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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1936,

THE RIDDLE OF HAUPTMANN "Man Behind The Plot Is Still Free: "Lord Donegall

GOVERNOR HOFFMAN New Jersey's Pantips Pilate?

'PERFECT

MOTHER'

WHEN I WATCHED AN EXECUTION IN SING-SING

THE

Strange Noise-Smoke

-Blue Sparks

By LORD DONEGALL

cat has at last pounced and put the mouse out of its misery. Bruno Hauptmann, stolid German car- penter, had a long career as the mouse-more than a year since his trial at Flemington, New Jersey, in January 1935.

Finch

walked first, He Three hundred reporters at the trial wrote 10,000,000 words. steadily but as an automaton, not a Bicker of expression on his face, and Hearst's New York Evening formed the opinion that he was Journal was instrumental in drugged. The Negro's expression-

came

DEAD IN FLAT briefing E. J. Reilly to defend less stoleism enhanced tint opinion.

Mystery Of The Seven

Pillows

MRS.

al

WHIRRING SOUND

Hauptmann. The trial was

I don't want to dwell on the actual circus.

execution, The current is on for Models of the famous ladder were three minuten, but the first shock sold as souvenirs, postcards of the kills quicker than the brain can re- prinelpals sold like hot cakes, and gister. The rest is muscular reac

There is eating utenelis supposed to have beention. The face is masked.

BRUNO HAUPTMANN Martyr or Murderer?

THREE GREAT

used by Hauptmann fetched high no sound but the monotonous Inton- INVENTIONS IN

prices.

ing of the padre as he reads from a While

the jury considered their little Prayer Book. Incongruous. verdiet Counsel Reilly and a woman The current makes an ominous reporter stood in front of the judge's "whirring." A whirp of smoke curla bench and sang: "When Irish eyen from the helmet and blus sparks fly

from the leg contact.

RS. BEATRICE SUT-reiling."

TON, whose

as

on the

photo- CELEBRATION DINNER

The Jury wrote articles the "perfect granh

ense for the newspapers and a book, mother" appeared in baby each contributing a chapter. food advertisements 20 found years ago, was smothered under seven pillows in her flat Elmhurst mansions Edgeley-road, Clapham, one morning last month.

in

It was only in December last that a woman named Eva Porter was stabbed to death in a flat in the same mansions by a man. Arthur Brook, who also took his own life.

Was

com-

It

first thought al Sutton had that Mrs. mitted suicide-she had tried to gas herself just after Christ- mas but a Scotland-yard in- vestigation carried out by Super- intendent Helby, one of the these "Big Five." facts:-

disclosed

She had been accustomed

always to keep her electric light on, even when she was out or nsleep. The light was out.

Friends declared she had re- mained at home on Saturday night to receive a visitor. This visitor has not yet been traced. The room showed no signs of disorder.

The bed had not been slept in.

GUARD ON DOOR

was

Police took photographs. searching for finger-prints. The body, which was only half-clad, was later removed for post-mortem, discovered The tragedy about midday by a neighbour, Mrs. Gladys O'Connor, who entered the flat by a window. A little girl, who had called to collect money for coal told her she could get no reply to her knocks.

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Mrs. O'Connor asked her to look through the window. The child returned with the news that Mrs. Sutton was lying on the bed with pillows over her face.

Mrs. O'Connor saw the woman alive on Saturday evening and Mrs. Sutton then told her she was not going out,

"I went to the West End gid. re- turned about midnight," said Mrs. O'Connor. "There was no light then in Mrs. Sutton's fat. When I passed it earlier I saw the front door open and all the lights on." Mra. Sutton was fifty-one years old. Her husband, Mr. F. H. Sut- ton, who is partially paralysed, keeps a tobacco shop in Queens- dale-road, W. 11.

RACE MEETINGS.

"My mother and father obtained a judicial separation twenty-three years ago," said her daughter. "They have seen

cach other intervals only at raro

xinco. The last time I saw my mother was at Christmas, when she came to visit me.

"I have two grown-up brothers, Eric and Reggie, who are in Aus- tralia. My mother had been in il-health recently. Slx months age aho had a nervous breakdown." A sister of Mra. Sutton' anid: "Beatrice was a very striking blonde. She had seey, much :un- happiness; and for the Inat few years she had boon invalid. Recently, however, she had appear-

03

The jury held a celebration din- nor after the verdict put on paper enps, and organised a square daner. Place-cards at the meal were in the nicknames by which

known: become they

hart

"Good Girl Hosie." "forsic." "Cantented Verna." and so on. Rattles and squeakers were supplied.

