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"MAGICIAN" WHO MADE A SUCCESS OF FAILURE.
Mr. Frank van Haven, the famous American mock magiclan, died at St. Chad's Hospital, Birmingham, after a fortnight's Illness.
Mr. Van Hoven's rise from mediocrity to the position of one of the highest-paid music-hall performers in England
or America was quite ne humorous as any of his burlesque per- formances,
"He started on the stage on a small circuit in the United States as a conjurer," an intimate friend told The Evening News, "But as conjurer he was simply awful, Everywhere he went people used to laugh at him and treat him as joko, for he could not do the most elementary trick fully.
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Winning the Laughs, "He muddled so much, indeed, that he became almost famous as the worst conjurer in America, and won more laughs than many comedians.
"He was such a good-humoured follow, however, that instead of becoming down-hearted by his lack of dexterity as a conjurer, ha developed the idea of making him- self a really funny conjurer.
"Immediately his act becamo a success, and when I first saw him in New York he was getting about £45 a week. In 1914 I induced him to come to England, and ho was not here very long before he was getting £150 and £200 a week. "Then he became known as "The Man who Made Ice Famous" and The Ice-Man' because in one
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1929.
ROBBERS KILLED.
PROMPT POLICE ACTION
-IN SHANGHAI.
DEATH PRESUMED.
LT, COMMR. MACDONALD'S
ATLANTIC FLIGHT..
Last month Mr. Justice Hill gave leave to swear the death of Lieutenant-Commander
Henry
Two Chinese were shot and an- other wounded in an affray with police from Yangtszepoo Station during one of the most daring arm- ed robberies seen in Shanghai for Crawford Macdonald, D.S.C., late many a day. At about 7.30 p.m.
of Queen's-gate, who was lost. on Friday seven men raided the during an Atlantle fight last house of Mr. K. Kurado, a direc-year, as having occurred on or tor of the Shanghai Cotton Many since October 18. 1928. facturing Co. in Ningkuo Road. The house stands with another, to
Mr. Noel Middleton, who made which it is joined by a speaking the applleation on behalf of the tube, in an isolated section, and widow of Lieutenant Commander the robbers proceeded about their Macdonald, said that the latter business systomatically. While left England on September 20, four remained outside on guard, 1928, for Newfoundland-where three entered the house by a ruse. They tore down the telephonen in he arrived on September 26, 1928 the house immediately, but they to attempt a flight from there to did not know of the speaking tube England in a Moth aeroplane. At connected with the next house. about 4.51 p.m. Greenwich menn Mrs. Kuroda spoke through the
Lime on October 17 he tube to the next house, who ro
Blight for Eng- leased a burglar alarm connected began his with Yangiazepto Station and land from Harbour Grace, St. brought police on the scene be-John's. The Moth aeroplane con- fore the robbersveld cacope. tained about 100 gallons of petrol,
Police Quickly on Scene.
which would enable the machine A detachment of police under to remain in the air for about 30 not fitted with Det. Sgt. Tilton and Sgt. Willcox hours. It was arrived very shortly from Yang- floats and would sink within a tazebos Station. They found the few hours if it came down in the robbers inside the house, the four sea. The aeroplane was sighted. men who, had been left on guard from the steamer Hardenberg outsida having apparently run about midnight of October 17-18 away as soon as the police motor about 600 miles out from New- car drew up. Not knowing how foundland. Since then no com- many men were inside the building,munications had been received the police sent back to Yangtɛze- from Lieutenant-Commander Mac. roo Station for reinforcements and donáld by his wife or any rela-1 the eastern reserve unit under Ma.tive or friend.
jor Rourne and Sup. Fairbairn By his will, dated July 21, 1925,
act he made three little boys holdere Boon on the scene. In the his wife was appointed sole execu meantime the police had surround-trix and beneficiary, conditionally on her surviving him one calen- were still only a dar month. He own estate was
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ed the house.
