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"CLEVEREST" FORGER PRISON FOR LODGE COAL
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IN SOUTH AFRICA
DESCRIBED AS THE "MOST WON-
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AN EX-OFFICER
ODDFELLOW EXECUTIVE GETS 12 MONTHS
He is Walter Edward Liebetroux -the "most wonderful penman" in the 40 years' experience of Mr. A. S. Benson, handwriting expert whose natural gifts permit him to write three different "hands" and to reproduce faultlessly any signature, either by tracing or a freehand..
· FORGERY PROVED
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INSTEAD OF DIAMONDS
REGISTERED POST
SURPRISE SUBSTITUTION IN £9,000 THEFT
LONDON FIRM'S LOSS"
Messrs. Harry Morser and Co., of The jewels were despatched by Hatton-square.
A member of the firm told a
The cleverest forger in the After having had his trial post- An amazing theft of diamonds criminal history of South Africa poned to allow him to attend the worth £9,000, which, were sent has been sent to prison for five funeral of his child, Douglas from London to Tunis on Decem- years at the Rand Criminal Sea-Griffiths (83), pleaded "Gulity" at ber 1, came to light recently. sions.
Lewes Assizes to charges of for-} When the parcel reached Tunis officer of the Royal it was discovered that small pieces gery as an Adelaide Lodge of Oddfellows at of coal had been substituted for sentenced to the diamonds. Hastings, and was twelve months' hard labour,
It was alleged that Griffiths drew cheques amounting to $170 for den- tal benefits which were never given. Accused, it was stated, had been lieutenant in the Army. He was newspaper representative that the convicted at Market Harborough of, stones were sent off by registered He was found guilty of forging aling money while employed at post, packed in the usual card- seventeen cheques, seven applicathe Ministry of Labour, and of em- board box with wadding. tions for cheque books and one bezzlement in the Congo, in conse for the return of used cheques of quence of which he was removed city banks. The
with from the Army. whom he lived was convicted on one count of uttering A forged Implement and of the theft of a cheque. On thie latter charge Liebetroux was also found guilty.
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"You are a clever forger, and from the evidence it is clear that for the last four months you were a professional forger," said Mr. Justice Tindall to
Liebetroux.
"You are a danger to the com- munity, and the only thing to do to you is to send you away for a long period. The sentence la five years hard labour."
AFGHANISTAN
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"They did not arrive to time, and beyond that we do not know what happened," he added.
It is understood that the substi- tution was found out in Tunis, the theft being immediately notified to Messrs. Morser, who in- formed the postal authorities and Scotland Yard.
The authorities are convinced that the exchange was offested in New Delhi, Yesterday, Paris. It is certain that the It is announced that the Royal, packet. left this country intact. Air Force has evacuated altogether Mr. Morser himself is at present 132 persons by air from Kabul. In Paris inquiring into the loss, An aeroplane yesterday flow from and inquiries are also being pur- Peshawar to Kabul and back with sued by insurance companies both malis as all telegraphs to Afghanis in London and France.
The substitution by expert tan have been out. Permission has! been given for a weekly air mail, thieves of coal for, diamonds has
been frequently carried out.
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No further news has been re-
The woman was sentenced to six months' hard labour. The jury had stated that they considered her Liebetroux's tool, and the Judge said that he took that into, celved of the fighting in Afghanis consideration. She smiled broadly tan, except that the rebels appear to when sentence was passed, The
retain the superior position in the¦ jury found her not guilty of the attack near Kabul-Reuter. other twenty-eight counts of for- gery and uttering on which sho was jointly charged with Lei- betroux.
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Hankow, Yesterday. The anti-Japanese situation is growing more serious, Following the reported beating up by Japanese Marines of one of the Chinese dis The result of a raid, made at No.tributors of leaflets arrested yes 44, Nam Chong-street on Dec. 27, terday, (alleged to be the brother led to the appearance of a woman, of the coolie killed by the Japanese at the Kowloon Magistracy yester- naval cyclist patrol), officials of the day on a charge of being in posses-Bureau of Foreign Affairs and of sion of two revolvers and ten rounds the Japanese Consulate have been continually in conference with re- of ammunition,
After evidence was given by De-gard to the situation. pistols, one revolver, seven maga-tective Sergeant O'Donovan, Mr. Meanwhile, the anti-Japanese zines and 800 rounds of ammunition E. W. Hamilton, the magistrate, said agitation is increasing. The mob was convicted and a fine of $1,000 that the woman was no doubt an ac-¡ Beems to be working up to a frenzy
A Chinese passenger from America, who was charged at the Kowloon Magistrasy yesterday with being in possession of two Luger
or 18 months' hard labour in de fault, was imposed.
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Nanchang, K., Dec, 29, Mias Gertrude Howe, for 56 years a missionary in the Yangtze Valley, passed peacefully away at the home of Dr. Ids Kahn, ber adopted daughter, about seven o'clock this morning. On the 26th she had been taken with a fainting spell, but apparently was recovering, and the end came quite unexpectedly, A service was held an, and she came to China in 1872. įying is still living; he was the first this afternoon in the Women's and Except for two years in Szechuan Klangsiéturned student and has Children's Hospital Chapel, but she had spent all her time in held many important posts. arrangements fer burial have not Kiangel, first in Kluklang and then! During the Period of Communism. been made and the regular funeral in Nanchang, She started the In 1904, 24 years ago, Miss Hows service will not be held until then Rullson High School at Kinklang 65 came to Nanchang with Dr. Kahn, ago, but her peculiar and and has since that time worked This afternoon's service, entirely years in Chinese, was very simple and remarkable contribution was in the with her in building up the Women's very Impressive. The Chinese cofin children she adopted and educated and Children's Hospital, which is was placed in the centre of the Dr. Ida Kahn of Nanchang and Dr. known everywhere as "Dr. Kahn's platform and at the back of the Mary Stone of Shanghai were Hospital." During the last two platform, on either side at the foot among the very first Chinese women years of fighting, anti-foreign mained In Nanchang, the only of the coffin, in their mourning to be educated abroad and their agitation and communism the re-
拉 ploneering modern
Protestant missionary during part drees of white sackcloth, knalt her service
adopted daughters, Dr. Ida Kahn medical practice cannot be over of that time to stay in the city.
and Mrs. Julia Cheng. There were estimated. Mre Hwang Yung, she was, until a few years ago, no flowers, but wreaths of ever- liang, wife of the former minister alert and active, and it has been the green were placed about the coffin to Austria, a woman" of influence regret of all who have known her and in the windows. The service now residing in Tientsin, is another only in these later years that they of Bopy and prayer was led by the of her daughters. Mrs. Julia Cheng could not have knowit her in her Rev. S. C. Wang who also paid, has served the church effectively young daysNO. D.-N." corres tribute to her record of remark for many years as an evangelist, and able accomplishment in her more youngest of her than half canbury of servi
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