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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1936.

OF

£100,000 Cushion

Paris, May 20. WILLIAM WARREN, known to the police of the world as "Bludger Bill,” king of confidence tricksters, was sentenced to-day at Amiens, to five years' imprison- ment for swindling. Thus one of the most picturesque criminals alive goes to jail again.

He was a first-class passenger from Australia in the liner Orontes when the French police at Villefranche trapped him, [on April 4 and took him to Amiens.

The prosecution alleged to-day that in October last year Warren perausded a farmer named Dazin to hand over an envelope containing £700. Later the farmer found that the notes had been roplated) by sheets of paper.

·Bluff, honest-looking William Warren is an Australian. kind of

He is one of the wealthiest crooks in Gastroscope is

the world. instrument which has been demon- Amerien. With this strated in Instrument it is possible to look inside the stomach of the patient

Biggest Airplane For Germany

Friedrichshafen, June 1.

G

ERMANY has started

work on an airliner of 6400 horse power for the North Atlantic air service.

It is being built at the Dornier works at Friedrichshafen, und will, it is claimed, be the largest It will airplane in the world. be known as the DO 20.

It is a plane and will be driven by eight Disel-type netors yk 800 liorse pne bach

Dornier's have just completed the DO 18, also destined for the North Atlantic service. Successful trial lights have already been

This carried out.

machine will first he operated on the mail ser-

For twenty years he has roamed the world prey- ing on the rich, and he has been in the julia of half a dozen countries. Now he is elderly.

For years Scotland-yaril detectives sought him for a series of astonishing frauds in Britain. In 1923 he went into à French prison for five senra for swimming Sir Walter Cockerling, Hull ship-owner. and the French Treasury of £23,000.

Before that he Hved in Juxury In London, reputed to have an income of £20,000 from his frauds.

Whenever he dined out he sat on sprctal cushion brought by his chauffeur. That rushion went everywhere with him, ite sat on In his Rat, hile head rested on'

it at night,

It contained the whole of his wealth. Many times Warren sat ou a fortune of £100.000.

He was afraid to bank it. It did not trust the gang of Australian crooks whm he heidest, None of his accomplices guessed the secret of the cushion."

ile left Landon for the Continent in the spring of 1921 and has not been back since. His sudden depar ture was caused by a High Court! order against him for the return of £15,000 which he obtained from Mr. A. 3. Wall., London merchant,

vice to South Ameries, but will be ased no the North Atlantic' route when that service is started.

United Presa.

SPEAKING IN

CONFIDENCE,

HE

MADE THOUSANDS

Paris, June 1.

ONFIDENCE trickster Edward Cavendish, a forty- seven-year-old Australian, arreated last February in the Miramar Bar in Cannes, was to-day found guilty by Nice Criminal Court of defrauding Mr. Thomas Belcher, a Liverpool cotton merchant, of £5,000, and was sentenced to four years' hard labour.

He was ordered to pay £2,000-all the money that was found In his possession-back to Mr. Belcher.

so impressed that he readily consented to hand over £5,000 to invest for him. Fortunately,

mentioned Mr. Belcher

his "Investment" to a friend, who at once reported it to the police. Cavendish, already under 15- Cavendish arrived on the Riviera nicion, was immediately arrested. at the beginning of this year. He

French police said he had been soon became known for his lavish convicted on six previous ocen spending and heavy gambling ions in England, Australia, Hol- He told his friends he way n land and the United States, on successful stockbroker.

charges of robbery and swindling, One of his many acquain-He had been expelled from France tances, Mr. Thomas Belcher, was in 1928.

William Bradley, alleged to have; acted as an accomplice in the fraud, was sentenced by default. to five years imprisonment. But before he serves it the police must catch him.

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Mona, Mary, Ixota and Roberta, the famous quadruplets, who are students at the Baylor University in Texas. They were photographed when leaving for Ontario where they visited the famous Dionne quintuplets.

UNCLE SAM SENDS

GOLD TO "FORT"

Safes That No

FIFTY

Gunman Can

Ever Crack

New York, June 1.

NIFTY armoured trains laden with gold bars, will travel across America shortly to Fort Knox, Kentucky, where Uncle Sam's treasure boxes will be housed in an underground safe that cannot be cracked.

The Government vault, scrolly built to defy man be nature, is nearing completion.

It looks like a medinoval fortres, but it is more impregn- able than any fortress hitherto built by man.

The upper works form a square building surrounded by a balcony į which will be manned night and duy by armed guards. Beyond this Atructure in naother aquare building. ita walis unbroken by window or door.

A NEW EARL'S

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TO COST £1,250,000

Beneath the second building

London, May 25. is an underground cavern that The new Earl's Court Exhibi- -will-hold more-treasure than Alltion building, which is to scat

Raha dreamed of.

AUTOMATIC FLOODING

It will be impossible for even a super Dillinger to pierce the walls or locks and other secret safe- guards that will protect the na tion's trensure, but just in case some one does kill the guards and open some of the doors, there will be a last-minute safeguard that, will prevent him from reaching the gold.

Two ditches lending to the gold vaults will be automatical ly flooded with tons of water.

are

|23,000 people—the largest indoor audience in Europe-and to cost £1,250,000, is beginning to rise from its foundations. It is ex- pected to be ready for exhibitions, entertainments and sports by Christmas Day.

