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MURDER TRIAL ECHO.

THE AMAZING CAREER OF

SYDNEY FOX,

Broken Friendship,

Fox" said that so far as he know` his mother had received no money. Certain suspicious incidents fol from Mr. Morse from, say, August lowed, and eventually the friend Inst to the time of her death, but ship between Mrs. Fox and Mrs. she did not always tell him about

Merse was broken. Mrs. Horse the gifta

refused to see Sidney Fox again. The will in his favour was rescind

Is it true that you were deaper. ately, hard, up for money -Noted." desperately'; hard up certainly.

Mrs. Morse bad gone to tralia Thit question was never considered.

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jadge declared that Fox showed a great deal of perverted ingenuity for one so young.".

1920-six months at Westminster Police Court for victimising Lon- don stores by using the names of regular customers.

1922-twelve months at the Lon- Shortly afterwards Fox took an

don Sessions in the name of Sidney Aus. Opportunity of entering Mrs. Mor-Harry Lane-Fox, for obtaining credit from a London hotel by se's fat and stealing some of her

fraud. property.

mouth Prison,

His mother, during his imprison. ment, was in the Portsmouth work- house infirmary as a destitute per- 50. She remained there until ber son's release in" March 1929.·'

A recent Reuter cable mentioned · that Mr. Justice Hill had granted a degree, nid for Captain. George

He was arrested for that, and at. Bat you wanted to go`to Austra- Alfred More of the steamship is I did not want to go to Aused, under the name of George

the Hampshire Assizes was sentenc Antung, on the ground of the adtralia, if my mother had been alive,

Henry Fox, to fifteen months' hard ultery of his wife with a young you would have gone to Austra

Ah! but if your mother bad died labour, which he served in Ports man named Fox, who last month lis 1-Yes was found guilty of the mur-

Did you destroy your mother on der of his mother. The par- the night of the 23rd of October ties were married at Shanghai in in order that you might reap £3,000 December, 198, and lived there

from those policies !—Most certain- and at Hong Kong and elsewhere,ly not. It is a horrible suggestion. and had two children. Capt. Morse in an affidavit, anid that his wife occasionally visited her par enta at Sydney. She went to Eng land in 1999 to send the children to school. She was extravagant and he did not live with her whan he home west 'It was stated that sbe committed adultery with Fox in a flat in Southsen in 1927 and in a hotel i London in 1998,

London papers just to hand con- tain reports of the cross-examina- tion of For during the murder trial, during which the following references were made to his rela- tions with Mrs. Morse

How the Crime Was Diacovered.

Inquiries by the assessor of a London insurance company into the fire at a Margate hotel started the chain of official investigations which ended in the arrest, and conviction of Sidney Fox for mur- der.

The assessor seat a telegram to his headquarters-Extremely mud- dy water in this business-which led the insurance company to lay the facts of the fire and insurances before New Scotland-yard and the Margate police.

Then Chief Detective Inspector Hambrook was sent from Scotland-

at-yard to co-operate with the Chief Constable of Margate, and there began the careful, intricate police work which ended in the Assize Court at Lowes.

An Australian Friend, In reply to questions by the torney-General, Fox agreed that in the last two months before his mother's death his daily expenditure The figures," however, refect a

was more than their total weekly in- marked slowing up in the rate of DECREASE IN FREIGHT AND development of air carriage of come." Asked about the insurance freight and mails. This is parti- politics, Fex said that his mother cularly prominent in the case ofhad additional money to the pen- freight which in 1928 increased by 59.6 per cent. compared with the previous year, and in 1927 increased by 148.1 per cent. compared with 1826.

PASSENGERS.

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German commercial aviation is la a predicament according to a strik The reduction in mileage down ing statistical report published by is attributable, at least partly, to the Luft Hansa Company, the lead the elimination of unprofitable

short routes, ing German air service.

It is noteworthy, The report reveals that mileage however, that the number of passen fown by Luft Bansa airplanes dur-gers carried decreased proportion- ing 1920 decreased by 14.1 per cent. ately more than the mileage, thus compared with the previous year, reducing the total number of passen the number of passengers carried ger miles which it had been hoped decreased by 21.7 per cent.. while would be increased through the the volume of baggage transported abolition of the short lines." decreased by 20.5 per cent.

