THE CHINA MAIL", "MONDAY," "JURY©27, 1936
SIR H. AUSTIN MAN'S "JEKYLL AND
CONGRATULATED
Motoring Pioneer's Happy Memories
HIS CHOICE OF TITLE
Sir Herbert Austin, on whom
HYDE ROLES
AMAZING STORY FROM
REAL LIFE
the King has conferred a barony ORIGINATOR OF FIRST COUNTRY
in the Birthday Honours, vainly
tried to do some work the follow- ing days. He had his usual daily
MANSION BANDIT GANG
quota of meetings and confer- Many titles were given to Edward George Tucker, who has ences, but alas, he just couldn't just died in Maidstone Prison. When he was sentenced to sevEN get down to work.
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at the Austin works near Birming
When his dual life of hard-working compositor and organiser ham that day, and the great ambi-of burglaries was revealed he naturally became "the Jekyll and tion of every man Jack of them Hyde of South-East London.” was to congratulate "the Guvnor."
cable.
The woman with whom he lived screamed at him when he was arrested: "I told you
I said all]| you were mad. along you would be caught | sooner or later. It is your cursed greed.”
But other titles had been given him before he was caught.. The telephone never stopped ring- He was "the chief to scores of house-breakers, and he was "the ing, and messages of congratula-gentleman" to many humble folk in Southwark, for he had a tion poured in by telegram and kind heart when people in need appealed to him.
"Actually he was the man who first organised automoble Still, when my turn came, writes raids on country houses. He supplied the cars, and hired them a special correspondent, he admit-out to expert burglars. '
All he asked was that he. ted cheerfully enough that it was
should have the first pick of all all very pleasant
Sir Herbert does not wish to stolen goods."
If his henchmen tried to lose his identity by taking as his title some place-name alone. "double-cross" him, he became Subject to Royal approval, he the virtuous citizen, and quiet- will be known as Lord Austin, ly told the police. That is why and the geographical designa. Scotland Yard officers were so tion of the barony will probably surprised when they tracked right through.
down the proceeds of many in Co. Wicklow, in Ireland. His be the name of his works.
his inoffensive widow and three grown-up chil- There he has made a fortune for robberies to himself and cars for the million little house in Water-road, S.E.dren are still in Ireland.
The term of imprisonment and the toast, gentlemen, is Lord;
which death interrupted was Austin of Longbridge.
his first. He had not run foul of the police before. He had been clever. In fact, he had
A Trip To Australia Born at Great Missenden, Bucks, 60 years ago, Sir Herbert went to Australia when he was 17.
"An uncle came over here and) painted such glowing pictures of streets running with gold that i just had to go back with him and make. fortune," he told me. "I didn't find it. Alas, gold doesn't grow on trees ready for the pick- ing, in. Australia or anywhere i
else."
"I suppose it's true that I struck gold, or partly so, but I've worked hard for what I've got."
been too clever.
NEW CODE IN GERMANY
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Berlin
His life was an adventure He was born
Went To U.S.
In 1890 he went to Dublin and became apprenticed to the Printing trade.
He made good at it, and then at the age of 18 went to New York. Three years later he was back at his old job as com- positor in Dublin.
It was while he was working there that he married a Dublin girl They were both 25 at the time.
He first came to London in 1919 and lived in various parts of the south-east, mostly inj Southwark.
It was in 1923, the police believe, that he first decided to help himself to other people's He laid his plans property.
He got in touch
"induential”
Sir Herbert came back from Australia, having learnt his trade] (as an engineer, and began to
The special commission which, carefully. manufacture sheep-shearing ma- chinery. Before long, however, he under the chairmanship of Dr. with known crooks and invited They refused at the begin- was bitten with this new-fangled Gaertner, the Minister of Justice, them to work for him.
carriages. is engaged in drawing up a new ning, but they did take to him notion of horseless
German legal code in accordance the "stuff" they stole. He be Wolseley was the name of the
It be-Nazi principles has now defintely
quite an came sheep-shearing company.
decided to legalise duelling. of SAILING came the name
the first
The commission arrived at the receiver of stolen goods.
