THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1935
LINDBERGH BABY CONFESSION Chun Shing Graduation
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death. Coining down with the spot.'
"Then she handed the gun across to one of the boys, and he slapped a bullet into Winkler, and handed back the gun to Rosa
JUNK PIRATED
Three Armed Men Make Escape In Direction Of Saikung
Exercises
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child, they caused Hauptman to slip "Blonde Rosa, a gun moll, carried "As chauffeur-bodyguard to on the smooth-rung of the ladder. the gun, and she lay in wait with | Flash Fleishman, chief of the "For a moment he clawed des: two other gangsters until Winkler "Purple Gang' of Detroit, I was in perately in mid-air, then swung out appeared. that hell's brew right from the wards and downwards a distance
The first of the Elementary Com start.
of about 18 ft., .... “
mercial Course is. Master Liang CAPONE'S, SUBTLE PLOT
BABY HIDDEN IN HOLE ·
Kan-yin who passed with nine aub "I might have been prosperous "His huge bulk crushed on top of and flourishing over there yet had the baby, crushing its skull. Haupt- "Thus, when the men were Three pirates, armed with riflesjects, such as Typewriting. Corres- I not accompanied my chief on man also broke his own leg, and searched they had no firearms in and revolvers, looted junk off pondence, Commercial Knowledge, that fateful mission to interview from that time onwards he was out their possession.
Man Of which is situated in Chin-Insurance, Import and Export, Ship Gus Winkler in his luxurious of the fight.
"Baird, another gangster, was est terzitory in British waters, at ping, Book-keeping, Arithmetic and Buite at the Statler Hotel, Phila-Roderiguez and Mueller hauled picked up at Kansas City on suspi-1 a.m, last Wednesday, and make Banking within a term of eight delphia. **
Hauptman and the baby to the blue cion, and the police started to work off with $3000 worth of goods in months.
the direction of Saikung, which is The fact that. Winker was drinking terms with the main sedan they had chosen for the get-on. him:
"I decided that the breaks were in British territory. aqueeze of the 'Purple Gang didaway..
on
"They drove like furies for five not look so good, for the two ganke miles, expecting at any moment to were like a couple of stray bull-
hear the wailing siren of a dogs when they met.
police car behind them.
"On more than one occasion I had orders to squeeze the trigger on Capone's rats on sight
There were three other mem Berk of our gang there, and not unnaturally I assumed that it was
nice little bumping off party it was dead with Winkler as the guest of hon- qui,
...
""SNATCHING" DISCUSSED
"Bh, I was wreng. Pleishman; and Winkler did all the talking and the subject was snatching." "Lindbergh. America's idol of
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going the wrong way and wrote Wong Ying, master of the junk, to the police, signing. myself made his report to the Police yes "Public Citizen," to the effect terday.
that bold, bad man-myself— had run off with a girl from an. other State, and was therefore
liable to arrest under the Mann Act.
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HENNESSEY ROAD ACCIDENT
I spent some anxious days in Mr. J. F. Lunny's Car
Litchfield County Gaol after that.
"Fleishman 'knew I had gone to gaol just to be safe and sent me a
Damaged
lawyer. I was kept posted by the TRAFFIC ISLAND DEMOLISHED
FOR SECOND TIME mouthpiece as to how things went.
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Annual Competition In Typewriting With the hope of encouraging the students, and improving their speed and efficiency, we have been holding an annual competition in typewrit ing. The competition for 1934 took place on 21st January 1933. and 30 passed pupils sat for the contést. We were fortunate enough to securé the presence of Mr. H. Hurman to|
be one of the Supervisers of the
content. The winners of the cons test are (1) Musters William LI (2) G..R. Ali and (3) Bankkey Yip/
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the air, was to be grabbed by us. face as he set to work like a mud-trusty-warder as to how things shed by Colonel Bird's car suf- students have been satisfactory, is
That was, Winkler's proposal.
"All we had to do was to snatch man.
som, and, over and above that, if baby in the hole and covered it we did not, mulf the job, Al Capone body with brush and leaves.
little "Then he 'remembered something himst would make us n
He dashed back to the grave, torej present of about £20,000.
"It sounded too good to be true aside the leaves, and ripped off -and, of course, there was a catch piece of the baby's clothing...
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"But there was no chase; no sound broke the silence of the night but the purr of their own engine, so finally they plucked up courage slow down and look at the baby.