The Luft Hansa Company asserts Against these losses the increase that the passenger slump is due, to in freight and maits carried dura large extent, to confusing, and ing the year were almost negligible, conflicting reports which have been the former increasing by 2.3 per published concerning the curtailed cent. and the latter by per cent. 1920 schedule which left the travell These figures are for the regular ing public in doubt as to which scheduled services although, if lines were being operated Hence special trips are included, the. in many prospective air travellers creases in freight and mails are ( chose other means of transportation

but she had had gifts or loans sion, not in the way of income,

from friends,

The Attorney-General: whom 1-From Mrs. Morse.

Fres

well-to-do Australian lady who was here for three years and lived with us in Southsea, and returned to Australia at the end of last year.

Who is Mrs. Morse 7-A-very-

Just about the time of your mo ther's death-I don't know whe ther she had left then.

You know a good deal about her Yes, he lived with us.

She was married woman living apart from her husband Tes:

Captain Morse has instituted divorce proceedings against his wife, and you have been cited as co-respondent:-Yes, I know that.

Has she made a will, and have you seen it-Yes.

certain

What had she done with her money-She had left moneys to iz.".

A most interesting piece of in- formation bearing on the whole Case was learned about Fax early ed his association with Mrs. Morse, in the police inquiry. It concern-

the wealthy Australian woman, who returned to her home in Sydney last October.

Mesting With Mrs, Mores...... For became acquainted with Mrs. Morse, while her two sons were at

Surrey public school. Mrs. Morse had a furnished fat at Southsea, and there for a time liv. ed Mrs. Rosaline Fox and her son Sidney. He was working then in an insurance office at Portsmouth, and he induced Mrs. Morse in sure her life for £8,000. an

After that she made a will, un- der which Fox would have benefited considerably. Fox gave it out that Mrs. More had borrowed £3,000 from him, and she wanted the money to be paid back to him after her death, and that was the reasoD why he was to benefit under the will.

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1024-twelve months' hard labour

at West London Police Court for larceny and fraud as Stanley Fox. In this case he obtained a situation Earls Court, stole his employer's as a man-servant at a house in

goods and forged his name to a atolea cheque.

On one occasion Fox, using the alias of Owen Jones Smythe, posed as an Old Etonian and an affoer of the Royal Air Force,

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Plausibis Thai.

Fox had been through the hands of the police, a number of times. "The first punisment he had was a During Fox's terms in prison his birching at the East Derham Po-mother was living at Thornton lice Station, when he was thirteen Heath, West Hampstead, and High- years of age, for collecting money gate, working as a cook and a in the neighbourhood of his home charwoman. at Great Fransham, Norfolk,

Fox used to haunt expensive re When Mrs. Fox moved from Nor.staurants and hotela; indeed, he folk, after separating from her boasted that he could stay without husband. Sidney Fox obtained a paying at any hotel in England, post as pageboy at the house of a and certainly did at a great

number. prominent family in Manchester- square. He was represented as the son of a nobleman, which his good looks

and gentlemanly bearing seemed to confirm. In the house he W3S njcknamed "Little Lord Fauntleroy."

On one occasion he posed as a young officer member of a family which he knew, and so successful was the masquerade that be deceiv ed an aunt of the officer and bade. her a pathetic farewell.

War-time Bank Clerk, The next time he was heard of was as a junior clerk at a London bank during the war. A series of frauds was traced to him at the

bank. He forged small cheques in

customers'

names. The alterna- tive was placed before Fox of join. ing the Army or prosecution; he chose the Army,

Immediately he started his series of frauds again. He secured an officer's uniform and cheque book, and deserted.

His manner and his stories in- #pired confidence, and he would always deposit a sealed packed of valuables in the hotel safe.

Many hotel managers have actual. ly changed bogus cheques for him, and so allowed him to pay his bill with their money and pocket the balance.

NEW YORK-BERMUDA FLIGHT.

AEROPLANE HELD UP SIXTY MILES FROM DESTINATION,

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New York, April 1. It was announced, by the New Fork Times that the monoplane Pilot Radio, which departed from Long Island Sound at 9.37 a.m.-to- day, had alighted on a calm xen 60 miles north of Bermuda because of approaching darkness.

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Fox was given three months' hard labour by the Hove magis- trates for his cheque frauds,

Other sentences Fox served are:- 1910-eight, months' hard labour at the Old Bailey for forgery. He obtained 400 from a bank in which he was then a clerk, and the

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