Ross Gazette 12th November 1914 - Page 6
Ross Gazette 12th November 1914 - Page 6
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| Date | 12/11/1914 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Ross Gazette |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 12th November 1914 |
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Herefordshire Assizes . THE BARLING CASE . THE ROSS GAZETTE this , and the sellers of the horses were the proper people to pay for it . Captain Ste- phens telephoned the military authorities at Carmarthen , and they said the arrangement to use his yard was quite satisfactory , and that he ( Barling ) could charge commission for horses sold in his yard . Mr. Millward : Did you think you were doing anything wrong in harging this com- mission ? 1 THURSDAY , NOVEMBER OUR New War Story . CALL RIGHTS RESERVED . ] with 12 , 1814 . black - smeared face by day and half a dozen reassuring years for Tom - astated that scarcely shipyard or factory in music - hall side in the evening , who dreamt of Bub that busy hive of industry resumed work be- least so far as flying was concerned . patent lever chain ; and it seemed to Bert that was the great time of mono - rail develop fore half - past two . The public mind was just that he was the perfect model of a gentlemán ment , and his anxiety was only diverted from sufficiently educated in the impossibility of of spirit . He hired out quite the dirtiest and the high heavens by the most urgent threats ying to appreciate Mr. Butteridge , at his proper value . He circled the University unsafest bicycles in the whole south of Eng- and symptoms of change in the lower sky . land , and conducted the subsequent discus- It is curious how the final boom of Aying buildings , and dropped to within shouting sions with astonishing nerve . Bert and he began . It was like the coming of a breeze on distance of the crowds in West End Park and on the slope of Gilmour Hill . The thing flew settled down very well together . Bert lived quiet day ; nothing started it , it came . an hour , in a wide circle , making a deep hum never having for one moment dropped the that would have drowned his full rich voice People began to talk of flying with an air of quite steadily at a pace of about three mitw Pictures of flying and flying subject . machines returned to the newspapers ; articles completely had he not provided himself with He avoided churches , build . and allusions increased and multiplied in the megaphone . ings , and mono - rail cables with consummate serious magazines . People asked in mono- esse as he conversed . rail trains , " When are we going to fly ! " A Mo name's Butteridge , " he shouted ; new crop of inventors sprang up in a night or " B - U - T - T - E - R - I - D - G - E . Got it ? Me mother so like fungi . The Aero Club announced the project of a great Flying Exhibition in a large area of ground that the removal of slums in Whitechapel had rendered available . Witness : No. I thought I was quite justi- THE WAR IN THE AIR . , became almost a trick rider he could ride fied in doing so . Br H. G. WELLS of " Kipps , " " The Time Machine , " " The Invisible The War of the Worlds , " " In the Days of the Comet , " & a . And you made no secret of it P - No . Counsel then directed witness's attention to the detail of the cases , and Mr. Barling Author said in every case that he informed the ven- j Man , dors of the horses that he should charge 5 per cent . commission . He honestly believed the Government allowed him to charge this commission for the use of his yard , and he charged all alike . CHAPTER I. This here progress , " said Mr. Tom Small way , " it keeps on . " You'd hardly think it could keep on , " said Mr. Tom Smallways . depot the horses were ultimately sent to the places that they were required to be sent . The price was paid by means of an order . They were called for shortness sake , pay- There was a large attendance at the Here- ment orders , but the longer name was Army ford Shirehall on Thursday , when the Here - Impressment Order . They were not cheques , fordshire Autumn Assizes were resumed be- because they were not drawn on any bank but they were in the nature of cheques , and fore Mr. Justice Ridley . Touching on the charges against Mr. they were drawn on the Command Pay- master of the Western District , and each of Barling , the Judge ( Mr. Justice Ridley ) re- them had to be signed by Capt . Stephens ferred to the circumstances which led to his and delivered to the purchaser ; who , if he being appointed to accompany Capt . Stevens liked , could pass it through his bank and on his tour in Herefordshire looking for the money would be paid . In the majority horses for military purposes . Mr. Barling of cases the order was sent to the person had to advise about the suitability of the who had sold the horse , but in some cases , horses , their condition , and the price that however , the defendant represented to Capt . should be paid for them . For that work he Stephens that he had been authorised by the was paid £ 2 per day and travelling expenses . sellers to take these orders and pass them The cheques for the payment of the owners on . That being so , and Captain Stephens of the horses were made out by Captain believing the defendant's statement to be The Judge : He tried to anyhow . ( To casos because the true , he handed some of the orders to the Stephens , and in some owners asked that it should be done , they defendant . The defendant paid these orders prisoner ) : How much do you think you got were handed to Mr. Barling for passing on into his bank , and in the various cases out of this job ? It was long before the War in the Air be- Witness : I daresay it would amount to to the owners . It was prisoner's duty , and which the jury would have to deal with , he gan that Mr. Smallways made this remark . anyone's duty under the circumstances , un - kept secret from the owners the payment something like £ 200 . There were about 100e was sitting on the fence at the end of his less he had a perverted mind , to hand the orders that he had received . Without the horses bought off 70 or 80 people . The Judge said he could not understand garden and surveying the great Bun Hill gas- money to the men to whom it belonged . He slightest authority the defendant paid these blamed . Above the clustering gasometers had the money for the owners of the horses . orders into his bank at Newnham , where he how the prisoner's bank at Newnham , in works with an eye that neither praised nor and for no one else , and he ( the Judge ) could not see how he could lay claim to any of it . appeared to have had an account for some Gloucestershire , accepted the orders , and three unfamiliar shapes appeared , thin , wal- that flapped and rolled time . He paid these valuable securities into placed them to the prisoner account , see - lowing bladders Instead of handing the money over to the his own bank at Newnham , and that banking that they were made out in favour of about , and grew bigger and bigger and owners , however , he deducted a commission sent them up to the head office in London , the sellers