1938-09-21 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY,

SEPTEMBER

21,

1938,

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Jacob Factor

DETECTIVES WALK IN, Worked With

SEIZE £47,000 HOME OF EX-SHAREPUSHER

Lost Fortune Mystery

Private detectives investigating the riddle

the house, and often goes down at week-ends now."

While Mr. Cooms, the detective "in pussession," bowler-hatted, wing- collared, was sitting in White Place, the telephong bell rang, and a man who announced himself is Mr. Kacher Inquired about the authority he had for entering the premises.

This Inquiry was referred to Me Phillips

Mr. Kacher пrived at White Place by en at 8.15 and had an interview with Mr. Cooms. Afterwards lie said:

position.

full

Tanfeld is forly-nine. He in In Wormwood Scrubs Prison. He has served three days' bread and water punishment In solitary confinement there for trying to stuzzio В letter.

He is to appeal this month. Application for bail will be made next week. A reeelying order was made against him on July 7, and it was announced in the London Gazette on July B that a receiving order had been made, against his wife. She has since been adjudicated bank- rupl,

Tanfeld WAN associated in America with Jacob Factor, king of the shorepushers.

"I am a

company director and property owner. I fun the owner of Mansion House Station Bulldings where my furrier's business is.

THE PRICE

"Sine? I bought this house and estate I have had several offers to

I shall not sell. It is A beautiful

keep it."

unable to make a statement, because I do not yet of the vanished fortune of Stanley William Tan-what this is all about, I am in the position of some one who Und a man iti field, City financier sentenced to seven years' comes home to

possession, with a semblance of penal servitude.as ringleader of a £1,000,000 con-authority for his being there. sell . None has been the right

"I shall not throw him out, or spiracy, recently entered White Place, the attempt to do so, at the moment bergure. Unless I get the right price mansion in thirty-two acres of parkland on the cause I do not yet know the legal place, E is mine, and I intend

bought this house in Aprit from Thames at Taplow, where he lived with his wife.

Mrs. Tanfeld. The sale was carried mel in out on my behalf by Messrs. E. F. The men were sent by the But when his creditors

solicitors, of London. Turner, Reading the official receiver sald:---

"I was informed by telephone trustee in the bankruptcies

"I have seen Tanfeld in Jail.

about this extraordinary situation at "He told me: of both Tanfield and his

suffering White Place, and I at once went to from shock. My mind is a blank.see my nolicitors.

Mrs. Tanfield has, it is presumed, The inciber of beautiful American wife,

I can give no coherent story.

the firm who has dealt with the been in consultation during the last have no assets of any kind," Madeline, now said to be ill

matter was away; but may be back few days with a London solicitor Nobody yel knows where all these to-morrow.

who travelled to France to see her. in France, to seize the house

assets have gone. on behalf of creditors.

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Tanfield told the receiver that the house had been sold.

There is Doft swimming pool at

to have the

It is said to have been sold to Mr. Abram Kacher, fur white Place, Tanfield paid £3.000 trader, of Beecheroft-ton West End Arm

lounge panelled in astural pine. avenue, N.W.

The rock garden cost bim E0,000; he bought special rock at i C4 108, ton. The wall round the estate cost £10,000.

Mr. Richard Cooms, for- merly a Metropolitan police officer, knocked on the im- posing front door, and to been almost completed on

When he was arrested work had!

R Torste

for extra guests. It cost £14,000.

was built of stone.

cars, and

the uniformed maid who was centrally heated, had a gar answered presented a notege for ten Rolls-Royce of authority from Mr. Percy - " CANNOT PAY" Phillips, certified account- When Tanfield feed his trial he ant, of Langham - street, consulted one of the greatest leaders W.1.

ut the Bar. "I shall have the best Mr. Cooms, who had possible defence, he insisted. The leader asked for 1,000 guineas, and brought an attache case 150 gulneas a day refresher. containing pyjamas, shav- ing tackle, a toothbrush, and a packet of sand wiches, was admitted, with his assistant, Mr. John Ball.

They went upstairs and examined the plush-carpeted bedrooms. They saw four-poster beds canopied in silks. Deciding that these were too luxurious for them, they chose back bedrooms in which to spend the night, then settled down to awat developments.

VISITED IN JAIL: 'MIND A BLANK'

Tanfield had lived like a multi- millionaire. He bought White Place for £7,500. He spent about £40,- 000 on renovations and furnishings Then he made it over to his wife.

He had other houses in Paris, New York, Cap d'Antibes, and St. Moritz, He was so rich that he paid 8s. 6d. per lb. for tea for the girls in his office. He gave £6 tips. He had a cabin cruiser on the Riviera.

3 WEEKS LATER

OH, FATHER, LET ME MIX YOUR HORLICKS.

Tanfeld said he was ready to pay. But when the day of his trial came he said: "I have not the money. I All mny cannot pay.

