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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JANUARY 15,

1938.

Confidence Man Who Wanted To Take 60,000 Welshmen To Edinburgh

JUST LIKE ALICE IN WONDERLAND

STRANGE STORY REVEALED IN FRAUD CHARGE

A remarkable story-described as "a fantastio tale-a page from Allco

from the taxi firm he went Into Edinburgh and saw the firm about

The reason he actually went to Edinburgh was that the whole thing was so annoying.

it. Wonderland" of a middle-aged man who claimed to have made arrangements to cater for 89,000 visitors from Wales for the Scotland-Wales International rugby match, In. volving a sum of £30,000, was told at Edinburgh Sheriff Court recently.

The man, who lind twelve

previous convictions, was sent to prison on bring convicted of two charges of fraud.

The trial took place before Sheriff Jameson, evidence for the prosecu- tion being conducted by Mr. Macleod, the

Depute-Fiscal.

The accused was Frederick Boin middle-aged man, in custody, Weir, a and he pleaded not guilty to a charge that (1) on November 7 he obtained, from an Edinburgh firm, the hire of Journey to Cost- n motor car for

bridge and

and Lennoxtown and the re- turn journey to Edinburgh, to the value of £4, without paying and not Intending to pay therefor; and (2) on November

he obtained food and elgarettes to the value of 25. in an Edinburgh restaurant without paying and not intending to pay therefor.

A partner in an Edinburgh Arm of motor hirers sald that on Sunday, November 7, he got an order by telephone from an hotel for a motor car to take a man to Coatbridge and back. He later learned that the account for the hire had not been paid.

who took The

taxi-cab driver, Weir to Coatbridge and back, sald that on their return to Edinburgh accused handed him a business card and sald he would pay the fare at the firm's once the following morn- in Weir did not turn up at the office.

The cashier of the firm in question said that the account was still out- standing.

CASUAL CONVERSATION

A work's timekeeper employed with arm at Coatbridge gave evidence relating to the call Weir made on him at his home in Coatbridge. He suld he met Weir for the first time In an Edinburgh hotel lounge and

got into easual conversation with that he him. Weir told this man had a friend who had a rush of work to do, but owing to the amount of

munitions and war material being

made he could not get 11 done,

Weir asked witness if his firm could help out his friend, and witness gave Welr his firm's business card, tell- ing him to telephone or write the Arm about the matter.

Later that night, witness was astonished to have a call from Weir who had come from Edinburgh by taxi enb-Weir-told-witness that his friend told him that speed was more Important than expense and that was why he had come by taxi.

It was never suggested to witness that he was to pay for the taxt and when he received an account for £3

Duchess Of Windsor In "Who's Who"

London, Jan. 1. The Duchess of Windsor, American-born wife of Great Britain's former king, entered the British Who's Who to-day with publication of the 1938 cdition.

The duchess, who was the former Wallis Warfield of Baltimore, Md.. was listed with the royal family as were the wives of the other brothers of King George.

She was the only one of the royal wives, however, whose date of birth and parents were not Included.

The former king was listed as follows:

"Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David (Duke of Windsor). Succeeded his father, King George V, January 20, 1938: abdicated December 11, 1936. Mar- ried June 3, 1037, Mrs. Wallis War- fold."

(Edward signed formal abdication papers

on Dec. 10 at 10 nam, but did not cease to be king until the following day when George VI was proclaimed monarch.)

The Duke of Duchess of Windsor came after King George, and bin

In connection with the second charge the manager of a restaurant and public-house in Edluburgh sald that Weir, whom he knew, had come to him and said that he could not pay his bill after having had a meal and a packet of cigarettes.

"A BIG BOOKING"

In answer tu a question as to former dealings with Weir, witness aid that accused saw him about a big booking for the Welsh Rugby International match at Murray!eld, on February 5. Witness agreed to take 900 people for three meals that day at an inclusive charge of Ga per heiul and Weir was to receive 714 per cent. commission. Nothing was to be payable until the whole business was j Bished,

Witness added that Weir hnd asked him for small loans on occasion and once he had expressed his astonish- ment to Weir that a man earning £40 per week, as Weir claimed, should

have no money.

