THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1937.
SELF-PORTRAIT OF A KILLER-KIDNAPPER-HOLDUP MAN
TOOK CAPTOR FOR DEATH RIDE FOR THE RACES
AS POLICE PURSUED
The Earl of Gainsborough, who
at
will be 14 years, old next October, will be the youngest Earl the Coronation of King George VI.
The pleture shows the Earl of Gains- borough wearing costume of the 1840, perted,
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"Gutter Bishop 90-Won't
Retire
London, Feb. 15.
PREBENDARY CARLILE. "Bishop of the 'Gutter," has just celebrated his 90th birthday.
Yesterday he talked of his work with the Church Army, of which he is the founder and head, of the mur derers, pick-pockets, and Royalty, who are numbered equally among his friends, and of the guidance and help that he receives from his dead wife,
"My wife died,12 years BRO." he said, "but I know that she is always by my side, encouraging and guiding me.
than
He Argued, Guys Can't
Do That
With Me
By C. V. R. THOMPSON
New York, Fob. 15.
HERE is tho self-
portrait of "shoot- first think
-
after
wards" Frenchy Benoit, typical U.S. criminal, dope-crazed, confessed kidnapper and murderer of State Trooper Richard Hammond.
It was painted at Monroe (Michigan) police station to-day, and released by the police for publication.
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Hammond's body, chained to post with his own handcuffs, was found yesterday soon after he had detained Benolt on suspicion and was taking him to town in a car.
"Sure, I shot him," said Benoit, "HIC
put up on argument. Guys can't argue with me. Kidnapping- that's my racket: 7 take 'em for a ride and then get their dough. been making a living that way since I got out of Iowa Prison.
I
Trail Of Crimes "How many have I done? Sny, I've done hold-ups in every city in the
country-Detroit (that easy) Chiengo fots, Toledo, Grand Rapids, Pontiac, Cleveland-lord, I can't even remember,
was
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LONDON'S NEW BRIDGE IS RISING
The new Chelsea Bridge across the River Thames is nearing completion, and is expreted to be
open for traffic shortly after the Coronation. Pedestrians will use the section on the right.
CHURCHES' Divorce
QUEST
IN SPAIN
TWO DEANS ON COMMISSION
"Saturday night a guy got tough THE
when I took him for a ride, and I
OF INQUIRY
Not To Be Granted For Drunkenness
personnel of the joint THE House of Commons Com-
mittee which is considering. commission of inquiry which the Marriage Bill sponsored by
HIS MOTHER'S OFFER
"MY OWN EYES IF IT WOULD SAVE HIM”
toelt his money and burned his car. is going to Spain on behalf of Mr. A. P. Herbert and others has A 13-YEARS-OLD band
They can't get tough with me.
Church of England and
leader, accordion
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ex-
About this trouper guy Hammond Free Churches has now been peleted the section which pen-player, jazz drummer, and Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd. dropped through a hole in my coal, finally constituted. The sixness a ground for divorce.
e frisked me, but I'd my gun
I bought that in Chicago.
זיי
started my gun 500 is we gol
I told that trooper to hand over his gat. He did, but he began to speed up. I socked hlm.
"Then I saw you guys
behind, and
members will be:
tap dancer, Teddy Shill, of)
COPIES OF
PHOTOGRAPHS-
Mr. W. P. Spens, K.C. (Con., Ash- Red Lion-road, Tolworth, KINDE The Dean of Rochester, the Dean ford), who had moved the amend- of Chichester, Mr. Henry Brinton, ment striking out the clause, pointed Surrey, has formed his own Mr. Philip Usher, Rev. "I have learned a lot, chiefly the
Henry out the difficulty of deciding what band, which has given many fact that very often there are better
Carter, Bir. Peroy Bartlett.
degree of drunkenness should be a Mr. Bartlett represents the Society ground for divorce. Christians
public performances. among burglars
I pushed my gun in his ribs and told of Friends. Mr. Brinton is the author: and
Mr. A. M. murderers
among so-called
him to step on it. He drove like the of the striking article on "Christians Leicester, E.), supporting the amend young life, for Teddy is slowly Lyons, K.C. (Con., But tragedy has entered his Christians who really only make a devil, and the trooper he kept trying and Spain." which recently earned ment, said that if the clause were pretence of religion.
to pull the car into the ditch.
