Evening Standard from London, Greater London, England • 5

EVENING STANDARD AND ST JAMES'S GAZETTE AUGUST 1 5 STOCKBROKER'S SUICIDE COMEDIAN'S WILL OFF TO THE POLE FOUND MR CUT IN LEAVES WITH HIS THROAT BATH EDMUND OVER PAYNE £21000 SIR SHACKLETON'3 SHIP LEAVES THIS MORNING of another section and Mr Macaulay shore party cook "Captain Orde Lees will see to the motor-sledges and Mr George Marston will attend to the nothing and genera: equipment Lieutenant Jeffrey will be in command of our second ship the Aurora now lying at Hobart Mid Mr Hurley who was with Sir Douglas Mawson will accompany the expedition" as cinematograph photographer It may be interesting to mention that out of about thirty-two men there are eleven Irishmen on board the Endurance The shore party numler fifteen and there are seventeen in the ship's company We shall remain between two and three weeks at Buenos Ayres re-stowing the ship so as to have the gear ready for potting on the ice when we arrive in the Weddell Sea At Buenos Ayres we shall take on board the dois and motors sent out bv mail SCENE AT THE DOCKS A verdict of Suicide during Temporary Insanity was returned at Westminster to-day concerning the death of Mr Robert Victor Leveson forty a stockbroker who committed suicide yesterday afternoon by cutting his throat in his bath at Queen Anne's Mansions Westminster The evidence showed that Leveson had no troubles of any kind financial or otherwise and that he was quite cheerful when he dined with a friend at the Savoy on Thursday night He had never threatened his life It was suggested that the orderlv condition QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S FAREWELL MESSAGE steamer and there the remaining mem bers of the expedition will join the Endurance Gramophones Books and Sweets Jgi his room showed that he was seized with a sudden impulse to kill himself We hope to reach the Weddell Sea early in December and then we will make for one of the most southerly points prohably King Leopold's Land A party of picked men will then proceed on the Polar journey while the ship's party is building a hut at the Weddell Sea base In the bleak Southern regions we shall try to make ourselves as much at home as possible The Gramophone Company have very kindly given us two gramophones and a supply of records for each of the shore parties We had an offer of a pianola but could not spare the space on board We are however Doctor's Evidence Dr Herbert Whale said he saw Mr Leveson on Thursday night He did not then say anything about taking hie life A few days previously he wanted a tonic for his nerves He did not then complain of insomnia but said that he slept readily but woke too early He was given medicine to steady his nerves and induce sleep The coroner (Mr Ingleby Oddie) in summing up said he thought the evidence showed that Mr Leveson was an impulsive man It might have been that he was contemplating the terrible state of things which would ensue in the event of an outbreak of a European war which would very seriously affect him as a stockbroker And he probably thought: "I may as well end it all" and without taking into account his sound financi position he cut his throat in a moment of frenzy Mr Edmund foam Payne of Mimms West-heath-avenue Golders Green NW the well-known Gaiety comedian who died on July 1 aged forty-nine left £21667 Captain Henry Wilkes Notman of Cholmley Lodge West Hampstead lately managing director of the South Indian Railway Company (Limited) and of the Pondicheri Kail-way Company (Limited) who died on April 20 aged eighty left estate of the gross value of £11)6451 of which £89140 is net personalty His bequests included £250 each to Akxan li Strachan Albert Chambers Job Newoory and Henry A Dupuy employees of the London office of the South Indian Railway Company with whom he had been associated for many years Mr Edwin Leadbeater of Sheffield steel and file manufacturer of the firm of Leadbeater and Scott who died on June 9 aged seveitv-four left estate of the gross value of £22S7d of