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CRYPTIC TELEGRAM,
Total penalties of £37,906 were imposed on three men who appeared in the King's Banch Division gun-running case.
The jury ordered payment of the. fol. lowing sum:———
Capt. C. H. Alfeld Chis. Philip Haman Fredk. Gerley Firmin...
£20.076 15,980 15,030
Mr. J. H. Attfield, the father of Capt. Attfield, had been charged with his son, but no evidence was offered against him. The other men each pleaded guilty to one count of exporting machine-guns.
Mr. Morris, for the Customs author- ities, said that in August, 1823, Cecil Herbert Attfield, the son, interviewed a Mr. Yapp, of Mesara Vickërs, Ltd., the arms manufacturers, with regard to the purchase of machine guns.
36 MACHINE GUNS.
RECLUSE'S ALADDIN'S CAVE: HANGING BUNDLES OF TREASURY NOTES.
-MYSTERY - WOMAN,
Hundreds of pounds in Baak of Eng- land notes, Bradburys, Gold and silver, i have been found in the house of a stary. ing, paralysed" womun named Alisa Clarke, living in Parrock Street, Grave- send.
The discovery of the treasure-reads more like fiction than truth-in fact, it was because he acted upon the novels he bad read that Police Constable Stedman.
made the discovery.
OFFICER'S DAUGHTER.
The woman is a mystery, but from documents found by the police, who are anxious to trace her relatives, it appears that Miss Clarke is 70 years of age. Her full game is Miss Agnes Ramsay Clarke, She is the daughter of the late Captain Alexander Clarke, a British Artay officer, who married a Miss Leishman, a German Woman. The family, in the middle of last century, lived at 10. Blumen Strasse." led all over the world. Stuttgart, Wurtemburg, but they travel-
Miss Clarke appears to be the last of har family. She was baptised at Peasny
Mr. Yapp pointed out that before gimp could be exported a licenes from the Board of Trade was necessary. Capt. Attheld entered into an agreement within 1854 Messrs. Vickers on April 8th last to pur chase 56 machine guns, 29 sets of spare parts, and 27 extra barrels, the guns cost ing £95 each..
On April 18th a similar contract was agreed to for the purchase of 30 recon- ditioned secondhand Scarf mountings at £11 each.
Throughout all the negotiations Mr. Yapp pointed out to Capt. Attfield that he would have to get a licence from the Board of Trade before he could export the arms. Attfeld made application to the Board of Trade to export.
ed.
5,000 ranaus of Ammunition Latvia
to
a machine guns to Brazil. and 230 Scarf mountings to Halland." None of these applications was grant
In April. Hinman, who was a yachts- man, went to West Mersey, a small vill age near Colchester; and asked a Mr. Wyatt if he could get for him a fishing, smack capable of carrying 10 to 12 tons. Mr. Wyatt mentioned a boat called Edith Francis, and. Hinnan agreed to pay £160 for this boat..
NAMED. PAINTED OUT.
On May 10th, there was a trial trip the name of the boat had been painted out and the money was paid over to Mr. Wyatt.
She was found by a neighbour, Mrs. Raspusson, lying ill in the garden, and removed to her bed. A doctor was sent
n ambulance to the infirmary. for, and he got the police to fetch her in
NEGLECTED HOUSE.
When the police got to the 11-roomed. four-storyed house, they were amazed at the condition in which it was found. Neglect everywhere showed itself, and its appearance confirmed a statement made that Miss Clarke had not been visited by Anyone for 9 years.
When the police went back to make the house secure they were met by bowls from two old black emaciated cats.
There was no food in the house except a bag of bananas and apples
In one of the rooms the police saw a mahogany wardrobe open. Hanging from hooks inside were bundles of first issue Bradburys, tied up by string, bootlaces, and dirty, torn handkerchiefs.
The search began just after midnight and lasted seven hours.
NOTES WITH RUBBISH.
With the aid of torchlights the police peered into all the crannies and lumber of this astonishing house, with, the result that hundreds of pounds in gold and silver and notes were removed in the early hours of the morning in a motor-
Capt. Attfeld was member of the car. Junior Army and Navy Club, London, The wardrobe yielded hundreds of and that address was on a telegram which notge, bundles of them being, stowed was sent to Amsterdam on May 7th and away amongst rubbish in the bottom. which said:-
pess.
The police next went to the kitchen, Trucks dispatched to-day.-Forst-hand in a meat in found two linen bags filled with sovereigns, and a number of half-crown and florins. Bundles of 20. and 40out pound notes were stuffed away amongst the old linen.