"DONE UNUSUAL THINGS"

Weir, giving evidence on his own behalf, said he was 50 years of age. His versim of the accling with the Coatbridge man was that he regard- ed himself more or less neting as agent for that man. ile would not have gone to Coatbridge but for that as he had no business or reason to go to Coatbridge.

He got nothing out of it, and in- deed was out of pocket, and he firmly believed that he was seting on the instructions of someone who intended to pay for the taxi.

Regarding the second charge accus- ed said that he had some £20 coming from the restaurant frin lu commis- slon in connection with the Rugby

match, and it international

Was

hudlerous that he would have pre- judiced his chance of obtaining that sum for the sake of two shillings.

Weir was being cross-examined when the Depuie-Fiscal, Mr. M'Leod, asked, "Do you usually go long dis-

tances in taxicabs?"

Weir-It is unusual for me to do

so. I have done many things that

are unusual. (Laughter.)

Later Weir, turning to the Sheriff, said, "I am trying to get on my own fect, my Lord.

The Sheriff-You could better by keeping out of (Laughter.)

that do taxicabs.

Weir went on to appeal to the Sheriff, saying that he had a chance of doing good business and that a conviction on this occasion would spoil that chance,

"I have bookings in theatres and with caterers that involve £30,000 and 60,000 people who are coming. from Wales to the match."

ANCIENT FEUD ENDS-Centuries-old Anglo-Scottish feud ended when the Marquess of Douglas and Clydesdale was married in Edinburgh, Scotland, to Lady Elizabeth Ivy Percy, as above. The feud began when a Douglas carried off the daughter of a Porcy and slow her father. This wedding, however, was one of the Empire's swankiest. The bride was one of the Queen's oldes..

AIR WOMAN DEMANDS

RECOGNITION

FOR CAPE FLIGHT

Mrs. Betty Kirby-Green is up in arms against the attitude of the Royal Aero Club towards her recent flight to the Cape and back with Flying Officer A. E. Clouston. She declares the club re- fuses to incorporate her name as co-pilot in the Facts sent to the Federation Aeronautique Inter- nationale for official recognition.

"If Mr. Harold Perrin, secretary of the Royal Aero Club, chooses to call me a liar, I shall demand an apology," she said angrily.

"The attitude taken up by the club is a direct chal- lenge to my honesty.

KINGSTON “NECKING" PARTIES

GIRL'S “SHOCKING STORY"

That concluded the evidence for After a girl hud, given evidence in and the agent for the which a "hecking party was men- the defensessing the Sheriff, said, tionect, Mr. Justice Charles, ut Sur-

accused,

"A TASTE FOR TAXIS"

submitted

The agent

vict him."

The Clerk

.

that

This is certainly a fantastic tale-rey Assizes, Kingston, directed the n page of Alice in Wonderland rather jury to find a man not guilty of than Court of law."

serious offence against her.

After the man, Raymond Aubrey Pullin (20), neroplane test pilot, af the Sutton Lane, Hounslow, Middlesex, charges against Weir had not been had been discharged the Judge said: proved.

This is a shocking

obviously story The Sheriff-"I am bound to con-made up and invented by the girl." Mr. Laurence Vine, prosecuting, of Court rend out said that the girl, Miss Joan Alice twelve convictions, which Weir ad- Welch (20), was perfectly respect- of the able, and Pullin was a perfectly res- Speaking in mitigation

known pectable man. They offence and appealing for a fine to each other three or four months and be imposed instead of imprisonment, had met three times the agent said the convictions were On the evening of August 29, after all for a very similar type of offence. having some drinks with friends at "The accused's offences always seem Shepperton, the couple drove to to be restricted to the sphere of 2s Runnymede, where they got into the Od or something of that nature," he back of the car and kissed and cud-

dled. sald.

mitted.

hand

week.

The Sheriff-But he has a taste for Subsequently, it was alleged, Pullin taxicabs and runs up enormous bills.pulled the girl out of the car and the

"The accused has had an extraor-alleged offence took place.

