CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20176, 3 March 1931, Page 9

CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

TOBACCO MILLIONAIRE'S 1 ESTATE. I (Received March 2nd, 7.15 p.m>) ' . LONDON, March 1. i ' Sir George Vernon Wills, a former I director of the Imperial Tobacco ComI pany, left £2,100,000, on which the death duties are approximately £1,000,000. ' ALLEGATIONS OF FRAUD. NEW YORK, March 1. > Two women and fivo men have been indicted for conducting the newest kind of film "racket." During 15 months they collected £600,000 from 400 priests and 6000 Catholic laymen, throughout ( the country to manufacture clean films, .which were never made. ■

A HUSBAND'S REVENGE. BERLIN, March 1. At Rydultau, in Polish Upper Silesia, it is alleged that a chemist, suspicious of a woman's demand for" arsenic, supplied Eer with a harmless powder and warned her husband. The latter watched her it with his evening meal, which he ate, and th'en gracefully "expired." As soon as his eyes closed his wife summoned her lover ; and both celebrated the husband's*death. On a proposal being made to tie a rope round his neck to simulate suicide, the husband intervened, thoroughly beat and flung out his terrified rival,'and severely attacked bis wife, who was taken to hospital. *