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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JUNE
The Story of
PENITENTIARY
with
Walter CONNOLLY • John HOWARD
Jean PARKER Robert BARRAT Screenplay by Fred Niblo, Ir. & Seton I. Miller Based on a play by Martin Flavin COLUMBIA
A
WHAT HAS HAPPENED REPORE Bil Jordan goes to a night club with a piri to celebrate his twenty-frat birthday, Another man tries to take the girl-uwoy" from him and in the argument that foliowa, Diit kills him ao cidentally. Distiret Attorney Mathowe sympathizes with the boy's unfortunate plight. It is one of those unfortunate things,' he say, that could happen to ang body. Nevertheless, a man is dead and Bill must be punished. However, instead of trying him for murder, Mathows allows Dili to take a plea of manslaughter. Bili la sentenced to ton geara tit the state penitentiary. Six years later wa And Bill à hardoned, ambittered prisoner, De hàn been uesigned to the prison futo mili and the dirt and duni of the place is breaking hia morale and threatening to offect his lungs. Meanwhile, Mathews, who la be- ing groomed for the governor's chair, to appointed warden of tho rentientiary, Inasmuch as ho wan ino man who prosecuted meat of the inmates, the prisonora stuga a "welcome" for him when he arrives with his sister and kin daughter, Elizabeth, to lonely take over his new job. The con victs, assembled in the yard for Thoir recreation period stort their unearthly "yammering" -- a mo- thock they use to show their dia- like for something or someone. Against the advice of the head keeper. Warden Mathews facen the men alone in the yard. He single out Tex, the prisonera' sell-appointed radar. When ha vaa ilistrict attorney, Muthown seyn, it soon his job fa prosecute and he did 41. Now he's warden and it'a bla jeb to boas the prison, wn poing to do 18, Mathews araya, and every man will be treated, aroctly as he deserves. Later, Bill collapsen in the fulo miti. The ductor ræiminea him and recommends a chango af work and environment for him. He น ammoned to Warden Mathews office where Buthowa recognizen him as the boy he annt up aiz years before. While 18 4 there Mathews' daughter, Bilsabeth, comes in, I uncon- aclously reacta when he nook her. Matheier notices this and, neoing un opportunity to reclaim the boy, appoints Mim as the Ma- thewa chauffeur.
PICTURE
with the bundles of the day's shop. ping. "Put them in the kitchen, Jordan," she said. When the doctor had left she joined B in the kitchen. Ho was busy storing away the supplies.
Elizabeth spoke to him.
"Jordan," she said, "about a week ago I lost a handkerchief with n blue border. Did you happen to neo It?"
BI turned to her, Rushed and confused, "Why no, Mian Elizabeth, I didn't. I'm sorry." When he had finished in the kitchen ho started for the door. Elizabeth stopped him. "Jordan," he said simply, "I'd liko
to have my handorchier, plenae." She extended her hand. Bill looked at her for a moment, blush- Ing furiously, Than he slowly opened the buttons of his tune and took out the carsfully folded wisp of linen. Finbarrassed, he handed It to her, turued quickly and left the room.
Tians for a Itreak
Back in his celt that night hi companiona whispered to him their plans to make a break for it. Three of us are going," Finch onld, "Tex and Bunch and me."
Hawkins, the third cellmate, pro- tested. "That guy. Rumeh, is a alool," he anit, "Fex should a known better"
A few nights later Hawking' warning proved true for, when Tex and Finch mado their break, they found the guarda ready for then. In the melee Finch was shot and kilod.
Word quickly panned from cell to cell thaf Runch had been the equenter. To protect him from the | other prisonets, Warden -Inthewa had transferred him to the war- den's office and had him sleep In the attle. Meanwhile, Mathown wna try. Ing to get Runch transferred to nó-
other prison for safety.
He enlisted the resistance of Cons- | missioner MeNnulty to effect the | franafer, "Push B right through," ho urged, "That guy in driving me its. Hon petrifed-scared_stlπ-- ikea rat in a trap. And I'm re apontbin for him-Fesponsible for his life, Bo get him off my bande.” On the advien of Commissioner MeNaully. Warden Methowe sent Elizabeth away to visit one of her Bunin. She was to be away for a week or twe, until the exciteint at the prison subsided.
BI drove her to the station and carried her bags to tho train pint- form, "Is there anything you'd like
Put these in the kitchen, Harvey.”
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
The
Chapter Three
months
A BAW
to have me bring you from town." she asked. "Or any messages you'd
ke me to deliver?"
No thank you, Miss," Bill replied. "I don't need anything and -- well.
next three
I haven't anyone to send any moo- great change in Dili Jordan. The sagen to. My mother died a year nurface hardness that atx years in ago, I was pretty bitter about it for prison stel had given him, fella while, but that's all changed away. The pallor that Kix years of condgement had brought, took on scom to see things more clearly now." He looked at her intently. "I colour and once again there was
dush in his cheeks and lustre in his ever. The droop that six years of bending over a Juta machine had brought, disappeared and he was once agola a stalwart. square-shouldered young man.
The prison doctor met Elizabeth, Warden Mathews' daughter one day and commented on it. I want to congratulate you," he said, "on the miracle you have performed in thren whort months.""
now."
"You know that father lo trying to get you a parole, don't you?" Elizabeth asked.
"Yes. I'm very grateful, of course, but sometimes I hope he doesn't get it for me. You go, I don't think I could ever be happy again unless unless I could me you every day."" moment bor train arrived. Impul
Bizabeth blushed and just at that Elizabeth looked at him In be Dill took it. "Will you be gone Fively she extended her hand and wilderment. What miracle?" she long?" he asited.
anil.
