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Graduate In Crime

OBBIE'S police record, "No,

os 10

Robbie sald,

the which his with allurements his fellow lodger belaboured him. He had gory among small-time criminals, equiva-quit being a criminal.

WIFE WAITED lent to that the holder of

TIE

doctorate at university did not inquire how the "job" at the garage fared; enjoys among men who only but soon after it was over, his exams with lodger left, with his family, passed their

Shortly

the police afterwards third-class honours.

called at Robbie's fat. Under le w heating towards a kind of reTICAN In his special the floorboards in the lodger's

graduate subject, a

in shop room, they found some things- breaking who had krown the car keys and a board to hang them on that had been part of

raid. team of picking gar-meters,

Kurage and cooking up fake ralements the haul from the gurn

Rabbic

was charged next to get jobs te which be was not

at the Tower Bridge morning entified.

these court with receiving things, knowing them to have bren stolen. He pleaded not guilty.

You could ingine fathers, whose boys objected to the drudgery that apprenticeship to crime involves, quoting the case of Robbie. "Keep at it, son, keep at it" they would say "Remember Robbie, he started in quite a mall way, and where is lie now?"

or

The answer to the question was probably Pentonville Brixton prison, and there ad- dresses bestowed a kind of e- colade.

'HELP ME

THEN, three years ago, Robbie on crime. turned his back What the cuISE

of his defection was, he alone knows, but he came cut of prison and got him- self a job as a motor mechanic. ari every Friday queued up ta

He is a bronzed, small, man, who looks as if he might ence Outside have been a jockey.

while he Was the courtroom, tried, his wife and child sat.

"Is this a case of thieves fali- ing out?" asked the magistrate, Mr H. H. Maddocks, when the case agains! Robble had proved.

been

A CHANCE Robble cried: "Sir, can I Since 1950, I've correct that?

with those had nothing to do post people.

the

That's quite right, sir." ofeer said, speaking as police- men sometimes do, as if they

draw us pay of 25 to 6 al were counsel for their prison- ers. This man has been work-

week.

Q

rcors,

Sonic time ago, Robbie met aing regularly for the last three man whom he knew to have

until he became unem- criminal record even more ployed a few weeks ago." He impressive than his own "You added other things in Robble's goun help me, Rubble," this man favour, which it would do him said, "me wife and the kids are no good to have repeated here. "In view of what has been on the street, you gotta help."

A LITTLE JOB

said on your behalf," said the

Robble,

**I'm POBBIE, too, had a wife and a magistrate to

child

And

out of pity or for prepared to give you a chance." some other reason, he took the Robbie was placed on pro- olher

His bation for two years. family to share cramped flat in South

London. Robbie's unpaying guest thought to show his gratitude by saying one day: "I'm going to do a little job tomorrow, bust- ing into the garage round the Lorner, how about coming in with me?"

RUKOJENJAVELINTA

with them,

The last I saw of him was outside the court, where he had. joined his wife and child. The police officer was and Robbie was passing round cigarettes and the look in the eyes of Robbie's wife was worth a good deal to see.

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OUR AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER

Financial Wrangle Keeps Canberra Locals Amused

FROM H. KING WOOD

Sydney, May 26.

The annual financial wrangle between the Commonwealth and States kept the Canberra locals amused last week but has done little to disturb existence in other capitals.

This meeting between Prime Minister and Treasurer and State Premiers is known as the Loan Council, which decides what money is to he raised during the next financial year and how it is going to split among the States.

The States, of course, go to Canberra with an impossible list at works and a more Impossible list of money which they say is wanted for them.

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Sheaffers SNORKEL

JUDGE DIRECTS 6-Year-Old

JURY

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or if he did know, he did not know that he was doing wrong.

in

"It is my duty to tell you that order to establish a defence

of insanity that burden of proof

which the law places on the

you, you must say he is guilty but insane."

Funeral Of

accused is not as high a degree Fr. Maglioni

of proof as the prosecution

to establish the facts on which

An Office for the Dead and a High Requiem Mase were offer:

ed for the late Father Raphael

Maglioni, PIME at the St Mar- sarc's Church this morning,

The Mass was celebrated by Very Rev. Mg: A. Rigant

the

Child Gives Evidence

40

A tiny six-year-old Chin- ese girl was the controliDITI interest at the Criminal Sessions this morning when she appeared in the witness box before Mr Justice T‹JÍ Gould, Senior Pulsne Judgo to testify against a 20-year- old farmer, Cheung Shui, tak, who was charged with carnal knowledge of a girl

It must be established or dis- who was assisted by Bishops under thirteen.

