1936-06-17 — Page 3

Mdivani Princess

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1936,

•Crusader,' World-Roamer, Jailed For Shop-Raiding

TEXAS JACK

Re-marries

Tragedy

Ended

That

AIR TRAVEL IN COMFORT

In Romance

PRING

By ALYNE ALLWARD

RINCESS NINA, MDIVANI AND MR. DENIS CONAN DOYLE ARE TO BE MARRIED EARLY THIS.SUMMER.

The Princess has filed a petition for divorce against her husband, Charles Henry Huberich, the international lawyer, whom she married at the Oxford Register Office 11 years ago.

When this has been completed she and Mr. Doyle are to marry and settle down in a quiet English country house.

When Prince Serge Mdivani was killed in a polo accidert'only six months after Prince Alexis! was killed in a motor smash, Mr. Denis Doyle, an old school friend of the brothers, brought con- solation and hope to the heart-broken Princess.

CONSOLATION AFTER TRAGEDY Since the death of his father, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mr. Denis Doyle has been guided in all the major decisions of his life by messages from his father.

Princess Nina found great help and Inspirulien in her sorrow in Mr. Doyle's profound faith in big father's | guidance,

A warm friendship developed, which was strengthened by her growing faith in Spiritualism. Theį, Princess and Mr. Doyle found that their bond of underslanding and sympathy was deeper than friend- ship.

They discussed the future, and decided that they would marry' as soon as the Princess roukl obtain divorce from her husband,

STILL GOOD FRIENDS

"My husband and I are very good friends, and we always shall be," Princess Nina told me, but I love

another man that is the reason for

the divorce.

"I would not describe myself as a

approach to these matters.

Passengers travelling on the Empire air routen after the new flying boats-the Queen Mary's of the Airare put into service will travel in confort hitherto

unknown in air transport.

PUBLIC ENEMY

ARRESTED IN

GIRL'S DRESS

*New York, May 30.

THE title American Public Enemy No. 1 has fallen into disuse again. Thomas H. Robinson, "bad man" who evaded capture by masquerading as a woman, was arrested early this morning, and so lost the "crown" which

EXPLOITS

THE

IN FILMS,

WAR. CRIME

first and only Briton who journeyed to Abyssinia and offered his services to the Emperor at the start

of the war was sent to prison for two years at the Old Bailey recently for shopbreaking and receiving stolen properly.

As soldier of fortune and film actor-a man who has travelled the world ceaselessly for years in search of adventure he has been known by the colourful, self- assumed name of "Texas Jack."

SLEEP

IS EASY

As a convicted housebreaker he is known by his real nanie, Alexander Wardlaw. lle is thirty-two years of age, a native of Dunfermline, and son of hard- working Scottish parents. Ignore The Sheep

"Texas Jack" bas cranmmed And Drink Olive Oil more adventure Into his life than

must men of his age. Paris, June 1. 【NSOMNIA can be cured without

He went to Abyssinia as a "one druga or even the less harm-¡man Crusader,” and although his ful expedient of stuffing the ears offer to fight with the Abyssinian with collon wool.

troops was turned down, he jour- neyed to the war zone and wit- nessed a great deal of the fighting. Wardlaw returned last Decem- ber-and to crime.

Counting sheep is a waste Lime.

of

'All that is necessary to ensure restful sleep is for the sufferer to calm the nerves and muscles of the stomach with n tablespoonful of olive oil before bedtime,

Patients who have a distaste for olive oil should sniff menthol to clear the lungs and reduce the effort of breathing to a minimum.

These simple rules are laid down. by a Prench scientist,, M. Maurice Boigey, in a book jus published, "The Science of Rest."

he had gained by the arrest in the past eleven days of Married

He ordered a sandwich in a voice which was not at all like that of a lilting soprano.

Alvin Karpis, Harry Campbell, and William Mahan. Spiritualist. but i have found great) Robinson, hunted since consulation and help in Mr. Doyle's October 1934 for the alleged kidnapping at Louisville, Kentucky, of socialite Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll, wife of oil

"The Inner sincerity and peace

which his faith has brought me are wonderful," she said,

Mr. Doyle 1105 Recepted his father's beliefs with passionate In- tensity, Anding in them not only satisfying philosophy but also a pra tical guide in everyday life.

Majestic

Convinced of the masquerade

the G-men followed him back to his apartment in the suburbs of

Glendale.

Flinging open the door they pointed six guns at Robinson.

“All right?" queried one G-man sharply, cryptically.

Her Business Rival

WOMAN AIR ACE

MRS. KEITH MILLER, air nce

pioneer of long distance and married at Epson register office record flights by women,. was last month to Flight-Lieutenant John Barnard Walter Pugh, A.F.C.

magnate Berry Stoll, was captured because he loved to dress as a woman,

A short time ago, Lynn Allen, "Sure all right." replied manager of a soda fountain bar Robinson slowly, putting up his at Glendale, California, reported hands.

