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STORY OF A CHASE. ATTACK ON GAOL.

"BOOKMAKER'S RUNNER" IN COURT

POLICE USE TEAR-BOMES &

BAYONETS...

V.

LYNCHING EVADED,

· “WON-ON.ITS. MERITS.”

When Hal Roach, of picture-

Police-constable Harold

New York. A man named comedy fame, arrived in Manila, Yorke, who had been described as Adolph Hotalling, of Flint, Michi- a report was issued that he was "a detective sent among detec-gan, narrowly escaped lynching | to study the possibilities of tak-tives," was cross-examined when after confessing that he had mur- ing moving-picture scenes in the the hearing was continued at the dered and mutilated a 6-year-old Philippines. Mr. Roach passed Liverpool Police Court of the girl, Dorothy Schneider. Warged through Hong Kong on his way cuae in which allegations of by muttered threats of the temper around the world stopping over bribery and conspiracy are made of the citizens, the police smuggled at several ports as a sort of ad-against ten ex-constables of the Hotalling to Lansing just before an vance guard for three companies Liverpool Police Force and a book- infuriated mob of 10,000 persons which will make a year's tour in maker. The case for the prose-attacked the gaol in Flint, over- the near future making pictures cution was that bribes were paid powered the guards, and searched on the way.

to plain clothes policemen to in-every cell. According to present plans, two duce them to refrain from doing The angry ringleaders tried to dramatic companies and a comedy their duty in suppressing street force the warders to tell where company will make a tour of the betting. All the charges were Hotalling was hidden, whereupon world to take scenes at various denied.

ia the police threw tear-bombs. Men ports, which Mr. Roach will pick Thomas Campbell, of Bower in the crowd caught the bomba, out on his present trip. The com- Street, and Stanley Road, Liver- however, before they burat and panies will make a series of pool.

threw them back into the gaol, and twelve feature pictures for Bri- The ex-policemen are: Francis pandemonium reigned until the tish syndicate. A British ship Cranny, William Hodgson, arrival of militia has already been chartered and William John Chappell, Walter bayonets. all interior decoration will be Wilson, George Regius Ruperts, made on board. The tour will be. Thomas Selby, John Sevens,

The

bookmaker

with fixed

Elder of a Church.

gin from Los Angeles and will in-William Richard rounds, Hotalling's crime is the more re- clude the Hawaiian Islands, the William Henry Harald, South Seas, China, Japan, and Stanley Harvey. perhaps the Philippines, Siam and India.

and markable because he is a middle- aged man, an elder in д local Special Instructions,

church, is married, and is the father Yorke alleged that having been of five children. His explanation sent on plain clothes duty, with is that he was obsessed with the 42, Actors To Travel. special instructions, he was told morbid details of the murder and The tour will, in no way, serve by Hodgson that there was no mutilation of little Marion Parker as a travelogue, Mr. Rouch ex-need to be short of money "on in California. plained.

The project will be this job," as "we have all the nights by thoughts of this atrocious Kept awake at under the direct supervision of bookmakers in the division under crime, he finally had an Mr. Roach himself. Scenario our thumb."

insane writers, photographers, and other

"urge" to follow the example of Replying to Mr. E. G. Deery william Hickman, Marlon's mur- personnel necessary for taking (for Hodgson, Chappell, Harold, derer. and putting pictures into shape and Cranny), Yorke said he re- will be contracted and will com-fused to charge a street book-she was leaving school, drove her He picked little Dorothy up as: pose a portion of 65 people who maker whom Cranny had arrest to the woods, stabbed her to the will make the tour. The actors ed because he personally had not will number 42, Mr. Roach de-seen the arrest and did not want throw the parts into a river. When heart, dismembered the body, and clared.

to tell a lie, By his refusal he The pictures will cost ap-aroused other plain constables he attempted to drive off his motor- proximately $160,000 each, ac-suspicions. cording to present estimates. when Hodgson made the charge him reported his suspicions to the It was true that car became stuck in some mud, and a neighbouring farmer who helped When finished they will be releas-he (Yorke), corroborated Hodg

Family's Faith,

ed through the Metro-Goldwyn- son's evidence to a sergeant, but police after the body had been Meyer Company. Mr. Roach's he would have refused to give found. own company will not make the evidence in court. "I told a lie to trip.

the sergeant, but I have told no The photoplay magnate declar-lies on oath," he said. ed that if the first round-the- Unburdened Himself. world cruise is successful another Mr. Deery: In spite of these cruise, will be undertaken the suspicions. Hodgson unburdened following year.

himself to you? Yes.

HEROIC RESCUES.

WOMEN WRAPPED IN POLICEMAN'S COAT.

Despite Hotalling's admission his family refuse to believe that he is guilty, One report states that the man was arrested because he boast- ed to soine men at work near his If you were to make up a con- home that he could supply informa~ versation you could not imagine tion about the crime. It is also a better one from the prosecu-said that Dorothy Schneider's tion's point of view than the one mother actually witnessed from her that you attribute to Hodgson?-house the seizure of the child and I don't think I could.

her abduction in a motor-car.

It was a delightful synopsis of the whole alleged conspiracy?--It was exactly what took place so

Southampton. The brave rescue fer as I could remember. Yorke

of six people from burning premises denied that he had tempted any never paid anything to a police ja London Road, Southampton, was of the constables, but agreed that man before. accompanied by exciting incidents. he told three of them, including

mentioned the house of a woman bookmaker.

