The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-16
Success Of Several Claimants Results
In Brisk Business In the Game
Of Claiming
Estates.
WOMEN, PETTY THIEVES
Feminine Ethics Compare Badly with
Those Of the Male Sex Accord.
Ing to Librarians and Bust.
ness Men.
by Ed L. Keen. London correspond.

By Ed L. Keen. London correspond.
ent OF the United Press.]
LONDON, Sept. 16.-Ancient titles
rare having exciting times these days,
Tor encouraged by the success Of sew
eral claimants to extinct and dormant
peerages, Whole crop Of claimants
to titles and estates that already have
owners, have appeared on the scene.
Two of these "rightful heirs are
giving the sympathetic public the
unique opportunity OF assisting In the
good work Of restoring to them their
ancestral halls from which they are
barred by their predecessors care
iessness in matrimonial matters.
One of these claimants, Herbert
VINEYARD Colelough, is appealing to
ltke public on strictly business lines
The other, George Tooth, jobbing
gardner, is trying to work up public
sympathy by parading the thorough
fares carrying sandwich-board
which bears the inscription. 81 am the
sixth Marquis of Waterford. do
this to forward my case and obtain
Justice
| Colelough, being business man, is
trying to form a company For the
sum of 81 cents down and s2.o5, in
such sums as may be required from
time to time, he is offering investors
a share of the s3O,OO0.0oo estate which
+ he expects to get when he has estab-
Elished his claim to the earldom of
Newburg.
/ Oddly enough the Newburgh family
motto is, If am able. and between
1914 and 1853 there were no fewer
than three false earls and false
countess, but then the real earl. who
thanks to frequent Italian intermar-
riages, was almost entirely an Italian,
stepped In and got the house Of
lords to declare that he was the only
genuine article. The trouble arose
very largely through his negligence,
| for having inherited an Italian prin-
cipality-he is Prince and Marquis
Giustiniani- Baudini, and several other
thingshe felt too comfortable in his
adopted country to bother about the
English earldom II ~ $50, 900
estate belongs to a family named Les
lie, but Colelough says 1t ought to go
/ with the title and be his.
! The Waterford claim is considered
VERY hard luck on the Beresford fam
lily, for misfortune always seems to
be logging them The third marquis
was killed by a fall from horse, the
| fifth marquis shot himself, and the
sixth-whom the sandwich-board man
says never ought to have had the job
was drowned in Ireland last Deem
her According to the peerage book
his eleven year old SON Is the present
and seventh marquis.
Tooth says he was the son of the
/ fifth marquis by his first wife but that
his birth was concealed for family
reasons.
Public librarians, business men and
storekeepers are unanimous in the
opinion that the habit of petty theft
among women is on the increase and
| that in this respect feminine ethics
compare badly with those Of the male
sex.
The report of the chief librarian at
| Luton states that he has just passed
| through a year of terrible anxiety. He
/ accuses women of: /. Wanton multi.
1 alton Of magazines and periodicals.
! 2. Frequent thefts of books and news
4 papers.
! Chief officials of most of the i'm
| portant libraries in England also COM
plain Of petty larceny and destruc-
ton and In many cases they have
been compelled to close down their
"women's reading rooms" altogether.
while our women's room was
open," declares the Westminster IL
/ brarian, petty thefts and acts of van
i dalism were almost of hourly occur
renee. Some OF the women insisted
on tearing pages and pictures from
books and magazines and had no hesi-
tation about stealing the whole vol
umes, If they got the chance.
It is not only the free Libraries that
suffer for the same complaints are
/ heard In fashionable women's clubs.
The secretary of one of London's
leading West End club houses. says
that they find 1t almost impossible to
keep such small things as soap,
brushes and towels. for members or
their friends are continually stealing
them.
According to Police Inspector Elder
field There is class of women
/, which is mounting the social ladder,
and who with slender means move in
comparatively wealthy circles. They
are consumed with the desire to live
UP to their more fortunate friends
standard. and when wedding Or
some other festivity demands pres.
i emf they cannot bear to send the