1937-11-01 — Page 19

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,

Woman Runs £50,000

Youth of 22 and

Elderly

Men Victims

(By Geoffrey Reid)

WOMAN of 40 known

to her associates only as "Madame," is the brain be- hind Britain's blackmail gang, which Scotland Yard has for long been trying to smash.

Recently two members of the gang, Joseph Kinsella and David Sellars Baird, were con- victed on blackmailing charges. Kinsella got ten years and Baird five.

For eight years "Madume" and a gang of eight have preyed on their victims.

Then, last year, one victim camo forward to prosecule. The first member of the gang 'was sentenced to five years' penal Beryllude.

Since the beginning of the year

it is estimated that this gang have taken over £50,000,

MADAME THE SPOTTER

An ex-conviet, who was in prison with Kinsella when he was serving

a sentence of three years on charges of assault and wounding In 1933, and has since, kept in touch with hlm, told me the whole story of the

gangfadame." he said, “is always well dressed, and spends her enure life in luxury hotels Int London and on the Continent.

She acts as 'spotter."

'Madame is assisted by wo middle-aged men.

"On are occasions she has de- elded compromise a victim herself; one of these men has appeared as The aggrieved husband.

"But usually she relies on one of the two or three girls who help the gang. She pays them £100 for each job,

POSED AS POLICEMEN

"The best victims from the gang's point of view are those to whom Introduce 22-year-old she can

young man. This youngster makes an average of, £5,000 a year.

"The remaining two members of the gang at present out of gavi are. two men aged from 30 to 35, what pose as police officers to intimidate the victim if he refuses to pay.

"They are belleved to be in hiding as the result of a black- mall trap that did not come off. "Madame organised the gang in the autumn of 1920.

NOVEMBER 1, 1937.

Blackmail

Gang

Three Girls Used To

To Bait Traps

Vittorio Mussolini,, son of Italy's dictator, celebrated his 21st birthday In Hollywood by cutting a 30-pound birthday cake at the home of his partner, Hal Roach. The jolly shown above. Left to right: Hal Roach, Jr., Mrs. Ronch, Signor Mussolini, Roach and Hal E. Ronch. A score of film and society folk were also present.

Miss

scene 13 Marguerite

War Minister Gives a Recruit His

Medical Tests, Asks Him to Write

DAY HE IS MADE AN OFFICER

(By Horact Thorogood)

"Now, where are we?" asked Mr. US the Adjutant-

"You think, now, you have got you!" And recruit and War Minis- recruiting down to a common-ter shook hands. sense level?" said Mr. Hore-Deli- sha, War Minister, after an inspec tion of recruits at the Central Hore-Belisha, Recruiting Office, Whitehall, re-general, Sir Harry Knox, and the cently.

Commandant, Colonel Lowe, con- ducted him into a brilliantly-lighted

"I think so, sir,” replied the of room. It was the room where the ficer addressed. "If you can sug-medical examinations were held. pest any improvements we should be glad to laten."

A lad sat nervously in a corner near the doctor. The War Minister

HS was at the end of a tour put him at his case, THIS

which would have surprised any

s

"What's your name by boy?"

DOCTORS ARE DRUG ADDICTS

There were only 616 known drux addicts-313 men, 303 women-in Britain. Northern Ireland, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands last year,

Of these, states a Government re- port to the League of Natlons, 137 were members of the medical pro-

two veterinary surgeons,

old-lime

by sergeant-major

new spirit of de- evidence of the

He Was George Newell, from fession, three dentists, five chemists, mocracy which modern developments Tatsworth, Surrey

into have introduced

the Army) Enlistment, he would have seen, las "And what do you want to do?" become a pleasure.

"I want to go into the Army Mr. Hore-Belisha had begun with Service Corps, str," whispered In Inspeellon of 40 recruits drawn George. "Bul

I'm going into the holl. He chalted "In 1932 the boy was recruited-up in the mula because they had discovered at and laughed with them, asking them band first." He was not quite 15...

the safest and best-paid blackmati

of all was exploiting elderly men."

Back to Renew -60 Years'

Romance

Liverpool, Oci. 3, Directly 80-year-old Thomas Hedges,

back from America after 40 years, stepped briskly ashore from the liner Duchess of Bedford to-day he wired to his bride-elect, Miss Nellie Bates, of Stewkler,

Leighton Bazzard.

near

Where they came from, what branch

of the Army they wanted to servej

A FINE JOB

During the year nine members of the medical profession, one dentist, one chemist, and one veterinary surgeon were convicted for offences against the Dangerous Drugs Acts. In nine-cases-nuthorisation of the convicted person was withdrawn. in. Most of them were Londoners, They put George through his|

Morphine was easily the most youig met of all classes, frum the medical paces, and after tested for common drug. But, says the report, recently unemployed in sweater and weighed (at Dat. 10lb.), tested for neckerchief to the well-dressed vision, done his knee, bends and there was no evidence of organised youth obviously of good family and arm-stretches and all the rest of it, licht drug traffle in Britain, education.

the War Minister took the stetho-

Individual cases discovered, were scope and listened at his chest, and then the instrument which enabled mainly Oriental seamen trying to him to see into the boy's ears. bring in small quantiles

"WRITE ME A LETTER"

Then he went the round of the rooms where other stages of re- crultment were going on.

