ALLEGED BRIBE TO MURDER.
CHARGE AGAINST A WIPE. (By ' Cable—Press Association—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received Deoember 10th, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, December 8. At Detroit, Mrs May Ford, wife of Mr Ney Ford, a second cousin to Mr Henry Ford, has been arraigned! on a oharge that she plotted to have her husband murdered in order to got possession of his estates. A policeman claims that Mrs Ford offered him 20,000 dollars to shoot her husband and burn his body, and that she gave a detective a photograph to enable him to identify her husband. BREAKING "DRY" LAWS. BRITISH VISITORS REBUKED. VANCOUVER, November 29. German delegates —three women and one man—have arrived for the prohibition convention at Toronto. They are the first Germans to arrive in Canada officially since the war. Sir George Foster deplored the tendency of British visitors to the United States to violate the dry laws. Other Canadians said that the United States was justified in arbitrarily extending the three-mile limit if British sources of liquor were not checked. British delegates declared that drinking was decreasing in Great Britain.
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17634, 11 December 1922, Page 11
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