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FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1931.

MAN WHO MADE HATRY FRAUDS POSSIBLE

Five Years' Sentence Passed on John Gialdini,

PROPERTY CONFISCATED.

Imprisonment Unlikely Before Christmas.

of

John Cialdini, associate Clarence Hairy, and the man who is alleged to have suggested the 'fabrication of stock certificates by which the Hatry, frauds were car- ried out. was found guilty at Milan on June 12 on charges of being concerned in the frauds. A sum of over £1,000,000 was involv ed in the five charges on which he was convicted. The Court im- posed the following penalties:-

---Imprisonment for five-years and ten months of the type known as reclusion-this corresponds with hard labour in England.

Daniels was sentenced to seven years, reducible to Ave years three months; Dixon to five years, reducible to three years nine months; and Tabor to three years' penalty scr- vitude, reducible to two years three months.

Prisoners undergoing penal servitude in England are re- quired to work at a trade for eight or ten hours'a düƒ, ̈

THE THIEVES OF

SINGAPORE.

The Ways of the Minor

Criminals.

PICKPOCKETS AND GANGS.

THE

CHINA MAIL.

even

All this happens within twe seconds, so swiftly that passers-by remain completely un conscious of the coup. Then there are buyers who, inadvertently leav

in their bank notes for change or collection on the counter nearest the five-foot way, have their money

RADIO

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

The following programme wit

metres:

....

snatched away. The inevitable be broadcast to-day from the sequel la a hot argument between Hong Kong Broadcasting Station the victim and the shopkeeper in Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 865 | fixing who should bear the loss.

Outstation Visitors. Next come

visitors from out-

5-7 pm-Chinese Programme. Southern Hotel was ablazo with stations. At the

corner of CFOBS. 5.30-5 p.m.-A Lecture on "The electric lights. The clatter of the Street and New, Bridge Road is a Selentific Explanation of Common clockwork sat of toys attracted photographer's studio, its spacious Natural Phenomenia" by Mr. I. T. thousands of captivated gazers who window panelled with highly beau-Pun, B.S.AT V packed themselves right in front of tifled and coloured portraits of 7-9 p.m.-European Recorded H. Men, women, Annd children Chinese actresses, singing girls, Programme of Columbia Records pushed through the throng to the demi-monde and others. To resi-kindly supplied by the Anderson counters to buy mooncakes as the dents of Singapore these pictures Music Co. Festivity of Autumn Solatice,

offer no attractions, but to people otherwise known As the Feast of from outstations they are a rare Orchestral

7.06.8 p.m-Variety. Lanterns, was but two nights ahead. treat. Almost daily groups aro Hit the Deck-Selection, The hotel did a roaring business,

Beor standing stockstill, gazing

London Hippodrome Orchestra likewise did the pickpockets there fixedly at the photographs and lost

(9284). who pocketed u golden harvest in raptuous wonderment. I have

Humorous Song-- writes S. K. Loon in the Malayan seen how perfectly easily the nimble

What Wouldn't I do fur that Man, You're in Love and I'm in. Lave, Police Magazine.

fingered operated on the pockets of

Ruth Etting (DB19). the jabbering crowd these starers, Amidet

Organ Solo struggled:forward the portly figure

Body and Soul," Relevantly, I was the eye-witness of the hotel's market-goer, his of a rather humorous incident:-

With a Song in my Heart, right forearm weighed down by an Two men, A and B, dropped into

Quentin M. Maclean (DB46). over-full basket. Seeing him thus Southern Hotel for tea. They had

A Pair of Blue Eyes, encumbered, three pickpockets

I Feel You Near Ma, not been seated long when a party- ner which sometimes seemed silently and swiftly closed round of six mea came, and, being friends, Xylophone Solo

Layton & Johnstone (DB186). Payment of compensation to Sir strange to British conceptions of him, one of whom was just going A hailed them to join them at the Gilbert Garnsey,

The Clatter of the Clogs, legal procedure, and protracted to "operate when a slight touch on Payment of the costs arising in far beyond the practice of our his shoulder and a whisper "It's our number now swelled to eight, and sume table. Thus from two the

The Dancing Tailor.

