THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1958, .
PEOPLE
in the news
MY LIFE
ON THE RUN
-BY
HINDS
By JOHN MURDOCH
ALFRED HINDS 'The suit is seven years old.'
ALFRED
MRS LILA HINDS 'Wo'd go to Mexico'
HINDS the runaway prisoner-sat down in France
V.C.
A Weekly China Mail Feature
MAJOR JAMES
in World War ....
THE HERO OF THE GROUND FLOOR BACK
By "People" Reporter
HE tenant of the ground floor back bed-sitting-
THE
room in the Kensington private hotel was
A MOTHER SMILES AGAIN
8 weeks in
a coma
•
awakes
By "People" Reporter TEN-YEAR-OLD Christine, uncon-
scious for eight weeks after being hit by a car, showed signs of coming back to life. And her mother, who has been watching, waiting, and hoping at her bed- side, learned to smile again.
It was 12.20 p.m. on June 2 when Christine Scales was plunged into her work of darkness us the hurried happily to her home in Brixton Road S.W.
known as the man who raised his homburg hat and She stepped off the pavement between two parked said "Good morning." And nothing more,
It was only after he died the other day that the other ten- ants found he was a hero.
Among his papers they found that the quiet soldierly
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Scotland Yard traced Major James's widow to Kingicid, acar Woking, Surrey, and told her of her husband's death.
And the Worcestershire Regi-
last week and read a reader's letter Hebert James, who won funeral.
with a brown ng-taclic was ment was preparing д hero's
in the Sunday Dispatch. It asked; “If Hinds is innocent where does he get
the money he is living on?” Into the Dispatch office came an answer,
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his wife is now a Dublin, She passed it on Unde arna Dear Sir.- One of your rendiers po-ed in last Sunday's Dismich what he cour ider- est to be a pertinent question "How do I live when It on the run?
"The answer is very simple-1 work, I would lake very much to give your reader a full amunt, but I am unable to do so without endangering my position. When I Grally succeed in securing jat:len or it unfortunate enough to be recaplured before I am able to du so, 1 will be pleseed to give lite ruder fuller details if he is then still intorested,
-IT sour reader doubts this then may 1 refer him to the Curda Siochums, lae trinh Free State police who were responsible for my recapture after my eight monflis' freedom in 1956-58.
Police checked
"Inspector McMahon, who is an efficient and refreshingly honest police officer, was able to us- sure Scolline Yard that
I been not only had working, but had been working phenomenal hour from 7 am, to midnight, ...
the ve. in Gallipoli ta World War
And Major James, teko fought nine tu min The VX, mỤA found dying alome
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All with his fureurite paint- ingy.
He is believed to have and a heart attack and to ave bren Hying fur.ve or six days on llw
Loor before he was stabiel.
Poller broke into the 11 after the antitermel. Mr George Purvis. heard fecuns Tr behind the locked door. Major
conscion LAT Fames was still
A TIFF FOR TWO STOPS THE BUS
BY ROBERT CUNNINGHAM
he could not speak and he died E double-deck has wor Ttrundling through Sit- later in spital,
The attack
tingbourne, Kent, the other
It was on June 28, 1913, that day when Clippie Shirley Major James, then a Second-van Praag nu her funcë, Hetitenant In the 4th Badriver Ricky Vincent, had Worcestershire Regiment. Tod an oftack against
men
and
a
ents, peered round to see it it was clear 10 erosy. But it was to the left she lookcert; she did not see the car coming from the right. the car that knocked her down.
Surgeons at King's College Hospital, Camberwell, gave Christine only four hours to live. Her skull was tractured.
The Gamble
But, as a desperate chance, they put her in a deep freeze. The gamble paid off. Christine lived. Bul she slayed uncoisclous, with her mother watching over her.
Her father was working in Teheran, in Persia, 31el
harried home to be near Christine, his wife, i and his two younger children.
"I talked to Christine every day," said Mos Scalo, "but there was no sign that she heard." Every time she asked about her Httle girl's ---condition alio was told; "No change-yel.---... Until a week ago. Then: "Team came into her eyes when I talked as though she were silently crying."
The doctors confirmed that Christine was gelling
beller.
began to murmur.
Then they sat her up. As she was being spoon-fed, Christine, silent for eight weeks. And her mother, with tears of joy in her eyes,
emiled again.
Bullet-Proof Shields For German Police
Bonn, West Germany. West German police may bo equipped with plastic bullet- proof shields in the near future.
the Turks their tif. which was to win him the V.C Down from hisz cab swung His regiment hod been New Zealander Ricky. "I'm go checked at Gallipoli, and oning back to sea," he scored, and his own initiative he gathered hilehed a lift in u lorry. logelher
troops Home
i'm going back to Graves- advanced. He returned, colles. end," sabbed Shirley, and rush- ted more
and advanced i od of to catch u bus. again.
