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JUDGE GAOLS HIS OLD

Schoolmate

London, April 27.

A JUDGE AND PRISONER, schoolboys together 45 years ago, had their third meeting in court yesterday. For the second time the judge sent his old schoolfellow to goal.

The judge was Mr. Cecil Whiteley, K.C., Common Serjeant at the Old Bailey. The Prisoner was Herbert Bardon Tubb, 61-year-old brother of Miss Carrie Tubb, the opera singer.

ON LEAVE ACCUSES WIFE

A private soldier home on leave from France, was granted a separation order against his wife on the grounds of her adultery with a man lodging at the house.

The case was hurrled forward as the soldier had got special leave for the hearing.

The soldier was Thomas Burke, of Liverpool-road, N., who applied. at Clerkenwell Police Court for a separ- ation order on the grounds that his wife had committed adultery with a man, who had been staying at house.

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It was stated that Burke was mar- ried in April, 1939:

As the result of a letter from his landlady received In France he ob- tained special leave and returned home. He found that another man had been staying in his flat with his wife.

"SLEPT ON SOFA” ́ The wife, Ethel Elizabeth Burke, said the man in question had stayed at the flat for five or six weeks. He slept on a sofa in the sitting-room. She denied adultery.

His sentence was two years' impri- sonment for obtaining credit by false pretences and stealing articles worth £33.

Tubb was addressing the judge from the dock when he surprised the court by saying:

"I went to your school. I knew you as a good athlete and a happy

schoolboy. Prisoners know you. They talk about you in prison as one of the

fairest judges on the Bench. All they

hope is that they come before you."

Then Tubb turned to the jury who

had found him guilty. "You're

moth-eaten lot," he said.

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CARRIED FROM DOCK The judge made no comment as he sent Tubb to gaol.' Tubb struggled in the dock when the warders approach- ed him. He was carried to the cells below.

left

When

prisoner judge and school both achieved early success~ Mr. Whiteley as a criminal lawyer; Tubb as a £1,500-a-year. business man with a staff of 300.

'AWARDED M.M.

Then came the war, in which Tubb, who joined as a rivate and was pro- moted to lieutenant, was awarded the the Military Medal for gallantry in field. He was wounded in the head. He came back to find that his only of a disability pension income was less than £100 a year. He took to crime.

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Since 1920 he has had 16 convic- tions, mostly for obtaining credit food by fraud. He would go into ex- pensive restaurants with friends and pass worthless cheques for the amount

A friend had told her that this man was unemployed and had nowhere to go. The friend asked her to take him in, and she agreed to do so and charg-of the bill. ed no rent.

Addressing the wife, the magistrate

said:

FIRST CHANCE.....

"I cannot believe your story. The first meeting of Tubb and Mr. It is incredible that a man should be Whiteley was at the Surrey Quarter staying in this way, unknown to your Sessions in 1925. Tubb was then husband and sleeping on the sofa. It charged with similar offences of fraud. is clear that adultery has been com- mitted. There must be a separation order."

JITTERBUG ABDUCTOR ARRESTED

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA "MAIL")

The judge gave him his first chance in his criminal career. He bound him

over.

But Tubb broke his recognisances and again appeared before Mr. White- ley. He was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment.

CHILD TRAFFICKING

(SPECIAL TO' “CHINA-MAIL") '

New York, To-day. Handsome Jitterbug, whose danc-. ing lured 150 Alm-struck girls into a life detectives in Los Angeles.

INVESTIGATIONS; ARE STILL PROCEEDING

IN CONNECTION WITH THE CHILD TRAFFICKING of vice, has been arrested by CASE UNEARTHED BY THE PO-

The man-described as the "Pled ~Piper of: Swing”—is twenty-two-

year-old Bristol, Barrett, in whose luxurious, apartment were found: more than ninety love letters from girls who had fallen for his ball room fascination.

LICE LAST WEEK..

]·. Twenty men and women are still

detained.-

Statements have been taken from the 34 children found in their cus~ tody, and it is likely that charges of will be preferred against some those detained within, the next few days.

been

Police also seized Ann Forst, aged No additional arrests have thirty-three, known in the under-

made. world as “the black, widow," "alleged leader of a powerful white-slave syndicate, and Charles Montgomery, aged forty-three..

Barrett was employed by "the black widow," to haunt Los Angeles and Hollywood dance halls on the watch for pretty girls who had come to the district to seek a film

career.

Barrett, cutting clever capers and

swinging on dozens of ballroom floors, fascinated and won the con- adence of 150 girls, said détectives.

"The Pied Piper would take his victims to the black widow."

Then Montgomery, promising them big jobs in Chicago and other cities, had them shipped there and taken 'into vice haunts. Havas.

“If you throw up your head and remember to say 'I won't be scar. ed!"—then 'you're not!" "In this scene from the exclting 20th Century- Fox film now at the King's Theatre, Randolph Scott, as a′′ Mountie In- spector, gives Shirley Temple a first lesson in courage as a thousand redmen storm the Mounties' lonely outpost. Margaret Lockwood, star of "The Lady Vanishes," is featured opposite Scott in the ploture.

29 YEARS IN "MIND PRISON”

age of three, but it was not pronoun-

New York, April 27. The Phobia originated when he was Domestic peace has come again to frightened by a locomotive, which the poet-professor William Ellery conjured up a mental demon, at the Lenoard, aged 64, of Madison, Wis- consin, who for 29 years has lived in is honeymooning a weird "phobic prison." To-day he with his fourth wife, Charlotte, who was also his second wife.

Leonard says:

"As soon as I get a certain distance from home I am over- whelmed by a feeling of insecurity that I can't get back. I am in a panic of isolation,

iced until the suicide of his first wife when he found he couldn't leave the six-block area around his home.

Leonard's third wife, a co-ed student at the University of Wiscon-. sin, was able to take him for a few short walks beyond his "security zone," but she later divorced him be- cause he told friends she was insane.

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