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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JUNE 24. 1938.
By Paul F
HOW IT BEGAN Berdanier
LERIE
The Story of
PENITENTIARY
with
Walter CONNOLLY · John HOWARD Jean PARKER · Robert BARRAT Screenplay by Fred Niblo, Jr. & Seton I. Millér Based on a play by Martin 'Flavin" COLUMBIA
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WHAT HAS HAPPENED BEFORE Young Bill Jordan is sent to prizon for ten years when ha no- cidentally kille n man in a night club brawl. For six years he works in the prison juto mlil and he ja on the verge of a bronic- dojên when Kathōwa, the district attorney who sent him up, ka mado warden of the prison. Matheson takra Dili from the mili and makes him his chauffeur. Dutt joita én love with the ware den's daughter, Elimboth. There la a prison break, ann of the con vieta aqucola and another pekann. er la listed. Later, when Bitza- beth has gone away for a viale, Hill witnesana the murder of Bunch, the "aquealer", by an other pritomer, Despite the fact that he sa up for părule, Dili ros fuace to tell what he knows about the murder. Mathews nenda him to solitary for a week while he tries to solve the mur- day, Kitenbeth returns and bearn nhout 14. She tells her father she loves Bill and Matheros sonda to solitary to have Jordan brought to his offlɑn, Haokina, the prisoner who killed Rusoh, oberpotoora a guard, taken Ma pistol and gets into molitary to feer пап. iin t holding the guarda at bay when Mathews ar-
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PICTURE
Another guard camo hurrying up with more guns, Mathewa grabbed one. "This is your Inst chance, Haw- king," he cried,” “I'm going to tum the tear gas loose,”
There was allence for a moment before Hawkins answered. "Okay,” Hawkins called, "I'm coming."
(hrow your gun out first,” |Grady ordered.
"Yeah!" was the derive onewer, "an" get shot when I come and."
"You won't get shot." Mathews Maid. "I promião, Finwist.
"Okay. Mathews, I trust you." A moment inter he came out slowly, arma in the air. Orney advanced to handcuff him. He atooped to pick
up the gun Iawkin had thrown out. In a flash, Hawkinn dis- armed him and held him an a shield from the guards' gun.
"I've been wallin' to get this guy for a long time," Hawkina mutter. ed. "Listen, Mathews, I killed Kunch. I'll burn for that so I'm gonna make this a double-hender. The Jordan kid didn't know nothing about the Runch kin' no don't hold il ngalant him. But now I got a score të nettle with Mister Gridy here. He's the guy who sent me up here framed me twelve years ago, so he's gonna follow that other rat, Xunch," There was a amother ed platol report and Grady stumped to the floor, Almost simultaneously, Mathews" gün barked out and Haw- king, too, crumpled,
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"Sumrything's going to be all right now."
(Posed by Jann Parker, Wallor Connolly and John Howard,}
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
Chapter Six
"Jordan wasn't in this," Captain Grady explained, "They were lead- ing him out when it happened."
Mathews sighed with rellet. "Hawkinet" he yelled down the stairs. "You'd botler como out. You can't get away with this."
Too bad. Mathews," the pitnoner called back, "I'd like to for you, but it's too late now. And tell Grady not to ret gay with hie tommy Run. Remember Jordan's here, too. He didn't have anything to do with
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fow moments later Mathewa lod Bin Into his office. Ellerbetr ran across the room and took B in her arms. "My dear," she mur- you? murrd, "What have they done to
her. "I'm
1911 kinned now," he mad
Elizabeth turned to
Still holding "Dad," he said, "I'm
All right
her ber
AUS, falhor. no happy." sald That's the way things break He grinned ni them, "Yeah," he
cards the way they fall." sometimen. You've got to play your
THE END
CURIOUS WEDDING NOTICES
OUR forefathers, deerret
though
que ston hand
genteel fortune
AIR RAID HUMOUR
may avem impossible to think | that a and preparations can! have the fighter side, but that such a may be the case I can assure you i bom my paper lesser duclog the Great;
Yur
LIS
About twenty of us, all Scotsmen
dat unal for servier oversubs,, i had been drafted from on infantry
regiment to an anti-al craft station, in Essex As the station was not ready for only the guns being in position, we had to work at gel-¦ ung things ship-shuppe during the day, and at night we were billeted 1 the small village adjoining. A Rund was left in charge ad in the event of an air raid, one of its latry-
the be wild dash along!
Vhing! street blowing o whistle for all he, was worth
You should have seen the hurried' and nondesempt crowd which then «ppenreal de mim the guns, each hav- trabbed the minimum of cloth- ng, the only common article of wear beat the inevitable and necessary Steel havinnet
We were once at church --a stone- Throw from the station--when the whistle blew as the collection was annoured, and these was more than ane gran when about a dozen Scots-I men promptly rose and made for the
doan
There was no barber's shop in Biat village, and we could never get leave long enough or often enough to travel to the nearest town for a hair And so one of the problems was
they may have been in business The following notare is even better transactions, were lacat averse from July 16. 1750 Murtied on Sunday. Confessting publicly when they had last, Mr Rdward Bailey to Mes #ude a good match
Hanmol Knight, a widow with Towards the end at the eighteenth | baraisonne furtune Century many curious and entertain-, It is impossible to gauge just why t
ng wedding notices were issued, in such notices were inserted. It might that of how to keep our hair short; 2 which the charms of the bride and have been to show other gentlemen until one day a bright soul suggested the fortune she was said in pusatsa what desirable prizes the matri-putting a bowl on our heads and cul- were truthfully given
monial world had already been won, ling all round it Even the clergy were not above or in order to let everyone know by
Our appearance so for shocked the "feathering their nests," as can be tow much a man's fortune--and thus ofeer that we were allowed special seen from the following volice, pub-personn standing-had been In- lished in a hith-class journad Increased by marriage. Or it mily 1781:-
have been to reassure crediters,
"Married, the flev. Mr. Roger Undeterred Daughters Watna, of York, about twenty-six years of age, to a Lincolnshire Indy upwards of eighty, with whom he ta to have £8000 in money, £300 per annum and a couch-and-four during life only."
leave one at a time to journey to the nearest barber.
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PLUG-UGLY DURING THE LAST CENTURY A GANG OF BALTIMORE ROW- DIES, WHO FOR A TIME TER- RORÍZED THE CITY'S STREETS, NAMED THEIR ORGANIZATION "PLUG-UGLIES. THE NAME "PLUG-UGLY ”SURVIVES TO MEAN A COMMON TOUGH.
THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William
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