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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1930.

CRACKER THROWN ON POWDER.

CHICAGO STREET GUN FIGHT.

CITY MAN'S DEAL IN MILLIONS.

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EXPLOSION CAUSED BY AN ANGRY CHILD.

WANTED ICE CEAM.

A child, in a fit of temper be Cause she was refused money to buy ice-cream, caused an explosion at hor father's firework plant at Neptune, New Jersey killing her self, her grandfather and her baby cousin, and destroying four build- ings. A third child, aged three, is missing. The first explosion oc- curred in the child's home, next door to the factory,

TEARA

DARING ATTACK MADE A GIANT COMBINE WHICH HIDES

A ROMANCE. - POLICE CAR.

DOUBLE LONDON PLYMOUTH TRAM

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TRAGEDY.

BEAUTIFUL YOUNG ACTRESS SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST

FOUND DEAD.

FORMER OFFICIAL

UNDERWORLD CRIME. GROCERY SHOP DEAL. HUSBAND WOUNDED.

As four members of Bags" gang one of them a Moran's girl-were being driven to their homes in a police car after being questioned in connexion with the sensational murder of Alfred J. Lingie, the crime reporter who knew "too much," gunmen in a blue motor-car swept alongside and opened frc.

Behind the mammoth Interna- tional Tea grocery combine is the romance of a young City man's rise in the financial world.

He is Major Colin Cooper, vice- chairman of the International Tea Company, Ltd.

The police were told that Millio Ing ever made by Chicago gunmen, millions of pounds. .

Cimino, aged nine, asked her mother for 2d, to buy lec-cream. When this was refused she asked for match, and, stamping with anger, lighted a fire-cracker and tossed it on to a heap of powder which her grandfather was mix- ing on the porch of the house. Four violent explosions followed in quick succession.

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Three years ago, Major Cooper, then aged 85, bought all the Or- dinary sheras on the International This attack, one of the most dar- Tea Company for a sum of several took place in State-street, in the At that time he was a partner business heart of the city, and in the stockbroking arm of Messrs hundreds of theatre-goers crowd-H. Evans, Gordon and Company.. ing the brilliantly-lighted thor oughfare were thrown into panic. Lieut. George Barker replied to the gunmen's volley from the police car, and the crowds staf Two months after Major Coo- peded for safety as the bullets per's purchase of the Interna whizzed in all directions. Ational Tea shares that company motorman in charge of a street tramcar was killed by a gangster's bullet, and a night watchman on his way to work was wounded.

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but he stated: "I have acted alone throughout this transaction, and have not made the deal on behalf of anybody else."

brought the Deferred shares of the Star Tea Company,

THE TOWN'S PETROL. Mrs. Marjoris Cotterill, aged 22, Plymouth magistrates were oc- the actress daughter of twa well-cupied in hearing series of 24 known stage people, Mr. Gerald charges of larceny, fraudulent Lawrence and Miss Fay Davis, conversion and falsification of was shot dead at her parents' accounts preferred against Mr. H. P. Stokes, formerly manager and home, Ornan-road, Hampstead.

Her husband, Mr. Eardley Cot-ngineer of Plymouth Corporation tramways and transport under terill, aged 24, an engineer who

taking. had only the same day returned from abroad, was found lying by her, also shot. He was seriously wounded, and died four · houra later in Hampstend Hospital.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence were in the house at the time, and it was Mr. Lawrence who dis- covered the tragedy, in the back drawing-room on the ground floor.

A Number of Shots. After their marriage, last July, Mr. and Mrs. Cotterill went abroad together, but Mrs. Cat- A provisional agreement has terill returned in April, and it now been signed for the fusion of was understood at that time that the International Tea Company her husband, who was employed with the Home and Colonial as an engineer by a gramophone company, had to undertake for Stores.

Based on present Stock Ex-business purposes journeya abroad, change valuations the total sum which she could not share. His represented in the fusion of com- work was in the foreign section panies and subsidiary companies of the company's scientific de-

partment. exceeds £24,000,000,

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Powder kegs, Roman candles and fireworks of all descriptions went off. Exploding skyrockete and blazing debris were hurled through the air for hundreds of feet. The roof of one of the

The attacking gangster's ear wrecked buildings was carried a disappeared in a smoke quarter of a mile and the bodies which its occupants threw down, of the victims were flung 30. feet. and the fate of the four question- The Cimino's house, belag stored gangsters in the police car is ed with crackers, blew up at the uncertain, as they vanished when first explosion.

the fight began. It is supposed that they made good their escape.

This fight represents gangland's The amalgamation follows on insolent challenge to those who the growth of the great Margarine owned Mar- are attempting to penetrate the Combine-Dutch riddle of Lingle's murder. It garine Union, Ltd., and "Lever signifies that merciless revenge Brothers out of which a new

Ltd.. will be taken on any member of concern-Unilever, the underworld who divulges formed. crets to the police.

