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The proposal to transfer Wool- wich Arsonal to Wales' has set Welsh members of Parliament to outbid each other.
The Government have been told that either Cardiff or Penarth could provide excellent facilities for the establishment of the factory and a splendid position from a defensive point of view.
The claims of Newport have alsoj been put forward.
WHAT
A BIG CRIME COSTS BRITAIN
THOUSANDS SPENT IN HUNTS FOR KILLERS
£1,000 PER DAY ON TRUNK MURDER
(By Hugh Brady.)
London.
i
liceman, also cost the country the
THEN. you read the latest expense of a trial in addition to a
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news of the Brighton trunk prolonged inquiry before their ar murder mystery, the probability rest. A conservative estimate of The champion of Cardiff or is that you do not give a thought the bill for the case from first to Penarth is Captain Arthur Evana; to the daily cost to the nation of last would be £15,000.. and of New Port, Mr. Reginald such a crime. Clarry.
There are 88 other Welsh M.P.8.
* # SAVED BY A SAXOPHONE - -1
The six-months search for Mu Crime is expensive.
jor Bailey, the officer who in 1928 Government departments may murdered his beautiful young economise in many directions, but wife at Hove, Sussex, was daily, cheeseparing is not permitted rusting the public some hundreds - when the law seeks the perpetra- of pounds until his body was A writer in a musical paperflor of a mystery crime.
found in the Thames, where it had states that saxophone playing has It is good for the public weal been wedged between a barge and eured him of chronic asthma. that the police forces of Great the river wall mpat of the time. In that; according to a medical Britain have a bottomless pursa The hunt never flagged till the friend, there is nothing extraordin-when the hunt for a criminal is discovery was made. ary. Breathing exercises are the in progress. Detectives may auf- fer from pay cuts and small meal
Frand Charge Expenses best cure for asthma.
Saxophone playing, which re- allowances, and complain of the Murder takes first place in the quires short inspirations and pro-alleged parsimony of the Home criminal calendar, and although longed expirations, exactly fills the Office in their personal affairs. the police move slower, the bill of But the job must not be spoiled expenses is almost equally great
bill.
Gerard Lee
Wind instruments like the trom-for the proverbial ha'porth of tar. in big fraud cases.
The most learned economist in Bevan, City financier, disappeared bone, however, do not. They re-
the Government service would some years ago, and the hunt for quire violent and spasmodic effort,
a bad surmise of him, was a costly job. He was and tend to produce Emphysema, probably make
the daily cost of the Brighton found living in disguise on the of which a wheezy voice is one of
murder Inquiry. symptoms.
Continent, brought back. and sent'; to penal servitude. A poster de- his crime in
He knows what you and I
•
My medical friend believes that stammering, which is largely at also knowthat the telescribing him and matter of breath-control, could be phone call bill is necessarily an seven languages was one of the
Jamazingly heavy one. A police features of the pursuit. particular rites and shibboleths cured by playing the saxophone. officer would be rebuked for using still persist, together with a ten- This much-abused instrument his station telephone.for
Most of England's major offen- a per-decs disappear from London, and BRODIE-On August 15, 1934, at dericy to preserve them intact as appears in a new light.
It might sonal call-the country might lose there are detectives at Scotland Wynyard, Tasmania, Neil Clark much and as long as possible. be well to restrict its use to those nearly 24. by his "absent-minded-yard who have travelled to all- Brodie, age 68, late of the Thus the professional mind in holding medical, certificates.
nesa"-but he can entail a heavy parts to bring back men general tends to be conservative. China Navigation Co., Ltd.
telephone call hill if it is believed
their trials stood
Old at the Bailey.
But the zeal of the English' po- lice does not always prevail, des- On the discovery of the pite the outpouring of money and
The China Mail
Hong Kong, Monday, August 20, 1934.
The
medical profession, of
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course, has been proverbially hos- PEERS AND POUNDS tile to new discoveries and novel Every question answered in the methods, as instanced recently House of Commons costa a guines. in the life of Sir Robert Jones
Many guineas are wasted.
to be in the public interest.