There were half a dozen boys be-j. Ing drafted into the Army bands.

"A fine job for you, eh?" sald the SENDING STRETCHERS

In one, he found a lad who was War Minister. "Going round to all anxious to be an offeer. He was the best seaside resoris in the sum seated before the desk of an officlat mer!" explaining his qualifications. The Mr. Hore-Belisha paused to read, Wor Minister Hanced papers and learned that he was the with evident approval the Notice to Recruiting Sergeants posted up in son of an officer now dead und, being unable to go to Sandhurst was one of the rooms, joining the ranks ands hoping to get

a commission eventually,

over the

TO CHINA

WAR

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RADIO BROADCAST

Relay of the Hongkong Hotel Orchestra

VARIETY PROGRAMME

Radio Programmie Broadcast by Z.D.W. on Wavelengths of 355 metres (9.52 (845 .c.'.), 31.40 metres m.c.'s). HKT

12.0-12.20 p.m. Relay of Special Service from St. John's Cathedral.

12.30 Debroy Somers Band and Herbert Groh (Tenor),

Glamorous Night Selection. Debroy Somers Band; Love Song (G. Becce. Knorr); All I Do Is For. Love Of You (Fenyes-Gels), ...* Herbert E. Groh; For You Alone (Gechl-Hubel)..... Herbert Groh; Northern and

and Southern Memories Savoy Somers); 1. Debroy Curr. Russian Memories, 2, Savoy Southern Memories; Archibald Joyce, Waltzes (arr. Debroy Somers). .... Debroy Somera Band.

1.0 Local Time Signal and Weather Report.

1.03 Marcel Moyse (Flute), Scherzellino (Taffanel); Polonaise and Badinerie (from 'Suite No. 2 in B Minor-Bach); Madrigal (Philippe Gaubert),

1.13 Molmivitch at the Plano. Rondo (Hummel); Isoldens Lieber- tod (Liszt); Grillen (Schumann); Polonaise

ise in B Flat, Op. 71, No. 2 (Chopin).

1.30 Reuter and Rugby Fress; Local Weather Forecast and An- nouncements.

1.40 Excerpts Sullivan.

from Gilbert, and

Ruddigore' — Vocal Gems. *** Columbla Light Opera Company; H.M.S. Pinafore' ---- Selection..... The B.B.C. Theatre Orchestra.

1.50 Dance Music.

The

Fox-Trot-No Other One; Tango- Venetian Moon (Blm 'Invitation to the Wallz').

Geraldo and His Gaucho Tango

Tango Orchestra; Fox-Trols -You Came To My Rescue; Talking Through My Heart

(Alm

Bid Broadcast of 1937')..... Henry King and His Orchestra; Sicw Fox-Trol Let's Sing Again (from fim); Waltz --When You're In Love With Some- Victor, Slivester and His Ballroom Orchestra.

2.15 Close down. 6-8.03 European Programme. 8.05-11.0 Chinese Programme. 5.0 Belay of the Dance Orcheska from the Hoof Garden of the long- kong

Hotel

1. One, Two, Button your shoe; 2. The Skeleton in the Cupboard; 3. Someone to care for me; 4. I can't escape from you.

dance

5.15 Interval of recorded nausic from Z.D.W.

5.20 5. Bass Drum Dan; 6. Blues in 'E' Fint; 7. I'm an old Cowhand; 8. Moon Glow.

5.35 Interval of recorded music from Z.B.W.-

dance

5.40 9. Where are you?; 10. That's how the Rumba was born; 11. Tango Negro; 12, Summer in the Winter time.

dance

5.35 Interval of recorded music from Z.D.W.

6.0 13. In the Middle of a Kiss; 14. The Sweetheart Waltz; 15. Don't let this Waltz mean goodbye,

0.15 Interval of recorded

music from Z.B.W.

danco

6.20 10. The Shelk of Araby; 17,

1

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19. Blue Danube.

6.30 Children's Records.

Nursery Rhymes..... Jay Wilbur and His Band with Vocal Chorus; The Australian Red Cross Society Ferdie Bear (Fyteman and Dunhill);

bought material for

2. Home 1,000 1. Ferdie in Fairyland, has stretchers, for relief work among with Thomas Dunhill (Piano); Teddy Again... Sung by Winifred Bury Chinese and Japanese war sufferers, Bears' Picnic (Kennedy and Bratton). "Always treat the intending recruit and will ship them to Nunking at the

.... The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra. with the same courtesy as you would earliest opportunity.

8.45 Soprano and Baritone Ballads. wlai

your own son to be realed,"

My Dearest Heart (Sullivan): "So this is your birthday?" he was Rule 1.

Two hundred surgical instruments, A Summer Night (Marziais and "Remember," said. "How old are you?

it went 011,

Doris Vane (Soprano); "he urgently needed, are packed ready Thomas).- invariably knows nothing of military for shipment.