Me tried to escape the disas- ter she had caused by seizing her baby cousin and flying for safety, but she was killed before running more than a few feet. Millie's mother, aunt and other persons escaped with alight injuries.

HUTS WRECKED ON BEACH.

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SEAPLANE CRASHES INTO A BATHING GROUP.

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Bathers at Stokes Bay, Gosport, were splashing gaily in the waters when a seaplane carrying pilot and observer, crashed in their midst!

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The seaplane had made a per- fect take-off in the Solent from Submariac M2. It was circling the bay for the second time when it stalled..

It swept along the beach, over- turning six bathing huts-three of which were reduced to match- wood-and buried its nose in the shingle, completely turning over,

A boy of seven, Norman. tem- perton, of Forten-road, Gosport, had a deck chair smashed under him, but escaped with slight bruising and shock.

When the tail of the machine was lifted the pilot, Lieut. C. L Keightley Peach, and the observer, Lieut. G. Cooper, crawled out un- hurt.

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Dr. What am Lamplough about to put on his bathing costume in one' of the huts which was destroyed.

There was a crash," he said, "and I found myself outside my box, incidentally without a stitch of clothing."

"My first thought was for my daughter, who was sitting on the beach. Seeing she was all right I wrapped a towel round myself and ran to see whether I could give any help to the men in the machine,

Dr. Lamplough received a few superficial bruises but was able afterwards to take his swim.

The pilot, he added, told him that he had a rather heavy pas senger and lost flying speed. He tried to reach the sea, to avoid the crowd, but failed.

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

"NIX ON DAMES" NOW SHOWING.

Two gangs the North-side and the South-side-struggle for do mination in Chicago's underworld, and it is supposed that last night's 289allants were # South-side squad.

The four gangsters who were being given protection in the police car included Jack Zuta, n leading member of the Moran or North-side gang.

Gauntlet of Death.

Following the questioning, Zata asked the police for an escort across the Loop-the fashionable centre of Chicago-declaring that he and his friends would never pass it alive if they went unpro- tected, but that they would be safe once they reached their own territory.

It has not been revealed whether or not the questioning gave a clue to the Lingle murder.

MURDER OF ENGLISH GIRL IN CAIRO,

SHOT WHILE IN FIANCE'S SIDECAR.

Miss Eileen Smith, a 19-year-old girl was murdered while driving with her fance in his motor-cycle combination in Cairo. She was the daughter of an official in the firm Egyptian Markets, Ltd., whose headquarters are in London.

The murder took place on a lone-

Unilever Millons.

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Mrs. Cotterill had not seen her husband since April until he arrived at Hampstead.

Mrs. Cotterill, who had been living with her father since April, expected her husband to call. She was opened the front door. to him, and no one in the house apparently The market capitalisation of saw him alive. They sat together Unilever, Ltd., is about £31,500,- in the drawing-room, and Mr. and 000, so that if the assumption of Mrs. Lawrence heard a sumbar a Margarine-Home and Colonial of shots fired. link is correct, the deal would ex- ceed £55,000,000.

Altogether, 4,000 grocery shops all over the country will be in volved in this new merger.

They went to investigate, and found Mrs. Cotterill lying dead, with her husband unconscious by her side. A revolver lay on the

floor.

Now that the International, Tea

Mrs. Cotterill had been killed Stores, as the largest individual concern outside the Home and instantly. A bullet had pierced Colonial group, has been invited her heart. to join the merger, the possibility

Dr. Fraser was summoned, and arises of the retail grocery trade in England being dominated Mr. Cotterill was taken to Hamp- by two giants the

Lew merger stead General-Hospital, where he company and the family of eo- died. operative societies.

IDENTITY ERROR AT BRIGHTON.

AN ACTOR WHO WAS TAKEN TO POLICE STATION.

CREDENTIALS GIVEN.

A London actor, Mr. Frederick Oxley, was the victim of

an identity mistake at Brighton.

He alleges that he was taken to the police station in mistake for a wanted man and kept there for two hours before being released. He was questioned and put in an identity parade.

absconding from lodging

He was allowed to go when a landlady failed to identify him as ly read on the outskirts of Calra a man warted on charges of theft at 10 o'clock in the evening. The and

were on their couple, who home, had pulled up for a moment when two natives suddenly appear ed and fired at point-blank range.

way houses.

Mr. Ronald Lilley, the girl's fance, who is an English constable attached to the Royal Guard, duck- ed and avoided injury, but Miss Smith, seated in the sidecar, re- ceived the contents of one barrel of a sporting gun in her left side and died at once.

come to London. I had

Wife's Three. Wounds.

No sounds of a quarrel had been heard before the shooting.

Detective-Inspector Bonnett, of the Hampstead police, was called to the house, and took charge of the inquiries.

Mr. Cotterill did not recover consciousness in hospital, and though police officers waited at his bedside they were. therefore unable to gain any information from him before he died,

Mrs. Cotterill had three bullet wounds in the body, and her hus- band had head injuries,

Father's Statement, Although Mr. Lawrence had the made a long atatement to police, he had been unable to say what actually occurred in his house, as he had not been present during the interview between the two young people.