which £20380 is net personalty Mr Francis William Mortimer of Swansea who died on June 28 left estate of the grosi value of £18106 of which £15831 is net personalty Mr Joseph Warwick of Debden Green Loughton Essex and of Centra! Meat Markets EG meat salesman who died on May 20 aged seventy-one left estate of the gross value of £55905 of which £43714 is net personalty Miss Kate Ann Foster Morgan of Thicket-road Anerley who died on May 17 left £50405 Brigade-surgeon Charles Maekinnon of Eastbourne an Indian Mutiny veteran who died on July 11 left unsettled estate value £21793 Miss Catherine Gillett of Banbury who died on May 26 aged seventy-three left 'estate of the gross value of £15716' of which £1:3207 is net personalty Mr John Brownless of Whorlton Grange Barnard Castle Durham a director of gas and water companies who died April 15 aged eighty-four left estate of the gross value of £94975 of which £47936 is net personalty Sir John Edward Gray Hill of Mere Hall Oxton Birkenhead and of Liverpool solicitor of the firm of Hill Dickinson and Co president of the Lav Society 1903-4 who died on June 19 aged seventy-four left estate of the gross value of £10433 "Evening Standard" Speoial From London this morning the Antarctic exploration vessel the Endurance began its journey to the South Pole Sir Ernest Shackleton will accompany her as far as Eastbourne but will remain in England till September 15 when he intends to proceed to Buenos Ayres Ihe following telegram was received from Queen Alexandr? I am curious to tell you how much I am thinking of you and tue officers and men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition upon the eve of your departure from England I know that it must be a sad parting for all of you who are leaving their nearest and dearest but we shall follow you with our thoughts and I pray that the Almighty will ave you in His gracious keeping and will guide and guard you through hardships and perils I wish you from my heart all possible success God-speed and a safe return ALEXANDRA In an interview which we publish below Sir Ernest explains his great enterprise BOY'S FALL FROM ROOF taking as part of our equipment a sewing machine which will be very useful at the Weddell Sea base Several of the publishers have generously supplied the ship's library with books At the moment we are rather short of magazine reading but this drawback may be got over before we leave Plymouth A sweet tooth is I might mention rather a weakness with Polar explorers so we are taking with us a liberal supply of sweets Motor Sledge Problem The programme of sledge work will depend entirely on the conditions met with in the Antarctic as regards ice-surface and weatlier From the results we achieved with the motor-sledges in Norway we are hopeful that Uiey will prove very useful to us But the tests made exhaustive as they were would not justify us in basing our calculations precisely on what motor-sledges will do We know what men and dogs can do but we do not quite know yet what motors can do especially in the severe conditions of the Antarctic Only the test of practical experience in travelling in the polar regions can The terrible death of a boy named William John Mills eight years of age son of a carman living at Oak-lane Bermondsey was inquired into to-day at the Southwark Coroner's Court On Wednesday afternoon it was stated he was playing on the flat roof of a house in Bermondsey He jumped on to the coping and was dancing about when he fell over He struck the railing round the area over forty feet below THE SEND-OFF KILTED PIPER PLAYS WHILE THE CROWDS CHEER King Constantino of Greece celebrates his forty-sixth birthday to-morrow Henry Sullivan the American long-distance Promptly at 930 the Endurance blew her whistle and in brilliant sunshine steamed swimmer ot Lowell Mass has arrived at Dover for the purpose of making his second attempt to swim across the Chancel The holiday programme at the West End Cinema Coventry-street for next week includes two very pleasing films One