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KILLED BY GOLF
BALL.
BANK BUILDINGS. LLOYD'S IMPREGNABLE STRONG ROOMS.
CHICAGO GANGSTERS "WHO'S WHO."
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
Opening Daily Official Quotations 17th Sept., 1930.
Claim Against Owner of Course.
ĭ
A claim by Hugh Lawrie,
Junction Street, Great
Leith, against the Earl of Wemyss for £600 damages in respect of the death of his daughter, Christina Dickson Lawrie, was dismissed in the Court of Session.
Notables Trembling in Their Shoes,
STOCK
Tany-Sall-
Sales Not 71.
DIB en
1000
Last dividend and when paid
Banka.
Hong Kong Bank......$ (1825 1886 1520 Chartered Bank...
Mercanie Bk.. Aab..
c. Z
Chicago, August 17. A number of judges and other prominent persons of Chicago are alleged, to be trembling in their shoes as a result of the discovery in the safe deposit of a sensational Canon I$1000 who's who of graft consisting of
Bank of Asia $
Іпостасев.
Union Ins. -----$450 China Underwriters...$ 2.80
China Fire Ins... 400
V
The new head office and City office of Lloyds Bank; which has been erected with frontages to Lombard Street, is an imposing building, containing many Interesting fes turos. Every effort has been made to make the most of the space avall- able, and while the parapet of the toof rises 106/t. above the street level the basements, which are on three levels, descend about 50ft.
The ground floor of the building contains the banking hall, with a bronze grille of horseshoe shap for books in which the gangland leader, Jack Zuta, who was murdered by the cashiers. The counter for the Miss Lawrle 'was struck on, the cashiers la cut off from the rest of follow gangsters, has recorded week- Longniddry golf course by a golf the building, and only cashiers williy payments of thousands of pounds
as protection money to many public H. K. Fice Ins......$1000 officials and policemen. The records
Shipping. ball in July, 1929, and died the same be admitted to it. A lift from the
cover fifteen years, in which Zuta night, and the pursuer claimed dam-strong room below will carry money in steel bins to each cashier, while
rose from an obscure gangster to the ages on the ground that it was the a travelling belt under the counter
position of leading Chicago duty of Earl Wemyss. who is the will be used to carry cheques and
racketeer. `proprietor of the course, to protect papers from the cashiers to the ma- members of the public from the chine room in the basement. danger of flying golf balls. The cashier will have a telewriter ma- chine to the accounts department on pursuer admitted that the ground in the floor below and will thus be able question was fenced off from the
to make his inquiries without any public road, but he said that there risk of hurting a client's feelings. were two wicket-gates in the fence In the floor near the entrance to the giving access to the eleventh teeing cashiers' department is a large ground and hole and to the seashore bronze mosaic slowing the dark bayond it. It was through one of horse and the beehive, the emblems these wicket-gates that Miss Lawrie of the bank, while on the main stair- had entered the ground on the day
case is the War memorial. of her death.
- Giving judgment, Lord Fleming said the pursuer's counsel founded upon the existence of these gates, but he (the Judge) could not think entitled to that the public were assume that a proprietor who had fenced off ground gave them implied permission to enter upon his landa because he left unlocked gates in the fence.
After all,
to enter upon land without permission from the owner or occupier was prima facie an illegal act, and it was not essential for the proprietor to warn the public of Its illegality.
POLICE DEBATES.
SUGGESTION FOR FIGHTING CRIME.
Debating societies for young policemen, in which crime problems could be thrashed out in the Parlia- mentary fashion, were advocated as a training device by recently Lieutenant-colonel W. D. Allan, the Government Inspector of Constabul- ary for Scotland.
Urging greater co-operation amang superior officers for the in- vestigation of crime, his report 2nys:
Each
the
The ground floor contains treasury department, and there is an alleyway wide enough to admit a lorry close to a lift, down which its contents can be unloaded to the strong
The securities de- partment also has its special lift down to its own strong room.
rooms.
