THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2,
1937.
Experts Turn Handful of Ashes Into £1,000 Bond: Forgery Gang Caught
"MIRACLE” IN
A SEALED ROOM
NEW YORK, JAN. 20. WORKING in a sealed room which grew hotter and hotter until the thermometer touched 160 degrees, two young detectives of the New York Police Research Bureau-Thomas Paolo and John A. Stevenson-have worked the miracle of turning a heap of muddy ashes into a legible document which convicted a forger.
It is the most remarkable piece of crime detection yet. They started with a heap of tiny fragments of paper-ash.
The black ashes, cach the size of a tea-leaf, had been found in the mud, mashed down by two rainstorms, and carefully emptied into an old tomato tin.
In their laboratory-scaled to exclude draughts, since even the air current set up by a passer-by might ruin the ash-the two detectives photographed each fragment.
Doggedly they tolled, making | silently at one another in the un- dozena, scores, hundreds of photo-bearably hot atmosphere of their graphs of the ashes-using surgical sealed room. needles to coax each fragment into position.
Damning Evidence
They knew that this company had never issued 5,000 Dollar Bonds.
And they knew that Walter A. Rathbourne, properly agent, then inj Sing Sing Prison on a forgery charge, The pictures were magniflet hun-had not only justified his boast that dreds of times, re-photographed in he could smuggle a forged engraving red, blue and green lights on ultra-plute out of prison, but by a stupid sensitive plates. Curled and bent mistake had convicted himself. fragments were photographed from
half a dozen angles.
And from the heap of muddy ash the detectives bullt up a jig- naw which, after days and nights of weary toll, at last became 5,000 Dollars (£1,000) Bond of the Langendorff Baking Com- pany.
Paolo and Stevenson, their pale faces streaked with sweat, lookend
Five Will Share Houston Millions
IF NO WILL IS
FOUND
EVERY scrap of corres.
pondence which Lady Houston left is being examined for her will.
Boast to Convict
In no other country are beggars 80
numerous, as in India. Picture above shows a typical beggur in the streets
In Madras. By means of a bell he draws the attention of pedestrians,
1,500 ARE
SEEKING DIVORCE
The prelude to the two detectives' LIFTEEN HUNDRED uncanny feat of reconstruction start-
ed when Rathbourne was arrested for
F
husbands and wives trying to sell bonds which were went to the Divorce Courts proved to be clever forgeries.
in London during the Hilary term, to seek the dissolution of their marriages.
Rathbourne, while awaiting trist in the Toniba prison, boasted to a next-cell prisoner that even If the police sent him to Sing Sing he would be able to engrave bonds and smuggle the plates out to his associates.
The other convict lold. the prison authorities, and Rathbourne was sent to Sing Sing on a sentence up to five years.
means still unknown
By some Rathbourne actually smuggled forged plates outside,
Detectives were set to cute the gang who circulated the forged bonds, Ashes in Mud
the
At the last moment
forgers tools fright. One who was caught turned State's evidence,
When asked where the forged bonds were he took the police to n piece of deserted ground on- Long Island and showed them fragments of ashes in the mud,
Mrs. Dore Gulbenkian and her | husband, Mr. Nubar Sarkia Gul- [benkian, the oil magnate, filed cross petitions on an issue to be heard. They were in the de- fended list.
Also in the defended list was the petition of Mrs. David Tennant (Hermione Baddeley, the actress) for divorce from the Hon. David
Tennant, brother of Lord Glenconner,
Countess Of Jersey
DRASTIC COAT BARGAINS
Last Week Clearance
DEATH-HOUSE IN EXTRAORDINARY
SING-SING HAS 27 OCCUPANTS
New York, Jan. 30.
The death-house at Sing Sing is rapidly becoming overcrowded.
When four convicted murderers arrived at the prison, recently, the authorities had to open a new corridor of cells in the death-house to accommodate them.
Those awaiting execution now number twenty-seven, the highest for many years, and all will die unless reprieves are granted or re- trials ordered.
Among those due to pay the extreme penalty are nine boys, all under twenty-one years of age, which is in itself a record in the history of the prison.
