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1, 1988.
Woman Lied To Customs, Fined £100
MRS. Sylvia Margaret Wills, of
Park - street, Mayfair, pleaded guilty at Croydon recently to being knowningly concerned in a fraudulent attempt to evade Customs duties on a camera at Croydon Airport.
She was fined £100, with £3 3s, costs. Another summons alleging that she made a false declara- tion that the camera was a present from her husband was withdrawn.
Mr. B. M. Stephenson, prosecuting, said that) on June 6 Mrs. Wills arrived at the airport and sald that she had nothing to declare. In a bot- tom drawer of a trunk a camera was discovered. Mrs. Wills stated that she had it with her when she left, and had received it in this country from her husband as a Christmas present.
"NOT THE TRUTH"
Following inquiries, however, Mrs. Wills went to the airport on June 30, accompanied by her solleitor, and stated that the camera had been purchased on her behalf at St. Moritz and that all she had said before was lies.
She said that it had been paid for un her hotel bill, and she thought it was purchased in February. The camera was left in Paris and was subsequently brought to England by a friend who) was now in the United States.
Later she said she was certain the duty had not been paid on it.
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Mr. Stephenson added that Wills explained that she took the camera with her to Le Touquet at Whitsun. She was asked for explanation of the Various state- ments she hul made, and in reply she said: "I am afraid I am not
part: cularly truthful. When I was asked about it I was in a fut spln. I had linda rutten journey and was very Lired."
Mr. Colin Dunean, defending, sud that it was true the camera was Christmas present from Mrs. 'Wills) husband and was purchased at SI. Moritz and imported here by friend of Men. Wills. She did not, however, destre to cover herself by
saying that she thought the duty had been paid.
"TOOK CAmera". Later Mrs. Wills went away for a week-end to Le Touquet, and shef took the camera with her, but did not
use it There was not the slightest attempt to conceal it at Croydon. Thej queation of smuggling the into Enginnd die not enter Willa's mini,
camera
Mr
On June 6 Mrs Wills hurð hár a)
rough passage. She was fatigued and exhausted and _12535 Sbej Whs of unimpeachable character and} had never been in any trouble before,
Stand Up To Blackmail, Lawyers Say
A petition, signed by 181 lawyers, urging the Government to join in a "collective stand for the rule of law," was handed in at 10, Downing Street recent- ly.
Three
barristers. Lieut.-Colonelį William Frederick Wright, Mr. P. R. D. Shufeldt and Mr. Jolin Platts Mills, presented the petition, which bore the signatures of barristers, solicitors and members of the General Council ofi the Nar.
It asked the Government to recon- sider its polley and not to be a party, to the dismemberment of a friendly State,
In the
The signatories "view with deep larm the apparent willingness of the Government to allow force alone to be the determining factor relationship between nations, and be
leve that peace can be assured in Europe only by a collective stand by Great Brition, France, the U.S.S.R.. und Czechoslovakia in favour of the principles of justice and the rule of Iuw."
Mr. Plaits Mills said: "Our resolui- 1lon urges the Government to save pace by making a firm stand against Germon blackmail. Lawyers know well that the only way to deal with o blackmailer is to stand up to him We know, from professional experi- ence, that the blackmaller is only formidable when he is faced with cowardice, and it seems to us that| Britain must display courage in the present situation."
A Ranching Life
HIGHLAND WEDDING IN LONDON: Mr. John Wil-
is Elliot Mackenzie, of the Seaforths, with his bride, Miles Vaterie Margaret Dawes, after their marriage at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge.
Clerk
Woman
"Plunged"
the
On
Dogs
A woman clerk who "plunged and plunged" at dog racing in endeavouring to get out of her difficulties was charged at Old Street police court recently with stealing £15 from her employers.
Girl's picture
is only clue
to
'lost' man
An unidentified Englishman who awoke one night recently lying injured by the roadside near Abbeville, Northern France, lay all the next day in hospital with nothing but photographs of a smiling girl he had found
in a pocket to help him to remember who he was or where he had come from.
Police tried to help by show- ing him vrating cards they had taken from another of his! pockets.
They the roams of his coat and trousers, split the heels and cut away the welts of his shoes; examined his signet ring under a' magnifying fluss. They nothing to guide them,
found
brown suede slides, and o shirt with
black und red stripes.
Then I believe it was 'Inst Monday, but I'm not sure—I took'
boat for Boulogne. The next thing I remember was staying a night
Berck at a place called Plage. I ind £35 or £40 in a wallet.
"When I woke up last night the wallet and the money were gone. I recognise nothing that was pockets."
In my
BATHING PICTURE
One card bore the words: "Gera-"
On the telephone to London from duntzen, Berlin. Wittenau Blumen- his hospital ward in Abbeville the weg 23 another, "Mrs. A. Shruba Man Who Doem't Know Himself Hordan hotel belonging to A. and P. described what he called "the dream Wood. I am living in."
