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大英六月二十, 禮拜六 中華民國辛未年五月初五日
HONG KONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1931.
EDDIE GUREIN GETS DRUG LIMITATION
THREE YEARS,
Man Who Escaped from Devil's Island.
STUNNED BY SENTENCE.
COMMITTEE.
Franco-Japanese Plan Adopted.
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Geneva, Yesterday. " The following is the latest list The committee of the world of subscriptions' to the Navy conference on the limitation of the, manufacture of narcotics fin-League's Poseidon Fund sent to ally adopted by 14 votes to 2 with us for publication by the Navy six abstentions, the Franco- League- Japanese proposal as a basis of discussion.
Eddie Guerin, the man who has figured in crimes which have echoed throughout the world, who escaped from Devil's Island, was associated with the notori- ous "Chicago May," and was shot at and wounded in a Lon- don street many years ago, hás been sentenced at the Old Sir Malcolm Delevingne (Great Bailey to three years' penal ser- Britain) in opposing the proposal vitude on charges of receiving a inadequate, said that the pro- book of travellers' cheques and posal lays down certain annual of uttering two of the cheques.
totals of drugs which no manu- Guerin, now a man over facturing country must exceed, seventy years of age, appeared to including domestic and export re- be stunned by the sentence, and quirements based on orders re- for some minutes he stood in the¦ceived.-Reuter. dock lost in thought. Then, as a warder touched him on the shoul- FLIGHT TO DENMARK Hong Kong Amusements.
der he had one long, last look around the crowded court, «and then stumbled down the stairs to the cells below. He seemed a broken man, taking his last look
at the outside world.
A detective watched him as he tottered down the stairs to the cells, with eyes raised to catch every last possible glimpse of
free. people who were
The world had closed its door on Guerin.
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Hasbrouck Heights, N.J.,
Yesterday, The Danish airmen, Captain J. & C. Guerin, with a shaking finger, Holger Holris and Otto Hillig E: C. Gray pointed at the judge, had almost took off for Harbour Grace to-Staff-Lowe,
J. Stuart cried in a broken voice when ask-day on the first lap of their fight ed if he had anything to say, a to Denmark-Reuter's American few moments before, and with Service. the pronouncement of the sen tence came the collapse.
"I am absolutely innocent," he cried, "I have been persecuted and never given a chance."
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Whilst boarding, the 8.8. Hai J. W. Franks Ching, which is berthed at the GS.H.J. Douglas Wharf, a coolie, Hiu Ying-Capt. H. H. W. Oliver me, accidentally fell from the Stoff-Anderson. Meyer It was a contrast with the man gangway into the water.
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C.L.F. throughout the trial lasting into shoulders, and was taken to the E. Walker the second day. He stood erect Government Civil Hospital for W. B. Patey for his age, a tall man, of gentle-treatment. manly demeanour. His jaw was Lo Ching (49); a hawker, of 9, pronounced and powerful, and Chung Sau Lane, is stated to have by his nonchalance after all the cut his forehead when he fell into sensational events through which the harbour from the Praya wall he has passed one imagined that near the Ping On Wharf. He was he had nerves of iron. !!
also removed, to hospital. Detective Sergeant Wheeler told the judge that Guerin came under the notice of the police in 1887, when he was sen tenced to three months' hard labour at the Mansion House as a suspected person. Two years later he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment at Lyons for larceny.
Rev. A. Swarn F.H. Wm M.L Whitley Firdos Khan W. C. Bird
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convicts set out on
a 200-mile voyage in a dug-out canoe for Dutch Guiana,
His companions, two days after Anonb the escape, wished to return ! A.P.B. rather than die at sea, but Guerin forced them at the revolver point to row for three days and three. nights to land. Sergeant He eventually returned to London and again" met "Chicago May," who betrayed him to the police in 1907, when he was ar "STAR" FERRY APPROACH. rested at the request of the French authorities. After near-
When the Common Sergeant heard Detective Wheeler read out this sentence he interposed, "That was pretty hot. We should not allow such sentences in this country," AN
The sergeant told how Guerin was expelled from France and a year in Brixton Prison he went to America. There he be came associated with "Chicago May the woman criminal with the childish face, whose life ad- ventures almost equalled in auda, city those of Guerin
fought against extradition and The inconvenience" occasioned to Andrikisha passengers at the "Star" was released.
On the night following his re- Ferry Appreach in wet weather, lease he was in Bloomsbury, due to the ridehes being confined to when a man named Smith, ac their shelter until actually picked companied by "Chicago May," up a fare, was discussed at the last drove up. Smith fired a number meeting of the KRA, Committee. of shots at Guerin and wounded him in the fest.
Reference was made to the fact
He was captured in Paris in 1901 and convicted of robbing the American Express Company. Both Smith and the woman that the scheme submitted by the were arrested, She was sen- Association in January, 1980, aug- tenced at the Old Bailey to fifteen gesting the Joining of the Star years penale servitude, while Ferry and Public Pier verandah, Smith received a life sentence. thus forming a covered way, and it
of £6,000, and of a previous robe bery from the Bank of Lyons. He was sentenced for life on Devil's Island, the French penal settle ment off the coast of Guiana, where Dreyfus was imprisoned. He spent four years there, all the time preparing for his escape.
200 Miles in a Dug Out.. One dark night he eluded the warders, and with two fellow
Take
Guerin last sentence was at was agreed to suggest to the an London Sessions in November, thorities that, this work be carried 1920, when in the name of Edvin out, and the rikishas permitted to Edwards he was sentenced to leave their stand for the purpose of twelve month'a hard labour for picking #fares under this stealing a suitcase from a plat verandah at the point nearest to the form at Victoris Hallway Station shel
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