of the horses . The orders were rounder and rounder balloons in course of of 5 per cent . , and a charge for having and the money was then obtained from the drawn on the Paymaster of the Western inflation for the South of England Aero fraudulently converted that per centage of Paymaster of the Western Command , and Command and signed by Capt . Stephens , Club's Saturday afternoon ascent . " They goes up every Saturday , " said his the money to his own uses was preferred . credited to the defendant's account at his and , in the cases mentioned , the prisoner He obtained the cheques , and instead of own bank . It was in that way that the de - kept secret from the owners the payment neighbour , Mr. Stringer , the milkman . " It's handing them on to the owners , paid them fendant come to be possessed of these docu- orders that he had received . He was sen- only yesterday , so to speak , when all London into his own bank , and paid the owners the ments , and he ( Mr. Cranstoun ) impressed tenced to three months ' imprisonment with turned out to see a balloon go over , and now price of the horses , less the commission . upon the jury to bear in mind that this was hard labour , and to pay all the costs of the every little place in the country has its weekly outings - uppings , rather . It's been the enl That was the practice generally adopted , the charge that the defendant got hold of prosecution . vation of them gas companies . " and it seemed to him ( the Judge ) that pris- these documents , that they were entrusted oner had not the slightest right to do it . to him for a particular purpose , he having " Larst Satiday I got three barrer - loads of gravel off my petaters , " said Mr. Tom Small- An advertisement he had been given stated said that he was authorised to receive them " Three barrer - loads ! ways . What the that prisoner was entitled to commission of and hand them over to the persons whose dropped as ballace . Some of the plante was 5 per cent . on all horses sold in his yard . But names were written upon them . broke , and some was buried . " the horses in question were not sold in his " Ladies , they say , goes up ! " yard , and they were not sold by willing " I suppose we got to call em ladies , " said owners . It was quite impossible to contend , Defendant retained 5 per cent , of " Still , it ain't hardly Mr. Tom Smallways . it seemed to him , that commission could be the money which should have been paid to due to prisoner in the circumstances . seemed to him an abominable thing to think the owners , alleging that the owners , when that a person who had to part with his horse agroffence was made between the price for the service of the country , at a certain pon and the amount of the cheque received from the defendant , that he was price , should have to hand over some of that entitled to a commission of Is . in the £ . money to someone else . Under the circum- On the 13th August there was a collection of stances prisoner was very properly prosecut - horses at the Trumpet Inn , and also at Bos- ed for fraudulently converting the money to bury , and then something was noticed , but his own use - fraudulent conversion meant defendant persuaded Capt . Stephens that he using for one purpose money which had been was not receiving commission . entrusted to him .for another , without any right . He thought , under the circumstances , it rested with prisoner to show to the Court how he could have entertained the notion that he was entitled to 5 per cent . commis- mission . He directed the jury that in his opinion it was a case in which they should return a true bill , and leave the prisoner to be examined in that Court . It Instead of doing that he craftily and frau- dulently told the owners nothing about the orders . Continuing , Mr. Cranstoun said it would no doubt be argued that defendant charged the commission honestly . He could not be other than open with the sellers of the horses , because he had to claim his money . In the meantime he got hold of the orders for payment and did not tell one of the own- ers a single word about it . He took the He took them without the he stole them . slightest authority , and paid them into his own bank . Harewood End Police Court . MONDAY . - Before Mr. G. W. Bankes ( in the chair ) and Mr. T. Preece GAME TRESPASS . Joseph Allaway , William Evans , Henry Evans , and Edward Jenkins , all labourers , of Hentland , were charged with game tres- pass on land , the property of Miss Symonds , Pengethley , in the parish of Hentland , on Sunday , October 18th last . All defendants pleaded guilty . Mr. J. Kelly , solicitor , Ross , appeared for the prosecutor . P.S. Kendall deposed that on the day in question he was on the path which leads through Harewood Woods . While there he heard some one moving , and on his going further , he found the four defendants . Allaway , Evans , and Jenkins , each had a purse net , and Henry Evans had a ferrett in his hand . Three nets were set over rab- bit holes . He asked what they were doing , rabbits , and he hoped witness would not re- port it . Allaway had six nets , Evans four , and Jenkins two . my idea of a lady - flying about in the air , and throwing gravel at people . It ain't what I been customed whether or no . " to consider lady - like , B world Mr. Stringer nodded his head approvingly , and for a time they continued to regard the swelling bulks with expressions that had changed from indifference to disapproval . Mr. Tom Smallways wes a greengrocer by trade and a gardener by disposition ; his little wife Jessica saw to the shop , and Heaven had planned him for a peaceful world . Unfortu- nately , Heaven had not planned a peaceful world for him . He lived in of obstinate and incessant change , and were in parts where its operations sparingly conspicuous . Vicissitude was the very soil he tilled ; even his garden was upon a yearly tenancy , and over- not so much a garden as an eligible building- site . He was horticulture under notice to quit , the last patch of country in a district flooded by new and urban things . He did his best to console himself , to imagine matters near the turn of the tide . un- bioyoles for miles that would have come to pieces instantly under you or me took to washing his face after business , and some- times even his neck , and spent his surplus money upon remarkable ties and collars , cigarettes , and shorthand classes at the Bun Hill Institute . He would go round to Tom at times , and look and talk so brilliantly that Tom and Jessica , who both had a natural tendency to be respectful to anybody or anything , looked up to him immensely . " He's a go - ahead chap , is Bert , " said Tom . " He knows a thing or two . " " Let's hope he don't know too much , " said Jessica , who had a fine sense of limitations . " It's go - ahead Times , " said Tom . " Noo petaters , and English at that ; we'll be having em in March if things go on as they do go . I never see such Times . See his tie last night ? " " It wasn't suited to him , Tom . It was a gentleman's tie . He wasn't up to it - not the rest of him . It wasn't becoming . " Then presently Bert got a cyclist's