"Only then did they discover that
CLOTHING REMEMBERED "Roderiguez got out, lifted the
Announcement . pathetic little bundle from the
THE THIRD DEGREE back of the car, and started off
"But the strain was too much
Institute, whose work since its for the bushes that ran alongside)
The traffic Island in Hennessey foundation in 1929, done by the for me. My anxiety. proved my the road.
demo-staff and the progress made by the I kept questioning my Road which was recently "Terror was written all over his undoing.
on Saturday that its authorities have been ap Seraping away, the earth were going in the Lindbergh case.fered a similar fate Lindy, hold out for a monster ran-/with a plece of iron. he placed the "Maybe, I showed too keen an night when a car No. 1203 driven painted, representative" and centre | Anyway, his auspicions by Mr. J. F. Lunny, of the Power for the examination of the Institute were aroused, and I was placed in Station, crashed into it.
of Commerce Institute of Book-ent business men who are kind Kwong Put: 5, "Shing Hon Hing; 6, According to a report made by keepers and Pitman's Shorthand as to offer prizes to the statents Yuen Lai Chuen. 7, Lau Yuk Ho another part of the gaol under special guaril.
Mr. Lunny he was following in the Institute, London, the passtify of graduated with honnors 8, Chan Hung Wal; 9. Chan Yee "That night I was placed in wake of another car when the ac- which will lead to Diploma and De Mr. H. Hurman, one prize (foun-Yan; 10, Cheung Sul Juen; 11, Ma 13 handcuffs. 1 knew then what was foident occurred.
gree. I take this opportunity to tain pen) for there winner of Yun. Chang: 12, Chan Sze Chung; coming the dreaded "Third De-} Fortunately Mr. Lunny was not announce to the public that the first the Annual Typewriting competi- 18, Lam Yew Wah; 14. Ng Many rungree."
injured, although the car was bad-examination to be held in this In- tion.
Kwong; 15-Florence Li (Miss); 16, stitute and open to outside candid- Mr. K. Masakine, one prize Tao Ching Sun: 17. Daphne Kwok ates will take place. about the begin (silver cup) for the second win-(Miss); 18. Yip Ping Wah; 19, ning of March. In-view of the inner-of--the Annual writing Lam Tien Chack 20, Lo, Kal Sau; 21, Roberta Fan (Miss); 22, Lam portance of this examination, a Competition.
Dr. E. W: J. Sun, one prize Yau Chuen; 23, Tej,; 24; Fang Sun Supervising Committee has been appointed comprising Messrs. L. A. (silver cup) for the first boy of Yue; 25, David Luey; 26, Tam Yuen Barton, the Cashier of Hong Kong the Junior Typewriting Examina-Ching (Miss), 27. Tse Yiu Fai.
Senior Treasury, H. Hurman, the Manager Orders by the Hon. Mr. T.-B. of-Officer Appliance Co., Ltd. and King, Inspector General of Police. Dr. F. C. Tsang, M.B.. B.S.
Chinese Company
Before concluding. I beg to tender "I was waiting in the Bronx in
Strength. Constable R44 Ho our sincerest thanks to Hon. Dr. another fast cur to take the baby
Chung Hong-has been permitted to S. W. Ts'o, O.B.E., LL.D.. for being to Willow Grove, where every and I might have squealed at that, resign from the Chinese Company, so kind as to distribute the prizes; and to you, Ladies and Gentlemen, Yep. 10, Lam Po Tung; 11, Chan thing had been arranged for its but I knew Fleishman and his hen-as from-12th-January, 1935. reception.
In it.
We had to hide Lindy so well that no one could find him-no one, that is, but the great, the In- vinciblė Al Capone.
"Roderiguez jumped on the ning-board as Mueller alipped gears, and the car tore off:
the "I was fed into a room where ly damaged,
trooper- and detectives had 'saps'
"Hauptman's groans from the in their hands. A sap-a-weight-1 -POLICE RESERVE back of the car did not improve the ed bag is aloshed across situation. He was taken in the car face.
"It was as subtle a plot as any ever conected in the cunning, to Newark, where he received medi-painful in the world.
fox-like mind of the big Italian.
FREE PARDON RUSE .. "Of course, Capone would have to be released from prison to do this little thing, "but would natur- ally be granted a free pardon for successfully negotiating the free- dom. of Lindy..
2.
let his
"Now-do-you-catch-on- Capone would not even own gang do the snatching. It
cal attention.
TOLD TO "BCRAM "Mueller and Roderiguez con-1, tinued on to the Bronx. Here was where I came into the picture.
