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THERE is tenseness
“No," he says, with the faint. suspicion of a amilo. : "I got the money from Isidor Fisch before he went away to die. I know | nothing of the kidnapping.”
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Then the Flemington, New Jeracy, circus of a trial by jury. Damning evidence of Anne Lindbergh, of the sleeping suit. of Lindbergh; Betty Gow. "Jufsie" Condon, the hand- writing experts, wood experts, the ransom money.
"Ho was 'John," "He wrote the ransom notes." "He made the ladder." "He had the ran-
is som money." "He was the kid-
among the occupants of through it, unless there is
it, unless there
a row of cells in Trenton's State Prison. Their eyes are on Bruno Richard Haupt- mann, the rather good-look-
a last-minute reprieve, will
ing young man who is wait. walk to his death on Monday
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corridor into eternity. HAUPTMANN
His pale face compels them. His sunken eyes hypnotise them.
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BORDER FRICTION
The occurrence of another border clash between Soviet and Japanese forces serves as fresh reminder of the friction periodically evidenced along the frontiers of territories controll- ed by Russia and Japan. One
Again, there will no doubt be dificulty in determining respon-
Hauptmann to review his whole
found guilty of the murder of the Lindbergh baby
It is
mapper."
America's biggest and show
tram on til February the thir
teenth, 1935. Three women and nine men stand before their prison- er. "Guilty."
The man in cell number, nine straightens his shoulders as he sees himself take it-with a smile.
A nation rejoices.
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In the Death Row in the prison at Trenton, with murderers for friends and the perpetual tramp of guards feet, there are no trees. no flowers, no ounshine. Juxt darkness or electric light.
The man in cell number nine watches himself through the
lifetime. The man in cell num- Jersey, the famous home of the A sleeping suit arrives at montha, calm and placid, always ber nine sees a village in Saxony, and Anne, and Charles Augustus the Lindbergh baby,
Lindberghs. Charles Augustus "Jafsie's" house. It belonged to saying "I am innocent."
Months of weary waiting, months trees, flowers, sunshine; a rude, unhappy childhood; a sweet,
of prayer in his newly found reli- "John's" signal of good faith. gentle mother; a rough, drunken
gion, occasional deathhoumo con- The cemetery again. "Jafsie" verts. father.
grabs a box from Lindbergh's Appeals follow appeals, each is feet and walks from the car to quashed. To the last apponi, the hedge round the cemetery. "No," say the judges of Fleming- "Hey, doctor," whispers him, in the week of January the ton. Again the judge sentences voice from inside.
thirteenth,
Then guns, trenches, dying men, starvation.
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And after-peace. Jobless men. More starvation. He is desperate, and turns to burglary for a living. He is arrested
March 1932.
house near
junior,
A ladder rests against an upper window, A man climbs up that ladder and disappears through the window. He returns with a heavy bundle. The man in cell number nine looks at him closely. "It's not 1," he cries. The man vanishes.
sibility for the aggression, as, NOTES OF THE DAY Suspects,
which
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The new year had brought new
Rumours of last-minute efforts
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The
On May the first, 1933, the CV.R.Thompson
I'LL DRAW A CHEQUE
A hand passes through the
Application for a writ of habens shrubs, and the box and its ten corpus, which would have involved thousand pounds in gold certi- the automatic issue of a reprieve. while robbing a burgomaster's Inside the house a pretty ficates disappears. The ransom is rejected. home. Prison and punishment. Scottish nurse, Betty Gow, goes has been paid.
"That's the end," anys one of the Then freedom. More hunger, to look at her charge in that
But the baby is not returned, defence lawyers. Days pass, turn into weeks. It And then the idea of Amerien- upper room.
is summer trees, flowers, sun- hopes. Governor Hoffman seemed "He's gone!" Amerien the land of milk and
shine. ahoney. He lands in New York. Colonel Lindbergh comes run-
to be friendly. America seemed to He becomes a dishwasher.
Trees... at the foot of some be willing to wait for Its vengenare ning to his wife. "Anne, trees in a wood not far from the until it was sure. Colonel Lind- they've stolen our baby.' A blustering wind blows on nation is stunned. Anation the remains of the Lindbergh fury stirs on a shamed people.
A Lindbergh home two men find bergh sails to England, and a new the day of March the first. At frantic police, detectives, baby night it howls round a lonely soldiers, motor-cars, boats, suspicions. Violet Sharpe, an and then despair again.
More questions, more of lawyers and friends; hope agáin - Hopewell, New radio, airplanes. Its hero's son English servant in the home of is kidnapped. Questions, end- Lindbergh's mother, is suspect- less questions; suspects, endless ed. The police return, question
On Monday-unless the Governor her again and again. She dies intervencs-he walk through that in all these instances, each side)
Ransom notes arrive, written by her own hand.
Ittle yellow door. He sits in a in a crude Teuton hand and invariably accuses the other. NEW COINAGE
Questions, questions.
square-built chair rather like the Five signed with a mystic symbol. months go by. The man in cell king. Straps are fastened to his crude throne of an ancient Scottish But whatever the facts may be, |
March the eighth. An elderly, number nine sees himself trying wrists and feet. A surly faced
haired The Royal Mint report for 1934, white it is becoming increasingly
schoolmaster to quell the fire of ambition in man walks towards the switch. named Dr. J. F. Condon (who his soul by dealing in furs with There is a whirr. The man in the recently published, WILS apparent that only a fundament-shows that during that year coin- prefers to be called "Jafstie") a consumptive little German, chair is thrust forward, but his al political appeasement between ages were executed for ten differ- writes a letter to a New York Isidor Fisch.
straps hold him. He in still. He wants to act as newspaper. Tokyo and Moscow, accompanied ent parts of the British Dominions. intermediary between Lindbergh
end of a chapter. by a dimunition in the numbers These comprised no
less than and the kidnappers. Response first Lindbergh ransom money andi bellicose spirit of the fron-tions, and amounted in all to over
thirty-seven different denomina- is swift.
