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"Sea Devil" Pays A Visit To Former
Harold Farquhar, the wealthy first secretary of the British legation in Mexico City, and Fritz Bialer, Gorman pllat, who were in Hongkong last week, have arrived infely at Saigon. The men are flying from Mexico City to London in easy stages." Farquhar's plans
is pictured above:
Names in A Convict's Diary Hushed Up When
Produced In Court
A SECRET document, written by a convict in his cell at the Old Bailey, was produced at the resumed hearing of the charges against the two Nottingham fire assessors, Ronald Alfred Relph and Harry Davis Hayden, at: Bow-street Police Court, London, last week.
Harry Gould spent his time while awaiting sentence with Leopold Harris and the rest of his gang, writing out # long memorandum-virtually a diary with names and dates;
This document the conviet pass- ed to Superintendent Yandell, the Scotland-yard chief, and it has been kept a close secret during; the two years Gould has been in gnot. He was sentenced to six years penal servitude.
Carefully Hidden
Gould is a witness in the present case against the two assessors, and when he returned to the box the document was produced.
Only a part of the pencilled memoranda or the first page of the convict's cell notes was revealed→→ the rest of the tell-tale document! was carefully concealed.
ALLEGIANCE. TO EMPEROR
Mr. Roland Oliver, K.C.. the Jeading counsel for the prosecu- tion, disclosed the reason for this. On the notes were a number of names, which, Mr. Oliver explain- ed, had nothing whatever to do with the present ease. The only) name relevant to the hearing was that of the defendant Hayden, and Abyssinia riding into Addis Ababa for that reason he asked that the for a meeting with Emperor Haile rest of the document should not be Selassic. The rich ornamented shield disclosed.
Counsel in the case conferred to- is an excellent example of native
craftsmanship. gether, while the magistrate re- tired to his room. They studied
A proud chief from the interior of
the document closely, and when handed over to the care of the the magistrate returned to the clerk of the court.
Rench, Mr. Oliver announced that
Blackmail Outburst
it had been fair from every point Gould's wife was again in court, of view if any name except the re- She heard her husband twice levant one, were scen.”
dramatically demand the right to The hush-hush dlary of the man clear his name of a suggestion of from Maidstone Gaol, still with blackmail. The convict was under most of its secrets unknown except cross-examination when the word to three or four persona, was then | blackmail was introduced.
Enemies In London
HE BLUFFED OUR NAVY
SLIPPED THROUGH BLOCKADE BY SINGING. "TIPPERARY".
THE "SEA DEVIL” IS IN LONDON. COUNT FELIX VON LUCKNER, ROBIN HOOD OF THE SEA. YOU: KNOW HIM. THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS HIM.
He is the huge, hawk-nosed, laughing fellow who took a sailing ship out to sea from Germany during the war, glided gaily through the dense British blockade under the very nose of Jellicoe, gained the ocean and played havoc with British and Allied shipping in the Atlantic and Pacific. He sank £8,000,000 of Allied shipping with his old windjammer, raiding the trade routes of the oceans in the guise of an innocent trader.
He was
one of the greatest while he is in England. He would menaces to shipping in the latter particularly like to meet Beatty days of the war. Yet he escap-
and Jellicoe. ed capture to go and raid England last month with a smile that would open the gates of prison.
Never once in all his raids did he cause the loss of a single life, He sank dozens of ships, yet not even 4 ship's cat was drowned.
"I have come to raid your hearts," he said to & London press representativo when he bounded down from the air-liner
at Croydon,
"Ah! How did I get through
the blockade?" he laughed in answer to a question.
"Well, I know the British are
"In Germany both these names are greatly respected," he said.
The Count run away from home as a boy of 13. His father want- ed him to be a lieutenant in the army but the boy wanted to do' something different.
"My ambition was to become a self-made man and my ideal of a really great man was Buffalo Bill.
in
travelled 20,000 miles by seal and land to soek Buffalo Colorado, but when 1 got there. hey told me:
Buffalo Bill has gone to Ger- many to give a Wild West show there."
"That was the greatest dis- appointment of my life."
Lieutenant At Last
In America Count von Luckner
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Their tank is mainly to protect
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£20,000 Claimed
For Use
Of His Name
PROTEST TELEGRAM SENT IN "LOBBYING"
Columbia (South Carolina),
Oct. 1.
A SUIT for £20,000 damages
has been filed here by a Post- conservative. They believe what
Office worker as a result of the they see until they see they are came into contact for the first current Congressional inquiry wrong. Then they never believe time with the Salvation Army. into "lobbying" activities in you again. As I approached the "I didn't know what kind of an Washington. Grand Fleet I was an innocent army it was." he said, "but I join- Norwegian. My old schooner wased it. I thought I should being facts about the methods The inquiry, elicited astonish- the most peaceful ship at sea. pleasing my father by becoming
This is the Count's boast:
à lieutenant at last.
used by a section of "big
"I sauk a good many ships, but | "They gave me some War Cries business" in their efforts to I have this to relieve my con-ito sell, and I sold them in the defent the Rayburn-Wheeler science from those old days of streets of America..
