1936-06-23 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

23, TUESDAY, JUNE

1936.

"Gaolbird" Who Was Once Judge Tells

of Amazing Career GERMANY'S WONDER 2 PRINCES

ADVISER TO A KING

THEN POSED AS PEER IN

£10,000 FRAUD

AN old Etonian who after a brilliant university career fought as an officer in the Guards and later became a judge in Siam walked into a Lon- don newspaper office recently-straight from prison.

This is the amazing story given just as he told it:

Until I was 20 everything in my life seemed to point to my

enjoying the most brilliant of careers,

My parents were wealthy, influential.

I was their second

son, and like my brothers 'I was sent to Eton. My record there was better than any of them.

When I left to pass on to the University I was captain of games, a member of the first fifteen, captain of boxing, and I passed the University examinations with credit.

IN THE WAR

Then the war came. I applied for a commission and gained

I fought with them at Cambrai. one in the Grenadier Guards.

I was the only officer left out of the entire battalion. When we were relleved after 96. hours of continuous fighting I was in command of “battulion" of C0-men.........

After the war I decided on a There came a night when I had Tegal career, and was enlled to the ao money left at all. I was hun- bar in 1923.

I was appointed prosecutor to the Board of Trade. I hold that rather difficult job for more than three years.

Then I tired of it and resigned. furious. 1 was My family wan given a cheque for £200 and ad- vised to try to make my fortune in the Colonica,

gry.

I had known for many years that I bore n striking resem- blance to a famous and wealthy peer: Hunger sharpened my wils, and tempted to make uso of the resemblance, I went to a West End hotel and booked a suite in the peer's name.

The next day I walked into a jeweller's shop off Piccadilly, tell- Then ing them that I wanted to choose

I apent that £200 within a fortnight-in London. signed on as a stoker on a vessel

for New Zealand.

After a precarious life there, doing odd jobs, I managed to save enough-shilling by ahilling-for a cheap passage back to England. But I had no job or any prospect

of one.

Howover. luck-and bluff with a very big B-got me out of the corner.

A legal friend told me that the post of legal adviser to the King of Siam was vacant. Out of 153

applicants I got the job, at £2,000 a year.

SHIP OF THE AIR

The "Hindenburg" in the United States-three days out from Europei the huge dirigible, which carried fully fifty passengers across the Atlantic and back again in record time, moored at Lakehurst, with the U.5. girahip Los Angeles In the background.

Sir Chartres Biron

wedding present for my laugh on ler, and I ordered £10,000 worth. I asked for it to be sent round to my suite at the Carlton.

It was Saturday morning. and I added as an afterthought. Possi- bly, as you close at one, it will he an inconvenience to you?"

The jeweller fell into the trap "Not at all, my lord. As it is only a small parcel why, not take;

with you?"

it

Within two hours I had sold the jewellery to "fence" for £7,000. The same afternoon i left by

I was a success in Siam. The plane for Paris. King decorated me with the Order

der of the White Elephant.

In less than two months I was of the Crown of Siam and the Or-back in London again, broke

had played the fool in Paris to the I sat on the bench as a judge. tune of £1,000 a week. ARRESTED In many instances I was called upon to adjudicate where Hard put to it to find money British interests were involved after-1-made the one big alip. L A year later I was back in Eng- tried to obtain £100 worth of land, my carcer hopelessly inter-roods from a West End store on rupted. I had contracted sleepy my mother's name.

sickness.

· SAVINGS GONE All the money I had saved drained away in doctors' fees and other expenses.

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Secret of Horatio Bottomley's Success

ACCORDING to Sir Chartres Biron, for long Chief

Magistrate at Bow Street, Horatio Bottomley was the most remarkable criminal in his experience.

In Without Prejudice (Faber and Faber, 158.), published this month, Sir Chartres deals with Bottomley's career at length and says "one secret of his financial success was his freedom from all class prejudice.

"He was first to realise that it was safer to rob one thousand people of £1 than one of £1,000.

"He lived largely by robbing the poor whose confidence he had won," and ho goes on to tell how Bottomley, after making a patriotic speech to discontended workers on Clydeside during the war and persuading them to return to work and "put their backs in it." got the employers to have his speech typewritten and to supply addressed envelopes for everyone of their employees on the pretext that he would send the speech at his own expense to every worker on the Clyde.

was sentenced to nine months' hard labour.

This morning I became a free man again.

AT ENGLISH GIRL'S WEDDING

Vienna, June 1.

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Josef of Liechtenstein and

Prince Fritz Hohenlohe-cx.

corted Miss Marle. Therese

Wood, pretty, blonde twenty WINTER five-year-old English girl, to

the altar in Vienna to-day, when she was married to Prince Ernst thirty-one.

