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£7,000, and deposited it to his

credit in one of his Chicago banks.

On the same day ho gave cheque, AMAZING DODGES OF

Lagainst it himself in his second alius INGENIOUS TRICKSTERS. For nearly the full amount, and by depositing these in the other bank That the Hands up, or got the money on them. That with shoot!" method of so many recent the last heard of this most ingeni-. bank bandits is by no means the gentleman. The police trucked him” tó. Californii, and thence all only way of commandering other the way back through Chicago people's money, was illustrated in n very sunsatiotual manner the other Buffalo. There they lost him for day by the ingenious cable frick good.

"THE OLD LÁDT's" Loss, which defranded the London

In this country Americans has branch of one of the biggest banks · in the United States of £17,000.equently figured conspicuously ir

fraudulent banking operations, A The sum of £32,000 would, in fact,

matter of fact, one of the bigges hure rewarded the labours of theank robberies ever, perpetrated is elever tricketers who manipulated reat Britain was the work of fou the frand Bat for the smartness of Angricans, who swindled the "Oh one of the bank agents, says the Lady of Threadnelle Street" ou Glasguar Herald.

of £102,814. 11 cunsed a tren

Here was a case of bruins beating the bank-the braips of a gang of exceedingly elver swindlers, fami

iar with krn business bauking netheds and routine; and daring enough to turn their knowledge to criminal purposes on a vast scale.

Their whereabouts are at present the subject of police investigations in London, the United States, and China-from which the cable trick originated. Details of the subtle maner by which the bank was d franded fave already heen made

dous sensation as the Bank of Eng

land,

the gane, having pocketed £10,00 The quartette were old bands. by bank Yorgeries in the United States, prior to their advent hose They were two, brothan, namer George and Austin Bidwell, Georg Macdonald and Edwin Noyes Under the name of Warren, an ar count was opened by Austin at

of the Bank of England where be put in from time to tim

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SEX BAR GONE BUT MAST REMAINS.

THE CHINA MAIL.

ARMY BOXING,

KING'S TOURNAMENTS

CONTINUED. Y

BLIND BOYS' BAND.

AN INTERESTING DEMONS- TRATION.

The clerk of the weather showed Will women reach the captain's kinder disposition last night and the

The Foochow Blind Boys' Band King's Regiment Boxing Tourna-will assuredly leave an excellent bridge? Will they becotue musters ment was able to proceed inter-impression on the big number of for mates? The sex bar is gone but rupted, having previously been people who composed the audiences

the years before the most remain,

handicapped on two consecutive at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloop, The Mercantile Marine Depart. occasions by bad weather. The

yesterday, when the band gave two mant, Board of Trade, have written spectators chiefly composed soldiers entertainments-one in the after-

and sailors. to the Imperial Morchant Service The tournament will be con- After touring Eugland on behalf

noon ûnd the other in the evening. Guild stating that they would not tinued to-night and to-morrow thoir. Institution at Foochow the refuse to examine a candidate for a night when the finals will take band hoa called at Hongkong on its certificate of competency on the place, and when H.E. The Gover-way home. ground of sex if the conditions as Wednesday there is to be a specialcipated in over 300 demonstratione nor is expected to be present. On Whilst in England the boys parti-| to service and testimonials, laid contest between Stoker P.O. Mor-and visited over 200 different town down in their regulations, were gn and Pie. Flynn, which should and cities. The trip to England complied with. They add that the prove an interesting bout.

decision that a woman could not be examined for a yacht master's certi- ficute has been rescinded.

Despite this. The Daily Mau learns that there in little possibility of seeing a woman as captain of any fargo liner.

Although women thay now sit fur .examination for the highest posts in the Mercantile Marine, the con- ditions of service ieally bar any board ship. woman from holding any rank on

D. 8. WINDLE."

Of more recent yeans probably the anost reinerliable bank śwind was when that spruce and engaging Young gentisan, Mr. D. S.

NOVICES FEATHER

WEIGHTS,

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experiment but th. blind bandsmen were not long in the home country before the sympathy of the English people was aroused. conre. ARMSTRONG V. PTE, STOKES. came widely known and the band The boys' abilities be-

in particulas foreing well directed Hall, London, where it entertained, Neither was afraid to box, Stokes soon found itself in the Agricultural body punches. The third round among others; Her Majesty the was a "do or die" tussle but Stokes Queen. counted out. had to give way to strength aid was] The boys are in charge of Miss

Baldwin, who though not originally i connected with the Foochow School happened to be going home on leave at the time they were commencing their tour. She volunteered to look after them white in England and, resolving to keep them under her charge, has returned to the East

PTH, LANGLEY V. PŢE, HUGHES.