suit , cap , badge and all ; and to see him and Grubb going down to Brighton ( and back ) heads down , handlebars down , backbones curved - was a revelation in the possibilities of the Smallways ' blood . Go - ahead Times ! Old Smallways would sit over the fire mumbling of the greatness of other days , of old Sir Peter , who drove his coach to Brighton and baek in eight - and - twenty hours , of old Sir Peter's white top - hats , of Lady Bone , who never set foot to ground except to walk in the garden , of the great prize - fights at Crawley . He talked of pink and pig - skin breeches , of foxes at Ring's Bottom , where now the County Council pauper lunatics were The world had Was Scotch . " And having assured himself that he had been understood , he rose amidst cheers and shouting and patriotic cries , and then flew up The advancing wave_soon_produced a sym- very swiftly and easily into the south - eastern pathetic ripple in the Bun Hill establishment . Grubb routed out his flying - machine , modelky , rising and falling with long , easy undu lations in an extraordinarily wasp - like manner . His again , tried it in the yard behind the shop , return to London - he visited and got a kind of flight out of it , and broke hovered over Manchester and Liverpool and seventeen panes of glass and nine flower - pots Oxford on his way , and spelt his name out in the greenhouse that occupied the next yard to each place was an occasion of unparal but one . leled excitement . Everyone was staring heavenward . More people were run over in the streets upon that one day than in the previous three months . And then , springing from nowhere , tained one knew not how , came a persistent , disturbing rumour that the problem had been solved , that the secret was known . Bert met it one early - closing afternoon as he refreshed himself in an inn near Nutfield , whither his motor - bicycle There had brought him . smoked and meditated a person in khaki , an interest in engineer , who presently took an Bert's machine . It was a sturdy piece of apparatus , and it had acquired a kind of documentary value in these quick - changing shop a bit now , " times ; it was now nearly eight years old . Its points discussed , the soldier broke into a new topic with , " My next's going to be an aero- plane , so far as I can see . I've had enough of roads and ways . " the " They tork , " said Bert . " They talk - and said they do , " soldier . " The thing's coming . " " It keeps on coming , " said Bert ; " I shall believe when I see it . " " That won't be long , " said the soldier . The conversation seemed degenerating into an amiable wrangle of contradiction . " I tell you they are flying , " the soldier in- sisted . " I see it myself . " " We've all seen it , " said Bert . " I don't mean flap up and smash up ; I real , safe , steady , controlled flying , against the wind , good and right . " mean You ain't seen that ! " " I ave ? Aldershot . They try to keep it a secret . They got it right enough . You bet our War Office isn't going to be caught nap- ping this time . " He asked enclosed , of Lady Bone's chintzes and crino lines . Nobody heeded him . thrown up a new type of gentleman alto- gether gentleman of most ungentlemanly energy , gentleman in dusty oilskins and motor goggles and a wonderful cap , a stink- making gentleman , a swift , high - class badger , who fled perpetually along high roads from the dust and stink he perpetually made . And his lady , as they were able to see her at Bun weather - bitten goddess as free Hill , was a from refinement as a gipsy - not so much dressed as packed for transit at a high velocity . So Bert grew up , filled with ideals of speed and enterprise , and became , so far as he became anything , a kind of bicycle engi- Bert's incredulity was shaken . neer of the let's - ' ave - a - look - at - it and enamel questions , and the soldier expanded . in chipping variety . Even a road - racer , geared " I tell you they got nearly a square mile to a hundred and twenty , failed to satisfy him , fenced in - a sort of valley . Fences of barbed and for a time he pined in vain at twenty wire ten feet high , and inside that they do miles an hour along roads that were continu- things . Chaps about the camp now and ally more dusty and more crowded with then we get a peep . It isn't only us neither . mechanical traffic . But at last his savings There's the Japanese ; you bet they got it too accumulated , and his chance came . The hire -- and the Germans ! And I never knowed purchase system bridged a financial gap , and anything of this sort yet that the Frencheys one bright and memorable Sunday morning didn't get ahead with - after their manner ! he wheeled his new possession through the They started ironclads , they started sub- shop into the road , got on to it with the marines , they started navigables , and you bet advice and assistance of Grubb , and teuf- they won't be far be'ind at this . " teuffed off into the haze of the traffic - tortured high road , to add himself as one more volun- tary public danger to the amenities of the Bouth of England . " Orf In answer to a question , the Judge said orders - he thought he was entitled to say and Allaway said that he was looking for shadowed by a huge board that proclaimed it the Grand Jury need only go into the general evidence . Later a true bill was returned . James Lionel Barling , veterinary surgeon . King - street , Hereford , surrendered to £ 300 hail on eight indictments charging him with false pretences with intent to sheat and de- fraud in connection with the purchase of Army remounte .. Mr. J. Cranstoun , K.C. , and Mr. H. G. Farrant ( instructed by Mr. W. Akerman , acting on behalf of the Director of Public Prosecutions ) appeared for the prosecution , and Mr. Vachell , K.C. , and Mr. Millward ( instructed by Messrs . Philip Baker and Co .. Birmingham ) was for the defence . In reply to the Judge , Mr. Cranston said the orders were not like cheques . If they had been cheques prisoner could have done nothing with them . But the orders were made out to the sellers of the horses , and prisoner had no more right to take them than he had the right to take an envelope or a parcel addressed to a certain individual . The Judge : It appears that the bank credited prisoner with the orders . He did not think they had the right to do anything of the sort . Concluding . Mr. Cranstoun said the jury had to consider this question . Prisoner had put forward the claim to the commission . Just think for a moment what that meant . It meant remuneration , and remuneration was only given for something that was done . But prisoner had not claimed commission from his employers - the Government . He was paid for that . But he actually went to the men who had been pressed into sell- ing their horses , and said to them : " I want you to take off the purchase money 5 per cent . commission in order to pay me . " The prosecution submitted that that was nothing less than robbery , and they submitted that defendant , as a business man , must have known it . The fact that he paid the orders into his own , bank without saying a word about the