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Joseph Marks, said to be one of the cleverest and most re- sourceful of Germany's secret service agents, has been deported from London under the careful auspices of Scotland Yord.

SATURDAY. JANUARY 24. 1920.

BLACK "SHEEP OF THE FAMILY:

CRIMINALS THE VICTIMS OF HEREDITY.

TRADE CRIPPLED. BY-

EXCHANGE RATES.

BOOTS AT 30 TIMES THE PRE-WAR PRICE.

Last May there died at bis post | "It would actually pay to buy in Manchester a young scientist, boots at retail prices in Germany whom Mr. E. V. Lucas bas des- and sell them wholesale in Eng- cribed as "the honestest and land."

There was an affecting scene at Charing Cross Station when Marks, as he boarded the Con- tinental express, bade good-bye to a weeping woman friend who bad followed the vicissitudes of his career with affectionate in-making.

terest.

both of whom were excuted at the Tower-went to England. He landed at a south-eastern

most understandingly tolerant This remarkable extract from a man that ever lived." His name letter, written by a British trader was Dr. Charles Goring, and he in Cologne. who went over to bad published some time before Germany to investigate the pos- bis death a massive treatise on sibility of exporting footwear to the criminal which other experts that country, was shown recently in criminology regard as epoch- to a Daily Chronicle representa- tive by the bead of a large frm of boot factors.

-re-

"Yes," he declared, "although there" is something approaching

boot famite on the Continent.

this is quite feasible. It is one of the unfortunate results of the abnormal rates of exchange.

went

This treatise The English It was in the early days of the

Convict"—has just been wer that Marks, the friend of published in a popular abridged Kari Lody and the dashing young form at 35. by His Majesty's naval lieutenant Bushmann-Stationery Office, with a new pre- face by Dr. Karl Pearson. "the famous biological statistician of London University. In his pre-

British manufacturers could face Dr. Pearson, surveying the do an enormous business with result of Goring's examination European countries," he of the physique and pedigree of on, "if only the exchange was 3,000 convicts, puts forward some no. so heavily against their extraordinarily interesting upin-potential.customers. ions as to how criminals are made. "As it is. British boots, export- The chief of these conclusions ed at a profit, cannot be placed is that a tendency to crime is in on the German market at much herited, like a tendency to melan-less than 30 times the pre-war cholia, and probably with equal prices in Rumania the advance disregard to social rank or sur- would be about 1.200 per cent; roundings. Just as the members and in France and Belgium about

600 per cent. of some farailies are specially inclined to commit suicide, so the members of other families are to commi. specially inclinel crimes.

port with an album of foreign stamps, the code with which he was to inform the German Admiralty of the movements and activities of the British Navy. He made no secret of his identity and admitted to his interogators that he was German born citizen. Scotland Yard, however, had its doubts of his bona fides, and acordingly he was cross-examined by Sir Basil Thomson, director of the British secret service. A dramatic mo- ment came when this hireling of Steinbauer, the head of the Ger. man espionage system, broke down with tears in his eyes under the ordeal of examina

tion.

Not only did he admit his origin and mission, but he openly confessed that the album of Steamps found in his possession was the secret code with which he promised to notify the German Government of the movement of the Grand Fleet and the patrols distributed over various parts of the British coast. His confession of the hazardous role not only saved his Own life but enabled. the

British authorities to keep a

look-out sharp

for others

сп 1

engaged sion. Marks:

"There are families." writes Professor Pearson, in which, generation after generation, in- dividual members take to drink to gambling, and ultimately, very frequently, to fraud; the so-called "black sheep" appears and re appears, brings disgrace upon the family here, er is conveniently shipped and lost in the wastes of East or West..

"I am convinced that lack of

social instinct is hereditary, and this in families where there is no lack of training and supervision. where the environment. in short, similar mis-is good, and there is no tradition if crime. for the failures are kep: secret from at least the younger Generation."

Was tried be

fore 1 court-martial at the

that crime

"Although the Continent is short of footwear. the very scarcity is not so acute that the consumer is willing to pay such high prices as this.

facturers have increased fourfold

Charges of British manu since 1914, and the variation of the exchange makes up the difference in the price at which it is possible to sell English goods in these countries.

Before the "war our firm car- ried on a large export business. now there is nothing doing."

As soon as the armistice was signed my brother went to Bel- gium, eager to arrange for the sale of about £150.000 worth of boots and shoes, but the journey was absolutely useless. He tried other. ountries, but so far not one single deal has materialised.

"Let me illustrate the reason by taking a case in point." he is summing up, accordingly, Continued. producing pair of more ladies' coots. "Before the largely # result of nature war I could have bought these than of nurture." The animal wholesale for about 5s. each.

usually

man with Now the manufactures' price is

22s. 6d.

Middlesex Guildheil, and was sentenced to penal servitud. In the buffet adjoining Charing Cross Station the spy related to a Laily Express representative the story of his capture a is Tilbury by Scotland Yard detec. tives, and then told some of his prison experiences. Amang other things, he mentioned his meeting with Bushmann, the German lieutenant who married million aire, and the daughter of a Prussian was shot in the Tower.

