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THE CHINA MALL, OCTOBER 2 1937

GELIGNITE TOO DANGEROUS TO BRING TO COURT EXPLOSION POSSIBLE AT ANY MOMENT

ASSOCIATE OF CINEMA THIEVES SENTENCED

ENGLISH BOYS IN GERMANY VISIT LEAVES GOOD IMPRESSION

HELP IN LANGUAGE

LESSONS

A party of 10 boys, sons of Eng- lish ex-Servicemen who fought against the Germans, have returned to London from a visit to Germany. They had been the guests of the Reich League of Ex-Servicemen

Explaining at the Old Bailey why some gelignite an exhibit in a case in which he was prosecuting Capt. Roy Briegel, of the British was not in court, Mr. Gerald Ho Legion, who accompanied the boys, ward stated that application had said the visit had been a great suc- been made to the Recorder, Sir Hol cess. They boys had lived with man Gregory, to have it taken away German families, joined in the Ger- It had become in a highly dan man youths games, and attended gerous condition.

their schools. The Common Serjeant, Mr. Cécil Whiteley, KC. Was it the heat of

·

were

They had departed leaving the Court or counsel's speeches? good impression, particularly (Laughter).

their behaviour, and there Detective Sergeant: C. Truckell even parting tears among the Ger- explained that the nitro-glycerine man girls with whom they had in the substance had greatly deter-played. forated, and it had become very The visit was the idea of Col Rheinhardt, President of the highly explosive.”

League, Capt Briegel said. The selection was made through the Bri- tish Legion by school headmasters. The Common Serjeant: It might The boys belong to public and have gone off at any moment? Within reason, yes.

Risk of Heat or Impact

In the dock was John McSweeny, 27, a labourer, of Glasgow. He was sentenced to 18 months' imprison- ment for being in possession of ten packets of gelignite.

secondary schools in London, Man- chesters, Kettering, Warrington, Reading, Oxford, and Blandford, Dorset.

Abundant Hospitality

"Hospitality was showered on us

Detective Sergeant Truckell said that the police found the packets from all sides. Our hosts thought under a sink in McSweeny's flat in the boys exceedingly polite, but not

suave, and very well educated. Duncan Buildings. Gray's Inn-There were scores of gifts for

road.

.

A moment later Alfred Pellow

them, and at one stage I was afraid and Michael John Quirke entered hosts would go to the boys heads. that the generous attention of our the room Quirke had since been They have returned with a him con-

convicted for cinema robberies.

Our

as

In evidence McSweeny said that viction that Germany wants the parcel was

friendship and hates war just one of several

much as we hate it. brought to the flat by Pellew, an fold acquaintance of his at Glasgow, delighted by visits to their schools "The German girls and boys were

and Quirke

"Planted Gelignite"

!

during English lessons. The Eng- lish boys helped them with pro- nunciation, and several gave brief accounts of the Coronation in English which gave considerable

Alfred Pellow, now serving a sen- tence of five years' penal servitude for his part in the robberies, gave pleasure. evidence in support of McSweeny's Capt Briegel expects a reciprocal

statement. He said that he had used gelignite for blowing up safes in cinemas, but denied that he in- tended using the explosive found by the police for the same purpose.

"There was a gang of us," he

visit to Britain by German school- boys and girls.

hama Honolulu couver

Victoria caught. I was getting out of town.

added, “and some of us had been CLAIM FAILS

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TO MANILA

Arrive The gelignite was supplied to me Bemarking in his summing-up

by Quirke.

that legally there was no transfer

Firess of the Fuk Hing

Nov. 3 NOT, 5 Nov. 12 Nov. 17 The Common Serjeant: You of the

29planted the gelignite, fuses, and Loong- to the Wing Cheong

tools on McSweeny?—I did voo

Justice R. E Landsell Dec. 14 Sergeant Trackell said that awarded judgment, with costs, in.

McSweeny had eleven convictions favour of the Wing Cheong firm, for housebreaking at Glasgow. Since in a case in which Leung Cheuk- 1932 he had been working for alyue and Tam Kwai-chi clarmed firm of contractors, and travelled SU of $700 from the Wing between Glasgow and London.

Cheong Firm as tranferees of the Later he consorted with Pellow business of the Fuk Hing-loong and Quirke. There was no evid

Firm, to whom the money waz ence that he took part in the rob-

lent. beries, but the police thought that on his various journeys from Glas- gow he brought the gelignite with

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