While there
not very large, but he had sub- stantial interests in the estates of his late father and mother. His life was insured by one as- nurance company for £3,000 und by another for n smaller sum. Neither company raised any ob- jection to this application.
lumps of ice in their hands while he triad vainly to perform some trick with a bird. The trick never few men on the scene, however, came off successfully, and the unfortunate boys were kept stand-one of the robbers came out of Ing for a terrible length of time the front door, bearing some loot holding, with blue hands, rapidly and two shot-guns. He was im- melting lumps of ice.
mediately challenged by Det. Sgt.] "Never did this ridiculous act Tilton, and on his refusal to stop fall to keep audiences in shricks was shot by a Japanese constable of laughter.
with the detective. He fell but What He Told the Audience. got up and run towards a creek "Fow men
can have turned bordering the shrubbery in the failure into Buch tremendous compound of the house. He fell success as Van Hoven.
Into the creek but managed to get "Another thing he did that up the other side, where several made him so popular in England more shots were fired at him. The was that
starting to do a trick, Japanese constable pursued hini fumbling it badly, then throwing but in the darkness the man was Horn in Hongkong. down his 'props in feigned dis lost. Some of the loot he was gust, and remarking casually to carrying was, however, recovered. the audience:
Waal, it's not much of a trick anyhow. Some of you might like to see it, but I'm not goin' to. worry my young life trying to do the darn thing."
"With all his fun Van Hoven was one of the kindest men in the world. He treated these little boys he used to take about with him with every kindness, He made them open A banking account with money that he gave them, and he saw to it that they saved and that the accounts grew steadily."
As soon as reinforcements ar- rived police entered and searched the building. Frop the lights and movements observed in the dif- ferent rooms-from outside, they had reason to believe that there were a number of men in the rob- bery. Inside, however, they found only two. One of these dashed out of a room at the searchers and was immediately shot both by pistol and Thomson machine gun.
Third Man Dropped.
A quick search of the whole house failed to reveal the other man and it was only when the
THE HEALTH RETURN. police went a second time over
SMALL-POX STILL FIGURES PROMINENTLY,
Counsel submitted that there was no doubt that that extremely hazardous enterprise had met with disaster.
stated above.
His Lordship granted leave as
Lt. Commr. Macdonald Was
SINGAPORE CABLE,
SERVICE FROM LONDON IN 1.2 SECONDS.
London, Jan. 29. A test was carried out yesterday at the London offices of the Eastern Extension Company of the efficiency of the new direct cable service to Singapore, which makes it possible to send messages a distance of 10,521 miles in 1.280c.
The original intention had boo for greetings to be exchanged be tween the present Governor of the Straits Settlements and High Com- missioner of Malaya, Sir Hugh Clifford, and Sir Frank Swettenham, who became the first High Commis
ioner on the establishment of the Fedoration, Owing, however, to the Fact that Sir Hugh Clifford was on his way to Kuala Lumpur by sea, the message was received and ac knowledged by the Deputy Governor. Acknowledgment of Bir Frank Police believe the raid to haved within a few seconds, and the Swettenham's message was recely-
been the work of a Kompo gang
the building that they discovered him hiding behind some curtains in an attle. When discovered he made as if to rush at the police and was immediately dropped by pistol and machine gun fire. The Fifty-four cases of small-pox not of the rubbers, consisting of were notified during the week end-gold watches, cigarette cases, ing February 23 while there wore jewellery, etc., was mostly recover 50 deaths from the disease dur-ed. It could not be ascertained ing the same period. There were in the confusion last night just 50 Chinese cases, two Britial, one how much was missing. of which was imported, and one each Fillpino and Japanese, Cases from Kowloon totalled 27 who arrived in Shanghal just be and from Victoria 25, the other fore the Chinese New Year' with two being from Shaukiwan and the intention of making one big Aberdeen respectively.
coup and then getting away. It is There were two. deaths from supposed that the raid on Mr. diphtheria out of the four Chinese Kuroda's house was their big cases reported, while three cases Coup, in which case it has been a of enteric fever were notified. failure. Det. Suh. Inapr. Telfer The return for the week also is following up the gang, shows two fatal cases of influenan which is not a notifiable disease.
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The health return for the 24 wan. During the same period a hours ending February 26 shows British case of diphtheria was 16 further cases of small-pox, notified, a French case of puer- seven from Victoria, six from peral fever and a Chinese case of Kowloon and two from Shauki- `paratyphoid. --*
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