Replying to Mr. St. John Hutchin- dinary and somewhat tragic life," continued the agent. "To a certain son, KC, defending, Miss Welch degree he is an educated and intelli- agreed that her mother had kept a gent man, and if he got out of his club which had been struck off for present position he could make him-serving drunits after hours.

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RADIO® BROADCAST

Relay of Wales v. England

Rugby Match

HOTEL ORCHESTRA

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Radio Programme Broadcast on Frequencies of 845 kic's., 9.52 m.e's.

H.K.T. 12.0-12.20 p.m. Relay of a Special Service from St. John's Cathedral.

Kullman. Charles 12.30 (Tenor),

pan.

Sillas The Night (Bohm); I Love Thee (Greg). Vale (Russell).

12.40 p.m. Orchestre Raymonde. Chanson D'Amour (Suk); By The Sleepy Lagoon (Eric Coates). The Dancing Clack (Ewing); Poupec Vatsante (Poldini). A Night on The Waves, Finnish Waltz (Koskimaa); Electric Giri (Holmes). Dance of the Merry Mascots (Ketelby).

1.0 Time and Weather. 1.03 Variety.

Dirty Face (legan): My S.O.S. For You (Layton)... Turner Layton. Troise and His

Waltz Memories ilenry's Night Out

Mundollers. Joha

John Henry. Rolling Down the Hilly-Billy Trail; Under The Old Pine Tree

One Never The Hill Billies. Knows, Docs One?... Mal Hallett & His Orchestra.

1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press; Locul. Weather Forecast and Announce- ments.

1.40 Musical Comedy.

"He Wanted Adventure"... Bobby Howes and Company with Theatre Orchestra cond. by Joseph Tunbridge.

2.15 Close down.

0.0-7.0 Chinese Programme.

7 p.m. Excepts from Grand Opera. Lohengrin-(Wagner) Prelude London Symphony Orchestra cond. by Siegfried Wagner. Lohengrin-

.. Richard Crooks In Fernem Land (Tenor). Meistersinger-Preislied... Richard Crooks (Tenor). Prince Igor Symphony (Borodin) Overture

Coates. Orchestra cond. by Albert

were shining." Rigoletto-"Woman is fickle" Gigli (Tenor). Tosta-"The Stars

7.30 Varlely.

or

Phantom Brigade (Myddleton): London Pal- Aishu (Lindsay). "It is not British sportsmanship to

Jadlum Orchestro.. Do You remem- behave as the club is doing.

Gracie "It was absolutely impossible for ber my First Love Song; Why did

and Dwyer one man alone to do that flight, him- have to Meet You

Fields. Clapham insist self, and 1 menn to

on my "Hobbies".

of Tiger Rag: Some recognition.

Brothers, Mills Days These "A very large number of members will back me up, and I believe they "Heart's Desire-Film Selection ...

Cine Studio Orchestra. will force the club to recognise my share in the record."

LETTER POSTED

"I should like an explanation. as your action directly challenges my word,

8.0 Local Time Signal and Weather Report:

8.03 Studio-J. McNaught Thomson

Mrs. Kirby-Green added that she had posted a letter to Mr. Perrin Inaccompanied by Nur Kanls.

kind which she wrote:

1, Loving Smile of sister (Gounod); 2, I hear a Song (Carne); 3, Cargoes (Coningsby Clarke); 4, My Journey's End (Morgan); 5, "I admit inexperience, but I feel Mellsande in the Wood (Goetz). in view of your attitude I should like

8.20 Walion Facade Sulte. to point out that you did accord n record to Flying-Offeer Llewellyn

Played by the London Philharmonic and Mrs. Jill Wyndham, and I belleve orchestra conducted, by the Com- that at the time Mrs. Wyndham bad poser. less experience than myself...

CLUB'S VIEW

The Aero Club view is that Mrs. Kirby-Green could not have the re- cord, as she was not allowed to take the machine off or land it, and that further proof is required of the claim that she did half the flying,

Mr. Jim Mollison said: "I am ex- tremely indignant at the attitude the Royal Aero Club has adopted.