In the first round Hughes fell to what appeared a knock out but the ng saved him. With renewed vigour ho tried hard in the second round, but Langley on weakened him again and he was counted out.

PTE, RADCLIFFE V. PTE. WEBSTER.

Webster fell to the boards several times and it was a final knock out which awarded Radclific the fight, defranded some nine branches of the London and South-

Windle.'

three hundred pounds each. As the Western Bank of between two and chief inspector of the bank said.

PTE. COLLIER 9, PTE, HAYTEK,

Pte. Hayter won on points.

This was a fairly even fight which NOVICES L'ANTAM WEIGHTS

with them.

At the coneart yesterday after- noon Miss Baldwin introduced her charges in a short speech. She gave a few details about the school which, she said, had been carrying on its good work for over 20 years. About 200 boys had passed through the schol, soine had dies and some

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had married. At present about 25 boys were earning their own living, some of them, being schoolmaster and industrial workers. were married with families. Miss Others Baldwin pointed out that in spite of Steel Wheele their williction some of the boys were very clever and could type

accurately..

publie, but one is safe in saying that large sums of their reserve fund bank-robber with an up-to-dateness The bont was eventually stopped in write in English quickly and

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gelignite, he put on a top hat and fired a motor cab, having pro- iusly writjen to nine bank man. gers in London-in the name, by the way, of another manager that to their respective branches. After he proposed to transfer his account

PTH. COWELL V. Pru. STEWART. Cowell sarrendered in the round to a much better man."

NOVICES' MIDDLE WEIGHTS

PTE. DRESSAN V. PTE. WILSON,

A good audience attended the rat afternoon demonstration when the band played through a long and varied programme of music, which did great credit to the nine Chines boys set stench a disadvantage. Not only was the entertainment out- standing for the band music, but vocally the boys were equally clever, some of them possessing powerful and rich voices, singing solos and quartettes with remark able ability. In addition there was a. Cornet solo, recitation and # demonstration of English reading in the Braille system.--

and his win was an easy one.

Drennan had the lead all the way

We have not had a robbery of the kind fur 43 years. It is one of the

PTE, SUMMER V; PTR.`MCCABE, petrated, al would have been in most ingenious frands over per

Summer played with his man as ssible before the new motor era."if at a punching ball, although In a word, Mr. "D. S. Windle" McCabe 'did occasionally surprise invested the ancient vocation of his man with a few spirited blows. nch more will be heard of the intimating to the manager tha that must have been the envy of Sumtuer s favour.

many old-timers. Instead of arm. matter-or the C.1.1. at Scotland had come to make Pullman caring himself with boring tools and

at Birmingham. Yard will belie its reputation.

George, the master-mind of b Within recent years more especi ally since the war-banks and bankung kept behind the sev officials have come in for some very and cleverly puffled the wires, Mar bought up foreign bills of exchange ragh and brutal usage; repeatedly donad opened an account- at- employees have been held up at Continental Bank under the the point of the revolver in bed of Horton, und Noyes passed as hi daylight and compelled to hand clerk. Austin would draw money over; the and again they havet of his bank and give it 1 heen the victims of clever forgers Florton or Maclonabl to put int and swindlers, whrs, in spite of all the Continental Bank, and vieg the carefully-devised plans and pres versa; thus each established cred cutions that have been set up to at his respective bank. When the frustrate their nefarious dodges, confidence of the banks was full have scored heavily in this parti-wou, Macdonald began to forge for Themands and thousands of eign bills for large amounts fro pounds have changed hands in the from the real notes that Georg

impressions and engravings most sensational and dramatic man-had purchased. nor imaginable, as a result of the amazing duplicity and cunning with off a master-stroke. Before putting It was then that Austin brought which these swell crooks schemed these forgeries into circulation and manouvred to defraud the went over to Paris, and, by a com-

cular branch of erime.

bank.

'CUTE AMERICAN GANG.

Considerable originality charic terised many of these during schemes, but for downright 'cute uess it would be difficult to surpass a new trick which was played on luding American banker

his, all was quite simple.

FTE, GARDNER V. PTE. GARDINER, Mr. D. S. Windle walked in and The first round was almost like a atrodnevi himseli to all the mun-wrestling match. The second gers in turn,' and to each he inti-round saw a nearer approach to ated a not unnatural desire to boxing when Gardner was success- raw a little money. Being a fol with a knock out punch. nusible, afable.geut. wearing s

all hat, and knowing a little" about Janking business, he was received with politeness, and his wants were takeupplied without dewur. In the

FEATHERWEIGHTS (2ND) SERIES),

PIE KINBELLA V. L/C, LAMONT. pico of two hours this ingeniou Lamont ran short of wind and! ndividual had relieved the nine had to give his opponent the fight

2,000, and probably blamed his bank managers of considerably over in the second round.

desty in not asking for more! Shortly after this

audacious

PTE. BIRD V. CORPL, HOLMES,

OULD IRELAND.