And six bewldered passengers Five days later under "mur-sat stranded on Route 20. derous fre" ke captured
It was the bell and Bicky's Turkish communication french. temper that caused all the both- All his men were killed or CI. Together again the other "At the time I was arrested in the Maples wounded but he kept back the night as they celebrated Shirley's enemy single-handed until help21st birthday with champagne, affair I was employing more than 20 men on de-arrived.
they agreed: "It was a lot of moittion; besides which I ran a caravan boating, That was the officiat picture fuss about nothing." and automobile engineering business. In my spare of 25-year-old Second-lienten- Shirley explained: "Ricky was time I built a bungalow which has since been sold | ant James, Mr Purvis gave slowing down at a stop. A man for £4,000, like work, preferably manual work, | 15 private picture of 68-jumped off, so I gave the "go" year-old Major Jantes, the signal-two rings so that Ricky Lenant of the ground floor need not stop. back.
"He stopped anyway, then sat HC
The who kept waiting for the "go." Td given was
iran himself to himself nad didn't it, so I just eat waiting, too."
ke Interference), ** be said. "He came to live at the guest house about 15 months ago and would have nothing to do with his neighbours.
"I have a criminal record between 1930–1044. I worked hard before the war and I have worked hard since. I do not put it forward as a virtue. 1 like working.
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"E suggest that your reader. instead of speculating as to how I am existing while an The run,' should enneen him, with greater advantage to ast, with Whether or not my allegations Jof wrongful conviction] truth or invention.
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'Looked blank'
He's sorry
Ricky called: "I'm waiting for the go. Shirley called back: "You've had it alrendy."
The stalemate lasted pertips two inmates. Then Ricky slam- meel the dbor and headed for the depot.
practically enthing about him and the rest of ny "When I got there," he said, tensats know
le 11 was asked lo Live3
give to my would say gook morning and resignation. I refused and I have that was all. If you tried to to go to Maldstone headquarters question him any further he in the morning-for the seck I
think. just looked blank.
That doesn't wony me. but
I'm sorry there was a row."
"1 cm quite
"In tweeds and a hemburg, Kiven The opportunity, 1 can be used to leave home scout prove
that they are the train, i nine every morning and return
Shirley was on the carpet, ton. between ive and seven in The "I dont know whether I get "I am, sir, yours sincerely.
evening, sometimes carrying the sack," she said. "What worries me is that Ricky might wrapped oil paintings.
go back to sea."
"They were his obsession He had 23 on the walls of bis
room.
A. G. HINDS.
the "P.S. The well-cut spit, stylish shirt and the you des- cribe as glving
"He used to spread them cut general
and 1 have heard on the bed, air of discreet affluence are all more than seven years old while im talking to them all night,"
said Mr Purvis.
me a
the new accessories, the beret, plastic mac and sandals cost те less than 2,000 French francs or roughly 32s,
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The 22-year-old driver was, a steward in the Merchant Navy until he met Shirley a year ago. He come cabore for her rake They hope lo be married soon. "I suppose it was really iny fault," itleky said, "I was in a to bad temper."
WAS
AL & meeting of a working committee of West German police chiefs in Bremen, West Germany. I was shown that the shields could stop even a hall of bullets from a machine pistol.
shield was considered better than a bullet-proof vest. because in emergency a police- man could grab it quickly in- stead of having to struggle into o vest. The shield would be police carried in the back of cars, People Special.
Anna's
Pupil
Bangkok. The death is reported of Prin- coss Napaporn Propha, aged 94, one of the last two surviving children of King Mongkut
King Mongkul, one of the greatest of Thailand's kings and a leading Buddhist thinker, was featured in the Hollywood Alm "The King 1" which Thai- land bannad.
"This morning 1 discovered one or two notes alluding
"So was 1," said Shirley. "We'd sales at Sotheby's. But I d
half-past Prinsess Napaporn was not find his military décora- been on the go since
huif-past greadunt of King Phruniphol, and this He
modal six, tion.
no wore
visitors twelve. And the run, before had the reigning monarch. People He had no ribbuns. Mrs Hinds, who is staying at and no telephone' calls."
Special. been ateity" her cottage near Greystones, Co. Wicklow, with her two chil- dren, Peter, nine, and Susan, seven sald "AI is trying to And a country from which there is T10 extradition to Britain. As far as are aware at the moient the only such
Nu story-tellers we're led to country is Mexico. The family-
believe (4. 3).
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would be willing to follow him [there."
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20 New impression (7).
30 Jab (4).
31 Passport endorsement (4).
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21 Clubs for muliers? (5),
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27 Norse god (4).
20 Knocks up! (4).
TUESDAY'S CROSSWORD. —Across: 3 Ostler, 7 Iono, 0 Alarm, 10 Nurse, 11 Eire, 13 Impatience, 15 Trio, 16 Dear, t Cordlinds, 22 Stud, 24 Italy, 25 Azure, 26 Poel, 27 Runnar. Down: 2 Sharp, 3 Limit, 4 Render, B Director, 6 Oner, à Oster, 12 Elope, 13 Indus, 14 Al-redole, 17 Acute, 18 Stayer, 20 Grala, 21
Amun, 23 Tou
A Great Load Lifted From His Mind
And The
Blind Man Began To See
Wellington, New Zealand.
