THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,
Survivor of G-Men Battle Admits Four Murders GUNMEN HAD JUST MARRIED
£600,000 RAID WAS PLANNED
New York, Oct. 14.
WHAT an American gunman does with his time was
explained to-day by cringing James Dalhover, sole survivor of AI Brady's gang of farmboy criminals. His two pals, Al Brady and Clarence Shaffer, were shut down and killed by G-men in a machine-gun battle at Bangor, Maine.
Dalhover confessed their crimes between puffs at a chain of cheap cigarettes.
Talking like the simple farmboy,||
he used to be, he nemitteri four murdera.
1. George Coon, Oblo pollermun, whone body was found ler a dich Inst September.
2. Edward Lindsay, grocery assistant, during
3. City Paller Sergeant Richard
Rivers in Indianapolis in Apell
1930.
4. Inclana State Trosper
Panl
Afrinchan. during the Goodland, : India, bank robbery last May,
The gang spent most of their time sweeping acrust Indians and Ohio,
THEY
SANG AS SCHOOL
BURNED
Dallover told how they robbed
Brighton, Oct. 14. banks, broke into haises, stols Boy and girl pupils at Aryeh jewels, and, if necessary, killed. House private school, Upper- They started with 1 capital twelve dollars £2 85. When they drive, Hove, joined in community cane to Bangor yesterday to re-singing on the ground floor of furbish their arsenal they had the building to-night while fire- £1,000 in cash,
men fought a blaze in school- rooms and servants' quarters overhead.
The BANK was formed, said the manarled Dalhover. by Brudy when John Dillinger, ex-Public Enemy No. 1 became so surressful.
MADE "MOONSHINE"
<l
He and Shaffer were friends the Indian farm where they worked - nadie moonshine whisky.
Al Brady worked on the next farm and suggested that they should form a gang and Break the lawn little more profitably. Said Dalhaver:
"Brady was buss, but he didn't have half the
Futs Shaffir bad. Brady was always tou poxious
About twenty T The younger children were in bed when the fre was discovered. They were enrried downstairs by mrses.
At one
time fomes rose thirty Teet from the top of the building and the schondrommis annel servants' quarters in the south-east wing were extensively damaged. Donnlturies were also damaged by smoke and
water.
The children. In between songs and dunces, cheered the firemen as they went up and down the stairs. "We pull his gun. We didn't like that quite a happy party," said one
"Those two guys are better off of the masters.
than I am." he added. "I
to take it for all of us now.”
in
wish
Dalhaver admitted that he "pulled" his gun an Minnehan. Sald he: "indian cops were on one side fence and we were on the other.
Of
If we didn't kill them, they'd kill us.
Bradly ordered the killing"
Dalhover puffed his olgarette.
then added calmly:-...
3'01
"I wam't a barn killer. know. It had been I'd have bumped off Bradly long ago. was too ritzy for us"
He
He said he had many arguments with with Brady and only one shoffer. That was an hour before hey went to the spurling Koods tore where G-men waited to trap hem.
MARRIED ON WAY
"Going into
buy
Dowries of
£35 for Servants
Dowries of-£3-for-every-domestic- servant who wishes to get married Is part of a scheme to be proposed at the Liberal Women's Conference at Margate.
Retiring peustans at 50 or 55 IS another provision.
or
Mr. Ernest Brown, Minister Labour, will be urged to adopt the scheme to make domestle service more attractive.
it was known that every that dore Jooked domestic would receive a wedding honey," he said.
present of £35, to help to establish her On their way to Banger to
home," "said one spentor of the mmunition the gang stopped over iden "servants would be more cought
after us eligible Ight at Baltimore.
There, according to Dallover's thun they are nowadays, partners
story, they carried out a raid, and should be fixed, rising year by year, Suggestions that a minimum wage Dalkover and Shaffer used The money to marry two sisters (names also forms part of the scheme.
not disclosed) they had brought along with them. A soon as the double ceremony was over they
went out on another raid.
It was Brady's dream to make John
illinger look small,” and, accord- g to Dallover's confession, he kept scrapbook of all newspaper cut- ngs and photographs of his id their jobs.”
Kang.
Brady was working on a job that ould have brought him new cut ags from all over the country. slice found details and floor maps Bangor's Merrill Trust Company Brady's pocket.
