THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY,
Sentence Meant Nothing To Gentleman Joe,' But- TRUTH ABOUT HIS AGE HURT
Wife Never Knew
Of Crime Exploits
"Gentleman Joe Stephens, who risked death twice to escape arrest, winced in the Old Bailey dock recently when Chief Inspector "Nutty" Sharp, of Scotland-yard, betrayed to the underworld the secret of his age.
Said
He is devoted to his wife and children boy aged nine and girl aged seven
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Chief Inspector discovered that Stephens does not
drink or smoke or gamble. Sharpe: : "He is really thirty- nine."
Stephens, proud of his exploits and his youthful looks, had given his age as twenty-seven.
He was sentenced to three years' penal servitude for receiving stolen furs worth £1,300, was described us "an expert criminal, full of pluck and determination which could have been put to better use." as a man "who has escaped from the police in very spectacular circumstancer."
When Inspector Sharpe traced him In May, Stephens was in bed. won't cut up rough," he said,
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The Old Bailey judge and Jury heard only a passing reference Stephers previous escape.
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HIS ACCOMPLICE
WAS 'DEAF ALEC'
When in 1903 Stephens was sun- tenced to fifteen months' hurd labour He heard all that w he
was revealed that bis accomplice attly to attention-in the only had been Joseph Squires, known to thing that upset blm was the truth | London's gangsterdom
"Deat about his age.
Alte." Deaf Alee was caught inter nuti died in prison.
stond
Ile turned to go to the cells, heard his wife sub, stopped to blow her; n kiss.
The crime for which Stephens was sentenced WIS committed fast November. Four Scotland-yard officers tried to catch him as he drove down Lower Thames-street, E.C., with stolen furs in his car. The road was blocked. He turned the car into Dark House-lame--a cul-de-sac above the Thames.
SIXTY-FOOT CLIMB
TO ESCAPE POLICE
The two were together in a garage in Forest HI SE, when Chief inspector Sharpe led a body of de- tectives to arrest them.
They fled through a 7-fout barbed wire fence, sealed Il high wall, jumped down on to the Southern Hallway line, rnced across the tracks dodging "live" rails and efcetric trains-scrambled up the cnbank- ment on the opposite side and ron into a garden.
Stephens ran through a house. Polled whistles were bkawiną. Iti-
rector Sharpe led the pursuit.
As
DANCE IN BILBAO STREETS--General belief that miseries "brought on by war had ended with the entry of the Insurgent troops Into Bilbao, Spain, caused great rejoleing among thousands of women and children I the beleaguered Basqué capital. This W. W., radiophoto shows Basques dancing in the street, as the triumphant Insurgents poured into the city,
Wife's
Tragic
Fear
How a
wife took poison he- |
become a mother was related at a Roch dale inquest recently.
ile jumped out of the car and enved head first over the parupet chancing what he hit when he reed through the house Two cause she feared to Ianded 10 feet below. A strand of workmen Jumped on him and held|
wire cable
bruke bis fall. He him. They would not listen to scrambled through the Thames mud. | Inspector Sharpe's protests that he ran up the back stairs of a ware- was a detective until other officers house at Broken Wharf.
came to confirm his story,
He threw off his jacket in a cloak- room, rolled up his shirt sleeves, and strolled through the building. Ite was challenged on the fourth floor. He climbed out of a window, Jowered himself hand over hand down a 60 feet drainpipe to the ground.
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A verdict of "Suleide while of unsound mind" was returned on Mrs. Jessie Travis, aged 31, of Dewhirst- road, Rochdale,
"Gentleman Job" Stephieus was then a quarter of a mile down the road. He turned and waved to the detectives. He was standing the rear hub of an errand boy's | Henry Travis, the husband, sald blcycle. The errand boy was his wife was upset because she was pedalling furiously,
expecting a baby. There was no reason for her to be.