Д
saloon In
25
CENTS
REDUCTION
ON EVERY
DOLLAR
Tony" Gariaus, convicted with three others to die for killing a man dur-Owing to the mildness of Ing the hold-up of "a
Brooklyn during November,
this winter we have a The crime was particularly tragle because the man killed had never large range of smart coats before entered
saloon. lita sion for paying a visit which led to
death, was in the hope of obtain ing something to relieve a violent stomach ache. His wife had advised we had confidently ex- him to try, a
a saloon after all remedies recommended by near-by druggists pected. We are deter-
to mined
clear
Expenses to maintain such a large "population" in the death-house have also increased. It now costs $100 daily for the nineteen guards nssigned exclusively to watch over the condemned prisoners.
If all should go to the electric chair, the state will have taken n had failed.
lives for thei toll of twenty-seven killing of eight persons.
Included among the recent entrants 10 the death-house was "Tough
Police describe Garlaus as rullen, very arrogant towards authority and society. During his trial and again on his way to Sing Sing, he was proud to pose for the photographers, stand- Ing erect and composing his features for the best effects.
before upon him,
Judge had any comment to make
passed Bentence
WAS and the judge obliged,
When the ige asked him if he STATE AT ODDS
OVER GALLOWS Garlaus remarked "Aw, give me the 1 exerted a dominating in- OR LETHAL GAS Wyoming Officials Dis- agree on Methods
fluence over his three companions-- also sentenced to die-Harry Elsen-, berg. Raymond Norton and Watson Edwards, and to-day they stand in the shadow of death solely because they were unable to combat the do- mineering will-power of their eald- blooded leader. United Press.
PACIFIC AIRLINE
For Execution Cheyenne, Wyo., Jan. 25. Wyoming's new lethal gas chamber, authorized by the legislature to replace the gallows, is being completed TO at the state penitentiary at Rawlins amid continued con- troversy among state offi-
Among the petitions held over from last term were those of the│cials.
Countess of beautiful Australion Jersey and the Baroness Chesham. Both were undefended.
Other undefended petitions were brought by the Hon. Mrs. Edward Ward against her husband, the son of Viscount Bangor; by Lady (Annat Craven, half-sister of the Marquis of Ely, against her husband, Afr. Leslie Carefully the police scooped up the Craven, and by Mrs. Bridget E. astres he a home to the rent handed Smith-Dorrien, against her husband, over exhibit Detectives
task Mr. Peter Lockwood Smith-Dorrien. and Stevenson, who began o which even experts declared beyond son of the Inte General Sir Horace
Lockwood Smith-Dorrien,
In the defended list was the peti- tion of Mrs. F. E. M. Thompson, formerly Lady Hulton, widow of Sir Edward Hulton, against her hus-
human power.
were married in 1928.
In this way thousands of sepurate It is thought likely that she pieces were photographed and fitted may well have settled the dis-into a complex fir-w-and finally tribution of her fortune of the bond, with its lettering quile band, Mr. J. II. Thompson: They £7,000,000 in a scribbled mes-legible, was recreated, sage on a single sheet of paper -or on the back of an envelope.
One of her former secretaries, Mrs. Chapman, has stated that Lady Houston made a will which she witnessed on the back of un envelope in 1927.
If is also suggested that she may have made her will on the fly-leaf of a book.
She was in the habit of writing poems und messages in the front of
the books in her
Ibrary. All the therefore,
books she possessed are,
being examined.
HER RELATIONS
If her will is not found. there are five blood relations who will be claimants to her fortune. They are: Mr. Thomas Radman, hier eldest brother, whose present whereabouts are not disclosed;
Mrs. Arthur I Wrey of Chester- terrace, Regent's Park, her only sur- viving alster:
Lady Palmer, wife of Major Sir Geoffrey Palmer, of Cambridge- terrace, Regent's Park, the grand- daughter of Lady Housion's brother;
Mr. Hugh Calty, her nephew (son | of another sister); and
Mrs. W. Wooels, the daughter of a third sister.