His "Scouts” first car he made. Such a strangej
was ia He showed it conclusion that duckling
All the time he let it be contraption it was.
harmony with the Nazi conception at the Crystal Palace in 1895.
of honour. They based their de known that he was a composi- Early Motoring
cision on the fact that duels are tor and that he was chiefly on "Those were the days! What a already permitted in the ranks of night work Actually he work ed during the day time, earn- lot of fun we used to get out of the fighting forces, the Storming an average of £8 10s. motoring then. I've still got the Troops and the Nazi guards, under silver medal for the 1,000 miles special orders issued during the trial, London to Edinburgh. It was last two and a-half years. in 1900-and what a run!
The law will leave the choice of "Then I remember going on weapons open to the duellists. Of- the Paris-Vienna run. We broke ficers are permitted to use only a crankshaft before starting, pistals, but the "man in the street" and repaired the thing by the will be allowed the proverbial road-side. Then, late as we were, choice of swords or pistols.
off in a wild dash to we set catch up the others who were 241 hours ahead.
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Gradually he developed his organisation. In 1928 he bought two cars which he hired out to his men. The cars were replaced by faster ones in 1931.
move-
He had *+11@7 to "scout" around houses in outlying
When the counties. ments of the occupants and ser- vants were known, he would send his men to "de the job." Mr. Lewis Silkin, MP chair-
He was generous to his staff, man of the LC.C.Housing and and they were loyal to him. "All my life my work has been Public Health Committee, stated He was only doublé crossed" my hobby, an even now I'm not when opening a Town Planning on three occasions, and then
**The crankshaft went again ova the Arlberg Pass, and ended alli our hopes.
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"My job is strictly competitive,
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His Wife's Job
that he told the police. people Every piece of silver he re- unheal-ceived was treated with
her more than I can say." 1. Sir Herbert started making Aus "Lady Austin? Why, she's a very tin motor-cars in 1905. His output modest little woman,
you know. was 147 in the first year. Now he Naturally she is pleased for my makes 60,000 cars a year. sake, and for the children, but this His generosity is proverbial, his the won't make any difference to our latest benefaction being home life. Her job has always princely gift of £250,000 to the been looking after me, and I owe Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
Ex-Officers "Phantom
£250,000 Expectations
an
emery wheel to remove identi-! fiable marks. Useless silver he turned over to coiners who were in alliance with "his "racket."
A fair proportion of his gains went to Ireland; he saw to it that his wife and family were not in need
Fortune Of £10,000
His wealth grew steadily. At one time he had as much as £10,000 in various banks (and) in various names)-in London.
Edward George Tucker took | every precaution to prevent stolen property being found in his house He fitted up dummy ceilings and his tables had false bottoms. Where the police carried out their search it took them three weeks to recover everything.
A former naval officer who at a personal expenditure of himself,
Tucker invested much of his previous hearing declared that he wife and child since January 1, had an expectation of £250,000 an-1934, amounted to £5,306. Items of money is buying up a cafe and der his father's will when he personal expenditure in respect of a dairy in Southwark to pro- reached a certain age, appeared a liability of $227 108, for cloth-vide him with a regular income. for his resumed examination, atling included: eight shirts,, £25: St. Albans Bankruptcy Court four suits of pyjamas, 16 guineas: last month; th
two pairs of gloves, £4 106.
He was Henry Andrew Sten- The Official Receiver asked if house Anderson, aged 49, describ-"it was on the strength of these ed as a dealer in real estate, of phantom millions” that he obtain
His fame became such in the London underworld that scores of criminals automati- cally went to Elm when they wanted jemmies or revolvers. And so confident were his
the Woodlands, Stanmore Hill, ed credit. Anderson denied it, men when he was waiting trial
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(Mr. J. I Poland) concerning his the court about the £250,000 personal serpi
to raid orchards in Kent Now The examination was adjourned their chief is dead, and they He agreed that household, and for closing
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