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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1937.

Experts Turn Handful of Ashes Into £1,000 Bond: Forgery Gang Caught

"MIRACLE" IN

A SEALED ROOM

NEW YORK, JAN. 20.

WORKING in a sealed room which grew hotter and

hotter until the thermometer touched 160 degrees, two young detectives of the New York Police Research Bureau-Thomas Paolo and John A. Stevenson-have worked the miracle of turning a heap of muddy ashes into a legible document which convicted a forger.

It is the most remarkable piece of crime detection yet. They started with a heap of tiny fragments of paper-ash,

The black ashes, each the size of a ten-lent, had been found in the mud, mashed down by two rainstorms, and carefully emptied into an old tomato tin,

In their laboratory-sealed to exclude draughts, since even the air current set up by a passer-by might ruin the ash-the two detectives photographed each fragment.

Doggedly they tolled, makingi silently at one another in the un dozens, scores, hundreds of photo-bearably hot atmosphere of their graphs of the ashes-using surgical scaled roam, needles to coax each fragment into They knew that this company had position.

never sued 5,050 Dollar Bonds.

Damning Evidence

And they knew that Walter A. Rathbourne, property agent, then inj Sing Sing Prison on a forgery charge, The pictures were magnified hun-lind not only justifled his boast that dreds of times, re-photographed in he could smuggle a forged engraving red, blue and green lights on ultra-plate out of prison, but by a stupid sensitive plates. Curled and bent mistake had convicted himself. fragments were photographed from

half a dozen angles..

And from the heap of muddy ash the detectives built up a jig- saw which, after days and nights of weary toll, at last became a 6,000 Dollars (£1,000) Bond of the Langendorf Baking Com- pany.

Paolo and Stevenson, their pale faces streaked with sweat, looked

Five Will Share Houston Millions

IF NO WILL IS

FOUND

EVERY scrap of corres- pondence which Lady Houston left is being examined for her will.

Boast to Convict.

In no other country are beggars so numerous as in India. Picture nhave shows a typical beggar in the streets

In Mudras. By means of a bell he draws the attention of pedestrians.

1,500 ARE SEEKING DIVORCE

The prelude to the two detectives FIFTEEN HUNDRED

uncanny of reconstruction start-

et when Rathbourne was arrested for¦

husbands and wives trying to sell bonds which were went to the Divorce Courts proved to be clever forgeries.

in London during the Hilary term, to seek the dissolution of their marriages.

Rathbourne, while awaliing telal in the Tomba prison, boasted to a next-cell prisoner that even If the police sent him to Bing Blig he would be able to engrave bonds and smuggle the plates out to his associates.

The other convict told the prison authorities, and Rathbourne was sent

years.

to Slug Sing on a sentence up to five

By some

means still unknown Rathbourne actually smuggled forged plates outside.

to catch the Detectives were set gang who circulated the forged bonds. Ashes in Mud

At the last moment the forgers took fright. One who was caught turned State's evidence,

J

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New York, Jan. 30.

The death-house at Sing Sing is rapidly becoming overcrowded.

When four convicted murderers arrived at the prison recently, the authorities had to open a new corridor of cells in the death-house to accommodate them.

Those awaiting execution now number twenty-seven, the highest for many years, and all will die unless reprieves are granted or re- trials ordered.

Among those due to pay the extreme penalty are nine boys, all under twenty-one ydars of age, which is in itself a record in the history of the prison.

CENTS

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large range of smart coats which have not moved as

we had confidently ex-

Tony" Garlaus, convleted with three others to die for killing a man dur-Owing to the mildness of

the hold-up of a saloon in Brooklyn during November,

this winter we have a The crime was particularly fragic because the man killed had never His occa- Expenses to maintain such a large before entered a saloon. "population" in the

death-house pion for paying a visit which led to have also increased. It now costs his death, was in the hope of obtain- $100 daily for the nineteen guards ing something to relieve a violent assigned exclusively to watch over stomach ache. His wife had advised the condemned prisoners.

him to

to try a saloon after all remedies If all should go to the electric recommended by near-by druggists | chair.

