1937-08-04 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY,

Sentence Meant Nothing To Gentleman Joe,' But- TRUTH ABOUT HIS AGE HURT

Wife Never Knew

Of Crime Exploits

"Gentleman Joe Stephens, who risked death twice to escape arrest, winced in the Old Bailey dock recently when Chief Inspector "Nutty" Sharp, of Scotland-yard, betrayed to the underworld the secret of his age.

Said Chief Inspector Sharpe: "He is really thirty- nine." Stephens, proud of his exploits and his youthful looks, had given his age as twenty-seven.

He was sentenced to three years' penal regritude for receiving stolen furs worth £1,300, was described as "an expert criminal, full of pluck and determination which could have been put to better use," as a mar "who has escaped from the police in very spectacular ercumstances."

זין!

He heard all that as stifly to attention--bul the thing that opet him was the about his age.

strod

only truth

He turned to go to the cells, heard his wife sol, stopped to blow her Ak154.

discovered list Stephens does not drink or smoke or gamble,

He is devoted to his wife and cllldren—a boy aged nine and a girl aged seven.

When Inspector Sharpe traced him In May, Stephens was in bed. 4 won't cut up rough,” he said.

to

The Old Bulley judge and Jory heard only a passing reference Stephens' previous escape,

HIS ACCOMPLICE

WAS 'DEAF ALEC

When in 1933 Stephens was sen- tenced to Afteen months' hard labour it was revealed that his arsomplice had been Joseph Squires, known to London's Kangsterdom as "Deaf Mine Deaf Aler was caught later and died in prison.

The two were together in a garage

in Forest Hill, S.K, when Chief,

The crime for which Stephens was | Inspector Sharpe led a body of de- Cerenced Www trammited November.

lettectives to arrest them. Four Scotland-yard

They fled Brough a 7-foot harbed offer tried to catch him as he drove

a high wall, i down Lower Thames-street, E.C.jw.re fence, seated with stolen fur in his car. The road jumped down on to the Southern was blocked. He turned the turnto Railway fine, teed across the tracks electric Dark Hone-lene-a cul-de-ar above dodging "live" rails and the Tisami

SIXTY-FOOT CLIMB

TO ESCAPE POLICE

I

train - scrambled up the embank- ment on the opposite side and ran into a garden.

Stephens ran through

hottie.

He jumped out of the cur and Police whistles were blowing in- ved head that over the parapetspector Sharpe led the pursuit. Asj chancing what he hit when he raced through the hous two landed 36 feet below. A strand of workmen jumped on him and held cable wire broke ha full him. They would not Jisten to scrambled through the, Thames Baird, Inspector Sharpe's protests tuit he ran up the back stairs of a ware was a detretive until other ofeers hotse at Broken Wharf.

He threw of his jacket in a cloak- room, rolled up his shirt sleeves, and strolled through the building. He! was challenged on the fourth foot. ! He climbed out of a window, lowered himself hand over hund down a 60 feet drainpipe to the grunti.

He vanished. He did not wet or attempt to see his wife until Janu-l ary. Then he went to live with her In a room in Rust-square, Comber well.

Scotland-yard could

came to confirm his story.

"Gentleman Joe" Stephens was then a quarter of a mile down the

road. He turned and waved to the j deiectives. He was standing onį the rear hub of an errand boy's ) blcycle, The errand boy WAN pedalling furiously.

Stephens had asked the boy to sell him the bicycle for £1. When the boy refused he had paid 2%. "for a lift down the road."

DANCE IN BILBAO STREETS General belief that miseries brought on by war had ended with the entry of the Insurgent troops into Bilbao, Spam, caused great rejoicing 'antang thusands of women and chifitren in the beleaguered Unsque capital. This W. W. radiophoto shows Basques dancing in the street, as the triumphant Insurgents poured into the city.

Wife's Tragic Fear

How #

MARRIED, CONFESSED

FRAUD

wife took polson he

Sidney Harry_Thys, aged twenty-four, of Ferme Park- cause she feared to become a road, Crouch End, London, N., mother was related at a Roch-gaoled for six months at Tolten- ham for fraud, was said to have dale inquest recently.

written this confession:-

A verdict of “Suicide while of unsound mind" was returned on Mrs. Jessie. Travis, aged 31, of Dewhirst- road, Rochdale,

"In a moment of maduess I gave way to temptation. The woman who is now my wife Insisted on narrying me, although I told her everything.