Rudy Starita (DB247). -connection-with-the-eivil-claim-courts, there is no-doubt-that-this employee" dispersed the operator the bill increased proportionately.

mounting to about 2,000 lire has been

The Man in the Ditch, pre-eminently fair and his accomplices away. It was A inquired of B how much he had. (£22).

another employee, a tacitly acknow- "Twenty cents," answered B sulkily.

An Edgar Wallace Thriller Told by the Author (5026), ledged tough, who intervened and

Piano Duet {"Go-and-borrow.some then, retort- rescued the corpulent one,' a fent

Hallelujah! of walch the latter remained bliss-B left the table, took the descend

ed A peremptorily., Without a word Sometimes I'm. Happy, fully ignorant. Absolutely raw to the wifes and violence of Singa- ing lift and walked out of the hotel. Fifteen minutes passed and Bre pore's underworld. for I was in turned, handing over ten dollars to stalled as resident manager lesa than four months before, I was a

A. The bill was paid and the whole close watcher of the above drama

party dispersed. from beginning to end. Greenhorn like I suggested to call the police. much better said, "Sir, you do not know these rescale yet; they do not operate singly but in gangs." This afterwards had

Payment of a fine of 10.000 lire -about £110.

In view of the amnesty granted in January of last year on the oc- casion of the marriage of Crown Prince Humbert, iwo, items of the sentence are remitted--one year's imprisonment and the fine of 10,000 lire.

Property Confiscated. A final clause of the judgment confirms, and legalises the seques- tration of Ginidini's property in Italy.

The precise effect of the com- pensation decision cannot

be

known until the reasoned judg ment of the Court is issued,

It is understood to involve pay ment to Sir Gilbert Garnsey, the civil claimant of compensation on the scale femanded in the papers in the case.

Sir Gilbert, liquidator of the Hairy companies, was joined as third party in the trial in order to permit him to make a claim for damages.

Hatry, after being engaged · in the laundry and the boot- makers' shop, was given oe. cupation as a bookbinder. Although conducted in a man-

trial.

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WHAT SENTENCE MEANS:

Imprisonment Unlikely Before Christmas.

The sentence

1.

passed upon Glaldini will not become effective exhausted the legal until he has

to endeavour means he possesses to have it annulled.

♫

I was struck by the ease with which B obtained his loan but soon

Vocal Duet-

Dialogue

Jean Wiener and Clement Doucet (4859). Orchestral-

Old Music Hall Favourites,

Herman Finck & His Orch. (DB27),

8 p.m.-Local Time & Weather Report,

In the first place, he will enter an but my tough employee who knew learnt that he, indeed borrowed the Octet-

appeal, and it will be a matter of perhaps six months before that that appeal fall he can apply to assertion I have appeal comes to hearing. Should

consideration. the Court of Cessation for a re-ample opportunities to verify

true.

Kreta Ayer Gangs.

as

money and the purse also, but from of the beauty gazers at that junc and without the knowledge of one

tion studio What remarkable. promptitude!

►

8.05-8.30 p.m.-Instrumental. Minuet Sicilienne (Squire & Hart), Minuet in D

(Mozart arr. Willoughby),

J. H. Squire Celeste Oetet. (DB76).

'Cello Solo-

Album Leaf (Gliere), Scherzo (Sir Hamilton Harty),

W. H. Squire (L2115), Pianoforte Salo

Rondo in E Flat Major (Hummel), Viennese Dance No. 1 (Gaertner),

Ignaz Friedman (L1750), 8.30-9. p.m.-Orchestral.

Idy (Wagner),

How. Accomplices Intervene. heard and it is unlikely that they Until those appeals have been

Last year a well-known Chinese theatrical promoter and reputed will have been disposed of before

The centre of pickpocket activi- boxer had his shin smashed in this Christmas-Glaldini will continue ties in Singapore's Chinatown lies wise. He was in the habit of pick- Ayer, aren, i.e. tant ing up bargains from second-hand rectangle bordered on the north by dealers in Upper Cross Street and Siegfried During the day-time he will Cross Street, on the south by. Sago Lim Eng Ece Lane. During the have his own room in prison on Street, on the east by South Bridge process of price haggling his pokcet payment, and he will be allowed Road, and on the west by New was about to be picked when he Oberon

under the regime that has been his in Kreta for the past fifteen months.

restaurant.

Bruno Walter & Symphony Orchestra (LX79).