Voit

Hohenberg, aged SUITS

Prince Ernst is the acconti son

of the Austrian Archduke Frunz

IN

Ferdinand, whose murder at Sera- MADE Jovo In 1914 led to the world war. Minn Wood's two bridesmaids- Princess Maria Theresa of Liech- tenstein and Princess Elizabeth fohenlohe--and twa dukes, the little sons of the bridegroom's brother, Duke Max-von borg carried her white satin train.

Hohen-

fifteen-reet LONDON

Many princes, archdukes and counts attended the wedding at the beautiful baroque, Karis- kirche, Vienna's most famous Roman Catholic church.

BRIDE'S PRESENT

The prince has given his Eng- lish bride as a wedding present a diamond tiarn, a set of supphire earrings-three sapphire and. diamond brooches, and two Bap phire bracelets. These belonged to his mother, the Duchess von Hobenberg. which was murdered beside her husband, the Archduke, at Serajevo.

a Last night 'polterabend” (literally noisy evening") was held in a Vienna hotel for the their bride and bridegroom and guests. A "polterabend" is an old Austrian custom. The idea is that If much noise is made the night before the marriage, evil spirits are expelled from the wedded life of bride and bridegroom.

"AIR RAID" ON GENEVA

Geneva, June 1. Defence measures against an air attack on Geneva, "City of Peace,"

including drilling of citizens ngainst polson gas attacks, were carried out for the first time dur-

ing the week-end. The air raid signal was given by the approach of an "enemy" plane, which wooped over the town and the League palace. supplied with gas masks, rushed. to points where "fires" had broken out.

Rescue squads,

"This was done, says Sir Anti-Gas

Chartres, "and he enclosed and

posted thousands of advertise Advice

The trick was discovered.

ments of his next Derby sweep-. was arrested, and while I was on remand the authorities were able But it seems inevitable that be-stake. Out of these he did very to link me up with the £10,000 fore long 1 shall be back behind | well.". jewellery loss.. I pleaded guilty and I prison walls.

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Describing the "most dificult" case that ever came before him magistrate, Sir Chartres cites that of an old couple who

from

came

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remote district of the Caspian Sea,

Attacked

Doctors belonging to the Socialist Medical Association are issuing their own pamphlet on Civilian defence against air raids. In doing so they are attacking the official instructions given in For some reason the husband had a Government booklets 011

the great, admiration of England and the English, and after saving for yeurs |

Professor J. R. Marrack, uf London managed to get enough money to pay Hospital, stated at the annual confer-

They spoke a patois of their own.

his passage and that of his wife to the land of his dreams. In the ship on the way over another emigrant lost

subject.

ence of the Social Medical Associa- tion, London, that their pamphlet dealt with the classification of gases, their effects, methods of protection a bag containing all his money and dissemination. Suspicion fell on the two old people He declared that the Government from the Caspian Sea. They were booklets were not merely misinform- arrested and charged.. As there wased but grossly inaccurate in some re-

spects. n certain amount of evidence they He instanced a paragraph in one of were remanded for a week to see if the Government publications which an interpreter could be found who declared that in a majority of cases understood their language. Before bus from mustard gas could be cured if properly treated. This, he the week olapsed the missing bag

sald, was unccurate, was found; it had fallen, behind boards ou the ship.

THOUGHT PRISON AN HOTEL "Authority," says Sir Chartres, "was horrified. It was all most 11- fortunate; innocent people had been locked up for a week. Some com- pensation seemed to be indicated. The old man was seen in prison and, the Governor found him perfectly happy,

In an Interview Professor Marek said their pamphlet makes recommendations concerning the manufacture and issue of a rian- dard, guaranteed type of mask, hid the construction of underground shelters.

One concerned in compiling the pamphlet stated: "It is suggested that the shelters be built two hundred yards apart. Each would be entirely independent of publié water and elec triclty services, with its own installa At Inst someone, was found who couldtion, including Installations for fliter- more or less understand his story.

"It was to the effect that much as he had heard about England he was astounded at his reception. He and his wife were met on their arrival

ed alr. Every shelter would have provision for stocks of food."

and taken to a most beautiful, hotel;THREAT OF ho had never been so woll housed or caten such food, and there were only two drawbacks.

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"He could not find out how to open the door of his room and was unable to explain this to the attendant,

"This was an unexpected develop- ment, and authority upon careful con. sideration innde up its mind that the best thing to do was to accept the situation; so the old couple wandered out free to seek their fortuno in 'a' country where they had been Lagreeably received."

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GIPSY CURSE

A elpsy woman was found guilty at Cambridgeshire Assizes of demand- ing money and groceries with menaces from Percy Bradshaw, grocer, of March, and bound over for 12 months. Counnel said that the woman, Re- sanna Price (40), some tune agö told Bradshaw his fortune and gave him advice. Last inrch she demanded money from him and said that unless he. gave it to her she would put a curse upon him and send him to an asylum.

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