THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, - FEBRUARY 5, 1958.
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SECRETS OF INTERNATIONAL CRIME
Fig Pips Clue Caught The Brutal Killer
-NTERPOL maintains a
pool
o f highly
specialised police in-
formation, and is thus
By A. J. FORREST
able to keep member states to banish all
well
informed
about the ovidence
latest laboratory devices for identity.
fighting crime.
Scoundrels, relying
of
The hair
on moved
had been re- and
"fool-proof" alibis, now find other distin- them smashed by laboratory guishing fer- concerned tures obscured. experts who are only with facts as deducible Rut police from the evidence before scientists soon them. Teeth, for example, establish. afford a permanent of identification.
means
that the victim Cou cerned was
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Woman
aged
In Britain, under the National Health Service, dentists record thofr patients' teeth on Ministry of Health charts. These can serve Scotland Yard as subsidiary recognition ul index, as trustworthy merv enduring than uny
fingerprint system,
45 to 60, about 5ft. lin. tall, Þ Ü{ who brown hair, visibly grey- ing, and suffer- '] from
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tumorous
growth intern-
While a desperate crimi- ally. These tailled his details
nal can sandpaper out
fingerprints, he will scarce, exactly
his
with
missing
Elizabeth Macl,Indon's assassin, creeping on her from behind, shot her neally through the head while she relaxed in her sitting-room.
his Nving room, for permission them
to telephone his wife, staying, he alleged, with
friend. The detective modand
pasent.
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As he went to the phone, the
crook' drew
dut a notebook, pretended to search for wife's telephone mumber,
but
The FULL, a u-‡ Ethentic inside story‡ of INTERPOL, the‡ Forganisation which‡ fights international‡ crime all over' the; world, which has‡ been the means of bringing thousands‡ of criminals to justice, Written with the complete‡ co-operation of the‡ staff of INTERPOL
THE, ITALIAN, PÒLICEMAN'S LOT IS A HAPPY ONE........,NO ·POUNDING OF A. LONELY BEAT IN THE SMALL HOURS! FOR HIM. HE ENJOYS A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP — THOUGH NOT BY COURTESY OF THE BURGLARS' UNION I
When It's Night-Time
Old Italy
In
THE "PRIVATE ENTERPRISE” POLICE TAKE OVER
By BERNARD RONALD
very
troublesome
Milan. Ita boss is elegant, chain- time soon after we founded the Those were the POLICEMAN who amoking Biagio Argenziano, forco in 1947.
days that does no night duty is who prefers natty suits fallowed the upheaval of the a rarity in most coun- uniforms, though he holds war. But the situation today Not so in Italy. For, the rank of Lieutenant much calmer, Armed hold- it or not, 80 per- Colonel. He laughed when ups are more infrequent and my
mien to not often have to cope. while she relaxed in her sitting cent of the helmeted, cocked. I asked him why so many with gunmen,
and
police soft-capped regular
pounded "Thloves today try to pull room. When the police opened hatted her locked door, she had been members of Italy's huge but Italian pavements by day off warehouse coups quietly and
Instead ripped out a page, found murdered In Cheater
Square. Her assassin, creeping tries. on her from behind, had shot believe her neatly through the head
In-
and crumpled it into a boli, swallowed it. "That's all I wanted to do," he announced, proud of his deception
Selenlifte up the stitute," bariced the senior affoer. "and ask if anything can be done to retrieve this paper from Heinrich V-a stomach.” The expert's reply was negative. "The stomach acids," he said. "would quickly dissolve the Hut you might Jet un paper. have a look the accused' totebook,"
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dead about Ave days.
up with quickly, backed
far from uniformly clad but not by night. They immediately recovered "polizie” climb contentedly "Maybe it is because BD own Flying the spent bullet and shell case into bed round about 11 p.m. many people go on strike. roar niting A 32 calibre, Kicy-
His or "Her" Prints? In London with
เ
By patient trgalinent, forensic selentists made visible the lines his writing had made on the page next to the one torn out and were able to reveal in fall detall what the criminal wished to conceal; the surname, lown his and telephone number recomplice.
of
แ
П
to wind some tape.
Same Weapon
A
toat
motor-cara, But we have our Squad' ready to Into action leather-
Disturbances happen during mph Gilers.
jacketed motorcyclists on 100
have
received
who
What
sort of a man is the "private" policeman? Well, he must be tall, strong, athletic and a reasonably good scholar. He must not bò over 30 on to- cruitment. And he must have u clean conduct sheet. Require ments are stiffer than those for entry into the regular polleg force, which usually recruits its
from uniformed agreulturni south.
men
What It Costs
the
Pay is higher in the "privato police" than it is in the State
pattern, automatic pistol. Their-just like you and 1.
