The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-31
BRITISH POLICE
 ALWAYS HONEST
  But Recent Events Do Not Uphold Reputation DENIAL BY MORMON
President Smith Sends Statement to England in Which He Declares Polygamy Is Not
 Practiced
By PAUL LAMBETH

Recently three Belfast policemen were arrested for highway robbery and another for serious offense. Recently it comes | to light that Scotch Hobbies were work | ing at gambling. Now comes the news that two English Boobies have been ar-
 rested for burglary.
 | Public interest in the charge against
 two Stoke -on-Trent policemen of ware
 house breaking was so great that the
 court house was crowded. The policemen
 Frank Hebdge and Earnest Plummer,
 were charged with breaking into ware
 house and stealing pottery ware. A table
 In the court was filled with a number of
 articles of pottery, including fruit dishes.
 flower holders, plaques, vases, trinkets.
 etc. They have been held.
 A local magistrate recently declined to
 grant an application for remand in a case in which a man was charged with
 robbery on teh underground railway. This
 line, Sir J. Richie said, was infested with
 thieves. and the company in taking the
 guards off all the cars had offered a great
 inducement to persons of this description
 
 stances of robberies and had himself been
 hustled about by an organized band of
 thieves bent on robbing him.
 1 An investigation may result from the
 evidence taken in an inquest over a mem-
 Der of the army who killed himself be-
 cause of brutally long hours of labor. He
 is the second man to commit suicide for
 the same reason.
 l The second suicide occurred in connec-
 ton with the medical staff at Parkhurst
 barracks the victim being Sergt Ethel
 bert Stokes of the Royal Army Medical
 Corps, dispenser at Parkhurst barracks,
 who was found dead in a cave on the downs, near the Isle of Wight. In a diary found upon the body Sergeant Stokes had written:
 My poor old brain is going fast. It has | tried to do it's best, but the memorable
 band of fate is against "Stokey" What we ask for Is rest, and again rest For 1 1872 years we have served to the best Of our ability, but we can't all be Haldanes | Stokes also made charges of unfair | treatment against two non-commissioned officers This is the second suicide in connection with the medical staff at Park hurst within F months traceable to over rowk, and the coroner points out to Lieu- | ltenant-Colonel Donegan that the history I of he staff seems to be unfortunate Col onel Donegan said he had reported offi- cially, but he was short of men and he regretted that assistance had not come in time to avert this lamentable occur renee. He gave Stokes all the help he ACl a1 hxrf fhn was overworked. the colonel replied that he would like the question recorded, but he preferred not to answer it. He also said that the widow of the sergent has told him that her husband worked until 11:S0 at night, starting early in the morn- ing. The two non-commissoned officers of the staff attended as witnesses and looked so thin and i'll that the coroner commented upon their unhealthy appear ance They declared that they were in chronic state of overwork at Parkhurst, working from in the morning until Il at night, seven days week. A verdict I of suicide while in an unsound mind, produced by ill-health and prolonged l hours of duty,' was returned. The jury suggested that representations should be made to the war office with view of an inquiry being instituted
 | A mysterious, deep-toned voice startled
 passengers waiting for cars at the Black I friars end of the embankment
 1 The voice represented tn latest develop
 ment in railroad organization, and instail-
 ation of megaphone-telephone from
 which are announced the destination and
 vacant seating capacity of the approach l ing cars.
 Two megaphones are fixed in the roof
 above the two exits and an inspector
 stands ready to chain off or to release the moving queues Another inspector
 has charge of a telephone. He informs
 the inspector of the destination and capac- | ity of the cars "Clapham 6S vacancies" says the megaphone, and the inspector
 counts out 6S passengers in the queues
 and bars out all in excess of the number | for whom seats are available.
 | Following the agitation against mor-
 monism here President Smith of the Mor-
 mon church sends the following denial
 from Salt Lake City, Utah. U. s. A. With view to counteract the misrep-
 resentations now being made in England
 and in the hope to establish the truth, [ declare that, during the nine years of my presidency of the church of Latter Day Saints no man in the church having one wife has been permitted to take to him self another. No one In authority in the church has been permitted to perform such a marriage under pain of being ex- communicated from the church. No per son in any land is invited to become a member of the church with the expecta- ton of living in any marriage state than obtains in all Christian countries; but all persons are invited to join us only as brothers in Jesus Christ and share the fullness of grace vouchsafed to us as we believe in relations.
 "The church enjoins upon all it's mem bers obedience to the laws and all prop erly constituted authority. Any state- ment to the contrary. or which ascribes to the church any willingness to counte- nance or encourage any form of immor- alty or loose living whatsoever is false and will bring condemnation on it's au- thors. We ask you to unite with us in opposition to all appeals to passion or in- vestgation into the conduct of our mem- bers in every community of the church. We pledge ourselves to do all in our pow Ter to assist such an Investigation"
 Indignation and bitterness have been aroused in Wigtownshire by the unusual demand of Lord Galloway to exact a cas- ualty of years rent from all the own CTS of property who have leased land from him. The demand is legal, but it is founded upon musty old statutes. If the casualty Is insisted on it is reckoned that half the people will be unable to meet 1t, and the other half will be pinched in many ways for years to come. A memo- rial was sent to Lord Galloway as a re- sult of the public meeting, where 1t was