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COACETA - GIROLES BAABXICHES
Acquitted Of
50 Train-Loads U.S. Gold
One Murder?
SENTENCED FOR
Field did not flinch as he listened to the pronouncement of the punish- ment.
ANOTHER He did not even glance at his
OLD BAILEY
DRAMA
Once Accused Of Killing Nora Upchurch
£5,600,000 IN EACH COACH
New York. TE two most precious "cara-
T" 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 pulling the finishing touches to
storage. vault for the 1,200,000,000 worth of gold.
of
Within the next two months 50 special amared trains will carry
blonde womur friend; Mrs. Mefiregor, of Tooting, who has known in their schooldays, and whose anguished ery rang through the court when the jury, after half-an-hour's retirement announced their verdist of "uilty."
Field, tuli, sunken-eyed, with high vast treasure to the great fort cheek bone and thek black hair res which onsists of two storeys of brushed back from a wide forehend, stone and steel built igainst a hill had said in his evidence that a signed close to "the Aldershot of the United statement he had made to the poller States," in which he confessed to strangling Mrs. Button was an invention.
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The departure of the 50 special trains from New York and Philn delphia is being planned with the ut most secrecy.
Chatside the formidable array of buildings is blazoned in huge letters, In this statement, made after he "United States Depozitary," bad been arrested as a deserter, he
This "gold fortress," planned for was alleged to have said: "1 just murdered her because I wanted to the storage of half the National Ami meticulously Treasure, is surrounded by a 20ft. murder someone,"
serilist incidents leading up to the deep moat, through which runs a 3ft. in wide pipe capable of instantly Good- Ferime and detalls of the By R. A. PUGH
which Mrs. Sution was found dead in ing the entire hoard. MAN who three years bed with her head under two pillows. the witness-box Field told a dif A
ago was acquitted atfernt story. He said he, bad fabri- the Old Bailey on a charge ented his "ronfession" to the crime because, after quarrelling with Mrs. of murdering Annie Louise firegor, he had not had the cour Age to commit suicide, and it occurred Nora Upchurch in empty him that if he took the blame for premises in New Compton-he murder he would put an end to "That idea occurred to him, he said, street, Soho, was recently his life. sentenced to death in the when, seeking a sleeping place under the stairs at Biniburat-mansions, he same dock for the murder by heard sounds of a quarrel in a flat, strangling of Mrs. Beatrice as a "man in n fawn cont" come out through the door, and then found Mrs. Vilma Sutton, aged 48, at Sutton lying dead. her flat in Elmhurst-man-"He Is a Nice Fellow sions, Edgeley-road, Clap-! ham, S.W., on April 4.
Each train consists of five armoured
coaches and vach conch is to carry Regular trains are to be sidetracked to 1,000 bars of gold valued at £5,000,000, prevent any delay in the progress of the gold caravans.
Dangerous spots on the way are to. be patrolled by soldiers travelling in fast amoured cars carrying fold-guns and norters,
When the gold reaches the "fort- reas"-situated in the deart 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 He was Frederick Herbert Charles room to make his "confession" sound and cavalry to be permanently sta Field, aged 32, an aircraftman in the] I.A.F.
In 1933 Field, then a sign fixer. heard the jury, without leaving the box, find him Not Guilty of the mar der of Miss Upchurch, who was also Found strangled. This crime remains unsolved.
convincing.
Mr. Justice Charles, summing up, commented, on the fact that things mentioned by Field in his statement corresponded exnetly with the actual circumstaners. "It is all true, per- feetly true, and evidence has been given as to its accuracy," he observed. Mrs. McGregor, her face half hd- woman friend den by the handkerchief with which Recently, while a sobbed in the public gallery, Field, she wiped her tears, left the court on dressed in the blue uniform af the the arm of a woman friend. Her lips Royal Air Faree, heard black-capped quivered as she aveyed affectionately, Mr. Justice Charles say that he hade is a nice fellow been rightly convicted of " brutal murder."
most
She had stated in court that Field I had been her lover for 12 months.
tioned at Fort Knux.
EGYPTIAN KING
OUTSTANDING LONDON WEDDING
The Hon. Mora Beresford, granddaughter of the late George Jay Gould and daughter of the former Helen Vivien Goull, picture with her groom, as they left St. Wilfred's chapel of the famous Brompton Oratory in London after their marriage, April 16. The groom Is the Hon. Patrick Bellew, brother of the Lord Bellew. The ride's father is the Lord Decies. Bride and groom will wall soon for the United States.
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MISTAH SAM, AH FINKS DAT HOSS, TROMBONE, AM 'HABIN' TOOTH TROUBLE! BETTAH
EXAMINE HIM AN' SEE WOT'S WRONG!
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TO LAST YEAR?
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