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OLD MEDAL FOR BIG LOSS DUE TO DARING RAID ON
DOG "HERO.”
DRAGGED HIS MISTRESS
TO SAFETY.
RESCUE IN TRAFFIC.
HATRY.
£2,000,000 CATASTROPHE TO PARENT TRUST.
COMPANY REPORT.
:
MAIL VAN.
HUSBANDS
WIVES £7.
ESCAPE AT HIGH SPEED IN LONDON.
A MATRIMONIAL AGENCY SECRET.
CAREFULLY PLANNED."RUSH THE POSITION.”
,,,
Brownie, a bit of a spitz and A loss to the company of more One of the most daring mail rob- Interesting disclosures as to collie, owned by 13-month-old than $2,000,000, directly attribut beries of recent months was carried matrimonial agency charges for Helen Pappan of Pasadena, Calif., able to Clarence Hatry's frauds, is out in London. The thieves:
an "engagement" in the case of a has been awarded a gold medal for mentioned in the report of the Drove off in a mail-yan in sight man and a woman were made at dragging his mistress to safety Parent Trust and Finance Com-of the driver;
Highgate. after she had toddled into a traffic-pany.
Transferred the registered mail
William James Caldwell (39), of filled street. The award was made The case says the report, pro into a private car while travelling Cressida-road, Highgate, was com by the National Committee of duced a catastrophe in the affairs at speed; Spratt's Dog Hero Award and is of the company.”
Abandoned the mail-van outside mitted for trial charged with obtaining £524 by false pretences aignificant of the most outstanding Loans and Investments, of the a post office.. act of animal herolam and loyalty company (whether free from: The robbery, which was the work from Mias May Joyce Jones (25), in the country during the first six specific charges or deposited with of four men, was carefully planned. a typist; of Camden-road. It was months of 1930.
creditors) at cost amount to £6.-It took place outside the premises alleged that Caldwell posed as a With the announcement
of 050,031 These nasets are now of Messrs. Lilley and Skinner in single man when he was married Brownie's award, the national valued at only 3,178,938, showing Pentonville-road, Islington, shortly and the father of children. award committee also has named a difference of £2,871,098.
after seven o'clock in the morning. It was stated that he advertised 10 other dogs which have perform is impossible to apportion
for a wife and was introduced to Vain Chase. ed "outstanding acts of unselfish
Miss Jones, who bad inherited heroism" during the six months this figure accurately between
losses due to the Hatry frauds and The driver had dismounted and $1,000, They became engaged, ending July 1. The report is signed variations in value due to general was delivering mail to a block of but he made it a condition that by Frank Dole, kennel editor of conditions," adds the report, "but offices, Coming out of the build-she gave him £500. the New York Herald Tribune,
Difficult Choine.
or
a resolution at the meeting con-three mail bags contained in the senting to the postponement of the van were not removed there. balance sheet and profit and loss
Car Behind. account.
"Rush the Position."
Dr. William A. Bructte, editor of the Hatry frauds account directly ing, he walked to the back of the Forest and Stream, and Frank B. for approximately 80 per cent. and van, stretched out his arm to open
the back and the He had previously written her, Rutherford, operative manager of indirectly for a still larger propor- the doors at
tion."
van suddenly shot away from him, it was stated: the Pennsylvania Society for the
These losses, it is said, would accelerated to 50 miles an hour, and, I am against long engagements Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
and will want to rush the posi- The national award committee have been increased materially rushed off down the street.
Pedestrians, cyclists motorists tion. was organized at the instance of a under a forced liquidation but the
principal creditora joined in the chase but lost their Miss Jones said that out of a group of dog lovers who drew up company's plans and regulations concerning granted time to dispose of many quarry in a maze of aide turnings. sum of £250 she gave him he paid
A few minutes later the van ar-23 10s, for an engagement ring. the award, another of which will dificulties. be announced Jan. 1. 1913.