Mr. Deery: This £1 was just| a generous gesture on your part| to Hodgson because you were pleased your man got-off so light- ly? Yes.

One of the occupants, Mrs. Pelling, Chappell that he knew where How much had you paid in flues Mr. W. Clothier (prosecuting): who is over 70 years old, was so they could get "a nice drink of for your runners in the four years dazed when the firemen apeared in whisky" if they wanted one, and previous to that? Over £100. her bedroom that she collapsed.

She was taken on to the landing, and when she saw the flames she A Dustman Disguise. started to go up the stairs. Then

Joseph Dunne, a bookmaker, of she collapsed again, and, being Doncaster Street, Liverpool, said heavy, had to be dragged to safety. that after one of his runners had The lower part of the premises been arrested and fined he saw were occupied by the Southampton Hodgson and Yorke in the street. James Joseph Smith, of Lamb Gramophone Salon Company, the Hodgson introduced Yorke to him Street, Liverpool, formerly a run- upper portions being self-contained as "the new man." Afterwards ner in the employ of Joseph flats, and the occupants, Miss they all boarded a tramcar, and Dunne, gave a description of his Widdas, Mr. and Mrs. White, Mrs. Hodgson said, "Smith, my run-arrest for street betting on Oct. and Miss Knuckey, Mrs. Pelling, her, got off light." Witness said, 25 last year. Police-constable and a visitor, Mrs. Mary Shergold, "He did," as he had been fined Forke, he said, looked like a dust- of Halcyon Park Road, Hayling then gave Hodgson £1, and asked

only £6 for a second offence. He man.

Island..

Won By A Short Head:

Mr. Clothier: Was he dis- The fire was discovered by Con-him to have a drink and to give guised? Well, I should say he

Yorke a drink. stable Joseph Brooks, who brought

Witness had must have been. (Laughter).

three of the women from the top . (Continued on Next Column.)

flat before the arrival of the fre brigade. He was found in a semi- conscious state, due to the smoke and heat.

Constable's Story.

Describing the fre, Constable Brooks said: "I aroused the people. by ringing the bells and shouting, and as I got through the door I saw an old lady who appeared. to be

| stumbling down the stairs, She was bleeding, from tha.mouth, and I caught hold of her had pulled har out. She was in her night attire and was in a state of collapse.

"I laid her on the pavement and pat my cape around her. The base ment door was red hot. I blew my whistle when I got qutside.

ISN'T HE LOVELY I

How contented mother feala when, tucking baby in, she la

Was Cranny disguised?-Oh, no; he was "well off" that day. He had on a blue suit and collar and tie.

Did anyone else join the party? -Yes, "Mumtaz" (a nickname for Hodgson).

Cross-examined by Mr. Deery, Smith, again referring to his arrest, said, "I ran for it, but Cranny jumped the wall to catch me, and won on his merits.” (Laughter)...

Mr. Deery: But he did not win in a canter ?---No, by a short head. (Laughter).

You had taken the precaution, I believe, of putting your betting slips in a crevice in the wall?... Yes.

It saves your pocket. (Laughter).

“Tainted And Very Slight." At the end of the case for the prosecution, submissions were

"I went back into the house again, happily conscious that all is well and on the stairs I saw two other with the little one, and that all ladies. They were also in their will continue to be well throughout might attire and were nearly the night! suffocated. I managed to get them Such is the pleasant lot of the made on behalf of all the men outside and put my coat round mother who gives Baby's Own charged that there was no case them, as it was bitterly cold, Tablets her confidence, keeping to answer.

"I was nearly done for, but I ran them handy in the home ready for Mr. J. H. Neville, for Roberts, back into the house and carried out need arias, to correct any signs of Harvey, referred to the evidence immediate administration should Selby, Stevens, Grounds, and another old lady who had been got stomach trouble

down by some of the firemen 1 don't remember much what hap-

pened afterwards,

"I think I collapsed, and I remem- ber one of the firemen giving me Arst aid. But whatever are they making such a song about?”

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of George James Masters, for- merly employed by Campbell. "IT his: story is true, he is an accom plice," Mr. Neville said, and sub- mitted that on "this tainted and very slight evidence," no jury. would convict, and it was unfair

or Intestinal Irregularity, to assist to put these men to further ser!- digestion, to allay teething pains, jous, expense.bookvach Conta cool feverfabenss, relieve croup or Mr. L. B. Phillips (the magis cold, but in deer who trate) held that there was a case

There is no difficulty about giv to answer.

Peking's foreign community was shocked to hear by cable of the Ing Baby's Own Tablets, for the The men were formally charg death in Edinburgh, of the popu- children like them. They are ed, and pleaded not guilty and re- Jar Mr. James S. Hogg. Mr. Hoss,even to the youngest or most deserved their defence. The com rigranteed absolutely harmless who was on leave in Scotland beeste infant in arms. Chemists mittal for trial and the question fore, returning to his duties as everywhere sell them, for post free of fixing further ball were post- comptroller of the Peking Union 50 cents the vial, from Dr. ponedjah

GAR Medical College died from Williams Medicine Cop 60 The police-court hearing of the pneumonia on January 17.

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