CAPSTICK
H
E was once a Liverpool. choirboy
who ran away to sea.
In recent
yours he has done more than any other man to maintain the sequence
almost uninterrupted triumphs by the world's most famous crime-fighting unit-Scotland Yard.
of
Record-holder of successful murder investigations at present in Detective' Chief Superintendent John Capstick. And this, is the story of his toughest. Rssignment.
Fle was sent to Carmarthenshiro_ perhaps the proudlest county in all Wales to solve a double murder mystery that had incensed the local folk more than anything in living memory.
in the
Valleys
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1955.
of Suspicion
by PERCY HOSKINS
the
penniless farmer would
And they told him; In this part of the country, CATTLE. Ronald Harries had transfer red his "uncle's" cattio to Cadno
This was the brutal, long- Arst conviction for murder in Tell me the things a young and premeditated, hammer-killing of court for 65 years. Amallholders John and Phoebe That night they dubbedi Harries, of Dertywyn, a lonely detective "Capstick, Whitehall" farm near Carinathen.
It was the finest compliment this burly, pay they could bowler-hatted policeman. way Farm, his father'a land at Pen-
This was the colloquial they spoke of their neighbours and friends--Reca tho Post; Harries James the Beach, or Derlwyn.
They were missing from the right of October 10, 1053, And revealed on-the-at inquiries no trace or clue of this respected, and thrifty old couple.
Grey-haired, astuto John Cap- stick and his assistant Detective- Inspector B Heddon---a war time colonel in the Army Special Investigation Branch nado their arst tour of the valleys of
The killer
RONALD HARRIED
A CAT-AND-MOUSE GAME.
suspicion on a drizzly November morning,
area
They found themselves in en
where
many people loyalists, but distrustful of Gov- ernment by Whitehall-regard every English official with mixture of distrust and con- tempt.
U
1
With the file they had cepted him. I was really #ceolade for all Whitehall.
ac-
Fun
The manner in which Capstick gained their irust is one of the greatest inside stories from that storehouse of secrets--Scol- land Yard.
FIRST he drew on his vast experience of murder.
tod
SECOND and this with Cap- stick was an automatic reflex netion-be sel the wheel of routine investigation In accelera- were motion Statements Through: people
were questioned time and again on the smallest thing that Capstick knew instinctively did not tit into the Jig-saw of his theories.
read
H
THE CATTLE
E had proved the value of methodical slogging in taking 46,235 fingerprints of the inhabi- tants of Blackburn to solve the June Dovancy murder in 1947. (Fingerprint 40,235 was that of Griffiths, the murderer.)
dine.
of Cadno Farm, the "Fari the Fox" as it means in English, is deep in the wild heart of
countryside. Carmarthen Capstick said: "Make a countryman. Tell me about the game and the wild life."
Je
THE GREAT CASES OF SCOTLAND YARD'S GREAT DETECTIVES.
the wecond week of this new series, meet Chief Superintendent John Capstick. The master detective, who is 51, came, to the Yard from Liverpool. He is married, has three sons, lives at Norwood, grown roses. Expert on underworld stang. In early days with Flying Squad specialised in daring leaps on to the running boards of smash-and grab carn.
Was
The Notorious
LOLA MONTEZ
T
10 have written this story in the 1850s when Lola Montez was in England would have been danger- oua; Lola horsewhipped writers
of means in the neighbourhood.of articles which did not meet with her What his intentions were one
can only, surmise.
approval: Once she threw a newspaper All this from the Capstick proprietor out of a window. He was her routine, Now it only remained husband at the time. for the plan to pay off.
The country-wise search (cam was ordered into Cado farm,
Crudno Farm, s head turned north towards a Beld of kale.
The story of Lola Montez, dancer' By the time the order given to search the kale Geld It was exactly one month after and adventuress, starts in the Irish town Capslek know these demning the dual disappearance. A sharp- of Limerick when Edward Gilbert and eyed sergeant of police noticed his wife, a withered patch of kale
facts:-
he said he had "gone
THE END.
bed."
name
that
former Miss Harries had tried, to forge a cheque written by his "uncle" poked a slick down...touched Oliver, who had Spanish altering, a nine to "900" to one of the bodies.
blood in her veins, had a had been on the roads near
They daughter in 1818. Pendine in his Land-Rover after
Minutes inter
John Capstick
tho child Marie was watching as the spaces laid called bare the moment of his greatest | Dolores Eliza Rosanna. triumph.