It is understood that there had "I was on way to the station at been some disagreement between Oxley "to the couple on the question of Mr. Brighton," said Mr.

been Cotterill's journeys abroad. He playing there last week in 'A was anxious that his wife should

Recompany him whenever Symphony in Two Flats."

sible, but, she having her friends in stage circles, was desirous of remaining in London.

Identification Parade.

"A man stopped me and I was taken to the police-station in

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"I showed my papers, but I was kept for two hours and put up for identification with other Witnesses chose other men instead of me, and then the police let me go."

Comyns Carr, KC, and Mr. J. L Mr. Stokes was defended by Mr.

Hind Pratt.

Mr. G. D. Roberts, prosecutior counsel, stated that Mr. Stokes was in the employ of the corpora tion for ten years, his salary dis ing from £700 to £1,000 a year, with allowances for travelling and other expenses. He resigned in 1929 to take up an appointment in the North of England.

The case against defendant was that continuously and systemati cally for" years he used for his own purpose corporation material and labour.

In doing this, said Counsel, ho relied upon his powerful position as head of a department to enforce slience upon those under him.

"Some Glorified Official." Counsel explained the system of check and counter check in force. in department, and added that in March, 1925, the City Treasurer informed Mr. Stokes that the Ministry of Health auditor had called attention to the fact that quotations and estimates were not being attached to accounts certi fled for payment, and asked that this should be done,

In reply, Mr. Stokes pointed out the serious inconvenience it would be to the management of the un- dertaking to lose all its original estimates and quotations, and add- ed, "It seems to me we are getting to a state when some glorified off- cial from London is presuming that everyone is dishonest but himself."

Seaside Bungalow.

- Counsel further alleged that Mr. Stokes had

.Since 1920 Invariably used Corporation petrol in his pri vate car;

Reconstructed his.car with Corporation property.

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Charged fare and expenses when going to Conferences, but filled the motor-car tank with public petrol.

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Used Corporation material and labour for building his sea- side bungolow.

Falsified

time sheets and

wages sheets. The City Treasurer and other witnesses were called, and the hearing was adjourned.

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GOVERNMENT TO HELP IN INSURANCE.

London, Aug. The Government has decided to take an unusual step, whereby the Cunard Company will be able to build the world's largest and fastest liner.

The Board of Trade has agreed, with the Treasury's.sanction, to under take at a premium a portion of the insurance on the new liner which will be built on the Clyde.

The liner will be of exceptional dimensions, the character of which

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and also a second surance market, pos-

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The new Bhip'

Will accommodate 4,000

passengers. Her displacement be 75,000 tons, will

and her speed 80 Mr. Cotterill worked for some knots. The length will be 1,000 time at Hayes, Middlesex,

and the estimated cost £6,000,000.

It is believed that work will be found for at least 10,000 men in the shipbuilding and other trades affected. -Reuter.

Delay Explained.

"Strikingly Lovely." "Mrs. Cotterill was a charming girl and the last person I should] have thought to be concerned in an affair of this kind," an intimate friend said.

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The murderers immediately turn- ed tall and so far have not been caught. The Public Security De- partment announced that the motive of the outrage was probably rob-

A British Wireless message adds bery, but according to a later ru-

that the exceptional dimensions and mour, which has not been confirm. Mr. Oxley added that the police

character of the proposed new liner ed, it was the outcome of a dispute took no notice..of his denials, and

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place her outside the ordinary in between Mr. Lilley and some Egypt "did not apologise."

surance market and that has delayed the iana in a cafe.

The official view of the incident Marjorie Lawrence she had

the commencement of work on her. her Construction of the two ships has been Miss Smith, who was born in was given by Detective-Superin-peared in several parts in

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Atlantic speed record. by one of the people who had a Ingly lovely in the manner of an cause of complaint against the Epstein model, endows Jessica man in question. This woman oddly enough with some of An- told a point duty officer, who, tonio's melancholy.

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Several of her fellow-players part of Shylock himself. etances, was naturally bound 10 who took parts in "The Merchant

Miss Fay Davis. of Venice" at the Embassy Theatre take notice of her allegation.

expressed surprise when a report-Miss Fay Davis (Mrs. Lawrence FOR Identification Parade.

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Containing an unusually in teresting and novel plot depicting life behind the footlights of an acrobatic team, "Nix On Dames," a Fox movietone all-talking feature, showing at the Queen's Theatre un. til to-morrow. proved to be a fine entertainment when it was screened for the first time yesterday. Subtle drama and clever dialogue combine to make this picture an outstanding success among. musi. The following table, issued by cal and singing pictures.

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The failure of the identifica-nown Shakespearean actor, and Squire of Dames." tion parade, coupled with Mr as recently as May this year re- Oxley's credentials, clearly proved vived, "The Merchant of Venice" that he was not the wanted man. at the Embassy Theatre, pro- the United States.

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