To remain as exiled Scots and
romantic-minded visitors
Loch
Two
remember it
Lomond like Coney Island?
By LIAM REGAN
Scotland.
WO lairds who between them own many miles of the world-famed and oft-sung bonnie banks of Loch Lomond are determined to save Scotland's most renowned tourist spot from becoming another garish holiday-resort like America's Coney Island or England's crowded and illuminated Blackpool. "Efforts are constantly being made to turn Loch Lomond into another Coney Island-and I just won't have it," Captain Sir Ivar Colquhoun of Luss told me as we stood in the hall of his magnificent Rossdhu House looking across loch to the mountain of Ben Lomond.
Thy latz attempt was a move to set up automatic vend- ing machines up and down the loch," said Caplain Sir Ivar Col-
tolerate
venir shop in Luss notice to quit.
the
THE CHINA MAIL,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1959.
He Didn't Keep Date
FROM his cell
2455
Death Row-in Cali- fornia's San Quentin Prison Caryl. Chessman has seen 90 of his fellow prisoners take the brief walk to the gas chamber.
Eight separate times Chessman, bandit, rapist, and, by mistake, dubbed a genius, has been told: "You are next."
Seven times so far Chessman has fooled his executioners by
winning court appeals.
in
Then, after 11 years Denth Row he was told: "You
In the chamber wil die October 23.",
'Innocent'
A few weeks ago, against his wishes, a group of lawyers went California's Governor to plead for Edmund Brown before elemency.
Chessman does nat want "elemeney." because he ferla that would taint him with gullt, when he really is innocent of all the foul deeds charged ogalnet have had him. He wants to be freed. Chessman's case is one of the in American history. strangest
has focussed world attention on the wavy-haired hoodlum,
When it was announced that Governar Brown was going to decide if Chessman would die, he has been snowed under by letters from just arout every country. Tens of thousands of people, including Eleanor Roose- velt and Aldous Huxley, have pleaded for mercy.
"It has taken us five years to quhoun (pronounced Cahoon build up this business and this
just won 'L
such has been our best year yet," said ideas.'
Mr James Fisher. Some miles along the lochside, . Major Patrick Telfer-Smollett, M.C, Deputy Lord Lieutenant ut Dunbartonshire, at whose hume, Cameron House, Princess Mar- garet has stayed, said:
"Hardly a month goes by but someone wants to turn Loch Lomend into another Blackpool,
In favour
"In all in favour of tourism, but there Te tim:ts. Despile all my efforts to keep. Ich Lamond peaceful and beautiful, I am raided regularly by van- cials who land by bont,
Tea-shop
"Now we are told that it does not fit in with the amenities of the district. But we cater for the tourists, and there is never any trouble,"
Ruthless
Have
With
"Let hin
AWAITING
BY
Death Henry Lowrie
EXECUTION
Date and Place of Birth:
May 27, 1921, St. Joseph, Michigan. Race: White, Caucasian.
Bulld:
Habits:
Crime:
Tall, Muscular.
For the past. 11 years, sido-stopping the gas chamber.
Kidnapping, Rape, Robbery, Convicted by the State of California:
June 25, 1940. Appealed. Reprieved. New omcution date set. Reprieved.
1948:
1949:
1950:
Reprieved.
1951:
Reprieved.
1952:
Reprieved.
1953:
Petition for rehearing of
trial granted.
1954:
Reprieved three times in
three months.
1955: 1956
Reprieved.
Reprieved.
1957: 1959:
Reprieved.
New execution dato set. Reprieved.
dle." urged the
Prison officials were furicus
His
Jawyer
al arc
and n
hold-ups of bookle parlours and brothels
He insists that i was because of his crimes against the underworld itself that be was "framed" and, accused of being the notorious red-light 'bandit.
The nickname was given to the sex Herrorist who roamed the Hollywood
and lovers' lanes back in 1947. He tied o red handkerchief over one of his car lights to make it look like a police car and drove up to parked ears to pounce on couples.
