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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1936.

ARREST

YOUR

SON!

Call To Famous

Detective

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

"ARREST YOUR SON!"

Parker father but detec- tive who always gets his man, replied:

is."

,

& R Deadly

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

The Royal cypher is that used by all Departments of State and other public bodies, and also appears on regimental colours, standards, guklons, badges and arms and appointments, letters "ER." with the numeral One example has the plain block "VIII" between them, surmounted By the Imperial Crown.

The Imperial cypher, that used in India, has instead of the "VITI," a large block letter "I", and the Crown

IN

smaller

A third example with the "E.R." reversed and interlaced is a special design employed on the Colours of certain battalions of the Foot Guards

* don't know where my boy

It was, the most tense moment in the Hfe of America's No. 1 detec-and tive the man who in forty-two years has handled 300 crimes-and in only twelve was unable to con- vict.

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, who told Governor Hoffmann 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, Tarker has had one rule:

"The thlug you want to look for in every case is something unnatu ral. There isn't any perfect crime, because there isn't any foal-proof

He. 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 ears:---

"Arrest your kon!"

'QUINS SHAKE SOUTHEND

AND AN ALSATIAN GETS

INTO THE NEWS

A report that quintuplets had been born at Southend caused great excitement the resort one day last mouth.

Four girls and a boy! South end would be on the Front Page, Reporters, photographers, Alm men and representatives of infant food manufacturers raced to the town.

The telephone clerk at the Central Police Station had no peace.

NON-STOP CALLS

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

on the appointments of such other regiments for which it is

of the

Royal authorised instend cypher.

"OSTRICH” DIET

HOUSEBREAKER'S REMARKABLE CONDUCT

AFTER ARREST

SWALLOWED BOLTS

AND SCREWS

A housebreaker who swallow ed an extraordinary assortment of articles in a desperate bid to baffle the police appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court recentis. and was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with hard

abuur.

Shell

For Navy

ONE HIT TO SINK

BATTLESHIP

The latest naval shell-which

inches thick-was referred to passes through armour plate 12

yesterday by Sir Robert Had- field, the eminent metallurgist.

Sir Robert,.presiding at the annul Hadfields Limited, meeting of engineers

und steelmakers, nt Shefeld, said that the latest type of 18-inch shells remained unbroken after being fired at armour Inclined rt 30 degrees from the vertical,

Such shells travelled at a speed of about 1,200 miles per hour. After passing through 12-inch armour plate in 39 ten-thousandths of a second they were recovered unbroken.

One whell of this kind in the region of the magazine woulil prob- | ably 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- were of the highest mand, and quality,

The welcome accorded the Govern- ment's defence and rearmament plans showed, he said, how deep-seated was the feeling of rellef that the danger- ous position into which the country had drifted Was at last being remedied.

CARNEGIE AWARD FOR BRAVE MAN.

London, May 14. The highest Carnegie

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

later

The accused, Joseph Shalopskl,

pleaded guilty to having, on April 220 girls from a fire in the 1930, broken into a shop in Eglinton Street and stolen six fur coats, four building where all were em- watches, eight rings, four brooches, ployed. two sets of car-rings, and £3 119 hi money.

He was Mr. Ernest Reid

avenue, Belfast.

The Fiscal states 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 discovered that the shop had beets of April 2, the police broken into, an iron stanchion having been forced in a rear window. The premises were ransncked arki

property valued at £50 had been stolen. The property recovered was

£34.

valued

A

Two of the fur coats were found in an ash bin in a back court, and another fur coat was traced by the palice, tempted to pawn was also recovered. After the theft, pawn offices were notified, and on April 4 accuse entered a pawn office in Kent Street and offered to pledge a gold wrist- it as one of the stolen watches and watch. The pawnbroker recognized telephoned the police.

watch which necused at-

Shalopal was arrested and his He was taken to the Central Police reply was tint he found the article.

Nurse Pirrie, whose telephone was constantly ringing is wondering-how Office.

The rumour aprend. All she knows is that this message was sent to Bark- !' ing:

"Betty has had Quins, four girls

and a boy. All well."

The message was to her sister.

DANCING CONTEST

WON BY ENGLAND

first

London, May 15.

England beat Denmark in the 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 each country.

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

Five of the British couples were Londoners.