Next day he recoives a letter appears. The police find a de tier troops, will remove a Russo- 71 million coins. This was thirteen written in the same Teuton Posit slip in a New York bank Japanese conflict from the cate-million in excess of the average scrawl, signed with the same never find J. J. Faulkner, Then signed J. J. Faulkner. They gory of future possibilities. It during the previous ten years.mystle symbal. ...
in September 1934 ransom There was, however,-a-decline-in has well been pointed out by n the home coinage during the year.
money is traced to a cinema in political observer
In a cemetery at night on a New York; to a petrol station that one Plans are now being made through lonely bench set among graves, in the suburbs; to a house in obvious cause of these recurring out the British Empire for the issua "Jafsie", and a young man with the suburbs; to a cupboad insity of the services rendered by Few people realise the immen- of new coinage and postage stampaja bad cough are talking. clashes is that border patrols on bearing the effigy of the new
that house in the house of the big banks of the country to The young man both sides are suspicious and monarch,
says he is Bruno Richard Hauptman. Hie Majesty King "John," emissary of the kid- Third degree, questions, but the public. A man signs a che quick on the trigger. A state Edward the Eighth, and the trans-] nappers.
lying, meetings with Lindbergh, little more of it.
que to pay his bill and thinks of military deadlock is the result ference of his name or initials to looks at him closely. "It's not
The man in cell number nine "Jafsic," scores of witnesses..
It must be that a bank of the deadlock which still con-
various State documents. The 1," he says again.
"Yes," he heard from all of obvious to many them, "that's the man."
must receive many hundreds of tinues politically on this frontier amount of work, and it is not ex- process involves a considerable.
cheques drawn on widely dif- question.
ferent parts of the country and Again and again pected that any of the new coins
also on distant parts of the there has been hope of the ap-will appear before June, and that
world. pointment of a boundary de-no new stamps and postal orders limitation. commission to adjust of this year. The magnitude of will be issued until the late autumn maiters once and for all, but the task may be estimated from Russia has usually taken the the fact that in the case of stamps stand that the boundary is fixed alone provision has to be made for and clear and that no delimita-process involved in the production some twenty million a day. The
bion is necessary. Aside from of new coinage Is a long the technical points in dispute. Drawings by selected artists will be it is obvious that each side the Mint's expert advisory com- submitted for searching testa by cherishes profound suspicion of mittee, representing the arts, tech- the ultimate designs of the nical manufacture, and ` heraldry. other. Soviet statesmen have This done, the chosen artists must repeatedly accused
present carved models of their pro- Japanese militarists of planning to scize which dies will be made of tho posed coins to the committee, after] Eastern Siberia, while Japanese models and one or two specimen soldiers and statesmen foresee a coins struck. After further close resumption of Russia's thrust examination and consideration of for warm water ports on the will begin.
all the factors involved, production) Pacific and see in the Communist Internationale an agency for the two nations came to some bringing China under Soviet kind of agreement about each domination and for sowing other's spheres of influence. seeds of unrest in Manchukuo and Korea, as well as In Japan To-day, each side suspects the itself. It seems clear that both other of poaching, or attempting the Soviet and Japan are pre- to poach, on its preserves. Only pared to believe the worst about when this mutual suspicion is the designs of the other. Con-removed can we hope for any- sequently, each side is thinking thing approaching quietude! definitely in strategie terms. It along the frontiers and a cessa- is difficult to see how an atmos-Ition of Incidents which might phere of genuine pacification can easily develop into a dangerous be created, but it would help if situation.
one.
SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
"Now, before I buy it, I want the artist to repaint that barn,. or something, to match this sample of my living-room
draperies.
Prior to the year 1776 there wore few banka na we now know thenė; the ones existing were private banks or merchant bankers as they were styled, and they had much closer dealings in the actual commodities of trade than in the custom to-day, For example, the British Linen Bank in Scotland was established to assist the financing of the linen trade in- our country.
With few banks in the country and still fewer branches, the collection of chenues was siniple matter, as the clerks had little dimculty in going from bank to bank and presenting cheques, which they hekl for cash. With the steady increase of banking, and the use of cheques by nearly al olnases of society, some system of cheque clearance was imperative, as is now impossible for clerks to collect vouchers on the thousands of branches that are scattered over the country,
WAS.
it
Tho first clearing-house. established in London in 1776. Al- though a novelty in banking, the idea was not now, as there are records of kreat fairs or exchanges having been held in the market places of large Continental cities, France and Italy set up international clearing-houses or fairs to facilitate the collection of credit documents from far distant landa.
It will be clear that some banks will hant over a larger total in cheques,, than they, receive, so some method of settling thesis buinncos had to be Instituted. So. a settling bank tr usually appointed each month to deal with the adjustments.
The work of the clearing-house runs "silently and effelently, every business day desing in vast totala. In fact, £37,559,751,000 - passed through the London clearing-house during 1835. When you consider that thincplossal total was negotiated without the passing of an actual coin in hard cash, one can appreciate the dconomy and usefulness of the clear ing-house.