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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, APRIL

22, 1987.

£100,000 Plot To Kidnap The Quins

"Mounties" Guard Trebled At Nursery: TOTE SLOT Armed Men Search For Couple

NO MORE PROVINCE DIVORCES.

London, April 1.

When 'Mrs. Emest Simpson slipped out of London and got a 10-minute divorco at Ipswich from Justice Sir John Anthony Hawke, her case started a train of events apparently destined to close provincial divorce Courts to all except the resident poor.

Despite Mrs. Simpson's, close association with King Edward, Justice Hawke looked askance at transfer of the case from London to Ipswich; he was told that Mrs. Simpson was living at Felixstowe nearby.

Since the Simpson divorce King's Bench judges, including Lord Hewart at Bury, Lord Chief Justice of Eng- land, lave raised incrensingly loud volces against the growing practice of sending undefended divorces to provincial assizes.

ONLY IN LONDON

PINTAR

Until 1922 on English divorce was obtainable only in London. Then, provision was made enabling poor persons .cosca

underfended divorce sults to be heard in pro-

Now nearly a fifth- vincial courts.

sind

of all English divorce cayės are] heard by judges outside of London, and the judges don't like it. They find wherever they 'go a spate of divorce cases awaiting them, in Addition to criminal and ordinary

civil actions,

Justice Sir Reynolds Warren Swift In Birmingham recently put back divorco 'cases on his docket so that juries dealing with ordinary business of the court should not be detained longer than necessary. He accom- panied the action with biting com- ment.

Justice Hawke, at Manchester, asked counsel why a divorce Cast had been taken there when the parties lived in the south of Eng- land.

INTENSELY DISLIKED

"I dislike it Intensely," he com- mented, Anally agreeing to hear the case.

In divorco action at Lewes, thei woman was said to be living in Paris and the man in London. Lord Chief Justice. Hewart, sitting, asked why "this rubbishy case" was brought to' Lewes. He was mollified when in

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Duce's Romance: Spy Rumour Alleged

Paris, Apr. 15.

police record, alleging that she was

formed that the witnesses to the AN Italian

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himself had an audience cancelled. Later Mme. Foninnge discovered that there was police record adultery charged in the complaint lived, at Brighton, nearby, and that|

ngainst her containing information Inquiries had been made before the French spy and that she had which, she was told, emanated from of being Mussolini's a secretary of the French Einbassy. admitted

to the Lewes boasted

mistress; was mentioned here

POLICE DOSSIER to-day by Magda Fontange, the beautiful French journalist..

case Was Blocket.

The Lord Justice said he was glad to know there was a check on such cases being brought into the pro- vinces.

"The upshot of the matter was on nouncement by N. B. Goldie, M.P., that he would bring up the question in the House of Commons, asking for a ruling by the Attomey-General that no undefended divorce case other than a poor person's ense shall be entered at an assize town.

This was the dossier which alleged that she had "boosted" of bring Mussolini's mistress and alleged fur- She was appearing before the Ether that she was a member of the! arining magistrale, charged with having shot and wounded the CountSecond Bureau (French Intelll-

Rence Service). de Chambrun, former French Am- bassador to Rome,

had be-

Secret Service Called In

A SENSATIONAL PLOT TO KIDNAP YVONNE AND

ANNETTE, THE TWO STRONGEST OF THE FAMOUS DIONNE QUINS, AND TO HOLD THEM FOR A RANSOM OF £100,000 HAS JUST BEEN THWARTED. ·

A terrified passenger in a transcontinental road coach overheard two men discussing the details of the kidnapping.

At the first stop at Etobicoke Village he rushed to the police station, where he found Mrs. Charles Suggett, the constable's wife.

She flashed a warning to Attorney-General Arthur Roc- buck. Armed men rushed to the coach station, but the men had gone.

This is what the man in the bus heard the kidnappers say:—

their nursery. "We'll snatch two of them is Dionnes out of Two'll be enough 'cos that'll spoll the five. A jump over that Bit. steel fence o' theirs then off in a racing plane ai 250 miles an hour. 'Course-li's an easy stunt. But, oh, boy-what a whale of a prize? Why, they'll give a million dollars (£100,000) to get them kids ont of pawn."

These words, flashed over the wire, 'set Canada agog with tension' and excitement.

"We must take no chances," said the Attorney-General.

