THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1936.
THE RIDDLE OF HAUPTMANN "Man Behind The Plot Is Still Free:" Lord Donegall
GOVERNOR HOFFMAN New Jersey's Ponting Pilate?
'PERFECT
MOTHER'
WHEN I WATCHED AN EXECUTION IN SING-SING
Strange Noise-Smoke -Blue Sparks:
By LORD DONEGALL.
DEAD IN FLAT Journal was instrumental in left the asking to the
Mystery Of The Seven
Pillows
MRS.
THE cat has at last pounced and put the mouse out of its misery. Bruno Hauptmann, stolid German car- penter, had a long career as the mouse-more than a year since his trial at Flemington, New Jersey, in January 1935. Three hundred reporters at man with a pleasant emile, sat at
his desk. the trial wrote 10,000,000 words.
"Well, buys, anything you want lo Hearst's New York. Evening❘nsk me? There certainly was." I Americans, briefing E. J. Reilly to defend who fired every kind of question at Hauptmann. The trial, was n
It did not interest me particularly circus.
that Fischt had confessed to four, Models of the famous ladder weather murders and refracted, that he sold as souvenira, postcards of the rend Bible, had had only one visitor, principals sold like hot cakes, and bad, eaten chicken for his last ment eating utensils supposed to have been and all the usual. The warden spoke used by Hauptmann fetched high with astounding frankness.
What interested me much more prices.
was the warden's clock. It was ten minutes. slow, if the one in The ante-roam was to be believed.
While the jury considered their verdict Counsel Holly and # woman reporter alood in front of the Judge's SUT-bench and gang: "When Irish eyes
are smiling."
TRS. BEATRICE
TON, whose photo- graph as the "perfect
CELEBRATION DINNER
The jury wrote articles an the case for the newspapers and a book,
mother" appeared in baby each contributing a chapter.
food advertisements 20
The jury held a celebration dia- ner after the verdict put on paper eaps, and organised a square datter
Pince-cards at the meal were in the nicknames by which they in
bad
known: became "Dimples," "Good Girl Rosie." "Horsie," "Contented
years ago, was. found smothered under seven
flat pillows in her Elmhurst - mansions, Edgeley-road. Clapham, one morning last month.
It was only in December last that a woman named Eva Porter was stabbed to death in a flat in the same mansions by a Arthur Brook, who also took his own life.
Wits
Verna,"
and so s Rattles and squeakers. were supplied
Skip a year and four months of haggling, political intrigue, bogus confessions, baffling confusion. Haupt- munn gees to the chair.
the warden.
I learned after the other re- porters had filed out that Lawes keeps it slow purposely in case of any hitch in a last-minute re- prieve.
The death-house at Sing Sing is n square building far enough "away from the rest of the prison for as to be driven down in three 'burex. Before leaving we were asked to give up arms, cameras, and Busks. One reporter handed in a life-preserver and another a brandy flask.
On arrival we passed in single file, arms natstretched, while two guards ran their hands over us.
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BRUNO HAUPTMANN Mariur or Murderer?
THREE GREAT INVENTIONS IN GREAT BRITAIN
PROFESSOR'S NEW DEATH RAY WILL BLAST TARGETS OUT
OF EXISTENCE
COLOUR MOVIES TO .
BE MADE SIMPLE So front the darkness into
London, May I. bright fight of the death-house: a rew of pews already occupied on the
Death rays which will blast right. As nearly the last, I came to targets out of existence, a “magic the front row of the standing-room
The mystery of who was really on the left. The silence is deathly, box" which will simplify motor- behind the kidnapping and murder is Reporters start writing to steady (ing and flying, and a lens which as deep as ever, Only one thing is their nervos, for the state that you makes colour cinematography vertais: Hauptmann was not the work yourself into is far the worst simple and cheap, are three of the hrain behind it.
AT SING-SING One day last January an invitation arrived at my New York hotel. It was from my friend Warden Lawes, the very kumane governor of Sing-
part of the experience.
He is in a lounge ault, thin, grey-
latest inventions which have just been revealed in Britain,
What linpens at an American, As you enter, Elliot, the execu- Jt
first thought
electrocution? 12.
tioner (who electrocuted Hauptmann), is dipping the helmet in a bucket of
Discovery of the "death ray" that Mrs. Sutton had com-
is credited to Professor R. H. mitted suicide-she had tried
brine to ensure the contact.
of hatred.
Chadlield,
the Leicester to gas herself just after Christ-
Fisch came first. Ile walked College of Science and Techno- mas-but a Scotland-yard in-
steadily but as an automatan, not a logy, who conducted researches vestigation carried out by SuperSing Prison. Would i enre to be quicker of expression on his face, and which led him to believe that of the Press witnesses at the execut formed the opinion that he was intendent Helby, one of the disclosed these "Big Five."
tion of Albert Fisch and a Negro? drugged. The Negro's
Fisch would have been put iness stoicism enhanced that opinion. emanates rays of a certain fre
expression. every object and living thing facts:--
Broadmeer if his crime had been
WHIRRING SOUND committed in England, but the fact remains that he murdered, a little
She had been accustomed always to keep her electric light on, even when she was out or asleep. The light was out.