Cost Of Telephoning
who
and his struggle to establish Every page of printing of the Brighton crime the telephones hard work. orthopaedics. But the legal pro-House of Lords order paper costs were ringing day and night with Jacob Factor, the arch swindler fession is also inveterately con-a pound.
one object the solution of the of the share-pushers, has appar- servative, prone to depend on In the view of certain peers mystery and the capture of the ently, won his freedom after a long accepted principles and pre-many pounds are squandered.
murderer. At Scotland Yard alone three-years fight in the Chicago The Professional Mind cedents. As for the practition. When a deer touts down a motion there were three operators whose courts. Factor defrauded English ers of the other learned profes- and no day is named for its debate sole duty is to deal with calls people of over a million and it "Virtuel a fig" quoth Lago, sion, the Church, they perhaps it is printed daily in the House of about the trunk murder.
seems that he avoided his just 'tis in ourselves that we are resist change more strongly than
Messages flashed into the deserts by lavish expenditure. Lords papers. And
"Yard" from everywhere. Scot- GREAT BARGAINS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS! thus or thus." But, on the the doctors and lawyers.
There are good judges' who de A series of notices of motion other hand, is it not equally true each profession tends to be selfish
land and Cornwall are far apart clare that the attempt to extradite have been printed daily
for that a man's mind is moulded in putting the interests of the
and they represented the begin-Factor cost England many thon- months. by his environment and his craft before those of the com- whole outlook and character in-munity. On the other hand, there Up to date their repetition has ning and end of the line that was sands of pounds. It is some con- dotted at short intervals with solation to know that he cannot fluenced profoundly by the daily is a natural sense of brother-cost the country £100.
people giving and receiving mes-jadd to his ill-gottén gains in this Lord Hailsham says they might practice of a particular profes- hood within the craft, a fellow-
sages about the murder.
[country or come here any more as sion?
ship arising from common in well have disappeared long ago.
The hunt for the criminal was a free man. This, indeed, is the point of terests. And if the professional,
Now a committee is to consider so much in the minds of people view expressed by Lord Macmil-mind clings to its prerogatives, how expense can be saved in this that telephone calla from all parts Jan, in his lecture on "The Profes it also honours its traditions, set-direction and by other revisions of of the Continent to Scotland Yard The costly fight against roguery sional Mind" delivered to the ting up high standards of con- the Standing Orders.
and Brighton were a regular fea- has many disappointments for the Medico-Psychological Association, duet, jealous of the integrity of
From this you will gather, offieers of the law. There are and published in the British its high calling."
that private individuals are also men known to Scotland Yard who willing to pay a big bill in their openly live by crime and dodge desire to help justice.
prison bars. Detectives are ever But the telephone bill-huge as seeking evidence against those must be is only an item in the they know to be rogues, but they hunt. Transport wear and tear, cannot forge that last link in the
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Medical Journal, Lord MacMillan If we consider the professions maintains that; whatever the in-findividually, we find certain men- An inventor has constructed dividual differences among the tal phenomena appearing as typi- machine with which he can blow members of a profession, there cal of each one. The lawyer's has bubbles ave feet in diameter. it are always common elements never been a popular profession News item. Remains now only the showed by all belonging to it profiting as it does by people's problem of finding a market for including aeroplanes, patrol and chain.
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"Their habits are controlled, their misfortunes and crimes, and the
oil, and meal allowances for po Clarence Hatry, the financier, thoughts canalized, their pre-popular attitude was expressed
lice, all inflate the general bill of and his associates were model de- judices formed. by the profes-by Dr. Johnson when he said, "I
When the crash came sion they practise," It is a pret cannot exactly tell you, sir, who We don't care about returning charges, to say nothing of the Inquents.
on they surrendered and helped the ty point, capable of considerable he is, and I would be lotti to the 1926 level Wasn't that about the pay of the men who worked
time everybody was singing, “Yes. We the inquiry.
police. On the other hand, thou argument, and interesting to speak ill of any person who I do Have No Bananas"?