Last year, tour ruspicions fastened on a certain This İB not because the day, when workers or gold medals WPTE awarded to Arthur Doyee who
had been, Italian burglars have a union political group's inquiry disclosed, contemplating
stage de- my men by the Italian Automo rule that prevents a bigmous marriage with this
them monstrations for this and bile Association for recovering woman. He had shared lodgings working at night. The re- that, and large numbers of stolen cars."
and Security a man legally gular police sleep soundly Carabinieri entitled to possession of .32
because commercial under. Police have to be on call.” pistol.
takings take over at night Pistol Fights When Boyce asked to borrow
with an army of private Then owner refused.
I said: "But your pri- it, the
the owner policemen. Of course, if shortly afterwards
vate police force works only found it missing from his kit. you want your flat, shop, at night?" Fething certain that Boyce had offices or factory watched by
He continued: "Oh,
yes, wo taken it, he reported a loss to
"private enterprise" specialise in protecting people's the police. Fortunately, he had the
cartridge
And there are a lot case, policemen during those long property. kept a spent using it as spool on which nocturnal hours, you
have of thieves about after dark. We have a low men who do day to pay for this protection. du like guarding banks, That is considered fair escorting cashiers taking money enough in italy, where to and from the banks, or acting force. "We pay our men mora Latin logic says it is better as bodyguards to people
threatening because they live at home and to pay up than be "cleaned let ers.
But the great majority do not get free board and ac- Arregled, Boyce denled all
commodation like the barrack- out" through relying
on of my policemen are on regular based regular police," I was knowledge of the crime, even
and not
have told on right patrol. They all though some workmen had seen providence
their "beats,' him cleaning or esting such
a bicycle and a the private police to
How much do the Milonese Beretta pistol. patol. The pistol itself was never keep
from thieves away
pay for "private protection?" discovered Boyco probably
"They are supervised by ser-
Six shillings a month if they gearts
who are answerable is a
want their front doors luspected threw it into the sea, But such your property.
Vice-commandant The city is availed him
two or three times each night. All Big Towns divided into five separate zones. Three shillings and sixpence an
with stations in each under the
il a patrolman has The commercial "vigi- command
sho of
vice-com- nour
punch a factory clock at more in mandants. brated ballistics expert, having lante" service operates
frequent intervals. More if the all the big Italian towns "My cumpared microscopically
they And showod cartridge casca,
Nearly every shop of any im- In to premisesi, breaking
portance in Milan subscribes to been fired in the same weapon In Milan (population 1,800,- they must immediately phone in the service. So do the principal
the "Vigilance -the weapon used by the mur- | 000)
In- the regular polles headquarters banks. The huge Milan trade derer to kill Elizabeth MacLinstitute," as the organisation so that the Stave police will fair pass out a huge sum each
This fact, plus other cir-
custody. We are nut Scotland Yard was once te- cumstantial evidence, convinced is called, has a force of 450 formally lake the offender logo year for "private" police protec
empowered
tion. platol-packing to arrest persons on suspicion." an..Old Bailey jury of Boyce's uniformed,
As a prosperous, growing guilt. Sentenced to death, no men who keep a night
the I asked whether they did commercial enterprise,
shooting reprieve was allowed him.
writi their motto of the "Vigilance Berettas.
Institute" might well be: "Crime We had pistol fights with does not pay, but preventing armed robbers from time to crime certainly does,"
st
No con-
ly treat his teeth so harsh those of Dob-
The poison pen specialist re- sorts to all sorts of hunnwriL- ly. Even Haigh, the acid kin's
ing disguises. One neurotic bath killer, who put one of wife, but alone they were given figs. The presence of finger aspired to chaut dc-
11 vital cluc. Mrs not sufficient proof of iden. Hus furnished vietíma, elderly
tection by first writing out her Only one garden in the district scandalous Durand-Deacon, into a 45. tity.
with messages supported a tree bearing such typewriter--but in blank lettera, The Bnul gallon tub in his builder's
proof
came frald,
Ite
was inter- She used no ribbon, merely h owner yard
Crawley, ut
West with the discovery of the regated
machine's stencil. Then Sussex, and soaked her in victor's upper juw Intact. Confronted by cool-headed inkod in the letters,
confessed. sulphurte acid, could not Examined in the laboratory had, becording to is admission,
cealing, the supposed, tzi
distinctive chur- destroy her false teeth. the number of teeth, their enticed the girl to his gardens, acristies, and masking her own When retrieves, they
Irregularities, were shape,
and fed her to his fig tree and, handwriting. recognised by the dentist marks of dental fitments while plying her with some who supplied
to were all minutely noted and choice specimens, them her.
recorded. Then the man's dental surgeon found.
"Voice Box" Detector
He brought his chart
and was her mouth
WO-
WAS
detectives
h
typewriter's He
had turned
subterfugo
nothing,
For Mr Churchill,
the otle-
in the typewriter beyond any doubt that both had like Milan, Rome and Turin to policemen have powers axed guard is kept on property.
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But specialists pholographe! not the front, but the back
The her polson pen missives.
sultant picture gave very ac. curate peculiaritios used. The machine was traced.
of
evidence of
certain
two
and the splister confronted with her wickedness,
don.
on her in a fl of mad fury and killed her.
