1937-10-25 — Page 15

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1937.

MYSTERY

OF

BEAUTY'S

FATE CANADIAN PACIFIC

IN JEALOUSY KILLING

Spirit Warning By Telephone - Of Impending Death

'Grace

Twenty-eight-year-old Cameron, Tyneside-born wife of a Turkish Croupler at the Casino in Vienna, and her four-year-old son, are the victims of a drama suggesi- ing occult Influences, anys the Vienna correspondent of The People.

lamat Dzino, the husband, is the Bon of n Turkish Colonel of a noble cam- family who, in the Gallipoli

palga, killed Grace Cameron's father -an ofeer in the Durham Light Infantry.

to

After the war he visited England te seek the family of the man he had killed in the hope of passing on them souvenirs of the dead man. His son, then about panied him.

fourteens,

accom-

He was successful in his quest, ond

£50,000

NOTES VANISH:

NO CLUE

LONDON'S perfect crime

-the theft of thei

the two familles kept up correspond-£50,000 Avonmore collection

ence afterwards.

INORDINATE JEALOUSY

Spine years later, the son of

|of banknotes, unsaleable in the the open market-was dis-

Turkish colonel married the daughter covered recently.

of the British onteer, and they were

The collection of 70,000 notes, In

happy for some time, despite the 110 leather-bound books, vanished inordinate jealousy of the husband, from the home--one of a row of

Recently a fortune-teller consulted

Avonmore. by the wife warned her that deathree-storeyed villa in

Olympia-of Air. rond, W., near awaited her if she did not brenk with Frederick Ernest Cutling. her husband. There was a break but There was nothing to show how thu husband prevailed on the wife to the thieves entered the house. Thera return to him on the understanding were no fingerprints, no marks on that there would be no more accus pny window. No one heard a sound. lions of infidelity.

On the night before thr tragedy the woman was called on the phone by sonicone who claimed to be speaking for the fortune-teller. She was told that unless, sito left the house at once she and her son would be murdered.

Attempta have been made to trace-

ari

The 6. high. 4 ft. broad, steel, asbestos-lined safe had been

had neatly forced open. It ordinary patent lock. Aubuni-hired Fred Catling, young cinema proprlelor son of Mr. F. E Catling, told the story of the thefi while Scotland-yard

ninutely examined the house; OWNER AWAY

detectives

the source of this message, but, so far: "My father, since an illness, has )

us the telephone authorities can say, lived at Worthing. I live at Chls- no call of any kind was put through wiek. This

house }# often un-

Ameleto Ballisti, Uruguayan gambler, lost a fortune at Bio- ritz, France, in 1920, recouped it in Cuba and South America, and went back to Biarritz to get revenge. This time he lost more than $370,000.

Test Pilot

Crashes

To Death

YACHT AT MERCY

OF HURRICANE

Log Of Endeavour I Reveals Grim Tale

London, Oct. 2. The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post to-day publishes extracts from a log of the voyage of the yacht Endeavour I. from America, which ended at Gosport yesterday.

Mr. Ted Heard, son of Capt. Heard, her master, kept it in a loose-leaf notebook, describing in terse sea language the breaking of the towing hawser in a hurricane, after which the world was without news of the yacht for 13 days.

Sept. 23.—Heavy rain. Wind veer- Following is the log:

I., having ing N.W. Gybed over, ship making Sept 12-Endeavour

course for home. Distance connected up her towing hawier better with Viva, the motor yacht, weighed from Newport 1,820 miles, to Bishop anchor at 2 p.m. and left Newport, Rock, Seilles, 974.

CALLED ALL HANDS all night.

Sept. 24-Wind veered N. W. maderale. Nice breeze. Weather very Ane.

Rhode Island, for home.

Sept 13-lord rain

Sky looking bad. Wind

1.45 p.m. sea making. We called up

234 miles out from Brenton Reef LV. 708 miles from Bishop Rock.

Viva to reduce speed to nine knots

Sept. 25--Noon.