proper price the owners were to get was clear evidence to show that it was done with fradulent intention . The evidence was then called , and after the Chief Constable of Hereford ( Mr. F. Richardson ) had said he had been instructed Defendant pleaded not guilty . " In his opening statement , Mr. Cranstoun said the charges which the jury were called upon to investigate were connected with the buying and selling of horses for military purposes , which took place in this county in the month of August last . As he would point out to them later on , the sales were effected between Capt . Stephens and certain farmers , and the defendant was employed by the Government as a veterinary surgeon to accompany him . It was alleged against the defendant that whilst acting in that capaci- tv he was entrusted with certain property , that was payment orders , which he was in- structed to deliver to the sellers of the par- ticular horses , and that he fraudulently , con- verted these orders to his own use and ap- propriated a part of the proceeds of the orders . If that accusation was substantiat- ed , there was no doubt that a crime had heen committed , for by an Act of Parlin- ment which was passed in the year 1901 it by the War Office to institute the proceed- was laid down that every person entrusted ings , Captain Stephens was called . He re- with property that belonged to another in - ferred to the work prisoner was to do , and dividual and delivered to him . was guilty of a misdemeanour , if he fraudulently con- verted that property or any part of it , or the proceeds , to his own use . That was the law which the prosecution alleged had been broken in this case , and it rested upon the jury to say when they had heard the evi- dence , and after his lordship had summed up , whether the charges were whether the defendant was an innocent man . Shortly after the declaration of war between this country and Germany , namely , about the 7th of August last , Capt . Stephens , who was remount officer in this district , proceeded to purchase horses for military purposes , and in addition to that he was appointed to find a temporary depot in this city . It was absolutely necessary that he should have a veterinary surgeon to accompany him , as the jury could easily appreciate . Captain Stephens was a mili- tary man , and he was buying horses , and it was necessary that he should have a veter- in getting horses to a central spot so that he inary surgeon to assist him and attend to could inspect them . then went on to speak of the various horses . which were subjects of the charges , which had been brought . From a communication that was made to him he taxed prisoner about charging commission . Witness , who had That complete confidence in Mr. Barling , said to him : " If you are charging commission it is wrong . " He replied that he was only get- true or ting certain debts out of this man . satisfied witness that he was not charging commission . Prisoner offered to help him in making the payments , so a great many orders were handed to him to address and send to the owners . Mr. Cranstoun : Did you authorise Barling to pay the money into his own bank ? -No . Had he any authority to deduct anything from the prices ? -No . Cross - examined by Mr. Vachell : He was quite satisfied with the work and advice Mr. Barling gave . The prices given were very reasonable . Prisoner had been instrumental He published a hand- know refreshments were provided for people who brought the horses . knew for certain that prisoner was charging As soon as he commission he spoke to his senior officer on the telephone , and he was told that it must he stopped at once . He did not tell Barling that it was all right . With regard to the the ordinary duties that a veterinary sur - bill with the news that animals were wanted . geon was expected to do . The defendant Mr. Barling placed his offices at his disposal . was also to render him assistance in the way and treated witness hospitably . He did not of assessing the value of the horses in case of any difficulty . Capt . Stephens came to Hereford . He was introduced to the de- fendant , whom he was not acquainted with up to that time . The defendant occupied a position in this city , carrying on a good business as a veterinary surgeon , and em- ployed occasionally as he ( Mr. Cranstoun ) Cowpland case , witness said he never saw understood , by the Board of Agriculture . Cowpland or his groom . Mr. Barling show- so that to all appearances he was a man of ed him the horse . and witness said he substance and a man of honour . The duties were pointed out to him , and thought the animal was worth £ 40 . Mr. Vachell , addressing the iury on behalf The Chairman said that Allaway would be fined £ 1 and 8s . costs , Henry Evans 58. and 8s . costs , and William Evans and Jenkins 10s . and 8s . costs each , or in default 14 days hard labour . REFORMATORY ARREARS . William Griffiths , labourer , Whitchurch , was summoned for the non - payment of cer- tain reformatory arrears . Defendant did not appear . After P.O. Chamberlain had proved ser- vice of summons , Supt . Broad said that he had received instructions from the Inspector of Reformatories , and he summoned the de- fendant . He had received small amounts from him , but he owed for 12 months on 11th October last . He produced the order , and he was now summoning him for 26 weeks , amounting to £ 1 65 . A warrant was issued for that amount , and the costs , 6s . 6d . , or ons month's im- prisonment . also the remuneration that he was to re- ceive , and the defendant accepted the office . of the prisoner , said Mr. Barling had acted Capt . Stephens had a book of instructions , the same by all as by one , and no one had which was published by the authorities , and been done out of the bulk of the money this he showed to the defendant , and drew paid for their horses . Everyone had received his attention to the particular provisions . his money except 1s . in the £ . Althongh Those instructions remained in the office of £ 2 a day might sound all right , if defen- the defendant all through . He had already dant had been working on ordinary_terms told them what Mr. Barling's duties were , he would have earned much more . In ad- and what he was expected to do . He was dition he did much valuable work for which paid £ 2 a day , also travelling expenses and he did not receive any remuneration . When- allowances at the rate of 15s . per night up ever horses were being sold there was gener- to 14 nights , and then 10s . per night with ally a loose 5 per cent . commission going daily allowance of 5s . if over 10 hours , and about , and what was more natural than that 3s . 6d . between 7 and 10 hours when night Mr. Barling should think he could charge a allowance was not drawn . For every horse commission to reimburse himself for all the stabled on his premises he was to receive expenses he had been put to . Turning to the 2s . 