Twelve case containing, 30 machine guns were delivered by Messrs. Vicker to the Attfields address
In Miss Clarke's bed- strange mahogany box-bed of the earis Victorian
It was alleged that these were repre- senteil to be photographic parts. They were put aboard the Edith Francir atera-they found between the mattresses Hewitt's Wharf. ・・
One of the witnesses, said Mr.. Morris, was a man who, at the time, was taking a census of traffic in and out of Barking Creek.
He would say that at 6 o'clock on the morning of May 12th an unnamed sail- ing boat, with fixed mast, passed into the Creek from Hewitt's Wharf.
At 8.20 in the morning on May 14th a. sailing boat, with mast fixed, passed
a great pill of Bank of England notes. Search was made of the big boxes and trunks scattered over the bare boards in the different rooms, and there tumbled out a profusion of old silks and lace, and millinery of 80 years ago crinolines and bustles and other garments of fine quality, which had apparently not been. touched for half a century,
A LARGE FORTUNE..
out of Barking Creek, the skipper ing that Miss Clarke had handled a large Thousands of letters were found, show! giving Erith us his destination,
Apparently an arrangement was made, fortune, and that she owned houses, counsel continued, that a Dutch steamer stocks, and securities in Gravesend and should leave Rotterdam-nnd meet the London. unnamed sailing boat near the Gabbard But not one, single lester was "found
All this volu Lightship, which was about 10 miles dated later than 1904. from Barking Creyk.
minous correspondence was labled and The sailing boat was, in fact, met by put into small packets for each year. the steamship Helder on May 15th and unpacked machine guns were transferred to the steamer.
Mr Morris was referring to the elder Attfield as "old Attfield when the de fendant protested.
Counsel at once apologised for what he described as a slip of the tongue,"
It is obvious that the old lady was charitable and kind to many religious bodies and private, persons, for letters of thanks for gifts years ago were found. Miss Clarke evidently lived in the kit. cher and one bedroom with her cats.
door, and every window of this big house She had saveral, locks on her front
has been barred for years. Yet, except to her neighbour, she bas maintained n Mr. Cassela (Attfield's counsel): I astonishing hermitage in the centre of have just discovered that Mr. Attfield is a busy town for most of her life.
only of.
LORD DARGIKO'S QUIP."
When I accompanied the police officers Lord Darling: If he should live an-over the building I was struck by the other ten years it would not be disgrace. ful The Attorney-General does not pro secute people merely for becoming old. (Laughter.)
Lord Darling In what State is Latvia?
A member of the jury suggested that
strange contrust of neglect and affluence. Beautiful old oak tables, mahogany and walnut bureaux and beds were mixed up indescribably with portfolios of paint inga, cobwebs und dirt."
LIKE A DICKENS SCÈNE Some of the old clothes strewn about Linke's family must have been Her mother left her many thousands of pounds under her will. Old Velvets, Sir Henry Curtis Bennett said. Hinnan silks, dresses, queer little hats, and had never desired to deny the story, and
carly even a yachting suit and an had now openly pleaded guilty. He was Victorian parasol was hanging on the arrested on August ist, and was in cus wall and wrapped in tissue paper. tour font distinguished war career, ten up the scene for Great Expects.
Charles Dickens might well have writi He had a having joined as a private in August tions. In some of the bedrooms there the rank of Lieutenant-General, after antigas mirrors, yet some of the clothes 1914, and being demobilised in 1019 with were very fine old mahogany beds and being wounded and mentioned in die patches. N
were rotting..
Latvia formerly belonged to "Russia. the rooms showed how wealthy Miss
Lord Darling (to the winens): Well, anyway, do you know what is going on there (Laughter.)
A sofa was covered with half an inch of dust, and beautiful piano stood.
He paid for the boat with the money
Branches of trees had been brought which Cecil Attfield gave him. The name into the kitchen for the cata to sit upon. of the boat was never taken off when she Bundles of old material stood in stacks Tea leaves were piled on the dresser., left Barking Creek for the North Sea about the foor as though Miss Clarke
Firmin's counsel, Mr., Eustac Fulton, said that Firmin was for many years had tried to reconstruct some of the gar master mariner. He "knew Hinman
ments, made 50 years ago, a wanted someone to navigate the boat, and he did no.
Lord Darling ordered no immediate derelict amidst the chaos of the drawing execution against Cecil Attfield and room. Works of art hung amidst cobwebs Hinman.
on the wall WHEN He declined to make a similar order
The chief constable has take
charge against Firmin, adding, I cannot of all jewellery and plate in the house. help feeling that if they had asked He has deposited it in a big safe at the Francis Drako. to do what Firmin did police station. There are silver punch- he would have done it."
bowl ladies and other heavy silver, and His lordabip gave judgment without jewels which have not been used for costs for James Attfield, the jury having years, but were found scattered about the fouod verdict against the
rooms Attorney General
(Continued at foot of sext column,)
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