A CHRISTCHURCH man who was almost blind two months ago, can now read a large-print calendar, tell the time from
a clock, and discern bold objects.
Before the neeldent and her long vigil...Men Ecoles with Christine in Trafalgar Square.
THE KING OF BLUFF DIES IN GAOL
-By "People" Reporter
JAN STEWART HARGREAVES,
the swindler who liked to be known as the King of Bluff, is dead. He died from a heart attack in Park- hurst Prison, Isle of Wight, where he
HARGREAVES
The bubble burs
Polar Climbing Club
"People" Speciol
had served five years of an eight-year sentence
for fraud.
That fraud brought him tagu- sands of pourxès. And it was aft bared on the gamble that his victims did not know where sider apples grow.
Dark, smooth-spoken Iar- greaves, who was 52 when he died, invited investors to pul толсу Into the non-existent Cotswold Cider Company,
fle sent each investor a barrel of "Cotswold" cider, But the only part he took in its produc- Won was in slicking a new label on the barrel.
"No one ever questioned the validity of my 'company," he sald later. "But there's not a drop of elder made in the Cots- wolds, No investor ever thought of that,'
His parties
Hargreaves received thousands of pounds on the promise of high dividends. But it all went on expensive cars and lavish parlies In is big house in the Glouces- tershire village of Newent,
was shorl When money
110 toured the country and unloaded thousands of pounds of useless For Hargreaves needed to spend en girls and
shores. money
gambling.
Jie could not resist a pretty face, He often drove chorus girls to his Newent home or his West End Bat.
He could not resist a gamble, He once won £5 by displaying a stout bottle label in the licence-holder of his Rolls-
Royce for alx months.
His escape
Đtrs ចាប់
When the bubble Wellington, New Zealand. nearly got away with It te The New Zealand Alpine Club escaped to Tangler, out of the has cancelled plans to send a jurisdiction of British courts.
But os luck would have it he team of climbers on a three- month Umbing and exploration was thrown into the local gnol. expedition to Antarctica, The He had such a bid time he was club gave
for the 2nd to accept a chance to es- cancellation.
cape to a ship.
no reason
Earlier this
year, Bear- Adrifàl G. J. Dufek, commander i
02
The ship called at Gibraltar ..and waiting there was
of the United States "Operation defective. As soon as he stepped. Deepfreeze, the personal on to Delish tereltory Hes Approach of Sir Edmund greaves was arrested.
He élaimed the arrest was Hilary, offered transport and air illegal, but he was brought back support for a club party of
England for trial.
eight.
As he walled the Irrepressible Now Zealand government adelala had also given the club ve school exercisp books, with Hargreaves at in his cell ling armpathetic consideration.
bis life story. It was hia last The club has decided to push rumble to make stung money. abond immediately with plans,
The book was published after for a club party of eight to she began his sentence. It was soatli during the gunmer 1950-00.
of called The Hargreaves Story-
by Frank Jarnes White, his real riame he so rarely wech
He says this happened since The man suffered 10 days having minor accidents in walk- Unhurt After
Dr Christopher Woodland laid blindness from shell-blast at Ing about bulldings he knew. hands on him at the service of Ypres in World War I, but wan healing in St Paul's Presbyterian able to resume normal work on
demobilisation. Church, Christchurch.
A minister who visited his
home from time to time sobre that
he was almost completely blind for the fast year,
28-foot Fall
The Missing clippie
A Mania.
he
MILE from his starting poiht The min says he does not
Ilford Broadway "the About 15 years ago, he 'mys, attehd church (although he sup-
When Dr Woodard field hisj Jovito Model, a 30-year-old other day, the driver of n 107 ports some church causes), lus. he began to have collaiona while no religious aflation, does not riding his bicycle because of service of laying on of Imods in unimployed electricien, was un- London bus realised that his was not on bourd. pray, but holds the ordinary spots" in his vision. About Cliristchurch, the man was taken hat after falling from the top conductreen
of a 28-foot tall coconut tree in ("We'll just have to wall,' man's belief in some superior six years ago he had to be trans there by a friend,
"But which Dr ferre from clerical duties in a being whom' was enfl God."
Woodard Lepi City in south-eastern told the 13 samen passengers, to clasped my fiatal, I felt a 'great Lazon, according to a Philippine Several mifitutes inter the miss- department An eye-specialist sald that the Government
Fing clipple brrived on another condition wuffered by the man messenger service because of load life of my inind," he said. | News Service report here,
"Nothing else happeriet heti, An eyewitness said that Medel bus. Blushing she explained: "I normally allowed steady deterio falling light. rotion to complete ilindricos and Treo 'years ago he was com- buf in the last few weeks mfell from the top of the tree. He was getting ready for a wed- that the love of no case of impelled to relire because he could sight has shown steady improve suffered only minor bruises,ding, and I list popped over act
a shop."-People Special, ....Paris prqvemout,
"People" Special. Bot even sin a chit" and kept men)."
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