1937-11-30 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,

NOVEMBER 30, 1937.

Boy ‘Sheik,' Loved By Schoolgirls, Kills Doctor And Wife SYMPATHY

New York, Oct. 26.

OF THE

WEEDY, eighteen-year-old Paul Nathaniel Dwyer smirked and swag PRISONERS

before a battery of cameras in a cell of Hackensack Jail, Now Jersey, to-day, oponly boasting how he murdered small-town Doctor I. G. Littlefield and his wife.

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Dwyer, a farmer's boy, cold-eyed, thin-lipped, pointed a cut and scratched hand towards a bundle of pink and purple love letters found in his pockets. "They called me "The Sheik of South Paris,' he said.

Two mobile policemen on

dawn patrol yesterday had

seen a big saloon car parked KIDNAPPED AND

behind a garage in Nort

Arlington, New Jersey ROBBED OF GOLD

INGOTS IN CAR

Dwyer, his feet propped on: the steering wheel was asleep.

Thinking he had stolen the car they took him to the police station. He sneered, "Say, I don't steal automobiles, why don't you search the car?"

Detectives did so and found

TRIBUTE PAID TO GOVERNOR'S WIFE

New York, Nov.

Two hundreå convicts, somoj-of; them emvleted murderers,' nond of whom had been outside the prey walls of Jail for seven years, led through Sing Sing's great gateway towards the house of Lewis Loves, governor of the prison for eighteen years.

With armed guards as escort; the convicts went to pay their Inst ren- perta to Lawes's wife, Katherine, whose body lay in a casket in the house.

Some of the convicta carried flowers, one or two wept as they gazed on the face of the woman who was known to them as "Little

MASS IN JAIL

Car bandits recently kidnapped a messenger in a London street, robbed him of £375 worth of gold ingots, Mother." hurled him from the car and drove away.

Ench convict was allowed to pause

One of the bandits sat in the driver's seat when the one minule before the casket. Then the body of sixty-four-year-old car was beside the kerb in Gloucester Way, near Clerkenwas escorted back to his cell, Mra. Gertrude Littlefield jam-well Road. The engine was running. med beneath the back seat.

ingots to rolling mills just after two o'clock when he was kidnapped.

Another bandit dashed up behind In the luggage compartment was

parked on Bear the messenger, William H. Harding, the body, of her sixty-six-year-old husband, bis head injured, his aged 06, of Cimpton, seized him, and neck blue with strangulation marks, pushed him into the car.

The farmer's boy, unperturbed, He then made a long confession. said he came from South Paris, Maine. He called Dr. Littlefield to his house last Wednesday and asked him to examine him. The old

doctor made a slighting remark, so he hit him on the jaw, knocking him senseless,

1 PRESSED

Then, circling through streets of North London, the robbers wrested a hac containing the ingots from a ateel chain attached to Harding's

risi.

While removing the bag of Kolu they held Ifarding down. This took them ten minutes' strenuous work.

'TOSSED HIM OUT They tossed Harding out on to the road in Holford Square, not far from King's Cross railway station, and then disappeared.

"I got my hands round his thront and pressed. Then I went down stairs, got a hammer, and

Anished him off. Then 1 packed some things; and decided to take the body with me. I put n belt round him, carried him out, and put him in the back of his swell new car. Then I thought! Ltd., about his old lady, so I drove in the car to his house, told Mrs. Littlefield that the doctor had knocked down

Harding, who is employed by Messrs. Lawson, Ward and Gammage, manufacturing jewellers, of Clerkenwell Road, was carrying the

Afterwards he was taken to the police station in King's Cross Road and questioned by directors of his Arm, Det.-Superintendent Bennell, and other C.I.D. oflcers from Scotland yard.

INJURED AND DAZED

Inside the prison Mrs. Lawes'ri death was attributed to-day u the high-heel shoes she was wearing when the

atrolled from her ear Mountain Bridge, Westchester, on Saturday afternoon.

She was found at the foot of a steep path late on Saturday night with a broken leg and other injuries. She died In

the in-

directed Her husban vestigation into her death.

His men found a three-inch shoe-

He was injured and found it dim-heel embedded in a rock at the top culto Alve a connected story of what of a path, had happened.

To a News Chronicle reporter he sald: "1 connot remember much They pounced upon me so suddenly that was dazed. After they had thrown me into the car and driven round and round I could not see very "well.

"I do not know if they had any weapons."

two men and killed them and was "To the sweetest boy in the wor BILL TO MAKE

scared. I said he had asked me to Happy-street, Heaven." meet him with some money. awallowed the story."

She

Dwyer's story continued that after driving about "miles and miles" for two days Mrs. Littlewood became suspicious.

"Suddenly she said. 'You killed my husband. I had to let her have it then.

"I just put my hands on her neck und strangled her."

He said:

The police found thirty-two love letters in Dwyer's pockets. "Hundreds of 'em, they are all nuts about me."

It read:-

"I don't expect you to make love to me. I am crazy about you." Another. from "Barbie," said:

how "ilya, darling, here's

1 feel about you, hot potatoes and ginger- bread. Kiss me quick."

Another, from "Barbie," said:

got le "Dearest l'aul, háve write you. I feel Just in the mood. I will always love you very, very much. I am perfectly Bure you love me as much, but not more than I love you"

The police have discovered that all still at the letters are from girls high school. They rounded them up in South Paris to-day. Subbing girls. The letters were labelled "sweet-itammered, "It can't be the Paul we -heurts, One, signed."Arline," sald. know."

"BARBIE'S" LETTERS

SAVING EASIER

Mrs. Lawen's death fall was re- constructed. She had walked slowly from her car, stumbled over a rock. then fallen a hundred feet.

Moss will be celebrated in Sing Sing to-night. All the convicts will attend.

Rare Spider Home Found

Mineral Wells, Tex.

W. O. Mathis of this city recently stumbled onto A scene that lew peaple ever see-the home of a big spider. I was lined with a white silk-like material and has a hinged door which the spider opened and closed. A second hinged door indi- being cated that an addition

"It is hoped to introduced into the present Session of Parliament a Bill to remove many of the difficulties at present hampering the thrift muve-built. ment," said Sir John Chancellor, chairman of the Trustee Suvings Bank Association, at the Association's golden jubilee luncheon in London recently.

Was

Shocks Corn At 75

Fremont, O.

The Postmaster-General (Major Charles Moerder, 75, after a 50- Tryon) announced that at the end year absence from the corn fields, of September savings invested in the aided by Melvin Overmyer, cut, tied P.O. Savings Bank totalled, with in- and starked 100 shocks of corn in six hours. He said they eut nearly half terest, £481,000,000.

of it in the first hour of work, "taking time out" to eat during the other flce hours.

National Savings Certificates total- led £514,000,000, making an aggre- gate of 575,000,000,

Lalcst picture of General Francisco Franco, Spanish In- surgent commander. The pic- ture was taken as he spoke to more than 35,000 persons at the Spanish Race Fete, held at Bur- gos, former headquarters in northern Spain.

Graduate of '86 Re-enrolls

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Cambridge, Mass. After 5 years Theodore Stebbins is back in school. A graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1880, Stebbins returned to take summer course in Spectroscopy, which is now his hobby.

Gypsy Not So Crafty

Bucharest. Police raided a gypsy camp and look among other valuables a £3.000 necklace that had been stolen from the home of A wealthy merchent. The aged gypsy who wore it hod considered it a worthless trinket.

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