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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1997.

TRAGIC JOURNEY

OF OFFICER IN TOWER 'My Loss Kills Joy of Release'

"WHAT happiness my release has given me is overshadowed by the tragic circum- stances surrounding it.”

Within three hours of his release from Maidstone Prison, ex-Lieut. Norman Baillie-Stewart-"the Officer in the Tower" -addressed these words to newspapermen 'when he arrived in London on his way to

attend his father's funeral at Bristol.

Sta soldierly figure, alim and with the same neatly clipped ginger moustache, Mr. Balllie-Stewart, who is 27, has changed little since he was sentenced in 1833 to five years' penal servitude for betraying secrets to a foreign Power.

There was, however, one notable difference. Thlek hornrimmed spec- tacles, with heavy lenses, covered his eyes, while his face was pale.

"I WAS STUNNED"

It was of his father-Lieut.-Col. Cronhope Balllle-Wright-that he preferred to talk, and there could be no mistaking the sincerity with which he spoke. [Ex-Lieut. Baillie-Stewart changed his name by deed poll some years ago.]

"By my father's death, on the eve almost of my return to my home, I have lost one of my dearest posses- sions," he said. "Never once did my father's faith in my innocence falter. No man could have done more to maintain the honour of his son.

"I was stunned when the news

A view of the fomous Gize pyramids, the oldest and biggest pyramids in Egypt, which every year attracts numerous tourists. In the foreground is a cultivated piece of ground.

A DIET OF GLASS!

JAPANESE WHO FEEDS ON EMPTY BOTTLES WITH JUST A LITTLE RICE

¿PECIALISTS of Hyoto Imperial

University Hospital are interested in the case of Masco Minamio, a 25 year old native of Wakayama pre- fecture, who claims to be unable to get along without a diet of plass.

Minamic, who was a visitor to the Japan Chronicle office in Kobe last week, thinks nothing of a dozen day. (empty) bottles of beer a Properly on his feed he finishes a bowl of rice by eating the bowl. A nice bit of earthenware does for hora d'oeuvre, and half a dozen electric bulbs-preferably unused make an excellent supper.

of his death was broken to me by ADMITTING he didn't like to do

the Governor of Maidstone Prison. Major B. G. Grew, I was in a hospital ward at the timo suffering from influenza, and I immediately asked if I could petition the Home Secretary for my release.

"The officials at the prison were sympathetic, and I knew that my mother, who has been such a source of comfort to me on her visits to the prison, would do everything possible in London to enable me to attend the funeral.

"Then I

that WILS informed the Home Secretary had favourably considered the position and was told to prepare for my relense,

"What plans I had in mind for the future have been crushed by my father's death. My whole concern for the present is to comfort my mother in her hour of distress.

"But I will never give up the Baht to vindicate my honour and that of the regiment-the Seaforth Highlanders to which I was so proud to belong."

It is understood that it was largely as a result of Mrs. Baillie-Wright's personal appeal to the Home Once that her son secured his release about two weeks before the correct time. The drama of his ultimate release was swift-moving.

A telephone call was received from the Home Office by the governor of the prison about noon, and two hours afterwards a car drew up at the main gates. Two men were admitted.

At three o'clock Mr. Baillie- Stewart left the gaol in a taxicab, in which he travelled to Maidstone East Station, where he boarded a train for Vietoria.

He was accompanied by three mon in civilian clothes, and a clergyman. Prisoner No. 180 was how Mr. Baillie-Stewart was known in prison, where he has served his sentence with Clarence Hatry and Leopold Harris,

His work consisted largely in pre- paring old books for rebinding in the printing room, where. Harris has spent much of his time.

One of the few friendships made among his fellow convicta was thai of a deaf and dumb prisoner. He saw this pathetic little man only on parade, at exercise, or in the prison library, and they converzed in signs.

"

When this man was released early last year Mr. Baillie-Stewart be came the loneliest man 'in prison.

Wed at 88, Cycled at 93, Preached At 98

died at

THE Cycling Parson, the Rep.

the age of ninety-eight.

He had eveled in America, Austro--

·lia, Africa, India, and various parts of Europe. On many occasiona he Tode from England to Italy.

Ils last cycle ride was five pears ago. His last sermon toas on his ninety-eighth birthday in July.

He married for a second time when!

he was eighty-eight,

without his rice, Minamio claimed that glass tuas essential for its pro-. per digestion,

"I am really like a bird inside," he said. "I have no appendix, but a Bort of pizzard, The glass eventually gets into the bloodstream and is carried to all parts of my body, coming to the surface where I pick it put."

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MAZING as it sounds, Minamio was in a position to prove his statements,

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Handed a plate, he commenced onawing it. He has a splendid set of teeth, two short of the usual num2

ber, all of them exceptionally strong looking though a little worn,

"I could finish this in five minutes," he said, getting his teeth well into the plate. Within a minute he had "eaten a sizeable” portion.”

Next bottle was smashed with hammer, and the jagged sprinters presented him. Talcing a mouthful, he washed the plass down with a cup

of water. Neither his mouth nor gullet was cut, though the splinters were sharp, jepped pieces from half an inch to an inch long.

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PARING his arms, Minamio showed dozens of recently healed Rutle scars caused, he claimed, by picking out glan áwallowed on previous occasions. There were other similar marks on the back of his neck.

Some of the marks, however, were due to needles having been stuck- through the flesh,

In the presence of about twenty witnesses, Minamto thrust the wire spoke of a motor-car wheel through the thick flesh of one of his arma. It took considerable strength to pierce the flesh and muscle, but Minamio apparently felt no pain or discomfort of any kind. There was no bleeding, and the surface wound was very small, the outer flesh and skin closing over almost as though the arm was made of rubber.

"I've been able to do this ever since I was a boy," he said. “I was kicked on the knee once by a horse, and was able to undergo a long operation entirely without anaesthetic."

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POLLOWING d little mack of

electric light bulbs-Minamio wrapped the bulbs in a cloth, smash- ed them against a desk and swallowed the pieces after extracting the filaments he displayed some feats of strength, bending a ten inch nail with his hands and using his hand as anvil on which to break an ordinary building brick:

Former bodyguard to Mr. Marda, Minister of Railways, Minamio is now serking to turn his queer latents lo Arancial account.

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