-!
your There is nothing more Orders for the Current
It would make a dumb man talk.
Week "They set to work on me, They poured acid on my fingers, and for two days I had nothing but a cun
of water.,
TIP THAT LED TO ARRESTS
"I suffered intolerable agonies,
climen would be waiting for me as soon as I left that gaol.
to Drs.
tion.
Mr. J. R. Swales, one prize 1, Leung Hong Kon; 2, William (camera) for the first boy of the Li; Leuing Sik; 4. Wong coming London Examination Shiu Lou; 5, Chung Hewan: 46. which will take place on begin-Annie Lee (Miss) 7; Wong Kim ning of March.
Wah; 8, Chan Hung Sum; 9, Charlie:
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to Messrs. A. 5. Robin and L... for helping to make this function Yuen 'Hoi. Indian Company
Indelfonso for giving us glowing a success. *
The list of the Graduates passeti A trained nurse, in the pay of
Inspection Parade. All ranks of lectures on commercial subjects; to The following is the list of the the examination of the 3rd Term of had to be us.
the gangsters, was to look after the
Month after month passed the Indian Company will parade at the members of the Supervising Graduates who passed the examina Commerce, "But the chief jibbed at Lindy. baby, and it was to receive the best
and I was still gaol, Then Central Police Station on Wednet Committee for the London Exam-tion of the 16th Term of Typewrit 1. Leung Kan Yin; 2. Kwok Shiu He figured he was too hot to touch, possible attention.
they took me to an Emigration day, February 18 at 17.30 hours un-inations: to Dr. S. F. Lam, Ph.D., ing held on December 27, 1934: | Fal; 8, Harry, Kwoki 4, JA Quing "But there was no baby....I was
Camp at Boston..
Junior
Yen 6. Kwok Shiu Wah; 6, T. T. He was also wise to Capone, and
der Sub. Inspector R. J. Hunt for our Honorary Lecturer: "At last, in October, 1933, they demanded that some of his gang told to seram--and didn't need to
a general Inspection of equipment F. C. Trang, and S. Li, our Medical 1, Ng Sik Leung; 2. Chan Pui Wu; 7, Wong Kim Wah; 8, Ng, Swee should be in on the deal for morall be, told twice. Mueller and Haupt- told me I would be deported. support before he would make any man went off to lie low in the Bronx, "Only when I found myself face etc., by the Company Commander. Advisers: to the following promin-Sing; 3, Irene Yen (Miss); 4, Pun Hin.
while Roderiguez drove off to break to face with starvation here in Eng White Cover, Belt with Brace, Arm-
Dress-Blue Uniform, Cap' with m kind of a 'snatch."
"Then some bright member of the news to Winkler and Fleishman, land, did. I give the information to the gang had the Idea of kidnap who were pacing a room in an apart the American Consul, which was let with Badge, "Pocket Policeman" ping the baby-and this was ment house over the river like a sent with my consent to the United and note book to be carried. agreed to.
couple of caged tigers..
States Department of Justice in Equipment Officer will make a point
of being present. HAUPTMANN CHOSEN
"There was a terrible scene when Washington..
Emergency Unit Reserve "Hauptman, handyman on the they heard the news. It meant the "It was my hot tip that led to
Strength. The following mem- Lindborgh estate, who has since rain of all they had planned. The Hauptman's arrest, and implicated 'been arrested, and will come up two big shots were furious.
four others. One is in Charles-bers have been permitted to resign. for trial soon, was the king-pin of "They swore at Roderiguez, and town, prison; one in Wetherfield from the Emergency Unit Reserve, this deal.
the latter, instead of trying to prison; and two in Alcatras Island. as from dates showned against
them:
..
"He had worked on the estate smooth things over, swore back, so long that he knew the house like insisting that he was not to blame the back of his hand, so he was for Hauptman's clumsiness. chosen to make the 'snatch.''-•
"He had already done two small jobs for the Capone mob, and had been passing counterfeit money, but was not as yet on the police calling Hist.
POLICE DELUDED
GUNNING. FOR ME”
The
"Four have been bumped off," Lance Sergeant R411 M. H another comes up for a murder rap Arnold January 24, 1985 and Con- "Something had to happen-and in Toledo, Ohio, next month; Muel-stable R438 M. Frizer January 15, it did. The big shots were in noller is in Bremerhaven, while yat 1935. mood to be monkeyed with, another member of the gang is Roderiguez' angry, comments coat somewhere in France. him his life.
"They took poor Roderiguez to the flats in Coney Island, and left him there with a bullet under his collar.