had failed. the

will have taken al stalt toll of twenty-seven lives for the Police describe Garlaus as sullen, killing of eight persons.

very arrogant towards authority and During his trial and again society. on his way to Sing Sing, he was proud before stocktaking. This to pose for the photographers, stand- ing erect and composing his features for the best effecia

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Included among the recent entrants the death-house was "Tough

STATE AT ODDS OVER GALLOWS

OR LETHAL GAS

Wyoming Officials Dis

agree on Methods

Mrs. Dore Gulbenkian and her

For Execution husband, Mr. Nubar Sarkis Gul- benkian, the oil magnate, filed Cheyenne, Wyo., Jan. 25, cross petitions on an issue to be

Wyoming's new lethal gas heard. They were in the de-chamber, authorized by the Also in the defended list was the legislature to replace the potition of Mrs. (Hermione Baddeley, the actress) for divoree from the Hon, David Tennant, brother of Lord Glencorner. Countess of Jersey Among the petitions held over from last term were those of the beautiful Australian Countess of Jersey and the Baroness Chesham. Both were undefended.

Olier

undefended petitions were brought by the Hon. Mrs. Edward Ward against her husband, the 500 of Viscount Bangor; by Lady (Anna) Craven, half-sister of the Marquis of against her husband, Mr. Leslie and by Mrs. Bridget E.

David Tennant gallows, is being completed

Bien, against her husband,

When asked where the forged bonds were he took the pollee to a piece of deserted ground on Long Island-and showed them fragments of ashes in the mud. Carefully the police scooped up the ashes in lomalo tin and handed over the exhibit to Detectives Paolo Mr. Peter Lockwood Smith-Dorrien, and Stevenson, who began insk which even experts declared beyond son of the late General Sir Horned

Lockwood Smith-Dorrien, human power.

In the defended list was the poli- It is thought likely that she pieces were photographed and tited formerly Lady Hulton, widow of Sir In this way thousands of separate tion of Mrs. F. E. M. Thompson, may well have settled the dis-into a complex jg-saw-and finally Edward Hulton, against her hus- tribution of her fortune of the bond, with its feltering quite band, Mr. J. H. Thompson. They

I were married in 1928. a scribbled mes-legible, was recreated. £7,000,000 in sage on a single sheet of paper

or on the back of an envelope.

One of her former secretaries, Mrs. Chapman, has stated that Lady Houston made a will which she witnessed on the back of an envelope in 1927.

It is also suggested that she' may have made her will on the fly-leaf of a book.

She was in the habit of writing poems and messages in the front of the books in her library. All the books she possessed are, therefore, 'being examined.

HER RELATIONS

It her will is not found Ave blood relations who claiments to her fortune,

there are

will They are:

eldest

be

Mr. Thomas Radman, her brother, whose present whereabouts are not disclosed;

Mrs. Arthur H. Wrey of Chester- terrace, Regent's Park, her only sur- viving sister;

Lady Palmer, wife of Major Sir Geoffrey Palmer, of Cambridge- terrace, Regent's Park, the grand- daughter of Lady Houston's brother; Mr. Hugh Catty, her nephew (son of another sister); and

Mrs. W. Woocis, the daughter of a third alster.

EDITOR. UNDER WHOM KIPLING SERVED

Death Of Mr. 5. E. Whoclor Mr. Stephen Edward Wheeler, of Streatham, whose death in London in

his 83rd year is announced, Was

as a journalist.

Marriage To Niece

Is

Declared Void

A TABLE OF KINDRED AND AFFINITY, WHEREIN WHOSO-

EVER ARE RELATED ARE FORBIDDEN IN SCRIPTURE AND

OUR LAWS TO MARRYTOGETHER.

Allan may not marry his

1 Grammother,

2.Grandfather's Wife,

3 Wife's Grandmother.

4 Father's Sister.

Mother's Hister,"

6 Father's Brother's Wife,

7 Mother's Brother's Wife.

Wife's Father's Nister,

Wife's Stuthor's Slater.