We turned off the first road If the commendation of the Archbishop
of York could are, and I stopped the car. Mr. Usher represents the Bishop of I got the handcuffs on one of his Gloucester, and the Rev. Henry Car wrists and pulled him out. He put ter general secretary of the up an awful fight and near got Methodist Social Welfare Depart
ment "I didn't truss him to the post and sheat him. I shot him when investigate the bearing on religion of The party, whose mission it is to we were rolling over in the dirt.
present
seat happenings In Spain, has
London Barcelona
"I have been asked time and again "when"I"will"retirë. “Well, I ̈won't" retire until I die and I have no Intention of dying for a long time
Yet,"
Sleeping Under Glass
LASS blankets, ΠΛΑΣΤΙ In summer,
will be one of the surprises at the British Industries Fair.
A Yorkshire firm with factories at Liversedge has succeeded, after years of research, in producing glass
Away.
Held Up Farmer "Then I moved around till I found)
accepted it meant entry upon the going blind. slippery slope to easy divorce which-Already he has to wear strong would lead to misery, trouble and glasses, and there are times when be anxiety for worse than that which cannot see at all. the promoters of the Bill sought to Specialists have examined him, and redress.
he has been treated at London hos- "No case can be made out for the pitals, but nothing can be done. of marriage," he added. manufacture of this leasehold state
silk which resembles shimmering a farmer's house. I told the old their respective churches, and to the to a religious section of
eatin and which can be cut scissors to any desired size.
with
Ordinary class is drawn into
fine thread which is then woven into flexible fabrio.
This fabric has many other appli- cations besides blankets. It can be used for curtains, wrapped round bollers, cylinders and tanks conserve heat, and used to make floors and walis sound-proof.
to
The six commissioners will prepare a report, which will be presented to Federal Council of the Free Churches and the National Free Church Coun cil.
of
an
HURT HIS HEAD
even
HOMES OR PRISON CELLS?. "I could hear the car radio saying already loft und Valencia will first said: "I regard every move to open serious notice was taken at the time. Sir Patrick Hannon (Con., Moseley) was two he fell on his head but no Mrs Shill says that when her son the cops were after me, so I got back and drove like the devil l I got be visited, and Bilbao will be includ-the doors wider to divorce as stuck. I had to run for it and layed on the homeward Journey. attack upon the structure
As he grew older and went to down in #hollow a while.
Whether a visit will be posalute society and a blow at the unity and doctors were consulted.
our school his sight started to fall and to territory under insurgent control sanctity of the home," is all uncertain.
The Rev. R., W. Sorensen (Lab, "I would do anything within my Leyton) opposed the amendment, and power for my boy, and have replying to members "who belonged help at all," Mrs. Shill sald, "Doctors Loffered my own eyes if that would
munity which is opposed to all kinds
the com-say that Teddy has a growth on the of divorce" said:
behind the eves. "We are
are quite as concerned about that Teddy should go to a home, but The county council has suggested the moral structure of society as they I do not want to lose him, and the are. I would ask those who oppose specialists say that no useful purpose the Bill, do they want to close the would be served by sending him door to prevent the facilities which now exist; do they want to belt and har it, to put bars across the window of the home and convert It Into a prison
bell??
I needed help with my car. He come out and I showed him my gun.
"I said I'd take his coupe, but
it wouldn't start. We got out the truck and started over the back! roads.
•
"Driving was tough. Then I saw
a truck put across the road by the
cops, and I knew the game was up. "What other jobs have I done? '1 tell you I don't remember."
Champion Wanderer
Has Travelled To All
Countries of
of World
ROYAL
MAIL LINES MERGER MOVE
TEGOTIATIONS are afoot for the are the
ping
companies the Royal Mail Lines, with a capital of £4,000,000, and Furness Withy and Company.
