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REMARKABLE FRAUD.
CORPSE DUG UP TO PROVIDE
EVIDENCE.
HONGKONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS;
TORDERA BY MAJ, 3. HILVILLE SMITH, M.B.K.,
ADMINISTRATIVE COMMANDANT,] ·
1-ARMS.
1926
One of the most remarkable frauds ever- perpetrated upon an insurance company
-Members.are reminded that rifles and has just brought a highly respected busi- ness man of. Binghampton, N.Y., the bayonets must be returned to Volunteer very light sentence, of two years in Headquarters at once for overhaul by
the Armourer. prison:
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3.-ARMOURED CAR CO.
His case is reminiscent of Mr. Poily's,
2-MOUNTED INFANTRY CO. as described in' H. G. Wells's novel. Ho
All members will parade at New was not doing well with his business; he alounted Intantry Studies on Friday, had lost his affection for his wife; hand July, at 6.30 p.m.. wanted to make a clean break with the old life, get right away and start afresh. But he did not wish to leave his family penniless. He carried a life insurance policy." If he could give the impression that he had perished in a fire his **widow" would find herself in posses. sion of a nice sum, he would have his freedom, and all would be well
Parade at Corps Headquarters at 5:30 P on Monday, 8th July, 1920.
Vickers Gua Instruction by C.S.H. Hancock.
Drivers at Happy Valley under Sergt.. Bruce.
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The attention of all ranks of all sec tions drawn to the Instructional Classes in Vickers Gun beld at Volunteer headquarters on Mondays. These classes
"Mr. Polly set fire to his dead-and-alive little drapery shop. Mr. Frederick Gast about six weeks, and are open to all Besle set fire to his car, and sent it members of the Armoured Car Co. plunging over a cliff.. But Mr. Polly
did not dig up a corpse from a cemetery MEDICAL SECTION. to add picturesque local colour
to
the drama of his disappearance. ghoulish Mr. Beale did.
The
DUG UP A CORPSE
He was an insurance broker, a quiet, well-conducted, eminently respectable man. There was a policy on his life for £4,000. He resolved that this sum should go to his family.
He found a good place for the motor accident. But his ear must have passenger, and the discovery and obtain- ing of a suitable passenger gave him a let of trouble.
Eventually he got tidings of the burial, in a shallow grave in the little cemetery Lant in the country near the village of Hancock, of the body of a male pauper. He went to the spot to rob the grave, but repairs to a bridge caused a night watchman to turn him back.
He then went to another country graveyard, where another male pauper had recently been buried, and proceeded to dig up the coffin.
He dared not use a light, and he was rendered very nervous by two wild cats which came out of the forest and prowird to and fro within a few feet of him.
He had chosen the grave of a pauper, 28 the coffin would be only 31. deep: Unscrewing the lid, be lifted out the body, which be slung over his shoulder and carried to his car.
He found the wild ents in the grave when he got back to fill it in: and the persistence with which they hung around. saarling and spitting when he threatened them with his shovel, distracted his mind from the details of his position.
He found quite a cavity when he had filled in all the earth for he had forgot ten to put the lid back on the coffin, and it, too, had been filed...
ARRANGING THE DISASTER. By this time the enterprising Mr. Beale had had quite enough of the job Abandoning his plan to leave the grave just as he had found. it, he made no Ettempt to dig it up again, but flung the coffin lid into some undergrowth, and left the spot.
What happened subsequently, is best described in his own words, na contained in the signed confession to the police, which landed him in Auburn Convict Prison.
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30 pin. Uniform to be worn.
Lieut. J. C. Macgown. Pte. E. Law.
Pte. A. W. Shovelton. Pte. H. E. Strange......... Lee-Corp. Ho with attend at Corna Headquarters at 5:30 pm to 6.30 p.m. on Friday, 9th July, 1928, to issue stören. 5.-STRENGTH.
The following is taken on the strength 29th June, 1928, and posted to Armoured Car Company.
on
No. 1001 Pte FP Frankli 6.-LEAVE.
2nd-Lieut. G. K. Hall Brutton, Reserve! Company, is granted six weeks' leave of absence from the Corps, from 3rd July to 21st August, 1926.
7.-RESIGNATION.
No. 301 Pte. J. Gillespie, No. 6 Pla toga, is permitted to resign from the Corps, as from 1st June, 1826.
G. E. SWINTON; Capt.,
Adjutant, H.E.V.D.C. Hongkong, 2nd July, 1928.-
WOMAN'S FASHIONS.
ARE THEY RULED BY MEN.
"CLEVER DECEPTION.” - Bishop White (known as the only woman bishop in the world) is visiting England to open a European centre for the Church of the Pillar of Fire
A clergyman stopped marriage ceremony recently because he considered the Bride's dress immodest. Although
has been since the 16th century, a Magnet attracting from Europe all who sought Trade, Adventure or Gain.
