Official notification was issued on Wednesday by the Railway and Canal Commissioners that the long deferred iudgment in Spillers and Bakers, Ltd., v. the Great Western Railway and the Great Western Railway v. Spillers and Bakers, Ltd. (Association of Private Owners Of Railway Rolling Stock inter- veners) will he delivered on the 23rd inst.

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