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ESCAPED CONVICT
CAPTURED.
HETRAYED BY A WOMAN.
FILM STAR.
MAX VINDER AND WIFE POISONED.
HOTEL DEATH PACT.
The famous French film actor and producer, Max Linder, and his wife were the central figures
KING'S SON.
DEAD IN SERBIAN WORKHOUSE.
UTTERLY DESTITUITEN
THE CHINA MAIL.
Milan Kristich, the son of the late King Milah of Serbia, has died in an Hungarian workhouse in a sensational discovery in atterly destiture. No relatives
THE EARLY BIRD.
EVE'S FIRST SEWING LESSON
A. TRADE. TO EDEN....
How did Adam and Eve learn to sew "broad, smooth leaves. together?'t
John Murphy, one of the two men who escaped from Penton- ville Prism on October 7 was
Sir John Bland Sutton (quoted recaptured at Plaistow, is up- Taris. pearance in the district was Arst
The couple were found wound-have so far claimed the body by the British Medical Jour notified to the police by a woman.ed in their room as the Hotel Kristich, who was forty years nul") suggested in a lecture Murphy came out of his hiding Baltimore, The Wife was dead, old, broke off all relations with at Liverpool that they may have but the husband, although un-his family in his boyhood and profited by watching the tailor to meet the, woman, They spent most of the evening together and conscious, was still living, and he
way saken to hospital in a critical set off to seek hard work abroad.bird spin ita thread and sew the had drinks a severul public condition.
His father, King Milan, prefer-edges of adjacent leaves together red the pleasures of Vienna night to form Its nest in the trees, of houses..
life, and this was the cause of the Garden of Eden.
is being toppled from his throne by his own people..
of
He told the woman most his movements, and confessed that he was now near the end of resources, but said that
his
friends in the districts round the docka were making a collection on his behalf.
Acting on information given by The woman Scotland-yard detec- lives began a careful search in the East End Murphy had just loft several of the places visited by detectives, but they learned that he had agreed to meet the friends who were to provide him with money..
The meeting had been arranged! al shop in Phoistow, and this district was surrounded by de- bectives.
street was wrowded with shop- pers that Murphy made his aße.
pravunce,
"He was recognised by one or
the desertives and niso bỳ woman who pointed at him and shouted dramatically.. There
gues the. Pentonville prisoner.
Murphy bolted down Prince's Street into Queen's Road, where he tried Be mount a biyele "standing outside & garage. The proprietor. however. rushed out and stopped him, and Murphy ran towards Carter Road Bridge.. closely followed by two detectives on bicycles, who soon arregted him.
A graphic account of the chase was given to a "Sunday Express”. representative" by a shopkeepor.
"Murphy came running down the road, she said. "followed by two detectives on bicycles. As Noon as they drew level with him. they jumped off their machines and flung themselves on him.. Murphy, who is a powerfully built man, hit out with both hands, and struggled violently but he was soon handcuffed."
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Max Linder succumbed later in the evening. Before dying he is said to have told his friend's that he had taken veronal and morphine.
when Mrs. Peters,
The tragedy was discovered mother of Mrs. Max Linder, telephoned to the hotel, and as she could not get reply in her daughter's rooms
Lecame suspicious..
She went to the hotel, and as he could get.no answer had the
doar forced,
Sir John was explaining that surgeons are still searching for King Milan had a liaison with the perfect stitching material for Greek beauty, and Kristich wounds, and said that plants, was born. The child was educated Insects, and animals had been by a Bulgarian notable, and so ransacked for the ideal material. long as his royal father was alive he had no trouble. Then King Milan died and made no provision ble, he added, that tendon. for for his illegitimate sob. The thread and thorn for needle mother disappeared and tho were the first sewing materials used by primitive man for clos- ing wounds.
A ghastly sight met the eyes of those who entered the bed-prince, was flung on his own room. Max Linder and his wife resources.
were lying on the bed in a great {. He began life as a stable boy,
NEW METHOD
The vibrations of the voice are carried to the brain of a “dsuf Inmate of the Centrul Institute, through her hand. Hur Angertips are placed on the drum drawn tightly over the mouth of the megaphone.
pool of blood. Arteries had been severed in the right wrist of both husband and wife, apparent ly with a very sharp razor, which was lying close by.
Murphy had in his pockets a number of newspaper cuttings A letter found in the room, relating to his escape.
written by Max Linder, is said to He was ticken to Plaistow indicate that the couple intended Police Station and later toto die together.
Pentonville,
became a trainer. and subse- quently a jockey. Unfortunately his tendency to increase in weight made him unfit for his new job, and he had to fall back on horse training.
Then he became a waiter. In a Vienna night club, and in turn a concert singer, a sleeping-car con-
Max Linder was regarded as ductor in an Orient express, and Murphy had been at large the best, and he was certainly the Finally a novelist. longer than any other prisoner highest paid, of French film His book pictured the life who has escaped from Penton-actors.Exchange." ville.
Two other men. Sydney Morris Marks and Arthur Bacon, who escaped from Pentonville twelve days after Murphy and Shepherd, are still at large.
It was by no means improba
There was no material used by tailer or cobbler which had not been of service to surgeons for stitching wounds..
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