THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1955.
BLOCKING THE CRIMINAL'S
CHANNELS OF ESCAPE
NTERPOL never for-
gets. Nor,, for that The FULL, authentic inside story of
matter, does New
Scotland Yard, Full
details and description of a "wanted!" man-who has committed a crime within our shores and bolted to some hide-out overseas-on are circularised again and again us
INTERPOL, the organisation which
crime all fights international
over
the world, which has been the means of bringing thousands of criminals to justice. Written with the "complete scraps of co-operation of the staff of INTERPOL
fresh Information crop up.
Interpol is advised, for after his getaway, the call that
exact went out from Scotland Yard. instance, over what
"Alio, 'Allo, Interpol Paris? territory a fleeing crook's
Interpol Londres." Then, war service, if any, led him. lel
those continuing in French, the British Police
in forces
detective supplied his Paris col- countries are doubly alert leagues with detalls of Mr B. and watchful. For war-time plus his attases, and requested an
international
for scarch "heroes" and liberators That same day radio beams- sometimes rely on ex-girl swept through the ether bearing friends overseas to shelter his description. Revelling in his und feed them until they fool's paradise of cleverness, he for was utterly ignorant of how he feel the hue ad cry
belog Inexorably hunted them has died down,
in Britain, it
was down.
him.
no
Persons who settled in Britain Imagine the young mother's after the war, Interpol proved angish and aloem who " the
Us events
7
SECRETS OF
BY A. J.
FORREST
INTERNATIONAL
CRIME
up
regula
or maybe divine justice, ions by
failing. change of address. This, alone, enough in an obscure German oculd not justify, a request to
Gap Reduced
sure Instrument for meting out man she trusted confronted her Justice. The girl. a Lithuanian with this terrible statement mars at his name and appearance him. It was a desperate race Queen's mercy intervened, com- by birth, worked as maidservant le that prasked,
had boartos boat at Folkestone against the clock. Moreover,
Life imprisonment, in a hospital of Prestwick, Lanes, an even more terrifying for Boulogne. But his papers theirs was a ticklish mission. Fer mutin this serience to 'ohë që S met and married a Hun-
were out of order and the French they had no substantial chargo So, by a narrow margo, When she got back from work thorities had forbidden him to against him, merely a minor one almost by the contrivance garian D.P. continuing with
when her husband bad dis-and. Then, instead of re-board- of infringing the alieno date, urderer was kept just lang her hospital duties,"
appeared. She confided her dis- ins the steamer, as ordered, he They set up a home, perhaps tres to her alster.
The two of not completely quarrel-free but them went to the police. The had bolted. moderately prosperous and Lancashire
ire police tried drat to
the Munich police authorities for prison for English police officers happy. Then something cracked, discover if her husband had but
Ticklish Mission
His extradition. But, of course, to uncover his guilt. Once again,
Intervention Interpol's
had or turned turtle, directly
the acted
pettishly telling her,
they suspected him how of a
brought a killer to book, girl gave birth to a baby boy. perhaps out of spite, that he had
much more serious offence. tet #cmo unknown motorists Learning this, Lancashire's
Chlef Constable called His arrival disturbed some take care of their chiki. All
They interviewed him in his Isterpol" it New well, barely twelve hours before complex in her husband's mind, women known as fester-mothers "Eritish
The case illustrates, also, how Whether through jealousy or in Salford and surrounding in Scotland Yard. And once again his release was due. Thus con- sense of thwarted independence, dustrial districts were visited. the invisible network began its fronted the man's conscience any palice force in the British
drew
a relentless, probing search, repudiated the lies he had made Isicy can, whenever, there is he resented the baby's arrival But there
one teiling for mere strongly than he dared blank-except for
For weeks no vital clue was
to his wife. He confessed to seed, link itself without delay to to say. Something akin to hate fhet.
uncovered. Then, teesely, from having murdered their baby, Interpol, Someone revealed that burned within him. Perhaps he
Interpol, Western Germany, 4
and drew a map showing exact Nobody pretends that escape
'debris-ridden asket
In a message was received that a man where, felt the child handicapped the Hungarian, when
But becauso"- or family's joint cuming capaelly. his baby, had and he was letting wanted by the British police, region, he had disposed of its inte
*Interpol's power to enli upon the And, perhaps, the rolled too his wife a sister take care of it, was held in a Bavarian prison body.
