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Slowly the drama developed. The Prisoner was Norman Baillie-Stewart, 24, a lieutenant in the aristocratic Seaforth Highlanders, a regiment still known north of the Tweed as the Ross-shire Buffs, whose Colonel-in-Chief is Edward of Wales (see cut). As a cadet at Sandhurst Lieut. Baillie-Stewart became still more intimate with the Royal Family by serving as orderly to Prince Henry, third son of George V. The charge against him was selling military secrets to a foreign power. Last week his court martial commenced...
...Sheriff Farley entitled to the interest on litigants' funds? The Sheriff's counsel thought so, deviously led the Governor back to the days of Merrie England when "the Shire-Reeve was an important officer of the King." Since the Shire-Reeve was acting for the King, it was maintained, he was not a trustee but a debtor. The implication was that Shire-Reeve Farley was responsible for returning to the litigant only the original principal. This solution, said counsel, had satisfied all New York County Sheriffs in the past, including Alfred Emanuel Smith...
Governor Roosevelt proceeded to question Shire-Reeve Farley himself. The Tammany district leader's voice had a wheedle to it that reporters had not heard when he blustered before the Legislative inquiry four months ago, meeting questions as to his financial resources with the reply that his money came from "a wonderful tin box." The Governor asked about his allegedly incompetent assistants...
...from the U. S. A candy manufacturer sent $5,000 for the Government's emergency fund. An unknown workman sent $6, half his week's pay. From Yorkshire came a pencilled postcard: "Come to Yorkshire and we will find thee a seat in the Commons. All York shire labor is proud of you. The dole has been much abused and we workers are tired of keeping those who will not work. . . . Yorkshire likes pluck." Leaking Secrets. British financial bills are always closely guarded state secrets until dead in Parliament. But last week there were many leaks. The stockmarket...
Nonetheless, by evident ability, he made his way upward in New Hamp- shire politics. His one excursion from his state was four years spent as Minister to Greece and Montenegro during the Taft administration. In 1918, he was elected to the Senate (succeeding the late Senator Gallinger). In 1920 he was reelected, and now his colleagues, pulling from their hides the quills he has discharged at them from time to time, elevate him again...