Total of 1,600,000 Miles Covered by Journeys Of with capital of £7,500,000,
J. H. Curle-Has No Intention Of
Settling Down as Yet
Johannesburg, Feb. 10.
J. H. Curle, "world's champion wanderer," whose wanderlust has lead him on travels totalling 1,000,000 miles and into every country of the
·world except Tibet, has returned here to prepare for another journey.
Curle begun roaming when he was plored the two Americas. In Africa fourteen years old, and he has kept he
visited Timbuctoo and a map of his travels. The tracks travelled down the River. Congo criss-cross Europe in a tangled net- from its source to the sea. work, plunge into the heart of Asia In his
for Als search
material for a
to Samarkand, and circle the globe book on gold mining, Curle has visit in many lines,
ed more than 500 gold mines the world over. He has written a series He has just returned from a visit of books containing his philosophical musings upon the people and places he has seen.
NOT YET IN TIBET
-to Afghanistan and itle-known) “Nepal, wherè he penetrated to, the fringe of Tibet, the only country he has not entered,
PLANNING A JOURNEY He considers Brazil the most beau- Down through, the Malay Archi- most romantic; Jerusalem the place tiful country in the world; India the pelago to Sumatra and on to the in-and country in which he would settle <äecessible mining areas. at Now he could give
Guines, where supplies all go in by first came to Johannesburg years ago oup travelling. Ho air, lles one route, Australia he has as mining editor of travelled thoroughly, and the South has no intention of settling down yet, a newspaper, He Sea Islands. From the Klondike to and has already planned a journey the Straits of Magellan he has ex-Into the heart of South America.
The amendment was carried with- out a division.
The
nway.
"He is such a keen mustclan, and juvenile band, which consists of 13 entirely on
his own formed this children.
"The youngest player is Thomas Messenger, aged four, the mascot of
The Committee accepted an amend-the band. The others range from ment by Mr. A. P. Herbert to delete nine to 14.
the sub-clause which provided that a
ground for divorce should be where two accordions, drums and whistles, "The band comprises three violins, the respondent "is undergoing Im- and prisonment under a commuted death sentence."
The Committee adjourned.
NEWSPAPERS REDUCED THE German Press has been ordered
to reduce consumption of news The wood thus saved will be used Furness Withy control a tonnage for fuel and synthetic textiles. about 000,000, so that the tonnago
Royal Mall Lines owns 12 motor vessels and 24 steamships, aggrega-print by 10 per cent. Ung about 322,000 tons.
of
Lover O
of the combined fleets will be rather Royal Lines operate on routes between Great Britain, Continental ports and South America.
SEQUEL TO CRASHI This company was
formed only
public, have already appeared in
"Two nights ago he gave a per- formance in aid of St. Dunstan's because he realises that before long he may want to ask them for help."
"Teddy is most proud of the action recently when he received a personal invitation from Walt Disney to ap- pear with him on the stage of a local I cinema.
Crowns As Souvenirs
Fifty thousand experimental five-shiling pleces are to be minted
four years ago to take over the fleets and Issued in Australia as Coronation souvenirs. They will be smal- of the ill-fated Royal Mail Steam Ier in diameter but thicker than the cartwheel crowns of last century. Packet Company, which crashed at A bill to amend the Coinage Act is to come before the House of that time.
Representatives.
Furness Withy and Company have very widespread shipping Interests,
and compete with Royal Mail on cer in Australia, says Austral News: If the new crowns prove. popular Both crowns and half-crowns have long been out of circulation
they will be retained as normal currency units.
tain South American routes.
CODE-
The fusion of these SWO panies, or the establishment of a close working agreement between them, would probably yield subs stantial economies.
Achievement of such a union will be facilitated by the fact that the two companies are already in some ways related. Lord Essendon chairman of both, and Mr. W. C. Warwick is a director of both com- panies.
£25 Dog Costs £33,800
New York, Feb. 10.
Blackle, Scotch terrier belonging to Mr. William Stafford, member of the New York Stock Exchange, cost £25. He jumped on the chauffeur's lap in his owner's car, which crashed into the car of Mr. James Phillson, who has been awarded £33,800 damages for injuries to his family.
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