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AMAZING STORY OF "KIDNAP

LETTERS.

YOUTH'S STATEMENT: “I DIDAT

FOR NOTORIETY.'

SCOTLAND YARD POSE.

An astonishing statement, alleged to have been made by the Oxford youth who was arrested at Brighton, after the police had made inquiries into the sending of anonymous threatening letters to titled people, was read at Abingdon Police Court, England, when he was remanded.

After first denying that he sent any letters, he was said to have declared that he did it for notoriety."

It was explained that he couched the first letter, threatening kidnapping, i

rather flamboyant language, and that he was spurred on to write more when he saw that reference to the letter was made in newspaperS, -

SHARE "SELLERS VANISH.

BANKERS DEVELOPMENT TRUST.

WOMEN'S LOSSES. Urgent inquiries were being made in London by many people, particularly by A number of widows, as to the where- abouts of a concern called the Bankers Development Trust Enion (Regd.), which operated from Sentinel House, Southamp ton, WC----

POOR INDIAN PRINCE.

DIES IN PENURY IN A SQUALID

LONDON LOCALITY: -

FROM PALACE TO POVERTY.

Writer, philosopher, dreamer, and something of a poet as well, a prince of one of the richest and most gorgeous. reigning houses of India, Jeanray Singh Susodia has just died in poverty in a pleasant but faded Clerkenwell square.

They want some information about in

Ten days ago Prince Jessray, a member vestments which representatives of the Bankers Development "Trust persuaded of the reigning house of Hyderabad, people to make in the Radian Ore Mines, knocked at the door of a boarding-house Ltd, which has registered otices at Sar-in. Myddleton-square, and asked if the dinia House, Kingsway; W.C.

In one case alone the Bankers Trust proprietor had a small room to let at a

cheap price.

THE LOCKED ROOM. received last February £2,000 from a tomar in Bent for 8,000 shares in the Kadium Ore Mines, shares which stock- brokers describe sa absolutely worthless and unsaleable on the Stock Exchange,

The register at Somerset House shows that the Bankers Trust was registered last as stock and share brokers ARREST DESCRIBED

November uns of Oxford, and. Dam The accused youth, Joseph Arthur Berbridge Mansions, Marylebone Road, and card Fisher (17), is a solicitor's clerk, ofrer Harris, of Calthorpe Street, Rus Woodstock Road, Oxford...

Bell Square, and later of the Lord Nelson Hotel, Liverpool. On April 28th these two men gare formal notice that they had ceased to carry on business, and since then they have vanished,

He was charged with "uttering," on or about April 19th last, a letter, of which he knew the contents, demanding from Eric Hamilton Bose, with menaces and without reasonable or pardonable cause, the sum of £5,000 at the Parish di Wythain

Fisher, a lad of medium height and build, was dressed in a light grey suit and carried a cap of greenish-grey

material.

As he entered the court he smiled to his mothy who was sitting with a friend. He was allowed a seat in the dock.

Superintendent Goddard said Fisher was alleged to have been sending letters to people in different parts of, the-coun try.

On or about April 19th, a letter was received by Mr Rose stating that unless +25,000 were sent to some charitable in stitution his children would be kidnap ped..

Chief Inspector Poroy-Savage said that with Sergeant Sprackling he saw Fisher detained at Brighton Police Station.

"I told him who I was, said the in- spector, "and said to him::

I have caused you to be arrested and detained, as I have reason to believa that you have sent a number of latters to the Marchioness Townshend, Lord Townshend, Lord Churston, Mr. Rose, and other persons, demanding of them money with metaces, threatening to kidnap their sons.

He said: I have sent no such letters have already made a statement to that effeffct. I saw about the letters in the newspapers, and I conceived the idea to carry the thing a step further and kidnap one of the boys. What is likely to be done to me?'

"A NEW STATEMENT”

I said: At this moment you will be detained, and I cannot say, until my inquiries are completed, but it is likely that you will be kept here and charged with attempting to kidnap the son of Mr. Rose.