I should say that the daily sands of pounds were spent by both the psychologist and the not know deserves it, but I am
charge on the public purse in all the insurance companies before professional man. Certainly, in afraid he is an attorney.". Lord
parts of the country was easily
(Continued on Page 11). ). dividuals will retain their idiosyn-Macmillan, however, points out The Heenest film fan we know £1,000, but the real figures will crasies, and personality is too that the great bulk of the legal in the girl who wants a cottage never be known, because each po powerful and vital a thing to be work of the country is adminis with Clark Gables. regulated and determined entire-trative and non-contentious, re-
Incurable
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BAD LUCK
Then there was the nudist who
How It Started
ly by the type of vocation pracquiring no perverse intellectual tised. But the constant dripping subtlety, but just the ordinary of professional habit will also workaday virtues of industry and wear away the individuallst honesty.” Yet he admits that got sunstroke through leaving off stone, and it is inevitable that the profession engenders the his hat, ?: the prolonged repetition of acts, habit of judging by words, for- the daily association with cermulas, and logic rather than by tain particular problems, the the facts alone. The legal mind Do you like this bathing suit, Imitation induced, by moving in is prone to be over-subtle, for-dear?..I got it for less than half- a certain social group, the remal; even pedantic, yet sharp and price. quirements of a professional eti-critical Although the Law Lord It looks as if they've given you quette, all these will tend to does not mention it. It is proba less than half the suit, modify a man's nature. His ble, too, that, from the nature of
lice force pays its own expenses. JOHN W. DILLINGER When Chief Inspector Donaldson and Sergeant Sorrell left Scotland | ·. Yard for Brighton their pay and allowances (the latter very mes gre) became the only charge ́dus |
to the Yard from the Brighton
force.
Crippen Cost Thousands
Cast your
IN VAUDEVILLE.
Tempting Offer To Bandit's Father.
Mooresville, Indians. Broadway vaudeville is calling
mind back on some to John W. Dillinger, father of the of the great murder hunts of the late notorious outlaw, John Dillin- past and you will realise perhaps ger.
a little more clearly how the bill The aged man, who liven here,
of costs mounts. Dr. Crippen, the pottering about on his little farm,
mind and character in a hundred his experience, the lawyer tends Facts You Did Not Know murderer of Belle Elmore his ac-revealed that he had received an ways, often unconscious, will be to be a little sceptical and cyni-
affected, and his reflexes condi- cal in regard to human nature. Paris scientist has invented ads with a woman companion. vauderville agency in New York, tress wife, made a dash for Can- offer of $500 a week from a tioned, until many of his re- The medical mind is not 30 water filters made of silver chloride Before the first wireless message and another offering him $100 to actions are largely automatic strongly intellectual. because mixed with potters clay and baked at
Alters
The profession, as Lord Mac qualities of emotion, imagination, a high temperature, the silver killing used in crime reached England- appear in a side show at Coney millan points out, tend to share and personality generally count dienase germs, passing through the it revealed the whereabouts of Island.
Crippen-something like £10,000 He has written to the conces certain characteristics. From for so much in therapeutica. His
had been spent in the search for stonaire, pointing out that if he the earllest times, he says, the wide experience makes the doc
accepted he would have to hire The trial that led to the con- someone to harvest his crops and
practitioners of a particular art tor humane, and Lord Macmillan Baltimore man las invented an electric
For railroad and trafic signals o him. have shown a tendency to draw pays the profession: a generous lamp having two flamenta separated viction and execution added to look after his two young away from the rest of the com- tribute, when he says, "It is per- by a shled, the second being illuminat- munity and to constitute them haps in the medical man that the ed to show half light when the first thousands more to the bill of costs daughters. He inquired about Hy
elves a separate class with their professional mind finds its finest fall own ceremonial rites deshib sphere. At any rate, I envy the boleths.To-day the lines of de physician the epithet which is So sensitive
marcation: ara less
and hence the profe
are not as distinctly.
wen, peculiarly his own, the epithet
beloved I have never heard of the a beloved barrister or a beloved there fo
cigarette
the
signalled" on t
amoke
against the public. It authorities, considered, Istaring spent for the case showed
liner really strong; the hted murderer's ident
room where Brown and Ke
the fact is
Gutteridge, the
the ing expenses rat. Coney Island so well that he could estimate his probable how profits..
You see," he said, I've never
in New York and I can'
what Coney Island would
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