Watch for Mid-night Raiders

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The guard of hefty armed Canadian Mounted Police on duty at the trebled. Motor-bus routes soon was immediately home of the Quins

who questioned all suspicious swarmed with secret service agents characters,

Nothing was left undone which would protect the world's most famous children from kidnappers.

They have taken partientar precautions to prevent any allempt by a mid-night raid by armed and desperate men on the Quins' home.

The

from kidnapping is very real. This is the second occasion danger on which a plot has come to light.

"American criminals regard the Quins as a potential gold mine," sald an official of the Mounties. "We can never afford to relax our vigilance over them for one minute. A reckless assault by force might succeed it we were not armed and ready to act.

"We Must Keep Vigil”

"If kidnappers did succeed in getting away with the two sturdiest girls, it's conceivable that America alone, to say nothing of other nations, would rally to redeem them at any price.

"You cannot Imagine what these five-at-a-birth children mean to us Canadians. If Yvonne or Annelle were to sicken and die in captivity, then the miracle of our far-famed Quins would pass away with them at any price.

"All we can do," the offeer concluded grimly is to keep watch and ward to the utmost of Provincial powers. And the need for an increasing vigil will grow greater with every year."

Brewery Has Hostess Now

Adelaide, Apr. 19..

FOLLOWING the dance hos

tess, the train hostess and the air hostess comes the bre- wery hostess.

MissLindley- Vilicneuve. Smith, beautiful society girl, Mme. Fontange told the magistraté daughter of a H.C., has been

appointed hostess that by comparing the dossier with

to an Ade- Mme. Fontange formally alleged her words to the Count she had lalde brewery company. that Mussolini was the "illus-

"complete proof" that he

She will visit hostesses who trlous Italian" who had been her

do not like ordering supplies of lover from April unili July, 1934trayed her confidence to the Italian

authorities.

drinks from men, and will sug- gest appropriate quantities of wines and spirits. She will also entertain prominent visitors at the brewery.

"My Benito" was the epithet which

The only exception he made was slipped more than once from her where the petitioner or respondent lips.

has

a permanent residence within]

tho county served

by the court,

Explaining why she had shot at

"When I returned to Rome after

obviously strliting at London social the Count, she said to the judge: figures who choose 1 provincial court in the hope of avoiding the publicity, little enough under drastic English law, the case might receive in the capital.

A legitimate reason, however, for secking to have divorce cases heurd the provinces is the crowded condition of the London courts. So long is the waiting list of London

in

a brick absence In July, I had already

In despair she attempted to com- mit suicide.

At this point the hearing was adjourned,

been Mussolini's mistress since April. CAPTAIN HERO

Usually he received me at once, but this time there was delay.

Mme. Fontonge said she wrote two letters to Mussolini, enclosing them as usual in an envelope addressed to one of his secretaries,

divorce cases that nine months to a Worried at receiving no reply, she

year may clapse before a case is visited the French Embassy, appealed

OF

BURNING SHIP

Holyhead, April 5.

Secret of No. 1 Gunman's Doom

THE

THE man who brought John Dul- Inger. America's Public Enemy No. 1 to his doom, is in London.

He is Noel Madison, the celluloid counterpart of the notorious gangster who could not resist studying, the screen tactles of the perfectly played gunman,

Madison, one of the most alnister figures who ever flitted across the cinema screen is, in real life, a smiling young man. "This is the real story of Dillinger's' death," he told a press representative. "I was in Chicago at the time in a dual capacity. But it wasn't me in the flesh that brought about his cap- ture. Dillinger was in hiding.

"Then it was remembered that he was one of my fans-particularly in u picture called "Manhattan Mad- ,ness,"

"The point was that Dillinger couldn't resist sociur, that flim,, "He made the most careful pre-

A burly Scot is the hero of a thirty-mile race between heard. In the provinces cases can to the Count de Chambrun to keep life and death in a blazing steamer. 'bo decided within a. few weeks.lher, secret and. told him of her dis- There is agitation for appointment of tress at being unable to see Mussolini. He is Captain W. J. S Anderson, of the 4,800-ton cargo parations. He had had his face lift- at least two additional judges for the

The Count promised secrecy and vessel Marie Moller, which caught fire 30 miles from Holyheaded, his hair dyed, and his moustache divorce division.

comforted her, saying that he in the early hours of this morning."

