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To-days’s Wireless Notes and Programmes: … Daventry Experimental (491.8m): … 8.45: Mr. Roy Pinsent appealing for Birmingham Boys’ and Girls’ Union …
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GRO0768 Devonport: Roy Pinsent: 1883 – 1978
Distinguished Woman Worker: Lady Simon spoke at the invitation of the British Women’s Patriotic League, which organizes several lectures in the course of a year, usually holding them in that supremely comfortable Mecca of intellectual women, the Forum Club. The league’s next lecture, Miss Mackinnon, the secretary, tells me, will be delivered on May 4 by Mrs. Pinsent who has chosen for her subject “Mental Defects.” Mrs. Pinsent is in a unique position to throw a penetrating light on this absorbing topic, for she is the only woman Commissioner of Lunacy in the country.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
ROBBERY BY A SERVANT: On Thursday, at Guildhall, Mary Macklin was placed at the bar, before Sir Peter Laurie, charged with being concerned in stealing a lady’s neck chain, two silver spoons, and other articles, the property of a lady now at Inspruck. Wardle, one of the City detective force, stated that from information he had received he went to Dr. Tilt’s, 8, York-street, Portman Square, the master of the prisoner Mary Macklin, and asked him if he had the care of any boxes containing property belonging to a lady abroad? Dr. Tilt said he had and that they belonged to his sister-in-law, Mrs. Pincent, who was travelling on the Continent, and had been for the last four years. He (Wardle) told him that he had heard that the boxes had been broken open and the property abstracted. He then went into the kitchen with Dr. Tilt, and there saw eight large boxes, which, on examination, he found to have been broken open, and a great portion of the contents abstracted, and the remainder in great confusion. They principally contained books and wearing apparel. Two of the locks had been nailed on again. He then took her into custody and conveyed her to the station. The boxes had been opened about two months ago, a short time previous to Osborne leaving the service of Dr. Tilt. The chain and spoons have been valued; the former at about twenty guineas, and the latter about 41, but Dr. Tilt could not identify either, never having seen them before. But he stated that he had heard frequently that his sister-in-law had in her possession two very old and very heavy gravy spoons, which description perfectly corresponded with the spoons produced. Dr. Tilt said that Mrs. Pincent had brought from Rome, when she was last in England, a very valuable collection of cameos, none of which had been set, and he believed they were the same that the prisoner had stated his cook had stolen. Sir Peter Laurie said it would be necessary to give … Dr. Tilt to write to Mrs. Pincent at Innsbruck, to ascertain where she bought the negligee, so that they might have the jeweller’s evidence to identify it, and he would remand the case till to-morrow, in order that the prisoners might be brought up, and all charged together.
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GRO0469 Hennock: Jane Sparrow: 1809 – 1891