Mr Gilbert joined the No one in Carmarthen Will Army and died of cholera
the So TOW did Capstick know this quarrel with
HOW
fast fact? He had once hung Capstick has been given by in India in 1825. His widow phosphorous London's crooks whom he has (who had accompanied him a dripping in of paint from the bacit axle of fought for close on 25 years. to India) married a Captain Harries's Land-Rover to And They call him "Charlie Artful." Craigie a year later. Marie out his destination.
And above his desk in the was sent home to Captain And Capstick knew too that Murder Squad room at the Yard, Craigle's relatives in Scot-. Hurries hid lled about a after the execution of Ronald land. holiday in London for the old Harries on April 28, 1954, they folk; that Harries had taken the fixed a wooden plaque with the coveted cattle to Cadno.
carved advice:- Morcover, Harries was already "Softly, softly, catchee monkey."
(COPYRIGHT) playing up to another, woman,
And they told him: The buzzards live on dead things. Maybe they will give you a clue.
Superintendent Capstlek watched, wondering, the cruel- heated buzzard, hungry with the approach of whiter, that perched
ON
the telephone wires above
From Cyprus, Island In The Newspot
TEENAGE TERROR
RIDES
BY BICYCLE
SHE enslaved great men.... SHE was the cause of a duel.....SHE 'ruled' a kingdom ..SHE horsewhipped her critics......SHE threw her husband out of the window
offers.
The
Little knowing Lola's past ex- into polities. Monoy was distri- perience, the Viceroy and his buted by her enemies; the seeds friends tried to boo her from of discoutent were sown: the stage. The boos turned into
But it was the students who cheers when Lola promptly told brought about the end. the audience of the Viceroy's Liberal, students whom she dup
ported fought with the Consur- Many of the audience were re- vative students. Lola had the volutionaries; and the next university closed. That was the morning all the political unrest last straw. Revolution broke In Poland nearly exploded-be- out, her life was threatened, she cause of Lola. She was ordered was banished from the kingdom and the old king was forced to abdicate.
Marie Dolores, already showing signs of beauty to leave the country. the Spanish blood had given her raven black hair and the Trish blue eyes-was sent to Paris for part of her eduen tion and when her step- father's regiment returned Ahс finally joined her mother at Bath.
$
Lolu, unhurriedly and with a pistol in her hand, supervised After one attempt to return to the loading of her belongings on Bavaria (dressed as a boy) Lola fled to England and tried to re- to the coach for St Petersburg.
turn to the stage. The picce in There she was received by the which she proposed to appear,
gave her however, Czar Nicholas, who
Was more than the costly presents,
Lord Chamberlain could stomach By now Lolo Montez was far and it was withdrawn, more than a Spanish dancer- she was notorious. She went Lola's star was now on the back to Paris and lived in wane. At the age of 31 shu, luxury. Her dancing was still, married again. Her now hus- band was scarcely more than a boy (with a considerable fortune) and his aunt started proceedings
of
snobbery which Army life KENDALL
tells another of the world's strangest stories
Mrs Gilbert had, however, absorbed a great deal of the By DAVID BURK
in India engendered and And the one-time adventurous choirboy had proved it again
Nicosia, era. The killers are mobile.
A month ago an 18B-type law insisted on engaging her McDONALD when breaking down the seem-
THE echo of three pistol u because many of the streets (preventive internment without daughter to. a repulsive old Ingly foolproof alibi of Ian Hay
old-walled town are charge or trial) was decreed to man whose only claim to in the Therefore John Capstick Gordon, the R.A.F, cadet, who shots rips through barely 6ft, wide, bicycles replace detain suspect terrorists. Until had a double
fame was his knighthood, task in the killed Patricla Curren in Belfast
the dark,
narrow- sedans and limousines.
a sudden flurry of arrests, hardest of all pursuits. He had earlier in 1953.