The gang were planning to rob the bank which has deposits more in a million pounds
Cash
of
in
Roon 31.9 they had re- plenished their ammunition stores. I would have nelted at least
ee million bucks (£600,000),"
d Dalhover, wistfully.
Mother-in-Law Club Gains
Amarillo, Tex. Amarillo continues to boost its thers-in-law-and recently mem- ship in the Mothers-In-Law Club ched 230, The club has been nted a charter and inlawo
Arc
a signed from all over the Pan- dlo and even four other states-
even one from Boston..
Mormon Gain In
Europe
Quebec.
The Mormon Church is steadily gaining a foothold in Europe, Heber J. Grant, leader of the sect, declared on his return here from a four of the church's missions in Europe.
Many would like to be in the place of these gentlemen. They have to drink beer! They were judges at the Bottled Beer Competition of the Allied Brewery Prades Association in London, at whieht seven thote and pint bottles from all parts of the world were exhibited.
Blue Is Sent Down
For Failing His Exams
Two Cambridge undergraduates, E. D. E. Reed, the Rugby player, and D. AL W. Napier, a rowing "blue," have been sent down" because they falled to pass their first-year examinationa
Both men were at Magdalené College, were due to start their second year at the university. Discipline has been lightened recently.
The authorities are determined undergraduates shall realise that work comes before sport.
E. D. E. Reed, an old Harrovian, was expected to get a blue for Itugby this year on his form ut right wing. Nupier rowed against Oxford in the boat roee this year,
Reed's home is at Haywards Heath, Sussex; Napier lives at the Mil House, Aldeburgh, Suffolk.
When a student in "went down" he is suspended from the university for a period decided by the authorities.
War Fear Haunted Him
-Fell to Death
Mr. Frank Whiffen, 68-year-olil rellred insurance company ofBelal, was desperately afraid of war.
terrised that he hardly dared to open his morning
wan
SO
that? Germans
and say: Did you hear They've are here?
come, The
NOVEMBER 9, 1937.
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700 Pharmanic-Symphony Or- chestra of New York.
Overture 'Semiramide' (Rossini);
A Midsummer Night's Dream' (Men- delssohn).
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Itclay "The
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newspaper for fear that he would Curiosity Kills Monkey Love is a Plaintive Soug....Winifred
read that war had been declared. Recently he fell 90ft. to his death from the bedroom window
Curiosity
Manchester, N. H. killed-a monkey.
of his flat in Chancery-lane. Lon-After wondering around the elty for don, W. C.
ja week, the little fellow nosed around to see how the state's public service
Miss Allee Chaplin, who had generating plant worked. The been Mr. Whiffen's housekeeper, monkey touched elreuit carrying for 20 years, told the Sunday 2,300 volts of electricity-and fell Chronicle recently how he had dead, lived for the last few months In constant dread,
"He was obsessed with the fear that war would break out," she salti.
***What shall we do? What can I do. Alfec?' he used to ask
me
orten when 4 noise was heard outside Alr. Whiffen would come running downstairs
I'd Never
To
Snake Gets Attic Home
remain
Tulare, Cal.
As long as Oscar the Snake stays in the attle and continues killing mice, he will
11 welcome boarder in the home of Sam Phipps. Oscar, il gopher snake, crawled through an air vent and into the attle some time ago and
sturted gorging itself on mice.
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rbor On Job 67 Years Party disabled, Mrs. J. Mirgay, of
Lingwood, Norwich, says "I'd never go back to singto life again."
Her six-room bungalow has no gus electricity. Here, is her time- table:
ALARM
Northfield, Minn. [xty-seven-years at the tonsorlat Jesalon is the record of H. Tal-
Budd, Northfield, who believes or a the oldest active barber in the try. Nearing 80 years of age, J, or "Tal" as he is known to his ads, is at his chair every day.
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G-Wash, dress, clean grates, make
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8.30-Wash Rcullery dust.
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Back
Mother Of Five
TEN-MINUTE REST
10.45-Make two cups of cocoa and call' husband in for ten-minue rest for us both..
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and
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7--Wash leg things. From then
until I knli, sew, and read, 9-Supper, hot or cold.
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tard or pudding.
10.45 Bed time.
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