A.

J. Paschal, Joseph Yuen Bianchi, and Rev. Fathers C. Bazzo and

Paganini. Following the Mass, a proces- alure to and burial at

st

I must rely. The degree 110 higher than that which 13 required by

th a plainult or defendant in a civil action, that say, it is a question of a preponderance of probabilities charged by evidence sausfying

Cheung pleaded not guilty prob you that there was a

and a Jury of six men and a no further, of insanity at obility,

woman was empanelled un

The Prosecution was.com. the time the accused did the act with which he is charged," said

ducted by Mr Simon Ll Crown the Judge.

Referring to the MacNaughton Michael's Catholic Cemetery took Counsel, with Det. Sub-Insp. Rules, Mr Justice Reece said place. Father Rigant! meinted B. P. Grace present for the

Police. that they were the test used in

at the

graveside.

Relating the facts, Mr Li sald Courts for a long time and even Many of the different Catho- today they were still used and lie Orders in Hongkong were both the girl and the accused residents of Tung O studied

ne represented medicine.

at the Requiem were in forensic These were the principles which Mass and at the funeral ser- Village, Lamma Island He vice. Many lay Catholies in- alleged that on January 31 last the Jury had to apply in the cluding schoolboys and school- the accused lured the girl to an present case. Whether or not

old school house on the Islami medical witnesses agreed with girls were also present. therm

The late Father Maglioni died and there committed the offence, or not was beside the suddenly on Wednesday morn- The girl, he remarked, did riot punt; the jury were there to Ing. He was the Chaplain at know what was happening. to administer the low as

they the St Michael's Cemetery.

her.

found it. "You are the sole judges of the question of whether or not insanity was

" the jury were told. question before them was whether or not accused was responsible for his action at! the time, Mr Justice, Reece de clared.

QUITE DISTINCT Turning

Reynaud Fails

To Win Vote

The sembly

Paris, May 20. French National As

carly this morning

Shortly after, this the accused returned to the home of the girl's parents and Hatened to a gramo- to phone recording and appeared be normal. While there, the girl returned and her condition jed to questions being asked and as villago

a result the accused was arrest ed and handed over by

to the question of voted down M. Paul Reynaud's guards to the Police at Aber

the bid to become head of a new deen. drunkenness, he sald

reason created as a result of

self indulgence от over - the outgoing government of M.

excessive drinking,

the Reno Mayer-United Press. then

was

Both the accused and the girl defence of drunkenness and the French Cabinet.

had M. Reynaud defence of insanity were two

accepted were examined by doctors and conclusions WCro quite distinct things in law. If President Auriol's invitation to certain

zei h form Franco's 18th government reached. there was sufficient defective since the liberation, to succeed

Mr L added that when he first apprehended the accused denied the charge, but later, at the police station, ho modo a statement. 1905

The

Prosecutions called medical evidence and produced the clothing worn by the girl. and the accused at the time, in

11:1 support of its case.

The trial is proceeding.

person concerned becomes in- sane in the true sense of the word. However, he added, the law. was not concerned with the cause of insanity.

OVERTOOK ON A BEND

on

Radio Hongkong

K.K.T.

Drunkenness, he went on, was Summoned for overtaking a no excuse for a criminal offence vehicle on a bend, Driver Elliot, in law. The only way drunken-of the RASC, was fined $25 by ness could enter into the picture Mr K. Y. Yung at Kowloon this was If the person was so drunk morning. Prosecution said the were graced by resist forcibly any attempt to

that he was incapable of realis offence

committed around him

wag evict them unless there is "acting" Premiers.

ing what he was doing. Then Februnty 27 at the 10 mile Which just goes to show that court order.

Welfare Migrants'

the plen of drunkenness was a stone mark, Castle Peak Road, British

defence for him.

when Elliot, driving enllitary

6. Time this Loan Council business is

Signol and Programme Association a bit of a farce. A handful of

president, Mr H.

