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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1936 ·
A VICTIM OF BLACKMAIL?
Mystery Of Willy Clarkson
SOME ECCENTRICITIES
HORSES THAT DO SUMS
One Was Just
Charlatan
BEES CAN TELL THE TIME
ARMED MAN IN
SHOP RAID
Manageress Robbed
Of Handbag
ESCAPE IN FOG
Wally Clarkson, the famous London "Spelbound youngsters A plucky attempt to detain a Wardour-street wigmaker, was gathered at the Royal Society of man who followed her into a found by the house-keeper in the Arts, London last month and lis-shop, pointed a revolver at her rooms above his shop in October, tened intently while Dr. David and grabbed her handbag, was 1994, dying on the door with a Katz, former Director of the made by the manageress of deep gash in his forehead. He Psychological Laboratory, Univer Sanders Brothers Stores Ltd., never recovered consciousness. sity of Bostock, Mecklenburg, decorn merchants, of Lower-road,
His biographer, Mr. Barry Evered the fast of the Dr. Mann Rotherhithe, last month.
Describing the attack, the Greenwall, states in "The Strange Juvenile Lectures. Life of Willy Clarkson, publish- Dr. Katz's subject was animal manageress, Miss Alice Horne, of Farley-road, Catford, said ed recently (John Long, 188) that intelligence. He surveyed the that she reached the shop about he was "the victim of blackmail," thinking processes of the whole
18.30 am. She told her assistant, and adds: “The story of Willy's suimal-kingdom, from insect to Miss Fileen Bender, aged 16, death may be told sometime in the elephant, from terrier to orang about a man she had seen stand- courts, or a part of the tragedy outang.
ing at a corner, who disappear- Can horses talk and think?ed when she looked back at may be talä.”.
Dr. Katz told us of “Clever Jack,”' is house that after two years" "I went behind the counter to Fire, and the fear of fire, hamt-training seemed to be shle take off my coat," she said. ed Clarkson's last months. Two think deeply, but was proved in and then turned to see that weeks before he died he was visit the end, when confronted with the man had entered the shop ed by a mysterious stranger, board of scientists, to be just an
and closed the door. I asked When the visitor left Clarkson (equine charlatan.
him what he was doing. came out of his private office in “Too-Clever Jack" was solving.
"Pointed Revolver" what one of his employees describ- problems which humans pat to
"He pointed a revolver at me ed as a dazed condition. "The sun him by watching expressions and and said: Keep quiet and give was going down on Willy Clark-waiting for the conscious nod me all your money. I tried to son, and he was alone."
of an interrogating head, when he
away, but he forced my head back
Haunting FeaTa
to
him.
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Cube Boot Problems Horses, Dr. Katz "suspects, CER
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about the eccentricities of the [wigmaker. The theatre dominat-
ed his whole being theatrical-trappings he lived and do sans--difficult ones in their want money for my children's died. 'It was
not therefore sur heads. He told the story of some food."
"He took my handbag, which prising that a man who lived in famous horses trained by Mr.
Krall of Elberfeld.
had 11s. in it. Miss Bender the atmosphere of theatrical un-
"These horses," he said "could had only Is. with her and he reality should lead a life that was
He to her. partly making believe and partly deal even with square and embe tossed that back
roots of eight and nine-figured was going to pocket my silver making money.”
numbers in mental arithmetic. flap-jack, but changed his mind The task of finding the square and threw it at me.
DANCE FLOOR SCENES
Police Attacked In Raid On Club
root of 23220489 was set and one "I kept screaming as hard as horse immediately gave the result, I could and Miss Bender tried to 5317. The task of finding the open the back door." The man cube root of 699345528 was pre- ran off into the fog. He did sented, and the answer was given not get any of the firm's cash." correctly, 412.
"The houses made such progress in arithmetic by teaching
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themselves that even a clever bori Assaults on police during a could hardly compete with them raid on Lane's No. 2 Club, After the horse Muhammed had Queen-street, Hammersmith, learned to deal with the cube roots were described at West London up to 125 it learned by itself to Police-court recently.
fnd the cube root of 2197, ie,, 13.|· George Albert Goodall, aged Sums such as these were done by Dudley Francis Billings, aged 30; a haker, of West Kersing-the horses after a training of no 47, engineer, of Malwood-mad, ton, charged with obstructing more than two years”
Balham, S.W., and Ella Eileen Pe South, was fined 40s.
Jane Burton, aged 29, indepen- Thomas Hailey aged 58, of Bat Dr. Katz confessed there dent, of Carbury, Battle, Sus West Kensington, who said he was a suspicion that the horses sex, were committed for trial, was fatigued, but not drunk, were, in some way unknown, told at Clerkenwell, recently, an was fined 5s.
the answer by their attendants- charges of conspiring to steal Robert Cheape, aged 24, a The lecturer told of other m-motor-cars by false pretences plasterer, of Stanley-gardens expected facts about animal and and obtaining a cheque for £140 Willesden Green, was sentenced high For example, brilliant from William Sydney Littlefair to a month's hard labour for hued butterflies are almost colour assaulting Pc Earle. The off-blind, and can only distinguish
by false pretences. Be cer said, "He kicked me and between bize and yellow. But if
Billings was also charged with struck me in the face."
their sight is faulty their sense obtaining a Lagonda car value of smell is marvellous and hes at £525 by false pretences, in- curring a debt or liability and William Paul Rowntree, aged range of almost four miles. 23, a porter, of Caithness-road. Then there was the dog, which obtaining credit for $350 from Hammersmith, who was arrest was taken in a dark box and a Ronald Gibbon, and obtaining a ed in the middle of the dance closed car to a point, four miles cheque for $250 from John floor, denied obstructing an offi- from his home, and released. The Bartlett by false pretences in cer who was arresting another dog paused here and there, but August. man, was fined 40s.
wandered on, always with his nose
Plea Of Guilty Burton pleaded guilty to ob- Charles Stephen Walker, aged set towards home, and arrived by 23rd Feb. 23, of Coningham-road; Shep instinct, although he had taken a taining one of the cars by false herd's Bush, who appeared with roundabout route, in a little more pretences and stealing mother a black eye and a cut lip, denied time than a pedestrian would have as bailee. Billings pleaded not assaulting P. Hutchens. He taken to walk the distince.
guilty and reserved his defence. Test Repeated said he was one of 50 people
A detective produced a state- trying to get out of the club This test was repeated severalment alleged to have been made when he was pushed down by times. Always the dog found his by Burton in which she declar- the police. He was remanded home without trouble, and finally fed that she and her mother had for seven days.
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