| Show story of a bribe to commit murder london august 18 A great sen bation has been created by the arrest ol 01 hugh watt a financier and formerly a member of parliament for the division ol 01 glasgow on the charge of attempting to procure a private detective to assist in the murder of hs former lifs detective marshall testified in a police court today that watt offered him if be would induce the woman to come to watts flat where he proposed to kill her by the administration of chloroform and then to remove the smell of chloroform with peppermint watt was remanded for trial on ball of tha police found both chloroform and peppermint in watts apartments watt was in the divorce court some years ago when his wife sued tor a divorce the respondent co being lady violet beauchamp daughter of the late lord and lady roden and the divorced wife of sir reginald beauchamp watt has sanca married lady violet beauchamp sanca the granting of the divorce watt and his former wife have been in the law courts regarding their marriage settlements and much has resulted from this litigation A couple of weeks ago the parties appeared in a police court watt charging his former wife with having assaulted and violently ejected him from her house where he said he went tor the purpose of trying to compromise their business disagreements |
