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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1938.

CASHIER TELLS OF DRIVE AT For Summer

POINT OF REVOLVER

Manager Is Warned: "No Joke Brother”

35 Year Old Ship's Steward

Is Accused

Thomas Albert Morgan, thirty-five-year-old ship's

| steward, accused of holding up a mill manager and cashier with a revolver and stealing £1,478 13s. 5d. from them, is alleged to have said after his arrest: "I was as surprised as they were when everything came off as it did.”

At Preston Morgan was committed |

for trial at Manchester Asalzes le refused to say anything.

At the last hearing Mr H Pazurk- erley, prosecuting, mud that after the mater and enshier, Me E. T. Dariush and Mr James Fowler, nud called at a bank on behalf of their employers, Mesars Thomas Moss and Suns, of Lostock Hall, Preston, and Jnd trawn about £1,500. Morgun climbed into their ear, and, huiding a revolver behind them, made them pree met of Preston into a euntry

There he made them get out of the c and he drove away in it

Mi Fazackerley sold that Morga

London where he paid 1100 in notes as a deposit for the Ladye

went

purchase of an motor Grace

ship.

Army Has Its Own

Chefs Now

Sir Isidore Salmon, M.P.. re- cently appointed Honorary Catering Adviser to the British Army, speaking at a luncheon in London said that he hoped to make the British Army the best- fed army in the worki.

Raising the standard of cooking me the Army is nu elay task,” with Mir Isidore

Nest day Monday, he culled at Die offer of a London Brm of solk citors to pay the balance of £375 and have the bill of sale exvented. The handed over £175 in £1 notes The softester became suspicious and telephoned the poller Morgan was the Army: the installation of

inter arrested

"Since my apponitment I have had Ehree essentials in view the neces- aily for having trained professional cooks to instruct the Sergeant Cooks

mistern equipment in Aring kitchens.

If was sold that £99 10% of the and teaching the Army that cooking mining money had been recovered. Jis a highly technical craft

Mr Fazackeley said that after

4

ind

been started Harnish noticerl Morgan

Mr.

The first thing: I dit," he Unued. "was Les apprint a Inspector

Lif Catering When Morgan pointed the re-tessional training

with 11 volver at him Mr Barnish asked if it was a joke and Morgan replied: "It's ne joke, brother, drive on.”

From the tone of the voice and the expression on dres face Fe metal what he said

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General Qutepu de Llena, Commander-in-Chief of Gerel Frater's Insurgent southern army in Stadt. shown with perlients and Nationalist nurses during a recent religious ceremony in Se- General de Llano, as honorary member of the Confraternity ist Chur Lady of Hope, walked in the annual procession to the cathe- iral.

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date, is, I hope, soon to be rebuilt and only words of one and two syllables?

"Now for the first time in the his

'GET YOUR FOOT ON IT' | re-equipped. At me slage of the journey Mr Barnish cased the speed of the car

Hory of the

the British Army professional

cooks are employed at Aldershot, when nearing a horse-drawn lorry Eventually we hope to put all the men he thought it was bis chance to do something but Murgan, placing the

who cook for the Army through the revolver ut Barnish's head, said: Army Training School. "Get your foot on it."

"I hope the Army Council will in After abandoning

oning the car at Presting give increased pay to trained ton. Mr. Faznckerley went on, Mur-cooks.

Mr. H. Lewis Selby, the chirman, made this rule when he entertained members of the Publicity Club of London (Public Speaking section) and timed them on a two- minute limit with traffic lights.

Guests wore mortar boards and doffed them ench time a speaker broke the rule,

gan called at his lodgings, went by "Hitherto the cookhouse has been Lights flashed green, amber and red when Mr. Reg. Holland.

the Cinderella of the Army Men giving the toast of "The Guests," tried this;

bus to Blackpool, by road to Man- chester, and then to Nottingham.

in Nottingham he bought a second- hund for £40 and went to Lon – don where he arranged to buy motor-boat for £475.

When arrested Morgan gave false names, said: "I am leaving my wife and I did not want her to trace me."

In his suitense in the hotel Courd six-chambered revolver, fully loaded, and sixteen additional enrtridges: £321 in one pound notes

was

and £388 in ten shilling notes, and

have not been scientifically trained.

