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ELLY WIDLER'S' ACCOMPLICE

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SEVERE SENTENCE.

Shanghai, Dec. 15.

A sequel to the sensational Widler-Saridis armed robbery caso of June 29 laat, which reached a climax when the former was 'sen- tenced to imprisonment of three months by the Swiss Consular Court and the lutter received 15 years at the hand of the Pro- visional Court, came yesterday before the appeilate branch of that body, when Theodora Saridis asked for a rehearing of his case on the grounds of excessivo sentence in view of the evidence submitted previously and new evidoneo saving come to light.

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It will be recalled that at the Une the two were alleged to be concerned i21 a. contraband caśc with several Chinese, and the specife charge was that a box or package was to have been delivered in payment of $0,000, which turning over. of money is alleged to have occurred and the box or parcel was found to contain several books in place of the contraband expected.

Widler's Sentence.

Elly Widler was tried before the Swiss Consular court at that time and received a sentence of three months, while Saridis, being a Greek, and without extraterri- toriality, was brought before the Provisional Court,

At yesterday's, appeal hearing Mr. 1. D. Rodger appeared in the interests of the original complain- ant, Mr. F. J. Schuhl, on behalf of the Greek societies in the Settlement, Mr. lyanoil, on behalf of the appeallant, and Mr. R. T. Bryan on behalf of the Police.

Mr. Schuhl was the first to be kurd, and outlined the details of the case as it was presented last June. He pointed out that according to the evidence his client was the sufferer at the hand of a wiser man and bore the burnt of the disgrace while the other, whom he claimed WIL the Instigator and moving force in the alfair, escaped practically free.

The Dune of Widler.

He said it was his opinion that the accused was the unknowing dape of Widler, and that the first thing for the court to settle was whether the case should rightly have been one of armed robbery, et one of fraud. He believed an impartial, hearing of the evidence would reveal it to be the latter and then read the statement of Saridis taken just after the affair happen- e:l, This was a story of dining with Widler on May 12, 1928, driving with him and some Chinese) to the Yangiszepoo district with a at at the Public Garden, and then waiting with a Chinese in Yangtzepoo Road.

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ald, were as amazed as was he nti the severity of the sentence and were now willing and anxious that it should be cut down materially as they were inclined to the belief flat the accused was the unwit- thg foil of Mr. Widler and had blundered into the matter uninten- tionally. Mr. Rodger said that he was in the odd position of a lawyer who had already plended for the Doris Watson Adams, a young Conviction of a man at one heur- married woman, of Wateraplash- ing, and on the next upper-road, Sunbury, pleaded guilty at (ate in court pleaded that the Marlborough-street recently to be- sentenro be mitigated. But such ing drunk in charge of a motor-car way the case, he said, and he could and driving in a dangerous manner not see that the sentence of 15 at Oxford-street, years was justin view of the

Mr. Barker, for the Commissioner edence against the accused. He of Police, stated that Mrs. Adams told the court that he had heard cut in front of two omnibuses which of a letter having been sent the were pulling up in response to a cart of first instance at the policeman's signal ignored the original trial asking that no mercy signal herself, and nearly collided be shown Mr. Saridis, and he was with a third omnibus. She then indined to the belief that if such drove along Oxford-street in a a letter had been received it was zigzag fashion.. founded on ulterior motives.

The Court looked through the court documents and found a letter that was understood to be the letter to which Mr. Rodger referred.

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The Brains of the Plan. Mr. R. T. Bryan, on behalf of the police, joined in the appeal for

It was stated for the defence that Mrs. Adams, the wife of a medical student, had a clean licence. Dur- ing the war she served in the V.A.D. and later as a motor-driver in the W.A.A.C. On the day of the of- fence she was distraught with pain through neuralela, and foolishly de- cided to brace herself up by having! A double brandy with soda.

Mr, Cancellor, who said it was n

a lessening of Mr. Saridis xen- tonce. He held that if the case distressing case, fined her £20, was one of armed robbery the sen- with £ costa, on the first charge, fence was not too heavy, and he and £5 for the dangerous driving. was of the opinion that in such Her licence was suspended for 12] cases foreigners should be no months.

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opinion that the evidence in this was innocent of the whole thing." case would show it to be, not at It was his belief that should the all armed robbery, but fraud. Ie case be found to be one of fraud Bald that though his memory might sentence of 15 months to two be in error, if he recalled correct years was not too severe, and he believed that if the proceedings of

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GOAL TUNNEL DUG OUT BY HAND,

ly the two had gone to Woosung. the Widler trial could be obtained to deliver a box, for which Widlor Was to receive $6,000,

The from the Swiss Consulate they brains of the plan," said Mr. would show Mr. Saridia as the Bryan, "got the money and left the innocent dupe of the pair.

The court announced an Inten- man before the court, holding, the bag. The box was found not to tion of writing the Swiss Copsu-

Warsaw, Nov, 19, contain the contraband that was late in an endeavour to get the expected and Mr. Saridis was held, trial proceedings, and pending the Bensation has been caused by though it is my opinion that he outcome of such action the case the escane last night from the was remanded until called. Grudziadz Prison, in Pomerania,

of 16 prisoners who were serving life sentences,

They had worn a way through un underground tunnel. Their 'absence was not noticed unt!}| soveral hours after they had got away,

"Bo-far none of the men has been recaptured.

Some of the fugitives raided s tailor's shop and secured civilian clothes, afterwards making off in a stolen motor-car.

A remargable feature of the. escape ie that the tunnel was scooped out by hands.

It was about 80 yards long and well over 8ft, high,