Friends declared she had re- muined at hume on Saturday -night-to-receive.a.visitor. This visitor has not yet been traced,
The room showed no signs of disorder.
The hed has not hern slept in.
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I don't want to dwell on the netual quency and it is only necessary girl in revelling circumstances, and execution. The current is on The Negro had shot a policeman in a three minutes, but the first shock vise a machine that will "tune hold-up. Altogether, a pretty couple, kills quicker than the brain can re-in" on the same wave-length and I motored up to Sing-Sing, which gister. The rest is muscular reas- annihilate the object emanating about 10 miles "up the river" from tion. The face is masked. There is New York--at least ten miles of it to sound but the monotonous inton- such rays.
ing of the padre as he reads from a being alone Broadway.
ittle Once inside the iron gate of the prison. my International Journalist's current
scrutinised
A whisp of smoke curls of 50,000 watts, generating a ray of by burly whirring. Irish Sergeant, who remarked, that it front the helmet and blue spurka y enormous strength, This, he believer, would kill human beings at a range of might as well be an anarchist's pass from the leg contact, for all he knew (it is printed in}
Pass
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4.60 p.m. Cat DJI, DIN. DJQ (German, '
English). Cermen Folk Bone. 455 p.m. Greetings to our listeners.
Prayer Book.Incongruous. Now Professor Chadwick in plan Home-Edvard-Keumann plays Lan
ominous ning to build a £20,000 apparatus-
makes п
mile.
The doctor then advances with a French), and sent me ups ter the stethoscope.
TWO years ago the Professor de- "T
11/27 is dead!" he
nys monstrated a small apparatus which solemnly, and within four minutes could kill a mouse, and this has ac- (of his entering by the far door Fisch tually been adapted to the destruction There I found some 20 reporters was being wheeled past me on a of insect pests. He is, however, re- body, which was only half-elad, Jussembled, and un atmosphere of hospital trolley into the post-mortem nasuring about the high power death
Eranke you could cut with a knife.
We conversed for about -10
Police took photographs, searching for finger-prints. The
was later removed for post-mortum.
The tragedy was discovered about midday by a neighbour, Mrs. Gladys O'Connor, who entered the flat by a window, A fittle girl who had called to collect maney for coal told her she could get no reply to her knocks,
Mrs. O'Connor asked her to look through the window. The child returned with the news that Mrs. Sutton was lying on the bed with pillows over her face.
Mr. O'Connor Saw the woman alive on Saturday evening and Mrs. Sutton then told her she was not going out
execution i11
that
room,
#
In fact, although one muy consider Such a ray," he explained, "could minutes. No one. to my surprise, capital punishment barbarous be teansmitted by wireless for a dis- proiticed a flank. Had 1- sven anachronism, it must be admitted tance of ten miles, but let me assure England? Surprise that Warden Lawes's arrangements you that there is no ray in existence no reporters were present and had reduced its horrors to a minimum.which cannot be counteracted by some How was I feeling? Did I think that ours took place in the morning.
could take it? Yes, I thought it wouldn't be as bad as an operation; of a train smash.
inenna" HUNT TO GO ON
The "magle box" was evolved by Trenton, New Jersey,
Paterson, of Liverpool. T. Watson April 29.
It is based on a hydraulic principle Governor Hoffman, of New Jersey and, it is claimed, will do away with "The warden wants to see the re-anounced to-day that he will con- the gearbox and eluteh in automobiles, porters!" paid a reretary, and we tinue, the investigation into the kid-make brakes unnecessary for pulling raped into his office adjoining, sapoing of the Lindbergh baby-up, double the mileage to a gallon, where Warden Lawes a youngish | United Prons.
reduce mechanical wear by about 50 per cent, and remove the danger of skids.
DAY NEWS IN BRIEF Furthermore, it is claimed the in- vention can be adapted to airplanes, The Empress of Asia is due here making it unnecessary to use variable- GOOD, WE ARE PART OF THE POWER from Shanghai at 8 a. on Thursday, pitch propellers, and may revolu
DAY BY
BY DESTING
WHAT IS PERFECTLY!
AGAINST EVIL, WIDENING THE SKIRTS)
| OF LIGHT AND MAKING THE STRUGGLE)
"I wont to the West End and re-
| WITH DARKNER NARROWER--George turned about midnight," said Mrs. | Kliot. O'Connor. "There was no light then in Mrs. Sutton's Bat. When'
caused
I passed it earlier saw the front A woman, Mal Wai-chuen, 25 years. door open and all the fights on."
was admitted to the Kowloon Hospi Mrs. Sutton was fifty-one years tal yesterday with injuries old. Her husband, Mr. F. II. Sut ton, who is partially paralysed, keeps a tobacco shop in Queens“. dale-road; W. 11.
