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MASON'S

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日卷廿月叁辰戊 HONG KONG, SATURDAY, MAY 12th, 1928. AM

ESCAPED CONVICT'S

CONTEST OF WOLF SLAYERS.

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.

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UP TRAINS.

ADVENTURES.

TRAPPED NEAR BOGGED

CAR.

PREVIOUS DARING

EXPLOIT,

STATIONS:

"I WISH THEY HAD SHOT ME!!

Kowloon Trumati

Dep. 6.40) 8.05 9.80 9.10/10.00/12.00 1.15′ 2.838.00

9.2010.08 12.08 12. 6.491

7.01

9.33 19.20 12.20 1,34

9.48 10.93 12.39 1.47

9.53 10.37 12.37

10.05 10.47 19,47

4,30 8,49 7,30 4.98) 1,50, 7.38 4.50 6.09 -7.50 5,041 6.188.09

-5,18

9.07 10.10 10.5 12 12

5.39

10.47

Taipo

Twipo Markat

Dep. 7,15 720

Fanling... Dag

Bhanngakui

Khamchun Dop.

7.41 8.45 2.13 10,16,10.58,19,58

8,4911.10

Canton

...ATT.

11.30- 5.38

DOWN TRAINS

STATIONS 180.1 30.3

A.X. A.X

No.7 No. A.X.

Mol No. 17.10 Ms.21 No.13. x3 AM. 7. P.M.P.M... A.M

P.X.

8.03

11.00

8.30

6.21

5,49 8.21 11.46 3,08 4.45 | 5.56 3.10 4.50 6.00 11:50 12.01 3.81 5,00 610

7.01 7.06

12.08 3.26 15.04 615

1220 8.39 5.17 6.29

12.32 8.51 5.29 8.40

...Dop. 'anton

Bhumobus Dep. 7.18 8.05 10.35 11.09 11,359.58 4.39

får.

Shengshui Dep.

8.12 10.41

Tanting

10.47

1057

8.36 1,30 Dep

TaipoMarket Dep: 1,40 8.26

Taipo

Bhatin

...Dep. 7,448,3111 01 Dep. 7,578,44 11.14

Yazmati.Dep. 8.11 2.56 11.26

Kowloon Art. 8.17 8.02 11:33 11,48

12.38 5,57 5.38 6.48 7.04 7.44

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TORQUAY, April 16th. After stealing a new motor-car and stocking it with provisions and clothing taken from a beach-side caft, George Whitehead, the con- vict who escaped from Princetown Prison, Dartmoor, yesterday morn- ing, was captured by two detectives on the desolate Milber. Dawas, be tween Newton Abbot and Torquay, this morning..

I have been able to piece together the movements of "the hunted man after he abandoned the motor-car

of the Roman Catholic chaplain of the prison in the privatë estate of Dartington Hall, near Totnes, yes terday afternoon. The story of his efforts to break through the net of pursuit is as follows:

Immediately his car was bogged in the deep ruts of a track he ran away as fast as he cottid.

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of the Ontario Legislature has pass-- Final" "general meeting Hong ed to the Department of Game and Hong and Kowloon Taxicsh Co., Fisheries, with recommendation noon. for favourable ennsideration, scheme advanced by Mr. Theodore Legault, Liberal, Sturgeon Falls, for the extermination of wolves in the province, under which, it ia expected, 10,000 wolves would be killed next year.

Under Mr. Legault's proposition an association would be formed by certain persons interested, and £3,000 in prizes would be given to Principal Mails:- Outward: those getting the greatest number Europe vid Marseilles (Kashgar), of pelts. To finance the scheme the 10.30 a.m.; Europe vid Victoris. Government would pay the associs B.C. (Talthyou), 10 a.m.; Europe tion £1 for each wolf killed, in advid Siberis (Novara), 3.30 p.m. dition to the £3 now paid to the trapper. As an evidence of its good faith, no money would be paid to the association until 10,000, wolres had been killed.

Hunters and trappers throughout the province would be invited to enter contest sponsored by the association, and the department's present machinery for checking pelts would be used. It was claim ed that the scheme would result în more than doubling the present number of wolves killed, about 5,000 a year.

RAID.

He knew that the pursuers were IRISH WOMAN AND ARMS hot on his heels. Half an baur be- fore, as he dashed through Totnes, ho had nearly run into a police- sergeant and a constable who were locking out for him on the main

road.

He pulled the car up only 70 yards from them, drove it backwards at a frantic speed, turned it at the first convenient spot, and darted away in the opposite direction. The police at once started in pursuit in

Another motor-cazichtete

Whitehead knew that they would find his abandoned car and fling a cordon at once round the woods where he lay.

When the pursuers found the car he vanished.

