INTERESTING NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 270, 14 August 1915, Page 2

INTERESTING NEWS

"THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT." After a private hearing, Irvine Graham, aged 33, a nightwatchman, was sentenced to three months' hard labour at Eastbourne for an offence under the Defence of the Realm Act. Graham, ;v tall, slightly built man, with fair hair and moustache, was stated to be a native of Dunfermline. He has resided in Eastbourne for some time. In sentencing him, the chairman of the bench said there were many circumstances of great suspicion, and the prisoner would be given the benefit of the doubt. GIRLS AS HOTEL PAGES. TISM. With the exception of hall porters, heavy luggage porters, restaurant superintendents, and a few special waiter?: —few by comparison—in the Louis XVI. restaurant, the general service at the Regent Palace Hotel, London, Is practical}- run by young women, and run with amazing smoothness. To the week-end visitor says a writer in the Daily Chronicle) it is quite a puszling experience to find himself attended upon in al'l directions by becomingly . uniformed girls, the waitresses in blue poplin frocks and pretty "Mother Hubbard''' caps, and the pages and lift-girls and light-portercses in smart costumes neatly suggesting a combination of tlie club page and the vivandiere. But to the resident it is just an experience he seems to have been knocking against all his life. One so soon grows accustomed to a new order of things when once it is properly set going! And the female service has been very properly set going at the Regent Palace. There is none of that slackness which used to characterise the waitresses of tea shops in former years, but all of that slickness which is part of the atmosphere of our martial time. Indeed, the vivandierc .lift-girls go to work with p. military precision and thoroughness quite delightful to .see. twz illusionist. i ■amubing show of "bank note production." Julian Dor wan, an illusionist, of Spanish nationality, and Samuel Neumann, a Russian, described as a job buyer, were charged at Giuildh.aH' with conspiring to incite Herman Seilen- I fremiti to make forged currency notes. ' Detective-Inspector Collison gave evidence thrt he watched outside Sell•nlYcund 's promises in Edmund Place, City., until Dorwan drove up, and, with the driver's assistance, took five packages into the house. One of the packages contained a machine which was purported to be capable of producing forged bank notes.

"it cannot do that "continued the inspector, "and how to describe it' I do not know, but according to nn export it is like an eloetro-plnted baked •citato c.«n." (Laughter.) Mr. Howe, prosecuting' for the Treasury, said it was immaterial whether it c-ould or could not do what Dorwan claimed for it He pretended it was capable of producing perfect copies of any kind of paper money. His intention certainly was to defraud Seilenfreund.

Inspector ColKson said Dorwan performed a feat of conjuring before his intended victim. Into the top of his machine he inserted several sheets of plain paper and a £1 Treasury note. He then set going a battery. After various manipulations he opened the lower part of the machine and produced from the bundle, what he said was a forged not. As a fa'Ct, it was an original genuine note. The machine had done nothing but cut the plain papers into uniform slip*. Mr. Kowe: The object, we suggest, is to get the victim to obtain a note of large vavue for the purpose of being forged. The accused were remanded, bail being accepted for Neumann onlv.