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FRENCH THIRD DEGREE."
Prisoner Questioned for 12 Hours.
"Faris, August 31. French mental third-degree methods, which may not unprofitably be compared with American police re methods, have just achieved markable success in the investiga tion of the death of Mme. Mangot, the wife of a Paris musician.
She was found lying dead on a divan with a bullet wound in her breast and a revolver in her right hand. The police suspected, how
not of ever. that it was a case
MORE DOLE RIOTS IN GLASGOW.
Foot and Mounted Police Charge.
FURTHER LOOTING.
London, Yesterday. Very serious disturbances oc- curred again in Glasgow to-night. There were 49 arrests made up to They have been 11 o'clock. charged with disorder or looting. Foot and mounted police charged the crowds repeatedly, and the crowds rushed hither and thither smashing windows and looting shops.---Reuter.
CAPONE SAYS HE WILL “QUIT.”
Peace After Taking His Medicine.
"I'm going to quit the racket!". "Scarface" Al Capone, the Tsar of the Chicago Underworld, made this statement in an Interview on the eve of his appearance in court to receive sentence on convictions of evading payment of income tax and breaking the Prohibition law.
"I'm going to take my medicine, and when I leave prison I want the peace and quiet of family life," he said.
suicide but of murder, and they a KINGSFORD-SMITH IN armour-plated room of a hotel on
certained that shortly before the
WES
woman's death she had been visited by her lover, Louis Bonico.
This mon
arrested at ten o'clock last night, and was imme diately questioned. The interroge- tion by a detective-inspector and an examining magistrate went on prac- tically without interruption through- out the night.
Entangled in a Net.
First Bonico was asked to give A complete account of how he had spent the fatal afternoon." He was then questioned concerning other detalls of his life until he showed | signs of fatigue. Finally, the ques-
GREECE.
Impossible to Beat Mollinson.
Athens, Yesterday. Kingsford-Smith arrived at Tatoi aerodrome at 7 o'clock to night.'
Kingsford-Smith, interviewed, said that he could not now beat Mollison's record to England, but he intended to beat him in the return flight from England to Australia. Keuter.
tions he had frst answered were PAWNING PEARLS AT |
repeated in n different form, and in a tone which gave not the least hint of how dangerous the answers might be.
A PROFIT.
The
An ingenious Frenchman has It was at this point that Bonico became entangled in a net of errors made a fortune by pawning pearl or mis-statements which he had necklaces in the principal towns himself woven. He was led to-con- of France, and also in Spain and fess that on the afternoon in ques South America. His praction was tion he had visited Mme. Manget, to pawn pearl necklaces fitted with
diamond clasps. but he swore that he had only beautiful
pearls composing these necklaces stayed with her for five minutes.
He said that after he had declared were beautifully graded, and their his intention of breaking off their sheen left nothing to be desired. relations she had shot herself in his The diamonds which composed the presence. He had then placed her clasp were genuine and of good body on the divan and the revolver quality. in her hand, and had left in the hope that he would escape being involved in any scandal.
of questioning no dificulty in procuring "loans" Twelve hours threw a good deal of light on the of £160 affair, and it was a pale and worn-valuers, believing that they were natural Oriental But prisoner who
led this dealing with
pearls, were satisfied that they had morning from magistrate's
not advanced too much on them. rcom to prison.
But it has been discovered that the necklaces were composed of cultivated peairs, and were only worth about £18 each.
was
tho
SUICIDE'S ABNORMALITIES,
Heart On The
Right.
At establishments of the Credit Municipal, which is the French equivalent for pawnshop, he had
on cach necklace.
The
18
The interview took place in an
South Michigan-avenuo, which the gang chief's recognised strong- hold. Capone confided that the for his desire to principal reason "quit the racket" was his little aoa. I have refused offers of more than
to £400,000
write memoirs," he went on. "I have been pestered for the past two years by promotion agents, but I have my own troubles, and will not turn writer."
my
Capone admitted that he felt nervous about the court ordeal he
must face,
ORDEAL IN JUNGLE.
Convicts Escape From Guiase.
Paris, Sept. 2. The story of the escape of twelve convicts from the French penal settlement in Guiana is related in a letter received by the relatives of Louis Deplats, a convict who was sentenced to twenty years in the settlement for robbing 'a jeweller's shop. For many weeks, he says, he and cleven others had One day, planned their escape. while working in the jungle, their Their object opportunity came. was to work their way towarde Venezuela, hoping to reach Caracas by bont.
After
Afteen days' fight through the dense tropical under- growth, living only on berries and suffering severe hardships, they reached, the coast. They managed to commandeer two rowing-boats, but when they were a few miles out a sudden storm caused one of the boats to capsize, and its six occupants wore drowned.
The other boat succeeded in For five years this assiduous reaching a small island just off client of pawnshops has been the coast, and from there the party! pledging his necklaces and making eventually got into Venezuelan ter- a handsome living without any ritory. Deplats says that he is now
He has now further trouble.
DANGERS TO NAVIGATION.
come into conflict with the Paris trying to obtain his freedom, Cecil Filkin, 59, a milkman, of police, It has been decided, how- Brook Street, Kennington, was ever, that no action can be taken. found dead with his head in a gas, against him, since the valuera oven resting on the dead body of themselves decided his pet dog......
after ад ех-
amination what they would give At the Camberwell, inquest, Dr. for these jewels. Ho has success: Rees Phillips, the polica surgeon, fully contended that there was, stated that Flkin's organs were therefore, no question of either reversed. His heart and spleen fraud or theft. wore on the righthand side and his ilver was on the lefthand side. His kidneys were joined together to form one horseshoe kidney..
The abnormality would not effect the man's health, as it must have occurred at an early stage in his development. Witness had never Been a similar condition, but it was known to exist.
A verdict of suicide while of un- sound mind was recorded.
BELTS IN DEMAND.
Belts are very smart this Sum- mer and greatly in demand. They should be worn a little below the natural waist line and if in'a con- trasting colour give just the IT appearance to complete a costume. As for scarves, instead of dying out sought after than they are more
ever.
The master of the s.a. Havel, has notified the Harbour Office that a derelict junk, dangerous to naviga- tion, is lying in Lat. 21 deg. 18' N., Long. 114 deg, 00′ E. The Naval Authorities also notify that a capsized junk is lying in Lat. 28 deg. 3' N,,, Long. 121 deg. 58' E. It is also a danger to navigation.
CHINA STATION'S FLAGSHIP.
H.MS. Kent, which is to be the flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir W. A. H. Kelly, K.C.B., (C.M.G., MV.O., Commander-in-Chief of the China Station, arrived at Singapore from Home 'yesterday: .-
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