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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1931.

UNDERTAKER'S POSE TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

THE MYSTERY OF VIVIAN GORDON.

JOAN OF

FESTIVAL.

ARC

AS DOCTOR.

CONFESSION BY CAB DRIVER.

RY OF HIRED

ASSASSINS.

New York,-The police believe that the mystery of the murder of Vivian Gorden, the Titian-haired ricketoor, has been solved by the confession of a taxicab driver, after being subjected to third degree" methods for overal hours, Four men are now in custody, charged with plotting the strang ling of the woman at the instiga

tion of someone else who promised them large sums. The police in dicate that they are award of the motive for the crime

The men in custody are: Harry Stain, who had already been arrested in connection with the crime...

Samuel Greenberg, who was out

on bail," but was, ro-arrested,

CELEBRATIONS AT ROUEN STORY OF EFFRONTERY.

CARDINAL BOURNE AS

TAPAL LEGATE,!

Paris, May 31-The, celebrations in honour of Joan of Arc on the occasing of the 300th anniversary of her death continued at Rouen to-day, the climax of the festival. I This morning special servicos were held in sl the churches of Nermandy, while in Rouen Catho dral a High Mass was celebrated by Cardinal Bourne, the Papal Ligate. The British Ambassador and representatives of the Franch and foreign Governments were pre sent. Large crowds waited out,

side,

A remarkable story was told at Warrington police court, when D. Tindall or Richard Tindall of Darnard-street,Sankey Bridge, Warrington, was summoned for pirotending to be a doctor.

Mr. T. 8 Stoel, who prosecuted for the Medical Defence. Unich, said that Tindall was an under taker and a certified embalmist. His actions and conduct during the last two years and a half had been most extraordinary and might have been attended by disastrous results. His audacity and effron-

Tindall had claimed to be a fully-qualified medical man held. ing the degrees of M. B. and Ch. B. He also said that he was member of the Royal College of Surgeons. He issued prescriptions which were made up by local chemista, and had presumed te treat professionally prople suffor-

At noon all the church helatory had been amazing. pealed forth in honour of the Maid, In the afternoon the streets were. lined with spectators for the his toric procession representing the entry of Charles Vil, into Reuen. Sixteen hundred poople dressed in costuines of the period took part. The pageant ended with an apotheosis cf Joan, who was led in Stein and Greenberg have been triumph riding on borseback escort indicted on a charge of murder ined by French soldiers of ailing from serious diseases, the first degree. Ev

periods.

Izzy Lewis, alias English, and Harry Schlitten, alias Harver the driver of the cab in which the murder was committed..

The charges are based OF the A performance of "Jeanne de assertions of Schlitten, who alleges France, a dramatie mystory in that Harry Stein plctted the muricur nets and nine icones, was der as the tool of some person un-given in... the Place Haute known higher up.". He adds Vieille Tour and was followed by that Lewis did nothing but engage the symbolic relighting of the fame the taxicab,

of the stake which was carried out by a delegation of ex-Service mon. A commemorative plaque given by Lady Haig and the Ladies of Scotland was blessed during this

coremony.

The day ended with a military concart followed by a carillon con- cort in the Cathedral.

A BENEFACTRESS" OF ENGLAND.

Cardinal Bourne on Joan of Arc.

He went so

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He had examined women, and claimed to have acted as an ances thetist to three prominent Man-American Army March" (Iai- chester practitioners. far as to say that he was applying for the post of abarthetist at War- rington fafirmary. He told Dr. Joseph, the Medical Officer of Health for Warrington, that he, gave an anesthetic, to a person in April and that he was arranging te see the clerk of the local Insurance Committee with a view to starting a panel practice in Warrington,

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Tindall had sought to demon- strate on every possible occasion 7.21 to 7.42 p.m.-- that he was a medical man. "He had visiting eards printed which read, "D. Tindall, M.B. Ch.B."

His claims were absolute bluff.

