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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16th, 1928.
A CHAMPION HOAXER.
LIVING ON RELIC FAKING.
LIMELIGHT CRAVING.
-Åvizsauny, Jan. 17th. The astonishing onroer of Hunter Charles Rogers,
the forger of his torical relics," was related at the amize court here to-day, when he was sentenced to 12 months' impri- sonment for obtaining.... £1,600 by false pretences from Afr. Wilkinru
Jaggard, a Shakespearean, expert. | of Speatford-on-Avon," and a chequr | for £200 for Penn relics" by mears of forged letters.
Mr. Justice Sankey said Rogers had swindled a number of people by-most ingenious frauds, but he accepted defending counsel's sugi gration that his exploits were the outcome of a desire for notoriety and vanity.
Rogers, who is 47 and 43 dscribed as, a labourer, fired at The Dell, Langley, near Slough. He had been in prison since Octo- ber, and pleaded guilty to the charges.
EIGHT HORSE-POWER SPRINTERS.
MR. H. M. ABRAHAMS ON
DECADENCE."
→IT MAKES ME TIRED,”
An audience of old and young athletes, schoolboys dreaming of record-breaking, and schoolgirls who mean to rival their brothers listen- ed for nearly two hours while dr. II. M. Abrahams, the world-famous aprinter, told them how the thing was done..
..
The champion of the 100 metres Olympic Guaws. 1924, oranuned his lecture with fact and wit,
THE ADMIRAL'S - TEA PARTY..
OLD SHIPMATES OF HU.S. "RALEIGH"
REUNION, IN H.M.S.
NELSON."
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When the wooden steam-and-sail frigate Raleigh sailed for Cape- town in 1983 she carried among her complement of 350 men two mid- shipmen named Brock and Brand. On January 3rd, at Portsmouth Admiðil Sir Osmund B. Brock, It makes me tired," he said, Commander-in-Chief at Ports to hear that Great Britain is de-nouth, and Vice-Adarital Sir cadent in sport suuply because wo Hubert Brand, now Commander of are not at the top of the tree in any the Atlantic Fleet, mrt. once again hranel of athletics, as we were lastat tea in the most powerful battle- century. This country is no more ship afloat with 50 of their ship- accadent than any other country,' mates dis the Raleigh on that cruise
His programe revealed some of 40 years ago. interesting comparisons of records in 150s and 1925"
100 yards | mile
mile mile
les
1998.
9.4-3 47feecs.
min. 32-seces min. 13.3-seca No evidence was offered on a fur
........in. 17.3-3secs. thur charge of obtaining £100 by 120 rds. burdice ... 13,1-Seeco, false prolences from Mr. Richard 440 yds, hurdles... 37.1-5secs. Thomas Prout by the sale of worth-High Jump.......... cit. Spins.. less Milton "ralica."
Mr. A. O. Caporn, prosecuting, maid that in 1024 Rogers obtained two parcels of books and doeursents which he alleged contained Shake- speare relics. The documents prur- ported to include actual signatures of William Shakespeare.
Long Jump ft. 9:ns. Fole Jump ... !Ift, 10kins." Putting the Weight 47ft. Throwing the Ram-
mer
100 yards ...................
nake
Rogers approached Mr. Jaggardį | mile. and told him that they had been 1.mie examined by Mr... Gibson, Keeper 2 miles
.........
131ft, 10ģina,
192%.
3.0-5 ITACUS.
Imin. 31.3-5aces.
4min. 10.2-3secs." 9min. 1.2-5secs.
14.2-5secs.
39.3-3sect.
uft. Sins.
of the Manuscripts at the British | 120 'ds, hurdles Museum, and Mr. Frederick Well-440 yds. hurdles. stood, scoretary of the trustees of [High Jump" Shakespeare's birthplace at Strat- Long Jump ......... 25ft. 10fine. fard-on-Avon. This was untrae, Fole Jump
14ft.
but on the strength of these statė-| Putting the Weight 31ft. mants Mr. Jaggard was satisfied as Throwing the Ham to authenticity and paid Rogers mer £900.
- 180ft. Gina How meticulously detailed is a A week later Rogers, who claim-modern athlete's training for a race ed to have descended from the port the emphasised by stating that to hanker Rogers, mid he had found win a 100 yards. sprint in ten another parcel amorng things seconds it meant-in his case, at which had been left by an aunt and any rate-forty-five strides of nearly Mr. Jaggard paid him a further seven feet each at the rate of four £800.
and a half each second. If by lack of training each stride were only an inch less in length than it might have been it was obvious that there would be a net loss of about four feet over the whole distance.
In a race of 100 yards it took Rogers next found" relics of afteen yards to attain speed, but Pern, the great Quaker founder of after eighty-five yards fatigue set Pennsylvania, United States Iain, thus slowing down the pace."
Subsequently Mr. Jaggard brought an action for the return of one sum of £800, but although he obtained judgment he had not re- ceived any money.
Charles II Document.
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Electrical Timing.
November 1994 Rogers had bought at a saleroom in Holbom a smal
These data bad been obtained by iron chest for £5. Is this be Professor Hill, who had tested it placed documents he had collected by electrical timing. A runner with or manufactured, and in October magnet on tus breast had run the last he announced in another name course, pose on the way, a series that these were genuine relies heai standards by means of which had bought at Stoke Court, Stoke Poges, formerly the home of the Pena family.
There was a remarkable docu- ment purporting to show that the casket was given by Charles II. to Williun Penn, and Rogers adınit- ted that he wrote it himself.