The site presents an extra- ordinary picture, with 12 vast cranes, giant concrete mixers, a miniature railway, and sections of the vast ground floor on which the concrete is being laid.

and one

Nothing But the Truth

ᏔᎻᎪᎢ . THE CABLES GARNER

San Francisco, June 10. Gazing through the News-o- scopo seeking timely topics (and being thankful said contrivance isn't wired for sound) we find Weckhawken,--yes

that's it Weckhawken, NJ-shell shocked and jittery. Residents of the ox- clusive. Kingswood section there have complained that blasting on the Jersey approach to the now Midtown tunnel to Manhattan awakened them at night-shat- tered their nerves and the nerves of their dogs and cats. So, the excavation company agreed to sound a fire siren as

a warning that another blast is coming, 30 they will be prepared for it and, presumably, wont be awakened by it. The sarcastic' suggestion then was made that a cannon be shot off to give warning that the siren is going to scream as warning that anollier blast about to shatter the night.

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"ANSAS CITY, thieves, apparently unable to find anything loose, took a stairway from an apartment house here. The staircase. according to Mrs. L. M. Tucker, apartment mana- ger, contained 32 steps.

But they were pikers compared with their Polish brethern. Warsaw dis- patches revent that the iron bridge ver the Ochnia river at Kutno has been stolen. Kutno police and the town's population thought the thieves who dismantled the bridge were mak- ing repairs. After the entire super- structure had been removed and the workers disappeared, authorities be gan to investigate.

JERE'S good news for the kid-

New York, reveals in May Factory Management and Maintenance_ma- xazine that people who keep "rea. sonably dirty" during working hours are anfer from skin diseases than those who are clean at all times. He said the dirt was a' protection. As though every youngster didn't Bunow that!

Herres P. McCard.

«CRAM," said a motorist to Pa- trolman Chester Krause as he demanded names at a traffic accident. "What?" cried Krause, "Why you—” Then he suddenly stopped blustering ΠΗ the motorist continued, "Yes, Seran-James Seram. 1ive Clinton Ave."

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But for namES that must sound worse than they look-Two Hopi In- dians in Philadelphia recently applied for license to be married "the white "Hir name was, Kaleeta- man's way," ea Conchwytewn and her's was Tir- zab Naquyumsie. At least that's what the clark wrote down.

Dean H. B. Weiser said he expelled ' W. J. Conde, sophomore, not because the student attended class in his short, but because his attitude was, "insubordinate." Goode contended he wasn't being radical, or hadn't even bech playing strip poker. "I just don't like pants," he elucidated. That happened in Houston, Texas.

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Southbend, Ind-The sume under- taker made funeral arrangements here for Stephen Varga, 53, and his neighbour, also Stephen Varga, Both were ill for three weeks, and died in the same hospital within a few hours of each other. Each is survived by a son, Stephen, Jr., and a daughter, Elizabeth. They were not related.

Hollywood-State board of Equali zation oflicials have informed Claire Windsor, screen actress, that before she could obtain a $4 battle of rum

take out an importers licence. The cost of the licence is $20.

Nearly 1,000 men are at work in an area which is almost as large as Tra As the building nears comple-falgar Square. All the workmen and tion the Post Office is making the matorinis are British. There are secret plans for the gold armada three contractors chgaged on the main to Kentucky. Most of the gold leading to the railway.

#ructure and

on the subways will be taken from depositories in

It has been necessary to excavate New York and Philadelphia: only to a great depth for the concrete four-sent her by a Cuban friend she trust

trusted few will know when the dations in one spot the workmen Armoured trains

leaving; have dug down to 35 feet every yard of the track will be in-

Features of the new building in- spected for explosives, and clude: A BOIL roadway encircling dangerous points along the route the site, with parking places for will be guarded by soldiers ready motor coaches, buses and taxi cabs. to shoot any would-be hold-up man 2,000 private cars. Subways to the A double-deck car park for nearly on sight.

car park, and to three underground railways, with escalators taking visi- tors from Earl's Court Station to the how building. A dwimming pool. 200ft. long by 100ft, wide.

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Music of various kinds, a frequent- ly changing programme of entertain- ments, and flower beds in the sunamer the atmosphere which made the pre- will, it is expected, help to re-creato

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New York. The will of Glusseppe Gallo led for probate recently, left five cents to each of his four children with which "to purchase a piece of rope in the hope that each will stranglo Himself or herself with said rope."

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Los Angeles-Marion Warner, year old negro has discovered he possesses a bullet-proof head. Police said that Mrs. Pauline Johnson, 20, ellmaxed a bear parlour quarrel with Warner by firing a revolver at him point blank. And she didn't miss!

The bullet entered Warner's neck and flattened against the base of his skull, inflicting only a desk wound.

Warner wasn't even knocked out..

DOCTOR DISCOVERS FIANCEE IS HIS SISTER

WARSAW (Poland), June 1. DR. BORIS KLEINMANN, twenty-seven-year-old brain specialist, of Leningrad, met and fell in love with a beautiful nineteen-year-old girl student, Esther Einzel. They arranged to be married at the end of this week.

To-day an old friend called unexpectedly.

"You will not be able to get married," he said. " learned that Esther is your later,"

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Dr. Kleinmann made investigations. It was proved that Esther was hla baby sistor who disappeared ninetoon years ago dur ing the Russian revolution. She had been found and brought up

Dr. Kloinmann went home and Injected morphin - by strangerв. Into hla body. He died.

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