10 Mother.

11 Step-Mother.

12 Wife's Motlar.

18-Daughter.

14 Wife's Daughter.

15 Bon's Wife.

16 Slater,

17 Wife's Sister,

Ja Brother's Wife.

19 Son

Daughter,

20 Daughter's Daughter,

21 Han's Bon's Wife.

22 Daughter's Son's Wife,

# Wife's Ban's Daughter,

24 Wife's Daughter's Daughter.

25 Brother's Baughter,

26 Bister's Daughter,

27 Brother's Son's Wife,

28 Mister's Son's Wife,

20 Wife's Ileother's Daughter.

3d Wife's Daughter,

A oman may not marry with her 1 Grandfather,

↑ Grandmother's Husband,

panel's Grandfather.

Father's Brother,

$ Müther's Brother,

Father's Alter's Husband.

7 Mother's Shter's. Husband,

AFFusband's Father's rather,

9 Husband's Mother's Brother.

10 Father,

11. Step-Father,

12 Husband's Father.

18 San.

18. Daughter's, Husband,

14 Haband's San

16 Brother.

17 Kuaband's Bentier,

1 Sister's Husband.

Son's Son,

* Daughter's Sun,

21 Son's Daughter's Husband.

92 Daughter's Daughter's Husband,

29 Husband's Men's San

24 Husband Daughter's Son,

26 Brother's fon

24 Sister

Bon.

27 Brother's Daughter's Husband.

28 Slater's Daughter's Husband,

20 Husband's Brother's Ban,

10 Husband's Slater's Bon.

THE END

Carlisle, Jan. 20.

at the state penitentiary at Rawlins amid continued con- troversy among state offi- cials.

When the judge asked him if he had any comment to make before sentence was passed upon Him.

Garlat remarked "Aw, give me the

works," and the judge obliged.

Garious exerted a dominating in- fluence over his three companions also sentenced to die-Harry Eisen- berg, Raymond Norton and Watson Edwards, and to-day they stand in the shadow of death solely because they were unable to combat the do- mineering wifl-power of their cold- blooded leader-United Press.

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'San Francisco, Jan. 25. With completion of its first year of trans-Pacific service, Fan American Airways to-day is weighting basic economies of the project on which $5,200.000 has been expended, and for which pilots and ground crews have risked their lives and under- gone hardships since 1931.

Most outspoken of the op ponents of the "gas system" is William Jack, state auditor,

The record is being written in red who branded the entire pro-ink at present but airline officials are cedure "cruel and barbaric.” far from being disheartened. Heavy

The majority of staic

SCA at first officials, lossca

were foreseen. Re- including Gov. Leslie A. Mulier, turns thus for have fallen for short favour lethal gas the more humane of paying operating expenses, not to method of

mention returns on capital invested, capital punishment. "I is speedy and sure," anid Adolph although passenger and freight traffic Henson, secretary of the state prison have been at virtually full capacity board. "When the body of the since inception of each. apored man is turned over to his family, his neck is not broken as is the case In hanging."

MENTAL TORTURE STRESSED

Jack, however, disagreed, "The mental torture greater punishment than death," he de clared

"Down a long hall coma the warden, the prisoner and The At present clipper chips carry only guards. They stop in front of

six passengers on the 2,400-mile hop grutesque steel chamber that looks between Alomedo and Honolulu, and like nothing in the world but 12 from Honolulu to Munila. De- helfe

in The door is opened. The men step inside. The prisoner is strapped to the chair. The guards and warden step out. The door sinms shut.

can.

15

11

a

That must be a moment of sheer terror. The sound of that door bang-

TO PARE EXPENSES Thus PAA officials to-day re trim- ming expenses, planning increases in carrying capacity for passengers and freight, as indicated by orders for 40- seat flying boats under construction in Seattle.

mo monstrating the thorougliness with which Pan American has gone over its plans, airline officials point out a 10-mile headwind (which the clip- pers often encounter) although with- aut danger cost PAA an extra 800

of

ing shut must echo through enternity lying it asoline and six hours of

In the cars of the convict,

tline.