To-day it is rapidly becoming known as one of the Gems of the Pacific-The Pearl of the Orient and attracts Tourists and Visitors from all parts of the world.
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To those seeking relief from the uppressive and trying local sum- mer, there is no place which holds forth such a pleasing prospect of complete change of surroundings, of secenery and of climate.
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8 days to Batavia, a short journey then takes the traveller to the Highlands, where all the trials of beat and humidity are forgotten in a temperate climata unsurpassed in any tropical country.
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Hill resorts like Sindanglaja or Tosari, where Fires in the evening will be appreciated.
The magnificent vessels of the Java-China-Japan Line sail the poor girl felt her humiliation deep-direct to Batavia," or to Sourabaya via Macassar, and give the ly, he refused to relent. But was the responsible for the indelicacy of, her traveller the added charm of a sea voyage through Calm and gown?
Tropic Seas under Ideal Conditions.
Shortly before sailing for England I visited a New Jersey store to buy s warm wrap for use on the voyage. Ex- plaining that--needed one-to-cover-bath throat and chest, I was astonished to hear that they had none in stock We don't allow women to wear that kind of wrap any more, madam," explained the proprietor.
"Getting back into the car, I drove it over 18 over the river and along the highway, until I came to a road which led directly to the river's edge. I turn ed into this road and stopped the cat. I then took the corpse and placed it be But don't women-choose what they hind the wheel, tying it in.
please?" I asked. They think they Isaturated the corpse and the updo," he replied, amiling. holstery of the car with the contents of I could quote many similar instances a bottle of gasolene. About its waist. I proving that big business has commer tied a time fuse, set to explode in seven cialized woman's fashions. Victimised minutes. I had left the engines running, by men who plan and design her clothes Pushing up the accelerator, I raced the with the object of furthering commercial engine, then alipped it into gear.
interests, woman still believes that she is mistress of her own wardrobe. How is this clever deception worked 1
Like most successful hoaxes, the ruse is very simple. Dealers in silk lingerie, for instance, can seriously impair the trade of the manufacturers of sensible
I guided the car from the running board until it had reached the speed of about 15 miles an hour; then I jumped clear. I watched as the car gained mo- mentum. There was a crash, it went over the embankment, and there was another crash as it hit the ground 25ft. below. cotton and woollen undergarments--by
Then I ran off but stopped as I got on to the main highway again. Boon there was an explosion; the time fuse bad worked. Then there was a burst of fire. I ran up the road as fast as I could go.
"I went directly back into Hancock, and waited about until the eastbound Erie passenger train came along did nat buy a ticket on the station, but paid my fare on the train.".
HIS FATAL BLUNDER, How then had the scheme miscarried? No suspicion was aroused when the wrecked car and charred body were found The body was placed in a coffin and sent to Mr. Beale's home. The funeral was arranged, and was actually in progress when a police oficial arrived and stopped it.
influencing the fashion makers to dis countenance the products of their rivals. An increased demand for gauzy materials is created immediately.
FASHION'S DECREE. Furriers, create a ready market for their goods in a similar way. If fashion decrees that woman's chest and arms shall be left bare, she is forced to seek protection from the cold with the help of high-priced wraps. In summer she is. still at the mercy of the furrias, for even in climates where the thermometer reaches ninety degrees in the shade, she wears heavy furs. Yet no one dreamed of such an absurdity until the commer cial game became as acute as it is to-day.
Some folk think that women should not. allow themselves to be ruled by fashion. But those who fail to conform become The wild cats had so upset the grave objects of ridicule, besides losing social robber that he had left a far more standing. They are considered cranks, serious clue than the dip in the ground and few sensitive women can endure to due to forgetting to put on the comin lidbe thought eccentric
He had left his overcont; containing per- Besides this, men quickly discriminate sonal papers, hanging on a tree in the between women dressed in the latest de signs, and those who are more conser" cemetery IAR NAD
After that he was a fugitive from vative in manners and apparel. Pre- justice, His photograph was circalated ferring the company of women who far and wide, and soon he was recognised silure and fascinate, they shun the con down in Florida, where he had set up panionship of girls who are less modern,, in business as a building contractor. Women who wear up-to-date clothes Avowing that this arrest was a case of throw monkey wrenches in a men's mistaken identity, he was released on moral machinery," exclaimed a seriously bail, but he was rearrested and confess. minded college student recently. He did. ed when confronted by his former typist not mean to be unjust, nor, indeed, do It is explanatory of the lawlessness of many others who adopt his attitude. so many Américans that a swindle plan- Nevertheless, it is hard that wontan ned so cold-bloodedly and involving so should be accused of immodesty by men horrible & desecration of the dead should when it is they who compel her to wear. be rebuked with only a light sentence of fashions of which she herself does not two MATTE..
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