NEWS OF THE WORLD

Evening Star, Issue 20322, 2 November 1929, Page 7

NEWS OF THE WORLD

£I,OOO FOR MAID WEALTHY CHEMIST’S BEQUEST A bequest of £I,OOO has been left to his servant, Hannah Elizabeth Woodward, by Mr. Henry Cuming Harvey, of Edgbaston, Birmingham, a retired manufacturing chemist, who died on April 23 last, leaving £93.223. HER FIFTH SEPARATION HUSBAND WHO “DOESN’T IMPROVE” ’ When Mrs. Gladys Marley applied for .a separation order at Blackpool against her husband, a motor-driver, ag'ed 40, on the ground of his cruelty, she said they had been separated four times. “He does not improve when I take him back,” she said. The order was granted and Marley was ordered to pay his wife oos a week. DANGEROUS KITE-LINE YOUNGSTER’S CLOSE CALL A boy from the Duke of York’s Military School, Dover, had an unexpected electric shock while flying a kite at Elvington, nearby. The wire attached to the kite became entangled in overhead electric cables, and the boy, Leslie Heath, received so powerful a shock that he was unable to release his hold. His life was saved by the fusing of the wire, but he was badly burned. BREAKING INTO BANK TWO LADS OP NINE YEARS ! Two lads, aged about nine, were arrested at Deptford on a charge of being concerned in an attempted bank robbery. The police, it was stated, caught the hoys at the Westminster Bank, Dept-ford-broadway, one inside the bank and tho other watching outside. boys apparently obtained access by opening a window at the back of the bank. JAPANESE RITES FUNERAL IN DOCKLAND A striking exhibition of Eastern customs took place at the funeral rites for a Japanese seaman who died in the hospital of the Seaman’s Hospital Society at the Royal Albert Docks. His remains were cremated to ennbVthe ship to take the ashes back to Japan. . - The ceremonial started in the afternoon, when seamen painted arrows on the roadways leading from the. ships to the hospital. Hundreds of Japanese seamen from ships in the various docks attended at the hospital grounds with ceremonial gifts of food and drink. The mourners conducted their ritual throughout the entire night. TRAFFIC WANTED ESSEX’S STRANGE REQUEST There is a county of England, next door to London, which in these days must surely take the prize for isolation. 'f Let Essex itself speak, for Essex dislikes this sylvan atmosphere. The County Standing Committee re-

cently heard complaints that its bypass roads are , avoided by motor Transport, to compel motorists to use the roads. traffic. The complaints were duly, debated, and iii the end a resolution it was not suggested how the Compassed calling the Ministry of •pulsion is to be applied. WIFE AS BRIDESMAID AT HUSBAND'S BIGAMOUS MARRIAGE 'Extraordinary evidence was given In the Belfast Recorder's Court by Mrs. Robert, G. A. Downing, of • Dinview Street, Belfast, when her husband pleaded guilty to a charge of bigamously marrying Maud Porter. Mrs. Downing admitted that she was present at the second marriage and acted as bridesmaid.

Mr. Mussen (prosecuting solicitor): Did you know that your husband could not marry a second time?— Yes.' , ■ • Why, then, did you act as bridesmaid?—Because he had a temper. > And you were afraid of him?—Yes; And he asked you to act as bridesmaid?—Yes. Downing was put back for sentence, the recorder describing the case as a disgusting one. BATHERS STERN DINARD POLICE The bathing-dress regulations of certain localities in Brittany have to be complied with to the letter, as was illustrated recently by an adventure which befel a party of four English girls at Parame. They were walking in one of the streets a considerable distance from the beach when they met a policeman. ' Two of the girls had robes over their bathing costumes, but two had not, and the policeman decided that they were infringing the regulations.

is they did not understand French, he , could , not adequately explain the Bhaation; so he invited them to follow him to the police station. There the police commissary made the two girls with only bathing costumes understand that they would not be allowed to leave the police station until they were decently clothed. He authorised the other girls , to fetch robes for their friends. They did this, and all were afterward allowed to depar*-