Overture (Weber),

Willem Mongelberg and His. Concertgebouw Orchestra (L2312).

to have his meals taken in from a Bridge Road; together with Eu suddenly, grabbed the culprit who to a maximum penalty of leges in the matter of smoking, Market. This "El Dorado" is splitstall a bystander seized an iron bar The Gipsy Baron--Overture

Certain other privi-Tang Sen Street and People's Park promptly bolted. From the same The judges did not im visits, and correspondence will be up into two mandated territories, with which he smashed the shin of one of which is allotted to the Sago the boxer and then fled, leaving his

On the charges which had been made against him Gialdini was liable

ten years. pose the maximum as Mr. Justice Avoy did in the case of Hatry.

No Emotion.

They adopted the suggestion of the Public Prosecutor who had asked for the imposition of the "light sentence of seventy months' reclusion on the ground that this was the prisoner's first offence.

Gialdini is expected to

give notice of appeal within the legal period of three working days.

permitted.

(Johann Strauss),

Bruno Walter & Symphony Orchestra (L2852). 9-10.30 p.m. From the Studio.

Mr., S. B. Winram.

(a) A May Morning (Denza), (b) I Hear a Thrush at Eve

(C. Cndman),

1. Pianoforte Solo-Solected,

2. Songs

3. Songs

By Mrs. L. Sharpham (Soprano) accompanied by Mish L. Pecker.

(a) 0 Lovely Night

(Landon Ronald), (b) Because I Miss You So

(Eric Coates);

If his appeals prove ineffectual Street gang and the other to the victim wriggling on the ground and he has to begin the term of Pagoda Street gang, with a common with pain. "reclusion," his circumstances will meeting ground for both gangs is A burly man, whose expensive be those of a prisoner sentenced at the food stalls opposite Eu Tong velour hat attracted attention, lost to hard labour, although he will Sen-Theatre. All the members of bath hat and consciousness, under not do any hard work. He will the two gangs are master "sycho-guileful circumstances. As was his occupy a cell at night, and during logists as divulged by the precise wont, to take his tiffin at Southern the day he will exerelse.

the at the entrance method employed for each particu- Hotel, and No Solitary Confinement,

lar set of victims.

blackguards accosted him. Stepping It is, perhaps, true to say that

First there, are the women. Be-out of his rikisha, he was about to the best prison conditions in Italy ginning from numbers 161 to 167 enter the hotel when his hat was The strain of the trial had told are worse than the worst in Eng- South Bridge Road and running in suddenly snatched away from be visibly upon the accused man dur-land, but there is no solitary con- a continuous row are half a dozen hind, the snatcher, Immediately ing the last few days, but he refinement. ceived the sentence without be-

haberdashery shops which are taking to his heels. The victim In consequence of the great delight to Chinese women and a made as though to chase him but, traying any sign of emotion, · many cases of insanity resulting "Dogger Bank" for pickpockets. before he could move two paces, a

Pending the hearing of his ap- therefrom, solitary confinement peal he will continue to receive has been almost entirely abolished luxurious

These gentry await the arrival in discreet and well placed jab on his

.cars of the same privileged treatment in under the new Fascist penal code women, who do not condescend to a "spectator,"

plutocratic chest, delivered with the elbow by sent him toppling respect of food, visits, etc., as he The abolition takes legal effect light but order their maids to backwars, and he lost consciousness has hitherto received during his from July 1 next year, but, in fact, descend and make the requisite pur through his head striking the con- detention at the prison while it has already been abolished in chases. Confined in their cars with crete pavement. awaiting trial, He has been in anticipation: Under the old code dangling and sparkling earrings Another min was led into a wild- custody for a mattor of sixteen a period of solitary confinement these women personify wealth pub-goose chase in addition to losing his

formed part of any sentence exlicly displayed. There comes

It ahat.

was abruptly twitched ceeding five years In length. future, it is to apply to political quick movement of hand followed away from behind by a person who. Songs offenders alone.

by a sharp cry of pain-an earring remained perfectly still holding has parted company from its fair the hat behind him, whilst an ac- owner, to be spirited away with its complice immediately ran away, and The ersta In the Case quick footed acquirer.

the owner of the hat thinking the have not yet been determin-

latter to be the actual thief gave (Continued in next 'Column.) aed. It is understood, however,

chase and so became the laughing: stock of his friends.

months.

