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CRIME IS NEVER

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How the Police Refresh Their Memories.

The Law never forgets. No matter how long ago the crime was committed, whether murder, burglary, larceny, or some petty theft, once the police "want", a certain person, that in- dívidual cannot have a moment's

pence. Any day a hand may be put on his shoulder with the dreaded words; "I want you,

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although this fact has been known for many years, it is only quite recently that it has been found that this method of crime index forms a most careful basis of criminal classification.

Onc of the most careful methods employed by the Law to refresh its memory is police pub- lications.

as "Informations," which is cir

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EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS whole Empire is about 5,000

IN JAPAN.

Old Timer's Methods for Keeping Alive.

The other night, after a few hours of sound sleep, the violent

year."

"I don't think I shall have any fancy for earthquakes," I said. I know Japan had a few shocks

now and then, but I did not sup-

occurred pose they

80 often. "What do you do when an earth- quake comes?"

ed.

"What do you do?” he exclaim- "Why, you do nothing; the

"Yes, but after so long an ex-

perience," I said, "have you no

TAXATION OF BEER.

Sir W. Wayland on Possible Increase.

The twenty-fourth annual din- ner of the Allied Brewery Traders' Association was held at the Savoy Hotel. Mr. George Westerdale, chairman of the sociation, presided.

America's first "day and night" air mail-passenger service between the Atlantic and Pacific seaboarde A discussion between Lord Mer- became operative on April 1, when Many of them are only issued rivale and Sir Thomas Horder about National Air Transport and Boeing provocation and Insanity took place | Air Transport Inaugurated iri- to the Metropolitan Police, while at the hearing of the £300,000 will motored passenger plane schedules motion of my bed awoke me, and earthquake does it all" others go all over the British dispute case in the Probate Court. of twenty-eight hours eastbound

I made an instinctive bound out Isles.

Of these there is a paper known for Lady Rosamond Christie, a between New York and, San Fran. respondent of the Morning Post. advice to give?"

Sir Thomas was giving evidence and thirty-one hours westbound on the floor, writes the Tokyo cor-

Rushing to my wife's bed, 1 "No," he replied, "there is not culated twice daily to all police daughter of the fifth Earl of Ports cisco stations, and read to police off-mouth, whose husband, Mr. Augus Passengers leaving New York at! found her not; and then, fiying to much in the way of practical al-M.P., responded to the toast of

Of course, you know the cers when they parade for duty. tue Langham Christie, of Eaton 9 a.m. are scheduled to arrive at the door of the room, I found it vice.

I had not jammed to imprison me, earthquake comes with a kick, like There is also a pawnbroker's list; Inatow, Devon, died last year.

Square, W., and Tapley Park, San Francisco, 2,770 miles away, A striking instance of the law's then the Police Gazette, which is

at 1.18 p.m. the following after. Then, dashing into the corridor, this?" And here he struck one of and chil his fists upwards with the other. wonderful "memory" Wag re-

Mr. Christie made two wills one the most important of all police in 1901 in favour of Lady Rosa- San Francisca at noon and arrive dren, all making for the front "When you feel a kick or a suc

noon. Eastbound, passengers leave collided with my wife vealed in a case before the publications, and is the modern Courts when a man appeared on way of raising the hue and ery mond, and another in 1925. Colonel in New York, at 7.24 p.m. the fol- door, which I instantly wrenched cession of kicks, that is the be- ginning of an earthquake; but it G. B. Oerton, a solicitor, la sup-lowing evening. The trip east open; but we did not go out, as.

may not amount to anything, as a paternity order of 1888! Al- after a criminal; it has been gporting the second will as executor, ward is three hours faster than the portico seemed likely to col. though 43 years have passed and ing on in one form or other ever

Pausing the country has a habit of kick lapse over our heads. and Mr. Otho Nicholson, M.P., the westward due largely to prevailing thus a moment to consider whene, owing to former shocks and during that time the man has been in the United States of

residuary legatee under this will, is winds. Five special supplements are

earth settlements; BO we always America, barely had he set foot also issued with the Gazette, the cited as a party to the sult,

National Air Transport will fly ther it were safer outside or in in Britain again when he

The question at issue is

whethe New York-Chicago divisions side, we yet realised that the most important being supplement ther Mr. Christie was sane when he and Boeing Air Transport between house was still swaying and leap- was seen at Birkenhead-and the "A," which was at one time Law remembered,

ing at a dangerous angle. As aa. made the 1925. will.