Now he is dead, and there is a locked room in the house. In it are the total assets of this royal prince of India.

They consist of a few sheets of foolscap paper, many of them scribbled on, a pile of manuscript which was never printed, a book or two, a few articles of clothing, and a snapshot, which no doubt in his declining days recalled to the dead prince the glories, that once were his, when he lived with his parents in the palaces of Hyderabad.

At the inquest it was stated that he had no relatives in this country and that he was entirely without friends. But that not quite true.

10,000 SHARES SOLD. Officials of the Radium Ore Mines cap throw no light on the matter. I only wish we did know where they are," said Hill be was well known. In a quarter In the eating-houses around Saffron Mr. Charles A. Pilcher, the secretary where everybody is interested in acquir

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percentage profit," the absolute has not been operated since the war. Lasting a January the Bankers Development Trast detachment of the atout, ageing Indian offered to provide capital by the sale ol shares. They were therefore given a call on about 53,000 shares. So far as I know they have disposed of about 10,000 bu although transfer certificates have been made out the company has not received a penny from the Bankers Trust, and now they have disappeared. The Bankers Trust was supposed to pay us ta ed for some of the shares and 23. for others,?? replied Mr. Pilcher.

The trust obtained £300 from a woman at Chippenham and money from other women at Burnham-on-Ses and Bexhill.

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SUCCEEDS IN A 402 MILES TRIAL .RUN.

Of the 213 starters in the London- Edinburgh run of 402 miles for cars and motor cycles organised by the Motor- Cycling Club all but 21 arrived safely: at Edinburgh, including the driver of a 12 motor-car. The run began on Friday night,

One of the competitors on the eve of the trial bought a second-hand twin- cylindercer, for this sum and de- cided, for the fun of the thing," to try his luck with it. The only trouble he had was with the spare wheel, which came adrift.

from commercialism attracted a kindly notice of the other habituss of the dating- houses of the Italian quarter.

WRITINGS ON INDIA.

For twenty years the Prince had lived in this country, and during that time he... wrote many thousand words on India. Always ha dreamed of the day when his writings would be acclaimed as master- pieces of Indian literature.

There are in his room letters from: publishers, many of them speaking high- ly of the work which he had submitted to them, but few agreeing to publish it. Earlier in life the Prince was success-

ful in placing some of his manuscripts, but latterly the cheques which came to him were few and with ever widening.

intervals between.

He seldom spoke to anyone, but when occasionally at a table he was drawn into a conversation he revealed a depth of knowledge that surprised his listeners.

LEÁN YEARS.

At the house where the Prince spent his- last ten days the propriator told sa Evening Standard representative that.... when the Indian called he described him- self simply as Jessray Susodia," and made no reference whatever to his rank. "I am afraid he was completely down he added, although he never and out;' made the slightest complaint.

"He used to make some breakfast for himself in the mornings, but all his other were taken meals, if he had any, outside."

Representatives of the ruling house of Hyderabad have been informed of the he octupied in Myddleton-square will be death of Prince Jessray, and the room. kept, locked until the arrival of some. responsible persons who will take over his effects.

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He said: Does my mother know of of the Oxford Police, stating that I was Where

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this? I should not like her to know, as the suffers from her heart.'

"I said: She must be told that you are to be charged."

He said:

That being so I would like to make a new statement. One can not continually tell lies when one thinks of one's mother."

After being cautioned by the inspector, Fisher said:

"The first letters I wrote were to the Marquess, framed in rather flamboyant Idaguage, threatening to kidnap him.

"Sometimes, nothing appeared in the Press, and thinking I had failed, I thought to give it up. Then one night I saw in an evening paper a report that Letters had been sent threatening to kidnap the boy

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on the line of Scotland Yard, and that the Chief Civil Commissioner 'desired to speak to him. I told Mr. Rose, then, using the name of Evans, that Lord- Churston's son had been kidnapped from school, and warning him that proper pro has been since the 16th century, a Magnet attracting tection ought to be given to his son.