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Constable-R411 J. A. Shaw has been taken on the strength of the "I breathed a sigh of relief Emergency Unit Reserve, as from when I was given these facts. January 24, 1985.
Lance Sergeant wes glad it was all over, glad my Commendation The big final meeting of the
conscience was clear.. R419 A. J. Raptis is commended by "Then a week or two ago Baird the Hon. Inspector General of Po gang was in a road house in Con- necticut. For it was known that
got in touch with me. Two of lice for prompt and zealous action Capone's lieutenants were in Eng-on January 6, 1935, in securing the Red' Johnson, Lindy's chauffeur,
HOW WINKLER WAS PUT "ON
subse often made trips to Hartford, Con-!
THE SPOT
[land, he told me, They were gun- arrést of a man, who was necticut, and it was to throw aús- "Winkler had a brain-wave. Why aing for me.
|quently, convicted for larceny of piclon in that direction that we not carry on with the original pro-
wooden panels, stolen from houses
Then they sat down to think. Something had to be done.
"
felt-plenty of ends for the police gramme as if nothing had happened? APPARENT MURDER in the Eastern District.
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Mo.pick up...
Did they not have a piece of the We considered that to he far baby's clothing? Who was to know enough away from Willow Grove, that the baby was not still alive?!
"Meanwhile, Lindbergh, in his! a village on the outskirts of Philadelphia, where we actually frantic search for the baby, got the - intended to take the baby, laid of Spitale and Bitz.
"But the poor kid never left] "How was poor Lindy, to know Hopewell, New Jersey:
that it was fixed for those two
Mountard to the house.
OF OLD WOMAN
Body Discovered At Kowloon City
HOUSE RANSACKED-
Defendu Class, Defendu instruc-. tions will take place at No. 2 Police Station on Friday, February 1, at |17:20 hours. All members are re-
quested to be present.
D. L KING,
D.S.P.(R.) Hong Kong, Monday, January 28,
WELL-KNOWN LOCAL LADY PASSES
Mrs. Annie Randall
FUNERAL AT HAPPY VALLEY YESTERDAY
"Now, here is what really hap-special guns to 'help' him, at the pened on the night of March 1 at same time keeping the gang wise to 9.80 p.m. Betty Gow, the nurse, all the police moves.....
The body of a 78-year-old Chinese was, off the scene, and Violet "Our postcards, signed with pinp-woman, who had apparently been Sharpe, the maid-governess, had ricka-Capone's idea-were deluging suffocated with a cloth tied round gone for a ride with her boy the police from four or five different her head, was found. yesterday friend.
States, sending the poor Federals afternoon at 9 Sat Tau, Kowloon "Hauptman and two gangsters-crazy with all sorts of false scents, City. The house was ransacked, Mueller and Roderiguez-drove "Then Capone threw out his and a gold ring, valued at $20, wAB madly from a point in the Rose offer of ten grand-£2,000-for missing from her finger, and three the arrest of the kidnappers, pieces of cloth, "valued at $12:50, HOW BABY DIED.'
though he and the rest of them was stolen. A large sum of money "Just before they reached it, concerned knew that the child was which had been hidden in a quilt The death of Mrs. Annie Randall, they picked up the ladder that dead."
was untouched: the mother of Mr. B. C. Randall of Hauptman and Mueller had made, "By that time all the money-in a report to the Police, the Messrs. Benjamin and Potte, and of and laid it against the side of the fifty, grand-about£10,000 had crughter. Wa So-nze, stated that Mr. H. W. Randall of Messrs. Lane, house beneath the nursery window.changed, hands,Mueller went to she left the house shortly after Crawford, Ltd.,,occurred yesterday,
"Roderiguez kept watch, Mueller Germany with £6,000 of the ransom p.m. legying her mother; LI. Ming, at the age of 87 years held the ladder, and Hauptman went money. A few days later Winkler sitting in chair In the front room The funeral took place at Happy In after the baby was seen leav
"Before he did no he pulled '® United States, mars pair of old Army, socks over, bis "Why he went there shoes, to deaden the noise of his but it was obvious. movementa
there just for mea
Winkler wa
the baby a high
office of a of the und floor Tho-door, was
alley
sterday afternoon" in'i closed but not Jocked. When he presence of a large pumb one knew, returned at 8.80 p.m. The found her
iants. The ReYN mother hung dead on the floor with
loneely's fin front
tfed round ber hes
s were laid on
APSTAN
for quality!