Chicago-and San Francisco. known as the Illustrated Circu- }

knew that "In my consulting, room," said While the Boeing planes on the old-timer, I somehow

come along with me."

of persons living after the sud-

den hue and cry is raised and has

died down, realise the scale of the

since 1828.

;

eccentric,

He

?

are

we

she

wait for a second kick before tak

action. if the second 1's worse than the first, we get out; if less, we try a third; and If that is still less, we cease to

alarmed, and thank Heaven."

GAMBLING DEN DEATH.

Russian Gets Ten Years' Gaol.

ww

On the occasion in question---

Colonel Sir William Wayland,

"The Houses of Parliament."

He said that with a Socialist Government in power, and prob. ably £50,000,000 of revenue to make up, they were more likely to get dearer than cheaper beer, for he had heard it said that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was looking to the brewer to make up the deficiency.

Sir Henry Page Croft, M.P., proposing the toast of "The Asso" ciation," said that it had 2,000 members who represented em. ployment. for over 1,000,000 workers and over £100,000,000 of capital. If the "Pussyfoots" ever had their way the liberties of the people would be restricted and hundreds of thousands of homes' ruined.

Hop many of the thousands of Jar. This is issued fortnightly, sSir Thomas, "Mr. Christie was night divisions dá not have berths. the shock had done its worst, was people who read cases of arrest and gives the portraits, descrip

tions, and other particulars of somewhat excitable and difficult to the trans-continental passengers on the point of exhaustion, and be expert and travelling criminals, get to sit down. wandered can rest in reclining, adjustable that the house would not come liberated from prison. There is about the room and was a bit chairs. -There

individual down, the motion then being due work and the amazing machinery another weekly issue devoted to of furniture and things on

Pillowa He played with articles reading lamps.

and to after-tremors.

be- which is set going once a person convicts, people failing to report,

my blankets are available for those "Why didn't you wake me is "wanted" by the police.

He was tabla.

emotionally un- who desire to sleep.

The Chairman, in reply, said fore you left the room? I de-: aliens and desertera. The fifth

that members of the association It is not just a simple matter supplement

́stable and wept a. Ittle." which is

Passengers will be served meals manded of my wife after issued of Hending "a detailed descrip-monthly refers to stolen motorThomas declared that

considered that the present taxa- Replying to Lord Merrivale, Sir while in fight and at ground de quieted down with the house. tion to every police-station in the cars.

"I had to get the infant," anger was pats. The west-bound traveller

If the A Russian, Shapakidze, has tion was very unfair. metropolitan area" with perhaps

short madness.

I has breakfast in New York, lunch calmly replied. knew the been sentenced to ten years' im- Chancellor of the Exchequer No known criminal, or in fact, Anger-prints.

Lord Merrivale: An apposite re- in Chicago, dinner while flying earthquake would attend to you." prisonment by the Tientsin Dis. could reduce the price of beer any lawbreaker, can rely on the In many cases. persons are law losing its memory.

"And had the shock not awaken-trict Court for homicide during a it would have the effect of mark, if I may, say, 80. It never

Can you over Iowa City, a midnight lunch "wanted" for some reason or forgets.

of a physically at Cheyenne, breakfast at Salted the child by the time you reach, disturbance at No. 2, Ching Yuan greatly assisting agriculture. other who have never before, Star.

Rupert Batten in the Judge in the case

afflicted man lll Mr. Christie whe Lake City and lunch at San-Fran-ed him?" I asked.

Pel Li, Lao Si-kai, French Cos.¦ (Cheers). come under the notice of the

ther mental capacity was affected cisco..

"No," she said; "I had to seize cession, on November 29 last. police.

without being able to form judg- Fares are approximately eight him in my arms and dash for, the ment as to whether there was real, centa. a. mile.

duor, hoping to collect the girle

· ground of provocation ?-

The trimotored transports-flown on the way, but found them in Sir Thomas: Provocation re- on this route vary from seven to the corridor." quires patience to endure, and if eight and three-quarters tons A Dozen Shocks in a Day. that patience is absent I regard that gross weight. They are powered Of course, one of the most dis as evidence of mental incapacity. with Pratt and Whitney Wasp and concerting aspects of life in Japan A certain amount of provocation Hornet engines. Cruising speed is is the persistency of earthquakes must surely be endured.