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"By this means I was able to ask him at from Europe all who sought Trade, Adventure or Gain, what school his boys were and he told me it was Mr. Roper's School, Seaford, which I knew to be Lady Cross School, Seaford, where.my father was formerly a master."

"I told him I would sent two men To-day it is rapidly becoming known as one of the Gems of the down to the school that night to guard his boy, and he said he would write Mr. Pacific-The Pearl of the Orient and attracts Tourists and Visitors Roper to that effect immediately

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VAGUE INTENTION." -.

"I travelled by train to Brighton, and This spurred me, on, and I sent more then went to Seaford, where I slept in letters to the boy's mother, the Mara field. My intention was so vague that. chioness Townshend.

The first letter I sent was addressed to the Marquess at Avenue Road, Hamp. stead, haring obtained from Who's Who' For one of these books that address I later looked up the Peerage in the Free Library at Oxford and found that his country seat was Raynham Hall, Nor- folk, so I sent the other letters there.

"Having obtained a little notoriety aver the Townshend letters: I though I would carry the matter & step further by writing to other personages, but I would like to say at this moment that I had no intention to carry out my threats.

The next two letters were sent the same night, and were posted by me at Oxford. One was addressed to Lord Churston, Knightsbridge, B.W., and the second to Mr. E. E Rose, Wytham Abbey, Oxford

I did not know what I should have done if I had seen the boys, but something might have occurred to prove that I had been there.

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the following morning, I loitered "C in the vicinity of the school, but nothing occurred. I travelled to Brighton, and telephoned to Mr. Roper at Lady Cross I told him I was Mr. Ross, and that Mrs. Rose was getting nervous, and insisted that the bay should return home at once, at least for few days.

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"He asked that I should send a car. I suggested that I had a friend who was up at Oxford who had been working as a volunteer docker and was cuperating at Brighton, and who, I was sure, af asked, would escort the boy back to Oxford. i added that I would ask my, friend to wear a white Bower in his buttonhole, and that the meeting-place should be the Victoria platform at Brigh Iton at 1.15 p.m. He said he would bring the boy himself by car. I was at the station at the appointed time, and was arrested,

"ONLY ONE SERIOUSLY.” The latter I chose because I know Mr. Rose and his family by sight, and secondly because I wanted to gain local notoriety; and thirdly because he was My object was to get Mr. Roper to the only whom I meant at all seriously give the boy sufficient money for · his to, as I could ring him up phone calla, journey to Victoria, and return, as i had Teic

in my mind that I would take him to The other persons to whom I have Victoria, and then send him to the written are the Earl of Cadogan, the school. Marquess of Bute, Sir William Mitchell I thought that this would enable me Thomson, a Cabinet Minister, Mr. H. to 'phore up one of the daily papers and Martin, somewhere in Kensington, and say that the boy and been kidnapped. Sir William Bulkeley-William, whose My object in making the statement address I remember as Peny-Pare, near is to explain that I had no intention to Beaumaris, North Wales

harm anyone. It was a foolish, prac About a week--it was exactly a weektical joke to make a sensation, and I -later I telephoned Mr. Rosa, 365, Ox Bitterly regret having made such a fool ford, using the name of A British Com of myself.""" maniat, asking for his decision,

"He stated in forcible language that he would have nothing whatever totde with me, and would not pay a penny

1 told him that unless he paid his boys would never return from school. I did not know at the moment what school they were at..

At the end of a fortnight I rang up Mr. Rose, using the name of Mr. Fox, (Continued on nezt: Volumn),

Superintendent Goddard said that after that he charged him

Fisher said, "I don't wish to say any thing, only convey my regrets to dri Rose

Inspector Goddard said it was possible there might be two or three more cases

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