SWALLOWED A RING

He had helped a number of em ployees to safely on August 2, 1935, when he saw girls at upper windows

able to escape.

his way upstairs

Powell groped through dense smoke, and shepherded girls one by one through the windows to Bremen. He was so severely burned that he died two days later.

He was posthumously awarded the Edward Medal of the first class by the late King.

LEE

GERARD

BEVAN DEAD

Havana (Cuba), May 15.

R. GERARD LEE MR.

BEVAN, British finan-

On April 5, he confided to the cier, who officer in charge of the case that he figure of a famous financial was suffering from violent pains in

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come nobrinted.

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

It isn't true! Make it a cobra with a An

11 A fairy tail?

12 If this part of a vessel turned round it would sound eminus, 18 Not at all shy for a man' who

plays the gene.

15 Part of the road to-well--a

South London district,

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

25 Would one be in orier In 40 describing Abraham? Quick! 27 Grab.

28 One would certainly be wrong

in so describing Abraham,

20 Rathee a small bird to supply

a meal to such a number. 31 To-do.

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

was the central33 Enter as-Chinese, for example. Composed for the greater part of curious men, it can scarcely be classified.

his stomach. He said that while in crash, and who was

the pawn office awaiting the arrival

sen-

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

ed it. He was taken to the Victoria servitude in London in 1922, Infirmary, where an X-ray examina- died in Havana to-night.

tion revealed the ring in his stomach, The accused also stated that he

Bevan, who was sixty-six, was

and swallowed four or five bolts, engaged in business in Havana.

also

epiral screws, and pieces of metal Gerard Lee Bevan Bed from Lon- from the furnishings in his cell in the don by air in February, 1922, follow-

He police office.

admitted ing the failure of the City Equitable huviling swallowed a lens from his Fire Insurance Company meter eye-glasses.

concerns with fabilities totalling ater

£1,000,000.

in

The man was talten to the Victoria Infirmary and detained for treatment. He was a fugitive for Ave months He was discharged on April 9, with until he was caught in Vienna these articles still in his body, but not June. He had disguised himself in danger of his life. The Fisent with a black beart and was then added that they hid received inform-known as León Vernier. ation from the prison that since It was stated that at the time of April 9 most of these articles had his arrest Bevan struggled violently been recovered.

and swallowed the contents of A

The police, added the Fiscal, re- phial. gorded the accused as a persistent Bevan was brought back to London thief. He had six previous convie- and tried at the Old Bailey, where The non-dancing empiain of the tione.

he was sentenced to seven years for English team, Major K. M. Beaumont, Sheriff Macdiarmid, in passing | fraud. 'received a silver cup which is to be sentence, coinmented on the fact that i He earned full remission, and was

competed for annually.

nesusent in a very bad record. ·

released in February, 1927.

SALESMAN SAM

BOSS, I KNOW WHY I ANT ABLE) YOU KNOW'ALL FSR ONE TO REDUCE,SO'S I KIN EXERCISE THE ANSWERS, THING, I'M

YER HOSSES!

SAM - SHOOT! HOMESICK

One Handicap

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ON!. MAKE YA TAKE OFF WEIGHT QUICKER THAN

ANYTHING!

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1 Though the auditor strikes one

the list must keep his. 2 Skin.

3 Lethargy.

G Slow down: the rate's incorrect.

anyway.

6 it comes out all right in the end;

it's bound to.

7 Gres forth with Sarah's name-

Fakes.

21 YEARS AGO

Extracts From The "Telegraph" Files

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8 It Isn't surprising that there's ash under the ship of the famous explorer, but under that there's more breakfast food, all in Suffolk.

9 No, not more cow: shrink.

10 I see ten cats (anag).

13 One may hear lawyers doing it

i ecurt, or going round garden.

14 Refuse to go down.

1 Cook these little fleh thus, 18 Often short.

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Even at the centre consumer. 21 There's a menace

letter on that account.

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railway.

about the

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the hours

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clue,

the next.

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The "Star" Ferry Co., in its annual report, stated that not Learnings were $74,736. A dividend 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 Hangbang Telegraph for the total of $280,847 to date. week ended May 22, 1915.

The rate of the dollar on mand was 18. 9.13/16.

It was notified that classes in delu-jitsu were being held at the

Volunteer Headquarters.

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