Each door
The basements are exceptionally interesting. They contain strong rooms with walls and ceilings Sft. thick, composed of granite concrete blocks, and have an area of 240,000 cubic feet, with a floor space of 20,000 square feet. weighs 11 tons and has two com- bination locks. An ingenious de- vice, the Invention of a member of the staff of the premises depart- ment, fitted to these doors makes it impossible for a second person to see how the combination is set. The opening of the door sets in operation the apparatus for ventilating the strong room, while closing it auto- matically cuts off the electric light. Each gate in the patrol corridor has two locks, and to enter a strong room six different keys have to be used.
STRANGE DISEASE.
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According to the police. the en- tries which contain "a lot of hot stuff and the names of big fellows," show that Zuta had paid £20,000, one week's graft, in connection with A greyhound racing track. The documents also reveal that a number of agents employed on reform com- Kailan Mining Ad, s mittees and special criminal investi-Langkat gators had figured in Zuta's pay s'bal Exploration...Th. 1.30
roll.
Mining. Benguel......
At one of the big London stores, Rauba a fussy old woman badgered the assistant for about an hour without
making a purchase from the numer- ous fabrics presented to her.
"On the whole," said the woman, "You certainly do, madam," said "I think I want muslin.” the assistant heartily.
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Tim: "Sarer Smith (you know 'er-Bili's missus), she throwed her- self horf the end uv the wharf larat night.
Tom: "Orf the end uy the wharf? Poor Saror!"
Tim: "An' a cop fished 'er hout again."
Tom: "Poor Bill!"
EXCHANGES.
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.
On London-
1/8 9/16 Bank, wire. Bank, on demand... 1/3 9/16 Bank, 4 months' sight 1/8 11/16 Credits. 4 months
sight
"In the investigation of crime, I strongly
that there
Credita, recommend
sight should be more consultation be tween superior officers, especially those of the detective branch,
"Police energy should be concen- trated on the development of specd in the circulation of information and the despatch of personnel, as these are of primary importance to secure that element of surprise which is necessary to deal with certain classes of criminals."
Certain types of crime in waves, and because infectious-especially if successful and if there was some- thing novel about their method
- The Criminal Can Choose. "Sudden raids on shops and coun- try houses presented great difficul- ties to the police, as criminals, by using motorcars, can choose a point of attack where the defence was yeakest,
Therefore the inspector emphas- ises the Importance of close co- operation between the public and
London, August 18. A disease which was said to have baffled thirty years of research engaged the attention of the St. Sir Walter Coroner
'On Bombay- Pancras Schroder, at an inquest on a girl of Wire
months, who died while On demand fteen
On Calcutta- under an anaesthetic.
Wire On demand
Sir Bernard Spilsbury gave evid- ence that the disease was a swelling of certain organs which could not be discovered during life and made an anaesthetic very dangerous, but that nothing more was known.
"It is a condition that cannot be guarded against," remarked the Coroner. "All the skill and advance of science at prosent has not been able to find out the condition befors death." ...
"
A verdict of death through'mis- adventure was recorded.
RAPHAEL BOUGHT FOR A SONG.
Geneva, July 17. The Florentine Art Academy sent the police, aided by a well-distribut two commissions of experts, beaded motor by Professors Sabatini and Petroni, ed telephonic system and
to Vevey, near Lausanne, in order transport.
Lieut.-Colonel Allan is of opinion to examine a painting attributed to that more use could be made of de Raphael recently discovered by a bating societies for police training. Swiss cinema owner hained Colon- especially in the large centres. He naz, who bought it for a song.. points out:-
ed
The Italian experts who examin- the picture, agreed that
it was an authentic work of Raphael. Professor Babatini estimates that the painting is worth at Janst £160,000.-
"In this way the beat methods of tackling all classes of serious crime could be discussed by all ranks, and, by Inter-society debate, representa tives of nalghbouring forces would
The picture, before being exhibit- be brought together for the ex- change of experiences and jointed in London and New York, will consideration of the many problema be examined again by three experts which are common to all forces to confirm its authenticity.
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