Police laboratories in several countries Bre
using Dow of loudspeaker electrical device banknote and docu- able to rect
mentary coun crfeliz.
cer-
to say with absolute In 1941, a man named Dobkin, caretaker and re- lainty, "These are the teeth
and
upper
jaw of Mrs
watcher at a Baptist church in Vauxhall, London, dis patient, psed of his wife when she Against such
A
ed.
my
Dobkin." a testimony,
it
Swallowed Evidencé
of
porarily at a loss when its ex- perts delected two identical sets angerprints. One set pur- ported to belong to a woman, the other to a male offender.
Vi
But it turned out that the two criminals were one and the
rame person
When paper is infact Artis no defending counsel could comas.en throughout Latex- was pressing him for arrears have advanced
dis tur It is bad conductor ela:mer.
Bu if there is the The murderer was electricity
slightest naw in it. a single duly convicted and hang letter erased or a forger's tam-
pering with
when At the first offence, Th victim's last meal coactability is greatly in- "her" prints were taken, the may often furnish
and let). Freased
the loudspeaker offender had been disguised as a woman--and undeteced. But "ynice bux" raises its pitch to a querulous note.
having committed
second
under a maintenance order. She walked
into out blitz and disappeared, poor woman so he told rela- tives and friends.
-
Agure,
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But in July of the fol- ing clues, A nineteen- lowing year, A party of year-old French model, of workmen demolisning the delicate features, but well notes the Investigator can reach wrecked church discover proportioned, was ed in a cellar an obvious. enllously murdered in -the very spot on the paper's Jy mai-made as opposed small Lown beside the to bomb-engineered grave. Rhone
by the loudspeaker's varying offence in his true male colours,
this rascal gave the Yard's most the piten of maximum intensity fingerprint department first
And whoever & body
had planted
here desired,
Prelimunary
surface thai indicates the counterfeiter's handiwork.
shock, then a good laugh.
а
Just as volia de tingerprints ore the individual scratch pat- Lerns left on a bullet and caruiage case when fired from an Individual revolver.
The experts have been fooled, Investigation of course, but rarely twice, and fruitful it yitle
evidence. seldom for long. A trafficker in However, the autopsy snowed pylon stockings, caught
In June, HHE, a London merely to
that shortly before her death handeil in Munich, begged the housekeeper, forty-year - old camouflage the burial but she had eaten a number ut fresh police, as they arrested him in Elizabeth MacLindon, was
seemed, not
red-
ANNE SCOTT JAMES throws a challenge to parents
Barbarian? Perhaps I Am...Since I'm Sending My Son To Boarding School
row that I've done it, But I would prefer to wall
N
the pecond child
it produces winners of wars there are only two children, I don't like it. I longer, till they are of Army or and leaders of men? Perhaps when the elder goes to board-
university age.
you've got something there. The ing school, think it is barbarous and unnatural to send our
Bona
to away schools at the tender age of eight or nine.
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A wild rush
"public school spirit" is, I be- becomes virtually RIL only You say it teaches them in lieve, a profound and genuine child.
boy impetus boarding dependence? A normal
to leadership and quite instepenstent enough, thank
bo courage. with sensible parents will
you, without having to be sent away from home. The sense of a adventure is inborn.
- A boy of eight may seem, at home, quite independent, competent, and tough. Не has his own friends, likes to get away from his family, and fights for all the free- dom he can win,
Too young
tham teaches I
But need the school bo boarding school? Field- Marshal Montgomery himself
day boy at St Paul's
WAS
ND what a AN
mess the holi- days become when children are at boarding school! And do we want a Spartan year, stuggers giddly between Thce of dead-pan, cold-bath the strict routine, of berm- heroes? Speaking as a woman, time and a Wild rush f
Your physical they are rather a bore.
pleasure in the holidays be toughness? Surely they could English boarding school boy
(especially cauto cách holiday learn this in
most near Into the a short, com- grows up
the end) began at- But he is very fond of his pressed training, say, at an an domesticated animal
in the mosphere. of einbarkation family, just the same. Sud- qual summer camp. Other na
world, terrified of women, leave, the children demanding, denly he is removed from tions can produce, hardy mom bored with the things that try and the parents concoeling, all faking 10 years over terest women, happlest at his sorts of luxuries and excesses, them, not for a limited without
club. spell, but for two-thirds of the year for the rest of his childhood.
No point
the job.
It toaches them to cope with unhappiness
..gives them a second skin? All I can say is,
+
Not much fun
NOTHER argument against
aight is too young for hardening up; 17 would be soon enough, And I doubt if trouble is aboarding: the boy himpelt is thing you can train fur. Often, not the only person to consider. TE may be a good mixer and the people who have led happy He is one of a family.
may Ilke his school im- lives cope mensely (I am not thinking of when it comes, the nervous, supor-strung child
disaster best with
who is a misfit in a crowd.) But It gets the
them away from doting Just the same he is going to mothers? None of the mothers
If they were at day schools, patterns would be more re- gular, the holiday excitement would be less intense, and the household would be tax, Lar esrior to run.
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And what about the other
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