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"I CAUGHT JACK THE released, and he has worked until re- BRIDE-TO-BE BUILDS

RIPPER."

Ex-Constable & Strange Night Meeting.

MAN RELEASED.

A claim to have captured Jack the Ripper is put forward by a former member of the Metropolitan Police in a remarkable letter to the Daily

Express.

cently as the groundsman of a school | sports ground.

A Daily Express representative found him hard at work in a garden at Woodford Green. His deep blue! yes lit up with excitement when he recalled the thrilling days of the! hunt for the Ripper, and he shook a gnarled forefinger to emphasise his conviction that the man he arrested was the criminal.

"I was so disappointed when the that I no man was allowed to go longer had my heart in police work," "The case was taken out he said. of my hands by the detective branch, but I am sure I would have been able The writer is Mr. Robert Clifford 10 prove my suspicions if the matter, Spicer, of Saville Row, Woodford had been left to me. Green, Essex, who was a uniformed! constable, aged twenty-two, at the that dark alleyway in the early; time the Jack the Ripper outrages hours of the morning I felt sure he were terrorising London. His letter was the Ripper. is as follows:-

"I have read with interest the

most extraordinary articles by the late Mr. Robert James Lees on the capture of Jack the Ripper.

had the pleasure of capturing him, and taking him to Commercial Street police station, after he had committed two murders.

"As soon as

I saw the man

in

"The woman to whom he was talking was a notorious character, of the class to which all the Ripper'e victime belonged.

Questions Evaded. "He evaded my questions when I "That's no busi- challenged him.

like

HER FUTURE HOME.

Miss Marion Duckham

As Bricklayer.

"GREAT FUN,"

near

On a slope of the Downs Leatherhead, Surrey, overlooking Ranmore Common, Miss Marion

Arthur Duckham, the eminent in- Duckham, elder daughter of Sir dustrialist, is building the home

where she will live after her mur- riage in June.

I

Miss Duckham is--

Employing her own workmen, Driving truckloads of material, Loading and unloading hun-

dreds of bricks a day, Helping to lay bricks,

Giving a hand with the

pentry, and Supervising the whole construc-

tion.

car-

Girl With The Gold Anklet. A reporter who visited the site writes:

nese of yours, he replied when I asked him what he was doing. "Oh, "On this particular night I had isn't it?" I replied. "Then you worked my beat backwards, and had come along with me,' and I marched

A dozen men or more were busy at come to Henage Street, off Brick him off to the police station, with Lane.

work on the upper storeys. Sud- About fifty yards on the the woman following. right down Henage Street is The news that the Ripper wis denly they paused and listened, Henage Court.

spreud At the bottom of caught

From beyond the brow of the hill lightning the court was a brick-built dustbin. through the district. Women we heard a motor-engine roaring,

The Brown Bag.

peered out of bedroom windows and and then a battered truck came into "Both Jack and a woman (Resy) shouted and cheered. Some were view, piled high with bricks. were sitting on this. She had 20. In her hand, and she followed me when I took Jack on suspicion. He turned out to be a highly respected "I took the man before the in- doctor, and gave a Brixton address, spector, and said that I charged him "His shirt cuffs still had blood on on suspicion with being Jack the them. Jack had the proverbial bag¦ Ripper. There were about eight with him (a brown one) This was or nine inspectors at the station at Half-a-dozen of the men ran to the time-all taking part in the hunt for the criminal.

not opened, and he was allowed to

go.

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7-7.37 p.m.--Variety. Orchestral-

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La Tourterelle (The Dove),

Jean Deveydt and Louis

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Hilda (A Romance),

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Sweepin' the Clouds Away, There's Danger In Your Eyes,

Cherie...Layton and Johnstone

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Humerous Song--

My Canary Has Circles Under His

Eyes, Would You Like to Take a Walk,

Marion Harris (DB483).

Banjo Solo-

Banjokes, Dizzy Digits..Len Filis (DB854). 7.37-7.58 p.m.-Waltzes.

The Blue Danube (Strauss),

The B.B.C. Wireless Chorus & Orchestra (DB301). Merry Widow (Lebar), The Waltz Dream (Oscar Straus),

The Bohemian Orchestra (MR225).

so excited that they ran half-naked j Miss Duckham jumped lightly Into the street, A crowd follow- from the driving ecat, a workman- ed us to the station.

like figure. In blue blouse, leather Neapolitan Nights (Zamecnik), jacket, tweed skirt, beret and a The Midnight Waltz (Amodio), typically feminine touch-with

The London Novelty Orch. gold anklet winkling through her

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the truck, and then Miss Duckham pulled on a pair of huge leather "Imagine how I felt when 1-got gloves and began unloading the into trouble for making the arrest! bricks.

asked, her if she did not find the work tiring. "There are only a few hundred bricks here. My record so far is four thousand in a single day."

"I saw him several times after this at Liverpool Street Station accosting women, and I would re- The station Inspector asked me what! "This is nothing," she said, when mark to him, 'Hello, Jack! Still I meant by arresting a man who had after theth?' He would immediate proved to be a respectable doctor.

"What is u respectable doctor do- "He was always dressed the samoing with a notorious woman at a high hat, black suit with silk quarter to two in the morning?" facings, and a gilt watch and chain. asked but no one would listen to me. He was about 6 feet 8 or 9 inches The man was released, and that, as and about 12 stone, fair moustache, far as I was concerned, was an end high forehead, and rosy checks,

"There have been several articles

to the rantter."

House Planned by Mother.

nounced," abe went on, "my fiance "After our engagement was an-

and I began thinking about a home. So we bought this piece of land, engaged the men, and started in.