"MY WILD IRISH ROSE."

Portraying the more genial side Cpl. Holmen lost the fight of the Inah character and tempera bination of have-faced effronterrand, it was announced that addi-through being knocked out. and the devil's own buck," obíaiti

ment which recent events buve per- ed an interview with no less a per

ional safeguards" had been decided

PTE, Chourros v. PTE. MURRIShaps tended. somewhat to obscure; souage than Baron Rothschild, ane

pon by bank authorities.. How

Pie. Crompton found his man My Wild Irish Rose," which the inveigled a bill for £1,600 from th

ery necessary this was a fraud of superior boxer and bad to Coronet management are screening prince of financiers.

nother type will amply demon-retire in the second round..

as a special attraction this week, is PTE, EMDE V, L/U. SHILL. proving a highly popular picture. PES. Eadie was very serviceable. Usually when the Emerald Islc A customer having a fairly good with his right and availed himself gets itself on the films it is.con- alanco, never sinking below four of all openings. On the other hand nection with some bomb outrage igures, at a branch of a well-known Hill displayed more scientific box-or the latest execution at Mountjoy ink, hurried in one morning andding and in an extra round secured sked to see the manager.

the winning decision.

trate.

THE CONFIDENCE MAN.

The amal civilities were exekang- d, and the taller explained that hel as Baking rather good invest- sent, and had promised to 13 #1,000 the next day.

SPECIAL CONTEST..

Mr. Warren" was already hel short in high esteem by the bank man the age. Americans themselves ager, und the production of Baror eckoned it one of the most extra- Rothschild's bill gave him a con. ordinary swindle ever perpetrated fidence in his American client sue! in the land of the almighty dollar" as nothing else in the world coute

prison. This production, however which is saying something! Have done. The great moment her

has been adapted from a famou It was successfully carried out by now arrived, and the rogue began k

melodrama, The Shaughran' by the "Yellow Kid" gang, which had rend in the forged bills to be dis

Dion Bouccicault and it treats of been operating in the Middle We-t, counted by the bank. They we

the romance, wit and folk, lore! and had sold two million dolars all at thres 'months, and such wa

Chief Petty Officer Callaghan which tradition links with the #400,000) worth of gas see the confidence the bank hail in the

(169 Ubx.) of H.M1.8. Ambrose met naune of Erin., The story of the securities to leading bunkers. Then, arch-swindler that it discounte

Well," said the manager, Sergt. Trile (150 lbs.) of the Royal filin is screened almost entirely in changing his tactics, the leader of them for him at sight without th

there's no difficulty about that.' Garrison Artillery in a special en Treland though a few of the later the gung posed as a capitalist, aul east inquiry.

• Precisely, "was the rejoinder: round contest.

scenes are laid in Australia where undertook to purchase from Mr.

but will you do mes small fay- Albert C. Charles, baker, of Koko were now slapped into, his account

Batch after batch of the forgericur? What is it? queried the but the second round saw both men as convicta and where incidentally The first round was uneventful some of the old Feniana were sent mo, ulian, and his associates, and discounted without the slightest

nanger. "I want any friend to go to the boards. As boxers they they laid the foundation of the steel plant for eight and a half hesitation, Mr.. Warren" at the

e that my paying him. £1,000 will were fairly well matched, and strong hibernian sontiment which million dollars ($1,700,000), but some time drawing out large sunn

ot exhaust my resources. Will whereas Callaghan had an advan-pormentes the Commonwealth to insisted, before completing the deal, of money, and what he did not get structing all the pay clerks (and possessed a better reach. Callaghan

you, therefore, oblige me by in tage in physique his opponent day. that Mr. Charles should pay the in gold-the bunk Botes-be hand- hey were numerous) to cash my showed more Income tax due on the property. ed over to Macdonald or "Horton heque when it is presented with weakening Tribe considerably in confidence and, The "Yellow Kid" had rented an to cash in turn at the Continental ut referring to the ledger to see the third round eventually knock- office next door to that of the Inter- Bank.

make a good impression on my how my account statids. It will ed him out. nan, and it cannot do you any

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nal Revenue Collector, placed a "But there's many a ship, etc. confederate in it after the collector's On their last batch of bills but one office had closed for the day, and they were caught napping. They harin, as you know what my bal- changed the door signs of the two were preparing to make their finance is," officer. Mr. Charlos's attorney coup, their biggest of all, in which 41,000)

