1937-02-23 — Page 39

THE HONGKONG.

TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1937.

SELF-PORTRAIT OF A KILLER-KIDNAPPER-HOLDUP MAN

TOOK CAPTOR FOR DEATH RIDE FOR THE RACES

AS POLICE PURSUED

The Earl of Gainsborough, who

will be 14 years old next October, will be the youngest Earl at the Coronation of King George VI. The picture shows the Earl of Going

borough wearing costume of the 1840 period.

"Gutter Bishop" 90-Won't Retire

London, Feb, 15.

PREBENDARY CARLILE. "Bishop of the Gutter," has just celebrated his 90th birthday.

Yesterday he talked of his work with the Church Army, of which he is the founder and head, of the mur- derers, pick-pockets, and Royalty, who are numbered equally among his friends, and of the guldance and help that he receives from his dead

wife,

"My wife died 12 years ago,” he said, “but I know that she is always by my side, encouraging and guiding me,

"I have learned a lot, chiefly the fact that very oflen there are better Christians among burglars and murderers than among so-called Christians who really only make a pretence of religion.

"I have been asked time and again when I will retire. Well,-I-won't-). rotire until I die and I have no Intention of dying for a long time Yet,"

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A Yorkshire firm with factories at Liversedge has succeeded, after years of rosearch, in producing glass silk which resembles shimmering Batin and which can be cut with scissors to any desired size,

Ordinary glass, is drawn into 'fine thread which is then woven

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This fabric has many other appli- cations besides blankets. It can be used for curtains, wrapped round 'boilera,

cylinders and tanks conserve heat, and used to make floors and walls sound-proof.

He Argued, Guys Can't

Do That

With Me

By C. V. R. THOMPSON

New York, Feb. 15.

HERE is the self-

portrait of "shoot- first think aftor wards" Frenchy Benoit, typical U.S. criminal, dope-crazed, confessed kidnapper and murderer}, of State Trooper Richard Hammond.

I

It was painted at Monroe (Michigan) police station to-day, and released by the police for publication.

Hammond's body, chained to post with his own handcuffs, was found yesterday soon after he had detained Benoit on suspicion and was taking him to town in a car.

"Sure, I shot him." said Benoit

put up an argument. Guya can't argue with me, Kidnapping- that's my racket: I take 'em for ride and then get their dough. I been making a living that way since I got out of Town Prison.

Trail Of Crimes

wna

"How many have I done? Say, I've done hold-ups in every city in the country-Detrolt (that easy) Chiengo lots, Toledo, Grand Rapids, Ponilac, Cleveland-lord, I can't even remember.

LONDON'S NEW BRIDGE IS RISING

The new Chelsea Bridge across the River Thames is nearing completion, and is expected to be open for traffic shortly after the Coronation. Pedestrians will use the section on the right,

CHURCHES' Divorce

QUEST IN SPAIN

TWO DEANS ON

'COMMISSION

OF INQUIRY

Not To Be Granted For Drunkenness

"Saturday night a guy got tough THE personnel of the joint THE House of Commons Com-

when I took him for a ride, and I

mittee which is considering commission of inquiry which the Marriage Bill sponsored by

HIS MOTHER'S OFFER

"MY OWN EYES IF IT WOULD SAVE HIM"

took his money and burned his car. is going to Spain on behalf of Mr. A. P. Herbert and others has 13-YEARS-OLD band.

They can't get tough with me. the Church of England and the deleted the section which

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the frisked me, but 1 daymond Free Churches has now been posed to make incurable drunken-player, jazz drumimer, and Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.

I'd gun dropped through a

hole

in my coat, bought that in Chicago. "I pulled my gun soon as we got started. I told that trooper to hand over his gat. He did, but he began to speed up, I socked him.

Then I saw you guys behind, and

finally constituted. members will be:

The six ness a ground for divorce.

