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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1937.

2 MEN BEATEN UP IN CELLS

BY PRISON WARDERS Exposed By M. P.: 3 Dismissals

Mr. Tom Groves, M.P. for Stratford, E., revealed re. cently the story behind the dismissal of three Wands- worth Jail officers for as- saults on two prisoners.

Announcement of the dismissals, and of the fact that n. fourth offeer had resigned, had been made earlier the Home by Sir Samuel Hoore, Secretary.

Mr. Groves said: "A young man just released from Wandsworth told me that prison officers had assaulted two prisoners who had been brought back by the police after escaping from the Jail.

"ile said he had seen the two men -they were both under thirty--in the prison chapel the previous day, and they had black eyes and wounds on top of their heads.

went to the Home Office at once- and put the case in the hands of the Chief Prison Commissioner.

"Later I was given the explanation that the men's wounds were caused when they dropped over a 12ft. wall In making their escape.

REFUSED TO SIGN

"The Home Ofice officials were evidently convinced about it, and I was going to leave it at that. Then my ex-prisoner friend called on me again.

"When I told him he said 'You are being deceivedt, Tom. Your leg is being pulled.'

"I asked him to write a statement and sign it, but he would not do that. He said he had been in Wandsworth three times, and feared what might happen if he went there again.

the names of the officers who it was

at Newark, NJ., Pilat Byron C. Moore discovered his landing gear was stuck. For 75 11373- minutes he circled the port with 13 passengers while bulances and are apparatus gatherd below. wheel partly in place and the other only slightly so, as above, he nos:d down, skikded and came to rest-safe!

About to land his transport plane

LOVE DRAMA IS

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Hull, Nov. 8.

Students of Hull University College, have been forbidden" to

THE MAN WHO FELL INTO A TUBE

race

Jumes Thomas, sixty-nine years old,

Newmarket stepped off a Iral af Liverpool-street Station recently, walked across Nu. 10 platform towards a cab, stumbled railing and disappeared hrad first into a hole.

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wife screamed and fainted. Porters rushed up.

Meanwhile Mr. Thomas was spiral- ling at express speed down a Doft, long steel-lined letter chute to the Post Office tube station under- neath Liverpool-street.

Ten seconds, later, breathless, his bowler hat bouncing before him, he shot on a revolving band. Postal workers were dumbfounded by the sudden arrival of the whlic- haired man

They stopped the machinery, helped Mr. Thomas to his feet. He d a few cuts on one of his hands, and was feeling a little shakin, but that was all. They took him to a lift and brought up Into Liverpool-street Station again. His wife welcomed "Squibs," as she calls him, as a man from the grave. Hundreds of people cheered wildly

he AY stumbled into her embrace.

on later to his home in Uxbridge-

"llowever, he agreed to write down mention the death of their thirty-year-old physics lecturer, Ronald He was taken to hospital, but went

Curry, who for two years, had wanted Ada Muriel Pilgrim, his rond. twenty-year-old pupil, to marry him.

alleged committed the assaults and the names of prisoners who saw the

assaults.

Mr.

Curry was found dead in his car "My niece could not return "I went to the Home Office armed in a lonely lane

near Hull. With Curry's affectiona al all. She did with this fresh information. The glass and rubber equipment from his not want to have anything to do result was Sir Samuel Hoare's an-university laboratory he had arranged with him." nouncement to-day."

a tube leading from the exhaust

The prisoners who were uttacked through a window of the car. Then were named Paskin and Clack. They he had left the engine running. were serving terms of eighteen In the two years that Miss Pilgrim months for housebreaking.

had attended university lectures, They escaped from Wandsworth Curry had repeatedly asked her to but were at become engaged to him. Her reply early in September, liberty for only half an hour.

was that she did not love him; that, The alleged attack occurred after at present, her career came before they had been placed in the punish-marriage. .ment cells.

'NO PROVOCATION'

Full inquiry was made by the Prison Commissioners, I regret to say that the result is to leave no doubt that the two prisoners were, | without any sort of provocation,

assaulted by prison officers in their cells and received certain injuries, fortunately not of a serious charac- ter....

The Prison Commissioners and I ar determined that there shall be no possibility of so regrettable an -incident-being-repeated..

There is no reason to think that there has been any other case of the kind in recent years.

When Sir Samuel was asked whe ther the jail officers were to be pro- secuted, he replied: "I think that, on the whole, disinissal is a far more serious penalty than prosecution."

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Birmingham. "Exploitation of working-class pro- perty and the creation of glaring in- justices to the lower-pold wage earners" will be considered by Bir- mingham City Council shortly.

It follows an inquiry into the ex- tent to which extqetlonate rents are being demanded for decontrolled Class Clouses-those of which the rateable value does not exceed £13,

More Quan half the houses in Birmingham come in this category, and the Inquiry showed that when become decontrolled they have landfords have increased rents more than 100 per cent. In ord street they were raised 130 cent.

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It urges amendment of the Acis so that owners of decontrolled property may be prevented from, or penalised for, demanding rents from working- class tenants out of afl proportion to the value of the houses.

Read Plato, Savan't Advises

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Berkeley, Cal.

Dr. F. P. Woellner of the Univer sity of California has remedy for poor lawmaking in the United

1GZHSŤKORY Aurognag | States. He suggests that Washing

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Chorry Tree Goes

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Butler, Pa.

S. C. Crawford's cherry tree went on its biennial spree Uile fall. £t repeated a performance of 1935, when it blossomed in October after bear- ing fruit in the spring.

Pilgrim at the girl, students' hostel, On Sunday he telephoned Miss said "Goodbye, l'am going to do what I told you."

In bed he said: "I went round and round in the dark, then it got light again, and that's about all I know." The Post Office tube at Liverpool- the sorting street connects wil headquarters at Mount Pleasant and with Paddington station. Only mails are carried on the smali trains.

Egrets 'Seen in Ohio

Miss Pilgrim, alarmed, informed university authorities. Efforts were made to find Curry. But he had already begun his last car drive.

Norwalk, O. Large white birds seen wading in Miss Pilgrim will give evidence to-Rooded fields near here were identi- Miss Pilgrim's aunt Miss Willon, amorrow at the inquest on Curry at fied as American egrets. The egret Goole schoolmistress, said to-night: Beverley.

Is a semi-tropical bird.

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