Utilities Bill,
taken at
the war- never deprived a "I have a great admiration for Evidence before the Senate dis- mother of the life of her son, the Salvation Army, and I am sure closed that thousanda of false wife of her husband or a boy of that they don't dislike me, for they signatures, or names his father. I took on board all have since made me an honorary random from telephone books, had the crews and passengers of the lieutenant of the American bran-been attached to telegrams sent ships that I sank."
ch. I am very proud of that rank to members of Congress urging.
He said that the name "Sea in the Salvation Army." Devil was given to him by the British. His famous raider was the Seeadler, a Norwegian ellpper formerly American-owned.
Broke The Blockade
"We broke through the blockade
in the North Sea by convincing the British Fleet that we were Norwegians."
that
"Before we sailed out every one of us learned Norwegian. We mastered the language so even the British-then the most cautious and suspicious people in the world-believed we were neutral Norwegians.
"We
dressed onc young sailor up as woman. He was supposed to be my wife. As a sailor he looked rather tough, but in the clothes we made him wear he was quite a handsome
woman.
We had
gramophone, and
when a British ship came along
SAILORS IN THE MAKING
Clue To
Missing Millions
BOER WAR FUNDS THE famous Kruger millions -the funds of the Transvaal Republic which disappeared during the Boer War are now alleged to have been shipped to Holland.
Chem to throw out the measure limiting the powers of utility hold- ing companies.
"Mental Anguish"
Fred Turnipseed, a local postal worker, claims £20,000 from the Broad River Power Company of Columbia, a unit of the Associated Gas and Electric system, alleging that the company had signed his name without authorisation to a telegram of protest despatched to Washington.
Mr. Turnipseed further submits sent in that the telegram was "utter disregard of his rights, and with_the_object of promoting the company's interest to influence Senator Byrnes to vote and use his fufluence against enactment It has hitherto been believed the Utilities Bill," and that this that Kruger, President of the caused him great mental anguish Transvaal, buried them inand loss of sleep.
:
ono
of
South Africa as he fled from
The Turnipseed action. Is re- the advancing British Army.
garded as a test case which may Now Carl Hens, an old German establish the right of individuals to challenge us we put on a settler, has announced that he whose names were used without record, "It's A long way to helped to ship them to Holland in
campaign Tipperary."
1900 on board the German steamer their sanction in the
the against
Utilities Bill to Old Foes
Konig.
the Count von Luckner hopes to
It was in that year that Kruger receive compensation from
companies. meet
some former combatants himself fled to Holland, where he
Influencing Congressmen spent most of the remaining years
Legal circles are interested in of his life at Utrecht.
Hens, who has been more than this case because it points the 146 years in Africa, states that way to what will probably be the from 1896 to 1904 he was a ship's lobbying" tactics in the future.
means of preventing such chandler in Lourenco Marques. It is thought to be unlikely that
One day, towards the close of the year 1900, he alleges the any measures will be taken against manager of the Netherlands Bank those who admitted responsibility in Lourenco Marques asked him for these tactics before the Senate. On the other hand, if individual for the use of two boats used in his business as ship's chandler.
members of the public ure success- ful in winning cases on the same, At midnight a hundred boxes, byista" for powerful interests will lines as Mr. Turnipsced, “lob- weighing about 300 16. each,be deterred from resorting to such were loaded into his boat and carried across to a German ship.means of influencing Congressmen Hens declares emphatically that the boxes he carried over to the König had been sent from. Pretoria, and contained the funds of the Transvaal Républic."
The English Training abip Warspite arranges annual competitions among the students so that the vallors in the making have the opportunity to show their capacities in asamanikíp Here they are seen
climbing the ropes.
Contained Cold
He says that the manager of
in the future.-Reuter.
ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION
Melbourne, Sept. 28.
the Netherlands Bank, whose name Having survived for 11 daya in he cannot remember, but whose tho artificial respirator, Ruby chief feature was a huge beard, Currie has established an Aus- told him that the boxes contained tralian record. gaid. The nature of the packing The girl yesterday spent four and the weight of the boxen con-hours outalde the respirator. The firmed that belief.
world record tenancy of an arti- Hons. swears that the namo ficial respirator by a patient who of the captain of the Konig has recovered is three weeks, was Sober, and that one of the A recent message stated that officers was Meisling.
Ruby Currie, aged six years, was Asked why ho had not revealed struggling deperatoly for life in these facts before, Hens said that the Children's Hospital.
he had informed the Union Govern- She has been living in an arti ment in 1923 that it was a waste ficlul respirator and breathing only of time looking for the Kruger by artificial means. millions in Africa, and had told The child fa suffering from. the Government what had happen-diphtheria, and paralysis of the ed to them.
diaphragm. The hospital authori Hens stoutly maintaing that his ties say there is hopo of her story is true-Reuter.
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