Stunning the Punters

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The evening ends with a new version of Dostoevsky’s The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, a gothic nightmare vision of an unwilling outcast who dreams of a caring community contaminated by his own presence. Beneath this stone lyes the body of Mary Maxwell, daughter to Lieutennant Colonel William Maxwell of Cardoness & spouse to Alexander Blair, Dunroad, who died April the 5th 1762 years in the fourty seventh year of her age, and left behind her the following surviving children Viz,: Nicolas, Agnes, Henrietta, Hugh, William & Jean Blairs, and those deceased are Mary, Grissal & Margaret. This stone erected by her husband in testimony of her memory, October 1762 & year of God foresaid. South). In memory of Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late Thomas Sproat in Brig house, and widow of the Rev’d Maitland Thomson of Aberdalgy, Perthshire, died at Gatehouse, 7th March 1862, aged 52 years. Also Alexander Sproat, their second son, who died at London, 17th June 1877, aged 77 years. Also his sons, Thomas Alexander Sproat, who died 1st November 1911, aged 80 years. And Gilbert Malcolm Sproat, who died at Victoria, British Columbia, 4th June 1913, aged 79 years. Sacred to the memory of Hugh Stewart Campbell, Commander of the ship ' Ranee' of Liverpool, who died at Louis, Mauritius, on the 1st of August 1851 in the 34th year of his age. For what is your life, it is even a vapour, that appeareth, for a little time and then vanisheth away. James IV Ch., and XIV. v. Reasoning behind her son's murder At the time of his death, Daisy de Melker's only son Rhodes Cowle was 20. His sister in law, Eileen De Melker, thought him lazy and remarked that he was often unwilling to get up for work in the morning. However, another witness at his mother's trial described him as "bright and conscientious" and a "real gentleman".[citation needed] Certainly the evidence conflicted, but none of it explained why Daisy de Melker decided to kill Rhodes. In the case of her first two husbands, the motive seemed clearly to be financial gain.

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In March 1909, about eighteen months after the death of Bert Fuller, Daisy Hancorn-Smith married William Alfred Cowle, a plumber, in Johannesburg. She was 23; he was 36. The couple had five children, four of whom died. The first were twins, who died in infancy; their third child died of an abscess on the liver; and the fourth suffered convulsions and bowel trouble and died at the age of 15 months. Their last, and only surviving child, Rhodes Cecil, was born in June 1911. He said: “He was strange. He was flamboyant in one sense. I have the impression he was actually quite a private man and quite a troubled man. I mean, he was intriguing. In 1993, a television mini-series was made about Daisy de Melker, with Susan Coetzer in the title role.[4]

Fact 17 - 1907: The 1907 Immigration Act was a series of reforms restricting the number of immigrants Fact 18 - 1921: The 1921 Emergency Quota Act and the Immigration Act of 1924 used a percentage system to restrict the number of immigrants from a given countryDaisy de Melker (aged 46 years) was condemned to death by hanging. The sentence was carried out on the morning of 30 December 1932 at Pretoria Central Prison.

Stay passenger. No farther seek his merit to disclose, or draw his frailties from their dread abode, there they alike in trembling hope repose, the bosom of his father and his God. Now reader step on, and remember judgement and eternity. J McTaggart. Daisy de Melker was born Daisy Hancorn-Smith in Seven Fountains in what was then the Cape Colony. She was one of eleven children. When she was twelve, Daisy went to Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to live with her father and two of her brothers. Three years later, she became a boarder at the Good Hope Seminary School in Cape Town. She returned to Rhodesia in 1903, but soon moved to the Colony of Natal and enrolled at the Berea Nursing Home in Durban. [ citation needed] Cynically suspecting a combination of egomania and cheap-skating, many critics tend to steer clear of the one-man shows which proliferate on the fringes of the Fringe. However, Stunning the Punters, a triple bill of world premieres by Steven Berkoff, Robert Sproat and Dostoevsky, performed by George Dillon, is a compelling piece of theatre: make haste to Marco’s Leisure Centre, dodging squash players and dubious smells to catch it. Robert Sproat’s Stunning the Punters has an ex-skinhead, after spraying racist graffiti, discovering from the cover-up that pretence speaks loudest. And in Dostoevsky’s Dream of a Ridiculous Man, adapted by Dillon and his director Laurence Boswell, a despairing philosopher dreams of a pre-lapserian world of innocence and beauty which his own savage sensuality corrupts until it, too, scorns his idealism. “ This is what we must fight against“, he says as they put him away for his own good, “ and I shall.” The De Melker trial lasted thirty days. Sixty witnesses were called for the Crown and less than half this number for the defense. To present the forensic evidence, the Crown employed the services of Dr. J.M. Watt, an expert toxicologist and Professor of Pharmacology at the Witwatersrand University. In summing up, before giving his verdict, the judge pointed out that the Crown had been unable to prove conclusively that Cowle and Sproat had died of strychnine poisoning. "It does not convince me, nor does it convict the accused," he said.[3]From what I remember of Robert he was a very highly intelligent person. He wasn’t an easy man to get close to and never mixed with the tenants. Rhodes Cowle had died of arsenic poisoning; The coffee flask held traces of arsenic; The accused had put the arsenic into the flask (‘I can see no escape from the conclusion that the accused put arsenic into the flask..,') on the Wednesday prior to Rhodes Cowle's death; and The defence of suicide was untenable. When the judge finally turned to pass sentence on Mrs De Melker, her face whitened, and for a moment all the strength seemed to leave her body. In loving memory of Lt. Colonel Alexander Blair, 6th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers, (Watson's Horse), Indian Armoured Corps, born 22nd November 1911, died 19th February 1959.

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Fact 10 - 1745: Bonnie Prince Charlie attempts to claim the British throne but is defeated at the Battle of Culloden Here lys the corps of Alexander Broun, who died in the 75th year of his age, the 21 day of June 1725. Each of the plays contained an astonishing range of characters. In Berkoff’s Master of Cafe Society, it’s the frustrated out-of-work actor munching and slurping his way through a ritualistic breakfast till one can smell the bacon and feel the clawing of greasy pan bread on the palate; the Neanderthal father, with his fag-soaked voice and inarticulate philistinism; the down-trodden, ever-so-proud-of-her-son mother; and a hideous parade of sleazy agents and actresses.