EDITOR UNDER WHOM KIPLING SERVED
Death of Mr. S. E. Wheeler
Mr. Stephen Edward Wheeler, ot
Streatham, whose death in London in
his: 83rd year is announced, WEL
Marriage To Niece
Is Declared Void
A TABLE OF KINDRED AND AFFINITY, WHEREIN WHOSO. EVER ARE RELATED ARE FORBIDDEN IN SCRIPTURE AND
OUR LAWS TO MARRY TOGETHER.
A Man may not marry his
1 Grandmother,
2 Grandfather's Wife,
Wife' Grammother,
4 Father's Bister,
Mother's Sister,
G Father's Brother's Wife,
7 Mother's Irother's Wife.
A Wife's Father's Bister,
D Wife's Mother's
10 Mather,
11 Sep-Mother,
12 wife's Mother.
I Daugster,
Is Wife's Daughter.
15 Son's Wife.
*16 Slater,
17 Wife's Blster,
in Brother's Wife.
later.
10 Son's Daughter,
20 Baster's Daughter,
21 Ran's Son's Wife,
32 Daughter's Boy's Wife,
23 Wife's Bon's Daughter,
24 Wife's Daughter's Daughter.
23 Brother's Daughter.
28 Sister's Daughies,
27 Brother's Son's Wife.
Bintar's Sun's Wife,
29 Wife's Truther's Daughter.
no Wife's Daughter.
SERVE MORE
San Francisco, Jan. 25. With completion of its first year of trans-Pacific service, Pan American
from
Airways to-day is weighting baske economics of the project on which $5,200.000 has been expended, and Most outspoken of the op- for which pilots and ground crews ponents of the "gas system" is have risked their lives and ander- William Jack, state auditor, gane hardships since 1931,
The record is being written in red who branded the entire pro-ink at present but airline of
officials are codure "cruel and barbaric.'
being dish far.
disheartened. Heavy Ke- The majority of state ofetals, losses
were foreseen. including Gov. Lesile A. Miller. turns thus far have fallen far short favour, lethal gas the more humane of paying operating expenses, not to mention returns on capital invested, method of capital punishm
is speedy and sure," said Adolph although passenger and freight traffic "It Hanson, bons, secretary of the state prison have been at virtually full capacity
the body of the since inception of each. doomed man turned over to his family, his neck is not broken as is the case in hanging."
MENTAL TORTURE' STRESSED
Jack, however, disagreed.
nt
first
TO PARE EXPENSES
Thus PAA officials to-day re trim- ming expenses, planning increases in carrying capacity for passengers and
The mental torture is greater freight, as indicated by orders for 40- de-sent flying boats under construction in punishment than death," he clared. "Down a long half romea | Seattle Seattle
At present clipper ships carry only the warden, the prisoner and the
six passengers on the 2,400-mile hop guards. They stop in front of
looks between Alameda and Honolulu, and. grotesque steel chamber that like nothing in the world but a12 from Honolulu to Manila. De can. The door is opened. which Pan American has
the thoroughness with monstrating huge tin The men
men step inside. The prisoner
cone over is strapped to the chair. The guards its plans, airline officials point out a and warden step out. The door 10-mile headwind (which the clip- pers often encounter) although with- stams shut,
That must be a moment of sheer out danger cost PAA an extra 800 terror. The sound of that door bung-gallons of gasoline and six hours of ing shut must echo through enteralty The three clippers in service,
fying time. ears of the convict, "There follow endless seconds of
and Hawaiian, terror, while he waits for the gas to have in PAA's first year of operation, start. The
Then he sinks, slowly, into down 541,200 miles in actual trans
oceanic crossing, far above the entire choking, coughing unconsciouser total of Individual occan-spanning "Hanging-anything-s kinder
flers during the past decade.
in
A Women may not marry with her
1 Grandfather.
Grandmother's Island,
* Husband's Grandfather,
4 Father's Brother,
Mother's Brother,
Father's Slater. Husbana,
7 Mother's Sister's Husband.
Husband's Father's Brother,
Husband's Mother's Hruiber,
10 Father,
It Step-Father,
12 Husband's Father.
13 But,
14 Husband's Son,
18 Baughter's Husband,
16. Rather,
17 Hoband's Brother.
15 Helor's
10 Ron's Son.
bank.
