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Cjr r i ( X-- August 13 Uiilnmc J-'- Il - - y 4ijggfx P 0 full stride For the man who stalked In on heavy boots surmounted by pin strip trousers and a morning coat was not the itinerant bookie Charlie Robinson lawfully wedded husband of the green-eye- d Maudie He was Montague Noel Newton who if Sir Hari Singh can be regarded as a composite average audience should have been a Booth or a Mansfield In any case the royal knees began to and before the Maharaja’s eyes wobble -y was conjured up a scene of scandal and disgrace that might conceivably cost him his throne With quaking voice he asked whether there might not be some way of arranging things some settlement perhaps that would keep the ruddy affair out of court Newton stroked that moustache of his gave vent to his outraged of the journey to broaden his nephew in feelings and then with a sigh of anticipation of the day when he would replied that in view of the lift the cares of state from his own aping circumstances and the social prominence shoulders He thought it such a good of His Highness something perhaps idea as a matter of fact that he gave might be arranged the young Prince a drawing account of Newton took the Prince to William three million dollars to make sure he had Cooper Hobbs who with his luscious enough for dav to day expenses sideburns and dignified air looked more Not long after this Sir llari was inlike a lawyer than Charles Evans vited to put in a state appearance at Hughes and it was forthw ith arranged 'London's famed Victory Hall on Armisthat if Sir llari would be good enough tice Day 1010 There he met Mrs Robto write two checks for 150001) pounds inson ravishing in the styles of the day sterling each the whole distressing afin a diaphanous green costume cut to refair would be allowed to lapse semble the trappings of a grasshopper There the story might have ended but which incidentally helped to advertise a something made the Prince suspicious “Grasshopper Ointment’’ and before long he stopped payment on The Prince fell for Mrs Robinson like one of them The other went through the a ton of bricks — gold ones Captain ArMidland Bank and not until half a decthur the officer detailed to advise and ade later when Charlie Robinson protect the Prince went hook line and brought his amazing suit ijid the affair sinker for Mrs Robinson’s equally lovebreak into the limelight He charged Mrs Lillian Revan In ly companion that the institution had paid out the Jammnu and Kashmir there never was bulk of the $750000 to other persons anything like this! Two beautiful than himself — obviously others in the blonde sparkling eyed English ladies conspiracy — and he insisted that he obviously of the highest social strata alalone as rightful husband of Maudie India was entitled to the swag Only he called lowing two gentlemen from far-of- f to monopolize their time and each moit a balm for alienation of affection ment of their leisure To the The bank fought his claim of course was rlosr to Para-di- sc and the Britishgotornmenl played a Maharaia the set-usecand Captain Arthur role as well Sir By its censorship onded the motion Hari's name was kept out of it and he went round and round the world by They were rapturous weeks that followed as Sir llari Singh paid court to cable and telegraph only as “Mr A” unthe beautiful Maudic and Captain Artil one loquacious barrister dropped hm thur squired La Revan Then someone name by mistakehad a brilliant idea Why not spend The Midland Bank won its case and ( hristmas m Taris the city of light Robinson didn’t get his money The jury-alife and gaycty? a matter of fart exonerated this pair (This may be a good time to recall from a part in the conspiracy despite that in the legal proceedings that folevidence of Newton’s imposture Robinlowed so long afterward the “imson’s claim was that Newton and Hobbs promptu’’ trip to Paris thought up on had netted most of the proceeds the “spur of the moment’’ actually was Arthur the faithless British officer part of the deep-dye- d was arrested in Paris but proceedings plan The plotters had found it difficult to compromise the for his extradition were unsuccessful Prince and his lady love in the somewhat He was however prosecuted in a restricted confines of London) French court on the charge of receiving So off they went to Paris the four of part of the blackmail money and senthem for a day and a night of merrytenced to III months in jail Meanwhile making on Christmas Eve that ended at of coursp he had been drummed out of dawn w hen the couples- parted fn the The British Army When he was freed lobby of their hotel there was nothing for him but ignomi-nou- s It was just fi A M w hen they exile He sank into obscurity reached the expensive suite to In the meantime Sir Hari Singh had watch the sun rise over the returned to Kashmir a sadder and wiser d man His first wife whom he shielded enjoy the atmosphere as folks usually do in from scandal to the tune of $750000 Paris And then at 8 A M died and he married again then underthere came a sharp rap went a six months’ "purification of the on the door To the porsoul” in the fastnesses of his kingdom in preparation for his enthronement tal ran flinisily-rlaMaudic (“I thought it Now he's got that a salute was Lillian” she said a fabulous income a gold and marble later) and flung it wide palace a private army of 10000 men to admit with stalking and the precious knowledge that Captread as true to tain Charles W A Arthur is dead and buried no longer a stalking ghost to life a personificaremind him of the most expensive night tion of outraged husband as Sir of love in all the history of mankind llari had ever ”85 seen or heard of sMP' Here the plot begins to get into its Av y M vs2 “ O 1939 Ilis 1500000 Night of Love Turns Out To Be Costliest To Those Who W£ Co 1 1 e re t