"It is a slight on my friend Betty, and entirely unjustified. "If they persist in this policy shall have no alternative but to re- sign from the Royal Aero Club."

caid that she left the party about 4

n.m.

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8.37 Temlarıka Chamber Orchestra.

(Viollo) with

Korido in A Major-Schuberi, 8.50 London Relay--"London Lor" A Talk by E. A. Montague.

9.0 Variety.

1

Sing. Glpsy, Sing; Thirty Thirsty Throats Anona Winn. Roberta -Selection Arthur Young and Reginald Forsyth on two planos. Murgatroyd Winter Sporis; Pets. and Winterbottom.

Marionetic; 'Funeral March of Nola Sydney Gustard (Organ), Slipping Through my Fingers; Got to dance my way to Heaven Jessie Matthews.

Nos. 1 to 4 Tangoes.

10.10 Interval of recorded dance

She agreed that she had gone into

0.30 London Relay-The News. bedroom with a young man, bul

Shie 9.50 Relay of the Hongkong Hotel nothing improper took place. also agreed that sho kissed a man self a useful citizen. He is at pre- WHen the “pettiNG” BEGAN

who taught her riding in Sussex. Dance Orchestra from the Grill Room She kissed Pullin the day she met of the Hongkong Hotel. sent engaged in a scheme for catering

tell him. Mr. Hutchinson-Did you for visitors from Wales, und from my

The Judge There is a regiment of perusal of the documents, if he can young man that you were going to a

young men. She allows them to kiss implement his side of the bargain he necking and petting party? No.

Were the lights turned out and her when she sees them. has got caterers in this city to enter!

At the conclusion of Miss Welch's into a bargain by which he stands each man sat with a girl eller on a

sald that he of chair or un the floor, and that was evidence, the Judke considerable П min

when the pelling hegan?--Yes. would want a great deal of corro- Dill you join in the party? Yes, boration before he left the matter Replying to the Judge, Miss Welch with the jury.

In

money."

sum

"A GENUINE EFFORT" The Sheriff "I hope it is that the family and Queen Mother Mary in caterers do not stand to lose."

did the royal family Naling.

The agent said the

accused

The new Who's Who is 20 pages scem to make a genuine effort to larger than the 1037 edition, having rehabilitate himself and get himself 3703 pages.

on his feet, and this was the first real The editors Kill fist Haile chance to had had since the War. Selassie as Emperor of Ethiopia "A sentence of imprisonment will kill and give him the same amount of this chance. It is a tragle case, and space as Premier Benito Mussolini one cannot help thinking that Weir of Italy. Each received 32 lines of has potentialties and gifts which print. Premier Mussolini's ble-some ordinary men do not have." graphy is in Italian.

The Sheriff said he would have tol President Roosevelt was given 10 convlet, even if he took nto consi- lines, the same as last year," Others deration this long rigmarole about sketches were not changed introductions and all that sort of Included Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, thing. I was all just too absurd. Chancellor Adof Hitler of Germany and Joseph Stalin, Soviet Dietator. Former President Hoover was given 27 lines this year compared with 33 last year.

whose

BIGGEST ALIEN

HUNT SINCE THE WAR

The most intensive "alien" hunt since the Great War has just been started by the Special Branch at Scotland Yard in conjunction with officers of the Secret Service.

In the last five years hundreds of

There are hundreds of alléns whose

"People do not do such ridiculous things as Wels suggests," he said, and addressing Weir, the Sherif remarked, "I am sorry about you, allens have disappeared from the movements during the last five years

ave sentenced you time and time official records, and the police are are unknown. again. We cannot allow you to go very anxious to know something of about and put members of the public their activities.

One of the longest sketches in the volume is that of Dr. Nicholas Mur- Tay Butler, president of Columbia to such a lot of trouble and expense "Politichi agitators of alien-des- University, who was given 144 lines as you do. I send you to prison-for-cent-are particularly occupying. As exainst 139 ilnes last (ear, i four months.z.math

- the attention of the authorities.

It is lielieved that these people

are being used as the agents of foreign Powers,

The new drive In calculated to bring their nellyitles to an end."

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