Skip a year and four months of haggling, politien intrigue, bogus confessions, bafing confusion. Haupt- mann goes to the chair.

|

The doctor then advances with a stethoscope,

"This MAR is dead!" he nja solemnly, and within four minuter of his entering by the far door Fisch was being wheeled past me on n |hospital trolley into the post-mortem

room.

In fact, although one may convider expital punishment. 1 barbarous anachroniam, it must be

admitted

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PROFESSOR'S NEW DEATH RAY WILL BLAST TARGETS OUT OF EXISTENCE

that Warden Lawes's arrangements COLOUR MOVIES TO | had reduced ita horrors to a minimum.

HUNT TO GO ON

Trenton, New Jeracy, April 20.

BE MADE SIMPLE

London, May 1. Death rays which will blast Governor Hoffman, of New Jersey targets out of existence, a "magic announced to-day that he will con-box" which will simplify motor-

The mystery of who was really laur the lavestigation inter the hiding and flying, and a lens which behind the kidnapping and muster snapping of the Lindbergh baby as deep as ever. Only one thing is United Press.

certain: Hauptmann brain behind it.

What happens

electrocution?

was not the

ut an

Americon

Lady Dickens

AT SING-SING

makes colour cinematography simple and cheap, are three of the latest inventions which have just been revealed in Britain,

Discovery of the "death ray"

One day last January in invitation Finds An Error site to Professor R. H.

Arrived at my New York hotel, (t

was from my friend Warden Lawes,

the very humane governor of Sing in "A Tale of

Sing Prison. Would I care to be one

tion of Albert Fisch and a Negro?

remalas

if

in

the

of

Leicester ¡Chadfield, College of Science and Techno- logy, who conducted researches

of the Press witnesses at the execu Two Cities" Film which led him to believe that Broadmoor of his crime had been LADY DICKENS, widow of Sir every object and living thing committed in England, but the fact Henry Dickens, who was the emanates rays of a certain fre- that he murdered a little last surviving son of the novelist, quency and it is only necessary to discover this frequency to de- girl in revolting circumstances, and has pointed out a slight in vise a machine that will "tune File Negro had shot a policeman in ຕ

hold-up. Altogether, a pretty couple, accuracy in the Metro-Goldwyn-

annihilate the object emanating motored up to Sing-Sing, which Mayer film, "A Tale of Two in" on the same wave-length and

Hongkong about 40 milen "up the river" from Cities," shown in

such rays. New York at least ten miles of it recently.

PLANNING APPARATUS. being along Broadway.

years Sir Henry was for 16

Now Professor Chadwick is plan- Once inside the iron gate of the

£20,000 Apparatus prison, my International Journalist's Common Serjeant at the Old Bailey.ning to build a

acrutinised by a burly the court which provided such a of 50,000 watts, generating a ray of

chapter in his Irish Sergeant, who remarked that it dramatic early

enormous strength. This, he believes, would kill human beings at a range of might as well be an anarchist's pass father's novel,

Lady Dickens and 12 of the a mile. for all he knew (it is printed in French) and sent ine up to the novelist's descendants saw the film! Warden's oflee.

at a special showing to the Dickens Fellowship. She was invited to

pass was

An

ray.

Two years ago the Professor de- monstrated a mall apparatus which NO DRINKING

could kill a mouse, and this has ac- There I famt some 20 reporters criticise,

tually been adapted to the destruction assembled, and an atmosphere of

insect pests. Ile is, however, re-. Her only criticism was that a smoke you could cut with in knife.

nasuring about the high power death We conversed for

4oshop in Paris displayed the name about

The aristocratic minutes. No

Such a ray," he explained, "could one, to my surprise, "De Farge." prostuerd a flask. Had I seen prefix "de" she pointed out, would be transmitted by wireless for a dis execution in England? Surprise probably have got the owner gull-tance of ten miles, but let me assure that no reporters were present and fotined during the "Terror," which you that there is no ray in existence that ours took place in the morning, is the period of the story.

which cannot be counteracted by some How was I feeling? Did I think. I could take it? Yes, I thought it mistake. The name should have T. Watson Paterson, of Liverpool.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer admit the mean."

The "magic box" was evolved by been in

one word, "Defarge," as It is based on a hydraulic principle Dickono wrote it.

with and, It is claimed, will do away the gearbox and clutch in automobiles, make brakes unnecessary for pulling up, double

the mileage to a gallon, reduce mechanical wear by about 60 per cent., and remove the danger of skida.

i wouldn't be as bad as an operation

or a train smash.

"The warden wants to see the re- porters!" said u secretary, and we trooped into his offles adjoining, where Warden Lawes-a youngish] men with a pleasant smile, sat at his desk.