Bishop Recic

as ship was beginning to pitch badly, bearing N. 83% E. 838 mlies. Al-

SEA ANCHOR READY

8 nm. Wind freshening from S.E.tered course E. by S. Ship broaching to, so lowered mizzen to case leer- and big sea running.

ing. Lowered big staysail and set small

one. 3.30 p.m. called all Called up Viva to reduce speed to hands to lower and reef the trysall. Ave knots. Gol sen anchor ready in At 8 p.m. took in lb. Moderate case of emergency. Called up Viva gale. Midnight, wind having mo- and told her if the storm became so derated, set squaresall and lowered bad that we had to slip we would staysail and trysnil, ride to sea anchor. At 10.30 p.m.

Sept. 20-Wind veered WNW. wind reached hurricane force. Ship

Gybed. 10 am. wind X.N.W. and all awash. Impossible to get for-light, set jih. Better breeze. Bishop. ward to cut adrift tow rope. Hard Rock bears N. 85 E. 475 miles. Mid- driving rain with vivid flashes of lightning and thunder. Had all safls night calm, big swell, ship rolibig

heavily. stowed except the mizzen.

11.30 p.m. ship began to make stern way. Either tow rope and parted or Viva had crat us adrift. Ship out of control. Let go the sea anchor. At midnight we lash ed the wheel. All hands went below and ship was battened down. We kept mizzen set to keep slp hove to. So we left her to ride it. out.

Sept. 14-3 m. wind had abaled and veered S.W. When dawn came at 5.30 a.m. found ship had rode out gale very well and no damage was done. 0 a.m. called up Viva on (radio, bui got no reply.

7.30 am, started to get tow rope

Sept. 27.-2 am, cahn, ship rolling heavily. Daybreak, · East wind making. Lowered squaresail, set trysail and big staysail. At 10,20

a.m.

British tanker Cheyenne over- took us. Hoisled signals to her to report as at Lloyd's by wireless; spoke to her by semaphore to report us all well; and Cheyenne proceeded

on her course.

Sept. 28.-Light and variable winds. Bishop Rock N. 08 E. 252 miles, Head winds, ship tacking to wind-

ward.

Sept. 29.--Light S.E. winds. Pass- ed several French fishing smackts. Found log rotater was missing. 1 p.m. Belgian tanker s.s. Esso divert-

Us

bon

to the number in question that night.foccupied.

"I is being renovated, Three FIT OF JEALOUSY

The Chief test pilot of the De workmen have keys besicies myself. Havilland Aircraft Company, Mr. R. Next day the husband returned to "I felt the house Inst night at 0.10, J. (Bob) Wnight, was killed recently aboard. About 70 fathoms (420) ed her course to cross us, asked for the house in one of his Ats of insane! the workmen quarter of an hol when the tiny student-built T.K. 4 was hanging over the bows. After our signal number. We hoisted Jealousy. There was a scene and he later. The collection was in 13

monoplane crashed near Hatfield a hard struggle we succeed and and G.W.S.F. and signalled "report us by produced a revolver, killing her and ground floor back room.

Aerodrome almost on the eve of an that Viva had cut away.

wireless. She wished (Noic. It was afterwards found Voyage"

and

proceeded on her course. speed records.

that the Bin. rope hawser had not Sept. 30,-12.15 a.m.

sighted Bishop Rock Waight planned to make his record been cut, but had parted, leaving Bishop Rock, 1.30 a.m. altempt on the following Monday, about 20 fathoms hanging astern of abeam. 6.45 m. sighted Lltard. a.m. Lizard abcam. Course lie took the machine up to fly over the VIV. It was a new hemp how 9.15

East. the course from Hatfield via Duxford ser, and had not a wire core).

10 m. several aeroplanes located us. 6,30 p.m. Start Point. and, Herlow back 19 Inifeld;

Capt. Heard, describing the hur-

their son and then shooting himself. "Mr. McPherson, my foreman.

It now transpires that the fortune-came to thy house at 12.15 to-day:altempt to establish two new world teller had told the victim that she The windows were fastened, the door would receive a warning through the was locked. It is not possible to get (elephone from the spirit world when, in by the back way, danger threatened her.

He telephoned to me to say the

the collec safe was forced open, tion zone...I telephoned to my father. He was broken-hearted.. "It look six men to move the safe One man alone could hardly have loaded the 110 volumes into `n car without assistance.

Marcel Made £40,000 Out Of

His "Waves"

Paris,

OFFERED £35,000 "Detectives have a complete cala- logue and description of the notes They are being circulated to every deuler.

