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Hokitika Guardian, 21 December 1920, Page 3

MRS SPRECKLES’ JEWELS. NEW YORK. Oct. 17, Mrs John T). Spreekles, of San Francisco, for the alleged theft of "Whose pearl necklace and other jewellery, valued at £25,000, the London police have asked for the extradition of 'William 1). (“Diamond Bill”) Barrett, arrived to-day in the Cunard liner Caronia. In an interview she told of her meeting 8 years ago with the Army airman, who a year ago eloped with Miss Alice Drexel, granddaughter of the Jate Mr Anthony J. Drexel, of Philadelphia, and for whose arrest she now asks. In hitter terms Mrs Sprecklcs sniff that she would return to England and support her charge against Barrett as soon as he is apprehended.

A remarkable will has been left by the late Professor Pitt Corbett, the eminent Professor of Law in the University of Sydney, who afterwards became a member of the English Bar and an authority on international law. The property in the United Kingdom is valued for the English grant at £13,780 18s Gd, and he left a sum not exceeding £SOOO upon trust to apply the income either in the payment of an annual grant or of an amount for prizes to any Australian university or society ■ or association in Australia founded for the purposes of carrying on efficient propaganda, work (of which the trustees are to be the sole judges) designed (1) to educate employees ir. the principles of political and social economy; (2) to suggest methods for tin establishment (either by co-operation oi otherwise) of better relations bctweei employer and employed. Or (in the dis eretion of his executors) in affording relief to loyalists (being workers win continue to discharge their duties oi who discharge essential duties, notwith standing a strike) who may sustain oi have sustained injury to person or pro perty in the course of industrial strifi his trustees being the solo judges t( those deemed to fall within these cate, gories.