When the court resumed, Signor Marchesano, the burly Sicilian ad- vocate, completed his third and final speech on behalf of the ac cused.

"Brigand" Financiers.

£20,000 in Costs..

In

"The Hatry companies were briganda' lair," Signor Marchesano that Gialdini was required to de- declared. He also informed the posit £20,000 to cover costa. It is court that in no country were estimated that that sum will re- 24 a week. Ultimately, he became .there "80 many brigands ar. present approximately the costs of associated with the Dundee Trust,

amongst English financiers." the Italian Government....

A fee of £300 is being paid to Signor Savia, counsel for the third party.

where he met Daniel, and subse quently Clarence Hatry."

By Mr. H. G. Annis (Tenor) accompanied by Mr. George Grimble,

4. Vialin Solo-

(a) Mazurka (Wieniawsky), (b) Nocturne in E Flat

(Chópin-Saranaato),

6.

Songs

By Mr. John V. Braga

(a) My Dearest Prayer (H. J. Tandler),

(b) Musica Prohibita' (Melodia),

By Miss A. Silos (Soprano) accompanied by Miss L. Pečker.

(a) The Rose of Traico (C. W. Glover), (b) The Drum Major (E. Newton),

By Mr. W. H. Bailey (Baritone) accompanied by Mr. George Grimble.:

7. Pianoforte Solo-Selected, B. Songs

Mr. S. B. Winsam.

(a) On Wings of Song

(Mendelssohn) ;*;

(b) L'Amour Toujours L'Amour

(Rudolf Friml),

9.

Songs

Pocket-Cutters *** Then there are" pocket-cutters who operate on the mosquito busen plying on the Tanjong Pagar- At this the judge intervened.

Geylang route. It le wise, when "I will not permit you," he said,

Flight and Concealment. carrying a considerable sum of "to inault the great and friendly

When the crash came, Gialdini | money on one's person, lo, travel by British nation hero.".

Conflicting statements were did not, like Hatry and the others, the trolley, bus, first, class, rather Signor Marchesano replied that, made during the course of the surrender to the police, but ab than by a red bus, although he respected the English trial regarding the property sconded to the Continent and took The Gangsters' Inflexible Law. people, he did not love them. He Glaldini now possesses. There is refuge in Italy, making no con- The two gangs operating in the admitted, however, that there no doubt that he is a wealthy mas. cealment of his presence until ho Kreta Ayer area have an inflexible 10, might be some gentlemen In Bri-

It was alleged that he was learned that proceedings were be law that any booty should go to the tish financo. As for the Hatry worth £20,000, but this he denied. Ing taken by the British Govern- common purse to be afterwards group; however, they were scoun- He declared that the money taken ment. He then adopted various divided among the members in each drels, tyrants, thieves, rogues.... on his arrest in Milan, amounting disguises, including that of a fair measure as the leader deams

Hore the judge again intervento about £18,000,-represented his priest...

Just Therefore, if one who knows ed to remind counsel that there entire wealth." His wife, he He was arrested in March, 1930, the local underworld-has his purse was no point in this continued at agreed, was a wealthy woman, Since then he has been in custody stolen it is not up to him to report tack upon people who were already thanks to lucky speculations in during the long formalities pre to the police but to note the time paying, in prison, the penalty for Egyptian cotton, climinary to the trial spot and place of his loss and then hunt their misdeeds,

Now 47 years of age, Gialdini In the San Vittore prison he up the chief of the territorial gang.

DosThe maximum contence of fourteen years' penal servitude Was passed by Mr. Justice Avory on Clarence Hatry, By good conduct marks it may, be reduced to ten and a half. years

is the son of a Milan musician and shared with two others a cell 10 If the victim is tougher than the a Greek mother. He started his ft by 14 ft. He felt himself leader he gets his purse returned business career as a clerk in the rather fortunate in having two with profuse apologies, if he is Bank of Rome. Afterwards. he fraudulent bankers as his cell softer he has to concede a portion speculated in Egyptian cotton, los companions. After all he said, of the spoils as tea money. And ing all his money. Coming to "I might have had to sleep with a that show Singapore's minor Lendon, he got a job in a bank at couple of cut-throats. RY criminals-work.

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