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THE HONGKONG... TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1936.

ARREST

YOUR

SON!

Call To Famous

Detective

New York, May 16. Ellis Parker, America's "Sherlock Holmes" to-day received this 'order:

"ARREST YOUR SON!",

E. R.

Lordon, May 15. Prints of the designs of the new Royal cypher have been published.

Deadly Shell For Navy

ONE HIT TO SINK BATTLESHIP

The latest naval shell-which passes through armour plate 12 inches thick-was, referred to yesterday by Sir Robert Had-

The Royal cypher is that used by all Departments of State and other public bodies, and also appears on regimental colour, standards, guidons, badges and arms and appointments. letters "ER." with

One example has the plain, block the numeral "VIII" between them, surmounted by the Imperial Crown. Parker father but detec-india, bus instead of the "VIII,"

The Imperial cypher, that used infield, the eminent metallurgist.

Sir Robert, presiding at the annual Hladickda Limited, tive who always gets his large block letter "1", and the Crown meeting of

steelmakers, nt and engineers 15 sinaller. man, replied:-

A third example with the "E.It." Sheffield, said that the latest type reversed and interlaced is a special of 16-inch shells remained unbroken after being fired at armour Inclined design employed on the Colours of

at 30 degrees from the vertical. certain battalions of the Foot Guards and on the appointments of such other regiments for which it is authorised instead of the Roya! cypher.

"I don't know where my boy It was the most tense moment hi the life of America's No. 1 detec- tive the man who in forty-two years has handled 300 crimes-and in only twelve was unable to con- vici.

Young Parker, with four other men, is accused of kidnapping Paul Wendel, Trenton lawyer, and ex- torting a confession about the Lindbergh baby murder from him.

It was Parker, the detective, whe told Governor Hoffman that Hauptmann, electrocuted for the murder and kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby, was not guilty. Investigation followed.

Keen as steel, relentless in his quest to get his man, Parker has had one rule:

The thing you want to look for in every case is something unnatu ral. There isn't any perfect crime, because there isn't any fool-proof le. Every lie contains some un- natural detail,"

It served him well when he work. ed-without the aid of finger.print bureaux and radio-cars.

He has made some of his most sensational crime deductions without moving from his tall, mid-Victorian house.

And to-day Ellis Parker-terror of the criminal-sat in his tribute lined office with the order ringing in his cars--

"Arrest your son!"

'QUINS SHAKE SOUTHEND

AND AN ALSATIAN GETS

INTO THE NEWS

"OSTRICH” DIET

Such alells travelled at a speed of about 1,200 miles per hour. After pussing "Dirough 12-inch armour plate in 30 ten-thousandths of a second they were severed unbroken.

One shell of this kind in the region of the magazine would prob ality bring about the complete destruction of a battleship.

Sir Robert added that supplies of these shells were being rapidly turned out to meet the present urgent de- highest

HOUSEBREAKER'S REMARKABLE CONDUCT mand, and were of the

AFTER ARREST

SWALLOWED BOLTS AND SCREWS

A housebreaker who swallow, ed an extraordinary assortment of articles in a desperate bid to bafle the police appeared at

Glasgow Sheriff Court recently, and was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with Hard labour.

quality.

The welcome accorded the G, tern ment's defence and rearmament plats showed, he said, how deep-scated was the feeling of relief that the danger- ous position into which the country had drifted Wh .az last being remedied,

".

CARNEGIE

AWARD FOR

BRAVE MAN

-London, May 14 The highest Carnegie award, a bronze medal, has been made in the case of a

In addition to a ring, he swallowed four or five bolts, spiral screws, and pieces of metal from the furnishings in the police cell which he had oc cupied. The articles were recovered managing director who died from burns after rescuing

Inter.

The accused, Joseph Shalopski, pleaded guilty to having, on April 220 girls from a fire in the 1030, broken into a shop in Eglinton building where all were em-

Street and stolen six fur coats, four

watches, eight rings, four brooches, ployed.

two sets of ear-rings, and £3 11s in money.

He was Mr. Ernest Reid

avenue, Belfast.

He had helped a number of em- ployees to safety on August 2, 10:36, when he saw girls at upper windows unable to escape.

The Fiscal stated that accused was Powell, 42, of Cranmore- 24, single, and unemployed. The premises in question were those of an antique dealer. At six o'clock in the morning of April 2, the police discovered that the shop had been broken into, an iron stanchion having heen forced in a rear window,

ransacked and premises were property valued at £50 hnd, been stolen. The property recovered was valued at £35.

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ACROSS

BR12

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Bomb 127

1 Blows in bars--but doesn't be-

come inebristed.

4 Shivers would result if these singers had a large number in their midst.

15 Part of the road to—well--a

South London district,

BIL in't true! Make it a cobra

with a fin. 11 A fairy tall7 Powell groped his way upstairs | 12 If this part of a vessel turned A report that quintuplets had

round it would sound ominous. through the 13 Not at all shy for a man who the girls one by one been born at Southend caused

through dense smoke, and shepherded windows to firemen. He was so plays the game. great excitement in the resort one day last month.