AUGUST 4, 1937.

= RADIO BROADCAST

Elvie Yuen and Nura Kanis At the Studio

LONDON: CABARET

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. wavelengths of 355 metres (845 ic.c's,), 31.10 metres (0.02 m.c's). 12.30-12.30 Debroy Somers Band. Shipmates O'Mine Descriptive Ballad; The Spanish Main; Drake Goen West; Sen Shanly; Heart of Oak; Jutland: The Battle; Glory of the Sea; Hymnn for Sailors; Finale; Fox Trol-Thero's A New World; Fox Trot--The Fleet's in Port Again; Fanfare-Selection; Fasture; And Friend; Song of Heart's Desire (Vocal), Martinique,

12.50-1 Songs by Alexander Kipnis.

Tod, O Tod, wie bitter-Brahma; Wuusst' Ich Doch Den Weg Zuruck Brahms; Ich wandte mich und sabu -Brahms

1.00-1.03 Time and Weather, 1.03 Variety.

Home And Beauty-Selection; Storm in my Heart; Sing something In the Morning: No More Patricia Rossborough (Piano); If You Were the Only Girl In The World-Brian Law- Lansdowne House rance and His Sextet; Chicken Rech-Brian Law- rance and His Lansdowne House

My Heart-Sung Sextet; With All My Elsit Carlisle: He's An Angel Sund by Elsic Carlisle; My Heart And Ine Leslie Hutchinson (Piano); If You Love Me-Leslie Hutchinson (Piano); The Way You Look To-night-Sung by Dixie Lee Crosby and Bing Crosby; A Fine Romance-Sung bý Dixie Lee Crosby and Bing Crosby,

1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press: Weather and Announcements.

1.10 Mendelssohn Octet In E Flat International String or by the

2.15 Close Down.

4-7 pm. Chinese Programme. 7.00 Eric Coates and Orchestra. London Again-Suite; Langhum Place: Ox

Oxford Street: Summer After- noon-Idyll: London Bridge-Murch; The Jester At The Wedding--Valse; The Jester At The Wedding--March; Summer Days-Sufte, Purts 1 and 2. 7.30 Stock Quotations and Hong- leons

Exchange Market.

7.35 Three Tangos.

Bou-

Love's Loneliness~George langer and' His Orchestra: Re-Fa-Si -Juan De Dios Filiberto y su Or- questa Portena; Responso Malevo— Juan De Dios Filiberto and lis Orchestra.

Henry Travis, the husband, said "By marrying me she has un- doubtedly saved my life, because I his wife was upset because she was

was sufficiently depressed to take expecting a baby, There was no

the cowardly but easiest way out. reason for her to be.

I intended this to be the unsolvable mystery

DEAD ON SETTEE

On returning home from work one her sitting on n

Friday he found

After the trial at the Old Balley no Airs. Stephens stood crying trace of him. They searched race while friends consoled her, "She setter dead. tracks and public houses then knew nothing," said one, "ile

always shielded her.

TRAGEDY

ON SCHOOL TRIP

SEVENTEEN people were

injured, one fatally, motor-coach. in

↑

when which they were travelling to Bournemouth from Head- ley, Hampshire, for their Sunday School outing was involved in a crash with a motor-lorry on the New. bury-Winchester road, near Winchester, recently.

Seven children were among the injured.

There were fragie scenes by the roadside when necupants of two other roaches, which were also engaged on the outing, stop- ped and found relatives injured atul unconselous In the damaged enxeb.

Shortly after admission to hospital Frederick Hutchins, 26, of Commen- road. Headley, died from head in- juries.

o where he hid,"

7.49

Viennese Waltzes.

