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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 May 1913, Page 6

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Sentence of twelve months' hard labour was passed at Douglas, Isle of Man, on the Rev Janws Wilson Alexander Mackenzie, vicar of Witwick, Leicestershire, for littering a forged promissory note for £-300 purporting to bear the signature of the late Miss Murray, matron of Ramsay isolation Hospital, with whom he had been in. partnership in a poultry farm. Deemi ster Moor, summing up, said the jury could draw no conclusions because the accused refused to go into the witness box. Lily Keys, the live-yen r-old da ugh' ter of a band-corporal of the Lancashire Fusiliers, fell 80ft over the clift near til)? Dover Military Hospital while plucking flowers. She. was apparently unhurt except for cuts a.nd braises. A charitable scheme under the will j of Sir Alfred Jones, the shipowner, i was sanctioned at Liverpool on Monday. A large number of charitable and 1 educational institutions In Liverpool, Bristol, West Africa, ajid North Wales will benefit, the amount of the gifts being £227,100. To the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine £BO,OOO is given, £IO,OOO for a research laboratory in Sierra Leone, West Africa ; £40,000 for a proposed benefit scheme for the employees of Messrs Elder, Dempster aijd Co. and and their subsidiary companies; and £20,000 for the promotion of technical education and mission schools in British West Africa. Dreissed in her husband's clothes and with his photograph pinned to one of the garments, Ellen Moysos, aged 29, was found hanging from the banisters at her home in Dorset St., Liverpool. At an inquest, when a verdict of suicide during temporary i.n- 1 sanity was returned, the coroner <'Mr T. E. Sampson) said Mrs .Moyses had left letters blaming - her who had not been seen since.