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Wong Fu, 68, Dairy Farm coolie, was admitted to the Government Civil when she fell from the second floor Hospital yesterday suffering from in severely injured. of No. 206 Laichikok Road. She was juries caused when an iron bed frame
Ffell on him at Wellington Street,
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Meanwhile, S, J. Cox, son of former Manchester magistrate, and Umitri Daponte, a Rumanian photographie export, have evolved an amazing new film colour proceru after twenty-five years of research and the expenditure of $1,750,000. The process, 1 is expected, may Yip Kan, alias Yip Kau, 21, coolie,
Chan Ting, a cuolle at the Kowloon revolutionize cinematography. was sentenced to six weeks hard Docks, was admitted to the Kowloon }, QUICK AND SIMPLE Inbour by Mr. Balfour at the Central Hospital yesterday suffering from "My mother and father obtained Magistracy this morning when he injuries received when he was assault-black-and-white
It coala no more than ordinary pictures. Ordinary a judicial separation twenty-three pleaded guilty to loitering in Dested by other coolies with hammers. film is used, and it can be projected
Voeux Road Central between 7.45, and years ago," said, her daughter.
Immediately in colours without under- "Ther have
Beun ench
other 8.15 p.m. Detective Sergeant T. only at
Cashman atsted a detective observed rare interyals since. Can
Summoned before Mr. E. Himaworth going any special chemical process, so film could be taken, that a newn The last time I saw my mother the defendant mingling with the crowd at the Kowloon Magistracy, this developed and shown In perfect and jostling people whose movements morning, B. D. Evans, of the Royal allowing his Observatory, admisted
his natural colour within half an hour.
All that is needed is a small special fendant had a previous conviction.
Kimberley Road at about 6, pini. April 17, without a muzzle or leal little lens, called a "bearn splitter" Two housebreakers, Lau Fuk, 22, Defendant said the dog was inoculatis fitted on the front of the film one month's imprisonment, by Mr. E. and Chan Yau, 20, were fined $10, ored last February. He was fined $17,camera and also on the projector.
When tho Blm is taken it given Himsworth at the Kowloon Magistracy
colour values, although the film itazl-
was at Christmas, when she came the defendant had watched. The devinck Scotch terrier to wander en lens, costing no more than £16, to vinit me.
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"I have two grown-up brothers, Eric and Reggie, who are in Aus- tralia. My mother had been in Ill-health recently., Six. months ngo she had a norvous breakdown."!
A sister of Mrs. Sutton said: this morning. They were charged 10 years residing at 522 Qucon's black and white varloty. When it in A small girl, Wong Lai-kin, aged ngainst the light seems of the ordinary with breaking into the ground floor Road Weat, was admitted to the projected through the inkgle lens, Beatrice was a
very striking blonde. She had seen much of Nga Tsin Long Road on Monday Government Civil Hospital yesterday however, the Taya record on the screen
and stealine morning
#clock happiness, and for the last few guilt and a suit of grey cotton. after she had been knocked down by in natural colour. years sho had been an invalid. Inspector W. R. Chester Woods pald Road West. A boy, Lam Ming, agod ordinary celluloid costing one penny an unknown motor car in Queen's "Our colour films can be taken on Recently, however, she had appear-defendants were arrested on Princo seven years, was knocked down by a fool, and Cox. "It makes it a ed to be more her cheerful self, Edward Road soon after the burglary, car No. 200, in Nathan Road yester easy for the amateur to take pictures high spirited and good company." and they admitted. breaking in by re-day, and was admitted to the Kow. In perfect natural colours as for the
moving the panels of the door.
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Transmission 1
(0.8.N., G...)
Lit p.m. Die Ben. Interlude. 1.20 p.m. "The Blory of e Ben." A miniature feature telling the life. story of the famous clock. 1.35. p.m. Fred Hartley and hla Novelis Quintet, with · Uzima' Lawrance (Auviallan Vocallati Greenwich Tima-Slengi ́at 1.15 p.m. 2.30 p.m. Spreelt by the Hon. B. 8. I. Biovens, Premier of Now South Wales, at the Royal Empire Batisty's Luncheon. 243 pm. The News and Anaruheements, 3.15 p.m. Close down.
Transmission 2
(G.8.0. G.6.JL)
p.m. Me Den. Musle by Noel Coward. 1.8 p.m. Talk: George Robey on Cricket. 7.30 p.m. The B.B.G. Northern Orchesten.
Greenwich Time Signal at 8 pm. *.30 p.m. "Blarlight.” Number One. Inter- views - with famoze stays people. and excerple" from their reper- toire.
· 1.50. p.m. -Musles) Comedy,
....
The News and Announcements.
1.30 p.m. A Recfial by Stephen Wearing
(Plánetoria)
-9.45 pan. Close down.
Transmission 3
(6.8.0, GS.F, 0.8.)
10 p.m. Big Bax. Talk: "Foreign Affairs" 18.15 p.m. Harry Engiaman's Quintet, with Vernon Adcock (Xylophane and
Vibraphone).
10.35, p.m. "Úrab Them by the "Kary," 11.5 pm. Orchmiral Music' by Masart. 11.30 p.m. Light: Classical Concert. 11:55 pm. The News and Ankathermanis. 19.15 am. Berathy. Hogben's. Bingare und
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