e cl From Him yes-ma- n x Hi r L The Raxli Sir llari Sts Singh at the Time He W as “Mr A” t I - w tm -- p Sf$ d iiii n ? UA £ A 1 V x V IV OO'V RruU ehfHrr Oiarlr ’ : IfcloTot AccS m saenjoy the lute of honor that is the privilege and prerogative only of him and five other gilded Inprinces of storied dia It is a not inconsiderable benison this respite from notoriety this conquest over those who plothas come so late to that ted his undoing ’’ Then has hardly been a day Mr A n - t By John Cahill LONDON took 20 years for him to do it but ”Mr A’1 is finally come out belated victor in the most famous blackmail battle of all time It took the passage of decades and a relentless fate to deal just rewards to those who set themselves the task of him from $1500000 as the price of a Paris night of love It took all these things to relieve Ilis W'hcii he could fully enjoy by the right of the beauty of a land about his IT heritage which the poet Moore sang in Lalla its Rookh a realm which embraces in epitomized heart the Vale of Kashmere y which is through history as that trans-ccndantl- sep-arati- Highness Bahadur beautiful if For Sir llari Singh had r past one and all w ho have had ever man any labored beneath this incubus know what it means to survive and those who tried to accomplish their downfall the Few who read with avid interest when Sir astounding revelations made in llari’s ease finally broke into printneed debacle his five alter 1'r’l years drabe reminded of the rharaeters in the fu-- I matis personae But as a lesson to re- Maharaja Hari Singhji autocratic ruler of Jammnu mi Kashmir in far-off India of a nemesis that had dogged him from callow South to mellowed maturity It took the ami disgrace of others to enable hrn t long last to enjoy to the full the Khri Beauty ami luxury of his fairy-tal- e pnl-je- e beneath the towering peaks of the he well to hi n hlai knmilers it ought and conthem to What happened count Himalayas lor lr it A in!a:-ii- the Ull Maharaia better trast their fate with that of the 1 shou r Singh who was the —the shorn lam!) — of London’s blackmail plot that d of Kashmir In passing 'he noted that he is out of pocket still to was ami perpetrated way hack in And it was he who had the last I uk’h a few weeks ago when another ln of the figures of importance in the artiaccd swindle departed this life one and impoverished in the West or uh wns tho m ()f Capt ta“7 kLo A Arthur tho Irishman de-- j ')’ British government as aiilc-Bnadviser to Sir llari whose 1111 'ill of silver for the sale of his trust 'l s never disclosed One by oiie -'-- I1 t 9 link the players in this sordid lVe for money who framed '"'ha's wealthiest and most pow-l"l tiUl in as mw ii Mvimlio h a rV (ij have partrtl ft 'nt Piotiiip p n W cn h pn-u- the of Kashmir has settled nioia ‘‘7 ulm" tus golden Ihl one better to buMnas-muc- h of perhaps 750ntH) (ton -as his iurome is perhaps Has been able 000 a year he probably the tune to forget this little loss no('aptain'Arthurwasa particularly the torious figure in the case because of manner in which he betrayed his trust the It was he who paved the way for Sir for their plans conspirator to lay he who unctuously Hari’s undoing nnd to shell out prevailed upon the potentate of a risk puble the run rather than At the scandal in the divorce courts time the Mahnjara was caught in a Paris hotel with a beautiful was already married voiing woman be of eii n greater (till Ihi re W' ie ntheis was Mrs Maude There importance at the Robinson in her early twenties stat and ryes whose flashing green tn'p Arthur 0r It " ’uTathuuVl Mono uesque beauty provided the lure When last heard of Mrs Robinson was sailing back to Europe from New York on the first available boat scraping up enough money to pay her own passage and avoid the stigma of deportation telling tho world at the same time that she was flat broke and sick of the Mr A case “Speaking of blackmail” she remarked "I have been undergoing a quiet form of blackmail all these years Everywhere I go people find out I was the woman in the Mr A ease and throw it in my fare” She added wistfully: “1 wonder how he looks today" There was this attractive woman's husband Charles E Robinson erstwhile lamdon bookmaker who broke the case wide open by suing the Midland Bank for paying nut to somebody else most of the money received from the Mahajara Robinson not so in the blackmail plot long ago went to jail in our own United States on charges of swindling an American munitions manufacturer out of $'10000 in the hackneyed old “wire tapping" confidence game There was William Cooper Hobbs a lawyer's clerk who turned fulLfledgcd attorney to play a sometimes amusing ami always incredible part in the conspiracy I'p he went to England’s grim Dartmoor Prison for a stretch Then there was Montague Noel Newton a former British army officer who posed as Mrs Robinson's husband at the final showdown in Paris who confessed to the conspiracy accusing all the others and who for turning stale's evidence was allowed to flee the country Mr and Mrs Robinson were officially of e xonei ated actually conspiring against the Maharaja but there never was any secret of the fact the lady'a virtue and reputation were valued by other parties in the case to Sir Han at $1500000 and it was Robinson himself who brought the ease to light by suing the bank and demanding the "hush money'’ that he claimed was his hy connubial right Kir Hari Singh got himself into his labyrinthine difficulties upon his first official visit to England after completing his studies at famed A j mere University known as the “Eton of the East” lie was the nephew of Kir Pratap Singh then Mahajara of Kashmir ruin of no independent kingdom of 21 5822i souland heir apparent to the throne His enlightened uncle was all in favor & 3- - e'S mt A J? 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