Making a wide detour round Totnes, Whitehead came to the River Dart, which is about 30-yards wide and was running fast.

Fords and bridges were guarded, But he found a boat, gained the other side, and through the driving rain made his way across the hill country towards Paignton on. the

conat

Drenched, mud-splashed, and weary, the hunted man at last rench.

When

Florence McCarthy, A young woman of Cliftonville-road, Dublin, was charged at Dublin with assisting in the maintenance of an illegal military organisation, it was stated that one of the docu- ments found in her attaché caso re- ferred to a report received that two, strange detectives, found to be Scotland Yard men, were watching all trains to and from the north.

"We are azaured, the report continued, that this is due to the arms raid in London."

It was stated by the police that the room in which the woman was arrested was used by the Sinn Fein organisation.

The woman was remanded,

Sergeant Gill and Detective-Inspec- tor Drew, or Torquay, made a minute inspection of the marks left by the tyres and started off in a motor-car.

Picking up the tracks on a lane

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Rogation Sunday.

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Queen's Theatre: The Missing |- Link."

World Theatre: "You'd Ba Surprised."

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(May 14th.)

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Queen's Theatre: The Missing

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Tuesday. (May 15th). Sanitary Board meeting, 4.15

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Peak Church Annual Meeting in the Cathedral Hall, 5.30 p.m.

Chinese Y.M.C.A. Distribution of Baseball prizes,

p.m.

St. Peter's Church Young Men's Club Ping Pong Tournament, &30 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: "The Missing Link"

World Theatre: "Footloose Widows."

Stor Theatre: "The Lighthouse by the Sea." da

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ed the streets of the town, which loading from the road several mics Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m.; King |

out of the town, they followed for a mile and a half until their car became, bogged..

he knew, as he had once worked as an omnibus conductor at Torquay. Four Garages Ralded.

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He broke into another, but here-

As he was climbing over a gate was a motor-car with no front Inspector Drew came up with him ordinary yearly meeting, noon

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Queen's Theatre: Borrel and car, but he could not start it.

When he broke into the fourth struggle, the detective was kicked on the thin, and then na Sergt. Gill

San garage-No. 13-he found a saloon

came up Whitehead was overpower car belonging to Mr. Sidney Corned and handcuffed. hill, a dentist, who had had it only He was taken in a motor-van to the Torquay Police Station, rather Whitehead drove it out of the a sad little figure with his grey garage through Torquay to a spot woollen jersey, his rough yellow near Meadfoot Beach, between Tor trousers, and a cloth cap he had quay and Babbacombe. He broke found in the wood. open the café of Mr. T. Collins,

When he was asked if he which lies between the road and sez edge, and removed a tin of milk, glad that the hunt was over he said "I wish somebody, bad shot biscuits, ginger beer, cigarettes, me rather than captured me..

wearily, matches, chocolates, and other

Previous Escape. sweets.

Was

He also took to the -motor-car | Whitehead, who was serving women's clothing, including over- sentence of seven years' penal previous sen- alls, a cardigan, a pair of stockings, servitude, made a and a pair of high-heeled black sational escape in a Blackpool holi- shoes. This clothing he stole, no day crowd on August 1st, 1928, from doubt, with the iden of dressing up detectives who attempted to arrest as a woman in an-emergency.

him on n charge of stealing a motor- From the premises of builder

car at Torquay. he stole a tarpaulin and two tins of petrol. He then drove up narrow lane leading off the Marine drive, about two miles from the centre of Torquay.

The Torquay police were by this time aware that he had been in the town, as somebody had caught sight of him as he drove down a street. Detectives at once set out on a search, and a cordon was establish ed on all roads about five miles from the town

Meanwhile Whitehead, tired ont, had fallen fast asleep in the back of the saloon. He remained undis covered all night, but about 8 o'clock this morning somebody paas- ing noticed the convict's prison clothing, and, giving no sign of his discovery, offered to get Whitehead a cup of tea Then he went' away- to inform the police, match

When the police returned the motor-car had gone. Detective. (Continued on next Column).

They found the door and windows of a caravan in which Whitehead. was living fastened.

When they forced the door Whitehead dashed out with a revolver, fired two shota, and ran off over the fields, turning and firing as he did so.

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He ran two miles to the crowded promenade and the sanda, where he was lost in the crowd. He fired at.. a man who tried to catch him, and the man dropped, pretending he been shot.

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Whitehead escaped to Oldham in amator-car, and was arrested there the same night. A letter in his posscamon said—

My dearest Bertha,-I am glad I did not let you stop me from using the gun, as I have my liberty, but if I had done as you tried I would not have had the pleasure of writing this letter to you It would have been all I was one too many for them

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