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...French Canadian Saga Last week, if the Montreal Gazette can be believed. Dr. J. A. Beauchamp...
Cesaire. Que. took his automobile and went for hunt the big bull moose. Returning home from a night call he saw a moose cross his lawn and start up the village street. Dr. Beauchamp stepped on the gas, gave chase. When the moose turned up a blind street, he was able to crash it with his car against a brick wall, the animal's legs getting caught under the wheels...
...Beauchamp had no gun, but he is a croquet expert. In the back seat of his car was a croquet mallet. Raising this on high he edged close to the thrashing, snorting creature and resolutely bashed it on the head until dead. Far from earning him a reputation for brutality, the exploit, reported the Gazette, "has made him the hero of the district and his home the Mecca for sightseers from miles around...
Died. William Benjamin Beauchamp, 62, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; after a lingering illness; in Richmond...
...Author. Nee Beauchamp, "Elizabeth's" present name is Elizabeth Mary Countess Russell. Her first husband was German Count von Arnim; her second, the late John Francis Stanley Earl Russell, brother of Philosopher-Mathematician Bertrand (now Earl) Russell. Tiny, feminine, aristocratic. "Elizabeth" shrinks from publicity, has never written under her full name. Of her writing, reminiscent of well-bred but intelligent conversation, she says: "Like the Apostle Paul, I never think beforehand what I am to say." Other books: Elizabeth and Her German Garden, Expiation, The Enchanted April...