THE HONGKONG
TI LEGRAPH. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30,
1937.
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Boy 'Sheik,' Loved By Schoolgirls, Kills Doctor And Wife SYMPATHY
Now York, Oct. 26.
OF THE
WEEDY, eighteen-year-old Paul Nathaniel Dwyer smirked and was PRISONERS
gered before a battery of cameras in a cell of Hackensack Jail, Now Jersey, to-day, openly boasting how he murdered small-town Doctor I. G. Littlefield and his wife.
Dwyer, a farmer's boy, cold-eyed, thin-lipped, pòinted a cut and scratched hand towards a bundle of pink and purple love letters found in his pockets. "They called me "The Sheik of South Paris,' he said.
Two mobile policemen on
dawn patrol yesterday had
seen a big saloon car parked KIDNAPPED AND ·
behind a garage in North
Arlington, New Jersey. ROBBED OF GOLD
Dwyer, his feet propped on
the steering wheel Was asleep.
Thinking he had stolen the
car they took him to the police!
INGOTS IN CAR
Car bandits recently kidnapped a messenger in a alation. He sneered. "Say, I London street, robbed him of £375 worth of gold ingots, don't steal automobiles, why hurled him from the car and drove away. don't you search the car?"
Detectives did Hо and foundi
TRIBUTE PAID TO GOVERNOR'S WIFE
New York, Nov. 1. Two hundred conviels, some of | them convleted murderers, none of whom had been outside the grey walls of jail for seven years, filled through Sing Sing's great gateway towards the house of Lewis Lawes, governor of the prison for eighteen years.
With armed guards as escort, the convicts went to pay their last res pects to Lawes's wife, Katherine, whose body lay in a casket in the Thouars
gazed
woman
Some of
convicis carried flowers, one or two wept as they
on the face of the who was known to them as "Little
MASS IN JAIL
Mother"
Each convlet was allowed to pause One of the bandits sat in the driver's seat when the one minute before the casket. Then, the body of sixty-four-year-old car was beside the kerb in Gloucester Way, near Clerken-he was escorted back to his ecl. Mrs. Gertrude Littlefield jam- well Road. The engine was running. med beneath the back sent.
In the luggage cumpartiment was the body of ber sixty-six-year-old husband, ls head injured, neck blue will strangulation marks, The farmer's boy, unperturbed, !
Hu then made a long confession. said ho cune from South Paris. Maine. Ife called Dr. Littlefeld to his house at Wednosing and asked
The old! him to exomine him. doctor made a slighting remark, so he hit him on the jaw, knocking him senseless.
PRESSED
"Ikut my hands round his throat
and pressed. Then I went down finished stairs, got a hatimer, and him off. Then I packed some Wings and decided to take the body with I put a belt round him, carried him out, and put him in the back of his swell new car. Then I thought about his old lady, so I drove in the car to his house, told Mrs. Littlefeld
me,
that the doctor hnd knocked down two men and killed them and was scared. I said he had asked me to meet him with some money. swallowed the story."
Sn*!
Dwyer's story continued that after driving about "miles and miles" for two days Mra. Littlewood suspicious.
"Suddenly she said,
became
"You killed my husband." I had to let her hove it then.
"I just put my hands on her neck
and strangled her,"
Another bandit dashed up behind ingots to rolling mills just after two the messenger, William H. Harding. o'clock when he was kidnapped. aged 66, of Clapton, seized him, and pushed him into the car.
Then, sireling through streets of North London, the robbers wrested a bag contafalug the Ingots from a steel chain attached to Harding's wrist.
While removing the bag of gold) they held farting down. This took them tes infrutes strenuous work.
TOSSED HIM OUT They tussed arding out on to the rad in Holford, Square, not far from King's Cross railway station, and then disappeared.
Afterwards he was taken to the police station in King's Cross Road and questioned by directors of his firm. Det.-Superintendent Bennett, and thus C.J.D. officers from Scotland yard.
INJURED AND DAZED
Inside the prison Mrs. Lawes's death was attributed to-day to the high-heel shives she WBS wearing when shu strolled from her ear
un Bear Mountain, Brižge, Ptchester, on Saturday aftermon
Latest picture of General Francisco Franco. Spanish In- surgent commander. The pic- ture was taken as he spoke to more than 35,000 personn at the Spanish Race Fete, held at Bur-
former headquarters FOR
She was found at the foot of a steep path late on Saturday night with a broken leg and other injuries. Se
in hospitat. Her husband directed vestigation into her death,
northern Spain. His mes found a three-inch shoe-
the In-
He was injured and found it dim-heel embedded in a' rock at the top cult to give a connected story of what hat happened!.
To a News Chronicle reporter he said: "I cannot remember much. They pounced upan me so suddenly that I was dazed, After they had thrown me late the ear and driven round and round I cod not see very
well.
I do not know if they had any
Harding, Who is employed by lessrs. Lawson, Ward and Gammage.
mufacturing Jewellers, of breapons." .td., Clerkenwell Hond, was carrying the
to the sweetest boy in the world, BILL TO MAKE Hoppy-street, Heaven." It read
don't expect you to make love SAVING EASIER
to me. I am crazy about you."
from Another,
"Barbie." wald:
"It is hoped to introduced Into the "Hiya, durling, nere's how I feel present Session of Parliament i about you, hot potators and ginger-tu remove many of the difficulties at bread. Kiss me quick."
present hampering the thrift move- ment." said Sir John Chancellor, to' chairaun of the Truste Savings feel just in the mood. Bank Association, at the Association's
Anether, from "Barble," said:
"Dearest l'aul.- have write you.
Kol
I will always love you very, very golden Jubilee luncheon in London much. 1am perfectly sure you recently. love me as much, but not mare than I love you."
of
path
Mrs. Lawes's death fall was re- constructed. She had walked slowly from her car, stumbled over a rock. then fallen a hundred feet.
Sing Mass will be celebrated in
All the convicts wil sing to-night. attend.
Rare Spider Home Found
Miheral Wells. Tex.
white
W. O. Mathis of this elty recently
onto stumbled
scene that few people ever see-the home of a big spider. I was lined with a sik-like material and has a hinged door which the spider opened and closed. A second hinged door indi- being cated that an addition
built.
was
Shocks Corn At 75
Fremont, O.
The Postmaster-General (Major Charles Moerder, 75, after a 50- The police found thirty-two love
Tryon) announced that at the end year absence from the corn felds, letters in Dwyer's pockets. He sa "Hundreds of 'em, they are all nuts. The police have discovered that all of September savings invested in the aided by Melvin Overmyer, cut, tied are from girls still at P.O. Savings Bank totalled, with in- and stacked 160 shocks of com in six about me."
the letters
hours. He said they cut nearly half high school. They rounded them up terest, £101,000,000.
of it in the first hour of work, "taking the out" to eat during the other
"BARBIE'S" LETTERS
in South Paris to-day. Solibing girls! National Savings Certificates total- The letters were Inbelled sweet-stammered, "It can't be the Paul weed £514,000,000, making an aggre-
Hate of £975,000,000, hearts." One, signed "Arline," said. know."
fice hours.
Graduate of '86 Re-enrolls
In
Cambridge, Mass. After 31 years Theodore Stebbins is back in school. A gratiuate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology In 1886, Stebbins returned to take a summer course In Spectroscopy, which is now his hobby,
Gypsy Not So Crafty
Bucharest.
Police raided a gypsy camp and took among other valuables a £3.000 necklace that had been stolen from the home of a wealthy merchant, The get gypsy who wore it had considered it a worthless trinket,
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