"I was said Marks,

a

a mental defect, owing to which he never possessed, and never

"If I wanted to sell this line in will possess, the instinct of the gregarious animal, the instinct Germany for, say, 24, 5d., natur. which compels it to observe the ally I should demand to be paid rules of the pack. He has the equivalent of this sum, at the in English money. Unfortunately sense of social or more responcurrent rate of exchange, is over sibility, without society, either of man or beast170 marks, or what would nomin- ally be more then £8 10s. in Bri- never sa surprised." must cease to exist.

tish coinage. Can you detect a criminal by "as when I met

"German manufacturers can

which

any

for much less. In fact, if only they had a surplus after satisfying the home demand. they could sell in England at a lower price than the British retailer is charging.

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Bushmann and we had long talks the shape of his head? Lembraso place their goods on the market per cent, of Passes to the Institute. together in Wandsworth gael the Italian criminologist, taught We were both tried at the same

that you can, Goring's researches seem to show that you cannot. cart. The night before Bush- mann's execution we had a fare- He measured the beads of 800 convicts and reconstructed the well chat, and it was then that he

criminal head. He related the romantic circum typical stances of his love affair with the then compared this head with daughter of a Prussian millionaire the type obtained from a bat-

CHINESE STUDENTS IN who 1$ one of the premier talion of Royal Engineers. The

ENGLAND diference was found to be unsub- oap manufacturers in Germany.

London. Chinese students are I thanked my stars that I did not stantial. Hence the horns of a Share his fate. But Bushmann dilemma; either the men of the being encouraged to come over to

It is believed that pistols were Some of the caterpillars found went to the execution shed with Royal Engineers are potential Britain and to America, not to a smile on his face and came to

criminals, or criminals do not study law as formerly, but to invented in Florence in 1545. in the vicinity of Darling river, the salute as the firing squad sent

differ in the shape of the head stady engineering and textile Sunday newspapers are said to Australia, are over six inches în from the general population.trades. It will take many years have been started between 1780|lecgtb. him to his doom."

There is, ic fact, no such to establish mining and other in- and 1785.

Jews of Poland welcomed Gen- Marks added that he conversed

An ordinary soap bubble is said era! Pilsudski with an offering of with several of the German spies thing as a physical criminal dustries in China, the new Consul

General says, and be somewhat to be only one fre-millionth of bread and salt, which signites a who, were shot. "They died type.

hearty welcome. deplores the Party System, of an inch thick.

Mica "can be split until its

Lifeboats were invented by Mr. Government in China, for sy we

thicker than Greathead, an Englishman, who

received a premium from Parlia ment in May, 1802.

A piece of human bone will

half as

much weight support azain as a piece of the best oak of the same thickness.

He

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a soldiers's death," he remark- Dr Karl Pearson does not claim ed, but in my case I think for this or any other of Goring's the authorities made a mistake."results the value of a conclusive know by experience to this coun-leaves sre

Marks is the scion of a well-test. What he is eager to see etry great and sweeping, changes single molecule.

A decapitated snail, if kept in known family at Aix-la-Chapelle, a fuller study

mental and reform are brought about far especially of thrice suspected of defect,

the more slowly by a Party Govern- a moist place, will in a few days cases cases and ment than by united effort. grow a new head. espionage by the Germans and borderland

Defective eyes turned down 22 arrested. The British Govern- of the social inefficients. He Nevertheless she is rapidly cast- ment, however, had conclusive therefore urges that not only ing away the traditions of a thous out of every 100 men who tried to

more, and is enter the United States army. proof of his mission to Britain, the prison and the reformatory, and years and

The twenty-first verse of the and had it not been for his but also the asylums for the opening her arms to the Weat complete confession he would mentally defective should be used ready to embrace the ideas, seventh chapter of Ezra contains have shared the fate of Lody, as laboratories for the study of customs and civilization of the all the latters of the alphabet

except "j." criminology." Bushmann, and other spies.

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In a new comb for drying the hair a rubber bulb forces air heat. ed by electricity in the handle through perforated teeth.

Out of 500,000 boys in the Canadian schools at the age of fourteen years not more than 25,000 go on to high school.

The husband of Ethel Barry- more, the famous actress, is Rassell G. Colt, the manufacturer of revolvers and other firearms.

The highest interest that can be charged for a loan in the Isle of Man is 6 per cent. and that has been the lawful rate for more than 200 years.

A purchaser of an old Arab musket in an antique shop in Paris discovered in the barrel.of it 240 valuable turquoises, all of beautiful colour..

The first discovery, of coal is aid to have been made by a Belgian blacksmith named Hullos, who lived in a village near Liege, in 1049.

A strange custom is practised among the Eskimos. When a doctor is called in he receives his fse as soon as he arrives. If the patient recovers it is kept, if not it is returned.

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