COURT AT His 35 Wives

WOMAN'S TRIAL

·

BEDSIDE MARRIAGES

New York, Apr. 10. JUDGE Smith, of Los Angeles, who

JUDGE

on

passed the death sentence pretty thirty-on-year-old Mrs. Helen

STORM

VIOLENT protests are being mada

altered.

THE WOMAN IN RED

•With his ship ablare, and with a On, shore, at. Holyhead, rockets. crew of nearly 70 Chinese on board, and maroons brought the crew of

"As soon as the film came to the he directed fire-fighting operation the lifeboat, the A.E.D. out of their city, Dillinger slipped out quietly one from the bridge, at the same time beds before dawn.

night and made for the cinema. He driving his ship tandwarda, hoping to beach her..

After a six hours race with death he saw every member of his crew taken safely off the burning vessel by croft which rushed to help.

Not a single seaman was injured.

CAPTAIN'S STORY

The captain was modest about the

Wills Love for the murder of her against the growing system of/Part in the adventure.

husband, to-night ordered, a. session of the court at her bedside to decide whether the execution can be.

out.

carried

For Ave days Mrs. Love-"I can dle any time I want," she claimed- has lain in a self-induced coma In her cell in Los Angeles Gaol,

This afternoon. State psychia- irist Samuel Marous tried: 10 hypnotise her back to conscious- ness while nurses forced glucose and saline through her clenched tooth.

She cried, sobbed, and her legs and arms lost some of their rigidity, “Oh, Harry," she murmured; "don't hurt me; please don't hurt me. I love you

Mrs. Love shot her husband Harry on New Year's eve because he would not announce their mardage.

her.

Hundreds of people crowded down ant throughout several performances to the breakwater, and saw the before slinking back home. He came stricken vesel with smoke and fames a second time. Fascinated, he risked belching from her holds two or three capture and sidled along dark streets. to visit the cinema for a third and miles away.

fourth time..

Then came the fifth visit with 'wo woma

In red, who gave him away to the polico. After the fifth visit to see the film. Dil- linger and his woman were walk- ing along

along when suddenly she be

The A.E.D, put off at once, and was followed by the Trinity House boat Beacon, 120-

was

To

One of the ilfeboat's crew said: "There was a heavy sea running, snow was falling and when we got to the Marie Moller she was red hot.

wrong. Standing at Captain Anderson was still on the bridge."

his hands slid to his "The lifeboat coxswain's brother armpits he always carried two guns got on board and to the bridge, but but before he could shoot, there the.fames were so fierce that both was a hall of bullets from the guns the skipper and he were beaten from of the G Men and Dillinger crumpled the bridge."

up on the sidewalk."

"We were coming from India to trial marriages in the villages and

Liverpool. with a cargo of pennuts mall towns of Yugoslavia.

and of cakes," he told me. About ''It' has become a custom In many one o'clock this morning there was an explosion in one of the hatches. parts of the country for a man to I believe that it was caused by gas, ...take a glx), into his house on triat

"Fire broke out, and all the crew and to turn her out after a fow months if he doesn't want to marry were roused. At the time we were about 30 miles out, and although we

The Marie Moller's chief ofcer, tried to get the fire under it gained

Mr. G. T. Hogg, of Liverpool, sakd hundreds of fect above her we could' rapidly.

the trouble started in the No. 3 conl feel the heat. bunker, and that there were two ex- The red ensign was flying upside plosions.

down.

of those on board 57 were taken During the afternoon I flew over off by the Holyhead lifeboat and the One man has been found to have

"I lost the race by a mile-she did the blazing vessel ng she lay half remander by the Beacon. changed 35 "wives" in 13 years.

The Marie Moller belongs, He has been legally married 13 not sink; but everybody got ashore milo cut a sca

safely." times all the rest were trial-mar- First news of the burning ship

Messrs. N. E. A Moller, of Shanghai, riages which lasiet. - between wus Bashed over the radio by settling very low in the water she and is registered at Lelih. days and 12 months. Only by his Liverpool liner which saw the glow first wife has ho any children-one in the distance, and picked up the son, aged 12.-Reuter.

Lack of money to pay fees and moral laxliy, are blamed as the two causes of this growing custom, which is being so often abused.

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"My idea then was to try to drive the ship shorewards to beach her before she could sink beneath us.

Marie Moller's 3 O S.

With a heavy list to port and

was a redhot shell. The uncovered

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