Janed rabbit warren that. Is police drive up. The body the last couple of days, only 10 to find tho. Idiller, and
To avoid the marriage more:
Detectives look were held. conscious that his actions and
and Nicosia of John
removed. by night. Two
at bewilderod, tho Phoebe Harries, after Capstick his methods were open to
Governor Sir Robert Armitage Marie ran away with a hand- rubber recently
assumed powers to some captain. In 1837 she sharpest gerutiny he had to live examined all the bicycles fling flock of unsympathetic.
enforce a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Imarried him under the name the part of the perfect Scotland the finger of suspicion pointed their machines round a necks that has
But they have only just been of "Rosa Anna Gilbert, Yard detective,
bayonet sharp at young Ronald
used for the first time-in an Harries, the "nephew" really
spinster." a distant relative of the dead
frelated mountain village. couple.
In the case
corner.
In the
street they have just left, a young post-office clerk and special constable So, crumples. and lies dead.
He mucceeded. Women dabbed their eyes the night he walked down the seven steps of 'Car-
farmer's son court with marthen's assize
Harries was n Ronald Harries, the double and an ambitious one, killer and covetous planner, con- to the people of Derlwyn, Cap- victed of murder. It
the stick said: "Make me a farmer, killing. The old Chicago pat
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on the grounds bigamy, as the final order for Lola's divorce
had never appeared," She filed with her new husband-by then a cornet in the Life Guards-to Spain, where she, is belloved to lave borne him two sơDE.
in 1833 her husband was re- not very good-but only one Alontez arrived in America. She por.ed arcwned off Lisbon, Lola One confesses to me: "What.
critic dared to say so, Out can we do? The killera are
came the horsewhip, and the appeared first of all as a dancer and then in melodramas with probably backe among the crowd.
critic was soon very sorry that titles like "Lola Montez in And half these people could de
No follow-up
She went to India with her he had "insulted" Lola when he Bavaria," EOKA anyway,"
the National' Organi-
husband and his regiment, but wrote: EOKA-the
And then she married again. the return
"There was about her some- journey to England sation for the Cyprus Struggle-
in 1842 was followed by a thing provoking and voluptuous This time I was to the proprietor wants
demonstra-divorce her husband accusing which drew you. Her skin was of a San Francisco newspaper. these sporadic group that terrorist church-backed laland WHAT has been the effect of
far from white, her wavy hair like tho It did not last long, and finally British
of having out of Cyprus, and tons of strength that are rarely ber Enesis-union with Greece.
of the woodbine, her Lola threw him out of a window. followed up, these - boomings innocent romance on the voyage tendrils
eyes tameless and
ber Although he lived ho not, un- Gyts Nightly terror reports come in from an empty barrel?
mouth like
budding naturally wanted nothing more from
towns and villages. Slogans
Marie then studied dramatic On the British community and
Add to that a to do with her, threatening "Death to traitors"
Despair, anxiety art, but she was not very good dashing figure, charming feet Sho returned to the theatre and demanding "Freedom from the Services:
about their at acting. She turned to dane and perfect grace. Unluckily, and sailed for Australia. Once British slavery" flower on roads about the future,
walls. and
personal safety, and about the lug-and showed promise. After as a dancer she had no
an there she objected strongly to island as a key
short visit Middle East a
to Spain Colony
In Paris sho fell in love-prob- article written about her by the The police, like the
defence point.
emerged
'Lola Montez ably cor กร that Government
pays them,
the first time with editor of a Melbourne paper. stay tight-lipped, and largely
On the Turks (100,000 in the Spanish Dancos, making her Dujarier, edlior of the Republl Out came the horsewhip. But
died Lola was getting a paper A draining of confid-debut at Her Majesty's Theatre
Presse. He inactive. It took them an hour island):
a bit past this duel over her on form ighting & start quelling a riot in which ence in the Administration they London, on June 3, 1843,
next time thousands of pounds of damage are eager to back and which
she picked up the supported their It was 1x7 a success-she was March 11, 1845. A trial followed of literary revenge.
the duel and famous men horsewhip was to thrash 'the' was done yet only 30 seconds" they believed
booed off the stage. Not because Alexandre Dumas was one owner of the theatre in which to clear that area with tear-gas interests. once they did start.
On
Greek - speaking her dancing was bad (it was not
she was appearing. The owner a wife, however, wrenched the But the answer to any ques- Cypriots (400,000 in the island): very good, however), but it is "ppeared as witnesses.
stid, because she had rejected
whip from her hand and tions on casualties, plans, hopes, Manifold.
her a taste of her own medicine detalls is always; Nothing to
Young EOKA thugs (the ages the advances of Lord Ranelagh, of those arrested and those I and he paid a gang of toughs to
That was the end of Australia have seen at work in riots range do the booing.