Two of the fur coats were found severely barned that he died two days He was posthumously awarded the Four girls and a boy! South-in an ash bin in a back court, and later. end would be on the Front Page. another fur coat was traced by the Edward Medal of the first class by the

A watch Police Reporters, photographers, film men tempted to pawn was also recovered. late King. and representatives of infant food

After the theft, pawn offices were manufacturers raced to the town.

accused notified, and on April 4 The telephone clerk at the Central entered a pawn office in Kent Street Police Station had no peace..

and offered to pledge a gold wrist- watch. The pawnbroker recognised it us one of the stolen watches and telephoned the police.

NON-STOP CALLS

Then the true facts were revealed. A mother had certainly given birth to quins, but the mother was Nurse Pirrie's Alsatian, Beity.

Nurse Pirrie, whose telephone was constantly ringing, is wondering how the rumour spread. All she knows is that this message was sent to Bark- ing:

and a boy. All well"

which accused at-

Shulapski was arrested and his reply was-that-he-found the article. He was taken to the Central Police Omce.

SWALLOWED A RING

GERARD LEE

BEVAN DEAD Havana (Cuba), May 15.

R. GERARD LEE BEVAN, British finan- was the central

M

On April 5, he confided to the cier, who

"Betty has had Quins, four girls officer in charge of the case that he figure of a famous financial

The message was to her sister.

DANCING

CONTEST

WON BY ENGLAND

London, May 16. England beat Denmark in the first International Amateur Dancing Match to be held in this country.

The contest took place at the Hammersmith Palais de Dance.

A team of eight couples represented oach country.

Four events were contested, wallz, lango, foxtrot and quickstep, and England won them all.

Five of the British couples were Londoners,

was suffering from violent pains in

his stomach. He said that while in crash, and who was the pawn offlee awaiting the

nrrival

sen-

of the police he had placed one of tenced to seven years' penal the rings in his mouth and swallow-

Bevan, who was sixty-six, was

ed it. ile was taken to the Victoria servitude in London in 1922, Infirmary, where an X-ray examia-died in Havana to-night. don revealed the ring in his stomach. The accused also stated that he

or five bolts, engaged in business in Havana.. Gerard Lee Bevan fled from Lon- spiral screws, and pieces of metal from the furnishings in his cell in the don by air in February, 1922, follow- He alsu admitteding the fallure of the City Equitable police office. having swallowed a lens from hls Fire Insurance Company and other

had swallowed four

eye-glasses.

The man was taken to the Victoria Infirmary and cetained for treatment. He was discharged on April 9, with these articles still in his body, but not in danger of his life. The Fiscal added that they hud received inform ation from the prison that since April 9 most of these, articles had been recovered.

The police, added the Fiscal, re- garded the accused as a persistent thief. He had six previous convic- tions.

The non-dancing captain of the English team, Major K. M. Beaumont, Sheriff Macdiarmid, in passing received a silver cup, which is to be sentence, cornmented on the fact that competed for annually.

1 accused had a very bad record.

concerns with Itabilities totalling over

£4,000,000.

He was a fugitive for five months until he was caught in Vienna in June. He had disguised himself with a black beard and was known as Leon Vernler.

then

It was stated that at the time of his arrest Bevan struggled violently

and swallowed the contents of phial.

Bevan was brought back to London and tried at the Old Bailes, where he was sentenced to seven years for fraud.

He earned full remission, and was released in February, 1927.

16 Cut out when let in the river. 17 Fram, from from. 19 Put in more than half cured. 20 Doubles pens, 22 Still

26 Would one be in order in

describing Abraham 1 Quick! 27 Grub.

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28 One would certainly be wrong

in so describing Abraham. 20 Rather a small bird to supply meal to such a number. 31To-do.

The little Essex town that re- minds one of sailors dressing ship.

33 Enter as-Chinese, for example.

of curious then, it can scarcely Composed for the greater part be classified,

DOWN

1 Though the auditor strikes une

the cyclist must keep his. 2.Skin.

3 Lethargy.

5 Slow down: the rate's incorrect,

anyway.

6 It comes out all right in the end:

it's bound to.

7 Goes forth with Sarah's name-

nakes.

21 YEARS AGO

Extracts From The "Telegraph" Files

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Alan't surprising that there's the fish under the ship of . famous explorer, but under that there's more breakfast food, all in Suffolk.

9 No, not more cow; shriuk.'

10 I see ten cats (anag).

13 One may hear lawyers doing it

in court, or going round gardes, •

14 Refuse to go down.

17 Cook these little fish thus, 18 Often short.

21 Only ice, as is Inir.

the

23 Even at the eentre consumed. 21 There's a menter about the

letter on that account,

26 Note the number

railway.

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on the old

27 Hauled over the coale on top of

the house.

30 This word describes tho

clue. 131 Cont comes out of one.

Yesterday's Bolution

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The "Star" Ferry Co., In ita annual roport, stated that not earnings were $74,786. A dividond of $1.50 per share and a bonus of 40 cents was proposed.

The Prince of Wales' War Re- The following extracts are from lief Fund in Hongkong reached a the Hongkong Telegraph for the total of $289,847 to date.. week ended May 22, 1015.

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