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THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG 0 "A PAGE OF BRITISH NE BARNET GETS LOT OF EXCITEMENT IN ELEPHANT CHASE Animal Leaves Cage to Play Skittles With the Keepers "SECOND TIME Another Tusker Devastated Gardens and Wrecked Shop in November Barnet, though not actually infest- ed with elephants, is sufficiently over- 'run by them to become famous as the nearest bit of lively jungle to London. An elephant on its way from the .. docks to a local depot for wild animals | the natives the liveliest five the Wars of the Roses there some hundreds of was lifted from a railway h Barnet Station by a he door of the crate was rom that point the ele- of the proceedings. KEEPERS. on to the railway there it mounted made its way into the where for over two by those Barnet peo- trains to catch--keep- secure it by hobbling Hs 8 a swing of its trunk the ele- | knocked one keeper down, then y pushed another away with Y with a backward swish of sent a third spinning to the ms of bread were brought, but they were devoured with relish t omitted to regard them as + ecutors of my last will and testament leading to Barnet-hill. nt it refused to budge. lorry was fetched, and the tched to it; but instead pulling the elephant, the pulled the lorry.and away he : h all the traffic of Chill. Delighted at having his , 'hé towed the lorry to his , and Barnet became an town once more. November another elephant, The way from the same depot to . ran loose for hours, smash- ® shop and devastated gardens. \ in Parliament as to something could be done to such incidents, the Home Becre- confessed that there were no provisions on the subject of MOUS INN SAVES 1S OLD LENSE stsmouth's "Star and Garter" Was Resort "of Nelson w RITISH SPEAKER HOPES ALL MEMBERS ARE HONORABLE MEN. Mr. Spencer informed the Speaker of the British House of Commons recently, that a valuable volume on agriculture was missing from the library of the House of Commons. He suggested that the Speaker should give Instructions that if the book was returned no questions would be asked. The Speaker: 1 hope the honorabie member's hidden méaning will be observed by the honorable member who may be studying that book in private, BRITISH TREASURY LOST DEATH DUTIES Baronet Changes Domicile from Native Land to Jersey REWARDS CARE Gives Wife £100,000 and Steam-yacht for Her Intuition Sir Robert Houston's decision te take up a Jersey domicile, revealed in bis will, which was proved yesterday, .aeans that the Exchequer gains noth- ing in the shape of death duties from his colossal fortune, except from such property as at the time of his death was inthe United Kingdom. The will, which was signed at St. Saviour's, Jersey, on January 19 last, was proved hefore the Jersey Eccle- siastical Court yesterday. In it Bir Robert sald: **I declare that T have given up and relinquished my domicile of origin and have taken up a Jersey domicile, it being my intention to remain so domi. ciled In Jersey until the end of my natural life. *1 now nominate and appoint my wife and George Henry Appleton ex- SOSH OVOD ORONO O00 SOCOOROOBOV VENTA: DOCTORS DESPAIRED. "1 give and bequeath to my beloved wife, whose - self-sacrifice, devotion care and wonderful intuition on two separate occasions saved my life when doctors despaired, £100,000, to be at once paid, also my steamer yacht Liberty, with her equipment, and my pictures, silver plate, and the personal effects. I give and bequeath to George Henry Appleton £50,000, to be at once "To Walter Francls Roch £15,000 (Mr. Roch was formerly Liberal M.P. for Pembrokeshire); to William Sanders Fiske £5,000; to John Herbert Cronford £10,000. "To my executors the sum of £50,- 000 for distribution in such amount and to such persons as they may de- termine in their absolute discretion who were in the service, on or before October 31, 1918, of R. P. Houston and Co., and the British and South American Steam Navigation Co., Ltd. "As to the rest and residue of my sald personal estate, -I give and be- queath four-fifths thereof to my said wife absolutely, and one-fifth to the said George Henry Appleton absolute ly, the present will being made 'with. out {udice to my will of reality, LAD OUSTON No declaration as to the value of the estate is required in Jersey. The will was proved, by Mr. Appleton only, as Lady Houston is too ill to take an oath. Her condition is not dangerous, but it is sald she has not yet been in- formed of her husband's death. Sir Robert Houston, who was T2, remained a bachelor until 1924, when he widow of the "SUIANNE' OF THE GOLF LINKS French Champion Plays Remarkable Game to ji i; ! § § k } i A g i i] fs I serious | as an In one, as it re' By So MOTHER MET SON AFTER 20 YEARS ONLY 70 SORROW Mysterious Past of a Feeble Old Woman Revealed HALF CENTURY LAPSE Says Father Was in America When Mother Married Again A dramatic meeting between mother and son, after 20 years, and a surprise pléece of evidence invalidating the mother's second 'marriage' were fea- tures of an unusual case -heard at Marylebone Police Court. A feeble and nearly blind woman of 75, giving her name as Lydia Rush- ton and an address at Hasborough- street, Paddington, summoned Charles William