The roconstruction of a man," "Only a week," nho answered Dr. Alnowulf said, “I mean your 20fily. "Goodbye, Bill?"
rhauffeur. It took prison to six Bill releaned her hand. "Goodbye, years to break him and you mand Miss Elizabeth," he said. him in three months,"
Elizabeth's happy laughter was
Interrupted by Bills arrival, Jaden k
(To Be Continued)
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By Paul E
HOW IT BEGAN Berdanier
VOTING
AUSTRALIAN
BALLOT
THE MODERN SECRET BALLOT, IN ITS ESSENTIAL FEATURES, WAS FIRST USED IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA IN 1858 —HENCE THE NAME. FIRST USED IN THE U.S. AT LOUISVILLE, KY., IN 1888,
IT WAS ADOPTED FOR STATE ELECTIONS
IN MASSACHUSETTS IN 1889. THE VOTING MACHINE IS GRADUALLY REPLAĊING IT.
THE
RESTIVE
LATIN "RE-STARE "(LITERALLY.RE- FUSE STUBBORNLY TO MOVE) BECAME OLD FRENCH "RES- TIF" (REMAIN), AND FINALLY "RETIF(OBSTINATË). THUS THE ROOT OF OUR WORD "RESTIVE? AS APPLIED TO A HORSE WHICH WILL NOT STAND STILL, ORIGH NALLY MEANT THE.DIRECT OP POSITE.
FORGOTTEN
.
SCOTS
ONE of the first things to strike a very slight, The great advantage of name was. It was Ferguson.
visitor
the Channel Islands is Guernsey lay 16 the barbour of St. It was her husband who
Yes,
was J.
the great number of little round Peter Port, the main town, for it Ferguson, Proprietor. Certainly, stic towers to be found all over the had strategical value in blocking the would get him to tell me how a archipelago. They stand, squat and Channel, and in attacking the const Scottish name came to the Inst forbidding, nt all points on the coast of France.
Alternately, it would remnant of the Duchy. And this is line whlet are nut
been protected have
grent value to the story I was told. naturally.
them M in Napoleon had he planned a landing Guernsey.
in Dorset as it was thought he would, built the Government decided that When the Martello Towers were Government were
the Militia might not be able to
and I
of Most
The British
of
which Gordon
was
They remain 10-day as a memortal to the fear in which Great Britain red, and with the co-operation withstand the full force of the heid Napoleon, to the forgetfulness of the States, for it could do nothing Emperor's attack, so they sent to of the British Army odininistration, without their permission, build the man the towers some three dozen and the discipline of the Gordon squat grim little fortresses Highlanders,
Highlanders. It still ring the coast. Only a few reagnificent tribute to the fighting people remember the story of the powera of the Scots, even if it At the beginning of the nineteenth manning of these fortresses now, century Britain faced isolation in and they only because they have underestimated those of the French
Just a little. Europe, for the power of Napoleon gund reason. You might search the
The Gordons arrived and hod deprived her of netive alles, rchives of Whitehall long enough
were duly installed in the towers. probable that his without finding a irnen. seemed.
1 came on the one at Fermaine.
Private Ferguson went to next move in the conquest of Europe the story by accident.
Then they would be to attack British territory. It happened when I was staying not arrive. Years went by. Waterloo waited for Napoleon. Napoleon did The Channel Islands were the meat in Guernsey, at Fermaine Bay, not was fought, and Napoleon went to
kely vietinis of such a plan, for to for from St., Peter Part. the French they were still Lea Isles habit in the afternoons to walk down their towers.
It was my exile. But still the Gordons, manned Normandes. The population spoke the water-lane which leads to the homeland again stirred. In them, and A desire to see the French, or rather a Norman dialect shore, and bask in the sunshine at the they sent word to the pundits in which still survives in the country foot of the Martello Tower. Beside the London. The pundits wrote back to parts, and owned allegiance to no tower was little tenshop; I knew say that there were no instructions It well, taking tea there every day for the recall of the Gordon High- Their sole connection with Britain at four without fail, but for. then, as now, was through the fact hundreds of times I had visited it. I their posts.
the Janders, and they were to remain at that the King was first the Duke of had never troubled to find out the Normandy. They had, as they still name of the owner. have, their own
onc.
Parliament, the
They did. Some of them, like Private Ferguson, married Guernsey girls, and reared families. All of them settled down, and in the course The sign above the door was dusty of the seasons died, Scotland lost to
States of Guernsey, their own inws Stuck to Their Posts and customs, and their own militia for service on the island only. A
few miles separated them from the and faded, so that it was only by them. No word came
shaft of sunlight pundits in London
in vnsion.
A Strategic Point
chance that
13
from the has
ports of North France, and they
and none looked cary victims for a Napoleonic caught it one day and my eyes were come since.
turned that way, and 1 made out from the cracked paint, instead of the Here and there over Guernsey you usual De La Mare, or Mauger, a come across families with Scottsh surprising "J. Ferguson, Proprietor." names-I know because. I searched Had it been only a case of losing I had a rudden spasm of nostalgia, and almost all of them own a few islands the British administra- quickly followed by a more common Martello Tower. Like J. Ferguson, tion might have worried little, for one of curiosity. I went to the Proprietor, they are descendants of the material advantage which the woman in the shop, a typical native the Gordons who stuck to their posts. group brought to the Crown was of the island, and asked what her
G., R. A.
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