6d . a night , whilst grooms ' fees were also case of Mr. Cowpland , counsel declared that allowed . All this was to be paid for by the the only wicked thing , defendant did was to Government . One would have thought that tell Captain Stephens that he had bought they were very liberal terms , especially the horse himself , and that was making a good pay when the allowances were taken profit of £ 10 out of it . But that was no into consideration . It appeared , however , crime . The utmost that could be said in that the defendant was not satisfied , be the matter was that Captain Stephens was cause at a very early stage of these pro- kept in the dark that the real seller of the ceedings , he set himself about to obtain horse was Mr. Barling and not Mr. Cow- further sums of money from farmers and pland . What Mr. Barling had done , said other persons , who were unfortunate enough counsel in conclusion , might not perhaps or fortunate enough , as the case might be , give the jury a very high opinion of his to have to sell their horses . When Captain patriotism , but that they should come to a Stephens and the defendant went to a par- conclusion that he did this deliberately , ticular place where horses were collected to knowing it to be dishonest , was a decision gether , Capt . Stephens selected the horses at which he hoped the jury would not arrive . that he deemed suitable , and they were pass- The Court re - assembled on Friday , and ed as being sound and fit for the purpose in- prisoner went into the witness box . He said tended , the Captain and the owner had some that when the war broke out Captain deliberation and a price was agreed upon . Stephens went to see him , and arrangements There and then the bargain was struck . It were made for witness to receive £ 2 a day was impossible at that time to pay for the for the examination of horses wanted for horses , but the instructions were that the the Army . Coming to the question of com- horses were to be branded with a Govern- mission witness stated that he displayed ment mark on the hoof , and as soon as the notices in his yard that 5 per cent . would bargain was made the sale was complete , be charged on purchases . Captain Stephens and the horses passed to the Government . wanted stabling , and witness placed his yard The owners were instructed to send the at his disposal as a receiving depot . He , horses to Hereford - to the temporary depot however . told Captain Stephens that he cons at the defendant's premises . From that sidered he was entitled to something for RUSSIANS AND BRITISH . BROTHERS IN ARMS , BROTHERS IN PEACE . con- When the Russians took a Zeppelin the other day we were as pleased to read of the exploit as if Englishmen had done the deed . And again as each Russian success is achieved , we feel proud of our Allies . And they , too , must read of the work of our temptible little Army " with delight . The fact is the Russians and English feel that they are brothers in arms . The brotherhood which binds us is not of race . It is the kinship of spirit . More than two centuries ago , Peter the Great left England with a small army of English engineers , artificers , and ordnance experts . From this little English foundation the Russian forces now in action have been evolved . Since that day the usefulness of Russia to this country is told in the statistics of the wheat , wood , fur , and hundreds of other trades , in raw pro- duce and food . Again , the aspirations of the Russian people , interpreted by such masters as Tolstoy , Kropotkin , Turge- nev , and Tchaikovsky , each by his own method , have found a ready response in Great Britain . Through an inter- change of the ideas of their great men the two countries have come to under- stand each other . And now that Russian and British lives are being laid down for the noble cause of civili- sation , the Nations are in the truest sense Blood Brothers . There are many other ties between Russia and Britain . A thing so small in size , but so important , as the Cigar ette , is a bond between the two nations , for it was Russia which first introduced the Cigarette to England . The tale is old , but will bear retell- ing , of the great Russian singer who wanted a Cigarette so skilfully blended that , while perfect in flavour , it should be guaranteed not to injure his throat , even if he should wish to smoke all day . But outside his own country he searched in vain , until by good fortune he found in London a brother Russian who had spent many years in the same quest on its expert and commercial side . So it was that the great Jean de Reszke sought , and from Mr. J. Mill- hoff obtained , the Cigarette which he permitted to be named after him . To - day the " De Reszke " Cigarette stands for a little Russo - British alli- ance all by itself . So that those who smoke " De Reszke " Cigarettes are smoking a product of great expe- rience , and they smoking patriotically . Incidentally , they are enjoying the cigarette which is the favourite among the Officers of the King's Army and Navy . For if you were to be invited into the Officers ' quarters on land or sea the Cigarette which would be offered you would most probably bear the name of the great Russian artist . But , without the honour of such a visit , you need not forego the pleasure which lies in the " De Reszke Cigarette , because you can buy it at almost every Tobacco- . nist's . are It is also interesting to observe that Jean de Reszke has arranged for 50,000 De Reszke " Cigarettes to be distributed among the Hospitals of the Allied Armies and of the British Navy , an act which might be imitated by all of us , even though on a smaller scale . said . You'd hardly think it could keep on , " he reminis Mr. Smallways " aged father could remem- ber Bun Hill as an idyllic Kentish village . He had driven Sir Peter Bone until he was fifty , and then he took to drink a little and driving the station ' bue , which lasted him until he was seventy - eight . Then he retired . He sat by the fireside , a shrivelled , very , very old coachman , full charged with cences and ready for any careless stranger . He could tell you of the vanished estate of Sir Peter Bone , long since cut up for building , and how that magnate ruled the countryside when it was countryside , of shooting and hunting and of coaches along the high road , of how " where the gasworks is ' was a cricket field , and of the coming of the Crystal Palace . The Crystal Palace was six miles away from Bun Hill , a great façade that glit- tered in the morning and was a clear blue outline against the sky in the afternoon , and at night a source of gratuitous fireworks for all the population of Bun Hill . And then had come the railway , and then villas and villas , and then the gasworks and the waterworks and a great ugly sea of workmen's houses , and then drainage , and the water vanished out of the Otterbourne and left it a dreadful ditch , and then a second railway station , Bun Hill South , and more houses and more . more shops , more competition , plate - glass shops , a Board School , rates , omnibuses , tram - cars -going right away into London itself- .bicycles , motor - cars , and then more motor- cars , a Carnegie library . The soldier stood with his legs very wide apart , and filled his pipe thoughtfully . Bert sat on the low wall against which his