Mr. W. P. Spens, K.C. (Con, Ash The Dean of Rochester, the Dean ford), who had moved the amend Mr. Philip Unlic. Roy. Henry out the difficulty of deciding what

tap dancer, Teddy Shill, of

Red Lion-road, Tolworth, BeerKENDERBENCH Surrey, has formed his own band, which has given many public performances.

young life, for Teddy is slowly But tragedy has entered his

cornedented it meant entry upon the going blind.

of Chichester, Mr. Henry, Brinton, ment striking out the clause, pointed

Carter, Mr. Peroy Bartlett

degree of drunkenness should be a Mr. Bartlett represents the Society ground for divorce. I pushed my gun in hisdrove like the of the striking article on "Christians Leicester, E.), supporting the amead and told or Friends. Mr. Brinton is the author Mr. A. M. Lyons, K.C. (Cen., him to step on it.' He devil, and the trooper he kept trying and Spain," which recently

said that if the clause were the car into the ditch. to ve turned off the first road I of York.

the commendation of the Archbishop

slippery slope to easy divorce which could see, and I stopped-the-car. Mr. Usher represents the Bishop of would-lead-to-misery, trouble and I got the handcuffs on one of his Gloucester, and the Rev. lienry Car-anxiety for worse than that which wrists and pulled him out. He put ter is general secretary of the the promoters of the Bill sought to up an awfel fight and near got Methodist Social Welfare Depart-redress. away.

"No case can be made out for the party, whose mission it is to manufacture of this leasehold state and shoot him. I shot him when investigato the bearing on religion of of marriage," he added. we were rolling over in the dirt.

happenings in Spain, has "I could hear the car radio saying already loft London the cops were after me, so I got back i Barcelona and Valencia will first and drove like the devil till I got be visited, and Bilbao will be includ- stuck. I had to run for it and layed on the homeward journey. down in hollow while.

Whether a visit will be possible

didn't truss him to the post

Held Up Farmer

"Then I moved around till I found

farmer's house. I told the old guy

I needed help with my car. He came

out and I showed him my gun.

HOMES-OR PRISON CELLS ?

an

Already he has to wear strong glassos, and there are times when ho cannot see at all.

Specialists have examined him, and The has been treated at London hos-

pitais but nothing can be done,

HURT HIS HEAD

my

Mrs. Shill says that when her son Sir Patrick Hannon (Con., Moseley) was two he fell on his head but no sald; "I regard every move to open serious notice was taken at the time.

divorce the doors wider to

Ar ho grew older and went to structure attack upon the

of our school his alght started to fail and and a blow at the unity and doctors were consulted. to territory under insurgent control sanctity of the home,"

"I would do anything within is still uncertain.

The Rev. R. W. Sorensen (Lab, power for my boy, and have even The six commissioners will prepare Leyton) opposed the amendment, and offered my own eyes if that would report, which will be presented to replying to members "who belonged help at all," Mrs. Shill said. "Doctors their respective churches, and to the to a religious section of the com- say that Teddy has a growth on the Federal Council of the Free Churches munity which is opposed to all kinds skull behind the eyes.

"We are quite as concerned about that Teddy should go to a home, but The county council has suggested the moral structure of society as they I do not want to lose him, and the are. I would ask those who oppose specialists say that no useful purpose the Bill, do they want to close tie would be served

by sending him door to prevent the facilities which away.

"I said Td take his coupe, but and the National Free Church Coun- of divorce" sald:

it wouldn't start. Wo got out the truck and started over the back) reads.

"Driving was tough. Then I saw

ell,

a truck put across the road by the cops, and I knew the game was up. to

"What other jobs have I done? I tell you I don't remember."

Champion Wanderer

Has Travelled To All

Countries of World

ROYAL MAIL LINES MERGER MOVE

now exist; do they want to bolt and "He is such a keen musician, and bar it, to put bars across the window entirely on his

own formed. this

of the hente and convert It Into a juvenile band, which consists of 13 prison cell

children. The amendment was carried with-

"The out a division.

