1938-09-28 — Page 15

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1938.

GAOL FOR CHORUS GIRL WHO

IN MALAYA

Swindles

Involving

About £700

PREVIOUS CONVICTION WHEN POSED AS AN HEIRESS

London, Sept. 7.

Attractive Ethel Rylands, who was a chorus girl in the last Banvard Musical Comedy Company to tour Mala-| ya, about nine years ago, sobbed, in the dock at Marl- borough Street Police Court to-day when she was sen- tenced to 12 months' imprisonment for swindling the public out of something like £700.

Isn't she

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Accused of three charges of jobtaining 13 worth of articles in the West End by false pretence, she asked for 29 other offences to be taken into consideration

The frauds were staled to relate to worthless eleques,

A detcrlive stated That Miss Rylands had swindled individuals as well as shops, having obtained money from people at Chichester who I could l-aford to lose il..

"There appears to be no reason for many of the offences to be commit- ted." he said, "as Miss Rylands already possesses [17] enormous amount of clothing and, when arrest- ed, was negotiating for the purchase of further articles to cost £114."

that Milas The detective stated Rylands

India was born in

and bad brought up under very

con-: ditions. Her mother became de- mented from drink.

Miss Rylands was sentenced at the

UFS

Thousands walted in suspense as Noreen Leonard Macy tectered for more than half an hour on the tenth-door ledge of a hotel in San Diego, Cal., thren tening to leap to death. Two men eventually got through a window and dragged her to safety. Then she was arrested by police on charges of intoxication and disturbing the peace.

The Perfect Boy

Lives In A Wood,

Is A Vegetarian

WAS

HOLIDAY GIRL WAS MURDERED

luviera polico belleve that 20- years-old Pamela Ross Raper, of Hichard Hall, Battle, Sussex. whoao body wag found by fishermen

Wiele nets Carquieranne, near Toulon, was murdered.

After Identification the police doctor gave a burial permalt, but the

2 was exhumed and body

post- mortem examination carried out, A deep fracture of the skull was found. and in addition the face and an

arm were badly scarred,

A puzzling feature of the case is that during the absence on holiday of the Dritish Consul at Toulon his house was entered by thieves and letters and papers belonging to Miss Raper are missing.

Miss Raper, a former student at the Hastings School of Art. had been missing since August 14, a few days after she arrived at a youth hostel at La Cappe, accompanied by Miss Isabel Manion, an English friend.

PASSPORT MISSING

People who met Miss Raper at La Cappe say that she was very cheerful and there are no Indications that she

.

had any intention of committing Eat

suicide.

She was a excellent swinimer, and It is considered certain that if she had fallen into the .water accidentally she could easily have reached the shore.

and

Iler passport and Identity papers have disappeared, are believed to have been stolen. Her aunt, Miss Millicent Roper, left Battle to go to Toulon.

"CAPABLE GIRL"

the dead Mr. R. W. Fovargue, "giri's stepfatter," member of a firm

the solicitors at Battle, told Sunday Dispatch:

of

"Pamelo left home to spend a

Doctors have discovered the Perfect Boy. He lives holiday acar Toulon about two weeks

end of September, 1933, at the Old in a wood; cats neither meat, fish, eggs nor bread; takes a

Bailey to 12 months in the second cold bath every morning and an air bath out of doors.

divislou tor fraud. In that case she posed as in heiress.

Since

obtaining credit by

Nine years old, this boy weighs 4st. 3lb., is 4ft. 4in.

in height, and has a remarkable power of chest expansion Miss coming to England, Rylands had been employed as a land abdominal retraction.

dance hostess and stage dancer, but

after being sent to prison, the detec- His parents-people of culture-are also strict and ardent

vegetarians. Their woodland home is two miles from a shop.

ve sald, she found it difficult to get employment.

Ifer sollellar sald, "My client

is pregnant and her future seems moment. black at very

the Friends are prepared to look alter her."

In passing sentence, the magistrate

Sir Leonard Hill, the physiologist, meals are sald to represent 4,800 giving details in the British Medical | cniorios. Journal of the boys' life, adds that he underwent tests at St. Thomas's Hospital, London, which proved him

to be in a remarkable condition of

| said to accused, "You have swindled physical fitness.

Sir Leonard provides striking

the public out of something like £700 for luxuries-millinery, jewel- lery, clothes and cars. I am sorry contrast to this boy's diet which, he says comes to 800 calories a day, by to think you are going to have a child. I shall not let that alter my Biving detalls of the dietary of chim- Zoo. Their daily decision."

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The Same

In Every Land

al the

EATS, ORANGE SKIN

A typical day's diet for the boy is as follows:

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"She was a sensible girl and quite capable of taking care of herself. I cannot Imagine any- one wishing to harm her. "She was not engaged to be mar ried and did not have any special man friend."

Flood Victims

Pray In Street

death and destruction in the Canadian province of Quebec recently,

Breakfast (ofter walking ve infles to church and back)-One

slice of pineapple, Villagers awakened from sleep fairly thick weighing about 6oz.

knelt and prayed in the streets Luncheon-Baked spinach and for deliverance as floods spread union ple, with a very thin crust made of wholemeal flour, cheese and

milk. about 10oz. in all. Tea-Two apples, one orange, two small tomatos,

in all about 12oz., including the

skin

of the orange. One small ice.

school

is two and a half miles) away he can easily walk ten miles day and when he is there he has vegetables for dinner, with some

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fruit.

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The boy is bright and intelligent,

clear skin and eyes.

Says his father: "He is full of life and energy, and getting stronger and tougher rapidly.

"Anybody

who likes could come and observe.

There is no deception; only the

workings of God's laws of nature in a clean young organism.”

Although the boy has no brend at home, he is allowed to eat bread and butter and cake when he goes out to tes, about once a week.

And when the Perfect Boy does get mildly out of sorts, "it is only lue to too many tea parties, and consequent starch and sugar con-~ sumption."

Southampton To Be Air

Hub

At least 13 people lost their lives, among them four women and several children.

At St. Gregoire, on St. Lawrence. river, a four-storey tenement occupied by 50 people collapsed under a land- slide, falling over a 200 ft. cliff.

Guided by the cries of those

In trapped the wreckage, rescuers tore at wood-woric and masonry with their hands and dug frantically.

A stretch of railway track was carried away at Pont Neuf, and a Canadian Pacife express from Mon-

treal

Teto Quebec plunged into the gap. engineer and fireman were killed. Six people were drowned when the swollen waters of the Pont Neuf river washed away house-a mother and five of her ten children. The woman had stepped out on the porch with a baby in her arms when the flood wrenched it away and they dis- appeared downstream.

Security Trader Meeting

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Mass arms smuggling from Germany into Czecho-Slovakia has assumed such proportions that 1,300 firearms.were seized in 'July at a single frontier post.

At Freiwaldau 200 pistola with ammunition were found con- cealed in tins of paraffin.

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