motor- bicycle was leaning . Funny thing ighting'll be , " he said . Flying's going to break out , " said the soldier . When it does come , when the cur- tain does go up , I tell you you'll find every- one on the stage - busy . Such fight- to Brighton ! " said old Smallways , regarding his youngest son from the sitting- room window over the greengrocer's shop with something between pride and reproba- tion . " When I was ' is age , I'd never been to London , never bin south of Crawley - ing , too !. never bin anywhere on my own where I couldn't walk . Not An ' nobody didn't go . unless they was gentry . Now everybody's orf everywhere ; the whole dratted country sims Wonder they all get back . flying to pieces . Orf to Brighton indeed ! Anybody want to buy ' orses ? You can't say I bin to Brighton , father , " said Tom . " Nor don't want to go , " said Jessica , sharply " ereering about and spendin ' your money . " CHAPTER III . The first great boom in aeronautics was be- ginning . I suppose you don't read the papers about this sort of thing ? " " I read ' em a bit , " said Bert . " Well , have you noticed what one might call the remarkable case of the disappearing inventor - the inventor who turns up in a blaze of publicity , fires off a few successful experiments , and vanishes ? " Can't say I ' ave , " said Bert . " Well , I ' ave , anyhow . You get anybody come along who does anything striking in this line , and , you bet , he vanishes . Just goes off quietly out of sight . After a bit , you don't hear anything more of ' em at all . See ? They disappear . Gone - no address . " Looks like a secret society got hold of them , " said Bert . The soldier lit a match . that Tom and Bert Smallways both saw return . They watched from the crest of Bun Hill , from which they had so often surveyed . the pyrotechnics of the Crystal Palace . Bert was excited , Tom kept calm and lumpish , but neither of them realised how their own lives were to be invaded by the fruits of that beginning . P'raps old Grubb'll mind the he said , " and put his blessed model in the fire . Not that that can Bave us , if we don't tide over with Steinhart's account . " Bert knew enough of things and the pro- blem of aeronautics to realise that this gigantic imitation of a bee would , to use his own idiom , " give the newspapers fits . " The next day it was clear the fits had been given even as he said , their magazine pages were black with hasty photographs , their prose was convulsive , they foamed at the headline . The next day they were Before the week was out they were not so much pub- lished as carried screaming into the , street . The dominant fact in the uproar was the worse . exceptional personality of Mr. Butteridge , and the extraordinary terms he demanded for the secret of his machine . It was there the difficulty began . B Mr. Butteridge , it became evident , was man singularly free from any , false modesty indeed , from any modesty of any kind - singu- larly willing to see interviewers , answer questions upon any . topie except aeronautics , volunteer opinions , criticisms and autobio- graphy , supply portraits and photographs of himself , and generally spread his personality Moreover , he had across the terrestrial sky . a love affair of large and unusual dimensions and irregular . circumstances , and the still largely decorous British public learnt with reluctance and alarm that B sympathetic treatment of this , affair was inseparable from the exclusive acquisition of the priceless secret of aerial stability by the British Em- pire . He wanted to talk about the lady , to shew the splendour of her nature in the light of its complications . It was really most em- barrassing to a Press that has always pos- sessed a considerable turn for reticence that wanted things personal indeed in dern fashion , but not too personal . the mo He would make this appalling viscus beat and throb before the shrinking journalists- no uncle with a big watch and a little baby ever harped upon it so relentlessly ; what- ever evasion they attempted he set aside . He " gloried in his love , " he said , and compelled them to write it down . were the What in particular he wanted from the Government for his secret did not appear . nor what beyond a money payment could be expected from a modern State in such an affair . One fact , however , remained permanent throughout all developments of this affair , he was in sole possession of the secret of the practicable aeroplane in which , for all one could tell to the contrary , the key of the future empire of the world resided . And pre- sently , to the great consternation of innumer able people , including , among others Mr. Bert Smallways , it became apparent that whatever negotiations were in progress for the nequi- sition of this precious secret by , the British Government " Secret society , " in danger of falling he repeated , in response to these words , with through . The London Daily Requiem first his pipe between his teeth and the match flar . voiced the universal alarm , and published an ing . " War Departments ; that's ore like interview under the terrific caption of " Mr. He threw his match aside , and walked Butteridge Speaks His Mind . " It did not to his machine . " I tell you , sir , " he said , - " there isn't a big Power in Europe , or Asia , Smallways that this remarkable aerial per- of Mr. Butteridge was likely to or America , or Africa , that hasn't got at least formance multiplication of balloons . At first the most obvious aspect was the one or two nуing machines hidden up its affect either of their lives in any special man The sky of Bun sleeve at the present time . Not one . Real , ner , that it would in any way single them out Hill began to be infested by balloons ! On workable flying machines . And the spying ! from the millions about them ; and when greengrocer's shop , which he had set up in Wednesday and Saturday afternoons particu- The spying and manoeuvring to find out what they had witnessed it from the crest of Bun Hill , and seen the fly - like mechanism , its ro- the others have got . I tell you , sir , a one of the smallest of the old surviving - village larly you could scarcely look skyward for a houses in the tail of the High Street , hadquarter of an hour without discovering a foreigner , or , for the matter of that , an unac- tating planes a golden haze in the sunset , submerged air , an air of hiding from some- balloon somewhere . And then one bright day credited native , can't get within four miles sink humming to the harbour of its shed thing that was looking for it . When they had Bert , motoring towards Croydon , was of Lydd nowadays - not to mention our little again , they turned back towards the sunken rested by the insurgence of a huge , bolster- circus made up the pavement of the High Street , they levelled that up so that one had to go shaped monster from the Crystal Palace down three stepe into the shop . Tom did his grounds , and obliged to dismount and watch it . It was like a bolater with a broken nose , best to sell only his own excellent but limited and below it , and comparatively small , was a range of produce ; but Progress came shoving things into his window , French artichokes stiff framework bearing a man and an engine with a screw that whizzed round in front and and aubergines , foreign apples - apples from The frame- " You'd hardly think it could keep on , " said Mr. Tom Smallwaye , growing up among But it kept on . these marvels . Even from the first the Grubb and Bert heard of it in a music - hall , then it was driven home to their minds by the cinematograph , then Beri's imagination was stimulated by a sixpenny edition of that aero- nautic classic , Mr. George Griffith's " The Outlaws of the Air , " and so the thing really got hold of them . ar- the State of New York , apples from Cali- a sort of canvas rudder behind . fornia , apples from Canada , apples from New work had an air of dragging the reluctant gas- Zealand , pretty - lookin ' fruit , but not what cylinder after it like a brisk little terrier tow- I should call English apples , " said Taming a shy , gas - distended elephant into society . The combined monster certainly travelled and bananas , unfamiliar nuts , grape fruits , mangoes . The motor - cars that went by northward and steered . It went overhead perhaps a thousand feet up ( Bert heard the engine ) , sailed away southward grew more and more powerful and efficient , whizzed faster and smelt worse ; southward , vanished over the hills , reap- there appeared great clangorous petrol trol peared a little blue outline far off in the east , leye delivering coal and parcels in the place going now very fast before a gentle south - west above the Crystal Palace of vanishing horse - vans ; motor - omnibuses gale , returned ousted the horse - omnibuses , even the Kentish towers , circled round them , chose a position strawberries going Londonward in the night for descent , and sank down out of sight . took to machinery and clattered instead of Bert sighed deeply , and turned to his creaking , and became affected in flavour by motor - bicycle again . progress and petrol . And then young Bert Smallways got a moter - bicycle . CHAPTER II . Bert , it is neccesary to explain , was s pro gressive Smallways . Nothing speaks more eloquently of the piti And that was only the beginning of a suc- cession of strange phenomena in the heavens -cylinders , cones , monsters , pear - shaped even at last a thing of aluminium that glit tered wonderfully , and that Grubb , through some confusion of ideas about armour plates , was inclined to consider a war machine . There followed actual flight . it . " occur to either Tom or Bert at Aldershot , and the experimental greengrocery beneath the great iron standard of the London to Brighton mono - rail , and camp in Galway . No ! " Well , " said Bert , " I'd like to see one of their minds reverted to the discussion ; that them , anyhow . believe when I see , that I'll promise you . " Jest to help believing . I'll had engaged them before Mr. Butteridge's triumph had come in sight out of the London haze . " You'll see ' em fast enough , " said the soldier , and led his machine out into the road . The firm of Grubb and Smallways , formerly He left Bert on his wall , grave and pen- Grubb , had been persistently unlucky in the sive , with his cap on the back of his head , last year or so . For many years the business . and a cigarette smouldering in the corner of had struggled along with a flavour of roman- his mouth . tic insecurity in a small , dissolute - looking " If what he says is true , " said Bert , " me shop in the High Street , adorned with bril and Grubb , we been wasting our liantly - coloured advertisements of cycles , a old time . Besides incurring expense with display of bells , trouser - clips , oil - cans , pump- clips , frame - cases , wallets , and other acces- thet green'ouse . " sories , and the announcement of " Bicycles on Hire , " Free Inflation , " " Repairs , " Petrol , ' and similar attractions . They CHAPTER IV . blessed It was while this mysterious talk with the were agents for several obscure makes of soldier still stirred in Bert Smallways ' im- bicycle , two samples constituted the stock and agination that the most astounding incident occasionally they effected a sale , they also re- in the whole of that dramatic chapter of paired punctures and did their best - though human history , the coming of flying , oc- luck was not always on their side - with any curred . The People talk glibly enough of epoch- other repairing that was brought to them . event . It was the unanticipated and entirely and did a little with musical boxes . making events ; this was an epoch - making They handled a line of cheap gramophones , successful flight of Mr. Alfred Butteridge staple of their business . was , however , the from the Crystal Palace to Glasgow and back letting of bicycles on hire . businesslike - looking a small , machine It is a poor heart , that never rejoices , and in an visible from Bun Hill ; it was something that well as a pigeon . This , however , was not an affair that was heavier than air - an entirely manageable Whitsuntide had an air of coming as and controllable machine that could fly as agreeable break in the business complications less insistence of progress and expansion in occurred in private grounds or other enclosed of Grubb and Smallways . It happened that our time than that it should get into the places and under favourable conditions , and Smallways ' blood . It was not , one felt , a fresh step forward they had made the acquaintance of two young But there was something it was brought home to Grubb and Bert ladies in Miss in the matter so much as a giant stride , a employment in Clapham , advanced and enterprising about young leap . Mr. Butteridge remained in the air Flossie Bright and Miss Edna Bunthorne , and it was resolved therefore to make a cheer- Smallways before he was out of short frocks . Smallways only by means of the magazine He was lost for a whole day when he was five , page of the halfpenny newspapers or by cine altogether for about nine hours , and during ful little cyclist party of four into the heart and nearly drowned in the reservoir of the matograph records . But it was brought home that time he flew with the ease and assurance new waterworks before he was seven . He had very insistently , and in those days if ever one of a bird . His machine was , however , neither of Kent , and to picnic and spend an indolent afternoon and evening among the trees and bird - like nor butterfly - like , nor had it the bracken between Ashford and Maidstone . heard a man saying in a public place in a a real pistol taken away from him by a real loud , reassuring , confident tone , " It's bound wide , lateral expansion of the ordinary aero- policeman when he was ten . And he learnt to Miss Bright could ride a bicycle , and a plane . The effect upon the observer to come , the chances , were ten to one he was emoke , not with pipes and brown paper and talking of flying . And Bert got a box lid and machine was found for her , not among the rather something in the nature of a bee or hiring stock , but specially in the sample held cane as Tom had done , but with penny wrote out in correct