The youngest player is Thomas The Commillee accepted an amend-the band. The others range from Messenger, aged four, the mascot of ment by Mr. A. F. Herbert to delete nine to 14.

the sub-clause which provided that a

ground for divorce should be where two accordions, drums and whistles, "The band comprises three violins, the respondent "is undergoing im and they have already appeared in

prisonment, under a commuled death pTwo nights ako ho rave à dir

NEGOTIATIONS are afoot for the sentence."

"Total of 1,600,000 Miles Covered by Journeys Of with a capital of £7,500,000.

J. H. Curle-Has No Intention Of

Settling Down as Yet

Johannesburg, Feb. 10,

J. H. Curle, "world's champion wanderer, whose wanderlust has fead him on travels totalling 1,600,000 miles and into every country of the world except Tibet, han returned here to prepare for another journey.

Curte began roaming when he was plored the two Americas. In Africa

has visited Timbuctoo fourteen years old, and he has kept he

and the River Congo a map of his travels. The tracks travelled down criss-cross Europe in a tangled net- from Its source to the sea. work, plunge into the heart of Asia In his scorch for material for a to Samarkand, and circle the globe book on gold mining, Curle has visit

ed more than 800 gold mines the world over. He has written series He has just returned from a visit of books containing his philosophical to Afghanistan and little-known musings upon the people and places Nepal, where he penetrated to the he has seen. fringe of Tibet, the only country he "has not entered.

in many lines.

NOT YET IN TIBET ·

PLANNING A JOURNEY

The Committee adjourned.

union of two great Billah ship- pint companies thé Royal - Mall Lines, with à Capital of £1,000,000,

NEWSPAPERS REDUCED and Furness Willy and Company,

THE German Press has been ordered Royal Mall Lines owns 12 motor to reduce consumption of newa- vessels and 24 aleamships, aggrega-print by 10 per cent, ling about 322,000 tons.

Furness Withy control a tonnage for fuel and syntheile textiles.

The wood thus, saved will be used of about 800,000, so that the tonnage over 1,000,000 Acets will be rather

Royal Mail.

Lines operate on routes) between Great Britain, Continentál

of the combined

ports and South America,

SEQUEL TO CRASH

This company was formed, only

formance in ald of B. Dunstan's because he realises that before long he may want to ask them for help."

"Teddy is most proud of the petion recently when he received a personal Invitation from Walt Disney to ap pear with him on the stage of a local Jelnema.

Crowns As Souvenirs

Fifty thousand (oxperimental five-shiling piécès are to be minted

four years ago to take over the fects and issued in Australia as Coronation souvenirs. They, will be smal- of the ill-fated loyal Mail Steam ler in diameter but thicker than the cartwheel crowns of last century. Packet Company, which crashed at A bill to amend the Coinage Act is to come before the House of that time.

Representatives.

Furness Withy and Company have very widespread shipping Interests,

Both crowns, and half-crowns have long been out of circulation and compete with Royal Mail on cer i Australia, says Austral News. If the new crowns prove popular

they will be retained as normal currency units.

tain South American routes.

The fusion of thiess two Dom panies, or the establishment of close working agreéniënt between]:12: them, would probably yield sub- stantial economics.; Achlavement of such à union will

Ho tiful considers Brazil the most beau- Down through the Malay Archi-most romantic; Jerusalem the place country in the world; India the pelago to Sumatra and on to the in-and country in which he would settle accessible mining areas of New If he could give up travelling. He be facilitated by the fact that the Guinea, where supplies all go in by first caine to Johannesburg years ago air, lies ono roulo, Austraila he has as mining editor of a newspaper. He travelled thoroughly, and the South has no Intention of settling down yel, Sea Islands, From the Klondike to and has already planned a journey the Straits of Magellan he has ex into the heart of South America. panies,

two companies are already in some ways related. Lord Essendon is chairman' of both, and Mr. W. C. Warwick is a director of both com-

£25 Dog Costs £33,800

New York, Feb,' 10.

Bisekle, Scotch terrier bélonging to Mr. William Stafford, member of the New York Stock Exchange, cost £25.. He jumped on the chauffeur's lap in his owner's car, which crashed into' the car of Mr. James Philson. who has been awarded. £83,800. damages for injuries to lits family.

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