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days are

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London's

"Nicked my kisser with my slasher whilst shaving this morning."

Vice

Racket Will

Make Capone Turn In Grave BOOTH'S

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HERE

London. nothing

very exciting about Maida Vale. It is

just andher part of

that vast condensation of

value.

night-

were

By Sir Beverley Baxter, MP

SHOCKED

been

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UGLY FACT

causes

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it woa me that shot him. He was going to do me in if I didn't got out of London and I don't stand for that."

Not to be outdono by such candour the socond Maltese, whose name is Spampinata, said: Only if was with him when he shot disturbance Smithson. He is my friend und under the what he says is O.K. by mo. I will tell you the whole set-up if you like."

In these lovely summer even-

It only remains to state that

arrested amí admitted at once that be was with the other's * at the time of the shooting.

humanity known as London. Apparently the police responsible for the adminis. Soho Square until they were speak to a man. The shops are of no partion. Were nest wholly surprised tration of law and order. covered with blood. At the she

police court lar size or importance, and by Mr Smithson's exit from

an 80-year-old does she come # This agreeable son of It could not be such dwelling places as exist this world.

evidence law. clergyman gave great father has been hav- that they had not fought at DOMBENA Te architectural said of him that he was

No one all but merely argued. At ings i enjoy walking home from later in the day the third Maltese man without ambition, and ing a hard time. the police

aware of doubts the sincerity of his the Old Bailey trial it tran- the House of Commons up Part was In one of these houses this human frailty. In fact, conversion, but it is rather spired that the old cleric had Lane to Marble Arth Park lived

is the awkward that, as a private been losing money on horses 45-year-old 2

aztery man Mr Smithson had

very tourism with Ra hotels and named Thomas Stnithson, working in the salubrious Mhe voted with the rest and was in the gangsters fashionable restaurants, and like The whole oplodo might have He seemed to have

ay London Borough of Soho for of us to do away with hang- clutches.

a guard of honour the prostitutes come from the pen of the particular hours of work a Maltese vice racket,

ing in 1948, and now, as the

sund a few yards apart on the Sardoule Satirist. But why dict and, according to his neigh

Pole Minister who can grunt

entire route.

these evil creatures make no al- bours, was rather a

scompt to a reprieve, has changed his

le to the Inspector? They behave perfockly In fact The only possible explanation is bird.

mind and is in favour of

they murety stant and wath and that they retaining the gallows,

It seems strange to De except or quiet

"Hello

geot, or WTEDYEDWn so amon so bemused by But he was not without

He was doing well but he

writing such words about darling" they sige no dis- American gangster films,

that friends, or

But that is not his chief this greatest of all cities in turbance of the peace, at any rate wantval to do better.

they actually believed the police acquaintances. In fact, the fact, he was determined to the organised vice

trouble. The fact is that

the world, but the ugly fact But off the main route it is would not dare to arrest them. other night three men

racket

remains that beautiful Lon- not always peaceful. Somme It was unfortunato for those of run a bigger and better vice of Soho has rived at his house in a car.

now reached

don has a cancer in the friends of mine bave a flat over-

looking

Hyde Park, and regular- burst into his room and shot racket than his employers, such a level that the late Mr

of its being is at one or two in the morning been ploting through a bill to him. A passerby telephoned Shocked by such unworthy Al Capons enight well

Then why is the cancer not a car swerves into the sleeping end the death penalty that it the police, and an ambulance uspirations, three of his em- with envy in his grave. removed? That is the ques- square and the vice racketeers went up to the House of Lorda for dobate at the very climax of rushed him to hospital. ployers (they were Maltese) IL is true that

the tion which everyone is ask- collect the carnings of the pro-

the Soho outrages, There he was visited by called upon him on the

I cannot believe the police, but Mr Stithson, night that I have described, racketeers of London have ing, and who had only live nore in fact, it was they who did never achieved the homicidal that it will remain

level of Mr Capone's or- swered for long. minutes to Rve, refused to him in.

ganisation. Normally when give any information about

Part of the trouble is that There are curses, shricks of many

assembled except at his assailants. Instead he

rival gangster tries to Let us agree that the

muscle in on the establish the vice laws and penalties anger, and blows are sometimes the Coronation of Her Majesty

the struck. The language is vlle but

Queen. Their lordships uttered a last curse upon the world is no poorer for police and went to his death exit of Mr Smithsou, but it el rackets, is not shot but are the same as a century somehow the police are never on proved in the debate that they ago. For example, it is not hand. But since the only charge were overwhelmingly for retain- having proudly maintained is all very embarrassing for merely cut up with razors, against the law for a prosti- could be that of disturbing the ing the gallows. It is true that to The very end his re- the Right Honourable You probably have heard tuto to stand at night in a peace there is nothing for the the bishops, who sit in the Upper pulation as the silent man Gwilym Lloyd George who, how, a few months ago, two doorway or in front of B of London's underworld.