of our Girls shows the trials and tramps of a filing girl Another film The Eeauties of France" is extremely attractive The competition for the King's Silver Cup for tmm shooting in the Isle of Wight open to the Royal Eusiliers and National Reserves has been indefinitely postponed show how far motor traction is a possibility in exploration work there All who have had any experience of men haulage will fervently hope that the motors will prove a success As Teeards the dogs they are getting into fine condition and when we bave them on the ice a few days of exerci will put them in excellent trim for travelling They will receive the greatest care during the winter months for it is practically on them that the chief hones of the expedition rest We wiil take about eighty-five dogs with us and the LICENSED VEHICLE WORKERS' ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION (Affiliated to the AAA) FIFTH ANNUAL rest will probably go to the Aurora party Meteorological Investigations Our other ship the Aurora will leave I Hobart toward the end of the year for the from Blackwall whither she had arrived a fow minutes earlier from her moorings in the South-West India Dock Salvos of cheers rose from the hundreds who had assembled to bid the little vessel God-speed while the adjacent ships gave a prolonged parting whistle Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew waved their hats in acknowledgment and as vessel after vessel saluted the Polar Vikings the Endurance dipped her flag in response Meanwhile a kilted Highland piper marched up and down the deck and made the pibroch ring to the satisfaction of every Scotsman aboard or ashore Three cheers for Blackwall" shouted Mr Frank Wild second in command and everyone except the piper who was busily skirling "Scots Wae Hae" responded lustily Are you going near Chili Sir Ernest? interrogated a lady friend shrilly "No but it's chilly enough where we're going" yelled back the commander The last stores taken in at Blackwall were some plum puddings and cakes sailing under "sealed orders" till next Christinas Many Teddy-bears and other mascots are going southward but the most treasured is an original bottle of Bass's beer which accompanied Nares to and from the Arctic in the 'seventies GALA ATHLETIC SPOUTS Bow Sea in the Antarctic There a party of about four picked men will go forward to establish depflts of supplies and they hope I to meet my party near the top of Beardmore Glacier Our entire staff numbers about sixty men I and needless to say the equipping aud pro- 'Under A A A and NCU Laws In aid of the Licensed Vehicle Workers' Benevolent Society 30 Brixtan Koid 8W CHELSEA FOOTBALL GROUND Stamford Bridge BANK HOLIDAY Monday Aug 3 1914 GOOD SPORTS AMUSEMENTS £200 IN PRIZES visionrng ot tnese men ior iwo years represents a substantial item of finance But everything is now ready and if all goes well we should be heard of early next summer and be back in England about twelve or fourteen months later I may add that throughout our Antarctic journey continuous magnetic and other observations will be taken We hope not only to add to geographical science but by carefully noting meteorological conditions to solve many of our own weather problems" SIR ERNEST'S VIEWS CRICKETER'S TRAGIC FATE HOPES REST OF ON THE THE PARTY DOGS ALBERT THE SUICIDE OF TROTT BRITISH IMPERIAL MILITARY BAND HAS BEEN SPECIALLY ENGAGED LEWO'S TROUPE OF CLOWNS OPEN EVENTS 100 YARDS SPRINT HANDICAP 220 YARDS RUNNING HANDICAP QUARTER-MILE RUNNING HANDICAP HALF-MILE RUNNING HANDICAP ONE MILE RUNNING HANDICAP TWO MILES WALKING HANDICAP HALF-MILE CYCLE HANDICAP ONE MILE CYCLE HANDICAP THREE MILES CYCLE HANDICAP Three MaM in each event -1st l'risc value £5 2nd Prize value £2 10a 3rd Prie valu £1 The Club Willi largest entry fur Oui' Mile KunuiiifT Handicap first man home receive Uold Medal TUG-OF-WAR FOR TROPHY VALUE 15 GUINEAS Presented the Dynamic Tvre ParisV Oold MeJaU for Winners and Oold-Ontre Medals for Uunners-tip To be won three times Teams of 9 men 110 6tone Open