He vanished. He did not write or
Stephens had asked the boy to sell attempt to see his wife until Janu-him the bicycle for £1. When the ary, Then he went to live with her boy refused he had paid 2s. "for a In a room in Rust-square, Caimber-ft down the road," well.
find
MARRIED,
CONFESSED FRAUD
Sidney Harry Thys, aged twenty-four, of Ferme Park- road, Crouch End, London, N., gaoled for six months at Totten- ham for fraud, was said to have written this confession:-
DEAD ON SETTEE
After the trial of the Old Dalley
stood
On returning home from work one cryint Friday he found
her sitting on
In
a
Bcotland-yard could
no Ars. Stephens trace of him. They searched race while friends consoled her. "She setter dend. tracks and pulille houses-then knew nothing."
TRAGEDY
ON
SCHOOL
TRIP
SEVENTEEN people were
injured,
one
A
fatally, when motor.coach in which they were travelling to Bournemouth from Hend- ley, Hampshire, for their Sunday School outing was involved in a crash with a motor-lorry on the New- bury-Winchester road, near Winchester, recently. Seven children were
the injured.
among
There were tragle scenes by the roadside when occupants of two ather coaches, which were
also engaged on the outing, stop-
ped and found relatives Injured and unconscious in the damaged coach,
Shortly after admission to hospital Frederick Hutchins, 26, of Common- rond, Hendley, died from head in- juries.
IC
sald one. niways shielded her. She did not
or where be hid."
There was a smell of disinfectant,
know where the money caine from a bottle of which was kept in the
| scullery cupboard,
AUGUST 4, 1987.
E RADIO BROADCAST
Elvie Yuen and Nura Kanis
At the Studio
LONDON: CABARET
Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. wavelengths of 335 metres (843 k.ca.), 31.49 metres (0.62 m.c's).
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme. 7.00 Eric Coates and Orchestra. London Again-Suite; Langham Place; Oxford Street; Summer After- noon-Idyll; London Bridge-March; The Jester At The Wedding-Valse; The Jester At The Wedding-March; Summer Days Suite, Parks 1 and 2. 7.30 Stock Quotations and Hong- kong Exchange Market.
135 Thren Tango Georno Bou Love's Loneliness-
langer and His Orchestra; Re-Fa-Si -Juan De Dios Filberto y su Or- questa Porterm; Responso Mulevo- Juan De Dios Filiberto and His Orchestra.
7.45 Viennese Waltzes.
Cloches De Corneville-Marck Weber and
Orchestra; Tales
From
The Orient-Strausa Marek Weber and His Orchestra; Love Is My Life-Strauss, Orchestre Roy- monde: Romantique-Lanner; chestre Raymonde.
Or-
8.00 Time, Weather and An- nouncementa.
8.03
and
StudioElvio. Yuen
Nura Kanis.
Chiamata a Nuovi Amori (Strozzil --Elvie Yuen; Carl Occhietti Vezzo- setti from "L'inganno Amoroso" (Guglielmi)-Elvie Yuen: Vieni, I mio sena, from "La Cecchina Lit (Piccingi)--Elvie Buona Figllucla”
Yuen, Study in F Minor (Liszt)--- Nura Kanis; Cht disse en la Femmena, from "Lo Frate Naamiorato" (Per- Kolesi)-Elvie
Yuen; Quando
Al
Trovano, le Basse Femmine, from "Il Mondo Della Luna" (Galuppi)--- Elvie Yuen,
8.25 Light Orchestral. Soliloquy-Albert Sandler and His Orchestra: Gipsy Melody-Albert Sandler and Ills Orchestra; Forget Me Not-Intermezzo-George Bou- und His Orchestra; Vulse langer Triste-George Boulanger and His Orchestra; Marche Symphonique- The London Palladium Orchestra.
8.40 Variety Songs.
Want To Be A Nudist-Eddie
Pola with Orchestra: The Wedding Of A Gigolo-Eddie Pola with Or- "In a moment of madness I gave chestra; My Heart Wii De Dancing way to templation. The woman June Knight; Lilac Domino-
Waltz
Song June Knight; Love who is now my wife insisted on marrying me, although I told her Made The Sona
Eric everything.