Cloches De Corneville-Marek

Weber and His Orchestra; Tales From The Orient-Strauss: Marek Weber and Ills Orchestra; Love Is My Life Strauss; Orchestre Roy- monde: Romantique-Lanner; Or- chestre Raymonde,

Weather and An-

Thys had been employed as n clerk)

8.00 Time, in the treasurer's department of

nouncements. Tottenham Borough Council. He

8.03 Studio-Elvio Yurn and was alleged to have altered wage- Nura Kanis, sheets of which he was in charge. Chiamata a Nuovi Amori (Strozzi) It was stated that when arrested-Elvie Yuen; Carl Occhietti Vezzo- There was a smell of disinfectant, Thys said, "I have been living in a setti She did not know where the money came from a bottle of which was kept in the hell. I got into the hands of (Guglielmi)-Elvie

from "L'Inganno Amoroso" Yuen; Vieni, il Į scullery cuphoard,

moneylender."

mio seno, from "La Cecchina o La Buona Filluola" (Piccinni)-Elvie Yuen; Study in

(Liszt) Minor Nura Kanis; Chi disse en la Femmena, from "Lo Frate Nnammorato" (Per golesi)-Elvie Yuen:

Quando Trovano, le Basse, Femmine, from "Il Mondo Della Luna" (Galuppl)- Elvie Yuen.

EXTRA TRAINING FOR

PILOT

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Air Ministry Orders Coaching

Navigation

In

Point is added to the recent suggestion that some Air Force pilots receive inadequate instruction in cross country and bad weather flying by an announcement that pilots in the R. A. F. bomber command are to receive addi- tional training in future.

A new policy of the Air Ministry insists that they must take the second-class navigators' licence or receive coaching in navigational flying up to the standard of the licence.

Training in navigation is given at the Air Ministry's own School of Navigation at Manston, near Ramsgate; but the current

His wife, who in 25, is in hospital | R.A.F. expansion has made the school inadequate for the new

in a serious condition.

Others detained are: Mra. Ethel

Butler, of Tanhouse, Headley; Mrs.

son.

CRASH WITH LORRY.

lorry.

needs.

the second-class navigators' Beence. GREATER RANGE

already getting

CIVIL JOBS

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8.23 Light. Orchestral. Soliloquy Albert Sandler and His Orchestra; Gipsy Melody-Albert Sandler and 11is Orchestra; Forget Me Not-Intermezzo-George Bou- langer and I Orchestra; Valse Triste-George Boulanger and - His Orchestra: Marche Symphonique- The London Palladium Orchestra,

8.40 Varlety Songs.

I Want To Be A Nudist-Eddie Pola with Orchestra; The Wedding Of A Gigolo-Eddie Pola with Or- chestra: My Heart Will Be Dancingt June Knight; Lilac Domino Waltz Song June Knight; Love Made The Song-Sybil Crawley and Eric

Starling Music In May- Dorothy Dieteson.

9.00 Relay from London. "Late

Night

Special"-Cabaret Revue News and Announcements.

9.55 Musical Comedy Selections. Gems From "Rose-Marie": Totem

Paris, July 12. ENGINE-DRIVER MAR- CHAND,. accused this afternoon of causing last night's train smash at Le Mans, in which nine people were killed and seventy-for Two: The Thought Never Entered eight injured, wept. as he My Head Vocal Duet. Winnie Mel- exclaimed:

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Couple)-Friedel Schuster (So- prano); Helen (To Shield The Hus- I shall

live happily band's Honour)-Friedel

Schuster (Soprano), again."

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Transmission 1

(CS... G.8.0., GS.G.1

1 m. Hen. 'World Affairs.'

1.18 p.m. Grieg's Chamber Musie,

1.40 p.m. Kayles to St. Merryn'

2 pm. Recital of Scottish Music.

Greenwich Time Signal at 150 p.m.

Transmission 2.

Tel. 24406.