IE the Jury fount

that borry, overtook another lorry and Summary: 0,03 It's Swingtime. £.31. They work to the time-men, all with acting authority. Borchum, sald that their solici

Mr Harold Rich, had drunkenness did play a part in them collides with an on coming Portuguese Hall Hour Studio)

ambulance. the present case, they had to say military

Sight Country Fare Toe the Carrier Lod honoured system of putting in suddetily find themselves in a tor,

-A Programme of Music from the

(HUCTS)! out £290,- served notices on the for the whole hog with the hope position to parcel

7.30,). "Down Commonwealth that the accused shot without in- damage as caused to the arm-M 000,000,

Solfeltor and that they may finish up with a

Woods (Studio);

Weather Ite- As a matter of fact, acting Hostels, Ltd., advising

port: B. (Time Signal (World News that migrants were covered by The Commonwealth, equally ranks at the-momors are run-

the Landlord and Tenant Act as a matter of course, calls the ning the country, In the com-

which among other things "fantastic" mereal held. big shows are

to be Premiers demands

being conducted

allow tenants octing doesn't by and tells them It can't be done.

cvicted unless authorised by 3

Crown

them

tention.

Turning to the defence of insanity, His Lordship referred of Dr Mouat, to the evidence and recalled that the latter had testified that when he examined the accused shortly after the

he found Incident

no mental

So the Loon Council, always managing directors; smaller ones evicte

by the acting manager; mun!» develops Inte a Commonwealth cipal councils are in the hands

Sorne migrants in hostels disorder at the time of the State brawl, with the Pre-

mayors, the few throughout Australia have re- miers having a local permit to of acting coy all the nasty things they Ministers left are all acting this fused to pay the tariff demand-examination want to, while the Comunon- and that and the same goes on ed. by Commonwealth Hostels, right through Government Ltd., and have fixed their own the eviction departments. All the bosses, of rent - hence course, are in London, or on their way there.

wealth mirk on the sidelinea. knowing full well that it is all a part of this game known as politics, that the Premiers are going to get a pretty good press in their home Lowris. .and. the Commonwealth anyway, has the last say and when the game gets too tough it can blow the whistle.

ACCORDING TO PLAN

registered

and

FAMILY HISTOLY

As to the family history of the accused, the Judge said that, however interesting it may be, the

problem before the Jury was this: to establish the de fence of insanity it must be proved that at the time of the commission of the net

bulance.

Memory Lano", "toit, by Alleen

EXTENDED-PEAK and New Talk (London Reley):10,13,

TRAM SERVICE The Peak Tramway Company announce that the Peak tram service will be extended to 12.30 a.m., from June 1 to June 7, both Bates inclusive, for the benent of the members of the public who might desire to travel to the upper levels to view the Coronation fluminations,

Troopship Hore

The troopship Empire Orwell arrived this morning from the the ac- United Kingdom with replace- cured was labouring under such ment troops for the local garri- a state of mind as to make him son and for Kores. A number incapable of knowing what he of families of service personnel

doing.

also arrived, "You must not let any other mutter confuse the issue," His Lordship stressed.

wis

things said.

between them asked

for the ing stud herds in three States, round sum of £317,200,000. Out will be flown by air freighters of this New South Wales wanted 2,000 iniics from the south for

The £106,000,000.

Common-exhibition at the first beef cattle calth, with suitable noises, cald show in north Australia-at While the migrants actions £200,000,000 was the very limif Brunette Downs.

and only then with strings

The Commonwealth and States shorthorn hulls, bred in 20 lead- isn't doing Australia much good that the

notices.

The migrants say that if they are evicted they will camp in AIRLIFT BULLS

the streets. The world's blagest

The Acting Leader of the longest airlift of stud beef bulls Federal Opposition, Bir Colwell, is being organised by the has asked the Acting Minustur Shorthorn Society of Australia for Immigration, Sir Phillip Mc. and the Federal Governmerk. Bride, to help solve the migrants

The airlift is part of a plan problems He is prepared to And this week it all went to to get into the isolated stations take a deputation along to the

annister if and of the Northern Territory some plan.

receive one. he will There were hisars scratches and a lot of nasty high grade stock.