Lola.
She sailed back to mainly from 10 to 18) have been
But her greatest adventure was America. Her Health He obviously spread malicious
was falling NOURISHED by Government
friends had almost innetivity and vacillation.
stories about her ancestry, too, yet to come. Restless again, she and her
The old deserted her when suddenly sho papers of the time travelled to Germany. Only a tiny proportion of the for in the
King of Bavaria, Ludwig Carl met an old school friend from Britain when the I.B.A. Greek-speaking Cypriots favour there are otters from hush Augustus, was the next to full Montrose, Scotland,
an English. raid an Army camp there is terrorism, but they are SCARED ing that she was
But the damage was under her spell. Five daya after wife of a Dorist in New York, a meeting at Cabinet level to speak or net against it. And woman,
her first appearance on the stage From her friend she acquired Security, and detection plans are I am
at. Munich she was officially in str
views strongly religious immediate.
troduced at Court with the king's devoted the remaining years of words "Gentlemen, I present to her life to visiting unfortunates Sou
ou my best friend."
of her own sex in New York On March 7, 1847, she was asylums.
to
Nothing is said
IN
In
Cyprus, where for months bombs have been thrown, shots fired, police stations attacked,
A
the
convinced that it is not done.
the majority that favour Enosis.
In a mess
HERE
HR have been four deaths
Lola Montez lett for the Con- so far from EOKA bombstinent. On the strength of her considerable-she and guns. All four have been received bookings to dance in
beauty-now Cypriot Greeks. All polleemer.
can
naturalised by a special Royal decres, given the title of Buronne te Rosenthal and, later, Com tesso de Lansfeld. Her personal
And she income from the king's coffers-
1ΟΣ
The
then, the
"
and
Government bulidings blown up,
leaflets seditious
distributed, nothing happens, nothing is sald With a few exceptions.
Almost exactly year 180, surprised Cypriota
told Two-thirds of the island's Dresden and Berlin, wero to get a Constitution. 1,400-strong force is Greek-100 was an instant success.
was twenty thousand florins. He and after great suffering she There was immediate reaction percent loyal, I am assured. The composer Liszt fell deeply, also built her a splendid house died on January 17, 1861, vastly from the union-with-Greece organisation.
thes
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So
But I havò scen more than
it was described
bed as a pension
Paralysis suddenly struck her
this former Irish girl penitent, saying "My life has the islanders one hang back self-protectively in love with her and for a few: Scon
kingdom of been sacrificed to my passions." were warned that there was a when, if he really felt himself weeks they lived together. But was ruling the sedition law which could gaol offelally backed, he might have Lola did not stay with him long. bavarland, strangely enough,
In Greenwood Cemetery. 'New was ruling it well. The Ministry She left for Warsaw. or deport anyone attacking the acted. Who can blame them?
which had held power until her York
tablet marks Lola Colony's status.
The courts are in the same
was dismisan and `a Montez's graVO It There she captivated the old arrival
mentiona Today, a year later, there is sort of mess. Greek magistrates
nothing of kingdoms ruled. still no Constitution. And are scared to Hand out heavy Viceroy of Poland, who offered more liberal one introduced.
But many were working hard critics horsewhipped, wealthy despite ceaseless poditioned punishments to young terrorists, her jewels and a castle. Head-
The lovers, or Spanish Blood. The by pulpilt speeches of Engels for EOKA is vengeful. It is strong as usual, Lola retorted to reverse har fortunes leader Archbishop Makarios-not safer to stick to a fine and a that she could not love an old clergy hated her; the Austrians, inscription refers simply to
against her; and the Eliza Gilbert, aged 43, nan whood hair and tooth were schemed a single
aristocracy resented her intrusion
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bas person
been warning.
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HE POINTS A GADGET AT THE BRICK |WALL--IT MAKES A BIG HOLEHE
STEPS IN-SUDDENLY--THE HOLE IS GONE.
STAND.TO ONE SIPE. I'M COMING THROUGH AGAIN; I FOUND MY SUITCASE,
not his own.
By Lee Fall and Phil Davis
WHAT KINDA GADGET IS THAT HOW DOES IT WORK
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WELL** GOODBYE:
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