"My father was offered £35,000 for it by a collector, but he values i

Mr. Catlong senr, sald: This la

He had taken-off anly four minutes;

SEAPLANE-SIGHTED

before and had made two circuits of 10a.m.-Clear sky and local SW.ricane to Major Heckstall-Smith, the aerodrome. The machine was wind. Still trying to get in touch Yachting Correspondent of Tho making a steeply banked turn when with Viva. Decide to wait and let Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, crashed to the ground beyond the her locale us Later we thought it with whom he has sailed for many boundary of the aerodrome.

best take advantage of fair wind, years, said: "There was a tremen- therefore set trysall and staysall, and dous sea and the strongest wind I at noen put ship on her course for have ever encountered. The worst home-ES.E.

of the hurricane was over in three hours. In the middle of it the little mizzen was mas! useful in keeping us riding to us

The T.K.4 is the fourth of a series of machines built by the students of the De Havilland Technical School for the King's Cup.

It was the smallest and one of the fastest neroplanes ever bullt for the race, Although it did not get a place in

Sept 15.-Wind dropping. Ship rolling rather leavily. Trysall handa began to (attaching snil to mast) break away, Lowered trysail for repairs. Al noon a seaplane passed

Sept. 10-Wind light.

BUST of Marcel, who created the at £50,000. "Marcel wave," is to be w velled at the home for retired hair-loss, not only to me, but to dressers, which he endowd with part nation. It is the only collection of the King's Cup air race last month, us dying very low West

the

"It stopped there?" asked Major Heckstall-Smith. "I wonder it did, for it is not too staunch in appear- Set light ance and is in a narrow part of the

ship.**

of his fortune, at Parniain, in the Oise its type in the world. Not even the the T.K. 4, piloted by Mr. Waight stay sall. Weather fine. Masthead *** not only held, it did splendid

collection of banknotes."

Bank of England has so complete a averaged 230 m.ph. over the course man sent aloft to overhaul rigging Valicy.

Only 27 Robert John Woight joined and cross-tree guya.

work, being the only sat we had on Marcel used to cliargé fivepence The collection's face value is ten the De Havilland Company (15

Sept. 17-Wind inclined to work her," replied Capt. Heard. "She for crimping hair. Then he deve- thousand million pounds. It con- ground engineer in 1926. He began round to East, Ship just rolling rode it out well, and I never had any loped his scissor-like curling iron tains the first bank note-printed on flying in 1932 and succeeded Captain along. 700 miles from Brenton fear for her. and saved £40,000 in ton pears. mulberry leaves by Kublai Khan dur. 1, S. Brond us the company's chief Reef L. V. and a big swell rolling all "One thing important to yachts- Ile retired in 1897.

ing the Yuan Dynasty 700 years ago. test pilot.

men in the hard condtilons of on ocean voyage the rubber mastband at the deck which racing yachts use, is not nearly so good as old-fashioned wooden mast wedges."

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wind out of the sails. Progress slow

with hand-winds and light rain showers.

Sept. 18-Light winds in morning. Patches of fog. One water tank empty. At midnight a calm. Ship lost steerage way and rolling heavily. FIRST SHIP SIGHTED

After the tow-rope parted, ådded Capt. Heard, there Wos such a deluge of water on deck that from midnight to noon the following day Sept. 100 a.m., very foggy. For they were unable to go on deck to lifting and we sighted a three-masted haul the hawser aboard, schooner the first ship we have A table of Endeavour 1's daily been seen so far. The wind backing runs shows that she made 237 milea N. W. at 11 am., called all hands on on Sept. 21 and 227 on the following deck to sel the squaresnil. Now day, running into a big southerly well.

1.30 p.m. Stowed trysail as fore- rope was. chaing badly.. Had to unbend try-sail and seize on the hanke. This job done 3.30 p.m., hent trysail and stowed on boom. Ship roiling heavily and not moking much headway.

Sept. 20-Little wind all backing West. Ship, just; got steerage way, Later, little breeze making. S.W. Ship making better headway.

Allered course. SE. by, E and tried to pick up steamer track, hoping to get re- ported. We are now 1,134 milca from Newport 1,635 to Scflics, 11 p.m., lost fog fan and fixed new one. Midnight, good going..

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