Start-Sybil Crawley und
"By marrying me she has un-Dorothy Dickson, doubtedly saved my life, because I
was sufficiently depressed to take
the cowardly but easiest way out.
I intended this to be the unsolvable
nisters."
the
Music In May
Relay from London.
Night Special" Cabaret News
and Announcements. 9.55 Musical Comedy Selections, Gema From "Itose-Marie"; Totem
Thys had been employed as a clerk Tom Tom; Rose-Marie; Indian Love Gems of Call;
dreams Door of her treasurer's department Tottenham Borough Council. Ie From "No, No.
Nanette"; No to be happy: You Nanette, I want to was alleged to have altered wage- sheets of which he was in charge.
can dance ith any girl at all; Ten
Two It was stated that when arrested for
Never The Thought er Entered My Head Vocal Duet. Winnie Mcl- Thys said, "I have been living in hell. I got into the hands of aville and. Derek Oldham: Moon
En moneylender."
ville and Derek Oldham: The Desert
EXTRA TRAINING FOR
PILOT
OF
Air Ministry Orders Coaching
In Navigation
BOMBERS
ENGINE
DRIVER ACCUSED
Paris, July 12.
Point is added to the recent suggestion that some Air ENGINE-DRIVER MAR-
Force pilots receive inadequate instruction in cross- country and bad weather flying by an announcement that pilots in the R. A. F. bomber command are to receive addi.
tional training in future.
A new policy of the Air Ministry insists that they must take the second-class navigators' licence or receive coaching in navigational flying up to the standard of the licence.
Training in navigation is given at the Air Ministry's own School of Navigation at Manston, near Ramsgate; but the'current His wife, who is 25, is in hospitalR.A.F. expansion has made the school inadequate for the new
in a serious condition.
needs.
R.A.F. bomber pilots are therefore
Others detained are! Mrs. Ethel Butler, of Tanhouse, Headley; Mrs. Coventry, of Summerhurst, Headley, and her five-year-old son Kenneth; going out for training at civil flying Mrs. Aldrige, of Tranhouse, and her schools which can coach them for the second-class navigators' leence. GREATER RANGE
son,
CRASH WITH LORRY
The coach, driven by Thomas One school is the Imperiul School Chadwick, of Benham Hill, Newbury of Air Navigation. The Air Minis- was travelling third in the convoy. when it came into collision with the try's new policy was decided on only lorry.
a few weeks ago, but already the now of R.A.F. pilots has involved the removal of this school to larger premises.
The off-side of both vehicles were ripped off.
Five ambulances arrived al the scene of the erash after a telephone
to be
"In sending pilots out trained by a civil school we are not precedent. Some establishing RAF plots are already getting fying certificates at civil schools.
n
"We used to train them all on our
own machines, but now we cannot cope with them all.
CIVIL JOBS "Another point that has been con-
CHAND, accused this
afternoon of causing last
night's train smash at Le Mans, in which nine people eight injured, wept as were killed and seventy-
exclaimed:
he
"I would rather n thousand times have been killed myself, I shall never live happily again."
WEEK-END SPECIAL
chanted--Voent Duet-Winnie Mel-
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10.20 Dance Music.
Fox Trot-In The Chapel In The Moonlight-Henry Jacques and His Orchestra: Waltz-Golden Ifcart- Henry Jucques and His Orchestra: Fox Trot-Timber-Jack Hylton and Ills Orchestra: tumba-La Cuearn- cha-Orquesta Tipica Roberlo Firno: Fox Trot-New Orleans Twist-Nat Gonella and His Georgians; Fox Trot
Conella and
His Trof The Skeleton glans: For In The Cupboard-Teddy Foster and His Kings Of Swing: Fox Trot Pennies From Heaven--Teddy Foster and His Kings Of Swing: For Trol But Where Are You--Roy Fox and His Orchestra; Fox Trot-Let's Face The Music And DanceRoy Fox and His Orchestra: Waltz-A Perfect Day-Victor Young and His Orches- tra.