(It was a little over worked late in figuring out the If they stood to clear £50,000, when come-tax due, and hastened to pay one of the clerks filing the bills wish it," replied the unsuspecting "Certainly, if you particularly

The following will represent the it to close the dest. He saw the already received noticed that the manager, for his customer's name

Club at the Marine ground, Kow- sign Income-tax Collector" on the dates of acceptance had been omit had been long on the books; and door of the office rented by the ted from two of them. It was (for there had never been any trouble... Butler, of H.M.S." A Rev. E. W. L. Martin, the Rev. loon, on Wednesday, March 21, as 6 p.m.A. Bower, G. H. Piercy, Awindlers, walked in, and paid one the gang) a fatal omission. hundred and eighty thousand dol- billé bore the acceptance of a well-

G. Murray, E. J. R. Mitchell the lore (£38,000) in hard cash.

When the cheque was presented broso met P.O. Leaf, of H.M.S. N. Evang, H. Owen Hughes, F. H. Ram-running Statistics. known foreign marchant, who had the next day at a particular deak "Hawkins." It was a spirited con-Holdmau, W. Woodward, F. C. In America bankers and police an office in the city. When a mes- the clerk, without going, through tost in which both men served out Miller and E. G. England.

songer was sent to get the omission the formality of referring to the punishing bite. An extra round rectified; the merchant liffmself was customer's account, pleasantly in had to be fought and P.O. Leaf of these was a man named Watson, there, and at once be declared the quired, "How will you take it?" finished up the winner on points. who, a few years ago, opened ac bills to be forgeries.and handed over the amount with counts at two Chicago banks, under Not if a bomb had dropped in out ado

A.B. Cleary, H.M.S. Hawkins but in the third round Hambly sud-1,200,000 gallons a year, and that states that the average annual 'ship the names of Frank H. Harper and their midat could there have been a In the meantime the same little H.M.S. Ambrose Eardley was brought home a deadly knock out are getting immense revenues years, while America was sup- was defeated by A.B. Eardley denly dispelled all doubts. He the population of the British Colony ment of liquor for the last three Thomas Henderson. He transact greater consternation among the ceremony was being gone through more certain and more powerful and emerged victor ed business for a long time until his bank officials. It almost caused at four other pay-desks, each clerk, with his blows putting Cleary, on

from the traffic Mr. Rogers posedly dry, was nearly 17,000,000 credit at both banks was thoroughly panic. Scotland Yard was imme acting upon instructions, cashing the defence during almost the whole establiebed. Then

he slowly diately notified, and so swiftly had Mr. cheque for £1,000, mak of the three rounds, brought both his accounts down to the aumzing declosure came about ing 80,000-in-all-or-nearly £4000-

are constantly obliged to do battle with forgers. One of the smartest

merely nominal amount Ho that in jess digu no time the whole in excess of the wily customer's OPEN MIDDLE WEIGHTS, then left Chicago, presumably on a four, andlers were run to earth Balance business fourney. When he reach- They were sentenced to penal ser And, of course when Mr. It was touch and go as to who ed St. Pand he bought a draft on a vitude for life, but afterkerving received a polite note requesting would win the bout between L.B. New York bank for 47 and by fourteen years they were released him to call at the bank he was not Hembly HMS. Ambrose akilful manipulation raised it to on Hoket-of-lesys,

to be Yatind

Bid Bioker Folly, H.M,6,

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ally for St. Pierre (Miquelon), New- La a statement issued by Repre-foundland, or Tampico, Mexico, but sentative Rogers, of Massachusetts, really unload their cargoes off, New. he alleges that liquor is being York and other Atlantic coast ports smuggled into the United States into fast motor-launches, and so from the Bahamas at the rate of to thiraty Americans. The report

AB. Edwarde, H.M.B. Des adds that the Bahaman authorities gallons while the imports for 1922 patch had an easy win against decline to make the slightest effort were nearly 1,200,000 gallons. The A.B. Franks H.M.Sitanito curtail the illicit traffic, anti that: Bakaman: Governmimt receiver-s who thought it whe wide to retire in the islands derive as. Income, three inty equal at the current rate of the first round,SK

times as great as the Government exchange to $5.50 per case on all Dio-revenues from all sources for 191 made was given the winning deci. The report states that now

an interefting fight against running is an organised

Stoker Young, HM8.

g. the vessels engaged, nes

fying the British fag, clear off

rted, and Mr. Rogers inted out that it is not likely the Bahamians would exert to cut off such a sonice