NEWS OF THE WORLD

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 3263, 5 February 1931, Page 3

NEWS OF THE WORLD

WIDOW OF SILK KING. TO WED FRENCH COUNT. The announcement is made of the engagement of Mrs. Laura Kayser Bayer, widow of Mr. E. S. Bayer, the New York silk king, who left her a fortune of £20,000,000, and Count Antoine Sala, who was formerly attached to the French Embassy at Washington, and is now an art expert. The marriage is expected to take place in London this month. Count Antoine Sala and Mrs. Bayer are both said to be 56 years of age. Count Antoine has been much sought after by American society dowagers as a guest. Mr. Bayer, who died in 1928, was president of the Julius Kayser Company, manufacturers of silk hosiery and underwear. The firm was founded by Mrs Bayer’s father, Julius Kayser. Mr. Bayer bequeathed a valuable art collection to his wife, besides the £20,000,000 fortune. DIRECTOR’S BENEVOLENCE. A legacy of £IO,OOO is to be shared by Lancashire mill-workers under the will of Miss Margaret Gray, of Frogmore Lodge, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, who left £147,719. Miss Gray was a governing director of the Irwell Vale Mills, Edenfield. She dii’eeted that worker's of more than two years’ standing at the mill were to share the'legacy. It is estimated that about 160 people—practically the whole of the employees at the mill—will benefit, but it is not yet known how the money will be allocated or whether years of service will be taken into consideration. The legatees will include spinners and tenters who have worked for over 60 years at the mill, young “doffers” and “bobbin counters.” In several cases whole families—grandfather, father and son —will share in the windfall. YOUNG AT 85. INDEPENDENT OLD WOMAN. Miss Nancy Locking Chellow, aged 85, of independent means, living at the Marfords, Bromborough, Cheshire, England, died after a fall down the steps of the Mersey Railway at Liverpool. It was stated at the inquest that on the day of the accident she sent back her butler, who was accompanying her to Liverpool, telling him that she was capable of doing her shopping alone. Mrs. Rosalind Higgin-Birket, of Windermere, a niece, told the coroner that Miss Chellow recently visited London, where she went about entirely by herself and had an enjoyable time. She boasted that a doctor told her that she had the heart of a woman of 60. TWINS’ BIGAMY CHARGE. JUDGE CANNOT TELL MEN OR WIVES APART. The Jackson twins, twin weddings and their four wives caused confusion in Judge Lyle’s court in Chicago. The twins, Albert and Herman, were accused of bigamy.

“I canont tell these fellows apart or their wives either,” said the judge. “You, Albert, go on one side of the room with two wives, and you, Herman, go on the other side with your two wives,” ruled the court.

They took their places—Albert had Bertha and Florence; Herman had Fanny and Matilda. A clergyman testified to the double wedding of the twins in 1926 to Bertha and Fanny. More clerical evidence showed another double wedding in 1929 with Florence and Matilda. There were two babies, issue of the 1926 marriages.

“Bail of £1000,” said Judge Lyle, The twins went to prison.

BURGLAR BOUND OVER. “HEAVEN HELP YOU,” SAYS JUDGE. “Heaven help you if you come before this Court again!” said Mr. Justice Branston, at Kent Assizes, England, recently, in giving another chance to a man who had led a life of crime since 1919.

Frederick Williams, aged 35, a bricklayer, had pleaded guilty to two cases of burglary at Canterbury. The police said that his sentences included two of penal servitude, but WilliS"ji» said that if he could get wovk he would go straight. He added that he had recently got married.

The judge, in binding Williams over, said: — “You have a shocking record, and I do not know whether I am justified in taking a risk. I have read your statement and your wife’s letter, and in the hope that it is true, and that you now realise what a fool you have been in the past, I am going to bind yop over instead of sending you to penal servitude again. “This is a chance you will never get again. I realise I am taking a risk, and if you do not take this chance Heaven help you if you come before this court again!”

“I thank you, my lord,” said Williams.