LUCKY CADDIES DETROIT’S £7,000 CLUBHOUSE' A clubhouse has recently been built for the exclusive use of caddies of the Detroit Golf Club at a'cost of £7,000, The clubhouse is equipped with all the luxuries of a modern club, including lockers, lounge, reading room and shower baths. LEFT THE TICKET BUT PAWNED THE LOOT! A thief who broke into the house of ’William O’Brien, at MarrickVille, stole clothing; pawned it, and then left the tickets in his victim’s letter-box;. according, to evidence at Newtown Court. William Roy ’ Farrell, 18-year-old labourer, charged with the theft, was acquitted. RADIO LAMP-POSTS BOSTON’S “PRESS-THE-BUTTON” ' ILLUMINATION Lighting street lamps by wireless is the latest innovation in Boston, United States, In the top of the lamp is installed a tiny valve receiving set which responds when a spurt of high-fre-quently current is sent along the wire which carries the power. This switches on the light, and to turn it off another spurt of slightly higher frequency is sent along the wire. - •’ NEW DIAMOND FIELD RICHES OF. NAMAQUALAND The Acting-Minister of Mines, Mr. Pirow, stated in the South African Parliament, that the Alexander Bay district, in the Namaqualand diamond field, had already yielded £7,000,000, and another £1,000,000 was expected. . Wide extensions discovered indicated the possibility that the field’s most payable basis might be oyer a period of 30 years. Recent articles in the "Daily Mail” revealed the astonishing richness of the new diamond field in Namaqua* land owned by the South African Government. It is situated in a sandy waste. The field is encircled by a formidable fence, and ' is strongly guarded night and day by military and police. ■ \ REMARKABLE BRAIN NOTED PROFESSOR'S DEATH It was staled at the inquest at Northampton on a noted • mathematician, Professor T. J. I’Anson Bromwich, that a post-mortem had revealed his brain to be developed to an extraordinary degree. Professor Bromwich was found hanging in his bedroom at St. Andrew’s Hospital, Northampton, where he had been a patient for some time. Dx - . Norman Phillips, deputy medical superintendent at the hospital, said that the professor was certified in December, 1927, with a recurrent form of mental illness. He was decertified in November, 1928, but treatment was continued to prevent further attacks. The post-mortem showed that the brain was large for the body, and the complexities of the convolutions were very numerous by comparison with an ordinary brain. ENOCH ARDEN ROMANCE

“DEAD” HUSBAND RETURNS

‘Vn Enoch Arden romance has ended the City of Buffalo, New York State. Mr. James McGrath has a divorce and his wife returns to an uneventful life as Mrs. Charles Rowe. Mrs. McGrath, thinking her husband dead from wounds received in the war, married Charles Rowe. The United States Government had led Mrs. McGrath to believe her first husband dead and actually paid her his insurance. Mr. McGrath, however, was only wounded. His body and mind wrecked, he was sent from hospital to hospital in Prance and the United States. He discovered at last, when he returned to his home, that he had been supplanted. Amicable divorce proceedings were then begun. 52 YEARS : A HERMIT GUARDED BY BROTHER The Hermit of. Essex recently celebrated—if the word can, be used in such, a connection—his 02nd. year of self-imposed solitude in a tumbledown cabin near the village of Great Canfield. He is James Mason, who at the age of 20,'.because of rejected love, vowed that he would never more look on the face of a woman nor speak to a man except his brother Thomas. The vow he steadfastly kept. until two years ago, when a woman, said to have been the sweetheart for whom he forsook the world, paid him a surprise visit. She married at about the time James went into seclusion, and has now a grown-up family. James lives alone, secured from intrusion by padlocks and outer and inner ramparts of currugated iron topped with barbed wire. Thomas, who also lives alone in another hut near, acts as his guard. When hailed by a reporter, he came hobbling out in great mistrust. “Who might you be?” he demanded querulously and in great agitation. “I don’t like people coming here at night. I like people that' come manfully in the broad daylight.” \ It was explained that the reporter had merely come to inquire after his brother’s health.

“Ah,” he said, reassured, “Jimmy is not so well,as he used to be, I am afraid. His legs are so bad with rheumatism that he has to keep to his bed most of the time.”