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VICAR IN SCHOOL SCENE.

A VILLAGE OF MIXED EMOTIONS.

Amusement is struggling with Indignation among the inhabitants of Welling. In Kent.

FROTH-BLOWERS

ORIGIN?

GUILD THAT REJECTED MR, FORD,

That the idea of the confrater- nity of Forth Blowers had its in- Iception in the United States is This mixed emotion is due to unclaimed by certain Americans at incidont on a recent Sunday, when Paris, who say that it is based the Rev. F. Moore, the vicar of St. upon the organ-blowers' guild, to John's Parish Church, is allegod which many distinguished Ameri- to have been pushed out of his enns-statesmen and financiera Bunday school by one of the belong. teachers.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH," SATURDAY, JULY 30,

CAREER OF "GORILLA MAN."

"MANY WOMEN AND CHILD-' REN STRANGLED.

A TWO YEARS HUNT.

The career of the "gorilla man,” the fiendish murderer of oighicen women and children in various

towns from the Pacific coast to Chicago, is described by the Cen- tral News Winnipeg correspond, ent.

They cite the case of Mr. Myron Both the vicar and the teacher T. Herrick, the American Ambas said to be concerned decline to sador in Paris and one of the most make any statement in connexion affable and popular of diplomat with the matter.

'jists in Europe, who is the proud! "I was in the school on Sunday possessor of a certificate. as folhave commenced

lows: when the scene occurred."

As reported the other day, a man named Earl Nelson was committed for trial at Winnipeg Assizes. The murderer in believed

ha foul deeds! two years ago with the strangling of a woman in Boston, but the

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churchworker told u newspaper The Guild of Former Pipe Or-name of his first victim may never representative. Some little trou-gan Pumpers. ble arose in connexion with one of the classes, as a result of which 4 teacher left the building and went home, after the vient had tried to put matters straight,

Children Scream,

"Then, just as the vicar had given out the hymn and was about to lead the singing, another teacher walked up to him, seized his arms and ran him at a quick trot out of the building.

"It is stated that the vicar was Bung into the bushes with the hymn-book still in his hand.

"Coming back into the school room the teacher locked the door. Some of the children began to scream, and through a side door some of the scholars rushed out of the building.

"A minute or so, inter Mr. Moore came in at the side door and order- ed "the teacher to leave. There

was

some discussion, and the teacher asked if he might have ten minutes in which to offer prayer,

"This was granted, and the teacher then left. After a little while some of the scholars return- ed and the ordinary routine, was resumed.

"The matter is being dealt with by the parochial church council." Mr. Moore is very popular in the district.

Know all men by these Presents that Myron T. Herrick is a quali- fed and accepted member with the degree of Fellow Pumper.

LI

(Signed) Chet Shafer,

Grand Diapason.. Dated at New York, June 11,

1922.

It is stated that Mr. Henry Ford sought membership of the pipe organ pumpers but his application was rejected on the ground that he had. never really blown 'n church organ but, only played an harmonium.

be known.

From time to time since May, a peculiarly 1925, murders of atrocious character were reported to the police in the States of the middle west, and it became evid- ent that they were all the work of one man The fugitive was dés- eribed as a Southern European, about 40, dark and swarthy, thick, and of medium height.

In February, 1926, he was., de- finitely located in San Francisco, where eight women in and about the city were done to death.

The he moved to Portland. Miss Florence Fithian Monks was the first of his victims there to die The guild nowadays necessarily He robbed her of 5,000 dollars, in consists of "former blowers" bejewels, and her body was found cause hand bläwn pipe-organs are hidden behind a furnace in the practically a thing of the past.

basement. Two other Portland; women lost their lives in his dead-i ly clutch.

SKELETON WITH KEY

IN HAND.

MURDER OF 50 YEARS AGO.

Berlin, June 30, Eduard Worbs disappeared 60 of Bad years ago." The people

never able Frankenhausen were to explain the mystery of his dia- It was finally con He кая appointed appearance. curate-ih-charge of St. John's in-idered that he had gone over the 1923, and during the past four seas in begin a new life, hut his years had been largely responsi- reason nobody could guess. ble for the "building of a new church at a cost of nearly £10,000

GIRL IN THE WRONG TRÄIN.

DROPPED MESSAGE SENT TO HER PARENTS.

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Miss Undy, of 22. Hamilton- road, Ealing, W., went to Padding ton to catch the 430 train to E ing-broadway and found herself in the wrong train after it had

started.