"It is generally agreed that the rived outside a sub post office in
Evidence was given that Cald- The committee depended upon project for the rationalisation of York-road, near King's Cross, half
the name of William Janies the daily newspapers and the co- the iron and steel industry was a mile away. A man stepped out of well was married at Shenfield in operation of humane associations well conceived and, in the absence the driver's seat and walked across and similar organizations, as well of fraud on the part of Hatry and the pavement as if to enter the post Uhrmacher. His wife's brother
suggested as a few individuals, for informa-some of his associates, would have office, but, instead of going inside, said his sister was still alive. It that defendant tion regarding dog heroism. Any resulted in substantial profits for strolled down a passageway and was
was not seen again.
should pay £200 as maintenance, dog was eligible for the award. the company."
Eye-witnesses who saw the van but the wife would not accept this There was no distinction because In the interests of the company arrive at York-road declare that the inducement or entertain a divorce. of colour, class, size, breed the shareholders are asked to pass breeds. Ownership played no part.
A director of the matrimonial paper said that Caldwell gave the Even strays were eligible..
age of the woman he wanted, and asked that she should have £200. He was told, as all men who want It was no easy task to make the The board of directors is being The robbery was so swiftly con- choice from nearly 100 instances reconstructed, and, while main ducted that the police are satisfied ed women with money were told, that the money she had must he that were brought to attention. In taining. continuity with the past the mail bags-one containing ze for her own use, every case all possible effort was business of the company, will pro-gistered packets to the value of Miss Jones was on the books, made to verify and substantiate vide representation for the several hundred pounds were the facts as they were presented to creditors and shareholders. " transferred to another car driven and he gave her Caldwell's name. us. In this respect the daily news- A committee formed to safeguard behind the van by accomplices dur- When the two came to pay his charges, he asked when they were papers in the cities in which the the interests of shareholders agreesing the chase. acts occurred were of inestimable with the postponement of the This transference is believed to going to get married. Caldwell value to the committee. Innumer-balance-sheet, and adds that all have been made in the neighbour-replied, "Ah, ah!" able instances were reported in members of the old board were hood
of the Potato Market in Witness explained that on which dogs had unquestionaly been equal victims of a colossal fraud, Somers Town, where the mail van engagement the woman paid £20. solely responsible for the saving of and the inclusion of only two mem-was last seen before it was abandon-and the man £5.
The magistrate, referring to the human lives, particularly in many bers on the new board is not to be ed.
of entire families being taken as any reflection on the five) A patrol van of the Flying Squad fact that each paid on joining the awakened in scant time to escape members who will retire.
which was cruising in the area was paper £2 2a, said that normally a from burning. buildings by the "If the steel position can be informed by wireless after news of woman paid £22 25. to get one of alarm sounded by a frenzied clarified and a satisfactory settle the robbery had been telephoned to the witness's husbands and the
few man paid £7 2s. animal. Excepting in one or two mens reached, with the principal Scotland, Yard. Within
In answer to Mr. Eastwood, for of these instances, however, there creditors, the assets are capable of minutes it had discovered the was present a possible element of such Improvement in values that in abandoned mail van, but all traces the defence, witness said Miss self-preservation.
the course of a few years a part of the thieves had disappeared. Joues was put in touch with 20
to 30 men. The award was made, therefore, of the heavy loss which has been to the dog that voluntarily faced incurred over the Hatry frauds
Caldwell pleaded not guilty and an obvious danger in performing may be made good."
reserved his defence..
casus
his act of heroism.
An Unusual Case.
The committee was unanimous in selecting Brownie 2.9 the dog that has performed the most out- standing act of heroism and loyalty during the six months period.
An interesting and unusual case among the other ten recognized by the committee was that of the.sav. ing of Jack de la Casa of St. Louis, Mo. Babe, four-year-old cross be tween a police dog and a collie, nd astray puppy assisted in saving Jack from drowning in the deep River des Peres sewer. Jäck fell in and Babe dived right in after him, got the back of Jack's coat in his teeth and swam to the edge of the hole, where the puppy grabbed the boy's wrists. Babe scrambled out, got another grip, and the two dogė pulled Jack out.
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