Urually he robled the man at gunpoint a would then take the girl a few feel away (the State based its kidnapping charge on that) and subject her to bar- barous indignities.
No TV
two
He was Bentenced to death on counts of kidnapping with bodily harm." Chessmann, n hefty six-footer (1912 stone), was not allowed into the clemency hearing. The bushy-browed, big-nosed man fat in his famous cell, deep ines etched into his forehead and chin by his 114ycar fight to stay out of that green gas chamber. He looks older than 38.
Earlier under the tension he would But have dragged heavily on a cigarette. te gave up smoking and, like so many before him, he grew heavier, a stone and a half heavier.
the barted The public
from clemency hearing in the Governor's office in Sacramento. And the Governor, anxious to avoid any vaudeville necusations, kept out the TV cameras.
was
He refuse to hear any argu- ments on the gullt or Innocence of Chessman, So the State lawyers and defence attorneys fought it out...should or should not Chessman die?
On Monday, Governor Brown lunded down his verdict before leaving California on "vacation." He decreed that Chessman was
But on Wednesday the United
lew to
the
slay
Sa Ivar, who is the land-
A petition from Brazil arrived owner, said: "When the present
"Spare sub-tenant goes, the place will with 45,000 signatures,
organisations brun purely as a tea-shop Chessman"
of a girl who is now and said he must write no more.
but manuscripts to die. and will not sell tartan souventrs, been formed in New Zealand, mother
for two other books "Trial by bottles of pop, and al, that sort Sweden. Brazil, and elsewhere, kept in a state hospital because He smuggled
But there is also a mountain of what Chessman did to her. of thing."
When et mail, including a letter from
Di he was Imprisoned a Ordeal" and "Face of Justice." States Supreme Court granted his
literary another last-minute or Sir Ivar emphasised that he one
victims, psychiatrist gave him an intelll- sex
present under recution-the seventh-to strongly
genuine demanding that Chessman be ence quotient of 127. Somehow agent encourages
convict-author time 10 conspiracy it came out as 172the mark of indictment for executed. tourism.
by le another appeal "Just smuggle. They have He is really
dented Prison have opened up one of my
called a genius. psychiatrists
November 3. helping him. deer
for youth
and a bright bey." hostel him "absolutely ruthless
Chessman thanked the guard Bright enough, though hic Governor Brown,
Chessinun is as bad as they hikers to enjoy. I have allowed callous" and
brought him the news lew come, but not a killer though who my motor-cyclists to huve their hill when he was Attorney-General, never gut more than 3
emotion and, turning had and climbs and scrambles on one of fold
He freely without him he
'made dollars in his robberies, to make sentenced to death. of California HK$900,000 by writing three admits being a boy thief after back into his cell, once again my grouse moors, and I'm all in laughing-stock
books in prison.
bis family moved from Picked up his law books. Colm- favour of water-skiing on the justice.
The American Civil Liberties They have paid for his costly Michigan loch.
lo California during ly he set about preparing for the depressio
another fight to break his date legal lights.
He freely confesses to 17 with death, robberies and to a long series of
BUT WILL HE?
"Last year, a group of marau- dern shot 17 of my tale orna- mental ducks.
"They stole hundreds of bulbs, sawed down trees uprooted others.
"I can't imagine what would happen if granted the requests
Moan
A
10 allow fun-fairs to be put up." "But I absolutely refuse to Union aid it would be "cruel
middle-aged couple who have this place
into end unusual punishment" to let turned
Chessman die.
A have run a busy cafe and sou- another Coney Island.”
best- His first book was seller: "Cell 2455, Death Row."
MARYL Chessman, hoodlum, rapist,
CA
self-taught lawyer-and an ex- pert in excaping the death chamber in Son Quentin Prison for the past 13 years.
CHUCKLES
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