Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-29
FREED BY THE CAR
Miss Maleoka Pardoned on
EngIand's Demand.
BINDS NATIONS CLOSER
Quarrel Between the Lion and the
Bear Avoided.
LIFEB0AT IS IMPROVED
Inventor Claims New Craft Can Be
Lowered Quicker and Is
Safer.
Special Cablegram to The Star.

Special cablegram to The Star.
LONDON, June 29.-The case Of Miss
Maleoka, the Englishwoman who was
arrested some months ago at Warsaw
for alleged completely with Polish
revolutionaries and sentenced to four
years penal servitude in Siberia has
been satisfactorily settled. to the pleas
ure and relief OF the whole world. Not
only the reused people OF England. but
Russians AS well, were overjoyed by
the announcement that the car had
pardoned Miss Maleoka.
One Of the last things that this coun-
try wishes TO see is friction and quarrel
between England and Russia, and IL 10
thought that the Maleoka case. now that
1T has come to the conclusion for which
the English people have striven. will
leave no seeds OF ill-will. but that the
result of 1t will be that the two coup-
tries will understand one another better.
In the first place, tribute is due to
the very rapid manner in which the
Russian judicial and governmental au-
thorities have dealt with the case Only
a day or two elapsed between the ar
rival Of Miss Maleoka's petition in St
Petersburg and the announcement of the
cars pardon. That shows that the
Russian government has fully recog-
nized the importance of the matter, and
the justice of the English demand.
England's thoughts today will go out
IN sympathy and rejoicing to Miss
through her painful and trying ordeal
with that high and unfiinching spirit
which England expects in her daughters.
New Lifeboat Shown.
In the interesting exhibition of life
saving appliances now on view at the
White City, Shepherds Bush. there is
an exhibit from Bodmin. showing at
once new lifeboat and new method
Of lowering it. which is claimed by the
inventor to be safer and quicker than
any method at present in use.
The chief feature is that the boats are
not placed under davits, but are arranged
on rollers on the deck and are launched
by means OF a slip constructed in the
ships side, down which they run on roll
ers. Directly the boat reaches the water
| 1t is lifted and floats off. and as the boats
are not In any way attached to the deck,
should there not be time to launch all,
the others would float of themselves
when the ship sank.
The boats. which are decked and win
accommodate 100 persons each, have a
double keel which holds them to the
rollers. and would enable them to be
launched in safety. however great the list
OF the ship.
The exhibitor thinks that in the case OF
| vessel Of the size OF the Titanic the
provision OF four slips would mean the
reduction Of some 1000 tons IN the total
carrying capacity. On the other hand
he is convinced that the passengers
would be carried in much greater safety.
Tragic Love Affair.
A story Of a broken love affair and
suicide was told when Coroner Oddie held
an inquest on the body OF Miss Agnes
Butterfield, known on the stage as Kitty
Melrose. Miss Butterfield was found dead
at her fiat in st. Stephens Mansions.
Smith square.
Her last appearance on the stage was
at the Adelphi Theater. where she took
part in the Quaker Girl When found
she was lying with her head inside a gas
stove. She was twenty mine years Of age
Until Saturday she had been staying with
a friend at a London hotel, following q
visit to Paris. On that day she disap-
peared.
Mrs. Mabel Bryce, an actress. said that
they had recently been in Paris together
Miss Butterfield had been suffering from
2 nervous breakdown for some time. and
witness was aware that she had trouble
in love with a Mr.. Lawson-Johnston.
Martha Barnes, housekeeper at St
Stephens Mansions. said she found the
body Of Miss Butterfield In her fiat Mon
day morning. Several letters were found
i'm the room, one addressed to Mrs
Barnes inclosing twenty-fve-pound note
for her kindness