When they escorted him back immediate co-operation of forty- his wife's wages for sitte his wife wanted to resume at Hebdorf. He had been com- the extra comforts he was loth her hospital work. Lies and more mitted there three weeks earlier, to England, the fateful map, eight national police forces, the was accurate In escape np for any runaway Hles. The man's disappearance to serve a month's sentence for, they found.
criminal is appreciably reduced and the discovery of the child's as we would phrase it: "Wander- every detail, ration book in # coa. ne ing
abroad without visible His trial for murder opened at and, in many cases, completely Time and again. New Scotland Must See My Boy" left behind pointed to some evil mens of support." He was due the Marcherber Assis on De- blocked.
motive behind his Kalacheeds, out almost immediately.
The Jury Next Week: Arch Fire-Raiser cember 11, 1952, The police set out to find him. At once two North country found him guilty and he was Was Fire Brigade Chief Soca they had evidence that a police officers flew to intercept sentenced to
But the
But he would not have có- joyed quite so wholeheartedly his bridge partics in his ezbin, or the
he sipped with cocktails newly discovered cronies on board, had he guessed that the chip's captain already knew him as a wanted scoundrel. And so old Australia's waiting police.
And as mailing Mr B. stepped ashore in Australia, his escape plans fully rounded off, he land ed full-tht-and very much ta his own amazement-smack into the Law's waiting arms,
glad to
It
hrme.
had
For a few weeks he lived Yard in Immensely Although foreigners are often the "brains behind the dope- luxuriously, enjoyed wild par- receive Interpol's aid. And, let's peddling, counterfeiting. smug- ties, wined his women friends not forget . it wes Mr Ronsid gling and white slavery rackets generously, absorbed their adula Howe, head of the C.I.D. and
happens tion with coger eyes, and often
Deputy Commissioner of Poller that the master-mind is Brush- doubt fell thoroughly safe and of the Metropolis, who helped to born. And every so often some secure in his crookedness, re-establish Interpol after
war-time demise, at the Brussels live-wire erook tries out a new
Yet, from the start, the in- Conference in 1940. Mr Howo idea, Invenis revolutionary
also swindle calculated
visible hourds were beginning to act to line, his
as chairman of the Beted bay. W.thin two days of Inter- sub-committee which selected pockets with loot
poly resto search call for him, Paris as Interpol's new Denmark's terpak Bureau, Between the WITH quartered
Copenhager, perated from Vienna. reacted.
declared the "Yes," Danish troller, "a nan answering your description, calling himself Leonard Kaye, arrived in Copen- stimulate International
hagen on December 10. 10 survelliance. lending +
registered as having come from one country, Germany, kick to the hunt us
But he left the same tracks down another country's murderer, or pursues a foreign- day for Sweden."
bandit.
Sweden's interpol, adviɛed by operating
fraudulent company promoter, base money Paris, now flung out alterer.
false cheque quiry net. Yes, Leonard
had crossed their frontier
Weeks Of Luxury
But new tricks undoubtedly
Ewindler,
polico fresh
their in- Kaye
He
Al any moment, vielen mur- der may occur in an English village, or some other vile crime be uncovered in our midst which requires Interpol's action, per haps thousands of miles away, before the wanted mon can be caught and tried,
Interpol, to its credit, identified the body in the Chesney case. transmitting to New Sectland Yurd pictures of the desperate Melbourne, Alcide's corpse, as phot
was now travelling on board the
for Mr B.,
A gentleman called Rius Kaye, performed a neat swindle in London, trick BO neat and original that I nust Li netted him not reveal it.