window - ticket style , and wasp . Parts of the apparatus were spinning for sale . Miss Bunthorne , whom Bert particu of very rapidly , and gave one a hazy effect ettes . His language shocked his father before " Aeroplanes made and repaired . " he was twelve , and by that age , what with upset Tom - it seemed taking one's shop so peculiarly curved " wing cases " if one may . touting for parcels at the statign and selling lightly ; but most of the neighbours , and all mained expanded stiffly . borrow a figure from the flying beetles - re- the Bun Hill Weekly Express , He was making the sporting ones , approved of it as being a long rounded body like the body of a moth , the rendezvous , Grubb guiding the lady's three shillings & week or more , and spending was packet of Boys of England American cigar Grubb put in the window this inscription , transparent wings ; but parts , including two larly affected , could not ride , and so with air . It quite In't come . But they smashed . Sometimes they The breeze upset In the middle was man bestrides a horse . The wasp - like resemblance a W88 in- the some difficulty he hired a basket - work trailer from the big business of . Wray's in the Clap- ham Road . To see our young men , brightly dressed and cigarettes alight , wheeling off to machine beside him with one skilful hand . and Bert tenf - teuffing steadily , was to realise how pluck may triumph even over insolvency . Little it seemed to matter to Mr. Bert Smallways that a newspaper - placard proclaimed : GERMANY DENOUNCES THE MON- ROE DOCTRINE . AMBIGUOUS ATTITUDE OF JAPAN . WHAT WILL BRITAIN DO ? IS IT WAR ? it on halfpenny comic papers and cigarettes . very good indeed . and on this Mr. Butteridge could be seen Everybody talked of flying , everybody re- All of this without hindrance to his literary studies , which carried him up to the seventh Peated over and over again , " Bound to sitting astride , much as standard at an exceptionally early age . 1 come , " and then you know it mention these things so that you may have no There was a hitch . They flew that was all creased by the fact that the apparatus flew doubt at all concerning the sort of stuff Bert right ; they flew in machines heavier than with a deep booming hum , exactly the sound bad in him . made by a wasp at a window - pane . Mr. Butteridge took the world by surprise.- He was six years younger than Tom , and smashed the engine , sometimes they smashed There were scarcely thirty people on for a time there was an attempt to utilise him the aeronaut , usually they smashed both . in the greengrocer's shop when Tom at Machines that made fighte of three or four look - out for him , in spite of all his clamour , twenty - one married Jessies who was thirty , miles and came down safely , went up the next the doors of the big shed in which he had when about six o'clock one summer morning and had saved a little money in service . But time to headlong disaster . There seemed no been putting together his apparatus opened it was not Bert's forte to be utilised . He possible trusting to them . hated digging , and when he was given a them , the eddies near the ground upset them , it was near the big model of a megatherium basket of stuff to deliver , a nomadic instinet passing thought in the mind of the aeronaut in the Crystal Palace grounds - and his giant rose irresistibly , it became his pack , and he upset them . Also they upset simply . insect came droning out into a negligent and did not seem to care how heavy it was nor " It's this incredulous world . ' stability ' does said em , " where he took it , so long as he did not take Grubb , repeating his newspaper . 1 to its destination . Glamour filled the pitch and they pitch , till they pitch them of the Crystal Palace towers , Fame was lift- world , and he strayed after it , basket and all . selves to pieces . " ing her trumpet , she drew a deep breath as So Tom took his goods out himself , and Experiments fell away after two expectant the startled tramps who sleep on the seats of sought employers for Bert who did not know years of this sort of success , the public and Trafalgar - square were roused by his . buzz ; of this strain of poetry in his rature . Bert then the newspapers tired of the expensive and awoke to discover him circling the Nelson touched the fringe of a number of trades in photographic reproductions , the optimistic re- column , and by the time he had got to Bir- succession draper's porter , chemist's boy , ports , the perpetual sequence of triumph and past ten , her deafening blast was echoing " inted and Published for the Ross GAZETTE mingham , which place he crossed about half- doctor's page , junior assistant gas - fitter , en- disaster and silence . Flying slumped , even velope addresser , milk - or aesistant , golf - ballooning fell away to some extent , though throughout the country . caddie , and at last helper in a bicycle shop . it remained a fairly popular sport , and con- thing was done . A man was flying securely Here , apparently , he found the progressive tinued to lift gravel from the wharf of the and well . Scotland was agape for his coming . quality his nature had craved . His employer Bun Hill gas - works and drop it upon deserv was a pirate - souled young man named Grubb , ing Deople's lawns and gardens . There were gow he reached by one o'clock , and it is re- " They But before he had made his second circuit The despaired - of Glas- To be continued . ) TOBACCO CICARS | CIGARETTES ! Every known Brand at Manufacturers ' own List Prices . Endless variety of Tobacconista Fancy Goods and Shop Fittings The Trade only supplied Opening orders a Speciality . Send for Price List to SINOT STON & COLE . 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AGENTS FOR THE County Fire Office ( Limited ) , Provident Life , Railway Passengers , General Assurance Co. , Commercial Union , Scottish Insurance Co. , Guardian Plate Glass , Hailstorm , etc. FURNITURE WAREHOUSED . ' ADVANCES MADE on Sales , if required , Mortgages Negotiated . ALBION CHAMBERS , SALE MARKET - PLACE , ROSS FIXTURES This Day . - Ross Stock Market . December 1 , -Sale of valuable Farming Stock at Courtfeld Farm . Welsh Bicknor , for Col. F. B. Vaughan , who has let the farm . - See advt . Deceber 3. - Ross Stock Market . Early Entries invited in order to insure publicity for buyers and sellers . December 10. - ROSS CHRISTMAS FAT STOCK SHOW and SALE.- Farther entries solicited . Prizes awarded . Further Appointments respectfully solicited . SALE THIS DAY . BOSS STOCK MARKET . THURSDAY , the 19th NOVEMBER , 1914 . PREECE MESSRS . COOPER And will SELL by AUCTION , in the above Market , a large Consignment of FAT & STORE CATTLE , CALVES , SHEEP , and PIGS Commencing with the Pigs at 10.30 sharp At 11 o'clock , NANNY GOAT , in fall milk : Two- wheel DOG CART , light Four - wheel SPRING LORRY , Two - knife CHAFF MACHINE , and a quantity of TOOLS and Sundries . COURTFIELD FARM , WELSH BICKNOR , Five Miles from Ross and One Mile from Kerne Bridge Station . MESSRS . COOPER and PREECE are favoured with instructions from Col. F. B. 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