The three clippers in service, "There follow endless seconds of

China, Philippine and Hawaiian, terror, while he wails for the gas to flown 341,200 miles in actual trans-

have

in PAA's first year of operation, start. Then he sinks, slowly, into oceanic crossing, far above the entire

a choking, coughing unconsciousness, total of individual ocean-spanning

"Hanging-anything-is

than that."

kinder

The benefits of hanging, according to Jack, Include the adjustment of blindfold over the doomed person's eyes before the noose is placed around the neck, the conversation of the warden who seeks to keep the man's thoughts off death, and the sudden

with which it is all over. CHAMBER BUILT OF STEEL

ness

Allers during the past decade.

COSTLY BASES BUILT Sixty-six one-way crossings had been completed at the end of the first year's operations, five complete crews trained and in service, approximately 250 pounds of air freight carried on cach trip from the Alameda terminal Bod $2,300,000 expended alone iri establishment of Island basca. Resembling "huge tin can," the chamber will be a steel cylinder with

Many times the number.

of passen- windows provided in two sides for Bers would have flown had PAA been witnesses. In the centre will be able to take care of all applicants, metal chair in which the doomed and it is this fact that has led the airline to place orders for a half- man is strapped.

The warden can operato

dozen flying bouts half again chanism from the outside to drop large sa the clippers in use and of

pellets into sulphuric

several times the "payload" capacity. beneath the chalr, releasing fumes that snuff out life in a few seconds.

A delicate stethoscope

being

" mc-

peld

recent marriage of a man to his nicce in the Car-bulit into the top of the chamber

lisle Diocese was to-day declared by the Chancellor, Mr. H. B. Vaisey, to be an "absolute nullity."

He was thus closely associated

"It seems to me rather a shocking with Kipling during the early days of thing that a man should profess to the latter's carcer, and he is the sub-marry some one with whom he can- Ject of a tribute, in

the Kipling not be married in any sense of the autoblography, extracts from which word, and should use for that pur- are shortly to appear.

pose a solemn service of the Church Mr. Wheeler was an able journalist and the special privilege of exemp- with a great knowledge of India, and tion

when death occurs. When offcials

so that physicians may determine

to

are certain the victim is dead, am- monia is pumped into the room neutralize the polson gos, then ventilator fans are turned on.

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LAME JEW WITHOUT WALKING STICK Custom Causes Death. Members of the Jewish religion are forbidden to carry walking, sticks..

Editor of the Cluil- and Military Speaking at a conalstory court hung up in every church. He concutra Gazelle of Lahore during the time in Carlisle Cathedral to-day the new State now allows marriages Ferry If Carroll, of Cheyenne, on the Jewish Sabbath-Saturday. Mr. Rudyard Kipling worked there Chancellor said:

between some of the persons whose convicted murderer of a Cheyenne Alexander Ketchinoff, aged 70, of relationship is set out in that table, 'ralroad official a year ago, is Great Alie-street, Whitechapel, de- such as marriage with a decoused Wyoming's only man awaiting the spite the fact that he was lame, went wife's sister, but the idea that the death sentence in the new gas to a synagogue without his walking State recognises as a marriage a

chamber.

stick. While passing a public house union between any man and any

Carroll, also a railroad man, has he fell down an open cellar and re- woman is completa delusion..

appealed his case to the state au ceived injuries from which he died | "Prohibitions which are based not preme court, and a final decision is in St. Peter's Hospital.

At the inquest at Poplar when a relationship by blood are exactly theBy that time, unless the legislature verdict of accidental death was re- After his return to England he was The Chancellor said. the table of same under the law of the State as reserves Hoelt and restores the state's turned, It was stated that Jews were for many years librarian of the kindred affinity printed at the end they are wunder the law of the oMelal death by hanging, the new not allowed to carry anything on Oriental Club.

their-Sabbath:- of every Prayer-book ought to be Church."

chamber will be ready,

was an authority on. Asiatic affairs. inom banna which the licenco on relationship by' marrloge but an not expected for at least six months,

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