Enchanted (Dowdon and Moon Be patient with him and matters.

Love's

Song Old Sweet Besly); answer any question he may asic no

Dom The society hopes that sympathisers (Bingham and Molley).....

Me 'Ome-A Barrack-Room Balind (Kipling and Ward-Higgs): Mon- dalay (Kipling and Willeby). .... Raymond Newell (Baritone).

7.10 Light Orchestra.

"Eighteen, sir," suld the recruit.

and

fleer? Well, mind you do, and the

Sixty years ago the romance be

Nellie Whe 16 gan, when

Thomas 23.

When Thomas emigrated in 1897 they cherished their love by letter

[

"And you want to become an ef- matter how silly you may think it.. will contribute toward the cost, of Labbette and Hubert Elsdell: Follow day you get four commission write rule, that civility costs nothing but the stretchers and instruments,

me a letter will you?"

"Remember," said the concluding

It goes a long way to make

Mr. Hore-Beliska went

welling and exchanging photographs. The yom innn blushed and said cruiting offleer liked."

Mr. Hedges showed me 0 well- he certainly would, thumbed photograph of his

bride-

to-be-a cherished possession which

has been next to his heart in all his travels.

"I have bad many chances to marry in the last 40 years," he sald to me, "but Nellie was my first love and she will be my last,"

"Now I am comfortably off, and although late in the day she has con- sented to marry me."

Dut Miss Nellie Bates denied to a reporter that she contemplated marrying Mr. Hedges.

"I have known him all my life," she stated. "I heard from him six weeks ago, when he told me he was coming back to his old vinge, but I did not know he had sailed."

PUNCHED THE ADJUTANT

Corporal Reginald Francla Ruel, of Chatham Division, Royal Marines, found guilty by court- martial of striking an adjutant, has been sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment with hard labour, reduced to the ranks and dia- charged from the Service (with Irneming,

a re-

away

The society has passed on through- out Australia, China's appeal for the evidently well pleased. The pleasure voluntary services of doctors. No That's right! Well, good luck to was mutunl,

Iresponse has yet been received.

IFS

These

Items Are

and

All

Daily Express Staff Reporter

New York, Oct. 4.

IF a motorist, approaching a level

• crossing in Denver, Colorado, fails to read this sign displayed on

Junk shop,

"Go ahendi Take a chance. We'll

buy the car!"

the car is likely soon to change hands. BUT that sign acts as an outsize

brake to most drivers,

the "stork IF you inquire for

doctor" in Lisbon, Ohlo, they put you on the track of Dr. Seward Harris, County Health Commis- sioner.

BUT that's because he has safely brought his 2,000th buby Into the world.

To-day's Human Story

TF an accused man feels lonely

in court there's usually nothing to be done about it. Recently a Scotsman of broad accent who en- tered the dock at East Ham was -accompanied by his "best chum.”

The Scotsman was accused-of being intoxicated and disorderly. A faller, explained that the pair could not be separated. The fel- low in the dock with him would not leave him. The Scotsman was fled 10/-.

But Jock could not at that moment produce the money. He went to the cells. And with him went his chum—a`sid-faced collio dog on a lead

At The Tchaikovsky Fountain- Fantasia (Urbach)...... Marek Weber and His Orchestra; La Paloma Spanish Serenade (Yradier); The Trailing Arbutus (Friedman). .... Columbia Concert Orchestra: Wat

DESTEIN (Sanderson); Indian Love Call

BUTS

Do

('Rose Marie'Friml) Groot and The Piccadilly Orchestra, 7.30 Closing Ideal Stock Quotations and

Hongkong Exchange Market Re- port,

7.35 Variety.

IF the Winnipeg firemen who rel Comedleane - Up Aroun The sponded to a fire alarm raced to Ole North Pole (Hargreaves and

Nudist?

a woman's house expecting to Damerell); What Can You Give A tackle a fire it is not surprising.

(Le Clara Bertha BUT when she told them her can- Willmott: Plano Marta Eggerth

Melodies. ary had escaped from its cage Film

Stein: Fred

to a nearby tall tree, and when, Vocal-Josephine (nim Little Wo nfter they had mounted ladders men'); Slumberland (Steiner, Green placed against the branches, the and Lambert), ............ Les Allen (Barl- bird new away, what they said in tone); Orchestral The Great Zieg- not surprising.

feld-Film Selection..... Louis Lovy and His Caumont British Symphony. 8.0 Local Time Signal Weather

of Berkeley, California, should - bó

8.05 Chinese Programma-Reiny cured. For forty years he has been from the Tol Ping Theatre. rounding the Horn, sailing his own boat to Honolulu, trying on many sena to defy the wayes.

I senstekness can be overcome by

determination, W. P. Bennett, Report and Announcements.

11.0 Close down. 8.05-11.4 D:tt. European Pro- gramme from ZEK'on' a Frequency BUT he admits that even now he of 640 Kllocycles.

never makca u sen irip with- 8.05 Marek Weber and His Orches- out-well, without willingha tra and Turner Layton. Jindn't.

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