THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, MONDAY, JUNE 8,, 1986. ̧.·
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CORBETE · GIRDLER SARGSICHES
of U.S. Gold
Acquitted Of 50 Train-Loads One Murder- £5,600,000 IN
SENTENCED FOR
ANOTHER
OLD BAILEY DRAMA
Once Accused
Of Killing
| Field, did not flinch as he listened to the pronouncement of the punish
ment
EACH COACH
New York. THE two most precious "cara-
TH
Within the next two months Bi
vans" in the history of the world are about to start from New York and Philadelphia for Knox Fort, Kentucky, where the United States Government is He did not even glance at his putting the finishing touches to blonde woman friend, Mrs. McGregor,a vault for the storage of of Touting, who has known him since 1,200,000,000 worth of gold. their schooldays, and whose anguished | cry rang through the court when the Jury, after half-an-hour's retirement, announced their verdict of "Guilty." special armoured trains will carry Field, tall, sunken-eyed, with high this vast treasure to the great fort- cheek bones and thick black hair rest, which consists of two storeys of stone and steel built against a hill brashed back from a wide forehead,
nd said in Iris evidence that a signed close to "the Aldershot of the United statement he had made to the-pollee
Outside the formidable army of a which he confessed to strangling Mr. Sutton was an invention,
buildings is blazoned in huge letters. In this statement. mado after "United States Depositary.
he had been arrested as a deserter, was alleged to have said: "I Just
States."
This "gold fortress," planned for
Nora Upchurch murder once, and meticulously the storage of half the National
in
The departure of the 50 pecial trains from New York and Phila- delphia is being planned with the ut most secrecy.
someone," Treasure, surrounded by a 20ft. described incidents Jrading up to the deep moat, through which runs a 3ft. wide pipe capable of instantly flood- By R. A. PUGH
crime and details of the room which Mr. Sutton was found dead in ing the entire board. MAN who three years bed with her head under two pillows, A
In the witness-box Field told a dif ago was acquitted at
ferent story. He said he had fabri the Old Bailey on a charge eated his "confession" to the crime because, after quarrelling with Mrs. of murdering Annie Louise McGregor, he had not had the cour Nora Upchurch in empty age to commit sukelde, and it occurred to him that if he took the blame for premises in New Compton- the murder he would put an end to street, Soho, was recently That iden occurred to him, he said, sentenced to death in the when, seeking a sleeping place under the stairs at Elmhurst mansions, he same dock for the murder by heard sounds of a quarrel in a fial, strangling of Mrs. Beatrice saw a "man in a fawn cont" come out through the door, and then found Mrs. Vilma Sutton, aged 48, at sutton lying dead. her flat in Elmhurst-man- sions, Edgeley-road, Clap ham, S.W., on April 4.
He was Frederick Herbert Charles Field, aged 2, an aircraftman in the R.A.F.
his life.
"He Is a Nice Fellow
Each train consists of five armoured coaches and each conch is to carry Regular trains are to be sidetracked to 1,000 bars of gold valued at £6,000,000, prevent any delay in the progress of the gold caravans.
Dangerous apols on the way are to te patrolled by soldiers travelling in fast armoured cars carrying field-guns and mortars.
When the gold reaches the "ort- 1Pressituated in the heart of the United States to safeguard it from an
Field explained that he had deliber-invading army--it will be guarded
atoly taken stock of everything in the constantly by a large force of artillery
tioned al Fort Knox. on to make his "confession" sound a cavalry to be permanently sta convincing.
Mr. Justice Charles, summing up, commented on the fact that things In 1913 Field, then a sign xer mentioned by Field in his statement heard the jury, without leaving the corresponded exactly with the actual box, and him Not Guilty of the mur-circumstances. "It is all true, per- der of Miss Upchurch, who was alsu fectly true, and evidence has been found strangled. This crime remains given as to its accuracy," he observed. unsolved.
Mrs. McGregor, her face half hid- Recently, while a woman friend den by the handkerchief with which sobbed in the pubile gallery, Field, she wiped her tears, left the court on dressed in the blue uniform of the the arm of a woman friend. Her pa Royal Air Force, heard black-capped quivered as she avowed affectionately, Mr. Justice Charles say that he had "He is a nice fellow
of "a most been rightly convicted brutal murder."
She had stated in court thut Field had been her lover for 12 months.
OUTSTANDING LONDON WEDDING
The Hon. Moyn Bevaford, granddaughter of the late George Jay Gould and daughter of the former Helen Vivien Gould, pietured with her groom, as they left St. Wilfred's chapel of the famous Brompton Oratory in London after their marriage, April 16, The Tho groom is the Hon. Patrick Bellew, brother of the Lurd Bellow, bride's father is the Lord Decies, Bride and groom will sall soon for the United States.
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8749 1 Give My Heart (The Dubarry).
(She Fought Like a Tiger To Save 'er 'onour.
8557 (Turn 'Erbert's Face to the Wall, Mother (When Grow Too Old to Dream,
8558 (Life is a Song,
(The Words Are In My Heart, (I'm Ninety Nine To-day.
8585 (Red Salls in the Sunset.
(South American foc.
8592. (There's a Lovely Lake in London,
(We've Got To Keep Up With the joneses.
8599 (Love Me Forever.
(When You Grow Up Little Lady.
8617 (General's Fast Asleep.
(Grandfather's Bagpipes.
8633 (Roll Along Prairie Moon. (Winter Draws On.
8636 (Trees.
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KING FAROUK
Sixteen-year-old King Farouk who succeeded to the throne of Egypt upon the death of his father, King Fund 1, is shown here as he left England to return to his native land. Farouk has been educated in England, and be cause of Britiah interests in Egypt, is regarded as one of the most important rulers in the cast by British statesinen.
ACROSS
7 Kind, but not excessively 50.
marry 8 They mostly
wives.
French
the
10 An English village that
classed usually
Dance.
among
11 The professional discovered this
to be very deep.
12 Exit fure (anag)
14 Ends all applications.
16 Young sheep the anng-ram gets! 18 One way to get information from the family. Negroes are very fond of this.
20 Dresses.
22 A blow on the head won't hurt it, its heart being first-cings.
24 leaving a lead in the Soviet will amuse them, I think
26 Came tled (anag.).
29 The purchaser to study the
total with hesitation,
30 As a rule, such sights aro not
calming.
01 Showing how a tot in pram may
be of great consequence.
32 The flower among the tares.
DOWN
1 Isn't it harassing to neo nothing beyond one's liabilities?-and even then they're under-stated.
2 After this point one makes a
capital start.
3 Make a suggestion here such as
men are supposed to.
4 Conservative.
Cast with internal trouble, I'm ofraid,
6 Anne's herbal remedy she came
back for.
O Bother.
10 Volcano.
16 Hidden in Clue 24..
17 Polite description of ali oki-
time jurles.
19 Hint of a close friend.
21 The bateman shouki keep it to
grow larger.
23 Printer's mark.
23 Its charm is issumed: largely
a matter of course.
27 Tableware for a cheat.
28 A breather for the reader.
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The Hongkong Chinese Teachers' roels of comic films. Teachers' Day, Association celebrated
"Teachers' started by the
Professors And in Polping and Tientsin Day" on Saturday morning at the Teachers King's Theatre. There was a largo several years ago, has been celebratod gathering and the programme in by the teachers in Hongkong for three an anmaal cluded a play. translated from a years and will be made drama by Lord Dunsany and several [affair.
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