HONGKONG BOYS

SONS OF MR, AND MRS. HAMER MAKING GOOD

Sp

The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hamer, who left the Colony on retirement in January last, will be glad to learn of the success of their two sons, who were born in the

Fox Trol-Timber-Jack Hylton and ills Orchestra; Rumba-La Curara-

2.25 pan. The Newn and Announcements, Colony. The younger of them, John cha-Orquesta Tipica Roberto Firpo: 12.45 pan. “Late Night Special,'

Trot--New Orleans Twist-Nat Fox Gonella and His Georgians; Fox Trot Chicago-Nat Gonelin and His Trot-The Skeleton Foster and Fox Trot

In The Cup dy Foster

Pennies From

R.A.F. bomber pilots are therefore "In sending pilots out to besible with his stoker, Robert Fillaire, Coventry, of Summerhurst, Headley, going out for training at elv!l flying trained by a civil school we are not the allegations against him being and her Ave-year-old son Kenneth;

n precedent. Some keeping an improper look-out and Mrs. Aldrige, of Tranhouse, and her schools which can coach them for establishing

driving too fast after passing a *cau- R.AF. pilots are flying certifleates at civil schools,

tion signal. "We used to train them all on our The couch, driven by Thomas One school is the Imperial Sebool own machines, but now, we cannot

Ilis train ran into the back of a Georgians: Fox Chadwick, of Benham Hill, Newbury of Air Navigation. The Air Minis-cope with them all.

special week-end train composed His Kings Of was travelling third in the convoy

only of two old-type wooden car and His Kings Of Swing; Fox Trot when it came into collision with the try's new policy was decided on only a few weeks ago, but already the

"Another point that has been con-rlages full of passengers. The car--But Where Are You-Itoy Fox and Now of R.A.F. pllets has involved

rlage were telescoped more than His Orchestra; Fox Trot-Lel's Face the removal of this school to larger sidered in this new navigational

The Music And Dance-Roy Fox and training policy is that pilots who half way into each other,

His Orchestra: Waltz-A Perfect premises. Five ambulances arrived at the

have gone through the second class Driver Marchond to-day confessed Day-Victor Young and Ills Orches- scene of the ernah after a iclephone

At the moment it is coaching 54 navigators' course will have a better that he kept his look-out from the tra

11.00 Clone Down. call for ald had been made by the pilots, most of whom are serving Air chance of getting civil flying jobs left-hand side of his cab while the lorry driver, Mr. H. J. Llywhite, Force pilots, for the second-class when their Ume in the Rt.A.E. is up. train was taking a right-hand bend. market gardener, of Frith-lane,navigators' licence.

The new form of training han Wickham, Hampshire, who escaped

He thought he was travelling at injury.

An Air Ministry official said: only just begun, and no examina- about twenty-five miles an hour.

Indicator "Navigational training is made tiens have yet been held, but the His speed

was found A forgu load of vegetables and fruit from the lorry was strewn over the necessary principally by the increas-reports are that the plan is working jammed after the accident; It showed

ed range of new aircraft.

satisfactorily."”.

thirty-one miles an hour.

The off-side of both vehicles were ripped of.

road.

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Hugh, who was for some time a pupil at the Central British School, has |been appointed a junior assistant [Civil Engineer, in the County 0.49 p.m. Big Ben. World Affairs,

Surveyor's office, Hatfield, in the 7 pin. The Wynford Reynolds Detet.

30 p.in.

Scenes from The Taming of the County of Halfordshire, where ho Shrew' by William Bhakespeare.

has just recently satisfactorily com- 4.5 p.m. Régovia (Guitar).

Hippodromepicted his articles with the County Surveyor, Col. A. Ernest. Prescott,

8.10

p.m. The Coventry Orchestra. 9pm "Late Night Special."

050 mm, 71e News and Announcements|M. INST, CE,

Greenwich Timo Bignal at 0.45 pm.

Transmission 3

Stuart Marshall-Hamer, the elder son, who has been a student at the. 10.15 p.m. Big ben.. Eleven-ve p.London University for several years,

August 4, 1914,

(0.8,0., 0.5.0. G.S.IT1, 0.8.J.)

10.30 p.m. Pianoforie Recital by Kathleen has passed his final B.A. examination with a first class Honours Degree: In 11 p.m. The Anglers' Anus.

Burn Davies.

tra

11.15 p.m. Jan Berenska and his Orches-Geography, He will have another year at the University to take, bis 11.30 p.m. 'Old-time Music Hall.' 18.10 am. The News and Announce- Teachers' Diploma and Certificate, Fafter which he intends to take up

education work. (.

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Greenwich_Time Signal at 1230 MIN. 12.30 .. Dance Music.