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10 D.m. to-day was 0.32-inch, bring- driving too fast after passing a cau-ing the year's total so far to 52.04 tion signal.
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weather This morning's His train ran into the back of a reads: The typhoon has entered the special week-end train composed coast on a north-westerly track, and now exists as an intense depression only of two old-type woolen car- about 250 miles W.S.W. of Shanghai. ringes full of passengers. The car- Local forecast:-S.W. winds, fresh to riages were telescoped more than moderate; cloudy, occasional rain. half way into each other.
report
sidered in this new navigational training policy is that phots who have gone through the second class
Driver Marchand to-day confessed
BIG AIR BASES At the moment it is coaching 6 navigators' course will have a better call for ald had been made by the pilots, most of whom are serving Air chance of getting civil flying jobs left-hand side of his cab while the that he kept his look-out from the
Sydney, Aug. 3. lorry driver, Mr. H. 3. Lilywhite, Force pilots, for the second-class when their time in the R.A.F. Is up. train was taking a right-hand bend. Route between Australia and New An air line base for the Empire market gardener, of Frith lane, navigators' leence," Wickham, Hampshire, who escaped
"The new form of training has
Zenland will be made at Botany Bay He thought he was travelling at and a huge aerodrome will be built (only just begun, and no examina- "Navigational training is made tions have yet been held, but the
about twenty-five miles an hour at Sydney for air services to other from the lorry was strewn over the necessary principally by the increas-reports are that the plan is working Jammed after the accident; it showed partation is rapidly developing— His speed indicator WOR found parts of Australia, where air trans~ ed range of new aircraft.
thirty-one miles an hour.
Reuter Bulletin Service,
injury,
An Air Ministry oMelal said:
A large load of vegetables and fruit
road.
satisfactorily."
St. George's Bldg., 1st Floor. H.K. WORKS DEPT. 216, Wanchal Rd,
DOGS WITHOUT MUZZLES
SEVERAL EUROPEANS
FINED
Tel. 24406.
EMPIRE ECONOMIC COMMITTEE
TWO NEW MEMBERS APPOINTED
Sir
Several European dog-owners were
London, Aug. 3, Aned by Mr. W. M. Thomson at tej Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, the well- Central Magistracy this morning for known financial adviser, and allowing their dogs out without a Geoffrey Clarke, formerly of the muzzle.
Indian Civil Service, have been ap- W. L. Alexander, of 207 The Peak, pointed by the British Government and T. P. Saunderson, of No. 5 Bun- as representatives on the Imperial Kalow, Stanley, were each fined $5. Economic Commission.
The first defendant pleaded guilty. They will take the places of Sir through a representative, to having Thomas Allen and Sir Horace Wilton, allowed his dog out in Stubbs Road.] —Reuter.
In the second case Inspector T.
Sabey
ald the dog was seen at Sui rond. He was prepared to take the Wan bench, which was a private one, constable's word, though the dog and was used dally by students and could, at the very most, have been masters of St. Stephen's College. out only a matter of seven or eight
a
C. C. Stork was fined $3 for allow minutes. He wished to say, how- ing bts dog on Stubbs Road without ever, that some time ago he had had
his garden fenced in for the express. muzzle. N. L. 11. Railton, of 113 The Feak, purpose of keeping the dog in. The summoned that he allowed his dog wire had been rather bent down by In Severn Road without a muzzle, a postman whom he had allowed to said he pleaded extenuating circums-get to the next house through' his tances. As a matter of fact, on the garden to save him some walking on in question he had let the his rounds, and it was possible for animal out of the house into the gar- the dog to jump through. xen himself. About ten minutes A fine of $3 was imposed. later, an Indian constable appearedį Sergeant Clarke prosecuted in the and told him the dog had been in the last two cases.
day
in