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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY,
OCTOBER 12, 1938.
BLOOD HOUND HUNT
HUNT FOR ESCAPED PRISONERS
Second Lewes Gaol Breakaway In Five Weeks
Bloodhounds were used last month in a hunt for two men who escaped from Lewes Gaol during the after-
noon.
Wife Says
He Is Best Man Ever'
Said a wife at the Old Bailey recently of her accused husband: "I met him u week after he came
It was the second breakaway from the prison in five out of prison in 1832. I knew his weeks.
As dusk was falling two men resembling the prisoners were seen on the main road near Falmer, halfway between Lewes and Brighton.
Wardera and police-ofleers carry- ing storm lanterns and led by the Chief Constable of East Sussex (Mr. .R. E. Bremt) And the prison Kovernor (Major . . . Munn) drew a curdon round the district,
CAR MISSING
It is thought that the men may have obtained a 1ft to Brighton, aa approximately the titne they would have reached the town a car was reported missing.
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The men who got away from a working party, are:
George Willian Harris (22), height 5ft. din., fresh complexion. dark-brown hair, blue eyes, oval face, and
Archie Lewis Wainwright (25), height 5ft 7in, fresh complexton. fair hair, grey eyes, long face. One was dressed in a royal blue prison jacket and the other was in prison Hrey clothes. Both . Wcre
serving short sentences.
SCALED PIPING They escuped
three nt about o'clock, and the discovery was made
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A warder found a piece of. bent metal piping hanked over an outer wall
of the gaol. After sealing the the prisoners would have to Mrs. A. Libbetter, who lives at a farm on the Downs, near Falmer, told the News Chronicle: "Just be- fore 5 o'clock 1
tivo men in prison clothing run past my house. thought they were up to some mis- chief, and phoned the police."
A badge bearing a prison number, stated to be that of Wainwright, was picked up near the prison wall.
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past record and succeeded in re- forming him. I consider him the best man that ever walked, a man who
never had a chance. Samuel Preston, thirty-six-year- old fitter, is the husband. He plead- ed gulity to making and uttering shillings. His wife, of Shool-up-hill, Brondesbury, N.W., said that she did not know he had the coins.
DEPORTED
He earned £6 a week with an alt- craft firm, it war unid.
This also was said, by Detective Sergeant G. Forrest: "In 1920 he was sentenced at Montreal, Canada, to twenty years' imprisonment for attempted murder, but after reven years he was released owing to health. He was deported to this country, where he has been convicted three times,"
i to Sentence was postponed, and Pres- be seen by a probation
John L. Wright, flying curate of onleer. Our Lady and St. Edward Ro- man Catholic Church, Chiswick, W., the only priest with an "A" licence in Great Britain, is to Prof. Fu Lo-tie's art exhibition
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Thursday in consequence of requests West, is to be extended to next made by many of his friends. Mr. Wong, He said: "Some people think it Ling Restaurant, is voluntarily con- the manager of the Kam not quite proper for a priest to tributing what he should get for fly, but surely there is no reason wo days' rent. why the Church should not keep were stolen property. The second throughout that the ball bearing races! abreast of some, at any rate, of defendant is therefore convicted of the modern ideas?"
receiving 30 ball bearing races know-
Father Wright will arrange pre-Ing the same to have been stolen. Jiminary details about the cadet corps with Squadron-Leader Wool- tett, district area. "There will be no difficulty in organiser for London
Two men who escaped from Lewes said. "They will be boys of from getting the one hundred cadets," he Gaol last month were recaptured, fourteen to eighteen, and will be one after being at liberty for three taught all the ground work days and the other 12 days.
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Chained Child Dances With Monkey on Cart
A two-year-old Serbian gipsy child, chained to a cart, and dancing with a monkey to the music of a barrel-organ, drew the August afternoon crowd in Meeting House-lanc, Peckham, S.E.
The music and the crowd at- pair of houses. . Also on the cart was tracted the attention of Inspector a bed of overconts and rags. On the Blake, of the National Society for bed he saw the child and the men- the Prevention of Crucity to Chil-key dancing. Both were chalned to dren.
the cart, and the women, carrying Recently, Peter and Mary Stan- another monkey, Was collecting kovich, two of the oldest members among the crowd.
of the colony of Serbian gipsies who have their headquarters near Wind- the woman and her grandchild slept The inspector said that at night sor and a camping ground at Cat- on the bed. ford, S.E., were fined for allowing
And
their two-year-old grandchild Belly At Peckham Police Station the a boy of arteen to be in the man was found to have on him £10 street for the purpose of begging. In notes, 10s. In silver, and £6 15s. Both denied the allegations.
in coppers made up in 59. bags,
Members of the colony, with their children, their barrel-organs and their monkeys, came to Lambeth, Police Court for the hearing.
Mafy Stinkovich,
dark-skinned,
dark eyed, wore a black velvet coat, black-and-white check skirt and hend-dress of coloured silk.
Inspector Blake unid that Peter
Mr. Chitty, N.S.P.C.C. solicitar, suggested to Peter that he was a wealthy man, owned two motor. cars, twenty acres of land, a free- hold bungalow at Little Baddow, Essex, a collage and Innd outside Windsor with workshops, and was on the telephone.
Peter frankly admitted this. He! Stanicovich played the barrel-organ, was fined £20, with £5 5. costs.
on a cart drawn by a The woman was fined £5.
which was
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Globe Trotting With
A Mission A
the gutter, but with the bold plan in his heart to carry a message of revival - through the length and breadth of England. Now, just Ave years later, Md comes to Hongkong as one who has actually carried his The secret of travelling round the message through the length and world and through more than Atty breadth of the world. countries on an initial outlay of Mr. Orr will be introduced to local two shillings and eight 'pence forth-ministers and other Christian leaders ing, can be learned from Mr. Edwin of Hongkong at a reception, to: be Orr, a young Irishman from Belfast, held at the European Y.M.C.A. in who arrives in the Colony to-day ah Kowloon this afternoon, and will take the Empress of Canada,
meetings in the Kowloon Union: Church, Jordan Rond, to-night at 8.
week. on each night of of From Sunday to Wednesday next he
westcs
1. Whether in the crowded cities of and
England or the Arctic Conada and Norway; on the South African velds or the cities of Aus- will be speaking at 8 o'clock each right in the Chinese Methodist traliú, in Spain or in Russla, по matter where and no matter, under Church at Wanchal Chinese ter what conditions, Mr. Orr claims that vices have also been arranged daily his special guide has never let him at 6:45 pm beginning to-day for down, and he delights, to, tell about the first four days at the Peniel Mission in Kowloon, and from Sun- day to Wednesday, next at the
him.
The
It was a homesick young Irishman Chinese Methodist Church at Wan who trundled his bicycle through the chal.
meetings are inter. sreels of Liverpool in September dezominational, and the churches 1983 with literally only half a crown have been kindly loaned for the and his “bike" between himself and purpose.
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