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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 25, 1941,

WED EIGHTEEN CONFESSED

HOURS, DIED FOR A DOG

TO MURDER OF GIRL

After a dramatic ap- peal by the girl's parents, who confronted him at the police station, Thomas Conroy, a New York jani-

HARRY TOBIN was fond of dogs-and eighteentor, has confessed to the

hours after his wedding, he died trying to save one from the sea. He was on honeymoon at Blackpool, walking on the promenade to meet his bride at a friend's home.

Whistling happily, he quickened his pace. Every second of the day was precious. The R.A.F. had given him two days' leave to wed. To-morrow he and his bride would part.

Suddenly he stopped. People were trying to rescue a dog from the sea.

Harry thought of his own pet, a Scotch terrier, as the dog strug- gled helpless in the water.

At once he went to the rescue. But as he ran down a launch. ing slope breaker knocked

him off his feet and swept him into the soa.

Romantic Wedding

Another man plunged into the sea and tried unsuccessfully for an hour and a half to save Harry.

Meanwhile Mrs. Tobin--Miss Winifred Irene Clarke, twenty- two, of Milford-drive, Leven. #hulme,

Manchester - was waiting at her friend's house

GAOLED GANGSTER

ATE WITH

A STAR

murder of

10-year-old Genevieve Connolly.

Conroy was confronted with Mr. and Mrs. Connolly after 12 hours', questioning by the police.

“Tom, if you have any idea where our daughter is, tell us,

and may God help you."

When the parents were out of police and said: "I want to get the room, Conroy turned to the

this off my conscience."

He declared he had slain the child and burned her body in the furnace of the tenement building of which he was janitor.

Conroy, who went to the Unit- ed States from Ireland in 1926, refused to give any motive for the crime.

REFUSED £250

A YEAR

A trade union leader who re- tused a pension of £250 a year has died. He was Mr. W. A. Ap- pleton 'eighty, of Ashwell, Herts.

Mr. Appleton was secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions for thiry-one years.

When he retired he declined a

Lunch in a Hollywood pension of £250 a year, saying

cafe with glamorous Bri-he would not accept allowances.

wondering what had delayed tish film star Wendy |CCCCCC006LCOO

her husband.

As she waited she thought of the romantic marriage the day be-

fore.

Harry

his full, name

was

Harold Brumby Tobin, thirty--had been a draper. He lived in Mos

ton-lane, Harpurhey. Manchester A fortnight before he had join- ed the R.A.F. Their wedding plans seemed to be in danger.

Then Harry was granted two day's leave to wed. Almost directly from St. An- drew's Church, Levenshulme, they left for Blackpool,

Friends Told Her

Just before noon friends told Mrs. Tobin that she was a widow. They told how Joe Horovitch, а plumber of Dickson Ruad, Blackpool, had plunged in after Harry, but was unable to reach him. Horovitch himself was so exhausted that he had to discard nearly all his clothing to reach lifebelts thrown to hiin.

He was in the sea an hour and a half before Blackpool life- boat, which put to sea under the greatest difficulties, picked him

un.

Harry's body was recovered several hours alter the tragedy.

few

་ "He could only swim a

strokes, but it was just the sort of thing I should expect him to do." a friend told a reporter.

Nursing in her arms her hus band's Scottish terrier, Mac, the broken-hearted widow said:

་

"Harold recently came home in great grief Fritz, his sister's dog, which he used to take for walks with his own, had been run

Barrie was among the joys of gangland's alleged "executioner," B en ny Buxie Siegel during his "imprisonment" in Los Angeles gaol.

Angry officials are investigating Buxie's prison life as more in- formation reaches them regarding his lordly existence there with a valet.

Plug-ugly Buxia, former mem- ber of the

New York gangster syndicate known as "Murder In- corporated," has been held in gaol on an indictment of murdering Harry Greenberg on the syndi- cate's behalf.

On one of nine excursions from prison with Guard James Parcoe "to visit a dentist," Buxic entered the exclusive Wilshire Boulevard Cafe. There he and his guard ate and chatted with Wendy Barrie.

Pascoe says he removed Buxie's handcuffs before the meeting.

In prison Euxie was thought- fully provided with a prisoner whe acted as a valet.

He had

meals, expansive which included such delicacies as roast pheasant, turkey and oysters,

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He had access to a wardrobe of twenty tailor-made suits.

Wendy Barrie said: "It is true Pascoe brought Siegel to my table in the cafe. I have met Siegel before but I do not remember

where, I have known Pascoe over two years."

over by a bus. It was a long time £37 GOWNS

before he got over the shock,

was passionate fond of dogs."

He

Mrs. Tobin said: "Yesterday IN DEMAND

was the happiest day of my son's

life. He had so much to look for-

ward to. I cannot realise that

such happiness could be destroy- Mrs. Well-to-do still dresses for ed so suddenly. It is too terrible.” | dinner — in a thirty-five-guinea

"HEIL HITLER" NOTE IN CINEMA

gown.

have

Though Mayfair may moved to its luxury country residences, Mayfair still carries

on,

*London's exclusive dress salons are as busy as they were in peace time.

But in the interests of "demo-

A note, signed "Two Tramps | cracy," writes a woman reporter,

ex-

of Watford," and bearing a Swas-Mrs, Well-to-do no longer wears tika sign, with "Heil Hitler" writ- the more extravagant and ten underneath, was read at. Wat- ford.

In the dock were two soldiers, Arthur Delve (21) and David Minton (34), and they were re- manded on a charge of breaking | dinner I was told at one of and entering the Empire Cinema, London's first-class dress salons. Watford, and stealing cigarettes, "Prices for dinner

pansive-looking pre-war evening: creations, but adopts what ⠀⠀ she • calls. a "dinner gown,"'***

chocolates, and morey,

N

.: “Even though people are evacu- ated they still like to dress for

gowns

work out from twenty-five to.

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Police-constable, Wright. gave. forty guineas ahout the same evidence of finding in an office an "as they do for the old style even«, empty whisky bottle; some cuke; ing dress. and note, which stated: "Dear: "The dinner gown is consider- Sir, or Madam, — Thank you veryjed more in keeping though with much for the very enjoyable the situation. It is altogether on evening but next time please keep simpler lines, but as good a the safe unlocked.",

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