"I have planned a training scheme "I would say unequivocnily —, you for all your too Selby remarks, for camp and for wartime, and every-heartening expression for an em- | which I do assure you are very much body is keen to make it a success bryvale rhetoriciun constructed to the | Selby,"

=

Army Got Him Down

a receipt for £40 for the car he had 211ь IN 2 MONTHS

bought.

In his pockets there were ainety- four one pound notes and unc ten

War Office ofleints and forty Mein- shiling note.

bers of Parliament who visited The first witness. James Fowler, Chaucer Barracks, Canterbury, centre cashier, of Wembley-avenue. Pen- of the Army's physleni development wortham, said that when he and Mr. | depot, recently saw the exception to Burnish were driving away from the the rule in fifteen-stone "Tiny" Pryke bank he saw somebody get in at the back and he felt something being pushed against his shoulder blade.

He looked round and saw Morgan holding a gun. Morgan said, "Turn round and drive on." He was not shouting, but

spoke through ills clenched teeth,

Mr. Fazackerley: Did you form any view of what he would have done if you had not compiled with his in- structions have not the slightest doubt that he would have shot us.

He recognised Morgan os a man he had seen near the bank on the previous Friday,

QUESTIONED BY MORGAN

Ernest Thompson Barnish, sixty- three-year-old mil! manager, of Lostock Hall, near Preston, sald that when he smiled and Morgan said "It's no joke, brother," he thought: "He is not much of a brother."

Morgan Joined in the laughter at: this remark.

Morgan, not legally represented, asked Mr. Burnish: "Were you eer- tain that the gun was loaded, or did I put it in a way that you could see I was not?"

od

#

Mr. Barish replied: "All I could nee was that that morning you look-

a proper villain," Mr. Fazackerley then asked Preston Borough Police superlaten- dent to read part of a statement alleged to have been made by Mor- gon.

Mr. Fazackerley said: "The first part deals with other matters which are not relative to this case, and 1 do not think it is fair for it to be

read in open court."

The statement read:-

"On Friday morning, April 8, 1 was in Fishergate and I had the empty revolver in my pocket and I saw two men carrying two bags.

"I could see they were heavy and contained money, I saw them' go! into the car. I followed thom and you know the rest,

"Tiny" was # Smithfield porter and when he joined the depot twe munins ago weighed 10 stone. The job was not to build him up, but to "et him down.

limitations of a disyllable vocabulary -that good fellowship is a special characteristic of advertising mien and

women.

A "YORKER "

Mortar boards were ruined! Mr. W. H. Newman (the honorary secretary) came through with flying

colours:

He had already tried:

"To deliver an im 1 mean a more-or-less on the spur of-the-moment speech without going over the two what-nots, is not easy, in fact it is damn di- well, you know what I mean."

APOSTROPHIED

"Males and females," began ex- "The hon, see, struggles through M.P. Mr. G. W. S. Jarrett, "the toast like the youth who bore midst of the evening!" (Uproar.) "There's snow and ice the banner with then apostrophe (Cheers.) in the mid- strange device.”

dle of thai," he replied.

("Go on-say it shouted the 60 | guests in chorus, but Mr. Newman had his speech prepared).

"And what is written on his heart?- post-mortem would re- veal the legend crunt una menth- they were all of one mind."

Diet and special exercises have Mr. Roy Hardy took revenge on brought him down to fifteen stong. the chairman by using "Selby" at In addition, flat feet have been cured tiresome hurdles, thus:

"Talk rules the world to-day. The founder of this Club must be appalled at knowing the number of Hiers and Mussos, he has started on a verbose career."

"Robbie" (Mr. Alfred Robinson), the Club's public-speaking guide, mentor and friend, began well with "she's and he's of the human species,” but succumbed after 100 words with "England In general" "We have had praise of our section, and are now représented.....

by the special remedial exercises "It gives me the very greatest which are one of the features the pleasure in Selby this tonst which new depot, and a twelve-mile route you have drunk so Selby. On behalt

"You've lost the prize-go ahead?” march does not worry him.

of the Selby Club of London I thank roared his students.

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