Then there was a photograph of the unknown man himself, in a bathing costume, another of him with his arm linked with that of an nttractive, smiling girl in a summer frock. A third showed
girl by herself.
'SEEMS LIke a drɛAM'
"I found myself on the grass verge of a road near here, with bruisen on my legs and cuts on my head," said the Voice, "and, hailed the first car I saw.
That giri is my only chance of It turned out to be the hos-discovering who I am," sald the pital ambulance, and they brought Voice. "I feel I ought to know her me straight here.
face. Obviously dear to inc.
"But my memory goes back before all that.. oh, yes.
Let me think."
There was a pause, then the Volce, slowly, hesitatingly, Yook up the story again:-
"I believe I spent about a week
onc
she is some
"I've had υ Inugh to-day. They've treated me like a spy. It reminded me of the films.
They cut every bit of my shoes, look- ing for secret hiding places. "When they ask me about names
at St. Leonards-on-Sea before there is ene that comes into my head,
took a day trip from somewhere to Boulogne, But everything I think 1 remember seems to me only like
dreaun.
for no reason whatever-Peter Erics- son. I have not the slightest renson for believing that's my name. "When I arrived at St. Leonards who acted as interpreter during the Mr. George Masli, of Abbevilic, at a place entled the West Mufine interrogation of the unknown mun, Station, I believe, I bought a suitcase said: "The police are bafiled. The and a change of clothing. I put it man does seem to be trying to re- on--a sports Jacket, grey trousers, member what has happened to him.
She was Mabel Hart (32), of Glengarry Road, East Trained Sons In Crime'
Dulwich.
It was stated that the amount involved was more than £1,000, and the police and the woman's employers, Messrs. Lugton and Co of Shofeditch, suggested that there was
a man behind the matter.
A detective said Hart's wages were £2 10s. a week. She had
been with the firm ten years. Mothers
Her story was that she took the money on her own initiative, went dog-racing, and. endeavouring 10 get out of Biculties, "plunged and plunged."
"VERY SORRY"
The officer added: "She says it is i
of
Want Male
School Head
Because there is a larger propon-
alf her own faut, but I don't believe tion of boys than girls at the school, that. I can see no possibility restitution,"
Hart: "I can only any I am very Sorry. I have done my best to help with the books.
many mothers are protesting against the appointment of a woman instead of a man as head teacher at Berkshire
toad LC.C. School, Bow, E,
"We have nothing against Miss Spender personnity," Mrs. Hellens. one of the mothers, aid. "She comes from Stoke Newington and has a the record.
Discharging her under the Proba- tun of Tenders Act. Mr. Metcalfe said: "suppose I really ought to make on eximple of you and send "But we think that boys should you to prison. On the other hand, have a master, especially when it is it 1 did so, you would be ruined and a mixed school, as masters have better
it would be terrible for your people." control over children,"
Sentenced Men Freed After Wives' Plea
After being sentenced and, M. Metcalfe: This firm seems to be taken to the cells recently at jconstantly shot at although they pay Old-street two men were saved their people well. It is all very well from prison by their wives.
to offer to pay back the money, but In one case the wife pleaded with to the firm and the community."
the point is whether I have not a duty the magistrate (Mr. Herbert Met- calle) and in the other the man was
He sentenced each man to three telensed because his wife is expecting months' imprisonment in the second
baby,
division.
and
Shortly afterwards Mrs, Abrahams The men were Julius Abrahama, aged 35, of Green-lanes. Harringay, was ushered Into the witness-box.
Henry
Covill, aged 25, of "GIVE HIM A CHANCE" Chevening-roud, Brondesbury Park, both caltector-salesmen. They plead- "Give him a chance," she pleaded. ed guilty to embezzling 16s: Od. and "I have a boy of 14 who doesn't know 145. respectively belonging to their anything about it. My husband will employers, Messrs. John Blundell, repay every penny of the money." Dld, Cily-road, Finsbury.
"CONSTANTLY SHOT AT"
Mr. Metenfe: Do you mean to say that if your husband goes to prison It will affect the boy's future? --- Yes, Detective-Sergeant Bowler sold that I shall have to take him away from the total defalcations in the case of school, and pay £6 if I do so. I have Abrahams was £50, and in the case laken a house for three years, and it of Covill £40. There were no pre-my husband la sent to prison I can- vious convictions against either. In not carry on.
rack case the men had been spending under the Probation of Offenders Act. Mr. Metcalfe discharged Abrahams the noney on dog racing.
Both men offered to pay back the and put him on his honour to repay
money.
ACTRESS'S DAUGHTER
TO MARRY
the money.