As Home Secretary, is gangsters fought openly in lightened shop window and

Ar-

the

Mr CHESTER BEATTY GOES BACK TO WORK

The remarkable end to a story that begins when suddenly all the money in the world cannot help and you need every bit of courage you've got

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

atir

Because of Beitty's exception

London, last week, 1 was shocked to find By preventing his mind from LFRED CHESTER hlm sitting in a wheelchair with being dulled by despat, sho enabled him to keep his fingers an Iron braco on his left leg. BEATTY, 48-year-old

firmly on the pulse of his sille only son of a mining Ho had sounded so normal and mining concorns. millionaire, WALKED into cheerful when I telephonex him a City boardroom last week at the London Hospital a month

after his illness began that, like to preside at a company most of his friends, I believed he meeting. It was the climax hati a mild attack. of a seven-month struggle against devastating attack I now learned that he had been of polio.

so desperately ill that one night When he was struck down last where the iron lungs are kept Christmas he found himself in a because the paralysis seemed to 200

be attacking hia siluation where neither wealth nor social standing could be museivs. much help.

Paralysed in both legs and It was not until he unfastened effervescent as ever.. partly paralysed in the left arm, the iron brace -- a

very centre

stitutes.

unan- NO FEAR

ALFRED CHESTER BEATTY

BACK TO THE CITY AFTER A SEVEN-MONTI FIGHT.

steel dramo sot up over his bed

gangsters to fear,

us in the Commons who have.

And what an occasion it was The poers turned

up from the hills and valleys and towns. No

ever one living had

sect 80

.

Chamber, were mostly on this side of the Abolitionists but the A few months ago I went to great majority wanted to leavo Bow Street Police Court to pay the law unchanged. a fine for having left my car in a non-parking area.

Waiting outside the court room we some twenty prostitutes. Even- tually they were brought in, fined

was

"this

CRISIS

and dirmissed. There Then up rose Lord Ragian and no reproach from

with a deceptive pot of sweet magistrate, no urging

that they reasonableness declared that should change their occupation, hanging was obviously not

and

a

no threat of a bigger fine sufficient deterrent since murdere

or even imprisonment - if they still took place.

did not mond their ways. The

Aine represented no more than a od in effect. "Should we not boll "Why not be logicni?" he ask- night's tip. But that is the law.

convicted murderers in oil or Which brings us back to the cut them up with a knife into threa Maltese

gangsters who little pieces? If we really be- capital punishment,

murdered Mr Smithson. They leve

affair

had allowed themselves to be why not let us make the punish jured by ambition. They saw ment a long lingering Lhemselves as big shots in the

for the murderer?”

vice ring and were also interest-

were

frivolity.

ing themselves in the bookmaker + The retentionist pears racket by which they would force disgusted at auch |the loud-mouthed shouters of Choking

to death a murderer odda to pay for “projection.” with a rope was one thing, but to boil him in oil or cut him up Therefore we can understand with a knife...."I mean to say! their annoyance when Mr Wo're not barbarians,” Smithson actually tried to set up

he was moved up to the floor But as he whisked me over to help. His dining-chair is on big would be afraid to act,

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in his downstairs study, he has al energy-day covered thousands ught his muscles back to use of miles on mining trips and as to an extent which has surprised in opposition. The curious thing That is as far as we can carry

his doctors. a master of foxhounds for 25

is that they made no attempt this strange story just now. By years I expected toʻaCNJE' BOTTO

He has fixed metal supports in to hide after the murder. For a substantial majority the peers personality change as a result of various parts of the house so he haps they were too proud. Per threw the Bill out, but that will by the inactivity.

can get about with minimum haps they thought the police only delay it becoming law

one year. If the Commone stad it back to the Upper House cestors so he can push himself "The Old Peasant," his

again in twelve montha time the Lorde must accept it or pro- breathing famous Van Gogh painting, and away from the table,

then outside to 600 "The

voke a constitutional crisis. Watching Helen Bently's Charlot," I realised he was as movements while her husband)

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