Mr. George Sturgess, for Tindall, said that during the war he served

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(Madison-Falkenstein). Jesse Crawford.-20343.

Strangled in a Cab, According to the driver, Vivian Gordon was lured to her death by her own grepd. Samuel Green. berg assumed the role of in wolthy diamond merchant who wanted her help in the disposn! of £50,000 worth of jewels. She was te om- ploy her wiles upor Greenberg, Stein is alleged to have told her, in an effort to get the diamonds away from him. The murder was plotted with minute care, Stein, it is alle- Red, driving to Van Cortlandt Park in advance to select the spot

Rouen, May 30,-"St. Joan of in the. Royal Army Medical Corps. Lay My Hond-Beneath & Rose" where the body should be thrown Are has boon a great bonefactress and his duties created for him a into a clump of bushes,

of England" declared. Cardinal desire to become a medical practi- to pass his Virian Gordon eagerly swallow. Bourne at the opening of the St. tioner. He failed

over; but he had a library of medi ed the bait of meeting the suscepti Joan celebrations here this after-matriculation examination, how- ble diamond merchant, Schlitten "said, and entered the car, seating "Before St, Joan appeared, Eng-cal books and had studied the sub- herself between Stein and Green-land was too much bound up withject. Tindall was the victim of a Defendant was fined £5 on each berg. Schlitten swore that he par-the destinies of France, Wo. had pitiful and merciless ambition. ticipated only to the extent of driv boen free and independent under

cur Saxon Kings, but the Norman of four summonses, with the alter- ing the car for £50, promised by Stein

conquest brought us too much un-native of one month's imprison- der French feudalism. St. Joan,ment on each rumora. The "joy ride" had barely com- menerd when Stein, according to by means of her work in France the cabman, seized the woman by his therefore, segured our nation- the threat, while Greenberg held al independence." her legs. Stein, then quickly slip- ped a nonse of clothes.ine about her neck and strangled her to death. Schlitten added: "Sho only screamed once.'

The body was stripped of jewel lery and an expensive fur coat, taken to the spot chosen, and dumped behind the screen of bushes.

Stein is stated to have had several business deals with the woman. On one occasion he went to Norway at her expense on a mission in which she is thought to

have had an interest;

The Motive Known.

The confession was given to the Press from the police headquarters

noon.

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Cardinal Bourne said that to day all the countries in the world wore going through terrible crises. All the efforts of statesmen were meeting with great difficulties and obstacles, which were bound to dis- courage them. The same existed at the time of Jonn. The work of peacemakers and negotiators wa brought to nought, and the labours of the most ablo statesmen were fruitless. At that moment, St.. Joan appeared, whose true patric tim was shown in her motto, "May the English return to their homes And may God bless them."

MR. SHAW AND JOAN.

by Pelic-commissioner Mulrooney "Was She a Dangerous Woman7" personally io the presence of Mr. Bernard Shaw, in a brand- Mayor Walker. It was obtained, cast statement on Joan of Arc in he said, though one of the cleverest, the National programme on Satur. pieces of detective work in the his day night, said: "It is an estab. tory of the department. Ineiden- lished fact that Joan was not, beau- taly Mr. Walker emphasised it tiful. It has also been placed on vindicated the police force, of, the record by the officers who liked her suspicion that Vivian Gorden had and the men who worshipped ber been silenced because she knew too that the one reason they believed much about corrupt police methods her to be divine was because she and intended to tell all to the Sen-, had none of that commodity so bury Committee investigating the woll known in Hollywood-sex aj inagistrates' courts and police, peal." "Vice Squad" blackmail.

The sensational Gordon murder case, Mr. Mulrooney.said, was now complete, except for the motive which, he intimated, would be ro- vealed shortly. He refused to divulge who ordered the murder or who was under suspicion. To do so, he said, would retard the work of the police in running the gulity party to earth. Whoover it was, it is believed that he was a victim of one of Vivian's blackmail schemes,

There were two summonses - for falsely pretending to be a Bachelor. of Medicine; one for pretending to be a general practitioner in medi- 8 eine; and, another for falsely using the title of Bachelor of Medicine.