By this time he had become se well known for his forgeries that he did not approach Mr. Cadbury, of-the-Society of Friends, in his own nume but wrote ingenious jet- ters in the name of Coxwell claiųs ing descent from a well-known Quaker family.
Mn. Orosfield, a Quaker. impress ed by the letters and the ** milles,” gave a cheque for £200 for them
lo a Windsor dealer with whom Rogers had placed them for sale. Fortunately Mr. Crosfield stopped payment of the cheque.
record of speed all the way had been obtained, this appearing ulti mately in the form of a graph.
A sprinter running 100 yards, Mr. Abrahams said, generated about eight horse-power.
Air. Abrahams was lecturing in aid of the Tavistock-square Clinic for Functional Nervous Disorders, Mr. Nigel Playfair was chairman.
Officers and men, down to the powder boy, of the old ship were invited to a gathering which is un- precedented in the Service
We are standing in the Adudrul's dining saloon. The Christmas de corations still hang from the walks Through the windows abine the lights of Portsmouth. There is a babel of animated talk as me who have not seen each other for 40 years fight their battles over agnia. There is the tapping of knuckles against bronzed foreheads n the old mëssmates search their memory for names, a special correspondent writes to the Daily Newk."
Admirals "Chat.
Talking quietly together are the two " middy" Admirals, Captain Sir Lionel Wells (Lieutenant in the Raleigh, and since Captain of the London Fire Brigade and Chief Conservative Party agent), Ad- miral Sir W. D. de Salia, and Admiral J. Ley. They, too, are re- ralling other days, of their old- time captain in the Baleigh, the famous Tug" Wikou, V.Č...
Listen for a moment to Mr. W. J. Creber, who captained a gun on the Raleigh, but nearly mised his tea because he was absorbed in the mechanism of the huge 18-inch guns housed in the turret forward.
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With him are two friends, ex- Private Lewis Vooght, of the, Marines, now landlord of a Grave" send inn: and "Billy" Salmons, who is still at sen, after gearly 50 years.
Men," said Mr. Creber, "it is staggering to think of the way we had to handle our guns on the Raleigh. Here you press buttons and a levers and the machinery: do the rest.
The Old Days.
"And the grub In the Raleigh we had a pint of cocos for break- fast and half a pound of biscuit so hard that you could not break it with a sledge hammer, For dinner a pound of pickled pork and some pen soup, without too many peas. Then at four o'clock a pint of ten. more biscuit, and no more till next morning.
"Here they have three-course nuls; there are electric fans, and bathrooms and smokercome for the lower deck.
"Yea; I well remember Admirni Brock. He was marked for an admiral even in his middy days. I SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN remember somebody hitting him in
HONG KONG.
FOR FEBRUARY, 1928. STANDARD TIME OF THE 120th MERIDIAN, EAST, OF GREENWICH,
Date.
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Superintendent Edwin Tucker, February of Slough, weid Rogers was born in London of fairly wealthy parents. He was apprenticed to farming and worked for short When periode on various farms.
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he was 22 he worked his pasenge to New Zealand... After a inonths there he worked his paAsage back, and later went to Canada and the United States, but he stay- ed nowhere very long.
When he married, about “1000, Rogers took up poultry farming and pig keeping in Kent, but he
not successful.
Upon the pictures were found to be worth- death of his father in 1915 Rogels less. Mr. Pratt, who had lost his received £1,000, and went to live life's savings, died the next month. at Ashford, Kent, where he posed and his widow obtained only £3
as a private detective,
for the pictures in a pulitic calu.. He was next board of at Cobham,
For years Rogers had done no Surrey, two years later, when he work and had lived on the sale of registered as an American citizen, spurious reli but the police found he was not associated. an American. He did not serve in criminal." the war.
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Bogue Insurance Claim.
In March 1990 Rogers bought jewellery in London, insured it for
Recently he had convicted
Motoriety Craving.
Mr. T. R. Fitzwalter Butler, de- fending, said that, Rogers's down- fall was due to an imsenzate 'cray-
a large sum, and alleged that it ing for notoriety and a desire to be was stolen while he was travelling in the limelight. If he had receiv.. from London The claim was ed a little more education he might found to be a bogus one, and have known that he must not play Rogers was bound over of the these petty tricks with
che Central Oriminal Court in Septem- memories of great men äke Milton, ber 1921 on a charge of attempting Shakespeare, and Pena. His case. to obtain £1,216 by fraud.
was a parallel with that of the 18th When Rogers was penniless in century forgor, William Ireland, the following year he was befriend who achieved considerable notoriety ed by a Mr. Pratt, who took him by presenting the world
with into his employ as a gardener. wonderful discoveries. "... Soon afterwards Rogers said; a' Shortly before his arrest he had legacy had been left him by an an accident, and several times had aunt ia Cornwall including attempted to take his life, owing "valuable pictures by well- to the propre that was being put known artist.
upon him, wil
Mr. Pratt gave him clothes and Bogers told the judge he was money to obtain the legacy and thankful he was arrested, or he, afterwards bought the pictures for would not have been alive, now, £1,231. Immediately afterwards. Prison has made a man of me Rogers left the district and the he said but I must suffer for
(Cimtinued on next Calumin.) what I have done.
the stomach with a large potato and. he fell off the jib, and none of us will ever forget how he jumped overboard at Simon's Bay, South Africa, to rescue a stoker from
drowning.
"The Nelson ás a fine ship. Must make the men a bit soft, though. I doubt if they will live as long as we have. And I rather fancy they are not quite so smart."
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