Since the fall of Austria, Prince Starhemberg and his wife, the flim actress Nora Gregor, with their baby son, Hove Rved in a small house. With them has been a loyal servant,
Before the court rose, Sergeant who works for them without pay.
Bowler told Mr. Metcalfe that Covill A wealthy friend of the Prince,
wished to
make an application. Herr Fritz Mondle the former owner
Mr. Metcalfe: Is there any special of the Hirtenberg munitions factory,
Yes. Since being cen→ le negotiating for a large farm in
he has informed me that his South America, which Prince Star-
Notice has been given at a London wife is expeeling a child. who has expert agricultural register
of forthcoming Covill was brought up, Mr. knowledge, is to manage; for he has marriage between the fem David, Metcalfe said that he would dischar found that there is little hope of his Tennant and Miss Virginia Parsons, him also under the Probation of discovering a means of existence Inf daughter of Mian Viola Tree, the Offenders Act on the understanding Бигоре,
actress. Mr. Tennant is described as that he would make a proper and He will travel as soon as his wife a club manager and his age is given reasonable effort to repay the money has fulfilled a film contract in Paris. as 30. Miss Parsons in 21.
embezzled.
A whitehaired man with an inter- national record of erime stood in the{{ dock at Clerkenwell Police Court recently with one of his Ave sons and heard a detective allege that he had trained his family in erime.
and
Charles Wolfe, aged 65, a travelier, of Streatham-bill, Streatham, Henry Wolle, aged. 29, of the same address, were charged with being concerned in attempting to steal £150 by means of a trick from Alfred Clyde Boswell, of Taranaki, New Zealand.
Mr. Walter Hedley, K.C., sentenced the father to six months' hard labour and the son to four months hard | labour.
Mr. W. T. Ricketts, defending, sub- mitted that the case ought not to succeed because, in the elreum- stances, no attempt at a trick could jhave been successful, Boswell was
in touch with the police.
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Pilot Offeer Von Mentz recently told an Inquest jury how he struggled to bring R.A.F. acroplone out of a spin after a mid-air collision with another machine-al Stamford, Lin- colnshire, on Thursday.
The Inquest was on Mus Violet Mary Russell, aged 22, of Lancaster- rond, Stamford, who was killed when the blazing wreckage of Pilot Officer Van Meniz's machine fell on her
"I was
I suggest the whole thing was be parents housing with the sun be- ing manoeuvred by the pollee to try
get # convletion," sald Mr. hind me and the other machine was Ricketts. "Under police schooling, presumably straight out below me." he was trying to trick these men, and he said. "I think one of his wings that is not the sort of thing that struck me. ought to be encouraged."
Detective-Sergeant Gowan saitl that Charles Wolfe was a member of a family of convicted confidence tricksters.
"My machine immediately fell spinning. I tried to correct the spin, but could get no response from the control, und decided to take to my parachute."
"SAW NOTHING"
"He is a persistent criminal, and has never been known to do nny Det. Sergeant Humberstone sold work. He is very well known as n that he found the aeroplane in flames confidence trickster, and an associate at the back of a house which was on of racecourse thieves. He travels in Are. Someone said, "The daughter's liners between thin country, the in the bathroom," and he entered, United States, Australia, and New but could see no one. Zealand, committing thefts by menns of confidence tricks. There is no doubt that he has been responsible for the training of his family in
crime.
"He has obtained farge sums of money from Colonial visitors to this country who have declined to take any action because they were return- ing to their homes.
"He is a manuce to foreign und Colonial visitors, and the sums ut money which have been obtained by this family through confidence tricks have amounted to many thousands of pounds."
Referring to the son, Sergeant Gawan added, “He has been
coll-
After the fire had been put out he found Miss Russell's body under the wreckage, so charred as to be unre- cognisable.
Flying Officer John Erie James Sing said he was piloting the other machine at a height of about 1,500. He was Gying into the sun, and had neither seen nor heard any other craft until he felt the impact. He nasumed that he was below Van Mentz.
Wing Commander D. V. Carl negie, commanding offeer at Wit- tering R.A.F. station, stated that the engine of Van Menta's 'plane rather obscured the pilot's view, and the other machine travelled into this blind spot.
The Jury returned a verdict of
victed on two occasions. He hns Accidental Death.
four brothers, l of whom have
They added a rider "that, in view been convicted of confidence tricks of the evidence on the subject of limitation of visibility, a recommen- "Mr. Boswell deserves the thanks dation be forwarded to the proper of the people of this-country," said authorities with a view to the Mr. Hedley, "by reason of the fact climination of flying exercises over that, being on a visit here, when it Stamford." must have been exceedingly Incon venient for him, he put himself to the trouble of doing puòlle service by assisting the police in bringing these men to justice."
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