The travelling ticket-collector who discovered her error consult

His name was almost forgotten until a few weeks ago, when the wards of an old woman on her death bed made the new genera tion which had grown up take an interest in the mystery." _

The woman, a spinster, one of the most respected persons in Bad Frankenhausen, seemed filled with emotion when she felt death approaching, and those round her felt that she had a most import- communication to make. Suddenly, she found her strength and spoke:

Kansas City was next to report n series of throttled women. Mrs. Found Bonnie, Pace (20) was

home. choked to death in her Her husband was arrested, but inted released. The same day, W. K. Harpin, a war veleran, réturn- d home to find his wife and infanti son strangled to death..

Investigations showed that al most all the women who met death hnit advertised for lodgers or had "Torrent" signs up al their doors.

The Wrong Man.

Council Bluffs, Iowa, was the next scene of the strangler's work.. Mrs. Almira Beard was attacked. and choked to death.

By this time. the whole mid-west was in alarm. A suspect named Peter Ojers was arrested in Peter. sburg. Ind., but the proved to be

The Chica a demented derelict. go police made two arrests, but, failed to get the right man.

The next place that heard of him! was Winniper. He entered the house of Mrs. Emily Patterson and strangled her to death, her body! being found under a bed. After "Eduard Worbs," she whisper- killing Mrs. Patterson-he dressed d. "was killed by a rival who in a brown suit belonging to her found him before the door of the husband but this was exchanged; girl he himself loved with the key in a second-hand store for a grey in his hand. He could not wrench sait before he made his escape.

the key from him and killed him.! Tradesman. Aceused.

ed the guard; but as the train was booked on a non-stop run, it was not deemed advisable to pull the communication cord and the train When she had spoken a look of went on its way to Wolverhamp-peare cime over the fare of the ton.

woman, and she died.

Just after passing High Wycom- That she had revealed a se- be the guard had written ont a rret of half a century Was clear, message

The next day the body of, Lola Cowan, a school-girl of 14, was found on a bed in a lodging-ho ase] in Smith Street. She had been atj lacked and strangled, and the evi- dence indicated she was held a prisener in the room for a day.

The news of these murders was'

giving details of the but she gave no clue to the mur-girenlated all over Canada, and the' whereabouts of Miss Undy anderer, nor did her words explain strangler was next stated to be in looked out for the next signal how Eduard Warbs's body was Harina.

cabin.

The signalatan saw the guard making a sighal and saw him throw the measure, from the van when the train was travelling a

spiritelaway,

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All trace of him vanished for a To puzzle over the mystery was me, but later the scene of the! useless, but a few days ago some-mt shifted north, where a gun! thing happened which made it pirious eburacter was said to have vividly real. Workmen digging the en seen on a moter cycle in the wanations for a new house vicinity of Moose Jaw. Confirm found the skeleton of a man withed in the belief that they were on the trail of the "gorilla strangler,"

more than a mile a minute.

The message through various sources arrived at Ealing, and the] a key, clenched in his hand. parents at once took steps to re- I was identified as the remain the police redoubled their search. quest the station-master at Wolof Eduard Works, and theories as verhampton to provide everything to the identity of the man who had possible for their girl's comfort murdered him were heard in the for the night.

Lown. The name of Fritz Niest,

Police autposts wore established throughout Manitoba, "a squal of officers being stationed 50 miles apart, and a constant vigil was

This was done so expeditiously a tradesman, was mentioned, and maintained at all points leading

that long before the train drew up it, Wolverhampton the arrange ments were complete. Miss Undy caught the first express to London

the next morning.

into the United States.

he has now publicly declared that

Finally this unceasing activity he was Eduard Worb's greatest friend, and has accused another was rewarded by the arrest of the tradesman, who is still living, of man Earl Nelson at Killarney, a

being the murderer.

PRINCE OF WALES VISITS QUARRY.

The Prince of Wales is seen going down a slate quarry in Gornwall, in a truck, during a recent visit he paid to the pits.

The

small village in Manitoba. accused man gave no trouble when arrested, but within an hour of being lodged in prison he got away. and took refuge in a wood. Here, however, he was run down again, and taken back to jail, where he remained under a constant guard until he was brought to Winnipeg.

The directors of the Columbia Graphrophone Company, Ltd., an nounce that cabled authority has been received from the Schubert Society and the Society of Friends of Music, both of Vienna, to "offer prize of £4,000 for the comple- tion of Schubert's master-piece, the Unfinished" symphony, of which only two movements exist. There will be three awards in each of ten zones throughout the world, and the music will be judged by an international jury of musiclans under the authority of the Society of Friends For the two movements to finish the symphony, the scherzo and finale, a first prize of £2,000 will be paid, The remaining 12,000 will be awarded equally in each

Zone.

The contest opens in September and will be in conjunction with an international Schubert contenary celebratlon scheme.

1927.

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