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THE CANTON GOVERNMENT

POLICE DEPARTMENT.

Since the inauguration of the new Government at Canton the police department have been ex- tremely active, and it is stated that crime in the city and its vicinity has decreased considerably. On the Government assuming office some time ago General Chen Hing Wen was appointed head of the department and to him tell tho lot of appointing others to the differ,. ent, offices under his control. That he was discerning in his choice of subordinates is evidenced by the amount of good work that is being done. Intensive training for all the underlings and ordinary policemen has been the order of the day and now Canton boasts of a police forca. to be compared with any doing duty in the larger cities of China. The Taiping branch police station is probably the most important station in the city" and to this has been appointed Mr. Lim Wen Chun. who is considered to be the most of the superintendents. efficient At the superintendents attached to the different branch stations are said to be men of experience and all extremely well trained.

Mr. Shaw reminded listeners that when she was told she could escape burning by recanting Joan of Arc signed a recantation, but when she found that she was not to bo set free, but imprisoned for life, she tore up her recantation.

"Although the burning was un- he said, "because it necessary,' arises whether she was not a dan- was uselessly crnol, the question

"My Shaw will havo offended the gercus woman. It is a question reasonable susceptibilitios of all which arises with every person of who regard Joan of Arc as a distinction and extraordinary martyr and a saint, and that at ability... A Woman Blackmailer,

a moment when the heart of "Marshal Foch was ones asked France and the entire Catholic Vivian Gordon was a night club how Napoleon would have fought world was focussed on Rouen, hostess and an actress.

But she is this, war. Tho Marshal replied, sharing in spirit in the solemn reported to have lived on racke. He would have fought it wonder-international celebrations in honour teers, thieves and wealthy gam-fully, magnificently, but what on of the Maid's martyrdom." blers, her speciality being black earth should we have done with The B.B.C, had no comment, te. mail. In some of these operations him after f she is said to have been a partner of the notorious gangster, Jack Diamond. They are alleged to have quarrelled over the division of the spoil in one case. He is stated to have owed her £3,000, of which ho paid her £100, promising bor the remainder, later.

This money, it is assorted, was obtained from a rich broker, who handed it over when Diamond threatened to expose his "love life."

That question arises again to day, in the case of Leon Trotsky." Joan was killed, he added, by the Inquisition, which was not dead."

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e Mr. Shaw's Rejoinder. In a rejoinder to the views of Father Weadlock, Mr. Bernard Shaw-Baid imagine from what JESUIT PRIEST'S PROTEST.Father Woodlock says that he

agrees with Jean 'in the position": Father Woodlook, the Jesuit that she took, which caused her to preaching at Farm-stroot Roman be burned. That, of course, is the Catholic Church, London, yostor Protestant position. If Father day, protested against the Tim Woodlock agreas with Joan, then," The woman's murder on Folf 26 pudence, almost I might any cri- of course, he is a Protestant, too. was followed on March 3 by the minal folly of the B.B.Cau- "If the attention of the Church suicide by gaspoisoning of her 17-thorities for issuing an invitation is called to his opinion, they will year-old daughter, Benita, who to Mr. Bernard Shaw to speak on pet burn him they cannot do that left diary in which she had St. Joan of Arc ever the wireless but they will probably silonce The B.B.C., he continued,him. Everything I said last night written that she could not face the had to right to let looss that he will and in the records of world after all, the terrible things- that were being said about her irresponsible playboy and munte Joan's trial. He does not som toyotawalian Ordi mothor. The day after this tra bank to preach on a solemn occa-realise that the Church had any gedy two men tried to Linde sion a panegyric of a Catholic and thing to do with it What I said was the truth so far as the his Vivian Gordon's Cuban maid by national saint.

(Continued at foot of next column) | torical truth can be ascertained." throwing acid in her face

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