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BANDITS KIDNAP GOLD MESSENGER, TAKE £376 INGOTS

Police hunted London and the Home Counties last month for two bandits who kidnapped · an elderly jeweller's messenger and stole seven gold ingots worth £376.

The bandits forced sixty-five-year- old William H. Harding into their 'car, broke the chain that held the gold-bag to his wrist, then bundled him into the street.

It was all over in ten minutes. Mr. Harding, short, slightly bent, and wearing a bowler hat, set off omeen of his employers, from the Messrs. Lawson Ward and Gammage, Ltd., in Clerkenwell-road, EC., about 2. p.m. to take the gold to Messrs. J. S. Kaight and Son's gold-rolling mills in Gloucester-way, Clerkenwell, half a mile uwny.

He was within a few yards of his destination when a small car drew up alongside him.

He peered al it through his gold. rimmed spectacles, then, before he could move on, he was grabbed from behind, a' hand wan. placed over his mouth, and be found him. self in the back seat of the car.

PINNED DOWN The car drove off through the back streets of Clerkenwell and King's Cross. Mr. Harding struggled, but his arms were pinned down, and, as his spectacles had been knocked off, he could not see las captors clearly.

The chain holding the gold-bag was broken by the time the car had reached Holford-square, near King's Cross station, the car was pulled up and Mr. Harding was pushed out.

Shouting Man Flung

Down On

Stage

At First Night

A bare-headed young man, wearing a macintosh,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY,

NOVEMBER 26, 1997.

Fortune, Fortune! All men call thee fickle..................

THE PLACE WHERE

-Shakespeare

DREAMS

OF RICHES ARE SHATTERED

No. 29, Russell-square, W.C.1, is one of the old-time mansion homes of Bloomsbury -unchanged outside except for plaque, "Ollicial Receiver's Offices, North and South London Suburban Districts.” -

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Daily men and women go to this place

He Invested

In Gold

AN N elderly man of military bear-

as

described simply Ing. "gentleman" from Buckinghamshire, met his creditors in a chrery room in which a coal fire blazed and an old tapestry adorned one of the walls. Sitting nit mahogany, desk

in front of the fireplace was Mr. J. I. Poland, Sentor Official Receiver for North London districts.

Mr. Poland said, "This debtor attributes his fatture to deprecla- tion of shares owing to the gold scare. In October 1930. he said, he was worth £9,500. Since then he has lost £11,586 un Stock Exchange Klix- лге transactions No asscla closed."

The man told his creditors that his wife had independent means, perhaps a composition could be paid inter.

The creditors decided to give him a fortnight to submit an offer be- fore they asked the receiver

climbed on to the stage of the rebuilt Prince of Wales' adjudleate the man bankrupt. Theatre, newly opened last month, and shouted, "Ladies and gentlemen,-Why doesn't this theatre pay trade union rates?"

was a

The show, "Les Folles de Paris etj Londres," had been running only twenty minutes. The scene circus. The girls were dressed as animals. Comedian Eddie Foy was ringmuster.

Foy turned round in astonishment. The fashionable audierice started. For

a moment the man seemed at a loss.

IID was hustled, half carried Hirough a side door. The show

TEAR GAS IN CHURCH

Then attendants clashed down the

London, Oct. 19. alleyway from the back of the

Nearly 500 members of the con- altending a theatre, seized him and flung him greghtton who were

special service at Falkestone Parish to the ground.

fumes, Church were affected by which it was discovered came from

which was a used tear-gas bomb found under a chancel window in the churchyard. It is now in the hands of the police who are trying to dis cover the identity of the people who put it there.

went on.

Fifteen minutes later comedian Teler addon; composing a sketch, naited the audience for suggestions as to how it could be done.

A'man in the stall jumped up and shouted; I suggest you pay your musicians union rates!! He was led out quietly. While celebrities were being photo- graphed in the brilliantly hit foyer of the theatre, pickets of the Musicians' Union were distributing lenflets out aide, demandinn. “A_West End wate for a West End theatre!"

The New Prince of Wales' Theatre, which is employing # on-union band, has been in dispute with the union for norne weeks, Mr. Alfred Endalle. managing director of the! theatre, denies that about wages.

In the vestry unknown to the clergy or congregation, Mr. J. Gib- son, the verger and parish clerk was "I was in being blinded by the gas.

a room adjoining the vestry when I noticed a peculiar smell," he said. "I went to the vestry to investigate and found it full of pungent gus. "I made sure that the door leading into the chancel was closed and then with my eye blinded I groped my way into the churchyard." Mr. Butcher- the organist had to play with his eyes running with tears."

Hungary Stresses Courtesy

Budapest.