115 miles an hour. There are During two days recently we had Lord Merrivale: A normal man thirteen stops in nine Statas more than a dozen shocks, most must bear reasonably any provoca- Planes have radio telephone. of them very mild movements tion. Some people are indifferent Department of Commerce directive When I first came to Japan, now to provocation. Do you judge men- radio beacons have been installed more than 80 years ago, I was tal, capacity on some cases by between New York and Cheyenne. rather surprised when friend certaining what le the capacity of U.S. Weather Bureau reports are said to me "How do you think available from scores of stations. resisting provocation?

you will like the earthquakes?" "Certainly replied Sir Thomas

"Earthquakes," I asked, "Do An Expert Businem."

you have many

As a matter of fact, Scotland Yard is "the" record office where particulars relating to about half a million people are included in Its files and is, therefore, of a national character. Every police, station in the British Isles has a miniature card index of its own. In this are carefully filed par- ticulars of "wanteds" and those who have paid the penalty of their crimes."

AIR CHIEF'S DAUGHTER.

Born Six Weeks After Father's

Death

Mrs. Freda. Sameon, widow of Air Commodore Charles Rumney Samson, has given birth to a dough- ter at The Mansion, Leatherhead. Surrey.

Mrs, Samson, who is a daughter of Mr. Herbert K. Reaves, of One of the oldest methods of Leatherhead, niarried Commodore classification of criminals is by Samson as his second wife in 1924. descriptive marks such as Commodore Samson, because of Bears, deformity, and tattoo his hazardous exploits, was known marks

Red as "Daredevil" Samson and also One of the last and most effec. as the "Captain Kettle of the Cross-examined by Sir Patrick opinion that he was! of “Well, yes," he replied, "we tive ways of identification of Air." He died suddenly, on Febru- Hastings, KC. (or Colonel sound mind would that affect have quite a number: sometimes criminala is a system of Classi ary 5.at the age of 47.

Oerton), Sir Thomas agreed that it, your view?-Oh no. We are five or ten a day, or even more; afon by methods known in In December two babice. were was not possible for him, not hay bombarded with friends of an they vary a great deal in number Scotland Yard as the Crime In bore to widows of victims of the Ing seen Mr. Christie since 1922, to insane person to assure us that the and frequency, as well as in char- der ve

1er airship dianster Squadron express any opinion as to his patient is sane. It is an expert acter. But the average for the Careful Bares e a Leader FM. Rope, and Major capacity, to make will in 1925, businesa. “Un

last 30 years, according to the The Crime Index in a method Gi H Scott Mr. Rope had a son Bir Patrick: If you were told Lord Merrivale: Sitting here for selamometer has been: 1,463 an of Identifying criminals who and Mrs Scott daughter. B-101 that dozens of Mr. Chrisite's friends some time one does not fall to get numily for Tokyo, or about 4 'n have a tendency to pecialike, and freaked on October 5,

koutalde his house formed ~ the | that impression.

day: while the average for the

& Saturday afternoon-a large

The secretary of the Canadian number of Chinese gamblers were Ayrshire Breeders' Association re- assembled in this house when they were visited by Shapakidze ports having received during the and some of his companions. It month of February 126 reports of bave was stated that these latter per cows, and helfers which sons went to the house in order qualified in the 'RO.P.48 in the 365 day division and-78 in the to extort money from the gam- Honour Roll or 805 day division. In blers and to do so pretended they were detectives of the French the 365 day division 32 of the 48 re- corde were made on two milkinge a Police Force.

The gamblers refused to pay day. The leader in the mature squeeze" and a general conflict class was Tullochgorum Dorothy ensued. Several persons were owned by the Experimental Farm at injured and one of the gamblers, Indian Head, Snak, with a splendid a man named Yang, died in the record of 16,468 lb. milk, 657 lb. French Hospital next day as fat result of his having been struck upon the head with a stool by Shapakidze.

Shapakidze received consider- alle injuries himself in the fight ing and was for some time în hos- pital. When he came out of hospital he was transferred to prison and indicted homicide of Yang.

for-the

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