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was EDWARD ARNOLD FRANK MORGAN.", MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN WILLIAM GARGAN
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The famous old L.N.E.R. 1888 Flying Scotsman train and loco- motive were on view to the public at an exhibition at Alexandra Pa- lace Station. This sturdy old engine proudly holds the name of "L.N.ER. Engine No. 1", and makes' a. striking contrast to the 'me- dern, speedy streamlined engines. Photo shows L.N.E.R. Engine No. 1 stands up to the modern streamliners at King's Cross.
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Strip- Tease" Turpins
AMERICAN VARIETY ORIGIN- ATED THE STRIP-TEASE ACT ON THE STAGE. AMERICAN ONE BANDITS HAVE GONE BETTER, OR, RATHER, WORSE, AND. INCORPORATED. • THE
NOVELTY IN THE HOLD-UP BUSINESS.
HANGED IN 1893, HAS JUST DIED
Pinioned and put upon the scaffold forty-four years ago, for a murder he did not commit, Will Purvis, sixty-six, has just died at Lumberton, Missouri.
In 1893 Purvis was found guil- ty of killing a farmer during the era of the "White Caps,” an or- ganisation of "vigilantes" in Missouri.
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Twice he escaped after being sentenced; was caught and order- ed to be hanged. While 2,000 people watched he was led to the scaffold and the trap sprung. Purvis dropped-hit the noose
They set the stage in Southern slipped over his head. Illinois, operating near the town of
St. Louis. Not content with high- way robbery of motorists, they forced victims, held up at the point of the gun, to strip naked and de- parted with their car and clothes.
The crowd at once demanded that he be spared until the State Governor ordered another execu- tion. The order was never made, and Purvis was freed soon after- wards.
In 1915 another man, dying, confessed to the murder.
Typical of the nudist pantomime Son 'Lives'
was the experience of a young Chicago couple, Miss Lucille Car- and Walter Anderson. night, when driving through the
son
One
countryside, two masked men, arm- ed with guns, leapt into the car and ordered Anderson to drive to a lonely part of the road.
LAUGHING BANDITS
Again--As A Robot
As a tribute to the memory of his son, Jacques who was killed in the Great War while serving with the Canadian Forces, 63-year- old Louis Fontainne, : a French- After some minutes' driving he Canadian," "of Albert-road, Black- and the girl were told to get out. pool, has created a robot, the face Their money, about 40 dollars, and
of which is identical with that of a diamond ring which Miss Carson
his boy. was wearing, were taken from them.
Then they were told to take their clothes off. When they protested the bandits threatened to shoot.
The mechanical Jacques WEB shown privately to by Louis, who has the deepest, affection for it.
"Jacques," dressed in full even- ing clothes, sat behind an easel drawing faces and designs while the inventor gave instructions. · ·
HAPPY AGAIN
The "strip-tease”? act was per- formed in the light of the car
"My boy and I were the best of lamps, after which the hold-up
| pale," Mr. Fontainne told me, “and men, who had yelled with laugh- when he died in the war I thought ter, threw the clothes into the I should never recover from the car and drove
Next victims
bandits were a
mond Becker, and girl, whom he drive. In this
were allowed to keep
Many similar outrages followed, but the strip-tease Turpins their game once too often.
called Bayle
horrible shock, Jacques had great artistic ability, and in 1938-1 con- ceived the idea of making a Fobot so that I might carry on in the be- lief that my son was still alive.
"The making of the robot has taken me, five long years,
“Jacques” in Bft. 8in. in height and weighs 10 at 10lb. In its com pleted form it is the story of a grest love between father and 'con. "When I look at him," added the
quite happ inventor," "T
again. One Jacques can play musical instru-
flesh pointments, just as my
am
her.
son could."