1941-05-24 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 24, 1941.

Paul Muni'a masterful portrayal in "Hudson's Bay," the 20th Century Fox adventure picture at the King's Theatre in- spired this heroic figure by artist Harvey Dunn. Above you sce his conception of Pierre Radisson, the renegade, traitor, rogue whom Muni portrays in the picture.

GAOL BREAK BY CAR, PONY AND BICYCLE

SCOTLAND YARD men watched London night haunts for the man no prison can hold, Stanley Hilton Thurston, who at dawn had made a specta- cular escape from Dartmoor by horse, bicycle and motor-car.

Warders and police in cars, on horseback and on foot, aided by a huntsman and his pack, search- ed the moor as news flashed to the underworld that the "Houdini of the Gaols" was free again.

But it was believed that Thurs- One of the many titles in which ton was nearer London than Dart he glories is "Lone Wolf of the

Underworld."

moor.

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Using the black-out to cloak his activities, he may try to steal service uniform to get lifts to London without arousing suspi-

CION.

Harriers

The Key King" and the "Man with the Magic Hands" are his

The combination of luck and other titles. cunning which favoured Thurs-| ton in his SEX months" freedom after his clever escape from Lewes Gaol in 1939 served him well.

Again he is believed to have used a key,

No

"ITALIANS WANT TO WALK OUT"

Sir Ronald Storrs, speaking on the war in the Near East at Caxton Hall, West- minster, said:-

"There is a school of thought in Italy which thinks it would pay them to walk out on their ally and come in with Britain.

"Hitler has got to do something to keep his jackal Mussolini the contest."

HER NOTE IN EARL'S GRAVE

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-COURT STORY

Sir Delves Broughton, who is accused of the murder of the Earl of Erroll in Kenya, said that his wife and the Earl were jin love, according to a statement which the police allege he made.

Sir Delves, added the police, said that his wife gave him a farewell note which she wished to be dropped into Lord Erroll's grave, and he dropped it on to the coffin after the mourners

had gone.

Three alleged statements by Sir Delves were read al Nairobi, the Kenya, at the inquiry Into earl's death.

According to one of them, Sir Delves received three anonymous letters.

One suid: "What about the eternal triangle? What are you doing about it?"

Wife Confessed Love

Another said: "Do you know your wife and Lord Erroil have been staying at Carberry's house at Nyeri together?"

According to the police, Sir Delves stated that his wife told him later that Lord Erroll and she loved one another.

Sir Delves and his wife, con- tinued the statement, had made a pact to release one another if either fell in love with some one else.

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Prison warders and police have less glamorous names for him.

His Lewes escape was a record. man had ever before

Accustomed to racing and broken out of a Class A celi.

"cutting his losses," S'r Delves For his escapes he uses keys told his wife there was nothing to worry about and said he would go to Ceylon.

A bicycle was left unat ended of special construction carried al Princetown.

Soon after Thurston's esenp

this was reported stolen.

Robin Hood Deeds

A few miles away, at Merri-{

Laround his body in a belt.

He denied all knowledge

In his Lewes exploit Thurston and another man ran through the Erroll's death. streets in undervests and shorts.

People thought they were harriers.

Thurston had used this trick

vale, a car stood outside an inn. successfully in an earlier escape

More good fortune-Thurston from Liverpool.

is a good mechanic and driver. | At Lewes he was in an obser- He was also seen riding a vation cell-impossible for the

stolen horse near Tavistock.

This was a ruse to foll pur- Bucrs. The car was still in his possession.

ordinary prisoner to escape.

But with a key, and planks lashed together as a ladder, Thurston was out and over the The owner found the stolen 401t gaol wall to liberty. bicycle in place of his car, a red and black Austin

BND $29.

saloon,

Thurston, 5ft. 9in.. medium

build, blue eyes,

clean shaven,

was wearing grey prison clothes. Thurston believes he is a Robin

Hood, lived like one af er his Lewes escape.

JITTERBUG VICE HALL

ol

MADE LOVE TO HIS FRIEND'S WIFE

Damages of £800 and a decree nisi with costs were granted in the Divorce Court to Major George Edward Shelley, Grenadier Guards, now employed at the War Office, because of the adultery of his wife, Lucy Gwen Shelley, with Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher

Posing as a wealthy son of a Sixty high school girls-many | Ronald Spear. baronet, he lived luxuriously in of them daughters of wealthy Mr. Justice Hodson said that the West End.

society families are being ques- Colonel Spear came home from ill-health, to tioned by detectives at St. Paul, ¦ China suffering, from

1 Minnesota, regarding dance orgies and at the end of 1939 went to No charity collector ever call-in a Negro "jitterbug heaven." stay with Major and Mrs. Shelley

He never refused money underworld associates.

ed at his flat without receiving School heads have already ex- at their London house.

a donation. - »

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pelled several girls, and the

To the newsboy who brought wholesale removal of others seems

his evening paper he nightly imminent following revelations gave 6d.

To_every straat beggar

ar

· match-gaiter he gave half-a- Grown,

The money for this largesse

came from night raids

homes of the rich.,

on the

The £500, mink' coats among the hoard of loot ¡found; at” his, flat.

"Thereafter," said Mr. Justice Hodson, "there ja not the- smallest doubt-and he does not seek to deny the abused. the trust which had been, placed In him by his brother officer. and his old friend by making love to his wife."

that have astounded parents.

Girls were„Jured to 'a dance halt in the city's Negro district by promists of lessons in the latest steps of the Boogle- Woogle, a swing, danos. KANDUN A shrieking Negro band played tunes while schoolgirls, some in- He suffered a serious blow to toxicated, whirled around the his honour in the loss of his wife, floor in the arms of Negroes. whom he undoubtedly valued. His n Frank Lewis, "king of Jitterbug damages claim was a moderate heaven," has been arrested, one and should be allowed in full,

were pollon

Thurston never works with

gang

The shock to Major. Shelley was profound:

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