"Well, boys, anything you want to lack me?" There certainly was.

left the asking to the Americans, who fred every kind of question at the warden.

It did not interest me particularly that Finch had confessed

'ley Blonde' Acquitted Of Murder

New York, Apr. 20.

for

Furthermore, it is claimed the in- vention can be adapted to airplanes, making it unnecessary to use variable- pitch propeller, and may revolu

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8.30 p.m. A Relay from Daven-

Starlight" No. 1 Interviews with famous stage people and excerpts from their repartoires. No. 1. Mar- garet Bannerman (the famous Cana-

singer and actress),

A.GO

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9 m. Daventry News Bulletin. 9.20 p.m. From the Studio.

A Variety Concert by Audrey Steel (Vocal); Cyril Brown (Humorous); Oz and his Boy Friends.

Programme.

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Alone; 6. Sung-Drake is going to Sen; 7. Medley; R. Song-Double Trouble; 9. Monologue-My Three. Husbands; 10. Medley,

10

p.. Big Ben: from Daventry. 10 p.m. Light Orchestral Music. Hassan Serenade (Delius); Nono but the Weary Heart (Tachaikovsky); Indian Love Lyrics (Woodforde Finden); Cinderella--A Phantasy (Eric Coates); Lane Wilson Melodies.

10.30 p.m. Jack Jackson and his Orchestra.

11 p.m. Close Down.

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GAI to four VERA STRETZ, "Icy Blonde,"

other murders and retracted, that he was acquitted in New York fread Bible, had had only one visitor,

of murdering ber bad enten chicken for his last meal to-night

and all the usual. The warden spoke employer and alleged lover, timin £6. will natounding franknoFR.

What interested me much more was the warden's clock. It was ten minutes slow, if the one in the ante-room was to be believed,

I learned after the other re porters had filed out that Lawen keeps it slow purposely in case of ·

a last-minute re- any hitch in prieve.

and another a brandy ask,

Dr. Fritz Gebhardt.

The jury were absent five hours considering their verdict.

Vera Stretz fainted on to the table for her counsel when the verdict was announced,

"KITTEN TIGRESS" Vern had a skyscraper flat on the

Meanwhile, S. J. Cox, son of a former fanchester magistrats, and M. Dmitri Daponte, ́à Rumanian photographic export, have evolved now film colour process research after and the expenditure of $1,760,000. The process, it is expected, may revolutioniza cinematography. QUICK AND SIMPLE

than

an aventy-five years of

The death-house at Sing Sing i asume floor as Gebhardt. When the It conte no more

ordinary square baikling far enough away police broke into his room they black-and-white from the rest of the prison for us found his body riddled with four film is used, and it can be projecte

pletures, Ordinary to be driven down in three buses. Before leaving we were asked to give bullets on the floor of a richly immediately in colours without under- going any special chemical process, so up arms, cameras, and flanks. One furnished room.

that news film could be taken, reporter handed in a life-preserver The girl was sitting on the fleer developed and shown in perfect

weeping.

natural colour within half an hour.. "She

when All that is, needed is a small special scratched and a tigress when lens, costing no more than £16, This provoked," exclaimed District little lens, called a "beam

Splitter i Alm Attorney O'Brien in court to, is fitted on the front of the day, waving in her face the When the film

camora and

also on the profector." is taken it gives it. nightdress that she was wearing colour valuen, although the film itself when she was found: C

against the light seems of the ordinary

On arrival we passed in single file, arms outstretched, while two guards run their hands over us.

Into the

So from the darkne bright light of the death-house: a row of pews already occupied on the right. As nearly the last. I came to the front row of the standing-root on the left. The ailenco is deathly.

Reporters start writing to steady their nerves, for the state that you work yourself into is for the worst part of the experience,

kitten

"I leave the case with you. black and white variety. When It is Her only defence is, 'I am n we projected through the magic lens, the however, the rays record on the sercon man, he concluded to

In natural colour, jurymen,

"Our colour films can be taken on

celluloid, costing one penny:

As you enter, Elliot, the execu tioner (who electrocuted fauptmann), Invented her testimony that Geb-

OBrien, asserted that Vora had for foot" sald Cox. "It makes it as

A

is dipping the helmet in a bucket of hardt had lured her to his room. easy for the amateur to take pictures brine to ensure the contact, let-

ed to be more her cheerful self;te in in a lounge suit, thin, groy Actually, he said, aho shot him in perfect natural colours an for tho high spirited and good company.”

haired.

becauad, he would not marry her. professional.”

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The News and Announcements.

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