20 Daughter's. Bon
21 Bon's Daughter's Husband.
Daughter's Daughter's Huband,
24 Husband's Son's Boo,
24 Husband'■ Dnguhter's Ron.
26 Brother's Ban,
26 Sister
Ron,
27 Brother's Daughter's Hondenrect,
28 Sister's Daughter's lisahand,
29 Hunt's Brother's Bon,
30 Husband'e Bialer's Son, THE END
Carlisle, Jan. 20.
THE recent marriage of a man to his niece in the Car- lisle Diocese was to-day declared by the Chancellor, Mr. H. B. Vaisey, to be an "absolute nullity."
H
the
than that."
China, Philippine
The benefits of hanging, according COSTLY BASES BUILT to Jack, include the adjustment of a
Sixty-six one-way crossings had blindfold over the doomed person's cyes before the noose is placed around been completed at the end of the first the year's operations, five complete crews the neck, the conversation warden who seeks to keep the man's trained and in service, ppproximately thoughts off death, and the sudden- 250 pounds of air freight carried on
ess with which it is all over.
ench trip from the Alameda terminal and $2,500,000 expended alone CHAMBER-BUILT OF STEEL
establishment. of Island bases. Many times the number of
passen
Resembling a "huge in can," the chamber will be a steel cylinder with windows provided in two sides forsers would have flown had PAA been witnesses. In the centre will be and it is this fact that has led the able to take care of all applicants, metal chair in which the doomed
airline to place orders for a half- man is strapped.
dozen flying boats liolf again urge as the clippers In use and of several times the "payload" capacity.
a me-
The warden can operate chanism from the outside to drop cyanide pellets into sulphuric acid beneath the chair, releasing fumes
being
15
that snuff out life in a few seconds. LAME JEW WITHOUT
A delicate stathoscope
built into the top of the chamber when death occurs. When so that physicians may determine officials are certain the victim is dead, am- monia la pumped into the room to neutralize the polson gas, then
Editor of the Clell and Military Speaking at a consistory court hung up lir every church. He conventilator fans are turned on..are forbidden to carry walking sticks Gazette of Latiore during the time in Carlisle Cathedral to-day the
Mr. Rudyard Kipling worked there Chancellor said:-
Ra
closely associated
Journalist. He was thus
"It seems to me rather a shocking with Kipling during the early days of thing that a man should profess to the latter's career, and he is the sub-marry some one with whom he can ject of a tribute in the Kipling not be married in any sense of the autobiography, extracts from which word, and should use for that pur- are shortly to appear."
pose a solemn service of the Church
tinued
WALKING STICK Custom Causes Death Members of the Jewish religion
"The State now allows marriages
Perry H.
Carroll, of Cheyenne, on the Jewish Subbath-Saturday. between some of the persons whose' convicted murderer of a Cheyenne Alexander Kotchino, aged-76; of relationship a set out in that table, railroad official a year ago,
is Great Alic-street, Whitechapel, de- such as marriage with a deceased Wyoming's only man awaiting the spite the fact that he was lame, went THEW gas to a synagogue without his walking death sentence In the
stick. While passing a publle house ralfroad man, has he fell down an open cellar and re- Carroll also a appented his case to the state su-ceived injuries from which he died preme court, and a final decision is in St. Peler's Hospital.
expected for at least six months. At the Inquest at Poplar when ä] By that time, unless the legislature verdiet of accidental death was re- reserves itself and restores the, state's turned, it was stated that Jews were official death by hanging, the new not allowed to carry anything on
their Sabbath. chamber will be ready...
wife's sister, but the idea that the Slate recognises na a marriage a union between any man and any woman is complete delusion:" "Prohibitions which are based, not
Mr. Wheeler was an able journalist and the special privilege of exemp- with a great knowledge of India, and tion from hanns which the frence on relationship by marriage but on was an authority on Asiatic affairs. gives."
| relationship by blood are exactly the After his return to England he was The Chancellor said the table of same under the law of the State an for many years librarian of the kindred affinity printed at the end they
are • under the law of the Oriental.Club.
of every Prayer-book ought to be Church,"
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