to business hou Present holders Hither (Ireen Sidings (SE 0 Railway) EVENTS TRADE Di I'm an 1 Conductors Garge Employe all Cab open The following events Keepers ami Attendants A verdict of Suicide During Temporary Insanity was returned at Kilburn to-day at the inquest on Albert Edward Trott the famous Anglo-Aus' ralhin cricketer who was found shot in his lodgings at Denbigh-street llarh s-den on Thursday His landlady stated that Trott had been her lodger for two and a half years His health was bad and he suffered from sleeple On Thursday morning he told her he had not slept all night and he sent for a sleeping draught Which however the chonii-t refund to mtvc While she was standing at the front door she heard a noise and on going to his Toom found him on his bs lying on his Imek with a bullet wound in his right temple und a revolver in his hand He had ncvor threatened to commit suicide (thl witness added) On a scrip of paper found in his room he had written Draw rt and wardrobe to Mrs photos und drawers for Mrs Clark-streot Viet ru Australia" Dr Carson Smith said Trott inflated from dropsy which would MOM ikMpUliM I and consequently great depression Tie' lo ral will take place on Wcdiv 1 i cemetery at four o'clock It is under tood that the MCC arc defraying tho expenses 100 YARDS VETERANS' RUNNING HANDICAP (OVM 45 years of ago) I am going with the Endurance as far as Eastbourne" said Sir Ernest Shackleton to one of our representatives this morning She will proceed down stream and caSt anchor at a point between Southend and Margate where flic will remain till Monday afternoon On tlio following morning she will reach East-bourn and after staying there for the day lh "11 go direct to Plymouth instead of calling at Cowes now that the King is not able to attend the Regatta Tho Endurance will sail from Plymouth noon next Saturday for Buenos Ayres where jne will arrive about the end of September or the first week in October On tho outward jpmey she wiH probably call at South rnuty Island where a party of our scientists will have an opportunity of collecting some interesting material On September 15 I shall liv" England by mail steamer with the re-triauiing members of the shore party who till wa will be busily engaged here in important Scientific work Enthusiastic Body of Men 'He expedition ever left this country I wlUl a fl'ior body of enthusiastic wiows than 1 shall have at my disposal and i Know they will all give a good account of Mr Frank rtld is of course "'I command and among the chief the PKrtjr are Mt Studd pro-" Davis biologist Dr Toy surgeon Dr Macklin surgeon Mr hi principal magncUciun Mr Word! I Mr Clean in harpe of the lieMtonmit Mackintosh who will be I UK IBM Sea base Lieutenant Lu' ''jmrw of OM section of "wiunant Courtney lirockleuurst in charge ONE MILE RUNNIXO HAN MSA? MMMM Teams from all flarajfM 10 men 1 X) stone 0WMER DRIVERS' 100 YARDS VIM IK NANMCU 0WNER4R1VE8I' S3 YARJJ BUHKT 0' HkltM RACE 100 YARDS HINT HANDICAP 440 YARDS RUNNINB HANDICAP 100 YARDS SCRATCH RACE (Cab Drlvar aaly) RELAY RACE (ojnti to to im 0 tH-j i mm tricing at any Cil Bu or Tran 8iraga distanaa 1 miles (' mil ran V't mile walk 'A mil rax) Gold Medals for Winners Entrance Tee J- tcli Um Entries to all the above evrn's positively close Tuly 27th Fntratieis Fee 1'- esrh evont Three ValuabU 1'i iies will be given for -eh event OBSTACLE RACES LADIES' RACES BITS1 RACES 8IRLS' RACES SACK RACES TttROWINO THE CRICKET BALL TYRE-FITTIN3 COMPETITION (Opan to any Drlvar or Baraga np oe Entries for tliese events will be rl Kflrad tj tbe QWt ol I ur minutes before time of race Entrance Kee 1- en event an I Uirls 6d BUM li ii RefrPn Handicapprrs nfnYinls appointed by tbe AAA and NCI' Officials Admission 6d to 5s Uruel St nil 1 mil Open al 1 i ion TI IK ITS) im i'l'lmg Adiui: The Prince of Wales has tMONM an honorary life member of the Hoyul Au'einelo'e Chib Dr A Glass has been appointed chief assistant school modieal ollicci to the Durham Education Committee nee at 1245 prompt KS'llK BOMBLL Maiugor.