Schools in the Dalaton district of the dispute is Hungary plan to include a course in

"courtesy to foreign tourists."

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to tell the stories of their ruined businesses, shattered fortunes, and dreams of riches that never came true.

un hour two The other morning within men and a woman came to No. 29, Russell- square each with a different story to tell of the drama behind their changed fortunes.

SHE TURNED

BUILDER

CHE came from Giden Park,

Essex.

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He Expected £2,000 Gift

THIRTY-NINE - YEAR - OLD writer on topo- lecturer and When her husband's business fortunes crashed she ac- graphical history from Shepperton- quired plots of land at Hornchurch,m-Thames waited for his creditors balt eight £800 hauses-bul owing in a room above, but none turned up to the popularity of flats had sold to hear his story. only onc.

She had no previous experience: hail failed for £006-with possible naels of £290.

The woman builder's husband were Ride. They stood by her anxious to get back to Gidea Park as quickly as possible because two of their three children were com ing home from celol in their mid- day meal.

11e antlelpated receiving a gift of £2,000 early in 1936, so he bought furniture, a motor-launch, raised his standard of living.

But the gift amounted only to £919,

Then a moneylender obtained Judgment against him and a re- celying onler was made.

Now the lecturer in topographi Once the husband made as much

debts of cal history has proved as £100 a week prot out of his

£548 and he has no assels to meet Now he is a steward at a

ihem. business. social club, which provides him with

the woman The Like the affairs of a home for his wife and family.

affnirs of the woman bulider of houses, the finances of the financial builder were left in the hands of Mr. lecturer were left in the hands of un

official receiver. Polunther trustee in hunkruptcy.

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KIDNAPPERS SILENT THEA

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Chicago, Oct. 20. [UNDREDS of G-men restarted a nation- wide hunt to-day when zero hour for the return of wealthy seventy-two- year-old Charles Ross, _kidnapped_on September 25, passed without his appearing.

Zero hour, eight o'clock this morning, found Mr. Ross's wife on the verge of collapse.

came she When no word announced that she had paid £10,000 to men whom she believed to be her husband's) kidnappers.

The G-men retired temporarily) from the case when Mrs. Ross told them she was determined to pay the ransom. Now, at her request, they are back on the trail.

NUMBERS NOTED

Mrs. Russ paid the money in five, ten, and twenty dollar bills, all Issued by the Federal Bank, Chicago, Their numbers, noted by the wife's Advisers, are now in the possession of of the Daniel Ladd, special agent G-men in charge of the case.

How or where the money was paid Ladd refuses to reveal, but he did; say: "The biggest hunt in-

tory of the Federal Burenu

Rarely is Premier Mussolini seen in civilian clothes, but here he is thus arbed as he appear ed recently in front of St. Peter's church in Rome. He had come to view the demolition of build- Ings between the plazza and the river, which opened a new vista, as is being explained by an engineer.

There's Something About A

Sailor

the his- When Gunner Stanley Pachen,

of In-

vestigations is now on. We mean to 24-years-old Newcastle soldier,! save Ross and to get his kidnappers. | heard

Old Silver Arrastra Found

Tonopah, Nev.

An old arrastra, device used by early Mexleun miners of the west to' grind silver from rich Nevada ore, has been uncovered near here by The arrastra two Tonopah residents. stood near the crumbling remains of a small furnace in which the silver Gre was treated before being put into

that his 16-years-old the grinding unit.

We are sorry the ransom was ever sweetheart, Mary Baldwin, was

paid."

A car-load of bandits snatched missing from her aunt's home Mr. Ross from his car when he

Afterwards Gunner Pachen said:

was driving with his former secre- at Dinton-road, Colliers Wood, "I knew I would find Mary, although tary, Miss Florence Freihag. Min S.W., where she was on holiday, Freling has been unable to help:

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the police.

he:

dozens Mrs. Ross has made appeals for her husband on the radio all in and in the newspapers, but vain.

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West Palm Beach, Fla. A family cat prevented a burglar from entering the home of George N. Dorset, who told police he was aroused early in the morning when the cat began Jumping from one bed to another. Invesilgation revealed an Intruder at the rear door whoi fled when he heard Dorset moving about.

School Has One Pupil

Pittsburgh, Kak There will be no hookey for 9-) your-old

Gene Humble this year.

Nor will he have nny trouble inl keeping at the head of the class.

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school near here,

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Conducted a nine-days search in London, of which he kept a

diary;

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Decided to gċi engaged on hier. 17th birthday.

people told me it was worse than

looking for a needle in a haystack. All this will be forgotten."

Mary, who had been missing a month, sald: "I don't know what made me run away. I expect I was because I wanted to see life while

But I was young.

never again. When I met Stan I could have cried for joy,"

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