Rushton, dentist of Praed- street, Paddington, alleging that he had deserted her in June 1925. She was married to Rushton, she sald, on April 5, 1501. After having cross-examined her for about an hour, Rushton told the Court that she was not legally his wife. "Why do you say that?" asked thc magistrate . "'Because,"" he replied, '1 have evi- dence that the first husband is living in New York. Iam her third, SON'S STORY. To the evident astonishment of the | old woman, he then called her son by | the first marriage to corroborate him. | Herbert Edwin Davies, of Rainbow- | hill, Worcester, asked if the old wo- man was his mother, looked at her intently, and then said that as far as he could recollect she was. ""You see," he explained, *'I have not seen her for nearly 20 years, and she seems smaller." Mr. Davis added that he knew nothing about the marriage in 1801, | but he knew they were living together at that time. The last time he saw his mother was at the funeral of hér father near- ly 20 years ago, and he last saw his father in 1011, when he returned to| Worcester from America after an absence of 10 years. CANNOT HELP, ""Phis seems to be fatal to the case," sald the magistrate. Mr, Folkes Jones, the woman's soll- citor, said she told him she had not seen her first husband for 52 years, as she left him shortly after the birth of this son. In reply to the magistrate, she ad- mitted that the witness was her son by her first husband, and the case was dismissed, the magistrate suggesting that the son should do what he could to help his mother. *] am afraid I cannot," he replied. "1 don't want to say anything in open court, but if'I could you would be astonished." CAVE IS OPENED AFTER 20,000 YEARS Quarryman Discovers Mam- moth Remains in Port- land Rock Fissure Sir Arthur KEaith has pronou the bones found in an Easton (Fort. land) quarry to be remains of animals of the ice age. In a 'communication to H. E. C. Bricknell, headmaster of St. George's School, who sent the relics to him, Sir Arthur says that the quarryman must have opened up an old cave or fissure in the rock. The animal remains, which included the molar tooth and tusk of a mam- moth and part of the fossil of & horse, were found in a hollow in the quarry In appearance the mammoth was like a gigantic elephant. It had a tusk which attained ten feet in length of curve. Remains of the mammoth have been found nearly all over Eng- Man was contemporaneous with this beast, and used its teeth and bones to make primitive instruments. Many traces of the mammoth have been found in the London district. Sir Arthur Keith describes the Ting ani phase of the Pleistocene period. Many interesting discoveries of pre- have been made in WHEN STRIKE STOPPED TRAINS AND BUSES. picture day of the recent strike. rank and file of Londoners rely for by their absence. streams of motor cars. PEACOCK INNOGENT OBJECT OF STRIFE Neighbors Disagree About Famous Bird in Cathe- dral Precincts OLD CUSTOM Dean of, Peterborough In- troduced Them Many Years Ago A solitary peacock that struts about the Dean's garden, under the shadow of Petersborough Cathedral, has divid- ed residents in the Precincts into two hostile camps. Certain of them lodged a complaint at the Deanery, saying that their sleep was disturbed by the peacock's loud cries. Learning of this protest, other resi- dents presented a counter petition in the following terms: | In case the Dean of Peterborough has been disturbed by the receipt of a communication complaining of the cries of his peacock, we, the under- signed, wish to acquaint him that we have not the slightest objection re- garding the bird, and sincerely hope he will retain it. THREE OBJECT. The signatures of every resident in the Precincts, with three exceptions, followed, and the petition was duly handed to the Dean. The Dean has kept peacocks for 40 years, and introduced them to the Pre- cincts, where they have become an in- stitution, on his installation, 18 years This on the first ago. On the legal aspect of the case, the Dean, the Very Rev. A. H. Page, should be an authority.' He,is a bar- rister as well as a clergyman, having been called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1878, four years before he was ordained. nS ii MODEL ENGINE "DRAWS 7 ADULTS Marvel Ten Inches High Runs Train at Express Speed Made by a high official of the Bank of a 10 1-2 inch high model steam engine hauled seven adult pas- sengers on an elevated track at Kingsway Hall, Kingsway, Model Railway Club's exhibition. » was taken on the famous Thames The ordinary transport Embankment, London, Tramcars and buses, on which the their transportation, are conspicuous vehicles were replaced by endless FAKIR'S TEST LYING ON SCYTHE BLADES Bears' Dagger Wounds, Needle Thrusts, Serious Burns Without Pain NO SCARS Dr. Tahra Bey Seems Im- pervious to Physical Pain The Fakir, Dr. Tahra Bey, whose apparent imperviousness to pain mys- tified Parls some months ago, recently gave a private seance at the New Scala Theatre, Charlotte-stree, Lon- don. While in a state of catalepsy the Fakir was placed on scythe blades, resting only on the back of his neck and his feet. In this position he could it is claimed, endure the most violent blows, administered with heavy black- smiths' ha