This row, like the Olympic stud brawl that has blown up again, As to the medical evidence accused might be a at home or abroad and the "border-line" case, he told the sooner someone in authority docs Jury that they were not there something about ending it the to speculate, and that they were better;

not

dealing with any hypothetical

They were matter.

concerned leave a lot to be desired, it is with whether the accused was time the Government worked sang or not at the time of the aut come housing scheme to act within the meaning of the The States howled: Unemploy-

replace the hostels system that law such as he had placed before ment was staring them in the

them. was set up seven years ago. face, vital works would not be

Turning to the evidence of Dr done, civilisation would crumple

YACHT ON WAY

(officer-in-charge Yapp, around their ents and so on.

The apshot: The total amount drover, 20-year-old Edas Zigen The well-known-ocean-going--Government mental hospital),

bine. Will overland a mob of

yacht, Mistral 11, a frequent the Judge said it was suggested was fixed at £200.480,000 from 1,350 cattle soon from the

competitor In Bydney-Hobart by the Defence that witness was which WSW will get £93,120,000 Northern Territories into Queens- And if you could get one of the land anything up

yacht races, leaves for Hong- deliberately withholding some-

Court. 1,000 kong tomorrow

Tho as deck cargo thing from State leaders into a dark corner and ask for the real truth, they miles.

on the liner Eastern Glory. witness, he told the Jury, was has left for Helen's

The 60-ft schooner has been a Government man and as such would admit (not for publica- tion) that they have done far Springs, near Tenant's Creek sold to Hongkong yachtsman, had nothing to gain from with-

to take delivery of the mob, unu | Mr A. G. Dalziel, better than they expected.

It is understood that Mr But this year the performance should be on the road carly locked the

Dalziel paid £8,000 for Mistral usual sparkle. It next month.

Edna made history in didn't grip.

11 without previously having when she overlanded 1,400 head ren her. of cattle across two States and

attached

One reason is that people are so used to governments talking

figures no longer register.

After the show station owners in the area will have the chance of bidding for the stock at the Territory's first stud cattle sale.

Another note on the Terrority Australia's only woman boss

STAUS MISSING

For

an water.

to

1950

the

of

the

holding anything.

AGGRESSIVE PSYCHOPATH

through Dr Going briefly Yapp's evidence, His Lertiship said that, stripped of all its trimmings, it was essentially the Dr

Bano

in hundreds of millions that got through without loss. That Sydney's crack radio police same as that given by

was the year of the big drought patrol car was cruising around Mount Dr Yapp's evidence was and men drovers lost hundreds the suburbs one night this week tantamount to saying that the of cattle as they stampeded for when detectives in it pulled up accused appeared to be

him, and la another, thero Australian Test cricket team in Edna has been on the track a car driver, told him they didn't when he examined England, but above all, the since she was old enough to sit think much of his type of drive witness had agreed the accused ing, advised him to exercise could be called an "aggressivo actors in Canberra at the Loan in a saddle, but this year she Council were only scratch lot. will bo droving in double more care, and let him go on Daycopath."

In conclusion Hy Lordship The stars were missing. tho harness for the first Ume. Last his way.

"hour An later the patrol car told the Jury that they hat a standing bad the leading roles, year

married another

"vory Evo, duty to perform". but didn't know their lines too drover, John Jessop. He whit pulled into a curb in the way

ark it was no light task.

you to handle this mob, but that patrol cars do when all is as the circumstanser well.

help Prime Minister Menzies is at from all accounts the will sulu quiet, Camo a crash. Another

aro satisfied the accured shot the decoased with the deliberato in- the Coromion; so are the Prow be the boss while on the track car had hit it from behind.

TARIFF, ROW

Five miere of all States. The main

of the city's top delec- tention of killing him, then that

rolo Way played by

is no end yet to the tives exploded out of the patrol is minder the declared. tho Thero Treasurer, Sir Arthur Fadden, tarif row with

the offending British car, surrounded who had the part of Acting migrants. Five hundred familles driver. Prime Minister;

You're right. It was the same the comin 10 New South Wales hostels fortably-filed blue lounge suits have been given legal advice to man. They booked him,

she

"EL you are satisfied that the defence of theanity has been established within the meaning ut this aw sad os I have given

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