£ 12,300.
Then he slipped off abroad, leaving behind him, as baffled pollee he supposed, a force. "He would, however, have wiped the smug grimace off his face bod he overheard,
Barranduna Australia.
Clever Me B. How adroitly, with what fox-like cunning he had covered up his tracks, fitting
to frontier, from frontier
and
bamboozling all as to his real intention-to hide away down under," a wealthy mun, making whoopee some 12,000 miles away soon fim the scene of his crime.
by its discoverers, the police. It helped again, in the Hepper case. For, while the hue and cry for this artist rever- berated through Britain, he had, as Interpol quickly discovered, ned into Speln.
much on
to sacrifice.
Soon after
the child's birth, the persuaded his wife to resume work, baby, he told her, "I know a good woman who will leck after him as a foster-mother," After some disagreement, she became reconciled to this step, prepared the baby's clothes, and mudo all proper arrangements selcntious mother for his depar ture, though she was still in the dark as to who was going to curse her child.
"I thall board out the
09 COB***
inquiries
the
about
Ly
death
Three Cheers For Wine-After-Dinner
WIL
WILL the wine
party replace the cocktail party in 1965? Personally, I give three cheers for the idea and hope it succeeds. I Anthony agree with Sir Eden, who declares public- cocktail
She knew only that it would be bourded cat with a woman in Safford The day she started work at the hospital again, herly that he hates husband transferred, so he call parties.
foster- their boy to his new mother. Naturally, she craved to visit her baby, but always he put her off, saying she must give the chilld me to settle down.
After about three weeks, her
anxiety became intolerable. "I must ree my boy." she insisted. That very morning she had, as it happened, presented her hus- band with some £23. her maternity beneat. "Well, you can't," he snapped back angrily.
away to gave him
And in this little known cose. "I too, involving two, Displaced people in a car.”
some
SOMETHING TO REPLACE THE COCKTAIL PARTY IN 1955
By Eileen Ascroft
old-type
the "Cocktail party has over Douglas Fat banks.
a nuisance,* she dry martini gathering? partics arc or There's little sociability
It is more sociable, Hold after the rushed two BLYS. "Just at the time I want pleasure In
guests between office to be with my children before dinner,
arrive happily hours drinking and dinner or theatre engage- they go to bed I have to be at fed, with office problems behind ment. They usually turn out to a cocktail party. I think most them, in the mood to relax and be bad for the nerves, bad for mothers will agree with me." the digestion and had for the temper.
The new idea in party-giving
Mrs is catching on.
Gwilym Lloyd George tells me she likes the idea as it gives friends from the House of Commons an chance to come.
who is Ono popular hostesa against epektail parties is. Mrs
Major Tufton Beamish, MP, also prefers after-dinner enter talning, though "t's usually cofice on liquors." He thinks people en- joy going out more if they have a chance to go home and change and dine Arst,
What advantages do hostess find that the new-style wine
converse.
Better-timed
for dressing-up and enjoyment than the usual durried cocktail scramble.
A happier atmosphere pre- valls. Wine is a mellowing drink. There
Bro fewor arguments, headaches and hangovers.
And the bill is less. Average good wine, parly for cost of
them dry marlinia and the bill won't be less than £2. A
What to serve . Claret or hock cup warm spleed rod
chilled vin wine,
rotte, or burgundy or claret af room temperature.
If you're serving wine to guests before dinner instead of cocktails, serve a good Madeira with small dry biscuits.c
Wine is best in a gins with a nover more than bowl and three-quarters full. If you're making a hot wine punch, try to use a silver bowl and don't make too much at a time, or it loses its bouquet.
Chcego
straws
The Right Food, pays a good compliment to red wine, o serve cheese, and savouries, both hot and cold.
With dry
snacks arc smoked
white wine sh best—sardines
salmon--or chicken.
mvouries. With
20 people is about 25. But give wine, fruit.
sweet
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