ers. On returning to consciousness, it is said, the Fakir *'finds himself in a re- markable: state of physical insensi- bility," which permits him, "without any sensation of pain, to' pierce his y with daggers, large needles, big BACK TO HOME AFTER 42 YEARS Stoker Was Believed Lost in Bay of Biscay Storm SAVED BY SPAR Unaware of Story Septua- genarian Lived in Lon- don Many Years Five members of a family living at Sandbach, Cheshire, have just had the greatest surprise of their lives. They are the two octogenarian uncles, the two brothers and the sister of Mr. William Edward Hancock, of Type- street, Bethnal Green, E. Forty-two years ago they heard that Mr, Hangock, who was then a sailor, had been drowned In the Bay of Bis- cay, and since had assumed him to be dead. Recently he visited Sandbach and startled them by his reappearance. He, in turn, was equally surprised to hear that they had been told he was dead. He was also surprised to learn from the fly leaf of the family Bible, kept by his sister, that he is years of age, and not 63, as he had suppos- ed. According to Mr. Hancock, he sailed from Liverpool in 1884 as a stoker on the Andalusia, a cargo steamer bound for Mediterranean ports. The vessel foundered in a great storm in the Bay of Biscay, but Mr, Hancock, who WS FOR THE READERS OF THE DAILY BRITISH WHI "DEAD" SAILOR GOES LEPER VICTIMS IN REMOTE RETREAT WELL CARED FOR Refuge is Situated Lonely Part of Eng- land HEROIC SISTERS Princess' Sympathy and Visits to the Poor Un- fortunates In one of the loneliest parts of the country is England's only settlement of lepers. Travellers on these remote roads pass by a collection of small houses set in the heart of fields. There are cows, and poultry, and a dog that barks fiercely. It looks like a pleasant smallholding. But the inhabitants of the houses are lepers. They are British; men women and children who have lived abroad, and who, once perfect health, Happily, have found a retreat where members of an Anglican sisterhood give them in bound himiself to a spar, was picked |gige up by a ship that lagded him In Ceylon, In the meantime the owners of the Andalusia thought he had beer drown- ed, and notified his father. Mr. Han- quietly, day after day, year The little sister who came to Jocited young and fragile in t, cock, his memory somewhat impaired | pay, by his experiences, worked on a tea plantation in Ceylon for some time, afterwards making several more voyages as a sailor. Then he returned to England, mar- ried, and. for miany years has been living in London with his wife and two sons, while his relatives at bach mourned him as dead, A SUDDEN IMPULSE, A sudden impulse appears to have urged this grey-haired old sailor to visit Sandbach, to try and trace his sister. He was accompanied by his younger son, Edward, who is a stoker in the Royal Navy. They had difficulty in finding the sister, for she had married, and is now Mrs. Charrington, but they soon found Mr. 's uncles, who were at first incredulous when Mr. Hancock told his story. From the first uncle Mr. Hancock was able to get the address of his sis- ter. Their meeting after so many years . Hancock. iron nails, and even to endure serious ton? burns. At will, his blood flows or ceases to flow, and his wounds heal very rapidly, without leaving any sore or scar. CONTENTS OF SEALED LETTERS. Other "miracles" the Fakir is an. nounced to perform are: To give the contents of sealed letters handed in by the general public and a medical jury. Reply to all questions put to a per- son he has hypnotised. Command & state of catalepsy In animals. Throw himself into a state of catalepéy, during which he will be placed in a box aud buried~in sand. During a performance Tahra Bey gave at Deauville last summer some women in the audience fainted, "BI BEN" PLAYS SUMMERTINE JOKE Famous London Clock Went on Strike for at the ont Bonsor" is the name of {tions this wonderful little engine, built in the first place by 4. C. Crebbin, and by W. Hart. Clad In -colored dungarees, Mr. Hart as engine drivers He sat sideways on a covered truck, running his train up and down the 60 ft. long track. The permanent way gauge is not more than 7 1-2 inches. | * "1 think the p passengers get as much fun as the children" sald Mr. Hart. "We carry 12 chil. dren or seven adults--counticg the engine driver as one." STEAM IN SEVEN MINUTES. fiat felt- 4 Splendi Work by Rescuers in Whitburn Colliery you Ted? I asked. tently for a moment, and then y 'Qh, yes; come in.' She was almost in tears. 'The shipping company told us you were dead!' she exclaimed." A long talk over old times followed, and then the family Bible was pro- duced, for Mr. Hancock was anxious to get evidence of his age for an a - plication for the old-age » eo was astounded when his sister showed him that he was born just 70 years ago. He thought he was seven years younger. RAT LIVED AND DED IN CHANCERY = Unofficial "Ward's" Grave Was Found in Ancient Roll oy yd as ment o¢ the Record Office in Chancery-lane lives, sharing Very privately, she will declare open fons to the settlement which & The little sister who received me at are livi the lepers ng. . sq * she a ud, a little wists ed. idea that the little § Bee ol He i o E § i il iz) | i it oi i