Hone

money

has

He could not afford even the feast

costly K.C.

was

to

A member of the firm of Giddy and Co., Maidenhead, estate agents. sak:-

"The price asked for White Place for the is £20,000, with £10,000 furniture."

SIR W. CITRINE MAY GET £1

A WEEK RISE

By a Labour Correspondent

Sir Walter McLennan Citrine, K.B.E., may receive an increase of pay of 19s. 21⁄4d. a week if his 4,500,000 "bosses" agree to it when the Trades Union Congress meets at Blackpool this month. Sir Walter is:

General Secretary of the T.U.C.:

President of the International Federation of Trade Unions; Member of the General Advisory Council of the B.B.C.; Chairman of the World Anti-Nazi Council,,

He holds countless other offices, and was formerly a member of the Government Economic Council.

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Mr. Percy Phillips said recently: His present salary is £750 a year, as fixed by standing orders "The Taplow estate, we are informed, of the T.U.C. At Blackpool the General Council will move an

sold shortly before Mrs. Tanfield's bankruptcy to Mr. Abra amendment to make it a commencing salary of £750, rising to ham Kacher, of Beechcroft-avenue. | £1,000 by annual increments of £50. N.W.11."

Mr. Abraham Kacher's home in Beechcroft-avenue is a semi-ictnched will of the ordinary suburban type. He is a member of the firm of Berkeley and Co., fur traders,

who have premises on the third floor of a building above Mansion House Under- ground Station.

door,

"IN POSSESSION" When I called at his business premises and opened the which a horseshoe hung. I found three men sitting on a table. There floor. Mr. were some furs on the Kacher was not expected back.

If this is carried, Sir Walter will less shorthand and every night when' have £50 a year more to take home he returns home writes up his diary: to Wembley where he has a suburban with meticulous care. house which his wife runs without a

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POOR PARENTS

It has frequently been said that he could earn ten times his T.U.C. salary if he went into business.

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He plays tennis and watches Rug-

ger, is fond of musle and once played

cornet in a Liverpool band.

English and an authority on Chaucer. He is also a student of mediaeval

He was born of poor parents in

When he accepted a knighthood in Liverpool, 51 years ago, and married the Jubliee Honours he was fiercely

his trade

unlon col- when he was an electrician earing assailed by an

£2 a week. As befits an ex-electri- leagues. On his own confession he

electric has twice refused a peerage. cian, his house is full of

As one of the world leaders ol gadgets of his own invention.

He taught himself French and Ger-opposition to Fascism his life has Iman and enn manage an International been threatened and he has been was told: "I think he has gone conference without an interpreter. warned: "You are No. down to Whlic Place. He has bought He takes all his own notes in fault-} Lumped off."

When I telephoned to his home

He Nearly Failed His Only Son Through

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NIGHT STARVATION

THIS IS THE SECOND MISTAKE YOU HAVE MADE ON THE SE FREIGHT CHARGES TO CALCUTTA, WILLIAMS THE COMPANY'S LOSING MONEY! YOU WILL HAVE TO PULL

YOURSELF TOGETHER

ALL RIGHT JACK,

BUT DONT SPILL ANY

·IT'S DOING ME FAR TOO MUCH GOOD TO WASTE A DROP OF IT.

3 MONTHS LATER

THE DIRECTORS OF THE COMPANY HAVE DECIDED TO MAKE YOU HEAD OF THIS

DEPARTMENT, WILLIAMS. CONGRATULATIONS)

WICH DIDN'T ALWAYS FEEL

SO TIRED, I EVEN WAKE TIRED. AND IF I DON'T GET PROMOTION, I CAN'T SEND JACK TO COLLEGE

WHY DON'T YOU

SEE A DOCTOR

(THINKS)

NOW I CAN SEND JACK TO |COLLEGE.THANKS) TD HORLICKS.

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YOU SAY YOU FEEL LIMP AND TIRED ALL DAY, HM/ IT'S OFTEN A SIGN OF HIGHT STARVATION TIFS MEANS YOU ARE NOT REPLACING USED-UP ENERGY! |DURING SLEEP. I ADVISE İYOU TO TAKE HORLICKS

REGULARLY-LAST THING AT NIGHT.

If you wake tired. if you suffer from nerves' enervation and that dreadful feeling of exhaus- tion GUARD AGAINST NIGHT STARVATION

Horlicks is best made in the special Horlicks mix« er, Obtainable at all good. stores-80 cts: farge size and 40 cts. small size.

TAKE

HORLICKS

YOUSLEEP SOUNDLY, WAKE REFRESHED AND HAVE EXTRA ENERGY ALL DAY

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what-not to imitute grandma.

for

LEADING THE WAY TO

THAT'S

Harry's wife

"SHE" enters. All eyes are upen her. On every Up the question "wha Is SRE

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