But his raised hands trembled detectives) that a man dressed and his face was whiter than when it bore the powder of his as a woman was patronising his i

Her age was given as thirty- disguise. counter.

Ile-made-no-move-towards-his-four, his as thirty-five.

Scrapped May Fetch £110,000 to the famous G-men (Federal

The Canard White Star Line has received"a ̄number of offers from

for their ahipbreakers 56,699-ton liner Majestic, now to be scrapped.

A decision will be made shortly. The price is expected to be about £110,000.

“I'm sure this person is n man because he ate his sand- wiches in quite an unladylike manner," said Allen,

G-men showed Allen a picture of Robinson which the barkeener

gun.

Nearly £1,000 was found on Robinson. Robinson, once an inmate of w lunatle asylum at Nashville, Ton- nessee, is alleged to have obtained £10,000 ransom from Mrs. Stoll.

He la belug taken by air to The thirty-three-year-old Union-

G-men took a long Louisville to be confronted by her. Castle steamer Armadale Castle meal yesterday at Allen's foun-

It has been stated (12,999 tons), now laid up at tain, and after a couple of hours Robinson were caught the death be dark-eyed black-haired Robinson penalis against him would be Southampton, is about to scrapped.

walked in swishing his dresses. demanded.

identified as the "woman.” NOT A "SOPRANO” Sa several

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Altogether the amount of stelen in the St. John's Wood goods from raided mansion flats

totalled £1,770 of which the police recovered £1,160.

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"EXPERT RAIDER" The conviction of "Texna Jack' ends a spectacular enreer in vari- ous parts of the world.

A man of powerful build, fault. lessly groomed and Immaculately dressed in a light grey Norfolk suit, "Texas Jack" heard unmoved Detective Sergeant A. MeBain's description of him, as "an expert house-breaker."

According to the detective, "Texas Jack" specialised in selling the gems of stolen jowellery apart from their settings. At his rooms in North-West London the police discovered six pairs of new gloves.

The finger-tips and palms of these gloves were blackened, and this led the detectives fo the be lief that the gloves had been worn in scaling stackpipes of ralded flats

Mr. Lawrence-Vine, who defend-- Mrs. Keith Miller

wased Wardlaw elicited the fact that "grounded" by a crash in Africa the man enlisted in the Army dur- which wrecked her machine. ing the war when he was only She returned to. London with fifteen years old, and had served little money, took work as a typist in the Black Watch and Dragoon at lieston Airport, and became Guards,

manager of a private firm there.

Flight-Lieutenant Pugh was her chief. Recently he became a business rival, jolning n com mercial air service as a chief pilot.

When Mrs. Miller flew from England to Australia ten years ago, her co-pilot was Captain W. ("Bill") Lancaster,

was

Later Captain Lancaster acquitted, by a Miami jury of a charge of murdering Mr. luyden Clarke, fiance of Mrs, Miller, in her Florida bungalow,

Three Scotland-yard men carried the stolen booty into court. It had been brought to the Old Bailey in a police tender. Arrayed on an oblong table in the well of the court, It resembled small emporiumi.

A costly sable fur cont, a radio -set, cuff links, diamond rings— these were all the proceeds of raided fats and houses, all withi In n squaro-mile radius, and carried out within a month,

CRIME ABROAD~

The crowded court of Judge Dod- Mro. Miller was principal witson listened enthralled as Deter ness in the trial.

tive Sergeant McBain, of Vine-

She returned to Britain, and street revealed "Texas Jack's" when Captain Laneuster van- career,

ished in Sahara on a Cape flight

He said Wardlaw had five pre-

she appealed for money for a vious convictions, In Bulawayo, rescue attempt,

The airman was nover found.

Rhodesia, in April 1929 he was sent to twelve months' hard labour He left his £170 estate to Mrs. theft and to another six months for six casca of housebreaking and Miller.

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for jailbreaking.

In July 1931 at St. Albans he was sent to three months' hard la- bour for being found on enclosed premises.

Wardlaw was married In South Afrin and divorced thero in 1931,

..

.

He married a widow on his re- turn to England, but she left him because he was always demand- Miss Theodora Newman, who is Wardlaw had been in Australia,

ing money from her. the daughter of Alderman Wallor Newmau, acts as Mayoress, and in America, and Africa. He was de- addition to her Mayoral duties sheported from Dar-es-Salaam (Last Before that he carries on a private hotel on the Africa) in 1927. North Promenade.

was employed for a time on the Konya-Uganda Railway, and was discharged for insubordination..

From Whitsuntide to the end of the Hluminations she will accommodate. 40 peoplo daily.

Since his return to this country he had worked for various fla Wardlaw's last ad- companies.

Apart from opening sales of venturous exploit was his trip to work and garden fotes and other Abyssinia. functions which form the town's

social life, she cooks, buys-in, doos

With a polito blow to the judgo

the steps of the dock to the cells.

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