"It's amazing how much cheaper

7.58-8.15 p.m.-Organ Solos. The Cuckoo and the Nightingale

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Anton van der Horst (DB1G6). Choo Choo (Malneck & Trumbauer); Memories of Yos (Blake),

Reginald Fourt (DB446), 8.18-8.42 p., Orchestral. The Song of the Drum-Selection

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Herman Finck and His Orchestra (DX233). Vitches Dance from "Le Vill"

(Puccini), Concert Waltz in A (Glazoubov),

- B.B.C. Wireless Symphony Orphee-Ballet (Gluck),

Orchestra (9114).

Orchestra Symphonique of Paris (DX60).

it is to do the war kyourself. For instance, I've been to eight or nine loading bricks. But it's great brickyards in search of bricks at a fun."

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Rose in the Bud

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Experts Teach the Art and ends, including a pair of rub-

of Safebreaking.

THE "PIONEER” OF 1910.

There are few more interesting "night schools" in London than the rooms in which up-to-date thieves take their course of lessons in safe- breaking by oxy-acetylene blow pipes.

sec.some return

other branches of

ber gloves.

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These cases had been brought by from London. Everything was now ready. On a Saturday night, shortly after the jewellers' premises had closed, the thieves brake through the wall separating the building from the empty shop.

In the

strong-room, jewellery and other articles to the value of £40,000 were stored. The thieves started work near the handle of the door, and then worked round and upwards.

Unlike some the underworld, this work must be

Re-polishing His Technique. done by an expert to be successful.

The thief who, it was afterwards Smush-and-grab thieves, and cons Adence tricksters and the like, need discovered, had taken lessons in the use of the blowpipe had forgotten no particular training.

the amount of pressure required The safe-breaker who wishes to from the oxygen and acetylene cy- for his skilled linders to carry out effective cut- operations must take lessons, Boting, so he damaged the instru- enterprising crooks, some of whom ments, which were useless. are known to have "retired," or are

At this moment police on patrol too well-known to venture far in duty outside the shop were hay- daylight, have hit upon the idea of ing trouble with a gang of youths, opening up schools where, for a and blew their whistles to summon consideration, they impart their assistance. knowledge to the apprentice crocks. The thieves in the jeweller's Every evening when things are shop, thinking they had been slack the would-be safe-breakers discovered, escaped in a wait- Baunter along to the classes, in ing taxicab, leaving behind

J. H. Squire Celeste Octet much the same way as a boy, start their valuable possessions, from Ing in business and anxious to im- which detectives were able to gain (0126). Song-

prove his knowledge attends Lon- much information. Weep You No More (R. Quilter), don night schools. Now Sleeps the Crimion Petal

(Tennyson & Quilter),

The Hon. W. Brownlow (DB179).

String Quartet-

Minus (Schubert),

Leher String Quartet (DB290). 10.07.10.25 p.m.-Operatic. Song-

Romeo & Juliet-Waltz Song

(Gounod),

Gertrude Johnson, Soprano

(0193). Maritana-Selections (Wallace),

Bert Rtulton & His Havana Band (9111).

Lohengrin--Lohengrir's Narration

(Wagner),

William Heseltine, Tenor (9127).

Song--

10.30 p.m.-Close Down.

Three men were arrested later Ta open a

safe with 23 oxy- and charged in connection with the acetylene blowpipe many things affair, but they were discharged. have to be remembered. For in- Some years later the ringleader, stance, the heat of the flame is es- after taking further lessons in the timated at 6,700 degrees, so if the art, made another attempt, which nozzle is held too close to the safe might have been successful but for it will burn out and become useless. the fact that he met an honest man whom he thought to be as crooked The first time an oxy-acetylene as himself, with the result that he blowpipe was used in Britain for was caught and sentenced to seven safebreaking was at Birmingham, years' Imprisonment, towards the end of September, 1910, not in London, where the "experts" are supposed to be.

The Pioneer.

According to Chief Superintend- ent J. T. Burnett, of the Briming- ham C.I.D., who writes in the Police Journal on the subject, an attempt was also made by this man to break Into a jeweller's strongroom in London, where pearls valued at $25,000 were kept.

The thief laid his plans very carefully. There was a shop to let adjoining the premises of a firm of jewellers who were to he the firat victims of this type of robbery.

One day an elderly man called to see the manager of the shop, and

It le expected that about 20,000 mentioned that he proposed taking the empty premises adjoining for new peach trees will be planted in the purpose of manufacturing all Columbia this year.

the Oliver district of British

More than 1,500 buffaloes were counted and photographed in the Wood Buffalo Park at the junction ver-backed hair-brushes. With his of the Saskatchewan-Alberta boun- "good" references, which were dary and the Northwest Territories, afterwards discovered to be false, by the aerial survey of the grazing the stranger obtained the keys of

and confessions from time to time In comparison with the past ten In the newspapers. Jack is sup-years, the 1930 building permits for posed to have admitted he was ar the City of Calgary held third rested by a young constable, but was | place. In 1921 the total was released. I claim to be that can- 32,298,800; in 1922, 88,102,142 and stablo."

in 1928, $6,802,142 and in reasonable price-and I've got them. The plans of the house were lands of the far north, Just com- the empty shop. 1929, $11,417,144.. Other years "It's a bit heavy on clothes, of drawn up by Lady Duckham, herself pleted. There was no attempt to Mr. Spicer is now sixty-four year were around the two million dollar course"Mise Duckham glanced at the daughter of an artist, and Miss photograph the whole herd in this of age. He left the police force five mark, while in 1980 the total was a rent in har coat-"and I've worn Duckham's younger brother has census, which was in the nature of months after the suspect had been | $5,054,864.

out two pair of heavy gloves un- undertaken to do the electric wiring. a preliminary test and experiment.

Thrilling Dayg

The following week a number of heavy packing cases arrived, and were stacked in the empty shop. Unknown to anyone they contained

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